Town annual report of Plymouth, MA 1890-1893, Part 1

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ANNUAL REPORT


-OF THE-


TOWN OFFICERS


-OF THE-


TOWN OF PLYMOUTH


1 -FOR THE


YEAR ENDING JANUARY FIRST,


1890


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PLYMOUTH : AVERY & DOTEN, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. 1890.


ANNUAL REPORT


-OF THE


TOWN OFFICERS


-OF THE- -


TOWN OF PLYMOUTH


-FOR THE-


HIR 97448 ANN 1850-93


YEAR ENDING JANUARY FIRST,


1890.


PLYMOUTH : AVERY & DOTEN, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. 1890.


PLYMOUTH PUBLIC LIBRARY


127 108-1297:


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REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.


The Selectmen submit the following report for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine : -


The Treasurer is charged for the year with-


Cash on hand January 1, 1889.


$23,661 39


Water rents, labor and materials


16,353 80


County dog fund 882 36


Sale of lots in Vine Hills Cemetery 250 90


Agawam and Half-way Pond fishery


715 00


Dividend from Old Colony National Bank


400 00


Interest from delinquent taxes.


337 86


Interest on Training Green fund.


36 73


Pedlers' licenses


39 50


Rebate of interest on loans


14 87


State aid refunded


1,344 00


Indigent aid


607 46


National Bank tax from the State


2,255 75


Corporation tax


6,739 95


Interest from Warren fund .


50 00


Billiard licenses 6 00


Poor department, reimbursements 1,832 96


Road department, reimbursements 712 67


Insane poor department, reimbursements .. 659 98


Contingent department, reimbursements . 562 03


School department, reimbursements


52 90


Amount carried forward. $7,516 11


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Amount brought forward . $7,516 11


School department, from Murdock fund 18 25


Poor department, from Murdock fund 18 25


Widows fund .


10 00


Sale of herring brooks


28 50


Burial Hill reimbursements


22 55


Liquor license


1 00


Taxes, 1887


1,654 18


1888


5,919 00


1889 69,142 89


New road reimbursements


318 20


Cash from bounty on seals.


122 00


Chiltonville burial ground, reimbursement


50 00


$134,820 93


The Treasurer is credited with payments as follows :


Duxbury & Cohasset R. R. sinking fund. $1,500 00


Payment on note to Plymouth Savings Bank 1,000 00


National Bank, non-resident tax 3,981 55


State tax


5,660 00


County tax


5,974 51


Vine Hills Cemetery


575 04


Widows .


143 00


Water works


13,984 80


Watch and police.


2,356 31


Treasurer


600 00


Sexton


125 00


Town debt and interest


1,948 63


State aid


1,335 50


Schools


25,860 43


Roads and bridges


11,578 53


Amount carried forward.


$76,623 30


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Amount brought forward.


$76,623 30


New roads


643 36


Insane poor


3,052 63


Poor


11,006 39


Fire department


3,794 86


Burial Hill


161 96


Contingent


6,093 05


Lighting streets and town house


2,858 39


Assessors


1,067 50


Plymouth Public Library


1,000 00


Agawam and Half-way Pond fishery


51 77


Collector of Taxes


557 99


Indigent soldiers aid


1,571 46


Abatements


971 62


Copying town records


798 44


State of Massachusetts, one-fourth liquor license.


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Bounty on seals


53 00


Chiltonville burial ground


50 55


Soldiers aid, Chapter 279, Acts 1889


37 00


Improvement, Training Green


1,143 66


Plymouth water bonds. 2,000 00


Cash on hand . 21,283 75


$134,820 93


The Treasurer's books have been examined and found correct, and all payments were properly vouched. The amount of cash on hand was found to be $21,283.75, as shown in the Treasurer's account.


JAMES D. THURBER, Auditor.


PLYMOUTH, February 17, 1890.


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The undrawn balances of the several appropriations are as follows :


Fresh Brook fishery


$4 92


Collector of taxes


69 39


Fire department


217 59


Lighting streets and town house


419 49


Water works .


1,896 12


Burial Hill


110 59


Vine Hills Cemetery


428 83


Roads and bridges


900 19


Watch and police


129 88


Town debt and interest


265 97


Assessors


32 50


Insane poor


206 17


New roads


426 34


Warren fund


1,074 43


Abatements


1,481 17


$7,663 58


The overdrawn balances of the several appropriations are as


follows :


Training Green .


