City Officers and the Annual Reports to the City Council of Newburyport 1908, Part 3

Author: City of Newburyport
Publication date: 1908
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Powder house lot; Low street


1,200.00


Pasture; Crow lane.


700.00


Gravel pit; Coffin's court .


300.00


Gravel pit; Greenleaf street.


1,500.00


Gravel pit; North Atkinson street.


800.00


Kent street landing


1,500.00


Green street landing


2,000.00


Winter street landing.


400.vv


Jefferson street landing.


300.00


Bromfield street landing 300.00


Goodwin landing 150.00


Gas house landing


50.00


Pettingell landing


50.00


Marlboro street landing


100.00


Janvrin landing


1,059.00


Coombs' landing


100.00


Total . $36,459.00


56


ANNUAL REPORTS


PUBLIC PROPERTY


Furniture in city hall building, engine houses, police station and court room.


$ 6,000.00


Movable property in schoolhouses, consisting of desks and chairs for pupils, books and miscellaneous supplies, viz:


Johnson school $ 450.00


Bromfield street school


546.00


Purchase street school


60.00


Jackman school


632.00


Temple street school


138.00


Kelley school


1,192.00


Congress street school


311.00


Congress street ward room 66.00


Forester street school.


610.00


Ahsland street school in temporary quarters


142.00


Ashland street ward room


38.00


Moultonville school


149.00


Plains school


100.00


High school


1,550.00


Committee room, city hall.


500.00


Three second-class Amoskeag steamers, one Nott steamer, five hose wagons, one supply wagon, two hose reels, two hook and ladder trucks, 9000 feet leading hose, 60 feet suction hose (21/2-inch), three siamese couplings, seven hand extinguishers, four double harness, six single harness, and small supplies. In care of the chief of the fire department .


One 10-ton road roller, one road machine, nine horses, three double carts, three single carts, three double sleighs, three single sleighs, one stone jigger, three double harness, three single harness, three single sleigh harness, nine horse blankets, nine canvas coverings, one hokey- pokey cart, two road plows, four gravel screens, four snow plows, one single horse shovel, one


6,484.00


25,000.00


57


CITY AUDITOR


iron paving widder block, six wooden paving widders, two spirit levels, four wooden signs for road roller, eight iron signs for road roller, two tool boxes, four wooden horses, 18 pickaxes, six hoes, 12 scoop shovels, six grubs, two paving hammers, 12 water pails, one water can, two kerosene oil cans, four wheelbarrows, 13 steel bars, four tamping bars, 12 chains, one brush cutter, two pendants for snow plows, two rakes, 12 lanterns, four stone chisels, six brush brooms, four stone hammers, two mauls, two sledges, stable implements. In care of the sur- veyor of highways


Furniture in almshouse; other property in or about city farm buildings, viz; five cows, 13 swine three horses, one mowing machine, one horse rake, one hay tedder, two sets hay forks and blocks, two express wagons, two dump carts, one hay wagon, one light wagon, two sets double harness, three sets single harness, two plows, two cultivators, one four-ton 8x14 wagon scale, other tools and appurtenances usually found on a farm. In care of the superintendent of the city farm


$ 4,287.65


3,027.00


Standard weights and measures.


300.00


Fire alarm


5,000. - -


Making a total of .$50,098.95


RECAPITULATION


Real estate


$138,200.00


Schoolhouses


196,300.00


Engine houses


13,500.00


Lands


36,459.00


Personal property


50,098.65


Total


$434,557.65


Fifty-Eighth Annual Report OF THE


Collector of Taxes


60


ANNUAL REPORTS


ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE


DR. CITY OF NEWBURYPORT in account current


To uncollected taxes of 1904, December 21, 1907 2,781.00


To uncollected taxes of 1905, December 21, 1907 4,248.41


To uncollected taxes of 1906, December 21, 1907 24,575.83


To uncolected taxes of 1907, December 21, 1907 62,061.49


$ 93,666.73


To uncollected betterments, December


21,1907 2,375.89


2,375.89


To uncollected watering streets, 1905, December 21, 1907 15.32


To uncollected watering streets, 1906, December. 21, 1907. 491.78


To uncollected watering streets, 1907, December 21, 1907.


