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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SEVEUAL DEPARTMENTS
OF THE
CITY GOVERNMENT OF HALIFAX,
NOVA SCOTIA.
FOR THE MUNICIPAL YEAR 1861-G2.
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HALIFAX :
PRINTED BY COMPTON & CO.
1862.
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GOVERNMENT
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CITY OF HALIFAX
1861-2.
MAYOR.
PHILIP CAETERET HILL, Esq.
ALDERMEN.
Wabd No. 1.— JOHN DUGGAN,
WM. COMPTON,
PETER IMLAY.
« 2.— JOHN D. NASH,
JOHN Mcculloch,
WILLIAM DUNBAR.
« 8.— JAMES DUGGAN,
WM. ACKHURST,
JOHN EGAN.
« 4— W. H. PALLISTER,
W. J. COLEMAN,
SAMUEL TRENAMAN,
« 5.— R. T. ROOMB,
EDWARD LEAHY,
JEREMIAH CONWAY,
« 6— JOSEPH JENNINGS,
JOSEPH KAYE,
M. H. RICHEY, Esquires.
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Recorder— WM. SUTHERLAND, Esq.
Treasurer— LAWRENCE HARTSHORNE, Esq.
City Clerk— JOHN L. CRAGG, Esq.
City Marshal— GARRETT COTTER.
2 CITY GOVERNMENT.
COMMITTEES.
Public Accounts. — Aldormon Ackhurst (Chairman), Nueh,
and Pallistor.
Common. — Aldormon Tronaman (Chairman), McCulloch,
Jennings, Loahy.
Cemetery. — Aldermen Jennings (Chairmrn), Coleman,
Imlay.
City Prison. — Aldermen Eichoy (Chairman), John Dug-
gan, Nash, Jas. Duggan, Coleman, Conway.
City Property. — Aldermen Ackhurst (Chairman), Dun-
bar, John Duggan, Trenaman, Leahy, Jennings.
Streets. — Aldermen Jas. Duggan, McCulloch, Kaye.
Laws and Privileges. — Aldermen Eiehey (Chairman),
Compton, Dunbar, Ackhurst, Coleman, Eoome.
Tenders. — Aldermen Conway, (Chairman), John Dug-
gan, Kaye.
Haclis and Trucks. — Aldermen Compton (Chairman),
Pallistor, Imlay, Egan.
City Hospital. — Aldermen Compton (Chairman), Eoomc,
Egan.
City Bates and JRoad l^axes. — Aldermen Nash (Chair-
man), Jas. Duggan, Conway.
Internal Health. — Aldermen Eoome (Chairman), Comp-
ton, Egan.
(Extract from Minutes of City Council.)
Resolvedj That the Report of His Worship the
Mayor, with the Reports of the various Committees,
be printed in pamphlet form, for the information of
the citizens.
Passed unanimously.
A true ex^)*;;ot.
John L. Crago,
City Clerk.
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MAYORS REPORT.
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Gentlemen of the City Council:
In many of the cities on this continent, the hiw
requires the Mayor to publish an annual report of
the condition of the various departments of the
City Government. No such law exists in Halifax;
but I have thought the practice to be of so useful a
character that I have not waited for the obligation
of a statute to follow the example of the cities
referred to, more particularly as I believe the pub-
lication of such a report by one of my predecessors
in office, Henry Pryor, Esq., met with the general
approval of the citizens.
The reports of the several departments which
follow, will well repay a careful perusal; they have
been taken, not so much with regard to the dates
of their original presentation to the Council, as to
their general bearing upon the branches of the civic
aifairs to Avhich they refer.
Within the past two years some material changes
have taken place in the most important branches of
the municipal government.
From the date of the incorporation of the city to
the year 1861, the street service had been provided
for by statute labor or its equivalent, a road tax ;
and the expenditure on this most important branch
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of tho public service wns orilimirily liniitoJ hy tlio
nmoiint of such tj\x. The collection uiul cxpendi-
tuie of this tax M'cro conducted by a dopiirtuiout
holding a very nnoniulous position in reference to
the City Conncil, being indeed almost independent
of it ; and tho whole organization of this dcpurt-
nient was cumbersome in the extreme, and fitted
only for the roquirements of a rural township, foi
which indeed it was originally intended. In the
year 1801 the City Council appointed a committee
to revise the whole system, who, after careful con-
sideration, made a report, which afterwards became
l.'iw, recommending the entire sweeping away of tho
old system, and the substitution of tlnit which now
prevails; the road tax was abolished, and the street
service is now provided for out of the general reve-
nues of the city, to such an amount as the City
Council may deem proper. A committee, respon-
sible to the Council, is appointed and charged
with the duty of makimj and repairing the streets,
sidewalks, and sewers. Previously to 18C1 there
was no officer or committee to whom was specially
assigned the duty of sweeping, cleaning and water-
ing the streets, removing ashes, &c., from the
premises of the citizens, and other similar sanitory
measures. The Superintendent of Streets was in
the habit of detailing a few of the men in his em-
ployment to this service from time to time as ho
could spare them from his principal duty of making
or repairing streets, but this was necessarily a par-
tial and defective proceeding at the best. By the
act of 1861, how'ever, a committee, known as the
Internal Health Committee, are appointed annually.
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who arc specially charged with those duties, and a
gvuut is made to them from the general revenues of
the city, as in the case of the street committee.
That this division of lahor has heen productive of
])oncrit to both branches, the improved condition of
the streets, both in their construction and cleanli-
ness, may be confidently appealed to.
By the same report it was also recommended to
lay down brick or stone sidewalks on terms believed
to be equitable and reasonable as between the city
and owner of property ; the owner was called on to
find the materials, and the city was to be at the
expense of laying them down ; and as the sidewalks
are a permanent benefit, and not merely for the con-
venience of the present generation, it was proposed
to spread the cost of such construction over a series
of years and raise the money by the issue of deben-
tures payable in twenty years. This also became
law, and the improvement already made in the ap-
pearance of the city, and the substantial comfort of
the inhabitants, can also, it is believed, be appealed
to with confidence by the City Council, in proof of
the wisdom of the measure.
The street committee have also, in the exercise
of the powers conferred on them, inaugurated a
new mode of constructing sewers ; having in every
case where practicable, since the passing of the
Act, caused circular sewers of brick and cement,
on the most approved modern principles, to be
built, instead of the old fashioned stone seAvers.
The brick sewers are not only far more self-cleau-
sing, and therefore less liable to obstructions, but
in point of expense contrast favorably with those
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constructed of stone. They have also been built
with a view to their eventually forming parts of a
general system of sewerage, which can not, since
the compulsory introduction of water into every
house, be delayed many years longer. I would,
however, venture to suggest that whenever such a
measure is undertaken, the principle already re-
ferred to in speaking of the sidewalks as a per-
manent improvement, should be applied to this case,
and that the whole expense should not be laid upon
the present generation, but that those coming after
us, who will derive as much benefit as ourselves,
should bear a portion of the cost.
Were this principle applied at once, a large
reduction would be effected in the annual expendi-
ture of the city, as the interest only, and not the
principal as at present, of the cost of the sewers
being constructed, would have to be provided.
Owing to the importance of the subject, and the
amount of information contained in them, two re-
ports of the Street Committee are appended, to
which, as also to that of the Internal Health Com-
mittee, I would refer for fuller information on these
points.
Within the period already referred to, the modern
improvement of steam fire engines has been adop-
ted, after mature deliberation by the City Council,
and the sending of a committee to the United States,
to witness the practical working of the new system,
and to ascertain as far as possible the particular
style, principle and weight of engines most likely
to suit the local circumstances of Halifax, which in
many respects, but especially its steep hills, differs
MAYOB S EEPORT.
from many American cities; although costing a
large sum in the purchase, and attended with a
considerable annual expense in paying for the ser-
vices of engineers, firemen, fuel, &c., yet it may be
confidently affirmed that the advantages of steam
over human labor are so immeasurable that no tax-
payer will refuse his cordial sanction to the intro-
duction of th's great modem improvement. For the
general state of the Fire Department, I would refer
to the Report of the Chairman of Firewards hereto
appended.
In immediate connexion with this subject, I would
call the attention of the Council to the Report of
the Chairman of Commissioners of Water Supply.
It will be perceived that the Commissioners propose
to reserve the new 24-inch pipe for fire purposes as
exclusively as possible ; and in order to promote
this object, they contemplate placing at the most
eligible points throughout the city, new fire plugs
to the number of eighty. Whatever views may be
entertained of the expediency of the purchase of the
Water Works by the City, it must be admitted that
in this view, so large an additional number of fire
plugs, supplied by a main of enormous capacity,
cannot fail to be an important addition to the means
of protecting the city from the ravages of fire.
It may not be out of place to mention here, that
it is hoped from this source to obtain important aid
in abating the nuisance of dust, at a comparatively
trifling cost. The existence of dust in such im-
mense quantities ready to be whirled in blinding
clouds by every breeze, is a serious drawback to the
comfort of the citizens as well as a positive pecu-
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niary loss of no trifling amount. The Internal
Health Committee have directed their attention
during the past season to this subject, and have al-
ready made some advances towards remedying the
evil, for which the thanks of the community are due
them ; and should they in another year complete
the work and thoroughly abate the plague of ' dust,'
they will have accomplished an improvement second
perhaps to no other in promoting the health and
comfort of citizens and improving the value of their
property.
I would call attention to the Reports of the City
Marshal and Captain of the Night Watch ; that
these departments are in an efficient state, and that
the Marshall and Captain discharge their respective
duties ably and faithfully will be admitted by every
member of the Council, and I am happy to add my
testimony to the fact. Whether a re-organization
of the whole Police Force, and blending the Day
and Night Police into one body, the members of
which shall be liable to serve night or day, as they
may be ordered, would not be better than the pre-
sent system of having two distinct forces, under two
distinct heads, is a subject for the consideration of
the Council, or rather, in the first instance, of a
Committee, already appointed, and whose report no
doubt will greatly assist the Council in arriving at
a correct judgment on this important head. Until,
however, such a change is sanctioned by the Coun-
cil and the law altered to enable it to be carried
out, the present system must be continued ; and
although susceptible of improvement in the mode
suggested, it will no doubt be sufficient, as it has
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been in times past, to protect the persons and
property of the citizens, which I think I may confi-
dently state are as safe in the City of Halifax as in
any city of Europe or America.
Among the minor improvements effected within
the past two years, I may mention the abolition of
the barbarous custom of employing climbing boys to
sweep chimnies which had previously prevailed, and
substituting the use of improved modern machinery;
this change, I believe, not only meets the approval
of the humane, but has been found to be advantage-
ous in its practical operation, and is attended wUh
no cost to the rate-payers.
It is an opinion, which is gaining ground in the
present day, that " gas" is itself a valuable police ;
the City Council recognizing the truth embo-
died in this opinion, have added during the past two
years considerably to the number of lamp posts in
the streets ; thus, as they believe, adding to the
security of life and property, and materially promo-
ting the comfort of the citizens, at a small cost to
the tax-payers.
The re-painting of the obliterated names of the
Streets, and re-numbering the houses, may appear
to be a matter of small importance, but it has added
largely to the comfort and convenience of the in-
habitants, and well repays the moderate cost of effect-
ing it.
With regard to the other departments of the City
Government, I can only refer to the Reports of the
respective Committees, which afford every informa-
tion on the several heads embraced in them. Those
Committees give a large portion of their time and
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attention gratuitously to the public service, and any
degree of efficiency or improvement visible in them
are due to those gentlemen and the subordinate
officers under their direction.
I cannot, however, conclude these remarks, with-
out earnestly calling the attention of the Council and
the citizens at large, to the crying necessity for the
establishment of a Juvenile Reformatory in this city.
Hardly a week or a day has elapsed since I was
elected to the office of Mayor, that has not brought
with it some urgent claim for such an institution ;
juvenile oiFendersof both sexes are constantly brought
before the Police Court, charged with thefts and
other similar offences, who ought not, either for
their own sakes, or for that of justice, to be dis-
missed unpunished, and yet the only alternative is
to send them to the City Prison, where at present it
is impossible to separate them from a crowd of old
and hardened offenders. The numbers of these youth-
ful criminals are far greater than would be ima-
gined. To pass over their offences unpunished is to
lead them to think that the commission of a crime
is not a matter of serious importance, and can be
perpetrated with impunity, while to punish them in
the only mode at present in our power, is but to
harden them in crim^e. To allow the present state
of things then to continue, is deliberately to allow a
race of criminals to be growing up in the midst of a
Christian community, without making the efforts due
both to them and to ourselves, to rescue them from
their unhappy condition. Were the Legislature to
give the Council power to sentence such youthful
offenders to longer terms of imprisonment than the
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period of 90 days, which now forms the limit, and
which would be too short and utterly useless for
educational purposes ; and were the children care-
fully instructed in the various branches of a com-
mon, useful education, that which now is calculated
to fill us with alarm for the future, might be made
a blessing both to the community and to the objects
of our solicitude.
I leave the subject in the hands of the Council,
and I am confident that both from them and from
the citizens at large, it will receive the considera-
tion which its importance appears to me to demand.
In conclusion, I beg to thank the members of the
Council, and the ofl&cers of the various civic depart-
ments for the support and cordial assistance which
they have ever kindly extended to me in the dis-
charge of those duties which peculiarly devolve on
the office of Mayor. .^^
I am, gentlemen.
Your most obedient servant.
PuiLip Carteret Hill,
Mayor.
September 22, 1862.
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ESTIMATE OF EXPENDITURE, 1862-3.
Aldermen's OrFidE.
July 2nd. isiL'.
The Committee of Publie Accounts met this ihiy. and
••.manimouHly agreed to recommend for adoption tlie tbl-
Jowing Estimate of ExjiendUure for the current year, viz.:
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Mayor, ^£250
Recorcier, 200
€itv Clerk, 250
-Assistant Citv CIvrk, 175
<'itv Treasurer, ^00
<1e"'rk of License, 150
<'ity Assessor, 100
Ward Assessors, HCj
€ity Architect, 125
Superintendent of Streets, 200
Clerk of Streets, 75
City Marsiuill, 200
Constables, 1040
Kight Watch, 936
Excess of Expenditure over Es-
tii.uites of last year, 416 14 I
Jailor, 20
Health Inspector, 100 G
Keeper of Markets, 100
Inspector of Weights, &c., 50
Keeper of City Clock, 15
Keeper of City Court House, 50
Sweeper of Markets, 30
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Internal Health.
As per estimate of Committco for
cleaning, watering, and cloaring
Streett* of Ashen,
City
Prison.
