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THE
AUDITOR'S REPORT
OF THE
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
OF THE
TOWN OF ANDOVER,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 14, 1868.
LAWRENCE: GEO. S. MERRILL & COMPANY, STEAM BOOK PRINTERS, No. 120 ESSEX STREET. 1868.
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THE
AUDITOR'S REPORT
OF THE
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
OF THE
TOWN OF ANDOVER,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 14, 1868.
LAWRENCE: GEO. S. MERRILL & COMPANY, STEAM BOOK PRINTERS, No. 120 ESSEX STREET. 1868.
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REPORT.
SELECTMEN'S ACCOUNT.
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SCHOOLS.
PAID PER ORDER OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Grammar School,
$3,397 77
Centre South District,
179 00
Phillips
68 50
Village
66
232 04
Ballard Vale
66
223 10
Scotland
66
44 13
Holt
21 08
Centre West
53 37
Frye
311 83
North
6 84
Abbott
17 67
Bailey
66
12 34
Osgood
66
1,863 77
$6,431 44
4
SCHOOLS.
PAID PER ORDER OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Grammar School,
$717 94
Centre South District,
605 57
Phillips
381 96
Village
702 57
Ballard Vale 66
841 78
Scotland
66
287 31
Holt
267 41
Centre West,
66
297 75
Frye
66
554 75
North
243 00
Abbott
262 60
Bailey 66
274 16
Osgood
66
311 45
$5,748 25
-
Punchard School appropriation,
$500 00
State Aid,
$3,256 50
SERVICES OF TOWN OFFICERS.
John O'Connel, police service,
$18 00
Daniel Eames,
10 00
G. F. Baker, 66
5 00
A. C. Abbott, 66
24 00
Henry Dane,
4 00
Thos. Smith, 66
3 00
John T. Bailey,
66
1 00
W. D. Hussey,
10 00
C. H. Poor, 66
10 00
B. B. Babbitt, School Committee,
100 00
G. S. Boutwell,
75 00
H. S. Greene, 66
65 00
W. S. Jenkins, Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer,
275 00
J. B. Abbott, 66 66 66
225 00
Amount carried forward,
$825 00
5
Amount brought forward, $825 00
H. Phelps, Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer, 250 00
E. K. Jenkins, collecting taxes, 597 69
66 recording births, marriages, deaths, 65 85
66 " as Treasurer, 50 00
Selectmen, for appraising School District property, and assessing tax for the same, 170 00
$1,958 54
LIQUOR DEPARTMENT.
J. I. Baker, for liquor,
$3,749 40
H. W. Abbott, Agent, 4 months,
66 67
Thomas Smith, 9
150 00
For freight, &c., 28 31
$3,994 38
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
For labor of Engine Co., No. 1, $275 10
Remittance of taxes, Engine No. 1, 100 00
J. C. Morse, services 66 66
15 75
H. A. Hall, rubber clothing,
16 00
Hunneman & Co., repairs on Engine No. 1,
25 00
Supplies for Engine No. 1,
13 43
J. Boyd & Sons, hose for Engine Co., No. 2, 614 00
Labor of Engine Co., No. 2, 87 30
$1,146 58
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
HIGHWAY TAXES WORKED AND RE-ASSESSED.
District No. 1, John Cornell,
$146 59
66 2, G. H. Chandler,
70 48
66 3, E. K. Jenkins, 88 19
5, H. Jones,
10 64
66 6, H. Brownell, 18 17
Amount carried forward,
$334 07
6
Amount brought forward,
$334 07
District No. 7, R. F. Caldwell, 66 9, Jesse Harnden,
13 32
30 50
66 10, N. F. Abbott,
53 58
11, Wm. C. Donald,
12 68
66 12, C. M. Abbott,
161 45
66
13, J. H. Chandler,
40 00
66 14, Benj. Boynton,
18 43
15, P. M. Jefferson,
55 60
66
16, A. W. Livingstone,
35 06
66 17, Simeon Hardy,
26 00
18, Joseph Chandler,
19 70
66 19, Wm. Perrin,
31 35
66 20, Omer Jenkins,
43 54
66
21, T. P. Bailey,
15 00
66 22, H. B. Abbott,
15 00
66 23, A. N. Bean,
140 01
66
24, Sylvester Lovejoy,
15 00
25, H. A. Bodwell,
65 92
66
26, T. E. Mayberry,
196 44
66
27, C. O. Cummings,
75 00
28, Wm. Allen,
102 47
$1,500 12
OVERWORK.
