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THE
AUDITORS' REPORT OF
Receipts and Expenditures
OF THE
TOWN OF ANDOVER,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING FEB. 16, 1866.
1 LAWRENCE. MASS: PRINTED BY GEO. S. MERRILL & CO .- AMERICAN OFFICE. 1866.
1
THE
AUDITORS' REPORT
OF
Receipts and Expenditures
OF THE
TOWN OF ANDOVER,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING FEB. 16, 1866.
LAWRENCE, MASS: PRINTED BY GEO. S. MERRILL & CO .- AMERICAN OFFICE,
1866.
REPORT.
. SELECTMEN'S ACCOUNT.
SCHOOLS.
1865.
1866.
DISTRICTS.
Feb. 20. | Appropri- ation.
Credit.
Paid.
Feb. 16. CR.
Centre South,
$243 55
$665 00
$90S 55
$650 96
$257 59
Phillips, -
182 17
350 00
532 17
392 71
139 46
Village,
177 91
555 00
732 91
503 36
229 55
Ballard Vale.
1 91
598 00
599 91
360 00
239 91
Scotland, -
107 96
250 00
357 96
205 75
152 21
Holt,
116 48
245 00
361 48
247 73
113 75
Centre West, -
119 79
275 00
394 79
250 2S
144 51
Frye,
154 07
444 00
598 07
434 75
163 32
North, -
76 16
170 00
246 16
172 70
73 46
Abbott,
78 34
183 00
261 34
188 75
72 59
Bailey. -
89 38
245 00
334 3S
192 00
142 38
Osgood,
Số 25
220 00
306 25
222 00
84 25
A
$1433 97
$4200 00
$5633 97
$3820 99
$1812 98
Whole amount due the Districts,
$5,633 97
Orders paid to February 16, 1866, $3,820.99
Balance due Districts, February 16, 1866, 1,812.98 S
5,633 97
CR.
4
SCHOOL-HOUSES.
1865.
1
1866.
DISTRICTS.
February 20. DR.
CR.
Tax.
Credit.
Paid.
February 16. DR. CR.
$
$
$
$
$
$
Centre South, -
Phillips,
10 84
10 84
10 84
Village, -
4 67
4 67
4 67
Ballard Vale,
1032 41
1126 69
2159 10
1501 86
657 24
Scotland,
16 61
16 61
9 06
7 55
Holt. -
2 44
2 44
2 44
Centre West,
103 36
103 36
54 36
49 .00
Frye,
2 76
2 76
2 76
North,
2 17
2 17
2 17
Abbott, -
Bailey,
70
70
70
Osgood,
26
26
26
1072 86
1230 05
2302 91
1578 56
724 35
Balance due School Districts,
$724 35
APPROPRIATION FOR PUNCHARD FREE SCHOOL.
Moses Foster, for Trustees,
$500 00
Schools,
$3,820 99
School Houses,
1,578 56
$5,399 55
-
SERVICES OF OFFICERS.
E. H. Barnard, police, $4 00
A. J. Dearborn, « 4 00
J. W. Dearborn, « 11 05
B. B. Babbitt, School Committee,
70 00
S. H. Boutwell, «
55 00
H. S. Greene, 50 00
R. Callahan, police, 9 40
E. F. Holt, 4 00
Wm. S. Jenkins, Selectman, Overseer and Assessor, 225 00
J. B. «Abbott, 66
200 00
Hermon Phelps,
66
225 00
E. Taylor, returning births, marriages and deaths, 49 20
Amount carried forward, $906 65
5
Amount brought forward,
E. Taylor, collecting Taxes, E. Taylor, Treasurer, F. P. Brill, police,
$906 65
387 77
50 00
7 90
$1,352 32
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Wm. P. Millett, express, $2.50
Abbott & Holt, for supplies for engine,
9 99
J. W. Dearborn, on account of fire in the woods at Ballard Vale, 7 88
John Cornell, for horse to draw engine, &c., 11 00
J. C. Morse, for care of engine, &c., 17 15
Remittance of Taxes of Engine Company,
54 00
For labor of Engine Company,
204 75
T. A. Holt & Co., supplies for engine,
5 12
William Barnett, 66 66
3 22
$315 61
MILITARY DEPARTMENT.
Paid by Selectmen, State Aid,
$6,103 50
Benjamin Boynton for recruits,
500 00
66 W. F. Draper 125 00
State Treasurer, 400 00
Benjamin Boynton for recruiting, 25 00
$7,153 50
LIQUOR DEPARTMENT.
