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Improvements : -
New porticos to entrances to school-houses and water closets
$645 42
concreting girls' yard .
478 17
-$1,123 59
Amounts carried forward . $1,621 93
$11,162 40
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
339
Amounts brought forward . $1,621 93
$11,162 40
Furniture
51 45
Insurance
71 25
$1,744 63
Prospect Hill.
Repairs
$76 35
Furniture
.
6 50
$82 85
188 Somerville Avenue.
Rent .
$ 34 00
Furniture and fitting up . · 105 12
$139 12
Spring Hill.
Repairs (including re-shingling) .
$176 57
Furniture
25 17
$201 74
Union.
Repairs
$110 53
Emptying privy vaults
4 00
$114 53
Webster.
Repairs (including painting outside) $512 98
Emptying privy vaults
16 00
$528 98
Total
$13,974 25
Carriage hire
10 00
Account books
9 50
Total expenditure
$13,993 75
SCHOOL-HOUSE IN WARD TWO ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation : -
Balance from the year 1887
$4,177 55
Amount carried forward
$1,177 55
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward $4,177 55
DEBIT.
Expenditure : -
1
Paid Oren S. Knapp, attorney,- for Anna S. Clark, guardian, for lots 10 and 16 Concord Square and Adrian Street, 8,424 square feet, at 20c. for Anna S. Clark, for lots 11, 12, 15, and part of 14, Concord Square and Adrian Street, 13,558.5 square feet, at 20c. . for Mary C. Clark, for lot 17 Adrian Street, 2,535 square feet, at 20c. ·
$1,684 80
2,711 70
507 00
Total expenditure
4,903 50
Amount overdrawn
$725 95
SCHOOL-HOUSE IN WARD THREE ACCOUNT.
(Bingham.)
CREDIT.
Appropriation : -
Balance from the year 1887 . $395 11
Less transfer to police station incidentals account 349 07
Net credit . $46 04 .
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For carpentering, E. Shapleigh's unsettled bill of 1887 · 46 04
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
SCHOOL-HOUSE IN WARD FOUR ACCOUNT.
(Burns.)
CREDIT.
Appropriation : -
Balance from the year 1887 . $250 48
Less transfer to police station incidentals account 204 45
Net credit . $46 03
DEBIT.
Expenditure : -
For carpentering, E. Shapleigh's
unsettled bill of 1887 .
46 03
CITY HALL IMPROVEMENTS ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$3,000 00
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
Carpenter's contract, - paid F. C. Fuller $2,619 62
tinting and frescoing, paid Walburg & Woehrn . 250 00
moving and resetting radi- ators, paid A. A. Sanborn, 40 83
gilding radiators, paid F. P. Wallgreen 43 50
Total debit
$2,953 95
Balance unexpended
46 05
342
ANNUAL REPORTS.
EXPENDITURES BY THIS COMMITTEE ON MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNT.
City Hall expenses : -
gas
$318 62
fuel
246 90
water
16 80
ice
35 00
telephone connections
48 30
insurance
11 00
repairs and furniture
1,587 19
incidentals
178 38
$2,442 19
Preparing rooms for elections and caucuses . .
28 36
Rent of rooms 66 66
27 00
Repairing ballot-boxes
5 25
Distributing and collecting ballot-boxes
12 00
Boards for posting check-lists
15 93
Preparing hall for inauguration
5 00
Expense of auction sale of Bond Street Ledge lot, - auctioneer's charges and advertis- ing
52 08
Care of flag-staff on police building
19 30
Work at cemetery on Somerville avenue
15 00
Ringing bells on holidays ·
9 00
Rental seven sets telephone instruments
in
public buildings, from Sept. 1, 1887, to Sept. 1, 1889
210 00
Badges for assessors
12 25
Expenses on Rifle Range : -
work on buildings and butts
(in 1887), -
$76 02
painting
13 84
insurance
. .
6 00
Amounts carried forward .
$95 86
$2,853 36
.
