Excerpt from Auditor's Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Boston, and the County of Suffolk, for the Financial Year 1847-48: 1847, May 1, to 1 May, 1848 A considerable increase of Expenditures on account of the police department will be noticed. This is in consequence of a change in the Old System, and the establishment of a regular Corps of Night Police Officers, under the direction of the City Marshal, en tirely independent of the Day Police, and of the Night Patrol Watch. All the Police o icers now employed at the Theatres and at other places of public amuse ment are selected by. The City Marshal, and are under his control; and although the services of the Po lice officers at these Establishments are paid by the City, yet the amount is chargeable to the Proprie tors, and is refunded by them. The changes thus far made in this important branch in the administra tion of the affairs of the City have been found to be quite satisfactory in their results, and are believed to be generally acceptable to the Citizens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."