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of Reformation at Rainsford Island, the Parental School for Truants at West Roxbury, and purchase all the fuel and other supplies required for these institutions. They have the charge and control of several hundred children placed in country homes, and the general supervision of the defective children, placed in institutions throughout the State, for whose care the City

payS.

CITY CLERK DEPARTMENT.

Office, City Hall, second floor.

[Stat. 1854, Chap. 448, § 30; Stat. 1885, Chap. 266, § 2; Rev. Ord., 1898, Chap. 11.]

EDWARD J. Donov AN, City Clerk. Salary $5,000.
John T. PRIEST, Assistant City Clerk. Salary $3,800.

The City Clerk, chosen annually in January by concurrent vote of the two branches of the City Council, has the care and custody of the records of the Board of Aldermen, and of all City records, documents, maps, plans and papers, except those otherwise provided for. He also records chattel mortgages, assignments of wages, liens upon vessels, and performs other duties imposed by statute.

The City Clerk is, ea officio, Clerk of the Board of Aldermen and of meetings of both branches of the City Council when met in joint convention.

The Assistant City Clerk is appointed annually by the City Clerk, subject to the approval of the Mayor, and discharges the duties of the City Clerk, in his absence, or in case of a vacancy in that office [Rev. Ord., 1898, Chap. 11 § 4]. By Pub. Stat. Chap. 28, § 10, the certificate or attestation of the Assistant City Clerk has equal effect with that of the City Clerk.

CITY MESSENGER DEPARTMENT.

Office City Hall, second floor. [Rev. Ord., 1898, Chap. 12.] EDw ARD J. LEARY, City Messenger. Salary $4,000.

The City Messenger, chosen annually by concurrent vote of the two branches of the City Council, is the official messenger of the City Council and its committees, and attends all meetings of the Same, has the care and distribution of all documents printed for the use of the City Council, and is the custodian of the City Hall Building. He has charge of the city flag-staffs, display of flags in the public grounds, and of the ropes and stakes used in closing streets and squares on public occasions. The office was established by an ordinance of October 14, 1852.

CLERK OF COMMITTEES DEPARTMENT.

Office, City Hall, second floor.
[Rev. Ord., 1898, Chap. 13.]

John F. DEVER, Clerk of Committees. Salary $4,000.
WILFRED J. DOYLE, Assistant Clerk of Committees. Salary $2,000.

The Clerk of Committees, chosen annually by concurrent vote of the two branches of the City Council, acts as the clerk of all committees of tha City Council, keeping the records of the same, and has charge of the City Hall Reference Library. He appoints all his subordinates.

The Assistant Clerk discharges the duties of the clerk when that officer is absent and when there is a vacancy in his office [Rev. Ord., Chap. 13, § 4].

COLLECTING DEPARTMENT.

Office, City Hall, first floor. [Stat. 1875, Chap. 176; Stat. 1888, Chap. 390; Rev. Ord., 1898, Chap. 14.] CourTENAY GUILD, City Collector. Appointed annually. Salary, $5,000.

The Collector collects and receives all assessments, betterments, rates, dues and money payable on any account to the City of Boston or the County of Suffolk. The separate office of Collector was established by statute in 1875. Annual reports have been published since 1876.

ELECTION DEPARTMENT.
Office, Old Court House, first floor.

[Rev. Ord., 1898, Chap. 15; Stat. 1895, Chap. 449, §§ 2–8; Stat. 1898, Chap. 548.]

BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS.

CHARLES R. SAUNDERS, Chairman.
PATRICK J. KENNEDY, Secretary.

COMMISSIONERS.

CHARLEs R. SAUNDERS. Term ends in 1905. Salary, $4,000. John J. HoGAN. Term ends in 1904. Salary, $3,500. MELANCTHON W. BuBLEN. Term ends in 1903. Salary, $3,500. PATRICK J. KENNEDY. Term ends in 1902. Salary, $3,500. The Board of Registrars of Voters was appointed in May, 1874, and was succeeded July 1, 1895, by the Board of Election Commissioners. This department exercises all the powers and duties formerly conferred upon the Board of Registrars of Voters, including the preparation of the jury list, together with all the powers and duties formerly conferred upon the Mayor, Board of Aldermen and City Clerk, relating to elections in the City of Boston, except the power and duty of giving notice of elections, and fixing the days and hours for holding the same. The Board also exercises all the powers and duties formerly conferred upon the City Clerk and other, officers by Chapter 504 of the Acts of 1894, and acts in amendment thereof, relating to political committees and caucuses, and all laws relating to the registration of voters in the City of Boston.