£1250
(foveniov's salary,
175
Keeper Mo. 1,
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Meilienl offleer.
30
Servant to attend h
orse.
25
MainteiuiiK'e of criminals.
650
Kxeess of expenditure over esti-
mates of last year. 827 11 9
Expended in erection of building
to ]^t May, 1862, 9594 14 11
Borrowed on Bonds, 9500
l)iftbrencc to be provided far, 94 14 11
Cc)ntriiet of John Mumford for
finishing the dome of City Pri-
son, 162
200)4 6 ^
Iniebest.
nebcji lures on old street
<lebt. 9000 540
Debentures on City Hos-
pital, 9500 570
Debentures on City Pri-
son. 9500 560
Debentui'cs on Ordinance
Buihlings, 536 9 9 33 7 9
Loan Jbr side walks, 3000 180
B(^rruwed from the Bank*
to ])ay for Steam Fire
Engines and Hose, 2773 18 6 166 8 8
2049 K)
IWSURANCE.
l-^itv Hospital Buildings, 3500
ritv Prison do. 2000
:Market House, 3000
Engine House, S. Garden Road, 350
City Court House, 1500
Engine House, Grand Pai'ade, 250
Fish Market, 100
Total,
10,700 85 l>
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Board of JIeai.tii.
Modicul Officer, £60
Socrotary, 25
Kent of HoHpital buikling nml at-
tciidamr. 100
KxcosH of fxpenditure ovei* esti-
mates oi" last year, 948 2 11
Fire Departmknt.
As per estimate — Enjj;inc Service,
Pumj)H and Wells,
C!()Utiiigent fund,
Keeper of Engine House and Su-
pervisor of Tanks,
Ladders and Carts,
Seeretary,
New Hose Reels,
W. Canard. Eaq., per contract for
cleaning, finding in oil. and at-
tendance. No. 2 Steam Fire En-
gine, 250
\V. Moir, contract for same, sup-
plies and attendance. No. 1 Steam
Fire Engine, ' 240
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UK NT.
200
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25
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70
Street Service.
As per estimate of Street Commissioners,
Miscellaneous.
( --as Companj' — For Street Lamps, 760
City Buildings and
Market, ' 55
Printing and Stationery. 300
Repairs to City Property, 450
Fuel for City Offices, 50
(/ommrs. Poor for City Paupers, 1324 6
Lunatic Paupers at Insane Hos-
pital, 300
Contingent fund, 694 9 5
Excess over estimate of contingent
fund last year, 812
Instalment on Steam Fire Engines, 500
1133 2 11
422 10
490
2707
5245 9 11
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Aint. brought forward,
Dodiu't resources of the (Mty for
present veiir from the followiiii;
sources, viz. :
From Jjiquor and Auction Licen-
ses,
Exhibitions,
Hacks and Trucks,
Police Fines,
Do. Fees,
Fees in Mayor's Court,
City Marshall's Fees,
Rent of City Property,
License for City Sweeps,
Kents of Bum Boats,
Poll Tax estimated,
Rent of City Hospital,
£20,200
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100
250
140
144
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1000
400
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4200
Total amount to be assessed for 1802, £10,000
The Coramittoo of Public Accounts beg to report that
they have .carefully pi-epared the anniuil estimate oi
expenditure for the current year, and have used every
effort in their power to reduce it below that of last year,
but have found it impossible to do so, owing to the very
large expenditure over and above the estimate of 1801.
The Committee arc desirous of placing the estimate before
the Council, and the Public, in as clear a light as possible,
and to do so they have classed every department in its
order, showing the amount assessed for 1801, with the
over-expenditure, and the amount to bo assessed for 1802,
making such remarks as naturally suggest themselves.
The departments are arranged in the following order,
viz. : _ . , - — - > , -
Salaries. — The most of the salaries are fixed by law, and
the Committee have no power whatever to alter them ;
they stand in the estimate of this year i)recisely the same
as that of last year.
Night Watch. — In this department the estimate of 1801
was £936 ; the expenditure over and above the esti-
mate is £416 14 1, making the total amount to bo asBessed
for this year £1352 14 1.
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Tho ovor-oxponditiiro in this dopnrtmcnt is not to 1h>
vondortMl at, when wo take into oonsideration tho incroasod
tiirco tliat ha<l to ho providod, to j)n>to('t tlio fitizeiiM
airaiiiHt incoiidiariMni and hur/xiarioH, MJiii'li wore of tro-
quont oecurronc'C durin;^ hist fall, and throuj^li tlio wiiitoiv
Tlio C'oniniittoo foci confident that it was a wiso expondi-
liirc, and ono loudly called for hy tho citizens.
City Prison. — The expenditure in this estahlishmont.
over the estimate of last 3'ear, is £827 11 0. In a<lditioii
to this amount your Committee tiiul that i:l>r)00 have heen
horrowed on City Debentures, and that 4:9,504 14 11 have
heen expended in tho construction of the huildinj^s up to
1st May, iSdii. leaving a balance to be provided foi- in the
estimate of tliis 3-ear of £04 14 11, together with tiie
amount of Mr. Muniford's contract for tinishiiig the dome
of tho Prison, amounting to ,£102 ; making tho expen-
diture over and above tho cstinnite of 18(51 £1084 s.
Tho total anjount to bo assessed for City Prison this year
is £2004 S. The C^omniittoc feci that the increased
expense of this department is pai'tly owing to tho incroasd
efticioncy and numbers of tho Police and \ight Watch, by
which means tlie number of prisoners kept at tho City
Prison at tiie expense of tho Cit}- have materially increased,
having been frequently as high as 85 at one time, and
somotimes even 95.
Intercut. — The increase in tho Interest account arises
from the additional sums of £2000 borrowed for Brick Side
Walks, and £2.77o 18 for Steam Fire Engines and Jlose.
making a ditl'erenco over tho estimate of last year of
£280 8 8.
Insurance — The premiums of Insurance remain pi-ecisely
as in the estimate of last year, £85 0.
Board of ITealth.—Tho estimate for 1801 was £025 0.
but tho Committee find that £948 2 11 have been ex])ended
over and above tho estimate, which (as tho ('ouncil are
awarc^ was caused thi'ough that dreadful disease. Small
Pox, spreading so extensively through our City during
tiie early part of last year. This expenditure could not
possibly bo avoided.
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In con«oqnonco of tho Ilospitnl bein^ lot to tho Militnry.
tliu uHtiimitu for tliiu yeur iu £i-iO less thnn thu cstiinutu of
IHOI.
Fire Department. — LuHt year the oxponditun^ in this
(li^mrtinent diil t»ot exceed the estimate, wliich was JtHtJO;
tl»is year it is £422, muiiinu; u ditferenco of i.'23M less tlian
tlie estimate of ISOI. The contract for keepiiii^, cleaning,
oiling and engineering; the Steam Fire Kngincs are the
same as hist year, i;4l(0 0. Tlie ('ommittoc would re-
mari< that tliey have ])rovided in the estimate a first
instalment of £500 on the cost of tho Steam Fire Engines
and new Ilose.
Street Service. — The estimate of last year was £2550 ;
this year it is £2707, nuiking a difference over tlie estimate
»»t last year of £157.
Internal Health. — The estimate of 1861 in this depart-
ment was £1100; the estimate for 1862 is £1250; the
<lifteronco is £150.
Miscellaneous. — Under this head a number of services
are embraced, such as Gas Lights, Fuel, Printing and
Stationery, Contingent Fund, Repairs of City Projterty,
&c. Tho Committee also find thai tho amount required
for the support of City Paupers at the Poors' Asylum is
£1324 6, and for su])port of Lunatic Paupers at Insane
Hospital £300, making in all £1624 6, which the Com-
mittee have no power to alter. Tho amount required for
Miscellaneous purposes last year Avas £6U1S (J 2; the
amount required to be assessed this year i>* £5185 9 11,
shovvin}; a difference of £832 16 3 less than the estimate of
last year.
The Committeo also have to remark that the resources
of the City for the past year, in several departments, have
largely increased, while others have fallen far short of
the estimate, which is shown as follows : For Liquor and
Auction Licenses tho increase is £200; Exhibitions, £3;
Hacks and Trucks, £80; Police Fines, £250; Police Fees.
£25; Fec3 in Mayor's Court, £75; City Marshall's Fees.
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1:40 ; ♦Vom Bum Br)ats, £100, Tho li)t;\\ incmi>»o in tlU's^'
rti'Vfral (U'jmi'tnu'iitrt in t775{, vvliilo tlic I'oll Tax, wliicli
was I'stimati'iJ at tlTjOO last yt'ar, Jias t'alK'ii Mliort at U!i>t
jCaOO. It is pivsuiju'd that tiic ivmjuivos »»1' tlio City lor
tlio ciirrciit your wilJ I'ouw (|iiiti' up to that of lusi yoar.
Till! C()Miinitt<'c also ll'd it to In' tlu'ir <|ii(y to call llu'
cai'iK'nt atti'iitioii (if the {'<*mi('il to the di-ht iliiu 011 (Ji'tli-
iiaiici' l<uil(liii;i;s, The (!oiuiiiittoe aiv of tjpinioii tlial as
lliisi- Itiiildiii^s have no I'xisti'iico tho (Jelit shoultl In- ]>aiii
ott', aitd rocoiuiDoud that provision slioiihl ho made in tho
t'stimato of lii'xt yoar.
ill (•(tiifltisioii, tho Coiuiuittoe \k'^ to stiito that <tiily
.£'1.'),0(J0 taw he aKsossod under tho present aet ; thoy 'voiild
'therefore rot'omnu'tdd that JippJioalion he iiiado to lliw
Kxcolleiicy the Lieutenant Govenior lor li-avo to assess
the sum (if JtiJOOO additional jirovided for in the Aet.
All of which is respeeti'ully suhniitted ibr coiiKidoratiou
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EEPORTS OF STREET COMMITTEE.
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FIRST UEUOllT.
Street's OFJrrrE,
Foln-iniry 4tli, IW'l.
Tiii: CoMuiut I (.'<,' of Streets, in presorting tlils thoir tii'si
Aiiini;tl liojtort to the City Council, liuvo to express tlieii
rei:i'(.i tiiiit it should luive been so long tleUiyed. and iis
expluii:uiou may be allowed to stiite tliiit in the past sea-
sou tlic wovk uudei' tlieir control v;as continued iip to a
iniicli later date than in ahuost any previous season, aiul
that it was only bnmght to a close at that particular por-
tion i-t' liie year when tlie private affairs of the Conmu'ttec^
as Avt'll as the rest of the business community, demanded
their almost exclusive alteiiti(Mi. The time of the Superin-
temkrit was also so much occupied while the works were
pi'dgrcssing. that the Comniitteo cotdd not reasouahlx
rc(|uirc hint to make measurements and prepai'e statistic.*-
ftir a report.
The ( 'ouucil is aware that 2.'>olH. was the airtount provi-
ded i.\- the estiimite of the i)ast 3-ear for Street purposes,
and jilared at the disposal of the Committee ; but out ot
this amount £1050 had been previously voted away by the
Council for Hie construction of several Sewers; the balance,
lAOOA. was found, as the season advanced, to be totalU^
iiisuHitient to keep Jin repair the Streets of thi-s widely
extended City, tneasnviug as they do nearly Hfty-tivc-
niik's ill length, and a large proportion of which, from
their voekv nature, and the distance thev ai'e remote
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from any available n^aterial whevx'wilU to improve
it is t'tuiid very ditHcult and expensive to contend with.
'rhi> being the case, a further grant of (iOO/. was asked i'ov-
and ubtaiued by the Committee : out of this last grant, by
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order of Council, Avas constrneted the 117 yai'ds of exten-
sion of the Dresden Kow Sewer, at a cost of 102?.; the
balance, with about 50/. additional, overdrawn from tlu-
TreaHurer, has been e.xpended. The Council may be in-
clined to censure this overcxpenditure, but the Committee
feel bound in their own defence to state that the un-
finished state of worlv ordered, the numerous calls
made upon them for openinij; up Sewers, Avhere the
proi)<'rty of citiaens was sutfering from the overflow of
water consequent upon the sto])pagc of those Sewers, with
some other matters urgenth' pressed upon them by mem-
bers of Council, as well as citizens outside, rendered thi^-
unavoidable and beyond control.
Turning tirst to the Sewers ordered by the Council, tlu-
Committee are pleased to be able to report that t'hey have
been pronounced by all who take an interest in these mat-
ters as improvements in the right direction, and as judi-
cious ex])cnditHre of the public nionies. The Sewer iir
Dresden Mow, running through the grounds of Philip Let •
son. Es(].. and the Konuui Catholic Cemetery, 305 yards in
length, being built of l)rick, in the fcn-m of a cylinder. Avith
a diameter of 8 feet, when extended, will, it is believed, be
sulticient to drain the whole of the vast area of ground
(called Spring Garden) upon which a city in itself is fast
vising, fur all time to come, and become the great outlet
for any system of sewerage which may hereafter be devised
for that locality.
The Sewer in Pleasant Street was ont> loudly called for.
as uj) to the time of its construction the citizens frequent-
ing that great thoroughfare Avere offended by the stench
from, and the unsightlincss of, house drains ap])oaring on
the surface. It is 210 yards in length, and cost ll^U/. Eefori'
noticing an}- other, the Committee A\-ould remind the
Council that this Sewer Avas granted to the petition ot
J.J. SaAvyer, Esq., and other citizens residing along Plea-
sant Street, and constructed under chapter 48 of the
Local Acts of 1800. They Avould therefore suggest to tin
Council the propriety of at once appointing arl)itrators t(-
assess the proportion whi,ch said citizens arc buuud ti-
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conti'iluitc towarda its construction. The Sewer from
Water Street clown Hurt's Wharf has also boon eoiistrueted
K)f brick, but of much smaller dimcnsioiis than the Drcfsileu
Row Sewer, haviiij^ only a diametor of 20 iuches ; and the
■Committee wiJl hero remark that wherever it is at ail
practicable it is their intention in future to confine them-
selves entirely to thi.s sy«tem of Se\vera<;e, believing as
they do that besides being cheaper it is a decided improve-
ment upon the *yst«m hitherto adopted in this city.
The Hewer in Victoria Lane was considerably extended
towards the watei*. and in a southerly direction, opened
aip nearly its entire length, and thoroughly cleansed.