$314 21


Copying town records


998 44


Chiltonville burial ground


51


Schools


326 45


Indigent soldiers aid


789 98


Poor


1,673 43


Soldiers aid


37 00


Contingent.


231 02


$4,371 04


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Town Debt.


WATER LOAN FUNDED.


70,000 four per cent. bonds dated June 1, 1885, payable within 20 years in proportional payments of $2,800 each year, commencing June 1st, 1890 $70,000 00


20,000 six per cent. bonds, due Aug. 1st, 1894 20,000 00


36,400 four per cent. bonds, dated Aug. 1, 1880-$1,300 due and payable each year from Aug. 1, 1888 36,400 00


Note to Plymouth Savings Bank, due April 1, 1890, interest 5 per cent. Note to Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank, due Aug. 2d, 1890, interest 4} per cent 6,000 00


6,000 00


$138,400 00


DUXBURY AND COHASSET RAILROAD LOAN.


Note to Plymouth Savings Bank, due


April 1, 1894, interest 4 per cent. $3,750 00


Note to Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank, due April 1, 1894, interest 4 per cent. 3,750 00


7,500 00


Amount carried forward


$145,900 00


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Amount brought forward. $145,900 00


TEMPORARY LOAN.


Note to Plymouth Savings Bank, due


$5,000 00


April 13, 1888, interest 4 per cent. Note to Plymouth Savings Bank, due March 20, 1888, interest 4 per cent 6,700 00 Note to Plymouth Savings Bank, due Sept. 18,1886, interest 4 per cent. 10,000 00 Note to Plymouth Savings Bank, on demand . 3,000 00


Note to Plymouth Savings Bank, due March 31, 1891 interest 4 per cent


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5,000 00


Note to Plymouth Savings Bank, due June 9, 1892, interest 4 per cent. 3,000 00


Notes to sundry persons on demand, interest 4 per cent . 1,700 00


34,400 00


Undrawn balances of the several departments.


7,663 58


$187,963 58


LESS.


Uncollected taxes, 1887


$253 25


66


1888


2,902 33


66


1889 9,273 47


Indigent aid due from State Mass ..


781 48


Due from County of Plymouth bounty paid on seals killed


53 00


State aid due from State of Mass .. 1,335 50


Cash on hand


21,283 75


35,882 78


Indebtedness Dec. 31, 1889


$152,080 80


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Indebtedness Dec. 31, 1888. $157,079 81


Decrease of debt in 1889


4,999 01


Less Water Scrip Sinking Fund ... $9,096 44


Net indebtedness $142,984 36


The funded debt has been reduced the past year by payment of $1,300 water loan bonds of the issue of 1887, falling due under provision of the sinking fund and by payment of $1,500 on Duxbury & Cohasset R. R. loan, making $2,800 applicable to the reduction of the debt the past year.


Two thousand dollars of water bonds, which became due in 1885, were not presented for payment until the present year, but were provided for in the refunding of the loan, the cash for their redemption remaining in the treasury, making the funded indebtedness $145,900, against $150,700 Dec. 31, 1888.


Payments have been made on principal of outstanding notes of the Town of $1,000, leaving the temporary indebtedness. $34,400 against $35,400 December 31st, 1889.


Revenue derived from miscellaneous receipts and from bank and corporation taxes in excess of estimates, less difference in overdrawn balances as compared with last year, aggregates $1,199.01, which amount has been covered into the Treasury, and including the payment of $3,800 on principal of loans as above, has effected a reduction in the indebtedness of $4,999.01 the past year.


The expenditures on account of indigent soldiers' aid has been $1,571.46 against $1,210.92 in 1888, and of aid to soldiers under a recent act of the Legislature, the sum of $37, leaving a deficiency of $896.98 to be provided for.


The amount assessed for taxes in 1889 was $78,416.36 against $83,693.85 in 1888, with an increased valuation of $127,475, of which $58,700 was in personal and $68,775 in real property, re- ducing the rate of taxation from $14.00 in 1888 to $12.80 in 1889.


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Publication of Town Records.


