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WARD 5 .- MARKET STREET .- To commenee at the bridge at the head of Harrison court in Market street, and run to the westerly end of Railroad House, and continue the shore round until it intersects a continued line of Shepard street to said shore, thence northerly to the house of Kimball Ramsdell, ineluding said house and the western side of Shepard street, from thence to the western end of the house of the late Micajah Newhall, and all the houses intersected by this line to be in ward 5; thence to the western end of Capt. Bubier's house, thence by the eastern side of Lover's Lcap to the northwest corner of J. C. Stickney's ground, and all houses interseeted by these lines from said Newhall's house to belong to ward 6, and from thence to the centre of Forest Rock in Pine Grove Cemetery, from thence to the point that Maple street intersects the turnpike, thence to the magazine in Rock's Pasture, thence to the bridge in Market street, and all houses intersected in the last line to be in ward 5.
WARD 6 .- LYNN HOTEL .- To commence at the western end of Kimball Ramsdell's house, to run to the shore on the
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western line of ward 5, thenee to continue the shore round to Fox Hill bridge, then to follow the stream to Chase's mills, thence to follow the stream until it intersects Boston street at the foot of Tower Hill, thenee northerly to the western end of J. G. Perley's house, and William Mulliken's, to Sad- ler's Rock, thenee easterly to northwest corner of J. C. Stick- ney's land, thenee southerly, on the eastern side of Lover's Leap, to the house of Capt. Bubier, thence to house of late Mieajah Newhall, and all houses intersected by the last two lines to be in ward 6, thenee to house of Kimball Ramsdell.
WARD 7 .- TOWER HILL .- To include all the inhabitants west of ward 6 and south of ward 9.
WARD 8 .- NAHANT .- To include the peninsula of Nahant and Long Beach, until it intersects with the lines of wards 2 and 4.
WARD 9 .- WYOMA .- To commence at the bridge at the western end of Spring pond, and to run to Mansfield's Hill, thence to Forest Roek in Pine Grove Cemetery, thenee to northwest corner of J. C. Stickney's ground, thence to Sad- ler's Rock, thenee north to Dungeon Rock, thence west to Saugus line, and to continue the outer boundary of Lynn until it reaches the point from which it started.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Mayor-HON. GEORGE HOOD. Salary, $400. House, 50 Essex street; 38 Fulton street, Boston. City Clerk-WILLIAM BASSETT, EsQ. Salary. $400. Office, City Hall, 50 S. Common st .; house, 21 Nahant st. JONATHAN BLANEY, SAMUEL SILSBEE,
HIRAM N. BREED, NATH'L INGALLS, JR. Aldermen. JOHN B. ALLEY, JAMES NEWHALL, JR.
PHILLIPS COLLINS, THOMAS RADDIN, JR.
Common Council.
President-HON. DANIEL C. BAKER.
House, 66 Franklin street ; 15 Fulton street, Boston. Clerk-JOSEPH BREED, 2d.
House, 23 Nahant street; 33 Front street.
Ward 1 .- William D. Rowe, Henry J. Thing.
2 .- Jacob P. Jackson, Warren Burrill, Joseph In- galls, jr. Nathaniel Boynton, jr.
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Ward 3 .- Oliver Ramsdell.
4 .- Abner Newhall, James Babb, Edward Carroll, Edwin Sheldon, Ira P. Brown.
5 .- Nehemiah Berry, Daniel C. Baker, Matthew Mansfield, William N. Spinney, Thomas P. Richardson.
6 .- Thomas B. Newhall, Samuel J. Ireson, Joseph M. Rowell, Isaiah Walden, Jesse Rhodes.
7 .- Elijah Holmes.
8 .- Wm. R. Johnson.
" 9 .- Jeremiah C. Bacheller.
School Committee.
Ward 1 .- Rev. Jonas B. Clark.
2 .- Nathaniel Ireson, Albert Needham.
3 .- Benj. Richardson, jr.
66 4 .- Dr. Daniel Perley, Dr. Wm. O. Johnson.
66 5 .- Dr. James Clark, Jeremiah Sanborn.
66 6 .- Rev. Parsons Cooke, Rev. Wm. C. Richards.
7 .- Theodore Attwill.
66 8 .- Henry Bulfinch.
9 .- John Allen.
Assessors.
Ward 1 .- Jona. F. Phillips.
2 .- Williams Ingalls.
3 .- James M. Bucknam.
4 .- Jonathan Buffum.
66 5 .- Harrison Newhall.
66 6 .- Andrews Breed.
7 .- Sewall Raddin.
8 .- John Q. Hammond.
9 .- Joseph Newhall.
