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Doc. 35. Auditor's Estimates, Report of Joint Special Committee on.

1876.

Doc. 36.

March 16,

City Registrar. Reply to the charges of inaccuracies in his department.
March 20, 1876.

Doc. 37.-Inspector of Milk, Seventeenth Annual Report of. 1876.

Doc. 38. Show-Boards, Ordinance in relation to the carrying of, on sidewalks.
March 27, 1876.

Doc. 39.

1876.

Streets, Ordinance to amend an Ordinance in relation to. March 27,

Doc. 40.- Auditor's Monthly Exhibit. April 4, 1876.

Doc. 41. Salaries, Second Report of the Committee on.

April 14, 1876.

INDEX TO VOLUME II.

Doc. 42. - Public Parks, Second Report of the Commissioners of. 1876.

Doc. 43. Metropolitan Railroad. Forty-second location. May 8, 1876.

Doc. 44. Leases. Report of the Auditor of Accounts on, owned by the city. May
8, 1876.
Doc. 45.

Ward Twenty-Two, Division of. May 8, 1876.

Doc. 46. — Prison Point Bridge, Report and Ordinance in relation to the appoint-
ment of a Commissioner on the construction of the draw of. May 8, 1876.

Doc. 47. Chestnut-Hill Reservoir and Driveway, Report of Committee on Ordi-
nances in relation to.

Doc. 48. - Auditor's Monthly Exhibit. May 16, 1876.

Doc. 49.

1876.

Cedar Grove Cemetery, Eighth Annual Report of the Commissioners of.

Doc. 50. — Old State House, Report on the Removal of. May 18, 1876.

Doc. 51. East Boston Ferries, Annual Roport of the Directors of. April 30, 1876.
Doc. 52. - Public Institutions, Nineteenth Annual Report of the Directors of, for the
year 1875-6.

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Board of Health, Fourth Annual Report of. May 1, 1876.

Mount Hope Cemetery, Annual Report of Trustees of. May 22, 1876.

Street Railway Cars, Rules for Running in Tremont street. May 29, 1876.
Auditor's Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures for the financial

year 1875-6.

Doc. 57. Salaries, Report of the Committee on Conference of the Common Council
in relation to. June 1, 1876.

Doc. 58. Salaries, Report of the Committee on Conference of the Board of Alder-
men in relation to. June 6, 1876.

Doc. 59. Improved Sewerage, Remonstrance of George B. Emerson and other tax-

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payers of Boston, against the adoption of. May 4, 1876.

Doc. 60. Overseers of the Poor, Annual Report of.

Doc. 61.- Fire Commissioners, Annual Report of.

Doc. 62.-Speed of Horses, Ordinance prescribing rates of, within the limits of the
city. June 6, 1876.

Doc. 63. - Auditor's Monthly Exhibit. June 8, 1876.

Doc. 64. City Hospital, Twelfth Annual Report of the Trustees of.

Doc. 65.

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Salaries of City Officers. Third Report. June 12, 1876.

Doc. 66. — Improved Sewerage, Report of Joint Special Committee on a System of.
June 12, 1876.

Doc. 67. — Sinking Fund, Annual Report of Commissioners of. June 12, 1876.
Doc. 68. — Highland Street Railway. Fifth location. June 12, 1876.

Doc. 69. Mystic Water Board, Eleventh Annual Report of. May 1, 1876.

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Doc. 70.- Salaries, Fourth Report of the Committee on. June 23, 1876.
Doc. 71. Middlesex Railroad. Twelfth location. June 26, 1876.

INDEX TO VOLUME III.

Doc. 72.- Public Parks, Report of Committee on Common, etc., on establishment of. June 26, 1876.

Doc. 73. Almshouses, Report on. June 29, 1876.

Doc. 74. Inspector of Buildings, Semi-annual Report of. July, 1876.

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Doc. 75. — Auditor's Monthly Exhibit. July 7, 1876.

Doc. 76.

1876.

Public Library, Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Trustees of. June 30,

Doc. 77. - Inspection of Prisons, First Semi-annual Report of the Committee on. July 24, 1876.

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Doc. 78. Representatives for Suffolk County, Report of Special Committee on apportionment of, July 17, 1876.

Doc. 79. Oration. Delivered before the City Council and Citizens of Boston, by Hon. Robert C. Winthrop. July 4, 1876.

Doc. 80.

Doc. 81.

Cochituate Water Board, Annual Report of. April 30, 1876.

Highland Street Railroad. Sixth location. July 24, 1876.

Doc. 82. — Printing, Fifth Annual Report of the Superintendent of.

Doc. 83. - Auditor's Monthly Exhibit. August 4, 1876.

Doc. 84. — City Registrar. Annual Report of the Births, Marriages, and Deaths for 1875.