E. F. Porter, for liquor,
$2,395 96
H. W. Abbott, Agent,
175 00
Freight bills, &c.,
50 66
U. S. Liquor License,
25 00
$2,646 62
6
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES. OVER - WORK.
District No. 2,
$18 81
66
" 28, 7 26
66
" 17, 10 25
66
" 19,
12 43
66
" 12,
5 00
66
" 11,
2 00
66
" 22,
5 10
$60 85
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR ROADS AND BRIDGES.
District No. 27,
$207 93
28,
187 00
66
« 22,
21 00
66
17,
11 35
.66
66
13,
77 87
66
66 20,
21 50
66
16,
37 12
66
18,
6 50
Ballard Vale Bridge,
21 40
Marland 66
3 00
$594 67
HIGHWAY TAXES WORKED AND REASSESSED.
District No. 1,
$178 23
66
66
2,
78 29
66
3,
99.35
66
66 4,
37 45
66
66 5,
8 87
66
66
6,
22 05
66
66 7,
9 48
66
66 9,
28 91
66
10,
9 85
66
11,
5 49
Amount carried forward,
$477 97
7
Amount brought forward,
$477 97
District No. 12,
157 23
66
13,
51 24
66
" 14,
34 38
66
15,
32 79
66
16,
17 83
66
17,
42 70
:6
18,
19 37
66
" 19,
37 60
66
" 20,
36 30
66
" 21,
28 00
66
" 22,
37 22
66
" 23,
315 76
66
« 24,
27 59
66
" 25,
55 74
66
" 26,
232 72
66
" 27,
66
" 28,
60 27
$1,740 72
ABATEMENT OF TAXES.
Edward Taylor, 1865, $153 35
REMITTANCE OF TAXES.
Edward Taylor, 1864,
$91 44
66
1865,
566 96
$658 40
EXPENSES OF REMOVING SNOW.
Dist. No. 7.
George F. Mason,
$5 50
66 25. C. C. Blunt,
11 33
66 27. C. O. Cummings,
2 72
66 18. Joshua Phelps,
3 23
66
19. Alfred Hardy,
12 21
66
22. George F. Baker,
5 78
66
17. Henry Hardy, 4 25
Amount carried forward, $45 02
76 01
8
Amount brought forward,
$45 02
Dist. No. 6. Jonas Holt, 66 20. N. C. Abbott,
5 91
14 00
16. P. B. Follansbee
6 12
21. William Merrill,
21 00
66
13. Aaron S. Clark,
11 00
66
10. Nicholas Howe,
6 60
66 5. J. B. Abbott,
4 84
28. Caleb Abbott,
3 02
66 24. George Boutwell,
7 00
66
14. E. F. Holt,
5 56
وو
23. David Poland,
5 00
3. Sylvester Abbott,
2 00
$137 07
MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.
John Kinney, damage to earthen ware, $50 00
N. Whittier, use of derrick,
11 00
Horace Wilson, labor on post-office,
10 18
Wm. P. Millett, express,
3 25
E. H. Barnard, labor on Town House,
75
S. Raymond, postage,
4 00
Jonas Holt, distributing envelopes,
1 50
Wm. Chickering, labor on Armory,
132 67
E. Tarbell, lamp for Town House,
11 25
D. Howarth, telegraphing,
4 18
J. C. Ragan, repairing reservoir,
5 25
E. H. Barnard, labor on Armory,
41 52
George Brown, books,
7 00
Hermon Phelps, for lumber,
108 10
Samuel Davis, land damage for highway,
7 37
E. F. Winslow, for road-scraper,
30 00
W. S. Jenkins, for books,
10 69
F. P. Brill, for hand-cuffs and badges,
2 25
John R. Loring, labor on Town House,
7 74
Amount carried forward,
$448 70
9
Amount brought forward,
S. D. Abbott, land damages for widening high- ·
$23 59 way,
Town of North Reading, schooling,
19 13
A. C. Chadwick, insurance on Town House,
40 00
R. F. Caldwell, wood for 66 66
11 94
Robert Callahan, Janitor at 66 66
129 50
Dodge & Beard, supplies for 66 66 19 70
1 50
Joshua Chandler, damages to wagon,
10 00
T. E. Mayberry & Co., coal for Town House, 35 00
7 00
R. M. Abbott labor on 66 66
2 00
T. Groom & Co., books,
5 00
A. C. Chadwick, insurance on Town House,
80 00
W. F. Draper, printing and school books,
219 64
Dodge & Beard, supplies for Town House, 26 62
9 00
William Barnett, 66 66 66
11 00
W. S. Jenkins, repairs on وو 66
4 00
D. Howarth, books and stationery, 37 06
16 70
R. Callahan, paid for labor at Town House, 66 for warning meetings,
9 00
66 66 for returning deaths,
5 20
Robert Smith, sawing wood for Town House,
4 50
Asa A. Abbott, for surveying roads,
6 00
Wm. H. Kimball, M. D., for returning births,
7 25
J. H. Cochrane, for blacksmithing,
5 26
Hermon Phelps, returning deaths,
2 20
R. M. Abbott, painting at Town House, 1 00
M. C. Murray, returning births, 2 00
Andrew Thompson, returning deaths,
1 20
James Walch, 66
2 50
S. Tracy, M. D., 66 births,
2 50
E. Taylor, railroad fares,
4 50
W. L. T. Towne, dinners for Selectmen and Checkers, 5 50
E. P. Higgins, for services at hay-scales,
20 00
$1,237 27
2
$448 70
Timothy Abbott, wood
66
Beard & Co., 66 66
66
reservoir, 1 58
Thomas Smith, distributing envelopes,
10
SUMMARY.
