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REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN
OF THE
TOWN OF WEYMOUTH,
CONTAINING A
Schedule of the Receipts and Expenditures,
THE
REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR,
THE
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
AND
STATISTICS FURNISHED BY THE TOWN CLERK,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCHI 9, 1857.
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BOSTON: WILLIAM WHITE, PRINTER, 4 SPRING LANE. 1857.
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN
OF THE
TOWN OF WEYMOUTH,
CONTAINING A
Schedule of the Receipts and Expenditures,
THE
REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR,
THE
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
AND
STATISTICS FURNISHED BY THE TOWN CLERK,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 9, 1857.
BOSTON: WILLIAM WHITE, PRINTER, 4 SPRING LANE. 1857.
. SELECTMEN'S REPORT.
THE Selectmen of the town of Weymouth, for the year ending March 9, 1857, submit the following Report :-
In March last, we assigned limits to the several Highway Sur- veyors, examined all the streets in town, and have directed the labors of the surveyors through the year.
On the 7th of April last, we offered a reward of two hundred dollars for the apprehension and conviction of the scoundrel or scoundrels who caused gunpowder to be exploded in or under the office of F. A. Kingsbury, Esq., on the evening of the fifth day of that month.
We have caused a new town pound to be built, at the south end of the town hall : it is built of stone, in a strong, substantial and workmanlike manner, and will probably last as long as the town will need one, or forever ; one side of it is yet unfinished, and is intended to be of wood, with suitable door and fastenings.
In accordance with the vote of the town, we have sold the Old Powder House and its contents. The house was sold to Mr. John Tirrell for fifteen dollars, that being more than we could get offered by any one else. We found in the house nothing of value, except about four hundred pounds of lead balls, which we sold in Boston, and paid the proceeds into the treasury.
We have caused rather more than one-half of a ledge of rocks on North Street, near Stepping-stone Bridge, to be removed, and thereby have very much increased the public convenience and safety. The grading and working of Cross Street was let out at public auction, and bid off by Mr. J. B. Spear, who performed the labor to our entire satisfaction. This street is now in a good and safe condition to accommodate the large and increasing amount of travel thereon.
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Columbian Street has been graded and worked in a thorough manner, as laid out by the County Commissioners.
On the 21st of July last, we met in the Eighth School District, and run a division line. A report of our doings in this case has been made to the town, accepted and adopted ; and the southerly part of what was formerly the Eighth School District is hereafter to be known as the Eleventh School District.
We have examined the guide-boards throughout the town, and believe they are all in good legal condition.
Mr. Amos S. White was, in May last, appointed an agent for the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors for the whole town, for one year ; his compensation has been two dollars and fifty cents a week, and the profit charged has been thirty per cent. above the original cost.
In accordance with the requirements of law, we have appointed Weighers of Coal and Measurers of Grain; but we believe their services have seldom if ever been called in requisition, which is probably owing to the confidence existing in the public mind in the honesty and integrity of the dealers in those articles in this town.
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SCHEDULE OF
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 9, 1857.
RECEIPTS OF THE TREASURER, From March 10, 1856, to March 9, 1857.
Received Town, Highway, County and State taxes, $23,153 17
66 State School Fund, . 253 15
66 of P. Lothrop, for use of town hall, 190 78
of E. S. Beals, for proceeds of bullets, 21 00
66 from the State, for taking statistics,
170 30
66 from A. Raymond, for State pauper,
8 20
66 from School Dist. No. 2, for assessing taxes, 5 00
66
5, 66
66
6 50
6,
6 50
66 66 66 66
7,
66
7 00
66
66
66
8, 66
66.
9 00
66
L. Bicknell, for E. Blanchard's land
warrant,
100 00
$23,930 60
The Expenditures are as follows, viz. :-
SCHOOLS.
The town grant for the support of Common Schools
for the municipal year 1856-7, was $5,000 00
The income of the Alewive Fund was 252 00
The town's portion of the State School Fund was · 253 15
$5,505 15
The town appropriation for the High School was
600 00
Whole amount for Schools,
$6,105 15
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The town voted to divide one-fourth of the Common School money equally among the districts, and the remaining three- fourths according to the number of persons in each district between the ages of five and fifteen years.
