H APPOINTED OR ELECTED. TERM. OW OFFICERS. Created. Salary. By Whom. When. Begins. Length of. Institutions Registrar”| Statute...... Mayor.......] Annually . . . May 1. . . . . . . One year.... 1 $3,000 Lamps, Superintendent of... . . * * * * * g e o g to Ordinance.. “. . . . . . . 6 & “ 1. . . . . . . 6 & ,3,500 Library, Public, Trustees of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Statute...... “. . . . . . . Annually, - OIlê . . . . . . . . “ 1....... Five years...| None. Markets, Superintendent Of... . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ordinance.. “. . . . . . Annually... “ 1. . . . . . . One year.... $3,000 Messenger, City ... . . . 4 & *City Council Annually... “ 1. . . . . . . & 4 4,000 Music Trustee8. . . . . . . . & 4 Mayor. . . . . . . Annually, - ODe . . . . . . . . “ 1. . . . . . . Five years...| None. Overseers of the POOr. Statute...... “. . . . . . . Annually, four....... “ 1. . . . . . . Three years.. § { Park Commissioners.. “. . . . . . . “. . . . . . . Annually, ODe. . . . . . . . “ 1. . . . . . . & 4 & 4 Pauper Institutions Trustees *... . . . . . . . . “. . . . . . “. . . . . . . Annually, One Or two. “ 1... . . . . Five years... & 4 Penal In St it ulti O n S Commissioner *. . . . . “. . . . . . . “. . . . . . . Triennially. “ 1, 1904. Three years...| $5,000 Printing, Superintend- ent Of... . . . . o, a o e o e o s is Ordinance.. “. . . . . . . Annually... “ 1... . . . . One year. ... 3,000 Public Buildings, Superintendent of...... & & “. . . . . . . & 4 “ 1... . . . . & 4 3,600 Public Grounds, Superintendent of...... & so “. . . . . . . & 4 “ 1... . . . . & 4 4,000 Registrar, City. . . . . . . . Statute...... & & { { “ 1. . . . . . . & 4 4,000 Sanitary Department, Superintendent of...] Ordinance.. “. . . . . . . & 4 “ 1. . . . . . & £ 3,000 Schoolhouse CommisSioners *. . . . . . . . . . . . . Statute...... “. . . . . . . Annually, One . . . . . . . June 1. . . . . . . Three years...| 3 3,500 Sewers, Superintendent of... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ordinance.. “. . . . . . . Annually... May 1....... One year.... 3,500 , Sinking-Funds Commissioners..... . . . . . . Statute...... “ . . . . . . Annually, tWO. . . . . . . “ 1. . . . . . . Three years...| None. Soldiers’ Relief Com- missioner............ “. . . . . . . “. . . . . . . Annually... “ 1... . . . . One year... $3,500 Statistics Trustees.... Ordinance.. “. . . . . . . Annually, OD 8. . . . . . . . “ 1. . . . . . . Five years...| None. Streets, Superintendent Of... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . & © “ . . . . . . Annually... “ 1....... One year.... $5,000 Street Cleaning and Watering De part ment, Superintendent Of... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . & 4 “ . . . . . . 6 : “ 1... . . . 4 & 3,000

* William P. Fowler, appointed for the term of one year, beginning with the first day of May,

1906.

rendered without pay (C. C. M. 1904, p. 153).

Mr. Fowler's services as Institutions Registrar are, in accordance with his request, to be

H APPOINTED OR ELECTED. TERM. - OW OFFICERS. Created. Salary. By Whom. When. Begins. Length of. o V f l Street Commissioners. Statute.... } go Aolly, lso Three years... 134,000 Supplies, Super in tendent Of... . . . . . . . . Ordinance..] Mayor....... Annually... May 1... One year ... 3,000 Treasurer... . . . . . . . . . . . . Statute...... “. . . . . . . Annually...| “ 1... . . . . § { 6,000 Vessels, Weighers of, “. . . . . . . “. . . . . . . Annually, tWO . . . . . . . “ 1. . . . . . . { { Fees. Water Commissioner,” “. . . . . . . “. . . . . . . Triennially, “ 1, 1904. Three years...| $5,000 Weights and Measures, Sealer of....... “. . . . . . . “ . . . . . . Annually... “ 1... . . . . One year.... 3,000 Deputy Sealers.. ... “. . . . . . . “. . . . . . . Annually, ten . . . . . . . . “ 1... . . . . {{ 1,600 Wire Commissioner... “. . . . . . . “. . . . . . . Triennially. “ 1, 1906. Three years. 5,000

1 Chairman, $500 additional.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS.

DEPARTMENT OF THE MAYOR.
Office, City Hall, Room 28, second floor.

