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REPORT
OF THE
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
OF THE
TOWN OF MEDFIELD,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING FEB 1, 1865.
RECEIPTS.
Rec'd Taxes for 1861 $5.00
„ 1862 74.00
,, 1863 . . 1,762.00
, 1864 . 7,215.00
Balance of highway taxes . 23.98
Subscription and tuition for Centre School District 745.20
Money borrowed .
1,850.00
Interest on School Fund
148.21
State School Fund
37.03
State Treasurer, as Corporation Tax
651.51
State aid to soldiers' families
1,530.41
From the estate of George Fisher
6.84
For old plank
4.87
Hay sold from Cemetery
3.50
Centre School District for lumber
39.44
Overseers of the Poor
158.12
Use of town plow 1.50
Sale of John Kittridge Farm .
350.00
Balance in Treasury, Feb. 1, 1864
. 1,552.69
$16,159.30
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EXPENDITURES.
NORTH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Balance due District, Feb. 1, 1864 $259.65
Appropriation for School, 1864-5 356.96
616.61
Teaching and incidental expenses
288.21
Balance due for School, Feb. 1, 1865
328.40
Extra expenditures and repairs 34.80
Abatement of taxes, 1862-3 17.62
52.42
Balance due District, for repairs, Feb. 1, 1864
15.13
Balance due Town, Feb. 1, 1865 $37.29
CENTRE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Balance due District, Feb. 1, 1864 $204.64
Appropriation for School, 1864-5 630.32
Subscription and tuition 745.20
1,580.16
Teaching and incidental expenses
1,257.86
Balance due for School, Feb. 1, 1865 322.30
Extra expenditures and repairs 33.87
Notes and interest
2,040.50
Discount on taxes
26.40
2,100.77
District tax, 1864
$885.45
1,792.16
Due District, Feb. 1, 1864
906.71
$1,792.16
Balance due Town, Feb. 1, 1865 $308.61
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SOUTH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Due District for Schools, Feb. 1, 1864 $191.13
Appropriation for School, 1864-5 275.36
466.49
Teaching and incidental expenses
133.77
Due District for School, Feb. 1, 1865
332.72
Due Town for repairs,
18.19
Extra expenses on roads and bridges 314.46
Extra expenses on cemetery
12.92
Abatement of taxes, 1861
1.50
1863
5.50
" 1864
25.32
$32.32
Notes, and interest on notes $1,082.85
Military bounty 2,250.00
Military money refunded . 1,021.60
Families of volunteers, as State aid . 1,347.27
State tax
. 1,704.00
TOWN OFFICERS.
Daniels Hamant, Selectman and Assessor, 1863 $24.00
George M. Smith, Assessor, 1864 31.00
Benjamin F. Shumway, Assessor, 1864 44.00
J. R. Smith, Assessor 26.00
Samuel Ellis, Town Clerk . 26.80
C. C. Sewell, School Committee 25.00
$176.80
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.
Paid advertising and printing Reports . $35.33
Second Congregational Society, for use of Vestry 20.00
George Fiske, auditing accounts, two years, $5.00; Express, 50 cents . 5.50
Non residents highway taxes 73.41
Amount carried forward $134.24
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Amount brought forward . $134.24
On account of John Kittridge's estate 169.15
For damages incurred on the highway 9.00
For three rattlesnakes 3.00
H. F. Bullard, building fence on Pleasant street 42.62
Lumber and nails for fence
39.56
George Davis, land taken for road
30.00
United-States Collector, Agent License
20.00
Freight on lumber .
3.86
Painting guideboards
8.25
Care of town clock
15.00
Repairs on town clock 7.20
M. Bailey, for collecting taxes, in part 47.78
Walpole tax, $5.27, Medway tax, $7.99 13.26
C. Hamant, in case of J. W. Coltman 5.50
George S. Mason, for woodland, in part
55.00
Stationery, stamps, and books
27.03
Two plow-points, $2.98; Road scraper, $10
12.98
Horse hire, $2.00; legal advice, $1.00
3.00
J. Hartshorn, for lumber 7.18
Painting the hearse
14.00
Discount on taxes .
401.10
$1,068.71
PAUPER EXPENSES OUT OF THE ALMSHOUSE.
Paid Board and funeral expenses of Sally Morse $149.88
Board of Rachel Clark
52.00
Board of Hannah Clark .
57.00
Board of J. W. Coltman
164.97
$423.85
EXPENSES AT THE ALMSHOUSE.
Paid E. L. Ward, in full to April 1, 1864 $106.17
Funeral expenses of Josiah Cheney 16.00
Overseers, to buy stock 175.00
Clothing for paupers . 20.00
E. A. Wheeler, for scraps
20.86
E. A. Wheeler, for 10 bushels meal . 17.50
A. B. Balch, for bread
4.47
$360.00
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RECAPITULATION.
Paid for Schools $1,679.84
Districts for extra expenses and repairs . . 2,153.19
Abatement of town taxes 32.32
State tax . 1,704.00
To families of volunteers . 1,347.27
Military bounty .
. 2,250.00
Military money refunded . 1,021.60
Fire Department
77.88
Cemetery 12.92
Town officers 176.80
Notes, and interest on notes . 1,082.85
Incidental expenses . 1,068.71
Pauper expenses out of the Almshouse 423.85
Pauper expenses at the Almshouse 360.00
Extra expenses or roads and bridges
314.46
$13,705.69
Amount of Receipts $16,159.30
Amount of Payments . 13,705.69
Balance in Treasury, Feb. 1, 1865
$2,453.31
LIABILITIES OF THE TOWN.
Notes due individuals
$7,426.00
Notes to volunteers 575.00
E. L. Ward, to April 1, 1865
295.75
North School District, for Schools
328.40
Centre "
322.30
South "
332.72
$9,280.17
RESOURCES.