Each district's share of one-fourth of the money appropriated to Common Schools, was . $137 63
Three-fourths of the money appropriated to Common Schools, when divided by the number of persons between the ages of five and fifteen, was to each, $3 09
Whole amount for Schools, including the High School, when divided by the number of persons between five and fifteen years of age, was to each, $4 57
Dist. No. 1 had 134 children, and its share of money was $551 76
66
2
57
66
66
66
313 82
66
3 " 4 66 104
242
66
66
66
885 47
66
5 66
117
66
66
66
66 499 23
6 66 118
65
66
66
502 31
65
7
66 103
66
66
66
66
455 96
66
8
66
66
66
700 07
66
9
66 182 66 208 71
66
66
66
66 780 39
66
10
66
66
66
357 09
Totals, .
1,336
.
.
$5,505 15
66
66
66 459 05
The Accounts of the several Districts at the close of the Year ending March 9, 1857, stand as follows, viz. :-
No. of the Distriet.
NAME OF PRUDENTIAL COMMITTEE.
Balance due Mareh 10, 1856.
Appropria- tion for 1856-7.
Balanee and Appropria- tion.
Paid for Teachers.
Paid for Fuel.
Balance at elose of Winter Sehools.
Total Teachers, Fuel and balance.
I.
Wilmot Cleverly,
$60 61
$551 76
$612 37
$459 50
$48 80
$104 07
$612 37
II.
James Humphrey, -
304 42
313 82
618 24
293 00
15 50
309 74
618 24
Henry F. Bicknell, -
313 92
885 47
1,199 39
764 50
94 88
340 01
1,199 39
IV.
Robert V. Barnes, -
111 11
459 05
570 16
545 11
25 05
570 16
1.
A. J. Vining, -
85 27
499 23
584 50
455 50
-
129 00
: 584 50
VI.
Jacob Holbrook,
33 47
502 31
535 78
456 75
77 80
1 23
535 78
· VII.
Appleton Howe,
33 33
455 96
489 29
405 50
33 05
50 74
489 29
VIII.
Martin Derby,
195 87
700 07
895 94
570 00
14 21
311 73
895 94
IX.
R. R. Walker, -
146 18
780 39
926 57
915 00
11 57
926 57
X.
H. F. S. Tirrell,
58 33
357 09
415 42
354 00
34 35
27 07
415 42
HIGH SCHOOL, -
173 46
600 00
971 46
750 00
*146 42
75 04
971 46
$1,713 97
$6,105 15
$7,819 12
$5,968 86
$465 01
$1,385 25
$7,819 12
* For the High School, the amount put under the head of Fuel was composed of the following items, to wit :-
Paid Martin Burrell, Jr., for Painting, &e.,
$4 83
Paid Francis Tirrell, for eare of Sehool-Room,
$48 25
J. E. Rice, for Black Boards, -
7 00
J. Loud & Co., for Coal, - .
25 00
J. P. Terry, for Fixtures, &c.,
25 80
E. Wadsworth, Jr., for Stove,
C. S. Floyd, for Rostrum,
5 75
W. K. Fleteher, for Items,
-
- 4 50
$146 42
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- -
-
-
- 25 29
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HIGHWAYS, TOWNWAYS, AND BRIDGES.
At the Annual Meeting of March 10, 1856, the town voted to assess a tax of thirty cents on a poll, and on property in duc proportion, for the repairs of highways, townways, and bridges.
The town also voted that one-fifth part of the money raised for the repairs of highways, &c., be appropriated by the Selectmen to such highway districts as they might think best.
The town also voted that the several highway Surveyors repair the highways under the direction of the Selectmen, and that the Selectmen be directed to examine all the roads in town, and if, in their judgment, a portion of the work could be done more advan- tageously before the taxes were made, they should cause it to be done.
The whole amount of tax was . . $3,594 45
One-fifth part to be appropriated as the Selectmen thought best, 718 82
Four-fifths to be expended in the highway districts where raised, 2,875 63 -
$3,594 45
The Accounts of the several Highway Districts at the close of the year ending March 9, 1857, stand as follows :-
No. of Distriet.
