The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . the one under which the new City Hall was erected, and from thebeginning of the work till it was practically completed he was, cx-officio,an active member of the commission under whose direction it wasbuilt. He was chairman pro tempore during the absence of ChairmanSawver in the summer of 18g6. STATISTICAL SUMMARY, 1848-1897. Year. Population. Valuation. Debt. Tax Rateper $1,000. TotalExpenditures 1848 15,000* $8,721,000 $99,677 $5-34 $71,346 1850 I 1,082,501 96,996 I 12,707 1855 22,284 18,059,000 22
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . the one under which the new City Hall was erected, and from thebeginning of the work till it was practically completed he was, cx-officio,an active member of the commission under whose direction it wasbuilt. He was chairman pro tempore during the absence of ChairmanSawver in the summer of 18g6. STATISTICAL SUMMARY, 1848-1897. Year. Population. Valuation. Debt. Tax Rateper $1,000. TotalExpenditures 1848 15,000* $8,721,000 $99,677 $5-34 $71,346 1850 I 1,082,501 96,996 I 12,707 1855 22,284 18,059,000 220,754 i860 24,960 16,406,900 1865 3°. 058 18,937,000 673,180 1870 41,105 34,018,450 ,718 1,887,694 1875 49,299,781 2,589,700! 1880 58,291 41,006,862 2,265,914! 1,632,558 1885 68,380 52,719,391 ,9i4t 2,091,663 1890 2,! 2,368,228 1895 88,080,816 ! 15-40 3,065,588 1897 106,000* 98,520,591 3,498,803! 4,096,495 * Estimate. \ Net THE OLD TOWN AND CITY HALL JoR more than one hundred years the meetings of the inhabitantsiif Worcester for the transaction of municipal business wereheld in the buildings which were used for public worship during thatperiod. Previous to the year 1787 the town and the parish were oneso far as temporal interests were concerned, and after that date con-siderable time elapsed before a separation in fact in the matter ofproperty rights took place. The first meeting-house erected on theCommon in 1719 gave way to a more commodious one in 1763, andthis later building came down to us, through various alterations,improvements and renewals until, in 1887, its demolition was decreed,and the long-familiar Old .South Church vanished. In the earlytime its walls resounded with Revolutionary oratory, and from its westporch was read for the first time in public within the limits of theCommonwealth, the Declaration of Independence.
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