At the annual meeting of 1887, it was voted that the Select- men be authorized to borrow a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars for the publication of the Town Records, under the direc- tion of a committee appointed for that purpose. The first vol- ume has been printed, covering a period from the foundation of the Town to 1705, and with the approval of the Board has been placed by the committee on sale in Plymouth and Boston. One thousand copies have been printed, of which five hundred have been bound, and the sheets of the remainder have been depos- ited in the upper safe in the Town House. The payments made on this account have been $170 in 1887, $30 in 1888 and $798.44 in 1889, making a total of $998,44, which, instead of being pro- vided for by a loan, has been paid from money in the treasury, and consequently stands as a deficiency on the books of the Treasurer.


As it is expected that the Town will be largely reimbursed for this expenditure, it will not be advisable to meet the deficiency by an appropriation at the present time, and it is recommended that future payments on account of the publication of the rec- ords be made from money in the treasury until the completion of the work, when the final deficiency, which probably will not be large, may be provided for.


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Town Debt and Interest Account.


CR.


By balance from old account $161 77


appropriation $2,700 00


$2,861 77


Interest from delinquent taxes


337 96


$3,199 73


DR.


To payment on principal of outstanding notes .


$1,000 00


interest on D. & C. R. R. loan 330 00


" temporary loan 1,420 00


" loans in anticipation of


taxes


97 26


interest on Murdock fund 36 50


interest on Warren fund 50 00


$2,933 76


Undrawn


$265 97


To provide for interest on temporary and Duxbury & Cohas- set R. R. loans, and loans in anticipation of taxes, including a payment of $1,000 on outstanding loan, will require in addition to interest which may be expected from delinquent taxes, an ap- propriation of $2,700, which is recommended.


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Roads and Bridges.


CR.


Dec. 31, 1888.


By balance from old account $766 05


appropriation


10,000 00


1,000 00


reimbursements from Plymouth & Kingston


Street Railway 450 98


reimbursements poor department


176 87


from new road department 42 70


sundry reimbursements


42 12


$12,478 72


DR.


To payments in 1888 $11,578 53


.Undrawn $900 19


The net expenditure for roads and bridges the past year has been $10,865.86 against $11,144.46 in 1888. The only special repairs included in the expenditure was on the highway between Cushman Street and Faunce's Brook, and the rebuilding and widening of the bridge at South Pond Village. The road between Cushman Street and Faunce's Brook has been for a long time inconvenient, and at times unsafe for public travel, owing to the lack of a suitable foundation and underdrainage. It became necessary to remove the road-bed to the depth of 23 feet, and substitute cobble stone in its place, which, in addition to pro- viding a solid foundation, furnishes drainage into the brook. It has so far worked satisfactorily and made what appears to be a permanent improvement.


The cost of labor and material, including the bridge at South Pond, was about $650.


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The work otherwise on roads has been confined to general repairs, the roads in the outlying districts having had a larger allotment than usual, and with few exceptions at the close of the year were in better condition than in any previous year.


As no work requiring a special appropriation is anticipated, the Selectmen recommend an appropriation of $10,500.00.


New Roads.


CR.


By reimbursement from County $187 00


appropriation 1,000 00


$1,187 00


DR.


To balance from old account.


$248 50


payments, 1889


512 16


760 66


Undrawn


$426 34


Of the above sums expended on new roads $130.20 was ex- pended on the Doten Road, $371.96 was expended in construc- tion of the Beaver Dam Road, and $10.00 for deferred land damages on Nelson Street.


No definite action on the petitions for the laying out of Faunce's Lane and extension of Cliff Street to the Beach has been taken. In the former case the difficulties involved in dis- posing of the surface water and the possibility that some other plan than that asked for by the petitioners would better serve the public has delayed action.


In the latter case, should the railroad now contemplated be built, it might change any plan at present contemplated, and it was considered best to defer action until it was definitely settled that the railroad was to be built.


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An order of notice has been served on the Town by the County Commissioners for the removal of the building at the junction of Spring Hill and Summer Street, and the widening and improving of the highway at that point, which will require working the present year.


The sum assessed upon the Town as its proportion of land damages, together with the working, will require an addition to the balance to credit of the account, an appropriation of $1,800.


Water Works.


CR.


By receipts from water rents, labor and materials, $16,353 80


DR.


