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240.00
Travel allowance, teachers
680.00
Text books and supplies :
High:
Books
3,768.90
Supplies
4,858.14
Elementary:
4,464.43
Supplies
3,301.87
Health
94.52
Vocational:
Office supplies
471.81
Tools, hardware and supplies
1,034.47
Building supplies and repairs
1,342.50
Books
134.29
Travel and transportation
186.46
Transportation:
Elementary
9,051.25
Household Arts :
Cooking and sewing supplies and repairs
318.78
Laundry
9.88
Building supplies and repairs
210.70
Travel expense
9.66
Light:
High
3,274.87
Elementary
5,625.41
Vocational
810.88
Household Arts
162.19
Fuel :
High
3,191.10
Elementary
7,432.20
Vocational
883.36
Household Arts
138.71
Maintenance of Buildings and Grounds:
High :
Repairs
4,731.70
Janitors' supplies
1,310.42
Elementary :
Repairs
5,098.24
Janitors' supplies
1,647.56
Insurance
604.33
Tuition :
TradeSchools
1,336.78
Transportation
275.50
Athletic Plant maintenance
458.91
Supervision, other expenses
2,400.00
Support of truants
323.71
73,002.92
Physical Education and Athletic, other expenses:
Payrolls
414.50
Office supplies and printing
158.86
Equipment and supplies
5,645.58
Travel and transportation
977.05
Cleaning and repairs
1,008.61
Books
83.95
Trucking and express
34.30
Insurance Food
33.85
Hardware and lumber
341.38
All other
10.00
9,051.08
22
343.00
Books
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Special Police Officer School Traffic High Street, (Ashland)
531.00
Apprenticeship Tuition
376.20
24 Desks and Chairs, Kelley School
432.55
40 Folding Chairs Brown School
185.00
12 Music Stands, Brown School
120.00
Bookcases, Brown School
193.43
Bookcases, Jackman School
199.87
Teachers Desk, Brown School
63.00
2 Tables, Brown School
90.00
50 Cafeteria Chairs, High School
369.50
12 Chemistry Stools, High School
72.00
2 Filing Cabinets, High School
135.00
Mechanical Drawing Equipment
220.54
Sewing Machine
236.60
Band Equipment
1,415.95
Jig Saw Special Class
108.75
Repairs Stadium Paint Seats
996.25
Repairs Ventilators High School Roof
999.00
Summer Reading Program:
600.00
Books
65.35
Supplies
26.78
692.13
Summer Playgrounds :
Salaries:
Supervisor
430.00
Assistants
1,638.00
2,068.00
Other expenses:
Equipment
642.18
Office supplies and equipment
31.14
Transportation
100.50
Publications and dues
11.23
785.05
$511,589.49
Preliminary sketches and surveys, architect fees and borings, new school: Services of architects
$2,857.99
For the purpose of acquiring land by purchase or by taking by right of eminent domain to be used as a site for a new elementary school building and for constructing thereon a new elementary school build- ing and for originally equipping and furnishing said building and for the purpose of constructing an addition to the George W. Brown School and for originally equipping and furnishing said addition; Sheriff fees $31.10
Recording plan and deed 18.83
$49.93
High School Cafeteria
Payrolls
$25,373.20
Food
7,388.52 118.06
Operating expense
Equipment and repairs
105.81
Express
40.12
Office expense
4.60
Advertising
40.00
Petty cash, student help
720.00
Services physician
3.00
Travel expense
6.65
$33,799.96
Teachers
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Newburyport High School Athletic Association
Payrolls
$2,148.87
Awards, equipment and repairs
5,285.06 432.60
Doctors, dentists and hospital service
Drugs
53.28
Travel and transportation
1,317.15
Cleaning equipment
1,023.36
Office expense
168.31
Insurance
194.35
Guarantees
3,461.72
Scouting
41.00
Lunches and food for concessions
194.25
Electricity
147.23
Express
8.30
All other
12.00
$14,487.48
Milk
$3,937.32
LIBRARIES
Salaries:
Librarian
$3,598.56
Assistants
19,843.19
Janitor
2,076.04
Substitute janitor
264.00
25,781.79
Library Substitutes
500.00
Other expenses:
Books and periodicals
1,368.64
Binding
281.09
Fuel
1,456.00
Light
1,852.95
Building supplies and repairs
257.73
Rent, Belleville Parish House,
125.00
Office supplies, printing and advertising
848.04
Travel expense
31.25
Association dues
18.50
Telephone
246.46
Boiler insurance
89.04
Christmas decorations
25.30
6,600.00
South End Reading Room:
Lighting
36.77
Fuel
73.54
Building supplies and repairs Water
19.50
207.53
Heating Equipment for South End Library: Furnaces
1,582.50
Services of architect
110.00
1,692.50
$34,781.82
School Lunch Program
24
77.72
including heat, light, etc.
