Town annual reports of Carver 1875, Part 1

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Publication date: 1875
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Part 1


THE ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE


SELECTMEN


OF THE


Comun af


Carper


FOR THE


Financial Year ending March 10, 1875,


TOGETHER WITH THE


REPORT OF TOWN CLERK.


Annual Meeting March 29th, 1875.


PLYMOUTH : AVERY & DOTEN STEAM BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, CORNER. OF COURT AND NORTH STREETS. 1875.


THE ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE


SELECTMEN


OF THE


Comn af


Caruer


FOR THE ‘


Financial Year ending March 10, 1875,


TOGETHER WITH THE'


REPORT OF TOWN CLERK.


Annual Meeting March 29th, 1875.


-


PLYMOUTH : AVERY & DOTEN STEAM BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, CORNER OF COURT AND NORTH STREETS. 1875.


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Report of the Selectmen.


Citizens of Carver :


The Selectmen submit their Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Town for the past year, together with such other facts as may be of interest :


TREASURER'S ACCOUNT.


THOMAS COBB, Treasurer.


DR.


To cash on hand, March 10, 1874,. $3,455 87


Received on note of E. P. Bumpus,. 50 00


From sale of herrings, 2 33


O. E. Bliss, license to peddle,. 6 00


WVm. L. Randall,“ 66 6 00


Plymouth Bank, loan,


600 00


Amount carried forward, $4,120 20


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Amount brought forward, $4,120 20 To cash received from State Treasurer.corporation tax, 585 67


Nat'l Bank tax, .. . 574 34 State Aid, paid to


Soldiers & families, 700 00


Income from State School Fund, . . 248 64


Co. Treas., from dog licenses, 122 63 T. Cobb, rent of Town Farm,. 25 00


From Collection of Taxes, 4,979 07


Interest on Taxes,


3.1 45


Town of Middleboro', on


pauper account, . .


54 25


Total receipts, $11,441 25


The Treasurer is credited with payments on the several accounts, as follows :


CP ..


Paid for support of Poor. $1.157 59


Support of schools


1.688 59


Repairs of highways


1,217 68


Repairs of bridges


159 29


State aid to soldiers and families 621 00


State tax. 920 00


County tax


770 37


Par of Town Officers


471 48


Clearing the roads from snow.


36 51


Furniture and repair of school-houses. 39 54


Miscellaneous town expenses. 59 01


Abatement on taxes 11 60


Money borrowed of Plymouth Bank. 600 00


Cash on hand March 10th, 1875 3,658 59


$11.441 25


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POOR.


Receipts and Expenses connected with the Support of Poor the past Year, by item.


Appropriation of 1874 $1,000 00


Rent of Town farm. 25 00


Received from Middleboro' on J. Griffith account. 54 25


Received on note of E. P. Bumpus 50 00


Deficiency 28 34


$1,157 59


Expenses at the Almshouse


$267 07


EXPENSES AWAY FROM THE ALMSHOUSE.


Paid for support of-


Willard Sears $122 81


Barton Fuller 86 50


Patience Robbins 130 00


Joseph A. Bates 71 90


Foster Shaw 84 00


Lucy Chace. ..


108 00


J. W. Griffith


54 25


E. F. Webster 142 30


Caroline Wrightington 39 07


Ansel Barrows 30 19


John A. Peirce


21 50


Total expenses away from Almshouse


$890 52


Total expense of Poor $1,157 59


()


SCHOOLS.


Receipts and Expenses connected with the Town Schools the


past Year.


Undrawn balance of 1873 $125 25


Appropriation of 1874. 1,800 00


From State School fund. 248 64


From license of dogs. 122 63


$2,296 52


Paid the several schools


$1,68S 59


Balance undrawn. 607 93


$2,296 52


BRIDGES.


Receipts and Expenses connected with the Repairs of Bridges


the past Year.