To balance from old account. $472 88


payments in 1889 13,984 80


14,457 68


Undrawn


$1,896 12


The above balance repsesents the net income after charging to the general account the sum of $1,300 maturing bonds of the loan of 1887, $2,156 for extension and change of pipes, and $472.88 balance against the works at the commencement of the year, showing that the net income apart from the operating ex- penses would have been about $6,000.


There will become due June 1st maturing bonds to the amount of $2,800, the first installment of the sinking fund of the loan of $70,000 issued in 1885, together with the sum of $1,300 maturing bonds of loan of 1887, in all $4,100, for which provision will have to be made.


The Selectmen recommend that said sums be charged to the water account, leaving a balance on the basis of the receipts and expenditures of last year of some $2,000 for special repairs and extensions, a sum equal to the yearly expenditures for repairs.


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and extensions for the past two years, and much larger than the average of previous years.


Of the balance remaining to the credit of the works $1,800 will be appropriated to the sinking fund, which, with the amount now to the credit of the fund, will, it is estimated, pro- vide for $11,300 of the loan of $12,000 becoming due the pres- ent year, leaving a balance of $700, which it is recommended be appropriated to provide for the deficiency.


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Contingent.


To bills for-


Hire of pound $1 00


Water trough


91 38


Injury to horse on the highway


55 00


Decorating Town House, Aug. I 20 00


Kingston tax. 1 16


Services Selectmen


700 00


Services janitor. 170 67


Bill for postage stamps and envelopes


44 45


Coal bill for Town House


104 25


Armory rent.


600 00


Armory heating and lighting


385 14


Cleaning Armory, town meeting


1 80


Return of births 46 25


Town Clerk, services


162 50


Printing town reports, etc


535 00


C. C. Bumpus, bill on Inland fishery


11 25


Expenses Board of Health


84 85


Lumber and repairs.


101 06


Voting booths


92 56


Bills for fires in the woods


117 63


Amount carried forward $3,325 95


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Amount brought forward $3,325 95


Board of Registration.


174 00


Halls for town meetings


134 00


Moderator, Inspectors, Tellers and vote distribu- tors, etc 60 00


Travelling expenses Selectmen


16 20


Water department


19 86


Trucking


4 60


Removing ashes


4 50


Washing floors Town House


3 39


Telegraph .


63


Carriage hire.


37 25


Appropriation for celebration, August 1


1,500 00


Express bills .


8 05


Services Clerk, Selectmen


130 10


Superintending Street Railway


20 50


Chiltonville burial ground


50 00


Stationery


28 94


Chair cushions


1 50


Repairs on sewers


19 50


Widows aid


4 00


Ringing bells


4 00


Watering streets


11 00


Tax, Town of Carver


5 16


Expenses investigating electric lighting


12 90


Construction rifle range


211 51


Feeding tramps


7 20


Binding .


29 20


Step ladder


3 13


Burying dog


1 00


Grand Army, Memorial Day


150 0C


Care of town clock


25 00


Amount carried forward. $6,003 07


17


Amount boought forward. $6,003 07


Filling up cattle pass 10 00


Lighting lanterns 1 60


Return of deaths


36 50


Sundry bills


40 88


$6,092 05


CR.


By appropriation


$3,800 00


appropriation


1,500 00


sewer rights.


150 00


sundries


12 03


Armory rent refunded.


400 00


$5,862 03


Overdrawn


$230 02


The expenditures for rent of Armory, heating and lighting the same, has been less the amount reimbursed by the State $585.00, and including the expense of a rifle range of $211.51, which the law requires to be furnished by the Town in which militia companies are located $796.51. The annual expense required to be paid by the Town for maintaining a militia com- pany under the present arrangements is $620.


Included in the above account is an expenditure of $92.56 for voting booths required under the Australian system of voting. They are constructed so as to be folded and kept for future use.


The election expenses under the new method of voting incurs additional expense, in providing tellers and election officers, which will be further increased if the system is to be applied to election for Town officers.


These and other expenses not_anticipated when the appro- priation was made has occasioned the overdraft in the account.


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Lighting Streets and Town]House.


CR.


December 31, 1888.


By balance from old account


$177 88


appropriation


3,100 00


DR.


