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The above statement does not include the cost of grading the said streets prior to the year 1869-70, neither does it include the cost of laying out and grading streets on the city's public lands at the South End. In addition to the above amounts, there have been payments made for the widening of Hamilton, High, Purchase, Broad and Wendell streets and Washington avenue; the laying out of Sturgis and Hartford streets, and the extension of Pearl Place, which were charged to the appropriation for the Fort Hill Improvement, the total cost of which improvement to May 1st, 1872, was $1,284.567.16.

In the Church-street Distsrict, there were widened Piedmont, Winchester, Melrose, Shawmut, Tremont, and Tennyon streets, and Columbus avenue was extended to Church street. The total cost of this improvement to May 1. 1872 was $1,151,483 22. In the Suffolk-street District, Shawmut avenue was extended to Tremont street; Cobb street laid out; Emerald street extended to Castle street; Wheeler's Court laid out, widened, and extended to Iniana Place, and Castle street widened. Washington street widened, Carney Place laid out. and widened, Middesex street widened and extended to Dover street, and Paul street laid out. The cost to May 1, 1872, was $1,617,227.03.

STREET WIDENINGS,

1871-72.

The following are the amounts paid for laying out, widening,

and extending Streets during the year 1871-72, not including

those within the limits of the Suffolk Street District:

Dudley, Stoughton, Pleasant and Commercial, Ward 16,

105,207 92

Harrison Avenue,

88,907 03

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CONSOLIDATED FUNDED DEBT

OF THE CITY OF BOSTON,

From 1822 to 1872, both inclusive.

The following table exhibits the total consolidated funded debt of the city for each year from its commencement to May 1, 1872, inclusive. At the commencement of the City Government, in 1822. the amount of the debt (which had been contracted by the town for the erection of the Court House and prisons in Leverett street)

The funded debt of May 1, 1872, is classified as fol

The unfunded debt May 1, 1872, was $197,857 91. The means on hand to pay the debt, May 1, 1872, were $12,819,159 31.