to the service of the city. And the said assistant Jan. 3, 1868. SECT. 10. It shall be the duty of one of the said second assistant assessors to visit, in company with one of the assessors, or first assistant assessors, the different estates in their respective wards, and to aid him in taking a list of the polls, in estimating the value of the personal property, and in appraising the value of the real estate. taxes. SECT. 11. Abatements of taxes shall be made Abatements of and recorded by the board of assessors, and the Jan. 3, 1868. record thereof shall contain the names of all persons whose taxes have been abated in whole or in part, with the amount originally assessed, and the amount of abatements; and the reasons for abatement shall be stated on the said record, against the name of each person whose tax may have been abated; and the board of assessors may require the attendance of any of the first or second assistant assessors at any hearing for the abatement of taxes; and when petitions for abatement are refused, and the petitioner appeals to the board of aldermen, the record of said refusal by the board of assessors shall accompany the appeal. A record of all abatements made by the board of aldermen shall be transmitted by the city clerk to the board of assessors at the time they are made, but the reasons for the abatement may be omitted. Tax bills to be made. Jan. 3, 1868. How collected. Real estate to be sold. Ibid. SECT. 12. It shall be the duty of the board of assessors to make out and deliver, to the treasurer and collector, tax bills for all taxes assessed on all persons and estates, on or before the first day of October in each year. SECT. 13. The city treasurer and collector shall immediately issue the tax bills, and if the same are not paid within thirty days thereafter, he shall issue a summons to each delinquent person assessed; and if such person shall not pay his taxes within ten days after the receipt of such summons, or after the service thereof upon him in the usual form, the said treasurer shall issue his warrant for the collection of said taxes according to law. SECT. 14. As soon as it conveniently may be, after the treasurer and collector has sold or caused to be sold, for non-payment of any tax or assessment, any real estate in the city, he shall cause to be made under his supervision, and kept in his office for public reference, an alphabetical list, when practicable, of the location of such real estate, as well as of the name of the person, or persons, if known, against whom such tax or assessment was levied. STATUTES. TELEGRAPH LINES. 1. Cities and towns may construct lines of electric telegraph. construct private lines. Posts and structures to become town property. 2. May authorize any person to 3. Penalty for injuring structures. lines of electric telegraph. 1869, c. 457, § 1. 9 Gray, 386. 13 Allen, 226. 97 Mass. 555. -may authorize other parties to construct private lines, &c. Ibid. § 2. Posts and struc tures to become town property, &c. 1. Cities and towns may construct for their own use, lines of City may construct electric telegraph upon and along the highways and public roads within their respective limits, subject to the provisions of chapter sixty-four of the General Statutes, as far as the same are applicable. 2. The board of aldermen of cities, and the selectmen of towns, may authorize any person, upon such terms and conditions as they may prescribe, and subject to the provisions of chapter sixty-four of the General Statutes, as far as applicable, to construct for private use a line of electric telegraph upon and along the highways and public roads of the city or town. After the erection of such line, the posts and structures thereof within the location of such highways and roads shall become the property of the city or town, and shall be subject to the regulation and control of the board of aldermen or selectmen, who may at any time require alterations in the location or erection of such posts and structures to be made by the parties using the same, and may order the removal thereof, having first given such parties notice, and an opportunity to be heard. The city or town may, at any time, attach wires for its own use to such posts and structures and the board of aldermen or selectmen may permit other persons to attach wires for their private use thereto, or to posts and structures established by the city or town, and may prescribe such terms and conditions therefor, as they shall deem reasonable. to structures, &c. Ibid. § 3. 3. Whoever unlawfully and intentionally injures, molests or Penalty for injury destroys any wires, posts, structures or fixtures of any line of electric telegraph, established or constructed under authority of this act, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or by both said penalties. Houses to conform To be ventilated. Ibid. § 2. To have a fire Roofs. Ibid. § 4. Water-closets, drains, etc. Ibid. § 5. STATUTES. 