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Two culverts each 24 feet long of 27-inch pipe on Turkey Hill road. This has done away with the last wooden bridge on that road.
One on Pond Street into Frog pond, 180 feet long of 15-inch pipe. This culvert has been out of commission for six or seven years.
The culvert at the Fiberloid dump has been extended 200 feet of 15-inch pipe.
The culvert at the foot of Marlboro street has been extended 14 feet of 24-inch pipe.
The one at the foot of Dove street has been extended 20 feet of 18-inch pipe and the brick rebuilt for 10 feet.
Culvert on High street, near Bromfield street, 10 feet of 18- inch pipe.
Two new catch basins and a culvert 16 feet long of 12-inch pipe have been built at Thread Needle alley.
One catch basin and a culvert 16 feet of 12-inch pipe on Merrill street.
The culvert from Elm street, across Merrimac street, has been rebuilt.
A new catch basin and culvert 18 feet of 12-inch pipe at Win- ter street and Washington street.
The culvert at the junction of High and Augurn streets should be dug up and a larger one put in.
The culvert at the junction of Low street and Toppan Lane should be rebuilt.
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SEWERAGE
Fifty-one sewers have been entered. Eight stoppages in private drains have been cleared.
In the main sewer three stoppages have occurred; one on High street, caused by roots; one on Market square, sludge; and the other on Allen street, sludge.
The whole system has been thoroughly flushed by hy- drant pressure once and one or two places twice where it was necessary.
Owing to the scarcity of water they have not been flushed as often as I should like to have had them. However the system is in good condition.
I would recommend that the conductors from the roofs of the public buildings be connected with the sewer.
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HIGHWAYS, SEWERS AND PARKS
PARKS
By a vote of the park commissioners this department was placed under by supervision for the summer. Fifty Japan- ese barbary bushes were set out at Brown square, but owing to the hot, dry season, some died.
Five large beds of flowers were in bloom throughout the season which was an increase of two beds more than the cus- tomary number.
In Cushing park there were two large beds of flowers which caused much favorable comment. These were destroyed be- fore the summer was ended by mischievous boys who ran through them and trampled the plants.
The Mall, which is naturally a beautiful place, is in poor condition at the present time. The slopes and embankment should be returfed and lined up. If $100 could be appropri- ated each year for this purpose, in a few years it could be made one of the most beautiful parks in this vicintiy, but un- less the persons using the park can realize the necessity of us- ing the gravel walks instead of the grass ground, such money would be wasted.
It would add to the beauty of the park if the wooden steps could be removed.
I would recommend the purchase of a horse lawn mower to be used in the parks. This would reduce the expense in keeping the grass cut and allow more money for permanen+ improvements.
All of the parks need fertilizer and should be plowed and sown down anew. A few shrubs and bushes should be set out each year.
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ANNUAL REPORTS
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE
Appropriation and income.
$8,672.70
Drivers' salaries $4,146.25
Hay, grain, straw, medicine, etc. 1,537.85
Street sprinkling 300.00
Shoeing, repairs on carts, harness, etc
1,029.53
Supervision, superintendent's salary includ- ing team 1,300.00
8,313.63
Undrawn
$
359.07
NEW WORK AND REPAIRS
Appropriation and income
$9,235.33
Labor $4,269.29
Crushed stone 1,262.27
Extra labor and teams 603.08
Repairs on road roller, tools, supplies, etc .. 1,274.39
7,409.03
Undrawn
$1,826.30
ASHES AND RUBBISH
Appropriation
$1,500.00
Amount expended 1,464.99
Undrawn
$ 35.91
SIDEWALKS AND EDGESTONES
Appropriation and income $1,525.14
Amount expended (including work on State street) 1,577.93
Overdrawn $ 52.79
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HIGHWAYS, SEWERS AND PARKS
NEW BRICK SIDEWALK ON STATE STREET
Appropriation $800.00
Amount expended 751.17
Undrawn
$ 48.83
BRIDGES AND CULVERTS
Appropriation and income . $918.32
Amount expended 903.79
Undrawn
$ 14.53
ICE AND SNOW
Appropriation and income
$1,503.88
Amount expended $993.16
Amount transferred to other departments.
