480 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



MASSIMO, PRINCE C. M. 



city of Boston, December 81, 1878, compared 

 with the debt at the close of 1872, as set forth 

 in the message of Mayor Cobb, is shown in 

 the following exhibit : 



there was an increase of the net debt amount- 

 ing to $4,950,567.70 during tin- year 1878, 

 while the gross debt was increased, in the 

 same year, $5,749,218.69. 



The following statement shows the increase 

 to the debt this day (January fitli) by the an- 

 nexation of Charlcstown, West Koxbury, and 

 Brighton: 



-town ............................. $3,747,18146 



The means on hand December 81, 1873, for 

 the payment of this debt of $39,488,67L>.7-->, 

 compared with those of 1872, were as fol- 

 lows: 



Hri-lnon ................................ 



WestKnxbnry ............................ 686,00000 



To which add the debt of the city as given 



above .................................. . 89,488,673 73 



We have the total gross debt of the consol- 



idated city of Boston, at this date ...... $48,466,304 18 



Lees redemption means : 



ff n ut rimiiu'ii nn:uiin . 



City of Boston $14,850,896 83 



City of Charlestown .... 178,418 49 



14,987,818 81 



Dec. 31, 187S. 



$13,213,494 17 



' 1,187,401 15 



$13,333,300 68 



Funds In the hands of the 



Board of Commissioners 



oftbe Sinking Funds 



Public Land and other bonds 



in the hands of tbe City 



Treasurer pledged for the 



payment or the debt 



Total 114,350,89588 $18,552,24933 



Increase of means daring the municipal 

 year 1873 $798,64599 



DK. 31, 1611. 



Net debt of the consolidated city of Bos- 

 ton, at this date $38,888,99087 



The Auditor of Accounts classifies the gross 

 debt oftbe consolidated city as follows : 



1.223,948 70 



The gross debt, December 81, 1873, wan. . 



The means on hand for the payment of the 



same, December 81, 1873, ware 



Net debt December 81, 1878, was $25.187,777 40 



$89,488,672 72 

 14,350,895 83 



The net debt of the city, December 81, 

 1872, was $20,187,209.70, which shows that 



The annual municipal expenses of Boston 

 have greatly increased during the past few 



CITARLESTOWN SATT YARD. 



years; the appropriations for the ordin.iv 

 penses in 1873-'74 amounted, in round num- 

 bers, to $8,600,000 against $1,900,000 in 1868- 

 '54, twenty years ago. 



MASSIMO, Prince CAMTM.K VICTOR, the 

 chief of the princely house of Massimo, one of 

 the oldest and noblest in Rome, born at Rome 



August 15, 1808; died in that city, May 12. 

 1873. It was said that ho claimed descent 

 from Qnintus Fabins Maximus, tin' " dila- 

 tator" of the Panic Wars, perhaps the most 

 ancient pedigree, outside of the Jewish rare, to 

 be found in the world. He succeeded his 

 father, Prince Camillo Maximilian, in the pos- 



