Approval of bonds. R. O. p. 15. New bonds required in case of those of the treasurer and collector, shall be jointly and severally liable for the whole penalty of the bond; but the liability of the sureties on the bonds of the treasurer and collector may be limited to a several liability for a portion only of the full penal sums named therein. SECT. 3. Each of said bonds and the sureties thereon shall be approved by the board of aldermen, and the bonds of the city treasurer and city collector shall be approved also by the mayor. Each of said bonds, except that of the city clerk, shall be executed, approved, and delivered before the officer giving it enters upon the duties of his office. SECT. 4. In case of the death or insolvency of a surety on death or insol- any of said bonds, the officer who has given the bond shall vency of surety. immediately give a new one, as hereinbefore provided, and if he fails to give such new bond within a reasonable time after notice so to do, such failure shall be a sufficient cause for his removal from office. R. O. p. 15. Custody of bonds. R. O. p. 15. City clerk to SECT. 5. The city treasurer shall have the custody of the bond of the city auditor, but all the other bonds before mentioned shall be kept in the custody of the city auditor. SECT. 6. The city clerk shall provide from time to time. suitable blanks for the aforesaid bonds, and shall, when requested, furnish such blanks free of charge to any officer who may require them. NOTES. The city charter provides (section 37) that the city council may "require of all persons intrusted with the collection, custody, or disbursement of public moneys, such bonds, with such conditions and such sureties, as the case may in their judgment require." The city treasurer and city collector are authorized to require bonds to be given to them by the clerks and other persons in their employ. Rev. Ord. of 1885, c. 12, § 2, and c. 13, § 2. The board of police is authorized in certain cases to require bonds to be given by members of the police department. Rev. Ord. of 1885, c. 26, § 7. SECT. 3. The power of approving official bonds seems to be a judicial rather than an executive or administrative one (see Murfree on Official Bonds, § 51 and cases cited), and therefore is not taken from the board of aldermen by St. 1885, ch. 266, §§ 6 and 12. Section. CHAPTER 6. OF SALARIES, ALLOWANCES FOR CLERK-HIRE, ETC. 1. Salaries of city officers. 2. Allowances for clerk-hire, etc. 3. Horse and vehicle for certain offi cers. Section. 4. Payment of county salaries. officers. SECTION 1. The following-named officers of the city shall Salaries of city receive yearly salaries as follows, and at the same rate for R. O. p. 16. any portion of a year, and no salary shall be increased or Ord. 1885, ch. 4. diminished the change to take effect during the term for which any of said officers may be appointed or elected. The said salaries shall be payable monthly, and shall be subject to the deduction of any and all sums due to the city from the officers to whom they are payable: The mayor, ten thousand dollars. The city clerk, four thousand dollars. Ord. 1885, ch. 7. The assistant city clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars. Ord. 1883, ch. 11. The clerk of the common council, two thousand dollars. The clerk of committees, three thousand five hundred dollars. The assistant clerk of committees, one thousand eight hundred dollars. The messenger of the city council, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. The first assistant messenger, one thousand two hundred 3 Ord. 1884, ch. 9. dollars. 4 The second assistant messenger, nine hundred dollars. The city treasurer, six thousand dollars. The treasurer of the board of commissioners on the sinkingfunds, seven hundred dollars. The city collector, five thousand dollars. The deputy collectors, one thousand seven hundred dollars each; and the deputy collectors for Dorchester, Brighton, and West Roxbury shall be allowed a further sum, not exceeding two hundred dollars in the aggregate, for horsehire. The city auditor, five thousand dollars; but should he receive any money, directly or indirectly, from the county 1Amended to "two thousand five hundred" by an ordinance approved April 6, 1886. Amended to "two thousand five hundred " by an ordinance approved March 31, 1886. Amended to "one thousand five hundred" by an ordinance approved April 12, 1886. Amended to "one thousand two hundred " by an ordinance approved March 31, 1886. "Amended to "one thousand" by an ordinance approved March 31, 1886. Ord. 1883, ch. 13. Ord. 1884, ch. 15. of Suffolk for services, the said sum shall be reduced by an amount equal to the amount so received. The corporation counsel, six thousand dollars. The city solicitor, four thousand five hundred dollars. Ord. 1884, ch. 14. The first assistant city solicitor, three thousand dollars. Ord. 1885, ch. 5. The second assistant city solicitor, two thousand five hundred dollars. The city conveyancers, two thousand five hundred dollars each. The clerk of the law department, one thousand five hundred dollars. Ord. 1884, ch. 23. The city engineer, six thousand dollars. The city architect, three thousand five hundred dollars. The members of the board of street commissioners, three thousand dollars each. The clerk of the board of street commissioners, two thousand dollars. The superintendent of streets, four thousand dollars. The