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 Revised and Passed March 15 , 1900 , 
 
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 RULES OF ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCILS, 
 
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CITY CHARTER 
 
 WITH AMENDMENTS THERETO. 
 
 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
 in General Court convened: 
 
 Section 1. The inhabitants of the town of Keene in the 
 county of Cheshire shall continue to be a body corporate 
 and politic, under the name of the city of Keene. 
 
 Sect. 2. The said city of Keene hereby is divided into 
 five wards, which shall be constituted as follows, namely : 
 Ward No. 1 shall include all that part of the town of 
 Keene now included within the following limits, viz: 
 bounded northerly by a line drawn easterly from Central 
 square, through the center of Roxbury street and the center 
 of the highway leading by the dwelling houses of Miles S. 
 Buckminster and John W. Nye, to Roxbury; easterly by 
 the town lines between said Keene, Marlboro’ and Swanzey ; 
 and westerly by a line drawn southerly from said Central 
 square through the center of Main street and the road 
 leading to Swanzey Factory Village. 
 
 Ward No. 2 shall include all that part of said Keene 
 included within the following limits, viz : bounded north- 
 erly by the town lines between said Keene and Gilsum; 
 easterly by the town lines between said Keene, Sullivan and 
 Roxbury ; southerly by the northern limit above described 
 of Ward No. 1 ; and westerly by a line intersecting with 
 said last mentioned line, and drawn thence northerly 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 through said Central square, the center of Washington 
 street, and the road leading by the dwelling house of E. G. 
 Holman, to Gilsum. 
 
 Ward No. 3 shall include all that part of said Keene in- 
 cluded within the following limits, viz: bounded northerly 
 by the town lines between said Keene, Gilsum and Surry; 
 easterly by the west line above described of Ward No. 2 ; 
 and westerly by a line drawn northwesterly through said 
 Central square, the center of Court street, and the center 
 of the old road leading by the dwelling houses of Charles 
 Wright and Calvin Randall, to said Surry. 
 
 Ward No. 4 shall include all that part of said Keene in- 
 cluded within the following limits, viz: bounded northerly 
 by the town lines between said Keene, Surry and Westmore- 
 land; easterly by the west line above described of Ward 
 No. 3 ; southerly by a line intersecting with said last men- 
 tioned line, and drawn thence westerly through Central 
 square, the center of West street, and the center of highway 
 leading from said West street by the dwelling houses of 
 Charles N. Wilder, Josiah Sawyer, Joseph Wilson, Daniel 
 Brown and Isaiah Robbins, to Chesterfield; and westerly by 
 the town lines between said Keene, Westmoreland and 
 Chesterfield. 
 
 Ward No. 5 shall include all that part of said Keene in- 
 cluded within the following limits, viz: bounded northerly 
 by the south line above described of Ward No. 4; easterly 
 by the west line above described of Ward No. 1; southerly 
 by the town lines between said Keene and Chesterfield and 
 Swanzey. 
 
 Sect. 3. At the first meeting after the adoption of this 
 act, there shall be chosen in each of said wards, in the man- 
 ner prescribed by law, one alderman, three common coun- 
 cilmen, one assessor of taxes, and one overseer of the poor. 
 
 Sect. 4. The annual meeting of the legal voters of said 
 city of Keene, for the choice of city and ward officers, shall 
 be held on the second Tuesday of December annually ; and 
 all city and ward officers who are chosen by the people shall 
 hold their respective offices for one year from the first Tues- 
 
CITY CHARTER. 
 
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 day of January next succeeding, and until others are chosen 
 and qualified in their stead. 
 
 Sect. 5. The mayor, aldermen and common council- 
 men shall meet in convention for the purpose of taking the 
 oath of their respective offices on the first Tuesday of Janu- 
 ary in each year, at ten o’clock in the forenoon. 
 
 Se£t. 6. A police court is hereby established within 
 said city of Keene, constituted in the manner prescribed in 
 section 2, chapter 196 of the General Statutes of this state, 
 with all the powers and made subject to all the duties pre- 
 scribed for police courts in and by said chapter. 
 
 Sect. 7. All the power and authority now vested by 
 law in said town of Keene in regard to the construction, 
 maintenance and management of water works, is hereby 
 transferred to and vested in the city council, and shall be 
 carried into execution by the appointment of a superin- 
 tendent or board of water commissioners, or such other 
 manner as said city council shall determine. 
 
 Sect. 8. Within fifteen days after the acceptance of this 
 act by the legal voters of the town of Keene, in the manner 
 hereinafter prescribed, the selectmen of said town, for the 
 purpose of the first election under this charter, shall prepare, 
 revise, correct and post up, in the manner in which select- 
 men of towns are now required to do, an alphabetical list 
 of voters in each ward of the city, and shall issue and serve 
 their warrant for a meeting of the legal voters in their re- 
 spective wards for the choice of all city officers who are 
 elected by the people. Such warrant shall be posted at least 
 fourteen days before the time appointed for said meetings, 
 and shall designate the time and place for the meetings in 
 the respective wards. At said meeting, each of said wards 
 shall choose a moderator, clerk, three selectmen, one aider- 
 man, three members of the common council, one assessor, 
 and one overseer of the poor, and shall also give in their 
 votes for a mayor and such other officers as are then to 
 be voted for. The clerk of each ward shall deliver certifi- 
 cates of their election to the persons elected aldermen and 
 members of the common council, and a copy of the record 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 of election to said selectmen of the town, certified by him- 
 self, the moderator, and a majority of the selectmen of said 
 ward, within twenty-four hours after the termination of 
 said ward meeting. The selectmen shall, within two days 
 after receiving said returns, examine, compare and record 
 the same, ascertain the result of the election, and give 
 notice in writing to the person chosen mayor of his election. 
 If a mayor shall not have been elected at such meeting, 
 the selectmen shall forthwith issue their warrant for another 
 meeting, as provided in this section, and the same proceed- 
 ings shall be had and repeated until a mayor shall be 
 chosen. Any legal voter in the respective wards may call 
 the first meeting to order, and preside until a moderator 
 shall be chosen. 
 
 Sect. 9. This act shall be void, unless a majority of the 
 legal voters of said town of Keene shall, by a majority of 
 the voters present and voting thereon by ballot, determine 
 to adopt the same at an annual meeting of the voters of 
 said town. 
 
 Sect. 10. The selectmen shall issue and serve their 
 warrant as prescribed by law at least fourteen days before 
 said meeting to the legal voters of said town, to see if they 
 will adopt this charter for a city government — said votes 
 to be taken by ballot. 
 
 Sect. 11. The first meeting of the legal voters of said 
 Keene for the choice of city and ward officers shall be 
 held on the second Tuesday of April following the adoption 
 of this act. The mayor, aldermen and common councilmen 
 then elected shall meet in convention for the purpose of 
 taking the oath of their respective offices on the first Tues- 
 day of May next succeeding. All the city and ward officers 
 elected by the people in April shall hold their respective 
 offices until others are chosen and qualified in their stead. 
 
 [Approved July 3, 1873.] 
 
CITY CHARTER. 
 
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 AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF THE CHARTER OF 
 THE CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
 
 in General Court convened: 
 
 Section 1. There shall be elected in each ward, on the 
 first Tuesday after the first Monday in November next, by 
 major vote, and at each biennial state election thereafter, one 
 supervisor of check-lists, and the supervisors thus elected 
 shall constitute a joint board whose duty it shall be to 
 canvass each ward, at least twenty days preceding the 
 posting of the check-lists, as now prescribed by law, to ob- 
 tain as near as possible a list of the legal voters, from 
 which they shall make up an alphabetical list of all the legal 
 voters of each ward. Certified copies of said lists shall be 
 given into the hands of the selectmen of the several wards 
 seventeen days previous to every election, which copies 
 shall be posted by the selectmen as now required by 
 law. 
 
 Sect. 2. Said supervisors shall publish in the news- 
 papers of the city, at least fifteen days previous to every elec- 
 tion, a notice of the time and place of meeting for the cor- 
 rection of said check-lists, and also give notice of the same 
 on the aforesaid copies in the same manner as now provided 
 by law for selectmen, which meetings shall be: the first, not 
 less than five days previous to election (exclusive of Sunday), 
 and the last meeting on the day preceding every election 
 from the hours of two p. m. to six p. m., and from seven 
 p. m. to ten p. m. on each of said days, and no name shall 
 be added to said check-lists after the last meeting, except 
 such name as may have been left off through mistake ; and 
 not then unless the supervisor in attendance, in any ward 
 where such omission occurs, shall have positive knowledge 
 or information that said person has been a resident of the 
 city for the period of one year, and in the ward six 
 months. 
 
 Sect. 3. The several check-lists, as finally corrected by 
 the supervisors, shall be returned to the selectmen of their 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 respective wards before the hour of meeting, and shall be 
 used in voting at every election ; and the clerk of each ward 
 shall, within ten days after every election, leave said lists 
 with the city clerk to be preserved. 
 
 Sect. 4. Said supervisors shall meet and organize by 
 electing one of the board as chairman, said chairman select- 
 ing, with advice and consent of the other members, one of 
 their number to serve in each ward at all elections, said 
 supervisor to serve in another ward than the one in which 
 he was elected, or is a voter, whose duty it shall be to 
 decide all contested cases which may arise by reason of 
 omission as herein before mentioned. 
 
 Sect. 5. Said supervisors shall be commissioned by the 
 mayor to act as police officers which shall be for election 
 days only ; and they shall remain in attendance at the polls 
 during every election day, unless necessarily absent. 
 
 Sect. 6. Said supervisors shall have the same powers 
 and be entitled to the same protection by law, while in the 
 performance of their duties, as is now afforded to selectmen 
 while in attendance correcting the check-lists, or otherwise 
 in the performance of their duties, and may require the 
 presence of policemen to preserve order, if necessary. 
 
 Sect. 7. The mayor and board of aldermen shall have 
 power to fill any vacancy which may occur in the board 
 of supervisors. 
 
 Sect. 8. The chairman of the board of supervisors shall 
 select the ward canvassers, which shall be not less than 
 two for each ward. 
 
 Sect. 9. The mayor and board of aldermen shall fix the 
 compensation of the board of supervisors, which shall not 
 be over two dollars and fifty cents per day for actual service. 
 
 Sect. 10. The board of aldermen shall, on or before 
 the first day of October next, appoint five supervisors, one 
 from each ward, and the persons so appointed shall, upon 
 taking the oath of office by law prescribed, have and shall 
 possess and enjoy all the power vested by law to be 
 performed by such officers for the first meeting held for the 
 election of such supervisors, who shall perform all the duties 
 
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 thereof until others are elected in their places as provided 
 by section first of this amendment. 
 
 Sect. 11. Said board of supervisors shall, before enter- 
 ing upon the duties of their office, be sworn to the faithful 
 discharge of their duties. 
 
 Sect. 12. No member of the board of supervisors dur- 
 ing his term of office shall hold the office of selectman. 
 
 Sect. 13. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with 
 the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, and this act 
 shall take effect from its passage. 
 
 [Approved August 16, 1878.] 
 
 AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF THE CHARTER OF 
 THE CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
 in General Court convened : 
 
 Section 1. That section three of the charter of the city 
 of Keene, passed at June session, eighteen hundred and sev- 
 enty-eight, be stricken out, and that the following be insert- 
 ed in its place: “Sect. 3. The several check-lists, as finally 
 corrected by the supervisors, shall be given into the hands 
 of the selectmen of their respective wards before the hour of 
 meeting, and shall be used in voting at every election ; and 
 the clerk of each ward shall, immediately upon the closing 
 of the polls, pass said check-list into the hands of the super- 
 visor in attendance, who shall within ten days pass the 
 same into the hands of the city clerk, to be filed for preser- 
 vation.” 
 
 [Approved July 18, 1879.] 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF “AN ACT TO 
 ESTABLISH THE CITY OF KEENE.” 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
 
 in General Court convened: 
 
 Section 1. That said act to establish the city of Keene, 
 approved July 3, 1873, and adopted by vote of the town of 
 Keene, be and hereby is amended by striking out all provi- 
 sions therein relating to the election of “ assessors of taxes ” 
 and “overseers of the poor;” but nothing in this act shall 
 affect the rights and duties of the present incumbents of said 
 offices prior to the expiration of their several terms of office. 
 
 Sect. 2. The city councils being met in convention 
 upon the day appointed by ordinance, shall by joint ballot 
 and by major vote elect one or more overseers of the poor, 
 as may be prescribed by ordinance; and the city councils 
 shall provide by ordinance for the election of assessors of 
 taxes, agreeably to section 9 of chapter 47 of the General 
 Laws of New Hampshire. 
 
 Sect. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with 
 this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect 
 from its passage. 
 
 [Approved August 15, 1883.] 
 
CITY ORDINANCES* 
 
CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 REVISED MARCH 15, 1900. 
 
 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 In the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred. 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Councils of the city of Keene 
 as follows : — 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 ACCOUNTS, EXPENDITURES AND FINANCES. 
 
 Section 1. There shall be elected by the city councils 
 in joint convention, by ballot and major vote, immediately 
 after the passage of this ordinance, and at the beginning of 
 each municipal year thereafter, an auditor, to whom shall be 
 presented all claims and accounts against said city by the 
 person or persons to whom such claims or accounts are due, 
 or by some person duly authorized to act in his or their 
 behalf. The auditor shall sit for the transaction of business 
 in the office of the city clerk each Saturday between the 
 hours of two and five and seven and nine p. m., during the 
 year. He shall carefully examine all claims and accounts 
 against the city which are properly presented to him, except 
 salaries of city officers, claims authorized to be paid by the 
 mayor and aldermen or city councils, and judgments or 
 claims required by statute to be differently presented, unless 
 otherwise specially provided. All claims and accounts 
 arising from transactions with the various departments of the 
 city government shall be certified as correct by the proper 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 officer who authorized the liability to be incurred, before 
 they shall be acted upon by the auditor. He shall approve 
 and allow all claims presented as aforesaid which appear to 
 him to be unquestionably due and owing from the city, and 
 shall enter upon a book kept for that purpose in the office of 
 the city clerk, all claims and accounts by him allowed, 
 giving in each case the amount, the name of the party to 
 whom payable and the date upon which the same was 
 allowed. All doubtful and questionable claims presented to 
 him shall be by him so marked over his signature and 
 returned to the party presenting them, who may then submit 
 them to the board of mayor and aldermen for their con- 
 sideration. 
 
 Sect. 2. The city clerk shall, under the direction of 
 the board of mayor and aldermen, keep a book or ledger, in 
 which he shall enter the various appropriations made by the 
 city councils, each under its appropriate head, and charge to 
 each the different payments and expenditures which from 
 time to time shall be made therefrom, entering therein the 
 date and amount of every account and claim against the city 
 as finally corrected and allowed by said auditor or board of 
 mayor and aldermen and also the name of the person to 
 whom the same has been allowed, designating the fund or 
 appropriation from which the same shall be paid. Whenever 
 any appropriation shall be expended, the city clerk shall 
 immediately notify the mayor, the city councils, and the 
 auditor ; and the auditor or board of mayor and aldermen 
 shall not pass or allow any claim or account chargeable to 
 any head or appropriation which has been expended, until 
 the city councils shall have provided the means of paying 
 the same. Nor shall any officer of the city or committee 
 of the city councils have power to pledge the credit of the 
 city for any debts they may incur beyond the appropria- 
 tions set apart for the various departments unless thereto 
 specially authorized by vote of the city councils. The 
 city clerk shall also open an account with the city treas- 
 urer, charging him with the amount of loans to the 
 city, and all sums of money paid to him in behalf of said 
 
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 city by the collector or other officers or agents of the city, or 
 by any person in any way indebted to the city, and also with 
 all bonds, notes, mortgages, or other securities in the hands 
 of the treasurer, or which may pass into his hands, belong- 
 ing to the city, to the end that the amount and value thereof 
 may at any time be seen on his books. 
 
 Sect. 3. The city clerk shall certify the amount of 
 salary due all officers of the city when requested so to do, 
 and that claims authorized to be paid by vote of the mayor 
 and aldermen or city councils are drawn in accordance with 
 the vote authorizing the same ; and he shall enter all such 
 claims upon the book which he is required to keep as 
 directed, in the same manner as he enters claims passed 
 upon by said auditor or board of mayor and aldermen. 
 
 Sect. 4. No money shall be drawn out of the city 
 treasury except upon the written order of the mayor, 
 addressed to the treasurer, payable to order, and counter- 
 signed by the city clerk, and numbered so as to correspond 
 with the account or claim it shall be drawn to pay, provided, 
 however, that the city clerk may disburse to the employes, 
 taking their receipt therefor, the amount of orders so drawn 
 upon the treasury for pay-rolls allowed to said employes in 
 any department. 
 
 Sect. 5. The mayor is hereby authorized to draw 
 orders on the treasurer for the payment of all accounts or 
 claims allowed and certified by the auditor or board of 
 mayor and aldermen as herein before provided, but the 
 mayor shall not draw an order in payment for any services 
 rendered, or any materials furnished for any department, 
 beyond the sum specially appropriated therefor by the city 
 councils. 
 
 Sect. 6. Any sum of money which shall have been 
 specially appropriated for the payment of principal or 
 interest due on any note or other security of the city, or of 
 the state and county taxes, may be drawn from the treasury 
 and paid by the order of the mayor for the purpose for which 
 it was appropriated without any action on the part of the 
 auditor or board of mayor and aldermen ; and whenever it 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 shall be necessary to pay money in advance on contracts 
 made, or for work begun, but not completed, the mayor, 
 upon being satisfied of such necessity, may draw his order 
 on the treasurer for a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars 
 at any one time, taking security therefor. 
 
 Sect. 7. Whenever any money shall be drawn from 
 the treasury for the purpose specified in the preceding 
 section, the city clerk shall report the same and the amount 
 thereof to the board of mayor and aldermen at their next 
 meeting, and shall charge the same under the appropriate 
 head of expenditures. 
 
 Sect. 8. All city officers who shall in their official 
 capacity receive any money on behalf of the city, shall, 
 unless otherwise ordered, pay to the treasurer the amount in 
 their hands at the close of each month, oroftener if required, 
 and report the same to the board of mayor and aldermen 
 monthly, except the collector of taxes, who shall make such 
 payment daily whenever the sum in his hands shall amount 
 to two hundred dollars; and shall make settlements with the 
 city treasurer at such times as the treasurer may request. 
 All other persons who shall at any time have money in their 
 hands belonging to the city, shall forthwith pay the same 
 to the treasurer. 
 
 Sect. 9. In all cases of the payment of money to the 
 city treasurer, he shall give his receipt for the amount to the 
 person paying the same, which receipt shall be delivered by 
 such person to the city clerk and filed in his office, and the 
 city clerk shall give to the person paying, a certificate as 
 evidence of such payment. All city officers and agents 
 receiving money in behalf of said city, shall deliver to the 
 city clerk, once a month, a report in detail of the amount 
 received, and what disposition has been made thereof, 
 except in cases otherwise provided. 
 
 Sect. 10. The city treasurer shall, under the direction 
 of the board of mayor and aldermen, keep in a book pro- 
 vided for that purpose, an accurate and true account of all 
 his receipts and payments on behalf of the city, making the 
 same conform in mode of entry as nearly as may be with the 
 
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 accounts kept by the city clerk. He shall not pay any 
 money out of the treasury except upon orders of the mayor 
 drawn in the form prescribed in the fourth section. He 
 shall, once in six months, and oftener if required, lay before 
 the city councils a statement of the condition of the treasury, 
 and all moneys received and paid by him on city account 
 during the preceding six months. 
 
