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AT 974.48 A88a 1861
ATTLEBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY a31654001303343b
Attleboro Annual Reports
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
SELECTMEN, TREASURER
+AND
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR
OF THE
TOWN OF
ATTLEBOROUGH,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 29, 1861.
2×7.48 88- C1 PAWTUCKET: ROBERT SHERMAN, PRINTER, MAIN STREET. 1861
ANNUAL REPORTS.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
"l'o cash received of G. B. Richards, $2,461 10
.66
66 borrowed of Attleborough Bank, 984 17
.66
received of Henry Rice, Esq., 10 00
" Town of Pawtucket, 29 97
66 66 " State Treasurer, School Fund, 257 07
66 " S. W. Carpenter, license of dogs, 234 60
tax bills received from Assessors, 13,750 25
56 cash received from town of Taunton, 121 08
66 66
Overseers of the Poor, 249 31
$18,095 55
By cash paid Attleborough Bank, $1,000 00
66 66 66 adjusting balances, weights, and sealing measures, 9 50
" State Tax,
512 50
County Tax, 1,850 35
discount on taxes paid prior to Oct. 1, 1860, 435 00
cash paid Treasurer and Collector's services, 200 00
66 66 " incidental expenses, 27 60
" Selectmen's orders, 10,926 94
" cash and uncollected taxes for 1860,
3,133 66
$18,095 55 GEORGE PRICE, Treasurer. Attleborough, March 29th, 1861.
Settlement with G. B. Richards, former Treasurer.
Cash and uncollected taxes, April 1, 1860,
$2,795 71 13 50
Additional tax bills,
Cash received of E. G. May,
6 48
$2,815 69
Ordered to G. Price, Town Treasurer,
$2,461 10
undry orders, reported in expenditures, 354 59
$2,815 69
59 10
ASSETS OF THE TOWN.
Cash and uncollected taxes, Bills due Almshouse establishment, 110 81
$3,133 66
Due from the town of Mansfield, for support of Mrs. Haynes,
27 00
LIABILITIES ..
$3,370 47
Due the Selectmen of Attleborough, on account of Deborah Starkey Fund,
$708 00
" School Districts,
820 39
" Highway
423 10
$1,951 49
SELECTMEN'S REPORT. SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
Paid in
Prudential Committee.
No. of Dist.
No. of Pupils.
Appropriation. 1860 and 1861.
Due.
George D. Hatch . .
1
238
$1,048 86
$1,047 50
$2 23
Charles E. Jordan .
20
123 83
141 00
3 27
Henry Thomas. . . .
3
18
115 34
114 03
1 31
E. S. Richards ..
4
158
709 40
724 50
2 70
Moses Mason. .
5
122
556 64
668 88
Wm. H. Walker. .
6
30
166 26
163 75
2 51
J. B. Carpenter.
7
30
166 26
181 50
26
W. E. Robinson. .
8
55
272 34
260 25
37 57
James H. Horton . .
9
14
98 37
104 18
Lucius Damon. .
10
18
115 34
172 00
1 62
Benjamin Bowen. .
11
24
140 80
141 79
08*
Joab French.
12
31
170 50
190 50
11 33*
John Mugg
13
17
111 10
87 98
68 06
Lemuel T. Starkey .
14
21
128 07
133 15
7
Homer M. Daggett
15
59
289 31
230 83
114 58
Alfred Briggs . . . .
16
14
98 37
45 00
56 81
Herbert N. Mason.
17
10
81 39
81 39
J. W. Capron . ...
18
103
476 00
412 25
72 10
Hervey M. Daggett
19
21
128 07
65 00
72 75
Stephen A. Knight
20
55
272 34
156 00
192 91
Granville S. Smith .
21
107
492 98
384 63
Hiram Jones.
22
50
251 12
199 50
131 71
1215
$6,012 69
$5,805 61
$820
3
* Overdrawn.
Overdrawn,
$1
.. .
.
4
Paid School Districts,
$5,705 61
66 Committee,
225 00
for printing School Report,
25 00
Whole amount for schools,
$5,955 61
HIGHWAY DISTRICTS.
Surveyors.
No. of Dist.
Appropriation.
Paid in 1860 and 1861.
Due.
William N. Thurber.
1
$35 00
$44 15
Hiram Fisher
2
30 00
35 00
Eliphalet Wilmarth
3
60 00
59 47
Jacob Briggs.
4
80 00
62 25
$17 75
Lewis F. Derry.
