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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SELECTMEN AND SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF MERRIMAC,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
MARCH FIRST, 1878.
HAVERHILL, MASS. : C. C. MORSE AND SON, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. 1878.
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Selectmen and School Committee
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OF THE
TOWN OF MERRIMAC,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING MARCH FIRST, 1878.
IIAVERHILL, MASS. : C. C. MORSE AND SON, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. 1878.
SELECTMEN'S REPORT.
The Selectmen of Merrimac respectfully submit the follow- ing report, with a schedule of receipts and expenditures for the financial year ending Mar. 1, 1878, together with a few suggestions which we present for the consideration of the town.
At our last annual meeting, the town voted an appropria- tion of $2,000, for repairs of highways and bridges, which we apportioned as follows :-
For Essex, Merrimac, and Rocks, Bridges,
highway district, No. 1,
$300
500
No. 2, 480
No. 3, 275
" No. 4, 145
reserving $300 for snow-paths and contingent expenses. Of this suin, $105 were paid on account of the Murphy and O'Neal suits, which suits were brought by the aforesaid parties for injuries received in February, 1877, by them alleged to have been caused by a defect in the highway near the house of Coy lligley. They left their cases with counsel, laying their damages at $300. We, thinking the amount claimed exorbitant, refused to accede to their terms, and they sued
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the town, claiming $2,000 damages. We had the cases put over to the September term of the court; but, the week be- fore the term commenced, we settled their claims by paying them $37.50 each, and our own counsel $30.00.
In November, Mr. C. Donahue received a somewhat seri- ous injury from a fall from the sidewalk in a dark night, on the west side of School Street. Mr. Donahue was very gentlemanly in his intercourse with us, and, we thought, quite reasonable in his claim for damages. We settled by paying him $20.00.
We have not deemed it advisable to expend much money on that sidewalk, nor on the road adjoining, during the past year, thinking it. probable that the building on the Poyen estate would be vacated and removed carly in the spring, at which time the street and sidewalk might probably be graded at much less expense ; but, there having been a general com- plaint of the aforesaid sidewalk, and the Surveyor having expended his apportionment of money, we instructed him to curb and grade the portion deemed most unsafe, and, also, by permission of Mr. Morse, to shorten the flight of steps lead- ing to his shop, making the sidewalk about one foot wider at that point.
In December, on the same street, near the shop of Loud Bros., a stone culvert failing, necessitated its being taken up and built over. Also, on the same street, a wooden bridge leading to the premises of Littlefield Winn having broken down, Mr. Winn proposed constructing in its place a sub- stantial stone culvert, if the town would award him ten dol- lars, which proposition we accepted.
On Main Street, Mr. Gunnison, having, at his own ex- pense, constructed a brick sidewalk, with granite curbstones, proposed to pay one-half the expense of paving a gutter to
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protect the same, if the town would pay the other half, which proposition we also accepted.
The above-mentioned items, amounting in the aggregate to something over $200, constitute the amount of the highway appropriations expended by our directions.
Agreeably to a vote of the town, we have caused a suit- able tablet to be placed in the vestibule of Sargent Hall, in honor of William P. Sargent, and as a slight testimonial of our gratitude for his noble benefaction to the place of his birth.
During the past year, the town has realized a gross in- come of $865.95 from this building,-$750 for rent of stores, &c., and $115.95 for the use of the hall, to which, in order to fully apprehend the extent of the benefit received, should be added the use of the hall by the town, and the rent of the town officers' room. We have, also, in conformity to the requirements of the General Statutes, caused bookcases to be built in the town officers' room, to contain the law- reports and public documents furnished by the State, and the safe-vault to be sheathed, and awnings to be placed over the store doors and windows.
The Janitor's report, that the hall has been opened thirty- seven times, for the following purposes ; viz., caucuses, eight times ; lectures, eight ; concerts, five ; public entertainments, nine ; town meetings, three ; political convention, one ; polit- ical rally, one ; public library opening, one ; other entertain- ments, one.