District No. 3, 1866,
$5,57
66
6,
8 90
66
11,
2 00
66
14,
6 57
17,
19 51
66
27,
14 94
$57 49
7
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR ROADS AND BRIDGES.
District No. 1,
$23 42
66
2,
37 50
66
9,
1 19
10, 1866,
40 88
66
10,
32 95
6.
12,
20 00
66
15,
34 00
66 17,
3 50
20,
30 00
22,
75 00
66
25,
56 29
26,
6 97
66
27,
1 25
Ballard Vale Bridge,
48 44
Marland
367 83
Elm Square,
50 23
$829 45
EXPENSE OF REMOVING SNOW.
District No. 1, John Cornell,
$19 59
2, D. P. Abbott,
27 20
3, John Chandler,
32 49
4, N. B. Abbott,
29 24
66 5, H. Jones,
42 54
66
6, Henry Brownell,
55 10
7, G. F. Mason,
33 35
8, Wm. Jenkins,
12 83
9, Jesse Harnden,
33 74
10, N. F. Abbott,
39 95
11, Wm. C. Donald,
28 47
12, M. B Abbott,
28 70
13, J. H. Chandler,
49 59
66
14, Charles Shattuck,
52 02
66
15, Isaac Carruth,
39 66
66
17, Simeon Bardwell,
59 81
Amount carried forward,
$584 28
8
Amount brought forward, $584 28
District No. 18, Herman Phelps, 71 31 66 19, Wm. Perrin, 45 53
20, A. N. Luscomb,
86 21
66 21, Wm. Merrill,
81 84
66 22, G. F. Baker,
47 73
23, P. P. Pillsbury,
66 95
66 24, George Boutwell,
36 00
66 25, Ballard Holt,
58 26
66 26, T. E. Mayberry,
30 06
16 34
66
28, W. H. B. Woodlin,
43 60
Henry Burtt, clearing sidewalks, Willard Pike, 66
10 03
$1,211 14
REMITTANCE OF TAXES.
E. K. Jenkins, collector, 1866, $25 06
66 66 1867, 250 86
$275 92
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Abatement of taxes, $66 24
MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.
E. P. Abbott, returning births and deaths, $17 87
Wood for Town House, 24 51
Expenses of adjusting soldiers' claims,
96 50
Henry Dane, notifying Town Officers,
7 00
George S. Merrill, printing,
301 25
Guide Boards,
21 25
R. Callahan, janitor, labor at Town House,
8 50
Thomas Smith, janitor,
96 33
Isaac Hardy, damages by freshet, 1864, 25 00
S. G. Bean, dinners for Selectmen and Auditors,
23 50
Peter Harmon, repairs on Town House,
10 72
Amount carried forward,
$671 43
27, C. O. Cummings,
33 00
39 00
9
Amount brought forward,
$671 43
Wm. Saunders, witness fees, 2 25
G. H. Parker and others, stationery, 23 22
Thomas Groom, books, 12 00
H. P. Beard & Co., supplies for Town House,
39 92
B. G. Morris, binding books,
5 50
M. Thayer, designs for monument,
25 00
E. Taylor, expense 66 1 25
Cornell & Chandler, coal for Town House,
54 00
Selectmen, railroad fares,
7 79
George Foster, selling school house,
8 00
H. Abbott, repairing furniture at Town House,
8 37
Paid for land in Elm Square, 167 00
W. B. Morse, distributing envelopes,
1 50
A. A. Abbott, surveying, 1 50
Rand & Avery, printing for Monument Committee, 24 00
R. Callahan and others, returning deaths, 9 70
Timothy P. Holt, for damage caused by defect in sidewalk, 75 00
Wm. Barnett, repairs on Town House,
10 80
J. R. Loring, 66
3 68
School Committee, for books,
75
R. Callahan, warning meetings,
8 00
I. Wilson, for damages by freshet, 1864,
5 00
S. Raymond, postage,
1 00
J. H. Cochrane, blacksmithing,
5 97
North Reading, schooling,
25 50
E. K. Jenkins, postage and revenue stamps,
14 50
W. F. Draper, printing,
26 25
W. Corse, fixtures for Town House,
35 00
W. F. Draper, school books,
47 97
E. P. Higgins, for weighing,
20 00
W. S. Jenkins, repairs on Town House,
6 10
J. B. Jenkins, bridge timber,
190 00
$1,539 95
10
SUMMARY OF SELECTMEN'S ORDERS.
