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FLINT PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 2126 00103 384 9
REPORT
OF THE
Receipts and Expenditures
OF THE
Town of Middleton
FOR THE
Year Ending December 31, 1947
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9.81
FOUNDED IN 17
SALEM, MASS. THE NEWHALL PRINTERS 1948
Town Meeting Warrant
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Middleton, in the County of Essex :
GREETING : In the name of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directad to notify and warn tha In- habitants of said Town, qualified to vote in elections and in Town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall in said Town on Tuesday, the ninth day of March next, at eight o'clock in the avening, then and there to act on the following articlas :
ARTICLE 1. To authorize the Salectmen to appoint such other Town Officers as are raquired to be chosen annually.
ARTICLE 2. To hear and act on Committee Reports.
ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to authoriza the Town Treasurer, with the approval of tha Selactmen, to borrow monay from time to time in anticipation of tha revenue of tha financial yaar beginning January 1, 1948, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to ranew such note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chaptar 44, of the General Laws. ARTICLE 4. To see what action the Town will take to defray tha Town expanses for tha ensuing year.
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will authoriza the Board of Assessors to usa such frae cash in the Treasury as they, in their best judgment, feel is warranted, and is approved by the Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation, for the purpose of reducing the tax rate.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from unappropriated avail- able funds in the treasury, the sum of $4,800.00 for Chapter 81-highways, or take any action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 7. To sea if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, the sum of $1, 750.00 for Chapter 90 Highway Construction on Essex Street or take any action in relation thereto. .
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, the sum of $1,000.00 for Chapter 90 Maintenance, to be used with any money which may be allotted by the State or take any action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 9. On petition of the Highway Surveyor, to see if the Town will vote to temporarily increasa the salary of the Highway Surveyor by the sum of $20.00 each week during the fiscal year, because of increased cost of living. This increase to be paid from available Highway Funds. (Present salary $40.00) ARTICLE 10. On petition of the Highway Surveyor, to see if the Town will vote to permit all regular em- ployees of the Highway Department to be paid for eight holidays together with a vacation of one week each year.
ARTICLE 11. On petition of the Highway Surveyor, to see if the Town will establish the rate of compen- sation for Town laborers at 99 cents per hour.
ARTICLE 12. On petition of the Highway Surveyor, to sea if the Town will vote to purchase a tractor to- gether with a Bulldozer Blade and a 9 ft. 6 in. V Plow and Snow Scoop, and appropriate the sum of $9,000.00, or to take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 13. On petition of Sophie Murray and forty-fiva others, to see if the Town will vota to increase the number of members of the school committee from three to fiva members in accordance with the provis- ions of General Laws (ter. ed.) Chapter 41, Section 2, and amendments thereto.
ARTICLE 14. On petition of James W. Paart and thirty-eight others, to sea if tha Town will vota to have the street lights extended from Lake St. to the No. Reading line on Forest Street.
ARTICLE 15. To sea if the Town will appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 for the improvement of Mill Straet, or to take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 16. To sae if the Town will vote to appropriata the sum of $150.00 to be used to bring the Town By-Laws up to date and have them printad.
ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town By-Laws by adding thereto, under Chapter 3, Section 3, the following sub section ; To instruct the Finance Committee to segregate the appropriation for money recommended by it for the use of the various departmants of the town into such items, as in the judgament of the Finance Committee, may be necessary or desirable.
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vota to refund to Merton Punchard the sum of $33.00 paid by him to the Town for the purchase of Lots 236-237-238 in Riverview and for which the Town was unable to give a legal title; and also to reimburse said Merton Punchard in the suin of $2.16 representing taxes paid by him on said lots for the year 1946 and appropriate a sum of money therefor agreeable to the petition of the Treasurer.
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will vota to appropriate the sum of $350.00 to settle land takings on Essex Street. .
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to transfer tha dog tax amounting to $552.84, to the Library Fund.
ARTICLE 21. To see what action the Town will take in regard to transferring all, or any part, of tha Over- lay Reserve to the Finance Committee Reserve Fund. "In accordance with Section 25 of Chapter 59, General Laws."
To transact any other business that may lawfully come before this meeting.
