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... tion . This would enable it from time to time to purchase libraries offered for sale , and for which special means are unpro- vided . The Trustees cannot reasonably ask such provision from the city government , already so attentive to ...
... tion . This would enable it from time to time to purchase libraries offered for sale , and for which special means are unpro- vided . The Trustees cannot reasonably ask such provision from the city government , already so attentive to ...
Page 10
... tion of 338,722 in the City of Manchester , there were last year 35,336 borrowers ( including suburban residents ) , who took from the library 477,544 volumes , or an average of 131 volumes to a borrower . In Boston , a population of ...
... tion of 338,722 in the City of Manchester , there were last year 35,336 borrowers ( including suburban residents ) , who took from the library 477,544 volumes , or an average of 131 volumes to a borrower . In Boston , a population of ...
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... tion and publication of entirely new catalogues for the whole collection . Under these conditions , it may become the part of economy to obtain land adjacent to the present site , although the expenditure for the same may possibly be ...
... tion and publication of entirely new catalogues for the whole collection . Under these conditions , it may become the part of economy to obtain land adjacent to the present site , although the expenditure for the same may possibly be ...
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... tion to bibliothecal knowledge . Following the custom of their predecessors , the Committee , in their examination , have directed their attention to the Books , the Building , the Circulation , and the Administration . BOOKS . The ...
... tion to bibliothecal knowledge . Following the custom of their predecessors , the Committee , in their examination , have directed their attention to the Books , the Building , the Circulation , and the Administration . BOOKS . The ...
Page 17
... tion that the interest in ordinary years shall be added to the principal ; but that when an occasion arises of sufficient impor- tance to justify the expenditure , a portion of the principal itself may be expended . For want of such a ...
... tion that the interest in ordinary years shall be added to the principal ; but that when an occasion arises of sufficient impor- tance to justify the expenditure , a portion of the principal itself may be expended . For want of such a ...
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100 A parcel 25 feet 50 feet avenue Back Bay Beacon street bounded as follows bridge building Castle street cent channel Charles River City of Boston committee commonwealth containing eight hundred containing nine hundred containing one thousand containing seven hundred containing six hundred described as taken dollars Dover street East Boston eastwardly Edward Tuckerman Eliot street Emerald street filling flats foot formerly belonging formerly of George formerly of Henry formerly of James formerly of John formerly of Mary formerly of William heirs of Edward Indiana place land belonging legislature less Lucas street measuring twenty feet Middlesex street Northeast northeastwardly by land Northwest parcel of land park Sarah SHATTUCK side South Boston Southeast southwest square feet Suffolk street tidal basins Tremont street trustees twenty and feet wardly by land Washington street West Boston bridge westwardly by land wharf