The by-laws and orders of the town of Boston, passed at several legal town meetings, and duly approved by the Court of Sessions : together with rules and orders passed by the selectmen, the rules and regulations of the Board of Health. Also, sundry laws of the Commonwealth, and other important information relating to the town of Boston / published under the direction of the selectmen.

  • Boston (Mass.)
Date:
1818
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The by-laws and orders of the town of Boston, passed at several legal town meetings, and duly approved by the Court of Sessions : together with rules and orders passed by the selectmen, the rules and regulations of the Board of Health. Also, sundry laws of the Commonwealth, and other important information relating to the town of Boston / published under the direction of the selectmen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

    54/254 (page 50)
    m book to be kept by the Town Clerk for tliat purpose ; and shall be numbered from iSTa 1 in succession; and said numbers shall be distinctly painted on both shafts of said trucks, in black letters and figures, at least three inches in length on a white ground. After such trucks shall be so registered land numbered, if any owner thereof shall sell, exchange or otherwise dispose of his property therein, the same shall be regis- tered anew in the name of the person pur- chasing or otherwise owning the same ; and the numbers shall be renewed as often as they shall become defaced or indistinct. Twenty trucks, with two horses harness- ed to each, shall be allowed to stand in State Street ; to extend from Merchants' Row* to Long Wharf on the north side ; and from Kilby Street to Broad Street on the south side, in the following order 2 The trucks numbered from 1 to 20, to have the privilege of that stand for one week ; those numbered from 21 to 40, t© stand there the second week ; and those numbered from 41 to 60, to stand there the third week in succession—after which they shall begin again the rotation. Such trucks as have usually stood in the street at the east end of Fanueii Hall, shall be permitted to continue there for the pre- sent, under the direction of the officers of police. All other trucks, not accommodated as aboye, shall stand in Broad Street, from.