AND RULES AND ORDERS OF THE CITY OF BOSTON, TOGETHER WITH THE GENERAL AND SPECIAL STATUTES OF THE MASSACHUSETTS PUBLISHED BY ORDER of the CITY COUNCIL. BOSTON: ALFRED MUDGE & SON, PRINTERS, 34 SCHOOL STREET. 1869. CITY OF BOSTON. In Board of Aldermen, December 27, 1869. UNDER an order of the City Council, passed the 22nd of January, 1869, the Joint Standing Committee on Ordinances have prepared and printed the accompanying volume of laws and ordinances; and they would respectfully recommend the passage of the ordinance and order appended, declaring the revised ordinances contained in this volume to be the ordinances of the city, and the rules and orders contained therein to be the rules and orders of the Board of Aldermen. The general plan upon which the work has been prepared is substantially the same as was adopted in the edition of 1850, and followed in the editions of 1856 and 1863. It contains (1) a digest of all the special statutes relating to the City of Boston, and such general statutes as were considered of municipal interest, arranged, as far as practicable, in alphabetical order; (2) the revised ordinances of the city council; (3) the revised rules and orders of the Board of Aldermen; (4) historical notes and copious references to judicial decisions. |