 Sect. 11. There shall be appointed, at the commence- 
 ment of each municipal year, a joint committee on finance, 
 consisting of the mayor, one member of the board of aider- 
 men, and two members of the common council, which com- 
 mittee shall negotiate all loans to the city which shall be 
 authorized by the city councils, and shall report the amounts 
 to the city treasurer. 
 
 Sect. 12. The committee on finance shall annually, in 
 the month of December, prepare and lay before the city 
 councils an estimate of the amount of money necessary to be 
 raised for the ensuing financial year, under the various 
 heads of appropriations and the various means for raising 
 the same, and shall also prepare and lay before the city 
 councils a statement of all receipts and expenditures of the 
 preceding financial year, giving in detail the amount of 
 appropriation and expenditure for each department; and 
 said statement shall be accompanied with a schedule of 
 property, real and personal, belonging to the city, and the 
 value thereof, and the amount of the city debts. 
 
 Sect. 13. The committee on finance shall, at the close 
 of each financial year, and as much oftener as they shall 
 deem it expedient, examine and audit the accounts of the 
 city treasurer, and for that purpose shall have access to all 
 the books and vouchers in his possession or in possession of 
 the city clerk or any other officer of the city. Said committee 
 shall not only compare said accounts with the vouchers 
 thereof, but shall ascertain whether all moneys due the city 
 have been collected and accounted for. They shall also 
 examine all bonds, notes and securities in his hands belong- 
 ing to the city, and make report thereof to the city 
 councils. 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 Sect. 14. The city treasurer shall make up his accounts 
 to the first day of December, and the financial year shall 
 begin and end on the first day of December, in each year. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 CITY MARSHAL AND POLICE. 
 
 Section 1. The mayor and aldermen shall, at the com- 
 mencement of every municipal year, appoint a city marshal, 
 who shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take, 
 before the mayor and aldermen, the oaths prescribed bylaw, 
 and shall give bond in the sum of three hundred dollars, 
 with sureties to be approved by the mayor and aldermen, 
 for the faithful performance of the duties of said office. 
 
 Sect. 2. The city marshal shall at all times have com- 
 mand over the police officers of the city when acting together 
 in the same service or when directed by the mayor. They 
 shall aid and assist the city marshal in executing the duties 
 of his office when requested by him, or directed by the 
 mayor so to do. But when the city marshal shall not be 
 present, said officers shall have power to act in his stead, 
 taking precedence in the order of their appointment. Said 
 marshal shall have command over the constables of the city 
 when needed for police duty. 
 
 Sect. 3. The city marshal shall perform the duties of a 
 policeman day and evening, and devote his whole time to 
 the police service, and shall, from time to time, pass through 
 the streets and highways of the city, and take notice of all 
 nuisances, obstructions and impediments therein, and on 
 the sidewalks thereof, and cause the same to be forthwith 
 removed, and the authors thereof to be prosecuted according 
 to law. He shall observe all defects and wants of the high- 
 ways and streets, and give immediate notice thereof to the 
 mayor and aldermen, to the end that the same may be 
 amended. He shall, to the utmost of his ability, preserve 
 the public peace, and prevent all riots, disorders and unlaw- 
 ful practices within the city. He shall carry into execution 
 
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 within the city the laws of the state and all the ordinances 
 of the city, and be vigilant to detect and bring to punish- 
 ment all violation thereof. He shall obey and execute all 
 the commands of the mayor and aldermen, relating to the 
 interest or security of the city. He shall receive all com- 
 plaints made to him of any violation of the laws, or any 
 ordinances of the city, and shall, in behalf of the city, 
 cause all offenders against such laws and ordinances to be 
 promptly prosecuted before the police court of the city of 
 Keene, and shall attend, on behalf of the city, at their trials. 
 He shall lay before the mayor and aldermen, once in three 
 months, and oftener if required, a statement of all offences 
 against the laws of the state, and the ordinances of the 
 city, which have come to his knowledge, of all prosecutions 
 instituted by him in behalf of the city, and the result of 
 the same. 
 
 Sect. 4. The marshal shall, under the authority and 
 control of the mayor and aldermen, carry into execution all 
 rules and ordinances which shall, from time to time, be 
 made by the city councils relative to the causes of sickness, 
 nuisances, and sources of filth, which may affect injuriously 
 the health or comfort of the inhabitants ; and shall cause 
 all such nuisances, sources of filth and causes of sickness 
 to be immediately removed, destroyed, or prevented, con- 
 formably to such ordinances and the laws of the state. 
 
 Sect. 5. The marshal shall execute and carry into 
 effect all ordinances which shall, from time to time, be made 
 by the city councils to prevent unlawful and injurious 
 practices in the streets and other public places in the city. 
 
 Sect. 6. The marshal shall, in case of fire, repair 
 immediately to the place where the fire may be, and 
 attend diligently to the preservation of the public peace, 
 and the prevention of thefts, and loss or destruction of 
 property. 
 
 Sect. 7. The mayor and aldermen may appoint such 
 number of police officers as they may deem necessary, by 
 writing under their hands. Said officers may be appointed 
 at any time during the year, may be removed at the 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 pleasure of the mayor and aldermen, shall hold their 
 offices, unless removed, until the first Tuesday of January 
 next succeeding, and shall each render to the city marshal 
 every month an account of their services, and of the time 
 spent in the discharge of their official duties. The mayor 
 and aldermen may, whenever they shall deem it expedient, 
 number the police officers, and each police officer shall, 
 when on duty, wear the number designated upon his badge. 
 
 Sect. 8. If the city marshal shall receive any sum of 
 money for any services rendered, or act done, by virtue of 
 his office, he shall pay over the same to the city treasurer 
 monthly, with all sums received of the police officers, and 
 shall, at the same time, deliver to the city clerk an account 
 in detail of the different sources from which such money 
 was received. 
 
 Sect. 9. The city marshal shall, under the direction of 
 the mayor and aldermen, from time to time, when in their 
 judgment the public good requires the same, detail one or 
 more of the police officers to act as a night-watch. Said 
 city marshal shall be captain of the watch, and shall obey 
 and execute all rules and orders made and given him in 
 charge in that behalf by the mayor and aldermen. When 
 on the watch, he shall pass in and about the streets and 
 principal inhabited places of the city, to prevent danger by 
 fire, and to see that order is kept, and that all disturbances 
 and disorders are prevented and suppressed ; and, for that 
 purpose, he, as well as any of the watch, shall have 
 authority to examine all persons whom they shall see 
 walking abroad in the night after ten o’clock, and whom 
 they shall have reason to suspect of any unlawful design, 
 and to demand of them their business abroad at such time, 
 and whither they are going ; to enter any house of ill-fame, 
 dram-shop, cellar, or other building, for the purpose of 
 suppressing any riot or disturbance therein, and to arrest 
 any person there found making, or abetting, such riot or 
 disturbance; and all persons so walking abroad and sus- 
 pected of any unlawful design as aforesaid, who shall not 
 give a satisfactory account of their being so abroad, and 
 
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 of their business, and all persons so arrested in such house 
 of ill-fame, dram-shop, cellar, or other building, shall be 
 secured by imprisonment, or otherwise, to be safely kept 
 until the next morning, and shall then be taken before the 
 police court, to be examined and proceeded with according 
 to the nature of their offences. 
 
 Sect. 10. The mayor and aldermen may by vote at 
 any time remove from office the city marshal and appoint 
 a successor. They may also, in case of the death or resig- 
 nation of said officer, or in case a vacancy shall occur in 
 any other way, appoint another in his place. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 ROAD COMMISSIONERS. SUPERINTENDENT OF HIGHWAYS. 
 
 Section 1. The city councils shall, in the month of 
 January, 1900, in convention and by joint ballot, elect three 
 road commissioners, to hold office, one for one year, one 
 for two years, and one for three years from the first Tues- 
 day of said January and until others are chosen in their 
 stead, and annually thereafter shall in the month of Jan- 
 uary, in the same manner, elect one road commissioner, to 
 hold office for three years from the first Tuesday of said 
 January and until another is chosen in his stead. When- 
 ever a vacancy shall occur by resignation or otherwise, the 
 city councils shall in the same manner elect a member of 
 said board of road commissioners for the unexpired term. 
 Any member of said board may at any time be removed 
 for cause by the city councils acting in convention and by 
 joint ballot. 
 
 Sect. 2. Said commissioners shall constitute a board of 
 road commissioners and shall choose from their number a 
 president and clerk, and shall make all such rules and 
 regulations for their government as they may deem con- 
 venient. 
 
 Sect. 3. Said commissioners shall receive in full for 
 their services and all the duties appertaining to their office, 
 
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 the sum of twenty-five dollars each, per year, payable in 
 equal semi-annual installments. 
 
 Sect. 4. Said board of road commissioners shall have 
 the general charge and management of all the highways, 
 streets, lanes, sidewalks, and bridges of the city, and the 
 construction, repair and alteration thereof, and the full 
 power to direct the superintendent of streets in the dis- 
 charge of his duties. 
 
 Sect. 5. Said board shall on or before the first day of 
 December of each year make a written report of its doings 
 to the city councils together with such recommendations 
 as it may deem advisable for the best interests of the city, 
 and shall transmit to the city councils at the same time, 
 the report of the superintendent of streets. 
 
 Sect. 6 . The board shall judiciously expend such sums 
 of money, if necessary, as may be appropriated by the city 
 councils for highways, expending the different appropria- 
 tions for the purposes designated by the city councils and 
 not otherwise, and shall approve all bills for labor and 
 materials incurred in their department. The board shall 
 have no power to create any debt against the city for any 
 purpose in excess of the appropriation therefor. 
 
 Sect. 7. The city councils shall in the month of Janu- 
 ary of each year, and also whenever any vacancy shall 
 occur by resignation or otherwise, elect a superintendent 
 of highways, in convention and by joint ballot, to hold his 
 office until the first Tuesday of January next succeeding 
 his election and until another is chosen in his stead unless 
 removed by the city councils. 
 
 Sect. 8. The superintendent of highways, under the 
 control and direction of the board of road commissioners, 
 shall have the immediate care and supervision of the said 
 highways, streets, lanes, sidewalks and bridges and shall 
 do all such things in the construction, repair and altera- 
 tion thereof as he may be directed to do by the said board. 
 He shall, under said direction and control, cause the same 
 to be kept in repair so as to be safe and convenient for 
 travelers, with their horses, teams and carriages, at all 
 
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 seasons of the year; make all necessary contracts and 
 certify to said commissioners accounts for the supply of 
 any labor or materials he may require in the discharge of 
 his official duty and expend all such sums of money as he 
 may be directed to do by said board. He shall each week 
 file in the office of the city clerk an approved pay roll, 
 setting forth the names of all persons hired, the length of 
 time each has been employed and the amount of compen- 
 sation. He shall also state the localities in which work 
 has been done during the week. He shall have charge of 
 the teams, tools and paraphernalia of the highway depart- 
 ment, and shall see that the same are kept in suitable 
 repair and are properly housed. 
 
 Sect. 9. Whenever any highway or bridge or street of 
 the city shall, from want of necessary repairs or by reason 
 of any alteration or repairs being made, or of any drain, 
 common sewer or culvert being open or constructed across 
 or through the same, be unsafe . or inconvenient for travel- 
 ers or passengers, said superintendent shall forthwith put 
 up a suitable fence across such highway, street or bridge, 
 and exclude all travelers from passing over the same; or 
 cause the part thereof so rendered unsafe or inconvenient 
 as aforesaid to be enclosed by a sufficient fence, which shall 
 be kept standing so long as the same shall remain unsafe 
 or inconvenient; and he shall also fix one or more lighted 
 lanterns to said fence, to be kept there every night from 
 twilight in the evening and through the whole night so 
 long as said fence shall be kept standing. 
 
 Sect. 10. Said superintendent shall, under the direction 
 of the joint standing committee on lands and buildings, 
 rent the city pasture, collect the income and deposit the 
 same with the city treasurer, attend to the building or re- 
 pairs of fences, and all other matters necessary for the* 
 preservation and proper management of the property, and 
 at the end of the year report to the board of mayor and 
 aldermen the receipts and expenditures of said city pasture. 
 
 Sect. 11. Said superintendent shall, at all times subject 
 to any order of the mayor, when requested by the superin- 
 
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 tendent of water works and sewers, aid and furnish men 
 and teams to perform any unusual and necessary work in 
 that department. 
 
 Sect. 12. The superintendent shall annually on or before 
 the first day of December make a written report of his doings 
 to the said board of road commissioners, which shall include 
 an inventory of all the property of the city in his custody 
 and control. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
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 PUBLIC LIGHTS AND LAMPS. 
 
 The joint standing committee on street lights shall 
 change the existing gas, gasoline and arc electric lights 
 wherever such change will be advantageous to the public, 
 under the direction and control of the board of mayor 
 and aldermen, and shall make such further changes as may 
 be ordered by said board. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 WATER WORKS, SEWERS AND DRAINS. 
 
 Section 1. The general management of the water 
 works, sewers and drains shall be vested in a board of 
 three commissioners, to be elected by the city councils, one 
 of which board shall be elected annually in the month of 
 May to serve for the term of three years from the first day 
 of June next thereafter. Said commissioners shall elect a 
 president and clerk of said board, and may make such rules 
 and regulations for their own government, and in relation 
 to all officers appointed by them, as they may deem expe- 
 dient. Said commissioners may be removed at any time 
 by the city councils. 
 
 Sect. 2. The board of commissioners, so constituted 
 and organized, shall have and exercise all the powers vested 
 in the city of Keene by an act of the legislature approved 
 July 3, 1873, entitled, “An act to establish the city of 
 
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 Keene,” so far as the same shall be delegated to them by 
 the city councils ; but all their powers shall be subject to 
 any limitations and restrictions contained in the ordinances, 
 regulations and orders of the city councils. 
 
 Sect. 3. The board of commissioners shall, on or 
 before the first day of December in each year, present to the 
 city councils a report containing a statement of the condi- 
 tion of the water works, and of the lands and other prop- 
 erty connected therewith, and of the sewers and drains, 
 with an account of all receipts and expenditures, together 
 with any information or suggestions which they may deem 
 important; and they shall, at the same time, transmit to 
 the city councils the report of the superintendent. 
 
 Sect. 4. The board of commissioners shall have full 
 power to make all necessary repairs or improvements on 
 said water works, sewers and drains, and to procure new 
 water supply pipes, sewer pipes and all other materials 
 necessary therefor; all hydrants, sewer mains and flush 
 tanks and drains established by the city shall be constructed 
 and kept in thorough repair by said board ; but said board 
 shall have no power to expend any money on extensions, 
 either of water mains, sewers or drains, unless by order of 
 the board of mayor and aldermen. 
 
 Sect. 5. The board of commissioners is authorized to 
 determine and establish, from time to time, a tariff of water 
 rates, and to enter into special contracts with individuals 
 or corporations for the supply of water for a term not 
 exceeding one year; and it shall be the duty of the super- 
 intendent, under the direction of the board, to visit, once 
 at least in each year, the premises of every water taker, 
 and to exercise a constant supervision over the use of the 
 water. 
 
 Sect. 6. The board of commissioners shall, at least 
 once in three months, audit the accounts of the city collector 
 so far as they relate to the collection and deposit of water 
 assessments, and semi-annually certify to the accuracy of 
 his books and vouchers. They may also make abatements 
 in water rents in all proper cases. 
 
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 Sect. 7. No member of the board of commissioners, or 
 of the city councils, and no person appointed to any office, 
 or employed by virtue of this ordinance, shall be interested, 
 directly or indirectly, in any contract, bargain, sale or 
 agreement, except for the use of water, in relation to the 
 water works, sewers, or drains, or any matter or thing 
 connected therewith wherein the city is interested ; and all 
 contracts, bargains, sales or agreements made in violation 
 of this section shall be utterly void as to the city. 
 
 Sect. 8. It shall be the duty of the board of commis- 
 sioners to keep in the office of the superintendent, a chart 
 or plan upon which shall be represented the highways, 
 streets, and places in and through which the pipes of said 
 water works are laid, and upon which shall be designated, 
 by appropriate figures and characters, the exact length of 
 the pipes, the precise location in such highways, streets, or 
 places of each pipe, hydrant, gate or point of junction of 
 the service pipe; and whenever any extension of the main 
 pipes shall be made, or additions or changes of, or in, 
 hydrants, gates, or service pipes, the same shall be, from 
 time to time, accurately designated upon said chart or 
 plan. They shall also keep in said office a similar detailed 
 plan of all sewers and drains and the connections therewith, 
 and of all Ys, Ts, hand-holes, man-holes, flush tanks, or 
 branches upon the mains. 
 
 Sect. 9. The board of commissioners is authorized to 
 make all such regulations in regard to the use of the water 
 and of the service pipes, and for the protection of the main 
 pipes and other property appertaining to the water works 
 and sewers, as they may deem reasonable and proper. 
 
 Sect. 10. The immediate care and supervision of the 
 water works, sewers and drains shall be vested in a super- 
 intendent, who shall be elected by the city councils in joint 
 convention, whenever a vacancy in said office may exist, 
 and shall hold his office until the first Tuesday of January 
 next succeeding, or until another shall be qualified in his 
 stead; but said superintendent may be removed at any 
 time by the city councils. 
 
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 Sect. 11. The superintendent shall take charge of the 
 reservoirs, aqueduct, lands and other property connected 
 with the water works, and of the sewers and drains, as 
 the board of commissioners may, from time to time, direct, 
 and shall perform all such services in relation thereto as may 
 be required of him by said board, or the city councils ; and 
 he shall annually, on or before the first day of December, 
 present to the board a report of the general condition of 
 the works ; also, a statement of the expenditures, the number 
 of water takers, the number of sewer connections, the num- 
 ber of cases in which the water has been cut off, and such 
 other matters as he or the board of commissioners may 
 deem expedient. 
 
 Sect. 12. The superintendent shall, before the twen- 
 tieth of May and the twentieth of November, each year, 
 make out a list of the water takers and the amount of the 
 assessment against each, and shall also make an itemized 
 bill of said assessment for each taker in duplicate, and 
 before the first day of June and December next following, 
 shall deliver to the collector of taxes and water assessments 
 said list and said bills, and retain the duplicate bills in his 
 office. He shall in like manner make assessments against 
 those who become takers between said dates, and deliver 
 the same to said collector. 
 
 Sect. 13. The superintendent shall keep suitable books, 
 in which shall be entered the names of all persons who 
 take water, the kind of building, the name of the street, 
 the nature of the use, the number of takers, the amount 
 charged and amount of abatements as reported to him by 
 the commissioners, which shall always be open to the 
 inspection of the commissioners and any committee of the 
 city councils. 
 
 Sect. 14. All bills for expenditures for the water works, 
 sewers or drains shall, before they are presented to the 
 auditor, be approved by the board of commissioners, if 
 contracted in making extensions, and by the superintendent 
 if incurred in making repairs. 
 
 Sect. 15. All moneys received on account of the water 
 
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 works shall be paid weekly, or oftener, into the city treas- 
 ury, and a receipt shall be taken for the same; and all 
 moneys paid into the treasury on account of said works 
 shall be placed to the credit of the water works, which 
 credits shall be treated as an appropriation for the payment 
 of the interest upon the water debt, the ordinary expenses 
 of the water works and sewer department, and whatever 
 balance shall remain at the expiration of the fiscal year 
 shall be passed to the general fund, excepting five hundred 
 dollars for contingent expenses, and shall not be paid out 
 except under the provisions of chapter I, section 4. 
 
