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SECT. 16. The mayor and aldermen shall, in each year, issue their warrant for calling meetings for the election of the whole number of representatives to the general court, to which said city is by law entitled, and the number shall be specified in the warrant.
SECT. 17. All elections for county, state, and United States officers, who are voted for by the people, shall be held at meetings of the citizens qualified to vote in such elections, in their respective wards, at the time fixed by law for these elections respectively ; and, at such meetings, all the votes, given for said officers respectively, sliall be assorted, counted, declared, and registercd, in open ward meeting, by causing the names of all persons voted for, and the number of votes given for each, to be written in the ward record in words at length. The ward clerk shall forthwith deliver to the city clerk a certified copy of the record of such elections.
The city clerk shall forthwith record such returns, and the mayor and aldermen shall, within two days after every such election, examine and compare all said returns, and make out a certificate of the result of such elections, to be signed by the mayor and a majority of the aldermen, and also by the city clerk, which shall be transmitted or delivered in the same manner as similar returns are by law directed to be made by sclectmen of towns. And in all elections for representa- tives to the general court, in case the whole number proposed to be elected shall not be chosen by a majority of the votes legally returned, the mayor and aldermen shall forthwith is- sue their warrant for a new election, conformably to the pro- visions of the constitution and the laws of the commonwealth.
SECT. 18. Prior to cvery election, the mayor and alder- men shall make out lists of all the citizens of each ward, qualified to vote in such elections, in the manner in which selectmen of towns are required to make out lists of voters ; and, for that purpose, they shall have full access to the as- sessors' books and lists, and be entitled to the assistance of all assessors and city officers ; and they shall deliver said lists, so prepared and corrected, to the clerks of said wards, to be used at such elections ; and no person shall be entitled to vote whose name is not borne on such lists.
SECT. 19. General meetings, of the citizens qualified to
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vote, may, from time to time, be held, to consult upon the publie good, to instruet their representatives, and to take all lawful measures to obtain redress for any grievances, ac- cording to the right secured to the people by the constitution of this commonwealth.
And such meetings may, and shall be duly warned, by the mayor and aldermen, upon the requisition of fifty qualified voters.
SECT. 20. The city council shall have power to make all such salutary and needful by-laws as towns, by the laws of this commonwealthı, have power to make and establish, and to annex penalties, not exceeding twenty dollars, for the breach thereof; which by-laws shall take effect, and be in force, from and after the time therein respectively limited, without the sanction of any court, or other authority what- ever : provided, however, that all laws and regulations, now in force in the town of Lynn, shall, until they shall expire by their own limitation, or be revised or repealed by the city council, remain in force, and all fines and forfeitures, for the breach of any by-law or ordinance, shall be paid into the city treasury.
SECT. 21. All fines, forfeitures, and penalties, accruing for the breach of any by-laws of the city of Lynn, or of any of the ordinances of the city council, or of any of the orders of the mayor and aldermen, may be prosecuted for and recovered, before the police court in said eity of Lynn, by complaint or information, in the same way and manner in which other criminal offences are now prosecuted before the police courts within this commonwealth; reserving, however, in all cases, to the party complained of and prosecuted, the right of appeal to the court of common pleas, then next to be held in the county of Essex, from the judgment and sentence of the police court.
And the appeal shall be allowed on the same terms, and the proceedings shall be conducted therein in the same man- ner, as provided in the one hundred and thirty-eighth chapter of the Revised Statutes of this commonwealth.
And it shall be sufficient, in all such prosecutions, to set forth, in the complaint, the offence fully, plainly, substantially, and formally ; and it shall not be necessary to set forth such by-law, ordinance, or order, or any part thereof.
All fines, forfeitures, and penalties, so recovered and paid,
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shall be paid to the treasurer of the city of Lynn, and shall enure to such uses as said council shall direct.
When any person, upon any conviction before the police court, for any breach of any by-law of said city of Lynn, or any of the ordinanees of the city council, or any of the orders of the mayor and aldermen, shall be sentenced to pay a fine, or ordered to pay any penalty or forfeiture, provided by any such by-law, ordinance, or order, or, upon claiming an ap- peal, shall fail to recognize for his appearance at the court appealed to, and there to proseeute his appeal, and to abide the sentence or order of the court thereon, and, in the mcan- time, to keep the pcace and be of good behavior; and, upon not paying the fine, penalty, or forfeiture, and cost so as- sessed upon him, he shall be committed to prison, there to remain until he or she shall pay such fine, forfeiture, or pen- alty, and costs, or be otherwise discharged according to law.
