Dov ER-STREET BRIDGE, Ward 9, two houses, for men and women. WEST, BosTON BRIDGE, Ward 8, one house, for men and women, at different hours. CRAIGIE's BRIDGE, Ward 8, one house, for men. WARREN BRIDGE, Ward 5, two houses, for men and women. CHELSEA BRIDGE, Ward 3, one house, for men and women, at different hours. BoEDER STREET, East Boston, Ward 2, two houses, for men and WOIOleIl. JEFFRIES POINT, East Boston, Ward 2, one house, for men and women, at different hours.

DOVER-STREET BATH-HOUSE.

DOVER-STREET BATH-HOUSE, Ward 9, near Harrison avenue, shower and tub baths for both men and women, is fitted for use throughout the year. This bath-house was completed in 1898, and opened to the public, in October, 1898. A laundry connected with this bath-house launders all the towels used in the department.

EAST BOSTON GYMNASIUM, Paris street, Ward 2. e

COMMON WEALTH PARK Gym NASIUM, Ward 13, D street, South Boston.

GYMNASIUM, Ward 7, Tyler street.

GYMNASIUM, Ward 9, Harrison avenue, corner Plympton street.

GYMNASIUM, Ward 16. Columbia road, Dorchester, includes swimming-pool.

GYMNASIUM, Ward 19, Elmwood-street ward-room.

BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
Office, Old Court House, second floor, Room 15.

[Stat. 1892, Chap. 419, § 2, Stat. 1895, Chap. 449, § 24; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 8, and Chap. 45, §§ 28–39.]

JAMES MULCAHY, Building Commissioner. Term ends in 1907. Salary, $5,000. 4.

It is the duty of the Building Commissioner to issue permits for and inspect the erection and alteration of buildings in the City, and the setting of boilers, engines and furnaces; to keep a register of the names of all persons carrying on the business of plumbing and gasfitting, and of all persons working at said business, and to issue licenses to master and journeymen plumbers and gasfitters; to issue permits for and inspect the plumbing and gasfitting in a building; to inspect elevators in buildings and report upon elevator accidents.

BUILDING LIMITS.
[Stat. 1892, Chap. 419; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 45, § 27.]

Among other restrictions imposed by statute on the erection of buildings, it is provided that no wooden building shall be erected within such limits as shall from time to time be defined by ordinance. These iimits at present are:

All that portion of the City which is included within a line beginning at the intersection of the centre lines of Dover and Albany streets, and thence running east through the centre of said Dover street to the Harbor Commissioners' line; thence by the said Harbor Commissioners' line around the northerly portion of the City to a point on Charles river, at the intersection of said line with the easterly line of St. Mary’s street extended; thence along said easterly line of St. Mary's street and the boundary line between Brookline and Boston to the centre of Longwood avenue; thence through the centre of said avenue to the centre of St. Alphonsus street; thence through the centre of said street to the centre of Ward street; thence through the centre of said Ward street to the centre of Parker street; thence through the centre of said Parker street to the centre of Ruggles street; thence through the centre of said Ruggles street to the centre of Washington street; thence through the centre of said Washington street to a point opposite the centre of Palmer street; thence through the centre of said Palmer street and through the centre of Eustis street to the centre of Hampden street; and thence through the centre of said Hampden street and the centre of Albany street to the point of beginning.

CEMETERY DEPARTMENT.

Office, City Hall, Room 76.
[Stat. 1897, Chap. 375; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 9..]

BOARD OF CEMETERY TRUSTEES.

WILLIAM J. FALLON, Chairman.
JOHN FRANK KEATING, Secretary.

TRUSTEES.
WILLIAM J. FALLON. Term ends in 1910.
ALBERT W. HERSEY. Term ends in 1909.
CHRISTOPHER P. MCCAFFREY. Term ends in 1908.
CHARLES E. PHIPPS. Term ends in 1907.
FREDERICK E. ATTEAUX. Term ends in 1906.

JAMES H. MoRTON, Superintendent of Cemeteries.
Office of Superintendent, at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Mattapan.