SURVEYORS.
Balance due from last year.
Four-fifths of the Tax.
One-fifth of the Tax, Appropriated by the Selectmen.
Total.
Orders on the Treasurer.
Balance Not Expended.
Total.
$292 90
$17 65
$310 55
$310 55
$310 55
1,
Jesse Dyer,
Charles Humphrey,
$10 70
188 75
. - -
199 45
169 63
$29 82
199 45
Quiney Pratt, -
61
40 75
52 14
93 50
93 50
93 50
4,
Josiah Litchfield,
130 84
7 81
138 65
138 65
1
138 65
5,
Silvanus Bates,
10 12
518 42
518 42
518 42
6,
A. Raymond, Jr.,
474 91
185 30
660 21
660 21
660 21
1,
1 56
165 17
8,
N. Richards, 2d,
57 31'
16 56
73 87
73 87
73 87
9,
R. V. Barnes, -
130 63
14 56
145 19
145 19
145 19
10,
Jared Vining, -
-
12,
Samuel Estes,
-
52
. 34 85
32 30
67 67
67 67
67 67
13,
J. B. Nash,
90
97 91
3 54
102 35
102 35
102 35
14,
Joseph Hawes, -
54 04
15,
Robert Richards, Jr.,
46 21
70 09
116 30
116 30
, 116 30
16,
Chester D. Pratt,
151 18
32 05
183 23
183 23
183 23
14,
58 88
32 20
91*08
91 08
91 08
18,
J. Ş. Barrett, -
2 81
106 87
19,
Warren Thayer,
187 50
40 28
227 78
227 78
227 78
20,
J. H. Sprague,
39 29
71 40
110 69
110 69
110 69
21,
Allen Thomas,
11 99
26 63
5 93
44 55
44 55
44 55
22
Martin Derby, -
Balances,
$24 72
$2,875 63
$718 82
$3,619 17
$3,584 98 Orders on Treasurer,
$34 19 3,584 98
$3,619 17
Four-fifths,
2,875 63
One-fifth,
-
718 82
Total,
$3,619 17
Total, -
-
$3,619 17
74 83
76 20
151 03
151 03
151 03
11,
L. S. Merritt,
9 39
25 23
34 62
34 62
34 62
28 80
25 24
54 04
54 04
Charles S. Fogg,
106 87
106 87
104 06
-
-
-
9
-
23 73
22
23 95
23 95
23 95
508 30
J. R. H. Williams,
165 17
165 17
163 61
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APPROPRIATIONS FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES.
For removing Ledge of Rocks near Stepping-Stone Bridge, on North Street.
Paid David Bates, for labor, $22 00
For Working and Grading Cross Street.
Paid Spear & Holbrook, as per contract, 294 00 66 66 extra, for new drain, . 25 00 For Working and Grading Columbian Street.
Paid Spear & Holbrook, for labor,
336 28
" Moses Orcutt, for gravel, 8 25
For Widening on the Corner of Commercial Street and Loud's Lane.
Paid Quincy Pratt, for labor, and material for railing bridge, .
22 72
For Repairing Ann Street.
Paid Martin Derby, for labor, 29 25
For Railing Bridge on Pleasant Street.
Paid C. D. Pratt, for material and labor, 54 52
For Working and Grading New Street, near the East Weymouth School Houses.
Paid A. Raymond, Jr., as per contract, 139 00 1
For various Jobs of Work.
Paid Samuel Newcomb, for stone for drain near the Bap- tist Meeting-house, . 44 94
" S. Makepeace, for building new drain on Washington Street, 39 90
" Warren Thayer, for extra work in 19th highway dis- trict, .
29 14 " Josiah Tirrell, for work on railing, on Middle Street, 10 50 D. D. Randall, for posts for railing, on Broad Street, 10 50 " J. E. Rice, for work on railing, on Broad Street, 9 66 " Isaac Jackson, for lumber for railing, on Broad Street, 18 64 " C. S. Floyd, for work on railing, on Main Street, 1 87
$1,096 17
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For Land to Widen and Straighten Streets.