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Recreations
City Parks:
Labor
Supplies, equipment and repairs
Auto supplies and repairs
107.45
Gas and oil
18.90
Equipment hire
201.50
Plants
76.25
Painting fountain at Mall
100.00
Park seats
61.50
5,048.74
Michael Cashman Park:
Labor
631.05
Equipment hire
68.00
699.05
Goodwin's Landing:
Labor
190.00
Material
8.10
198.10
Water for Playgrounds:
Fountains and pipe
47.58
Bartlett Mall:
Labor
142.00
Bartlett Mall, Winter Program:
Electricity
31.72
Labor
5.40
Plowing
20.00
Electrician
113.50
170.62
Atkinson Common:
Caretaker
2,100.00
Repairs and supplies
38.36
Atkinson Common, Repairs to Tower:
Repairs
422.30
Atkinson Common, Basin: Materials
56.60
Labor
39.20
Moseley Woods:
Caretaker
1,948.57
Labor
40.00
Supplies, equipment and repairs
706.21
Flag pole
215.00
Road material
113.21
Insurance
16.08
Freight
29.76
Moseley Woods, Tennis Courts:
Equipment hire
58.00
Repairs to court
169.18
Drinking fountain, installing
13.50
Repairs to fence
78.00
318.68
Edward G. Perkins Playgrounds: Labor
415.15
Lime Street Playgrounds: Labor
292.15
Materials
37.13
329.28
25
2,138.36
95.80
3,068.83
$3,850.6
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Park and Tree Department Headquarters:
Lighting
17.39
Telephone
78.29
Fuel
262.80
Building repairs and supplies
29.83
Office supplies
3.50
Boiler insurance
54.04
$445.85
UNCLASSIFIED
World War #2 Honor Roll:
Lighting
$29.02
Labor and supplies
115.69
Name added
5.00
Plants
10.00
$159.71
Other City Properties :
Comfort Station Plum Island
67.37
Supplies and repairs Lighting
18.50
Repairs to Fountain, Mall
116.00
Janvrin's Landing, repairs
123.64
Hose 8 71
231.75
Goodwin's Landing 11
8.25
Painting fence, Plum Island
35.00
Relocation survey and plan, Barton Court
75.00
Survey plan and description proposed Powder House Lot, Low Street
61.25
Amvets
98.70
American Legion
98.00
Veterans of Foreign Wars
99.59
Firemen's Memorial Sunday
75.00
Memorial Day, G.A.f.
