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I extend my most sincere thanks to the chairman and each mem- ber of this committee for their cordial co-operation in every thing appertaining to the welfare of the department ; and to Mr. George I. Vincent, clerk of assessors and committees, and his assistant, Mr. William P. Mitchell, for their kindness so often evinced in furnishing necessary information, my thanks are cordially tendered.
Respectfully submitted.
JAMES R. HOPKINS,
Chief Engineer.
REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, Jan. 1, 1886.
Report accepted, and referred to the next city council, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.
CHARLES E. GILMAN, Clerk.
Concurred in.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, Jan. 1, 1886. DOUGLAS FRAZAR, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY, Dec. 30, 1885. To the City Council of Somerville.
THE following is the final report of the committee on public property for the year ending Dec. 31, 1885.
POLICE-STATION INCIDENTALS ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$1,500 00
Receipts for rent of halls
401 00
Total credit .
$1,901 00
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For janitor's salary ·
$750 00
janitor's substitute in vacation .
14 00
gas .
260 41
gasoline
115 90
water
16 78
fuel
225 00
insurance
20 00
repairs and improvements of building and furniture
439 23
incidental expenses .
23 83
Total debit
1,865 15
Balance unexpended
.
$35 85
286
ANNUAL REPORTS.
SCHOOLHOUSE INCIDENTALS ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
. $6,000 00
Transfers : -
From water-loan interest ac-
count . $1,000 00
From schoolhouse on Tufts
Street account
52 00
1,052 00
Total credit .
.
$7,052 00
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For repairs and improvements
. $4,291 47
furniture . .
911 09
rent
850 25
insurance
706 89 .
emptying privy-vaults
36 00
trees
57 00 .
carriage-hire
22 00
copperas for privy-vaults .
4 96
expressing chairs to different schools, 1 00
record-book
4 50
salary of superintendent of buildings to March 15
166 67
Total debit
7,051 83
Balance unexpended
$0 17
The expenditures at the different schoolhouses were as follows : -
. Advent Chapel.
Rent
$30 00
Repairs (or maintenance)
8 25
Amount carried forward
$38 25
.
·
.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY. 287
Amount brought forward . $38 25
Beach Street.
Repairs .
$60 11
Furniture
6 00
66 11
Bell.
Repairs and improvements
$673 31
Furniture
35 00
708 31
Repairs .
89 28
Brastow.
Repairs .
47 51
Cedar Street.
Repairs .
38 73
Clarendon Block.
Rent
$343 75
Furniture
44 00
Repairs .
13 40
401 15
Cummings.
Repairs .
$48 19
Insurance
24 00
Furniture
140 50
212 69
Davis.
Repairs .
$125 85
Furniture
27 50
Insurance
30 00
183 35
Eberle Hall.
Rent
$25 00
Repairs (or maintenance)
.
.
9 00
34 00
Amount carried forward .
$1,819 38
-
Bennett.
288
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward .
$1,819 38
Edgerly.
Repairs .
$220 24
Credit for furniture to new Lincoln School, 43 50
176 74
Forster.
Repairs and improvements
$408 54
Furniture
45 15
Insurance
257 89
711 58
Franklin.
Repairs .
$193 96
Furniture
3 00
Emptying privy-vaults
12 00
208 96
Harvard.
Repairs .
High.
Repairs .
$545 96
Furniture
540 13
Insurance
20 00
1,106 09
Repairs .
$503 35
Furnitur ..
24 15
Trees
9 00
536 50
Repairs .
105 30
Lincoln.
(Including hired rooms during re-building. )
Rent
$351 50
Repairs .
68 21
Furniture
67 40
Insurance
260 00
Trees
.
18 00
Emptying privy-vaults
8 00
773 11
Amount carried forward .
$5.463 40
·
25 74
Highland.
Jackson.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY. 289
Amount brought forward .
$5,463 40
Morse.
Repairs and improvements
$176 25
Furniture
.
.
6 00
Trees
30 00
212 25
Prescott.
Repairs and improvements
$490 72
Furniture
42 36
Insurance
115 00
648 08
Prospect Hill.