5
50 00
51 25
11 91
Edward Wilmarth.
6
100 00
75 00
25 00
Abner Witherell, Jr.
7
70 00
51 37
18 63
Allen Monroe, Jr.
8
35 00
37 36
14 91
Hiram Jones.
9
60 00
52 62
7 38
Jesse R. Carpenter
10
105 00
102 17
2 83
Joseph M. Newcomb
11
100 00
125 59
Stephen O. Stanley
12
105 00
143 78
Calvin Richards.
13
110 00
125 70
Amos C. Hawes
14
100 00
99 92
08
Earl S. Williams
15
105 00
131 50
Horatio N. Draper
16
100 00
33 59.
100 00
Augustus Holmes
17
100 00
141 12
8 88
Edwin A. White.
18
55 00
61 55
Gamaliel B. Draper
19
90 00
42 50
70 73
William A. Bushee
20
60 00
73.83
William H. Tiffany
21
15 00
15 00
Bradford Peck .
22
70 00
70 00
Hartford Ide.
23
55 00
55 00
William H. F. Knowles.
24
75 00
100 00
A. H. Robinson .
25
50 00
50 00
Noah A. Carpenter
26
85 00
50 00
35 00
Randall Esten.
27
50 00
50 00
Lewis R. Blake
28
50 00
40 00
10 00
$2,000 00
$1,879 72
$423 10
5
EXPENDITURES.
Paid Highway District No. 8, through G. B. Rich- ards, former Treasurer,
$17 27
School District, No. 22, do. 88 50
66 E. R. Read, Constable,
do.
13 50
N. F. Lincoln, 1858, do.
3 00
66
J. W. Riley, 66 1858, do.
1 50
G. B. Richards, for tax books, do.
6 00
66
for bad money in collecting
taxes,
Abatement of taxes in the hands of G. B. Richards, 210 82
$354 59
Paid School orders,
$5,717 11
Highway orders,
1,862 45
66 Town School Committee,
225 00
for assistance to J. A. Fuller and family,
4 20
66
" Lewis Whiting,
1 50
66 66
" Otis Norton and family,
5 50
66 66 66
" T. E. Robinson and family,
6 00
66
66
" J. McMurray and family,
10 35
66
66
" Larned Whipple and family,
58 25
66
66
" Mary Norton and family,
13 50
66
66
" Widow Bela Peck,
5 25
town of Milford, for support of Geo. Engley,
26 25
" Foxboro', for support of Nancy Downs and family, 1858,
30 70
66
" Taunton, for support of Nancy Downs and family, 23 00
16 75
66
66 66 for support of Jesse New and family, 25 00
for support of Manson Woodcock and family,
5 00
66 " assisting 120 traveling Paupers,
45 33
M. J. Brockway, for care of traveling Pau- pers, 1858,
7 75
for assisting Mary Lines,
13 60
66 66 George Bowen,
7 00
66 66
Christopher Gibbons and family,
8 50
66 66 66 Mrs. O'Neil and family,
97
66
H. Pine and family,
2 50
66 66 P. Kelly and family,
4 88
66 Lotes and family,
5 00
Joseph W. Capron, for services as Assessor,
91 50
66 Hartford Ide,
66
79 45
66
" Mrs. C. George and family,
49 02
66
" Medway, for support of Jas. B. May,
14 00
6
Paid Lyman W. Daggett, for services as Assessor,
$60 75
S. M. Holman,
82 00
" E. G. May, 66 66
86 75
66 T. A. Barden, 66 66 66 78 00
6 E. G. May, for services as Selectman and Over- seer of the Poor, 128 00
S. M. Holman, for services as Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 123 00
T. A. Barden, for services as Selectman and Overseer of the Poor,
120 00
S. W. Carpenter, for services as Town Clerk, 69 75 66 66 recording births, mar- riages and deaths, 88 10
James W. Riley, for warning Town Meeting,
8 00
George Price, for services as Collector and Treasurer,
200 00
George Price, for incidental expenses,
27 60
66 Bradford Peck, Superintendent of Almshouse,
225 00
E. R. Read, Constable,
11 50
66 C. H. Ames, for services as Constable,
4 00
Otis Martin, for license refunded,
8 00
66 James M. Stewart, for printing,
39 50
T. A. Barden, for valuation books, &c.,
6 64
M, J. Brockway, for use of hall for organizing a Fire Department, 1859, 4 00
A. M. Ide, for advertising, 1859,
1 00
Naaman B. Carpenter, for defending lawsuit,
