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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
.
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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