A

B

Ox teams the same as horse teams.

One driver allowed to each team.

Teams to be weighed when requested by the superintendent.

The scale of weights for loads will be strictly adhered to; and if found to weigh more than allowed by the tariff, (and not exceeding 7,000 pounds,) the higher rate of toll will be charged.

Horses or oxen are not allowed to be detached from the teams and paid for separately.

No load weighing more than 7,000 pounds allowed to pass the ferry.

Each additional horse in a carriage or team of any description, 5 c.

After two persons have been placed on a family ticket for each of their children, unmarried, and residing in the family, over six years of age and under twenty-one, per year.

The name of each person is to be written on the permit, and all permits will be forfeited if loaned to any person to pass the ferry.

Families, consisting of a man, his wife, and children under 21 years of age and residing in the family, on foot or in a onehorse carriage, per year.

Boarders, visitors, domestics, apprentices, or hired men are not included in family permits; nor do such permits allow the transportation of any goods, wares, merchandise, or passengers other than those whose names appear on said permits.

All permits for foot passengers will commence on the first days of July, October, January, and April.

Quarterly or semi-annual tickets issued at proportionate rates.

No allowance for intermediate time.

$5

$5

$5

$8 $8 $8

$1 $3 $1

$25 $50 $25

Light wagons, or other vehicles of a satisfactory description, drawn by one horse, and not weighing over 1600 pounds when empty, and load not weighing over 2000 pounds, with driver only, to pass once each way, per day, one year

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$30 $50 $30

Light vehicles, loaded or not loaded, to pass twice each way per day, one year

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$50 $75$50

Light vehicles, loaded or not loaded, to pass three times each way, per day, one year

$65 $100 $65

All permits to be paid for in cash when issued.

No person allowed to pass the ferry without paying toll, unless they actually have a permit, and can produce the same to the tollman.

Persons indebted to the ferry must settle their accounts before renewing a permit.

All damage done to the boats or drops by driving on or off is to be made good by the owners of the teams.

In a statement accompanying their proposition, we find that the receipts of the East Boston Ferry Company, from July, 1860, to July, 1861, while exacting present rates, were $ 68,000, and their expenses, $57,000, which leaves a balance of $11,000, without any deduction for depreciation. Their estimate of income for 1861, predicated on the past and present reduced amount of travel is $56,000. Upon the like amount of travel, the rates marked B should produce $39,000, those marked C, $44,000; to the first of which sums, $ 12,000 being added, and to the second, $7,000, the product is $51,000, which, with the gas, tax, and water, and the use of that part of the East Boston Railroad wharf, now leased to Fulsom & Baker for fifteen hundred dollars, and that used for the Henry Morrison and the boat of the harbor master, will meet expenses even in the present state of prostration, and probably in more propitious years, with increased travel, yield enough to make good depreciation, and afford dividends.

In order to exhibit more fully the condition of the companies, we append the last annual reports of the East Boston Ferry Company to the Board, February 20, 1861, and that of the People's Ferry Company, filed March 18, 1861.

Receipts and Expenses of the East Boston Ferry Company for the year 1860, from Jan. 1, 1860, to Jan. 1, 1861.

Statement of the Affairs of the East Boston Ferry Company, January 1, 1861.

Report of the People's Ferry Company, for the year ending 31st Dec., 1861.

EARNINGS.

Gross amount received for tolls, from 1st

January to 31st December, 1860,

Balance from last account,

EXPENSES.

Pay Roll, including salaries of

Treasurer and Superintendent, $ 12,150 15

Running expenses, including

$33,854 29 1,843 67

$35,697 96

These proposals and statements need little additional explanation or comment. On the island, what rates are to be paid at the ferry is a question of daily significance, and there have been changes enough in the tariff, for each inhabitant to calculate with ease their effect as coming home to his own household. As the city government has duties to perform in the premises, these tables, uninteresting as they are to many of us, should still be well understood. If the application of a few thousand dollars can satisfy the wishes of one ninth of our population in so important a matter as their daily transit between their abodes and places of employment, and this come within our legitimate field of action, there will be little disposition longer to hesitate than to avoid past mistakes, and the full assurance that the object aimed at will be effectually accomplished.

On some accounts it is to be regretted that the city did not obtain absolute possession, so far as practicable, of the ferries in 1859, by purchase, when they were in more straitened circumstances than at present. In eight years the lease of the East Boston Ferry landings will have expired, and that ferry be within the power of the government. The People's Ferry landings can be taken at any time. The suggestion made long since, that both ferries should be virtually consolidated by purchasing the People's and leasing it to the other, on condition that the trips be as frequent as at present, and both in 1870 belong to the city would be, we think, if feasible, a desirable consummation. The present boats and other property would probably last out that time with little repair. The increase of wealth and population will then, in all probability, justify, not free ferries, but the adoption of a very different policy with regard to them, than any we should now venture to recommend. Meanwhile the rates should be exceedingly moderate, and so adjusted as to produce the largest returns with the least possible pressure. One obstacle to this arrangement is the sum of fifty thousand dollars, clogged with conditions, demanded for the People's Ferry. Had their proposal been forty thousand we should have been inclined to advocate its acceptance.