Secretary to keep records of both boards. Ibid. Committee on the assessors department. Ibid. Duties of assist ant assessors. Ibid. Chairman of assessors, or other assessor, to remain at council from electing one of the assessors to be chairman of SECT. 7. It shall be the duty of the said secretary of SECT. 8. A joint committee on the assessors department, consisting of two of the board of mayor and aldermen, and three of the common council, shall be annually appointed, whose duty it shall be to confer with the assessors, and make such provision for their assistance, as the exigency of that department may from time to time require. SECT. 9. It shall be the duty of one or more of the said assistant assessors to visit, in company with one or more of the assessors, the different estates in their respective wards, and to assist the assessors in taking a list of the polls, in estimating the value of their personal property, and in appraising the value of the real estate. SECT. 10. During the season when the assessors are called upon to perform street duty, it shall be the duty of assessors' room. the chairman, or such other assessor as he may designate, to remain at the assessors' room, during office hours, to attend to such business as may be required to be transacted there. Ibid. Abatements to be recorded, &c. Ibid. SECT. 11. Abatements of taxes, which shall be at any time allowed, shall be recorded by the assessors, and the record thereof shall contain the names of all persons whose taxes shall be abated in whole or in part, with the amount originally assessed, and the amount of abatements; and the reasons for abatement shall be stated on the said record, against the name of each person whose tax shall be abated; and this record shall be laid before the city council, annually, on or before the fourth day of March. And that this record may be perfect, the city clerk is instructed to inform the assessors of all abatements made by the mayor and aldermen, at the time they are made, in all which last mentioned cases the reasons of abatement may be omitted. 1 deliver tax bills for to the treasurer, on or before SECT. 12. It shall be the duty of the assessors to make Assessors to out and deliver, to the treasurer and collector, tax bills all taxes assessed on all persons and estates, on or the first day of October, in each year. before Oct. 1. Ibid. be collected. SECT. 13. The city treasurer and collector shall imme- How taxes shall diately issue the tax bills, and if the same are not paid Ibid. within thirty days thereafter, he shall issue a summons to each delinquent person assessed; and if such person shall not pay his taxes within ten days after the receipt of such summons, or after the service thereof upon him in the usual form, the said treasurer shall issue his warrant for the collection of said taxes according to law. transfer taxes to the owner. SECT. 14. The said assessors may, at their discretion, Assessors may transfer the amount of taxes, assessed on real estate not on real estate owned at the time of assessment by the persons charged Ibid. with such taxes, to the persons by whom the said real estates were owned at the time. assessed to the owner. Ibid. SECT. 15. The said assessors shall assess, upon the Real estate to be owners of real estate, lying within the city, the amount of taxes for which such real estate may be taxable: provided, that, in any case where the assessors may deem it to be Proviso. more for the public interest to assess the tenant or occupant, instead of the owner, they may so assess such tenant or occupant and provided, also, that nothing herein shall Further proviso. affect the rights which owners and tenants may have, respectively, by reason of any agreement made between themselves concerning such taxes. STATUTE. TRUANTS. 1. Cities and towns empowered to make provisions, &c., concerning truants. 2. They may appoint three or more persons to make com- 3. Truants may be placed in an ORDINANCE. 1. Act of 1850, c. 294, respecting truant children, &c., adopted. 2. Punishment for truancy, &c. Senior justice of police court to have jurisdiction. 3. House of reformation, &c., to be the institution, &c., mentioned in said act. Cities and towns empowered to &c., concerning truants. 1850, 294, § 1. STATUTE. 1. Each of the several cities and towns, in this commake provisions, monwealth, is authorized and empowered to make all needful provisions and arrangements concerning habitual truants, and children not attending school, without any regular and lawful occupation, growing up in ignorance, between the ages of six and fifteen years; and, also, all such ordinances and by-laws, respecting such children, as shall be deemed most conducive to their welfare, and the good order of such city or town; and there shall be annexed to such ordinances, suitable penalties, not exceeding, for any one breach, a fine of twenty dollars: provided, that said ordinances and by-laws shall be approved by the court of common pleas for the county, and shall not be repugnant to laws of the commonwealth. 2. The several cities and towns, availing themselves of the provisions of this act, shall appoint, at the annual meetings of said towns, or annually by the mayor and aldermen of said cities, three or more persons, who alone shall be authorized to make the complaints, in every case of violation of said ordinances or by-laws, to the justice of the peace, or other judicial officer, who, by said ordinances, shall have jurisdiction in the matter, which persons, thus appointed, shall alone have authority to carry into execution the judgments of said justices of the peace, or other judicial officer. 3. The said justices of the peace, or other judicial officers, shall, in all cases, at their discretion, in place of the fine aforesaid, be authorized to order children, proved before them to be growing up in truancy, and without the benefit of the education provided for them by law, to be placed, for such periods of time as they may judge expedient, in such institution of instruction, or house of reformation, or other suitable situation, as may be assigned or pro vided for the purpose, under the authority conveyed by the first section, in each city or town availing itself of the powers herein granted. ORDINANCE OF THE CITY. 1 two Act of 1850, com- truant children, c. 294, respecting &c., adopted. SECT. 1. The city of Boston hereby adopts the hundred and ninety-fourth chapter of the laws of the monwealth for the year one thousand eight hundred and Oct. 21, 1850. fifty, entitled "an act concerning truant children and absentees from school," and avails itself of the provisions of the same. truancy, &c. SECT. 2. Any of the persons described in the first sec- Punishment for tion of said act, upon conviction of any offence therein Ibid. described, shall be punished by fine not exceeding twenty dollars; and the senior justice by appointment, of the Senior justice of police court to police court, shall have jurisdiction of the offences set forth have jurisdicin said act. tion. mation, &c., to SECT. 3. The house for the employment and reforma- House of refortion of juvenile offenders is hereby assigned and provided be the instituas the institution of instruction, house of reformation, or tioned in said suitable situation, mentioned in the third section of said act. Ibid. tion, &c., men act. 1 An ordinance concerning truant children and absentees from school, passed October 21, 1850. This ordinance was presented to the court of common pleas for the county of Suffolk, at the October term, 1850, and was approved by the court. New division of the wards. June 24, 1850. Boundaries of the wards. Ward No. 1. Ward No. 2. Ward No. 3. SECT. 1. The present division of the wards of the city is hereby altered, and a new division thereof is hereby made, and the same shall hereafter be known and constituted as follows, viz: Ward No. 1. Beginning at the water, on the southerly side of the Eastern Packet Pier; thence across Commercial street to Richmond street; thence by the centre of Richmond street, across Hanover street, to Salem street; thence by the centre of Salem street to Cooper street; thence by the centre of Cooper street, crossing Charlestown street, to Beverly street; thence by the centre of Beverly street to Causeway street; thence across Causeway street, and in the same direction with Beverly street, to the water; thence by the water to the point begun at. Ward No. 2. All that part of the city called East Boston, and all the islands in the harbor. Ward No. 3. Beginning at the water, on the north side of the Fitchburg Railroad Depot, on a line which would strike the central line of Beverly street if extended to the water; thence by such line and the centre of Beverly street to Charlestown street; thence across Charlestown street, and by the centre of Cooper street, to Salem street; thence by the centre of Salem street to Richmond street; thence by the centre of Richmond street to Hanover street; 1 An ordinance providing for a new division of the city into wards, passed June 24, 1850. 2 See p. 3, § III, ante, as to the power of the city council to alter the divisions of wards. |