Overseers of the Poor.
John Norwood, Jesse L. Lewis, Israel Buffum, Oliver B. Coolidge, Dennison Gage.
Police Court.
Standing Justice-Thomas B. Newhall, Esq. 24 N. Common street; house 208 Summer street. Special Justices-James R. Newhall, Esq. Benjamin F. Mudge, Esq.
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Sessions for criminal trials daily. Civil terms, the first and third Saturdays of each month.
Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum.
George Hood, Asa T. Newhall, Thomas B. Newhall, Jere- miah C. Stickney.
Justices of the Peace.
James Babb, Daniel C. Baker, William Bassett, Andrews Breed, Isaiah Breed, Isaac Brown, Oliver B. Coolidge, Ed- ward S. Davis, George Foster, Welcome W. Johnson, Aaron Lummus, Alonzo Lewis, Benjamin Mudge, Benjamin F. Mudge, Francis S. Newhall, James R. Newhall, Daniel Per- ley, Robert M. Richardson, Joseph N. Saunderson.
Notaries Public.
Edward S. Davis, James R. Newhall, Benjamin Oliver, Amos Rhodes.
Coroners-Plumer Chesley, Samuel Vial.
Deputy Sheriff-Charles Merritt.
British Consul-James S. Bancroft.
Deputy Collector-Samuel Sargent.
Ward Officers.
Ward 1 .- Warden, Daniel P. Stimpson. Clerk, William Marshall. Inspectors, John B. Richardson, Nath'l Blanchard, Zebedee Small.
" 2 .- Warden, Albert Needham. Clerk, John Mailey. Inspectors, Benj. F. Boynton, Samuel Hender- son, John Townsend.
3 .- Warden, Isaiah H. Parrott. Clerk, Robert Sis-
son. Inspectors, James Lewis, Samuel C. Heath, Joseph B. Goodridge.
4 .- Warden, Joseph Breed, 2d. Clerk, James B. Chase. Inspectors, John Trask, John Low, George H. Chase.
5 .- Warden, William Phillips. Clerk, Samuel Cur- tis. Inspectors, Elbridge Lovejoy, Lyman B. Fraser, Ezra R. Tebbets.
66 6 .- Warden, Edward S. Davis. Clerk, Otis New- hall. Inspectors, Charles J. Gale, Ezra B. Johnson, Nath'l A. Newhall.
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Ward 7 .- Warden, Elias Clough. Clerk, William Jack- son. Inspectors, Aaron Moulton, John Patch, Herman M. Morey.
8 .- Warden, William F. Johnson. Clerk, Daniel A. Johnson. Inspectors, Albert Whitney, Walter Johnson, Joshua B. Johnson.
9 .- Warden, James Nugent. Clerk, William Jef- fery. Inspectors, John N. H. Bacheller, Barnes Short, David Hardy.
CITY OFFICERS.
City Treasurer-Ezra Warren Mudge,
Laighton Bank, No 1 Lyceum Hall ; house 60 Neptune st. City Collector-William Bassett.
City Physician-Abraham Gould, M. D.
City Marshal-Caleb M. Long, 76 Newhall street ; office, City Hall.
Constables.
William K. Chase, Thomas C. Cummings, Joshua J. Gar- land, John Q. Hammond, Benaiah H. Davis, Wm. E. Jef- ferys, Albert Johnson, Nathan Mower, Perkins H. Dow, Ca- leb M. Long, James Stone, John A. Thurston, William S. Waitt, jr. John Nugent.
Surveyors of Highways.
William Abbott, Walter Johnson, Henry Phillips, Jacob Rhodes.
Field Drivers.
Ward 1-Wm. Phillips, 3d, Wm. Phillips, jr. Ward 2- John M. Coombs, Samuel V. Spear, Robert Shirley, Benj. Dupar. Ward 3-David Bowler, Wm. Colby, Warren Tar- box. Ward 4-Jos. W. Smithurst, Nath'l S. Doe, James Wheeler, Warwick Palfrey, John Low, Jona. Haskell, Hiram Clifford, Moses Conner. Ward 5-James Stone, Albert Johnson, Benj. Ingalls, jr. Wm. Webster, Geo. W. Payne. Ward 6-John Barry, Nath'l Bartlett, Edwin Johnson, Da- vid M. Hollis. Ward 7-Wm. Jackson, John Patch, Wm. Holmes. Ward 9-Geo. Martin, Samuel Bushby, Geo. W. Vincent.
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Tythingmen.