400.00
Spanish War Veterans
131.85
Disabled American Veterans
97.22
Jewish War Veterans
98.00
Memorial Day Exercises
300.00
Painting Raillng water Street
250.00
Insurance City Buildings
3,500.25
Comfort Station, Plum Island, Caretaker
200.00
Painting and placing of buoys
52.85
Janvrin's Landing: Labor
154.00 90.73
244.73
Traffic and Offstreet Parking Survey, (on account of contract 1,000.00 Reseeding Clam Flats : Reseeding 572.00 25.00 Signs
597.00
Jimmy Day Celebration
300.00
Christmas Decorations
98.53
Damages to persons, properties and claims
2,455.52
City Clocks
200.00
Care of Soldiers Graves
500.00
Workmen's Compensation
437.02
Federal Withholding Tax
95,741.00
Target Hire, Massachusetts National Guards Revaluation of City:
271.25
Payments on contract
16,600.00
Office equipment;
444.98
Maps
41.54
Freight
1.55
17,088.07
Bituminous concrete
736.76
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Acquisition of land for Off street Parking
Areas and facilities, etc. :
Channelization of traffic, Market Square: Labor
Services of engineer
$789.00 18.00
Equipment hire
13.00
Materials
401.67
1,221.67
Labor
239.50
Signs
348.49
Materials
5.42
Services of engineer
124.80
Appraising
87.50
Acquisition of land for Liberty Street
Widening :
$4,500.00
Services of engineer
80.00
$4,580.00
Economic Development Commission :
Office supplies
$32.50
Legal services
90.00
Soil test borings
247.30
Field survey
807.81
$1,177.61
RENT CONTROL
Salary of Clerk
$703.32
Telephone
31.40
Office supplies
16.85
$751.57
PARKING METERS MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION
Labor maintaining
$780.00
Collecting meter money
480.50
Supplies, equipment and repairs
422.38
Office supplies and printing
101.38
Posts and signs
1,382.43
Express
8.38
Painting curbings
50.00
$3,225.07
MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT
Payments to Treasurer of Retirement System:
Administration
$2,000.00
Pension Accumulation Fund
16,759.79
$18,759.79
CIVIL
ENSE
Salary of Director
$2,346.44
Salary of Clerk
975.60
Office supplies
176.04
Telephone
283.62
Travel expense
218.49
Lighting
112.50
Membership fee
5.00
Control center, supplies and labor
478.00
Medical and health
18.57
Rescue and transportation
85.32
Communications
128.21
Police
47.00
Fire
173.29
Administrative training
373.98
5,422.06
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$2,027.38
Land taking
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Civil Defense Air warning and Fire Alarm System:
electrician, later and materials Attack warning Services of architect
$1,128.99 5,187.00
50.00
6,365.99
Purchase of Used Fire Engine for Civil Defense : Used fire engine -350.00
Construction of enclosure of air raid warning system mechanism in
basement of Currier School:
Labor and ma erials
400.00
$12,538.05
CLAM PLANT
Salaries:
Acting chemist
$3,650.00 12,514.28
Extra labor
350.00
16,514.28
Other expenses
Office supplies
30.07
Repairs and replacements
1,792.39
Light and power
283.82
Plant maintenance and supplies
784.53
Telephone
41.46
Express
72.52
Insurance
35.00
3,595.97
HURRICANE CAROL
Payrolls
Clearance of debris, public property
38,802.48
Temporary repairs
11 =
17,759.46
$76,072.44
WATER
Administration :
Salary of Superintendent
$4,554.86
Salary of Clerks
5,109.01
Extra clerical
1,640.12
Superintendent of Pumping Station
4,692.86
Office supplies, printing and advertising 1,225.81
Office equipment and repairs
397.50
Telephones
588.10
Electric lighting
187.60
Bond s
35.00
Publications
14.00
Services of engineers
700.00
Signs
21.00
All other
2.00
General :
Labor
15,356.12
Truck supplies and repairs
507.56
Taxes on real estate
142.80
Pipe and fittings
9,040.00
Meters and fittings
168.42
Gas and oil
544.74
Freight
36.55
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$20,110.25
$19,510.50
F'uel
556.18
A. sistants
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Hydrants
80.61