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Amounts brought forward $95 86 $2,853 36
rent of land, one year, from Oct. 1, 1887, to Oct. 1, 1888 150 00
245 86
maintenance . $392 63
new horse (exclusive of re- ceipt for old horse, as stated below)
250 00
642 63
Total expenditure .
$3,741 85
Less receipts : -
· for messenger's old horse
$65 00
portions of old flag staff (for- merly in Union Square) .
9 03
74 03
Net expenditure
$3,667 82
POLICE STATION INCIDENTALS ACCOUNT.
The wardrobes used for Company M, Eighth Regiment M. V. M., at the armory in the police building, were not suitable, and were located in the non-commissioned officers' rooms, which were thus rendered practically useless for the purpose for which they were intended and needed. After a presentation of the case to this committee by the officers of the company, the old closets were removed, and fifty new ones were placed in the armory proper for the use of the men, and nine for the non- commissioned officers in their rooms. The cost of the closets was $472.75, besides an expense of $50.38 for making necessary changes in the locations of radiators and gas fixtures.
The introduction of the Police Signal System, and the estab- lishment of the patrol wagon, rendered a rear entrance to the police building necessary to give ready communication with the stable ; and such entrance has been made, at a cost of $113.34.
City Messenger's team : -
344
ANNUAL REPORTS.
SCHOOL-HOUSE INCIDENTALS ACCOUNT.
At the high school the hall has been partitioned, so as to make two school-rooms on the north-easterly side ; the blackboards in the partition between the rooms being so arranged that, by raising them, the two rooms may be used as one. Both of the rooms have been furnished, one with the furniture formerly used in the hall and the other with new furniture. The platform in the hall has also been removed, and the space it occupied has been utilized for a class in industrial drawing. Two large closets, -one for books and the other for drawing utensils, - have also been provided. The rain-water conductors at this building are all placed in the hollow space in the walls, and frequently, during heavy rains, the water from them leaks into the school-rooms, causing considerable inconvenience and damage. They should be abandoned, and new conductors placed on the outside of the building.
At the Luther V. Bell School, a new room, nineteen by forty- one feet in size, has been made in the basement, with separate clothes-rooms for the girls and boys. About one-half of the furniture in this room is new, and the remainder was taken from other buildings.
The water-closets have been partitioned, and ventilated into a warm flue; and a " Gurney" hot-water heater has been placed in the boys' closet, supplying heat for both.
At the Prescott School, porticos have been built at the entrances to the school-house and water-closets.
At the Edgerly School, the large brick tank under the water- closets has been removed, and two short-hopper tank closets have been provided for the teachers, and fifteen of the "Parsons " trough closets for the pupils. These trough closets are flushed automatically ; and the janitor, by regulating the supply of water, can cause them to flush whenever and as often as it is necessary. A slab urinal, with automatic flush, has been sub- stituted for the trough previously used, and the closets have been newly plumbed and thoroughly ventilated.
At the Davis School, a furnace, formerly used at the Bell School, has been put in, to heat the hallways and one of the rooms on the first floor.
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
In addition to these improvements more than one thousand dollars has been spent for concreting at the Bell, Highland, and Morse schools ; and sundry lesser improvements have been made, all as specified in the foregoing financial statement.
Special attention has been given to repairs on the wooden school-houses, five of which have been painted outside.
NEW SCHOOL-HOUSES.
Aside from the payment of two small bills, of the year 1887, on the new Bingham and Burns schools in Wards Three and Four, as previously stated, the only expenditure in 1888 for new school property was the sum of $4,903.50 for the 24,517.5 square feet of land bought of the heirs of Joseph Clark, on Con- cord Square and Adrian Street. (See previous statement.)
HIRED SCHOOL-ROOMS.
The store at No. 280 Elm Street is still hired for school purposes ; and a small " kindergarten " room has been provided in it, in addition to the room used in 1887.
Three rooms have been hired in the Prospect Hill district dur- ing the year ; one in Hill Building, at a rental of $25 per month, including steam-heating, from April 10th, exclusive of the long vacation ; another being the store, No. 188 Somerville Avenue, at a rental of $17 per month from Oct. 1st, and the third in · Eberle Building, at a rental of $25 per month, with steam heat, from Dec. 15th.
