Municipal Year Book 1902

Author : Boston Massachusetts
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331804553
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Municipal Register for 1902 written by Boston Massachusetts and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Municipal Register for 1902: Containing a Register of the City Government, the Rules of the Board of Aldermen, Common Council and City Council; A List of Executive and Other Public Officers and Various Statistics Relating to the City The City has annually since 1821 issued a volume contain ing, until 1829, a register of the City Council and a list of the officers. In 1829, the City Charter, in 1830, the Acts relating to Boston and the ordinances, and in 1832, an index Qwere added. The volume for 1822 contains fifteen pages, and for 1840 eighty-five pages, and three pages of index. The volumes up to and including 1840 bear the title of The Rules and Orders of the Common Council, and since that year the title of the municipal register. The munici pal register for 1841 contains the Rules and Orders of the Common Council, joint rules, ordinances of the City, statutes of the Commonwealth relating to the City, a list of the public schools, the City Government of 1841, the committees and departments (consisting at that time of the treasury, law, police, health, public land and buildings, lamps and bridges, fire, and public charitable institutions), and a list of the ward officers; from 1842 to 1864, it also contains a list of the members of preceding City Governments, a necrological record of those members, the latest ordinances and the special statutes relating to the City; in 1851 a list of the annual orators was added, and in 1853 a map of the City and the Rules of the Board of Aldermen were inserted; in 1876 sta tistics of registration and voting were included, and since 1879 in tabulated form; in 1883 portraits of the Mayor and pre siding officers of the two branches of the City Council were included, and in 1888 a list of the members of the past City Governments of Roxbury and Charlestown was added, and continued to 1890. From 1889 to 1896, inclusive, the municipal register contained a compilation of the Charter and Acts subsequently passed, in the place of which an index of said Charter and Acts was substituted in 1897. The Bos ton charter and index are again omitted this year; otherwise the municipal register of this year is in substantially the form of all other municipal registers since 1889. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.