Punchard Free School,
$500 00
Military,
7,153 50
Liquor Agency,
2,646 62
Fire Department,
315 61
Services of Officers,
1,352 32
Highways and Bridges-Over-work,
60 85
Removing Snow,
137 07
Special Appropriations for Roads and Bridges,
594 67
Highway Taxes Worked and Reassessed,
1,740 72
Abatement of Taxes,
153 35
Remittance of Taxes,
658 40
Miscellaneous Expenses,
1,237 27
$16,550 38
11
OVERSEERS' ACCOUNT.
RELIEF OUT OF THE ALMS-HOUSE.
Joseph V. Allen,
$19 50
Mary A. Goodwin,
10 00
Ann E. Bean,
72 00
Serena Abbott,
29 25
Phebe A. Johnson,
39 00
Phebe A. Palmer,
43 39
Mary J. Abbott,
9 50
Elbridge G. Wardwell,
14 06
Ann Jones,
39 00
Mrs. Farrington and family,
70 25
Samuel A. Goldsmith,
34 45
Dorcas B. Chandler,
26 00
Mrs. Richard Gaffany,
14 22
M. Ashworth,
3 00
Patrick McEnroe,
16 00
Mrs. Wiley,
8 50
Judith Wardwell,
3 00
Mrs. David Goodwin,
1 00
Mrs. George Goodhue,
16 50
Mrs. Josiah Mason,
6 00
Stephen Abbott,
8 82
Mrs. Benjamin Cameron,
10 00
Mrs. James Nichols,
11 78
Louisa Grant,
19 50
Daniel Mears, Jr.,
2 10
Mrs. T. C. Mason,
33 56
$560 38
PAID TO CITIES AND TOWNS.
State Lunatic Hospital, Lydia B. Frye
$177 53
Wilmington, Charles B. Abbott, 12 00
Amount carried forward, $189 53
12
Amount brought forward, $189 53
Ipswich, Frances Holt, 76 50
North Andover, Tryphena_Beverly, 12 78
Mrs. Wm. Kimball,
27 74
North Reading, Nancy Traverse,
10 00
Groveland, Abraham Foster,
14 50
$331 05
DUE FROM CITIES AND TOWNS.
Newburyport, Rebecca Merrill,
$39 00
Salem, Thomas C. Clement,
17 00
Haverhill, Mrs. Sarah Pecker, 10 00
North Andover, James Nichols,
11 78
$77 78
COMMITMENTS.
By J. W. Dearborn,
$4 00
" Henry Dane,
4 00
" Arthur N. Bean,
6 50
" George F. Baker,
2 00
$16 50
HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
Stephen G. Holt, board,
$8 57
Carlton Parker, board,
8 42
$16 99
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.
Morrill, printing Overseers' orders,
$5 00
Robert Callahan, for burial of Daniel Doland, 5 00
Amount carried forward, $10 00
13
Amount brought forward,
$10 00
19 25
John Tuck, labor at Alms-house, Charles C. Holt, 12 80
Richard M. Abbott, labor at Alms-house,
5 70
Herman Abbott, coffin for man found in the woods, 2 50
$50 25
ALMS - HOUSE EXPENSES.
