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A. W. Anderson Amount appointed April 30 August W B. L. McGurk Baldwin Elec Board of Aldermen Board of Park Bourn bridge Bushnell Park C. A. Bossen Cadwell & Jones Charles City Gas Light city of Hartford city treasurer Committee Common Council Compost credit of Fund Daniels Mill driveway Elizabeth Park Fund Expenditures F. G. Whitmore fence fountain FRANCIS GOODWIN Frank F Frayer & Foster Garvan grounds groves Hussey improvements Iron Works Corporation J. M. Thorburn Janitor service Jeremiah Cooney Labor Lumber Mach maintenance Mayor meetings Nursery plants paid Park Commission Park Commissioners Park Pay Roll park purposes park system parkways Phoenix Iron Pond Pope Park President rent Repairing tools Rice & Baldwin Robert Garvie Robert Karlstrom Robinson & Williams Salary and expense Samuel Schirm season Seeds Sidewalk Sigourney Street Tax Fund Theodore Wirth Thomas Stafford Tools & implements tools and imp Tracy Vouch Warbler Warrant
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Page 85 - Every person who shall wilfully injure any statue, monument, chair, or other seat, or any lamp or lamppost, constructed or being in any highway, public space, or park; or any railing or fence erected for public use, or inclosing any such space or park ; or any walk or crossing for foot passengers ; or any sewer, curbing, or paved gutter, shall be fined not less than ten, nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not less than seven, nor more than thirty days, or both.
Page 73 - No member of said Board of Park Commissioners shall be concerned in any contract with the said Board, or any of its departments or institutions, either as contractor, sub-contractor, bondsman, or party directly or indirectly interested. If any member of the Board be the owner of, or interested in, any property necessary, in the opinion of a majority of the other members of the Board, to be taken for park purposes, then proceedings shall be by condemnation, and such facts of ownership and interest...
Page 69 - ... building, to the use of the Board of Park Commissioners, with proper vault or safe for the protection of their books and papers ; and until such office is provided, to the satisfaction of said Board, they are hereby authorized to rent an office at an expense of not more than fifty dollars per month. Said Board shall have power to appoint or employ such superintendents, engineers, architects, and other officers and employes as it may deem necessary, and shall prescribe and define their respective...
Page 81 - To enter or leave any Park, except by the regular approaches thereto; to walk upon any grass border of any flower garden, walk, or driveway; to walk among or through shrubs, flowers, or other plantings, or to cross any lawn in any Park whenever a notice shall be conspicuously posted forbidding such crossing.
Page 74 - ... all property so devised, granted, bequeathed or conveyed, and the rents, issues, profits and income thereof, shall be subject to the...
Page 74 - ... monuments, or works of art, upon such trusts and conditions as may be prescribed by the grantors or devisors thereof, and agreed to by the mayor and common council of said city.
Page 73 - ... parade grounds, or the like; and all connecting parkways and roads or drives between parks ; and all avenues, roads, ways, drives, walks, with all trees, shrubbery, vines, flowers, and ornaments of any description ; and all birds, animals, or curiosities, or...
Page 68 - Each commissioner, however, shall be entitled to receive his actual disbursements for necessary expenses in the performance of any duty imposed upon him by the direction of the said Board of Commissioners. The office of any one of the said Park Commissioners who shall not attend the meetings of the Board for three successive months, after having been duly notified of such meetings, without reason therefor satisfactory to said Board, or without leave of absence from said Board, shall by said Board...
Page 85 - SEC. 2. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this Act shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.
Page 78 - Such chief examiner shall be ex-officio secretary of the board, and under the direction of such board he, as such secretary, shall keep and record minutes of its proceedings, preserve all reports made to it, keep a record of all examinations held under its direction, and perform such other duties as the board may from time to time prescribe.