In relation to the sale of intoxicating liquors, we would say, that we have granted no licenses ; but, in conformity to the resolution passed at the last annual meeting, we re- gret to report, that, in the early part of the year, we felt it to be our duty, as guardians of the public good, to prose-
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cute three persons under the "Liquor Nuisance Act." Two of them pleaded guilty, and their cases were placed on file ; the other, with a degree of pluck and courage worthy of a better cause, stood trial with two complaints against him, and was convicted on both, and duly sentenced at the Octo- ber term of the Superior Criminal Court. Recently, we have prosecuted one of those having a case on file, a second time. At the Haverhill Police Court, he waived an examination, and was put under bonds for appearance at the May term of the Superior Criminal Court.
We are pleased to say, that, at the present time, there is not, to our knowledge, any place in Merrimac where intoxi- cating liquors are sold.
As Overseers of the Poor, we would say, that, on enter- ing upon our duties, we found six persons wholly dependent upon the town for support, four of whom were inmates of the Amesbury almshouse, for whose support during the forty- three weeks intervening between the division of the town, and Mar. 1, 1877, the former Overseers had contracted with the Amesbury Overseers, at the average cost of all the inmates of the house during that year. That contract they were unwilling to renew, inasmuch as the four were all aged persons, unable to render any assistance either in the house or upon the farm; but they would consent to keep them another year for ten per cent above the average cost of the whole ; and we closed the contract on those terms. For the fifth, a nearly blind woman, we have paid two dollars per week. The sixth, Mr. John Sargent, we have assisted . during the year without limiting him to a stipulated sum. (For items see schedule.)
David Shaw was at the Ipswich Insane Institution twenty- one weeks at a cost to the town of $71.85 for board and clothing.
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There are three families receiving assistance from the town by virtue of military settlement, two of them, McCabe and LaRoche, through Amesbury, and one of them, Jenkins, directly, the expense of which is divided according to the act incorporating the town, three-fifths to be paid by Ames- bury, and two-fifths by Merrimac. Three McCabe children have been wholly supported by the two towns since last spring, and are now in the Amesbury almshouse.
One hundred and fifty-two tramps have been lodged at the lock-up during the year.
The balance of expenses for the support of the poor comes under the head of temporary relief furnished to indigent persons; and, while the amount seems large, yet, when we consider the long-continued depression of all branches of business, might we not naturally have anticipated that the calls upon the town's bounty would have been even more numerous ? While the expense may have been less during the past year than it would have been if the town had had an almshouse, we think we foresee exigences which may arise in the future, which would vastly enhance the expenses were the present system to be continued. Therefore we suggest, that, at the forthcoming annual meeting, the subject of an almshouse be taken into consideration.
We also recommend that a new valuation of the town be taken. As Assessors, we have found the present valuation to be unequal and unjust. In many instances, we have found the land of contiguous estates taxed an hundred per cent higher in one case than in the other, with no apparent reason excepting that one has been on the valuation books fifteen or twenty years, and the other perhaps not half so long. We are told to fix it. That is just what we have done in those cases we have noticed ; and it is evidently
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just what our predecessors have been doing for the last twenty years; and, undoubtedly our successors will find more estates to fix in the future than we have in the past. You do not need to raise the valuation of the town, but to equalize it. As the main object of existing laws relative to taxation is an equitable apportionment of the expenses of local government upon the property and polls thereof, and, as the burden of expense rests largely on real estate, it would scem as though an effort should be made to attain to this desirable end. We very much fear that no such result will be accomplished while the present plan of fixing taxes, in the hurry of copying valuation lists, is continued. And, as your Assessors also act as Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor, we recommend at the annual meeting a committee be chosen, independent of those officers, to view the real estate property of the town, and value it by a standard.
With regard to the financial condition of the town, we have but a word to say. By its judicious liberality, in making generous appropriations at the last annual meeting, together with the legitimate sources of income, the town has been enabled to reduce its interest-paying indebtedness $3,500 besides expending $1,000 in a permanent improvement ; viz., the addition to the schoolhouse in the centre village And, although the reduction of the debt by statement in our tab- ulated report is apparently somewhat smaller than the above- mentioned sum, yet, when we remember that the necessary action of the town of Amesbury in abating $1,211.74 of the old tax-lists, actually increased Merrimac's indebtedness to the extent of $181.70, by annuling that amount of its credits, we think we can congratulate you on the healthy condition of your finances as a town.