 Sect. 16. The rent for use of water shall be payable 
 semi-annually in advance, on the first days of June and 
 December in each year, except meter rates, which shall be 
 due monthly, or otherwise, as ordered by the board of 
 water commissioners. All charges for specific supplies, or 
 for fractional parts of a year, shall be payable in advance 
 and before the water is let on. The superintendent shall 
 notify all water takers who are in arrears one assessment 
 that immediate payment is necessary ; and if such payment 
 is not made within thirty days after such notice is given, 
 the superintendent shall then immediately shut off the water 
 from the premises occupied by such persons until the assess- 
 ment is paid in full, with an additional charge of one dollar 
 to cover expenses. 
 
 Sect. 17. The water, sewer and drain department shall 
 make all water and sewer connections and furnish and lay 
 all pipe and other materials for the same, to the street line, 
 for the following fees: 
 
 For each house drain to street line, $9 00 
 
 For each %-inch connection and pipe to street line, 9 00 
 
 For each %-inch connection and 1-inch pipe to 
 
 street line, 9 50 
 
 For each 1-inch connection and 1-inch pipe to 
 
 street line, 10 00 
 
 For each 1-inch connection and 114-inch pipe to 
 street line, 
 
 11 00 
 
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 For each l^-inch connection and 1^4-inch pipe to 
 
 street line, $12 00 
 
 In no case shall the water be turned on or the soil pipe 
 used until the fees aforesaid have been paid. 
 
 Sect. 18. I. There shall be a board of examiners of 
 plumbers who shall be appointed, and whose duties shall 
 be as prescribed by law. Said board shall consist of the 
 number required by law and shall hold their office for one 
 year or until their successors are appointed. Vacancies 
 happening in said board for any reason shall forthwith be 
 filled for the remainder of the term. Whenever any person, 
 firm or corporation registered at the office of said board 
 of examiners as required by law shall change his or its 
 place of business, said person, firm or corporation shall 
 forthwith send to said office a written notice of such change 
 and of his or its new place of business. 
 
 II. There shall also be an inspector of plumbing who 
 shall be appointed by the board of mayor and aldermen, 
 shall hold his office for one year or until his successor is 
 appointed and who shall inspect all plumbing work for 
 which permits are granted, in process of construction, 
 alteration or repair, at any and all times, and perform 
 such other duties as are herein or may be hereafter pre- 
 scribed and required by law or ordinance. 
 
 Sect. 19. I. On every street provided with a common 
 sewer, the sewage from each building shall be conducted 
 into the common sewer and no privy vault or cesspool will 
 be permitted on any premises situated on such street unless 
 upon permission of the board of health in writing. 
 
 II. No fixture by and through which waste water or 
 sewage is used and carried, shall be placed in any building 
 in the city of Keene, except in accordance with plans which 
 shall be approved by the inspector or such person as said 
 inspector may designate ; nor shall any plumbing work be 
 done in said city except in case of repair of leaks without 
 a permit being first issued therefor, as hereinafter provided. 
 
 III. The inspector shall issue permits to do plumbing 
 work as herein provided; before any such permit shall be 
 
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 issued the applicant shall file in the office of said inspector 
 plans and specifications of the plumbing and drainage 
 system wherein the work is proposed to be done, showing 
 in such detail as the inspector shall require the pipes, 
 tanks, faucets, valves and other fixtures intended to be 
 placed in said building, and no permit shall be issued until 
 such plans and specifications shall have been approved by 
 the inspector or by such person as the inspector may 
 designate, for that purpose. 
 
 Every permit shall be issued and accepted upon the 
 condition that it may be revoked at any time by the 
 inspector ; that the firm or corporation to whom the 
 permit is issued shall conform to the statutes of the state 
 and the ordinances and regulations of the city of Keene, 
 and said plans and specifications, and shall indemnify and 
 save harmless the said city of Keene from any damage it 
 may sustain, or be required to pay by reason of doing the 
 work permitted, or by reason of any act or neglect of 
 himself, or any of his employes, relating to such work, or 
 by reason of any violation of any specification in such 
 permit. 
 
 No person after receiving a permit shall commence any 
 portion of the work thereby authorized at an earlier date 
 than that named in the application for such permit with- 
 out first notifying the inspector in writing, and all work 
 shall be done in a thorough, skillful and workmanlike 
 manner. The plan and specification stated in the applica- 
 tion shall be approved or rejected within five days of the 
 time of filing, and such plans once approved, shall not be 
 altered except by written permission from the inspector. 
 
 Blank specifications will be furnished to architects, 
 plumbers and others, on application at the office of the 
 inspector. 
 
 IV. Notification. The plumber in charge of the work 
 shall notify the inspector of plumbing when the main 
 drain, soil, waste or ventilating pipes are in place and 
 before any fixtures are attached, and said plumber shall 
 again notify said inspector when the work is completed 
 
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 and ready for final inspection, and all work must be left 
 uncovered and convenient for examination until inspected 
 and approved by the inspector of plumbing. 
 
 No drainage system shall be considered approved until 
 a certificate of approval has been granted by said in- 
 spector. 
 
 All plumbing work shall be tested in such manner and 
 on such notice as the inspector may order. If the work 
 does not stand the test, and the same is not remedied 
 within ten days, the water shall be turned off by order of 
 the inspector or his agent, and not let on again until the 
 plumbing has been pronounced satisfactory by the 
 inspector. 
 
 V. Materials. Every soil, waste or ventilating pipe 
 above the gfound or inside or under the building shall be 
 of metal. Soil pipe shall be of iron, sound, free from sand 
 holes, of a uniform thickness r and four inches in diameter, 
 and waste pipe shall be of iron, lead or brass. The portion 
 of the main drain within the house walls and through to 
 two feet outside the cellar wall, shall be of iron, and shall 
 pass through the walls two inches clear of masonry on the 
 top of both sides, to avoid injury by settlement. Beyond 
 this point it shall be of extra heavy iron pipe or vitrified 
 earthen pipe of suitable size, with a fall of at least one- 
 quarter inch to the foot. 
 
 VI. Joints and Connections. The inspector shall have 
 authority to make such rules and requirements as he may 
 deem suitable for the materials and manner of construction 
 of all joints, connections with soil or other pipes and 
 changes in the direction of pipes. No saddle hub will be 
 allowed on any plumbing except when permitted by the 
 inspector. 
 
 VII. Water Closets. Water closet apartments shall be 
 well ventilated and lighted. All water closets shall be 
 furnished with a sufficient supply of water to keep them at 
 all times clean and well flushed, and shall be supplied from 
 a special tank, which shall not hold less than five gallons 
 of water for each closet which it supplies. 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 VIII. Traps. Each fixture shall have an effectual trap 
 as close to it as practical and approved by the inspector. 
 
 IX. Safes, Overflows and Refrigerators. Waste pipes 
 from safes, and refrigerators, and overflow pipes, from tanks 
 or cisterns shall empty over sink, trapped gully or other- 
 wise as may be approved, but shall not connect directly 
 with the drainage system. No steam exhaust, blow-off, 
 drip pipe or cellar drain or rain water conductor shall 
 connect with the sewer, or with any house drain, soil pipe 
 or waste pipe. 
 
 X. Cleanouts. Suitable cleanouts shall be provided on 
 all runs of horizontal pipes, at such intervals as the inspec- 
 tor may order; a cleanout shall be provided in the main 
 drain near the cellar wall by means of a Y branch, said 
 cleanout to be calked with the straight end of the Y branch. 
 
 Ventilation. Soil pipes shall be continued full bore up 
 through the roof in as direct line as possible. All branches 
 of ten feet or more in length shall be continued at full size 
 through the roof or be taken into the soil pipe above the 
 highest fixture. Any branch less than four inches in diam- 
 eter to be carried through the roof, shall, before passing 
 through the roof be enlarged to four inches in diameter. 
 All pipes when carried through the roof shall extend two 
 feet above the roof, and when within fifteen feet of windows 
 or other openings shall extend as high above the top of 
 said windows or opening as the inspector shall require. 
 No cap except a wire basket shall be fixed to the top of a 
 vent pipe. 
 
 When ventilation pipes other than the continuations of 
 the soil pipe or branches thereof, are put in, they shall be 
 subject to such rules as the inspector may prescribe, as to 
 their size, material and construction and shall be so con- 
 structed as not to allow the formation of a trap and shall 
 not be used as waste pipes. No soil, waste or ventilating 
 pipe, except a local vent pipe, shall be connected with a 
 chimney. No brick, earthemware or sheet metal pipes shall 
 be used for ventilating a soil or waste pipe. 
 
 XI. Arrangements. Soil, drain, waste and ventilating 
 
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 pipes shall be concentrated as much as possible, and on the 
 completion of the work shall be left readily accessible and 
 in view as much as possible. 
 
 Drain, soil, waste and ventilating pipes should be exposed 
 to view for ready inspection at all times, and for conven- 
 ience in repairing. When necessarily placed within partitions 
 or recesses in walls, soil or waste pipes shall be covered 
 with woodwork so fashioned with screws as to be readily 
 removed. In no case shall they be absolutely inaccessible. 
 Any house drain put in and covered over without due notice 
 to the inspector must be uncovered for inspection at the 
 request or direction of said inspector. 
 
 XII. Workmanship. The whole drainage and plumbing 
 work in buildings, shall be executed by registered or 
 licensed plumbers. 
 
 XIII. Lead and cast iron pipes shall be of such weight 
 per foot as the inspector may deem necessary and he may 
 order extra heavy pipe to be used in such places as in his 
 judgment it is required. He shall also make rules for the 
 material, size and number of supports, hangers and clamps 
 for pipes. 
 
 XIV. Every kitchen sink of an eating house, hotel, 
 restaurant, or other public cooking establishment, shall 
 have a grease trap placed as near as practicable to the 
 sink and easily accessible for cleaning. 
 
 XV. Old house sewers or drains can be used for new 
 houses only when found by an inspector to conform in all 
 respects to the foregoing regulations governing new sew- 
 ers and drains. All drains now in, as well as soil and 
 waste pipes, shall be reconstructed whenever in the opinion 
 of the inspector it may be necessary. 
 
 Cesspools. Every building upon a street or passageway 
 not provided with a public sewer shall be connected, when 
 required by the board of health, with a proper cesspool 
 with a capacity to contain at least seventy-five cubic feet 
 below the inlet pipe, and located at least twenty feet from 
 any building and three feet from adjoining property, and 
 shall be suitably vented, and no cesspool or vault shall be 
 
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 constructed without a permit obtained from the board of 
 health. In such houses the sink shall be provided with a 
 four-inch round trap, where a sink only is used. Where a 
 water closet is used, the plumbing in such house shall con- 
 form to the ordinances relating to plumbing in the city 
 of Keene. 
 
 Sect. 20. All stop boxes placed in highways of this 
 city, with the upper end at the surface of the street, shall 
 be covered with a suitable iron cover with a drop flange 
 to properly fit the inside of said boxes, of not less than 
 five inches in depth, the whole to be of such weight and 
 construction as not to be displaced by the passage over 
 them of animals or carriages. All gas and water boxes, 
 sewer manholes and flush tanks, with covers designed to 
 be at the surface of the public highways of this city, which 
 may have been thrown up by the frost, or from which the 
 gravel has been worn away, shall be at once brought to 
 grade, either by the replacing of gravel, or by the sinking 
 or shortening of such boxes, and kept in such relation to 
 the streets at all seasons of the year; and it shall be the 
 duty of the commissioners to see that the boxes and covers, 
 whether belonging to the city or individuals, in the public 
 highways of Keene, are made to conform to the require- 
 ments of this ordinance, and kept in such condition. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 CEMETERIES. 
 
 Section 1. The joint standing committee on burial 
 grounds shall have the general care and superintendence of 
 all public cemeteries in the city of Keene. Said committee 
 shall have full power to direct the superintendent in the 
 discharge of all the duties of his office. They shall, with 
 the superintendent, appraise the lots in all the cemeteries 
 that are unsold, and have the price marked upon a plan 
 that shall be kept in the custody of the superintendent. 
 
 Sect. 2. All grades and improvements of avenues, 
 
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 pathways or grounds of said cemeteries, shall be under the 
 direction of the committee and superintendent, who shall 
 also have power to enforce all the laws of the state in 
 relation to cemeteries. 
 
 Sect. 3. In the month of January, annually, or when- 
 ever a vacancy shall occur, there shall be chosen by the 
 city councils in joint convention, a superintendent of public 
 cemeteries, who, in addition to the duties before prescribed 
 in this ordinance shall perform the duties of sexton. He 
 shall dispose of vacant lots at their appraisal, by deed 
 signed by the mayor under the corporate seal of the city; 
 but in no instance shall possession, or a deed for a lot, 
 be given until the whole amount of the appraisal is paid 
 or satisfactory security given for payment. If payment is 
 not made within ninety days after the selection of a lot by 
 a purchaser, the lot shall be subject to sale or re-appraisal 
 as other unsold lots. He shall see that all cemeteries are 
 kept properly inclosed and in a neat and orderly condition. 
 He shall see that all lots for the care of which special funds 
 are held in trust by the city, are kept in as good condition 
 as the interest upon such funds will permit. He shall do 
 such work upon any given lot as he may be paid for doing, 
 by any one interested therein. He shall superintend and 
 execute such improvements and labor upon the cemeteries 
 as the said committee may order. He shall have the power 
 under the direction of said committee to employ all such 
 labor as may be necessary in the discharge of his duties, 
 and shall file each week in the office of the city clerk a pay- 
 roll for the preceding week, approved by said superintendent, 
 setting forth the names of all persons hired, the length of 
 time each has been employed and the amount of the com- 
 pensation of each employe. He shall collect and receive 
 all moneys pertaining to his office as superintendent and 
 sexton, or paid by individuals for special work, and shall 
 deposit the same with the city treasurer, on the last day of 
 each month, taking his receipt therefor, which shall be 
 treated as a fund for the payment of all bills which may be 
 authorized by said superintendent on account of the ceme- 
 
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 teries. He shall pay no bills of any kind. Under the direc- 
 tion of said committee he shall have the power to contract 
 for such materials and supplies as it may order, and all bills 
 against the city on account of cemeteries, except the weekly 
 pay-rolls, shall be approved by the superintendent and the 
 said committee, and when duly audited shall be paid. He 
 shall receive in addition to the salary provided by ordinance 
 the sum of one dollar and seventy-five cents per day for ser- 
 vices actually rendered as superintendent and sexton, and 
 the sum of one hundred dollars per year for the use of a 
 team. He shall file his account for personal services and 
 use of horse, with the city clerk on the first day of each 
 month, which shall be approved by the said committee, and 
 when audited shall be paid, and at the same time he shall 
 file an itemized statement of all sums received by him dur- 
 ing the preceding month and a voucher that the same have 
 been deposited with the city treasurer. 
 
 Sect. 4. The superintendent shall furnish such bonds 
 as the mayor and aldermen may direct. 
 
 Sect. 5. The name “Woodland Cemetery” shall in- 
 clude and cover, not only the cemetery known by that name, 
 but also the land acquired by the city, of the heirs of the 
 late Thomas M. Edwards and of M. J. Sherman, and the 
 name “ Greenlawn Cemetery” shall include all the land 
 conveyed to the city by the Greenlawn cemetery corpo- 
 ration. 
 
 Sect. 6. The provisions of chapter 40, New Hampshire 
 Laws 1899, regulating the investment of certain trust 
 funds held by towns and cities, are hereby adopted. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 CITY MESSENGER. 
 
 Section 1. There shall be elected by the city councils, 
 in the month of January, annually, or whenever a vacancy 
 may occur, a city messenger, who may be removed at the 
 pleasure of the city councils. It shall be his duty to receive, 
 
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 deliver and execute all notifications, summonses and pre- 
 cepts issued by the mayor, the president of the common 
 council, the city councils, or either branch thereof, or by any 
 committee of the same, or by the health commissioners, and 
 make due return thereof. He shall prepare and arrange the 
 rooms in which the common council and the board of aider- 
 men shall hold their sessions, and under the direction of the 
 proper officer, provide fuel, lights, and such other things as 
 may be necessary for the accommodation of both branches 
 of the city councils, or any committee thereof. 
 
 Sect. 2. He shall receive and deliver all notifications to 
 officers elected by the city councils, or by the board of aider- 
 men, and he shall deliver all notifications to committees upon 
 the request of the city clerk, the clerk of the common coun- 
 cil, or the chairman of any committee. He shall have the 
 superintendence of the city hall, and all other rooms belong- 
 ing to the city in said building, except the stores under said 
 hall, and see that they are kept in good condition. He shall 
 also have control of the bill boards at the entrance of city 
 hall, and no posters shall be placed thereon without his 
 permission. 
 
 Sect. 3. He shall render an account of the receipts 
 arising from the letting of the hall, to the mayor and aider- 
 men at the close of each month, or oftener if required, and 
 such sum as may be in his hands he shall pay to the city 
 treasurer and take his receipt therefor, and deliver such 
 receipt to the city clerk. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Section 1. There shall be appointed by the board of 
 mayor and aldermen, in the month of January, annually, a 
 chief engineer and assistant engineers, not exceeding five in 
 number, to hold their offices one year, or until others are 
 appointed and qualified to fill their places ; and they shall 
 constitute the board of engineers, and perform all the duties, 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 and exercise all the powers of firewards, provided, however, 
 that they shall be subject to removal at any time by the 
 mayor and aldermen, who shall have power to fill vacancies. 
 
 Sect. 2. The by-laws adopted by the board of engi- 
 neers and all rules and regulations that are now in force 
 shall be considered as continuing in force, and the board 
 shall have power to make such other rules and by-laws as 
 may be deemed necessary, provided they shall not be repug- 
 nant to, or inconsistent with, the laws of the state or the 
 ordinances of the city. 
 
 Sect. 3. Each member of every company in the fire 
 department shall receive for his services at the rate of seven- 
 teen dollars per year in addition to the sum allowed by law ; 
 but no member shall be paid for less than three months’ 
 service, unless sooner discharged from his company by the 
 proper authority for cause other than his own request, nor 
 unless he shall have performed his duties in a manner satis- 
 factory to the company officer, and responded to all calls 
 made upon him, or given satisfactory excuse for any failure 
 to do so. 
 
 Sect. 4. The foreman of each company in the fire 
 department shall report to the city clerk at the expiration 
 of each quarter, the names of all men who have been active 
 members of his company during the quarter, or any part 
 thereof, giving date of all discharges, and of all elections 
 of new members; and he shall, annually, in September, 
 compute the pay of each member according to the preceding 
 section, and make oath to the correctness of said reports 
 and pay-roll thereon. 
 
 Sect. 5. The city clerk shall furnish to each foreman 
 proper blanks for his reports and pay-rolls. 
 
 Sect. 6 . No person shall hereafter erect or cause to be 
 erected, move or cause to be moved, enlarge or cause to 
 be enlarged, any wooden building, or set up or cause to be 
 set up, or used, any steam engine in any building within 
 the limits of the city, mentioned in the following section, 
 without consent of the board of mayor and aldermen, to 
 be first had and obtained after hearing of all parties in 
 
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 interest, duly notified by public notice posted at the door 
 of the city hall building, at least fourteen days before the 
 day of hearing, and by further notice given to or left at 
 the last and usual place of abode of the owner or 
 occupants of the land adjoining the premises, where license 
 is asked under this chapter. 
 
