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783
Total
3,957
The School Department.
The school department met with a great loss in the death of its school librarian, Miss Mary J. Warren, who died in May. Miss Warren had been a member of the library staff for a period of seventeen years, and, with one exception, was the senior mem- ber of the staff in point of service. Her faithfulness, her patience under physical disabilities, and her loyalty to the library will be long remembered.
Soon after her death, Miss Mary S. Woodman was ap- pointed as her successor. The work of this department has in- creased rapidly from year to year, though it has been brought to such a point of development at present that a proportionate in- crease cannot be hoped for the future. As usual, forty books are allowed every schoolroom in the city that cares to take them as a special library ; if, however, there are more than forty scholars in any room, a limit of one book to each pupil is permitted. Since the beginning of the year, 5,169 books have been sent to the schools in these libraries. Out of the 227 schoolrooms in the city, 110 are at this date supplied with special libraries. The school circulation for the current year amounts to 42,586 fiction and 40,128 other works, making a total of 82,714. During the past five years it has been a rather difficult and somewhat ex- pensive process to build up this department to its present state of efficiency. But we are now in a position to supply the demands of the schools, and generally to supply them with promptness. It is the desire of the library to become so equipped that every schoolroom in the city, if it should desire this service, might be supplied with the books it needs at short notice.
A printed list of the books of this department arranged by the author and title, with the grades indicated for which the books are suitable, would now be a great accommodation to the school librarian and to the teachers alike. The cost of such a list as this in an edition of a thousand copies would not be large,
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probably about $200, and I recommend that such a list be pre- pared and printed during the coming year.
Reference and Art Department.
The reference and art department, under the supervision of Miss Mabel E. Bunker, continues to be one of the more useful departments. Below is given the monthly attendance for the year :-
January
1,064
February
1,133
March
1,429
April
1,125
May
1,034
June
658
July
38
August
491
September
1,116
October
1,366
November
1,661
December
1,110
Total
12,576
During the year there have been thirteen art exhibits, as follows :---
Photographs of Salisbury cathedral.
Harper's black and white prints.
Prang platinettes.
German festoons.
Venice, No. 3.
The hundred most eminent persons of all time.
Views of Grand Canyon of Arizona, etc.
Decorative art from South Kensington museum.
English lakes.
India, from Bombay to Calcutta.
Perugia. Sicily.
Elson prints.
Many works of importance have been purchased during the current year, among which may be mentioned :-
Watt's Dictionary of Chemistry-4v.
Cassell's Popular Science-4v.
Cram's Standard Railway System Atlas.
Armstrong's Gainsborough and His Place in English Art.
Cruttwell's Luca and Andrea Della Robbia.
Menpes' Whistler as I Knew Him.
National Gallery-3v.
Roe's Ancient Coffers and Cupboards.
Shaw's Encyclopaedia of Ornament.
Shakespeare rare print collection.
Gusman's Pompei.
Menpes' Venice.
Thacher's Christopher Columbus.
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage.
Finckam's Artists and Engravers of British and American Book Plates.
Work of John S. Sargent, R. A.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
During the year an appraisal of the Americana room has been made by the well-known specialist, George E. Littlefield, and a value has been placed by him on every book in our Ameri- cana collection. Mr. Littlefield finds the total value of this col- lection $8,571.80. He speaks in high terms of the fullness and range of the department. The commercial value of this collec- tion appreciates every year. Mr. Littlefield very generously do- nated to the library the amount paid him for his services in ap- praising the Americana room. This sum-$25-has been used in the purchase of Americana books.
The Children's Department.
The children's department, under the supervision of Miss Anna L. Stone, has continued to supply the children of the city with a wide range of useful and inspiring books. Though this room, at certain hours of the day, is taxed to its full capacity, it is evident that a large proportion of the children of the city can- not directly share in its benefits. The distance of the library from the eastern and western extremities of the city prevents the younger children, at least, living in those localities from visiting our children's room. It is safe to say that half the children of Somerville never, or very seldom, enter the children's room of the public library. The great pleasure and benefit of those chil- dren who do visit the room, as well as the enthusiastic gratitude of many of their parents, makes it all the more a matter of regret that these advantages cannot be shared by the entire youthful population of the city. We are under the necessary injustice of treating the children of one section of the city better than the children of other sections. It is to be hoped that.this injustice may be lessened in the future by the establishment either of branch libraries or much larger and better equipped agencies.