1,223.62


1,730.72


To tax of 1908, city appropriation 230,065.90


Less estimated income 17,000.00


213,065.90


To state tax


18,897.70


To county tax


15,289.61


To overlay


4,155.29


To supplementary commitment


657.70


To supplementary commitment, 1906, 1907


1,454.06


263,520.26


To non-resident bank tax, 1908


3,160.86


To watering streets, 1908. 5,094.74


To betterments, 1908 87.53


61


COLLECTOR OF TAXES


COLLECTOR OF TAXES


, with H. F. W HITON, Collector of Taxes CR.


Tox of 1904 collected. $ 48.40


Tax of 1905 collected.


1,215.18


Tax of 1906 collected.


20,313.16


Tax of 1907 collected.


35,398.06


Tax of 1908 collected.


178,819.12


235,793.92


$235,793.92


Betterments collected


870.91


Non-resident bank tax collected .


3,160.86


4,031.77


Watering streets collected, 1905.


15.32


Watering streets collected, 1906.


432.82


Watering streets collected, 1907.


753.31


Watering streets collected, 1908. .


3,814.05


Preservation of trees collected, 1907. ..


68.50


Preservation of trees collected, 1908 ...


491.99


5,575.99


9,607.76


Abatement tax of 1904.


725.90


Abatement tax of 1905.


616.98


Abatement tax of 1906.


273.12


Abatement tax of 1907.


587.74


Abatement tax of 1908


4,412.46


6,616.20


6,616.20


Abatement watering streets, 1906.


39.20


Abatement watering streets, 1908


13.64


52.84


52.84


Uncollected tax 1904, Dec.19, 1908 ....


2,006.7J


Uncollected tax 1905, Dec. 19, 1908. ...


2,416.25


Uncollected tax 1906, Dec. 19, 1908 ....


4,042.51


62


ANNUAL REPORTS


ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE


DR. CITY OF NEWBURYPORT in account current


To preservation of trees, 1908, commit-


ment $ 803.12


Preservation of trees, 1907, balance ... 179.45


$


9,325.70


$370,619.30


€3


COLLECTOR OF TAXES


COLLECTOR OF TAXES


with H. F. WHITON, Collector of Taxes CR.


Uncollected tax 1907, Dec. 19, 1908. . .$ 26,476.79


Uncollected tax 1908, Dec. 19, 1908 .. 79,834.62


114,776.87


114,776.87


Uncollected watering streets 19v6 ..


19.76


Uncollected watering streets 1907.


470.31


Uncollected watering streets 1908.


1,267.05


1,757.12


1,757.12


Uncollected betterments.


1,592.51


1,592.51


Uncollected preservation of trees, 1907


110.95


Uncollected preservation of trees, 1908


311.13


422.08


422.08


$270.619.30


Detailed Statement OF THE


Receipts and Expenditures


ABATEMENT OF TAXES


-


1904


Allowed on assessors' orders. $725.90


Transferred from contingent account to balance. 725.90


1905


Allowed on assessors' orders. $616.98


Transferred from contingent account to balance. 616.98


1906


Allowed on assessors' orders. $273.12


Re-assessments


52.96


Transferred from contingent account to balance 220.16


$273.12


1907


Allowed on assessors' orders. $587.74


Re-assessments


401.10


Transferred from contingent account to balance 186.64


$587.74


67


68


ANNUAL REPORTS


1908


Allowed on assessors' orders $ 4,412.46


Transferred from contingent account to balance. 11,400.53


$15,812.99


Re-assessments


11,657.70


Overlay


4,155.29


$15,812.99


WATERING STREETS, 1906


Allowed on assessors' orders.


$39.20


Transferred from contingent account to balance 39.20


WATERING STREETS, 1908


Allowed on assessors' orders. $13.64


Re-assessments


5.62


Transferred from contingent account to balance 8.02


$13.64


69


DETAILED STATEMENT ASHES AND RUBBISH.


Appropriation


.$1,500.00


EXPENDITURES Authorized by the Committee on Highways


Cashman Brothers, labor.


9.20


Labor, as per pay rolls. 1,454.89


1,464.09


Transferred to contingent account to balance


35.91


$1,500.00


ANNA JAQUES HOSPITAL


Appropriation .$600.00


Paid H. B. Little, treasurer Anna Jaques hospital. 600.00


70


ANNUAL REPORTS


AI.DERMEN AND COUNCIL.