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT,
Office, City Hall, fourth floor.

[Stat. 1870, Chap. 337; Stat. 1895, Chap. 449, § 21; Rev. Ord., 1898, Chap. 16.]

WILLIAM JACKSON, City Engineer. Appointed annually. Salary, $6,000.

The duties of the City Engineer include the designing and superintending the construction of new bridges, retaining walls, city wharves, and such other public engineering works as the City Council may authorize; the making of such surveys, plans, estimates, statements and descriptions, and taking such levels as the City Government or any of its departments or committees may require; the custody of all surveys and plans relating to the laying out, locating anew, altering, widening or discontinuing of streets ; and the new engineering constructions for all departments of the city. He must be consulted on all work where the advice of a civil engineer would be of service. The office of City Engineer was established by ordinance on October 31, 1850, and by Chapter 449 of the Acts of 1885. Regular annual reports have been issued since 1868.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Office, City Building, Bristol Street,

[Stat. 1850, Chap. 262, Stat. 1895, Chap. 449, §§ 9–11; Rev. Ord., 1898, Chap. 17.] HENRY S. RUSSELL, Fire Commissioner. Salary, $5,000. Term ends in 1904. WILLIAM T. CHES WELL, Chief of Department. JOHN A. MULLEN, First Assistant Chief. NATHAN L. HussEY, Second Assistant Chief. to BROWN S. FLANDERS, Superintendent of Fire Alarms. HENRY M. HAWKINS, Superintendent of Repairs. GEORGE W. STIMPson, Veterinary Surgeon. The Boston Fire Department was organized in 1837. It is in charge of one Commissioner, who has entire control of the department, a Chief, First and Second Assistant Chiefs, eleven District Chiefs, each in charge of a Fire District, Superintendent of Fire Alarms, and officers, enginemen, telegraph operators, etc. Annual reports have been published since 1838.

FIRE DISTRIOTS AND CHIEFS. DISTRICT 1. JoHN F. RYAN, Chief. All that part of Boston known as East Boston.

DIST. 2. C. H. W. Pope, Chief. All that part of Boston formerly known as Charlestown. T) IST. 3. Joseph M. GARRITY, Chief. The territory bounded on the north and east by the water front, on the south by Summer street, and on the west by Washington and Charlestown streets. DIST. 4. PETER F. McDonough, Chief. The territory bounded on the north by the Charles river, on the east by Charlestown and Washington streets, on the south by Winter, Park and Beacon streets, and on the west by the Charles river and Berkeley street. DIST. 5. N. L. HussFY, Chief. The territory bounded on the north by Beacon, Park, Winter and Summer streets, on the east by Fort Point channel, on the south and west by Broadway, Way, Motte, Castle and Ferdinand streets, Columbus avenue and Berkeley street. T)IST. 6. JoBIN A. MULLEN, Chief. All that part of Boston known as South Boston, and running south as far as Dorset and Locust streets. DIST. 7. PATRICK E. KEYES, Chief. The territory bounded on the north by Berkeley street, Columbus avenue, Ferdinand, Castle, Motte and Way streets and Broadway, on the east by Fort Point channel and South bay, on the south by Massachusetts avenue, and on the west by the Charles river. I)IST. 8. JoHN GRADY, Chief. The territory bounded on the north by the Charles river and Massachusetts avenue, on the east by Washington street, on the south by Atherton and Mozart streets, Chestnut avenue, Sheridan and Centre streets, Hyde square, Perkins, Catalpa and Castleton streets, across Jamaicaway to the Brookline line, and on the west by the Brookline line, Beacon and Deerfield streets. DIST. 9. EDWARD H. SAwYER, Chief. The territory bounded on the north by Massachusetts avenue, South bay, Dorset and Locust streets, on the east by Dorchester bay, on the south by Freeport, Hancock, Bowdoin and Quincy streets, Columbia road, and on the west by Seaver street, Columbus avenue and Washington street. DIST. 10. W. A. GAYLORD, Chief. That part of Dorchester bounded on the north by Seaver street, Columbia road, Quincy, Bowdoin, Hancock and Freeport streets, on the east by Dorchester bay, on the south by the Neponset river and the Hyde Park line, and on the west by Harvard street and Blue Hill avenue. DIST. 11. HIRAM. D. SMITH, Chief. All that part of Boston known as Brighton, and extending east as far as Deerfield and Beacon streetS. DIST. 12. L. P. ABBOTT, Chief. All that part of Boston known as West Roxbury, bounded on the north by a line from the Brookline line across Jamaica way to Castleton street, through Castleton, Catalpa and Perkins streets, Hyde square, Centre and Sheridan streets, Chestnut avenue, Mozart and Atherton streets, Columbus avenue and Seaver streets, on the east by Blue Hill avenue and Harvard street, on the south by the Hyde Park and Dedham lines, and on the west by the Newton and Brookline lines.