The furniture for the room in the Hill Building was taken from a room in the Prescott School, which had been supplied with "kindergarten " furniture; that at No. 188 Somerville Avenue is new " kindergarten," and that used in Eberle Build- ing came from a room in the Edgerly School that had been newly furnished.
CITY HALL IMPROVEMENTS.
The improvement of the City Hall, commenced in 1885 by remodelling and refinishing the lower story, has been completed in the past year by removing the standing finish of the upper
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
story and substituting ash, to correspond with the finish on the lower floor, and by replastering, tinting and frescoing the upper story.
The roof has also been re-slated, the water-closet on the second floor has been improved, and the furniture on the same floor has been refinished and re-upholstered.
The cost of the work on the building amounted, as appears by the foregoing financial statement, to $2,953.95; the cost of renewing the furniture, which was $578.55, being paid from Miscellaneous Account and included in the statement already given of City Hall expenses.
New gas and electric combination fixtures have also been placed in the upper story, at a cost (included in the cost of fur- niture in the foregoing statement) of $110.
The Somerville Electric Light Company has placed an incan- descent electric lighting system, with a storage battery, in the building; the city to pay the company for supplying the new system the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, and the charge for lighting not to exceed, for the same amount of light, the previous cost of gas. No bill has yet been presented.
For the committee,
ROBERT DUDDY, Chairman. GEO. I. VINCENT, Clerk.
REPORT
OF THE
INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, Feb. 13, 1889.
Accepted and referred to the committee on printing, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
Concurred in.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, Feb. 13, 1889. CHAS. S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
Feb. 13, 1889.
To his Honor the Mayor and the City Council.
GENTLEMEN-The number of permits granted for the erection of new, and alterations of old, buildings during the year was 461.
Classified as follows :-
Dwelling-houses
365
Stores and tenements
9
Churches .
1
Alterations
51
Stables
20
Hotel
1
Miscellaneous
14
As the ordinance governing the construction of buildings is in the hands of the committee on ordinances for revision, I renew my recommendation of last year, namely, that shingle roofs be covered with asbestos, or other paint, so as to make them slow burning. Extensive fires are caused by buildings catching fire on the exterior; and while the present ordinance provides for the safety of buildings from fire on the interior, no provision is made for preventing the spread of fire from one building to another on the exterior. I therefore hope that material used in covering roofs of buildings will receive consideration by the City Council.
Respectfully,
JAMES R. HOPKINS, Inspector.
REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF MILK.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, Jan. 3, 1889.
Referred to the committee on printing, to be printed in the annual re- ports. Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, Jan. 3, 1889.
Concurred in.
CHAS. S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
Dec. 31, 1888.
To his Honor the Mayor and Gentlemen of the City Council.
I beg leave to make this my fourth annual report as inspector of milk, vinegar, and oleomargarine.
I have, during the year, issued two hundred and thirty-two licenses to sell milk, fifteen to sell oleomargarine, and registered thirty-three stores. I have collected and tested two hundred and sixty-nine samples of milk and ten samples of oleomargarine. I have served eight legal and twenty-eight verbal notices. I am glad to state that in all cases, I have found a perfect willingness to correct the same by change of supply, and otherwise to im- prove the quality of milk.
It is pleasant to report that the milk served to our citizens will compare favorably with that of any city in the State. I have tested for milkmen many samples of dairies as received by them from the country producers. By this means I have found that all the dishonesty in milk must not be attributed to the retail dealers.
The State Inspectors might do good by examining milk as it leaves the farm, as in cases where poor milk is received from the producers the retailer has to stand the brunt of the law, the fact of possession being the conviction of the party.
Hoping that this report may meet with your approval, I am,
Respectfully,
THOMAS CUNNINGHAM, Milk Inspector, City of Somerville.
(P. S .- $140 paid to City Treasurer.)
REPORT OF THE CITY SOLICITOR.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, Feb. 28, 1889.