Balance from appropriation of 1873 $42 07


Appropriation of 1874. 200 00


$242 07


Paid repair of bridge at shoe-string fac- tory, Dist. No. 14. $133 66


Paid repair of Quiticus Bridge, Dist. No. 7, 24 SS Paid repair of bridge, Dist. No. 4 75


Balance unexpended 82 78


$242 07


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HIGHWAYS.


Receipts and Expenses connected with the Repairs of High- ways the past Year.


Balance from appropriation of 1873


$86 47


Appropriation of 1874. 1,300 00


$1,386 47


Paid Highway District No. 1


$65 59


2.


67 97


3


80 37


4.


61 58


5.


82 75


6


53 50


7.


74 13


8.


76 58


9.


13 88


10


221 75


11.


146 32


12


62 52


13


60 00


14.


80 13


15.


70 61


Total amount expended


$1,217 68


Balance undrawn 168 79


-- $1,386 47


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Amounts due the Districts as follows :


District No. 1


$12 39


3.


2 87


4


17 92


5


7 96


6


11 84


9


19 51


10 ..


39 68


11


11 14


13


26 41


14


16 62


15


2 45


$168 79


MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS AND EXPENDI-


TURES THE PAST YEAR.


RECEIPTS.


From pedler's licenses $12 00


Sale of herrings.


2 33


Corporation tax.


585 67


National Bank tax


574 34


Interest on taxes. .


31 45


Plymouth Bank loan


600 00


$1,805 78


Deficiency


17 87


$1,823 65


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EXPENDITURES.


Paid Treasurer and Collector's commission,


1873 $135 61


Paid Peleg McFarlin, services as School


Committee, 1873, 56 00


Paid S. F. McFarlin, services as School Committee, 1873. 40 00


Paid E. T. Pratt, services as School Com- mittee, 1873 16 50


Paid Andrew Griffith, services as one of Se- lectmen and Overseers of Poor, 1873, 39 88


Paid Alvin Perkins, services as one of Selectmen and Overseers of Poor,'73, 38 40


Paid H. A. Lucas, services as one of Select- men and Overseers of Poor, 1873. .. 23 39


Paid Peleg McFarlin, services and fees as Town Clerk, 1873. 35 05


Paid R. M. Dempsey, services as Constable, 1873 8 50


Paid Thomas Cobb, returning deaths. 2 00


Paid E. W. Shaw, returning deaths. 1 40


Andrew Griffith, assessing taxes, 1873,


20 00


Alvin Perkins, assessing taxes, 1873 .. . 18 75


H. A. Lucas, assessing taxes, 1873


19 00


Ira C. Bent, services and expenses on the Herring Committee, 1873 .. 10 80


Paid Avery & Doten, printing Town Reports, 43 50


Dist. 1, clearing highway from snow. 1 60


2, clearing highway from snow .. 2 60


3, clearing highway from snow .. 7 80


Amount brought forward, . $520 78 1


2


10


Amount brought forward, $520 78


Paid Dist. 5, clearing highway from snow. . 9 93 7, clearing highway from snow . . 3 20 S, clearing highway from snow .. 11 38


H. A. Lucas, copying Assessors' book. 9 00


Plymouth Bank, interest on loan. 7 68


For Tax Books. 1 70


For monuments, and setting on town line . ... 3 33


Paid repairs on school-house No. 2 3 50


3 ..


2 60


4.


3 87


5 ..


2 92


8. 8 75


For furniture for the several schools. . 17 90


Total miscellaneous expense $606 54


Paid note at Plymouth Bank .. 600 00


Transferred from Bank tax to Poor account, 617 11


$1,823 65


STATE AID TO SOLDIERS AND FAMILIES.


