to receive the following fees, and no more, namely:-for digging a grave eight feet deep, and covering the same, two dollars and fifty cents; for digging a grave six feet six inches deep, one dollar and fifty cents; for digging a grave five feet deep, one dollar and twenty-five cents; and for one four feet deep, one dollar. For opening and closing a tomb, seventy-five cents. For attendance and service at the house of a person deceased, in collecting and returning chairs, and other service, one dollar. For every family notified by request, five cents. For tolling a bell by special permission, fifty cents. For placing a corpse in a coffin, when requested, and removing the same down stairs, one dollar. For the use of one horse in the car, and leader, one dollar and fifty cents; and for each additional horse, seventy-five cents; and twenty-five cents each mile in addition for every horse attached to the car, when the same is sent out of the city. For carrying a corpse from the house to the car, and from the car to the grave, tomb or vault, and placing the same therein, and closing the same, including the assistance of the funeral porters, three dollars; and the same fees shall be allowed and paid in all cases of removing a corpse from any public vault, and reburying or entombing the same, as are allowed and paid for burying or entombing a corpse in any grave, vault or tomb, as aforesaid. For the burial of children, under ten years of age, to wit: for digging a grave three and a half feet deep, seventy-five cents; for service at the house, one dollar; for tolling a bell by special permission, fifty cents; for carrying the corpse to the carriage, and from the carriage to the place of deposit, one dollar; and for the use of a pall, twenty-five cents. And when a corpse shall be carried into a church for a funeral service, the undertaker may make an additional charge of two dollars; and when the ground shall be frozen, the charge for digging graves may be augmented, at the discretion of the city registrar. And it shall be the duty of the several undertakers to pay over, monthly, to the city registrar, the fees received by them on account of the city, provided for and established in this section. men may make relation to SECT. 52. The board of aldermen are authorized to Board of aldermake and adopt any regulations in relation to the inter- regulations in ment of the dead which they may deem expedient, not interment. inconsistent with the foregoing provisions, and subject to the approval of the mayor. Ibid. offences against Ibid. SECT. 53. Every person offending against any of the Penalty for provisions of this ordinance, in relation to which a penalty this ordinance. is not prescribed by the laws of the commonwealth, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than five dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, for each offence. laws and ordin Dec. 28, 1854. SECT. 54. It shall be the duty of the mayor to be vigi- Mayor to protect lant and active in protecting the public health; to see that public health the laws and ordinances in relation to the same are en- ances. forced; to communicate his views to the board of aldermen or the city council from time to time as he may deem expedient; and he shall have power to call upon the police and the various city officers to aid him in the performance of these duties." SUPERINTENDENT OF HEALTH.1 ent of health council. SECT. 55. There shall be chosen annually, in the month A superintendof January or February, and whenever a vacancy occurs, chosen by city by concurrent vote of the two branches of the city council, April 26, 1853. a superintendent of the health department, who shall hold his office until a successor is appointed or he is removed. He shall be removable at the pleasure of the city council, and shall receive such compensation as the said council may from time to time determine. assistant. SECT. 56. The said superintendent is authorized to ap- May appoint point an assistant, to act under his control and direction, Ibid. who shall be approved by the board of aldermen, and who shall receive such compensation as the city council may 1 Ordinance passed April 26, 1853, establishing the office of superintendent of health. Duties of superintendent. from time to time determine. The said assistant may be removed at any time by the said superintendent or the board of aldermen. SECT. 57. The said superintendent shall attend at his office a portion of each day. He shall keep a record of all his proceedings, and a set of books, in which shall be entered, under appropriate heads, the receipts and expenditures in his department, with the names of all persons who have furnished materials, and of all workmen, and the amount paid to each individual; and he shall make a To make reports quarterly report thereof to the city council. On or before to city council. the tenth day of January, annually, he shall make a report to the city council, containing a general statement of the expenses of his department during the preceding year, the amount expended in each branch thereof, and such other information as he may consider desirable, together with an estimate in detail of the property under his charge belonging to the city. To make an estimate to auditor of the wants of his department. To have charge of city carts and stables. To execute all laws and ordin SECT. 58. The said superintendent shall report annually, on or before the fifteenth day of February, to the auditor of accounts, a detailed estimate of the wants of his department for the next financial year; which estimate shall contain such a subdivision of the amount to be expended as shall give a good idea of the various necessities of the department. SECT. 59. The said superintendent, under the direction and control of the board of aldermen, shall have the care and superintendence of the city carts and stables, and shall make all necessary arrangements for cleaning the streets, disposing of manure, and removing house dirt and house offal. He shall, from time to time, furnish to the superintendent of streets such carts and horses as he may need, and they shall be charged to the department of paving and repairs of streets. SECT. 60. The execution of the laws and ordinances ances on subject relating to the subject of internal health, shall be under the superintendence of the said superintendent and his of health. deputy; and it shall be their duty, and each of them shall have power, to enforce all laws, ordinances, regulations, and orders, relating to causes of sickness, nuisances, and sources of filth existing within the city, except as is otherwise provided in the ordinances of the city, subject always to the direction, authority, and control of the board of aldermen and of the board of health for the time being; and he shall perform any other services that may be required of him by the said boards, or either of them. SECT. 61. The said superintendent of the health depart- To give bond. ment shall give bond with one or more sureties, to the approbation of the mayor, with condition that he shall faithfully perform all the duties of his office, and account for all moneys entrusted to him, and that he will not, directly or indirectly for himself or others, or by others in trust for him, or on his account, have any interest or concern in any purchase, lease, contract, or agreement to be made in pursuance of this ordinance. deliver all bills sold and work treasurer for July 18, 1853, SECT. 62. Whenever the superintendent of health shall To make and sell any articles or materials belonging to the city, or shall for materials do, or cause to be done, any work for any individual from done, to city which money shall become due to the city, the said super- collection. intendent shall enter in books to be kept for that purpose all such sales and work done, with the price thereof, and shall forthwith make out bills for the same and deliver them to the city treasurer. for collection, and the said treasurer shall forthwith demand payment of the said bills, and in case any bills or dues under this ordinance shall remain unpaid at the expiration of three months after demand for payment as aforesaid, the said treasurer shall cause the same to be collected, by a resort to the proper legal process. SECT. 63. The pay rolls of the laborers employed under To make up pay the direction of the superintendent of health, shall be rolls of laborers. made up and certified by the said superintendent, and upon being duly allowed and audited shall be paid by the city treasurer, at such times and places as he shall appoint, and he may employ a clerk for that purpose. Cities and towns may appropriate tories. 1854, 429. HISTORY. STATUTE. Cities and towns may appropriate money for histories. The several cities and towns in this commonwealth are money for his hereby authorized to raise and appropriate such sums of money as they may deem proper for the purpose of procuring the writing and publication of histories of such cities or towns respectively. 2. House of correction to be erect- 9. Prisoners supposed to be re |