INVESTMENTS HELD BY THE SINKING FUNDS. *Amount of City of Boston Funded Debt held as investments as above.. Serial Loan Debt held as investments. "County of Suffolk Serial Loan Debt held as investments.. "Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bonds held as investments. U. S. Government First Liberty Loan Bonds held as investments. Second Liberty Loan Bonds held as investments, Third Liberty Loan Bonds held as investments.. Fourth Liberty Loan Bonds held as investments. Treasury Loan Bonds held as investments.. Treasury Certificates held as investments. City of Akron, Ohio, Bonds held as investments... a and County of San Francisco, Cal., Bonds held as investments, of Toledo, Ohio, Bonds held as investments.. State of California Bonds held as investments. Minnesota Bonds held as investments.. Temporary Loans held as investments. Total investments (see page 12).. CITY OF 308TON $25,248,400 00 6,497,000 00 233,000 00 737,000 00 360,000 00 600,000 00 826,000 00 750,000 00 1,978,000 00 310,000 00 150,000 00 300,000 00 200,000 00 100,000 00 250,000 00 100,000 00 200,000 00 75,000 00 112,000 00 400,000 00 1,000,000 00 $40,426,400 00 RULES OF THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE MUNICIPAL YEAR 1925. RULE 1. Unless otherwise ordered from time to time the regular meeting of the city council shall be held on every Monday at two o'clock p. m. Special meetings may be called by the president at his discretion, and by the city clerk for the purpose only of drawing jurors. PRESIDENT. RULE 2. The president of the council shall take the chair at the hour to which the council shall have adjourned and shall call the members to order, and a quorum being present, shall proceed with the regular order of business. In the absence of the president the senior member by age present shall preside as temporary president or until a presiding officer is chosen. RULE 3. The president shall preserve decorum and order, may speak to points of order in preference to other members, and shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal. Any member may appeal from the decision of the chair, and, when properly seconded, no other business, except a motion to adjourn or to lay on the table, shall be in order until the question on appeal has been decided. The question shall be put as follows: "Shall the decision of the chair stand as the judgment of the council?" The vote shall be by a roll call, and it shall be decided in the affirmative unless a majority of the votes are to the contrary. RULE 4. The president shall propound all motions in the order in which they are moved, unless the subsequent motion shall be previous in its nature, except that, in naming sums and fixing times, the largest sum and the longest time shall be put first. RULE 5. The president shall, at the request of any member, make a division of a question when the sense will admit of it. RULE 6. The president shall, without debate, decide all questions relating to priority of business to be acted upon. RULE 7. The president shall declare all votes; but if any member doubts a vote, the president shall cause a rising vote to be taken, and, when any member so requests, shall cause the vote to be taken or verified by yeas and nays. RULE 8. The president shall appoint all committees, fill all vacancies therein, and designate the rank of the members thereof. RULE 9. When the president of the council or the president pro tempore shall desire to vacate the chair he may call any member to it; but such substitution shall not continue beyond an adjournment. MOTIONS. RULE 10. Every motion shall be reduced to writing if the president shall so direct. RULE 11. A motion to strike out and insert shall be deemed indivisible; but a motion to strike out being lost shall not preclude amendment, or a motion to strike out and insert. RULE 12. No motion or proposition of a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment. RULE 13. When an order or resolution relates to a subject which may properly be examined and reported upon by an existing committee of the city council, such order or resolution shall, upon presentation, be referred to such committee. When a motion is made to refer any subject, and different committees are proposed, the motions shall be put in the following order: 1. To a standing committee of the council. 2. To a special committee of the council. Any member offering a motion, order or resolution, which is referred to a committee, shall be given a hearing on the same by the committee before a report is made thereon, provided he so requests at the time of offering the order or before final action by the committee. RULE 14. After a motion has been put by the president it shall not be withdrawn except by unanimous consent. RULE 15. When a question is under debate the following motions only shall be entertained, and shall have precedence in the order in which they stand arranged: RULE 16. A motion to adjourn shall be in order at any time, except on an immediate repetition, or pending a verification of a vote; and that motion, the motion to lay on the table, the motion to take from the table, and the motion for the previous question, shall be decided without debate. READINGS. RULE 17. Every ordinance, order and resolution shall, unless rejected, have two several readings, both of which may take place at the same session, unless objection is made, provided, however, that all orders for the expenditure of moneys presented to, or reported upon by a committee of, the council, shall lie over for one week before final action thereon. Whenever the second reading immediately follows the first reading the document may be read by its title only; provided, that all orders releasing rights or easements in or restrictions on land, all orders for the sale of land other than school lands, all appropriations for the purchase of land other than for school purposes, and all loans voted by the city council shall require a vote of two-thirds of all the members of the city council, and shall be passed only |