Referred to the committee on printing, to be printed in the annual re- ports. Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, Feb. 28, 1889. .
Concurred in.
CHAS. S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
Feb. 25, 1889.
To the Honorable the Mayor and City Council of Somerville.
I herewith submit my report, as City Solicitor, for the year ending Dec. 31, 1888.
Aside from matters of litigation, numerous questions have been presented to me during the year by the different depart- . ments and officers of the city for my consideration and opinion, which however I need not recapitulate, as the most of them ap- pear of record in the different departments of the city.
I have attended the meetings of the Committee on Claims, at which many claims have been heard and passed upon. In most of the cases which were thus heard, the petitioners were given leave to withdraw, and as we have heard nothing from such cases since, it is not necessary that I should trouble you with a recital of them.
The case of Susan McCauley vs. Somerville, before the Superior Court of Middlesex County, an action for personal in- juries on Somerville Avenue, Jan. 24, 1886, was settled for $150, which sum makes the total amount paid out by the city during the year on account of suits or matters in the solicitor's hands.
The claim of William N. Homer and wife vs. Somerville and Medford was on account of personal injuries received by both of said parties by being thrown from their carriage on the draw of the bridge between Somerville and Medford on the night of April 12, 1888, by reason of the iron bar for swinging off the draw having been carelessly left across the road by the draw tender. After full investigation and recommendation by the selectmen and solicitor of Medford, and also a full investigation by the Committee on Claims of this city and myself, it was deemed
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
advisable to settle said case by payment of $1,200, which was accordingly done, Medford paying $600 and Somerville $600 ; the final payment not being made until after the commence- ment of the present year.
The following are the cases pending in the Courts to which the City of Somerville is a party :
1. Mayor and Aldermen of Somerville vs. Fitchburg Rail- road Company -Before County Commissioners of Middlesex County. Petition for grade crossing of railroad location at Sac- ramento street.
2. 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 by a sewer.
3. Parker vs. Somerville - Before County Commissioners of Middlesex County. Damages on account of land alleged to have been taken for a sewer by the city.
4. Squire vs. Somerville - Before Superior Court in Middle- sex County. Damages for conversion of box drain.
5. Boston and Lowell Railroad Company vs. Somerville- Before Superior Court in Middlesex County. Petition in regard to repairs and reconstruction of bridges across railroad location in Somerville, and assessment of expenses thereof.
6. Shea vs. Somerville - Before Superior Court in Middlesex County. Action for personal injuries upon Russell Street, Oct. 14, 1885.
7. Joslin vs. Cole et al - Before Superior Court in Middle- sex County. Action for false arrest and imprisonment.
8. Knowles vs. Somerville - Before Superior Court in Mid- dlesex County. Damages on account of land alleged to have been taken for a sewer by the city.
9. Wanamaker vs. Somerville-Before Superior Court in Middlesex County. Action for personal injuries upon Broadway, Feb. 6, 1887.
10. Grover vs. Somerville -Before Superior Court of Mid- dlesex County. Action for personal injuries upon Union Street.
11. Baldwin vs. Somerville - Before Superior Court in Mid- dlesex County. Action for personal injuries upon Cross Street, Feb. 3, 1888.
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REPORT OF CITY SOLICITOR.
12. Philbrook et al us. Somerville - Before U. S. Circuit Court. Action for damages for alleged violation of the Knibb's patent for a relief valve on steam fire engines. This action was commenced May 20, 1887, and similar actions were brought against other cities. Somerville and the other defendant cities put their cases in the hands of Livermore.and Fish, patent solicitors.
At a hearing Nov. 14, 1888, the Court decided for the de- fendant ; but plaintiffs will probably carry the case to the U. S. Supreme Court.
All which is respectfully submitted,
SELWYN Z. BOWMAN, City Solicitor.
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REPORT OF THE CITY CLERK.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, Feb. 13, 1889.
Accepted and referred to the committee on printing, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
Concurred in.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, Feb. 13, 1889. CHAS. S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK, Feb. 2, 1889. To the Honorable, the Mayor and the City Council.