 Sect. 7. The limits of the fire precinct hereby consti- 
 tuted shall be as follows : beginning at the northeast 
 corner of the Cheshire railroad freight house ; thence north- 
 erly to and on west line of St. James street to West street; 
 thence on east line of land of Mrs. C. L. Kingsbury to 
 Winter street, and on west line of Middle street to Summer 
 street; thence easterly on Summer street to Court street, 
 and southerly on east line of Court street to Vernon street; 
 thence easterly on north line of Vernon street to Washing- 
 ton street, and on south line of Spring street to northeast 
 corner of George R. Dinsmoor’s land ; thence southerly on 
 east line of said Dinsmoor’s land to southeast corner of 
 same; thence westerly on line of said Dinsmoor’s land to 
 northwest corner of Josiah T. Colony’s land, and south 
 from said corner on west line of said Colony’s land to 
 Roxbury street; thence easterly on south line of Roxbury 
 street to Norway avenue, and southerly on west line of 
 Norway avenue to Church street, and on east line of 
 Ninety-third street to south line of Railroad street ; thence 
 westerly on said line of said Railroad street to Main 
 street, and westerly from said Main street to the point of 
 beginning. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 ELECTRIC FIRE ALARM. 
 
 Section 1. There shall be appointed by the board of 
 mayor and aldermen, in the month of January, annually, or 
 when a vacancy exists, a superintendent of fire alarm, who 
 shall hold his office for one year, or until his removal, or the 
 appointment of another in his stead. The superintendent of 
 fire alarm shall have the care and general supervision of all 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 lines and apparatus connected with the electric fire alarm 
 circuit belonging to the city. In the use of the alarm and 
 sounding of calls thereon he shall be governed by the rules 
 and regulations established by the engineers or by their 
 order, unless otherwise instructed by the mayor and aldermen. 
 
 Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of the superintendent to 
 keep the circuit and apparatus in good working order, at all 
 times, and to promptly repair or renew all work or inter- 
 ruptions to the circuit or the apparatus connected therewith. 
 He shall see that all electric or other wires are kept at a safe 
 distance from the fire alarm circuit. In cutting or remov- 
 ing such wires or other obstructions, he shall act under the 
 directions of the mayor and aldermen. All material and 
 supplies needed for repairs and maintainance of the fire 
 alarm he shall procure through the committee on fire depart- 
 ment, who shall see that proper supplies for ordinary repairs 
 and maintainance are kept on hand by the city. He shall 
 carefully inspect all portions of the fire alarm circuit and 
 apparatus in the months of April and September, annually, 
 and report all repairs or changes needed, to the committee 
 on fire department. 
 
 Sect. 3. He shall inspect each fire alarm box and test 
 the same as often as once in every month, keeping a record 
 of all such tests with the date and number of the box tested. 
 He shall make sure that all boxes are in order after severe 
 storms. He shall cause the circuit to be used on Saturday 
 of each week, and a box to be pulled in at noon, as pro- 
 vided by the regulations. The boxes to be pulled alter- 
 nately, and a record kept of the same. 
 
 Sect. 4. Whoever shall maliciously interfere or tamper 
 with any of the boxes or wires connected with the fire 
 alarm, or shall intentionally ring in any false alarm, shall 
 be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars and 
 the costs of prosecution. 
 
 Sect. 5. Any person or persons giving information 
 which shall lead to the detection and conviction of any 
 person or persons violating the preceding section, shall be 
 entitled to one-half of the fine imposed. 
 
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 CHAPTER X. 
 
 CITY SOLICITOR. 
 
 Section 1. There shall be elected by the city councils 
 in joint convention and by joint ballot, in the month of 
 January in each year, or whenever any vacancy may exist, 
 a solicitor for the city of Keene, who may be removed at 
 the pleasure of the city councils. 
 
 Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of the city solicitor to 
 draft all obligations or legal instruments that may be 
 required of him by any ordinance or order of the mayor 
 and aldermen or common council, or which, by any such 
 ordinance heretofore passed or may hereafter be passed by 
 the city councils, are requisite and necessary or may become 
 requisite and necessary to be done and made between the 
 city pf Keene in its corporate capacity and any person 
 contracting with the city, and which by law, usage or 
 agreement, the said city is to be at the expense of drawing ; 
 also to commence and prosecute all suits that may be 
 brought by order of the city, for or on account of any 
 estate, right, claim, privilege, or demand of the city; also 
 to appear in defense, in all actions or suits brought against 
 the city or its officers in their official capacity wherein the 
 rights, estate, privileges, ordinances or acts of the city or 
 any branch thereof may be brought in question, before any 
 court in this state, and shall do all and every other pro- 
 fessional act which may be required of him by the city 
 government or by any committee of the city councils or 
 either board thereof; and when required by the board of 
 mayor and aldermen or common council or any committee 
 of the city councils or either branch thereof, he shall furnish 
 a written opinion of any legal question or subject that 
 may be submitted to him, and he shall also at all times 
 furnish legal advice to any officer of the city who may 
 require his opinion upon any subject touching the duties 
 incumbent on such officer. He shall, when requested by 
 the mayor or city marshal, commence and prosecute before 
 the police court any suit or complaint that may be brought 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 by the order of either of said officers for the violation of 
 any ordinance of the city or law of the state. 
 
 Sect. 3. In addition to his salary he shall be entitled 
 to receive a reasonable compensation for service rendered 
 in connection with suits in the supreme court in which the 
 city is a party, and also as a justice of the peace for 
 complaints and warrants the customary fees. 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 CITY PHYSICIAN. 
 
 Section 1. There shall be elected annually by the city 
 councils, in convention and by joint ballot, a city physician, 
 who shall hold his office for the term of one year, unless 
 removed by the city councils. 
 
 Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of the city physician to 
 attend, under the general direction of the overseer of the 
 poor, upon all sick paupers and patients under the care of 
 the city authorities, and to report annually, on or before the 
 first day of December, to the city councils, a list of deaths 
 of the previous year; stating the age, sex, and disease of 
 the person deceased; to give to either branch of the city 
 councils, or to any committee thereof, all such professional 
 advice and counsel as they may require of him ; to vaccinate 
 all scholars of the public ^schools who may be sent to him 
 by the school committee for that purpose, free of charge, 
 and generally to perform all such professional services as 
 may be reasonably required of him by the mayor and 
 aldermen, city councils and board of health. 
 
 Sect. 3. He shall attend upon all cases of disease, and 
 furnish all needed medicines at his own expense, and per- 
 form all the professional services that may be required in 
 the police station or elsewhere by the city marshal. He 
 shall keep a true record of the names of all patients, and 
 date of visits, and present the same to the overseer of the 
 poor once a month. 
 
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 Sect. 4. He shall deliver to his successor in office all 
 papers, records and memoranda pertaining to the duties of 
 his office. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 HEALTH COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 Section 1. The city councils shall, in the month of 
 January in each year, and whenever any vacancy shall 
 occur, elect by joint ballot and in joint convention, three per- 
 sons, who shall be styled health commissioners, and who 
 shall each of them be invested with all the powers granted 
 by the laws of the state, to execute its laws and the ordi- 
 nances of the city made for the preservation of the health 
 of said city. 
 
 Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of the health commis- 
 sioners, and each of them within the city, to inquire into 
 all nuisances and other causes of danger to the public 
 health, and in this respect to enforce the laws of the state 
 and the ordinances of the city, that the health of the peo- 
 ple may be carefully protected, and to see that all laws 
 and ordinances relating to the interment and disinterment 
 of the dead are faithfully executed. 
 
 Sect. 3. No person shall place, or leave or cause to be 
 placed or left in or near any dwelling house, street, alley 
 or public place, any substance that is or is liable to be- 
 come putrid or offensive, or injurious to the public health. 
 
 Sect. 4. No person shall throw, or cause to be thrown, 
 any animal substance into the water of Beaver brook, so 
 called, or allow any sink water, or any substance that is 
 or may become offensive or injurious to the public health, 
 to flow or be forced into said stream. 
 
 Sect. 5. Whenever any person is convalescent from 
 any contagious disease, or any person or persons have been 
 exposed to any contagious disease so that in the judgment 
 of the health commissioners it would be dangerous to the 
 health of the people to allow such person or persons to go 
 into the streets or public places of the city, the health 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 commissioners may order such person or persons to refrain 
 from going into any street or public place until such time 
 as in the opinion of the health commissioners no danger 
 would result from so doing. 
 
 Sect. 6. Any person who shall violate any of the pro- 
 visions of this chapter, or shall disobey the orders of the 
 health commissioners, made agreeably to the preceding sec- 
 tion, shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 ASSESSORS OF TAXES AND OVERSEER OF THE POOR. 
 
 Section 1. There shall be a board of assessors of 
 taxes consisting of three members, who shall have all the 
 power and authority of such officers prescribed by the Pub- 
 lic Statutes, one of whom shall be elected in the month of 
 January, each year, by the city councils in joint convention, 
 by ballot and major vote, for the term of three years and 
 until a successor has been elected and qualified. And an 
 assistant assessor shall be elected by said councils in said 
 manner in the month of March, provided such assistant is 
 needed. 
 
 Sect. 2. The assessors shall distribute the blank inven- 
 tories at the time they examine and appraise the property 
 to be taxed. 
 
 Sect. 3. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in said board, 
 by death, resignation, removal, or from other cause, the city 
 councils shall elect, in like manner, another to serve out the 
 unexpired term. The removal of an assessor from one ward 
 to another shall not affect his right to hold said office. 
 
 Sect. 4. The city councils in joint convention, by 
 ballot and major vote, shall elect, in the month of January, 
 each year, one overseer of the poor, for the term of one 
 year, and till a successor shall have been elected and quali- 
 fied. Any vacancy in said office shall be filled in like 
 manner. 
 
CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
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 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 COLLECTOR OF TAXES AND WATER ASSESSMENTS. 
 
 Section 1. There shall be appointed annually, in the 
 month of May, by the board of mayor and aldermen, a 
 collector of taxes for said city, who shall have all the 
 powers and perform all the duties prescribed for such officer 
 by the Public Statutes, including the collection of the 10 per 
 cent, interest charge provided for in section 8, of chapter 59, 
 of the said statutes, and shall, on or before October 1st of 
 the year following his appointment, make a full settlement 
 and payment with and to the city of all the taxes committed 
 to him for collection. He shall, in addition to such duties, 
 collect all water assessments which shall be committed to 
 him for collection by the superintendent of water works and 
 sewers, and keep a separate account of all such collections 
 and deposit the same with the city treasurer, taking a sepa- 
 rate receipt therefor. He shall observe such rules and 
 regulations in the collection of said assessments as the board 
 of commissioners shall make, and shall settle his account of 
 such collection with said board once in three months, and 
 oftener, if they request it. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 PUBLIC LIBRARY. 
 
 Whereas the Keene Public Library Association has voted 
 “that it is expedient to surrender to the city of Keene the 
 shares and all other property belonging to the Keene Public 
 Library Association whenever the city shall decide to accept 
 the same, and to keep the library in suitable apartments, in 
 good condition for the use of the inhabitants of the city, 
 under suitable regulations, and for the first five years expend 
 a sum not less than three hundred dollars per annum, and 
 thereafterwards a sum not less than five hundred dollars per 
 annum for the purchase and repair of books for the library ; 
 said sums to be raised and expended as above until such 
 time as the library shall have an income of not less than one 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 thousand dollars per annum derived from other sources the 
 said city of Keene hereby accepts the surrender of said 
 shares and property upon the terms, conditions and limi- 
 tations expressed in said vote, and hereby agrees faith- 
 fully to comply with and perform said terms and condi- 
 tions. 
 
 Section 1 . The control, government and management 
 of the public library and the buildings and grounds con- 
 nected therewith shall be committed to a board of trus- 
 tees to consist of twelve persons, who shall serve without 
 compensation, six of whom shall be known as permanent 
 trustees and be selected in accordance with the terms of 
 the gift to the city of Keene by Edward C. Thayer under 
 date of May 31st, 1898; of the remaining six trustees 
 (three of whom may be ladies) two shall be appointed by 
 the city councils during the month of January annually, 
 for the term of three years. Any vacancy in said six trus- 
 tees chosen by the city councils shall be filled by said coun- 
 cils for the unexpired term. 
 
 Sect. 2. The board of trustees may establish such 
 rules and regulations for the government of their body 
 and the management of the public library as they may 
 deem advisable. They shall see that suitable rooms are 
 provided for the use of the library, and the other purposes 
 designated in said gift, shall purchase all books and cer- 
 tify to all bills relating to the same and to the ordinary 
 expenses of the library, and shall make an annual report 
 to the board of mayor and aldermen on the first day of 
 December in each year of the condition of the library, the 
 amount expended for books, repairs, salaries, rent, inci- 
 dental and ordinary expenses, and such other matters re- 
 lating to the library as they may consider of general in- 
 terest. 
 
 Sect. 3. Nothing in this ordinance shall affect the 
 tenure of officers heretofore chosen. 
 
 Sect. 4. The board of trustees shall have no power to 
 pledge the credit of the city for any debts that they may 
 incur, but they are hereby authorized to expend such sums 
 
CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
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 of money as may be from time to time appropriated by 
 the city councils for the benefit of the public library. All 
 sums of money arising from the sale of catalogues shall be 
 added to the appropriation annually made for the purchase 
 of books and used by the trustees for that purpose, and 
 all sums of money arising from the collection of fines may 
 be used by the trustees for the printing of lists of new 
 books and the balance thereof shall be added to the appro- 
 priation for the purchase of books. 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 REGULATING THE USE OF THE PUBLIC WAYS. 
 
 Section 1. All persons engaged in teaming upon the 
 public ways of the city, using chains, clevises, brakes or any 
 other device or appliance for retarding the speed of vehicles, 
 the working of which will result in digging up, destroying 
 or rendering said public ways defective by causing ruts in 
 the road-bed, shall while using such chains, clevises, brakes, 
 or other device for the purpose aforesaid, keep their vehicles 
 to the right of the centre of the traveled part of the 
 highway. 
 
 Sect. 2. No person shall use any of the appliances 
 above named except as such use shall be rendered reason- 
 ably necessary by the weight of the load carried or the grade 
 of the road. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of 
 this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 
 twenty dollars, one-half of the fine imposed to be given to 
 the person who shall make complaint and furnish evidence 
 sufficient for the conviction of the offender. 
 
 Sect. 3. No person shall put or place, or cause to be 
 put or placed, within the limits of any street, lane, alley or 
 highway, or other public place in the city, any house dirt, 
 ashes, garbage, shreds, shavings, filth, suds, offal, or other 
 rubbish, except in such places and in such manner as the 
 superintendent of streets may provide and prescribe. 
 
 Sect. 4. Three or more persons shall not stand in a 
 group or near each other on any foot or sidewalk, so as to 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 obstruct a free passage for foot passengers ; and any person 
 or persons obstructing the foot or sidewalks shall move on 
 immediately after a request is made by any police officer or 
 watchman. No person or persons shall sit, stand, or lounge 
 in or about the doors of passage-ways to any store, church 
 or public building, office, saloon, shop, dwelling house or 
 other tenement, except the owners or tenants thereof, after 
 having been requested by the owner or occupant, or any 
 police officer to depart therefrom. 
 
 Sect. 5. No person shall wantonly injure or deface any 
 building, fence, wall, sign board, bill board, post, or lamp 
 or lantern thereon, or shall wantonly cut or injure any tree 
 standing in any street, highway or public place, or shall 
 rob any garden or field of fruit or vegetables, or shall, 
 without lawful permission, climb on or over any fence of 
 any garden or yard. 
 
 Sect. 6 . No person shall occupy any street, lane, or 
 alley of the city for the purpose of selling goods or anything 
 at auction or otherwise, without first obtaining permission 
 from the mayor, and paying therefor such a sum as may 
 be required, for the use of the city. 
 
 Sect. 7. The tenant or occupant, or if there be uo ten- 
 ant, the owner of any building or lot of land bordering on 
 any street where there is a sidewalk of brick, stone, or con- 
 crete, shall cause all snow to be removed from such sidewalk 
 adjoining his premises, within six hours after the snow shall 
 have ceased to fall, if in the day time, or before two of the 
 clock of the afternoon next succeeding, if the snow shall 
 have ceased to fall in the night. 
 
 Sect. 8. Any person violating any of the provisions of 
 the foregoing sections shall be punished by a fine not 
 exceeding twenty dollars. 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 NUMBERING OF BUILDINGS. 
 
 Section 1. The board of mayor and aldermen shall, 
 from time to time, as the convenience of the public may 
 
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 require, cause numbers in regular series, to be fixed to or 
 inscribed on all dwelling houses and other buildings or parts 
 of buildings, fronting on any street, alley, or public place in 
 said city, and shall also determine the form, size, and 
 material of such numbers, and the mode, place, succession 
 aud order of inscribing and affixing them on such houses or 
 other buildings. The numbers shall proceed continuously 
 from place of beginning, and each number *shall be as nearly 
 opposite its alternate as may be. The buildings fronting 
 upon Central square shall be numbered consecutively, begin- 
 ning with the Bank block on the east side and numbering 
 north to City Hall block ; thence west across the north side 
 from Clarke’s block to Court street ; thence south across the 
 west side from Lane’s block to West street. The six streets 
 radiating from Central square, namely: Main, Roxbury, 
 Washington, Court, Winter and West to be numbered con- 
 tinuously from this point. Streets which are west of Main 
 or Washington, and parallel or nearly so with West, shall be 
 numbered from east to west, and those lying east of Main or 
 Washington and parallel or nearly so with Roxbury, shall 
 be numbered from west to east. Streets lying north of West 
 or Roxbury, and parallel or nearly so with Court or Wash- 
 ington, shall be numbered from south to north, and those 
 lying south of West and Roxbury, and parallel or nearly so 
 with Main, shall be numbered from north to south. In all 
 streets the odd numbers are to be placed on the right hand 
 side, and the even numbers on the left hand of streets. The 
 reservation of a specified length of frontage for each number 
 may be allowed to vary according to the location of the 
 street. 
 
 Sect. 2. A competent person shall be employed to pre- 
 pare a book containing an outline map or tracing of each 
 street in the city, with the houses thereon, together with 
 the length of frontage allowed for each number distinctly 
 indicated, so that each person can ascertain with conven- 
 ience and certainty the number which belongs to each lot. 
 This book to be kept with the city clerk for reference and 
 the use of the city. 
 
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 CITY OP KEENE. 
 
 Sect. 3. Any owner or occupant of any building or 
 part of a building, in said city who shall refuse to allow 
 such numbers as may reasonably be required to carry out 
 the purposes of this ordinance, to be affixed to or remain 
 upon his building when requested so to do by the board 
 of mayor and aldermen or their appointed agent, or who 
 shall display upon his building or buildings for more than 
 one day as a street number, any number contrary to the 
 directions of said board of mayor and alderman, shall be 
 fined not exceeding twenty dollars. 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. 
 
 Section 1. No person shall overdrive, overload, drive 
 when overloaded, overwork, torture, torment, deprive of 
 necessary sustenance, cruelly beat, mutilate, or cruelly kill, 
 or cause or procure to be so overdriven, overloaded, driven 
 when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived 
 of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated or cruelly 
 killed, any animal; and no person having charge and cus- 
 tody of any animal, either as owner or otherwise, shall 
 inflict unnecessary cruelty upon the same, or unnecessarily 
 fail to provide the same with proper food, drink, shelter, 
 or protection from the weather. 
 
 Sect. 2. No owner, possessor, or person having the 
 charge or custody of any animal, shall cruelly drive or work 
 the same when unfit for labor, or cruelly abandon the same, 
 or carry the same or cause the same to be carried in or 
 upon any vehicle or otherwise in an unnecessarily cruel or 
 inhuman manner, or knowingly and willfully, authorize to 
 permit the same to be subjected to unnecessary torture, 
 suffering or cruelty of any kind. 
 