280.00
1,273.16
Undrawn
.
$ 230.72
SEWER MAINTENANCE
Appropriation and income $200.00
Amount expended 100.51
Undrawn $ 99.49
Total appropriations undrawn . $2,566.02
Total appropriations overdrawn 52.79
Actual amount undrawn in all departments under my supervision
$2,513.23
There is a slight difference between this report and that of the city treasurer, due to the fact that some bills are con- tracted in one year and held over until the beginning of the next year before being paid.
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Following is a comparison of the expenditures of the years 1905 and 1908, as taken from the printed yearly reports :
1905 1908 $15,702.80
Highways
$14,342.15
Bills not presented until 1906
3,435.62
$17,777.77
Sidewalks and Edgestones
4,093.39
1,737.94
Ashes and Rubbish
1,742.30
1,464.09
Ice and snow
3,522.27
993.16
Sewer Maintenance
254.72
123.73
Bridges and Culverts
1,274.75
949.67
Total
$28,665.20
$20,971.39
During the year 1908 the expense of No. 1's single team was transferred to the fire department, making a decrease in the expenses of highway department of $1000. There are outstanding bills amounting to nearly $150. These two amounts added to the expenses of 1908, make a total of $22,- 121.39, as against $28,665.20 for 1905.
The decrease in expenses in favor of 1908 is $6,543.81, notwithstanding the fact that the price of grain has increased over 40 per cent, the price of hay over 20 per cent, the drivers' salaries were increased 25 cents a day and the labor- ers 20 cents a day, and in the ashes and rubbish department there was an added expense of $150, caused by the collection of paper on Wednesdays.
At this time I wish to thank His Honor the Mayor and members of the city council and the public in general for their kindly consideration throughout the year.
Respectfully Submitted,
JAMES H. JOHNSTON,
Superintendent.
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CITY PHYSICIAN
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To the City Council of the City of Newburyport. . ni
GENTLEMEN :- I have the honor to sumbit my report for the year ending December 31, 1908.
I have made 1384 visits at the homes of patients and have seen 381 persons at my office.
In addition I have made 28 visits at the almshouse and 13 at the police station, making a total of 1806 visits.
There have been 21 births and 14 deaths.
WORK OF THE CITY PHYSICIAN- 1908
Visits
Office
Alms- Police house station
Totals
Born
Died
January
124
17
1
. .
142
3
1
February
120
25
6
2
153
3
March
97
36
5
138
3
NOH 2
April
131
17
2
1
151
1
May
150
21
1
...
172
3
1
June
138
22
1
1
162
1
July
96
15
2
4
117
1
August
164
21
2
1
188
2
1920. 1 2 0
October
95
67
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162
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November
53
28
2
1
84
1
17 1
December
86
44
5
2
137
3
Total
1384
381
28
13
1806
21
14
3
191
1
1
200
.
September
130
68
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sd
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ANNUAL REPORTS
A certain proportion of the patients coming under by care have no settlement in Newburyport. I have given the over- seers of the poor a record of such cases for the care of which they can collect $258.
In addition to attendance upon beneficiaries of the poor de- partment I have made many visits upon indigent soldiers.
I have vaccinated 21 scholars of the public schools and have given certificates to those who have reported for inspec- tion.
Appended is a list of the city patients who have died dur- ing the past year.
Respectfully Submitted, FRANK W. SNOW, City Physician.
LIST OF DEATHS-CITY PATIENTS
Sylvanus Lattime, 47; January 22; 184 Water street; cerebral softning, exhaustion.
Delphis St. John, 7 months; February 25; 100 Water street; pneumonia pemphigus.
Georgianna Buckley, 35; February 27; 81/2 Ship street; mitral regurgitation.
Lillian Delia Dow, 2 days; March 2, 8 Lime street; inani tion, premature birth.