1. From and after the first day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, no house, building, or portion thereof, in the city of Boston, then used, occupied, leased or rented for a tenement or lodging-house, shall continue to be so used, occupied, leased or rented, unless the same, on the requisition of the board of health, shall conform in its construction and appurtenances to the provisions of this act. ง 2. Every house, building, or portion thereof, in the city of Boston, designed to be used, occupied, leased or rented, or which is used, occupied, leased or rented, for a tenement or lodging-house, shall have in every room which is occupied as a sleeping room, and which does not communicate directly with the external air, a ventilating or transom window, having an opening or area of three square feet, over the door leading into and connected with the adjoining room, if such adjoining room communicates with the external air; and also a ventilating or transom window, of the same opening or area, communicating with the entry or hall of the house, or where this is, from the relative situation of the rooms, impracticable, such last mentioned ventilating or transom window shall communicate with an adjoining room that itself communicates with the entry or hall. Every such house or building shall have in the roof, at the top of the hall, an adequate and proper ventilator, of a form approved by the board of health or the superintendent. 3. Every such house shall be provided with a proper fireescape, or means of escape in case of fire, to be approved by the superintendent of the board of health. 4. The roof of every such house shall be kept in good repair and so as not to leak, and all rain water shall be so drained or conveyed therefrom as to prevent its dripping on the ground or causing dampness in the walls, yard or area. All stairs shall be provided with proper balusters or railings, and shall be kept in good repair. 5. Every such building shall be provided with good and sufficient water-closets or privies, of a construction approved by the board of health, and shall have proper doors, traps, soilpans and other suitable works and arrangements so far as may be necessary to insure the efficient operation thereof. Such water-closets or privies shall not be less in number than one to every twenty occupants of said house; but water-closets and privies may be used in common by the occupants of any two or more houses; provided, the access is convenient and direct; and provided, the number of occupants in the houses for which they are provided shall not exceed the proportion above required for every privy or 1868, c. 281, § 5. water-closet. Every such house situated upon a lot on a street in which there is a sewer, shall have the water-closets or privies furnished with a proper connection with the sewer, which connection shall be in all its parts adequate for the purpose, so as to permit entirely and freely to pass whatever enters the same. Such connection with the sewer shall be of a form approved by the board of health or superintendent, and all such water-closets and vaults shall be provided with the proper traps, and connected with the house sewer by a proper tight pipe, and shall be provided with sufficient water and other proper means of flushing the same; and every owner, lessee and occupant shall take due measures to prevent improper substances from entering such water-closets or privies or their connections, and to secure the prompt removal of any improper substances that may enter them, so that no accumulation shall take place, and so as to prevent any exhalations therefrom, offensive, dangerous or prejudicial to life or health, and so as to prevent the same from being or becoming obstructed. No cesspool shall be allowed in or under or connected with any such house, except when it is unavoidable, and in such case it shall be constructed in such situation and in such manner as the board of health or superintendent may direct. It shall in all cases be water-tight, and arched or securely covered over, and no offensive smell or gases shall be allowed to escape therefrom, or from any privy or privy vault. In all cases where a sewer exists in the street upon which the house or building stands, the yard or area shall be so connected with the same that all water, from the roof or otherwise, and all liquid filth shall pass freely into it. Where no sewer exists in the street, the yard or area shall be so graded that all water, from the roof or otherwise, and all filth, shall flow freely from it and all parts of it, into the street gutter, by a passage beneath the sidewalk, which shall be covered by a permanent cover, but so arranged as to permit access to remove obstructions or impurities. cellars. Ibid. § 6. 6. From and after the first day of July, in the year eighteen Construction of hundred and sixty-eight, it shall not be lawful, without a permit from the board of health or superintendent, to let or occupy, or suffer to be occupied separately as a dwelling, any vault, cellar, or underground room, built or rebuilt after said date, or which shall not have been so let or occupied before said date. And from and after the first day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and sixtynine, it shall not be lawful, without such permit, to let or continue 1 For general provisions relating to the connection of vaults with sewers, see ordinance relating to "Health," ante, page 345, §§ 42, 44. |