April 14, 1853. thereof shall be, weighed and inspected according to the provisions of this ordinance, and a certificate thereof given as is herein before provided; and no bill against the city, arising out of or connected with any such purchase, shall be approved or allowed by any committee, passed by the auditor or paid by the treasurer, unless the said certificate shall accompany the bill for the same. Who shall not be a weigher and inspector. April 14, 1853. SECT. 23. No person who is owner or agent, in whole or in part, of any lighter or vessel, or who has any interest therein, having stones, gravel, sand, or other ballast for sale, shall be chosen, or shall continue to be, an officer under this ordinance. BONDS OF CITY OFFICERS.1 1. What officers give bonds. Pen- | 4. Annual examination of the suffialty of bonds. 2. Form and conditions of bonds. ciency of the bonds of the various officers. How approved, &c. Effect of 5. City clerk to provide suitable death or insolvency of any surety. blanks for bonds, &c. 3. Bonds of those officers that make 6. Who to have custody of bonds What officers give bonds. Penalty of bonds. July 17, 1860. ORDINANCE.2 SECTION 1. The several officers named below shall give bond to the city of Boston, with sufficient sureties, as follows, to wit: The auditor of accounts, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars; the chief of police, five thousand dollars; the city clerk, five thousand dollars; the city registrar, five thousand dollars; the city treasurer, one hundred thousand dollars; the 1 By the city charter, § 37, the city council "may require of all persons intrusted with the collection, custody, or disbursement of public moneys, such bonds with such conditions and such sureties, as the case may in their judgment require." 2 An ordinance in relation to the bonds of city officers, passed July 17, 1860. harbor master, two thousand dollars; the weigher and inspector- July 17, 1860. in-chief of lighters, &c., one thousand dollars; the superintendent of Faneuil Hall Market, ten thousand dollars; the superintendent of health, ten thousand dollars; the superintendent of public buildings, five thousand dollars; the superintendent of public lands, five thousand dollars; the superintendent of sewers, two thousand dollars; the superintendent of streets, five thousand dollars; the water registrar, five thousand dollars. sureties. The sureties on the bond of the city treasurer shall be sev- Liability of erally liable only for the sum for which in the bond they agree Ibid to hold themselves liable; the sureties on the other bonds shall be jointly and severally liable for the whole penalty of the bond. ditions of Ibid. SECT. 2. The form and conditions of the bond given by each Form and conofficer, shall correspond with and be applicable to the duties to bonds. How be performed by such officer; shall be such as the city solicitor approved, &c. shall approve; and the sureties on each bond, and the bond itself, shall be approved by the board of aldermen. The bond of each of said officers hereafter elected, except the city clerk, shall be executed, approved, and delivered before the officer enters upon the duties of his office. In case of the decease or Effect of death insolvency of any of the sureties on the bond of any of said or insolvency of officers, given as aforesaid, the officer who has given such bond, Ibid. shall immediately give a new bond with sufficient sureties, as herein before provided; and if such officer shall fail to give such new bond within a reasonable time after notice to do so, it shall be a sufficient cause for removal from office. any surety. cers, making city. SECT. 3. In the bond of any of the said officers whose duty Bonds of offirequires him in behalf of the city to make contracts, or pur- contracts, &c. chases, or sales, there shall be a condition inserted in substance in behalf of the as follows: "that he will not directly nor indirectly, for him- Ibid. self or others, or by others in trust for him or on his account, have any interest or concern in any contract, or agreement, or purchase, or sale, made by him in behalf of the city." nation of the SECT. 4. Each year in the month of June there shall be Annual examiappointed a joint committee, consisting of two members of the sufficiency of board of aldermen, and three of the common council, whose o bonds. duty it shall be to examine the bonds of the aforesaid officers, Ibid. July 17, 1860. City Clerk to Custody of and report upon the sufficiency of the same; and in case any bond is found insufficient, and a new sufficient bond is not given and approved, in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, within thirty days after notice from said committee, the city council, upon the facts being reported to them, may declare such bonds insufficient; and if the officer who has given such bond so found to be insufficient and who has failed to give the new bond required, is elected by the city council, they may remove him from his office, and proceed to fill the vacancy. SECT. 5. It shall be the duty of the city clerk to provide from time to time suitable blanks for the bonds of the said officers, and to furnish the same free of charge, to the said officers, when requested. SECT. 6. The city treasurer shall have the custody of the bond of the auditor of accounts; all the other bonds shall be kept in the custody of the auditor of accounts. ing houses to parties arrested. G. S. 85, § 8. 11 10. If a person makes oath before a justice of the peace or Common gam police court that he suspects, or has probable cause to suspect, be entered and that a house or other building is unlawfully used as and for a common gaming-house, for the purpose of gaming for money et. 79. or other property, and that idle and dissolute persons resort to the same for that purpose, such justice or court, whether the names of the persons last mentioned are known to the complainant or not, shall issue a warrant commanding the sheriff, or his deputy, or any constable, to enter into such house or building, and there to arrest all persons who are there found playing for money or otherwise, and also the keepers of the same, and to take into their custody all the implements of gaming as aforesaid, and to keep said persons and implements so that they may be forthcoming before some court or magistrate, to be dealt with according to law; and whoever is there found so playing, shall forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding fifty dollars. RULES AND REGULATIONS.1 granted. ORDERED, That the city clerk be directed to issue licenses to License, how such keepers of billiard saloons and bowling alleys, as shall be Sept. 24, 1860. approved by this board, on the terms and conditions prescribed by law, and also on condition that the several keepers of such saloons and alleys shall pay therefor the sum of five dollars for one alley or billiard table, and three dollars for each alley or billiard table more than one, which is kept under the ownership or control of one individual. 1 Rules and regulations relating to bowling alleys and billiard saloons, passed by board of aldermen September 24, 1860. 9 |