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, Room 50, 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.]

BENJAMIN W. WELLs, Fire Commissioner. Salary, $5,000. Term ends

in 1907.
WILLIAM T. CHES WELL, Chief of Department.
JOHN A. MULLEN, Assistant Chief.
NATHAN L. Huss EY, Second Assistant Chief.
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 DISTRICTS AND CEIIEFS.

DISTRICT 1. PATRICK E. KEYES, 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. DIST. 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 street and Washington street North. DIST. 4. PETER F. MCDONOUGH, Chief. The territory bounded on the north by the Charles river, on the east by Washington street North and Washington street, on the south by Winter, Park and Beacon streets, and on the west by the Charles river and Berkeley street. DIST. 5. DANIEL F. SENNOTT, Chief. The territory bounded on the north by Beacon, Park, Winter and Summer streets and the water front, on the east and south by B and First streets, Dorchester avenue and Fort Point channel, on the south and west by Broadway, Pleasant street, Park square, Boylston street to Beacon street. DIST. 6. EDWIN A. PERKINS, Chief. All that part of Boston known as South Boston, extending to a northern boundary of Fort Point channel, Dorchester avenue, First and B streets, and running south as far as Dorset and Locust streets. DIST. T. JoBIN GRADY, Chief. The territory bounded on the north by Berkeley, Beacon, Arlington and Boylston streets, Park square, Pleasant street 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. DIST. 8. HIRAM. D. SMITH, 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 Jamaica way to the Brookline line, and on the west by the Brookline line, Beacon and Deerfield streets. DIST. 9. N. L. HussBY, 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. JoHN F. RYAN, Chief. All that part of Boston known as Brighton, and extending east as far as Deerfield and Beacon streets. DIST. 12. WILLIAM CHILDs, 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 EHarvard street, on the south by the Hyde Park and Dedham lines, and on the west by the Newton and Brookline lines.

Dorchester street, cor. Fourth, So. Boston.

{ Charles P. Smith, Capt. Florence Donahoe, Lieut.

Fourth street, cor. O, South Boston ... . . . . } %; o:.# Lieut
& sy % *
Harrison avenue, cor. Bristol street... . . . . { o #o #.
o P. Callahan, Capt.
Bulfinch street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { Frank Sweeney, Lieut.
Marion street, East Boston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . } $ool, ot.
*. Henry A. Fox, Capt.
Leverett street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . yo. %; o Lieut.
. J. O’Connor, Capt.
East Street... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { % o §: oeut.
W. M. McLean, Capt.
Salem street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Philip A. Grant, Lieut.
Paris street, East Boston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . }*. £o Capt.
Mt. Vernon street, cor. River. . . . . . . . . . . . . . { #."o"is eut.

Cor. Saratoga and Byron Streets, E. B. . . .
Dudley street, Roxbury.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cabot street, Roxbury...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Centre Street, Roxbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cor. Broadway and Dorchester avenue...
Temple street, Dorchester ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Meeting House Hill, Dorchester. . . . . . . . . . .
Harvard Street, Dorchester................
Norfolk Street, Dorchester.................
Walnut street, Dorchester....... . . . . . . . . . . .
Columbia road, Dorchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Warren avenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Northampton Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cor. Warren and Quincy streets... . . . . . . . .

Fort Hill Square.......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mason Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Elm Street, Charlestown....... . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Centre street, West Roxbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chestnut Hill avenue, Brighton...........
Centre street, West Roxbury..............
Bunker Hill street, Charlestown...........
Boylston Street.............................

Western avenue, Brighton.................

C. H. Leary, Capt.

{ A. R. Johnson, Capt.

Michael Boyle, Lieut.
W. J. Gaffey, Capt.
T. E. Conroy, Lieut.
George B. Norton, Capt.
Ed. E. Richardson, Lieut.
John O. Taber, Capt.
M. F. Mulligan, Lieut.
John J. Flanagan, Capt.
John Baumeister, Lieut.

{ Alexander Glover, Capt.
John F. Curley, Lieut.

{ I. A. Williams, Capt.
F. J. Jordan, Lieut.

{ Maurice Heffernan, Capt.
Anthony J. Burns, Lieut.

J. M. Littleton, Capt.

| Irving Sparks, Capt.

G. H. Hutchings, Lieut.
M. J. Mulligan, Capt.
M. R. Joy, ilieut.

{ M. Walsh, Capt.
George H. Twiss, Lieut.

| John N. Lally, Capt.
R. J. Carleton, Lieut.

| M. J. Kennedy, Capt.
J. J. Caine, Lieut.
J. T. Byron, Capt.

| Frank J. Sheeran, Lieut.
De Witt Lane, Lieut.
Edward D. Pope, Capt.
William H. Hughes, Lieut.

J. E. Madison, Capt.
Joseph M. Gargan, Capt.

T. M. McLaughlin, Capt.

Geo. F. Titus, Capt.

{ John E. Redman, Lieut.
R. E. Handy, Capt.
M. D. Greene, Lieut.
Thomas H. Weltch, Capt.
H. P. Pitcher, Lieut.

131. Spare fireboat.

STEAM FIRE-ENGINES. — Concluded.