Punchard School,
$500 00
State Aid,
3,256 50
Services of Officers,
1,958 54
Liquor Department,
3,994 38
Highway Taxes Worked and Re-assessed,
1,500 12
Highways and Bridges,-Overwork,
57 49
Special Appropriation for Roads and Bridges,
829 45
Removing Snow,
1,211 14
Remittance of Taxes,
275 92
Abatement of Taxes,
66 24
Miscellaneous Expenses,
1,539 95
Fire Department,
1,146 58
$16,336 31
OVERSEER'S ACCOUNT.
RELIEF OUT OF THE ALMSHOUSE.
Ann E. Bean,
$66 00
Catharine Farrington,
87 25
Mary J. Abbott,
35 75
Joseph Russell, jr., 1866,
13 80
Joseph V. Allen,
24 50
Annie Jones,
36 00
Susannah Pickersgill,
8 00
Charles W. Lovejoy's family,
66 00
Henry W. Palmer,
10 00
James Nichols,
42 56
Sophia Dane,
5 00
Thomas Platt,
10 18
David Goodwin,
12 25
Abial Upton,
18 13
Phebe A. Palmer,
42 23
Stephen Abbott,
35 36
Mary A. Goodwin,
1 50
Elbridge Wardwell,
2 50
Burial of John Conley,
2 00
Burial of Rosa Wardwell,
5 00
Mrs. Edward Mason,
74 61
Mrs. T. C. Mason,
78 92
Herman Abbott, coffin, &c.,
30 50
Robert Callahan, burials,
14 00
William T. Jones,
10 41
Mrs. Thomas Davis,
3 00
Mrs. Wiley,
10 00
Patrick Quarley,
6 88
Hannah Russell,
3 00
Amount carried forward,
$755 33
12
Amount brought forward,
$755 33
Charles B. Abbott,
1 50
William White,
1 00
Dorcas B. Chandler,
26 00
A Pauper,
2 00
Mrs. John B. Pecker,
42 00
Rebecca Merrill,
17 75
W. H. Kimball, vaccinating children,
3 00
$848 58
COMMITMENTS.
Henry Dane, committing Johanna White to the Lunatic Hospital, $22 30
EXPENSES OF ALMSHOUSE.
Charles O. Cummings, salary,
$450 00
Milton Berry, medical attendance,
18 75
T. A. Holt & Co., supplies,
551 97
H. P. Beard, supplies,
826 33
Barnes & Lewis, supplies,
366 15
George A. Nelson, 66
210 64
Valpey Brothers, meat,
344 29
John H. Flint, meat,
291 33
David Gray, boots and shoes,
10 32
Connell & Chandler, coal,
143 50
P. M. Jefferson, soap,
62 00
B. F. Holt, ice,
15 00
John T. Shattuck, boots and shoes,
2 35
William Barnett, repairs,
19 30
J. W. Barnard, boots and shoes,
55 22
Corse & Townsend, boots and shoes,
12 82
Henry W. Abbott, supplies,
31 90
Joseph Farnham, repairs,
7 60
Oliver W. Hunt, blacksmithing,
22 11
James H. Smith,
33 27
James H. Cochrane,
14 56
Walter H. Kimball, medical attendance,
25 00
Amount carried forward,
$3,514 41
13
Amount brought forward,
$3,514 41
George H. Parker, medical supplies,
19 75
Lydia A. Reynolds, labor,
81 00
Warren W. Townsend, labor,
35 26
Benjamin Cheever, 66
106 34
Benjamin Stevens, cow,
48 00
George N. Pasho, cow,
75 00
Herman Abbott, Coffins,
13 00
Robert Callahan, burials,
10 00
Herman Abbott, chairs,
5 25
$3,908 01
ALMSHOUSE REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
Richard M. Abbott, painting,
$4 75
E. E. Lunmans, mowing machine,
115 00
Wm. S. Jenkins, lumber and labor,
28 71
Joseph Wadleigh, tile,
24 60
Gleason & Morse, whitewashing,
17 50
$190 56
PAID TO CITIES AND TOWNS.
City of Charlestown, family of Alfred Mason,
$96 62
Lunatic Hospital, Samuel Holt, 199 50
House of Correction, C. O. Parker,
8 56
66 66 Elbridge Wardwell,
4 28
66
66 Ella J. Parker,
26.00
North Reading, Isaac O. Holt,
37 70
$372 66
DUE FROM CITIES AND TOWNS.
