relating to the city of Boston and such statistics of other cities for the purposes of comparison as they may deem of public importance. The board shall collect, compile and furnish such other statistical information as may be required from time to time by the mayor or by the City Council. The chairman of the board shall be designated by the mayor."

SECT. 2. Section five of chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended by inserting the following words:

"The statistics trustees, the chairman, thirty-five hundred dollars." SECT. 3. Section two of chapter six of the Ordinances of 1922 is hereby repealed. [Approved by Mayor, January 24, 1924.

CHAPTER 12.

CONCERNING PARK FRONTAGES.

Chapter five of the Ordinances of 1922, as amended by chapters two and eight of the Ordinances of 1923, is hereby further amended in section one by inserting after the words "Commonwealth avenue, from Arlington street to Kenmore street," the words "and from Washington street to the Newton line." [Approved by Mayor, January 24, 1924.

ENACTED IN THE MUNICIPAL YEAR 1924-1925.

CHAPTER 1.

CONCERNING THE SALARY OF THE CITY REGISTRAR.

SECTION 1. Section five of chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended in the clause establishing the salary of the city registrar by striking out the words "four thousand dollars" and inserting in place thereof the words "five thousand dollars."

SECT. 2. This ordinance shall take effect beginning with the first day of February, 1924. [Approved by Mayor, March 6, 1924.

CHAPTER 2.

CONCERNING THE SALARIES OF OFFICERS AT THE COUNTY JAIL. SECTION 1. Section six of chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, as amended, is hereby further amended by striking out the words "The watchmen-engineer in charge, forty dollars per week. The watchmen-engineers operating, each thirty-six dollars per week," and inserting in place thereof the words "The watchman-engineer in charge, forty-five dollars per week. The watchmen-engineers operating, each thirty-nine dollars per week."

SECT. 2. This ordinance shall take effect beginning with the first day of April, 1924. [Approved by Mayor, April 22, 1924.

CHAPTER 3.

CONCERNING JITNEY LICENSES.

Chapter six of the Ordinances of 1921 is hereby amended by striking out section one and inserting in place thereof the following:

Section 1. No person, firm or corporation shall, in the city of Boston, operate any motor vehicle upon any public way, for the carriage of passengers for hire, in such a manner as to afford a means of transportation similar to that afforded by a railway company, by indiscriminately receiving and discharging passengers along the route on which the vehicle is operated or may be running, or for transporting passengers for hire as a business between fixed and regular termini, without first obtaining a license therefor from the City Council, and unless such license is in force according to the provisions of and subject to this ordinance. Such license shall be subject to revocation at any time by order of the City Council, and the withdrawal or impairment of the surety on the bond required by section four of this ordinance shall be deemed to be a revocation without action by the City Council. The fee for such license shall be five dollars. Whenever the word licensee is used in this ordinance it shall mean the person, firm or corporation licensed under this section.

[Approved by Mayor, June 23, 1924.

CHAPTER 4.

CONCERNING USE OF PUBLIC GROUNDS.

Section eighty of chapter forty of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended by striking out the words "between sunset and seven o'clock in the morning" in the fifteenth and sixteenth lines, so that said section as amended shall read as follows:

Section 80. No person shall in or upon the Common, Public Garden or other public grounds of the city, walk, stand or sit upon the grass, or upon any land planted or prepared for planting, or upon a fountain, monument or statue, or a bandstand, wall, fence, or other structure, or within the basin of a pond otherwise than upon ice, or stand or lie upon a bench or sleep thereon, or, not being a woman or child, occupy a bench designated for the exclusive use of women and children, except that the mayor may from time to time by proclamation and order permit walking, standing and lying upon the grassed land of the Common or any designated part thereof, or the grassed land of any other public grounds or any designated part thereof, except the Public Garden, for such days or such parts of days as he shall specify; and he may in like manner by proclamation and order permit sleeping on such days as he shall specify, on any of the benches and any of the grassed lands of the Common or other public

grounds, except the Public Garden. Nothing contained in this section or in section eighty-two of this chapter shall be held to prohibit the doing of any act in the reasonable performance of his work or employment by any person acting under the authority or direction of any board or officer in charge of any of the places described in this section.

[Approved by Mayor, July 15, 1924.

CHAPTER 5.

CONCERNING PARK FRONTAGES.

Chapter five of the ordinances of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, as amended by chapters two, eight and twelve, of the ordinances of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, is hereby further amended in section one by striking out the words "Kenmore Street" in the tenth line of said section, and inserting in place thereof the words "A line drawn parallel to and one hundred and thirty feet west of Charlesgate West."

[Approved by Mayor, August 7, 1924.

CHAPTER 6.

CONCERNING PARK FRONTAGES.

Chapter five of the Ordinances of 1922, as amended by chapters two, eight and twelve of the Ordinances of 1923, and chapter five of the Ordinances of 1924, is hereby further amended in section one by inserting after the words "Sumner street" in the twelfth line of said section, the words "to Dorchester avenue, and from Buttonwood street to Marine Park." [Approved by Mayor, October 15, 1924.