Charles O. Cummings, salary,
$325 00
Abbott & Holt, supplies,
67 54
T. A. Holt & Co., supplies,
626 66
M. Nelson & Son, supplies,
67 22
William P. Foster, cow,
60 00
Rufus F. Caldwell, cow,
60 00
George A. Nelson,
493 16
W. H. Kimball, medical attendance,
16 00
J. H. Rea, meat,
25 61
Dodge & Beard, supplies,
340 34
L. Fisher, blacksmithing,
49 89
John H. Flint, meat,
374 70
David Jameson, meat,
157.77
M. A. Bailey, horse,
225 00
H. P. Beard & Co.,
210 49
John T. Shattuck, boots and shoes,
52 18
John B. Abbott, cow,
50 00
Amos Buxton, labor,
176 00
George M. Winslow & Co., coal,
110 00
B. F. Holt, ice,
15 00
Hermon Abbott, supplies,
9 25
coffin for Abraham Foster,
6 50
coffin for O. Berry,
6 50
Robert Callahan, for burial of O. Berry,
5 00
P. M. Jefferson, supplies,
111 73
William B. Cochran, blacksmithing,
12 58
J. W. Barnard, boots and shoes,
26 27
William Barnett, repairs,
69 72
David Howarth, medical supplies,
26 85
$3,776 96
14
SUMMARY OF OVERSEERS' ORDERS.
Relief out of the Alms-house,
$560 38
Paid to Cities and Towns,
331 05
Due from Cities and Towns,
77 78
Commitments,
16 50
House of Correction,
16 99
Incidental Expenses,
50 25
Expenses of Alms-house,
2,776 96
$4,829 91
15
SUPERINTENDENT'S ACCOUNT.
DR.
To balance from last account,
$84 15
To cash for milk,
15 57
66
66
lard,
7 60
66
66
pigs,
40 50
66
66
" hide and tallow,
33 30
66
66
" oxen,
256 36
hay,
3 48
66
66
" labor,
257 16
66
66
cart spire,
1 25
66
gate post,
1 22
66
66
lodging prisoners,
2 00
66
66
premium on bull,
5 00
66
66
66
on ploughing,
6 40
66
66
calves,
36 30
66
66
" beans and vegetables,
66 57
66
66
clay and gravel,
7 60
66
66
" services of bull,
43 25
$867 96
CR.
By cash paid for fresh fish,
$58 44
66
66 grinding corn,
8 86
toll to Lawrence,
1 02
66
66
hair, lime and mortar,
2 75
66
66
shote,
27 50
66
66 66
Wm. Poor, repairs,
30 10
66
66 66
66 rope,
11 75
66
66 66
66
COW,.
75 00
66
66 66
66 oxen,
225 00
66
66
66
A. Lilly, 66
1 50
66
66
66
Wm. H. Rea, 66
1 50
Amount carried forward,
$565 42
66
66
66
freight on coal,
16 00
66 66 66 drag plank,
2 00
66
66
L. A. Gilcrease, labor,
104 00
16
Amount brought forward,
$565 42
By cash paid E. C. Upton, mason work,
1 50
Amos Buxton, labor, 17 00
expense to Ipswich,
25
66
66
John Cornell,
1 00
66 66
for crackers,
21 00
66 66 66 " tools and hardware,
20 66
66 66
" rosin,
30
66
66 66 " alcohol and medicine,
11 13
66
66
" clothing,
25 47
66
66
garden seeds,
3 93
66 66
.
66
66 66
E. Hussey, washing,
13 50
66
66
66
E. Hussey, sawing lumber,
50
66
66
66
" repairing harnesses,
5 12
66
66 66 Charles A. Sayward,
3 00
66 66. 66
" School books,
3 83
66
66
" twine,
1 42
66
66 66 " beans,
88
66
66 " pick handles,
90
66
66
" linseed oil,
41
Balance due the Town,
170 27
$867 96
C. O. CUMMINGS, SUPERINTENDENT.
-
ALMS - HOUSE.
Whole number of Paupers in the Alms-house during the year,
48
Whole number weeks board,
1681
66
foreign paupers entertained,
157
66
weeks board, 45
prisoners held in custody awaiting trial, 31
66
66 weeks board of prisoners, 9
REMAINING IN ALMS-HOUSE.
Over eighty years of age, 2
Between seventy and eighty,
7
Number carried forward, 9
figs,
47
17
Number brought forward,
9
66 sixty and seventy, 0
fifty and sixty, 5
66 forty and fifty,
3
66 thirty and forty,
3
66 twenty and thirty,
ten and twenty, 6
66 one and ten 10
38
DEATHS IN THE ALMS-HOUSE DURING THE YEAR.
Osgood Berry, aged 73 years.
Abraham Foster, aged 81 years.
. INVENTORY OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.