Hardware, tools and supplies
991.27
Standpipe, supplies and repairs
12.00
Salt hay
22.00
Excavating, backfilling and trenching
৳39.30
Range oil
39.03
Rent, storage
99.96
All other
.61
Pumping Station :
Engineers
18,547.99
Labor
13,760.00
Oil, waste and packing
1,370.65
Coal
14,576.91 1,011.64
Gas
3,190.62
Use of autos
565.00
Repairs to telemeter
31.23
Electricity
584.79
Power
7,772.41
Hardware, tools and repairs
1,222.44
Building supplies and repairs
279.94
Pump supplies and repairs
2,789.48
Freight
88.21
Supplies and repairs, auto
112.86
Supplies and repairs, generator
68.78
Supplies and repairs, compressor
3,031.14
Supplies and repairs, boiler
321.28
Supplies and repairs, filter
1,220.14
Supplies and repairs, engine
114.55
Gasoline
40.38
Automotive insurance
313.77
Injured employees :
Physicians, hospitilization and treatments 1,132.24
Board and room
1,912.98
Medical supplies
576.98
Transportation
2.00
Pension Accumulation Fund :
Payment to Treasurer of Retirement Board Indebtedness:
4,902.21
Payments on account of indebtedness
13,000.00
Payments on account of interest
2,115.00
Payments on account of 1953 Loan
9,000.00
$150,704.45
CEMETERIES
Salaries :
Salary of Superintendent
$1,500.00
Other expenses :
Labor
3,820.42
Hardware, tools and repairs
630.29
Equipment hire
18.00
Rent of driveway
20.00
4,488.71
$5,988.71
Perpetual Care of Cemetery Lots
Labor
$531.43
INTEREST
$187.50
Parking area School Repairs
2,047.50
Sewer Loans
3,960.00
$6.195.00
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INDEBTEDNESS
Sewer Loans School Repairs Loan
$15,000.00 13,000.00
$28,000.00
REFUNDS AND REIMBURSEMENTS
1955 Poll Tax
$2.00
1955 Personal Tax
6.72
1955 Real Estate Tax
5,802.24
1954 Poll Tax
2.00
1954 Real Estate Tax
447.74
1953 Real Estate Tax
64.35
1955 Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
1,761.74
1954 Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
126.72
Water Department Refunds, fixtures
398.72
Estimated receipts, interest
3. 76
Estimated receipts, demands
1.75
Estimated receipts, poll tax
2.00
$8,619.74
AGENCY
County Tax
$40,741.43
State Audit Municipal Accounts
702.50
State Parks and Reservations
2,132.94
County Bridges Assessment
3,281.34
Water Assessment
5,000.00
State Examination Retirement System
57. 35
Dog Licenses to County
1,847.40
$53,762.96
TRUST FUNDS
Atwood Fund
(Cash Aid)
$140.00
Follansbee
(Fuel)
211.75
Brown
(School)
1,918.35
Toppan
(School Prize) 11 11
2.50
Merrill
17.50
Davis
(Aged Ladies)
25.00
Andrews
(Library)
23.17
Bradbury
19.51
Bradstreet
11
30.26
Coffin
IT
257.63
Colby
11
142.119
Cole
=
50.00
Currier
11
29.74
Cutter
11
93.011
N.D. Dodge
1
75.35
Donnell
62.75
Foster
13.53
Frothingham
27.13
Futterman Grant
20.10
Green
60.29
Haskell
=
30.24
Healey
28.14
Marston
129.93
C. S. Moseley
11
165.06
w.J.Moseley
381.56
Moulton
=
81.07
Parton
=
111.47
Pathe
11
25.32
Pettingell
11
29.24
11
25.03
W. H.P.Dodge
11
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Sawyer
(Library)
92.80
Spring
579.88
Stone
11
143.10
Sweetser
=
132.80
Stickney
=
444.18
Todd
632.92
Wiggin
27.64
Williams
14.27
wightman
251.05
$6,545.79
NON-REVENUE
Parking Area :
Payrolls
₩4,540.95
Pipe
415.03
Services of engineer
435.00
Field survey
127.00
Equipment hire
2,521.60
Road materials
10,456.30
Repairs to equipment
125.60
Supplies
660.85
Nursery stock
194.75
Fence
130.00
₩19,607.08
School Repairs :
Cleaning boilers
350.00
Repairs to gym doors
1,225.00
Architect
100.00
Carpenter and stock
124.96
$1,799.96
Water Mains 1953:
Labor
#494.02
Pipe and fittings
1,671.79
Hydrants
480.00
Excavating and trenching
810.50
Equipment hire
26.50
Hot top
20.00
Express
3.95
Sewer Bond Issue :
Payrolls
$4,650.99
Payments on contracts
132,676.10
Engineers
12,622.77
Equipment hire
3,091.55
Materials
2,772.86
Pipe
1,80 .06
Fence
975.00
$3,506.76
$158,597.33
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INCOME TRUST FUNDS Ealch Fund Cr.