 Sect. 3. No person shall keep or train any bird, dog, 
 or other animal, with intent that such bird, dog or other 
 animal shall be engaged or used in an exhibition of fight- 
 ing, or shall establish or promote an exhibition of the 
 fighting of birds, dogs or other animals. 
 
CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 Sect. 4. No person shall be present at any place, 
 building or tenement when preparations are being made for 
 an exhibition of the fighting of birds, dogs, or other 
 animals, with intent to be present at such exhibition ; or 
 be present at, aid in, or contribute to such an exhibition. 
 
 Sect. 5. No person shall keep or use any live pigeon, 
 fowl or other bird, for the purpose of a target, or to be shot 
 at, either for amusement or as a test of skill in markman- 
 ship, and no person shall shoot at any bird as aforesaid, 
 or be present as a party, witness, umpire or judge at any 
 such shooting of any fowl or bird, and no person shall rent 
 any building, shed, room, yard, field or premises, or shall 
 knowingly suffer or permit the use of any building, shed, 
 room, yard, field or premises for the purpose of shooting 
 any fowl or bird as aforesaid. Nothing contained in this 
 section shall apply to the shooting of any wild game in its 
 wild state. 
 
 Sect. 6. Any violation of the provisions of this chapter 
 shall be prosecuted agreeably to the laws of the state. 
 
 Sect. 7. It shall be the duty of the marshal, constables 
 and police officers to prosecute all violations of the pro- 
 visions of this chapter which shall come to their notice or 
 knowledge. 
 
 Sect. 8. Any and all fines imposed and collected by 
 virtue of the provisions of this chapter shall be paid to the 
 treasurer of such incorporated and organized society to 
 prevent cruelty to animals as shall have caused to be insti- 
 tuted the prosecution resulting in such fines, for the use of 
 such society. 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 RELATING TO THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD. 
 
 Section 1. No person shall bury, or cause to be buried 
 or interred, any dead body at any other time of the day 
 than between sunrising and sunsetting, except when other- 
 wise permitted by the health commissioners ; and no person 
 shall inter or cause to be interred any dead body in a grave 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 which shall be less than four feet deep from the surface of 
 the ground surrounding the grave to the top of the coffin. 
 Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall be 
 fined not exceeding twenty dollars. 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 HABITUAL TRUANTS. 
 
 Section 1. Any child between the ages of six and 
 sixteen years, without any regular and lawful occupation, 
 who shall, except in case of ill health, habitually neglect to 
 attend school, or become an habitual truant, upon convic- 
 tion thereof shall be fined not less than one dollar nor 
 more than ten dollars, or said child may be sentenced to 
 the Industrial School in the discretion of the court. 
 
 Sect. 2. The city marshal and police of Keene shall be 
 the truant officers of this city, whose duty it shall be to 
 look after'such truant children, and to report their names 
 to the board of education, and upon request of said board 
 to make complaint of such truants to the police court, and 
 cause such complaint to be prosecuted. 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 ANIMALS AT LARGE. 
 
 Section 1. No sheep, goats, swine, horses, mules, 
 jacks, oxen, cows or other cattle, shall be led or driven, 
 except for cleaning ways, or allowed to go upon any side- 
 walk or grass plot in front of sidewalks in this city, or 
 permitted to go at large on any highway, street, sidewalk, 
 grass plot, lane, alley, common, square, or other public 
 place within this city. 
 
 Sect. 2. Every person permitting any sheep, goats, 
 swine, horses, mules, jacks, oxen, cows or any other cattle, 
 to go upon any sidewalk, or grass plot, or at large, con- 
 trary to the provisions of section 1 of this chapter, shall 
 
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 be fined not less than one dollar or more than ten dollars 
 for every such offense. 
 
 Sect. 3. Any person finding any such creatures so 
 going, may impound and detain them agreeably to law, 
 or he piay make complaint against the person permitting 
 such creatures to go upon sidewalks, grass plots, or at 
 large. 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 OBSERVING THE LORD’S DAY. 
 
 Section 1. No person shall keep open his store, cellar, 
 restaurant or bar-room, or shall sell, give, offer or expose 
 for sale any cider, beer, ale or intoxicating liquors of any 
 kind, or fruits, nuts, confectionery, or oysters, or books, 
 pamphlets, newspapers, or merchandise of any kind, on the 
 first day of the week, commonly called the Lord’s day ; nor 
 shall any person use any play or game on that day. 
 
 Sect. 2. For the purpose of the provisions of the first 
 section of this chapter, the Lord’s day shall be understood 
 to include the time between the midnight preceding and 
 the midnight of said day. 
 
 Sect. 3. The provisions of this chapter shall not be 
 construed to prevent any baker from delivering bread, or 
 any druggist or apothecary from selling medicine, or the 
 city liquor agent from selling liquors for medicinal pur- 
 poses, under such rules and regulations as may be estab- 
 lished by the board of mayor and aldermen. 
 
 Sect. 4. No person shall, during any day of the week, 
 keep open his saloon, restaurant or bar-room, nor offer or 
 expose for sale any cider, beer, ale or intoxicating liquors 
 of any kind, between the hours of half past nine o’clock in 
 the evening and five o’clock in the morning, excepting 
 depot restaurants, and the city marshal is hereby in- 
 structed to see that this ordinance is strictly enforced. 
 
 Sect. 5. Any person offending against any of the pro- 
 visions of this chapter, shall be fined not less than one 
 dollar or more than ten dollars for each offence. 
 
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 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 RELATING TO DOGS. 
 
 Section 1. Whenever, in the opinion of the mayor and 
 aldermen, the public safety may require it, they may order 
 that all dogs running at large in the city of Keene, shall 
 be securely muzzled; and after notice of such order shall 
 have been posted up at two or more public places in said 
 city, and said notice published in the daily newspaper, the 
 mayor and alderman may issue their warrant to one or 
 more of the police officers or constables, who shall, after 
 twenty-four hours from the publication of such notice, 
 kill all dogs found unmuzzled or running at large contrary 
 to such order. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIV. 
 
 PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE FROM THE SLIDING OF SNOW 
 FROM BUILDINGS. 
 
 Section 1. All buildings so situated and with roofs so 
 inclined that snow and ice naturally slide or fall from the 
 same into any public street, walk or thoroughfare, shall be 
 protected with a proper guard or railing upon such roofs, 
 or proper awning projecting under the same, as will pre- 
 vent the snow and ice from so sliding and falling into such 
 street, walk or thoroughfare. 
 
 Sect. 2. The owner, or agent of any owner of any 
 building, neglecting for thirty days to comply with the fore- 
 going section after being requested by the city marshal to 
 comply therewith, shall be fined not exceeding twenty 
 dollars. 
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 PUBLIC PARKS. 
 
 Section 1. All the land owned by the city near the 
 octagon reservoir on Beach hill, together with all the land 
 
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 surrounding the old reservoir pond on said hill, is consti- 
 tuted a public park to be called “the city park.” 
 
 Sect. 2. There shall be elected in the month of January 
 in each year, or when a vacancy exists, by the city councils 
 in joint convention and by joint ballot, a park commis- 
 sioner. 
 
 Sect. 3. It shall be the duty of the park commissioner 
 to take entire charge of all the parks or lands held in trust 
 by the city, unless otherwise provided; to expend, under 
 the direction of the committee on public parks, appropria- 
 tions or other incomes, in ornamenting and protecting said 
 parks; to dispose of dangerous or objectionable trees; to 
 fix bounds, repair fences against pastures, or other lands, 
 and to report to the city councils annually. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVI. 
 
 PROTECTION OF SHADE TREES. 
 
 Section 1. No person shall be allowed to post any bills, 
 advertisements, cards, or notices of any kind, upon any 
 tree, placed or growing for ornament or use, in any yard, 
 street or square, within the limits of the city, without first 
 obtaining the consent of the owners, or permission of the 
 mayor and aldermen. 
 
 Sect. 2. No person shall be allowed to fasten or hitch 
 any animal to any shade or ornamental tree, standing on 
 any common, square, street, lane or avenue, within the 
 limits of the city, except such as may have a hook or ring 
 in it for the purpose of a public or private hitching place. 
 
 Sect. 3. No person shall destroy or remove any shade 
 or ornamental tree standing on any common, square, street 
 or lane within the limits of the city, without the permission 
 of the mayor and aldermen, and it shall be the duty of the 
 superintendent of highways to note any infraction of this 
 chapter, and report the same at once to the board of mayor 
 and aldermen. 
 
 Sect. 4. Any person violating any provision of this 
 chapter shall be fined not exceeding five dollars. 
 
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 CHAPTER XXVII. 
 
 PUBLIC PRINTING. 
 
 Section 1. The joint standing committee on printing 
 shall have charge of printing the blanks, reports and other 
 matter to be used in the different departments of the city 
 government; and no bills for printing or publishing shall 
 be audited until approved by them. 
 
 Sect. 2. All city ordinances, and such joint resolutions 
 as in the opinion of the mayor the public good requires, 
 shall be published in one issue of the New Hampshire 
 Sentinel, the Keene Evening Sentinel and Cheshire Repub- 
 lican, and the clerk shall furnish copies therefor. In the 
 annual city reports shall be published all ordinances and 
 joint resolutions passed during the year. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIII. 
 
 CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 Section 1. All ordinances passed by the city councils 
 shall be engrossed or recorded by the city clerk in a fair 
 and legible hand, without interlineation or erasure, and in 
 the order in which they shall be passed, in a book to be 
 kept for that purpose, made of strong linen paper, with 
 proper margin and index, to be lettered “Record of Ordi- 
 nances of the City of Keene,” which book shall be preserved 
 in the office of the city clerk, subject to the inspection of 
 the citizens. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIX. 
 
 ELECTION OF CERTAIN OFFICERS. 
 
 Section 1. The city councils, in convention, shall, in 
 the month of January, annually, or when vacancies occur, 
 elect the following officers : city treasurer, city clerk, sur- 
 veyors of lumber, measurers of wood, weighers of hay, 
 straw and coal, fence viewers, sealer of weights and 
 
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 measures, and sexton, who shall hold their office for one 
 year, unless sooner removed, and until others are chosen 
 and qualified. 
 
 CHAPTER XXX. 
 
 BILLIARD SALOONS. 
 
 Section 1. No person shall keep a billiard table in the 
 city of Keene, except for private use, unless a license there- 
 for in writing, specifying the place in which the same is 
 to be kept, under the restrictions provided by the state, 
 shall first be obtained from the board of mayor and aider- 
 men. 
 
 Sect. 2. Every person shall pay for such license, for 
 the use of the city, ten dollars, and to the city clerk a fee of 
 fifty cents for each license, to be paid by the person to whom 
 it is granted ; and such license shall be revoked and annulled 
 at the pleasure of the mayor and aldermen, and shall be 
 forfeited upon conviction of the violation of any of the 
 provisions of this chapter. 
 
 Sect. 3. No keeper of a billiard table shall allow or 
 permit any minor to play at billiards, or any other game, 
 in his saloon, or to remain therein, or in any room con- 
 nected therewith, except with the consent of the father, or 
 guardian of such minor; nor permit or suffer any game 
 whatever to be played in said saloon, or any room con- 
 nected therewith, after the hour of ten in the evening of 
 any day. 
 
 Sect. 4. The person violating any of the provisions of 
 this chapter shall be fined not more than ten dollars, and 
 shall also be required to keep the peace and be of good 
 behavior. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXI. 
 
 OFFICIAL BONDS. 
 
 Section 1. The following named officers of the city 
 shall not enter upon the duties of their office until they have 
 
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 furnished bonds, approved by the mayor and aldermen, for 
 the faithful discharge of their duties in the following sums, 
 to wit : treasurer, in the sum of thirty thousand dollars ; 
 superintendent of highways, in the sum of one thousand dol- 
 lars ; superintendent of water works and sewers, in the sum 
 of one thousand dollars; collector of taxes and water 
 rents, in the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars ; city clerk, 
 in the sum of one thousand dollars; city marshal, in the 
 sum of three hundred dollars; city messenger, in the sum 
 of three hundred dollars; constables, in the sum of three 
 hundred dollars each; superintendent of public cemeteries, 
 in the sum of one thousand dollars. 
 
 Sect. 2. These bonds may be increased, from time to 
 time, at the discretion of the board of mayor and aldermen. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXII. 
 
 PROHIBITING THE USE OF FIREARMS AND OTHER EXPLOSIVES. 
 
 Section 1. No person shall, within the limits of the 
 city, fire or discharge any cannon, gun, pistol, or other 
 firearms, or discharge any rockets, squibs, fire-crackers, 
 grenades, or any preparation of gunpowder, except by 
 permission of the mayor and aldermen, in writing, or shall 
 make any bonfire, or improperly use or expose any friction 
 matches, or knowingly raise or repeat any false cry of fire; 
 or, between the hours of ten o’clock p. m. and four o’clock 
 a. m., shall blow any horn or instrument, ring bells, or in 
 any way disturb the peace. The penalty for violation of 
 this ordinance shall be a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, 
 and costs of prosecution. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIII. 
 
 LICENSING SHOWS. 
 
 Section 1 . The mayor, or, in his absence, the presi- 
 dent of the common council, shall have power to license all 
 
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 public shows, circuses, caravans and concerts, on such law- 
 ful terms and conditions as to him may seem reasonable 
 and just. x 
 
 Sect. 2. Any person who shall set up, maintain or ex- 
 hibit any public show, circus or caravan without license 
 as aforesaid, or contrary to the terms and conditions of 
 said license, shall be prosecuted and fined agreeably to the 
 laws of the state. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIV. 
 
 RELATING TO THE LETTING OF CITY HALL. 
 
 Section 1. All applications for the use of the city hall 
 shall be made to the city messenger. 
 
 Sect. 2. The terms upon which the hall shall be let, 
 from time to time, shall be left with a board to be consti- 
 tuted as follows : the mayor, city messenger, and one 
 member of the common council to be appointed by the 
 president of said council, which board shall establish as 
 uniform and just a scale of prices as possible. 
 
 Sect. 3. All acts of this board shall be subject to a 
 revision by joint action of the city councils. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXV. 
 
 SALARIES OF CITY OFFICERS. 
 
 Section 1 . The mayor shall receive in full for his ser- 
 vices as mayor, head of the police, and for all other duties 
 appertaining to his office, the sum of five hundred dollars 
 per year, to be paid in equal quarterly payments. 
 
 Sect. 2. The city clerk shall receive for his services, 
 and all duties connected with his office, the sum of seven 
 hundred dollars per year, to be paid in equal monthly pay- 
 ments, and all fees appertaining to said office. 
 
 Sect. 3. The city solicitor shall receive in full for his 
 services as city solicitor, and for all the duties appertaining 
 
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 to his office, not otherwise provided for, the sum of fifty 
 dollars per year, to be paid in equal semi-annual payments. 
 
 Sect. 4. The city messenger shall receive in full for his 
 services, and all the duties appertaining to his office, the 
 sum of four hundred dollars per year, to be paid in equal 
 quarterly payments. 
 
 Sect. 5. The city treasurer shall receive in full for his 
 services, and all the duties appertaining to his office, the 
 sum of fifty dollars per year, to be paid in equal quarterly 
 payments. 
 
 Sect. 6. The superintendent of highways shall receive 
 in full for his services, and all the duties appertaining to 
 his office, the sum of seven hundred dollars per year, and 
 fifty dollars per year for use of driving horse and carriage 
 while in the discharge of his duties as superintendent of 
 highways ; provided, that no horse or carriage owned by 
 or employed for the city shall be used for this purpose ; to 
 be paid in equal monthly payments. 
 
 Sect. 7. The clerk of the common council shall receive 
 in full for his services, and all the duties appertaining to his 
 office, the sum of fifty dollars per year, to be paid in equal 
 quarterly payments. 
 
 Sect. 8. The city marshal shall receive in full for the 
 services rendered by him to the city, the sum of seven hun- 
 dred and thirty dollars per year, to be paid in equal monthly 
 payments. 
 
 Sect. 9. The collector of taxes and water assessments 
 of the city shall receive in full for his services, and all duties 
 appertaining to his office, the sum of eight hundred dollars 
 to be paid as follows: two hundred dollars to be paid on 
 the first day of October, two hundred more on the first day 
 of January during his term of office, and the remainder 
 when said collector shall have made a full settlement of all 
 taxes given him for collection and paid the same to the 
 city. 
 
 Sect. 10. The regular pay of the police and watchmen 
 shall be two dollars per day while actually employed, pay- 
 able monthly. 
 
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 Sect. 11. The justice of the police court shall receive 
 in full for his services as police justice, and for all duties 
 appertaining to his office, the sum of one hundred dollars 
 per year, to be paid in equal quarterly payments, and the 
 usual fees of a justice of the peace, in all cases entered in 
 said court. 
 
 Sect. 12. The overseer of the poor shall receive in full 
 for his services, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, 
 and twenty-five dollars additional for office rent, per year, 
 to be paid in equal quarterly payments. 
 
 Sect. 13. Each of the selectmen and the ward clerk of 
 each ward in the city shall receive in full for his services, 
 the sum of five dollars per year, to be paid at the expira- 
 tion of his official year, and said ward clerks shall also 
 receive the fees allowed by the Public Statues for certified 
 reports. 
 
 Sect. 14. The moderator of each ward shall receive in 
 full for his services, and for all the duties appertaining to 
 his office, the sum of two dollars per year, to be paid at 
 the expiration of his official year. 
 
 Sect. 15. The chief engineer of the fire department 
 shall receive the sum of fifty dollars, and each of the assist- 
 ant engineers the sum of thirty-five dollars per year in full 
 for their services, and for all duties appertaining to their 
 respective offices, except the regular annual examination of 
 the fire district, for which service they shall receive the sum 
 of two dollars per day for the actual time employed, to be 
 paid at the expiration of their official year. 
 
 Sect. 16. Each of the engineers of the steamer com- 
 pany shall receive the sum of sixty dollars per year, each 
 of the assistant engineers twenty-five dollars per year, each 
 of the two firemen ten dollars per year, in addition to their 
 regular pay as firemen, in full for all services rendered the 
 fire department, annually on the first day of October. 
 
 Sect. 17. The water and sewer commissioners shall 
 receive in full for their services, and for all the duties apper- 
 taining to their office, the sum of twenty-five dollars each 
 per year, payable in equal quarterly payments. 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 Sect. 18. The assessors shall annually receive the sum 
 of one hundred and forty dollars each in full for their ser- 
 vices, payable one hundred and ten dollars on the first day 
 of July in each year, and the balance on the first day of 
 January following. 
 
 Sect. 19. The assistant assessor shall receive two dol- 
 lars a day for such time as he is actually employed as such 
 assistant, and a statement of the time for which he is 
 entitled to receive said per diem shall be approved by two 
 at least of the assessors before the claim is presented to the 
 auditor for approval. 
 
 Sect. 20. The superintendent of cemeteries shall receive 
 in full for his services the sum of one hundred dollars, pay- 
 able semi-annually. 
 
 Sect. 21. The superintendent of waterworks and sew- 
 ers shall receive in full for his services the sum of twelve 
 hundred dollars, payable in equal monthly payments. 
 
 Sect. 22. The auditfbr shall receive in full for his services 
 one hundred dollars, payable in equal quarterly payments. 
 
 Sect. 23. The city physician shall receive in full for his 
 services one hundred dollars a year, payable in equal 
 quarterly payments. 
 
 Sect. 24. The health commissioners shall receive in full 
 for their services, and all the duties pertaining to their 
 office, the sum of seventy-five dollars each per year, pay- 
 able semi-annually. 
 
 Sect. 25. The superintendent of fire alarm shall receive 
 in full for his services, and all the duties pertaining to his 
 office, the sum of two hundred dollars per year, payable 
 in equal quarterly payments. 
 