GENTLEMEN, - The following is respectfully submitted as the eighteenth annual report of the City Clerk, and is for the year ending December 31, 1888.
CASH.
The receipts and payments have been as follows :
RECEIPTS.
Balance from year 1887, being for dog licenses
issued in December, 1887, 4 males at $2 00
$8 00
( 1,055 males at 2 00
For dog licenses issued in 1888 ₹ 136 females at 5 00 recording mortgages, assignments, &c. . .
308 50
marriage certificates .
367 at $ 50
183 50
licenses to collect junk
36 “ 2 00
72 00
sixth class liquor licenses 21 « 1 00
21 00
auctioneers' licenses 8 6 .
2 00
16 00
billiard and pool table licenses 5 " 2 00
10 00
intelligence office licenses . 5 « 2 00
10 00
recording, certifying, and posting notices of naturalization . 5 “ 50
2 50
furnishing copy of record .
25
Total .
$8,421 75
2,790 00
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
PAYMENTS. To Joseph O. Hayden, County Treasurer :- - June 1, and Dec. 1, - dog license fees 1,051 males at $2 00 5 134 females at 5 00 $2,772 00 less City Clerk's fees, 1,185 at 20 cents 237 00
$2,535 00
To John F. Cole, City Treasurer, monthly :-
City Clerk's fees for issuing dog licenses . 1,195 at $ 20 $239 00
All receipts, exclusive of dog license fees, as above stated 623 75
862 75
Total
$3,397 75
BALANCE Jan. 1, 1889,- being fees for dog licenses issued in December
$ 8 males at $2 00 $16 00 2 females at 5 00 10 00
$26 00
less City Clerk's fees paid to City
Treasurer, 10 at 20 cents . 2 00
$24 00
The statistics of the office are as follows :
BIRTHS.
Number of births in Somerville in 1888, registered
830
Less than previous year 47
Males
423
Females
397
830
Born of American parents
326
" foreign
329
" American father and foreign mother ·
93
" foreign father and American mother .
82
Number of cases of twins
830
4
365
REPORT OF CITY CLERK.
MARRIAGES.
Number of intention certificates issued
367
More than previous year
23
Marriages registered
378
More than previous year
19
Both parties American
178
foreign
100
American groom and foreign bride
56
Foreign groom and American bride
44
378 couples
First marriage of
681
Second «
73
Third 66
2
378 couples
Oldest groom aged
67
bride 66
60
Youngest groom
16
bride
16
Youngest couple aged : -
Groom
16
Bride
16
DEATHS.
Number of deaths in Somerville in 1888
601
Less than previous year
20
Males
300
Females
301
Under 10 years of age .
Between 10 and 20 years of age
.
20 " 30
62
.
30 40
41
40 50
57
50
60
64
60
70
50
70
80
60
66
80
90
20
66
90 " 100
7
601
601
214
26
366
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Age of oldest person deceased
Born in Somerville
178
" " other places in the United States Of foreign birth
142
Birthplace unknown
3
Number of deaths in January
66
66
" February
36
" March .
61
66
66 66 " April
46
66
66
66
" May
43
66
66
66
" June
29
66
66
" July
56
66
66
66
August
63
66
66
66
" September
63
66
66
66
" October
48
66
November
.
44
66
66
" December
.
46
601
The causes of death may be found in the report of the Board of Health.
VOTERS. MEN'S LISTS.
PRECINCT.
On revised lists of Oct. 1, less deaths to Nov. 1.
Added in October.
Total Nov. 1.
Voted Nov. 6.
Ward 1, Precinct 1
،،
1,
. 6
2 .
470
279
749
699
66
2,
1
610
294
904
SỐ8
602
237
839
782
3,
1
470
161
631
598
3,
2
370
170
540
510
4,
66
1
315
178
493
467
4,
66
2
414
165
579
534
Entire city .
3,707
1,650
5,357
5,018
93
601
456
166
622
570
2,
2 .
.
.
.
278
367
REPORT OF CITY CLERK.
