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Name.
Age
Occupation.
Residence.
Rank.
|Badge
William B. Porter ...
5I
Teamster
Lunt street ..
Captain.
Daniel W. Jackman ..
32
Silversmith .
Marlboro' street .
Lieut.
William H. Woodman
25
Shoe finisher
Franklin street ..
Clerk.
Charles A. Caswell ..
33
Heel cutter
Purchase street ..
Steward.
James N. Howard . .
54
Shoemaker
Lime street .
Hoseman.
Leander S. Hilton .
46
Heel cutter.
Union street .
66
50
Wm. H. Perkins ..
46
Fish dealer
66
52
Albert Russell ..
25
Combmaker
S. Pond street .. .
66
5I
Wilber S. Porter .
31
Teamster
48
Stephen H. Dolloph . .
28
Laborer
Hancock street .. Water
66
49
. .
Hose Wagon built by Dole & Osgood. With all necessary equipments.
187
188
ANNUAL REPORTS.
CONCLUSION.
In conclusion, I wish to extend my thanks to the city council and committee on fire department
Also to my assistants on the board of engineers and members of fire department, I extend them my heartfelt thanks for the support given me.
I also extend to the officers and members of the police force my thanks for valuable assistance rendered this department.
Respectfully submitted,
EBEN S. DOLE, Chief Fire Department.
REPORT OF CITY SOLICITOR.
REPORT
To the City Council of the City of Newburyport :
GENTLEMEN :- Of the cases unfinished at the filing of the last annual report of this office there has been no change since in Adeline Poor, et al. vs. City Council of Newburyport and Adolph Laundry vs. Newburyport.
In case of Poor et al. petitioners vs. Newburyport, eight hundred dollars has been paid to the petitioners by the city in settlement.
In Henry vs. City of Newburyport plaintiff became non-suit at September sitting of Superior Court.
Jonathan Douglass vs. City of Newburyport ; Supreme Judicial Court, Essex County.
This is an action of contract in which plaintiff seeks to recover thirty-seven thousand dollars for labor performed and labor and materials furnished in the construction of the system of sewers re- cently put in by the City.
This case was entered in the Superior Court in December 1890, and in January 1891, removed to the Supreme Judicial Court. The plaintiff has not yet filed an itemized bill of his demand, though I have repeatedly asked his attorney for the same and have not yet re- ceived it. For this reason the city could not advantageously answer.
As no case can go on the trial list until an answer has been filed, this case has not come up for trial since it was entered.
The following actions against the city have been commenced this year :
I. Healy vs. Newburyport ; Superior Court.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
This is a petition for damages to real estate of plaintiff, situate on Water street caused by reason of an alleged changed in the grade of the street.
2. Annie V. Sawyer vs. Newburyport, Superior Court, is an action of tort to recover damages for personal injuries caused by an alleged defect in the highway.
3. James Leonard vs. Hatch et al., Superior Court, is an action of tort alleging in effect that defendants in carrying out the vote of the City Council to widen Prospect street had no right to cut of plaintiff's buildings : and in this action plaintiff seeks to recover dam- ages for the act of defendants in widening the street.
Ellen P. Caldwell vs. Newburyport, Superior Court, is an 4. action of tort in which plaintiff claims damages for personal injuries received by reason of the alleged defective condition of Merrimac street while the sewer was being constructed. Mr. Douglass, the sewer contractor, has been cited to defend this action.
5. Green Davis vs. Newburyport, County Commissioners Court, is a petition for assessment of damages caused plaintiff by the taking for sewer purposes of his land between Water street and Merrimac river.
Answers have been filed in all these cases.
In addition to attending to the abovs cases, I have performed the other varied and usual professional duties that devolve upon this office.
My receipts and expenditures have been as follows :
Paid for copies
$ 3 75
66 travelling expenses
25 60
66 telegrams and postage I 35
66 court fees 3 00
66 witness fees
I 60
service of process
4 22
$39 52
Received from city
23 70
Balance due from city
$15 82
Respectfully submitted,
N. N. JONES, City Solicitor.
REPORT OF CITY MARSHAL.
REPORT.