The children's room is not an ideal room, either on the score of situation, ventilation, or artistic construction, but an effort has been made the present year to beautify it as much as its natural limitations will permit. A series of picture bulletins have been displayed through the year, and such subjects have been treated pictorially as Bryant, Whittier, Washington, Lincoln, Columbus, the Seventeenth of June, Thanksgiving day, Christmas, football, etc. In addition to the pictorial treatment of these subjects, a list of the best books bearing upon them has in most instances been displayed. A few good pictures have been purchased for the permanent adornment of the walls. A few Nature charts, with illustrations of birds, flowers, animals, and fishes, some simple historical charts, and a large globe, are needed for the full equipment of the room.
The circulation of the children's room by months is herewith appended :-
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PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Month.
Fiction. Other Works.
Total.
January
4,162
1,038
5,200
February
4,226
1,229
5,455
March
6,444
1,959
8,403
April
4,508
1,246
5,754
May
4,911
1,059
5,970
June
3,305
652
3,957
July
3,654
641
4,295
August
3,216
544
3,760
September
3,004
699
3,703
October
3,648
1,098
4,746
November
5,790
2,000
7,790
December
4,209
1,365
5,574
Totals
51,077
13,530
64,607
Of the above total, 79.06 per cent. is fiction, and 20.94 per cent. is other works.
Agencies.
The agencies still do their usual amount of work. The Magoun-square agency, however, has been discontinued. We
now in all our agencies, with one exception, allow people to se- lect books from small collections that are kept in these agencies for public use. Of course but a few hundred books in any in- stance can be kept for this purpose, but the number taken from the shelves is very much greater than the number ordered through the main library. When a book is taken from the shelves in an agency, the chooser has only a few hundred books from which to select. But if he takes books on his card, the re- sources of the whole central library are at his disposal. But yet the freedom of selecting one's own book by coming in direct contact with it is appreciated so highly that readers much prefer to select their books personally from a very meagre collection, rather than to draw them by card from a very large collection. This is certainly a strong argument in favor of "free access."
I am a thorough believer in library agencies, but I also be- lieve in evolution. It is the natural tendency of the successful agency to evolve into something better. This tendency ought to be encouraged. As the population of the city increases, new agencies should be established commensurate with the growth of the population. But an agency can supply a section adequately only up to a certain limit. The time is sure to come in the growth of a prosperous agency when it can no longer adequately meet the public needs. When that time comes, it should evolve into a branch library. Such a need is felt now, and has long been felt, in the West Somerville section of the city. It may be urged that if a branch library is established there, other sections some- time in the future may also demand branch libraries. This is true, and a fact that should not be blinked. But judging from the present growth of the agency system, it will be several years before the natural evolution of the library system will demand
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
another branch library in any other section of the city. When that time does arrive, then such a demand should be considered as an evidence of growth, progress, and intellectual development, and be met with gratulatory joyfulness.
Below is a table of circulation of the different agencies dur- ing the year :-
Agencies.
Teele
Square.
East
Somerville.
Somerville.
South
Somerville.
Union
Square.
January
.
749
105
302
241
46
Shelves
410
317
926
February
833
102
357
2 59
51
Shelves
714
285
1,400
March
1,053
102
508
347
39
Shelves
699
350
1,355
April
834
80
373
255
36
Shelves
760
582
1,306
May
896
97
438
325
45
Shelves
805
467
1,200
June
621
53
311
222
31
Shelves
655
416
1,078
July
537
72
241
237
35
Shelves
618
366
1,072
August
639
48
323
2 88
52
Shelves
625
348
924
September
526
36
279
206
28
Shelves .
578
394
1,150
242
October .
620
56
,318
212
31
Shelves .
753
412
1 520
170
November
707
58
349
293
25
Shelves .
