Clement A. Walker, M.D., Superintendent and Physician to the There are also attached to this Institution, Mun. One Male and one Female Supervisor. Seven male Attendants, $180 each; seven female Attendants, $130 each; one Laundress and one Housekeeper, at $156 each; two Cooks, at $2 per week; one Sempstress, at $2.50 per week; House Attendant, at $2 per week. The Gate Keepers to the enclosures of the Institutions at South Boston receive $600, which amount is shared by the three Institutions. OVERSEERS OF THE poor. Office, City Hall. (Chosen in each Ward where they reside.) Ward 1-John Pratt, 195 Salem street. 2-Ephraim Brock, Central square, East Boston. 6-John Hoppin, 27 Charles street. 7-Edmund T. Eastman, 9 Summer street. 8—John W. Warren, 49 Harrison avenue. (Chairman.) 9-Calvin Whiting, 24 Warren street. 10-Israel S. Trafton, 47 Harvard street. 11-Daniel C. Berry, 174 Shawmut avenue. 12-Isaac T. Campbell, 153 Broadway. James Phillips, Secretary. The Board meet on the first and third Wednesdays of every month, at 3 P.M., at their office, City Hall. The Overseers of the Poor are likewise incorporated as a Board of Trustees of John Boylston's and other charitable funds, left for the assistance of persons of good character and advanced age, "who have been reduced by misfortune to indigence and want." John W. Warren, Treasurer and Clerk of the Corporation. The meetings of the Board of Trustees are held in April and October. LAMPS. Wm. Barnicoat, Superintendent of Lamps. Office, City Building. Salary $1000 per annum, and $200 for clerk hire. [Appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen. City Ordinances, p. 250.] There are 1872 Gas Lamps in City proper; 192 in East Boston; 198 in South Boston. Total, 2262. There are 552 Fluid Lamps in Boston proper; 204 in East Boston; 263 in South Boston. Total, 1019. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. The Public Buildings of the City and County comprise the City Hall, the Registry of Deeds, the Court House, Faneuil Hall, and Faneuil Hall Market House, the new Stone Jail and Dead House, the Institutions at South Boston and Deer Island, the Old State House, the City Building (so called), all the Grammar and Primary School Houses, and all the Engine, Hydrant, and Hook and Ladder Houses in the City, besides other buildings used for public pnrposes. Samuel C. Nottage. Superintendent of Public Buildings. Office, City Hall. Salary $1200. [Chosen by concurrent vote in April or May.] PUBLIC LANDS. Robert W. Hall, Superintendent of Public Lands. Office, City Hall. Salary $1200. [Chosen in April or May. City Ordinances, p. 311.] The Superintendent has the care and custody of all the Public Lands belonging to the City "except the Common, the Land and flats west of Charles Street, Deer Island, the lands connected with the Public Institutions at South Boston, or any other lands held for specific purposes." Ezra L. Ryder. Superintendent of the Common, Malls, and Public Squares. Salary $1000. [Appointed by the Committee on the Common, &c.] PUBLIC LIBRARY. Instituted, A. D. 1852. [Mun. Reg. p. 75] Trustees.-Hon. Edward Everett, President, George Ticknor, John P. Bigelow, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Thomas G. Appleton, John M. Clark, Joseph Story. [Chosen by concurrent vote in January.] Librarian.-Edward Capen. Salary $1000. [Chosen by concurrent vote in October.] Samuel M. Bedlington, John W. M. Appleton, Assistants. The Library is open every day, with the exception of Sundays and the holidays, for the delivery of books for home use, from 3 to 8 o'clock P.M.; and the Reading Room connected therewith is open from 9 A. M. to 9.30 P. M., both of which privileges are enjoyed freely by all who agree to conform to the regulations of the Public Library. The Library is, at present, situated in the Adams School House Building, in Mason street. Joshua Bates, Esq., of London, whose early life was passed in Boston, having offered to this City the munificent sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars towards the purchase of Books for the Public Library of the City, if the City would erect a suitable building for that purpose; on the 24th of February, 1853, an order was passed by the City Council, authorizing the Committee on the Library, in conference with the Board of Trustees, to purchase a suitable site for the erection of a building which should be fully adapted to the purpose of Mr. Bates's donation. Accordingly said Committee purchased two estates on Boylston street, opposite the Common. And the following Board of Commissioners has been appointed by the City Council, to prepare plans, and superintend the erection of a suitable building on said site. Commissioners on the erection of a Public Library. [Mun. Reg. p. 92.] Robert C. Winthrop, President. Samuel G. Ward, George Ticknor, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, George W. Warren, George Odiorne, (One vacancy.) Edward Capen, Clerk. MARKET. Charles B. Rice, Superintendent of Faneuil Hall Market. Salary $1200. [Appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen, in June or July. City Ordinances, p. 109. Mun. Reg. pp. 65, 67.] Thomas Bennett, Deputy Superintendent. Salary $800 per annum. [City Ordinances, p. 109. Mun. Reg. p. 67.] Sullivan Sawin, Weigher. Salary $35 per month. The limits of Faneuil Hall Market include the lower floor, porches and cellars of the building called Faneuil Hall Market, and the streets on each side thereof called North Market street and South Market street, except the northerly sidewalk of North Market street, and the southerly sidewalk of South Market street; and also all those parts of Commercial street and the street lying between the Market building and Faneuil Hall, which lie between the inner lines of said sidewalks extended easterly and westerly across said street. POLICE DEPARTMENT. This department is under the immediate direction of the Mayor. It is employed in the detection of criminals, and has the superintendence of places of public amusement, carriages, wagons, trucks, pawnbrokers, junk shops, intelligence offices, &c. Under the present organization, the Police are divided into day and night police; the night police performing the duties devolving on watchmen. Robert Taylor, Chief of Police. Salary, $1800. Office, City Hall [Appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen in May or June. City Ord. p. 272. Mun. Reg. p. 66.] Luther A. Ham, First Police Deputy. Salary $1000. Hezekiah Earl, Second Police Deputy. Salary $800. [Nominated by Chief of Police, and confirmed by Mayor and Aldermen.] Horace G. Barrows, Clerk of Police. Rufus C. Marsh, Superintendent of Coaches, Carriages, &c. George W. Oliver, Superintendent of Trucks, Wagons, &c. There are eight Police Stations, the location and officers of which are as follows: STATION NO. 1. Old Hancock School House, Hanover street. Edward H. Savage, Captain. Arnold C. Whitcomb, Nathaniel G. Davis, Lieutenants. STATION No. 2. Williams Court. Asa Morrill, Captain. Oliver Whitcomb, Harrison Marsh, Lieutenants. STATION No. 3. Leverett Street. Samuel G. Adams, Captain. Simon F. Wright, P. Harvey, Lieutenants. STATION No. 4. Washington Street, at Boylston Market. William D. Eaton, Captain. George C. McGregor, John S. Hunt, Lieutenants STATION No. 5. Canton Street Place. George M. King, Captain. Cyrus Small, William Chadbourn, Lieutenants. |