$3,277 88


To payments to Electric Light Co $2,297 11


" Plymouth Gas Co 464 50


66


" oil lamps . 96 78


$2,858 39


Undrawn


$419 49


At the time of the last annual report the number of electric lights was eighteen, all of which were arc; gas lights forty- three, and oil lights twelve. For the arc lights the sum paid was $98.82 per year, and for the gas lights $18.00. Soon after the annual meeting of last year the Board of Selectmen made a somewhat thorough investigation of the matter of street light- ing and came to the conclusion that it would be for the interest of the Town to abandon the gas and oil lights and substitute electric. Consequently on the 18th of May they entered into an agreement with [the Plymouth Electric Light Co. for one year, beginning July 1st, for the supply of eighteen arc lights not less than twelve hundred candle power and eighty-five in- candescent lights of thirty-two candle power for the sum of $3,100. Not less than eight incandescent lights were to be sup- plied for the Town House for which no charge was to be made. The lights were to be lighted not less than twenty-four nights in the month, and to burn until twelve o'clock. The price of the arc lights was to be considered eighty dollars per year, and of


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the incandescent nineteen dollars and fifty cents. Since the above agreement was made six incandescent lights have been added, making ninety-one in all. The oil lights have been abandoned, and the only gas light in use is one in the lock-up where an all night service is required.


. It may be thought expedient to reduce the number of arc lights and increase that of the incandescent. The cost of the arc lights, $240, would furnish twelve incandescent, and if these were displaced nine lights could be added to the present system in places where they are much needed. As the Town is at pres- ent supplied, the cost for the coming year will be-


For 91 incandescent lights, at $19.50 $1,774 50


18 arc lights, at $80 1,440 00


1 gas light, in the lock-up, (estimated) 25 00


$3,239 50


To meet this expenditure, in addition to the balance undrawn of $419 49, an appropriation of $2,900 is recommended.


Watch and Police.


CR.


1889.


Jan. 1, by balance from old account $686 19


March 11, by appropriation 1,200 00


April 2, by appropriation 600 00


DR. $2,486 19


To payments in 1889 $2,356 31


Undrawn


$129 88


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The payments against this account have been largely in excess of former years, caused by the employment of an additional night watchman at an annual salary of $700, the employment of an additional police force at the August celebration, costing $317.25, and bill for enforcement of liquor law, $109.80, all of which have been charged to the above account.


To provide for the present number of officers and extra police service, which will probably be required, will call for an appro- priation of $2,100 in addition to the balance to the credit of the account.


Insane Poor.


CR.


By balance from old account $698 82


appropriation


1,900 00


reimbursements 659 98


3,258 80


DR.


To payments in 1889


2,052 63


Undrawn $206 17


The present number of insane in the hospitals is 16, 13 of which are wholly supported by the Town. To provide for the pres- ent number for the year will require an appropriation of $2,000, which, in addition to the balance of the account, is recommended.


Schools.


DR.


$25,860 43


To payments in 1889


balance old account 137 17


$25,997 60


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CR.


By appropriation $23,400 00


school fund State Mass 39 90


appropriation for school books and supplies 1,800 00


appropriation for evening school 400 00


reimbursements 31 25


25.671 15


Overdrawn $326 45 The deficiency will be still further increased by the amount appropriated for the evening school, that amount having been credited with the regular appropriation to the general account while the bills for the evening school remain unpaid, making the deficiency $726.45, instead of $326.45, the balance of the school account.


The Committee ask for an appropriation of $24,000 to meet the current expenses and overdraft, and a special appropriation of $1,500 for repairs of school houses and grounds connected therewith.


Vine Hills Cemetery.


CR.


Jan. 1, 1889.


By balance from old account


$752 97


cash received from sale lots. 250 90


$1,003 87


DR.


To payments in 1889 575 04


Undrawn $423 83


There have been sold during the year 17 lots, for which there has been received $250.90. There are 7 lots sold, but not paid for, amounting to $95.40.


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Poor.


DR.


To balance from old account $886 98


payments in 1889 11,006 39


CR.


$11,893 37


By appropriation


$7,500 00


appropriation for deficiency 886 98


appropriation reimbursements 1,832 96


10,219 94


Overdrawn


$1,673 43


Fire Department.


DR.


Jan. 1, 1889.


By balance from old account


$12 45


appropriation


4,000 00


$4,012 45


DR.


To payments in 1889


3,794 86


Undrawn


$217 59


Abatements.