 Sect. 26. The park commissioner shall receive in full 
 for his services, and all the duties pertaining to his office, 
 the sum of twenty-five dollars per year, payable semi- 
 annually. 
 
 Sect. 27. The city liquor agent shall receive in full for 
 his services, and all the duties pertaining to his office, the 
 sum of one hundred dollars per year, payable annually on 
 the first day of April. 
 
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 CHAPTER XXXVI. 
 
 RELATIVE TO SERVICES OF CITY OFFICERS. 
 
 Section 1 . No claim against the city for extra services 
 or anything not included in their regular salary, shall be 
 allowed or paid for or to any officer of the city, unless such 
 claim shall be presented to and approved by the board of 
 mayor and aldermen within fifteen days of the expiration 
 of each month, and no claim for services shall be allowed 
 to any special policeman, unless each place and time of ser- 
 vice is particularly specified, and said claim is presented 
 and allowed as above, within fifteen days of the expiration 
 of each month. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVII. 
 
 ASSIGNMENT OF WAGES. 
 
 Section 1 . No assignment of wages, by any of its 
 officers, on the city, shall be valid unless accepted in writing 
 on the back thereof by the city clerk. And the city clerk 
 is hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the city all such 
 orders. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVIII. 
 
 EXAMINATION OF VOTES FOR MAYOR. 
 
 Section 1 . The city councils shall annually meet in 
 convention on the third Friday in the month of December, 
 for the purpose of examining the returns of votes from the 
 several wards for mayor, and declaring the result thereof. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIX. 
 
 CITY SEAL. 
 
 Section 1 . The seal of the city of Keene shall be as 
 follows: a circle one inch and five-eighths in diameter; 
 around the border in capital letters the words “City of 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 Keene” in the upper portion, and the words “New Hamp- 
 shire” in the lower portion; on the disk a figure of Justice 
 seated, with her right arm resting on a circular shield 
 having represented upon it an arm in the act of striking 
 with a hammer ; on the right an inverted horn with coins 
 issuing therefrom ; on the left a toothed-wheel and sheaves 
 of wheat; a railroad train in the background; the figures 
 1874 underneath within the border. 
 
 And be it further ordained that these ordinances shall 
 take effect upon their passage, and all ordinances and 
 parts of ordinance inconsistent therewith are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 [Passed March 15, 1900.] 
 
RULES OF ORDER. 
 
RULES OF ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCILS. 
 
 REVISED MARCH 15, 1900. 
 
 RULES OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN. 
 
 Section. 1. The mayor shall take the chair precisely 
 at the hour appointed for the meeting, and shall call the 
 members to order; if a quorum be present, he shall cause 
 the journal of the previous meeting to be read, and if no 
 objection is made, it shall stand approved. 
 
 Sect. 2. In the absence of the mayor, the city clerk 
 shall call for the nomination of a chairman pro tern., who, 
 upon being elected, shall preside until the mayor arrives, 
 or during that meeting, and no longer. 
 
 Sect. 3. The order of business shall be as follows: 
 
 First. Communications from the mayor. 
 
 Second. Petitions shall be called for and disposed of by 
 reference, or otherwise. 
 
 Third. Reports of committees shall be in order. 
 
 Fourth. The business remaining unfinished at the pre- 
 vious meeting shall be taken up. 
 
 Fifth. Orders of the day shall be taken up. 
 
 Sixth. Nominations and appointments shall be made. 
 
 Seventh. New business may be introduced by any 
 member of the board. 
 
 Sect. 4. The mayor may express his opinion upon any 
 subject under debate ; and in case any measure or appoint- 
 ment is negatived by his veto, a two-thirds vote shall be 
 required before it can be declared carried, and such action 
 shall be taken before adjournment. 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 Sect. 5. The mayor shall consider a motion to adjourn 
 as always in order, the time of the next meeting having 
 been agreed on, and the proper notice given to the com- 
 mon council. Such motion shall be decided without debate. 
 
 Sect. 6. All committees, except such as the board shall 
 determine to elect, shall be appointed and announced by 
 the mayor. 
 
 Sect. 7. Every member speaking in debate shall con- 
 fine himself to the question under discussion. 
 
 Sect. 8. No member shall interrupt another while 
 speaking, except by rising to call him to order, or to cor- 
 rect a mistake. 
 
 Sect. 9. When a motion is made and seconded, it shall 
 be considered by the board. 
 
 Sect. 10. When a motion is under debate, no motion 
 shall be received but — 
 
 To adjourn, 
 
 To lay on the table, 
 
 To postpone to a day certain, 
 
 To commit, 
 
 To amend, 
 
 To postpone indefinitely. 
 
 Which several motions shall have precedence in the order 
 in which they are arranged. 
 
 Sect. 11. A motion for the reconsideration of a vote 
 shall be open to debate, but such motion shall not be con- 
 sidered, unless made by a member voting with the majority, 
 nor unless such motion is made at the meeting at which 
 such vote passed, or notice of such motion is given at said 
 meeting, in which case, the motion shall be made at the 
 next meeting ; and only one motion for the reconsideration 
 of any vote shall be permitted. 
 
 Sect. 12. Standing committees shall be appointed on 
 bills on their second reading, on licenses, and on claims to 
 be disposed of by action of the mayor and aldermen. 
 
 Sect. 13. All ordinances shall pass through the follow- 
 ing stages before they shall be considered as having received 
 the final action of the board, to wit : first, reading for infor- 
 
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 mation, and if not rejected or otherwise disposed of, shall 
 be referred to the committee on bills in their second reading 
 by the chair, and after being reported by said committee, 
 shall be again read. After which reading the question shall 
 be on the passage of the same to be engrossed. 
 
 Sect. 14. The above rules and order of business shall 
 be observed in all cases, unless suspended by a vote of two- 
 thirds of the members present, for a specific purpose. 
 
 RULES OF THE COMMON COUNCIL. 
 
 Section 1. The president shall take the chair precisely 
 at the hour appointed for the meeting, call the members to 
 order s and within ten minutes (or sooner if a quorum be pres- 
 ent) shall cause the roll to be called, and the names of the 
 members present to be recorded. The clerk shall record the 
 names of members coming in after the calling of the roll. 
 Before proceeding to business, he shall cause the minutes of 
 the preceding meeting to be read. In the absence of the 
 president, the clerk shall call the council to order, and pre- 
 side until a president pro tempore shall be chosen by ballot. 
 Upon a ballot for president pro tempore, a plurality of votes 
 shall elect. At every regular meeting of the council, the 
 order of business shall be as follows : 
 
 First. Such memorials and other papers as shall then 
 be presented shall be acted upon. 
 
 Second. Papers from the other board shall be taken up 
 and disposed of. 
 
 Third. The unfinished business in which the council 
 was engaged at the time of adjournment of the last regular 
 meeting, shall be acted upon. 
 
 Fourth. New business may be introduced by any mem- 
 ber of the council. 
 
 Sect. 2. The president shall preserve decorum and 
 order; he may speak to points of order in preference to 
 other members, and shall decide all questions of order, 
 subject to an appeal to the council, on motion of any 
 member. 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 Sect. 3. He shall declare all votes; but if any member 
 doubt the vote, the president, without further debate upon 
 the question, shall require first those in the affirmative, and 
 afterwards those in the negative, to rise and stand until 
 counted, and he shall declare the result. 
 
 Sect. 4. The president may call any member to the 
 chair, provided such substitution shall not continue longer 
 than one meeting. When the council shall determine to go 
 into committee of the whole, the president shall appoint 
 the member who shall take the chair. The president may 
 express his opinion on any subject under debate; but in 
 such case he shall leave the chair and appoint some other 
 member to take it ; and he shall not resume the chair while 
 the same question is pending. But the president may state 
 facts and give his opinion on questions of order without 
 leaving his place. 
 
 Sect. 5. When any member shall require a question to 
 be taken by yeas and nays, the president shall take the 
 sense of the council in that manner. 
 
 Sect. 6. He shall propound all questions in the order 
 in which they are moved, unless the subsequent motion 
 shall be previous in its nature ; except that in naming sums 
 and fixing times, the largest sum and the longest time shall 
 be put first. 
 
 Sect. 7. After a motion is stated by the president, it 
 shall be disposed of by vote of the council, unless the mover 
 withdraw it before a decision or amendment. 
 
 Sect. 8. The president shall consider a motion to ad- 
 journ as always in order, the time of the next meeting having 
 been agreed on; and the proper notice given to the board 
 of aldermen, unless a member has possession of the floor, or 
 any question has been put and not decided. The motion to 
 adjourn, or to lay on the table, or to take up from the 
 table, shall be decided without debate. 
 
 Sect. 9. He shall put the previous question in the fol- 
 lowing form: “shall the main question be now put?” and 
 all amendments or further debate of the main question shall 
 be suspended until the previous question be decided. 
 
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 Sect. 10. When two or more members happen to rise 
 at the same time, the president shall name the member who 
 is first to speak. 
 
 Sect. 11. All committees, except such as the council 
 determine to elect, shall be appointed and announced by 
 the president. 
 
 Sect. 12. In all cases the president may vote. 
 
 Sect. 13. When any member is about to speak in de- 
 bate, or deliver any matter to the council, he shall rise in his 
 place, and respectfully address the presiding officer ; shall con- 
 fine himself to the question under debate, and avoid person- 
 ality. 
 
 Sect. 14. No member, in debate, shall mention another 
 by his name, but may describe him by the ward he repre- 
 sents, or such other designation as may be intelligible or 
 respectful. 
 
 Sect. 15. No member speaking shall be interrupted by 
 another, but by rising to call to order, or to correct a mis- 
 take. But if any member, in speaking or otherwise shall 
 transgress the rules of the council, the president shall, or 
 any member may, call him to order; in which case the 
 member called to order shall immediately sit down, unless 
 permitted to explain ; and the council, if appealed to, shall 
 decide on the case without debate. 
 
 Sect. 16. No member shall speak more than twice to 
 the same question, nor more than twenty minutes at a time, 
 if objection be made, without first obtaining leave of the 
 council ; nor more than once, until all the other members 
 choosing to speak shall have spoken. 
 
 Sect. 17. When a question is under debate, no motion 
 shall be received but — 
 
 First. To adjourn. 
 
 Second. To lay on the table. 
 
 Third. For the previous question. 
 
 Fourth. To postpone to a day certain. 
 
 Fifth. To commit. 
 
 Sixth. To amend. 
 
 Seventh. To postpone indefinitely. 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 Which several motions shall have precedence in the order 
 in which they are arranged. 
 
 Sect. 18. Every motion shall be reduced to writing if 
 the president direct, or any member of the council request 
 it. 
 
 Sect. 19. A motion for the reconsideration of a vote 
 shall be open to debate, but such motion shall not be con- 
 sidered, unless made by a member voting with the major- 
 ity; nor unless such motion is made at the meeting at 
 which such vote passed, or notice of such motion is given 
 at said meeting, in which case the motion shall be made 
 at the next meeting; and only one motion for the recon- 
 sideration of any vote shall be permitted. 
 
 Sect. 20. No member shall be permitted to stand up, 
 to the interruption of another, while any member is speak- 
 ing; or to pass unnecessarily between the president and 
 the person speaking. 
 
 Sect. 21. Every member who shall be in the council 
 when a question is put, shall give his vote, unless the coun- 
 cil, for special reasons, excuse him. Application to be so 
 excused on any question must be made before the council 
 is divided, or before the calling of the yeas and nays, and 
 such application shall be accompanied by a brief statement 
 of the reasons, and shall be decided without debate. 
 
 Sect. 22. The division of a question may be called for 
 when the sense will admit it. 
 
 Sect. 23. When the reading of a paper is called for, 
 and the same is objected to by any member, it shall be de- 
 termined by a vote of the council. 
 
 Sect. 24. No standing rule or order of the council shall 
 be suspended, unless three-fourths of the members present 
 shall consent thereto; nor shall any rule or order be re- 
 pealed or amended without a motion therefor be made at 
 a previous meeting, nor unless a majority of the whole 
 council shall concur therein. 
 
 Sect. 25. Every member shall take notice of the day 
 and hour to which the council may stand adjourned, and 
 shall give his punctual attendance accordingly. 
 
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 Sect. 26. No member shall be obliged to be on more 
 than two committees of the council at the same time, or 
 to be chairman of more than one. 
 
 Sect. 27. All memorials and other papers addressed to 
 the council, shall be presented by the president, or by a 
 member in his place, who shall explain the subject thereof; 
 and they shall lie on the table to be taken up in the order 
 in which they were presented, unless the council shall other- 
 wise direct. 
 
 Sect. 28. Standing committees of this council shall be 
 appointed on the following subjects, viz: on elections and 
 returns, and on bills in their second reading, each to con- 
 sist of three members. 
 
 Sect. 29. No committee shall sit during the sitting of 
 the council, without special leave. 
 
 Sect. 30. The rules of proceeding in council shall be 
 observed in committee of the whole, so far as they be ap- 
 plicable, excepting the rules limiting the times of speaking ; 
 but no member shall speak twice to any question, until 
 every member choosing to speak shall have spoken. 
 
 Sect. 31. All messages to the mayor and aldermen 
 shall be drawn by the clerk, and transmitted by him or 
 otherwise. 
 
 Sect. 32. Every ordinance and all resolutions impos- 
 ing penalties, or authorizing the expenditure of money, after 
 being once read for information, if not rejected, shall then 
 be referred to the committee on bills on their second read- 
 ing, which committee shall carefully examine said bills, to 
 see that they are in technical form, and that their provis- 
 ions are not repugnant to the laws and constitution of the 
 state, or the charter and ordinances of the city, and make 
 a report of them to the council. After being reported by 
 said committee, they shall again be read, after which second 
 reading, the question shall be on passing the same to be 
 engrossed; and no ordinance shall be amended except on 
 its second reading. All other resolutions shall have two 
 several readings before they shall finally be passed by the 
 council. 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 Sect. 33. All special committees of the council shall 
 consist of three members, unless a different number be or- 
 dered ; and no report shall be received from any committee, 
 unless agreed to in committee actually assembled; and all 
 reports shall be made in writing. 
 
 Sect. 34. The clerk shall keep a record of the votes 
 and proceedings of the council, entering thereon all orders 
 and resolutions, except such as it is necessary to engross; 
 he shall notice reports, memorials, and other papers sub- 
 mitted to the council, only by their titles, or a brief descrip- 
 tion of their purport; but all accepted reports shall be 
 entered at length on said record. 
 
 Sect. 35. All salaried officers shall be voted for by 
 written ballot. 
 
 Sect. 36. In all elections by ballot, on the part of the 
 council, blank ballots, and all ballots for persons not eligible, 
 shall be reported to the council, but shall not be counted in 
 making up the returns. 
 
 Sect. 37. It shall be the duty of every committee of the 
 council, to whom any subject may be specially referred, to 
 report thereon at the next meeting of the council, or ask 
 for further time. 
 
 JOINT RULES OF ORDER. 
 
 Section 1. The common council itiay at any time when 
 the city councils are in session, give notice by message to 
 the board of aldermen at what time they will be ready to 
 meet in convention, stating the purpose or purposes there- 
 for. The mayor and aldermen shall, as soon thereafter as 
 their convenience will permit, attend in the chamber of the 
 common council ; and on entering the door, the doorkeeper 
 or messenger will announce: “the mayor and aldermen.” 
 The mayor, on assuming the chair, shall announce the 
 convention assembled and its purposes. 
 
 Sect. 2. The rules of the common council, so far as 
 applicable, shall govern the proceedings of the convention ; 
 and on completion of its business and vote to rise, the 
 mayor and aldermen will retire. 
 
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 RULES OP ORDER. 77 
 
 Sect. 3. No business shall be done in convention, ex- 
 cept such as shall have been previously agreed upon, unless 
 by unanimous consent. 
 
 Sect. 4. Messages between the two branches shall be 
 signed by their respective clerks and transmitted by them 
 or otherwise. 
 
 Sect. 5. All by-laws passed by the city councils shall 
 be termed ordinances, and the enacting style which shall 
 be but once recited in each ordinance shall be: “ Be it 
 
 ordained by the city councils of the city of Keene.’ ’ 
 
 Sect. 6 . In case of an amendment of an ordinance 
 agreed to in one board and dissented from in the other, if 
 either board shall request a conference and appoint a com- 
 mittee for that purpose, the other board shall also appoint 
 a committee to confer, and such committees shall, at a 
 convenient time agreed upon by their chairman, meet and 
 confer on the subject matter of the disagreement, and report 
 to their respective boards. 
 
 Sect. 7. When either board shall concur or non-concur 
 in any ordinance, order or resolution sent from the other, 
 notice of such action shall be transmitted to the other 
 board by message. 
 
 Sect. 8. No committee shall act by separate consulta- 
 tion, and no report shall be received unless agreed to in 
 committee actually assembled. All reports shall be made 
 in writing and signed. 
 
 Sect. 9. The report of all joint committees, signed by 
 a majority of the members, shall be made as provided in sec- 
 tion 8, and shall be read first in the board in which the 
 business originated, and afterwards transmitted to the other 
 board if joint action is to be taken upon the subject mat- 
 ter of said report. 
 
 Sect. 10. The mayor shall be, ex-officio, chairman of 
 any joint special committee of which he is a member. 
 
 Sect. 11. At the commencement of each municipal 
 year, the following joint standing committees shall be ap- 
 pointed, viz: on finance, on schools, on lands and buildings, 
 on bridges, on streets and drains, on burying grounds, on 
 fire department, on street lights, on water works and sew- 
 
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 ers, on printing, on engrossed bills, on public parks, on 
 public library. 
 
 Sect. 12. In all joint standing committees, except that 
 on finance, the member first named in the board of aldermen 
 shall be chairman, and in all joint special committees of 
 which the mayor is not a member, the member first named 
 in the board where the business originated, shall be chair- 
 man, and shall call the committee together. All joint stand- 
 ing committees shall consist of one from the board of aider- 
 men and two from the common council, to be appointed 
 in their respective boards, and every joint committee shall 
 report on matters referred to them at the next stated 
 meeting, or ask for further time. 
 
 Sect. 13. No committee shall enter into any contract 
 with, or purchase, or authorize the purchase of any article 
 of any of its members. 
 
 Sect. 14. After the annual appropriation shall have 
 been passed, no subsequent expenditure shall be authorized 
 for any object, without a special appropriation therefor, or 
 by expressly creating therefor a city debt ; and no city debt 
 shall be created, except by the affirmative vote of two-thirds 
 of the whole number of each branch of the city councils 
 voting by yea or nay. 
 
 Sect. 15. Either branch may propose to the other for 
 its concurrence, a time to which both bpards will adjourn, 
 and neither shall adjourn without giving notice to the other 
 board. 
 
 Sect. 16. When a bill or joint resolution shall have 
 passed the several readings required in each board, it shall 
 be referred to the committee on engrossed bills, who shall 
 cause it to be engrossed by the city clerk, and on finding 
 it correctly engrossed shall report it to the common council, 
 when, without further reading, it shall be signed by the 
 president, and then reported to the board of aldermen, and 
 without further reading, shall be signed by the mayor. 
 
 Sect. 17. In all elections by ballot, on the part of the 
 city councils in convention, blank ballots and all ballots for 
 persons not eligible, shall be reported to the councils, but 
 shall not be counted in making up the returns. 
 
CITY OFFICIALS. 
 
CITY OFFICIALS. 
 
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 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS— 1874. 
 
 MAYOR I 
 
 Horatio Colony. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. 
 Ward 2. 
 Ward 3. 
 Ward 4. 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Horatio Kimball. 
 Edward Farrar. 
 