To His Honor the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Newburyport :
GENTLEMEN :- The whole number of arrests during the year er.d- ing December 31, 1891, for offences committed within the city of Newburyport, is 814. of which 418 were of foreign birth, 333 were born within the limits of the United States, 39 were females, and 70 were minors.
THE ARRESTS WERE FOR THE FOLLOWING CAUSES, VIZ. :
Assault and battery.
70
Assault on officers
3
Assault (felonious)
I
Attempt at arson
5
Abandoning a child.
2
Arson
1
Bastardy
3
Non support of wife
8
Breaking and entering
4
Breaking and entering a vessel .
2
Common drunkard
1
Common railer and brawler
2
Breaking glass
?
Capias
Drunkenness
578
Defaulted
1
Larcency from the person
?
Disturbing the peace
38
Evading railroad fare
Exposing person
I
Embezzlement.
1
Fonification
1
Peddleing without a license .
3
196
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Maintaining a nuisance
Larceny of a horse and wagon
J
Interfering with a fireman
I
Insane .
3
Interfering with an officer
2
Larceny
20
Larceny from a building
I
Lewd and lascivious
2
Malicious mischief
7
Obtaining goods under false pretences
2
On suspicion
3
Cheating and defrauding
I
Stealing a ride.
I
Stubborn and disobedient
7
Perjury
I
Larceny from the person
2
Vagrancy
I
Violation of city ordinances
I5
Disturbing religious meeting .
2
Escaped prisoner .
2
Violation of the liquor law
5
Total 814
DISPOSED OF AS FOLLOWS, VIZ. :
Appealed
9
Bound over to Superior Court
12
Cases continued 18
Cases settled without trial
9
Committed for non-payment of fine
136
Committed to Danvers Hospital
3
Discharged without complaint .
174
Discharged by court .
35
Fined and paid
I53
House of correction .
62
Newburyport workhouse
8
Ordered to pay costs.
I
Put on probation
95
Placed on file
2
Put under bonds to keep the peace.
4
Sent to jail
Turned over to other officers.
5
Committed to womans prison Sherbon.
6
State poor-house, Bridgewater
2
Total 814
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CITY MARSHAL.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Amount of property reported lost
. $1,780 54
Amount of property recovered
. 1,448 54
Amount of imprisonment imposed .
43 years, 4 months and 10 days
Accidents reported
I4I
Assisted other officers
260
Buildings found open and secured .
I35
Cases of truancy investigated
2
Complaints investigated .
3,006
Defective places in streets reported
350
Dogs killed
2
Disturbances suppressed without arrest .
317
Escorts furnished processions
6
Fire alarms given
5
Fires extinguished without alarm
3
Injured persons assisted
64
Intoxicated persons helped home
160
Lights furnished for dangerous places
72
Lost children restored to parents
59
Meals furnished lodgers and prisoners
3,570
Nuisances investigated
74
Officers for extra duty at church
2
Officers for extra duty at City Hall
18
Persons provided with lodgings
97I
Search warrant for liquor served
II
Stree: obstructions re.noved
594
Stray teams put up
48
Money taken from prisoners and returned Persons notified to remove snow ,
$897 32
335
Respectfully submitted,
ASA W. EMERSON, City Marshal.
NEWBURYPORT, December 31, 1891.
REPORT OF BRIDGE TENDER.
REPORT.
To the Committee on Bridges and Culverts :
GENTLEMEN :- The following report of drawtender of Newbury- port bridge, for year ending 1891, is respectfully submitted :
Number of steamers passing through draw
1,290
6:
66 sailing vessels passing through draw
272
66 sailboats 66
797
6 piledrivers 66 66 66
IO
Total
2,369
Number of tons of coal carried
29,799
66
66 stone 66 1,834 66 of feet of lumber
33,421
EXPENSES.
Coal consumed, lbs.
4,100
Kerosene oil, gals.
1 5
Machine 66
4
The first vessel to pass through, was schooner Alfaretta S. Smith ; the last, steamer C. E. Uhler.
WILLIAM I. HUNT, Drawtender.
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REPORT OF BOARD OF ASSESSORS.
.
REPORT.
