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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.
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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
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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
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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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