Repairs .
$225 86
Credit for furniture to new Lincoln School, 26 60
199 26
Spring Hill.
Repairs .
24 95
Repairs .
25 80
Tufts Street.
Rent
$100 00
Repairs .
.
3 50
103 50
Webster.
Repairs .
$159 46
Emptying privy-vaults
.
.
.
175 46
$6,852 70
Record-book .
4 50
Carriage-hire .
22 00
Copperas for vaults
4 96
Expressing chairs to different schools
1 00
Salary of superintendent of public buildings March 15
to
166 67
Total as above .
.
$7,051 83
.
.
.
.
.
16 00
Union.
.
290
ANNUAL REPORTS.
SCHOOLHOUSE ON SCHOOL STREET (CUMMINGS SCHOOL) ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation : -
Balance unexpended in 1884 . $1,288 88
Appropriated in 1885 . . 1,316 87
Total credit .
$2,605 75
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For building (balance on contract) . $1,254 53
architect's services (balance) . 275 00
hardware (deducted from contract) 177 06
two. Magee furnaces .
550 00
two heaters for water-closets
58 47
furniture
133 13
three clocks
24 00
blackboards
38 60
soapstone urinals
10 00
ash-barrels
15 60
running furnaces during construction,
40 00
putting down and repairing seats and desks, teaming, etc.
29 36
Total debit
$2,605 75
SCHOOLHOUSE ON TUFTS STREET (DAVIS SCHOOL) ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation : -
Balance unexpended in 1884 . $2,773 11
Appropriated in 1885 . . 1,423 21
Total
.
. $4,196 32
Less transfers : -
to schoolhouse incidentals
account $52 00
to City Hall alterations ac- count .
38 00 90 00
Net credit (amount carried forward) $4,106 32
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY. 291
Amount brought forward
$4,106 32
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
. For building (balance on contract) . $2,600 00
architect's services (balance) 323 00
two Walker & Pratt furnaces .
780 00
stoves for water-closets 61 30
furniture 149 06
three clocks
24 00
blackboards
30 63
ash-barrels
15 60
gong
22 00
running furnaces during construction,
40 00
putting down and repairing seats and desks, keys, teaming, etc.
60 73
Total debit
$4,106 32
LINCOLN SCHOOLHOUSE (REBUILDING) ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation $12,985 42
less requirement for defi-
ciency of 1884
518 55
-$12,466 87
Receipts for old materials sold
19 38
Net credit
$12,486 25
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For masonry (in addition to expenditure in 1884)
. $1,249 35
carpentry
. 8.880 00
architect's services .
591 90
two Magee furnaces
657 81
furniture .
643 80
four clocks
24 00
blackboards
70 70
ash-barrels
17 50
Amounts carried forward
$12,135 06
$12,486 25
292
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amounts brought forward $12,135 06 $12,486 25
bells
22 00
additional masonry (on drain, etc.), 43 18
66 carpentry (on walks, seats,
etc.) .
87 63
grading .
63 13
concreting
57 60
granite steps .
21 00
extending water service, teaming,
cleaning, etc.
43 75
Total debit
12,473 35
Balance unexpended
$12 90
PUBLIC-LIBRARY BUILDING ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation : -
Balance unexpended in 1884, $2,090 69
Appropriated in 1885 . . 11,000 00
-$13,090 69
Transfer from interest account
. 2,650 00
Total credit .
$15,740 69 -
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For masonry (balance of contract) . $1,259 00
carpentry (balance of contract) ·
641 63
heating-apparatus · . 1,204 40 finishing and furnishing (by contract), 10,026 55 architect's services . 576 75 additional carpentering, painting, and glazing 44 02 ·
additional plumbing . 30 08
connecting gas-metre and work on gas-fixtures . 16 05
umbrella-stand, benches for book-
room, and window-shades 65 35
Amounts carried forward . $13,863 83
$15,740 69
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
293
Amounts brought forward $13,863 83 $15,740 69
ash-barrels, hose, ladders, tools, etc., 57 12
driveways, grading, sodding, dress- ing, seeding, and labor on grounds, concreting walks ·
828 11
108 00
fuel used during construction
130 33
running boilers and care of building during construction
246 75
insurance
195 00
Total debit
.