You are hereby ordered to notify and warn said quallfied voters to meet at the Town Hall, on Monday, March 15, naxt for the following purposes, viz : To choosa by ballot the following Town Officers for the ensuing year :
Modarator, Town Clark, thras Selactman, ona member of the Board of Public Walfare for three years, one Assassor for threa years, one member of the School Committee for thraa yaars, Highway Survayor, Tax Col- lector, Tree Warden, Constable, Superintendent of Burials, one Electric Light Commissioner for three years, two Trustees of the Flint Public Library for three yaars, one Cemetary Commissioner for three years, Custodian of the Town Hall, and one member for five years, one member for four years, one member for three years, one member for two years, one member for one year for the Planning Board.
The polls will ba open at 6:00 A. M. and shall be closed at 6:00 P. M.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant, by posting up attested copies thereof at the Town Hall, Post Office, and Store at Howe Station, in said Town, seven days at least befora the time of holding 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 this eighteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight.
A true copy.
CLARENCE OSGOOD, Jr. GEORGE B. OGDEN, JAMES B. COFFIN,
Attest : WILBUR C. RUNDLETT, Constable.
Salectmen of Middleton.
REPORT
OF THE
Receipts and Expenditures
OF THE
Town of Middleton
FOR THE
Year Ending December 31, 1947
OUNDED IN 17
SALEM, MASS. THE NEWHALL PRINTERS 1948
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INDEX
Analysis of Appropriations and Payments, 1947
- 10
Balance Sheet
-
-
40
Cemetery Endowment Report
-
47
Cemetery Department
32
Charities
27
David Cummings' Fund
51
General Government
13
Health Department
23
Highway Department -
24
Library and Parks
-
-
31
Land Owned by the Town
-
-
-
46
Middleton Electric Light Account
37
Municipal Indebtedness
39
Protection of Persons and Property
21
School Department
30
Town Officers
6
Town Officers Salaries -
17
Town Treasurer's Account
-
-
-
42
Unclassified Account
-
-
-
34
Veterans' Services
29
PART II
Assessors' Report
-
-
-
-
-
80
Building Inspector's Report
-
-
-
-
73
Dog Officer's Report
84
Electric Light Commissioners Report
74
Fire Department Report -
86
Flint Public Library Fund -
60
Forestry Report
87
Highway Department Report Jurors List
59
Librarian's Report
62
Moth Department Report
88
Payroll Analysis
55 89
Police Department Report
76
Recommendations Finance Committee
91
Sealer of Weights and Measures Report Selectmen's Report
-
64
School Reports
-
-
Special Committee on Old School House
90
Tax Collector's Report
-
-
-
82
Town Clerk's Report
-
-
65
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
79
103
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
85
Public Welfare
-
-
6
TOWN OFFICERS
Town Officers
Wilbur Witham
Moderator
Term expires March, 1948
Town Clerk
Elmer P. Morrill
Term expires March, 1948
Treasurer
Marion E. Mitchell
Term expires March, 1950
Selectmen and Board of Health
Clarence Osgood, Jr., Chairman
Term expires March, 1948
James H. Coffin, Clerk Term expires March, 1948
George B. Ogden Term expires March, 1948
Board of Public Welfare
Alexander Fraser, Chairman Term expires March, 1950
Wilbur C. Rundlett, Jr. Term expires March, 1948
Leslie E. Merrifield, Clerk Term expires March, 1949
Board of Assessors
Paul B. Wake, Chairman Term expires March, 1948
Archibald L. Jones, Clerk Term expires March, 1949 Harold M. Bishop Term expires March, 1950
School Committee
Raymond W. Silvernail, Chairman Term expires March, 1948
Mrs. Alice K. Cass, Clerk Term expires March, 1950 Rosamond L. Bastable Term expires March, 1949