A great benefit was tlius conferred upon the citizens iu
that locality. In connection with this Sower the Com-
mittee would refer to tlio petition of Mrs. Fishci-, referred
to them b}' the Council. They found this citizen suli'ering
from an overflow of water into her premises from some
old unused Sewer; and after repeated attempts on the part
of tiie Superintendant to discover itn source, which always
resulted in e.vpense and disappointment, the Committee
entered into an arrangement hy which Mrs. Fisiier, in
consideration of the sum of ten pounds, agreed to construct
drains for her own relief, and to forego forever in behalf
the projierty all claims against the city. His Honor the
Recorder has very kindly drawn up for the Committee u
legal document sotting forth the facts, which having been
executed by Mrs. Fisher, is now forwanled to the Council
in order that it may go upon tlie n'cords of the t'ity for
reference in all time to come. The Council will nut have
failed to notiee that the Sewers already mentioned are in
the Soutii end of the city. Turning, then, to the IS^orth,
the committee re))ort that two extensive and imjioitant
.Sewers have been constructed in that portion of the city,
viz. : one in Creighton Street, from Cunard Street on the
!North to empty into Cornwallis Street on the South; it is
200 yards in length and cost liibl. For one half the cost
of this Sewer an assessment must bo made on the owners
of property in its neighborhood, in the same manner as
that of Pleasant Street. The other Sewer commences in
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Park Street, or at East side of Coiniuon. runs down
Cogswell Street until it reaches May nan! Street, down
which it turns and runs the length of one block until it
turns into Falkland Street, and runs thence to eni])ty into
the Sewer in Gottingen Street. The conunittcc describe
the course of this Sewer the more minutely, as il differs
somewhat considerably from the route along which a number
of citizens in that end of the city petitioned to have a Sewer
made, and consequently the Council are not in a position
to assess those citizens until the committee sliall have
constructed a Sewer in accordance witli tiieir j)etition,
which it is projwsed to do in the coming season. The
committee were influenced in adojiting tiie route Just
described for this Sewer by the Superintendent, as well as
by their own judgment, as they considered it would bo
unwise to throw the surface Avater, together with the
drainage of so large a space of ground, d(nvn the small
and badly constructed Sewer which ))assef< the present
Garrison Church Field on its Southern boundary. lOxpe-
riencc has taught them the wisdom of the calculation then
made; for during the last fall the Sewer referred to,
without water from any new sources, actually hurst in
• several places.
A number of Sewers of smaller dimensions have been
constructed in various parts of the city. viz. : One under
the street now in course of formation at Fort Massy (being
a continuation of South Street). The extension of this
street without the Sewer would have inflicted great injury
to the Eoman Catholic Cemetery, and at a future day
would ro(]uire one hundrcl times as much more of the
Muhlic money to construct it. The Sower across Studley
Road, catching as it does a great ]iavt. if not all, the
surface water of that road and of the adjoining flehls, and
turning it into its proper channels, thus saving the Sjiring
(rarden Road and the property along the line thereof from
heing destroyed, must prove a great beneflt and a vast
saving of expense. Again, the Argyle Street Sewer, if
the Council persist in compelling citizens who own ]iro-
perty along its lino to take advantage of it, and connect
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llioii" liouKC drains therewith, will have remedied a nnisanco
which hud become unheai'able in the heart of the city.
The construction of this Sewer was greatly delayed by the
Contractor, who proved unworthy of the leniency shewn
him by the Committee in not demanding security. The
work, subsequently, had to be taken olf his liands and
finished l)y the Superintendent, thereby costing more than
it otherwise would. The Sewer in the street immediately
above the one just mentioned Avas also much needed ; it is
TiO j-ards in length and cost 30/. Here the owners of
]>roperty have already nnide their connections, and parti-
cipated in its advantages, and the committee believe are
ready to pa}' their share as soon as the assessment shall
have been made. The Sewer in Prince William Street
also remedied a nuisance long complained oi", and improved
the a]ipearaKcc of the street; and the committee suggest
that if more cannot be obtained from other citizens, the
]>ctitioners for this Sewer, be called upon to pay at once
into the City Treasuiy the amounts severally ])romised by
them. The Sewer aci'oss Park Street, receiving the water
from the South. west angle of the Citadel, which formerly
overflowed and destroyed the road leading to the Protes.
tant Cemetery, mnst also be the means of effecting a-
considerable saving in this locality. A Sewer also was
opened up at the corner of Spring Garden Poad and
Birmingham Sti'eet. and eidarged and improved.
Passing now from sewerage to work done on the sui*.
face, the committee point with some degree of satisfaction
and pleasure to the substantial improvement in the road
from Her Majesty's J)ockyard to llichmoiul l)e])ot. No
less than 900 yards of this principal artery of the city have
been put in the most thorough repair on the very best
])rinciple known to modern road makers, and is now
acknowledged to be a first rate road, which hitherto was
nothing better than bog and almost impassible. In Park
vStreet, too. i'vom Spring Garden Poad to Morris Street, a
much needed and important improvement has been made.
The committee have in view some alterations in the lines
of this street to which they will invite the attention of
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tlio Council i\t some future day. In Ward 8, from Sack-
villc Street to Duke Street, a new sidewalk has boon made
on the Western side of Ai'gyle Street, and the im))rovo-
inent uf the previous years in this locality continues,
thereby placing some four squares of this ward in perfect
order. Barrington Street too, in its centre, from St. An-
drew's to St. Mary's Church, has been thoroughly Macadam-
ized, and its sidewalks partly repaired. The committee are
also proud to be able to state tliat under tlieir management
not one single load of the worse than useless material
hitherto used in making up the streets of the city has
been alioAved to be brought in. Nothing but the broken
stone from the City Prison; some from the Military Pi-i-
son at Melville Island ; some broken in the City ; and tlie
sea gravel from the shores of the Basin have been used.
The first supjdied 1,472 loads of 12 bushels each, or 17.»)G(>
bushels, which have been principally expended in keeping
Water Street in good repair. From Melville Island 4GJ>
loads of 12 bushels each, or .5,634 bushels, Avere purchased
from Her Majesty's Commissariat Department at a very
low rate, and proved the handsomest and best material
for streets ever seen in this city. It was expended on
Granville, llollis and Sackville Streets, Those broken in
the City, amounting to 990 bushels, were also used in
Water Street. Of the sea gravel for sidewalks and streets
generally, there has been used 2,475 loads, the freighting
of Avhich gave employment to a number of persons on the
borders of our city who but for this would have been most
of the summer idle. The Superintendent and Clerk of
Streets have prepared for the committee the statistics
hereto annexed which will pretty accurately shew the
amounts expended for the material used, the labour em-
ployed, and the various Wards, — which it is hoped will
give general satisfaction to the Aldermen repi-esenting
them. The Council will also observe that while particular
attention was paid to the principal portion or centre of the
city, the suburbs were not forgotten; considerable repairs
to culverts and roads were there made. Those on the
road leading to the North West Arm deserve notice. On
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this road tlu'i-c woro no loss than four culvoi-ts extending;
not much nioi-o Uian liiilf way acrosn the road, ronderin;^
it oxtrenu'ly (hini!;eroiis to lif'o and jn-opcrty, particnhirly
at ni<^l\t. Those have been turned into one ol' incrca»ed
size; the road widened, and renthired satb.
Before ieavins,' this portion of their rejiort the comniittec
\to^ to assure the Council thai they liavo used their very
hest jud-jjinent to expend the funds entrusted to them
wliere the requiivnietits seemed greatest, and without
desire to favour oi- prejudice any ward or locality what-
ever.
BRICK SIDEWALK SERVICE.
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The Council is awaro that the law under which this ser-
vice was performed, was acted upon in the past year for a
first time, and was therefore a new feature in our city
street service, and one which taxed tlie patience and
energy, and increased the anxiety and labour, of the
committee, to an extent hitherto unknown (the committee
ventures to say) to City Commissioners or Committees of
Streets. Tlie number of citizens interfered with; their
vnrious contending interests; the difficulty in obtaining
proper materials; together with the other ol)stacles which
usually jiresent themselves in antagonism to any new un-
dertaking, have ail tended to render the labor of the com-
mittee in this branch of their duties particularly oi;orouH
and disagi-ecable. Persevering, however, they had the
gi-eat ])leasure at the close of the season of seeing no
less than l.oSl yards of these sidewalks laid ; affording to
our citizens the satisfaction of being able to pass through
the whole heart or centre of the city almost without soil-
ing their feet, and to strangers an evidence that our city
bad become alive to the necessity of keeping pace with
the cities of the neighbouring provinces and of the United
States, and that in respect of good sidewalks and streets,
as well as .splendid stores and warehouses, Halifax was no
longer to be a bj-e word and a reproach. The amount of
valuable material placed at the disposal of the committee
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I\V the introduction of brick nidcAvalks Imvc cn.aMcd tliom.
at a trifling; cost, to effect a very j^reat iniiii-ovornent
in various parts of the streets; thus, PophirGrovo, I"ishoji,
Sackvillo, Dnko and Ban-ack Streets have been hir,<>;ely
benetitted and im])roved. i^frsun, tho OMpIojinent given
to tlie various tradesmen, such as masons, stoiiu-cutters,,
car])enters. and others, must have hirgely added to the
prosperity of the city; for the committee think it cannot
be denied, that where hi?)or is abundant there business of
all kinds must bo correspondiui^ly increased.
The siiU'walks tlins hiid by the committee have been
[aid atari expense of 1,810?., viz.: for CHrl)in<^, (il^i/.^ for
bricks, 571?.; for labour, 632/. The two lirst mentioned
Mums, cr 1,IS4?., will have to be paid into the treasury by
the ov.iiers of property for whom those sidewalks liave
been laid. For this service the sum of 1,000/. vva.;-; bor-
rowed, which, by tho foregoing account, will be si ewn to
have been ample and to spare. But us the committee, if
allowed by this Hoiiorable Council, intend extending these
improvements to Water Street in the coming season, a
much lii 'ler amount Avill have to be borrowed.
The coiimittee feel bound to bring to the notice of the
Council (he handsome and pleasing mai.ner in which the
officers in charge of the Koyal Engineer Department res-
ponded to the requisition made iipon them by the com-
mittee t'oi' material for sidewalks in front of the properties
under their charge; and they cannot help contrasting it
with the condnct of the Provincial Government, who,
having the care of one of the most beautiful squai-es in our
city, and having been among the first called upon, have
not, up to this time, to the knowledge of the committee,
made tiie least effort, or shown anj^ disposition, to improve
the sidewalk around the square.
The committee also desire in this report to bear testi-
mony to the indefatigable manner with which the Super-
intendent at all times attended to the duties of his office,
and to the desire always manifested by him to carry out
the wishes of the committee, to impart information, and
to render their duties in connection with him as agreeable
as possible.
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The sum of 80^. was provided in the entimato of last
Year lor uaniiiig the stroots and iiuinbcriiig anew tlio
hoiises of tlie city, ft was entrusted to tills coiuiiiittuo to
injilve tlic necessary arranjjjenients for efl'ectiiig tliis nnul«
needed aiid desiralde intprovenient. Tliey luive, tlierefore,
TO report that tenders for tliis service were taUeii, tlie
work awai'dcd, and altliougli somewhat dehiyed is now
^einj^ vi<;'<)rously carried on, and, it is lioped, before tlic
Hrst of May will be entirely completed.
In conchision, the committee desire to assure the Coun»
oil that at no time dnrin<^ the proj^ress of the work in
(■onnection Avith the sidewalks, was there tl»c least <lispo-
sition on the part of the Committee to act arbitrarily to-
wards any citizen, or to cause them unnecessary e,x])ense;
but they deemed they would not be acting justly to them-
selves, who alone were re«sponsible to the Council, if they
allowed any person, no matter how high in authority, to
usurp their functions or interfere in any manner with the
duties which have been assigned them by the Council.
Complaints have been made of the sidewalk^., and the
«'Ommittee are free to contest that in some cases the work
was not satisfactory. They think it hut fair to ask a
liberal allowance to be made for the difHculties which had
to be contended with and surmounted ; they are conscious
of having put forth their best exertions for the welfare of
the public, and of having devoted more of their time to
the supervision of this great work than could reasonably
be expected from then\; they, therefore, crave from the
Council in<lulgencc for the past, while they trust the cx-
perience gained, together with the amendments in the law,
will enable them to prosecute their work in the present
year with more pleasuixi to themselves and more beuelit
to their fellow citizens.
Respectfully submitted,
JOSEPH KAYE,
JAMES DUGGAN, )- Committee.
JOHN Mcculloch,)
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SECOND REPORT.
Street's Office,
IGth Juno, 18G2.
The 7th Section of the Streets Act of 1861 provides
that the Committco of Streets shall submit to the City
Council, for their approval, an annual estimate of the
amount to be expended on the Streets of the City in each
year. This wise provision of the act was adopted, no doubt,
to limit the power of the committee, and to vest in the
Council itself the absolute control over the funds set apart
for this department of the public service. In oi'dcr, there-
fore, that the Council may bo enabled to exercise their
power and control at the proper moment, and in such
manner as to them may seem best; and, further, to rid
themselves of any undue responsibility in the laying out
of these funds, the Committee of Streets beg leave to lay
before the Council the following estimate of the amount
required for the streets service for the present year,
together with all the information it has been possible for
them to collect in reference thereto. The committee will
also avail themselves of the opportunity thus afforded to
report the decisions they have arrived at on certain peti-
tions referred to them by the Council in the past as well
as in the present season, and further to report other sub-
jects which have come under their official notice, and
which they deem it their duty to make known to the
Council, and to solicit their advice as to the proceedings
to bo instituted.
The first item in the estimate for the present year is the
sum overdrawn and expended by authority of the Council
in the past year, viz., £650.
Commencing with Ward No. 1 : In connection with this
ward the Council referred to the committee last year the
petition of W. J. Coleman, Esq., and others, for a sewer in
Spring Garden road. T^.e advanced state of the season,
and consequent want oi funds, prevented the consideration
of the jietition at the time it was presented ; but it having
been again demanded, the committee have given every
attention to its claims, and have determined to recommend
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its immediate construction in the following manner, viz.:
Material — bricks and cement; cylinder shape; witii a
diameter of 12 inches. Locality — commencing at a point
in a lino with western side of Summer street, running
along southern side of Spring Garden Eoad in an easterly
<lirection 311 yards, or until it falls into the brook at
Pyke's bridge ; average depth under present surface, six
feet ; cost, £330. This plan, if adopted, will aftbrd ample
drainage, not only to the property of petitioners, but also
to the range of buildings conten.i.lated to bo built in that
locality by Aldci-man Nash; and, if extended westerly to
Carlton street, to all property in the adjoining block. On
the surface the committee contemplate raising the sidewalk
and paving the gutter in front of the Convent property
and that of Alderman Coleman, as far as corner of Tower
road — a work of great necessity, as this place has been
in a very unhealthy condition for years past, and in spring
and fall seasons is s I.iost impassible. It is also propose
extend the sewer which now terminates at the gate of the
Catholic cemetery, and to turn its waters into the brook
nearer South street; to extend Park street to South street,
and to open a connection by means of a sidewalk through
that street to Tower road. In this w^ard also, a vast im-
provement is being made in Queen street by the cutting
away of an embankment which for a long time has been
an eyesore to the frequenters of this beautiful locality.