Appropriation


. $1,200.VV


CREDITS


By cash payments for advertising. $ 5.55


By premium on saels of water bonds. 150.00


Transferred from contingent account to balance 47.00


$1,402.55


EXPENDITURES


Authorized b ythe Committee on Municipal Department


J. Hermann Carver, 12 months' services as clerk of com- mittees and common council. $ 500.00


Swan, the printer, printing. 399.70


F. L. Atkinson, box rent and stamps. 8.70


Five Cents Savings bank, rent of deposit box. 20.00


News Publishing Company, advertising and printing ... 29.75


Wolfe Tavern, lunch served committee on counties and county commissioners, mayor and aldermen. 24.00


Gould & Adams, rubber stamps. .35


American Express Company, expressing. 2.25


Clarence Lowell, labor. 1.00


Telephone Comapny, rental of telephone.


10.16


R. J. Mckinney, ringing St. Paul's church bell. 5.00


Herbert Currier, ringing Prespect street church bell ... 2.00


F. H. Rundlett, ringing Unitarian church bell. 5.00


J. L. M. Levesque, ringing French Catholic church bell 5.00


D. P. Thurlow, ringing Old South church bell. 10.00


S. F. Parsons, ringing Prospect street church bell. 3.00


R. S. Miller, ringing arris street church bell. 5.00


James P. Currier, ringing Belleville church bell. 3.00


John F. Corey, ringing Immaculate Conception church bell 5.00


71


DETAILED STATEMENT


Osmond Hunt, typewriting 10 bonds, two copies annual reports $ 2.10


Jackson's Express Company, expressing. .15


City Trust Company, Boston, preparing water loan bonds


150.00


L. D. Philbrick, setting one headstone. 18.50


Terasurer's office, paid F. H. Rundlett for date book and post cards


.44


Carter's Ink Company, 12 quarts Massachusetts State Record ink 4.00


W. D. A. Clark, Mary A. Fenton suit. 48.40


Fowles' News Agency, Boston papers.


.52


Library Bureau, printed cards.


3.00


Irvin Besse, mileage to Boston, hearing at state house. .


9.50


Leader Publishing Company, printing and advertising ..


3.90


Herald Publishing Company, printing and advertising. .


8.00


Samuel Usher, printing notes with stubs


13.50


W. J. Hale, registrar of deeds. .65


Newburyport bridge, H., M. & A. St. Ry., power 100.98


$1,402.55


72


ANNUAL REPORTS


ASSESSORS


Appropriation $1,800.00


Overdrawn, transferred from contingent account to bal-


ance 99.00


$1,899.89


EXPENDITURES


Authorized by the Committee on Municipal Department


George P. Sargent, one year's salary $ 500.00


Eben C. Knight, one year's salary . 500.00


Charles L. Perkins, one year's salary . 500.00


Jackson's Express company, expressing .


.15


Telephone Company, rental of telephone.


8.40


George H. Pearson, supplies.


2.40


American Express Company, expressing.


1.75


Lila D. Stott, looking up deeds at Salem


83.01


Swan, the printer, 1000 letter heads.


4.00


Wright & Potter, 200 tax blanks.


4.50


Banker & Tradesman, one year's subscription


5.00


Library Bureau, cards printed and ruled.


7.02


C. L. Perkins, stamps.


1.00


Wolfe Tavern, one dinner, deputy tax commissioner. . ..


.75


Board of Assessors, expenses to Lawrence and Amesbury


2.94


Horace J. Stevens, Author and Publisher, The Copper Handbook 37.50


Leader Publishing Company, advertising and printing ..


22.05


Herald Publishing Company, advertising and printing ..


173.60


F. L. Atkinson, postmaster, stamped envelopes and stamps 15.22


News Publishing Company, printing and advertising .. 16.25


Osmond D. Hunt, typewriting.


.35


Hill's Livery, horse and carriage hire.