1,065
658
1,742
283
December
626
37
323
231
33
Shelves
779
476
1,313
17,102
5,917
19,108
3,116
1.147
.
Sunday School Libraries.
The library still continues to supply a number of the Sunday schools of the city with such books as the Sunday schools may wish to select up to the number of 100. The service has proven
West
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A GROUP OF DELIVERY BOYS
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satisfactory to the Sunday schools that have applied for it. Dur- ing the present year libraries have been taken out by the follow- ing Sunday schools: Bow-street Methodist, Perkins-street Bap- tist, Prospect-hill Congregational, Second Unitarian, West Som- erville Baptist, Winter-hill Congregational, and Winter-hill Uni- versalist. During the year we have delivered to the Sunday schools of the city and to the Y. M. C. A. 1,058 books, of which 889 are fiction and 169 are other works. The library stands in readiness to supply any or all of the Sunday schools of the city with libraries of 100 books.
Library Thefts.
During the year the library has had a disagreeable experi- ence with a thief. A total of 828 books are missing, the value of which is estimated at above a thousand dollars. After a long search, and largely through the efforts of Lieutenant Carter, of the Somerville police, the thief was found and afterwards con- victed and sentenced to a three-years' term in the house of cor- rection. The thief admits the theft of 240 books, and there is ample evidence that he took a much larger number. Many of these stolen books have since been recovered from the second- hand dealers in Boston. Precautions have been taken to prevent a repetition of such thievery in the future. Frequent inventories have been instituted, and some department of the library will be inventoried every month; an attendant has been stationed in each of the stack-rooms during the busy hours of each day; and a perforating stamp has been purchased, and the words "Somer- ville Public Library" will, as soon as possible, be stamped upon every book in the library.
House-to-House Delivery of Books.
The library still continues to deliver books to the homes of people by delivery boys, who receive two cents per book for the round trip, to and from the library. The growing use of the agencies renders this service unnecessary in most of the sections of the city ; but during the year 2,490 books have thus been de- livered.
General Work.
The general work of the library, under the immediate super- vision of Miss Adele Smith, the assistant librarian, shows a grati- fying development and increase.
The general circulation figures of the year are as follows :-
January
30,078
February
32,316
March
42,441
April
33,278
May
37.885
June
26,567
Amount carried forward
202,565
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Amount brought forward
202,565
July
18,161
August
21,839
September
18,598
October
24,477
November
38,326
December
29,320
Total
353,286
Last year the circulation was 314,206. Consequently there -
is a net increase the current year of 39,080, a gain of about thir- teen per cent. The percentage of fiction is seventy-three and one-half per cent .; of other works, twenty-six and one-half per cent.
Below is given our circulation by classes, exclusive of fiction :-
General works
·
.
7,101
Philosophy
1,853
Religion
5,666
Sociology
10,541
Philology
1,433
Natural science
9,877
Useful arts
4,107
Fine arts
8,678
Literature
16,924
History
23,226
Total of general delivery
89,406
Total of children's room
13,520
Total of specials
678
Total of other works .
103,604
Below is the statistical statement of the general work of the
year :-
Accession number January 1, 1905
75,173
Accessions in 1904
5,929
Total circulation
353,286
Delivered from children's room
64,597
66 66 Teele square
8,641
66
66
East Somerville
846
66
66 66 shelves
5,071
66
66 West Somerville
4,122
66
66 shelves .
14,986
66
66 South Somerville
3,116
66
66
Union square
695
Volumes out in Sunday schools
school libraries
5,169
Delivered from Knapp school Visitors in reference room
1,879
Cards issued
Books covered
1,947
Fines
$735 02
Gift
25 00
Books
114 22
Telephone
.
11 40
Total
$885 64
66
shelves
8,461
452
66
shelves
1,058
12,576
-5,476
.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY.
The library has received the following donations of books, pamphlets, and periodicals during the past year :
List of Donations.
Vols.
Pamph.
Period.
Allen, Mrs. E. F.
American Congregational Association
Amherst College
1
Armstrong Association
1
Associated Charities
1
Boston Atheneum
Boston Transit Commission
2
Boston Y. M. C. A.
