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Roxbury City Documents, 1847-1867
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The Town of Roxbury was one of the first towns founded in
Massachusetts in 1630. In 1846 it was incorporated as a city. In
1851, the western part of the city, roughly the current neighborhoods of Jamaica
Plain, Roslindale, and West Roxbury, left Roxbury to become the Town of West
Roxbury. In 1868 the city was annexed by the City of Boston. Below
are links to documents produced by the City of Roxbury.
1847
1848
1849
1850
1851
1852
1853
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Address of the Hon. Samuel Walker, Mayor, to the City Council of
Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January
3rd, 1853
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Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
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Municipal Register, Containing the City Charter, with the Rules and
Orders of the City Council: Also Ordinances and a List of Officers of
the City of Roxbury, 1853
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Seventh Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and
Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st,
1853
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Report of the Committee on Public Instruction in relation to More School
Accommodations in Wards One, Two, and Three
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An Ordinance for the Removal of House Offal and Night Soil
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Report of the Examination of the Public Schools in the City of Roxbury
for the Year 1853
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Metropolitan Railroad Company
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Proceedings of the Mayor and Aldermen relative to the Unlawful Sale of
Intoxicating Drinks
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Valedictory Address of the Hon. Samuel Walker, Mayor, Delivered before
the Board of Aldermen , December 26th, 1853
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Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual
Appropriations
1854
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Address of the Hon. Linus B.Comins, Mayor, to the City Council of
Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January
2nd, 1854
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Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
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Municipal Register...1854
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Eighth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and
Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st,
1854
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An Ordinance Establishing the Office of Commissioner of Streets and
Defining the Duties Thereof
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Report of the Joint Special Committee on Salaries of City Officers
1855-56
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Report by the City Registrar of the Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the
City of Roxbury for the Years 1851, 1852, & 1853
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Report of the Examination of the Public Schools in the City of Roxbury
for the Year 1854
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An Act in Addition to an Act to Incorporate the Metropolitan Railroad
Company
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Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual
Appropriations
1855
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Address of the Hon. James Ritchie, Mayor, to the City Council of
Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January
5th, 1855
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Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
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Report of Committee on Police Court
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Report by the City Registrar of the Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the
City of Roxbury for the Year 1854
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Report of the Joint Special Committee in the Matter of City Marshall,
and Ordinance "Authorizing the Appointment and Prescribing the
Duties of a City Marshall"
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Report of the Minority of the Joint Special Committee on Police Court
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Report of the Special Committee of the School Committee in Relation to
"Out of School Study"
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Ninth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and
Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st,
1855
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Report of the Joint Special Committee on Salaries
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Report of the Joint Special Committee to Whom was Referred the
Expediency of a Survey of the City
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Report of the Joint Committee on Public Instruction on so much of the
Mayor's Address as Relates to Schools, April 1855
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Report of the Joint Committee on Highways on Naming Certain Streets and
Changing the Names of Certain Other Streets, April 1855
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An Act to Establish a Police Court in the City of Roxbury
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Report of the Committee on Revision and Amendments to the City
Ordinances
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Remarks of Francis Hilliard, Esq., Standing Justice of the Police Court
in Roxbury, at the Opening of Said Court, May 15, 1855
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Report of the Examination of the Public Schools in the City of Roxbury
for the Year 1855
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Report of the Committee in Relation to a Drain Being Built on Fellows
Street
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Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Appointment of a City
Physician
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Municipal Register...1855
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Report of the Committee on a Public Common
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Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual
Appropriations
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Address of William Ellison, Esq., before the Common Council of the City
of Roxbury, December 31, 1855
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Valedictory Address of the Hon. James Ritchie, Mayor, Delivered before
the Board of Aldermen, December 31, 1855
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Annual Report of the City Marshall for 1855
1856
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Address of the Hon. John S. Sleeper, Mayor, to the City Council of
Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 7,
1856
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Report of the Committee on Public Property on Naming the School on Gore
Avenue
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Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
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Report of the Joint Special Committee on Salaries for City Officers of
the City of Roxbury 1856-57
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Tenth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and
Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st,
1856
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Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Subject of the Donation of
Hon. Linus B. Comins to One of the Public Schools of Roxbury
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Minority Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Subject of the
Donation of Hon. Linus B. Comins to One of the Public Schools of Roxbury