6.00


Sampson & Murdock, Newburyport directory 2.00


A. W. Parsons, horse and carriage hire. 6.00


$1,899.89


73


DETAILED STATEMENT


BRIDGES AND CULVERTS


Newburyport Bridge


Appropriation $1,200.00


Overdrawn, transferred from contingent account to bal-


ance 951.71


$2,151.71


EXPENDITURES


Authorized by the Committee on Bridges


County of Essex, 30 percent of maintenance of bridge. . . $1,784.78


Transferred to Plum Island bridge. 366.93


$2,151.71


Plum Island Bridge


Transferred from Newburyport bridge. $366.93


Overdrawn, transferred from contingent account to bal-


ance 310.16


$677.09


EXPENDITURES


Authorized by the Committee on Bridges


County of Essex, 25 percent of maintenance of bridge. .. . $677.09


Chain Bridge


Appropriation $100.00


Overdrawn, transferred from contingent account to bal-


ance 45.28


$145.28


74


ANNUAL REPORTS


EXPENDITURES Authorized by the Committee on Bridges


A Hoyt & Son, stock and labor $ 2.79


W. C. Morse, stoc and labor 38.88


J. Roy, stock and labor 17.00


R. G. Adams, stock and labor 33.54


County of Essex, 60 percent of maintenance of bridge. 52.47


$145.28


Culverts


Appropriation $500.00


Amount refunded from A. Russell & Sons.


.63


Cash from sale of old material from superintendent of highways 37.69


Transferred from ice and snow account. 280.00


$818.32


EXPENDITURES Authorized by the Committee on Bridges and Culverts


Labor, as per pay rolls. $597.81


A. Hoyt & Son, stock and labor 2.00


Atkinson Coal Company, cement. 7.48


A. J. Brooks, stock and labor 2.00


R. G. Adams, stock and labor 6.81


William Green, labor. 2.00


C. J. Sweeney, labor and gravel


10.00


McGlew Brothers, hangers.


9.00


T. H. McCarthy, labor


24.50


F. W. Marshall, labor.


17.01


W. C. Morse, stock and labor


1.80


A. Russell & Sons, castings, etc.


39.28


E. Perkins Lumber Company, stock


.38


S. H. Thurlow, hammer and wire. .62


William Holker, bolts and pipe


1.70


Hatch Brothers, stock and labor 81.91


Undrawn, transferred to contingent account to balance .. 13.93


$818.32


75


DETAILED STATEMENT


BROMFIELD FUND


Income for 1908


$412.50


EXPENDITURES


Authorized by the Committee on Bromfield Fund


Transferred to sidewalks and edgestones . $206.25


Transferred to preservation of trees


206.25


$412.50


BOARD OF HEALTH


(Miscellaneous)


Appropriation


.$2,000.00 ...


CREDITS


By cash from other cities and towns, for aid rendered. 231.03


By cash from William Thurston for undertaker's license 4.00


Transferred from contingent account to balance 199.00


$2,434.03


EXPENDITURES


Authorized by the Board of Health


J. B. Goodrich, milk. $ 1.96


Henry N. Harris, being quarantined. 36.00


James Fitzgerald, being quarantined. 76.00


76


ANNUAL REPORTS


Catherine O'Connor, nursing .. $ 36.00


Mrs. William Donahoe, board and nursing. 16.00


Brown, Lent & Pett, one record book. 4.50


Birmingham Pen Company, one gross pens 1.25


Frank J. Boyles, being quarantined. 45.00


William J. Cook, groceries 105.40


Mrs. Mary Barry, nursing.


40.00


John Glover, being quarantined.


21.00


N. B. Greenwood, groceries


45.41


Jessie C. Junkins, being quarantined .


12.75


Frank W. Landford, being quarantined.


30.00


George F. Little, milk.


1.26


Amos Lane, nursing.


20.00


F. O. Morse, M. D., care of Silas O'Neil


10.00


Patrick Moynahan, being quarantined


22.50


Anastatia Murphy, nursing


50.00


John A. Newhall, milk.


6.74


News Publishing Company, advertising.


15.25


James Noyes, milk.


3.55


Osgood & Goodwin, supplies.


4.79


A. D. Ordway, horse for ambulance.


8.00


George H. Pearson, supplies.


2.10


Hill's Livery, horse hire.


70.00


R. D. Hamilton, services as bacteriologist .


343.97


Newburyport Herald Company, advertising.


13.50


Jere Healey, fuel.


42.88


Telephone Company, rental of telephone.


39.24


Richard Brothers, groceries


43.48


City of Fall River, Everett Bray case


.40


City Hall Market, provisions.


39.64


Swan, the Printer, printing.


21.75


Elmer Pike, being quarantined.


10.50


Thomas B. Hughes, being quarantined.