Twenty-three straw and twenty feather beds, $50 00
Thirty-five pillows and eighteen bolsters, 13 00
Twenty-one quilts and thirty-three comforters, 44 00
Sixty-two sheets and thirty-four pillow-cases, 34 00
Magee stove, 10.00; seven air-tight stoves, 37.00, 47 00
Two cylinder stoves, 15.50 ; two clocks, 2.50, 18 00
Clothes horses, tin ware, tin boiler, tea-pot,
14 00
Twenty-one chambers, 2 syringes, 2 sieves, shade,
9 25
Dinner bells, three sad and one coal iron, one brush, 3 00
Ice chest, two demijohns, bread trough, 6 40
Writing desk, 8 tables, 12 pails, nest boxes,
10 50
Fifty-five chairs, one churn, lantern,
13 00
Meal-chest and meal, book-case, five brooms,
8 50
Firkins and butter-tubs, two moulding boards,"
15 00
Crockery-ware, four earthen dishes, five glass lamps, Dining set and tumblers, eight japan lamps,. 9 25
8 80
Table and tea-spoons, knives and forks, 3 45
1 75
Carving knife and fork, apple-parer, oil cans,
2 50
Brass and porcelain kettles, valise and carpet-bag,
4 00
Six bake-pans and forty-four milk-pans, office chair,
12 50
Sick chair, nine long benches, covered table,
19 50
Cider tunnel, rocking chair, nurse-lamp, 2 15
40 50
Fifty-six mounted Town maps,
14 00
One hundred and seventy-two unmounted,
17 20
$421 25
3
Two chopping knives, five butcher-knives,
Cook-stove, kerosene lamps,
2
18
FARM IMPLEMENTS.
Eight scythes and snaths, 8,00; set measures, 50c. $8 50 Two flails and 1 pair ox ties, 1.50; horse-rake, 24.00, 25 50
Five hand-rakes, 1.25; 8 hay-forks, 4.00, 5 25
Two sickles, 50c .; two corn-cutters, 75c., 1 25
Horse pitchfork, 16.00; 2 grain chests, 10.00, 26 00
Hay-cutter, 2.50; blocks and ropes, 17.00, 19 50
Four ladders, 5.00; 2 ox yokes, 10.00 ; 6 hoes, 3.00,
18 00
Feed trough, 2.50; 6 shovels and spades, 4.00, 6 50
Three manure forks and 1 hook, 7.00; cultivator, $10, 17 00 Three iron bars, 3.00; 5 draft and 5 stake chains, $15, 18 00 Three whiffletrees and chains, 2.00 ; 6 hoes, 3.00, 5 00
Two grub-hoes, 50c .; 2 garden rakes, 1.25, 1 75
Five ploughs and lot of dilapidated ploughs, 35 00
Ox-scraper, 3.00; 2 harrows, 20.00; steelyards, 2.00, 25 00 Two pickaxes and 1 stone-hammer, 3 00
Two peat knives and four spread forks, 4 00
Stone drag and spire, 7.00; 1 scald tub, 75c., 7 75
Grain cradle, 2.50 ; 5 baskets, 2.00, 4 50
Two pair oxmuzzles, 50c .; 2 ox-carts, 40.00, 40 50
Ox-wagon, 45.00; ox-śled, pung and sleigh, 15.00,
60 00
Snow scraper, 1.50; wagon harness, 15.00,
16 50
Hay wagon, 22.00; work harness, 7.00,
29 00
Horse blanket, 1.50 ; buffalo robe, 5.00,
6 50
Carpenter tools, 3.00; wrench and blasting tools, $2,
5 00
Grindstone, 8.00; beetle and wedges, 2.00,.
10 00
Four axes, 2.00; vice, 4.00; wheel-barrow, 4.00,
10 00
Three wood-saws, 2.25; 1 hand rake, 1.00,
3 25
Eleven meal bags, 4.00; 59 flour barrels, 7.25,
11 25
Winnowing mill, 2.00; lot of bricks, 50c., 2 50
Stone wagon, 20.00; old iron, 2.00, 22 00
$438 00
PROVISIONS.
Three and a half barrels flour, 45.50; crackers 2.75, $48 25 Eighty pounds butter, 36.00; 200 lbs. lard, 44.00, 80 00 Ten lbs. candles, 1.75; 5 gals. oil, 5.40; 4 gallons molasses, 3.20, 10 35
Amount carried forward, $138 60
19
Amount brought forward, $138 60 Tea, 48.50; saleratus 45c .; coffee, 8.50 ; shells, 2.40, 59 85 Fourteen lbs. sugar, 2.38; 5 barrels vinegar, 25.00, 27 38 Seven lbs. tobacco, 7.00; snuff, 1.50; 1-2 bbl. pick- les, 4.00, 12 50
Bushel and a-half of salt, 1.50; boiled cider, 3.00, 4 50
Ninety-one lbs. hard soap, 31.85; soft soap, 13.50, 44 85
Eight cider barrels, 6.00; 9 meat barrels, 4.50, 10 50
Beef, 27.00; bridge plank, 108.00, 135 00
$433 18
FARM PRODUCE.
