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CONTENTS.
Report of the Selectmen
66 "" Town Clerk
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Financial Statement
Expenses of Public Schools
19
School Contingent
21
Highway Fund
23
Fire Department .
26
Contingent Expenses
29
Support of Poor
31
New Town Hall
32
Armory, - Centre School House .
32
Melrose Water Fund
34
Insurance, - State Aid
35
Town Hall
Lock Up, - Hose House at the Highlands
36
Drainage, - Land for Hose House
37
Street Lights, - Land Drainage .
38
Additional Street Lights, - New Streets
38
Alarm Bell, - Decoration Day
39
Public Library
41
Town Officers, - Interest
42
Sinking Fund
43
Valuation of Real and Personal Property
44
Town Debt
45
Schedule of Town Property
47
Deficiences in Appropriations
49
Aggregate of Expenditures and Receipts, and Present Standing of Accounts
50
Report of the Town Treasurer
52
George Newhall, Treas., in Account with the Town of Melrose, 54-55 Report of Assessors - 57
58
Collector's Report
60
Report of Fire Engineers
62
Report of the Water Commissioners
Superintendent's Report 50
Report of the Trustees of the Public Library
77
Report of the School Committee
91
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51
Statement of the Town Debt, - Bonds
37
Grading Plan, - Police, - Wyoming Cemetery
40
Appropriations
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TOWN OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1874.
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Town Clerk. JOHN LARRABEE.
Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor.
WALTER BABB.
H. G. FIELDS.
G. A. MANSFIELD.
Treasurer. GEORGE NEWHALL.
Collector. ANSEL B. PIERCE.
Assessors.
C. H. EDMONDS.
G. F. BOARDMAN.
M. L. RAY.
Water Commissioners.
J. R. SIMONDS Term expires 1877.
W. IRVING ELLIS
66 1876.
J. D. WILDE .
66 66 1875.
School Committee.
SAMUEL A. DRAKE
Term expires 1875.
J. O. NORRIS
66
1876.
D. W. GOOCH
66 1875.
MISS PHOEBE NORRIS
66 66 1876.
MRS. J. C. CURRIER
66
1875.
66 A. V. LYNDE
66 66
1875.
JAMES MARSHALL. Highway Surveyors. GEORGE P. FULLER.
L. T. FREEMAN.
Engineers of the Fire Department.
CHIEF.
CLERK.
J. G. EMERSON. T. A. LONG.
J. R. SIMONDS.
T. B. STANTIAL.
J. R. NORTON.
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Trustees of the Public Library.
FREDERIC KIDDER. E. H. GOSS. C. C. BARRY. HANNAH LYNDE. ADDIE A. NICHOLS.
GEO. NEWHALL.
Cemetery Committee. M. L. RAY. N. HOWARD.
Representatives in the General Court- Twenty-third Middlesex District.
ELBRIDGE H. GOSS, of Melrose. JOHN BEST, of Stoneham.
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JOHN R. NORTON. -
Auditors. E. H. GOSS.
Measurers of Wood and Bark, and Weighers of Hay and Coal. S. E. BENSON. WM. E. FULLER.
Fence Viewers.
N. HOWARD. M. L. RAY.
Constables.
N. B. NEWHALL. A. B. PIERCE. J. HOLBROOK. MOSES BRIGGS.
H. C. RICHARDSON.
Surveyor of Lumber. D. H. WALKER.
Sealer of Weights and Measures. JAMES LAMBERT.
Lock-up Keeper. H. G. FIELDS.
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.
FELLOW CITIZENS : -
Following the custom of our predecessors, we present to you a limited statement of town affairs for the past year, and have only selected such subjects as seem to be of general importance, referring you for fuller details to the financial statement of the various departments.
TOWN HALL.
On the 17th of June, 1874, the town formally received from the building committee the keys, as well as the care and furnishing of the new building. The various offices have been furnished with suitable furniture, both with a view to economy and convenience, and will need nothing more in this direction for years to come. The Melrose Savings Bank has located in the treasurer's room, and is doing a good work for the middling and poorer classes, by receiving deposits upon interest, of sums which otherwise would have been diverted to other channels, or, much worse, frittered away foolishly. Let it have a cordial support.
There has been placed $45,000 of insurance upon the building, in first class offices, at the low rate of 1 1-2 per cent. for the term of five years.