24.00


Joseph L. Turpin, being quarantined.


33.00


Charles C. Torrey, being quarantined .


76.00


O. E. Buzzell, nursing.


10.00


John M. Wilson, being quarantined.


13.50


Orrin Dorris, housekeeping


3.00


Patrick J. Duggan, nursing.


24.00


Patrick J. Duggan, being quarantined


28.00


77


DETAILED STATEMENT


Thurston S. Chase, milk. $ 7.14


2.50


Thomas F. Carey, druggists' supplies.


39.00


Joseph W. Crooks, being quarantined.


William C. Caswell, being quarantined. 18.00


W. H. Chase, being quarantined . 21.00


Mrs. Ellen Sheehan, board, nursing and medicine.


9.75


Elizabeth Sheehan, nursing. .


42.00


Benjamin Sargent & Son, burying dog fish at Plum Island


11.00


Tristiam L. Souther, being quarantined.


30.00


Sadie Shaw, nursing


13.00


C. C. Stonemitz, being quarantined.


22.00


Anna Jaques Hospital, care Martell case


27.15


Daniel E. Tilton, groceries.


5.58


Rufus H. Parker, provisions.


5.05


The Tarpon, fish


.61


John E. Weare, groceries.


5.63


A. P. Wilson, disenfectant.


21.65


Joseph Woods, fuel.


21.70


Edward W. Eaton, supplies.


13.70


DePree Chemical Company formaldhyde fumigator


57.60


F. J. Donahoe, groceries.


15.88


Charles L. Davis, sundries


12.25


Green Davis, painting signs


8.50


John Casey, groceries


33.23


Commonwealth of Massachusetts, state hospital


84.80


J. I. Collins, sundries


20.03


John Collins, fuel


4.63


K. Castelhun, sundries


1.40


D. F. Noyes, house furnishings


3.59


William E. Aubin, groceries.


17.36


Star Grocery, groceries


57.70


C. C. Stockman, house furnishings.


66.31


F. W. Field, groceries


2.42


J. J. Kohlhaas


15.00


H. A. Knapp, milk.


5.18


William Thurston, sundries


28.62


A. K. Silloway


11.50


Frank Hoyt, supplies


112.60


Job Weston, provisions


17.07


Mary Sabourine, being quarantined


71.58


78


ANNUAL REPORTS


C. F. Silloway $ 18.00


$2,434.03


BOARD OF HEALH


(Supervision and Labor)


Appropriation


$500.00


EXPENDITURES


William Thurston, salary as agent from December 1,


1907, to December 1, 1908. $500.00


CITY HALL


-


Appropriation $2,000.00


By rent of hall 1,090.50


By cash from J. M. Little, part payment of lanterns


10.00


$3,100.50


EXPENDITURES Authorized by the Committee on Public Property


Western Union Telegraph Company, telegram to Chica-


go $ 3.59


Edward Hardy, services as stage carpenter 134.74


A. Hoyt & Son, labor and stock. 40.94


Hub Plumbing and Heating Company, labor 1.80


James Dickens, electrical supplies. . ... 11.25


79


DETAILED STATEMENT


A. Russell & Sons Company, labor and material. $ 33.43


Newburyport Gas and Electric Company, lighting. 370.61


W. P. French, charcoal 11.00


P. S. Bradford, labor 1.00


T. P. Thomas, labor and material.


14.78


B. F. Gerrish, curtains 3.66


W. E. Morse, electrical supplies. 1.35


W. B. Porter, teaming .50


Estate Hermon Staples, painting and setting glass 15.26


S. H. Thurlow & Company, rope and bolts. . .35


F. E. Cutter & Son, painting and setting glass. 2.85


William Holker, supplies 2.30


Fred E. Hunt, labor 1.90


Carter, Rice Company, one case toilet paper.


6.75


C. C. Stockman, clock and feather duster 9.85


Yerxa & Company, ammonia


.70


Henry Buskek, inspection of boilers 2.00


Jere Healey, fuel 335.06


E. Perkins Lumber Company, repairing chair 10.93


A. C. Currier, stock and labor 3.48


A. P. Wilson, supplies. .98


Victor Manufacturing Company, pulleys. 4.00


C. R. Sargent, labor and material. 18.45


E. J. Huse, reseating chair . 1.00


F. A. Perkins, framing steam boiler certificate. .50


Eagle Chemical Company, cleaning materials. 23.60


Green Davis, setting glass .