Bridge, James H.
1
Brown University
1
1
Browne, Fred E.
10
Carnegie, Andrew
1
Cemetery Department
Chandler, William E.
Children's Institutions
Clark University
Commission Bureau of Labor Statistics
1
Cutler, S. Newton
S
Davis, Walter A.
1
Department of Education, N. Y.
1 1
Dodge, Melvin G.
1
Dolbear, Professor A. E.
1
Fleming, J. L.
1
Gloues, W. J.
1
Goldsmith, Benj. W.
Harrison, Carter H.
Harvard University .
Herbert, John
24
1
Indo-American Book Co.
2
2 2
Leland Stanford, Jr., University
1
Library of Congress
12
Lincoln, Charles P.
13
Lincoln, Mary L.
1
Lincoln, Mass.
1
Little, Brown & Co.
Madison Free Library Commission
Massachusetts .
41
Massachusetts Free Library Commission
1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
1
Massachusetts State Library
Masters, Edgar Lee
1
Middlesex County
1
Mitchell, William
2
Moody, J. H.
1
Morse Institute
1
Mount Auburn Cemetery
1
Carried forward
103
41
78
1125 1 1
De Pauw University
Indian Rights Association
Iowa College
2
Lincoln, Blanche G.
1
1
2
1
54
1
1
1
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
LIST OF DONATIONS .- Continued.
Vols.
Pamph.
Period.
Brought forward
103
41
78
National Municipal League
Ohio State University
1
Peabody Institute
2
Peace Congress
1
Perry, Henry F.
1
Philippine Independence Committee
Phillips, S. L.
1
Poole, George S.
3
Providence Atheneum
1
Public Libraries : -
Allegheny, Pa. ( Carnegie Library )
Arlington ( Robbins Library )
Atlanta, Georgia
Attleboro
1
Baltimore ( Enoch Pratt Library )
Beverly
Boston
.
1
Braddock, Pa. ( Carnegie Library ) .
Brockton
Brookline
1
Brooklyn, N. Y.
1
Cambridge
1
Cedar Rapids, Iowa -
Chelsea ( Fitz Library )
Cleveland, Ohio
1
Concord, Mass.
1
Concord, N. H. .
1 1
Detroit, Mich. .
1
Dover, N. H.
1
Everett ( Parlin Library ) .
1
Everett ( Shute Library )
1 1 1
Fitchburg ( Wallace Library )
Groton
1
Hagerstown, Maryland
1
Haverhill .
1 1
Lancaster,
1 1 1
6
Lynn
1 1 1
Malden
Manchester, N. H. .
1
Marblehead ( Abbot Library ) .
1
Medford
2
Carried forward .
111
94
84
1 1 2
1 1 1 1 1
Carlisle, Pa. (F. Herman Bosler Library )
1 1 1
Dayton, Ohio
Fitchburg
.
Laconia, N. H.
Leominster
Lincoln
Los Angeles, Cal.
5
Ludlow, Vt. ( Fletcher Library )
.
1
1
Philippine Civil Service Board
1
1
Preble, Edward P.
1
Museum of Fine Arts .
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PUBLIC LIBRARY.
LIST OF DONATIONS. - Concluded.
Vols.
Pamph.
Period.
Brought forward Public Libraries ( Continued ) : -
Melrose
Milwaukee, Wis.
Minneapolis, Minn.
1
Nashville, Tenn. ( Carnegie Library )
1
Newark, N. J.
New Bedford
1
Newburyport
1
New Haven, Conn.
1
Newington, N. H.
1
New Orleans, La.
1
Newton ·
Niagara Falls, N. Y.
1
Paterson, N. J.
1
Paterson, N. J. ( Danforth Library ) Philadelphia, Pa.
1
Pittsburg, Pa. ( Carnegie Library)
2 1
Portland, Me. ·
1
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
1
Providence, R. I.
1
Quincy ( Thos. Crane Library )
Revere
1
Rochester, N. H.
St. Louis, Mo.
Salem
San Francisco, Cal.
1
Springfield
Syracuse, N. Y.
