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It was found indispensable to remove the barn from the old to the new Alms House, to fit up some strong rooms to comply with the law of the Legislature of 1855, and to furnish a number of rooms in ad- dition to those already furnished. This was accomplished at an ex- pense of $1,183 98.
The Clerk furnishes the following statement of the receipts and expenditures for the year ending January 1, 1857 ;
Receipts.
Received from other towns for supporting paupers, 47 52
11 from an individual for aid rendered, 7 72
11 from the county for boarding females at the Alms
House who were sentenced by Court, -
158 00
11 for sales from City Farm, -
231 65
Due from an individual for sales from Farm, 50 00
$494 89
Expenditures.
Paid balance of last year's account, -
214 70
11 Sexton, on account of State paupers, chargeable to State, -
77 87
11 Sexton, on account of city paupers, - -
87 65
for supporting insane paupers at State Hospital,
713 77
11 supporting paupers out of Alms House, on weekly allowances, -
605 52
11 for temporary aid, out of Alms House, to paupers whose settlement is in this city, 207 73
for temporary aid, out of Alms House, to foreign paupers who have no settlement within the State, 962 62
11 for supporting foreign paupers who are chargeable to the State,
189 60
11 for supporting paupers in other towns, who have a settlement in this city, -
37 13
11 to the town of Shrewsbury for taxes, - -
30 00
11 salary of Clerk, - -
500 00
salary of Superintendent of Farm, -
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400 00
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Paid for incidental expenses, -
154 25
for moving barn, repairs, and additional furniture for Alms House, - 1,183 98
for ordinary expenses of the City Farm, - 2,572 02
$7,936 84
In the early part of the year, there was a bill presented by the Treasurer of the State Lunatic Hospital, against the city, of over $3,300, a part of which had been of long standing. Of this bill, $2,700 have been paid out of the city treasury the past year. A portion of this sum has been repaid to the city from other towns. The whole matter would have been settled long before this, had there not been some difficulty in ascertaining the real settlement of one of the paupers, whose bill amounts to about $600. It is believed by the Board to be now in the way of a speedy adjustment.
The whole number of persons who have received assistance from the city for the year ending January 1, 1857, is 436. Of this num- ber, 40 are residents of this city, 47 of other towns in this State, 30 of other States in the Union, 307 were natives of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 10 of the British provinces, and of France and Germany one each.
There were at the Alms House on the first of January, 1856, supported as paupers, 27. There have been admitted during the year 54 persons. There have been seven deaths and two births. Ten females have been sentenced by the Court to the Alms House during the year.
There have been twelve families, who have a settlement in this city, supported on a weekly allowance, at prices varying from 75 cents to $2 a week. Ten of this number are now remaining.
There were at the Alms House, January 1st, 1857, fifteen per- sons-only seven of this number having a settlement in this city- one of them a colored person, ninety years of age, and two are elderly females, from seventy-five to eighty years of age.
In addition to the aforesaid statistics, the following questions were answered to the Secretary of State on the first of November last :
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No.
Dolls. Cts.
What number of persons have you relieved or sup- ported as paupers during the year ? 344
What number of the preceding having a legal settle- ment in the city or elsewhere in the Common- wealth ? 77
What number are State paupers ? 267
What number of State paupers who are foreigners ? 149
What number of foreigners are from England and Ire- land ? 149
Have you an Alms House ? 1
What number of acres of land attached to Alms House? 210 What is the estimated value of Alms House establish- ment ?
25,000 00
What number of persons relieved in Alms House du- ring the year ?
71
What is the average number supported in Alms House ? 17 What is the average weekly cost of supporting each pauper in Alms House ? 1 55
What number of persons in Alms House unable to per- form labor ?
8
What is the estimated value of labor performed by paupers in Alms House ? 268 00
What number of persons aided and supported out of Alms House ? 253
What is the average weekly cost of supporting pau- pers out of Alms House ? 22
What number of insane persons have you relieved or supported ?
6
What number of idiots have you relieved or sup- ported ?
2
What number have you supported by reason of insan- ity or idiocy ?