Haverhill, Mrs. John G. Pecker, 42 00
Newburyport, Rebecca Merrill,
17 75
North Andover, James Nichols,
14 15
$73 90
Due from Commonwealth, burial of State paupers, $30 00
14
SUMMARY OF OVERSEER'S ORDERS.
Relief out of the House, Commitments,
$848 58
22 30
Expenses of Almshouse,
3,908 01
Repairs and Improvements,
190 56
Paid to Cities and Towns,
372 66
$5,342 11
REPRESENTATIVE FUND, $100 00.
June 13th, 1867.
The Overseers of the Poor received One Hundred Dollars with the following communication :
To the Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Andover :
GENTLEMEN :- As Representative from the 4th Essex District, in the last Legislature, I am in the receipt of a larger compensation than met my approval. It is not my purpose to appropriate the whole sum to my own use, and I hereby ask you to receive and hold in trust the enclosed One Hundred Dollars, the annual income of which you will please expend towards furnishing fuel for some worthy ones, for whom in your official capacity you are called upon to provide.
I remain, yours, &c., EDWARD TAYLOR.
In accordance with the wishes of the donor, the interest accruing by the above named fund for six months, ending the first day of January last, has been applied to the family of Mrs. John Trull.
WM. S. JENKINS, OVERSEERS JOHN B. ABBOTT, OF HERMAN PHELPS, ANDOVER.
SUPERINTENDENT'S ACCOUNT.
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DR.
To balance from last account, To cash for labor,
$126 68
66
milk,
63 41
66
services of bull,
39 00
6
lodging prisoners,
2 00
calves,
55 09
66
seed corn,
1 15
oats,
10 00
66
gravel,
1 70
hides and tallow,
21 33
66
vegetables, &c.,
37 09
66
oxen,
261 20
66
flour barrels,
10 80
straw,
4 00
grass,
5 00
66
boarding,
35 00
CR.
By cash paid for hard ware, tools, &c.,
$14 02
66
repairing pumps,
1 75
66
clothing, &c.,
28 41
furniture,
2 00
66
toll to Lawrence,
86
fresh fish,
57 16
66
cider and vinegar,
13 65
66
boarding,
15 00
Amount carried forward,
$132 85
314 51
52 75
pigs,
$1,040 71
16
Amount brought forward,
$132 85
grinding corn,
11 01
.
alcohol and medicines,
12 00
66 L. A. Reynolds, labor,
93 00
66 Wm. H. Rea,
7 00
66 Charles Wilson, 66
28 00
66
W. W. Townsend,
25 34
66
Benj. Cheever,
30 00
66
Peter Rogers, 66
27 08
66
M. Holden, 66
90 00
P. E. Marsh,
66
46 38
66
crackers,
10:50
66
repairing harness, &c.,
2 76
66
oats and rye,
13
66
school books,
1 99
66
oil,
1 12
66
railroad fares,
1 10
66
freight,
9 68
66
threshing grain,
6 50
66
oxen,
255 00
66
E. Hussey, washing, 66 sawing lumber,
6 00
N. B. Abbott, swine,
2 00
66
Wm. Poor, repairs,
1 00
66
Geo. O. Burns, labor,
55 88
66
tea,
13 00
16
Town Treasurer,
100 00
Balance due the Town,
$1,040 71
C. O. CUMMINGS, SUPERINTENDENT.
ALMSHOUSE.
Whole number of Paupers in Almshouse during
year,
33
Whole number weeks board,
1339
66
foreign paupers entertained,
225
66
weeks' board,
64
66
prisoners held in custody waiting trial, 7
66
number weeks' board of prisoners, 3
36 62
21 90
17
REMAINING IN ALMSHOUSE.
Over eighty years old, Between seventy and eighty,
sixty and seventy,
2
fifty and sixty,
2
66 forty and fifty,
3
66 thirty and forty,
1
3
ten and twenty,
one and ten,
4
22
DEATHS IN THE ALMS-HOUSE DURING THE YEAR.
Sally Moore, aged 74 years.
Joshua Moore, aged 55 years.
Isaac O. Holt, aged 49 years.
INVENTORY OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.