The provisions of this section shall also apply to all pros- eeutions founded on the by-laws or ordinances of the town of Lynn, which may continue in force after this act shall go into operation, and all the powers of the police court, already established, shall be continued to it.
SECT. 22. For the purpose of organizing the system of government hereby cstablishcd, and putting the same into operation, in the first instance, the selectmen of the town of Lynn, for the time being, shall, on some day during the months of April, May, or June, of the present year, issue their warrants seven days at least previous to the day so ap- pointed for calling meetings of the said citizens, at such place and hour as they may deem expedient, for the purpose of choosing a warden, clerk, and inspectors for each ward, and all other officers whose election is provided for in the pre- ceding sections of this act, and the transcripts of the records of each ward, specifying the votes given for the sevcral offi- cers aforesaid, certified by the warden and clerk of such ward at said first meeting, shall be returned to the said selectmen, whose duty it shall be to examine and compare the same, and, in case said elections should not be completed at the first meeting, then to issue new warrants until such elections shall be completed ; and to give notice thereof, in the man- ner herein before provided, to the several persons elected.
And, at said first meeting, any inhabitant of said ward, be- ing a legal voter, may call the citizens to order, and preside
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until a warden shall have been chosen. And, at said first meeting, a list of voters in each ward, prepared and corrected by the selectmen for the time being, shall be delivered to the clerk of each ward, when elected, to be used as herein before provided. And the selectmen shall appoint such time for the first meeting of the city council as they may judge prop- er, after the choice of city officers, as aforesaid, or a majority of the members of both branches, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and shall also fix upon the place and the hour of said first meeting, and a written notice thereof shall be sent, by said selectmen, to the place of abode of each of the city officers chosen as provided in this section.
And after this first clection of city officers, and this first meeting for the organization of the city council, as in this section is provided, the day of holding the annual clections, and the day and hour for the meeting of the city council, for the purpose of organization, shall remain as provided in the sixth section of this act.
And it shall be the duty of the city council immediately after the first organization, to elect all necessary city officers, who shall hold their offices respectively until others are chosen and qualified.
SECT. 23. All officers of the town of Lynn, having the care and custody of any records, papers, or property, belonging to said town, shall deliver the same to the city clerk, within one week after his entering upon the duties of his office.
SECT. 24. All such acts, and parts of acts, as are incon- sistent with the provisions of this act, shall be, and the same are, hereby repealed.
SECT. 25. Nothing in this act contained shall be so con- strued as to prevent the legislature from altering or amend- ing the same whenever they shall deem it expedient.
SECT. 26. This act shall be void, unless the inhabitants of the town of Lynn, at a legal meeting called for that pur- pose, at which the selectmen shall preside, and the check list used in the same manner as at meetings called to choose state officers, and the polls be kept open at least ten hours, shall, by a vote of a majority of the voters present, and voting thereon, yea or nay, by a written ballot, determine to adopt the same within twenty days from and after its passage.
SECT. 27. This act shall go into operation from and after its passage.
STREETS AND PLACES
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Adams street, east side of Roekaway street. Allen's court, east side of Shepard street. Ann street, from Stickney street to Manufacturers' street. Arrington's court, north side of Union street. Ash street, from South Common street to South street. Atlantie street, from Broad street to Ocean street. Auburn street, from Lynnfield street to Bacheller street. Bacheller street, from Boston street to Lynnfield street. Rev.
Stephen Bacheller, minister of Lynn 1632. See Hist. of Baker street, from Franklin street to Whiting street. [Lynn. Baltimore street, from Nahant street to Atlantie street. Bassett street, from Lewis street to Ocean street.
Beach street, from Broad street to Long beach.
Beach road, lengthwise on Long beach. Built by Alonzo Lewis, 1847. Length 7777 feet.
Bond street, from Pleasant street to Church street.
Boston street, from Saugus river old bridge to Salem line. Boynton street, from Ocean street to Garland street. Breed's end, crossing of Turnpike and Summer streets. Breed's square, between Turnpike and Summer streets. Breed street, from Lewis street to Ocean street. Bridge street, from Boston street to Waterbill.
Broad street, from Market street to Chestnut street. Brook vale, Boston street, from Myrtle st. to Chestnut st. Brook square, erossing of Franklin street and Boston street. Bryant street, west side of Franklin street. Buffum's court, west side of Pearl street. Carnes street, from Boston street to Winter street.