CHAPTER 7.

CONCERNING SALARIES OF STREET COMMISSIONERS.

Section five of chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, is hereby amended in the clause establishing the salaries of the street commissioners by striking out the words "forty-five hundred" and inserting in place thereof the words "six thousand"; and by striking out the words "four thousand" and inserting in place thereof, the words "five thousand," so that said clause will read as follows:

"The street commissioners, the chairman, six thousand dollars, and the two other commissioners each five thousand dollars."

[Approved by Mayor, October 21, 1924.

CHAPTER 8.

CONCERNING PARK FRONTAGES.

Chapter five of the Ordinances of 1922, as amended by chapters two, eight and twelve of the Ordinances of 1923, and chapters five and six of

the Ordinances of 1924, is hereby further amended in section one by adding at the end thereof the following words:

Provided, however, that as to the lot of land at the southwest corner of Commonwealth avenue and Massachusetts avenue the prohibition of the use of building for mercantile purposes shall apply only to so much of any building erected thereon as lies within fifty feet of the southerly line of Commonwealth avenue. [Approved by Mayor, January 15, 1925.

CHAPTER 9.

CONCERNING THE PENAL INSTITUTIONS DEPARTMENT.

SECTION 1. The Penal Institutions Department shall be under the charge of a Penal Institutions Commissioner who shall exercise the powers and perform the duties provided by statute and shall have the charge and control of Deer Island and the House of Correction at Deer Island.

SECT. 2. The Penal Institutions Commissioner shall be appointed by the Mayor, in accordance with the provisions governing appointments of chapter 486 of the Acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine and acts in amendment thereof, and shall receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars.

SECT. 3. The Penal Institutions Commissioner shall be the executive and administrative head of the department and may organize said department as he may find necessary for its proper conduct.

SECT. 4. All employees of the Institutions Department, including the deputy commissioners, who are performing work at Deer Island and the House of Correction at Deer Island, shall as temporary appointees of the Institutions Department continue to perform their usual duties upon the same terms and conditions as heretofore until removal, appointment or transfer to other departments.

SECT. 5. Prior to the appointment and qualification of the Penal Institutions Commissioner the Institutions Commissioner shall continue to perform the duties of the Penal Institutions Commissioner. SECT. 6. All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. [Approved by Mayor, January 20, 1925.

CHAPTER 10.

CONCERNING THE INSTITUTIONS DEPARTMENT.

SECTION 1. All employees of the Institutions Department now engaged in the Boston Infirmary, Children's Institutions and Institutions Registration work, shall continue to perform their usual duties upon the same terms and conditions as heretofore until removal, appointment to positions in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, or transfer to other departments.

SECT. 2. The Institutions Commissioner shall continue to be the executive and administrative head of the department at an annual salary

of seventy-five hundred dollars and may reorganize said department as he may find necessary for its proper conduct.

SECT. 3. The Institutions Commissioner shall, after the appointment and qualification of the Penal Institutions Commissioner, have no further control of either Deer Island or the House of Correction at Deer Island. SECT. 4. All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. [Approved by Mayor, January 20, 1925.

ENACTED IN THE MUNICIPAL YEAR 1925.

CHAPTER 1.

CONCERNING THE SALARY OF THE CITY COLLECTOR.

SECTION 1. Section five of chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, as amended by chapter one of the Ordinances of 1921, is hereby further amended in the clause establishing the salary of the city collector by striking out the words "six thousand dollars" and inserting in place thereof the words "seventy-five hundred dollars."

SECT. 2. This ordinance shall take effect beginning with the first day of February, 1925. [Approved by Mayor, February 10, 1925.

CHAPTER 2.

CONCERNING THE SALARY OF THE TREASURER OF THE SINKING FUNDS COMMISSIONERS.

SECTION 1. Section five of chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, as amended by chapter one of the Ordinances of 1921, is hereby further amended in the clause establishing the salary of the city treasurer as treasurer of the sinking funds commissioners by striking out the words "two hundred dollars" and inserting in place therof the words "seven hundred dollars."

SECT. 2. This ordinance shall take effect beginning with the first day of February, 1925. [Approved by Mayor, February 10, 1925.

CHAPTER 3.

CONCERNING THE SALARIES OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT ASSESSORS. SECTION 1. Section five of chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, as amended by chapter five of the Ordinances of 1915, chapter one of the Ordinances of 1920, and chapter seven of the Ordinances of 1923, is hereby further amended in the clause establishing the salaries of the first assistant assessors by striking out the said clause and inserting in place thereof the following: "The first assistant assessors, each eight hundred and fifty dollars for street work and preparation therefor, and eight hundred and fifty dollars for services on dooming board and work on abatements and investigations."

SECT. 2. This ordinance shall take effect April 1, 1925.

[Approved by Mayor, February 17, 1925.