James Plair, 68; March 24; 219 Merrimac street; myocarditis. Old age.
Moses Wood, 52; April 1; 230 Merrimca street; corcinoma of bladder. Exhaustion.
Theresa Esther Fallon, 2 months; May 14; 1 Ship street; inan- ition.
Benjamin M. Perkins, 84; June 17; 234 Water street; uraeima. Senility.
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Bridget Harris, 54; July 8; 57 Merrimac street; myocarditis.
Edwin Cook, 76; August 27; 8 Salem street; myocarditis, ar- terio scherosis.
Margaret Whalen, 80; September 15; almshouse; cerebral hem- orrhage, arterio scherosis.
Souci (female infant); September 27; 117 Water street; still born.
Isaac W. Parsons, 88; November 19; almshouse, old age.
Catherine Hatfield, 68; December 11; almshouse; old age.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CITY CLERK
To the Honorable Mayor and City Council.
GENTLEMEN :- I submit the following report of income in this department for the year ending December 19, 1908:
Marriage license
$121 50
Pool table
30 00
Junk
195 00
Lunch cart
50 00
Pawnbrokers
100 00
Shooting gallery
2 00
Job wagon
1 00
Auctioneer
8 00
Recording
69 55
Amusement and entertainment
140 00
Burial lots
252 50
Miscellaneous
39
$971 94
The amount of $971.94 has been turned over to the city treasurer and I hold his receipt for the same.
Respectfully Submitted,
HENRY W. LITTLE,
City Clerk.
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ANNUAL REPORTS
FOLLANSBEE FUND
To His Honor the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, Trustees of the Follansbee Fund.
GENTLEMEN :- I sumbit the 35th annual report of this fund.
The fund is now in the hands of the sinking fund commis- sion (in accordance with an ordinance recently passed) in- vested in 4 per cent city bonds.
INCOME
Balance 1907
$230 94
Interest, March, September and October . . 135 00
$365 94
EXPENSE
Paid Jere Healey $ 4 13
Paid Atkinson Coal Company 55 84
Paid John Collins 12 89
Paid E. E. Varina Company
22 50
95 36
. $270 58
Balance
Respectfully Submitted,
HENRY W. LITTLE,
Treasurer.
Signed Wm. Balch, auditor.
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CITY CLERK
BIRTHS IN NEWBURYPORT-1908
The number of births registered in this city for the year 1908 were 344 (including 10 still births) ; 187 male and 157 female. Parents residing in Newburyport 331, non-resident parents 13.
Of the children born in this city 96 of them had fathers natives of Newburyport; 127 had fathers who were born in the United States outside of Newburyport; 121 of them had fathers of foreign birth.
Sixty-seven of the children born here had mothers natives of this city; 137 had mothers born in the United States out- side of Newburyport; 140 had foreign born mothers.
MARRIAGES RECORDED IN NEWBURYPORT-1908
There were recorded in this city for the year 1908 a total of 156 marriages; 45 of these were out of town marriages.
Of the grooms there were 36 natives of Newburyport; 90 natives of the United States outside of Newburyport ; 30 were foreign born.
The brides 57 were natives of this city; 65 natives of the United States outside of Newburyport; 34 foreign born.
Marriages by months: January 8, February 14, March 4, April 17, May 6, June 22, July 9, August 12, September 17, October 17, November 20, December 10.
Of these the local clergymen performed as follows: Ed- ward H. Newcomb 11, Alexander Dixon 12, P. J. Buckley 10, Leslie C. Greeley 3, Arthur W. Cleaves 4, Alfred Woods 8, John J. Flood 7, F. N. Merriam 7, Arthur H. Wright 5,
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George Plumer Merrill 5, Horace C. Hovey 6, W. H. Ryan 9, J. L. M. Levesque 8, Bedford L. Duckwall 4, Joshua B. Sak- lad 3, Charles S. Holton 2, Lawrence Hayward 2, T. James Macfaddin 1, James M. Gage 1, Charles H. Sweet 1, Edward F. Bartlett, justice of the peace, 5; Charles W. Hidden, jus- tice of the peace, 1.