8
What proportion of paupers probably made so by in- temperance in themselves or others ? 306
What number of foreign paupers who have come into the Commonwealth within one year ? 16
What is the nett amount of expense of supporting and relieving paupers, including interest on Alms House establishment ? 7,181 44
What amount have you received from the Common- wealth towards the support of State paupers ?
107 85
What number of indigent children, under 14 years of age, are supported at public charge ? 13
In closing this report, the Board are confident that its Clerk has been vigilant and faithful in administering to the wants of the suffer-
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ing and destitute poor within the limits of the city. There are quite a number on the pauper list who are aided and assisted, who reside with their friends. The question is often asked, why are not these persons sent to the Alms House ? It will be found, on examination of all these cases, the amount paid is much less than it would cost to support them at the Alms House, their connections and friends bear- ing a part of the expense.
Respectfully submitted.
ISAAC DAVIS, ARTEMAS WARD, D. G. TEMPLE, EDWIN DRAPER, EBEN'R COLLIER, FRED'K WARREN, ELISHA CHAFFIN.
Overseers of
the Poor.
REPORT
OF THE
CITY MARSHAL.
CITY MARSHAL'S OFFICE, January 1, 1857. To the Honorable Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Worcester :
GENTLEMEN : Herewith I present to your Honorable Board my fourth Quarterly Report, which will give you a detailed account of the doings, earnings and expenses of the Police Department, for the year ending December 31, 1856.
The whole number of persons arrested and committed to the Watch House, for the year ending December 31, 1856, was 911, and for the following causes, viz : drunkenness, 582; disturbing the peace, 77 ; house and shop breaking, 7; larceny, 44; detained as witnesses, 3; assault and battery, 39 ; disorderly, 43; vagrancy, 9 ; adultery, 3 ; common drunkards, 17; highway robbery 1; insane 2 ; fornication, 5; playing cards on Sunday, 25 ; refusing to pay rail- road fare, 1 ; assault on watchman, 1; resisting an officer, 1; cru- elly beating a horse, 2; neglecting to support family, 2 ; abducting a child, 1 ; rape, 2 ; assault on officers, 7 ; taking a girl to a house of ill fame, 1; disobedient children, 2; keeping a house of ill fame, 3; picking pocket, 1; fast driving, 3; driving away a horse, 2 ; indecent exposure, 1; gambling, 6; larceny of fruit, 2 ; embezzle- ment, 1 ; suspicious persons, 2 ; taken from a house of ill fame, 13; making in the whole, 911; of which 271 were non-residents, all the rest claimed a residence in the city.
There have been 84 persons discharged during the year without
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complaint before the Police Court, for what seemed to me good cause, and I think the ends of justice as well answered, and the public as well protected, as though they had been taken before the court.
During the year, 697 persons have applied at the Watch House for lodgings, which has been furnished them, most of them poor, without money or means of any kind. Nearly all of them have been furnished with food, which has been furnished in the same man- ner that prisoners have been kept, and not one cent has been paid by the clerk of the board of overseers of the poor for this class of paupers.
I have made during the year, 963 complaints before the Police Court, for various crimes and misdemeanors, which are as follows, viz : drunkenness, 430; larceny, 48 ; fast driving, 14 ; assault and battery, 150 ; concealing stolen goods, 1 ; vagrancy, 14 ; shop break- ing, 2 ; common drunkards, 43 ; disturbing the peace, 101 ; breaking glass, 1; obstructing street, 1; picking pocket, 1; assault with in- tent to kill, 2 ; highway robbery, 1; assault on officers, 11; selling liquor, 62 ; violation of Sunday law, 3; assault on watchmen, 3; fornication, 6; adultery, 4; playing cards on Sunday, 24; disor- derly houses, 4 ; evading rail-road fare, 1 ; keeping dog unmuzzled, 2 ; enticing a girl from her home, 2 ; keeping a house of ill fame, 5 ; keeping shop open on Sunday, 6; leaving a dead horse to decay, 1; disobedient children 4; cruelly beating a horse, 3 ; hawking and peddling, 1; rape, 2 ; trespass, 1; driving away a horse, 2; leaving the contents of a privy on Main street, 1; selling berries in un- sealed measures, 1; gambling, 6; indecent exposure, 1; selling wood unmeasured, 1; stealing a horse, 1; nuisance, 1; making in all, 963.
