Vehicles and horses shall not approach within ten feet of each &c. Aug. 3, 1869. Drivers shall stop when requested by SECT. 41.1 No owner, driver, or other person having the care of any street-car, chaise, carryall, other at crossings, hackney carriage, truck, cart, wagon, hand-cart, sleigh, sled, hand-sled, or other vehicle whatever, finished or unfinished, with or without a horse or horses or other animal or animals harnessed thereto, shall drive or place, or allow to be driven or placed, said vehicle, or the horse or horses or other animal or animals attached thereto, within ten feet of the vehicle in front of the same at any foot-path or crossing in any of the streets or ways of this city; and such owner, driver, or police. Every other person shall, when requested by any police officer, stop such vehicle at any place in the street for the purpose of allowing persons on foot to cross the street in safety. No person shall be allowed to drive, or have the care of, more than one vehicle in the streets or public places of the city; and every vehicle with a horse or horses, or other animal or animals harnessed thereto, shall be under the care of some competent person. Any person offending against either of the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars for each offence. team shall have a driver. Ibid. Vehicles shall not be driven against or things. Ibid. SECT. 42. No owner, driver, or other person or foul of persons having the care of any street-car, chaise, carryall, hackney carriage, truck, cart, wagon, hand-cart, sleigh, sled, hand-sled, or other vehicle, shall drive, or allow to be driven, the car or other vehicle of which he has the care, against, or foul of, any person or vehicle, or anything whatever, 1 The 41st and 42d sections were published in the Boston Post and Daily Advertiser, for two weeks from August 5, 1869. in the streets of the city; nor shall he drive, or allow to be driven, the car or other vehicle of which he has the care around the corner of any of the streets in this city with the horse or horses attached thereto travelling at a faster gait than a walk. Any person offending against either of the provisons of this section shall be liable to a fine not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars for each offence. SECT. 43. No license shall be granted for any hackney carriage, truck, wagon, dray, cart, handcart, sleigh, sled, hand-sled, or other vehicle whatsoever, for the conveyance of passengers or property for hire within the city, except to the owner or lessee thereof. If any person, other than the owner or lessee thereof, shall take out a license for any such carriage, truck, wagon, dray, cart, sleigh, sled, hand-sled, or other vehicle, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars for each offence. When any owner or lessee of such carriage, truck, wagon, dray, cart, sleigh, sled, hand-sled or other vehicle, who has received a license therefor, shall cease to be such owner or lessee, he shall, within ten days after ceasing to be such owner or lessee, surrender his license to the superintendent of hacks or of wagons, under a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars. SECT. 44. Whoever rides upon the steps of any omnibus, or upon any hackney carriage, truck, wagon, dray, cart, sleigh or sled, without permission of the driver thereof, or upon the platform of any horse-car, without the permission of June 24, 1869. When rules shall take effect. Ibid. the driver or conductor thereof, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars for each offence. SECT. 45. The foregoing rules and orders shall take effect immediately upon their passage; provided, however, that the persons now exercising the duties of superintendents of hackney carriages and of wagons shall continue to hold their several positions until the first Monday in April next, unless sooner removed, at the compensation already fixed by the city council. CHELSEA. North Conditions of the connection be STATUTES. 1. Conditions of the connection 3. Act to be accepted by the town 4. Chelsea incorporated as a town; Chelsea; Winthrop; City of Chelsea. 5. In Suffolk, county property to belong to the city of Boston. 6. Chelsea not to be assessed for county purposes. 7. County matters in Chelsea, North Chelsea, and Winthrop. 1. By an act of the legislature, passed June 23, 1831, it was tween Chelsea and provided that the connection which, by law, then subsisted be Boston. 