DEATHS RECORDED IN NEWBURYPORT-1908
Of the total 317 deaths in this city 146 were males and 171 females; 134 were natives of Newburyport; 107 born in the United States outside of Newburyport; 74 foreign born; 2 nuknown birthplace. Of the deaths occuring in this city 94 had a residence outside of Newburyport.
There were 10 deaths over the age of 90 years, the oldest being Alfred Wheeler, who died August 1, 1908, aged 95 years 11 months.
Deaths by months: January 24, February 25, March 26, April 23, May 31, June 25, July 28, August 30, September 31, October 31, November 26, Decemebr 17.
Total number of deaths recorded 405.
HENRY W. LITTLE, City Registrar.
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DEATHS WITH PRINCIPAL CAUSES AND AGE PERIODS
Cause of Death
Up to 1 yr
2 to 4 yrs.
5 to 9 yrs.
10 to 14 yrs.
15 to 19 yrs.
20 to 24 yrs.
25 to 29 yrs.
30 to 34 yrs.
35 to 39 yrs.
Accidental
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Angina Pectoris
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Female.
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Appoplexy
Male.
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Female.
Bronchitis
Male
Female.
Crebral hemorrhage
Male
Female
Cancer
Male.
Female.
Cholera infantum
Male.
2
2
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Female.
2
1
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Diphtheria
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Heart
Male
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Female.
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Paralysis
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CITY CLERK
DEATHS WITH PRINCIPAL CAUSES AND AGE PERIODS
40 to 44 yrs.
45 to 49 yrs.
50 to 54 yrs.
55 to 59 yrs.
60 to 64 yrs.
65 to 69 yrs.
70 to 74 yrs.
75 to 79 yrs.
80 to 84 yrs.
85 to 89 yrs.
90 to 94 yrs.
95 yrs up.
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5
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6
2
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4
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8
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ANNUAL REPORTS
DEATHS WITH PRINCIPAL CAUSES AND AGE PERIODS
Cause of Death
Up to 1 yr
2 to 4 yrs.
9 yrs.
10 to 14 yrs.
15 to 19 yrs.
20 to 24 yrs.
25 to 29 yrs.
30 to 34 yrs.
35 to 39 yrs.
Phthisis
Male.
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1
2
Female.
1
2
3
Pneumonia
Male
2
Female.
2
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Prematurity
Male.
7
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Female
3
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Senility
Male.
Female.
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Suicide
Male.
Female.
Scarlet fever
Male
Female.
1
1
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Tuberculosis
Male.
1
1
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Female.
Typhoid fever
Male.
Female.
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All others
Male.
21
1
1
1
2
1
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2
1
Female.
17
1
1
2
1
2
4
6
Total
57
7
3
4
3
7
7
13
16
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DEATHS WITH PRINCIPAL CAUSES AND AGE PERIODS
40 to 44 yrs.
45 to 49 yrs.
50 to 54 yrs.
55 to 59 yrs.
60 to 64 yrs.
65 to 69 yrs.
70 to 74 yrs.
75 to 79 yrs.
80 to 84 yrs.
85 to 89 yrs.
90 to 94 yrs.
95 yrs up.
Total
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2
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77
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19
18
24
24
26
25
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9
1
317
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CITY SOLICITOR.
To the City Council of the City of Newburyport:
On my appointment to the office of city solicitor in Jan- uary last, there came to my charge the following cases in which the city was a party :
Dame, et al., vs. City of Newburyport.
Varina, et al., vs. City of Newburyport and County of Es- sex.
Edwin F. Hunt vs. City of Newburyport.
Lunborg, admr. vs. City of Newburyport.
Parker, admr. vs. City of Newburyport.
Beside these, there are several cases growing out of the Felker embezzlement, which are in the charge of the city's special counsel, Saltonstall, Dodge & Carter.