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SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS.
NEW SCHOOLHOUSE, MERRIMAC.
Heath Bros., per contract,
$865 00
extra work, 25 93
A. G. Whitcomb, furniture, 78 83
B. & M. Railroad, freight, 4 75
O. F. Scavey, fare to Boston, 3 00
John Sheridan, labor, 83
L. Kimball, clock, 6 00
II. I. Atwood, stove and fixtures, 51 57
School Committee, services as build'g com., 25 00
$1,060 91
COMMITTEE'S STATEMENT.
The committee would report that the original estimate of the cost was made with a contemplated addition of fifteen feet ; but, after the annual meeting in March, the commit- tec, in looking the matter over more carefully, deemed it best to make the addition eighteen feet, thereby increasing the cost fifty dollars ; and, as the result, exceeding the ap- propriation by sixty dollars and ninety-one cents, which amount was drawn from the sum appropriated for schools. Since the completion of the building, the committee have felt that the addition was none too large for the comfort and convenience of the schools.
O. F. SEAVEY, C. M DINSMORE, Committee.
II. J. CUSHING,
TEACHING SCHOOLS, MERRIMAC.
F. Wiggin, High School, $999 96
asst. High School, 25 50
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Annie W. Kelley, Gram. School,
$340 00
Carrie P. Manning, Inter. 297 50
Mattie Bradley, Primary
97 50
Lizzie S. Bartlett, “ 66 125 00
Lizzie H. Nichols, “ 66 125 00
$2,010 46
SCHOOL INCIDENTALS, MERRIMAC.
J. L. Hammett, supplies,
$24 27
A. G. Whitcomb, furniture, 40 80
Thomas Hall, supplies, 18 90
J. W. Gifford, 2.12
H. J. Cushing,
1 63
1
W. I. Atwood, 66
86 89
0. F. Seavey,
1 67
E. W. Ricker, 66
1 65
James D. Pike, 66
2 20
W. H. Fourtin, care of schoolhouse, 30 75
F. H. Bird, 9 75 66
John A. Heath, 23 00
C. S .. Hall, cleaning clocks, 1 50
J. W. Sargent, letter paper, 1 60
James Lawton, cleaning rooms, 8 72
W. II. Thomas, painting, glazing, &c., 11 27
I. P. Ransom, cleaning and blacking stove, 5 75
Wm. Jones, painting black-boards, 3 00
W. H. Blodgett, labor, 6 00
O. F. Seavey, books for teacher's desk,
1 83
Emerson & Howe, paper, 60
Heath Bros., repairs,
22 84
W. B. Chapman, “ 10 70
Blodgett & Davis, coal, 86 87
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John E. Currier, wood, $ 2 25
Wakefield Rattan Co., baskets,
1 75
William Jones, painting schoolhouse, 95 00
$503 31
$2,513 77
BIRCH MEADOW SCHOOL.
Lizzie S. Bartlett, teaching,
$71 50
Nellie Clough, 77 00
$148 50
INCIDENTALS.
C. S. Hall, cleaning clock,
$ 75
Il. J. Cushing, repairs, 1 35
B. F. Sargent, wood, 4 00
Calvin Sargent, sawing wood,
75
E. Trefethen, care of house,
3 05
Edgar S. Bartlett, “ 3 40
13 30
$161 80
HIGHLAND SCHOOL.
Lizzie II. Nichols, teaching,
$71 50
Lois C. Edwards, 77 00
$148 50
INCIDENTALS.
Aaron Hoyt, repairs,
$1 52
Geo. S. Prescott, "
50
Wm. Jones,
2 50
L. E. Bancroft, grading and labor, 2 25
C. S. Hall, cleaning clock, 75
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W. B. Chapman, repairs, $2 18
W. I. Atwood, supplies, 13 30
J. W. Hoyt, wood, 4 00
Harlan Colby, sawing wood, 75
Harry Stickney, care of house,
5 45
H. J. Cushing, supplies, 2 46
$35 66
$184 16
LANDING SCHOOL.