POOR.
The public charge at present is sixty-three persons, whom we class as follows :
Full support
8
Regular partial support
.
12
Relieved
. 26
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The above are chargeable to this town. We also have the care of seventeen others, most of whose settlements Ware known. The remainder will be determined as soon as possible and all charged to their respective places. There are also two hundred tramps, at a cost of $103.25 for the year.
While there has been an unusual amount of suffering the past year among the worthier class, we still find that rum is the direct or remote cause of very much of the destitution among our poor ; and any measure that will crush this evil will instantly lift a great burden off our tax-payers. We have recent cases upon our hands, where men have lost their places by their drinking habits, bringing distress upon their wives and children, and we have been compelled under the statute to assist them.
We must send such men to the work-house upon a charge of neglect of their families. The law is plain, and this has been a year when the most reluctant have been compelled to urge its gracious provisions upon us in their own behalf, viz. : "Over- seers, in their respective places, shall provide for the immediate comfort and relief of all persons found therein, when they fall into distress." While we are limited and governed by statute, we have exercised a due discrimination between those worthy and unworthy to receive its benefits. We have aimed to be as economical in the disbursement of this fund as was consistent with a law founded upon the prin- ciples of humanity ; and we have assumed that the citizens of this town seek to maintain that kindly attitude towards their worthy poor, which the good at all times are prompted to, and to which heaven points us all. We have never known so long continued scarcity of labor. Men have been compelled to the most rigid economy, while many have been brought to complete beggary ; and we here gladly bring to the notice of the town its obligation to the churches, to the benevolent societies, to the lodges, and to the christian ladies and gentlemen, who, by their many benefactions and kind
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offices, have so largely assisted us in providing for the needy, and by which we are enabled to report a cost to this depart- ment, little if any above that of previous years. The new settlement law, approved May 28, 1874, is so easy in its terms and conditions, that it must tend to multiply paupers in the towns, while it may empty the State institutions. Indeed, we have already found this to be the fact in our town. We call your attention to Acts and Resolves of 1874, chap. 274. We are convinced that it will require a larger appropriation for the poor, under the new enactment, than formerly. To say that this town ought to take steps to pro- vide itself with an almshouse, is but to repeat what every good business man must have concluded in his own mind ; and we think we need not stop to speak of the many things which concur to make such a step advisable, but would simply recommend that this question be settled the coming year.
NEW LAMP POSTS.
Twelve new posts were set last May, and have been lighted during the year, as follows :
Lebanon Street, near corner of First Street.
Upham
66
66 " Fourth "
Prospect
" J. R. Jones' residence.
Tremont
Mr. Roakes' ""'
Melrose 66 " Stone Culvert.
Main 66 between Franklin and Melrose Streets.
Upham ٠٠ head of East Street.
Grove 66 corner of Berwick Street. ·
Emerson 66 " Lebanon
Green
opposite Linden
Tremont
corner Melrose 66 Tremont 66
Emerson 66
making, with sixty-five previously in use, seventy-seven in all. We would recommend a small annual appropriation for additional lights, believing that in this way we shall, in a little while, be sufficiently lighted without the burden of a large appropriation.
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BREAKING OF STREET LANTERNS.
A source of great annoyance during the past year has been the frequency of broken glass in street lanterns, and no small sum has been paid in consequence. A great portion of this damage has been malicious ; during the summer a reward was offered for the detection and conviction of the offenders, and the local police received special instructions to make an example of any party who might be detected, but as yet without result. We hope that this public men- tion of the matter may restrain some who (thoughtlessly, perhaps) have in the past contributed to this mischief.
STREET LIGHTS.
The New-England Gas-Light Company, of Boston, have done the work for the amount of appropriation, viz., $1,300, although this sum was much smaller than their regular price. This includes the care of lamps, lighting, and every thing pertaining to the department. Mr. Brown, the agent of the company, has been indefatigable in his endeavors to make the lighting a success ; always courteous and ready to rem- edy any cause of complaint. The lights, so far as we are informed, are generally satisfactory, and certainly much cheaper than the former mode, giving equally as good light in extreme cold weather as in the summer months.
GRADE PLANS.