Doc. 85. — Metropolitan Railroad. Forty-third location. August 14, 1876.

Doc. 86. - Auditor's Monthly Exhibit. September 5, 1876.

Doc. 87.

1876.

East Boston Ferries, Report on the System of Accounts of. September 7,

Doc. 88. - Park Commissioners, Fourth Report of the Board of.

Doc. 89. South Boston Railroad. Twelfth location. October 2, 1876.

Doc. 90.- Auditor's Monthly Exhibit. October 4, 1876.

Doc. 91. Gas, Report of the Commissioners appointed to investigate into the Supply of.

Doc. 92. Record Commissioners, First Report of.

Doc. 93.- Municipal Library, Report on. October 30, 1876.

Doc. 94. Metropolitan Railroad. Forty-fourth location. October 30, 1876.

Doc. 95. Metropolitan Railroad. Forty-fifth location. October 30, 1876.

Doc. 96.Auditor's Monthly Exhibit. November 3, 1876.

Doc. 97. — Public Parks, Second Report of the Committee on Common and Public Grounds, upon the subject of establishing. November 9, 1876.

Doc. 98.

Doc. 99.

Finance, Ordinance to amend an Ordinance in relation to.
Water. Report on the Reduction of Meter Rates. Nov. 23, 1876.
Doc. 100.- Auditor's Monthly Exhibit. December 5, 1876.
Doc. 101. New City Charter, Report of Committee on.

December 7, 1876.

Doc. 102.

Doc. 103.

Doc. 104.

Bathing, Report of the Committee on, for 1876.

East Boston Ferries, Report of the Directors of. December 22, 1876.

School Committee, Annual Report of, for 1875.

Doc. 105. — Public Parks, Report of the Joint Special Committee appointed to confer with Park Commissioners in relation to. December 28, 1876.

Doc. 106. - Inspectors of Prisons, Semi-Annual Report of. December 30, 1876.
Common Council. Last Meeting. December 28, 1876.

Doc. 107.

Doc. 108.
Doc. 109.

Board of Aldermen. Last Meeting.

Publications. First Annual Bulletin.

December 30, 1876.

December, 1876.

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City Document No. 42.

SECOND REPORT OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON, 1876.

To the Honorable the City Council of the City of Boston:

The Commissioners appointed under the act entitled “An Act for the laying out of Public Parks in or near the City of Boston," have the honor to submit the following report, as supplementary to that of January 1, 1876.

In pursuance of their "power to locate within the limits of the city one or more public parks," with the limitation, "that no land shall be taken, or other thing involving an expenditure of money done, until an appropriation, sufficient to cover the estimated expense thereof, shall have been made by a vote of two-thirds of each branch of the City Council of said city," the Commissioners have located several parks and prepared estimates of the expense thereof, as required by said Act.

În selecting the hereinafter-described lands and recommending them as suitable for public parks and park-ways for the present and future needs of the city, the Commissioners have been guided by the following considerations:

1st- Accessibility, for all classes of citizens by walking, driving, riding, or by means of horse or steam cars.

2d-Economy, or the selection, so far as practicable, of such lands as are not at present income-producing property, and would least disturb the natural growth of the city in itsbusiness and domestic life, and of those which would become relatively nearer the centre of population in future years.

3d — Adaptability, or the selection of lands possessing in the greatest degree the natural physical characteristics necessary for park purposes, and requiring the least expenditure for subsequent development.

4th-Sanitary advantages, or the selection of such lands as would probably become unhealthy, if neglected or built

upon.

In considering the first of these conditions, accessibility, attention was directed to the relative density of population in the different sections of the city. The following table, without being absolutely accurate, is sufficiently correct for the purposes of this report:

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It thus appears that Old Boston, South Boston and Charlestown are to day the districts having by far the largest average number of inhabitants per acre, and contain over 66 per cent. of the whole population.

As the area required for business structures increases, the volume of inhabitants will necessarily decrease, while the territory to the west and southwest will not only receive the exodus from the first-mentioned districts, but must also provide homes for its own natural growth.

These three districts will, nevertheless, for many years contain a dense population, farther removed from any open country than either of the above-mentioned districts. As the city as yet includes no territory north of Charlestown, any parks within the city limits for the people of that district must be located in the more unoccupied country to the west and southwest.

Such parks would of course be reached with greater ease by the people of all the other districts of the city, East Boston only excepted, which, from the peculiarity of its location, has received independent treatment.

The second and third conditions-economy and adaptability have close relations to each other. Many large tracts of land in the suburbs are unoccupied in the main, because their surfaces are of so abrupt, irregular, or rocky a character as to require excessive cost for grading, or of so low a grade as to be rendered unfit for ordinary building purposes. Such regions command a comparatively low

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