The case of Dame et al., vs. City of Newburyport is pend- ing before Hon. Harvey R. Dow as auditor, to whom it was referred in 1903. Two hearings have been held, but none during the last year. The case grew out of the late Hon. Charles C. Dame's employment by the city in its water works litigation.
Varina et als. vs. City of Newburyport and County of Es- sex was a writ of entry brought in the Land Court to try the question of title to the land on which the approach to the Newburyport bridge was built on the Newburyport side. Two hearings were held on January 6 and 7, 1908 .. . The Land Court made a finding in favor of the tenants from which the demandents appealed. After some negotiation a settlement was made by the county with the demandents, without expense to the city, on the city's conveying its right, title and interest to the Winter Street landing to the county.
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In consideration of the city's so doing the county remitted a disputed balance which it claimed the city owed it for money paid on its bridge.
Edwin F. Hunt vs. City of Newburyport was a case in which the plaintiff claimed damages for flooding his cellar, No. 210 Water Street by the breaking of a water main and the failure on the part of the city to keep clear a drain run- ning from opposite No. 210 Water Street, through the land of the plaintiff to the Merrimac river. A verdict for the city was found in the police court from which the plaintiff ap- pealed. There was no liability on the part of the city but it appeared that the drain had never been properly authorized by the city council, and the plaintiff could put the city to a great deal of expense by ordering the drain to be removed. A compromise was effected whereby the city paid Mr. Hunt fifty dollars and Mr. Hunt and his wife executed a grant to the city to maintain the drain, released all claim for dam- ages and agreed to exempt the city from any future damages from the drain.
Lundborg admr. vs. City of Newburyport was a suit for $5000 penalty for the death of the plaintiff's intestate from slipping on the sidewalk on Titcomb Street. It was settled bv payment to the plaintiff, his costs of suit or twenty-five dollars.
Parker, admr. vs. City of Newburyport was a suit for dam- ages resulting from the overturn of the plaintiff's wagon on Ocean Street. An offer to compromise was made by the plaintiff and refused by the city. The suit was abandoned by its non-entry.
The case of Mary A. Fenton vs. City of Newburyport was a suit which came down from the year 1894 and which was not in the city solicitor's papers, but was called for trial in the Lynn Police Court this year. No evidence could be ob- tained for the city as Supt. Pritchard was dead and the ac-
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cident on Merrimac Street was an incident lost in the haze of fifteen years. It was settled for $48.40 and the city had no evidence to dispute the plaintiff's claim, which was for twice this amount.
During the year I have been called upon by the proper city authorities to prosecute cases in the police court. Of these 22 were for violations of the liquor law. There were eleven convictions for liquor nuisances, two for illegal keep- ing, four for illegal sale. Five were acquitted of which three were joint defendants, with others who were convicted, and one was acquitted because the name of the person to whom the sale was made was erroneously given. One case for the illegal sale of cider was reversed on appeal, the supe- rior court not upholding the lower court's interpretation of the law. There was one conviction of carrying a concealed weapon, one of using unregistered milk cans, one of violation of milk can law, and one of keeping an unlicensed dog prose- cuted by me.
At the beginning of the year I was called upon to draw a petition and bill for the transfer of the control of Chain Bridge from the city to the county and after attending sev- eral hearings of legislative committees the bill was finally adopted. I also prepared a petition and bill for modifying the water acts of the city. After several conferences with the water commissioners a compromise act was substituted.
Under a vote and petition of the city officers of 1907, I was ordered to appear at a hearing of the railroad commis- sioners on the question of installing the signal bells at the Washington Street crossing of the Boston & Maine railroad. As nobody objected to their being installed they were ordered in by the commissioners.
Early in the year I drew an order for the issuing of $75,000 of bonds for the extension of the water supply. When the legality of the issue of these bonds was passed upon by Messrs. Story, Thorndike, Palmer & Thayer of Bos-
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ton, in behalf of the City Trust Company of Boston, which was to certify to their validity, an order was sent to this city repealing my order and passing a substitute. This was done without my knowledge. I was obliged to advise the mayor to veto the order as its passage would throw away any power to issue $75,000 of bonds, inasmuch as the legislature in its recodifying the water act had repealed any power of the city to issue water bonds except for $50,000 and the issue then in process of being floated. I notified the above law firm of this provision of the act of 1908 and received from them a note regretting their mistake and recommending accepting the bonds as originally authorized.