The whole expenses of the Police Department, except some small amounts for repairs and fixtures, about the Watch . House, are as fol- lows :
Salary of City Marshal and Assistant, -
-
$1,700 00 4,096 30
Pay roll of the Watchmen, -
-
Special Police, for July 4 and 5, Muster, Cattle Show and Sunday, -
- 379 00
Expenses on warrants and removing nuisances, 162 00 -
Keeping prisoners and feeding poor lodgers,
53 57
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Washing blankets for Watch House,
15 00
$6,420 37
You will perceive that there is some variation in the amount of the expenses of the Police Department, as reported by your com- mittee a few days since ; the reason for this is, that all the bills were not in, so that I could give the amount of the expenses ; still the amount is not very large ; so with regard to the earnings, you will perceive a small variation there.
The earnings of the Police Department have been as follows, a part of which is due from J. B. Dexter, Jr., Esq., clerk of the Po- lice Court, and the balance is due from the County Treasurer, which I had hoped that I should get in season to pay over during the ex- istence of the present government, and I still hope to ; if not, I shall take the earliest opportunity to pay over any and all moneys that may come into my hands that belong to the city. In consequence of the great length of the late session of the Criminal Court, and the large amount of business before that Court, the bills of costs have been delayed till this time ; still Mr. Dexter, the Clerk of the Po- lice Court, is doing all that he can to get the matter settled.
The net earnings of the Police are as follows :
From Jan. 9, to May 12, 1856, as per receipt of City Treasurer, $484 05 From May 12, to Oct. 18, 1856, F. Warren, City Marshal, fees in the Police Court, 324 48 - -
For the service of mittimuses, -
-
- 20 18
J. L. Baker, Assistant Marshal, fees in the Police Court,
416 59
James McFarland, witness fees,
21 40
Silas Nourse,
66
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-
-
24 36
Horace Holman,
66
-
-
-
19 14
Eben'r Lund,
-
-
-
15 66
Geo. F. Newton,
66
-
-
15 66
Joseph H. Flint,
66
-
-
-
12 81
John Morrison,
-
-
-
10 44
William Lawrence,
66
66
-
-
-
33 64
Stephen Shumway,
66
-
-
-
22 04
C. W. Wentworth,
-
-
-
20 30
-
-
38 36
For the service of mittimuses,
-
-
-
-
$1,479 11
14 50 - Dr. Rice, bill for medical attendance on Prisoners, -
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This amount was earned prior to Oct. 18, and will all be paid into the City Treasury in a few days. The following are the earnings of the Department from Oct. 18, 1856, to January 1st, 1857.
F. Warren, City Marshal, fees in Police Court, . -
$200 47 2 55
Service of mittimuses, -
84 89
J. L. Baker, Assistant Marshal, fees in Police Court, - Service of mittimuses, - -
-
8 67
Witness fees of Watchmen, -
77 01
$373 59
Add to this the amount earned prior to Oct. 18, 1856, 1,479 11
$1,832 70
Deduct $1,852 70, the amount earned by the department, from $6,420 37, will make the actual cost of the Police Department for the year $4,567 67.
In conclusion, permit me to add that the police officers and watch- men have done their duty well and faithfully, so far as I can judge, and to the whole of the Department I am much indebted for the suc- cess, if any there has been, in this department the past year.
Respectfully submitted to His Honor the Mayor and Board of Aldermen.
F. WARREN, City
Since the foregoing was written, I have paid over t surer $860 95, for which I hold his receipt, which m that I have paid into the City Treasury of the earning Department for the past year.
The balance of the fees that are due prior to Oct. 20 into the City Treasury in a few days. F. W
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GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS OF THE
CITY OF WORCESTER. 1857.
MAYOR, GEORGE W. RICHARDSON.
ALDERMEN.
Ward 1 .- HENRY EARL.
2 .- WILLIAM A. WHEELER.
3 .- HENRY PRENTICE.
66 4 .- JOHN P. SOUTHGATE.
5 .- FRANCIS STRONG.
66 6 .- ALBERT CURTIS.
7 .- CHARLES WHITE.
8 .- HENRY GOULDING.