Thirty bush's, corn, 30,00; 14 bush's barley, 17.50, $47 50 Six bushels wheat, 12.00; six bushels rye, 7.50, 19 50
Two bushels oats, 1.20; shorts, 6.12 ; meadow hay, 20 00, 27 32
Eleven tons English hay, 242.00; 6 cart spires, 6.00, 248 00 Seeds and seed corn, 6.00; manure, 200.00, 206 00
Six gate-posts, 3.00; six cart-axles, $5; lumber $20, 28 00
Six posts, 2.00; oat straw, 5.00 ; 16 hams, 33.20, 40 20 Three and a half barrels pork, 122.50; meal, 6.00, 128 50 Three bush. barley meal, 3.75; 10 bush. cob meal, 7.50 11 25 Two hundred bushels potatoes, 150.00; 35 bushels beets, 17.50, 167 50
Thirty-five bush. carrots, 17.50; 8 bush. beans, $20, 37 50
Half ton squashes, 40.00 ; 6 bushels onions, 4.80, 44 80
$1,006 07
FARM STOCK.
One horse, 140.00 ; 2 yoke oxen, 450.00 $590 00
Six cows, 330.00; 1 bull, 40.00 ; yearling, 12.00, 382 00
Seven swine, 194.25 ; 26 fowls, 13.00, 207 25
$1,179 25
FUEL.
Thirty-seven cords hard pine wood, $176 50
Four cords dry pine, sawed, $26; 3 cords peat, $15, 41 00
Nine tons coal, 144 00
$361 50
20
CLOTHS AND CLOTHING.
Boots, 9.22; socks, 1.50; 25 yds. calico, 5.75; bat- ting, 35c., $16 82
Five and a quarter yds. cloth, 5.25; 9 skeins yarn, 2.25, 7 50
Five yards gingham, 6.25 ; 4 yds. cotton cloth, 1.12, 7 37
Four fans, 24c .; curtains, 2.50 ; suspenders, 50c.,
3 24
Shawl, 8.00 ; hood, 1.50; table covers, 3.00,
12 50
Rollers, crash, and towels, 15.00 ; mittens, 20c., 15 20
Ready-made clothing, 25.00 ; thread, 2.00,
27 00
$89 63
SUMMARY.
Inventory of household furniture,
66
farming implements,
438 00
provisions,
433 18
66
" farm produce,
1,006 07
66 stock,
1,179 25
66
fuel,
361 50
66
cloths and clothing,
89 63
$3,928 88
$421 25
In justice to the Superintendent and his very efficient lady, the Auditors feel constrained to say that this Department of the Town affairs has been conducted with much judgment and skill. Indeed, it requires both skill, judgment and tact, so to manage a house of such large dimensions, with such a meagre amount of dilapidated furni- ture, and uncouth looking walls, as to make it appear as respectable and neat as it was found to be on the day of our visit.
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LIQUOR AGENCY.
Town of Andover in account with H. W. Abbott, Town Agent.
DR.
To cash paid Town Treasurer for liquors sold, $2,834 68
66 66 66 66 66 18 25
stock of liquors, &c., on hand Feb. 14, 1866, 349 54
due for casks sold, 8 75 cash on hand, 38 24
CR. $3,249 46
By stock of liquors on hand February 15, 1865, $438 31
By cash on hand February 15, 1865, 37 37
By cash rec'd of Treasurer to pay bills of liquors, 2,395 96
By cash rec'd of Treasurer to pay bills of liquors,
18 25
By cash rec'd of Treas'r to pay bills of freight, &c.,
22 16
By cash rec'd of Treasurer to pay for U. S. license one year, 25 00
Agent's salary one year,
175 00
Net profit, 137 41
$3,249 46
MEMORANDUM OF ASSESSMENTS.
State Tax,
$13,395 00
County Tax,
2,992 15
Bounty money,
12,454 00
Current expenses,
15,000 00
District Schools,
4,000 00
Punchard Free School,
500 00
High-way, reassessed,
1,725 59
Ballard Vale District,
1,119 48
Centre District, West Parish,
103 36
Additional taxes,
297 76
Over-lay,
621 61
$52,208 95
Corporation Tax from State Treasurer,
5,606 79
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TREASURER'S ACCOUNT.