1 1 1
Westborough
1
Weymouth ( Tufts Library )
1
Winchester
1 1
Woburn
1
Worcester
Yarmouth
1
Rocca, Rev. D. A.
St. Louis Mercantile Library Association
Sanborn, Mrs. Carrie A. .
3 1
Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
Storey, Moorfield
Sutro, Theodore
Tabor Academy
Thomas, Reuen
1
Underhill, Jesse J.
5
United States
3
1
University of Colorado
1
University of Porto Rico
1
Waltham School for Feeble Minded
1
West, Charles A.
4 1
Wilmington Institute
1
Totals
134
148
84
111
94
84
1 1
Scranton, Pa.
Waltham
Watertown
Winthrop .
Reformed Mennonite Church
3 1 1 1
Smithsonian Institute
1 1 1 1 1
Tufts College .
Willis, Dr. J. L. M.
1
1
2
1
1
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Remarks.
It has been the aim of the library for the past few years to steadily duplicate its standard works. It has done this with the hope eventually of supplying all demands outside the domain of current fiction that may be made upon it. It would be an exag- geration to say that this hope has been fulfilled entirely. But it is no exaggeration to say that the standard works in the domains of literature, history, science, and sociology (that are not of a narrowly technical nature) may be found in the library when asked for. Current fiction cannot usually be obtained when asked for, and to supply the demand for fiction is, I presume, a problem hopeless of solution. Personally, I wish that the best fiction might be purchased in sufficient amounts to supply the demand. Many people will read fiction when they can secure it, and the conviction must be borne home to all librarians that most people will read nothing else. Very possibly this is not the most desirable condition of affairs. But the wise man will mold the present condition of affairs, however undesirable, into something better if he can. If most people will read nothing but novels, the best thing that can be done is to give them no other kind of novels but good novels. The most confirmed novel readers will read good novels when they cannot get bad ones; and here is the opportunity of the public library. Let it furnish the people with good novels, and, if possible, furnish them with enough good novels to supply the demand. Considering the universal clamor for such service, the universal tax-payer, logically, ought not to complain if a larger appropriation for such a purpose should be asked for.
The library has had a prosperous and progressive year. I wish to record my thanks for the efficient service of the staff and the kindly co-operation of your board.
Respectfully submitted,
SAM WALTER FOSS, Librarian.
December 28, 1904.
BOARD OF HEALTH
1904
ALLEN F. CARPENTER, Chairman. EDMUND S. SPARROW, WESLEY T. LEE, M. D.
OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
WILLIAM P. MITCHELL, Clerk and Agent to Issue Burial Permits. CALEB A. PAGE, Agent.
FRANK L. MORSE, M. D., Bacteriologist.
CHARLES M. BERRY, Inspector of Animals and Provisions.
JULIUS E. RICHARDSON, Milk Inspector.
DUNCAN C. GREENE, Plumbing Inspector.
EDGAR T. MAYHEW, Superintendent Collection of Ashes and Offal.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH, CITY HALL, January 1, 1905.
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen :-
Gentlemen,-We respectfully submit the following as the twenty-seventh annual report of the board of health, in which is presented a statement, tabulated and otherwise, of the sanitary condition of the city and the business of the board for the year ending December 31, 1904 :-
Nuisances.
A record of nuisances abated during the year, in compliance with notices issued by the board, or under the board's direction, is presented in the following table :--
NUISANCES ABATED IN EACH DISTRICT IN 1904.
( SEE DESCRIPTION OF DISTRICTS IN LATTER PART OF THIS REPORT.)
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
x.
Total.
Population ( estimated ).
8,360
6,429
5,672 6,625
12,373
7,131
7,871
4,035
5,605 5,399
69,500
Bakery offensive
18
4
3
2
6
3
1
1
1
29
Cesspool offensive
2
2.
1
2
Cow barn offensive
4
1
2
1
1
9
Cows kept without license
18
13
15
16
15
17
15
13
14
14
150
4
1
1
2
1
2
3
1
2
1
18
3
1
2
3
1
2
4
2
4
2
24
1
1
1
1
1
5
3
3
4
1
6
2
1
2
1
1
-1
4
3
4
3
3
4
1
5
2
29
6
2
1
1
2
2
1
3
1
1
20
4
2
5
2
1
1
1
2
1
1
20
Offensive odor in and about dwellings
2
1
1
1
2
10
3
1
1
6 ?