52 00
Betsey Guild, for support of Mrs. Haynes, a Mansfield Pauper, 6 00
66 J. G. Barden, for labor and stone for bridge,
358 47
Ariel C. Whipple, for covering " 667
369 60
James Hamilton, for labor on bridge,
159 04
J. H. Brewster, for printing,
6 00
H. S. Freeman, for plank for Bridge No. 11, 40 52
1 50
66 Cambridge House of Correction, for support of J. Whiting, 8 86
E. G. May, Committee on Bridge,
2 50
Joseph W. Capron, "
4 25
66 E. G. May, for incidental expenses,
8 75
66 newspaper and postage,
3 43
66 S. M. Holman, for removing Paupers to State Almshouse, 13 00
$6 abatement of taxes, 248 67
for support of a Pawtucket Pauper, 27 97
66 " J. B. Hewetta, Taunton Pauper, 121 08
Attleborough Bank, 1,000 00
for State sealing weights and measures, 9 50
-
·
J. M. Walcott, for abatement of tax,
7
Paid State Tax,
8512 50
County Tax,
1,850 35
discount on taxes paid before Oct. 1, 1860, 435 00
Cash and uncollected taxes,
3,133 66
$18,095 55
ELISHA G. MAY, Selectmen S. M. HOLMAN, of Attleborough.
REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
ALMSHOUSE . ACCOUNT.
To value of stock, tools, &c., on Farm, April 1, 1860, $646 00
66 66 " wood and timber, 66 66 66 221 00
66 66 " provisions,
66 66
160 20
66 66 " bills receivable, 166 66 66
86 00
" cash on hand, 96 39
541 66
66 ' paid for provisions, &c., for current year, T. Smith, for wood,
36 00
" Bradford Peck's salary as Superintendent,
225 00
$2,012 25
By value of stock, tools, &c., on Farm, April 1, 1861, $591 50
66 66 " wood and timber,
66 66
141 00
166 66 " provisions,
66 66 66
111 70
.66 " bills receivable, €6 66 66
110 81
166 receipts for produce of Farm to April 1, 1861, 311 99
.66 66 " wood and timber,
66
290 25
66 66 66 labor of Superintendent and inmates of Almshouse, 90 75
" cash paid Treasurer, April 1, 1861, 249 31
" balance against Almshouse,
114 94
$2,012 25
Average number of Paupers at Almshouse for the year, 10 Number of traveling Paupers assisted at Almshouse during the year, 250
Number of traveling Paupers assisted out of the Alms- house, 120
Number of other Paupers assisted out of the Almshouse, 20
1
F
T. A. BARDEN,
March 29, 1861.
8
EXPENSE OF SUPPORTING TOWN PAUPERS OUT OF THE ALMSHOUSE.
Paid for supporting J. 'A. Fuller's family, $4 20
66 66 Lewis Whiting, 1 50
Otis Norton and family, 5 50
66 66 66 T. E. Robinson and family,
6 00
66 66 J. McMurray and family,
10 35
66
Mrs. C. George and family,
49 02
Larned Whipple and family, 58 25
66
66 Mrs. Mary Norton and family, 66 Widow Bela Peck
5 25
" town of Milford, for support of George Engley,
26 25
" " " Foxboro', for support of Nancy Downs and family, for 1858, 30 70
" " " Taunton for support of Nancy Downs and family, 23 10
66 46 " Medway for support of James B. May, and family, 16 75
66 66 64 Medway for support of Jesse New and and family,
25 00
" Manson Woodcock, 5 00
$280 37
EXPENSE OF SUPPORTING FOREIGN PAUPERS OUT OF THE ALMSHOUSE.
Paid for assisting 120 traveling Paupers,
$45 33
66 M. J. Brockway for care of traveling Paupers, 1857, 7 75
66 for assisting Mary Lines,
13 60
60
66 George Bowen, 7 00
8 50
66 66
Mrs. O'Neil,
97
66 66 66 H. Pine,
2 50
60
66
P. Kelly and family,
4 88
66 66 Lotes 66 5 00
66
66 removing six Paupers to State Almshouse, 13 00
$108 53
ELISHA G. MAY, ) S. M. HOLMAN, T. A. BARDEN,
Overseers of the Poor.
March 29, 1861.
13 50
66
66 66
66 66 Christopher Gibbons,
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