Paid Everett T. Manter. $120 00


Daniel Dunham 72 00


A. R. Drew 72 00


Mary T. Dunham 48 00


Almira H. Barrows. 54 00


Huldah McFarlin 48 00


Amount carried forward, 314 00


1:


Amount brought forward, $314 00


Nancy L. Pratt. 96 00


Caroline W. Pratt. 48 00


Guardian to H. I. Atwood. 48 00


Wm. W. Pearson .. 15 00


Total paid out during the year 621 00


Paid on former accounts. 860 80


$1,481 80


Received from State


700 00


Still due. 781 80


$1,481 80


ABATEMENT ON TAXES.


George Peirce, tax of 1871. 42


George Peirce, tax of 1872. 58


George Peirce, tax of 1873.


45


William Allen, tax of 1872


2 00


Henry Bradford, tax of 1872.


2 46


Eugene Blackwell, tax of 1873.


2 00


J. H. Clark, tax of 1872.


1 40


George W. Cobb, tax of 1872


1 17


George W. Cobb, tax of 1873


1 12


$11 60


STATE TAX.


Whole amount assessed as required by Warrant .. . . $920 00


Paid State Treasurer amount of tax 920 00


COUNTY TAX.


Whole amount assessed as required by Warrant .. .. $770 37 Paid County Treasurer amount of tax. 770 37


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LIABILITIES.


The liabilities of the town are as follows, or nearly so :


Treasurer and Collector's commission, 1874, unpaid $133 79 Collector's bill for printing, stationery and postage, unpaid. 8 00


Peleg McFarlin, services and fees as Town Clerk, 1874, unpaid. 35 00


Andrew Griffith, services and expenses as one of the Selectmen and Overseers of Poor, 1874, unpaid 45 82


Alvin Perkins, services and expenses as one of the Selectmen and Overseers of Poor, unpaid .. .. 29 75


H. A. Lucas, services and expenses as one of the Selectmen and Overseers of Poor, unpaid. 22 50


S. F. McFarlin, services as one of School Committee, 1874. 36 12


E. T. Pratt, services as one of School Committee, 1874. 20 00


R. C. Freeman, services as one of School Committee, 1874. 32 25


R. M. Dempsey, services as Constable, 1874 10 00


School appropriation, undrawn 607 93


Highway appropriation, undrawn. 168 79


Estimated Poor bills, unpaid. 100 00


Estimated snow bills, outstanding 200 00


Total liabilities $1,449 95


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ASSETS AVAILABLE.


Cash in the Treasury March 10th, 1875 $3,688 59


Uncollected taxes on bills of 1872 10 20


Uncollected taxes on bills of 1873 89 25


Uncollected taxes on bills of 1874


957 91


Due from State for aid paid soldiers and families 781 80


Due on E. P. Bumpus' note, nearly . 122 00


Total available assets. $5,649 75


ASSETS NOT AVAILABLE.


Town Farm $700 00


Personal property in the House


150 00


No. 1 school-house and lot. 950 00


No. 2 school-house and lot. 625 00


No. 3 school-house and lot. 760 00


No. 4 school-house and lot


1,000 00


No. 5 school-house and lot


950 00


No. 6 school-house and lot. 700 00


800 00


No. 8 school-house and lot.


Total assets not available $6,635 00


AMOUNT RAISED BY TAXATION IN 1874.


State tax


$920 00


County tax


770 37


For schools 1,800 00


1,300 00


For repair of bridges


200 00


For Poor


382 89


For repair of highways


$5,373 26


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RATE OF TAXATION.


Poll tax, $2.00; rate on property per $1.000, $9.00.


TOWN VALUATION IN 1874.


Real estate


$342,297 00


Personal estate


195,528 00


Total valuation $537,825 00


Number of polls, 265.


Number of houses taxed, 231.


Number of horses taxed, 137.


Number of cows taxed, 174.


Number of sheep taxed, 81.


Number of acres of land taxed, 18,739.


Names and Ages of the Poor who have been fully or partially


supported during the Year :


Sally Dunham


62 years old.


Sally Denham.