Highway Surveyor
John H. Ross
Term expires March, 1948
Tax Collector
Harold E. Tyler
Term expires March, 1948
Tree Warden
Joseph Picariello
Term expires March, 1948
7
TOWN OFFICERS
Moth Superintendent
Joseph Picariello Term expires January, 1948
Constable
Wilbur C. Rundlett, Jr. Term expires March, 1948
Chief of Police
Wilbur C. Rundlett, Jr. Term expires May, 1948
Superintendent of Burial
Richard N. Maxwell Term expires March, 1948
Inspector of Animals
Murray Bullerwell Term expires May, 1948
Inspector of Slaughtering
Murray Bullerwell Term expires May, 1948
Town Accountant
Elmer O. Campbell Term expires May, 1948
Forest Fire Warden
Wilbur C. Rundlett, Jr. Term expires January, 1948
Chief of Fire Department
Elmer P. Morrill Term expires May, 1948
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Harold F. Purdy Term expires May, 1948
Electric Light Commissioners
Richard B. Floyd, Chairman Term expires March, 1948
Charles Bates, Clerk Term expires March, 1950
Gus L. Fischer Term expires March, 1949
Electric Light Manager
A. B. Harrington
Term expires May, 1948
8
TOWN OFFICERS
Trustees Flint Public Library
William T. Martin
Paul B. Wake
A. L. Jones
William H. Sanborn
Harold Y. Smith
Term expires March, 1949
Term expires March, 1949
Cemetery Commissioners
Clarence Richardson
Arthur T. Page
Roger B. Lovelace
Term expires March, 1947 Term expires March, 1948 Term expires March, 1949
Finance Committee
Hazen M. Richardson, Chairman
Alden F. Moreland
Term expires March, 1949 Term expires March, 1948
William G. Birch, Clerk
Term expires March, 1948
Ernest S. LeBeau
Term expires March, 1949
Harold Y. Smith
Term expires March, 1950
Registrars of Voters
Lloyd H. Getchell Joseph T. Lee
Ernest P. Goodale
Term expires March, 1948 Term expires March, 1949 Term expires March, 1950
Town Counsel
James J. Gaffney Term expires April, 1948
TRUSTEES
B. F. Emerson Fund Naumkeag Trust Company, Salem, Massachusetts
Roger F. Clapp
William H. Sanborn
Harley M. Tyler
Mansfield Fund Old Colony Trust Company, Boston, Mass.
David Cummings Fund Board of Public Welfare
Term expires March, 1948
J. Phillip Webber
Term expires March, 1950
Term expires March, 1950 Term expires March, 1948
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN ACCOUNTANT
OF THE
Town of Middleton
FOR THE
Year Ending, December 31, 1947
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ANALYSIS SHEET
Balance and Appropria- tion
Receipts
Transferred To
Total Available
Expended
Transferred From
Balance to Revenue
Town Officers Salaries ·
$7,055.00
Town Officers Expenses .
1,100.00
$ 121.25
1,221.25
1,207.47
·
$ 13.78
Tax Title Expenses
300.00
6.75
306.75
306.75
Assessors Expenses
300.00
$
60.90
360.90
360.90
Elections and Registrations
100.00
30.31
130.31
130.31
140.00
Registrars Listing
140.00
Town Hall
800.00
Town Hall, Repairs
511.05
Police Dept.
4,394.60
4,394.60
4,394.60
Fire Dept.
.
.
.
·
51.86
1,051.86
1,051.86
Tree Warden
500.00
150.00
650.00
649.95
.05 ·
Health
1,600.00
1,600.00
1,597.24
2.76
Essex Sanatorium
2,054.95
2,054.95
2,054.95
·
.
1,993.88
3,343.87
6.10
5,343.85
3,507.00
1,836.85*
Highway, Chapter 81
4,800.00
5,291.25
12,000.00
11,999.89
.11
High'y, Chap. 90, Maint.
1,100.00
High'y Chap. 90, Const.
2,957.70
11,100.00
1,100.00
13,357.70
7,307.20
6,050.50*
Highway, Special
500.00
500.00
498.63
1.37
1946 Accounts
154.17
154.17
154.17
.
Snow
10,200.00
.
.
.
·
·
·
4,500.00
4,500.00
4,398.36
·
101.64
Old Age Assistance
18,700.00
12,328.02
·
31,028.02
31,023.17
4.85
Old Age Assistance, Adm.
500.00
418.52
918.52
626.40
292.12
.
$7,055.00
$ 7,055.00
.
·
.
·
·
·
·
.
·
.
.
.
.
.
4,800.00
4,800.00
4,790.00
10.00
Fire Alarm
535.37
535.37
535.37
·
.
ANALYSIS SHEET
.
Highway .