Paid Widow Susan Tirrell, Middle Street,
$12 00
" G. W. Huntress, interest on land damage,
1 50
" Heirs of Josiah Blanchard, Cross Street,
28 00
" Appleton Howe,
66
16 00
66 Henry A. Torrey,
66
66
8 00
66 Quincy L. Reed,
66
66
14 00
" Charles Bates,
Middle "
8 00
" Joseph Loud, Jr.,
66
66
2 00
" Joshua Holbrook,
66
66
5 00
" Silvanus Bates,
66
66
12 00
" J. C. Ford, corner of Broad Street and Drury Lane, 10 00
$116 50
For Damage Sustained on the Highways.
Paid J. A. E. Loud, damage on Oak Street;
$10 00
" James A. Tower,
Union “
4 10
' William Jarnegan, 66 Commercial Street,
3 75
" Patrick Whelon, 66 Main
41 00
" Robert Lenergan, 66
66
66 18 75
$77 60
Expense of Removing Snow.
Paid Jesse Dyer,
District No. 1,
. $311 20
Charles Humphrey,
66
2,
.
89 08
" Quincy Pratt,
66
3,
79 81
" Josiah Litchfield,
66
4,
51 75
" Silvanus Bates,
66
5,
209 44
66 A. Raymond, Jr.,
66
6,
·
275 58
" J. R. H. Williams,
66
7,
120'29
N. Richards, 2d,
66
8,
61 20
" R. V. Barnes,
66
9,
182 89
" Jared Vining,
66
10,
87 52
" L. S. Merritt,
66
11,
175 45
" Samuel Estes,
12,
116 67
" J. B. Nash,
66
13,
118 50
66
Joseph Hawes,
66
14,
89 17
" Robert Reinhards, Jr.,
66
15,
· 183 26
" Chester D. Pratt,
66
16,
· 188 06
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Paid Charles S. Fogg,
District No. 17,
· $80 47
John S. Barrett,
66
18.
.
. 142 62
" Warren Thayer,
19,
114 13
" J. H. Sprague,
20
117 82
" Allen Thomas,
21,
164 79
" Martin Derby,
22,
70 15
$3,029 85
Expense of Committees, &c.
Paid Prescott Lothrop, for road service,
$27 00
" E. S. Beals,
16 75
" D. S. Murray, 66 66
29 43
" James Humphrey, for surveying, .
4 25
" Estate of Noah Torrey,
75
" Henry A. Torrey,
1 00
$79 18
Summary of Expense on Roads.
Highway tax,
$3,619 17
Special appropriations,
1,096 17
Land to widen and straighten streets,
116 50
Damage sustained on the highways,
77 60
Removing Snow,
3,029 85
Committees, &c.,
.
79 18
Total expense of roads,
$8,018 47
INCIDENTAL EXPENSE OF TOWN HOUSE.
Paid J. Loud & Co., for coal, $45 42
" Francis Tirrell, hall-keeper, 41 00
" Howard & Davis, for repairing clock, 4 75
" J. Peakes, for setting glass, . .
1 84
" John E. Wilder, for opening the safe, 6 00
" William G. Nash, for oil, &c., 55 66
" John O. Foye, mending blinds, setting glass, &c., . 32 11
$186 78
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EXPENSE FOR SERVICE OF TOWN OFFICERS.
Selectmen.
Paid Prescott Lothrop, for services and expenses, . $32 55
" E. S. Beals, 66
· 51 79
" D. S. Murray,
66 23 17
$107 51
Assessors.
Paid F. B. Bates; for services and expenses, .
. $96 05
" E. G. Hunt, 66
91 00
" Oliver Loud, 66 66 82 00 .
$269 05
Overseers of the Poor.
Paid Alvah Raymond, for services and expenses, . . $55 71
" Elias Hunt,
66 20 57
" Thomas J. Nash, 66
66 12 00
$88 27
Treasurer.
Paid Gilman Burrell, for services and expenses, · $57 00
Clerk.
Paid Richard Blanchard, for services and expenses, . $27 77
Constables.
Paid G. W. White, Jr., for services and expenses, . · $20 40
" J. N. Bates, 66
66 · 19 43
" S. R.'Small, 66
14 30
$54 13
Collector of Taxes.