ERK AND CLERK OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, SAMUEL SMITH. at City Hall-Residence 57 Southbridge street.
COMMON COUNCIL.
M. Rice, President. tin Flint,
nry P. Nichols,
arles H. Ballard.
in A. Kelley,
hsom M. Gould,
niel Tainter. con Temple, nry D. Stone, vin E. Pratt. arles B. Pratt,
fus O. Williams, sha F. Witt.
William A. Smith, Clerk.
Ward 5. John S. Gustin, Patrick O'Keefe, Samuel V. Stone.
Ward 6. Edwin Draper, Sylvanus Pratt, Joel Davis.
Ward 7. George M. Rice, Aury G. Coes, Horatio N. Tower.
Ward 8. William M. Bickford, Joshua M. C. Armsby, Samuel H. Leonard.
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CITY MESSENGER, DAVID GLEASON. Residence May street.
PAGE TO COMMON COUNCIL. JAMES H. WALL, JR.
JOINT STANDING COMMITTEES.
On Finance, Aldermen White and Southgate; Common Councilmen H. D. Stone, Draper, and Bickford.
On Claims, Aldermen Southgate and Wheeler; Common Councilmen C. E. Pratt, Armsby, and Tower.
On Water, Aldermen Wheeler and Curtis ; Common Councilmen S. V. Stone, C. B. Pratt, and Leonard.
On the Fire Department, Aldermen Earl and Goulding; Common Councilmen Gould, Coes, and Temple.
On Lighting Streets, Aldermen Southgate and Strong ; Common Coun- cilmen Witt, Sylvanus Pratt, and Ballard.
On Shade Trees and Public Grounds, Aldermen Prentice and Gould- ing; Common Councilmen Tower, C. B. Pratt, and Tainter.
On Education, the Mayor and Aldermen White and Curtis ; the Presi- dent of the Common Council, and Councilmen Bickford, Williams, and Armsby.
On Health, the Mayor, and. Aldermen Goulding and Prentice ; the President of the Common Council, and Councilmen Flint, C. B. Pratt, and Armsby.
On Printing, Aldermen Curtis and Southgate ; Common Councilmer Nichols, Davis, and Kelley.
On Sidewalks, Aldermen Strong and Prentice; Common Councilme Armsby, Tower, and O'Keefe.
STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
On Public Buildings, the Mayor, and Aldermen Curtis, Wheeler, a Earl.
On Bills in the Second Reading, Aldermen Earl and Southgate.
On Enrollment, Aldermen Prentice and Earl.
On Elections and Returns, Aldermen Wheeler and Strong.
STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE COMMON COUNCIL. On Bills in the Second Reading, Messrs. Flint, Kelley, and O'K On Enrollment, Messrs. Williams, C. B. Pratt, and Temple. On Elections and Returns, Messrs. S. V. Stone, Gould, and Dra
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CITY SOLICITOR. CHARLES DEVENS, JR. Office Worcester Bank Block.
TREASURER AND COLLECTOR, GEORGE W. WHEELER. Office City Hall-Residence 49 Thomas street.
AUDITOR, GILL VALENTINE. Office 24 Front street.
PHYSICIAN, J. MARCUS RICE. Office Harrington Corner.
COMMISSIONER OF HIGHWAYS, SUMNER BRIDGES. Office 24 Front st.
COMMISSIONERS OF HOPE CEMETERY,
Levi Lincoln, two years, Isaac Davis, one year,
Albert Curtis, three years, Albert Tolman, four years, Ichabod Washburn, five years.
MARSHAL, FREDERIC WARREN. Office City Hall-Residence 2 Warren street.
DEPUTY MARSHAL, J. WALDO DENNY. Office City Hall-Residence 15 Park St.
CONSTABLES.
Frederic Warren, Jonathan Day, Charles H. Braman,
Joel D. Stratton,
Samuel Banister,
J. Waldo Denny, George B. Coleman,
William W. Pratt, Lucian B. Drury,
David Gleason.
Calvin W. Angier, Joseph C. Yeaw,
SPECIAL CONSTABLES.
John Grover,
Asahel C. Boyd,
Calvin W. Pierce.
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CAPTAIN OF WATCH. SAMUEL H. REED.
WATCHMEN.
