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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 14: fire-department. (search)
ing the Fire Department of the Town of Medford. It contained the act of the General Court of April 9, 1839; also the act of April 17, 1837, to prevent bonfires, and false alarms of fire; also extracts from the Revised Statutes, chapter 18; also an ordinance for preventing and extinguishing fires, and establishing a fire-department in the town of Medford,--passed by the board of engineers, April 25, 1840; also further extracts from the Revised Statutes, chapter 58. Approved by the town, April 29, 1840. The ordinance passed by the board of engineers had, and still has, the approval of every intelligent and virtuous citizen in Medford. A brief extract is as follows :-- Fines for carrying fire openly in the streets, from two dollars to twenty dollars; for allowing to remain any defective chimney, deposit of ashes, &c., five dollars to twenty dollars; chimney set on fire at improper times, two dollars. Engineers shall remove combustible materials where dangerously placed; the engin