From the material thus provided, South street is fast being
made up, and will soon be passable, at all events for pedes-
trians. Queen street, as well as Eottenburg and Pleasant
streets, and Spring Garden road, is being repaired, the
gutters paved, and sidewalks gravelled; and already the
sum of £80 has been expended. The whole estimate is
£300.
Ward No. 2. — In this ward have been already expended
£130; and Albermarle, Grafton, Argyle, Harrington, Plea-
sant, Blowers, Sackville streets, and Spring Garden road,
have been paved, sidewalks made up, and otherwise vastly
improved. The further repairs are estimated at £70, —
making a total of £200. In this ward, also, the sewer
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petitioned for by Mr. McGill (whoso petition was referred
to tliirt eon) nut tot') is of first iniportaneo and is stronj^Iy
rceonjnicnded to the Council. Tlic foniniittoo, if so uutiio-
vi/A'd, will constniot it in tlie sanio nuiinier and at about
tlio same cost, viz., £110, as that constructcU last season
at Hart's wharf, Ward h
Ward No. 3. — In tliis ward the committee recommend
the clearing out of the mouth of the Prince street sewer.
This is a work of necessity, as a piece of a flat and badly
■constructed sewer in that section of Water street lying
between Sackvillo and Prince streets will, if this is not
■attended to, be rendered entirely useless, and cause consi-
derable damage to property in the locality. It is also in
contemplation to fui'ther improve George, Albermarle,
Orafton, Prince, Duke and Barrington streets; the whole
amount required is estimated at .£200. As brick and stone
•sidewalks are about being laid in the lower portions of
thij ward, the committee would earnestly recommend
to the Council to exert all its influence with the Pro-
vincial Government to liave the sidewalks around tho
Provincial building attended to during tho present season.
Ward No. 4. — In this ward tho committee contemplate
carrying out tho impi'ovements suggested by the Aldermen
of tho Avard, and estimate for this service £250. A portion
of Duko street, near Neville's corner, will be cut awa}',
«nd Barrack street, in that section between Duke and
Buckingham, repaired in the same manner as was AVater
street la.st year. The committee rcjiort that last season
they made strenuous cflForts to obtain the consent of tho
officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance to allow the sower peti-
tioned for by J. Dutfus and others to pass through the Ord-
nance yard, but without avail, — although they arc
•of opinion tliat the citizens have some rights in this
locality which ought not to be overlooked. The drain
petitioned for by Murphy and others, last year, is reported
against, as it passes through private property.
Ward No. 5. — In this ward tho committee have had
their attention called to tho necessity of constructing a
sewer in Lockman street. It was petitioned for by Alder-
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hlill aiixioiiK for Its coiiHtnu-tion, and williiij^ to \n\y thoir
proportion of oxponso. The Ahlornien of tlie ward re-
coniinond it, and tlie (.'oniniitteo are HatiHtioil of it» neoos-
Kity. The Ahlermen of Ward No. al«i> urgent ly recpiest
n Hower for tiuit ](orti«»n of tlie same street lying \vithii\
tlioir boundaries; hut for tliis there have, as yet, appeared
no jtetitions. Lockinan street, tal<en in neetions, nieasiires
as foMows, viz.: from North street to Artz's hme, 217
yards; from Artz's lano to Gerrish street, 211 yards; from
(ierrish street to Cornwallis street, .'JTO yards; in all, H2H
yards, its entire length. Of this distance there is sewerago
in one section onl^', viz.: hetween Artz's lane and CJerrish
street, and that very imperfect, and for n very short dis-
tance. Tlio petition of Alderman lloomo nnd others
asks for JJOO yards, jr from Cornwallis street to Gray's
lane ; and the Aldermen of Ward G ask for [217 yards,
or from North street to Artz's lane ; thus leaving only
BOO yards (and that in the centre section) unprovided
for. The committee would therefore recommend that an
C'ft'ort bo made h}* the parties interested, to obtain petitioiii*
for the whole, and that the Council do, in that case, order
its construction. The calculations made by the committee
are as follows : Material, bricks and cement; cylinder or
egg shape ; diameter, twelve inches ; depth below surface.
Seven feet ; to run through centre of street ; to empty at
cross streets; cost, £1085, or £1 5s. per yard. If all this
cannot be accompl/s.,ed, the committee recommend the
construction of that portion at least petitioned for by Al-
derman Eoome and otho'-s, viz., 300 yards, at a cost of
£375. In this street the committee contemplate paving a
considerable portion of the gutters. Cogswell street next
occupied the attention of the committee. A sewer was
petitioned for in this street last year by Heed and others,
but for reasons ex])lained in annual report of street com-
mittee was not constructed ; the committee recommend it
this year. The length of sewer required hero is 134 yards,
viz. : from Maynard street until it meets the present sewer
in eastern end of Cogswell street. This section of sti-eet
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1h vock to tlio vory Kurfaco, ntul the «cwt>r rocommondcd
will l»c' Iniilt of'tho mntorial cxcavutt'd, and in CHtlinati'd at
.t2'ii2. Ill ooiuK'ction with tiiis sowor it in qiiito ]iOH8ii)lo
tiiat 8omc conHitU-nililo jyortioii of tlio old nowor will liavo
to ho takt'ii up and oidar^'t'd. Tlio cominittoo alwo intend
niakin;^ a sidewalk and paving the gutter on the north
wide of thiH ntveet. Alhi-o street, Huino ward : In this street
the Aldermen of the ward ask for a eontinnation of tho
sewer Homo time Hiiieo cojninoneod; it is not petitioned for,
hut the committco arc of opinion that an tho people are
not ahlo to eontrihuto, tho (Jouneil shoidd not delay for
a moment to order its construction. For sanitory rea-
hons alono this course ought to bo adopted, and tho
immediate building of it may eventually save tho city
luindreds of pounds, Tho length required is 1«4 yards.
The locality being stone, tho sower is recommended of tho
material excavated ; and tho estinmtcd cost is £109. In
Water street, a nuisance exists on the western side, oppo-
site tho property of O'Xeil and others. Tho committee
think this, too, ought not longer be borno with, and for a
)viiH(ly they recommend tho building of a sewer from a
j>uiii( opposite No. 290, to run southerly to meet and
empty into tho sewer constructed by Mr. Cunard in 1801.
This will be built of brick, with a ('"amoter of 12 inches,
uud will cost i:91; the distance is 90 yards. In this
ward the whole of Brunswick street is fast going out of
repair, and a good deal of paving in other streets is re-
quired. For the impi'ovements contemplated on the surface
i:20U are asked, viz. : for North street and North AVest Arm
road, £75; Kempt road, £25; other portions, £100.
Ward No. G. — In this ward tho only sower asked for has
been already recommended. For the surface improvements
actually necessary, tho estimate is £250, and tho sugges-
tion of tho Aldermen of tlio ward, as far as possible, will
be adhered to.
Tho committee beg to remind the Council that in all tho
calculations made for tho various wards. Water Street has
been kept constantly in view, and tho committee are de-
lermined t-o keep it thoroughly McAdamizcd Avith the
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broken stone from the City Prison. So important do thcj""
deem this, thnt they would earnestly recommend to the-
Prison Committee and the Council not tO' allow the labor
of the prisoners to bo diverted to other channels.
The committee further recommend to the Council that
whenever petitiojis are entertained for sewcraj^e, that the
utmost care be taken to a,scertain whether or not the
petitioners are the major part of citizens owning property
along the lino of the contemplated sewer, otherwise the
assessment cannot be legally made. The committee do
not approve of the principle of the present sewerage law;
but while it remains unrepealed, th« Council must be guided
by it ; and it is essentially necessary to attend to the sug-
gestion here thrown out, to prevent the Council from being
imposed upon.
RECAPITULATION :
Overdrawn, 1861,
Ward Ko. 1, Sewers and Surface.
" No. 2, "
No. a,
No. 4, "
No. 5, "
No. 6, «
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5S0
310
200
250
1456
521
£3967
If the Courcil order only the portion of sewer in Lock-
man eti'cet, petitioned for by .Tloome and others, the above
amount will be reduced £600, or to £3307. Of this amount,
at a low calculation, the poll tax Avill provide £700, thus
reducing the amount to £2607. Add to this £100 for the
roads of the Common (for the firat time provided for in
this way), and we have £2707 to bo borne upon the gene-
ral assessment. But upon the completion of the sewers
there will have to be repaid back into the Treasury the
sum of £468, viz. : half cost of Coleman sewer, £165; Lock-
man street sewer, £187; Cogswell street sewer, £116
Eeferring to the report of the Committee of Common,
w^hatever opinions may be entertained by the members of
the present committee, there can bo no doubt that former
committees have claimed and exercised control over the
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Streets of the Common. The committco recommend that
the Council ordain tliat hereafter none other tlian the
Committee of Streets shall have any control over said
streets.
Tlie other subjects referred to in the first paragraph of
thi>s report are : first, the bow windows of the store of
B. 0'l!feil, in IIolHs street, which project some 8 inches
over the line of street, and are reported by the Superin-
tendent as an encroachment. The report and corresj^on-
dence on this subject are hereto annexed. Secondly, a
claim made by Mr. Michael Power, of Spring Gai'denEoad.
to some 13 feet of ground in front of his premises, corner
of said road and Queen street, which has hitherto been
deemed a portion of the public highway, and the receipt of
a note from that gentleman forbidding this committee
exercising any control over the same. The letter is hereto
annexed.
The committee would also recommend to the Council
the opening of negotiations with Mr. Cunard, for the
removal of the old buildings and consequent widening of
the sidewalks to the northward of Cunard's Avharf, as it is
the opinion of the committee that that gentleman will
accede to any reasonable request of the Council in refe-
rence thereto.
The committee desire also to inform the Council that
they have laid out the new line of Park street from Eot-
tenburgh to South street, and that two s])lendid houses
are now in course of erection thereon. They would there-
foi'e recommend to the Council that the pi'opcr authorities
be empowered to have the deeds of that j)ortion of Park
street allowed to be sold, made out, and the transfer of
the land made to the purchasers, for the sums mentioned
in a former report of this committee. It is advisable that
the same should be done Avithout delay, that parties may
have sufficient time to remove fences, &c., before the sum-
mer season passes away.
Respectfully submitted.
JAMES DUGGAN, ")
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EEPORT OF INTERNAL HEALTH COMMITTEE.
The Internal Health Committee, in submitting their
Eeport, beg leave to state that they have had, as it were,
to initiate a system whereby to conduct the duties en-
trusted to them.
By the Street Act, passed in 1861, the committee was
called into existence ; and upon it devolved the business of
attending to the keeping clean and watering of the streets
during the summer ; and in the winter season to the level-
ing of snow, and keeping free from obstructions the gutters
and other water courses. Besides these attention was paid
to the removal from yards, &c., of ashes, offal, and such
like accumulations. In some instances the labors of the
committee have been extended to the partial repairing of
streets, and making surface or French drains to carry off
water where no sewers are made.
At the time of appointment of the present committee,
the sum of £674 Ss. 3d. was at their credit, in the hands of
the Treasurer. By the assessment of this year tlie further
sum of £1250 was placed at their disposal. From the Ist of
October, 1861, to the 27th of September, 1862, £1399 1.5s. 6d.
have been expended, leaving a balance unexpended of £524
7s. 9d. A statement of expenditure is hereto annexed.
The operations of the committee during the winter and
spring months consumed a large portion of funds ; but the
money so spent may be looked upon as true economy.
The many benefits resulting wei-e plainly visible. In
previous years the snow was allowed to remain in heaps,
and as a consequence when it melted away in the spring,
the roads got injui-ed by rapid thaws, the ti'avelling made
disagreeable, not to speak of the lafpiness of the season
before the streets got thoroughly dry. During the last
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winter, however, particular attention was paid to the
leveling and spreading of the snow after heavy falls, as
well as to the breaking up of accumulations of ice. It is
almost needless to say that by so doing both melted away
very quickly, and the water having free access through
its courses, flowed more rapidly off the streets than it had
done in previous years.
As soon as practicable the streets were thoroughly
scavengered, and the scrapings, valuable for their fertili-
zing properties, were carted away to farms on the penin-
sula. It may not be out of place here to remark that so
great is the value set upon dust and ashes in some of the
cities in Great Britain, that the expense of cleaning the
streets and ash bins is balanced by the sale of ashes and
dust. A very different state of affairs exists here, how-
ever, but from what cause thecommittee are not prepai'cd
to say. Last spring an advertisement was published,
asking for tenders for the scrapings. No response was
made ; and it was only when the city went to the expense
of collecting the mud into heaps that it was carted aAvay
for farming purposes. Since the Ist of June up to the
present time the accumulations from the surface of the
streets have had to be taken away by carts employed for
the purpose.
The streets being well cleansed in the spring, had the
effect of lessening the dust to a very considerable extent
during the past summer.
From the beginning of May to the end of the month the
labors of the committee have been chiefly directed to the
cleaning and watering of the streets. For the latter pur-
pose four carts have been kept in use. As is done in other
cities, the committee inaugurated the system of watering
by means of hose attached to hydrants. Owing to the
disturbed state of the water works, the whole of the hose
could not be made available. Wherever it has been used
for the purpose, it proved very effective. Greater eflicicncy
and more satisfiictory results in this branch of the service
may be anticipated when the improvements in the water
works are completed. While alluding to this subject, the
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committee "would respectfully urge upon citizens the
propriety of watering in front of their premises. Whei'e
this has been done during the past season, assistance has
not only been affoi'ded the committee in their endeavors
to allaj'^ the dust, but great benefit must have resulted to
the individuals by the preservation of their property.
A mong the many other benefits conferred upon citizens
by the labors of this committee, is the carting away of
ashes, ofl:al, sweepings, &c., from their premises. This is
effected at a cost of £4 10s. per week.
Frequent complaints having been made of the encum-
bering of streets over which a large amount of traffic
passes, a bye-law has been enacted, at the suggestion of
the committee, prohibiting vendors of goods from exposing
their wares for sale on the public thoroughfares. It is
hoped that this law will bo rigidly enforced, as every inch
of space is necessary for the ever-increasing traffic of the
city, particularly along Water street, which is already
found too narrow for the public accommodation.