Hollis Ball,
Ezra Kent,
Silas Clapp,
Ebenezer Lund,
John G. Coes,
Stephen Shumway,
Perley Dean,
Arvin Thompson,
Henry H. Harrington,
Otis Stearns,
Charles F. Whitmore.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
At Large-Alonzo Hill, William S. Davis, J. D. E. Jones, Henry Griffin, William W. Rice, Henry Clarke, George Bushnell, Calvin Foster.
Ward 1-Francis Wayland, Jr., David Hitchcock.
66 2-Timothy K. Earle, Hamilton A. Hill. 3-Asa L. Burbank, Calvin W. Angier.
.4-Frank H. Kelley, Samuel D. Harding.
5-Edward S. Stebbins, William H. Harris.
60 6-Loren Wetherell, Willard Ward.
7-Daniel W. Faunce, John B. Dexter, Jr.
66 8-Henry C. Rice, Ephraim F. Chamberlain.
VISITING COMMITTEE.
Classical and English High School, Thomas Street Grammar School. Mr. Hewitt's Department. Miss Cushman's Miss Jenks'
Sycamore Street Grammar School. Mr. Iluni's Department, Miss Baker's 64 Miss Andrews'
Messrs. Harris and Earle.
Clarke and Wayland.
W. W. Rice and Foster.
Messrs. Harris and Hitchcock. Burbank and Kelley.
Messrs. Dexter and Harding.
H. C. Rice and Angier.
Summer Street Secondary School. Summer Street North, Summer Street South,
Messrs. A. Hill and Foster.
Faunce and Angier.
Messrs. Jones and Chamberlain.
Burbank and Ward.
Ash Street Secondary School,
Front Street Secondary School,
Messrs. A. Hill, Jones, Clarke, and W. IV. Rice,
Messrs. Griffin and Burbank. 66 Earle and H. C. Rice. Faunce and Wetherell.
Thomas Street Secondary School. Mrs. Coes' Department, Miss Walker's
Sycamore Street Secondary School. Miss Goodspeed's Department, Miss Barbour's
Pleasant Street Secondary School. Pleasant Street North, Pleasant Street South,
Earle and Harding.
H. C. Rice and Harris.
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PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
Thomas Street,
Sycamore Street, (Miss S. W. Clements,) 66 " (Miss C. E. Clements,)
(Miss Perry,)
Main Street South,
60 = North,
Stebbins and Clark.
Hitchcock and Ward.
Aslı Street East,
" West,
Kelley and H. A. Hill.
Clarke and Foster.
Davis and Wayland.
Pine Street, (Miss Perry,)
(Miss Smith,)
Front Street, (Miss Shepard,)
..
(Miss Hobbs,)
Young Men's School,
Burbank and Earle.
Main Street Evening School,
Davis and W. W. Rice.
Front Street Evening School,
Wayland and Harding.
SUBURBAN SCHOOLS.
VISITING COMMITTEES. Messrs. Dexter and Kelley, Harding and Angicr,
16 Moen and Foster,
6 6 Wetherell and Ward,
H. C. Rice and Earle,
66 W. W. Rice and Wetherell, Stebbins and Wayland,
Henry Goddard.
Dexter Perry. Lewis Sturtevant.
Henry Prentice.
Walter Bigelow, Jr.
Ezra B. Rice, John H. Brooks.
G. A. Chamberlain. Jeremiah Rogers. John F. Pond.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
On School Houses,
Messrs. Earle, Kelley, Dexter, Burbank, and Harding.
On Estimates,
Messrs. Harris, Wayland, Angier, Ward, and Wetherell.
On Examination of Teachers,
Messrs. Bushnell, A. Hill, Faunce, Jones, and Warren.
On Books and Apparatus,
Messrs. W. W. Rice, Hitchcock, H. C. Rice, H. A. Hill, and Clarke.
Committee on Conference,
Messrs. Bushnell, H. C. Rice, and Harris.
Superintendent, GEORGE BUSHNELL. Office No. 3 Harrington Corner, (up stairs.)
ASSESSORS. Samuel Smith, Jonas Bartlett, Pliny Holbrook.
DISTRICTS.