Number. Tocation. Officers. 36. . . . . . . . . . . . . Monument Street, Charlestown . . . . . . . . . . . M. J. Lawler, Capt. 37. . . . . . . . . . . . . LongWood avenue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. H. Moning, Capt. S. J. Ryder, Capt. 38 and 39... . . . . CongreSS Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. M. Lynch, Lieut. #: Mr.Hebard, #. . J. Lannary, Capt. 40. . . . . . . . . . . . . Sumner Street, East Boston................ | P. P. Leahy, Lieut. 41. . . . . . . . . . . . . Harvard avenue, Brighton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George W. Frost, Capt. 42. . . . . . . . . . . . . Egleston Square. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael C. Leonard, Capt. 43. . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Square, South Boston.... . . . . . . . . . William Coulter, Capt. §o o: Capt. e so W. D. Eaton, Lieut. 44. . . . . . . . . . . . . Berth at India. Wharf, Fire-boat . . . . . . . . . . P. F. Shaw, Engineer, with rank of Lieut. 45. . . . . . . . . . . . . Poplar street, West Roxbury.............. F. E. Hibbard, Capt.

LA DIDER TRUCKS.

No. 1. Friend street. E. J. Shallow, Captain ; C. J. O’Brien, Lieutenant. No. 2. Paris street, East Boston. James P. Dean, Captain ; F. W. Battis, Lieutenant. No. 3. Harrison avenue, corner of Bristol street. Peter E. Walsh, Captain ; James F. Ryan, Lieutenant. No. 4. Dudley street, Roxbury. J. P. McManus, Captain; M. J. Cronin, Lieutenant. No. 5. Fourth street, near Dorchester street. E. D. Locke, Captain ; E. Connors, Lieutenant. No. 6. Temple street, Dorchester. F. P. Stengel, Lieutenant. No. 7. Meeting House Hill, Dorchester. G. H. Nichols, Lieutenant. No. 8. Fort Hill square. J. H. Kenney, Captain ; P. F. Goggin, Lieutenant. No. 9. Main street, Charlestown. John E. Cassidy, Captain. No. 10. Centre street, Jamaica Plain. T. B. Flannagan, Lieutenant. No. 11. Chestnut Hill avenue, Brighton. Peter Murphy, Lieutenant. No. 12. Tremont street, Roxbury. Duncan McLean, Captain ; Geo. A. Carney, Lieutenant. No. 13. Warren avenue. C. W. Conway, Lieutenant. No. 14. Fort Hill square. P. W. Lanegan, Lieutenant. No. 15. Boylston and Hereford streets. John S. Cleverly, Captain; F. M. O'Lalor, Lieutenant. No. 16. Poplar street, West Roxbury. T. P. Lally, Lieutenant. No. 17. Harrison avenue. Joseph A. Dolan, Captain ; M. J. Nolan, Lieutenant. No. 18. Pittsburgh street. A. J. Macdonald, Captain ; Charles T. Adams, Lieutenant.

No. 19. Fourth street, near K street, South Boston. A. J. Caulfield, Lieutenant. No. 20. Andrew square, South Boston. M. Norton, Lieutenant. No. 21. Corner Saratoga and Byron streets, East Boston. E. J. McKendrew, Lieutenant. No. 22. Monument street, Charlestown. T. H. Ramsay, Lieutenant. No. 23. Grove Hall, Dorchester. John J. Gavin, Lieutenant. No. 24. North Grove street. J. F. McMahon, Lieutenant. No. 25. Centre street, West Roxbury. Hadwin Sawyer, Lieutenant. No. 26. Longwood avenue. P. J. V. Kelly, Lieutenant. No. 27. Walnut street, Dorchester. J. F. Mitchell, Lieutenant.

CHEMICAL ENGINES.

No. 1. Bulfinch street. Avery B. Howard, jr., Lieutenant.
No. 2. Church street. Francis McArdle, Lieutenant.
No. 4. Shawmut avenue. D. M. Shaughnessey, Lieutenant.
No. 5. Egleston square. C. F. Driscoll, Lieutenant.

No. 6. Harvard avenue, near Cambridge street, Brighton. P. G. Flynn, Lieutenant. No. 7. Saratoga street, East Boston. Thomas J. Hines, Lieutenant. No. 8. B street, South Boston. T. J. Muldoon, Lieutenant. No. 9. Main street, Charlestown. William Lally, Lieutenant. No. 10. Eustis street, Roxbury. C. C. Springer, Lieutenant. No. 12. Tremont street, Roxbury, in charge of Ladder 12.

COMEINATION COMPANIES.

Combination Company No. 1. Dorchester avenue, Ashmont. S. F. Ridler, Lieutenant. Combination Company No. 2. Winthrop street, Charlestown. B. F. Hayes, Lieutenant. MISCELLANEOUS.

Water tower No. 1. Bulfinch street. Charles H. Young, Lieutenant. Water tower No. 2. Fire headquarters, Bristol street. Alfred J. Porter, Captain. Water tower No. 3. Pittsburgh street, South Boston. Leonard F. Merrill, Lieutenant. Wrecking wagon. Fire headquarters, Bristol street.