By Chap. 375 of the Acts of 1897, the Mayor was authorized to appoint a board of five trustees, subject to confirmation of the Board of

Aldermen, to have charge of Mt. Hope Cemetery and all other burying-
grounds owned by or in charge of the City of Boston.
Mt. Hope Cemetery was bought by the City in 1857 for $35,000, and
additional land has been purchased since; this cemetery now contains
117 acres and 36,536 square feet, and is situated in Ward 23, West
Roxbury. The board of trustees was first appointed under the
ordinance of December 21, 1857, and annual reports have been published
since 1859.
The other burying-grounds formerly under, control of the Board of
Health, but now under the jurisdiction of this department, are as
follows:
Bennington Street, East Boston.
Bunker Hill, Charlestown.
Phipps Street, Charlestown.
Copp's Hill, Charter and Hull streets.
King's Chapel, Tremont street, near School street.
Granary, Tremont street, opposite Bromfield street.
Central, Boston Common.
South, Washington and East Concord streets.
Eliot, Washington and Eustis streets.
Warren, Kearsarge avenue, Roxbury.
Walter Street, Walter street, Roslindale.
Westerly, Centre street, near La Grange street, West Roxbury.
Evergreen, Commonwealth avenue, Brighton.
Market Street, Market street, Brighton.
Dorchester North, Upham's Corner.
Dorchester South, Dorchester avenue, opposite Brook street.
Hawes, Emerson street, near L Street.

CHILDREN'S INSTITUTIONS DEPARTMENT.

Office, 30 Tremont Street.
[Stat. 1897, Chap. 395; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 10.]

TRUSTEES FOR CHILDREN.

CHARLEs P. PUTNAM, M.D., Chairman.
MRs. GEORGE F. H. MURRAY, Secretary.

TRUSTEES.

LEE M. FRIEDMAN. Term ends in 1910.

MRs. ELIZABETH KELLER, Jose PH. C. PELLETIER. Terms end in 1909.

JOHN O’HARE. Term ends in 1908.

HAsKET DERBY, M.D. Term ends in 1907.

CHARLEs P. PUTNAM, M.D., MRs. GEORGE F. H. MURRAY. Terms end in 1906.

The trustees have the charge and control of the house for the employment and reformation of juvenile offenders, known as the House 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 dependent 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, Room 31, second floor. [Stat. 1854, Chap. 448, § 30; Stat. 1885, Chap. 266, § 2; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 11; R. L., Chap. 26, §§ 15, 16.]

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

The City Clerk, chosen January 2, 1905, for the term of three years, 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 R. L., Chap. 26, § 16, the certificate or attestation of the Assistant City Clerk has equal effect with that of the City Clerk.

CITY MESSENGER DEPARTMENT.
Office, City Hall, Room 26, second floor. ,

[Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 12.] EDWARD 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, the 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, Room 24, second floor.
[Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 13.]

JoBN F. DEVER, Clerk of Committees. Salary, $4,000.
WILFRED J. Doy LE, Assistant Clerk of Committees. Salary, $2,500.

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 the City Council, keeping the records of the same, and has charge of the City Hall Reference Library. He also has charge, under the direction of the Committee on Licenses of the Board of Aldermen, of the licensing of minors fourteen years of age and over to sell newspapers and Small wares and to black boots, and has supervision and control of all minors so licensed. 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, Room 21, first floor.

[Stat. 1875, Chap. 176; Stat. 1888, Chap. 390; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 14.] EDMUND A. MACDONALD, 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, Room 8, first floor. [R. L., Chap. 11, §§ 69–79; Stat. 1903, Chap. 279; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 15.] BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS. JOHN M. MINTON, Chairman. MELANCTHon W. BURLEN, Secretary. COMMISSIONERS.

ALPHEUs SANFORD. Term ends in 1910. Salary, $3,500. DAvid B. SHAw. Term ends in 1908. Salary, $3,500. MELANCTHON W. BURLEN. Term ends in 1907. Salary, $3,500. John M. MINTON. Term ends in 1906. Salary, $4,000. 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.