PRECINCT.
On lots of Nov. 1. less deaths to Dec. 1.
Added in November.
Total Dec. 1.
Voted Dec. 4.
Ward 1, Precinct 1
66
1,
2
748
11
759
486
66
2,
1
903
4
907
626
66
2.
2
839
6
845
618
66
B.
1
631
5
636
365
3,
66
1
491
6
497
313
66
66
2
579
6
585
423
Entire city .
5,352
47
5,399
3,520
WOMEN'S LISTS.
PRECINCT.
On revised lists of Nov. 9.
Add din November.
Total Voted Dec. 1. Dec. 4.
Ward 1, Precinct 1
1,
66
2
2
77
79
70
66
2,
66
2
13
185
198
180
66
3,
66
1
3
83
86
76
3,
66
2
1
109
110
98
4,
66
1
5
40
45
34
4,
2
62
62
60
Entire city
28
732
760
677
.
621
4
625
376
2
540
5
545
313
4,
2,
66
1
3
92
95
83
1
84
85
76
Hon. Edward Glines has kindly furnished this office with two volumes of the Acts and Resolves (for the years 1871 and 1874), which could not be obtained at the office of the Secretary of State, and also with a copy of the index to the public statutes and the public acts of 1882 to 1887, inclusive.
GEORGE I. VINCENT,
City Clerk.
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ORDINANCES.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, Feb. 13, 1889.
Ordered: - That the Committee on Printing be, and is hereby, instructed to have printed, in the Annual Reports of 1888, all the Ordinances of the city that are not contained in the Municipal Register or the pamphlet sup- plementary thereto; the expense to be charged to Printing and Stationery account.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, Feb. 13, 1889.
Read twice and adopted. Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, Feb. 13, 1889.
Read twice and adopted in concurrence.
CHAS. S. ROBERTSON, Clerk. February 14, 1889.
Approved,
C. G. POPE, Mayor
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
ORDINANCE No. 41.
FAST DRIVING.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Somerville, as follows : -
SECTION 1 .- Whoever, having the care or use of a horse, or other beast of burthen, - carriage or draught, - rides, drives, or permits such horse, or other beast, to go at a greater rate of speed than ten miles an hour in a public street of this city, except in such streets, or parts of streets, and during such periods as may, from time to time, if deemed expedient, be designated by the City Council, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars. [Passed Jan. 1, 1887.]
ORDINANCE No. 42.
REPEAL OF ORDINANCE No. 36.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Somerville as follows :
SECTION 1. - Ordinance No. 36, entitled " Compensation of Police Officers and Patrolmen," is hereby repealed; to take effect from and after the first day of January, 1887. [Passed April 16, 1887.]
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
ORDINANCE No. 5.
FUNDED DEBT.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Somerville as follows : -
SECTION 1. The existing sinking funds of the city, consisting wholly of its own bonds and any accumulation of interest thereon, shall be applied toward the payment of its existing funded debt, and the board of commissioners of the sinking funds shall forth- with thus apply all the existing sinking funds in their hands by delivering the same to the city treasurer, by whom all the notes, bonds, and scrip of the city, constituting said sinking fund or a part thereof, shall be cancelled, and by whom all moneys con- stituting a part of said sinking fund shall be applied toward the payment of the existing funded debt under the direction of the committee on finance, and the records of said board shall be - delivered to and retained by the city clerk.
SEC. 2. New notes, bonds, or scrip may be issued from time to time, as the oustanding notes, bonds, or scrip, which shall at the time of the application of the sinking funds provided for in the foregoing section constitute the remainder of the indebted- ness of the city, shall severally mature, for the purpose of pro- viding for the payment of the same, and said notes, bonds, or scrip, so issued as aforesaid, shall be payable at a time, not ex- ceeding twenty years from the date of said issue, and the city council shall provide for the payment of the said remainder of the said indebtedness, and of said notes, bonds, or scrip, issued as aforesaid therefor, in such annual proportionate sums as will extinguish such indebtedness within the time hereby author- ized.
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