 Don H. Woodward. 
 Francis A. Faulkner. 
 Reuben Stewart. 
 
 / 
 
 Henry S. Martin, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Henry H. Darling, President. 
 Ward 1. Ward 3. 
 
 Alanson S. Whitcomb, 
 
 Francis French, 
 
 Franklin J. Ware. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Henry H. Darling, 
 
 Miles S. Buckminster, 
 
 George W. Holbrook. 
 
 Ward 
 
 Joseph R. Beal, 
 
 James W. Dodge, 
 
 Nathan G. Woodbury. 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Frederick H. Kingsbury, 
 Leander W. Cumings, 
 Charles N. Wilder. 
 
 William Dinsmoor, 
 Oscar J. Howard, 
 Horace Hamblet. 
 Walter S. Whitcomb, Clerk. 
 
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 Farnum F. Lane, City Solicitor. 
 Henry 0. Coolidge, City Treasurer. 
 
82 
 
 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1875. 
 
 MAYOR : 
 
 Horatio Colony. 
 
 ALDERMEN. 
 
 Ward 1. Solon S. Wilkinson. 
 Ward 2. Edward Farrar. 
 Ward 3. Joseph R. Beal. 
 Ward 4. William P. Abbott. 
 Ward 5. Reuben Stewart. 
 
 Frank H. Starkweather, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Frederick H. Kingsbury, President. 
 Ward 1. Ward 3. 
 
 Francis A. Perry, 
 Asa Fairbanks, 
 William L. Davis. 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Allen Giffin, 
 
 William H. Knowlton, 
 Daniel H. Sawyer. 
 
 Ward 4. 
 
 George W. Holbrook, 
 Miles S. Buckminster, 
 Asa Smith. 
 
 Charles N. Wilder, 
 Frederick H. Kingsbury, 
 Charles Shrigley. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 William Dinsmoor, 
 Reuben Hyland, 
 Horace Hamblet. 
 Charles A. Gale, Clerk. 
 
 Francis A. Faulkner, City Solicitor. 
 George W.^Tilden^City Treasurer. 
 
CITY OFFICIALS. 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS— 1876. 
 
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 MAYOR : 
 
 Edward Farrar. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. Solon S. Wilkinson. 
 Ward 2. Thomas E. Hatch. 
 Ward 3. Joseph R. Beal. 
 Ward 4. William P. Abbott. 
 Ward 5. Henry S. Martin. 
 
 Frank H. Starkweather, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Charles Shrigley, President. 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 Francis A. Perry, 
 Asa Fairbanks, 
 Samuel O. Gates. 
 
 William H. Knowlton, 
 Daniel H. Sawyer, 
 William P. Chamberlain. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Asa Smith, 
 
 Orren S. Gleason, 
 Warren W. Mason. 
 
 Ward 4. 
 Charles Shrigley, 
 Josiah M. Woodward, 
 Gardner C. Hill. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Horace Hamblet, 
 Reuben Hyland, 
 Edward C. Thayer. 
 Charles A. Gale, Clerk. 
 
 Francis A. Faulkner, City Solicitor. 
 George W. Tilden, City Treasurer. 
 
84 
 
 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1877. 
 
 MAYOR : 
 
 Edward Farrar. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward L. George W. Ball. 
 Ward 2. Thomas E. Hatch. 
 Ward 3. Ira F. Prouty. 
 Ward 4. George H. Tilden. 
 Ward 5. Henry S. Martin. 
 
 Lucius C. Doolittle, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Gardner C. 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 Benjamin D. Hutchins, 
 James S. Taft, 
 
 Luther H. Starkey. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Orren S. Gleason, 
 
 Warren W. Mason, 
 
 Orlen D. Pratt. 
 
 ill, President. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 William P. Chamberlain, 
 Jason French, 
 
 Harvey Phillips. 
 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Josiah M. Woodward, 
 Gardner C. Hill, 
 
 Joseph Wilson. 
 
 d 5. 
 
 Edward C. Thayer, 
 Fred E. Robinson, 
 George F. Sanborn, 
 Charles A. Gale, Clerk 
 
 Silas Hardy, City Solicitor. 
 Henry 0. Coolidge, City Treasurer. 
 
CITY OFFICIALS. 
 
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 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1878. 
 
 MAYOR : 
 
 Reuben Stewart. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. George W. Ball. 
 Ward 2. George K. Wright. 
 Ward 3. Ira F. Prouty. 
 Ward 4. George H. Tilden. 
 Ward 5. Edward C. Thayer. 
 
 Lucius C. Doolittle, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN ! 
 
 James S. Taft, President. 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 Benjamin D. Hutchins, 
 James S. Taft, 
 
 Daniel R. Cole. 
 
 Jason French, 
 Harvey Phillips, 
 Charles A. Gale. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Orlen D. Pratt, 
 James C. Whittle, 
 John W. Nye. 
 
 Joseph Wilson, 
 Norris G. Gurnsey, 
 Jehiel Harlow. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 George F. Sanborn, 
 Cheever P. Felch, 
 Laton Martin. 
 
 Charles H. Whitney, Clerk. 
 
 Silas Hardy, City Solicitor. 
 Henry 0. Coolidge, City Treasurer. 
 
86 
 
 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1879. 
 
 MAYOR : 
 
 Reuben Stewart. 
 
 ALDERMEN. 
 
 Ward 1. Horatio Kimball. 
 Ward 2. George K. Wright. 
 Ward 3. Jason French. 
 Ward 4. Norris G. Gurnsey. 
 Ward 5. Luther P. Alden. 
 
 Lucius C. Doolittle, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 James S. Taft, President. 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 Franklin J. Ware, 
 
 Fred A. Barker, 
 Charles F. Wilson. 
 Ward 2. 
 
 James C. Whittle, 
 John W. Nye, 
 Caleb Goodnow. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 Charles A. Gale, 
 Clark N. Chandler, 
 Albert 0. Fiske. 
 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Jehiel Harlow, 
 Dexter W. Gilbert, 
 Warren O. Willson. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Cheever P. Felch, 
 
 Laton Martin, 
 
 James H. Smith. 
 
 Charles H. Whitney, James E. Parmenter, Clerks. 
 
 John T. Abbott, City Solicitor. 
 Henry S. Martin, City Treasurer. 
 
CITY OFFICIALS. 
 
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 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS -1880. 
 
 MAYOR : 
 
 Horatio Kimball. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. Charles F. Wilson. 
 Ward 2. Cyrus Piper. 
 
 Ward 3. Jason French. 
 
 Ward 4. Norris G. Gurnsey. 
 Ward 5. Edward B. Tarbell. 
 
 Lucius C. Doolittle, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Dexter W. Gilbert, President. 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 Hiram Blake, 
 James Spencer, 
 Milton M. Parks. 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Jerry P. Wellman, 
 
 Albert 0. Fiske, 
 George W. McDuffee, 
 James H. Fisher. 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Dexter W. Gilbert, 
 
 James W. Russell, George H. Richards, 
 
 Charles W. Buckminster. Charles W. Shedd. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 James H. Smith, 
 
 Sylvanus A. Morse, 
 
 Henry Couillard. 
 
 James E. Parmenter, Clerk. 
 
 John T. Abbott, City Solicitor. 
 Henry S. Martin, City Treasurer. 
 
88 
 
 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 LIST, OF CITY OFFICIALS— 1881. 
 
 MAYOR I 
 
 Ira W. Russell. 
 
 ALDERMEN. 
 
 Ward 1. Charles F. Wilson. 
 Ward 2. Cyrus Piper. 
 
 Ward 3. George W. McDuffee. 
 Ward 4. Dexter W. Gilbert. 
 Ward 5. Luther P. Alden. 
 
 Lucius C. Doolittle, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN. 
 
 George H. Richards, President. 
 
 Ward 1. Ward 3. 
 
 Janies Spencer, James H. Fisher, 
 
 Milton M. Parks, Clark N. Chandler, 
 
 Rufus Freeman. Austin E. Howard. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Stephen L. Randall, 
 DeLos C. Ball, 
 
 Henry S. Couillard. 
 James E. Parmenter, Clerk. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Jerry P. Wellman, 
 James W. Russell, 
 Henry W. Nims. 
 
 George H. Richards, 
 Charles W. Shedd, 
 Zebina K. GraYes. 
 
 John T. Abbott, City Solicitor. 
 Royal H. Porter, City Treasurer. 
 
CITY OFFICIALS. 
 
 89 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS- 1882. 
 
 MAYOR : 
 
 Ira W. Russell. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. Ralph J. Holt. 
 
 Ward 2. George B. Twitchell. 
 Ward 3. George W. McDuffee. 
 Ward 4. Dexter W. Gilbert. 
 Ward 5. Luther P. Alden. 
 
 Lucius C. Doolittle, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Stephen L. Randall, President. 
 
 Ward 1. 
 Rufus Freeman, 
 Albert W. Sheldon, 
 Edwin M. Bullard. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 Clark N. Chandler, 
 Austin E. Howard, 
 Charles Bridgman. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Henry W. Nims, Zebina K. Graves, 
 
 George L. Burdett, Clement J. Woodward, 
 
 Charles L. Johnson. Charles H. Hersey. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Stephen L. Randall, 
 
 DeLos C. Ball, 
 
 Henry S. Couillard. 
 
 James E. Parmenter, Clerk. 
 
 12 
 
 Lewis W. Holmes, City Solicitor. 
 Royal H. Porter, City Treasurer. 
 
90 
 
 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS -1883. 
 
 MAYOR : 
 
 Horatio Kimball. 
 
 ALDERMEN I 
 
 Ward 1. Silas Hardy. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 George L. Burdett. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 George E. Holbrook. 
 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Frederick H. Kingsbury. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Reuben Hyland. 
 
 Lucius C. 
 
 \ 
 
 Doolittle, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN I 
 
 Charles H. Hersey, President. 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 James Marsh, 
 
 Austin E. Howard, 
 
 Clark F. Rowell, 
 
 Virgil A. Wright, 
 
 Daniel C. Howard. 
 
 Henry N. Stone. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Walter W. Glazier, 
 
 Clement J. Woodward 
 
 Asa M. Holt, 
 
 Charles H. Hersey, 
 
 Franklin H. Fay. 
 
 Charles Wright. 
 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Leonard Wright, 
 Marcus Ellis, 
 
 Fred A. Barker. 
 
 James E. Parmenter, Clerk. 
 
 John T. Abbott, City Solicitor. 
 Joseph R. Beal, City Treasurer. 
 
CITY OFFICIALS. 
 
 91 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1884. 
 
 MAYOR : 
 
 Horatio Kimball. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 Daniel C. Howard. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 George L. Burdett. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 Henry N. Stone. 
 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Frederick H. Kingsbury. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Reuben Hyland. 
 
 Lucius C. 
 
 Doolittle, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN I 
 
 Virgil A. 
 
 Wright, President. 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 Martin V. B. Clark, 
 
 Henry Giffin, 
 
 Charles S. Coburn, 
 
 Albert A. Woodward. 
 
 Harrison R. Ward. 
 
 Virgil A. Wright. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Ward 4. 
 
 William E. Burdett, 
 
 Charles Wright, 
 
 Franklin H. Fay, 
 
 Abel E. Johnson, 
 
 John Gould. 
 
 Charles Abbott, 2d. 
 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Fred A. Barker, 
 William H. Elliot, 
 Parker C. Butler. 
 James E. Parmenter, Clerk. 
 
 John T. Abbott, City Solicitor. 
 Joseph R. Beal, City Treasurer. 
 
92 
 
 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1885. 
 
 MAYOR I 
 
 Alfred T. Batchelder. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. Daniel C. Howard. 
 Ward 2. Franklin H. Fay. 
 Ward 3. Solomon F. Merrill. 
 Ward 4. Caleb T. Buffum. 
 Ward 5. DeLos C. Ball. 
 
 Samuel Nims, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Charles S. Coburn, President. 
 
 Ward 1. Ward 3. 
 
 Charles S. Coburn, 
 Martin V. B. Clark, 
 Harrison R. Ward. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 John Gould, 
 Sylvester Spaulding, 
 Charles R. Nims,* 
 George K. Wright. f 
 
 Albert A. Woodward, 
 Henry Giffin, 
 
 Charles Wright, 2d. 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Joshua D. Stevens, 
 Samuel A. Gerould, Jr. 
 Henry M. Nims. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Parker C. Butler, 
 Henry O. Spaulding, 
 Lester K. Stiles. 
 
 James E. Parmenter, Clerk. 
 
 Charles H. Hersey, City Auditor. 
 John T. Abbott, City Solicitor. 
 Henry 0. Coolidge, City Treasurer. 
 
 * Deceased May 3, 1885. 
 f Elected June 27, 1885, to fill vacancy. 
 
CITY OFFICIALS. 
 
 93 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1886. 
 
 Alfred T. Batchelder. 
 
 ALDERMEN I 
 
 Ward 1. Edward Gustine. 
 Ward 2. Franklin H. Fay. 
 Ward 3. Solomon F. Merrill. 
 Ward 4. Caleb T. Buffum. 
 Ward 5. DeLos C. Ball. 
 
 Samuel Nims,* Milton Blake, f City Clerk. 
 
 Edwin M. Bullard, President. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Parker C. Butler, 
 Henry O. Spaulding, 
 Lester K. Stiles. 
 
 James E. Parmenter, Clerk. 
 
 Charles H. Hersey, City Auditor. 
 John T. Abbott, City Solicitor. 
 Henry 0. Coolidge, City Treasurer. 
 
 mayor : 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 Edwin M. Bullard, 
 Dauphin W. Wilson, 
 Azro B. Skinner. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 John Gould, 
 Ephraim Kendall, 
 Robert B. Munsell. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 Charles Wright, 2d, 
 George E. Whitney, 
 Albert W. Green. 
 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Joshua D. Stevens, 
 Samuel A. Gerould,Jr., 
 Henry M. Nims. 
 
 * Deceased Aug. 18, 1886. 
 f Elected Sept. 2, 1886. 
 
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 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS— 1887. 
 
 MAYOR : 
 
 Asa Smith. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. Edward Gustine. 
 Ward 2. Robert B. Munsell. 
 Ward 3. Charles Wright, 2d. 
 Ward 4. Francis C. Faulkner. 
 Ward 5. John Driscoll. 
 
 Milton Blake, City Clerk. 
 
 / 
 
 # COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Edwin M. Bullard. President. 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 Edwin M. Bullard, 
 Dauphin W. Wilson, 
 Azro B. Skinner. 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 George E. Whitney, 
 Albert W. Green, 
 Addis E. Bennett. 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Ephraim Kendall, 
 Frank O. Wright, 
 Nelson R. Towne. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Frederic A. Faulkner, 
 Calvin W. Far well, 
 Jonas F. Whitcomb. 
 
 Andrew J. Williams, 
 Albert H. Hamblet, 
 Garrett J. Landers. 
 James E. Parmenter, Clerk. 
 
 Charles H. Hersey, City Auditor. 
 John T. Abbott, City Solicitor. 
 Henry S. Martin, City Treasurer. 
 
CITY OFFICIALS. 
 
 95 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1888. 
 
 MAYOR : 
 
 Asa Smith. 
 
 ALDERMEN I 
 
 Ward 1. James S. Taft. 
 
 Ward 2. Robert B. Munsell. 
 Ward 3. Charles Wright, 2d. 
 Ward 4. Francis C. Faulkner. 
 Ward 5. Daniel C. Howard. 
 
 Milton Blake, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 George E. Whitney, President. 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 Freeman A. White 
 John M. Farnum, 
 Charles S. Fisher. 
 
 George E. Whitney, 
 Addis E. Bennett, 
 Fred W. Chase. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Frank O. Wright, 
 Nelson R. Towne, 
 George 0. Ward well. 
 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Frederic A. Faulkner, 
 Calvin W. Farwell, 
 Jonas F. Whitcomb. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Frederic L. Pitcher, 
 Stephen L. Randall, 
 Sylvanus A. Morse. 
 James E. Parmenter, Clerk. 
 
 Charles H. Hersey, City Auditor. 
 
 Daniel K. Healy,* Don H. Woodward, City Solicitor. 
 Henry S. Martin, City Treasurer. 
 
 Resigned. 
 
96 
 
 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1889. 
 
 MAYOR I 
 
 Herbert B. Viall. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. James S. Taft. 
 
 Ward 2. Eugene W. Greenwood. 
 Ward 3. Fred W. Chase. ' 
 Ward 4. Frederic A. Faulkner. 
 Ward 5. Daniel C. Howard. 
 
 Jerry P. Wellman, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Gardner C. Hill, President. 
 
 Ward 1. Ward 3. 
 
 Charles S. Fisher, Frank M. Davis, 
 
 Freeman A. White, Frank H. Wright, 
 
 James B. Kellogg. Herbert O. Ward well. 
 
 Ward 2. Ward 4. 
 
 George O. Wardwell, Gardner C. Hill, 
 
 Liberty W. Foskett, Frank W. Nims, 
 
 Charles W. Morse. Frank H. Whitcomb. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Charles P. Pitcher, 
 
 Andrew J. Williams, 
 
 James M. Gowdey. 
 
 James E. Parmenter, Clerk. 
 
 Charles H. Hersey, City- Auditor. 
 Don H. Woodward, City Solicitor. 
 Royal H. Porter, City Treasurer. 
 
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CITY OFFICIALS. 
 
 97 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1890. 
 
 MAYOR I 
 
 Herbert B. Vi all. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. 
 Ward 2. 
 Ward 3. 
 Ward 4. 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Oscar J. Howard. 
 Eugene W. Greenwood. 
 Frank G. Dort. 
 
 Frederic A. Faulkner. 
 Garrett J. Landers. 
 
 Jerry P. Wellman, City Clerk. 
 
 i 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Frank H. Whitcomb, President. 
 
 Ward 1. Ward 3. 
 
 James B. Kellogg, 
 Fred H. Willson, 
 Herbert A. Davis. 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Stephen W. Williams, 
 Elbridge A. Shaw, 
 Herbert W. Keyes. 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Liberty W. Foskett, Frank W. Nims, 
 
 Charles W. Morse, Frank H. Whitcomb, 
 
 Louis M. Richards. Gale C. Shedd. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Charier P. Pitcher, 
 
 James M. Gowdey, 
 
 George W. Zimmerman. 
 
 James E. Parmenter, Clerk. 
 
 13 
 
 Charles H. Hersev, City Auditor. 
 Don H. Woodward, City Solicitor. 
 Royal H. Porter, City Treasurer. 
 
98 
 
 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS -1891. 
 
 MAYOR : 
 
 Horatio Kimball. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. Oscar J. Howard. 
 Ward 2. Liberty W. Foskett. 
 Ward 3. Charles Wright, 2d. 
 Ward 4. Frank H. Whitcomb. 
 Ward 5. Garrett J. Landers. 
 
 Jerry P. Wellman, City Clerk. 
 
 Gale C. Shedd, President. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 George W. Zimmerman, 
 Alexander C. Eustace, 
 William H. Elliot. 
 
 James E. Parmenter, Clerk. 
 
 \ 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 Fred H. Willson, 
 Herbert A. Davis, 
 Christopher J. George. 
 Ward 2, 
 
 Charles W. Morse, 
 George A. Nims, 
 Warren B. Fitch. 
 
 Gale C. Shedd, 
 Joseph Chase, 
 Fred E. Howe. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 Frank M. Davis, 
 Herbert 0. Ward well, 
 William J. Sewall. 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Charles H. Hersey, City Auditor. 
 Don H. Woodward, City Solicitor. 
 Joseph R. Beal, City Treasurer. 
 