balance January 1, 1955 From trustees of trust funds
+125.00 250.00
375.00
Dr.
Transferred to Bartlett Mall Balance December 31, 1955
250.00 $125.00
Bromfield Fund
Cr.
From trustees of trust funds $393.82
Dr.
Transferred to Tree Department, other expenses 196.91 Transferred to Sidewalks and Edgestones 196.91
$393.82
A. Gertrude Cutter Fund
balance January 1, 1955
$736.19
From trustees of trust funds
1,420.27
2,156.46
Dr.
Transferred to City Parks
1,367.67
Balance December 31, 1955 $788.79
A. M. Gorwaiz Fund Cr.
From trustees of trust funds
$3.02
Balance December 31, 1955
$3.02
Charles H. Knight Fund Cr.
From trustees of trust funds $12.09
Balance December 31, 1955 $12.00
M. H. Simpson Fund Cr.
$452.91
From trustees of trust funds
767.91
1,220.82
Dr.
Transferred to Street Oiling
739.91
Balance December 31, 1955
$480.91
Margaret Atwood Fund Cr.
$726.60
From trustees of trust funds
331.23
1,057.83
Dr.
Payments to beneficiaries
140.00
Balance December 31, 1955
$917.83
Balance January 1,1955
Balance January 1, 1955
Cr.
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Annie D. Davis Fund Cr.
From trustees of trust funds
Dr. $25.00
Newburyport Society for Relief of Aged Women
$25.00
Timothy D. Dexter Fund Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
$413.30 64.60
From trustees of trust funds Balance December 31, 1955
$477.90
L. M. Follansbee Fund
Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
$250.88
From trustees of trust funds
111.45
Dr.
211.75
Balance December 31, 1955
$150.58
Putnam Fund
Balance January 1, 1955
$750.73
Balance December 31, 1955
$750.73
Moses Brown Fund Cr.
$2,110.05
From trustees of trust funds
427.26
Advertising $10.00 Desks and chairs 1,908.35
1,918.35
Balance December 31, 1955
$618.96
Paul A. Merrill Fund
Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
$191.50
From trustees of trust funds
25.00
Dr.
17.50
Balance December 31, 1955
$199.00
R. N. To pan Fund
Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
$156.88
From trustees of trust funds
7.50
Dr.
School Department, Prize
2.50
Balance December 31, 1955
₩161.88
Balance January 1, 1955
2,537.31
Dr.
216.50
School Department, Prizes
164.38
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362.33
Payments to beneficiaries
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LIBRARY TRUST FUNDS mma Andrews Fund Cr.
Ealance January 1, 1955 From trustees of trust funds
$14.74 25.00
39.74
Dr.
cooks Balance December 31, 1955
$16.57
J. M. Bradbury Fund
Cr.