superintendent of sewers, three thousand five hundred dollars. The superintendent of public buildings, three thousand six hundred dollars. The superintendent of East Boston ferries, two thousand five hundred dollars. Ord. 1884, ch. 10. The superintendent of the common and public grounds, three thousand dollars. The superintendent of printing, two thousand five hundred dollars. The superintendent of Faneuil Hall, five hundred dollars. The superintendent of Faneuil Hall market, two thousand five hundred dollars, which shall be in full for his services both as such superintendent and as inspector of provisions. The deputy superintendent of Faneuil Hall market, one thousand five hundred dollars, which shall be in full for his services both as such deputy superintendent and as inspector of provisions. The weigher at Faneuil Hall market, eight hundred dollars. The day watchmen at Faneuil Hall market, three dollars each for every day's actual service. The night watchmen at Faneuil Hall market, three dollars each for every night's actual service. The inspector of the abattoir, one thousand five hundred dollars. Ord. 1884, ch. 18. The sealer of weights and measures, two thousand five hun dred dollars. The deputy sealers of weights and measures, one thousand Ord. 1884, ch. 18. four hundred dollars each. The inspector of buildings, two thousand eight hundred dollars. The assistant inspectors of buildings, one, one thousand six Ord. 1883, ch. 17. hundred and fifty dollars, and the others, one thousand five hundred dollars each. The clerk of the inspector of buildings, one thousand five hundred dollars. The chairman of the board of assessors, three thousand five hundred dollars. The secretary of the board of assessors, three thousand two hundred dollars. The three principal assessors, three thousand dollars each. The first assistant assessors, seven dollars each, and the second assistant assessors, five dollars each, for every day of actual service in street duty or in revising assessments; and each first assistant assessor shall be entitled to receive a further sum of three hundred and fifty dollars for attending the sessions of the board of assessors and of first assistant assessors; but from said sum shall be deducted a proportionate amount for any of such sessions which such assessor has failed to attend. The amount of service rendered by each assistant assessor shall be certified by the secretary of the board of assessors. The members of the water-board, for each member thereof Ord. 1883, ch. 8. whose term of appointment begins after the first day of May, A.D. 1883, the sum of five dollars for each half day of actual service in such capacity. The water-registrar, three thousand dollars. The receiver of water-rates, two thousand five hundred dol- Ord. 1884, ch. 12. lars (out of the Cochituate water-works revenue). The members of the board of fire commissioners, three thousand dollars each. The members of the board of registrars of voters, twenty- Order city five hundred dollars each. The members of the board of health, three thousand dollars each. The superintendent of health, three thousand five hundred dollars. The inspector of provisions in the health department, one thousand seven hundred dollars. council, May 15, 1874. The inspector of vinegar, one thousand two hundred dollars. Or1.1893, ch. 15. The city physician, two thousand seven hundred dollars. The assistant city physician, one thousand two hundred dollars. The port physician, one thousand two hundred dollars. 1 Amended to "three thousand five hundred" by an ordinance approved April 21, 1886. R. O. p. 162. The assistant port physician, eight hundred and fifty dollars and house-room and board either at Deer Island or at Gallop's Island. The superintendent of the Boston lunatic hospital, two thousand five hundred dollars and house-room and board for himself and his family in said hospital, which shall be in full for his services as such superintendent and as physician to all the public institutions at South Boston. The board of police, the chairman, four thousand five The superintendent of police, three thousand dollars. The probation-officer, appointed under section seventy-eight The clerk to the board of police, two thousand five hundred dollars. The clerk to the superintendent of police, one thousand five hundred dollars. The property clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars. The matron of the city prison, eight hundred dollars. The chief inspector, two thousand dollars. The inspector of pawnbrokers, four dollars a day. The inspectors and lieutenants, three dollars and fifty cents a day each. The assistant inspectors, three dollars a day each. The sergeants, three dollars and twenty-five cents a day each. The superintendent of lamps, three thousand five hundred The superintendent of bridges, one thousand eight hundred1 dollars. The draw-tender of Broadway bridge, one thousand and fifty dollars; one engineer, whose yearly salary shall be eight hundred dollars, and three assistant draw-tenders, whose yearly salaries shall be six hundred 2 dollars each. Ord. 1884 ch. 13. The draw-tender of Cambridge-street bridge (Brighton District), Western-avenue bridge to Cambridge, and North Harvard-street bridge, one thousand dollars. 1 Amended to " two thousand five hundred" by an ordinance approved March 30, 1886. 2 Amended to "seven hundred" by an ordinance approved March 31, 1886. |