CITY OFFICIALS. 
 
 99 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS— 1892. 
 
 MAYOR ! 
 
 Frederic A. Faulkner. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. Janies H. Wilson. * Francis A. Perry.f 
 Ward 2. Liberty W. Foskett. 
 
 Ward 3. Frank M. Davis. 
 
 Ward 4. Frank H. Whitcomb. 
 
 Ward 5. William H. Elliot. 
 
 Jerry P. Wellman, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Fred E. Howe, President. 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 Christopher J. George, 
 James H. Spencer, 
 Joseph C. Reed. 
 
 William J. Sew all, 
 William C. Hall, 
 Oscar H. Fay. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 George A. Nims, 
 
 Warren B. Fitch, 
 
 Edwin M. White. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Ward 4. 
 Joseph Chase, 
 Fred E. Howe, 
 Frank H. Weeks. 
 
 William E. Maloney, 
 John J. Colony, 
 
 Cornelius J. Donovan. 
 Herbert 0. Ward well, Clerk. 
 
 Charles H. Hersey, City Auditor. 
 Don H. Woodward, City Solicitor. 
 Joseph R. Beal, City Treasurer. 
 
 * Deceased April 22, 1892. 
 f Elected May 28. 1892. 
 
100 
 
 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS— 1893. 
 
 MAYOR : 
 
 Frederic A. Faulkner. 
 
 ALDERMEN I 
 
 Ward 1. 
 Ward 2. 
 Ward 3. 
 Ward 4. 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Francis A. Perry. 
 George A. Nims. 
 Frank M. Davis. 
 Fred E. Howe. 
 William E. Maloney. 
 
 Jerry P. Wellman, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN I 
 
 William C. Hall, President. 
 
 Ward 1. 
 Joseph C. Reed, 
 
 Fred A. Bowen, 
 Charles W. Wyman. 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Edwin M. White, 
 Edwin O. Upham, 
 Charles H. Fairfield.* 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 William C. Hall, 
 Oscar H. Fay, 
 Henry E. Lake. 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Frank H. Weeks, 
 Stephen K. Stone, 
 Sidney C. Ellis. 
 
 5 . 
 
 Cornelius J. Donovan. 
 Svlvanus A. Morse. 
 William Q. Shea. 
 
 Herbert O. Ward well, Clerk. 
 
 Charles H. Hersey, City Auditor. 
 Don H. Woodward, City Solicitor. 
 Jerome E. Wright, City Treasurer. 
 
 Resignation accepted May 18. 
 
CITY OFFICIALS. 
 
 101 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1894. 
 
 MAYOR : 
 
 Frederic A. Faulkner. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. 
 Ward 2. 
 Ward 3. 
 Ward 4. 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Lewis W. Holmes. 
 George A. Nims. 
 Albert W. Green. 
 Fred E. Howe. 
 William E. Maloney. 
 
 Jerry P. Wellman, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN I 
 
 Edwin O. Upliam,* Edwin M. White, f President. 
 Ward 1. Ward 3. 
 
 Charles W. Wyman, 
 
 Fred A. Bowen, 
 
 Frank K. Jewett. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Edwin M. White, 
 
 Edwin O. Upham, 
 
 Charles H. Fairfield. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Henry E. Lake, 
 Frank F. Stearns, 
 Charles A. Nichols 
 Ward 4. 
 Sidney C. Ellis, 
 Leston E. Mason, 
 Walter R. Porter. 
 
 James H. Smith, 
 Charles Sherman, 
 James J. White. 
 Herbert O. Ward well, Clerk. 
 
 Charles H. Hersey, City Auditor. 
 John T. Abbott, City Solicitor. 
 Jerome E. Wright, City Treasurer. 
 
 * Resignation accepted September 6. 
 f Elected President Common Council September 6. 
 
102 
 
 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1895. 
 
 MAYOR : 
 
 George W. McDuffee. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. Christopher J. George. 
 Ward 2. George E. Poole. 
 
 Ward 3. Albert W. Green. 
 
 Ward 4. Sidney C. Ellis. 
 
 Ward 5. William H. Elliot. 
 
 Jerry P. Wellman, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Leston E. Mason, President. 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 Frank K. Jewett, 
 Edward W. Gustine, 
 Milan H. Johnson. 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 Frank F. Stearns, 
 Charles A. Nichols, 
 George H. Giffin. 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Flavel Beal, 
 
 Aaron R. Gleason, 
 Charles W. Pierce. 
 
 Leston E. Mason, 
 Walter R. Porter, 
 Wallace L. Mason 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Charles Sherman, 
 James H. Smith, 
 Andrew J. Williams. 
 H. O. War dwell, Clerk. 
 
 Charles H. Hersey, City Auditor. 
 John T. Abbott, City Solicitor. 
 Arthur L. Wright, City Treasurer. 
 
CITY OFFICIALS. 
 
 103 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1896. 
 
 MAYOR .' 
 
 George W. McDuffee. 
 
 ALDERMEN .* 
 
 Ward 1. Christopher J. George. 
 Ward 2. George E. Poole. 
 
 Ward 3. Charles A. Nichols. 
 Ward 4. Sidney C. Ellis. 
 
 Ward 5. Garrett J. Landers. 
 
 Jerry P. Wellman, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Walter R. Porter, President. 
 
 Ward 1. Ward 3. 
 
 Herschel J. Fowler, George H. Giffin, 
 
 Edward W. Gustine, Charles H. Mason, 
 
 Milan H. Johnson. George A. Sherman. 
 
 Ward 2. Ward 4. 
 
 Flavel Beal, Walter R. Porter, 
 
 Aaron R. Gleason, Edward A. Kingsbury, 
 
 Charles W. Pierce. Robert T. Kingsbury. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Andrew J. Williams, 
 
 Charles T. Colony, 
 
 Patrick White. 
 
 Herbert 0. Ward well, Clerk. 
 
 Charles H. Hersey, City Auditor. 
 John T. Abbott, City Solicitor. 
 Arthur L. Wright, City Treasurer. 
 
104 
 
 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1897. 
 
 MAYOR I 
 
 Francis A. Perry. 
 
 ALDERMEN 
 
 Ward 1. Herschel J. Fowler. 
 Ward 2. Flavel Beal. 
 
 Ward 3. George H. Eames. 
 Ward 4. Walter R. Porter. 
 Ward 5. Lest on E. Mason. 
 
 Jerry P. Wellman, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN I 
 
 Milan H. Johnson, President. 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 George F. Little, 
 Warren W. Bissell, 
 Milan H. Johnson. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 George A. Sherman, 
 Osgood W. Upham, 
 Robert Cuthbert. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Charles W. Pierce, 
 Louis A. Nims, 
 Austin A. Ellis. 
 
 Edward A. Kingsbury, 
 Robert T. Kingsbury, 
 Fred E. Barrett. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Cornelius E. Sullivan, 
 Wilson J. Nims, 
 
 Ezra P. Hardy. 
 
 Herbert 0. Ward well, Clerk. 
 
 Charles H. Hersey, City Auditor. 
 John T. Abbott, City Solicitor. 
 Royal H. Porter, City Treasurer. 
 
CITY OFFICIALS. 
 
 105 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1898. 
 
 MAYOR : 
 
 George H. Eames. 
 
 ALDERMEN .* 
 
 Ward 1. Herschel J. Fowler. 
 Ward 2. Flavel Beal. 
 
 Ward 3. Henry N. Stone. 
 Ward 4. Walter R. Porter. 
 Ward 5. Wilson J. Nims. 
 
 Jerry P. Wellman,* Frank H. Whitcomb,! City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Robert T. Kingsbury, President. 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 
 George F. Little, 
 Warren W. Bissell, 
 George M. Reed. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 Louis A. Nims, 
 Austin A. Ellis, 
 Samuel Patrick. 
 
 Osgood W. Upham, 
 George F. Stone, 
 Charles E. Ward. 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Fred E. Barrett, 
 Robert T. Kingsbury, 
 Myron C. Ellis. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Cornelius E. Sullivan, 
 John Driscoll, 
 
 John Deihl. 
 
 Herbert 0. Ward well, Clerk. 
 
 Charles H. Hersey, City Auditor. 
 John T. Abbott, City Solicitor. 
 Royal H. Porter, City Treasurer. 
 
 * Resigned March 17, 1898. 
 f Elected March 17, 1898. 
 
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106 
 
 CITY OF KEENE. 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1899. 
 
 MAYOR ! 
 
 George H. Eames. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. 
 Ward 2. 
 Ward 3. 
 Ward 4. 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Frank K. Jewett. 
 Austin A. Ellis. 
 Albert E. Fish. 
 Fred E. Barrett. 
 William T. Glynn. 
 
 Frank H. Whitcomb, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN I 
 
 Samuel Patrick, President. 
 
 Ward 1. Ward 3. 
 
 George M. Reed, 
 
 Orville E. Cain, 
 
 James E. Marsh. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Samuel Patrick, 
 Frederick M. Hamilton, 
 Herbert C. Fairbanks. 
 
 George F. Stone, 
 
 Charles E. Ward, 
 Winslow F. Harris. 
 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Myron C. Ellis, 
 
 Jedediah C. Estabrook, 
 Frederick E. Kingsbury. 
 
 Ward 5. 
 
 John Driscoll, 
 
 Walter B. Richardson, 
 Ellery M. Blake. 
 
 Herbert O. Ward well, Clerk. 
 
 Charles H. Hersey. City Auditor. 
 John T. Abbott, City Solicitor. 
 Wallace L. Mason, City Treasurer. 
 
CITY OFFICIALS. 
 
 107 
 
 LIST OF CITY OFFICIALS — 1900. 
 
 MAYOR : 
 
 Austin A. Ellis. 
 
 ALDERMEN : 
 
 Ward 1. 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Ward 3. 
 Ward 4. 
 Ward 5. 
 
 Frank K. Jewett. 
 
 Samuel Patrick,* 
 Frederick M. Hamilton.! 
 Edwin O. Upham. 
 
 Fred E. Barrett. 
 
 William T. Glynn. 
 
 Frank H. Whitcomb, City Clerk. 
 
 COUNCILMEN : 
 
 Orville E. Cain, President. 
 
 Ward 1. 
 
 George M. Reed, 
 
 Orville E. Cain, 
 
 James E. Marsh. 
 
 Ward 2. 
 
 Frederick M. Hamilton, 
 Benjamin F. Sawyer, 
 
 James F. Morse. 
 
 Ward 
 
 Ward 3. 
 Samuel Whitney, 
 Robert P. Hayward, 
 William P. Carleton. 
 Ward 4. 
 
 Jedediah C. Estabrook, 
 William H. Woodward, 
 Cadmon D. Robertson. 
 5 . 
 
 John Driscoll, 
 
 Charles Sherman, 
 John J. Donovan. 
 Herbert O. War dwell, Clerk. 
 
 Charles H. Hersey, City Auditor. 
 
 John E. Allen, City Solicitor. 
 Wallace L. Mason, City Treasurer. 
 
 * Resigned Feb. 15, 1900. 
 t Elected Mar. 13, 1900. 
 
INDEX 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Abatements of water rates, how made 27 
 
 Aldermen, board of, rules of order 69-71 
 
 Amendments to city charter 9-13 
 
 Animals at large 54-55 
 
 Annual meeting of councils for organization 7 
 
 for declaring vote for mayor 65 
 
 Assessors, election by councils authorized 12 
 
 how and when chosen 46 
 
 salaries of and when payable 64 
 
 Assistant assessor, how and when elected 46 
 
 compensation allowed 64 
 
 Auditor, election of 15 
 
 shall sit weekly 15 
 
 shall examine and allow claims 15, 16 
 
 salary of 64 
 
 Billiard saloons shall obtain license 59 
 
 restrictions upon, fines, etc 59 
 
 Bonds of city officers required 38, 59-60 
 
 Burial grounds. See cemeteries. 
 
 joint committee on, duties, etc 36, 37, 38 
 
 Burial of the dead 45, 53, 54 
 
 Cemeteries, care and superintendence of. 36 
 
 superintendent of, election, duties, etc 37 
 
 salary, bond, etc 64, 60 
 
 funds how invested 38 
 
 Check lists, how corrected, posted, etc 9, 10 
 
 City charter, with amendments to 1900 5-13 
 
 City clerk, when chosen 58 
 
 general duties other than prescribed by statute 16-17 
 
 salary, bond, etc 61, 60 
 
 shall report all receipts on account of city 18 
 
 City collector, when appointed 47 
 
 duties and requirements of 44-47 
 
 salary, bond, etc 62, 60 
 
 City councils, rules of order 69-79 
 
110 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 City hall, how rented, etc 39, 61 
 
 City messenger, when elected 38 
 
 duties of 39, 61 
 
 salary, bond, etc 62, 60 
 
 City marshal, to be appointed 20 
 
 duties of 20, 23, 54, 55 
 
 salary, bond, etc 62, 60 
 
 City officers, salaries of 61-65 
 
 bonds of, 59-60 
 
 extra services of, how paid 65 
 
 City officials, list of, for 1874 81 
 
 list of, for 1875 82 
 
 list of, for 1876 83 
 
 list of, for 1877 84 
 
 list of, for 1878 85 
 
 list of, for 1879 86 
 
 fist of, for 1880 87 
 
 list of, for 1881 88 
 
 list of, for 1882 89 
 
 list of, for 1883 90 
 
 list of, for 1884 91 
 
 list of, for 1885 92 
 
 list of, for 1886 93 
 
 list of, for 1887 94 
 
 list of, for 1888 95 
 
 list of, for 1889 96 
 
 list of, for 1890 97 
 
 list of, for 1891 98 
 
 list of, for 1892 99 
 
 list of, for 1893 100 
 
 list of, for 1894 101 
 
 list of, for 1895 102 
 
 list of, for 1896 103 
 
 list of, for 1897 104 
 
 list of, for 1898 105 
 
 list of, for 1899 106 
 
 list of, for 1900 107 
 
 City pasture, care of, etc 25 
 
 City physician, when chosen 44 
 
 duties of. 44, 45 
 
 salary of 64 
 
 City solicitor, when chosen 43 
 
 duties of. 43, 44 
 
 salary of 44, 61, 62 
 
 City seal 65, 66 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Ill 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 City treasurer, when chosen 58 
 
 salary, bond, etc 60, 62 
 
 shall pay out money, how 17-20 
 
 shall give receipts in all cases 18 
 
 shall keep and make up accounts, how . 20 
 
 Claims, committees of, aldermen 70 
 
 Collector of taxes, etc. See city collector. 
 
 Committees, joint standing and standing, annually appointed, 70, 75, 78 
 
 special, how appointed v 70, 76 
 
 Committees or officers not to incur debt 16 
 
 Commissioners. See water works, sewers, health officers and 
 public parks. 
 
 Common council, rules of order 71-76 
 
 clerk of, salary 62 
 
 Constables, bonds, etc 60 
 
 duties of. 53 
 
 Cruelty to animals 52, 53 
 
 Dogs, when muzzled 56 
 
 Engineers, when and how chosen 39 
 
 shall perform duties and exercise powers of firewards 40 
 
 may adopt by-laws and regulations 40 
 
 salaries of 63 
 
 Fence viewers to be chosen 58 
 
 Finance, joint standing committee on 19 
 
 duties of. 20 
 
 Fire alarm, superintendent of, how chosen 41 
 
 duties of superintendent 41, 42 
 
 salary of superintendent 64 
 
 Fire department 39-43 
 
 Fire department, engineers of. See engineers. 
 
 wages of members, how paid 40, 65 
 
 pay-roll blanks, how procured 40 
 
 salary of officers of steamer company 63 
 
 Fire precinct, boundaries of. 41 
 
 regulations in regard to buildings in 40, 41 
 
 Firearms and explosives, use of prohibited 60 
 
 Habitual truants 54 
 
 Health commissioners, how chosen 45 
 
 duties and powers of 45, 46 
 
 salary of 64 
 
 Health ordinance 45, 46 
 
 Highways, ordinances relating to 56, 49, 50, 57 
 
 superintendent of, how chosen 24 
 
 duties of superintendent 24-26 
 
 salary, bond, etc 62, 60 
 
112 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Joint standing committees. See committees. 
 
 Joint rules of order 76-79 
 
 Library, Keene public, conditions of acceptance by city 47, 48 
 
 care and management of 48, 49 
 
 board of trustees to be appointed 48 
 
 powers and duties of trustees 48, 49 
 
 Licenses, for shows 60, 61 
 
 Liqupr agent, salary of 64 
 
 Lord’s day, observance of 55 
 
 Marshal. See city marshal. 
 
 Mayor, vote for, annually examined and declared 65 
 
 authorized to draw orders in certain form 17 
 
 , and for certaiji specified sums and purposes 17, 18 
 
 salary of. 61 
 
 Measurers of wood, how chosen 58 
 
 Moderators, salaries of. 63 
 
 Money, how drawn from treasury 17 
 
 Night watch, provisions relating to 22 
 
 Numbering of buildings 50, 51, 52 
 
 Ordinances, how engrossed and published 58, 78 
 
 Overseer of the poor, election provided for 12 
 
 when and how chosen 46 
 
 salary of. 63 
 
 Parks, public, superintendent of, how chosen and duties 57 
 
 salary of. 64 
 
 Plumbers, examiners of, to be appointed 31 
 
 to give notice of change, when 31 
 
 Plumbing, inspector of, and rules 31, 35 
 
 ordinance and requirements 30-36 
 
 permits for 31 
 
 notification 31 
 
 materials 33, 35 
 
 Police, how appointed 20, 21 
 
 duties of. 20, 22, 23, 54, 55 
 
 report of services, salaries, etc 22, 62, 65 
 
 Police court established 7 
 
 justice, salary of. 63 
 
 Poor, overseer of. See overseer. 
 
 Printing, committee on, etc 58 
 
 Public lights and lamps, control of. 26 
 
 Regulations for house drainage and sewer connections 30-36 
 
 Road commissioners, how chosen 23 
 
 duties 23, 24 
 
 Rules of order, city councils * 69-79 
 
 board of aldermen 69-71 
 
INDEX. 
 
 113 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Rules of order, common council 71-76 
 
 joint rules 76-79 
 
 Salaries of city officers 61-65 
 
 Sealer of weights and measures appointed 58 
 
 Selectmen, salaries of. 63 
 
 Sewers, ordinance relating to, rules, etc 30-36 
 
 commissioners of 27, 28 
 
 superintendent of. 28, 29, 30 
 
 connections, permits for, how obtained 31 
 
 rules for drainage and connections 30-36 
 
 Sexton, to be appointed 59 
 
 Snow, protection from, on buildings 56 
 
 Streets. See highways. 
 
 Superintendents. See proper departments. 
 
 Supervisors, election and duties of. 9-11 
 
 salaries to be fixed by aldermen 10 
 
 Surveyors of lumber 58 
 
 Taxes, assessors of. 12, 46, 64 
 
 collector of. See city collector. 
 
 Trees, protection of. 57 
 
 Truant officers and truants 54 
 
 Wages, assignment of 65 
 
 Ward clerks, salaries of 63 
 
 Water works, charter provisions 7 
 
 commissioners to be elected 26 
 
 powers and duties of commissioners 26-28 
 
 may make repairs, etc ' 27 
 
 shall establish water tariff 27 
 
 shall keep certain plans and records 28 
 
 salary of commissioners 63 
 
 superintendent of, how chosen 28 
 
 shall have care and supervision of work 29 
 
 shall make lists of water takers and rents 29 
 
 salary, bond, etc., of superintendent 64, 60 
 
 Weighers, to be chosen 58 
 
 
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