Maria G. Smiley, teaching,
$71 50
N. Florence Carleton, "
77 00
$148 50
INCIDENTALS.
James Whittier, repairs,
$3 90
M. A. Tuson, cleaning room,
2 00
W. M. Merrill, wood,
10 25
C. H. Hughes, sawing wood, 2.
1 00
care of house,
3 25
N. Florence Carleton, "
2 80
23 20
$171 70
BOOKS FOR TEACHERS' DESKS, &C.
J. L. Hammett, schoolbooks, 1. $19 58
C. S. Hall, printing, 1 25
C. C. Morse & Son, printing, 1 75
J. V. Smiley, paper, 1 65
J. W. Sargent, schoolbooks,
1 90
$26 13
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TEACHING SCHOOLS, MERRIMACPORT.
J. W. Cheney, High School, $865 60
Sarah E. Poore, Gram.
113 75
Hattie P. Chency, “ 183 75
M. A. Tuson, Primary " 247 50
$1,410 60
INCIDENTALS.
C. M. Dinsmore, supplies, $4 65
J. W. Cheney, 16 00
Blodgett & Davis, "
12 62
A. G. Whitcomb,
3 15
W. I. Atwood,
17 95
J. W. Sargent, 3 26
C. M. Dinsmore, cleaning rooms, &c., 8 30
J. P. Ransom, cleaning and blacking stoves 4 50
H. M. Fowler, care schoolhouse, &c., - 17 00
C. Huse, 15 00
Blodgett & Davis, coal, 42 00
W. M. Merrill, wood and sawing, 13 50
II. F. Chase, sawing wood,
1 00
Barzillai Currier,
1 75
S. Evans, 2 50
James Whittier, repairs, 8 00
Wm. M. Merrill, repairs on fence, 4 90
A. O. Kidder, clock, 6 25
F. P. Stiles, printing, 7 00
I. W. Hughes, repairs, 10 25
W. J. Hughes, sawing wood, 1 50
201 08
$1,611 68
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BEAR HILL SCHOOL.
Anna G. Peabody, teaching, $ 60 00
Eva J. Smith, 66
280 00
INCIDENTALS.
H. J. Cushing, supplies, 2 50
Blodgett & Davis, “
1 25
C. S. Hall, cleaning clock,
75
S. Quimby, labor,
4 00
Geo. A. Sargent, care of house and sawing wood, 15 65
Geo. W. Sargent, wood,
18 25
3
F. P. Goodwin, labor,
1 75
F. W. P. Goodwin, “ 6 25
J. Robinson, painting black-board,
2 75
J. D. Pike, supplies,
70
·
M. S. Gibbs, repairs,·
1 16
Geo. S. Prescott, "
2 40
57 41
$397 41
Total expense for schools,
$6,127 56
Appropriation by town, $4,800 00
Appropriated by town for addition to schoolhouse,
1,000 00
Dog money, 1876,
109 44
1877,
88 95
Income Mass. school-fund, 1877,
187 15
Tuition fees,
12 50
$6,198 04
· Balance unexpended, 70 48
$6,198 04
$340 00
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HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
Amount of highway appropriation appor-
tioned by Selectmen to District No. 1, Wm. H. Blodgett, Sur., $500 00
Expended by Surveyor, 540 13
$540 13
Apportionment exceeded by Surveyor, $40 13
Expended by Sur. by order of Selectmen,
56 13
" W. Gunnison, 66
14 72
"
L. Winn,
10 00
Little & Lancaster " 2 00
26 72
Total,
$622 98 .
REMOVING SNOW.
Expended by Surveyor,
$47 26
47 26
To District No. 2, P. J. Neal, Surveyor, $480
Expended by Surveyor,
489 83
489 83
Apportionment exceeded by Surveyor,
$9 83
REMOVING SNOW.