The various works performed having been detailed, the
committee would beg to remark that the cleansing of the
streets, by a projier system of scavengei'ing, is called for,
both by the requirements of health and comfort. It has
been very justly sai*.' that streets are the reservoirs,
whence we are supplied with fresh air; and if it be impure
in them^ it is impure everywhere. It is not enough to
prevent the access of foul air from untrappcd and un-
washed drains, but also from surface filth, and remains ox
any kind accumulated 'in the streets. Further, dirty
streets cause dirty houses, dirty clothes, dirty persons ;
every one walking in them in wet weather carries into his
house some portion of dirt to increase the difficulties of
domestic cleanliness. In dry weather the same effect is
perhaps more powerfully produced, bj^ constant clouds of
dust.
As many as 112 men were employed during some
days in the winter and spring. The committee take leave
to call attention to the fact that a largo number of the
men so usefully employed (as well as their families) would
probably have become in some shape or other a burdou on
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society, without the public deriving any benefit from
tlieni.
The oommitteo trust. that any imperfections in tlieir
past operations vriii bo overlooked. They can assure the-
Council that their best efforts have been used for the
effectual performance of the various duties assigned thorn ;
but as complete success is only gained by experience, they
ti'ust that future offoi'ts will prove mox'o and more satis-
factory, and that a greater degree of improvement will be
'Visible from year to year. It is pleasing, however, to bo
able to report that many of our most respectable citizens
have borne unsolicited testimony to the benefits vesidting
from the labors of the committee. This in itself is some
recompense for the onerous duties they have had to per-
form.
It weald bo unfair to close this report without bearing
testimony to the indefatigable manner in which the
Health Inspector has performed his duties. Moreover, it
is but justice to say that many of the services heretofore
pci-formed during the winter by the Superintendent of
Streets, now devolve oi\ Mr. Spike. Those extra labors
tlio committee trust will be taken into consideration by
tlie Council, and as in the last year that gentleman will ho-
]iecuniarily compensated.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
KICH'D. T. EOOME, Chairman
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EXPENDITURES FROM OCTOBER 1st, 18G1 TO
SEPTEMBER 29th, 1862.
Paid accounts duo from May to Nov., 1801, viz :
For shovels and scrapers, 814 20
Couplings, &c., for hose, 6 80
New watering cart, 90 00
Repairing watering carts, and handles
to picks, shovels, scrapers, &e. 122 95
Blacksmitli's work at carts, wheels,
&c. ; also, making picks, scrapers,
chissels, and sharpening picks, &c. 100
Painting cart, 1
New sprinklers, valves, &c., for wa-
tering carts, 66 05
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Octr. — Services of laborers employed
at scraping and sweeping the
streets, opening gutters, clear-
ing gratings, drains, &c., four
weeks from ith Octr. to 1st of
Novr., 1861, 149 00
Horses and carts removing the
sweepings, &c.
Do. watering the streets.
Removal of otfal, ashes, &e.
2 doz. birch brooms,
Novi*. — Services of laborei's employed
as above, 4 weeks from 1st to
29th Novr., 124 GO
Horses and cart removing scra-
pings. &c. 60
Removing offal, ashes, &c. 48
2 doz. birch brooms, 1
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2 70
48 00
1 20
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Deer. — Services of laborers cleaning
streets, removing ice, &c., 4
weeks from Nov. 30 to Dec. 27, 41 80
Horses and carts for removing
scrapings, &c.
Removing offal, ashes, &c.
2 buckets for cleaning drains,
$407 03
267 04 J
240 09
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Carried forward,
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Amount brought forward,
Jati'y. — Hoi'vices of laborers employed
in removinjpcefrom liydrunts,
fire plugs, j^ratings, &e., five
weeks from Deer. 28th to Jan.
Feb
81014 88
3l8t, 1862,
8G 20
Eemoving offal, ashes, &c.
60 00
— Services of laborers employed
levelling snow, removing ice.
&e., 4 weeks from 1st to 28th,
347 00
Eemoving ashes, &c.
48 00
Cab hire of chairman,
50
March. — Services of laborers employed
levelling snow, removing ice,
&c., scraping streets, &c., 4
weeksfrom 1st to 28th March,
Removing offal, ashes, &c.,
Cab hire of chairinan,
214
48
32. i
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63
April. — Services of laboi-ers emploj'cd
scraping and sweeping the
streets, cleaning and opening
gutters, drains, &c., 4 weeks
from 29th March to April 25th, 339
Removing scrapings, &c., 16
Removing offal, ashes, &c., 48
Cab hire of chairman, 1
Posting bills, 1
4 doz. birch brooms, 2
May. — Services of laborers employed
as above, 5 weeks from 26th
April to 29th May
Removing the scrapings, .&c.,
Watering the streets.
Removing offal, ashes, &c.,
Cab hi i"o of chairman,
1 scraper,
Making box for offal from market,
3 doz. birch brooms.
Posting bills,
40
92
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50
50
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495 93
173 49
10 13
60 00
1 00
85
19 50
1 80
3 75
146 20
- 395 50
262 95 J
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409 33
Carried forward,
766 45
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Aniount brought foncard,
June — Services of laborers employed
in cleaning streets, 4 weeks
from 30th May to 27th Juno,
Removing of Hcrapings, &e.,
Watering of streets,
Removing aslies, offal, &c.
8 (loz. pick and shovel handles,
8 dozen birch brooms,
July — Expense of cleaning streets, gut-
ters, &c., 5 weeks, from 28th
June to 1st August,
Pemoving of sweepings, &c.
AVatering streets.
Removing ashes, offal, &c.
Cab hire.
Handling picks and shovels ; 3
doz. birch brooms,
2 scoops.
Truckage of broken water cart,
Sundries,
Aiigust — Cleaning of streets, gutters^
drains, &c., 4 weeks from 2nd
to 29th August,
Removing sweepings, &c..
Watering streets.
Liming gratings.
Removing oftal, ashes, &c.,
7 doz. birch brooms,
Handling picks and shovels,
Truckage,
Cab hire,
Sept. — Cleaning streets, &c, 4 weeks
from Aug. 30th to Sept. 26,
Removing scrapings.
Watering streets.
Removing offal, ashes, &c..
Painting and Glaring,
Cab hire.
Sundries,
3 doz. birch brooms.
62995 311
297 05
100 89
8«> 14
54 00
3 00
1 80
472 38
107 72
25 90
90 00
2 17}
2 92}
8 00
75
1 75
326 37
95 57
49 12
9 68.}
72 00
4 20
1 00
'?5
3 00
261 53
81 69
25 84
72 00
4 70
3
3
1
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35
80
493 48
766 60
561 19}
453 91
Carried forward^
$5270 50
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Amount brought forivard, 85270 50
Messrs. Plinlcn & Kelly, for hose, coiip-
lin^CH aiul l)ranfla'H,
Blac'ksinitli work,
l^epiiirs of wutoriiif; carts,
Messrs. Boyd & Son, of Boston, for
hose, &t'.
Fitting up room for property of the
coinniittco.
78 40
HI 03
ilO 00
111 50
31 50
828 43
85598 93
List of Property helong'ng to the City in charge of the
Internal Health Committee.
3 watering carts (boxes).
1 do. (puncheon).
3 pieces leather hose, -with couplings, &c., for water
carts,
250 feet 2 inch rubber hose, and 3 branches for do.
200 feet 1 inch rubber hose, and 2 branches for ditto,
with 4 extra tops and couplings.
8 picks,
15 shovels.
3 reels and lines.
2 buckets,
3 rakes.
3 wheelbarrows.
3 large watering pots, 1 small do.
1 handcart.
2 whitewash and 1 dust brushes.
1 stamp.
7 iron scrapers, 1 wood do.
6 spanners.
4 scoops.
3 chissels.
1 extra brass coupling.
2 doz. birch brooms.
1 tin box.
2 casks on carriages, with force pumps, hose, &c.. re-
ceived from Fire department.
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REPORT or CHAIRMAN OF HREWARDS.
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To His Worship the 3Iayor and City Council :
Gentlemen,
I have to report for your information, the following state
of the Fire Department, viz.:
Fire Engines. — There are two Steam Fire Engines,
''Victoria" and "Albert," nearly new; they are well
found, and in the most efficient order. There are also five
Hand Engines, which are in the most perfect working
order. No. 2 hand engine has been laid aside as useless. •
Hose Reels. — There are nine Hose Reels, two of which
are new, and all in perfect order. Besides these there arc
two or three old reels that are kept in i*eservo.
Hose. — The department is well supplied with Hose
There are 3,500 feet of Boyd's patent hose in use, and 1400
feet of leather hose. The cotton hose is nearly now, and
the leather hose is in good order. In addition to this are
2000 feet of Boyd's patent hose in reserve, which has never
been wet. It is kept nnder the charge of the Chairman
of Firewards, and is always ready at a moment's notice
for any emergency.
Firemen. — There are one hundred and fifty able bodied
men as Firemen, who ai-e divided into seven divisions, each
commanded by a first and second Lieutenant ; and the
whole are presided over, and under the command of, Capt.
Patrick Lyons. In addition to the above there are one
hundred lads, called Reel Boys, who volunteer, and whose
duty is to look after and work the I'eels at fires. These
boys, as a general mile, eventually become Firemen.
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AXK AND LaDDKU COMPANY. — It coiisists of iUmilt twoiity-
livu men lis Axcmiicii, and twelve Ludtlor nu'ii. nil of wliuin
iire under tlio control of proj)er otHeers. 'I'liis toiupiiny
i.s well Huppliod with axes, ladders, and ladder carts. Kjve
of the Company arc the only men who are pai<l for work-
ing at tires. They are paid one dollar tor each man
present at every actual tire.
Of the perfect or<i;ani/,ation of the whole Fire Dejiart-
mont, I have only to refer Your Worship and the City
Council to the Firojuen's Procession on the Twenty-tirst
of Juno last.
Ill conclusion, I have only to state that, with rej^ard to
Arc plugs, &c., I can say hut little at present ; a large
numher of now fire plugs arc just being introtluced by the
Conimissionors of Water Supply, and it is believed that
they will bo most efReient for extinguishing fires, and
perhaps in a short time niay cause an alteration to be
mado to some extent in the organization of the Fire
Department.
Respectfully submitted.
W. ACKHURST,
Chairman Fire Wards.
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THE CITY WATER WORKS.
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To His Worship the Moijor :
Sir.—
In ufC'onlimc'c with your roqiiost, I Uc^r to siil)mit sonic
jmrticiilai's rcspoctini; tlio Watt'i- Worlcs of the City.
liy III) art of till" Jjoi^iNJatiiro, pas.sod ir>tl» day of A|>ril,
lH(il, the City of Jfalifux was on>]iowon'<l to piiivlui^to from
the Halifax Wator Company tlu' real and pergonal pi-o-
porty, riulits. and i)rivik'<j;os of said ("onij)any ; and tiio
ti'anwfcr was made a('ror(lint!,Iy on 1st day of July in tlio
Name youi'. The priee j)aid to tlie Company was i:r)(),OOU,
The City lieintj further empowered by tlie net to raine
money on dehenturew. snfflciont for tiie pnrehaso of the
work.^, and tlieir .sultsequent extension and improvement,
tlien proeoedi'd to borrow fnnds for those objects. The
amount burrowed in ISOI was £71,000, and in 18(}2 an
additional sum of .£20,000, makinju; £01,000, wliidi iH the
Avhole amount borrowed on account of Watcv Works up
to this date. The account at present stanUs as under:
Amount bon-owed on debentures, £91,000
1.K8S.
Paid Halifax Water Company for Works, £50,000
Total amount expended uj) to 1st Au^.,
1S()2, for iron and lead pipes, stop
cocks, freiyfht, duties, contracts of va-
rious kinds and lai)or, besides payment
of interest on debentures to date,
15,000
71,000
Balance ii. hands of the City Treasurer Ist Aug.,
1802, £20,000
The number of men at present employed upon the
works is 190.
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Tho wfttor rntps oollootod at this offlco from July, 1S«51.
to Miiy, 1S(12, amoimtiMl to XiWSO
Pn»l»iiltl(' amount lo bo {ollci'tcd from May, 1S()2,
to November, 1802,
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All monies received at the oflke are jtaid over to the
City Treasurer every week, and are applied to the pay-
mout of interest on debentures, and the regular and
necessary expenses of the establishment.
The annual interest on debentures for the sum
already borrowed is, X'r)4G0
Annual expense of the department, inclu(lin<^
rent of |)remises, salaries, wai;-es of Superin-
tendent. < 'lerUs, overseers, mechanics, laborers,
and eonlinjj;encio8, 2000
i.74()0
It will be scon from this statement that the rates for
the half year endinj^ in May, 1S(.)2, exceed in amount the
rates for the next half year endinjf in November, The
cause of thi.s is, that an alteration was made in the law
last winter, which requires tho Commissioners to take the
city valuations of property as a basis fbr assessment. In
consequence of this alteration, it will probably be neces-
sary to raise the rato upon real estate, from one-eif,'hth to
one quarter per cent. In the meantime tho low rates of
tho present six months ma}' be considered some compen-
sation to citizens for frequent interruptions ia the supply
of water while the works are in progress.
The chief object the City had in contemplation, in tho
purchase and enlargement of the company's works, was
tho protection of life and property from fire. With this
view the large pipes now being laid thi'ough tho streets
will not be used for domestic purposes, except in streets
whore no main had been laid by tho company. The largo
pipes will be reserved as exclusively as possible for tho
supply of the fire hydrants.
Tho first main pipe laid do-wn by tho company, from
tho Chain Lakes to St. Andrew's Cross, in the year 1846,
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was ono of 12 inches. An additional main of 15 incho.-»
was laid down by the company in 1854. This summer wo
have taken up the 12-inch main, and substituted one of
24 inches in its place; so that at present there are, or will
be shortly, two mains from the Lakes to St. Andrew's
Cross, ono of 15 inches and one of 24 inches. The 24-
ineh main will feed two mains of 15 inches each, and ono
of 12 inches, for the supply of the middle and southern
parts of the city ; the other main i>ipe from the Lakes will
feed two mains of 12 inches each, for the supjily of the
upper streets and the northern parts of the city. It is
expected that the pipes now being laid, will afford an
ample supply of water for many jears, to all except the
highest parts of the city and peninsula. The ultimate
intention is to supply vhese higher regions by means of a
reservoir and high service.