Town of Andover in account current with Edward Taylor,
Treasurer.
DR.
To paid State Tax, 1865,
$13,395 00
66
66 Andover National Bank, hired, 3,500 00
66
66 66 interest, 33 00
66
on account of Town debt,
30,345 00
66
66
for Post Office stamps,
3 75
66
discount on taxes at 6 per cent, $2,427 68 2
66 66
66 6 at 4 per cent, 14504 $ 2,572 72
Selectmen's orders, current expenses, 16,550 38
66
66 Selectmen's orders, schools,
3,820 99
66
66 Selectmen's orders, school-houses,
1,578 56
66
66 Overseers of the Poor, orders,
4,829 91
66
66 Selectmen and Auditors, 27 00
To balance of taxes unpaid, 1,143 11
To cash in hand to balance,
7,897 12
$91,526 81
CR.
By balance of taxes unpaid February 20, 1865,
$560 42
By cash on hand February 20, 1865, 4,101 14
By additional taxes, 1864, 37 85
By cash from North Andover, pauper account,
5 75
Salem,
66
35 00
66
66 Newburyport, 66
66
35 75
66 North Reading, 66
66
17 33
66
66 sale of old house,
200 00
66
... sale of old boiler,
4 00
66
discount on County Tax,
32 42
Amount carried forward,
$5,029 66
66
66
interest on Town debt,
2,838 12
66
66
66 County Tax " 2,992 15
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Amount brought forward,
$5,029 66
By cash for rent of Town House, 66 66 Liquor Agent,
387 00
66 66 Hay Scale fees,
52 97
66
66 Andover National Bank, hired,
3,500 00
66
66 sundry individuals, hired,
8,900 00
66
66
State Treasurer, school fund,
230 01
66 66
bal. corporation tax, 1864,
21 50
66
66
66
66 1865,
5,606 79
66
66
66
66
66
1863, 537 00
66
State aid, 1864,
12,200 00
Assessors' warrant for tax list, 1865,
52,208 95
E.E.
$91,526 81
EDWARD TAYLOR, TREASURER.
ANDOVER, February 16, 1866.
Notes Payable Account.
DR. CR. 1865. Feb. 20, To balance due this date, $48,450 00
" hired during the year, 8,900 00
By paid during the year, $30,345 00 " balance February 16, 1866, 27,005 00
$57,350 00
$57,350 00
1866.
Feb. 16, Balance of notes due by the Town, $27,005 00 E.E.
EDWARD TAYLOR, TREASURER.
AXDOVER, February 16, 1866.
2,852 93
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LIABILITIES.
Notes payable,
$27,005 00
Due Schools,
1,812 78
Due School-houses,
724 35
Due interest not called for,
294 00
$29,836 13
ASSETS.
Cash on hand,
$7,897 12
Taxes unpaid,
1,143 11
Cash in Superintendent's hands,
170 27
Cash in Liquor Agency,
396 53
Due from Towns,
77 78
Due for State aid to soldiers' families, 1865, 7,206 84
Due State aid since Jan. 1, 1866,
38 00
16,929 65
Balance against the Town,
$12,906 '48
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SCHEDULE OF TOWN PROPERTY.
Town House and fixtures,
$15,000 00
Land under and adjoining,
2,000 00
Weights and measures,
200 00
Drum,
5 00
Safe in Clerk's office,
$166 00 7
466 00
Hay scales,
300 00
Engine-house and. land,
$900 00
1,900 00
Engine and apparatus,
1,000 00
Town Farm and buildings,
5,830 00
Personel property, as per inventory,
3,928 88
$29,329 88
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PUNCHARD FREE SCHOOL.
The undersigned, Trustees of the Punchard Free School, herewith render to the Town their Annual Account of the condition of the Fund, and of the Receipts and Expenditures thereof for the year ending February 1st, 1866.
Of the Permanent Fund of Forty Thousand Dollars, there is invested at this date in valid Notes and Real Estate Secu- rities, the sum of thirty-nine thousand and five hundred dol- lars. $39,500 00
And the balance of five hundred dollars is depos-
ited to the credit of said Corporation in the Andover National Bank,
500 00
$40,000 00
RECEIPTS.
Balance of cash on hand as per last Report, $936 99
Interest received since said Report, 2,161 12
Cash rec'd of T. E. Maybery & Co. for rent of land, 25 00
$3,123 11
EXPENDITURES.
