PAGE HOIST-WAYS. See ELEVATORS. HORSE-RAILROADS. See STREET RAILROADS. HOSPITAL, CITY city, may erect, establish, and maintain control of city council over trustees of, incorporated corporation may take and hold property not to exceed $1,000,000 money to be invested by city treasurer trustees of to be seven in number to receive no compensation how chosen . how removed for cause vacancies in board of, how filled organization of board powers and duties of trustees necessary officers of, how appointed HOSPITAL, LUNATIC city council may maintain one for insane persons not furiously mad may pass ordinances for managing it and for appointing officers . expense of commitments, how allowed and paid right of appeal from order of commitment question of sanity on appeal, triable, on request, by jury inmates of, how supported who may be confined in 96 terms, conditions, and compensation to be fixed by authority of city council board of directors of public institutions to have powers and duties concerning, to have power of mayor and aldermen to discharge from confinement 96 93 93 324 196 196 312, 315 persons committed for non-payment of fine and costs imposed for breach of by- and beaches in harbor, gravel, stones, etc., not to be carried away from, without penalty See BIRD ISLAND; SPECTACLE ISLAND; THOMPSON'S ISLAND. See also JAIL power of board of health to remove prisoners sick with contagious diseases city may purchase property of, and connect same with water-works may take and supply water from Jamaica pond to Roxbury, Brookline, and city council may authorize erection of building for reformation and employment or may use house of industry or correction therefor 31 71 93 94 . 94, 95 95 331 48 48 or may appropriate building 48 may establish separate branch for females 64 powers of directors of public institutions in connection with committal of boys committed, to remain until majority, girls, until eighteen 49 how employed and instructed 49 may be placed at service may be discharged from imprisonment upon recommendation of directors to. 49 PAGE LICENSES provisions of Public Statutes concerning of conductors, drivers, and despatchers of street cars powers concerning, city council may confer on police commissioners LIQUORS. See INTOXICATING LIQUORS. meaning of term as used in acts relating to inspection of buildings provisions against fire in and for escape from lodging-houses See TENEMENT-HOUSES. 321 164 312, 315 LOGS rafts, piles, timber, etc., not to be attached for more than ten hours to bridge, 111 111 324 123 222 312 187 city council may authorize erection of wooden buildings for 299 See FANEUIL HALL MARKET; GERRISH MARKET; WILLIAMS MARKET. MAYOR to be elected at annual meeting for one year board of aldermen to meet within three days from time of election, and examine to notify mayor, in writing, of his election if returns show no election, or if person elected refuses to accept, warrants for proceedings to be repeated until a mayor shall be chosen if returns show no election, board of aldermen to make record of the fact boards to proceed to business as in case of absence of mayor to be chief executive officer of corporation compensation, provisions concerning to execute and enforce laws. to inspect conduct of subordinate officers to cause infractions of duty to be prosecuted and punished . may summon meetings of either or both boards, when deemed necessary by him, all ordinances, orders, resolutions, votes, to which concurrence of both boards also all orders of either branch involving expenditures approving, shall sign. disapproving, shall return with objections MAYOR, continued. objections to be entered at large on record and reconsideration had if, after consideration, two-thirds present and voting agree to pass, shall be sent if these similarly approved to be in force vote to be determined by yeas and nays if not returned by mayor within ten days to be in force veto power not to extend to election of officers chosen in convention or by con- before entering on duties of office to take oath oath to be administered by judge or justice of the peace mayor, after being sworn, to administer oath to aldermen and members of com- certificate of oath to be entered in journals. if unavoidably absent on first Monday in January, city government to organize powers formerly vested in mayor and aldermen, to be vested in board of alder- to preside over meetings of board of aldermen, but without a vote orders, resolutions, or votes of aldermen, to be presented to mayor for approval, may remove such officers in case of decease, inability, absence, or resignation of, and in case of vacancy 6 6 acts done in behalf of city during absence of, in 1845 and 1846, ratified to sign statement and description, in case of land taken for East Boston ferry 162 with approval of city council, to appoint inspector of buildings to appoint one of the directors of the Collateral Loan Company. 248 to sign statement and description in case of land taken for abating the Roxbury in case of emergency, may assume command of police force to be member of corporation empowered to hold "Boston firemen's relief fund," to appoint members of board of trustees of city hospital to issue warrant, annually, to seize and deliver at dog-shelter unlicensed and un- 297 to sign description and statement, in case of taking land for a public library may appoint city clerk, pro tempore, in case of temporary absence of city clerk. to appoint members of board of registrars of voters duties of, respecting voting-lists, to be performed by registrars of voters MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, continued. PAGE certain powers of, may be conferred by city council on street commissioners to appoint inspectors of voting precincts powers of, relative to licensing innholders and common victuallers, conferred on 269 274 may appoint two additional probation officers 299 to appoint assistant harbor-masters and fix their compensation to certify copies of records of votes for transmission to secretary of the common- 319 inhabitants of, may use Mystic water for household purposes and for extinguish- MEDICAL EXAMINER auditing, etc., of accounts of MEETINGS. See ELECTIONS. MERCHANDISE not to be raised or lowered from outside of buildings, except as directed See STREETS. drains and sewers to be extended into new channel Boston and Brookline may contract concerning new covered channel for provisions of Public Statutes concerning 108, 151 321 34 135 135 |