Paid Cotton Bates,
. $231 53
School Committee.
Paid Calvin Terry, . $69 84
" W. M. Harding, .
7 50
" Elmer Hewett,
· 22 25
" C. W. Mellen,
23 50
" E. S. Potter,
45 00
" Joseph P. Terry, .
45 00
" A. J. Dunn,
55 63
$268 72
Total expense of town officers,
$1,103 98
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MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.
· Paid Cotton Bates, discount on taxes, $620 75
to refund taxes that could not be collected, 19 20
66
to replace bad money, . 2 00
66 John Wilson & Co., printing School Report, . 25
Calvin Terry, preparing School Report, 7 61
" E. S. Beals, preparing Report and Schedule, 12 00
66 66 cash paid and auction service, . 7 27
" T. Groom & Co., Assessors' books, 11 68
" Jacob Tirrell, distributing Schedules, . 10 00
6 Laws and Resolves, 10 00
" J. P. Terry, cash paid for distributing School Re- ports, 4 00
" Jacob Tirrell, Chubbuck & Martin's tax,
4 39
" Josiah Tirrell, board and horse keeping of Assess- ors, 59 50
. " John E. Wilder, safe, .
300 00
" J. Loud & Co., expense of getting safe to Town Hall, .
11 00
" S. S. Railroad Co., freight of safe, 2 50
Richard Blanchard, collecting and recording 1,901 deaths, . 285 15
66 Richard Blanchard, recording births and marriages, 66 66 copying old record of deaths, 14 10
58 02
66
re-writing old record book, . 300 00
66 cash paid for stationery, 13 00
66 David Tirrell, work on new Pound,
21 00
James Matthewson, stone and work on Pound, . 99 55
" B. H. Everett, 66 7 62
" Weymouth Brass Band, (to be refunded by the State,) . 153 00
" William White, for printing Schedules, &c., 126 25
" W. & B. Fire Insurance Co., illegal taxes collect- ed of them, 147 42
" John Tirrell, meals for Town Officers, 15 00
" E. P. Lothrop, distributing envelopes, 50 1 .
" J. G. Rogers, selling School Books, 11 86
" William G. Nash, " 66 10 75
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Paid Henry Loud, selling School Books, $14 50
" Noah Stowell, examining Treasurer's Accounts, . 2 00
" Lemuel Torrey, 66 66
2 00
" Amos S. White, expense of getting Mrs. Adling- ton into the Asylum for the Insane, 12 55
" W. & B. Bank, interest on borrowed money, 178 02
" Ebenezer Humphrey, " 66 66 210 00
" Henry A. Torrey, 66
66 60 00
" State Treasurer, State tax, . ·
. 1,878 00
" County Treasurer, County tax, . .
2,183 81
$6,928 25
OLD BILLS NOT PREVIOUSLY PAID.
Paid William Dyer, 2d, School Committee last year, . $34 94
" James L. Bates, 66 66 16 37
" E. S. Potter, 66 " balance, 66 22 00
66 expense for Schools, 1 96
66 Alvan Pratt, distributing envelopes, 1856, . 1 50
" Gilman Thompson, refreshments at Lumber Wharf Fire, 21 75
" Gilman Thompson, express jobs, last 4 years, 10 86
" F. B. Bates, taking Statistical Census, 1855, 37 00
" E. G. Hunt,
1855, 16 00
" Charles Pratt, " 66
66 1855, 23 00
" D. S. Murray, service as Temperance Com., 1854, 3 00
66
66 removing safe to Town Clerk's, 1856, 1 00
$189 38
RECAPITULATION.
Received from all sources, · $23,930 60
66 Union Bank of Weymouth and Brain-
tree, borrowed, 1,000 00
$24,930 60
Expenditures.
On account of Schools, .
$6,433 87
Roads, .