82


66


66


Patience Robbins


69


66


66 66


Barton Fuller


25


66


Willard Sears


65


66 66


Ansel Barrows


73 66 66


Lucy Chace .


37


66


66


John W. Griffith, died May 24, 1874 68


66


66


John A. Peirce, died Jan. 19, 1875 33


66


66


Caroline Wrightington


64


Foster Shaw


40


66


Edwin F. Webster


Joseph A. Bates, died March 31, 1874. 32


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APPROPRIATIONS,


The following appropriations are called for to pay current expenses :


Repair of highways


$1,300 00


Repair of bridges


150 00


Support of Poor .


1,100 00


Support of schools.


1,800 00


State tax


1,000 00


County tax.


770 37


For the support of the Poor it is thought advisable to call for an appropriation of $1,100 for the ensuing year, $1,000, appropriated for the past two years, proving inadequate to pay expenses, the deficiency being about $45.


The appropriations in other departments, it seems to us, need not be increased, as at this time business is somewhat stagnant ; and wages rather tending downward, we ought to receive as good, or even a better, return for our appropriations than last year.


During the past twelve months, seventy-two tramps have been kept at our Almshouse over night, and provided with two meals each, at an expense of fifty cents apiece. For some un - known cause, there seems to be an unexpected increase in num- bers of this class of dependants, February alone bringing to our doors fifty out of the seventy-two.


The Town remains financially about the same as at last set- tlement, having a balance of more than four thousand dollars in cash or its equivalent, available to meet the ordinary expenses the ensuing year, without borrowing.


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Should there be no change in the law, taxing corporate stock and Bank stock, it will be necessary to assess only about five hundred of the eleven hundred dollars appropriated for sup- port of Poor, the balance may be transferred from tax on Bank stock to Poor account, as heretofore,


TOWN HOUSE.


It is with reluctance that we approach the question of a new Town House, since the dilapidated condition of the old one, if it can be called a Town House at all, is so apparant to every citizen of the town. We feel the necessity more and more every day for some better and more respectable place to hold our meetings, and to keep safely the property of the Town.


We are continually receiving accessions to our Library from the State,-books that are often very valuable to the town offi- cers in assisting them in the discharge of their duties, and others very instructive and interesting to any citizen. The pres- ent room is too small by one-half, besides, it can be entered by any one at any time, and books and papers carried away at their own free will, never to be returned.


The room where our meetings are held is occupied for the storage of anything and everything that people cannot house anywhere else, to the exclusion of the Town, for the Town really have little or no right there, it being an old meeting house. We need not show up the arrangement for heating, for any one who has been to Town Meeting on a cold day, has felt the necessity of some fire to make the room more comfortable, which cannot be done without we endanger the building to destruction by fire.


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We think twenty-five hundred dollars will build as good a Town House as we really need. We do not mean to start on a twenty-five hundred dollar house, and build one costing double or treble that sum, as is often the case, but put the whole busi- ness into the hands of judicious and far seeing men, with a limited amount to expend.


We feel that in asking for a new Town House, we are only asking for a necessity, something that every prudent and well gov- erned town in the Commonwealth possesses, and at a time when we should so little feel the expense. We have surplus cash in the Treasury, and the increase in our tax rate would only be trifling.


Respectfully submitted,


ANDREW GRIFFITH, ALVIN PERKINS, H. A. LUCAS,


Selectmen and


Overseers of Poor of Carver.


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TOWN MEETING.


Contents of Warrant for Town Meeting to be held on Mon- day, March 29th inst., at 1 o'clock, P. M.


ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meet- ing.


ARTICLE 2. To choose all necessary Town Officers for the vear ensuing.


ARTICLE 3. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary for support of Schools, Poor, Roads, Bridges and any other expenses the current year.


ARTICLE 4. To determine the manner of repairing the high- ways the present year.


ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will accept the Report of the Selectmen.