Balance Ja uary 1, 1955
$5.28
From trustees of trust funds
30.00
35.28
Dr.
books
3.12 1.90
building supplies Library supplies
14.49
Balance December 31, 1955
Charles W. Bradstreet Fund
Cr.
$20.18
From trustees of trust funds
25.00
Dr.
Library Supplies 12.18 18.08
30.26
Balance December 31, 1955
$14.92
Lucy G. B. Colby Cr.
$37.33
From trustees of trust funds
21.00
From damages to books
103.25
161.58
Dr.
142.49
Balance December 31, 1955
$19.09
W. O. Coffin Fund Cr.
$14.10
From trustees of trust funds
250.00
Dr.
257.63
Balance December 31, 1955
$6.47
Charlotte C. Cole Fund
Cr.
From trustees of trist funds
$50.00
Library Salaries
$50.00
John J. Currier Fund
Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
$32.30
From trustees of trust funds
25.00
57.30
Books
29.74
Balance Decembe:' 31, 1955
$27.56
Balance January 1, 1955
45.18
Building supplies
Balance January 1, 1955
Books
Balance January 1, 1955
264.10
Books
Dr.
Dr.
23.17
19.51 $15.77
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A. E. Cutter Fund Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955 From trustees of trust funds
,,99.02 iVV. JU 199.00
Dr.
Binding Balance December 31, 1955
43.04 +105.78
Nathan D. Dodge Fund Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
From trustees of trust funds
$10.35 30.50 40.95
Dr.
25.03
Balance December 31, 1955
¥10.92
W.H.P.Dodge Fund Cr.
$15.99
From trustees of trust funds
79.36
Dr.
25.35
Balance December 31, 1955
₩23.00
Susan M. Donnell Fund Cr.
$43.96
From trustees of trust funds
75.00
118.96
Dr.
Binding
Balance December 31, 1955
$56.21
Daniel Foster Fund Cr
$10.30
From trustees of trust funds
7.50
17.80
Dr.
13.53
Balance December 31, 1955
$4.27
J. A. Frothingham Fund Cr.
$15.85
From trustees of trust funds
25.00
1.0.85
Books
Balance December 31, 1955
$13.72
Harry Futterman Fund
Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
$22.05
Dr.
Records
20.10
Balance December 31, 1955
$1.95
S. A. Green Fund Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
$24.42
From trustees of trust funds
62.50
86.92
Books and periodicals
60.29
Balance December 31, 1955
$26.63
Books
Balance January 1, 1955
98.35
Periodicals and books
Balance January 1, 1955
62.75
Balance January 1, 1955
Books
Balance January 1, 1955
27.13
Dr.
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George Haskell Fund Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
From trustees of trust funds
$13.91 32.16 46.07
Dr.
Books
30.24
Balance December 31, 1955
$15.83
Dr. T. R. Healey Fund
Cr.
$8.27
From trustees of trust funds
25.00
33.27
Dr.
BOOKS
Balance December 31, 1955
$5.13
S. W. Marston Fund
Cr.
$75.72
From trustees of trust funds
125.00
Dr.
Books
129.93
Balance December 31, 1955
$70.79
E. S. Moseley Fund
Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
$102.05
From trustees of trust funds
130.00
232.05
Dr.
Library supplies
146. 30 18.76
165.06
Balance December 31, 1955
$66.99
w. O. Moseley Fund Cr.
$105.37
From trustees of trust funds
346.80
452.17
Dr.
Records
6.70 374.86
381.56
Balance December 31, 1955
$70.61
Alice C. Moulton Fund
Cr.
$45.34
From trustees of trust funds
55.74
101.08
Dr.
Books
81.07
Balance December 31, 1955
$20.01
Paul A. Pathe Fund
Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
$3.58
From trustees of trust funds
23.58
Dr.
Books
25.32
Balance December 31, 1955
$1.84
Balance January 1, 1955
28.14
Balance January 1, 195 ;
200.72
Periodicals and books
Balance January 1, 1955
Books
Balance January 1, 1955
27.16
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City Auditor.