8,018 47
66 Town House, . . 186 78
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On account of Town Officers, $1,103 98
66 Miscellanies, . 6,928 25
66 Old Bills, 189 38
66 Town's Poor, .
2,653 76
Total amount of expenditures,
· $25,514 49
From expenditures, subtract receipts, $24,930 60
It appears that the town owes its Treasury,
- $583 89
The town now owes as follows :
$583 89
The Treasury,
Henry A. Torrey, or others, 1,000 00
Ebenezer Humphrey, · 3,500 00
Union Bank of Weymouth and Braintree, 3,500 00
Probable amount due for interest, . 30 00
Land laid out to widen and straighten streets, 174 00
Estimated expense of poor, from Feb. 1, to March 9, 295 00
There may be other items, amounting to
17 11
$9,100 00
Subtract amount due from State, for Weymouth Band,
153 00
$8,947 00
Town owed, March 12th, 1855, as reported last year, $9,586 29 Also, illegal tax on W. & B. Fire Ins. Company, 147 42
66 G. Thompson's bill for refreshments, . 21 75
" half of G. Thompson's bill for express jobs, 5 43
" D. S. Murray's bill for Temperance Committee services, . 3 00
Estimated indebtedness, March 12, 1855, $9,763 89
$8,750 00
Town owed, March 10, 1856, as reported last year, Old bills, due before March 12, 1855, as follows : . The tax on the W. & B. Fire Insurance Co., 147 42
G. Thompson's bill for refreshments, 21 75
Half of Thompson's bill for express jobs, 5 43
D. S. Murray's bill for Temp. Com. service, 3 00
$8,927 60
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Amount brought forward, .
. $8,927 60
Amount estimated in last year's Report as being due to School Committee, and for other items that the town might owe, was .
$88 59
Amount actually paid to liquidate those claims, 83 20
Leaving a balance of
5 39
Which, subtracted from the above, will show that the town owed, March 10, 1856, . $8,922 21
Town owed, March 12, 1855,
$9,763 89
66 66 10, 1856,
8,922 21
66
66 9, 1857,
8,947 00
Town owed in 1856, less than in 1855,
$841 68
66
1857, more than in 1856,
24 79
All of which is respectfully submitted.
PRESCOTT LOTHROP, E. S. BEALS, D. S. MURRAY, Selectmen of Weymouth.
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REPORT
OF THE
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
The Overseers of the Poor ask leave to make the following Report, the account of which is made up to the first day of February, 1857 :-
The number of paupers at the almshouse, at the commencement of the year, was nineteen; whole number during the year was thirty-nine, the average about twenty-one and a-half, and the number at the end of the year, twenty-eight.
Net expense of the town for support of the poor at the house, $1,883.70, allowing the town $300 for rent of the farm, and the Superintendent his salary of $200 ;- not that we have drawn $1,883.70 from the Treasury, for, as we allow $300 for the use of the farm, it leaves $1,583.70 ; and we have not drawn that amount from the Treasury, as we have reduced the amount of Inventory $108.59, which leaves it $1,474.11 that we have drawn from the Treasury for the house support.
The expense of each pauper per week, is $1.68, 9 mills. There have been two deaths' at the house the past year, viz. : Silence Nash, aged 76 years, and Ezra Blanchard, aged 87 years.
The expense for support of the poor out of the house, amounts to $1,160.24, but we charge to the State, for support of State paupers, $69.86, which will reduce the out of house bills to $1,090.38.
The charge of the Overseers for their services, postage, station- ery, travelling expenses, &c, is $88.27.
The expense out of the house was much augmented by payment of bills for support of Henry C. Bates, of Boston, at the State Lunatic Hospitals in Worcester and Taunton, amounting , to $215.30. We had no knowledge of the case until after the bills had amounted to the said sum, and such is the law relating to these institutions. The payment of the bill was unavoidable.
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Under the present State pauper law, it is provided that we may send all State paupers to the State Almshouse; but in cases of sickness, when it is not prudent to remove such ones, we are under the necessity of supporting them where they are, and draw from the State to the extent of three dollars per week, provided it costs that ; if it costs more, the town has to pay for all over that amount. We have had two such cases the past year, which exceeds the State allowance $49.31, one of which was a broken leg, the other a case of consumption, of which the person died.