15,429 14
Balance unexpended
$311 55
These figures are exclusive of the cost of the granite curbing on the line of Highland Avenue, and two granite steps, the bill for which is unsettled.
CITY-HALL ALTERATIONS ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
. $5,000 00
Transfer from schoolhouse on Tufts Street
account
38 00
Total credit .
$5,038 00
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For making alterations as per contract, $4,529 00 additional carpentry 166 99
masonry .
42 03
" painting . ·
44 91
gas-piping .
6 28
moving and resetting radiators
46 33
plans, specifications, etc. .
112 00
watchman
90 00
Total debit
5,037 54
Balance unexpended
$0 46
.
.
.
294
ANNUAL REPORTS.
EXPENDITURES BY THIS COMMITTEE FROM THE APPROPRI- ATION FOR MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNT.
For City-hall expenses : -
gas .
$255 58
fuel
221 60
water
9 91
portraits of ex-mayors Furber, Belk-
nap, and Bruce
150 00
pay of assistant janitor
159 00
repairs and furniture
1,938 08
incidentals
231 85
$2,966 02
For voting-list boards and ballot-boxes, and team- ing same .
54 10
preparing rooms for caucuses and elections 30 75
rent of rooms for caucuses and elections
154 00
raising and lowering flagstaffs, and repairing flags and halliards .
67 05
preparing cemetery for Memorial Day 15 00
cans, lactascope, etc., for inspector of milk
8 95
pumping water from library cellar
6 12
dedication of public-library building .
162 75
pay of assistant janitor of public-library building,
67 50
Total expenditure .
$3,532 24
SCHOOLHOUSE INCIDENTALS.
No special improvements of any magnitude have been made in any of the schoolhouses this year.
At the Prescott School, double doors have been placed in the partition between the master's room and the one adjoining; so that the two rooms can be used as one if required.
At the Forster School, additional radiators have been placed in the two upper rooms on the north side, and more book-closets have been provided.
At the Bell School, tighteners have been placed on the windows, the teachers' water-closets have been moved, and the drainage generally re-arranged and ventilated in a thorough manner.
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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
At the Morse School, tighteners have been placed on the win- dows, and the girls' entrance to the yard has been improved by constructing a convenient flight of steps from the sidewalk.
The room in the Cummings School which for a time was vacant has been furnished and occupied, and an additional class has also been accommodated with furniture in the hall of the High School ; but the hall has not, as yet, been divided with partitions.
The High, Prescott, Bell, and Highland Schools have also been fitted for evening schools, at a cost of about two hundred dollars.
The foregoing statement of this account is exclusive of furniture whichi was bought and used temporarily in the hired rooms in the Lincoln district, and afterward placed in the new Lincoln School- house after its completion ; the sum paid for the same having been credited back to schoolhouse incidentals account, and charged to Lincoln Schoolhouse account (rebuilding).
SCHOOLHOUSE ON SCHOOL STREET (CUMMINGS SCHOOL).
This building was completed and occupied early in the year ; and the items of the cost, which appear in this and the report of 1884, are condensed as follows : -
Land, 11,300 feet at 21 cents . . $2,373 00
Grading and walks
346 01
Building
. 11,109 23
Heating-apparatus .
608 47
Furniture and utensils (including one
room furnished this fall at the ex-
pense of schoolhouse incidentals account, $140.50)
714 16
Insurance
.
206 50
Total cost
$15,357 37
SCHOOLHOUSE ON TUFTS STREET (DAVIS SCHOOL).
This and the Cummings School were finished and occupied at about the same time.
The cost of this building, exclusive of the land, which the city
296
ANNUAL REPORTS.
has owned several years, collected and condensed from the items given in this and the last report, is as follows : -
Grading and walks
$250 76
Building
. 11,307 66
Heating-apparatus .
841 30
Furniture and utensils
726 99
Insurance
206 50
Total cost (exclusive of land) $13,333 21
LINCOLN SCHOOLHOUSE (REBUILDING).
