Saving of rights accrued, suits pending, &c. Ibid. An ordinance in addition to an ordinance to regulate the interment of the dead, passed May 21, 1849. An ordinance constituting the board of health for the city, passed June 18, 1849. An ordinance providing for the appointment of a city registrar, and prescribing his duties, passed June 25, 1849. An order concerning public lands, passed February 7, 1850. The twentieth section of an ordinance in relation to streets, passed September 30, 1850.1 SECT. 3. The repeal in the preceding section shall not affect any act done or any right accruing or accrued, or established, or any suit or proceeding, had or commenced in any civil case, before the time when such repeal shall take effect, nor any offence committed, nor any penalty or forfeiture incurred, nor any suit or prosecution pending at the time of such repeal, for any offence committed, or for the recovery of any penalty or forfeiture incurred, under any of the provisions so repealed: and in all cases where any provisions of the preceding ordinances are made to go into operation at any time hereafter, the corresponding provisions, if any, of the said repealed ordinances or orders shall continue in force, until the said new provisions shall go into operation, subject, however, to any express regulations relating thereto which may be contained in the preceding ordinances: and all persons who, at the time when the said repeal shall take effect, shall hold any office under any of the ordinances or orders so repealed, shall continue to hold the same according to the tenure thereof, except those offices which may have been abolished, and those as to which a different provision shall have been made by the preceding ordinances and no ordinance or order or part of an ordinance or order which has been heretofore repealed, shall be revived by the repeal, in the preceding section, of any of the ordinances or orders, or parts of ordinances or orders therein mentioned. 1 The section repealed is omitted in this volume, and the succeeding sections are re-numbered. the revised be kept, &c. SECT. 4. All copies of the revised ordinances, not How copies of otherwise disposed of, shall be deposited with the auditor, ordinances shall subject to the direction and control of the standing com- Ibid. mittee on ordinances, and shall be on sale at such price as shall be determined from time to time by the said committee. SECT. 5. Every member of the city council shall be Copies for city entitled to one copy of the revised ordinances. council. APPENDIX. CITY CHARTER AND AMENDMENTS. (1) AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE CITY OF BOSTON. [Statute of 1821, Chap. 110.] rights, powers, SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the inhabitants of the town of City, and its Boston, for all purposes, for which towns are by law incor- &c. porated, in this commonwealth, shall continue to be one body politic, in fact and in name, under the style and denomination of the city of Boston, and as such, shall have, exercise, and enjoy, all the rights, immunities, powers, and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and obligations, now incumbent upon, and appertaining to said town, as a municipal corporation. And the administration of all the fiscal, prudential, and municipal concerns of said city, with the conduct and government thereof, shall be vested in one principal officer, to be styled the mayor; one select council, consisting of eight persons, to be denominated the board of aldermen; and one more numerous council, to consist of forty-eight persons, to be denominated the common council; which boards, in their joint capacity, shall be de- City officers. nominated the city council, together with such other board of officers, as are herein after specified. into 12 wards. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the To be divided duty of the selectmen of Boston, as soon as may be, after the passing of this Act, to cause a new division of the said Election of city officers. and clerk. town to be made into twelve wards, in such manner as to include an equal number of inhabitants in each ward, as nearly as conveniently may be, consistently with well defined limits to each ward; including, in such computation of numbers of inhabitants, persons of all descriptions, and taking the last census, made under the authority of the United States, as a basis for such computation. And it shall be in the power of the city council, herein after mentioned, from time to time, not oftener than once in ten years, to alter such divisions of wards, in such a manner as to preserve, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants in each ward. SECT. 3. Be it further enacted, That on the second Monday of April, annually, the citizens of said city, qualified to vote in city affairs, shall meet together, within their respective wards, at such time and place, as the mayor and aldermen may, by their warrant, direct and appoint; and the said citizens shall then choose by ballot one warden and one clerk, who shall be resident in said ward, who shall hold their offices for one year, and until others shall be apDuty of warden pointed in their stead. And it shall be the duty of such warden to preside at all meetings of the citizens of such ward, to preserve order therein; and it shall be the duty of such clerk, to make a fair and true record, and keep an exact journal of all the acts and votes of the citizens, at such ward meetings; to deliver over such records and journals, together with all other documents and papers held by him, in his said capacity, to his successor in such office. if, at the opening of any annual meeting, the warden of such ward should not be present, the clerk of such ward shall call the citizens to order, and preside at such meeting until a warden shall be chosen by ballot. And if, at any other meeting, the warden shall be absent, the clerk, in such case, shall so preside, until a moderator or warden, pro tempore, shall be chosen; which may be done by nomination and hand vote, if the clerk so direct. At such meeting also, five inspectors of elections shall be chosen for such ward, being residents therein, by ballot, to hold their offices for one year. And it shall be the duty of the war Inspectors of elections. And |