The Inaugural Addresses of the Mayors of Boston, Nide 1870City Registrar, 1883 |
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Sivu 30 - Nor have the descendants of those who made this law ever ceased to hold that the public authorities were bound to provide the means of public instruction. Nor is this doctrine confined to New England. "Educate the people" was the first admonition addressed by Penn to the colony which he founded. "Educate the people" was the legacy of Washington to the nation which he had saved.
Sivu 17 - ... economy. Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment. Mere instinct, and that not an instinct of the noblest kind, may produce this false economy in perfection. The other economy has larger views. It demands a discriminating judgment, and a firm, sagacious mind.
Sivu 14 - Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption...
Sivu 85 - APPENDIX. 89 not a perfect bill, vet it approximates so near it that it must command the respect of capitalists, architects, and master-builders. With this law of construction, in the hands) of competent persons to enforce, it will secure to the future Boston not only beauty but solidity of construction and comparative safety from swift destruction by fir.'. The protection of human life against the casualties incident to fire and panic have been carefully and thoroughly considered. A copy of the...
Sivu 7 - ... and who shall have paid, by himself, or his parent, master, or guardian, any state or county tax, which shall, within two years next preceding such election, have been assessed upon him, in any town or district of this commonwealth ; and also every citizen who shall be, by law, exempted from taxation, and who shall be, in all other respects, qualified as above mentioned...
Sivu 29 - The late commission on the revision of the city charter recognizes this fact, and their report says that " What is needed is a comprehensive plan of prospective streets and ways in the outlying sections of the city, so that, when building permits are applied for, the location of the building with reference to the proposed street can be accurately defined. For want of such a plan a vast amount of property in buildings has been destroyed by change of street lines and grades.
Sivu 25 - In the amended form the provision was carried into the Revised Statutes as § 5219, which prescribes that state taxation of shares in the national banks "shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such State.
Sivu 98 - The following is a statement of the work done during the year under the supervision of the Division Engineer...
Sivu 15 - ... the Mayor believed it was $2 less than necessary and it was in fact $3 less than that allowed other cities in the Commonwealth by the Legislature of that year. The tax rate fell from $17 in 1884 to $12.80 in 1885. In 1887 Mayor O'Brien summarized the salutary effects of the tax limit in these words, "With the checks of the city charter in the hands of a vigilant Mayor, that will enable him to prevent waste and extravagance, and the law limiting taxation, the rapid increase of municipal taxation...
Sivu 113 - The said board of trustees shall have full power and control of the design, construction, erection and maintenance of the central public library building, to be erected in the city of Boston...