The rebuilding of this schoolhouse, on the site of the one de- stroyed by fire in the fall of 1884, was commenced near the close of last year, and finished during last summer's vacation.
The cost may be stated as follows : -
Grading, walks, and granite steps . $191 73
Building
. 11,878 05 ·
Heating-apparatus . · .
657 81
Furniture and utensils
744 93
Total cost (exclusive of land) . $13,472 52
PUBLIC-LIBRARY BUILDING.
This structure has also been two years in process of erection. It was commenced in the summer of 1884, and given over to the trustees of the library in October of this year.
The following is a brief statement of its cost : -
Grading, walks, and driveways . $1,552 88
Building, furniture, and utensils . 25,231 17
Heating-apparatus . . 1,204 40
Insurance
350 00
Total
.
.
$28,338 45
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY. 297
As before stated, this cost is exclusive of the granite curbing in front of the lot, and of two granite steps, a bill for which has been rendered at $291.25, but remains unsettled.
The cost of the land is not included either, as the building was erected on land which was bought by the town for public purposes many years ago.
CITY-HALL ALTERATIONS.
The removal of the public library to its new building gave the long-desired opportunity of providing suitable apartments and fire- proof vaults for the officers in the city hall ; and for a compara- tively small sum of money accommodations have been secured which are as good as we should be likely to have even in a new building, and will answer every requirement for a long time to come.
SUPERINTENDENT OF BUILDINGS.
In closing this report, we desire to express our approval of the appointment of a superintendent of public buildings. This officer entered upon his duties on the first day of May of the present year, and has not only been of great assistance to this committee, but, as we believe, has promoted economy by looking carefully after the city's property, and making small repairs where a little neglect might create a necessity for large ones, and by seeing that in all work done on public buildings the city receives a fair equivalent for its money.
For the committee.
FRANKLIN R. PERRY, Chairman. GEO. I. VINCENT, Clerk.
REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET-LIGHTS.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, Jan. 1, 1886. Report accepted, and referred to the next city council, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.
CHARLES E. GILMAN, Clerk.
Concurred in.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, Jan. 1, 1886. DOUGLAS FRAZAR, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET-LIGHTS, Dec. 30, 1885. To the City Council of Somerville.
THE committee on fuel and street-lights submits the following final report for the year 1885.
SCHOOL-FUEL ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$5,000 00
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For fuel to Beech-street School
$77 95
Bell
.
.
418 13
Bennett
170 85
Brastow 66
.
.
53 60
Cedar-street
66
·
5 75
Clarendon-block School
36 06
Cummings 66
288 75
Davis
254 55
Edgerly
495 10
Forster
66
.
552 02
Franklin
66
.
137 48
Harvard
11 75
High
60
387 20
Highland
591 98
Jackson
195 30
Lincoln
66
239 42
Morse
259 29
Amounts carried forward .
$4,175 18
$5,000 00
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.
·
.
.
.
.
·
·
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
1 Amounts brought forward . $4,175 18
$5,000 00
Prescott School . 370 08
Prospect-hill School
181 56
Union
18 85
Webster
.
203 75
Total for fuel
. $4,949 42
For advertising for proposals
15 95
Total expenditure .
4,965 37
Balance unexpended
$34 63
STREET-LIGHTS ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
. $7,500 00 ·
Transfer from water-loan interest ac-
count .
. 1,500 00 ·
Receipts : -
For new street-lamps erected (16 at
$20) . · · 320 00
repairs of street-lamps damaged by teams
18 26
Total credit
.
$9,338 26
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For gas, -
to Charlestown Gas Com- pany . . $2,520 86
to Cambridge Gas-light
Company . 2,980 26
$5,501 12
lighting and care of lamps, to Christo-
pher Burke . . 2,149 41
new street-lamps 533 01
repairs of street-lamps .
455 26 ·
Amounts carried forward
$8,638 80
$9,338 26
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET-LIGHTS. 303
Amounts brought forward . $8,638 80 $9,338 26
supplies (naphtha, alcohol, etc.)
