ORDINANCE.1 weights and July 6, 1863. SECTION 1. The mayor, by and with the consent of the Sealers of board of aldermen, may annually in the month of March or measures to be April, appoint two sealers of weights and measures, who shall appointed. serve during one year, and until others are appointed and qualified in their stead, who shall have all the powers and perform all the duties, prescribed in the laws of the commonwealth relative to the sealers of weights and measures. paid by salary. Ibid. SECT. 2. Each sealer of weights and measures shall receive, Sealer to be in full compensation for his services, such salary as the city council may from time to time determine, and shall give bond Bond. with one or more sureties to the approbation of the board of aldermen, in the sum of three thousand dollars, with condition that he shall faithfully perform all the duties of his office. Ibid. keep book. SECT. 3. Each sealer of weights and measures shall keep a sealer shall book, to be provided by the city, which shall be divided into bid. eleven columns, with subdivisions, in the following form, viz: 1 An ordinance relating to the sealing of weights and measures, passed July 1 made. Records to be And whenever he shall perform any duties by virtue of his office, he shall enter in said book, in the appropriate columns and subdivisions, all the particulars enumerated in said titles; and every such book shall be the property of the city of Boston, and shall be delivered by each sealer at the expiration of his term of office to the city treasurer. Sealer shall collect and pay over fees quar terly. Ibid. Sealer shall not City shall pro Ibid. SECT. 4. Each sealer shall collect, account for, and pay into the city treasury all the fees received by him by virtue of his office, and shall make a quarterly report, under oath, to the board of aldermen, of all moneys so received and paid over, and before receiving the quarterly instalments of his salary shall deliver to the treasurer a sworn certificate that he has discharged all the duties required of him by the statutes, and has in all respects complied with the provisions of this ordi nance. SECT. 5. No sealer of weights and measures shall sell, be the agent for selling, or receive any commission on the sales of, scales, beams, balances, platform balances, weights or measures, or for recommending the same, or upon any part of the charge for adjustment or repairs. SECT. 6. The city shall provide and furnish suitable office vide office, &c. accommodations for the sealers of weights and measures, and also transportation for their standards under direction of the committee on internal health. Assistant al- SECT. 7. Whenever it shall be necessary for the proper discharge of his duty, any sealer may be allowed an assistant, to be nominated by such sealer and appointed by the board of aldermen, and such assistant shall be paid such compensation as the city council shall determine. WELLS AND PUMPS. ORDINANCE OF THE CITY.1 1. Public wells to be provided with 3. Owner of estate to be released in pumps. Expense to be assessed on persons using the same. 2. Owner of estate assessed to pay within ten days. certain cases. Proviso. 4. Penalty for injuring, &c., public with pumps. sons using the SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the board of aldermen, Public wells to keep supplied with suitable pumps, all wells belonging to the be provided city, and to keep the same in good order and repair; and to Dec. 30, 1833. cause the expense of providing such pumps, as well as keeping Expense to be them in repair, and also a reasonable charge for the use of the assessed on persame, to be annually assessed upon the owners of real estate in same. the vicinity of such well, and whose tenants make use of the same; and where such owners are absent or out of this commonwealth, or unknown, then they shall assess his or their proportion of the same, upon the tenants of such real estate, said assessment to be charged on said estate. assessed to pay SECT. 2. The owner or tenant of such real estate, as the owner of estate case may be, being assessed as aforesaid, shall pay the amount within ten days. thereof into the city treasury within ten days from the time of Ibid. the delivery of such notice; and in case of neglect thereof for the space of ten days, it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to prosecute for the same. to be released in SECT. 3. If the said owner or tenant, being assessed as Owner of estate aforesaid, shall make it appear to the satisfaction of the board of certain cases. aldermen, that he has, upon his own estate, a good and suffi- Ibid. ent well of water, and that neither he, nor any tenant or occupant of his estate, has made any use of, or has any necessity to resort to such public pump or well, in such case it shall be in the power of the board of aldermen to release such owner or 1An ordinance for the repair and keeping in order the public wells and pumps, passed December 30, 1833. Proviso. Dec. 30, 1833. Penalty for injuring, &c., public pumps. Ibid. tenant from the payment of such assessment; provided, always, that in such case if it shall be made satisfactorily afterwards to appear that any tenant or occupant of such estate hath made use of said public well or pump, such owner or tenant shall be liable to pay double the amount of that, and of all other assessments which may have been made upon such estate, if, from the circumstances of the case, the board of aldermen shall see fit to demand the same. SECT. 4. Whoever shall break or otherwise injure any of the public pumps, or commit any trespass on the same, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than one dollar nor more than twenty dollars, to be recoverd by complaint before the justices of the police court. Witnesses to attend and tes- papers. Oath; fees. STATUTE. WITNESSES. 1. Witness to attend and testify how summoned; fees; oath, by whom administered. 2. If witness fails to attend, warrant may issue to answer for contempt. STATUTES. 1. Witnesses may be summoned, and compelled to attend, produce books and papers, and testify before any city council, or either branch of such council, or any joint committee thereof, or special committee of either branch thereof, or any board of selectmen, at any hearing before any such council, committee, or board, as to matters within their respective jurisdiction; and such witnesses shall be summoned in the same manner, paid the same fees, and be subject to the same penalties for default, as witnesses before police courts of this commonwealth. And the presiding officer of such city council or of either branch thereof, and any member of any such committee or board of selectmen, are hereby severally authorized to administer oaths to all such witnesses as shall appear before such council or either branch 1863, 158, § 1. thereof, or any such committee or board respectively. to attend, warrant may issue. Ibid. § 2. 2. In case any witness so summoned and paid shall fail to If witness fails attend in pursuance of such summons, the presiding officer of such city council, or of either branch thereof, or the chairman of the board of selectmen, may issue a warrant to bring such witness before them to answer for the contempt, and also to testify as a witness in the cause in which he was summoned. |