1,809.58
16.48
1,826.06
1,823.80
2.26
.
·
·
.
.
Street Lighting
.
2,500.00
2,500.00
2,500.00
10,200.00
11,395.52
.
.
.
500.00
500.00
Dental Clinic
500.00
800.00
704.53
95.47
511.05*
Moth Dept.
1,000.00
Road Machinery Fund
$1,100.00
Public Welfare
.
ANALYSIS SHEET (CONTINUED)
Balance and Appropria- tion
Receipts
Transferred To
Total Available
Expended
Transferred From
Balance to Revenue
Aid Depend't Children
$ 2,675.00
$ 641.43
.
.
$ 3,316.43
$ 3,264.31
.
.
$ 52.12
Aid Depend't - Adm.
50.00
14.66
64.66
21.48
43.18
Veteran's Agent Expenses
50.00
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1,500.00
1,500.00
1,186.95
313.05
War Allowances
47,500.00
$
18.48
47,518.48
47,518.48
.
·
200.00
200.00
188.95
11.05
Vocational Education
1,500.00
524.00
2,024.00
2,015.28
8.72
Library
450.00
450.00
442.40
7.60
Electric Light
·
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Elec. Lt. Meter Deposits
1,450.00
453.00
1,903.00
1,899.81
Cemetery
450.00
117.47
467.47
467.47
Opening Graves
.
.
270.00
1,275.00
1,275.00
1,275.00
Cemetery Endowment
.
200.00
.
.
·
·
.
.
700.00
590.65
109.35
Contingent Fund
700.00
.
·
.
375.00
330.93
44.07
Memorial Day
1,785.00
24.00
16 03
1,825.03
1,825.03
Insurance
2,000.00
·
.
·
.
.
·
.
.
.
.
.
9,628.45
Interest
420.00
497.33
497.33
Funded Debt .
3,000.00
8,000.00
.
.
3,000.00
3,000.00
.
.
50.00
50.00
State Aid
150.00
150.000
150.00
Soldiers' Relief
200.00
200.00
100.00
100.00
.
.
·
.
.
.
ANALYSIS SHEET
=
.
.
.
·
.
.
·
.
125.00*
Cemetery Asphalt .
125.00
270.00
270.00
.
.
·
·
·
·
·
200.00*
Post War Projects Com'tee
600.00
71.52
Reserve Fund
375.00
.
.
2,000.00*
Veterans' Celebration
89.02
Repairs, Old School
89.02*
Old School Alterations
10,250.00
77.33
10,250.00
621.55
.
.
.
.
.
.
3.19
·
.
Cemetery Equipment
.
.
·
$ 528.48
Park
Electric Light Deprecia'n
School
.
.
12
ANALYSIS SHEET (CONTINUED)
Balance and Appropria- tion
Receipts
Transferred To
Total Available
Expended
Transferred From $ 405.00
Balance to Revenue $890.00* 99.49*
Lots and Graves Fund Mansfield Fund
$ 990.00 34.49
$ 295.00
$ 1,285.00
Tax Abatements, Refunds
157.02
Dog Tax .
678.60
678.60
678.60
State Tax
·
.
4,169.01
Withholding Tax
6,165.55
6,165.55
Retirement Fund
792.59
792.59
Blue Cross
48,607.03
12.19
Estimated Receipts
776.15
26.77
Tax Titles
295.00
247.03
1946 Excise Tax
52.00
1946 Poll Tax
8,520.16
1946 Real Estate Tax
186.84
1946 Personal Property Tax
4,475.45
1947 Excise Tax
1,030.00
1947 Poll Tax
64,963.84
1947 Real Estate Tax
5,307.80
1947 Personal Property Tax
60.30
60.30
* Balance carried forward
$248,052.81
$251,049.85
.
ANALYSIS SHEET
Tax Title Possessions
.
.