2.55


D. F. Noyes, labor and stock. 14.90


O .W. Richardson, stage carpet. 32.23


A. J. Casey, use of hall 5.00


$3,100.50


80


ANNUAL REPORTS


CITY AUDITOR


Appropriation


.$650.00


EXPENDITURES


Authorized by the Committee on Municipal Department


William Balch, one year's salary $600.00


William Balch, expenses to Boston on bond issue and issue of Newburyport notes 7.50


Telephone Company, charges in regard to above. . .85


608.35


Undrawn, transferred to contingent account to balance ..


41.65


$650.00


CITY CLERK


Appropriation


$1,800.00


EXPENDITURES


Authorized by the Committee on Municipal Departments


H. W. Little, one year's salary . $1,450.00


S. O. Pilling, birth returns 1.65


F. L. Atkinson, postmaster, 1000 stamped envelopes. . 21.24


Clarence C. Day, birth returns. 5.25


Mrs. Mary Souther, birth returns .50


John F. Young, birth returns.


3.25


W. W. Pillsbury, birth returns. 3.75


Joshua L. Chase, birth returns. 9.00


81


DETAILED STATEMENT


City Treasurer's Office, 50 post cards. $ .50


Brewster Brothers Company, Massachusetts Bond In- surance Company . 87.00


A. C. Nason, birth returns. 3.75


J. J. Connor, death returns. 13.00


Frederick O. Morse, birth returns.


.50


Moses Young, death returns


6.50


J. C. Lunt & Company, death returns.


11.75


A. R. Andrews, rubber bands. 2.50


Sampson, Murdock Company, one Newburyport direc-


tory 2.00


F. W. Snow, birth returns. 11.00


Abby Noyes Little, birth returns. 6.50


Ernest H. Noyes, birth returns.


2.25


W. H. Safford, repairing clock. 1.00


T. Harrington, death returns.


20.75


R. C. Hurd, birth returns.


6.50


R. J. Mckinney, death returns. 22.75


F. S. Webster, typewriter erasers. .25


H. M. Meek Publishing Company, birth return book. 3.00


Telephone Company, rental of telephone. 20.82


American Express Company, expressing


1.10


Library Bureau, cards, etc 84.74


1,722.60


Undrawn, transferred to contingent account to balance 77.20


$1,800.00


82


ANNUAL REPORTS


CITY TREASURER AND COLLECTOR


Appropriation


$2,300.00


CREDITS


By income from other departments. 4.16


By overdrawn, transferred from contingent account to balance 282.24


$2,586.40


EXPENDITURES


Authorized by the Committee on Municipal Departments


H. F. Whiton, one year's salary as treasurer of sinking


funds and city treasurer. $1,700.08


M. K. Pettingell, six months salary as lerk. 259.63


A. F. Currier, six months' salary as clerk. 240.37


F. H. Rundlett, distributing tax bills 50.00


Gould & Adams, rubber stamp


2.25


Ernest Foss, tax deed


8.63


F. L. Atkinson, envelopes and stamps


67.86


A. P. Wilson, supplies .90


Brewster Brothers, treasurer's bond .


100.00


Sampson, Murdock, Company one directory


2.00


Carter, Rice & Company, envelopes.


6.60


Butman & Stone Company, cash book and check book ...


20.75


School, miscellaneous, one box pens.


.40


Hills' Livery, horse hire


2.00


George H. Pearson, supplies.


11.56


Newburyport Herald Company, printing


3.60


Jackson's Express Company, expressing.


.25


Telephone Company, rental of telephone


19.57


Swan, the Printer, printing.


25.50


American Express Company, expressing. .80


J. J. & H. J. Chase, sharpening ink eraser .20


83


DETAILED STATEMENT


Fowle's News Agncy, Boston paper $ 6.00


Newburyport News, printing and advertising. 45.50 Brown, Lent & Pett, tax book. 11.75


City of Newburyport, stamps sent in payment of taxes and used by treasurer .20


$2,586.40


CITY MESSENGER


Appropriation .$900.00


EXPENDITURES


Paid F. H. Rundlett, salary as city messenger. .$900.00


CITY CLOCKS


Appropriation


.$75.00


EXPENDITURES


Paid P. H. Kimball, salary and expenses. .$75.00


84


ANNUAL REPORTS CEMETERIES


(Improvements)


Appripriation


.$50.00


..