Tatnuck, Parkhurst, Lees ville,
New Worcester, (Miss Willard,)
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(Miss Eaton,) (Miss James,)
South Worcester, Quinsigamond, Blithewood. Pond,
Adams Square,
Burncoat Plain,
Northville,
Chamberlain,
North Pond,
Chamberlain & Hitchcock,
Harris and Jones,
PRUDENTIAL COMMITTEES. E. F. Chamberlain. Jolın A. Hunt. John F. Boyce.
B. H. Kinney.
= W. W. Rice and Stebbins, Burbank and Warren, Chamberlain and Faunce, Il. A. Hill and Foster,
Earle and H. A. Hill,
Harding and Kelley,
H. C. Rice and Angier,
Providence Street,
Messrs. Ward and Chamberlain.
Hitchcock and Wetherell,
Burbank and Earle.
H. A. Hill and Dexter.
HI. A. Hill and Angier.
Summer Street North, = South,
Griffin and Dexter.
W. W. Rice and Harding.
Pleasant Street South, .. North,
Burbank and Ward.
Earle and Kelley.
= W. W. Rice and Harris.
.6 Chamberlain and Hitchcock.
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ASSISTANT ASSESSORS.
Ward 1. Nathan T. Bemis.
Ward 5. John Simmons.
2. Alpheus M. Merrifield. 6. Marshall S. Ballard.
3.
Samuel K. Buel.
66 4. Walter R. Bigelow.
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7. Russell R. Shepard.
8. Henry O. Clark.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
The Mayor, (ex-officio) Chairman.
Samuel Banister, Clerk.
Ward 1. Elisha Chaffin. Ward 5. Willard Brown.
2. Samuel Banister.
66 3. Dennis G. Temple.
4. Frederic Warren.
8. Benjamin Walker.
UNDERTAKERS.
Richard Barker, George G. Hildreth, Thomas Magennis, George Sessions.
PUBLIC WEIGHERS.
Martin Wilder, Lincoln Square, Nathan B. Ellis, Washington Square, Samuel Eddy, Jr., Southbridge st., Frederic Cutting, New Worcester.
WEIGHERS OF COAL. Franklin H. Knight, at Hacker's, Elisha Broad, at Mann's, Samuel Fiske, at Wellington's. MEASURERS OF WOOD AND BARK.
Martin Wilder, Lincoln Square, Nathan B. Ellis, Washington Square, Lyman Bugbee, near City Hall, Frederic Cutting, New Worcester.
SURVEYORS OF LUMBER. Moses T. Breck, James A. Longley, Nahum R. Hapgood.
FENCE VIEWERS. Benjamin Flagg, Jonas Hartshorn, Jonathan Lyon, Jr.
FIELD DRIVERS.
POUND KEEPER.
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. William Thomson,-Office Cypress Street.
6. Thomas Pierce.
7. Elbridge G. Partridge.
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AQUEDUCT COMMISSIONERS. Joseph Pratt, Samuel W. Osgood, Henry Earl.
CHIEF ENGINEER.
Leonard W. Sturtevant. Clerk, Elbridge G. Watkins.
ASSISTANT ENGINEERS.
Samuel A. Porter, Russell R. Shepard, Lyman Howe, Elbridge G. Watkins, William H. Heywood, Elijah F. Miller.
WARD OFFICERS .- Ward 1.
Warden, Leonard R. Hudson. Clerk, H. Walford Denny. Inspectors, Lyman Howe, Ezra P. Lowell, David D. Keyes.
Ward 2.
Warden, Edwin Bynner. Clerk, Philip L. Moen. Inspectors, Marson Eaton, Frederic Goulding, Lucius W. Pond. Ward 3.
Warden, Luther White.
Clerk, William A. Brigham. Inspectors, J. Orlando Bemis, Otis M. Inman, George H. Mallory. Ward 4.
Warden, Alvan Allen. Clerk, Truman G. Bancroft. Inspectors, Hezekiah Adams, Samuel Clark, William Adams.
Ward 5.
Warden, George H. Ward. Clerk, John F. Murry. Inspectors, Roland Perry, Merritt Hamilton, Cyrus Baker. Ward 6.