STEAM FIRE-ENGINES.

Number. Location. Officers. 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . Dorchester street, cor. Fourth, So. Boston. { ot. 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . Fourth street, cor. O, South Boston....... J. H. Ewers, Capt. 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . Harrison avenue, cor. Bristol street....... { y #. #; §t. 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . Bulfinch street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . to & e o 'o e o os { §. eut. 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . Marion street, East Boston................ John W. Godbold, Capt. 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . Leverett street...... to s e to e o 'o & o - - - - - - e o e o is to o to | #. 3. jo, §. 7... . . . . . . . . . . . East Street... . . . . . . . . © to e o so e o s e s to o e o 'o e s e s e o e e { łośt. 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . Salem Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . & out. 9. . . . . . . . . . . . . Paris Street, East Boston.................. } #: #. j.ot. 10... . . . . . . . . . . . Mt. Vernon street, cor. River.............. { #. ###!...out. 11... . . . . . . . . . . . Cor. Saratoga and Byron streets, E. B....| C. H. Leary, Capt. 12. . . . . . . . . . . . . Dudley street, Roxbury...... © to e o e o a a so s o o e { #oot. 13. . . . . . . . . . . . . Cabot street, Roxbury...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { {2}. & §: Capt. 14. . . . . . . . . . . . . Centre Street, Roxbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ###! #: out. 15. . . . . . . . . . . . . Cor. Broadway and Dorchester avenue... | $o. §§ eut. 16. . . . . . . . . . . . . Temple Street, DOrchester........... . . . . . . J. F. O'Connell, Capt. 17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meeting House Hill, Dorchester........... fort. 18. . . . . . . . . . . . . Harvard street, Dorchester................ | H.A.Who *:::: 19. . . . . . . . . . . . . Norfolk street, Dorchester. ................ Maurice Heffernan, Capt. 20. . . . . . . Walnut street, DOrchester....... . . . . . . . . . . . J. M. Littleton, Capt. 21. . . . . . . . . . . . . Boston Street, Dorchester........... . . . . . . } §: ##;" int. 22. . . . . . . . . . . Bristol Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#. #. * opt. 28. . . . . . . . . . . . . Northampton Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { M. y* ... Lieut. 24. . . . . . . . . . . . Cor. Warren and Quincy streets... . . . . . . . . fort. 25. . . . . . . . . . . . . Fort Hill Square... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . } *} ort. 26 and 35..... Mason Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | toileut. George B. Norton, Lieut. 27... . . . . . . . . . Elm Street, Charlestown.................... { so ot. 28. . . . . . . . . . . . Centre street, West Roxbury.............. } o* jo,opt. 29. . . . . . . . . . . . . Chestnut Hill avenue, Brighton........... Joseph M. Gargan, Capt. 30. . . . . . . . . . . . . Centre street, West Roxbury.............. James B. Prescott, Capt. 32*. . . . . . . . . . . . Bunker Hill street, Charlestown........... {go. 33. . . . . . . . . . . . . Boylston Street............................. | #. § eut. 34. . . . . . . . . . . . . Western avenue, Brighton................. | #. #. No. 131. Fire-boat (out of service).

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