To His Honor the Mayor and the City Council:
GENTLEMEN :-- The board of assessors respectfully report the following statement of taxes for state, county and city purposes for the current year :
Assessed value of real estate $6,874,200
" personal property
2,359,600
resident bank shares 528,8 58
$9,762,658
The rate of taxation for 1891, was $15.80 on each $1,000 assess. ed ; the poll tax $2. Whole number of polls assessed, 3,923.
The tax on real estate $6,874,200 at $15.80 is . $108,612 30
66 personal property $2,359,600 at $15.80 is 37,281 68
66 66 bank shares $528,858 at $15.80 is . 8,355 95
46
66 3,923 polls at $2.00 7,846 00
Total
.
$162,095 99
The sums required by the warrants from the state, county and city are as follows :
From George A. Marden, State treasurer $6,840 00
E. Kendall Jenkins, County 9,536 63
George H. Stevens, City clerk, under a resolve from the city council
$172,368 97
Less this amount not otherwise appropriated 28,000 00
$144,368 97
The amount of overlay being
1,350 39
Total
. $162,095 99
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
The value of vessels engaged in the foreign trade exempt by law amounting to $234,571, is not included in the valuation above men. tioned ; the net income of such vessels amounting to $24,552.39 is included, making a gain of $3,897.03 in the amount of said income over that of last year.
The value of exempted property is as follows :
Religious societies, real estate .
$296,500 00 Literary institutions .
$84,900 00
Invested funds .
98,948 73
183,848 73
Beneficient and charitable
Invested funds .
87,800 00 273,885 60
361,685 60
Total .
·
$842,034 33
Number of dwelling houses assessed, 2,522 ; number of acres of land assessed, 4,576 ; horses, 693 ; cows, 283 ; oxen, 8 ; swine, 37.
CHAS. C. DONNELL, A. J. HAYNES, Assessors.
AMOS H. GEARY,
Newburyport, December 24, 1891.
REPORT OF CITY INSPECTOR.
REPORT
To His Honor the Mayor and Members of the City Council of the City of Newbury- port :
GENTLEMEN :- I herewith respectfully submit my report for 1891 :
Milk licences issued
62
Dealers registered
4
Oleomargarine licenses issued
I
Loads of coal surveyed
19
Measures sealed
51
Scales and weights tested
387
Average samples milk tested by lactometer .
19.31
lactoscope
3.44
Cans of milk sold in city per day .
724
JAMES W. GUNNISON, Sealer and Inspector.
27
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REPORT OF PARK COMMISSIONERS.
REPORT.
To the City Council of the City of Newburyport :
GENTLEMEN :- The park commissioners make the following re- port :
Washington park has been completed. The play-ground at the west end, which had settled much during the year, has again been graded, and the embankment has been turfed. The county commis- sioners have paid all expenses attending the grading and finishing that portion of the grounds about the court house. The unsightly iron fence has been removed, a new flight of stepts built, and both flights have been provided with railings to correspond with those placed upon the other steps last year. The banks on either side of, and adjacent to, the court house, have been graded and turfed, and the uneven and rocky place in the rear has been graded, laid out and grassed. The entire grounds have been carefully looked after by the efficient superintendent, who has kept his lawn mower and rakes almost constantly in motion.
By the kindness of the surveyor of highways, we have again top- dressed some of the lawns with street sweepings. Near the close of the year we had some trees set out which we trust will grow to beau- tify still more that attractive spot. A list of those trees is appended.
We rejoice to state that the pipe from the pond has been con- nected with the sewers, and a pipe has been laid from the water main to the pond. The hope expressed in our last report, is near- ing fulfilment. By the generosity of an honored citizen, Hon. Edward S. Moseley, an elegant fountain will soon grace the centre
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
of the pond, and water, freely furnished by the water company, will in summer's warm days refresh the visitor and purify those so long stagnant waters. We are still looking and longing for the time when the means shall be furnished to lay out "Riverside Park," "Atkin- son Common," and "Kent street Common," so that with the annual appropriation they can all be kept in such condition that we may point to them with pride. Brown square has been kept in as pre - sentable condition as possible while those unsightly plank walks are suffered to remain.