·
1,098.50
1,132.99
$1,033.50
1,852.75
County Tax
18
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
ANNUAL REPORT RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES Year Ending Dec. 31, 1947
RECEIPTS GENERAL REVENUE
TAXES :
CURRENT YEAR:
$
71,712 48
Property Poll
1,030 00
PREVIOUS YEARS:
Property
8,707 00
Poll
52 00
Tax title redemptions
776 15
FROM THE STATE:
Corporation
8,051 38
Income
12,919 52
$103,543 53
LICENSES AND PERMITS:
Liquor
2,300 00
All others
274 00
2,574 00
FINES :
District Court
260 00
260 00
GRANTS AND GIFTS :
FROM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: Old age assistance
12,709 81
Aid to dependent children
656 09
$13,365 90
14
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
FROM STATE FOR EDUCATION : Support of Public Schools Vocational Education
$ 696 64 166 77
$863 41
FROM STATE FOR OTHER PURPOSES:
Highway
8,154 45
Inspector of Animals
100 00
Meal Tax
790 62
9,045 07
FROM COUNTY:
Dog licenses
524 00
524 00
PRIVILEGES :
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 4,722 48
4,722 48
DEPARTMENTAL GENERAL GOVERNMENT
EXECUTIVE :
Selectmen
$40 39
FINANCIAL :
Treasurer
172 21
Collector
106 10
MUNICIPAL BUILDING :
Town Hall, rental 412 25
Old School, rental 300 00
$1,030 95
15
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY :
Police Department $ 70
Sealing of Weights and Measures
32 58
Services, dog officer
108 00
$141 28
HEALTH :
Tuberculosis
247 14
Dental Clinic
61 00
308 14
HIGHWAYS:
General
3,380 46
Chapter 90, Construction
11,100 00
14,480 46
CHARITIES :
REIMBURSEMENTS FOR RELIEF:
From Cities and Towns
464 35
From State
1,200 40
REIMBURSEMENTS FOR AID DEPENDENT CHILDREN: From State 852 24
REIMBURSEMENTS FOR OLD AGE ASSISTANCE:
From Cities and Towns 472 92
From State
13,219 23
16,209 14
SOLDIERS' BENEFITS :
War Allowances
200 00
200 00
SCHOOLS :
Sale of supplies
76 00
76 00
UNCLASSIFIED :
Sale of real estate
295 00
$ 295 00
16
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
PUBLIC SERVICE ENTERPRISES :
ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT:
Sale of light and power
$57,171 09
Miscellaneous' Depreciation fund
2,366 77
$60,512 74
PUBLIC SCALES
64 85
64 85
60,577 59
CEMETERIES :
Sale of lots and graves
295 00
Care " "
500 00
Care of endowed lots
453 00
1,248 00
INTEREST :
On deposits
39 06
On deferred taxes
313 68
On excise taxes
7 41
ON PUBLIC TRUST FUNDS:
Mansfield Fund
1,098 50
1,098 50
MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS : Old School Loan
8,000 00
8,000 00
AGENCY :
Beverage licenses
10 00
Perpetual care funds
1,275 00
Meter deposits
430 00
Blue Cross
60 30
Withholding taxes
6,165 55
Dog taxes
678 60
Retirement Fund
792 59
9,412 04
REFUNDS :
General departments
51 23
51 23
Total receipts
$248,052 81
974 88
17
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
EXPENDITURES
DEPARTMENTAL GENERAL GOVERNMENT
TOWN OFFICERS' SALARIES :
Appropriation
$5,100 00
EXPENDITURES
SELECTMEN:
Clarence Osgood, Jr.
$250 00
George B. Ogden
250 00
James H. Coffin
197 92
Harold M. Bishop
52 08
$750 00
ASSESSORS :
Archibald L. Jones
525 00
Paul B. Wake
525 00
Harold M. Bishop
450 00
1,500 00
TOWN CLERK:
Elmer P. Morrill
400 00
MODERATOR:
John R. Braley
10 00
Joseph T. Lee
10 00
Wilbur Witham
30 00
50 00
TOWN TREASURER:
Marion E. Mitchell
700 00
TOWN ACCOUNTANT: Elmer O. Campbell
700 00
TAX COLLECTOR:
Harold E. Tyler
700 00
TOWN COUNSEL:
John R. Braley
75 00
James J. Gaffney
225 00
300 00
Total expenditures
$5,100 00
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GENERAL GOVERNMENT
TOWN OFFICERS' EXPENSES : Appropriation Refund
$1,100 00 121 25
$1,221 25
EXPENDITURES
SELECTMEN:
Supplies and printing
179 20
Postage
16 00
Selectmens' Association, dues
31 00
Mileage and expenses
24 60
250 80
TOWN TREASURER:
Supplies
85 76
Postage
131 43
Mileage and expenses
78 23
Safe deposit box
15 00
Office Equipment
204 58
515 00
TAX COLLECTOR:
Supplies and printing
169 40
Postage
50 32
Mileage and expenses
22 32
Petty cash
50 00
292 04
TOWN ACCOUNTANT:
Supplies and printing
51 15
51 15
TOWN CLERK:
Supplies
9 25
Postage
27 23
36 48
19
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
TOWN COUNSEL: Association dues Expenses
$ 2 00 60 00
$ 62 00
Total expenditures
1,207 47
Transferred to revenue
13 78
1,221 25
.