Premises dirty .
43
19
15
17
16
19
11
16
18
10
184
Privy-vault offensive
9
4
1
1
22
Rubbish in cellar .
10
4
8
7
3
5
4
2
4
3
50
Slops thrown on surface
6
3
5
6
3
4
2
3
2
2
36
Stable infected with glanders
25
2
6
4
4
6
6
2
3
4
62
Stable and stable premises filthy and offensive
6
2
3
4
1
3
1
1
2
23
Stable without drainage
5
1
2
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
16
Stagnant water on surface
1
2
1
1
5
Water-closet defective
9
6
3
4
2
4
3
2
1
34
Water in cellar
5
6
5
4
5
10
4
3
3
4
49
Water under stable
6
2
3
1
2
1
1
1
17
Total
197
80
90
82
62
103
64
61
66
59
864
1
1
1
1
2
-1
Cellar damp .
2
1
1
4
Drainage emptying into cellar . Drainage emptying on surface . Fish offal
Goats kept without license
1
. .
1
Pigeons in cellar
1
1
Sewage-gas in house
3
1
2
1
1
1
1
10
Hens in cellar
Hennery offensive
Manure exposed and offensive
Manure pit defective .
Offal on land
3
Pigs kept without license
6
1
. .
Drainage defective
259
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Number of nuisances abated 864
Number of nuisances referred to board of 1905 47 Number of nuisances complained of 911
Number of complaints (many covering more than one nuisance) 408
Number of notices mailed 585
Number of notices served by constables 9
In addition to the above, 245 dead animals have been re- moved from the public streets, and many nuisances have been abated on verbal notice from the agent, without action by the board, of which no record has been made. Each spring the whole city is examined, and cellars, yards, and alleyways where rubbish and filth have collected are required to be cleaned.
Glanders .- Sixty-two cases of glanders have been reported during the year. Prompt action was taken in every case, and fifty-six of the horses were killed, six being released from quar- antine by order of the cattle commissioners.
Permits.
The record of permits to keep cows, swine, goats, and hens, to collect grease, and to remove manure is as follows :-
Cows .- Thirty-two applications were received for permits to keep 110 cows. Twenty-nine permits to keep 102 cows were granted, and three permits were refused.
Swine .- Seventeen applications were received for permits to keep thirty-one swine. Fifteen permits were granted to keep twenty-five swine, and two permits were refused. The fee is one dollar for each swine.
Goats .- Seven applications were received for permits to keep seven goats. All were granted. The fee is one dollar for each goat.
Hens .- One hundred twenty-three applications for permits to keep 3,243 hens were received. One hundred nine permits to keep 2,919 hens were granted, and fourteen permits were refused.
Grease .- Fourteen applications were received for permits to collect grease, eleven of which were granted. The fee is two dollars. Two of the parties licensed reside in Somerville, two in Charlestown, four in Cambridge, two in Boston, and one in Watertown.
Manure .- Seven permits were issued during the year for the carting of manure through the streets of the city in the day- time between May 1 and November 1. All permits issued for the removal of manure from the stables in the city in the daytime, or for carting through the streets of the city, remain in force until revoked. No fee is charged for these permits.
Melting and Rendering .- Seven parties have been licensed to carry on the business of melting and rendering, under the pro - visions of the revised laws of 1902, chapter 75, section 111.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Pedlers.
One hundred and forty-seven certificates of registration were issued to hawkers and pedlers during the year under the provisions of ordinance number 27-an increase of forty-one over the year 1903. One hundred and nineteen certificates have been renewed during the year. Each pedler is required to present a writing from the sealer of weights and measures, showing that his measures have been properly sealed, before a certificate is issued to him. Pedlers are also required to present their vehicles at the police station the first Monday of each month for inspec- tion by the agent of the board, that he may see they are kept in a clean condition, and are properly marked with the owner's name and number.
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