LIST OF TREES SET OUT.
One Purple Norway Maple, one Scarlet Oak, one Golden Poplar, one cut-leaved Birch. one Purple weeping Beech, one Sophora Japon- ica, one Weirs cut-leaved Maple, one mossy Cup Oak, one Laurel- leaved Willow, one Prunus Pissardi, one Tulip tree, one Rivers Pur- ple Beech, five Maples, three Elms, one Colorado Blue Spruce, four dwarf evergreens.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation
$500 00 3 5I
Received from county for bill paid
~ $503 51
EXPENDITURES.
Labor
$256 82
Play ground
162 50
Lawn mower .
7 50
Wheelbarrow
I 75
Repairing lawn mowers
3 65
Rake
40
Trees, freight and setting out
32 52
Repairing and oiling settees .
7 88
Loam
15 00
Work on burying grounds
15 00
Undrawn
49 $503 51
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN N. PIKE, Secretary.
REPORTS OF PUBLIC LIBRARY.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY.
IN BOARD OF DIRECTORS, ¿ NEWBURYPORT, Dec. 14, 1891.
ORDERED, That the Report of the Directors, together with the accompanying reports, be transmitted to the City Council, agreeably to the requirements of sec- tion 5th of the ordinance concerning the Public Library.
JOHN D. PARSONS, Secretary.
TRUSTEES OF THE LIBRARY-1892.
ORRIN J. GURNEY, Mayor.
ALDERMEN.
JOHN W. ALLEN, CHARLES W. PAGE, HENRY C. PLUMMER
CHAS. C. STOCKMAN, GEO. E. STICKNEY, ANDREW R. CURTIS.
DIRECTORS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
ORRIN J. GURNEY, Mayor
Ex-officio. 46
IRVIN BESSE, President of Common Council
EDWARD S. MOSELEY, Trustee of Building Fund .
*SAMUEL J. SPALDING, 06 66
66
66
ELISHA P. DODGE,
66 66
NATHAN N. WITHINGTON, term of office expires WILLIAM R. JOHNSON, 66
1892
AMOS NOYES, 66
66
1894
SAMUEL C. BEANE,
1895
ENOCH C. ADAMS,
1896
CHARLES C. DAME,
66
66
1897
JOHN E. BAILEY, 66
66
66
1898
TRUSTEES OF THE PEABODY FUND.
EDWARD S. MOSELEY,
EBEN F. STONE,
WILLIAM H. SWASEY DANIEL T. FISKE,
JOHN J. CURRIER.
LIBRARIAN . JOHN D. PARSONS.
ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN
EFFIE A. TENNEY.
EXTRA ASSISTANT .
E. S. THURSTON.
SUPERINTENDENT OF READING ROOM]
MARTHA P. LUNT.
JANITOR .
. DANIEL P. DONNELL.
66
1893
66 66
*Died April 11, 1892.
ORGANIZATION
OF THE
Board of Directors of the Public Library
FOR 1892.
PRESIDENT-ORRIN J. GURNEY.
SECRETARY, JOHN D. PARSONS.
COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY,
SAMUEL, C. BEANE, WILLIAM R. JOHNSON. COMMITTEE ON LIBRARIAN, AMOS NOYES, ELISHA P. DODGE, NATHAN N. WITHINGTON.
COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY ROOM, EDWARD S. MOSELEY, IRVIN BESSE.
COMMITTEE ON READING ROOM,
EDWARD S. MOSELEY, ENOCH C. ADAMS, JOHN E. BAILEY.
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND ACCOUNTS,
ORRIN J. GURNEY, WM. R. JOHNSON, CHARLES C. DAME.
COMMITTEE ON BRADBURY FUND,
CHARLES C. DAME, SAMUEL C. BEANE, N. N. WITHINGTON.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS.
To the Honorable the Mayor and the City Council of Newburyport :
GENTLEMEN :- According to established custom, the directors of the Public Library submit to you their thirty-sixth annual report.