EXPENDITURES


S. H. Thurlow & Company, supplies $ 6.03


Hatch Brothers, stock and labor 12.08


G. A. Noyes, stock and labor 2.69


P. S. Bradford, supplies 1.03


Newburyport Water Company, water. 15.00


Undrawn, transferred to contingent account to balance. 13.00


$50.00


CEMETERIES


(Supervision)


Appropriation


.$250.00


EXPENDITURES


Alfred Gurney, salary as superintendent.


.$250.00


. .


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DETAILED STATEMENT


CITY BONDS


Amount outstanding December 21, 1907. . $827,000.00


Bonds retired during year 1908 as follows:


Twelve ( 12) bonds of water loan of 1904, due June 1, 1908 .. .$12,000.00


Six (6) bonds of bridge loan of 1905, due September 1, 1908. 6,000.00


Two (2) bonds of overdraft loan, due June 1, 1908 .. 2,000.00


Sixty-five (65) bonds of refunding loan, due July 1, 1908 65,000.00


85,000.00


Issued in 1908: seventy-five (75) serials of $1,000 each, payable $3000 in 1909, $2000 in 1910, al- ternations to 1938, for improvement of water ser- vice


75,000.00


Forty (40) serials of $1000 each, registered payable each year to 1918 - $4000 -for retiring trust notes


40,000.00


$857,000.00


Due as follows:


Schoolhouse


31/2 percent


1910


$ 27,500.00


Refunding


4 percent


1911


90,000.00


Refunding 4 percent


1913 25,000.00


Sewer


4 percent


1919 107,500.00


High school


3 1/2 percent


1922


35,000.00


High school


3 1/2 percent


1923


50,000.00


Sewer


31/2 percent


1931.


46,000.00


Water, serial 3 1/2 percent


1909-1934.


295,000.00


Water, serial


4 percent


1909-1938 ...


75,000.00


Bridge, serial


31/2 percent


1909-1915 ..


48,000.00


Overdraft, serial


4 percent


1909-1917. . .. 18,000.00


Refunding trust


notes, serial


3 3/4 percent


1909-1918. 40,000.00


$857,000.00


742,000.00


86


ANNUAL REPORTS


ELECTIONS


Appropriation . $1,575.00


Refunded by Albert O. Colby, overpaid. 6.00


Overdrawn, transferred from contingent account to bal-


ance 79.04


$1,660.04


EXPENDITURES


Authorized by the City Council


Herald Company, printing and advertising. $ 118.35


F. H. Rundlett, putting up and taking down booths. . 14.15


Swan, the Printer, printing. 93.25


Leader Publishing Company, advertising. 6.30


News Publishing Company, printing and advertising ... 58.00


Item Publishing Company, printing and advertising. . .


65.50


A. C. Currier, stock and labor at ward room. 7.45


Thomas Groom & Company, one dozen file indexes.


5.50


A. W. Thompson, suppers for board of registrars.


5.65


Jackson Express Company, expressing.


.55


J. J. & H. J. Chase, repairing ballot boxes.


1.35


D. P. Thurlow, ringing bell .


1.00


James P. Currier, ringing bell.


1.00


American Express Company, expressing.


1.00


F. A. Perkins, thumb tacks.


.55


Estate of Hermon Staples, pasting election boards.


.75


Treasurer and Collector's Office, envelopes.


.50


John Collins, fuel


4.63


George H. Pearson, supplies.


4.55


A. Hoyt & Son, stock and labor at ward room.


30.47


H. M. Meek Publishing Company, book.


8.00


R. L. Gay, four copies Massachusetts Caucus Laws. . .


1.40


Newburyport Gas and Electric Company, lighting. 1.26


W. M. Tibbetts, dinners and lunches for ward officers. 50.50


W. B. Porter, delivery and collecting ballot boxes. 16.79


School Department, one gross pencils. 1.80


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DETAILED STATEMENT


Casper Kahlhaas, services at ward room. $ 11.15


A. O. Colby, care of ward room. 26.75


S. W. Gale, care of ward room. 8.00


Stevens Grocery Company, supplies. .89


Albert Hodgdon, services at ward room 8.50


C. H. Lunt, ringing bell and opening up ward room. . .




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