Fifty iron bedsteads, $150; 10 stoves, $115.50, $265 50
Glass and crockery ware, 40.15 ; 38 chairs, 25.50, 65 65 Wooden wares, 77.50 ; iron kettles, sad iron, 5.00, 82 50 Beds and beding, 408.50 ; 2 dinner bells, 2.00, 410 50
Two clocks, 3.00 ; 2 lanterns, 3.50, 6 50
Table and tea spoons, knives and forks, 16.50,
16 50
Tin ware, 30.00; stone ware, 12.00; chairs for sick, 3.50, 45 50
$892 65
PROVISIONS.
Flour and meal, $61.00, 200 lbs. butter, $90.00, $151 00 Molasses, 26.60 ; 200 lbs. lard. 32.00, 58 60
Sugar, 29.40; tea, 42.00 ; coffee, 4.60, 76 00
Crackers, 4.00 ; pork, 175.00 ; oil, 5.40, 184 40
Starch, 1.00 ; saleratus, 2.90 ; cranberries, 2.00, 5 90
Fish, 2.00; Hams, 40.00 ; vinegar, 11.50,
53 50
Salt, 2.25 ; tomatoes, canned, 5.00, Extra provisions, tobacco, 5.50, Ten meat barrels, 5.00, 5.00
7 25
5.00
$547 15
3
18
FARM PRODUCE.
Corn, wheat, barley, oats, 92 90; hay, 305.00, $397 90
Potatoes, 117.00; vegetables, 22.00 ; straw, 12.00, 151 00
Meat block, bench, saw and axe, 12.00, 12 00
Soap, 26,00 ; 8 cider barrels, 8.00 ; leather,2.00, 36 00
Brick, 4.00 ; manure, 300.00, 304 00
$900 90
FARM STOCK.
Horse, 150.00 ; 2 pair oxen, 550.00,
$700 00
Bull, 30.00 ; 6 cows, 300.00 ; fowls, 15.00,
345 00
Fat cow, 62.00 ; swine, 60.00,
122 00
$1,167 00
FUEL AND LUMBER.
Bridge plank, 190.00 ; oak posts, 2.50,
$192 50
Pine timber, plank, boards, fence rails, 115 00
$307 50
CLOTHING.
Clothing, 47.00 ; crash and towels, 18.00, $65 00 Boots and shoes, 20 00
$85 00
FARM IMPLEMENTS.
Two horse wagons, harnesses, pung and sleigh, $237 00
Two ox wagons, sled, scraper, harrows,
164 50
Two carts, stone drag, yokes, chains,
124 00
Sythes, sickles, corn cutters, peat knives,
12 25
Horse, hay and garden rakes,
29 00
Horse, hay and manure forks,
30 00
Blocks and ropes, 17.00 ; grain chest, 12.00,
29 00
Hay cutter, 1.50 ; ladders, 8.00 ; cultivator, 10.00,
19 50
12 shovels and spades, 12.00 ; 8 hoes, 4.00,
16 00
Feed trough and boxes, 7.00; 3 iron bars, 3.00, 10 00
Horse hoe, 12.00 ; whifletrees and chains, 3.00,
15 00
Amount carried forward,
$686 25
19
Amount brought forward,
$686 25
Measures, 2.00 ; steel yards, 3.00; drain tile, 5.25, 10 25
Iron, 3.00 ; muzzles, 1.00 ; 5 plows, 45.00, 49 00
Grain cradle, 2.50 ; tub, .75 ; 2 baskets, 1.00, 4 25
Grind stone, 8.00 ; picks, 2.00; 4 axes, 4.00, 14 00
Blasting tools, 13.00 ; robe and blanket, 4.50, 17 50
Carpenters tools, 10.00; vice, 5.00; wheelbar- row, 4.00, 19 00
Winnowing mill, 3.00 ; ladle, 2.00 ; bags, 4.00,
9 00
Cart spires 5.00 ; woodsaws, 2.50,
7 50
37 flour barrels, 6.17 ; beetle and wedges, 2.00,
8 17
$824 92
SUMMARY.
Inventory of household furniture,
66
provisions,
547 15
‹‹ ,
farm produce,
900 90
farm stock,
1,167 00
66
fuel and lumber,
307 50
clothing,
85 00
66
farm implements,
824 92
$4,725 12
In taking the inventory the Auditors entered the rooms occupied by the aged and infirm ; they seemed happy and contented, and expressed their thanks for the kind care taken of them in their old age. Everything in their rooms was in good order, and neatness prevailed in every room, showing that those having the charge and care of the inmates have succeeded in making this home for the unfortunate, what all good citizens desire it should be.