Carpenter's court, east side of Fayette street. Cedar lake, north side of Lynnfield street. Cedar street, from Boston street to Salem street.
Central square, junction of Union street and Exchange st. Centre street, from North Common street to Waterhill. Charles street, from Chestnut street to Howard street.
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Chase street, from Turnpike street to River street. Chatliam street, from Essex street to Collins street. Cherry street, north side of Essex street to Essex street. Chestnut street, from Broad street to Boston street. Chippewa court, north side of Lewis street.
Church street, from S. Common street to Summer street. City square, junetion of Essex, Liberty and High streets. Collins street, from Chestnut street to Chatham street. Common, from Market street to Federal street.
Commercial street, from S. Common st. to Eastern Railroad. Cottage street, from Turnpike to Waterhill.
Dungeon avenue, north side of Walnut street.
Dungeon rock, in the forest north of Walnut street.
Elizabeth street, from Turnpike to Maple street. Ellis court, east side of Silsbee street.
Elm street, from S. Common street to Neptune street. Essex street, from east end of the Common to the Salem line. Essex court, north side of Essex street near Pearl street. Estes street, from Broad street to Howard street. Exchange street, from Union street to Broad street. Farrington's court, west side of Atlantie street.
Fayette street, from Lewis street to Collins street.
Fayette square, between Fayette street and Chestnut street, by Ingalls' pond.
Federal street, from west end of Common to Walnut street. Federal square, junetion of Federal street and Waterhill. Floating bridge, on Turnpike, across Glenmere. Built 1803. Forest place, north end of Franklin street.
Forest roek, in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Forest street, from Franklin street to Lover's leap. Franklin avenue, from N. Common street to Franklin street. Franklin eourt, west side of Franklin street.
Franklin place, between Chestnut street and Favette street. Franklin street, from N. Common street to Forest street. Garland street, from Bassett street to Boynton street. George street, from Summer street to Vine street. Gleninere, at Floating bridge on Turnpike. Goodridge street, from Turnpike to Maple street. Gravesend, crossing of Turnpike and Chestnut street. Green street, from Broad street to Union street. Grove street, from Boston street to Lover's leap. Harrison court, east side of Market street.
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Hesper square, junetion of Boston and Hesper streets. Hesper st. from Boston st. near Saugus river, to Walnut st. High rock, north side of Essex street, near City square. High street, from Pearl street to City square.
Holyoke street, from Walnut strcet to Holyoke spring. Howard street, from Chestnut street to Estes street. Hudson square, junction of Boston and Summer streets. Hutchinson's court, west side of Essex court.
Ingalls' pond, Fayette street, near Lewis street. Ingalls street, from Chatham street to Jackson street. Ireson street, from Union street to Essex street. Jackson street, from Essex street to Sewall street. Jefferson strcet, east side of Rockaway street. King's beach, cast end of Lewis strcet.
King street, from Ocean strect to King's beach. Laighton street, east side of Franklin street to Turnpike. Lake street, from Chestnut strect to Maple strect.
Lewis street, from Chestnut street to King's beach. Edmund Lewis the first settler, in 1638.
Liberty square, junction of Union and Broad streets.
Liberty street, from Market strect to City square.
Light street, from Summer street to Neptune street. Lilymere, north side of Boston strect, near the Danvers line. Linmere, at Mineral spring, on Salem line.
Linden street, from Summer street to Waterhill. [pasture. Linwood street, from Walnut st. near Federal st. to Dungeon Little Nahant, south end of Long beach.
Livermore court, south side of Summer street.
Livingstone eourt, north side of Summer street. [Nahant. Long beach, east end of Beach strect and Nahant st. to Little Lover's leap, north end of Grove street.
Lowell street, from Summer strect to Neptune street.
Lynnfield street, from Boston st. at Wyoma, to Lynnfield Mall street, from N. Common street to Boston street. [line. Mansfield's hill, junction of Boston and Chestnut strects. Manufacturers' street, cast side of Commercial street. Maple street, from Turnpike to Turnpike, at Gravesend. Market square, at west end of the Common.
Market street, from Broad street to the Common.
Mason street, from Chestnut street to Village square.
May street, south side of Waterhill street.
Mineral spring, south side of Linmcre lake.
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Minot street, from Turnpike to Neptune street. Moulton street, from Commereial street to Neptune street. Mountain court, east side of Roekaway street. Mount Vernon street, from Exchange street to Silsbee st. Mulberry street, from Union street to Oxford street. Munroe street, from Market street to Spruee street. Myrtle street, from Boston street to Walnut street. Nahant, south of Lynn.
