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Report on Broad Street Riot
Report on the Broad Street Riots of June 11, prepared by Mayor Samuel A. Eliot and a joint committee.
Ordinance to establish the Fire Department
1837 ordinance establishing the Boston Fire Department
Letter from Mayor Samuel A. Eliot to Fire Department Engineers
Letter from Mayor Samuel A. Eliot to Fire Department engineers responding to uncertainty about the engineers participation in the Fire Department
Letter respecting a torpedo invented for the purpose of fighting fires
Letter to the mayor and Committee on the Fire Department describing and promoting a torpedo invented for the purpose of destroying buildings in order to halt the spread of fire
Samuel Atkins Eliot
Portrait of Samuel Atkins Eliot, Mayor of Boston, 1837-1839