. I advised against the payment of a claim of the Inhabi- tants of Rowley for money and necessities furnished Charles Lang under the Soldiers' Relief statutes in response to a re- quest made several years ago by the city's Military Aid Com- mittee. Lang had no legal residence here and payments made in his behalf were made un'der a mistake of fact. The case was tried in our local police court and the claim amount- ed to about $300. A verdict was found for the city. I would recommend, and the board of aldermen for this year has taken the first steps in that direction, that a bill be intro- duced in the legislature upon petition to reimburse the city for the money paid through a mistake in the adjutant-gen- eral's office. A sum amounting to fifteen hundred dollars ought to be recovered.
I collected from the assignees of the Cordage Company, Messrs. A. S. Apsey and J. H. Colby, without suit, some $3300 back taxes due the city from that corporation.
I have given written opinions on different subjects to the school board, overseers of the poor and nearly all heads of departments.
During the year petitions for assessment of land damage for land taken in extending and protecting the water supply at the Artichoke River have been served on the city in behalf
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of Helen C. Moseley, Mary R. Curzon, Eliabeth Marquand, et als., Mary E. Emery et als. These are returnable the first Monday in January next when the city is called to appear. I have advised the water commissioners to make some award in these cases but as yet nothing has been done by them.
A suit of John J. Currier against the superintendent of streets and sewers, James H. Johnston, originated by a claim that the latter trespassed on the former's land. I advised that the city was not liable, but the city council voted to de- fend the superintendent. At present the case is pending in the Police Court.
I was called upon to sit with the board of registrars in a protest filed by Franklin P. Knight to the placing of the name of Arthur H. Berry on the ballot. I have also been called upon by the last named board to advise in the matters of recount for mayor, on the license question, alderman for ward three and school committee for ward one.
My disbursements during the year were $62.43.
Respectfully submitted,
ARTHUR WITHINGTON, City Solicitor.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
To the City Council of the City of Newburyport:
GENTLEMEN :- The Overseers of the Poor, to whom is committed a general oversight and care of the poor in all of its departments, would respectfully submit their thirtieth annual report.
GENERAL STATEMENT.
For support of poor residing at the city farm $ 3,176 38
For salaries
3,108 08
For board of epileptics and feeble-minded in asylums. 671 05
For outside relief.
6,086 43
For paid other towns for aid to poor, settlements in Newburyport
1,056 49
For fuel
2,135 31
For medicine
400 95
For transportation to Ireland. 33 74
For manure spreader
115 00
$16,783 43
Appropriation
$12,000 00
Income received 3,506 88
15,506 88
Overdrawn
$ 1,276 55
Flour
DETAILED STATEMENT. .$ 562 50
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Tea
81 76
Sugar
657 00
Beans
146 80
Soap
154 25
Crackers
175 89
Fish
180 09
Wood
496 55
Coal
113 39
Shoes
191 87
Clothing
63 50
Rent
674 00
Salaries
3,108 08
Hospital
1,075 22
Paid other towns.
1,054 78
Supplies to city farm
2,464 32
Office expenses
40 45
Overseers' expenses
11 35
Grocers' supplies
680 06
Insane
646 85
Grain
622 03
Cash to beneficiaries
805 00
Telephone
88 89
Burials
126 00
Medicine
415 70
Carriage hire
.00
Miscellaneous
142 20
Pork
93 50
Rice
22 00
Dry goods
38 20
Freight
79 15
Manure spreader
115 00
Milk for sick
24 54
Transportation to Ireland and expenses
40 17
Total
$15,196 09
RECEIPTS-AID RETURNED.
From Boston
$
14 29
Chelsea
362 88
66 Lowell
59 16
Rowley
64 86
66 Newbury
.. . 64 80
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