Ethel Parton Fund Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
$25.33 88.00
Dr.
Books
111.47
Balance December 31, 1955
$1.86
George B. Pettingell Fund
Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
$.40 60.34
From trustees of trust funds
60.74
Dr.
Transfer to South End Reading Room 30.17 29.24
Books
Balance December 31, 1955
59.41 $1.33
Plumer Fund Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
$5.24
Balance January 1, 1955
$5.24
M. P. Sawyer Fund
Cr.
$25.81
From trustees of trust funds
150.00
Dr.
Books
92.80
Balance December 31, 1955
$83.01
J. R. Spring Fund Cr.
$186.42
From trustees of trust funds
550.00
Donation
12. 34
Dr.
579.88
Balance December 31, 1955
$168.88
E. H. Stickney Fund
Cr.
$137.31
From trustees of trust funds
553.22
690.53
Dr.
Books
444.18
Balance December 31, 1955
$246.35
Eben Stone Fund Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
$29.20
From trustees of trust funds
139.12
168.32
Books
143.10
Balance December 31, 1955
$25.22
Balance January 1, 1955
175.81
Balance January 1, 1955
748.76
Books
Balance January 1, 1955
Dr.
From trustees of trust funds
113. 33
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City Auditor
Benjamin G. Sweetser Fund Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
From trustees of trust funds
$77.44 125.00 202.44
Dr.
Books
Balance December 31, 1955
$69.64
William G. Todd Fund Cr.
$143.45 507.42
From trustees of trust funds
650.87
Dr.
Periodicals, books and newspapers
632.92
Balance December 31, 1955
$17.95
A. williams Fund
Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
$2.23
From trustees of trust funds
31.25
33.48
Dr.
Books
14.27
Balance December 31, 1955
$19.21
Wiggin Fund
Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
$28.89
Dr
27.64
Balance December 31, 1955
$1.25
Wightman Fund Cr.
Balance January 1, 1955
$82.41
From trustees of trust funds
221.84
304.25
Books
251.05
Balance December 31, 1955
$53.20
Books
Dr.
38
132.80
Balance January 1, 1955
City Auditor
Year 1955 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Building Fund of the Newburyport Public Library
Income and Expenditures
Dec. 31, 1954 Balance on hand Institution for Savings 11 11 11 Merchants National Bank
$840.14 .98
$841.12
Income
Inst. for Savings April dividend
$161.85 162.02
Total income.
323.87
Income and Balance.
$1164.99
1955
Payments
Mar. 28 A.H. Anderson Co. repairs
23.00
May 19 Leo V. Klos, dry well
47.00
June 16 Locksmith, repairing locks
25.45
Aug. 8 Browne & Son, sign
50.00
Sept. 7 Elmer E. Bailey, work
29.62
Nov. 14 A.H.Anderson Co. repairs to roof
11.50
Total payments 186.57
$978.42
Dec. 31 Bal. Inst. for Savings
Merchants Natl. Bk.
$964.01 14.41
$978.42
Principal of Fund
Deposit Inst. for Savings Bk. 21990 $10000.00
William Balch
Treasurer of Building Fund
Audited and found correct
City Auditor
Dec. 31, 1955
PEABODY FUND. NEWBURYPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY. TREASURER'S REPORT For Year Ending November 30, 1955.
RECEIPTS.
Cash on hand, December 1, 1954
$273.85
Dividends ,
April 25, 1955
225.00
October 16, 1955
225.00
$723.85
EXPENDITURES.
Books
$509.32
Postage
. 54 $509.86
CASH ON HAND, December 1, 1955
$213.99
Respectfully submitted,
Laurence Hayward Treasurer, Peabody Fund.