$892 65
20
LIQUOR AGENCY.
Town of Andover in account with H. W. Abbott, Town Agent. DR.
For cash paid Town Treasurer for liquors sold in 3 months, to May 7th, 1867, $791 59
For stock of liquors transferred to Tho's Smith, 215 39
$1,006 98
CR.
By stock of liquors on hand, Feb. 12, 1867, $398 62
cash on hand, 46 08
cash rec'd of Treasurer to pay bills of liquors, 453 09
cash rec'd of Treasurer to pay freight bills, 10 26
Agent's salary from Feb. 16, to May 7, 1867, 44 44
Net profit, 54 49
$1,006 98
Town of Andover in account with Tho's Smith, Town Agent.
DR.
To cash paid Town Treasurer for liquors sold, $3,868 32
66 barrels and casks sold, 32 75
To cash on hand, Feb. 14, 1868, 109 32
Stock of liquors on hand, 199 40
$4,209 79
CR.
By stock of liquors received of H. W. Abbott, $215 39
cash rec'd of Treasurer to pay bills of liquor, 3,296 31 freight bills unpaid, 27 80
cash rec'd of Treasurer to pay Tho's Smith's bill, 18 05
150 00 Agent's salary from May 7, 1867, to Feb. 7, 1868, Net profit, 502 24
$4,209 79
TREASURER'S ACCOUNT.
Town of Andover in account with E. K. Jenkins, Treasurer.
DR.
To paid County tax for 1867, $3,590 60
66
Andover National Bank, money hired, 1,500 00
Int. on same, 8 75
66 on account of Town notes,
12,740 00
66 interest on Town notes,
1,588 50
discount on taxes at 6 per ct., 1,924 85
66 66 66
4 66 213 67
2,138 52
for School District property,
15,452 27
66 notes against School Districts,
3,016 28
66 Selectmen's orders, current expenses, 66 66 Schools, 5,748 25
16,336 31
66
66
School houses,
6,431 44
66 Overseers of Poor, orders,
5,342 11
66
Selectmen and Auditors,
27 00
To balance of taxes, unpaid, 184 28
To cash on hand to balance,
9,160 92
$97,515 23
CR.
By balance of taxes unpaid, Feb. 15, 1867, $329 31
By cash on hand Feb. 15, 1867,
12,836 23
66 from E. Taylor, additional taxes, 1865, 2 95
66
Lawrence pauper account, 13 39
66 Newburyport pauper account, 9 75
Amount carried forward,
$13,191 63
60
State tax for 1867,
14,250 00
22
Amount brought forward, $13,191 63
By cash from Lowell pauper account, 4 00 66 Haverhill " 54 00 66
66 Methuen 66 3 00
County Treasurer, discount on tax, 37 69
66
Henry W. Abbott, liquor agent, 791 59
Thomas Smith, 3,901 07
6: rent of Town House, 511 50
rent of stores and hall at Ballard Vale,
110 00
66 Boston and Maine Railroad, damage by fire to Poor Farm, 100 00
66 sale of Osgood school house,
68 00
66 George Foster, public adm'r estate Jas. Ross, 7 00
hired of Andover National Bank,
1,500 00 " from State Treas., State aid for 1866,
66
66 corporation tax, 6,594 61
66
66
armory rent, 175 00
66
66 school fund, 345 60
66 Hay Scale fees, 49 57
66 proprietors and Phillips School fund, 144 00
66 Chas. O. Cummings, superintendent, 100 00
66 Assessor's warrant for taxes, 1867, 59,769 76
66 additional taxes for 1867, 57 21
$97,515 23 E. K. JENKINS, TREASURER.
ANDOVER, Feb. 14, 1868.
10,000 00
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LIABILITIES.
Notes payable,
$12,160 00
Due interest not called for,
480 00
$12,640 00
ASSETS.
Cash on hand,
$9,160 92
Taxes unpaid, 184 28
Cash in Superintendent's hands, 36 62
Cash in Liquor Agency,
109 32
Due from Cities and Towns,
73 40
Due from Commonwealth for burial of State paupers,
30 00
Due for State Aid,
6,474 50
$16,069 04
Balance in Treasurer's hands in favor of Town, $3,909 04
SCHEDULE OF TOWN PROPERTY.