The act of April, 1861, having all these contingcncica in
view, gives the authorities power to raise by debentures
£125,000. It is probable, however, that the whole system
of works proposed will be completed considerably within
that sum.
As the extensions are in progress at this time, and most
of the accounts open, it is not easy at present to give fuller
or more accurate information. A report of the whole pro-
ceedings will be submitted to the City Council at the end
of the year.
In the meantime, I trust the foregoing outline will
suffice for the object Your Worship proposes.
I have the honor to be,
Your "Worship's
Obedient humble Sei-vant,
JOHN A. BELL,
Chairman Com. Water Supply.
P. C. Hill, Esq., Mayor of Halifax, &c. &c.
Halifax, 17th Sept., 1862.
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EEPORT OF COMMITTEE OE COMMON.
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Committee Room, Sept. 25, 18G2.
The Committee of Common bos^ lotive to.stato. that since
tlie 1st of May last, they have employed from \l. Walker,
two horses and carts, and man Avith eacli, and have had
them working' on the Common Gl)3 days at 7s. per day
eaeh, £48 10 (i
They have also paid jirincipall}' for men's
wages since that time, .... 105 2 91
Amounting in all to
£458 19 3i
Tlio horses and carts have hauled, of manure, to Lot 1,
about 200 loads; to lot 2, about 80; to lot 3, about 200;
and to lot 4, about 304 loads, making in all, 850 loads-
They have als- "lauled, of stone and gravel,
to repair the road that leads from the tool
bouse to Cogswell street, about 1145 "
They have also hauled of stone to build
the wall around (Jrittin's pond, about 1425 "
They have also hauled of earth from the
East side of the pond to raise the sidewalk
on the south side about
150
Makinii: a total of
There have been from 3 to 5 men employed during the
past season, two at building the wall, and the rest work-
ing at other work, such as helping to load the carts with
manure and spreading it over the fields. They have also
opened up a new gutter 2 feet wide, and about 14 inches
deep, the whole length of the road that has been repaired
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leadinjtjf from the Tool House to Cogswell Street, and
repaired tlie <jjutter on the other side of said roadj and
part of the time some have been workingin the gravel pit,
and the remainder of the time they have been employed
working about Griffin's Pond. The wall of the Pond on
the north side is 264 feet long, 4 feet high, and 2J feet
thiek J on the east side is 298 feet long, 3 feet high, and 2
feet thick ; on the south side is 2G4 feet long, .'] feet high,
and 2 feet thick ; and on the west side is 304 feet long, 3
feet l>igh, and 2 feet thick. The stone for the wall was
hauled from the Common, and different streets opened up
by the Water Commissioners. Tiie pond now measures If
acres. The Avails are all tinished, and sods i)laced over
the top of them, and the walks 1 1! around are fast ap-
proaching com])letion.
Your committee feel anxious to have the walks orna-
mented Avith trees; and also, as one of the main Avater
pipes is only about 30 feet from the Pond, there could
easilj' be a branch laid from it, so as to form a jot, which
Avould make it a source of pleasure for our citizens and the
public in general, and also a credit to the city.
Your committee Avould recommend the name of Griffin's
Pond to be altered to that of City Pond.
This Council Avill recollect that by the last report of the
committee, the accounts Avere made up to the 1st of
May last, by the City Treasurer, Avhich shcAved that the
Common Avas then in debt £147 5s. Id. The rents to be
derived from the Common during the summer amounted
to £214 17s. 6d., and about £00 l»eing ex]»ected to be
realized by Jie sale of the grass in the fields, making in
all £274 17s. Od, and £50 being deducted from that for one
year's Avages of Superintendent. Avhich left a balance in
favor of the Common fund of £77 lis. lid.
The grass on the Common did not realize as much this
year as last b}- about £9, Avhich can be accounted for by
the Water Commissioners opening a trench tlirough three
of the grass fields, and taking u]) a large space of the same,
and injuring the grass on one of the fields by blasting.
By a resolution passed by the committee on Juno 9th,
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on aoeonnt of the Siiporintcndcnt's fuithfiil discliar^c of
his duty, his wages were raised from £50 to £(»() per au-
iium. making a difference of about £19 in ail. wliieli, wlien
<le(hicted from tlic £77 lis. lid., would have only left the
Buin of £58 lis. lid. in favor of the Common.
On the Ist of July last there was one quarter's rent
reecived for two lots of South Common, leased on that day
for eleven 3'ears, — one, to John Irvine, £0 5s. per annum ;
and the other, to W. M. Allan, £1 5s. per annum. Ee-
ceivcd from J. Irvine, for one quartei-'w rent in advance,
£1 11 3, and from "W. M. Allan, ibr do., (is. od., and de-
ducting 7s. Gd. for auctioneer's commis.sion. leaves a ba-
lance of £1 10 0. On July 2nd £78 were realized
by the sale of part of Park Street, and placed to the cre-
dit of the Common fund, viz : £25 i'vam Ardibishop Con-
nolly, £25 from Mr. George Mitchell, and £25 from Mr.
Philip Letson. In addition, £10 paid as licence jiioney by
the Circus company, Avere by resolution of llie Council
transferred to the ("ommon fund.
As the last iusta.lment of the £500 borrowed from Thos.
Kenny, Esq., on the credit of the Common, was paid on
the 1st of May last ; and as the Treasurer's Account will
shew £127 12s. due the Common i'rom 1st of July last,
consequently placing the latter amount to its ■ edit, the
Ojmmon will be clear of debt, and witli a baiance in its
favor of £i:) Os. 4d.
All of which is respectfully submitted,
S A MU EL TKEX A MA N ,
Chairman.
P. S. The Committee acknowledge that the Committee
of City Prison have aided in making the imjirovements,
by allowing the prisoners to work on the Common in June
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REPOKT OF COMMITTEE OF CEMETEEY.
Halifax, Seit. 27tli, ISoiI.
The Committee of Cemetery report for the informatioiL
of llis Worship the Mayor ami City Council, as follows:
That during the past year thei'e have been,
Interments from the city, ...
From Poor Asylum, ....
209
29
238-
From 10 years old and upwards.
Under 10 years,
154
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The Denominations to which the dccensed belonged, art>
classed as follows : —
Church of Enghuul,
93
Presl»ytorians, . - - .
- 44
Wesleyans, ....
38
Baptists,
- 20
Episcopal Methodists,
5
Univorsalists, . . . .
- 3
Denominations not known,
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209
Number of Colored persons in the above, 28.
Work done in connection with the Cemetery during tlie
summer : — The embankment on the North side graded and
sodded from east to west; the north and eastern fences
and gates all placed erect and repaired; the new work all
painted; four new sign boards erected, as a caution to evil
disposed persons against committing depredations withiu
the Cemeterv.
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Statement of account to present date : —
^iay 1st — To balance per Treasurer's account, £1 13 S
Sept. 5th. — To paid F. Keating for grading
embankment, and rcpair'g North fence,
(per contract,) 39 17 G
" 26th — Paid Alexr. McKenaie for repair-
ing East fence,
Thomas Walsh for painting,
Eulanco Keepei-'s salary,
Sept. 19. — By cash for 382 lots in Cemetery, at
40s. each,
Balance in hand of City Treasurer, £15 11 9
The westei'n fence requires repair, and the whole fence
is much in need of being painted.
Your committee have to regret that frequent depreda-
tions have been con>mitted within the Cemetery by some
evil disposed person or persons; they have not as yet been
able to get any clue to the guilty parties.
. Your committee are of opinion that the best means of
preventing such occurrences in future would be the erection
of a small building for Keeper's residence, and would
therefore recommend that an ettbrt be made for the carry-
ing the same into execution.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
JOSEPH JENNINGS,
Chairman.
Number of interments in the Protestant Cemetery
as above, viz., 23H
Number of intex-ments in the Cemetery of the Holy
Cross, viz. :
Adults, 198
Children, • 87
~ 285
Total in the city.
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APPENDIX No. 8.
EEPOET OP COMMITTEE OF CITY PRISON,
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The Committee of the City Prison, in prcBciitini^ their
second .Vnnuiil Report, liave little to add, in reference to
the general plan and principles u])on which the Institution
is conducted, to the stiitemeuts which tJiey previously suh-
mitted. Some additional regulations, designed to facilitate
the maintenance of disci])linc and promote the well order-
ing of the establishment, have from time to time been
introduced, and have thus far, without excej)tion, ojierated
to the satisfivction of the committee.
From the Ist of October last to the 25th of the present
month there have been 533 persons committed to tlie
Prison, of whom 394 were niales, and 131) Avero females.
Of that number 42 were received into the Prison twice in
the course of the 3'ear, 2G three times, 11 four times, 4 live
times, 1 seven times, and 1 eight times.
A tabular view of the offences for which they were con-
<lemned, and of the periods of imprisrmment awarded, will
be found a]ipcnded.
The largest numbor of prisoners in custody at one time
was on the 25th cf October last, when there were one
liundred in charge, being an excess of seven over tie
liighest number for any one day in the previous civic
year. On the 9th of May last the number fell to 39, being
nine below the smallest number of the preceding year.
The average number of prisoners has been less than in
1860-61, being 60 in place of 67.
The male prisoners have been employed in breaking
stone, clearing and culti.ating the farm, and in various
other services, a detailed return of which by thcGovernor
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of the Prison, fovma an ^Appendix to this Tfeport. A
lleturn, by tiie Msitron, of the work done b}- the feiaaUi
prisoners, is also annexed.
It will be observed that the comniittoe have continued
to render available for the i>enetit of the Prison, and to
some extent in the nianufactnre of articles fur sale, the
labor of prisoners who had l)een trained to mechanical
vursuits; and that remunerative in-door occupation has
been found for such prisoners as could not, on sonic days
in the winter season, be exjiosed to the severe inclemency
of the weather.
The sales of articles made in the Prison durinj^ the
two years past have realized $;{(}0, which sum is now
in the hands of the committee, and subject to the order of
the Council. Your committee have, in the current year,
derived ijreat advanta<i;e in procurin<>; supj»lies, especially
in such small purchases as are frecpientl}- required, from
having a sum at their immediate disposal, in anticipation
of the regular passing of the monthly accounts by the
City Council ; and they recommend that a portion of the
above amount bo granted to the incoming cojumittee, to
be kept as a floating balance.
The expenditure during the past year for salaries, sup-
plies, outfit of establishment, &c., has amounted to
$4601 19. There has also been expended upon the
building, in finishing the third story of the octagonal or
central portion, tlie sum of six hundred and tliirty dollars.
A spacious room has by this means been pi'ovided for the
female [>risoners, where all can be employed at their
respective tasks under one superintendent, instead of
working, as formerly, in their several wards Avithout
efficient supervision. Several smaller apartments have
also been completed, and might for the present be appro-
priated to juvenile offenders.
Your committee deem it not inappropriate ^or them to
advert, in this connexion, to the necessity which exists for
the establishment of a Juvknile Befoumatohy j and they
would now suggest that until a separate building be pro-
vided the commencement of such an institution might
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well bo made at the City Prison, if only a suitable officer
or superintendent i'or such a department Avere appointed.
Another desideratum appears to be a IIousk op Industry,
distinct from the House of Correction, to which many of
those who are now almost perpetual inmates of the latter,
might with advantage be transferred, and where the labor
which they seem to be incapable of themselves directing,
or profiting by, might be made conducive to their own
benefit and to tliat of others. The city owns about forty
acres of land at llockhead, and this must certainly aftbrd
ample space for the establishment of such Industrial and
Reformatory Institutions as your committee desire to see
in ojieration.
The committee are aware of the objection which may be
urged against attempting too much at one time; nor
would they counsel either hasty action or largo expendi-
ture ; but they think that attention might very judiciously
be turned at once to those subjects, and to the preliminary
legislation which would be necessary.
The committee reported last year that religions ser-
vices had been held on Sundays, at 9 and II o'clock a. m.,
and at 3 o'clock v. u. The service at 9 has been regu-
larly continued by the Rev. J. C. Cochran ; and the Rev.
Dr. Ilannan has frequently attended at Eleven. These
are the only Clergymen who have visited the Prison ;
although, as formerly stated, the rules of the establish-
ment do not render it compulsory on a prisoner to receive
religious instruction, except from a minister of the reli-
■ >us denomination for which he may pi'ofess a preference,
. .'.lie all are free to attend the service held by any elcr-
:ryman, or other duly authorized person, M'ho may visit
the building for that purpose. The regJilar service at o
o'clock in the afternoon has been discontinued j but per-
mission may still be obtained, by persons desirous of
holding religious intercourse with the prisoners, to visit
them on the Sunday afternoon.
The committee experience much satisfaction in bearing
testimony to the assiduous and intelligent exertions of
Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, the Governor and Matron of the
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Institution, to sc'iiro tlioroii^-li efflcioncy in its several
(lepjirtinents, as well as to the fidelity Avitli wliieh the
Undei'keepcrs liave, durinf^ the year, discliavyed their
resj)eetivo duties ; one of these, Enocli AVilson, has lately
obtained another situation, thus oeeasionin;^ a vacancy,
which is now tenij)orarily supplied until the annual elec-
tion ot'ofTicers.
Jtespccttully Bubmittcd on behalf of the Conunitteo.
M. IL EICirRY,
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lar view of otfences, &c., referred to in the foregoing report,
the following summary is given :
Of the 394 committed of male ofTendors, 147 were for
drunkenness, 100 for larceny, 52 for assault, 37 for
vagrancy, 29 disorderly conduct, 9 for lewd conduct, 7 for
mutinous conduct, 4 for interference "with the police, 3
for breaking prison, 5 for profane or abusive language, 1
for picking pockets.
Of the female offenders 58 were committed for drunken-
ness, 84 for vagrancy, 16 for larceny, 14 for keeping houses
of ill-fame, G for disorderly conduct, 5 for assault, 8 for
lewd conduct, 2 for picking pockets.
208 prisoners were committed for a term of 30 days or
less, 111 from 30 to GO days, 212 for from 60 to 90 days, and
7 were by cumulative sentences condemned to more than
90 days' imprisonment.
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Amourd of Ijahnr pnfonncd on the Prison Farm hy the M,ilc
prisoners during the year ended '6{)th day of Sept., 1802.
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1707 days cloni-ing laiul. l)Iasting, grubbing, and carting
stones tVom farm to yard.
71* days working on th(! (.'ommon.
47 " assisting tlio bhickHuiith occasionally.
13488 bnshris of stones broken.
80 pairs of mens' strong shoes made.
38 pairs of womens' shoes made.
3G pairs of canvas shoes made.
4 pair long heavy strong b.ots made.
44 buckets made.
7 wheelbarrows made.
1 new truck made.