Warden, John B. Dexter. Clerk, Charles E: Brooks. Inspectors, Albert W. Curtis, Oliver W. Claflin, Joseph Perkins. Ward 7.
Warden, Joseph H. Walker. Clerk, Edward L. Davis. Inspectors, Edward Morse, Jonathan Luther, Lyman L. Mason. Ward 8. Warden, Charles . Fitch. Clerk, Samuel H. Leonard. Inspectors, Levi Jackson, Salem Copeland, Martin Lathe.
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Members of the City Council, from 1848 to 1857.
1848-9.
MAYOR.
Levi Lincoln.
ALDERMEN.
Parley Goddard,
Benj. F. Thomas,
John W. Lincoln,
James S. Woodworth,
William B. Fox,
James Estabrook,
Isaac Davis,
Stephen Salisbury.
CITY CLERK. Charles A. Hamilton.
COMMON COUNCIL.
PRESIDENT.
Thomas Chamberlain.
Ward 1.
Freeman Upham, John Sutton, Samuel B. Scott.
Ward 2.
Horace Chenery, Edward Lamb,
Calvin Brigham.
Ward 3.
Benj. F. Heywood, Charles Bowen, John Gates.
Ward 4.
Alvan Allen, Darius Rice,
Stephen Bartlett. Ward 5.
Isaac Goddard,
Josiah G. Perry,
Benj. F. Stowell. Ward 6.
Edwin Draper, Adolphus Morse, Nathaniel Brooks.
Ward 7.
Alexander H. Bulloch, Albert Curtis, Daniel Goddard. Ward 8.
William T. Merrifield, Calvin Foster, Thomas Chamberlain.
CLERK. William A. Smith.
1849-50.
1850-51.
MAYOR.
Henry Chapin.
ALDERMEN.
William A. Wheeler,
Warren Lazell,
William A. Draper,
Charles G. Prentiss,
Austin G. Fitch,
Charles White,
Peter C. Bacon,
Benjamin Flagg.
CITY CLERK. Charles A. Hamilton.
COMMON COUNCIL.
PRESIDENT.
Jonas M. Miles.
Ward 1.
Freeman Upham,
Luther White,
Nathan Muzzy.
Ward 2.
John H. Brooks,
Thomas H. Rice,
Charles Washburn. Ward 3.
Wm. Dickinson, Leonard W. Sturtevant, Daniel Harrington. Ward 4.
Alvan Allen, Darius Rice,
Joseph Pratt.
Ward 5.
Benj. Goddard, 3d, Isaac Goddard, David Woodward. Ward 6.
Adolphus Morse, Edwin Draper, John F. Gleason. Ward 7.
Alexander De Witt, Erastus Tucker, James M. Fitch. Ward 8.
Albert Tolman, Wm. G. Moore, Jonas M. Miles.
CLERK.
William A. Smith.
George W. Russell,
Warren Lazell,
William Dickinson,
Joseph Pratt,
David Woodward,
Charles White,
Anthony Chase, Jonas M. Miles.
CITY CLERK.
Charles A. Hamilton.
COMMON COUNCIL.
PRESIDENT.
Charles Washburn.
Ward 1.
Nathan Muzzy,
Joseph Lewis, Freeman Upham.ª Ward 2.
Charles Washburn, Lee Sprague, John H. Brooks.
Ward 3.
Daniel Harrington, Leonard W. Sturtevant,t Henry Prentice. Ward 4.
Calvin Newton, John P. Southgate, Calvin L. Prouty. Ward 5.
Henry J. Howland, Wm. H. Harris, Daniel S. Burgess. Ward 6.
Adolphus Morse, John F. Gleason, Jos. D. Brigham. Ward 7.
Erastus Tucker, Benj. Goddard, 3d, Albert Brown. Ward 8.
Albert Tolman, Henry H. Chamberlin, William Workman.
CLERK.
Wm. A. Smith.
" Declined, G. W. Wilder elected. + " Franklin Hall Į Resigned, Thos. Drew, Jr. "
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MAYOR.
Henry Chapin.
ALDERMEN.
126
1851.
1852.
MAYOR.
Peter C. Bacon.
1853
MAYOR.
John S. C. Knowlton.
ALDERMEN.
William A. Williams,
Edward Earle,
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