Nahant street, from Broad street to Long beach.
Nathan's court, north side of Broad street, near Spring street. Newhall's court, south side of Essex street.
Newhall street, from Broad street to Beaeh street.
Neptune street, from Vine street to Turnpike.
North Common street, north side of the Common.
North Bend, from Boston street to Boston street, east of Pine Grove Cemetery.
Oak street, north side of Walnut street.
Ocean street, from Atlantic street to Lewis street.
Olive street, from Chestnut street to Fayette street. Oneida court, north side of Lewis street.
Ontario eourt, north side of Lewis street.
Orange court, east side of Fayette street, at school house.
Oxford street, from Market street to High street. Park square, east end of the Common.
Park street, from North Common street to Boston street.
Percival street, from Bryant street to Baker street.
Pearl street, from Union street to Essex street. Perley street, from Boston street to Myrtle street. Pine Grove Cemetery, north side of Boston st. near Spruce st. Pine Grove avenue, from Linwood street, north of Poquan- num hill to Pine Grove Cemetery. Pine hill, north side of Walnut street.
Pinkham street, from Union street to Railroad.
Pleasant court, west side of Pleasant street.
Pleasant street, from South Common street to Sca street. Poquannum hill, from Federal street to Lover's leap. See History of Lynn.
Portland street, from Broad street to Baltimore street.
Porter street, from Essex street to Ingalls street.
Raddin's court, near west end of Boston street.
Railroad avenue, from Union street to Spruee street. Red rock, south side of Oeean street.
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River street, from Summer street to Saugus river. Rockaway street, from Essex street to Rock's pasture. Saugus river old bridge, at the mills on Boston street. Sachem street, from Newhall street to Sagamore street. Sadler's roek, junetion of Walnut and Holyoke streets. Sagamore hill, near east end of Beach street. Here resided
Montowampate, Sagamore of the Saugus tribe of Indians. See History of Lynn.
Sagamore street, from Beach street to Nahant street.
Salem street, from Grove street westward.
Saugus river, western boundary of Lynn. Saugus river new bridge, on Turnpike, built in 1803. Sea street, from Market street to Pleasant street. Sewall street, east side of Jackson street.
Shepard street, from South Common street toward the har-
bor. Rev. Jeremiah Shepard, minister of Lynn, 1680. See History of Lynn.
Silsbee street, from Broad street to Union street.
South Common street, south side of the Common.
South street, from Turnpike to Neptune street. Spring street, from Exchange street to Broad street. Spruee street, from Union street to Boston street.
Stacey's brook, from Glenmere to King's beach. Stickney street, east side of Commercial street. Strawberry avenue, west side of Franklin street. Strawberry brook, from Wenuchus lake to Saugus river. Summer street, from Market street to Boston street. Sutton street, from Essex street to Liberty street.
Tontoquon hill, east of Lynnfield street, near the head of Wyoma lake. Tontoquon was an Indian who resided in the place at its first settlement.
Tower hill, near the junetion of Boston and Summer streets.
Tremont street, from Market street to Pleasant street.
Turnpike street, from Saugus river to the Salem line, built in 1803.
Union square, junction of Union, Pearl, and Silsbee streets. Union street, from Broad street to Chestnut street.
Village square, erossing of Essex and Fayette streets. Vine street, from South Common street to Neptune street. Violet street, from Green street to Pinkham street. Waitt's avenue, Turnpike, near Floating bridge.
Walnut street, from Federal street to the Saugus line.
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Warren strect, from Shepard strect to Vine street. Washington court, south side of Summer street. Washington square, junction of Broad and Nahant streets. Waterhill street, from Boston street to Cottage street. Wenuchus lake, near junction of Boston and Chestnut sts.
Wenuchus was an Indian Princess. See History of Lynn. Willow street, from Union street to Liberty strect. Winter street, from Federal strcet to Grove street. Woodend, crossing of Essex and Chestnut streets.
Woodmere, north side of Lynnfield strcet, between Cedar lake and Wyoma lake.
Whiting street, from North Common street to Turnpike .- Rev. Samuel Whiting was minister of Lynn 1636. He came from Lynn in England, and gave name to the town in 1637.
Wyoma lake, north cast of Boston and Lynnfield streets. Wyoma village, junction of Boston and Lynnfield streets.
WHARVES.
Beach street wharf, 26 Beach street.
Brecd's wharf, south end of Commercial street.