1831, c. 65, § 1. tween the city of Boston and the town of Chelsea should continue upon the following conditions, that is to say: "First: the said town of Chelsea shall, by good and sufficient deeds, assign and release to the said city of Boston all right, title, and interest in and to all the real estate and personal estate then belonging, or any time heretofore deemed and taken to belong, to the county of Suffolk, and shall also relinquish to the said city of Boston the exclusive care, management, jurisdiction, and regulation of the court houses, jails, house of correction, and all other lands, buildings and establishments deemed county property, or in which the said county of Suffolk claims or has claimed or exercised any care, management, jurisdiction, or regulation, as aforesaid. Secondly: that the said city of Boston shall be at liberty to apply from time to time to the legislature for any alterations in the laws establish- 1831, c. 65, § 1. ing and regulating county, municipal, or police courts, or respecting the administration of justice, which the said city of Boston shall think expedient, without any let, hindrance, interference, or claim of right by the said town of Chelsea, before the legislature or otherwise; provided, always, that some court or courts within the said city of Boston should have jurisdiction in all matters and things which, in relation to the town of Chelsea or the inhabitants thereof, were cognizable by the court of common pleas, or by the court of sessions in the county of Suffolk before the passing of the 'Act to regulate the administration of justice within the county of Suffolk, and for other purposes,' passed February 23, 1822. Thirdly: that the said town of Chelsea may at any time apply to the legislature to be set off from said county of Suffolk to any other county, without opposition from the said city of Boston.” act, provided for. Ibid. § 2. 2. The second section of the same act provided that the said Duration of the act should continue and be in force, so far as respects the connection aforesaid between the said city of Boston and the said town of Chelsea for the space of twenty years, and thence afterwards until the same should be altered by the legislature, unless the said town of Chelsea should in the mean time apply to the legislature, and be set off as aforesaid; provided, however, that County property the rights of property which should be acquired by the said city of Boston, under that act, should nevertheless remain forever vested in the said city of Boston. to remain vested in Boston. Act to be accepted by the town of Ibid. § 3. 3. By the third section, the act was to take effect whenever the said town of Chelsea, at any town meeting legally assembled, should accept the same; and from the time of such acceptance all rights of property of the town of Chelsea in and to all the estate, real and personal, of the county of Suffolk should cease and determine and be vested in the said city of Boston. The act was accepted at a meeting of the inhabitants of the town Act accepted. of Chelsea, duly notified and warned, on the 5th of September, 1831. Sept. 5, 1831. ted as a town. 1846. c. 127. 1852, c. 53. 4. At the May session of the general court, in 1738, "all the Chelsea incorporalands within the town of Boston, heretofore called Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point," were erected into a township by the name of Chelsea." The town was divided in 1846, North Chlesea. and a portion of its territory was made a separate town by the name of North Chelsea. In 1852, a portion of North Chelsea was incorporated as the town of Winthrop. Chelsea was made a city in 1857. In 1856 an act was passed re-uniting Chelsea to Boston; but it was made conditional upon its acceptance by Chelsea and Boston. The vote in Chelsea was in favor of annexation, but that of Boston was against it. City of Chelsea. 1857, c. 18. In Suffolk, county 5. It is provided by the general statutes, that all the real estate property to belong and personal estate in the county of Suffolk, which, on or before the to the city of Boston. G. S. 17, § 3. Chelsea not to be purposes. County matters in throp. twenty-third day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, belonged, or was deemed and taken to belong to the said county, shall belong to, and be vested in the city of Boston; and the city of Chelsea and towns of North Chelsea and Winthrop shall have no right, title, or interest therein. 6. In the assessment of county taxes for the county of Suffolk, the city of Chelsea, and the towns of North Chelsea and Winthrop, are not to be taxed for county purposes. 7. The voters of Chelsea, North Chelsea, and Winthrop, Chelsea, and Win- Vote with Middlesex County in the election of county commissioners; and the county commissioners of Middlesex County have, and may exercise, in the above-named places, the authority of county commissioners in relation to highways and other matters, except as is otherwise provided by law. G. S. 10, §§ 6, 7, 14. C. 43, § 80. CHIMNEYS AND CHIMNEY SWEEPERS. ORDINANCE. 1. Chimneys to be examined and 3. Foul chimneys, how to be examined. Fires not to be kept in them. Penalty. 4. Penalty for burning chimneys, &c. Proviso. Chimneys to be examined and repaired. Dec, 28, 1825. ORDINANCE.1 SECTION 1. The board of aldermen, upon complaint made to them, or upon their knowledge and view of any defective chimney or fireplace within this city shall, from time to time, take effectual care that the same shall be examined and inspected; and, when in their opinion the safety of the city requires it, shall order the same to be immediately amended or repaired if the same can be properly done; otherwise, to be 1 An ordinance for the regulation of chimneys and chimney sweepers, passed December 28, 1825. An ordinance establishing a fire department, &c., passed June 4, 1850, § 26. |