404 91
incidentals (advertising for proposals, etc. ) 9 90
street-signs
39 50
changing oil-lamps to gas-lamps · 7 99
moving street-lamps
9 45
Total expenditure .
9,110 55
Balance unexpended
S227 71
FUEL.
Fuel has been purchased as follows : -
From Horatio Wellington & Co., under contract for year ending July 1, 1885, at $4.93 per ton for furnace and egg coal, and $5.20 for stove-coal, and at $8.50 per cord for hard wood, and $6.00 for soft wood ; and from George M. Winslow & Co., under contract for year ending July 1, 1886, at $4.45 for furnace and egg coal, $5.15 for stove-coal, $8.00 for hard wood, and $7.00 for soft wood.
STREET-LIGHTS.
The street-lamps have been lighted and cleaned by Christopher Burke under two contracts, the first of which was for the year ending Feb. 1, 1885, but was extended to May 1. and was at forty-two cents per month for each lamp ; and the second being for the year ending May 1, 1886, at thirty-nine cents per month for each lamp.
The price paid for gas the first six months of the year was $1.90 per thousand feet. July 1, the Cambridge company reduced to $1.65 ; and the Charlestown company reduced to $1.75 on the 1st of October, and probably will charge no more than the Cambridge company after Jan. 1.
The following is a table of street-lamps, showing the additions this year : -
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
GAS-LAMPS.
Charlestown Gas.
Cambridge Gas.
Naphtha Lamps.
Total.
Lamps in the city Jan. 1, 1885, as per last report Add for correction in number of oil-lamps, Lamps erected during the year by city .
168
210
65
443
-
6
1
16
" citizens,
1 16
-
-
1
Total
178
216
70
464
For every lamp erected by the city, the sum of twenty dollars has first been paid by the petitioners to the city treasurer.
We continued the custom established in September of last year, of lighting until three o'clock instead of twelve o'clock, which was the hour for extinguishing prior to that time ; and we have also used the lamps on an average four or five more nights in the month than has been customary in previous years.
We found, however, that our appropriation of $7,500, with the addition of $1,500 transferred to the account by the city council, would not be sufficient to sustain this expense throughout the year ; and, in consequence, the lamps were extinguished at twelve o'clock in October and November, and at one o'clock in December ; but the number of nights was not materially changed.
We increased the number of nights to meet a long-standing and universal demand for more light; and we believe a sufficient sum should be appropriated to light the streets at least as well as they were lighted during the first nine months of this year.
We also recommend that a few lights, of considerably greater brilliancy than those generally used, be placed in the public squares and other centres of travel.
Since the 1st of May we have had the services of the superin- tendent of buildings and lamps, and thereby the committee has been relieved of very much care, and the condition of the lamps has been greatly improved.
For the committee.
MOSES G. STEELE, Chairman. GEO. I. VINCENT, Clerk.
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REPORT
OF THE
CITY SOLICITOR.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, March 2, 1886. Referred to the committee on printing, to be printed in the annual reports. Set down for concurrence.
CHARLES E. GILMAN, Clerk.
Concurred in.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, March 2, 1886.
DOUGLAS FRAZAR, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
SOMERVILLE, Feb. 25, 1886.
T'o his Honor the Mayor and the City Council of Somerville.
GENTLEMEN, - I beg leave to present the following as my tenth annual report.
Early in the year. acting under your instructions, I attended, with our committee on legislative matters, the hearing before the committee of the General Court on towns, with reference to the division of the town of Medford, and the incorporation into the new town of certain territory of the city of Somerville ; and, as a result of our effort in opposition to the project, the petitioners abandoned that part of their petition directed against our territory.
During the year, the General Court passed an Act (chap. 61 of 1885), under which, soon after, the department of the overseers of our poor was re-organized ; and, at the same time, a new ordinance was passed by the city council, with reference to the same depart- ment. I have also prepared during the year two other ordinances. one of which relates to the superintendent of public buildings and street-lights, and the other to the pay of the police department. Quite a number of ordinances have been passed by the city council since the printing of the last municipal register in 1882; and it would certainly promote the general convenience if the ordinances since 1882 could be printed in some suitable form.