TAX TITLE EXPENSES:
Appropriation
300 00
Refund
6 75
EXPENDITURES
Counsel fees
150 01
Registry of Deeds
54 45
Advertisement
82 29
Land Court
20 00
Total expenditures
306 75
ASSESSORS' EXPENSES :
Appropriation
300 00
Transferred from reserve
60 90
306 90
EXPENDITURES
Clerical service
124 00
Abstracts
80 35
Supplies
156 55
Total expenditures 360 90
ELECTIONS AND REGISTRATIONS :
Appropriation
$
Registrars' salaries
100 00
Election expenses
100 00
Transferred from reserve
30 31
$230 91
306 75
20
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
EXPENDITURES
E. P. Morrill
$ 25 00
E. C. Goodale
25 00
Lloyd Getchell
25 00
Joseph T. Lee
25 00
$ 100 00
Election officers
60 00
Lunches
8 31
Printing and postage
62 00
Total expenditures
130 31
230 31
TOWN HALL :
Appropriation, maintenance
800 00
Appropriation, salary
730 00
1,530 00
EXPENDITURES
Paul H. Young, janitor
730 00
Fuel and light
411 08
Water and telephone
115 20
Repairs
121 94
Supplies
56 31
Total expenditures
1,434 53
Transferred to revenue
95 47
1,430 00
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PROTECTION OF PROPERTY
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY
POLICE DEPARTMENT :
Appropriation $4,394 60
EXPENDITURES
Labor
$3,604 76
Automobile repairs, gas and oil
560 22
Supplies
80 48
Office supplies, telephone
149 14
Total expenditures
4,394 60
CONSTABLE'S SALARY :
Appropriation
35 00
EXPENDITURES
W. C. Rundlett, Jr., salary
35 00
FIRE DEPARTMENT :
Appropriation
4,800 00
EXPENDITURES
Salaries:
Chief
150 00
Deputy Chief and Forest warden
100 00
Firemen
205 00
Labor
2,249 15
Equipment and repairs
1,015 82
Gasoline and oil
153 68
Building maintenance
442 80
Fuel and light
153 43
Office expense, telephone
211 48
Fire alarm
92 12
Lunches
16 52
Total expenditures
4,790 00
Balance to revenue
10 00
4,800 00
FIRE ALARM :
Balance January 1, 1947
535 37
EXPENDITURES
Equipment
535 37
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PROTECTION OF PROPERTY
MOTH DEPARTMENT :
Appropriation
$1,000 00
Transferred from reserve
51 86
$1,051 86
EXPENDITURES
Labor
666 17
Truck hire
240 90
Supplies
44 79
Sprayer hire
100 00
Total expenditures 1,051 86
TREE WARDEN :
Appropriation
500 00
Transferred from Reserve
150 00
650 00
EXPENDITURES
Labor
418 79
Truck hire
215 42
Supplies
15 74
Total expenditures
649 95
Transferred to revenue
05
650 00
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES : Appropriation 125 00
EXPENDITURES
Louis V. Moreau, salary
31 25
Harold F. Purdy
93 75
Total expenditures
125 00
23
HEALTH AND SANITATION
HEALTH AND SANITATION
HEALTH DEPARTMENT : Appropriation $1,600 00
EXPENDITURES
Essex Sanatorium, care of patients
$397 00
Dumps, labor and truck
210 20
Dog cases-officer and expenses
92 00
Charles Pasquale, agent
40 00
Mary Wilson, ass't agent
20 00
Recording vital statistics
195 50
Contagious diseases
625 00
Supplies
17 54
Total expenditures Transferred to revenue
1,597 24
2 76
1,600 00
ESSEX SANATORIUM ASSESSMENT : Appropriation
2,054 95
EXPENDITURES
County treasurer
2,054 95
DENTAL CLINIC :
Appropriation
500 00
EXPENDITURES
Dr. E. J. Connely