James Barry, Edmund Brown, Wm. Boynton, George Clark, Benj. Curtis, Samuel H. Green, John Hallowell, Augustus Haskell, Wm. F. Johnson, Levi T. Leathe, John Nichols, Harris Nichols, Joseph P. Newhall, Benj. P. Ravel, James Stone, John Spinney, Joseph Speed, Henry Seger, Simon Wilkins, William Webster.
Surveyors of Lumber.
Henry Breed, Andrews B. Breed, Samuel O. Breed, Jo- seph Gilman, John Q. Hammond, George Little, David K. Millett, Benjamin Straw, Dexter Stetson, Joseph G. Shorey, John C. Vennard, Wm. Willey.
Measurers of Wood and Bark.
Breed Bacheller, John Chapman jr. Epes Mansfield, Con- sider Orcutt, Benjamin Straw, Joseph W. Smithurst, Dexter Stetson.
Surveyors of Shingles and Clapboards.
Joseph G. Shorey, Ivory Churchill.
Fence Viewers.
George Little, Perkins H. Dow, Win. Clark, jr. James Ellis, Jacob Phillips.
Inspectors of Lime.
James Pool, Ezra R. Tebbets, Thomas Ripley.
Sealers of Weights and Measures-Joseph A. Lloyd, Eben- ezer Neal.
Measurer of Charcoal-Joseph W. Smithurst.
Pound Keepers-Benjamin Ingalls jr. Abraham Perkins. City Crier-Joshua J. Garland.
Undertakers-Western Cemetery, Benjamin H. Jacob, Ed- win S. Jacob. Eastern, Friends', and Dissenters' Cemeteries, George Clark. Pine Grove Cemetery, H. D. Gilman.
CITY CHARTER.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty.
AN ACT
TO ESTABLISH THE CITY OF LYNN.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follow's :
SECT. 1. The inhabitants of the town of Lynn shall con- tinue to be a body politic and corporate, under the name of the City of Lynn, and, as such, shall have, exercise, and en- joy, all the rights, immunities, powers, and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and obligations, now incum- bent upon, and appertaining to, said town, as a municipal corporation.
SECT. 2. The administration of all the fiscal, prudential, and municipal affairs of said city, with the government there- of, shall be vested in one principal officer, to be styled the mayor; one council of eight, to be called the board of alder- men ; and one council of twenty-five, to be called the com- mon council; which boards, in their joint capacity, shall be denominated the city council, and the members thereof shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their respective of- fices. A majority of each board shall constitute a quorum for doing business.
SECT. S. It shall be the duty of the selectmen of the town of Lynn, as soon as may be after the passage of this act and its acceptance by the inhabitants, as hereinafter provided, to divide said town into nine wards, as follows, to wit :- To constitute the peninsula of Nahant one ward, which ward shall be entitled to one member of the common council and
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one member of the school committee, and to continue the di- vision lines of school district number one, which ward shall be entitled to two members of the common eouneil and one member of the school committee; to continue the division lines of school districts numbers three, seven, and nine, which shall form three wards, and each shall be entitled to one member of the common council, and each one member of the school committee; and to continue the division lines of school district number two, to form one ward, which shall have four members of the common council and two mem- bers of the school committee ; also, to continue the division lines of school districts numbers four, five and six, which shall form three wards, and each shall be entitled to five members of the common council, and each two members of the school committee ; and the school committee so chosen shall have the care and superintendence of the public schools. Each ward shall, also, be entitled to one assessor. And the city council shall, once in five years, revise and alter, if it be needful, the boundaries of the wards, by the vote of a major- ity, present and voting thereon.
SECT. 4. On the second Monday in March, annually, there shall be chosen, by ballot, in each of said wards, a warden, clerk, and three inspectors of elections, residents of wards in which they are chosen, who shall hold their offices for one year, and until others shall have been chosen in their places, and qualified to act. It shall be the duty of such warden to preside at all ward meetings, with the power of moderators of town meetings; and if, at any meeting, the warden shall not be present, the clerk of such ward shall call the meeting to order, and preside until a warden pro tempore shall be chosen by ballot. And if, at any mecting, the clerk shall not be present, a clerk pro tempore shall be chosen by ballot. The clerk shall record all the proceedings and certi- fy the votes given, and deliver over, to his successor in office, all such records and journals, together with all other docu- ments and papers held by him in said capacity. And it shall be the duty of the inspectors of elections to assist the warden, in receiving, assorting, and counting the votes. And the warden, clerk, and inspectors so ehosen shall respectively make oath, or affirmation, faithfully and impartially to dis- charge their several duties relative to all elections, which oath may be administered by the clerk of such ward to the
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warden, and by the warden to the clerk and inspectors, or by any justice of the peace for the county of Essex. All war- rants for meetings of the citizens for municipal purposes, to be held either in wards, or in general meetings, shall be issued by the mayor and aldermen, and shall be in such form, and shall be served, executed and returned, in such manner, and at such times, as the city council may, by any by-law, direct.