Cash paid Wm. G. Goldsmith, Principal, salary, $1,000 00
Sarah S. Richardson, Assistant « 400 00
66 66 Mary S. Nourse, Assistant, 100 00
66
M. Foster, Treasurer,
100 00
66
Abby B. Carter, Music Teacher,
51 00
For coal and freight,
228 00
66
66
Henry Abbot, janitor, .
62 50
66
66 Henry Abbot, extra labor,
25 23
66
66 T. E. Mayberry & Co., coal and wood,
64 50
66
66
Hall & Botsford, blank-books,
20 00
66
66 A. Prentiss, Johnson's Atlas,
17 50
66
F. A. Dewson, diplomas,
20 00
66
66 W. F. Draper, printing, 23 00
66 Hermon Abbot, labor, &c., 7 00
Amount carried forward,
$2,302 73
4
66 Abby S. Hervey, Assistant,
184 00
26
Amount brought forward,
$2,302 73
Cash paid T. P. Allen, teaming coal, 10 00
66
66 A. W. Sprague, chemicals, 6 64
66
66
R. M. Abbot, labor, &c., 12 50
D. Howard, books, &c.,
11 25
66
Wm. G. Goldsmith, sundries,
13 20
66
Charles Meyres, 66
2 25
Wm. Barnett,
2 35
66
66 Edward Carter, tuning piano,
2 00
66
66 John Sullivan, labor,
4 00
66
66 Margaret Barry, labor, 1 50
Cash deposited in Andover Nat'l Bank, to balance, .741 94
$3,123 11
Respectfully submitted, '
CHARLES SMITH, BENJAMIN B. BABBITT, JAMES H. MERRILL, NATHAN FRYE,
JOHN ABBOT,
EDWARD TAYLOR,
MOSES FOSTER, ISAAC CARRUTH.
ANDOVER, February 1, 1866.
The undersigned respectfully present their Report to the Town for acceptance, having carefully examined the accounts in all the Departments, and found them kept with very com- mendable accuracy.
A. J. GOULD, ISAAC CARRUTH, AUDITORS. NATHAN F. ABBOTT,
ANDOVER, February 16, 1866.
Dodge & Beard, 66
2 08
66 Wm. S. Jenkins, labor, &c., 10 67
TOWN WARRANT.
ESSEX, SS. To Robert Callahan, one of the Constables of the Town of Andover, GREETING.
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Andover, qualified to vote in elections, and in Town affairs, to meet and assemble at the Town House, in said Andover, on Monday, the fifth day of March next, at twelve o'clock at noon, to act on the following articles, namely:
1st. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
2d. To choose a Town Clerk for the year ensuing.
3d. To hear and act on the Report of the Auditors.
4th. To choose Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, Town Treasurer, School Committee, Constables, Fence Viewers, and all other necessary and usual Town officers.
5th. To see what sum of money the Town will raise for the repairs of the highways the ensuing year.
6th. To see what methods the Town will adopt for the repairs of the highways.
7th. To see if the Town will authorize the Prudential Committees of the several School Districts to select and con- tract with teachers for the several School Districts.
8th. To see what sum of money the Town will raise for the maintenance of their Public Schools for the year ensuing.
9th. To see what method the Town will adopt to appor- tion the school money among the School Districts.
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10th. To see if the Town will vote to abolish the School District system.
11th. To see what sum of money the Town will raise to defray the necessary expenses accruing the year ensuing.
12th. To see what method the Town will adopt for the collection of the public taxes the ensuing year.
13th. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treas- urer to hire money for the use of the Town when necessary.
14th. To determine what compensation the Town will pay to Firemen for their services the ensuing year.
15th. To see if the Town will accept and revise the list of Jurors as prepared and posted by the Selectmen.
16th. To see if the Town will continue to pay State aid to the families of volunteers, as provided for by the laws of this Commonwealth relating thereto.
17th. To see if the Town will make an appropriation in behalf of the Teachers of the Punchard Free School for the year ensuing, on petition of said Trustees.
18th. To see what action the Town will take in reference to the erection of a suitable monument in memory of the sons of Andover who have lost their lives in the late war for the preservation of the Union, on petition of Marcus Morton and others.
19th. To see what action the Town will take in reference to damage done by water on land of Peter Temple.
20th. To act on any other business that may legally come before said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting, as aforesaid.
Given under our hands, at Andover, this twentieth day of
February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
WILLIAM S. JENKINS, 1 SELECTMEN JOHN B. ABBOTT, OF
HERMAN PHELPS, ANDOVER.
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