37 kids' for prisoners' use made.
There has been a great deal of improvement done by
ihe prisoners in sundry repairs, building, &c., at the Prison
during the past year.
M. CAMPBELL,
Governor.
M, H. RiCHEV, Esq., Chairman Prison Committee.
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Tlio .Nfatron Iiuh not inscrlod in tlio nnncxod report tlio
time iukI lalxir conHtuntly Ix^Htowed on tiie bi'ds, boddinf^,
and clolliiiig of the miilo and irnudc iirisoncrH, as tlio
account 1h very eoniplieutedjUnd could not be given in any
rei;nlar lorin.
She would also a<ld that of llic number of females sent
up, comparalively few can s])in or Unit well; and tbey are
seldom inclined to learn. The uwe of the ucedle Ih utill less
understood amonjrst them. Purinj^ the pant year tw'(»
women luivc l)e<!n taui:;ht to spin anrl five to knit. The
Matron does not feel it necessary to assun; the cojnniittoc
that she tries to dispose of the time and nuiterials entrus-
ted to her, 80 far as her jud<^ment can direct, for tho
benerit of the Prison.
B. CAMP13KLL, Matron.
APPENDIX No. 0.
fijePOBT OF COMMITTEE OF CITY HOSPITAL
CoMMItTKK lldOM, CiTV Puil.DINO,
Septombisr 22(1, 1HG2.
The Commitlce of City iroHpltU' bog l 'vo to K'sbniit;
for tl»c intbrmutioii of tht) ("ity Couiicil, u ivport '" pro-
•coedings in connoction witli timt bmacti of tbo ■":\ ic sor-
vic'O.
In tlio cafly part of 1H()I tlic Coiinoil tiiv.Mfcd over tlio
HoHpitul to tho Hoard of Henltii for tl)u .oc-cptioii and caro
'Of porsoDH afflicted witlt Hmull pox, and it contiiiiUMl inidur
iho control of tlio Board until yViigiist, in tbo Hamo year,
•wbon tho Comniitteo again aisHunicd tbo cbargc. During
that period there were JiSO ])atient8, with a Mtatf of nurses,
t)Ool{H, &c., provided for in the building. Of tbo patients
■admitted 289 were discharged cured, and 41 died. The
■oxistcnco of small pox in tho city for nearly a year,
tsauHcd a largo increase in the expenses of the lioard, tho
whole amounting to about JC1,0U0 for subsistenoe, wages,
fuel, &c., besides £;{00 for i hWo vaccination, and £liiii for
various repairs and furniture All of the latter, with the
«xcaption of bedding destroyed, is on hand. Tbo sum of
£145 was also givoH to the City Medical Officer and Clork
of Board of Health, for their extra and very onerous ser-
vices during the :p<demic. Another item in the expendi-
ture was a charge of 12s. Gd. for each certificate given by
medical gcntlenton. In one instance whore four were re-
moved from one family on the same day, a charge of Five
Pounds was made. This charge the Board remonstrated
Against, an action at law endued, and the trial resulted in
the reducing of the Amount to 128. 6d. for tho first certifi-
cate, and 5s. for every additional one in tho same house
and on the same day. This was followed by a Circular
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from the Medical Society, directed to the Mayor, giving
notice that for the future no medical gentleman should give
a certificate under 258., otherwise the Profession would
cease to consult with him. This rate had in some foAV in-
stances to be given, where certificates were actually necos-
saiy to carry out the law. During the last session of the
Legislature, an act was passed, clothing the City Medical
Officer with the necessary powers to remove the difficulty,
except in cases where he may deem it necessaiy to consult
another Physician.
After the Hospital was handed over the Committe found
it necessary to have the premises fumigated, whitewashed
and thoroughly cleansed. Several i*epairs had to bo made
in order to preserve the building ft'om the effects of the
weather, and gas fixtures were provided. The water ap-
paratus causes very much trouble during the winter;
to remedy this it night bo more simplified. From August
to December a part of the Hospital was used for the care
of typhus fever patients, as many as nine cases being in at
one time, some for a lengthened period. These, together
Avith a staff of nurses induced considerable outlay-
In consequence of the large increase of troops in thi»
garrison, caused by the "Trent" difficulty, accommodation
for sick soldiers in the military'- hospital, was found to be
inadequte ; and an application was made to the City
Council, by the General Commanding, for the temporarj-
nse of the Hospital. The application being immediately
acceded to, the Committee placed the building at the dis-
posal of the General for three months, on condition of his
paying the rent and expenses of such a building as the
City might require for a temporary hospital during that
period. A house belonging to Mr. Patrick Moran, situated
on the north side of the Common, was rented and occu-
pied, where the sick were ciired for.
Shortly before the hospital was handed over to the niili-
tnry, an accident occurred to the wash-house by the ex-
plosion of the boiler, which nearly demolished that portion
of the outbuildings. An expenditure of about £75 will
have to bo incurred to put it in its original condit on.
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On the 14th of April last the Hospital was leased to the
Military authorities for one year, for £325 stg. (£25 stg.
to be paid to the Water Commissioners by the city for the
supply of water), the lease to expire at the end of the
year, by either party giving the usual three months'
notice.
* The Board of Health has rented a building in the north
part of the city, known as King's corner, as a temporary
Fever Hospital, where twenty-one patients have been
treated during the present season, of whom five have died,
seven have been discharged cured or convalescents, and
nine remain under treatment.
The bill submitted to the Legislature at its last session,
proposing a small tax upon shipping, for the support of
sick seamen in hospital, was defeated by a small majority.
It is to be hoped that some means will be devised at an
early day, by which hospital accommodation may be pro-
vided, commensurate with the necessities of the city and
port. As this is a subject to be treated of by the City
Medical Officer, that gentleman will no doubt, report fully
to the Board of Health, in order that the whole matter may
be brought under the consideration of the City Council.
EespcctfuUy submitted on behalf of the Committee.
WM. COMPTON,
Chairman.
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EEPORT OF CITY MAESHAL.
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Halifax, Sept. 12, 1862.
TLo City Marshal begs leave to report, for the iiiforma"
tion of His Worship the Mayor and Aldermen, the state
of the Police Department under his superintendence, since
his appointment in October last.
The Police consist of twelve members, six odd and six
even numbers, six of whom are on street duty from 9
o'clock in the morning until 12 o'clock noon, when they
are to return to the Police Station, and make a report of
the state of their respective wards in a book kept for that
purpose. Havi.ig one hour for dinner, they return to the
Police Station at 1 o'clock, and relieve thoBc on duty in
the foicnoon to take dinner, when they return at 2 o'clock,
and resume street duty until 9 o'clock in the evening,
■when they also make a report in like manner, two of
whom are on duty at Police Station irom 7 o'clock, p. m.,
until 8 o'clock the following morning, to receive uU priso-
ners brought in by the Night Watch, and attend all calls
made on them by the citizens during the night. BeHides
there are two other Constables told off in rotation to
attend to the prisoners and takh messages during the
morning and evening, which occupies the whole of their
time during the office hours.
In addition to the above, there have been two special
Constables on duty for the last four months, one stationed
in Lower Water Street, from Fairbanks' wharf to the
lower end of Irish Town, in consequence of several com-
plaints in that locality of the unruly conduct of boys. I
am happy to state that the nuisance has been abated to a
eont^iderable extent. The other has been stationed in
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Upper Water Street, from the North Fish Market to
Cunard's wharf, in consequence of the unruly conduct of
Watermen and others assembled in that neighborhood;
that also has been considerably abated.
From the small Police force on duty on the streets of
the city, with a population of nearly twenty-five thou-
sand, besides the military, naval and mercantile marine, it
is a matter of surprise to strangers visiting our city that
the order prevailing can be maintained by such limited
means.
STATISTICS OP CRIME.
Number of persons charged with crime or any
breach of penal laws brought before the Police
Court, from Oct. 15th, 1861, until the above date, 2058
Of the 2058 brought before the City Court, there were :
For drunkeness, 1282
■ For larceny, 165
For assault, ' 276
Breaches of license law, 114
Charged with various breaches of law, 221
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Number of Process served in the Mayor's Court, from Oct.,
2nd Term, 1861, to August, 2nd Term, 1862.
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July,
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August,
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Total, 1107 35c. each, $387 45
Commission on exeecutions and discharges from
custody, 693 29
§480 74
Amount collected and paid over to different par-
ties under executions, &c., 82182 57
KespcctfuUy submitted.
GAEEET COTTEE,
City Marshal.
APPENDIX No. 11.
HEPOET OF CAPTAIN OF NIGHT WATCH.
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The Captain of the Night Watch begs leave to report,
for the information of His Worship the Mayor and the
€ity Council, the proceedings of the City Night Watch
under his charge, from the 1st May to 30th June.
lie considers the force under his charge at present in an
efficient condition.
Dia-ing the first four weeks there was much disorder and
riot through the city, caused in a great measure by the
men belonging to the navy ; but he is happy to report that
at present thoy are more orderly than usual.
The Watch consists of 26 men, 4 in each ward, and 6 in
No. 5 ward, distributed as follows :
Ward 1. — Two men take charge from the General's
down the ward as far as Fort Massey, then Avestward.
Two men take charge of the lower part of the ward, and
go down past Fresh Water Bridge, and to be at certain
points at a fixed time during the night according to the
directions of the Captain, and if not there, they must give
a satisfactory account for their absence when he is going
his rounds.
Ward 2. — Two men take Water Street ; 2 men Alber-
' v^iit Street; and while the one party works up the other
works downwards. If all is orderly on tiie street at 12
o'clock, 2 men are placed in Spring Gardens and take
•charge of the outer part of the ward, and the other the
remaining part of the ward, from Water Street to Alber-
marie Street
Wards 3 and 4 are placed somewhat similarly.
Ward 5. — The same, except 2 men constantlj^ in Water
Street ; sometimes th« whole force belonging to the ward
is required in Water Street.
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Ward 6 is stationed tho ou'<yiv as the other wards; at 12
o'clock the vratchmen uro Bont round by t'^ Wellington)
Barracks, and C'/rne in ?•) King's cori>or, no v,;ned.
The Captain •would furiher report that tho Dv-fjessity
of the wfttchmen having a uniform is much fcli.. Strangers
iire not awm-e when spoken to by a watchman who they
are ; and the want often causes di^'tiirknee nnd the arrest
of parties, ^vho, when brought to th-; atsitfon, make the
excuse that thoy wore not uwu they were talking tO'
city officers.
The number of persons arrested in May, 164
in June, 00
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the most of these, for being drunk and disorderly.
There has been but. one attempt at burglary; tho parties
were detected, and arc now in tJaol for trial at the Supreme
Court.
The Captain further reports that he has formed a sys-
tem of telegraph in giving alarms for fire in the city, and
finds with a little practice it will work well, so that ibe
citizens inquiring of a watchman tho locality of the fire^
may receive authentic intelligence.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
DONALD FRASEE,
Captain of the Night Watch..
APPENDIX No. 12.
BEPORT OF OITY OLERK.
Office op City Clerk,
Halifax, Ist Oct., 1862.
To His Worship the Mayor:
By request of Your Worship, I have the honor to fttrnisb
for your information the number of cases heard before tho
Police Court for the year ending 30th September last, with
the amount of fines imposed each month and fees collec-
ted ; and also tho number of persons, male and female,
committed to the City Prison during same period.
I also beg leave to furnish you with a statement of tho
nura.ber of writs issued in the Mayor's Court for the samo
period, with the amount of fees received for the same.
I have the honor to bo,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
JNO. L. CRAGG,
City Clerk.
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Number of Cases tried at the Police Court for the year
commencimj 1st Oct., 1861, and ending ^Oth Sept., 1862.
October, 258
November, 193
December, 174
January, - - - . . . . 162
February, 169
March, 132
April, 135
May, 279
Juno, 218
July, 204
August, - - 257
September, 254
Total, 2435
Out of these 533 were imprisoned in the City Prison,
Bockhead, viz., 394 males and 139 females, for various
offences, and for periods ranging from 10 to 90 days.
October — Amount of fines imposed, $361 50
Amount of fines imposed and not paid, 210 00
Collected,
Amount of fees collected,
November — Amount of fines,
Amount of fines unpaid,
Collected,
Amount of fees collected,
151 50
41 55
231 50
22 00
209 50
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51 50
41 55
31 50
22 00
December — Amount of fines imposed,
Amount of fines unpaid,
Collected,
Amount of fees collected,
January — Amount of fines imposed.
Amount of fines unpaid,
Collected,
Amount of fees collected,
February — Amount of fines imposed.
Amount of fines unpaid.
Collected,
Amount of fees collected,
March — Amount of fines imposed.
Amount of fines unpaid.
Collected,
Amount of fees collected,
April — Amount of fines imposed.
Amount of fines unpaid,
Collected,
Amount of fees collected,
May — Amount of fines imposed,
Amount of fines unpaid.
Collected,
Amount of fees collected,
June — Amount of fines imposed,
Amount of fines unpaid.
Collected,
Amount of fees collected.
9352 00
233 00
119 00
36 00
324 00
82 00
243 00
29 50
213 00
76 00
237 00
32 60
98 00
30 00
68 00
17 60
189 00
13 00
176 00
15 60
214 50
33 00
181 50
39 20
298 50
59 00
139 50
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July — Amount of fines imposed,
Amount of fines unpaid,
Collected,
Amount of fees collected,
August — Amount of fines imposed,
Amount of fines unpaid,
Collected,
Amount of fees collected,
September — Amount of fines imposed.
Amount of fines unpaid,
Collected,
Amount of fees collected,
N. B. The items of Fines unpaid occurred in conse-
quence of the parties on whom the same were imposed not
being uble to pay — they had to go to Prison.
e364 00
191 00
173 00
42 15
436 50
212 00
224 50
44 20
362 00
92 00
270 00
44 50
RECAPITULATION.
Fines paid
in October,
$151 50
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November,
209 50
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December,
119 00
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January,
242 00
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February,
237 00
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March,
68 00
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April,
176 00
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May,
181 50
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June,
139 50
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July,
173 00
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August,
224 50
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September,
270 00
Total, $2191 50
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Poo8 rcc'd in October,
November,
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January,
February,
Marcb,
April,
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Juno,
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82 60
17 00
15 60
89 20
44 65
42 15
44 20
44 50
82101 50
Total $412 95
Total amount of Finos and Foes for year, 82004 95
Number of Writs
October, 1801,
1801.
October. Number
November.
December.
1802.
January.
February.
March.
April.
May.
June.
July.
August.
September.
issued from Mayor's Court from 1st
to 30?A September, 1802, icith fees.