I have given much time and effort during the year to the Mystic water contract, and have aided the Somerville Mystic Water Board to the extent of my ability in their endeavor to secure such a modi- fication of the terms of the old contract as should commend itself to the board and to the citizens. A contract was prepared satis- factory to our own and to the Boston Water Board ; but, for rea- sons which neither board could remove or control, the contract was not acted upon by the city council of Boston.
308
ANNUAL REPORTS.
I have attended all the sessions of the committee on claims dur- ing the year, except when detained by sickness. Twelve claims have been heard by the committee. In five of these the city coun- cil voted to take no further action; in five the petitioners were given leave to withdraw; and in the remaining two action has been instituted in the courts. Of these claims, seven were for personal injuries, two related to matters of taxation, and three were for grade damages.
Dec. 31, 1885, there were nine cases upon my calendar to which the city was a party ; viz. :-
1. Somerville vs. Boston and Lowell Railroad, before the county commissioners of Middlesex County. Petition for bridges across railroad location in Somerville.
2. Mayor and Aldermen of Somerville vs. Fitchburg Railroad, before county commissioners of Middlesex County. Petition for grade-crossing of railroad location at Sacramento Street.
3. Parker vs. Somerville, before Supreme Judicial Court in Middlesex County. Bill in equity to restrain nuisance alleged to be caused by the city upon Mystic Flats.
4. Parker vs. Somerville, before county commissioners of Middle- sex County. Damages for injury to real estate by nuisance grow- ing out of sewage.
5. Squire vs. Somerville, before Superior Court in Middlesex County. Damages for conversion of box-drain.
6. Deshon vs. Somerville, before Superior Court in Middlesex County. Action for personal injuries upon Day Street, Feb. 29, 1884.
7. Ayer et. al., Trustees, vs. Somerville, before Supreme Judi- cial Court in Suffolk County. Petition for writ of certiorari to quash sewer assessments upon Cedar and Morrison Streets.
8. Shea vs. Somerville, before Superior Court in Middlesex County. Action for personal injuries upon Russell Street, Oct. 14, 1885.
9. Rowell vs. Somerville, before Superior Court in Middlesex County. Action for personal injuries upon Pearl Street, Feb. 12, 1885.
During the year 1885, the following cases have been disposed of : -
1. Kendall vs. Somerville, before Superior Court in Middlesex County. Action for personal injuries, Jan. 4, 1884, upon Elm
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Street. Trial before jury, April 17, 20, and 21. Verdict for plain- tiff, $1,048.18, and costs, $59.91; in all, $1,108.09. Damages claimed, $4,000.
2. Stepp vs. Somerville, before Superior Court in Suffolk County. Action for personal injuries from fall into sewer in Shawmut Street, Nov. 13, 1882. This case has twice been tried during the year. The first trial, occupying four days, resulted in a disagreement. The second trial, occupying seven days, resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for $579.85, and costs, $137.69 ; in all, $717.54. Dam- ages claimed in writ, $5,000.
3. Ryan vs. Somerville, before Superior Court in Middlesex County. Action for personal injuries upon Day Street, Feb. 28, 1884. Trial before jury, June 10 and 11, 1885. Damages claimed, $4,000. Verdict in favor of city.
4. Mahoney vs. Somerville, before county commissioners of Middlesex County. Petition for jury to estimate land damages occasioned by extension of Evergreen Avenue to Sycamore Street. This action has also terminated in favor of the city.
5. The cases of the Commonwealth against certain employees of the Middlesex Railroad Company for violation of an ordinance of the city in the attempt to lay a track upon Broadway were nol prossed by me last January upon payment by the company of the taxable costs of court, inasmuch as the mayor and aldermen had, since the institution of the cases, granted a location to the com- pany.
Respectfully submitted.
SAMUEL C. DARLING, City Solicitor.
REPORT
OF THE
CITY CLERK.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
REPORT OF THE CITY CLERK.
ANNUAL report of the receipts of his office for the year ending Dec. 31, 1885; also the registration of marriages, births, and deaths for the same period.
RECEIPTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1885.
Recording mortgages and assignments $298 72
Fees for licensing dogs . 166 60
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