Town House and fixtures, $15,000 00
Land under and adjoining,
2,000 00
Weights and measures,
200 00
Safe in Town House,
166 00
Hay Scales,
300 00
Engine-house and land,
900 00
Engine and apparatus,
1,000 00
Hose at Ballard Vale,
614 00
Town Farm and buildings,
5,830 00
Personal property, as per inventory,
4,725 12
School House property,
23,642 25
Library,
250 00
$54,627 37
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PUNCHARD FREE SCHOOL.
The undersigned, Trustees of the Punchard Free School, here- with 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, 1868.
Of the Permanent Fund of Forty Thousand Dollars, there is invested at this date in valid Notes and Real
Estate Securities, the sum of Thirty-seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars, $37,500 00
And the balance of Twenty-five Hundred Dollars is de- posited to their credit in the Andover National Bank, 2 500 00
$40,000 00
RECEIPTS.
Balance of cash on hand as per last report, $974 66
Interest received since last report, 2,572 83
Cash received of John Cornell for rent of land, 25 00
$3572 49
EXPENDITURES.
Cash paid Wm. G. Goldsmith, Principal, salary, $1,000 00
66 Miss Wilder, Assistant, 400 00
Miss Hervey, 275 00
60 M. Foster, Treasurer,
100 00
Miss Carter, music teacher,
64 00
Merrimack M. F. Insurance Co., 81 00
E. P. Abbott, Janitor,
100 00
66 Cornell & Chandler, coal, 170 00
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J. A. Dawson, diploma,
25 00
66 W. S. Jenkins, stock and labor, 23 79
W. F. Draper, sundries,
23 55
66 E. P. Abbott, 60
25 41
66 R. M. Abbott, stock and labor, 18 97
Wm. Barnett, 12 40
66 James O. Cheever, wood,
10 56
66 Wm. G. Goldsmith, sundries, 5 52
Amount carried forward,
$2,335 20
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Amount brought forward, $2,335 20
Cash paid B. A. Clark & Co., call bells,
7 25
John Sullivan, labor,
7 25
H. P. Beard & Co., sundries,
6 60
Bay State Glass Company,
2 75
James Ronan, labor,
2 00
Edward Carter, tuning piano,
2 00
Millett's Express,
1 75
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George H. Parker,
1 20
Jesse Gray,
1 00
Herman Abbott, sundries,
75 87
$2,442 87
Cash deposited in Andover National Bank, to balance, 1,129 62
$3,572 49
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES SMITH, JAMES H. MERRILL, BENJ. B. BABBITT, MOSES FOSTER,
NATHAN FRYE,
EDWARD TAYLOR,
JOHN ABBOTT, ISAAC CARRUTH.
Andover, February 1, 1868.
NOTE .- At the last Annual Meeting in March, the Town appropriated five hundred dollars in behalf of the Teachers, and this amount has been paid to them in addition to the sums above specified.
The foregoing accounts, having been carefully examined, and found to have been correctly kept and well vouched, we respect- fully present our Report to the town for acceptance.
WM. CHICKERING, JOHN H. FLINT, AUDITORS. RICHARD M. ABBOTT,
The Selectmen would recommend the raising of the following sums for the year 1868 : Highways, Current Expenses,
$3,000 00 10,000 00
FINANCIAL REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
ANNUAL SCHOOL ACCOUNT.
On hand to the credit of the several Schools, as
per Auditor's Account, Feb. 15, 1867, $1,578 05
Appropriation as per vote of Town, March, 1867, 5,500 00
from Town Funds, 144 00
from funds held by the State, 345 30
Total available funds for the year, $7,567 35 Expenses of the Schools as far as paid up to Feb.
17, 1866, $5,748 25
Cash on hand to meet expenses of Winter Term, 1,819 10
This amount we think will be ample to cover all the ex - penses of the schools for the current year, as yet unpaid. During the past year the Committee have not seen their way clear to that enlargement of school facilities at Ballard Vale which it was thought would be required, as for many other reasons, so also because the business interests centered there have been in a fluctuating condition. Should the population become permanently increased in that village it will be necessary to have another teacher added to the force already employed in the schools there.
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The increased amount voted by the town at its last meet- ing has been expended by increasing the length of the schools. Last year the average gross length of the schools was eight months and one day. This year the Committee have provided for nine months from the funds of the town.