In regard to assistance rendered our own town's poor, out of the house, we have endeavored to use our best discretion. In cases of sickness, when a little help for the time being would relieve them, with the prospect of soon being able to get along themselves, we have acted on that principle ; and others, when so severely ill they should not be removed, and entirely destitute, the expense has been necessarily large, and the payment unavoid- able ; while to others, aged and infirm, some of them widows, we have made a small weekly allowance through the year. This class will not remain long with us ; they will soon be removed by death, and their places be supplied by others ; who of us it may be we may not know. Poverty, indeed, seems a misfortune, and very inconvenient, but not always a disgrace.
The principal products of the farm, the last year, were about 15 tons of English hay, 125 bushels of potatoes, 20 bushels of barley, 51 bushels of corn, 530 bushels of carrots, 25 bushels of beets. We have also raised about 1,600 pounds of pork, and 750 pounds of beef.
Josiah Litchfield, Superintendent, to the Town of Weymouth,
DR.
1857.
Feb. To orders on the Treasurer, . $1,400 00
" amount received for produce, &c., 247 05
" order on the Treasurer to balance, 75 11
- $1,722 16
CR.
1857.
Feb. By bills of goods by him bought, . $1,504 16 Paid Dr. N. Q. Tirrell, medicine, . 18 00
By his salary, .
200 00
- -$1,722 16
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Expense for Support in the Almshouse.
DR.
Inventory of February 1st, 1856,
$1,866 58
Rent of Town Farm,
300 00
Orders to Mr. Litchfield,
1,475 11
- $3,641 69
CR.
Inventory of February 1st, 1857, .
$1,757 99
Balance for support of poor, .
1,883 70
- $3,641 69
Account of Goods, &c., Bought, and Bills Paid.
Paid Joseph Loud & Co., for grain, flour and coal, . $291 15
66 Henry Loud, for goods, . 371 39
" Samuel Reed, for smith work, 10 02
" Reuben Lowell, for meat,
134 96
66 Samuel Curtis, for goods,
131 51
66 Jackman & Goodhue,
138 00
" Noah Vining, for standing wood,
42 00
" Loud & Rhines, for lumber, 13 90
66 Melzer Hatch, for swine, 35 53
5 50
" J. B. How & Co., for bread, . 28 00
9 87
"' M. & F. Burr, for grass seed and tools,
25 31
John O. Foy, for shop windows, for pump, .
7 09
66
66 7 17
" Dr. Q. N. Tirrell, for medical attendance, 18 00
" Loring Tirrell, for cow,
45 00
Charles Hunt, for soap, .
4 68
66 Henry Sinclair, for tin warc,
8 89
' Miss Rice, for burial robe,
92
Wm. T. Burrell, for paint and glass, 2 12
" Albert Humphrey, for leather, 7 36
5 75
" Charles Park, for harness,
23 25
·' Asa B, Wales, for curing hams,
3 00
Err Cushing, for labor, . 7 00
" J. Litchfield, for apples, . 8 00
" Lewis Beal, for mason work, .
66 Tilly Willis, for coffin,
" Paid Amos S. White, for medicine, .
22
Paid Parker & White, for garden forks, . $3 00
66 66 for freight from Boston, 40
66
66 for fresh fish, 2 67
66 66 for scythes, .
1 50
66 Charles Howard, for stove castings,
5 75
Tirrell & Simons, for pine wood,
16 00
". Liba Litchfield, for vinegar,
10 92
" Warren Burrell, for twenty-five days' labor,
31 50
66 66 for tolling bell for funerals,
50
" Lovell Bicknell, for alewives,
4 75~
66 Alice Broker, for labor, .
15 75
" Mellens French, for stove,
3 50
" Daniel Cohen, for five days' labor,
5 00
66 66 for chest lock, ..
40
66 Lucinda Leavitt, for thirty weeks' work, . 30 00
" James White, 5 15
" Superintendent his salary,
200 00
$1,722 16
Amount received for Produce, Labor, &.c.
Of Reuben Lowell, for beef, calves' hides, &c., $49 02
Samuel Curtis, for produce,
59 07
Lewis Beal, 66 1 57
66 for shoemaking, . ·
25 00
Charles C. Nash, for stone,
8 00
Joseph Foy, for carrots,
7 00
John O. Foy, 66
10 00
Rev. E. S. Potter, for carrots, and other produce,
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