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Oct. 11
City Auditor
Moses Atkinson School Fund Cash Savings Deposits
Securities
Total
On hand, Dec. 31, 1955
$283.70
$7,181.87
$750.00
$8,215.57
Receipts
Payments
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1955
$82.53
First & Ocean National Bank (box rent)
$5.50
Income
278.67
Nancy W. Sornborger
18.00
Dorothea Waltz 18.00
Gladys Corbitt 18.00
Charles R. Hand 18.00
Cash on Hand December 31, 1955 283.70
$361.20
$361.20
Investments
20 shares Merchants National Bank, Newburyport, Mass.
$400.00
7 shares First & Ocean National Bank, Newburyport, Mass.
350.00
On deposit Dec. 31, 1955 First & Ocean Bank, =
11
283. 70
On deposit Dec. 31, 1955 Institution for Savings, Newburyport, Mass.
4,095.36
On deposit Dec. 31, 1955 Five Cents Savings Bank, Newburyport, Mass.
3,086.51
$8,215.57
norbert a fazer City Auditor
WILLIAM WHEELWRIGHT SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL Investment of Fund, October 31, 1955
Bonds
$283,541. 10
Stocks
343,977.81
Real Estate Trusts
8,200.00
Note Receivable
150.00
Cash
28,514.52
$664,383.43
Statement of Receipts and Payments
Receipts
Cash on hand October 30, 1954
$13,697.57
Securities sold and matured
113,348.58
Income
35,956.19
Sale of Rights and Warrants
1,171.88
$164,174.22
Payments
Student Account
$16,693.62
Securities Purchased
114,463.34
Administrative expense
4,076.37
Accrued interest
126.37
Withholding tax
300.00
$135,659. 70
Cash on hand October 31, 1955
$ 28,514.52
Norbert a. Saved
City Auditor
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City Auditor CITY OF NEWBURYPORT
Balance Sheet
Revenue Accounts
December 31, 1955
Assets
Liabilities and Reserves
Revenue Cash:
In banks and Office,
$487,786.37
Federal Grants:
ADC Administration,
$123.48
Accounts Receivable :
Taxes :
Levy of 1954:
Personal,
$815.20
Real Estate,
23,672.03
Levy of 1955:
Revolving Funds :
Poll,
292.00
High School Cafeteria,
$828.62
Personal,
5,957.68
Real Estate,
74,213.02
High School Athletics,
1.57
Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise: Levy of 1954,
+99.83
Levy of 1955,
8,179.19
8,279.02
Cemetery Perpetual Care,
$531.50
Tax Titles and Possessions:
Tax Titles,
$2,530.44
Tax Possessions,
1,476.89
Recoveries : Old Age Assistance,
16,736.37
Departmental:
Fire,
$365.00
Appropriation Balances, Sale of Cemetery Lots and Graves Fund,
1,164.00
Sewer,
1,869.05
Highways,
31.00
Outside Relief, State,
2,030.92
Outside Relief, Cities and Towns ,
397.50
Parking Lot, 1,294.50
15,320.110
Cities and Towns,
764.09
Aid to Dependent
Children, State,
8,703.46
Agency:
County -Dog Licenses, 5.40
41
104,949.93
991.75
Tailings: Unclaimed checks,
258.32
Trust Fund Income :
Other,
6,258.03
6,789.53
4,007.33
280,738.95
Sidewalks,
47.00
1,800.00
Sale of Real Estate (Water Department), Receipts Reserved for Appropriations : Parking Meters, $14,025.90
Kent Street Municipal
Old Age Assistance,
Premium on Loans : Parking Area,
41.75
Old Age Assistance, Adminis., 380.02
Disability Assistance, Adminis., 5.43
Vocational Education: George-Barden Fund, 456.97
$965.90
School Lunch, 161.56
City Auditor City of Newburyport, Balance Sheet,
Continued:
Schools,
397.60
Overlay Surplus, - Reserve Fund, 1,694.87
14,605.62
Reserve for Water Department Advance, 8,000.00
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