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Excerpt from Municipal Register: Containing the City Charter, the Rules and Orders of the City Council, and a List of Officers of the City of Boston The first act of the Legislature of Massachusetts establishing the City of Boston was passed3 February 23, 1822, and adopted by the citi zens of Boston, March 4, 1822. It is chapter 110 of the acts of 1821. The present city charter, being a revision of the former one, was passed April 29, 1854, and adopted by the citizens November 13, 1854. It is chapter 448 of the acts of 1854. The charter herewith presented is a codification of the original enactment of 1854 and the general and Special acts since then adopted. The numbering of the sections, up to and including section 65, is the same as in Stat. 1854, chap. 448, the principal features of the more important acts estab lishing departments and institutions being given in sections num bered from 66 onward. Marginal references indicate corresponding sections in the first charter of 1823. Where the provisions of the act of 1854 have been amended or supplemented by subsequent legisla tion, the text gives the section as amended. With reference in the margin to the amendatory statute The language of the original charter is retained as far as practicable. Sections 66 - 79 are marked additional, and are intended to show the variations made by special laws which have either suspended the general power to establish all necessary offices, or have treated ot matters not included in the main charter. The changes made by Stat. 1885, chap. 266, are expressed in the text wherever possible; but that act covers so much new ground that it is also given entire; also the Act to limit the Municipal Debt and the Rate of Taxation in the City of Boston, being chap. 178 of the acts of 1885. Sections in pica are unchanged from the text of 1854, except 25 and 60. Words in italics show verbal changes. Sections in small pica give the presumed state of the charter as affected by sub sequent legislation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.