The library during the past year has made the usual increase in the number of books, and we have evidence that there has been of recent years a very considerable increase in its usefulness to the pub- lic. Never before has it been resorted to so much, not only for en- tertainment of readers but for the instruction afforded by its means in general knowledge, or in special matters of investigation, for which it affords better facilites each year by the addition of works of refer ence. We can also speak with some degree of pride of the Reading Room, the appreciation of which by the public is made manifest by the increasing number of those who avail themselves of its privileges. By the liberality of its endowment we are able to furnish readers with the best newspapers, magazines and reviews of this country, and some of the leading ones of England, and with more variety than ever before.
Since our last annual report the death of Mr. James Parton, a mem- ber of the board of directors of the Public Library, has caused a loss to us, as it has been to this community especially and to the litera- ture of the country. Mr. Parton's eminence as an author, more par- ticularly in the field of biography, is generally recognized. For near- ly ten years he had served on this board, during all of which time he was on the Committee on Library, which selects the books which are added, and to him we have been largely indebted for the wisdom
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with which additions to the library have been made. His choice of books was catholic and discriminating, and in our meetings his kind- ly presence and his wide knowledge made us all his friends and re- spectful to his advice and recommendations.
There are no great changes to report in regard to the Library, but its condition and that of the funds by which it is aided as also of the building fund, will be found in the librarian's and other reports here- with submitted.
E. P. DODGE, O. J. GURNEY, E. S. MOSELEY, S. J. SPALDING, D. T. FISKE, R. JACOBY, N. N. WITHINGTON,
DIRECTORS
OF THE
W. R. JOHNSON, AMOS. NOYES, E. C. ADAMS, C. C. DAME,
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Newburyport, December 15, 1892.
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN.
To the Committee on Library :
GENTLEMEN :- I herewith submit the 36th annual report of the Librarian of the Newburyport Public Library.
During the August vacation the books on the shelves were count- ed, as a basis of future reckoning. There were found to be 27,734 volumes. Last year the number was returned as 26,306, which with the additions up to the time of the recount would have made 26,928. Accordingly a discrepancy existed, of 805 volumes, and the rectifica- tion of this error, which I have for some time suspected, was well worth the trouble. Since that time 267 volumes have been added, of which three were to take the place of worn out copies. and 32 have been withdrawn as unfit for further service, leaving `as the present number of volumes in the library 27,941.
During the past year 890 volumes have been added and 84 with- drawn. Of this number 785 were purchased, 165 donated. Of the purchases nearly one-half were from the income of the Peabody Fund. which still is our principal resource for building up the library, and. for over 20 years has been invaluable in providing us with the best literature.
'The Library growth for the year is fully set fourth in Appendix E.
The number of books withdrawn from the Library for home use during the period under review was 34,646, against 31,727 for the corresponding term last year, an increase of 2919. Of this number 10 are now missing from the shelves, all of slight monetary value. and the cost of replacing such as should be replaced is about $5.00.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
One book could not be recovered because the heads of the family had been sent to prison and the household was dispersed. Another borrower had gone to sea. Others had left town and had not left their addresses, and one was, prima facie, a thief, if either a false name or residence is evidence.
That we suffer as slightly as we do from loss of books is remark- able, considering the freedom with which the public is allowed to use the library. In nearly every library of my acquaintance no card is issued to a person not known to be an established citizen or tax- payer, without a written guarantee from some tax-payer or profes- sional man, who is heldfor the faithful observance .of the rules on the part of the borrower, or, in place of that, a small deposit of money is required. I would not recommend that any restriction be put on the free use of the library, as at present conducted, believing that the general public can better afford the slight loss annually entailed than to deprive many worthy and honest people who could not per- haps obtain suitable endorsers, of the privileges of the Library.
Statistics regarding the circulation of the books are given in Ap- pendix F. No account is made of the use of books for consultation at the library building, an important factor in the usefulness of the institution.
The library has been open 284 days for giving out books, against 287 last year ; and 290 for consultation of books, while the reading room has been open every day but Sundays. The average daily cir- culation has been 122, against 11I last year. The largest withdraw- al of books in a single day was 306, last year it was 267.
In the two years and three months since a new registration was ordered 3,200 borrowers have signed, the names of 92 have been canceled, leaving 3,108 as the number of persons now entitled to take books from the library.
