MUNICIPAL REGISTER FOR 1922 CONTAINING A REGISTER OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT, AMENDED CITY CHARTER A SURVEY OF THE CITY DEPARTMENTS, WITH LISTS OF EXECUTIVE AND OTHER PUBLIC OFFICERS; ALSO VARIOUS STATISTICS RELATING TO THE CITY. COMPILED AND EDITED FOR THE CITY COUNCIL BY THE STATISTICS DEPARTMENT. LIBRARY INTRODUCTION. The City has annually since 1821 issued a volume containing, until 1829, a register of the City Council and a list of the officers. In 1829 the City Charter, in 1830 the Acts relating to Boston and the ordinances, and in 1832 an index, were added. The volume for 1822 contains fifteen pages, and for 1840 eighty-five pages, and three pages of index. The volumes up to and including 1840 bear the title of The Rules and Orders of the Common Council and since that year the title of THE MUNICIPAL REGISTER. THE MUNICIPAL REGISTER for 1841 contains the Rules and Orders of the Common Council, joint rules, ordinances of the City, statutes of the Commonwealth relating to the City, a list of the public schools, the City Government of 1841, the committees and departments (consisting at that time of the treasury, law, police, health, public land and buildings, lamps and bridges, fire, and public charitable institutions), and a list of the ward officers; from 1842 to 1864 it also contains a list of the members of preceding City Governments, a necrological record of those members, the latest ordinances and the special statutes relating to the City; in 1851 a list of the annual orators was added, and in 1853 a map of the City and the Rules of the Board of Aldermen were inserted; in 1876 statistics of registration and voting were included, and, since 1879, in tabulated form; in 1883 portraits of the Mayor and presiding officers of the two branches of the City Council were included, and in 1888 a list of the members of the past City Governments of Roxbury and Charlestown was added and continued to 1890. From 1889 to 1896, inclusive, THE MUNICIPAL REGISTER contained a compilation of the Charter and Acts subsequently passed, in the place of which an index of the same appeared in 1897. The Amended Charter of 1909 was added in 1910, while the alphabetical list of Aldermen and Councilmen since 1822 was dropped. By order of the City Council, February 6, 1922, and under the direction of the Committee on Rules, THE MUNICIPAL REGISTER for 1922 has been compiled and edited by the Statistics Department. ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF BOSTON. THE Royal Patent incorporating the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England passed the seals March 4, 1628-29. At a General Court, or Meeting of the Company, on August *29 of that year it was voted "that the Government and patent should be settled in New England." To that end Governor Winthrop led the Puritan Exodus in 1630. Soon after his arrival at Salem on June * 12, 1630, he proceeded with a large following to Charlestown, where a plantation had been established the summer before. The Assistants held three Courts at Charlestown in the interval, August *23 to September *28, inclusive. At their meeting on September *7, they "ordered that Trimountaine shall be called Boston; Mattapan, Dorchester; and the towne upon Charles River, Waterton." Thus Shawmut of the Indians was named Boston, probably out of gratitude to the Merchants of Boston in Lincolnshire, who had subscribed generously to the stock of the Company. In the latter part of August, Governor Winthrop with the patent chose Boston as his abiding place. The first "Court" held in Boston was a "General Court" on October *19, "for establishing of the government." On October *3, 1632, Boston was formally declared to be "the fittest place for publique meetings of any place in the Bay." Boston was the first town in Massachusetts to become a city. It was incorporated February 23, 1822, by St. 1821, c. 110, adopted by the voters March 4, 1822. This act was revised by St. 1854, c. 448; amended by St. 1885, c. 266 and again by St. 1909, c. 486. The neck of land called Boston, still called Boston Proper, contained perhaps 700 acres of land, judging from the 783 acres shown by the official survey of 1794. In the interval 1630-37, Boston acquired jurisdiction over most of the territory now included in Chelsea, Winthrop, Revere, East Boston, Brookline, Quincy, Braintree, Randolph and Holbrook, besides certain islands in the harbor. From 1637 till May 13, 1640, * Old Style. |