Annual Report [of the Superintendent]1894 |
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Albany Railroad Albany street Aldermanic District Amount paid asphalt assessment Beacon street block paving Boston & Albany brick paving brick sidewalks Brighton Broadway bridge Brought forward Cambridge Carried forward catch-basins cent Charlestown Chelsea Chester park city of Boston City Proper common sewer common shore construction contract Contractors cost Dorchester avenue Dover street drain or common drains and common earth excavation East Boston easterly edgestone set excavation and refill expense feet of edgestone Fort Point channel Foundry street furnace hundred January 31 laid land loads macadam main drain manhole northerly offal Old Colony Railroad ordinance Paving Division pipe sewer Point channel Railroad Company repaired roadway Sanitary Division SECT selectmen Sewer and connections Sewer Division South Boston special appropriation square yard Stone Stone Street Department Street Improvements Teaming Gravel thereof tons Total town Ward 24 Washington street West Fourth street West Roxbury westerly
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Page 149 - ... and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both, at the discretion of the court...
Page 34 - Commonwealth the amount apportioned to the city or town by said auditor, in such annual payments as the auditor of the Commonwealth may designate ; and the amount of the payment designated for the year, with interest thereon at the rate of four per cent, per annum from the date of the acceptance of the report of the auditor...
Page 116 - Be it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, of -the City of Boston, in City Council assembled, as follows...
Page 34 - When a highway crosses a railroad by an overhead bridge, the framework of the bridge and its abutments shall be maintained and ke.pt in repair by the railroad company, and the roadway thereover and the approaches thereto shall be maintained and kept in repair by the municipality in which the same are situated...
Page 116 - Every person who enters his particular drain into such main drain or common sewer, or who, by more remote means, receives benefit thereby for draining his cellar or land, shall pay to the city or town a proportional part of the charge of making and repairing the same, to be ascertained, assessed and certified by the mayor and aldermen or selectmen, and notice thereof shall be given to the party to be charged, or his tenant or lessee.
Page 32 - ... the special written permission of the mayor and aldermen of a city or of the selectmen of a town.
Page 36 - Territory, except to the extent modified or repealed by this Act, are hereby ratified and confirmed to said State, subject to the provisions of this Act: Provided, however, That nothing in this Act contained shall, directly or indirectly, affect any litigation now pending and to which the United States is a party, or any right or claim therein asserted.
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Page 34 - ... directors, specifying the manner and limits within which the alterations shall be made and by which party the work shall be done, or how it shall be apportioned between the city...
Page 71 - ... of the expense of the same ; but all assessments so made shall constitute a lien upon the abutting land, and be collected in the same manner as taxes on real estate...