Central wharf, 2 Sca street.
Chase's wharf, Turnpike, on Saugus river.
City wharf, 48 Beach street.
Lynn wharf, 34 Bcach street.
Newhall's wharf, 8 Sea street.
Pecker's wharf, 16 Sea street.
Raddin's wharf, 21 Boston strect, on Saugus river. Sagamore wharf, 58 Beach street.
Sea street wharf, 36 Sea street.
Smith's wharf, 61 Broad street.
Steam wharf, 13 Broad strect.
Sweetscr's wharf, 1 Boston street, on Saugus river. Tufts's wharf, 30 Front strect.
Union wharf, junction of Sea and Pleasant strcets.
STREETS AND PLACES AT SWAMPSCOT.
Blaney street, from Humfrey street to Mudge strcet. Blaney's beach, from Black Will's cliff to Phillips' point. Black Will's cliff, between King's beach and Blaney's beach. Burrill street, from Humfrey street to Essex street.
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Essex street, north end of Burrill street. Humfrey street, from Staccy's brook to Orient square. King's beach, west of Black Will's cliff.
Kirk street, from Humfrey st. to Blaney st. by the chapel. Marshall's court, south side of Orient street.
Mudge street, from Blaney street to Essex street. Orient square, east end of Humfrey street.
Orient street, from Humfrey st. by sea shore, to Salem line. Phillips' beach avenue, from Orient street to Phillips' beach. Phillips' beach, from Phillips' point to Marblehead.
Phillips' point, from Blaney's beach to Phillips' beach. Phillips' pond, at Phillips' beach.
Proctor street, west side of Burrill street.
Rockland street, from Blaney street over Wenepoykin hill. Samuel strect, west side of Burrill street. Stetson street, east side of Burrill strect.
Stimpson street, north side of Orient street. Storey's court, from Humfrey street to Black Will's cliff. Trefoil square, junction of Humfrey and Burrill streets. Unity street, from Kirk street to Rockland street. Whale beach, south side of Orient street.
Wenepoykin hill, north of Humfrey street.
ROADS AND PLACES AT NAHANT.
Bass neck, the western part of Nahant.
Bass neck road, from Main road through Bass neck. Beach road, from Beach strcet to Little Nahant. Chapel road, from Cross road to Swallow's cave road. Coolidge avenue, from Cross road westward. Cross road, from Main road to Coolidge avenue. Drew's road, from Swallow's cave road to hotel. Half moon, junction of Main road and Swallow's cave road. Little Nahant, between Long beach and Nahant beach. Main road, from Long beach, at Little Nahant, to Drew's hotel.
Nahant beach, between Little Nahant and Great Nahant. School avenue, from Main road northward.
Swallow's cave road, from Main road to Swallow's cave. Steamboat wharf, south side of Chapel road.
Tudor's western avenue, west of Tudor's cottage. Tudor's eastern avenue, east of Tudor's cottage.
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CIRCUIT OF NAHANT,
Beginning on Bass neck road, and passing eastward, showing all the principal places which the curious may wish to visit.
Black rock
Steamboat wharf
Bennett's head
Johnson's beach
Irene's grotto
Canoe beach
West cliff
Swallow's cave
Cedar point
Recd cove
Cow beach
Castle rock
Bass point
Pea island
Bass beach Hood's point
Lewis' beach
Shag rocks, in sea
Rose Fish cove
Pond beach
Great ledge
Saunders' ledge
Dorothy's beach
Sappho's rock
Egg rock, in sea
Marjam's hill
Pulpit rock Natural bridge
Spouting horn
Crystal beach
Dashing rock
Nipper stage
Steep cliff
Black mine
Curlew beach
Roaring cavern
Stony beach
Bass rock
Turk's head
North spring
Joseph's beach East point
John's peril
As there is now a good road over Long beach, access may be had to Nahant at all hours; but the pleasantest time for a drive over the beach is at low water, or between that and half tide. The same time should be taken to visit the Swal- low's cave, as the water passes through it at high tide. The best time to view the dashings of the Spouting horn, is when the wind is castward, and the tide coming in.
The people of Nahant, as well as visitors there, are great- ly indebted to Frederic Tudor, Esq. for his care in embellish- ing Nahant by the construction of side walks, and sctting out many thousand shade trees along the avenues, for several miles in cxtent. His gardens are great curiosities, and his hydraulic works, by which he raises water spontancously to the height of more than ninety feet, for the purpose of wa- tering them, are the admiration of all.
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