Expended by Surveyor,
$45 33
45 33
To District No. 3, F. P. Goodwin, Sur.,
$275 00
Expended by Surveyor,
288 76
288 76
Apportionment exceeded by Surveyor,
$13 76
REMOVING SNOW.
Expended by Surveyor,
54 30
54 30
To District No. 4, Calvin Sargent, Sur.,
145 00
Expended by Surveyor,
140 48
140 48
Balance unexpended,
$4 52
REMOVING SNOW.
Expended by Surveyor,
6 45
6 45
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Paid town of Amesbury two-fifths of bill expense on Rocks Bridge, $47 20.
Paid town of Amesbury two-fifths of ex- pense on Essex Merrimac Bridge, 96 42
Total,. $143 62 $143 62
Paid Jenness & Bartlett in settlement of Murphy and O'Neal case, $105 00
Paid Dr. Cushing, Murphy and O'Neal case, 4 00
Paid M. C. Donahue. damage by defect in sidewalk, 20 00
Total for damage, 129 00
Paid town of Amesbury two-fifths of S. A.
Wood's bill, 1873, 21 60
Paid L. E. Bancroft, snow-bill, 1876, Dis. 1, $16 13
" John Hall, "
1 50
" Calvin Sargent, "
4 75
Total, $18 38 18 38
Total expense highways and bridges,
$2,007 99
Appropriation voted by town, $2,000; overdrawn, $7.99.
POOR ACCOUNT.
Paid town Amesbury for board of Olive
Pressy, 1 year ; John Hubbard, 1 year ; Eliza Patten, 1 year ; Dolly Sargent, 1 year ;- 208 weeks, at $1.54 per week, $320 32
Supplies to Lafayette Warner, 38 45
MILITARY SETTLEMENT.
Board-bill city of Lynn, McCabe fam., $229 95
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Transportation of 3 McCabe children to the Amesbury almshouse, $8 00
Sixty seven wecks' board, at $1.40, 93 80
LaRoche family, 104 weeks, at $1.40, 145 60
Bills outside of almshouse, 46 57
$523 92
Two-fifths paid by Merrimac, Funeral expenses David Shaw, ' 25 50
$209 57
Total paid Amesbury on poor acct., $593 84
G. C. Hurd, b'rd and clothing David Shaw, $71 85
0. F. Seavey, medical attend. 4 00
C. W. Emerson, expenses 66 9 55
$85 40 $85 40
G. B. Hoyt, undertaker's services Mrs. L. Warner, 6 00
Blodgett & Davis, supplies to R. S. Patten,
30 95
Emerson & Ilowe, med. to A. A. Sargent, $11 98
Mrs. W. B. Kendrick, b'rd of 28 00
$39 98
39 98
13 00
II. J. Cushing, med. atten. to Mr. Bellel, Emerson & Howe, med. for 66
14 14
$27 14
27 14
0. F. Seavey, med. attendance, Mr. T.
Grant, bill 1876,
33 00
Blodgett & Davis, sup. M. Burke, bill 1876,
2 20
" Geo. W. Whittier, $10 25
Mrs. Issac Whittier, board
36 85
Emerson & Howe, med.
. 50
$47 60 47 60
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Mrs. Rowe, care of John McBarron,
$28 00
J. Rowe, sawing wood,
50
J. Scanlan, 75
J. E. Currier, wood, 2 88
Blodgett & Davis, coal, 6.6
1 00
Emerson & IIowe, med.
4 60
II. J. Cushing, med. atten. 17 50
J. A. Douglas, " . 2 00
$57 23
O. F. Seavey, med. atten., A. Bailey, bill 1876, $17 55
Blodgett & Davis, supplies, A. Bailey, bill 1876, 11 10
Blodgett & Davis, supplies A. Bailey, bill 1877, 35 65
64 30
Blodgett & Davis, supplies J. C. Parker,
10 01
B. F. Parker, Jr.,
2 02
John Sargent, $115 82
Wm. M. Merrill,
7 62
Emerson & Howe,
2 85
·
126 29
Blodgett & Davis, supplies, P. Noon,
$21 94
Wm. M. Merrill, 2 25
A. P. Chaples, board Ann M. Waining,
102 00
J. IL. Cleary, supplies, John Scanlan, $4 90 Blodgett & Davis, “ 3 38
J. D. Pike,
9 30
/
24 19
17 58
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J. HI. Cleary, supplies, John Jenkins,
$31.83
Blodgett & Davis, “ 66
4 51
F. E. Little, 4 00
Merrimac pays two-fifths,
$40 34
$16 13
Emerson & Howe, medicine, P. Whalan,
50
Blodgett & Davis, supplies,
23 61
John A. Douglass, med. atten.