Fees paid,
of Writs issued, 98 850 90
Ditto. 83 46 90
Ditto. 106 66 20
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
86
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66
80 90
88
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78
38 80
72
35 80
180
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94
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Average of issue each month, 89.
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FUNDED DEBT OF OITY OF HALIFAX.
[Ist Soptombor, 1862.]
£556 9 7
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4000
9500
* Ordnance Buildings, at 6 per cent.
*Streets and Seiccrs, —
Dobonturcs Nos. 1 to 95, at 6 per cent.
City Market House, —
Dobonturcs Nos. 1 to 40, at 5 percent.
City Prison, —
Debentures Nos. 1 to 95 at 6 per cent.
City Hospital, —
Debentures Nos. 1 to 95 I jj ^ P'.^*' ^H^
0500
Buildings on Market Slip, —
Debentures Nos. 1 to 20, at 5 per cent. 2000
Sidewalks of Streets, —
Debentures Nob. 1 to 30 | JJJ ^* ^\^^- ggQQ
City Water Works,—
Deb. 1 to 205 £100 oa.
Deb. 1 to 141 £500 ea.
3000
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at 6 p. ct
ct.£1200
2000
87800
91000
£128,556 9 7
At 5 per cent, interest, £7000
At 5} per cent. « 1200
At 5J per cent. " 2700
At 6 per cent. « 117,656 9 7
-£128,556 9 7
*Debt8 contracted previous to the Incorporation of the citjr.
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Against tho Funded debt tho following propcrtlc*
owned by the City may bo placed, viz.: —
City Market House,— cost £5898— tho debt on this build-
ing has been reduced by the surplus of rents over the
interest to £4000 £5398
City Prison, 9752
City Hospital, 10015
Buildings on Market Slip, 2347
City Court House, estimated at 6000
Water Works, — may be estimated at tho first
cost and additional expenditure, 91000
£123,512
In addition to tho above properties which can bo esti-
mated at specific values in monoj', tho City owns tho
following properties to which no definite pecuniary value
can be attached, but which nevertheless form important
olemonts in estimating tho property of the City and which
contribute largely to tho general welfare of the citizens.
1. — Tho Common, (subject to be used for Military purposes
as settled by agreement between tho City and Military
authorities), portions of which on Spring Garden Road
have been let for long terms, and now produce an
annual revenue of £248.
2. — The Market Slip. This property is of great value to
tho City for landing gravel, paving stones, &c., for the
use of tho streets ; and also to marketmen for landing
their vegetables, &c.
3. — The Fish Market, — producing an annual revenue of
£170, but indispensable to tho public if no revenue
whatever arose from it.
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4. — The Steamboat Landing, of which the same hiny bo
said, and which produces an annual revenue of jGSO.
6. — The Slip at the North end of Water Street, which
affords valuable accommodation to the public, for land*
ing with boats, &c.
■6. — Dock reserved in a gfant to Samuel Cunard, of 10 feet
wide, for access to sea water from Water Street in
case of fire, north of Dcvino's wharf, north euburbs^
Grant 14th Sept., 1819.
"7.' — South suburbs, Dock between Fairbanks and Taylor's
wharves, at foot of Salter Street, 16 by 800 feet.
Grant 15th Dec, 1812.
8. — ^Wttter lot in fVont of Morris Street, south suburbs,
between the north and south wharves of Jacob Miller)
20 feet on Morris Stl*eet, 300 feet long. Grant 15th
Dec, 1812»
!9.— -Dock in south suburbs between Taylor's and Yeomans*
and Dolby and Story's wharves, being only four feet
wide from Water Street fbr 145 feet, and then being
from 48 to 62 feet wide in a further course of 248 feet
into the harbor. Grant 12th May, 1813.
10. — Grant of March, 1812, to 3Iessrs. Peter Smith and
others, certain reservations of a road and a right of
access to a pond (then called the mill dam) on penin-
sula. This pond no longer exists.
11. — Province Building lot. The grant of this ground
appears to vest in the Corporation^ but it is only a
nominal title.
12.— Deed f\-om Frederick W. Veith to G. G. Pyke and
others, magistrates, in trust, dated 19th October, 1827,
recoixled 29th January, 1^28, conveys a piece of land,
beginning at the north-east angle of the Ordnance
land at high water mark, measuring on the Ordnance
land 100, thence tiorth 30 degrees west 100 feet, thenco
north 60 degrees east 100 feet, thence west 30 degrees
south 100 feet to the place of beginning. Also, a
water lot, in front of the above lot, beginning at the
north-east angle of the Ordnance line following the
course of the water at high water mark, measuring
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ground
only a
50 feet into the harbor, thence west 30 degrees south
50 feet, thence south 60 degrees west to the place of
beginning.
13. — Grant dated 15th February, 1849, to the Mayor and
Corporation of Halifax. — A water lot beginning on
the eastern side of Pleasant Street, at the distance of
one foot eleven inches easterly from the north end of
the stone wall on Freshwater Bridge, from thence
running south 81 degrees 30 minutes east 500 feet
into the harbor; thence south 12 degrees west until
it comes opposite the northern side line of a water
lot granted to John Tremaiu, Esq. ; thence south 86
degrees west 500 feet, passing along the said line to
the eastern side of the street aforesaid ; thence north-
erly by the eastern side of the said street to the jilace
of beginning — (127 feet on the street per plan.)
14. — Grant to Mayor and Corporation, dated 13th July,
1853. — Water lot 80 feet wide, 300 feet deep, running
into the harbour southward of Freshwater Bridge,
bounded south by grant to Mr. Bazelgette, — not to be
built on but to be kept open for the use of the public.
15. — Grant to Mayor and Corporation, dated 20th Feb'y.,
1851. — Two water lots, each 300 feet wide, and extend-
ing each 400 feet into Bedford Basin ; one opposite
Glebe lands, and the other opposite Fish lots letter Ki
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APPENDIX No. 15.
[As the Report submitted by the City Medical OfScer, at the
meeting of the Board of Health, held Nov. 8th, 1862, suggests
important changes in the treatment of poverty and disease it in
deemed prudent to publish the same, in order to aflbrd an opportu-
nity to the citizens of fully considering the subject referred to.]
BEPORT OF CITY MEDICAL OFFICEE.
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Halifax, Nov. Ist, 1862.
To Bis Worship the Mayor,
Chairman of the Board of Health :
Sir,—
I have the honor to submit the following Report for the
information of the Board of Health.
Upon receiving my appointment aa City Medical Officer,
in February last, I found two convalescent patients in
Moran's house, then used as a Fever Hospital, both of
whom were subsequently discharged cured ; and another
Invalid, sent in by your order, was sent convalescent to
tsho Poors' Asylum, on the 3rd of April, when that house
was returned to the proprietor.
Early in May, Doyle's house in North street was rented
as a Fever Hospital, and Mrs. James was appointed Ma-
tron. Up to this period thirty-one patients have been
treated in that Hospital, seven of whom died, four are now
eonvalescent, and twenty have been discharged cured.
During the early part of the season the town was very
healthy, but in August and September a large number of
Fever cases presented themselves, attributable, I think, to
the deficient supply of water, and extenbive ( Qning of
drains consequent upon the alteration in ihb Water
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Ma-
bcen
re now
d.
s very
ber of
ink, to
iug of
Water
Works, and the noxious cfflnvia emanating from the
slaughter houses, in the vicinity of which fever was espe-
cially prevalent.
The general principles of Hygiene are now so well
understood, that it v\-ill not be necessary for me to ?nakt'
any extended observations upon the importance of clean-
liness — abundance of pure water and a thorough system
of sewerage, to the public health. When the improve-
ments now going forward in the Water Works are com-
pleted, and a copious supply introduced into every tene-
ment — when that element is jised for thoroughly and
frequently flushing drains carried through every portion of
the city, — when the slaughter houses are removed to such
a distance as to prevent the air breathed by the inhabi-
tants from being poisoned by the decaying animal matter
connected with these hot-beds of malaria, and when th*
occupation of any dwelling unprovided with the requisite
out-building is rigidly prohibited, we may confidently
anticipate a great improvement in the health of the city,
and a corresponding diminution in the mortality rate ia
proportion to the population.
I cannot consistently, vc\^h --vhat I consider to be mr
duty to the Board, close thif: : oport without making somv
suggestions which have forced themselves upon my mind
in connection with the public health. The humane and
enlightened treatment of poverty and disease is regarded
as a matter of the high-oot importance in all well regulated
communities. I do not think the treatment of either can
be considered satisfactory in this city until a well-appoin-
ted Hospital is put in operation. At present the Asylnwi
for the Poor is crowded indiscriminately with those wh®
simply require food and clothing, and those who are suflFer-
ing from the various forms of disease. A large portion of
the three hundred inmates of that establishment are un-
doubtedly subjects for Hospital treatment, and their
removal to a purely medical institution, could not but be
attended with highly beneficial results to themselves and
to those loft behind, whose only misfortunes are their
poverty and h^lplcBsness. The treatment of contagious
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diseases under the present system is still more unsatif*-
faclory. Durin<j^ tlie past summer no less than ten per-
sons, including the Matron and principal J^urso, wei*e
lyiuij at one time, in all stages of Fever, in a nmall, imper-
fectly ventilated building. Tiio Fever had assumed a
highly contagious character, renderingit difficult to obtain
suitable nurses. It is impossible that disease can be
treated with success or satisfaction under such circum-
stances. Nor is there any reason why such a state of
things should continue. A large Hospital has been erec-
ted in a suitable locality. The patients requiring its
accommodation are abundant. Medical men, well quali-
fied to discharge the professional duties, can be obtained
without difficulty ; and the money required to sustain
such an Institution is now being expended without pro-
ducing satisfactory results- Two thousand pounds are
annually voted by the Legislature to the Poors' Asylum,
— about fifteen hundred pounds more are provided from
the Civic funds, in addition to a large suni annually expended
in the treatment of contagious diseases ; and two salaried
Medical officers are employed, one for the Poors' Asylum,
the other for the Fever Ilospital.
Now, I would respectfully submit the propriety of
separating the diseased from those suffering from poverty'
only, and the vcmoval of the former to the Brick Ilospi-
t:il, one section of which could be devoted to non-conta-
gious and the other to confagious diseases — a plan with
])roper care, unattended Avith any difficulty or danger.
The government of the Hospital could bo vested in the
same Board of Commissioners now appointed for the
Poors' Asylum, who would then have both in-stitutions
under their management. A well qualified Apothecary
could bo appointed as resident Steward, whoso duty it
would be to carry out the instructions of the Commission-
ers and Physicians. Four medical men could be elected
annually by the City Council or Board of Hcaltl-., whose
duty it would be to attend three months each in rotation
and to consult with each other in all cast-s of dixTiculty or
danger, and no capital operation should be performed with-
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69
out tho concurrence of a Hccond Pliysician, except in an
omergcncywUich admitted of no delay. Tlie vefi;ular visit
to ti»e Hospital should be made, nay at noon each day,
when all tho medical men in the city and their students,
sliould bo permitted to bo present and witness the mode
of treatment. I have reason to believe, that in this way.
the services of the ablest medical practitioners in tlie city
may be obtained gratuitous)}'. The salaries now paid to
the Surgeon of the Poors' Asylum and to the City Medi-
cal Officer, would thus be saved. Although the efforts to
ol)ain Legislative enactment in suppoi't of the Hospital as
regards seamen were ineffectual last session, 1 cannot but
think a different result may be anticipated so soon as this
subject is tiiorough'.y understood. I am well aware that
these crude suggestions will be found susceptible of much
improvement, but I will be abundantly satisfied if they lead
to the adoption of some efficient scheme for the pi'oper
management of a subject so deeply affecting the public
health and so deserving of the attentive consideration of
all who are charged with the responsible duties which
pertain to everything connected therewith,
All of which is respectfully sid>mitted
By your obedient servant.
C. TUPPER, M. D
City Medical Officer.
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APPENDIX No. 10.
REPORT OF HOSPITAL COMMITTEE.
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Halifax, Nov. Sth, 1862.
The Committeo appoiiitoil by the Board of Health to
inanago tlie affairs of the temporary Hospital, bog leave
to report as follows : —
Immediately after bein/^ appointed the Committee, in
ooiijunction with the City Medical Officer, drew up a short
code of rules and regulations for the proper keeping of the
Hospital.
The Keeper and Matron reside in the building free of
rent ; and occupy such apartments as the Committee from
tinie to time appoint. The necessary fuel for these officials
is provided by the Committee, but all other personal
expenses, food, furniture, &c., they require, are borne
and supplied by themselves.
During the time the Hospital is occupied by patients,
all necessary attention and nursing is bestowed upon them
by tlie Matron, who receives at the rate of twelve dollars
jjcr month, while actually so employed. Additional aesis-
ranco, of course, is provided, when required by the
Medical Officer.
Mr. };; J Mrs. James were appointed keeper and matron.
Olio month's notice on cither side determine existing
arrangements.
The beds, bedding, &c. have been removed from the brick
to the temporary hospital, and insured.
By the estimate lor the present year, £100 have been
placed at the disposal of the Board. In addition to this
sum, the Committee have received Twenty-one pounds
iive shillings from paying patients, making the whole sura
available £121 58. Since May last there has been ex-
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ponded £152 I89. lid., leaving the sum of £S1 "13s. lid.
to bo provided for. The Committee respectfully recom-
mend the Board to make application to the City Council
to provide for the balance, and also, by vote of credit to
place an additional sum at the disposal of the Board.
The buil<]ing I'cquired some alterations and improve-
ments, necessary for the purpose for which it is occu])ie(l,
the cost of the same amounting to £11 9s. Gd.
The accounts annexed will shew the expcnditux'cs to
have been as follow : —
Matron's and Nurses' wages, -
Supplies for sick, ....
Bread, .....
Meats, . . . . -
Fuel, — including 6 chaldrons of coal and
2 cords of wood for winter supply.
Removing the sick, and conveying the dead
for burial, . . . -
Coifins, .....
Interments, . . . - -
Cooking Stove and fitting up.
Chain Pump, ....
Carpenter work, including fitting up water
casks, green blinds for windows, dresser
and closet, chain pump, &c..
£27
10
{)
50
18
11
2
14
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7
8
a
19 15 :i
9
5
10
5
3
9
3
5
15
(i
4
1
3
11 9 S
Grant per estimate,
Received from patients,
£100
21 5
£152 18 U
121 5
, , I
Sum to be provided for, £31 13 11
All of which ia respectfully submitted.
WM. COMPTON, Chairman.
R. T. ROOME.
JOHN EGAN.