ARTICLE 6. To see what pay the Town will vote the Treas- urer and Collector, and what time the taxes shall become due, and whether any interest shall be charged on taxes unpaid after a certain date.


ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer to hire money, under the direction of the Selectmen, if found necessary.


ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to make the yards of field drivers Town Pounds the present year.


Given under our hands this eighteenth day of March, A. D. 1875.


ANDREW GRIFFITH, - Selectmen ALVIN PERKINS, of


H. A. LUCAS, Carver.


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Report of the Town Clerk.


MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN CARVER IN 1874. February 4. Charles H. Atwood and Maggie Cassidy, both of Plymouth.


June 2. Robert F. Shurtleff, of Carver, and Henrietta Dona- hoe, of Taunton.


July 1. Edwin F. Sears, of Carver, and Lottie J. Gardner, of South Hanson.


October 11. Admiral T. Little and Ophelia H. Bumpus, both of Carver.


November 24. Andrew Robeson Eames and Charlotte Eliz- abeth Hammond, both of Carver.


December 19. Adelbert P. Robbins and Rosannah F. Pratt, both of Carver.


December 24. Charlton H. Wing, of Marion, and Charlotte W. Atwood, of Carver.


December 28. Thomas W. Blanchard and Clara L. Harrub, both of Plympton.


DEATHS REGISTERED IN CARVER IN 1874.


AGE.


DATE.


NAMES.


DISEASE.


NAMES OF PARENTS.


Y. M. D.


Feb. 11. Lothrop Shurtleff.


63


1 24 Suicide


Sylvanus and Mary. Died in Wareham.


Feb. 23. Anna Cushing .


15


0 28 Unknown. .


Nathaniel S. and Waitstill. Died in Middleboro'.


Feb. 28. Eliza M. Atwood ..


60


3 .. Consumption


Oliver and Lydia Shaw.


March 4. Lertina L. P. Colby .


26


5


.. Consumption .


Willard and Sarah.


April 18. Andrew Harlow.


22.


5 8 Consumption


Benjamin and Lydia D.


April 29. Truman Shaw .


55


9 Consumption 6


John and Lydia.


1


7 .. Typhoid Fever.


Levi and Phebe.


May 23. Henry W. Ransom


. Pneumonia and Fever.


Obed and Rebecca.


May 24. John W. Griffith


68


..


64 11 .. Consumption and Shock. . Benjamin and Lavina.


June 13. Benjamin Harlow


1


8


3 Congestion of the Brain. . John F. and Drusilla L. 1 Nathan and Harriet.


34


9


.. Fit ....


Manoalı and Louisa M.


Ang. 15. Elizabethi A. Hurd


15


5


21 Pneumonia .


.


Albert and Lucy Shurtleff.


Sept. 7. Eunice Dunham


29


6


7 .. 1 Unknowil. .


William and Rachel E.


Sept. 12. Ella Pratt


..


36 10 11 Childbirth


Stephen and Alice H. Tracy.


Sept. 19. Martha E. T. Livingstone .


Manoah and Louisa M.


Oct. 16. Noel B. Hurd ...


17 2


Oct. 17. Ernest D. Maxim.


1


. .


17


9 .. Liver Complaint . Luther and Cynthia. Died in Waltham.


Nov. 4. Oliver A. Tillson.


35


Dec. 8. Lucy P. Cole .


86


. .


..


Old Age .. . Perez and Sarah P. Bradford.


Aug. 5. Harrie C. Shaw .


Aug. 6. Charles N. Avery .


3 Typhoid Fever.


4 Typhoid Fever.


Cholera Infantum . Nathan B. and Mary.


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SUMMARY.


BIRTHS.


Whole number of births in 1874. 23


Males 12


Females 11


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23


DEATHS.


Whole number of deaths in 1874 19


Males


11


Females. 8


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MARRIAGES.


Whole number of marriages registered in 1874 ..


PELEG McFARLIN, Town Clerk.





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