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Report of the Joint Special Committee in the matter of Roxbury Color and
Chemical Company
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Municipal Register...1856
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Report of the Examination of the Public Schools in the City of Roxbury
for the Year 1856
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Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Burial Grounds
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Remarks of the Hon. John S. Sleeper, Mayor, before the Board of
Aldermen, December 29, 1856
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Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual
Appropriations
1857
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Address of the Hon. John S. Sleeper, Mayor, to the City Council of
Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 5,
1857
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Message of the Mayor of Roxbury in Relation to the Back Bay Lands,
January 19, 1857
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Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
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An Ordinance to Cause the Removal of Obstructions on the Sidewalks
Caused by Snow or Ice
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An Ordinance in Relation to Placing, Loading, and Unloading Trucks,
Carts, Wagons, &c
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Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual
Appropriations
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Report of the Committee on Instruction on the Establishment of a Free
Public Library
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Eleventh Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and
Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st,
1857
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An Ordinance Amendatory of an Ordinance Regulating the Fire Department
of the City of Roxbury (numbered as 8)
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Municipal Register...1857
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Report of the Committee on a Sewer in Fellows Street
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Report of the Examination of the Public Schools in the City of Roxbury
for the Year 1857
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Report of the Surveyor of Highways in Regard to Stony Brook
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Report of the Special Committee of the School Committee on the
Communication of P. H. Wentworth, Esq., in Relation to the Late
Examination of Candidates for Admission to the English High School
&c.
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Report of the Committee on Public Instruction on the Subject of Making a
Provision for an English High School for Boys
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Valedictory Address of His Honor John S. Sleeper , Mayor of Roxbury,
Delivered before the City Council, Monday Evening, December 28, 1857
1858
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Address of the Hon. John S. Sleeper, Mayor, to the City Council of
Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 4,
1858
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Report of the Committee on the Remonstrance of Wm. R. Huston relative to
the Municipal Election of Ward 3
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Minority Report of the Committee on the Remonstrance of Wm. R. Huston
relative to the Municipal Election of Ward 3
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Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Salaries for City Officers
of the City of Roxbury 1858-59
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Report of the Joint Special Committee on so much of the Mayor's Address
as it relates to Annexation
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Twelfth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and
Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st,
1858
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Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
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Address of His Honor John S. Sleeper, Mayor of Roxbury, to the Police
Officers and Watchmen of the City, May 1858
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Municipal Register...1858
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10-Address
of His Honor John S. Sleeper, Mayor of Roxbury, to the City Council of
Roxbury, Announcing the Result of the Suit Commonwealth vs. Roxbury and
West Roxbury Relating to the Back Bay Lands
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Report of a Joint Special Committee on Sewerage
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Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury for the
Year 1858
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Valedictory Address of His Honor John S. Sleeper , Mayor of Roxbury,
Delivered before the City Council, Monday Evening, December 27, 1858
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Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual
Appropriations
1859
1860
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Address of the Hon. Theodore Otis, Mayor, to the City Council of
Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 9,
1860
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Annual Report of the City Marshall for 1859
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Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
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Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Salaries for City Officers
of the City of Roxbury 1860-61
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Fourteenth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and
Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st,
1860
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Report of the Joint Special Committee on Gas
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Municipal Register...1860
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An Ordinance Concerning Main Drains and Common Sewers
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10- Report of the Committee on Public Instruction on the
Request of the School Committee to Discontinue the Appropriation
heretofore Granted to the "Trustees of the Grammar School in the
Easterly part of Roxbury"
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Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury for the
Year 1860
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Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual
Appropriations
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Valedictory Address of His Honor Theodore Otis, Mayor of Roxbury,
Delivered before the City Council, Thursday Evening, January 3, 1861
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
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1- Address of the Hon. George Lewis, Mayor, to the City
Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention,
January 2, 1865
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2- Report Relative to Sewerage
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3- Regulations of the School Committee of the City of
Roxbury
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4- Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of
Roxbury for the Year 1865
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5- An Address Delivered before the City Government, and
Citizens of Roxbury on the Occasion of the Death of Abraham Lincoln,
late President of the United States, April 19, 1865, by George Putnam,
D.D.
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6-Nineteenth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts
on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year
Ending January 31st, 1865
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7-Municipal Register...1865
1866
1867