66
3 00
H. J. Cushing, 66
1
9 55
Kate Elliott, care
66
5 00
This bill is due from Newburyport, $41 66 H. J. Cushing, med. atten. Alice Carleton, 7 75 This has been paid by W. Newbury. City of Newburyport, supplies to Caroline Sargent, 57 00
City of Haverhill, supplies to W. B. Ful- lington, 4 51
S. P. Jackman, supplies to lockup,
1 70
F. E. Little, 66 66
19 88
Blodgett & Davis, supplies £o lockup,
4 63
$26 21 26 21
Lawrence House of Correction, board of F. B. Goodwin, 4 28
Mrs. E. A. Wallace, meals and lodging to tramps, 1 60
Supplies to family (since refunded), 31 41
Total expense maintaining poor,
1,379 46
Appropriation, $1,200 00
Overdrawn, 179 46
$1,379 46
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TOWN OFFICERS.
S. S. Blodgett, Selectman, Assessor, and Over- scer of Poor, $175 00
E. N. Sargent, Selectman, Assessor, and Over- scer of Poor, 125 00
J. S. Clement, Selectman, Assessor, and Over- seer of Poor, 125 00
Selectmen, registering voters, 15 00
0. F. Seavey, School Committee, 55 00
C. M. Dinsmore, 55 00
II. J. Cushing, 56 00
Bailey Sargent, collector, 180 33
Treas. and paying State Aid, 16 00
Town Clerk, 44 60
· Constable, warning town meeting, 9 00
C. W. Emerson, notifying town officers, 2 50
$858 43
Two-fifths, E. M. Morse, bill collecting
Huntington tax, $80 00
Two-fifths, B. Sargent, bill col. 1875 tax, 66 75
146 75
Total for town officers,
$1,005 18
Appropriation,
$800 00
Overdrawn,
205 18
$1,005 18
POLICE.
C. W. Emerson,
$62 50
S. P. Jackman,
37 50
P. J. Neal,
25 00
$125 00
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PAID FOR STATE AID.
Ann Edwards,
$48 00
II. C. Flanders,
48 00
J. IIandley,
18 00
T. S. Bradley,
18 00
J. W. Sargent,
75 00
Wm. F. Martins,
72 00
II. Tozier,
48 00
R. Kennett,
48 00
Geo. F. Bailey,
36 00
John .Jenkins,
16 00
Total.
$427 00
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Niagara Engine Co.,
$525 00
Agile
425 00
$950 00
Appropriation,
1,000 00
Balance unexpended, 50 00
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Paid Wm. H. Hubbard, Treasurer, $500 00
Appropriation, 500 00
MISCELLANEOUS.
EXPENSES ON SARGENT HALL.
Heath Brothers, labor and stock on
bookcases and vault, $60 12
Heath Brothers, repairs, bill of 1876, 85
George S. Prescott, repairs and glass for bookcases, 4 85
Wm. H. Thomas, labor and stock, 7 43
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W. H. Blodgett, labor, $4 00
W. B. Chapman, repairs, 12 24
D. M. Means, painting signs, 6 00
Fuel, 26 72
Decker & Co., awnings and frames, 32 45
M. S. Gibbs, voting-stand, 21 00
Keys,
2 30
· J. W. Gifford, supplies,
2 80
J. H. Cleary, 66
19 02
!