CR.


Jan. 1, 1889.


By balance from old account. $2,341 80


overlay, 1889 110 99


$2,452 79


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DR.


To abatements, 1889


$971 62


Undrawn


$1,481 17


Burial Hill.


March 11, 1889.


By appropriation


$250 00


reimbursement


22 55


$272 55


DR.


To payments in 1889


161 96


Undrawn


$110 59


Warren Fund.


CR.


Jan. 1, 1889.


By balance from old account


$1,024 43


interest


50 00


Undrawn


$1,074 43


Assessors.


CR


March 11, 1889.


By appropriation


$1,100 00


DR.


To payments in 1889


1,067 50


Undrawn $32 50


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Collector of Taxes.


CR.


1889.


Jan. 1, by balance from old account $27 38


March 11, by appropriation. 500 00


April 2, by appropriation 100 00


$627 38


DR.


To payments, 1889


557 99


Undrawn


$69 39


Duxbury and Cohasset Railroad Sinking Fund.


CR.


$1,500 00


DR.


To payments in 1889


$1,500 00


Treasurer.


CR.


By appropriation


$600 00


DR.


To payments in 1889


$600 00


Sexton.


CR.


By appropriation .


$125 00


DR.


To payments in 1889


$125,00


By appropriation


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Fresh Brook. CR.


By balance from old account. $4 92


Murdock Fund.


CR.


By balance


$730 00


interest


36 50


$766 50


DR.


To payment to poor department


$18 25


" school


18 25


36 50


Balance


$730 00


The guide boards of the Town are the same as reported in 1887, and are in good condition.


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Appropriations.


Schools $23,300 00


School books and supplies


1,800 00


Town debt and interest


2,700 00


Roads and bridges


10,500 00


Improvement of sidewalks


1,000 00


Fire department


3,400 00


Watch and police.


2,100 00


Lighting streets and Town House


2,900 00


Insane poor


2,000 00


Poor


9,000 00


New roads


1,800 00


Contingent


3,800 00


Assessors


950 00


Collector of taxes


600 00


Treasurer


600 00


Duxbury & Cohasset R. R. sinking fund


1,500 00


Water scrip sinking fund


700 00


Sexton


125 00


Repairs school-houses, etc.


1,500 00


$70,275 00


Deficiencies.


Poor $1,673 43


Training Green improvement


314 21


Indigent and soldiers aid 826 98


Amounts carried forward.


$2,814 62


$70,275 00


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Amounts brought forward. $2,814 62 $70,275 00 Contingent 231 02


Schools


726 45


$3,772 09


$74,047 09


The revenue not otherwise appropriated is esti- mated as follows :-


Corporation taxes


$5,500 00


Bank taxes.


2,000 00


Miscellaneous 300 00


$7,800 00


$66,247 09


Leaving the sum of sixty-six thousand two hundred and forty- seven and 09-100 dollars, which, it is recommended, be raised by taxation for the expenses of the current year, being seven thousand four hundred and seventy and 43-100 dollars in excess of appropriations recommended in 1889.


WILLIAM H. NELSON, LEAVITT T. ROBBINS, - Selectmen of Plymouth.


EVERETT F SHERMAN, WILLIAM T. DAVIS, ALONZO WARREN, 1


PLYMOUTH, February 15th, 1890.


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VALUATION.


Real estate $3,624,750 00


Personal property 1,876,250 00


Total valuation $5,501,000 00


Gain in real estate


$68,775 00


Gain in personal property 58,700 00


Number of polls, 2,080.


Number of polls, women, 22.


Number of horses, 691.


Number of cows, 482.


Number of sheep, 42.


Number of dwelling houses, 1,408.


Number of acres land taxed, 50,797.


Rate of taxation, $12 80 per $1,000.


Number of persons paying property tax, 1,836. Number of persons paying poll tax only, 1,170.


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REPORTS.


REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.


The Overseers of the Poor would respectfully submit the fol- lowing report :-


The inmates of the Almshouse have received that care and attention which has always been given them by the presen Superintendent of the house. Lack of employment during a greater part of the year and the epidemic which prevailed during the closing months, have largely increased the calls for outside aid. In meeting these extra demands and paying a larger amount for rents, the appropriation has been somewhat over- drawn.




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