[Stat. 1885, Chap. 266; Stat. 1895, Chap. 449; Stat. 1904, Chap. 450; Stat. 1905, Chap. 341; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 2.]

JOHN F. FITZGERALD, Mayor.

DANIEL T. O'CONNELL, Secretary.
TIMOTHY A. BUTLER, Chief Clerk.
RICHARD F. FIELD, Assistant Secretary.
JoBN M. CASEY, Assistant Secretary.
WILLIAM D. STACK, Stenographer.

ASSESSING DEPARTMENT.
Office, City Hall, Room 18, first floor.

[Stat. 1854, Chap. 448, § 37; Stat. 1884, Chap. 123; Stat. 1903, Chap. 279; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 5; Ord. 1900, Chap. 5; Ord. 1901, Chap. 8.]

BOARD OF A SSESSORS.

GEORGE A. COMINS, Chairman.
CHARLES E. FOLSOM, Secretary.

ASSESSORS.

SAMUEL H. BoRoFSKY, CHARLEs E. Folsom, FREDERICK H. TEMPLE. Terms end in 1909. JoBIN H. DO NOVAN, JOHN J. MURPHY, GEORGE A. COMINS. Terms end in 1908. SAMUEL HICHBORN, EDWARD B. DAILY, JAMES BUCKNER. Terms end in 1907. EDWARD T. KELLY, Clerk. Three Assessors are appointed each year by the Mayor for a term of three years. The salary for the Chairman is $4,500, for the Secretary $4,200, and for the seven other Assessors $4,000.

NOTE. – R. L. refers to the Revised Laws of Massachusetts, 1902. Stat., alone to the annual Statutes or Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts; Rev. Ord. to the Revised Ordinances of 1898; Ord., alone, to the annual Ordinances passed since the passage of the Revised Ordinances of 1898. The municipal year begins with the first Monday in January. The financial year begins with February 1. Corrections are made up to July 24, 1906.

The Assessors published annual tax-lists from 1822 to 1866. Since 1866 the records of the department are almost entirely in manuscript, except the annual list of polls. Annual reports have been made since 1890.

ASSISTANTS,

[Stat. 1885, Chap. 266, § 2; Stat. 1894, Chap. 276; Stat. 1901, Chap. 400; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 5, § 1; Ord. 1901, Chap. 6.]

The First Assistants are appointed by the Assessors for a term of three years, subject to confirmation by the Mayor, one for each assessment district; one-half must be from each of the two leading political parties. The Assessors and First Assistants organize as the Board of Assessors and Assistant Assessors, of which body the Secretary of the Board of Assessors is at present the Secretary. The First Assistants receive a salary of $1,000 annually.

The Second Assistants are appointed annually in the same manner as the First Assistants, one for each assessment district; each Second Assistant being a resident of the ward that includes the assessment district for which he is appointed. Salary, $6 each per day.

The assessment districts, with First and Second Assistants assigned to each, are as follows:

DISTRICT 1. The whole of ward 1 (East Boston). CHARLEs A. TILDEN, THOMAS SExTON. DIST. 2. The whole of Ward 2 (East Boston). THoMAs O. McENANY., ALFRED L. WHITNEY. DIST. 3. The whole of Ward 3 (Charlestown). BENJAMIN F. Bow1911 UH, JoHN P. COTTRELL. DIST. 4. The whole of Ward 4 (Charlestown). PHILIP O'BRIEN, LUCIAN J. PRIEST. DIST. 5. The whole of Ward 5 (Charlestown). John J. TAGUE, WARREN B. HADLEY. DIST. 6. That part of Ward 6 lying northerly of a line beginning at the junction of Traverse and Beverly streets; thence by the centre lines of Beverly, Cooper, Salem, Parmenter, Hanover and Richmond streets, Atlantic and Eastern avenues to the Harbor Commissioners' line. HARRY C. BYRNE, SAVERIO R. ROMANO. DIST. 7. That part of Ward 6 lying southerly and easterly of a line beginning at the junction of School and Washington streets; thence through the centre lines of Washington, Hanover and Richmond streets, Atlantic and Eastern avenues to the Harbor Commissioners’ line. EDWIN R. SPINNEY, EDWARD A. ROGAN. DIST. 8. That part of Ward 6 lying southerly and westerly of a line beginning at the junction of Traverse and Beverly streets; thence by the centre lines of Beverly, Cooper, Salem, Parmenter, Hanover and Washington streets to the boundary line of Ward 7. MATTHEw BINNEY, Jr., JAMES MICNULTY.

"DIST. 9. All that part of Ward 7 lying northerly and easterly of a line beginning at Broadway bridge; thence by the centre lines of Broadway extension, Albany, Kingston, Summer and Otis streets, Winthrop square and Devonshire street, to the boundary line of Ward 6. NATHAN P. RYDER, DANIEL J. FALVEY. DIST. 10. That part of Ward 7 lying northerly and westerly of a line beginning at the junction of Pleasant and Eliot streets; thence by the centre lines of Eliot, Kneeland, Harrison avenue, Beach, Kingston and Otis streets, Winthrop square and Devonshire street to the boundary line of Ward 6. ALEXANDER P. BROWN, WILLIAM J. KEENAN. DIST. 11. All that part of Ward 7 lying southerly of a line beginning at the junction of Pleasant and Eliot streets; thence by the centre lines of Eliot, Kneeland, Harrison avenue, Beach street to Albany street; thence by the centre line of Albany street to the boundary line of Ward 9. HENRY J. IRELAND, WALTER L. SEARs. DIST. 12. That part of Ward 8 lying northerly and easterly of a line beginning at Craigie's bridge; thence by the centre lines of Leverett, Green, Chambers and Cambridge streets to the boundary line of Ward 6. THOMAS H. BOND, HYMAN WEINBERG. DIST. 13. That part of Ward 8 lying southerly and westerly of a line beginning at Craigie's bridge; thence by the centre lines of Leverett, Green, Chambers and Cambridge streets to the boundary line of Ward 6. WILLIAM H. CUDDY, MICHAEL J. ToumEY. DIST. 14. That part of Ward 9 lying northeasterly of a line beginning at the intersection of Tremont and Dwight streets; thence by the centre lines of Dwight, Groton, Washington, Dover and Fay streets, Harrison avenue, Bristol and Albany streets to the boundary line of Ward 12. JAMES F. MoRGAN, CHARLEs F. Holm Es. DIST. 15. That part of Ward 9 lying southwesterly of a line beginning at the intersection of Tremont and Dwight streets; thence by the centre lines of Dwight, Groton, Washington, Dover and Fay streets, Harrison avenue, Bristol and Albany streets to the boundary line of Ward 12. TERENCE F. FEELY, FREDERICK A. H. BENNETT. DIST. 16. That part of Ward 10 lying southerly and easterly of the Centre line of location of the Providence Division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and the centre line of Berkeley street to the boundary line of Ward 11. CHARLEs J. Dowd, JAMEs A. TIGHE. DIST. 17. That part of Ward 10 lying northerly and westerly of the centre line of location of the Providence Division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and the centre line of Berkeley street to the boundary line of Ward 11. JAMEs H. PHELAN, MICHAEL Moon EY. DIST. 18. That part of Ward 11 lying easterly of a line beginning at the Charles river; thence by the centre line of Clarendon street to the boundary line of Ward 10. JAMES I. MooRE, FREDERICK F. SMITH. DIST. 19. That part of Ward 11 lying westerly of a line beginning at the Charles river; thence by the centre line of Clarendon street to the boundary line of Ward 10. WILLIAM H. ALLEN, JoHN J. F.AY.