Inaugural Address of ..., Mayor of the City of Lynn, ... with the List of City Officers for the Year ...W. W. Kellogg, Printers, 1900 - Lynn (Mass.) |
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Abutters accept the provisions Acts amount asphalt or brick assessment avenue borrowing power Boston street Broadway building catch basins cause Children's Home City Council city of Lynn City Treasurer Committee on Drainage Commonwealth condition construction cost of street current expenses debt limit debt sinking fund desire duty economically election enforced excess expenditure Fayette street FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY fiscal fourteen thousand funded debt Dec granite blocks Highways hope increased insure laid Legislature Lynn Woods macadam maintain maintenance Market street MAYOR OF LYNN ment Metropolitan Water municipal debt proper Net municipal debt occasion require office of Mayor Park Commissioners Park System past paved pavements pay expenses Police Department pond Poor Department precincts present PUBLIC LIBRARY public schools purpose of paying recommend repaired Revere Beach Saugus river sewer sidewalks Special debt STRAWBERRY BROOK street improvements taxpayer Three and Six to-day Total net funded Wards Three Water debt water supply
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Page 20 - That eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics now employed, or who may hereafter be employed, by or on behalf of the Government of the United States ; and that all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Page 8 - ... the former was discontinued. Moreover, it had formerly been the custom for city departments to order from the Printing Department many hundred additional copies of their annual reports. The cost of these additional reports was borne by the department's own appropriation. When the Finance Commission called the attention of the City Council to the fact that the 300 copies sent to the City Messenger's office were hardly ever used and that it was a waste of the city's money for the departments to...
Page 9 - This fact is of vital importance to a correct understanding of the problem of taxation in this city. Our taxes are admittedly high ; but this is largely due to the fact that the city — that is, the general taxpayer, is compelled in Boston to pay for local improvements, which in other communities are charged upon the land.
Page 9 - ... pay nothing. I believe the latter to be the correct theory ; and I consider that the Boston plan is responsible, more than all other causes combined, for the relatively greater burden of taxation and debt in this city, than in those communities which have been wise enough to accept the assessment system.
Page 15 - Home may hive at their- command the means of organizing some system of industry, we would recommend an appropriation of two thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting a suitable building, and providing the necessary tools and stock for a commencement in this direction.
Page 9 - Elsewhere, at least in all the larger cities of the country, substantially the cost of streets, built for the development of real estate, including sewers, sidewalks, and other conveniences, is assessed upon the abutters. In some cities a small percentage is paid by the municipal corporation, but in most of the large cities of this country, the...