499 25
Supplies
75
Total expenditures
500 00
INSPECTOR OF CATTLE AND SLAUGHTERING, SALARY : Appropriation 300 00
EXPENDITURES
Murray Bullerwell 300 00
24
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
HIGHWAYS
HIGHWAY :
Appropriation
$1,809 58
Refund
16 48
$1,826 06
EXPENDITURES
Labor
1,330 62
Truck hire
54 33
Gravel
74 50
Asphalt
134 44
Supplies
126 75
Office expenses-telephone
103 16
Total expenditures
1,823 80
Transferred to revenue
2 26
1,826 06
HIGHWAYS-CHAPTER 81-MAINTENANCE: Appropriation
4,800 00
State allotment
7,200 00
12,000 00
EXPENDITURES
Labor
5,780 30
Truck hire
1,738 98
Sand and gravel
827 35
Asphalt
2,883 58
Supplies
732 39
Office expenses
37 29
Total expenditures
11,999 89
Transferred to revenue
11
12,000 00
HIGHWAY-CHAPTER 90-CONSTRUCTION
Appropriation
2,463 06
State and County allotment
9,300 00
Transferred from Chapter 90 Maintenance
1,100 00
Balance from January 1, 1947
494 64
13,357 70
25
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
EXPENDITURES
Labor
$3,066 16
Truck hire
1,000 20
Equipment hire
1,613 25
Gravel
505 51
Asphalt
271 75
Supplies
525 33
Land takings
325 00
Total expenditures
7,307 20
Balance carried forward
$6,050 50
$13,357 70
HIGHWAY-SPECIAL : Appropriation 500 00
EXPENDITURES
Labor
294 78
Truck hire
182 35
Gravel
21 50
Total expenditures
498 63
Transferred to revenue
1 37
500 00
1946 ACCOUNTS:
Appropriation
154 17
EXPENDITURES
On order
154 17
SNOW REMOVAL :
Appropriation
10,200 00
Emergency overdraft
1,195 52
EXPENDITURES
Labor
4,567 22
Truck hire
4,807 44
Sand and salt
1,346 77
Supplies and repairs
654 18
State road
19 91
11,395 52
Total expenditures 11,395 52
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HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
ROAD MACHINERY FUND :
Balance January 1, 1947
$1,993 88
Receipts Transferred from reserve
3,343 87
6 10
$5,343 85
EXPENDITURES
Gasoline and oil
850 98
Repairs and parts
1,039 53
Labor
163 33
Supplies
37 85
Storage
495 00
Insurance and registration
90 75
Sand spreader
829 56
Total expenditures
3,507 00
Balance carried forward
1,836 85
5,343 85
STREET LIGHTING :
Appropriation
2,500 00
EXPENDITURES
Middleton Electric Light Dept.
2,500 00
.
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CHARITIES ACCOUNT
CHARITIES
PUBLIC WELFARE SALARIES : Appropriation
$325 00
EXPENDITURES
Leslie E. Merrifield
$125 00
Wilbur Rundlett Jr.
100 00
Alexander Fraser
75 00
Charles Pasquale
25 00
Total expenditures
325 00
PUBLIC WELFARE MAINTENANCE : Appropriation
4,500 00
EXPENDITURES
GENERAL EXPENSES:
Mileage
21 00
Supplies
11 00
32 00
Cash payments
1,608 00
Groceries, fuel, clothing
2,030 13
Medical aid
434 14
Other towns
294 09
4,366 36
Total expenditures
4,398 36
Transferred to revenue
101 64
4,500 00
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE-AID :
Appropriation
18,700 00
Federal grants
12,291 29
Refunds
36 73
31,028 02
EXPENDITURES
Cash payments
30,724 82
Other towns
298 35
Total expenditures
31,023 17
Transferred to revenue
4 85
31,028 02
28
CHARITIES ACCOUNT
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