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acre Alex Smith April 30 attractive Board of Park bridge Britain avenue building Bushnell Park C. A. Bossen City Gas city of Hartford City Treasurer Clapp & Treat cliffs Committee cost driveway Elec Electric Elizabeth Park Expenditures-Continued F. G. Whitmore Fairfield fence fountain FRANCIS GOODWIN Frank F Garvan Goodwin Park grounds Gymnasium appar Hussey improvement Iron Works Corp J. M. Thorburn Janitor service Jeremiah Cooney land lawn Lucius F Mach maintenance Morningside avenue Mulberry street bridge Nursery plants paid Park area Park Commission Park Commissioners Park Pay Roll park purposes Park system parkways Phoenix Iron pond Pope Park account present President rent Rentals Rice & Baldwin Riverside Park Robert Garvie Robert Karlstrom Rocky Ridge Park Salary and expense Schirm Smith Summit street Supplies Supt Tax Fund Theodore Wirth tion Tools & implements tools and imp trees Trinity College Voucher walks Watson & Jackson Zion street
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Page 68 - Any vacancy which may occur, through death, resignation or otherwise, may be filled for the unexpired term by a majority vote of the Commission and the approval of the Board of Aldermen.
Page 73 - ... all property so devised, granted, bequeathed or conveyed, and the rents, issues, profits and income thereof, shall be subject to the...
Page 84 - ... 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 - 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 shall be fully set forth in the...
Page 72 - park property" includes all parks, squares, and areas of land within the management of said board ; and all buildings, structures, improvements, seats, benches, fountains, boats, floats, walks, drives, roads, trees, plants, herbages, flowers, and other things thereon, and enclosures of the same ; and all shade trees on streets or thoroughfares, resting places, watering stations, playgrounds, parade grounds, or the like ; and all connecting park-ways and roads or drives between parks ; and all avenues,...
Page 84 - No barbed wire shall be used in the construction of fences, or retained upon existing fences, connected with or enclosing the grounds of any public school, or other public building, public park, or cemetery in this state.
Page 75 - ... or intoxicating liquors into the Indian country that the acts charged were done under authority, in writing from the War Department or any officer duly authorized thereunto by the War Department.
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 75 - All the owners of different tracts of land which are contiguous or which are to be included in the same park or recreation space may be joined in one application, if convenient, and the court or judge may appoint a single board of appraisers to determine and award the compensation to be paid to the owners of each tract in the same report of their findings.
Page 83 - To take or molest any bird, fish, frog, or any live animal, or bird's eggs, or in any way interfere with any bird's nest, or with any cage, box, place or enclosure for the protection of any bird, fish, or any live animal.