SECT. 5. The mayor, aldermen, and five overseers of the poor, to be selected from the city at large, shall be elected by the qualified voters, voting in their respective wards; and not more than two aldermen, nor more than one overseer of the poor, shall be taken from any one ward. The common councilmen, school committee, and assessors, shall be elect- ed from, and by the voters of, each ward, and shall be resi- dents of the wards in which they are elected. All said offi- cers shall be chosen by ballot, and shall hold their offices for one year, from the first Monday in April, and until others shall be clected and qualified.
SECT. 6. On the second Monday in March, annually, the qualified voters in each ward shall give in their votes for mayor, aldermen, and common councilmen, overseers of the poor, school committee, assessors, warden, clerk, and inspect- ors, as provided in the preceding sections; and all the votes, so given, shall be assorted, counted, declared and registered in open ward meeting, by causing the names of persons voted for, and the number of votes given for each, to be written in the ward records, in words at length. The clerk of the ward, within twenty-four hours after such election, shall deliver to the persons elected members of the common council, school committee, and assessors, certificates of their election, signed by the warden and clerk, and by a majority of the inspectors of elections, and shall deliver, to the city clerk, a copy of the records of such elections certified in like manner : provided, however, that, if the choice of the common councilmen, school committee, and assessors, cannot be conveniently effected on that day, the meeting may be adjourned from time to time, to complete such election. The board of aldermen shall, as soon as conveniently may be, examine the copies of records of the several wards, certified as aforesaid, and shall cause the person who may have been elected mayor, to be notified, in writing, of his election; but, if it shall appear that no person has received a majority of all the votes, or, if the person
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elected shall refuse to accept the office, the board shall issue their warrants for a new election, and the same proceedings shall be had as are herein before provided, for the choice of a mayor, and repeated, from time to time, until a mayor shall be chosen.
In case of the decease, resignation, or absence of the may- or, or his inability to perform the dutics of his office, it shall be the duty of the board of aldermen and the common coun- cil, in convention, to elect a mayor to serve during the unex- pired term, or until the occasion, causing the vacancy, is re- moved. And if it shall appear that the whole number of al- dermen, or the whole number of overseers of the poor, have not been elected, the same proceedings shall be had as are herein before provided for the choice of mayor. Each alder- man, and each overscer of the poor, shall be notificd, in writing, of his election, by the mayor and aldermen for the time being.
The oath prescribed by this act shall be administered to the mayor by the city clerk, or any justice of the peace for the county of Essex.
The aldermen and common councilmen elect shall, on the first Monday of April, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, meet in convention, when the oath required by this act shall be ad- ministered to the members of the two boards present, by the mayor, or by any justice of the peace for the county of Es- sex ; and a certificate of such oath having been taken, shall be entered on a journal of the mayor and aldermen, and of the common council, by their respective clerks.
And whenever it shall appear that no mayor has been elected previously to the said first Monday in April, the mayor and aldermen, for the time being, shall make a record of that fact ; an attested copy of which, the city clerk shall read at the opening of the convention to be held as aforesaid.
After the oath has been administered as aforesaid, the two boards shall separate, and the common council shall be or- ganized by the choice of a president and clerk, who shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duties.
In case of the absence of the mayor clect on the first Mon- day in April, the city government shall organize itself in tlie manner herein before provided, and may procecd to business in the same manner as if the mayor were present, and the oath of office may be administered to the mayor at any time thereafter, in a convention of the two branches.
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In tlie absence of the mayor, the board of aldermen may choose a chairman pro tempore, who shall preside at joint meetings of the two boards.
Each board shall keep a record of its own proceedings, and judge of the election of its own members; and, in case of fail- ure of an election, or in case of any vacancy declared by either board, the mayor and aldermen shall order a new election.
SECT. 7. The mayor thus chosen and qualified shall be the chief executive officer of said city. It shall be his duty to be vigilant in causing the laws and regulations of the city to be enforced, and keep a general supervision over the con- duct of all subordinate officers, and to cause their neglect of duty to be punished. He may call special meetings of the boards of aldermen and common council, or either of them, when necessary, in his opinion, by causing notices to be left at the places of residence of the several members ; he shall communicate, from time to time, to both of them, such in- formation, and recommend such measures, as, in his opinion, the interests of the city may require; he shall preside in the board of aldermen, and in convention of the two boards; but shall have a casting vote only. His salary shall be, for the first year under this charter, four hundred dollars, and no more. He shall afterwards receive for his services, such sal- ary as the city council shall determine, and shall receive no other compensation ; but such salary shall not be increased or diminished during his continuance in office.
