Excerpt from Report of the Cochituate Water Board to the City Council of Boston, for the Year 1861 The Board are happy to be able to state that the change which was made in the tariff In regard to hotels, has been sustained by a decree of great impor tance, made by the Supreme Judicial Court. The case was brought before the Court by the proprietor of the Parker House, In a bill in equity to restrain the City of Boston from cutting off the supply of Cochituate Water therefrom, or otherwise enforcing against the plaintiffs the water rates assessed upon them in the year 1859. The facts in the case were, that, under the provisions of the City Ordinance, the Water Board and Registrar put into a' portion of the hotels of the city, including that of the plaintiffs', a water-meter, for the purpose of determining the quantity of water used therein; that the water used in plaintiffs' hotel exceeded ten thou sand gallons a day and the Water Registrar, under the direction of the Water Board, made an assessment thereon, for the quarter ending December 31, 1859, at the rate Cf two cents for each one hundred gallons; that the amount of the assessment so made was while, if made according to the provisions of the City Ordinance, applicable to hotels into which no meters have been put, it would have been only and that the plaintiffs were'notified, Decem ber 27, 1859, that unless the amount assessed was paid within three days the water would be cut off. 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.