W. I. Atwood, 66
3 60
James D. Pike, 66 bill 1876,
2 87
J. S. Treat, memorial tablet, 200 00
S. S. Blodgett, expense on tablet, 11 30
E. N. Sargent, 66 6
1 40
C. S. Hall, care of town clock, one year, 25 00
M. W. Eastman, janitor, 43 00
W. H. Blodgett, 66 11 50
$498 45
C. C. Morse & Son, printing town
reports, $53 80
Woodward & Palmer, printing check-lists, 12 15
66 by-laws, 12 00
66 notices, 2 50
tax-bills, 4 65
G. W. Currier, printing town warrants, 16 00
C. S. Hall, " Treasurer's receipts, 75
Nichols & Hall, stationery, 1 67
C. C. Morse & Son, blank book, 1 40
Bailey Sargent, stationery, postage, &c., 5 75
Little, Brown, & Co., 2 vols. Mass. sup- plements, 5 50
Clerk of Courts, fees on by-laws, 4 70
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G E. Ricker, P. O. box, rent one year, $ 1 00
O. W. Little, express-bill, 12 90
D. M. Means, varnishing and repairs on hearse, 17 20
D. M. Means, painting guide-boards, 8 00
G. B. Hoyt, return of deaths, 8 75
Wm. Lunt, care of lower cemetery, 10 00
Heath Brothers, repairs on lockup, 9 85
G. B. Iloyt, 75 66
Boston & Maine Railroad, freight and expense on town standard, 4 60
E. Howard, boxing of town standard, 15 00
Joseph Oak, drawing engines to fires, 8 00
J. S. Clement, expense on State credits, and expressing, 4 10
C. W. Emerson, expense on dogs, 1 25
J. L. Blaisdell, burying fish at Merrimac- port, 3 30
Jenness & Bartlett, fees in liquor cases, $20 00
C. W. Emerson, fees in liquor
cases, 68 75
S. P. Jackman, fees in liquor cases, 32 50
S. S. Blodgett, horse-hire, liquor cases, 15 00 136 25
$361 82
Total,
$860 27
Appropriation,
$600 00
Overdrawn,
260 27
$860 27
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NOTE AND
Paid First National Bank of Merrimac,
Haverhill Five Cent Savings Bank,
Merrimac Savings Bank,
Note to order of Town Treas., acct. of Poyen property,
Int. n'ts "
Two-fifths int. on town Amesbury 6 per ct. 10 yr. notes, 5 per ct. town bonds, S
J. B. Barnard's note and inter. ; note, $1,000, ) interest, $35.00,
Two-fifths E. Rowell's note and inter. ; note, $1,000, interest, $60.00, Two-fifths J. Huntington, note and inter. ; note, $300, interest, $38.70, Two-fifths Nancy Morse's note and inter. ; note, $200, interest, $39.87,
ABATEMENTS.
Two-fifths of Amesbury's old lists, $484 69
Collector's list for 1876,
99 55
1877, [ 85 64
Total, $669 88
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INTEREST ACCOUNT.
Note, $2,000
P. & I., $2,000 00
2,500
Int. $ 47 19
2,547 19
140 00
140 00
" ¿ 3,000
25 00
3,025 00
500
27 50
527 50
110 00
110 00
880 00
880 00
1,000 (2-5 In.) 69 43
1,069 43
Total prin. $9,000 In. $1,299 12 Pr. & in. $10,299 12
INTEREST, DISCOUNT, AND ABATEMENTS.
Abatements,
$669 88
Interest,
1,299 12 552 54
Discount,
Total,
$2,521 54
Appropriation,
$2,000 00
Appropriation exceeded,
521 54
$2,521 54
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TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S ACCOUNT.
Balance of uncollected taxes from 1876, $2,871 72 1877.
March 1, Received from County Treas, dog money, 109 44
5,
State Treas., bal. of
corp. tax, 67 40
66 State Treas., bal. of .
bank tax, 223 84
9
Haverhill Five Cent Savings Bank, hired, 2,500 00
June 1,
Merrimac Savings Bk., hired 3,000 00
Dec. 1,
State Treasurer, corp. tax, 201 05
66
bank tax,. 94 47
66
State Aid, 364 00
1878.
Jan. 11,
Newburyport, support of P. Whalan, 87 38
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