There have been sent to the bindery 319 volumes, of which 221 were for rebinding. There have also been repaired at the library 47 I volumes, and 2,455 have been covered. This latter is one of the great drawbacks of the librarian's time. The work here mention- ed is equivalent to about 146 hours, time, a menial kind of service which could just as well be performed by a boy or a girl, in common with a number of other routine duties which take time simply but no
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skill or training. I renew my request that fitting help should be fur- nished for such service.
The need of a new catalogue continues to be the greatest want for a fuller usefulness of the library, a need felt not only by the pub- lic who use the library, but in a greater degree by the librarian and assistants. Most borrowers will not use a catalogue when they find it necessary to look through an almost endless number of sup- plements, and so the library attendants must, when their memory- fails to retain the books on any subject called for. This entails an immense waste of time.
I had hoped, by this time to have had the fiction of the library classified, catalogued, and a finding list published, but the work has proved greater than was anticipated and the time which could be taken from other duties, less. The undertaking is still in progress, and I hope for its earliest completion.
In concluding I would make or renew the following recommenda- tions to the Board :
I. That a library assistant be employed to perform routine work- repairing and covering books, keeping shelves in order, carrying books to and fro, and the many little things which daily must be at- tended to.
2. That the custom of putting paper covers on books be discon- tinued, except in case of works of fiction and juvenile literature.
3. That students in the High and Grammar schools be allowed each a special pupil's card, on which to to draw books recommended to them by their teachers, to be read in connection with their school work.
Further details of matters alluded to above are given in the ac- companying appendices.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN D. PARSONS, Librarian.
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APPENDICES.
APPENDIX A .- RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.
$1,500 00 Appropriation
CREDITS.
From dog licenses .
$672 06
town of Newbury, use of library for year 1890 1 50 00
H. B. Little, cash returned for damage to hens 6 00
$828 09
Total appropriation and income $2,328 06
Amount undrawn, transferred to incidentals to balance account 21 20
$2,306 86
EXPENDITURES. Authorized by the City Council.
John D. Parsons, services as librarian $1,000 01
Effie A. Tenney, services as assistant librarian 300 00
M. P. Lunt, services as superintendent of reading room 375 00
E. S. Thurston, services at library . 47 75
Daniel P. Donnell, janitar of library
260 12
Jackson & Co.'s Express, expressage
8 30
News Publishing Co., printing and advertising
3 50
Eben P. Goodwin, stock and labor
3 15
C. R. Sargent, sundries 3.90
Caleb B. Huse & Co., printing . IO 25
John E. Bailey, stock and labor
31 01
Economy Printing Co., printing and advertising 32 00
Newburyport Despatch, expressage .
II 25
Amount carried forward
228
ANNUAL REPORT.
Amount brought forward $2,026 84
Newburyport Herald Co., printing and advertising . 15 75
Library Bureau, sundries . 46 35
Lambert Jackson, binding books
III 45
Henry W. Hall, wrapping paper
9 60
Lovett's Express, expressage .
I5
Standard Newspaper Co., printing and advertising .
2 25
Carter, Rice & Co., wrapping paper
18 15
Almeda Perkins, labor
16 92
$2,306 86
Miscellaneous.)
RECEIPTS.
Received from fines .
$59 23
Balance from 1890
· 30 38
$89 61
EXPENDITURES.
Postage
$10 10 .
Sundry expenses .
13 75
Express and truckage
5 35
Sundry supplies
6 07
$35 27
Balance
54 34
.
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APPENDIX B .- BUILDING FUND).
To the Directors of the Public Library:
The trustees, to whom was committed the excess of money subscribed over and above the sum necessary to purchase and prepare the library building and the grounds adjoining to be presented as a free gift to the city, as a token of their in- terest therein, in pursuance of the wish of the subscribers thereto, that an annual statement of their action should be submitted to the directors of the library-beg leave to report that the original surplus of five thousand dollars over and above the actual cost of the building and grounds remains in the Institution for Savings, where it was originally deposited, from which the principal can be withdrawn only upon the written order of all the trustees.
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