In the Village District, (Abbott Village) we have been compelled to have a school for children who have been turned out of the factory under the law of the State, because they had not been at school for three months during the past year. Some of these children though still under fifteen, had not been in school for three years. There were forty of them thrown upon the intermediate school of that district in one week. This school has been a heavy expense as it has been necessary to continue it a second term in consequence of there being no work for the scholars in the mill.
The Grammar School has increased from 60 scholars last vear, to nearly 90 scholars the past winter. Of these a good proportion are from the other districts, and some are from the factories, while many have never attended public school before. The prospect is that this school will rather increase than diminish. The result will be that the expense will increase.
Looking then to the necessity of having a male teacher in the Grammar School, and the probable increase of scholars in the Ballard Vale schools, as well as to the fact that all around us teachers are getting higher salaries than with us, while board is higher here than in most country towns, we do not feel that we should be faithful to the interest com- mitted to our care if we asked this year for less than $6000.
Last year the School Committee were authorized to settle up the district accounts, to make improvements in school property, with power to buy, sell, and to keep in order and repair the school property.
We have to report the following expenditures on this account :
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For the Osgood School House and furniture, $1,810 35 For the Grammar School property, first
cost, $1,497 55
For well and pump, 116 75
the alteration of buildings,
1,507 07
furniture,
197 26
- $3,318 63
Incidental expenses, including insur- ance,
$200 00 $387 89
(Insured Grammar School, Ballard Vale, Osgood and Frye.)
Improvement on all the School Houses, shingling South Centre and Frye District School Houses, pumps at Village, South Centre and Frye.
Blackboards, plaster work, and whitewashing in all the School Houses, total, $914 57
Total expenditures, $6,431 44
The coming year the School Committee would recommend the erection of two new School Houses, one in Bailey Dis- trict, and one in Holt District, to cost about $1,800.00 cash. Total, $3,600.00.
Also, that the work of repairing and properly furnishing all the school houses in the town up to the standard of the one erected in the Osgood District be carried out, and that there be appropriated the sum of $1,400.00 for this and other incidental expenses of the schools, making in all for the school houses, $5,000.00.
BENJ. B. BABBITT, D. C. LITCHFIELD, HENRY S. GREENE, NATH' P. BERRY, SAM'L BOUTWELL, P. M. JEFFERSON,
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
TOWN WARRANT.
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ESSEX, SS. To ROBERT CALLAHAN, one of the Constables of the Town of Andover, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Andover, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, to meet and as- semble at the Town House, in said Andover, on Mon- day, the second day of March next, at twelve o'clock, at noon, to act on the following articles, viz :-
ART. 1st. To choose a Moderator, to preside in said meeting.
ART. 2nd. To choose a Town Clerk for the year ensuing.
ART. 3rd. To hear and act on the report of the Auditors.
ART. 4th. To choose Selectmen, Assessors, Over- seers of the Poor, Town Treasurer, School Com- mittee, Constables, Fence Viewers, and all other necessary and usual Town Officers.
ART. 5th. To see what sum of money the Town will raise for the repairs of highways the ensuing year.
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ART. 6th. To see what methods the Town will adopt for the repairs .of the highways.
ART. 7th. To see what sum of money the Town will raise for the maintenance of their public schools for the ensuing year.
ART. Sth. To see if the Town will make an appropriation in behalf of the teachers of the Punch- ard Free School for the year ensuing, on petition of said Trustees.
ART. 9th. To see what method the Town will adopt to apportion the school money among the pub- lic schools.
ART. 10th. To see what sum or sums of money the Town will raise for the repair and improvement of the school property, and for incidental expenses of the school houses.
ART. 11th. To see what sum of money the Town will raise to defray the necessary expenses accruing the year ensuing.
ART. 12th. To see what method the Town will adopt for the collection of the public taxes the ensu- ing year.
ART. 13th. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treasurer to hire money for the use of the Town when necessary.
ART. 14th. To determine what compensation the Town will pay to firemen for their services the ensu- ing year.
ABT. 15th. To see if the Town will accept and revise the list of jurors as prepared and posted by the Selectmen.
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ART. 16th. To see if the Town will diminish the number of School Committee, on petition of Sylves- ter Lovejoy and others.
ART. 17th. To see what action the Town will take concerning Shade and Ornamental Trees, as provided by Chap. 242, Laws and Resolves of 1867.
ART. 18th. To act on any other business that may legally come before said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this War- rant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hands at Andover, this fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
WM. S. JENKINS, Selectmen JOHN B. ABBOTT, of
HERMAN PHELPS, Andover.
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