Reports and Communications, Volume 19Vol. 1-4 contain miscellaneous reports made to the Commission, 1907-1908. |
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... interest in the Boston Belting Company , noti- fied the mayor of the city that the company intended to engage in the business of wool scouring because of the profits that could be made , due to the large amount of free water that the ...
... interest in the Boston Belting Company , noti- fied the mayor of the city that the company intended to engage in the business of wool scouring because of the profits that could be made , due to the large amount of free water that the ...
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... interest of the city of Boston to allow the contract that had been in effect for twenty - five years to continue than to terminate it and pay a sum of money for so doing . The facts on which he could make a decision were all in the city ...
... interest of the city of Boston to allow the contract that had been in effect for twenty - five years to continue than to terminate it and pay a sum of money for so doing . The facts on which he could make a decision were all in the city ...
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... 1922 , the street commissioners awarded the sum of $ 125,089 , an increase of $ 34,749 . No suit had been brought , no interest payments were running against the city , and the Law Department had not been consulted . This award was 16.
... 1922 , the street commissioners awarded the sum of $ 125,089 , an increase of $ 34,749 . No suit had been brought , no interest payments were running against the city , and the Law Department had not been consulted . This award was 16.
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... interests are in jeopardy when parties buy law suits against the city for speculative purposes and succeed in those purposes without having to try their cases in court . Two owners of land that had been taken sold their claims for a ...
... interests are in jeopardy when parties buy law suits against the city for speculative purposes and succeed in those purposes without having to try their cases in court . Two owners of land that had been taken sold their claims for a ...
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... interests of the city under the pro- cedure practised by the present administration in settling awards of damages for ... interest . Land owners will no longer petition the court for the assessment of damages if they are dis- satisfied ...
... interests of the city under the pro- cedure practised by the present administration in settling awards of damages for ... interest . Land owners will no longer petition the court for the assessment of damages if they are dis- satisfied ...
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amount application Batchelder & Snyder bids Bitulithic bituminous pavements Blue Hill avenue Boston Belting Company bridge buildings Cambridge and Court Cambridge street cent Chairman City Council City of Boston city's Commonwealth Construction Company contractor cost Court streets cubic foot CURLEY December December 13 District Doctor Mullowney expenditures expenses feet Finance Commission funds Harvard Bridge Health Commissioner Honor increased January June 21 Kubitsky Lebowich Legislature license Live Poultry Company lowest bidder March 23 MAYOR in relation ment MICHAEL H mother November November 16 original award overseers owners paving proposed proposed business purchased received Relief Department Respectfully submitted Richmond Live Poultry rubber tile flooring salaries School Committee Schoolhouse Commission sheet asphalt Snyder Company Soldiers Street Commissioners street widening Stuart street SULLIVAN tax limit tax rate tion Total income traffic type of pavement veterans visitors Warren Brothers Company Warrenite-bitulithic widening of Cambridge Widow width
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Page 82 - All moneys raised by taxation in the towns and cities for the support, of public schools, and all moneys which may be appropriated by the state for the support of common schools, shall be applied to, and expended in. no other schools than those which are conducted according to law, under the order and superintendence of the authorities of the town or city in which the money is to be expended...
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Page 81 - The school committee is an independent body, entrusted by law with broad powers, important duties, and large discretion. The obligation to select and to contract with teachers implies examination as to their fitness and of necessity carries with it the authority to fix the compensation to be paid. It would be vain to impose upon the school committee responsibility for excellence of the instruction to be afforded to pupils and to deprive them of the power to determine the salaries of teachers.
Page 168 - JEFFRIES FUND.— Was a bequest by DAVID JEFFRIES, former Town Treasurer. Will dated January 1786. Income to be applied to the purchase of tea, coffee, chocolate and sugar for the refreshment of those persons who, in the Providence of God, are or shall be obliged to seek refuge in the almshouse after having lived reputably, but always giving preference to the pious poor.
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