SECT. 8. The executive power of said city generally, and the administration of the police, with all the powers hereto- fore vested in the selectmen of Lynn, shall be vested in the mayor and aldermen as fully as if the same were herein specially enumerated.
And the mayor and aldermen shall have full and exclusive power to appoint a constable and assistants, or a city mar- shal and assistants, with the powers and duties of constables, and all other police officers; and may remove the same, when, in their opinion, sufficient cause for removal exists.
All other powers now vested in the inhabitants of said town, and all powers granted by this act, shall be vested in the mayor and aldermen and common council of said city, to be exercised by concurrent vote, each board to have a nega- tive upon the other. But the city council shall, annually, as soon after their organization as may be convenient, elect, by
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joint ballot, in convention, a city treasurer, collector of taxcs, and city clerk, and shall, in such manner as said city council shall determine, by any by-law made for the purpose, appoint or elect all subordinate officers, not herein otherwise directed, for the ensuing year, define their duties, and fix their compen- sations, in cases where such duties and compensations shall not be defined and fixed by the laws of this commonwealth.
All sittings of the common council shall be public, and all sittings of the mayor and aldermen when they are not en- gaged in executive business. The city council shall take care that money shall not be paid from the treasury unless granted or appropriated ; shall secure a just and prompt ac- countability, by requiring bonds, with sufficient penalty and sureties, from all persons trusted with the receipt, custody, or disbursement of money ; shall have the care and superin- tendence of city buildings, and the custody and management of all city property, with power to let or sell what may be le- gally let or sold, except the common ; and to purchase prop- erty, real or personal, in the name, and for the use of the city, whenever its interest or convenience, may, in their judgment, require it.
And the city council shall, as often as once a year, cause to be published, for the use of the inhabitants, a particular account of receipts and expenditures, and a schedule of city property.
SECT. 9. No person shall be eligible to any office, the sal- ary of which is payable out of the city treasury, who, at the time of his appointment, shall be a member either of the board of aldermen or common council; and neither the mayor, nor any alderman, or member of the common coun- cil, shall, at the same time, hold any other office in the city government : provided, however, that the mayor and president of the common council shall be, ex officio, members of the school committee.
SECT. 10. Said city council shall have power to choose a city clerk, who shall be clerk of the board of aldermen. He shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the board of aldermen, and shall perform all the dutics, and exercise all the powers, by law incumbent upon, or vested in, the town clerk of Lynn.
SECT. 11. An act establishing the fire department in the town of Lynn, passed March twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, shall continue in force, and all
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the power and authority now vested in the selectmen of Lynn, in relation to the fire department in that town, shall be transferred to, and vested in, the mayor and aldermen.
SECT. 12. The overseers of the poor shall have all the powers, and be subject to all the duties, now by law apper- taining to the overseers of the poor for the town of Lynn.
The assessors to be chosen, as hercin before provided, shall constitute the board of assessors, and shall exercise the same powers, and be subject to the same duties and liabilities that the assessors in the several towns in the commonwealth may exercise, or be subject to, under cxisting laws, and shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duty.
All taxes shall be assessed, apportioned, and collected, in the manner prescribed by the laws of the commonwealth : provided, however, that the city council may establish further or additional provisions for the collection thereof.
SECT. 13. The city council shall have exclusive authority and power to lay out any new street or town-way, and to estimate the damages any individual may sustain thereby ; but all questions relating to the subject of laying out, ac- cepting, altering, or discontinuing any street or way, shall first be acted upon by the mayor and aldermen.
And any person dissatisfied with the decision of the city council, in the estimate of damages, may make complaint to the county commissioners of the county of Essex, at any meeting held within one year after such decision, whereupon the same proceedings shall be had as are now provided by the laws of the commonwealth, in cases where persons are aggrieved by the assessment of damages by the selectmen, in the twenty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes.
SECT. 14. All power and authority now by law vested in the board of health for the town of Lynn, or in the selectmen of said town, shall be transferred to, and invested in, the city council, to be carried into execution in such manner as the city council shall dcem expedient.
SECT. 15. The city council shall have authority to cause drains and common sewers to be laid down through any streets or private lands, paying the owners such damage as they may sustain thereby, and to require all persons to pay a reasonable sum for the privilege of opening any drain into said public drain or common sewer.
And the city council may make by-laws, with suitable pen-
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alties, for the inspection, survey, measurement, and sale of lumber, wood, coal, and bark, brought into the city for sale.
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