Balance in Treasury, Feb. 1; 1865 $2,453.31 Annual interest on School-fund notes, $225.61 ; arrearage, $96.84 . 322.45
Due on tax bills, for 1861
4.43
1862
19.69
" 1863
60.19
1864 600.15
Amount carried forward
$3,460.22
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Amount brought forward State, for aid to families of volunteers . 1,347.27 From North District, 37.29 Due from Centre School District 308.61
South
18.19
$ 5,171.58
Liabilities exceed Resources $ 4,108.59
HIGHWAY SURVEYORS.
Martin Bailey, commitment $80.95
" expended
80.95
Wm. Q. Fisher, commitment 159.16
"
expended 159.16
Charles H. Russell, commitment
129.68
"
" " expended . 129.68
Simeon Richardson, commitment (1863) 155.13
"
expended 155.13
George M. Smith, commitment 159.53
"
expended 159.53
Samuel Woods, commitment
75.54
expended . 75.54
George W. Kingsbury, commitment
109.68
"
expended 109.68
Henry Harding, commitment (1863)
141.38
" expended . 141.38
$3,460.22
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REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
RECEIPTS.
Rec'd for poultry and eggs $83.35
500 lbs. butter
213.31
6 calves
82.52
Beef oxen
210.00
Pork, $76.00 ; Cabbage-plants, 49 cents
76.49
Cow-hide
7.40
Grain
8.97
Potatoes 10.34
Rec'd of D. P. Russell, for sand
1.00
Rec'd for hay, for bedding 48.00
Milk, $3.50; Clothes-wringer, $2.50 . 6.00
Labor with the team 65.67
Rec'd of Town Treasurer . 175.00
West Roxbury, for board and clothing paupers 169.41
$1,157.46
PAYMENTS.
Paid D. Hoisington's bill, $3.09 ; Cushman & Baker, $6.85 $9.94
Jacob Clark, $6.16; A. B. Balch, $5.49 . 11.65
C. Stedman, $3.77 ; Blacksmith bills, $12.05. 15.82
Store bills, $323.61; Dr. Beard, $8.00 .
331.61
For cattle, $407.50; 4 pigs, $16.00 . 423.50
Labor, $84.30; Expenses to Bridgewater, $6.47 90.77
84 bushels rye, $16.87; Washing machine, $16.00 32.87
Scraps, $13.75; Truss, $5.00; Meat bills, $32.84 . 51.59
Sundries, $24.22; E. L. Ward, toward his salary, $54.25 78.47
George Fiske, for services as Overseer 15.00
$1,061.22
Balance in hands of Overseers 96.24
$1,157.46
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APPRAISAL OF PERSONAL PROPERTY, FEB. 1, 1865.
Oxen . $200.00
Meal Bags, .75 ; 2 Hoes, $1 $1.75
6 Cows and 3 Heifers 410.00
Horse
40.00
4 Pigs
€0.00
16 Fowls
12.00
3 Cranberry Rakes . 4.00
2 Manure Forks, Potatoe-
8 tons Meadow Hay
120.00
ton Husks 10.00
55 bushels Corn
110.00
35 busliels Oats
35.00
7 bushels Rye 15.75
5 Hay Forks
2.50
20 cords Wood
100,00
Ox Wagon 26.00
Scraps 5.25
250 lbs. Salt Pork
62.50
175 lbs. Ham
43.75
Pair Ox-Wagon Wheels 2.00
400 lbs. Beef 40.00
100 bushels Potatoes 90.00
20 bushels Turnips 5.00
26 lbs. Butter
52.00
100 lbs. Lard
25.00
¿ bushel Pickles
.50
3 Meat Barrels
1.50
Barrel of Vinegar
5.50
Scythes and Snaths . 2.25
§ barrel Flour 4.50
2 bushels White Beans 6.00
3 Stone Jars 1.50
3 Plows, 1 Cultivator 15.00
1 Draught Harness
4.00
Wagon Harness 11.00
Horse Collar 2.50
$1,943.37
4 Measures .62
Appraisal, Feb. 1, 1864 . 1,330.82
Saw and Horse 1.00
Beetle and Wages
1.00
Gain
$612.55
Seven acres of woodland has been added to the Town Farm the past year, bought of George S. Mason, which cost $655.00, from which has been cut, this winter, twenty cords of fire wood, and lumber enough for eighteen or twenty thousand feet of boards.
GEORGE FISKE, JACOB R. CUSHMAN, S of the Poor.
Overseers J. R. SMITH,
GEORGE FISKE, Auditor.
MEDFIELD, Feb. 1, 1865.
Digger 1.75
Corn-cutter 1.00
4 Stake Chains 1.00
1 Draught and 1 Log Chain 2.25
5 Rakes, .75 ; Sleigh, $6.00 6.75
Express Wagon 30.00
Ox Cart 12.00
Buffalo Robe 4.00
Horse Farm Wagon 6.00
Ox Sled, $4.00; Wheelbar- . row, $2.50 6.50
Hay Cutter and Trough, $8.00; 2 Ladders, $4.50 12.50
Horse Hay-Rake, $8.00; Clothes-wringer,$16.00 24.00
30 Milk Pans, $5.00; 1 Milk Can, 75 cents 5.75
2 Wash Tubs,$1.50; Scald- ing Tub, 25 cents 1.75
Brass Kettle, $5.00; Ox Yoke, $3.00 ; Harrow, $4.00 12.00
Iron Bar, .75 ; 5 Axes, $3.50 4.25
Saw, Shave, and Auger ·
1.00
Adze and Iron Square . . .50
Cranberry Screen 1.00
7 tons English Hay 280.00
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