Messrs. Fuller & Whitney of Boston have been employed to establish a grade for our streets. This is a matter that should have been attended to years ago. It is intended to have the plans ready, so that your surveyors may have them to work on this spring, thus having all the labor systema- tized, and that what may be done on our streets shall be lasting.
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NEW STREET.
Charles Street from Emerson to Oakland Street, has been built in a thorough and workmanlike manner. A very sub- stantial culvert has been placed at the corner of Emerson Street, thus controlling the water which heretofore has been an annoyance to those who have been obliged to receive the wash in heavy rains. The town appropriated the sum of $150 for the work, but it has been completed for $112. We would recommend that at no distant day the street be accepted and built its entire length.
RAILROAD GATES.
By a vote of the last annual meeting we were instructed to cause gates to be placed at the several crossings. Several conferences have been held with the officials, and, as a re- sult, we have to report that the gates are in position and doing good service.
LOCK-UP.
Three cells have been placed in the basement of the new town house, for the accommodation of prisoners and lodgers. It has been substantially built and furnished within the appropriation allotted by the town, and is a great saving in the matter of " tramps," who have heretofore cost the town at the rate of one dollar each per night.
HIGHWAYS.
Soon after entering upon our official duties we divided the town into three districts, allotting one of each to the respective surveyors. We believe the town has been faith- fully served, the work well done, and general satisfaction given.
NEW HOSE HOUSE.
During the year a very eligible piece of land has been purchased upon Franklin Street, and a new house built for Hose Company, No. 3.
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The architecture of the building is neat, its rooms ample. The bell which formerly did service in the tower of Hose 1 has been removed and placed in the belfry of the new house, and altogether the town is in possession of as useful a struct- ure, one that is satisfactory to its occupants and the neigh- borhood, as it was possible to put together for any thing like the money invested in this.
NEW SCHOOLHOUSE.
By an incendiary fire, which destroyed the old High School building on Upham Street, in April last, it became necessary for the town to at once build a new house ; the proper committee was appointed, and an elegant new struct- ure now occupies the place of the old one. As the report of the School Committee will probably give a full report of this matter, we leave it with the simple statement as above.
NEW ARMORY.
Early in the spring arrangemants were made with Mr. H. A. Leonard to build an Armory for Battery "C," 2d Light Artillery, which should be acceptable to the selectmen of the town and the adjutant general of the State, for which the town should take a lease of five years, at a rental of $600 per annum.
Mr. Leonard at once commenced his building on Dell Avenue, and early in the fall had ready for occupancy rooms specially adapted for military purposes.
The building received the approval of all parties .in interest, so that the annual amount of rent will be refunded by the State.
The town is to be congratulated that by recent changes the whole of this Battery is located in our precincts. It is a noble body of young men, and under the care and guidance of our fellow townsmen, Col. C. B. Baldwin, we feel will
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ever be a credit, not only to the town, but to the militia of the State, of which they form a part.
REAL ESTATE BELONGING TO THE TOWN.
By the fire which some years since destroyed documents belonging to the town, several deeds of property were lost ; and inasmuch as very recently some question has been raised as to where the town did actually own in a certain estate, and as these questions are likely to frequently occur in the future, we would recommend the appointment of a com- mittee by the town, to have every piece of real estate belonging to the town surveyed, plans made, boundaries fixed, and new deeds made and placed on file, to the end that all the property of the town may be definitely located, and its title fixed beyond question.
CLAIM FOR DAMAGES SETTLED.
On the 5th of October the Board was formally notified that Mrs. Samuel N. Green of Stoneham had met with a serious accident at the corner of Porter and Lebanon Streets, by reason of a defect in the highway, and claimed damages for personal injuries by reason of the same. The Board at once investigated the matter, and found that heavy rains, in coming down Porter Street, when they reached the foot of the street, had washed out a gutter from the centre of Porter Street to the culvert on corner of Lebanon Street. It was in this gutter that the claimant stepped, causing a severe injury. We visited her at her residence in Stoneham, and became assured that the case was one of real suffering. We sent two of our own physicians to examine the case, and at once took legal advice in regard to the law that would apply in the case.
On the evening of Oct. 13 the husband of the injured party presented himself to the Board and made claim for $1000 as damages. Subsequently reports were received
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from our physicians and attorney, all agreeing that a speedy settlement was for the best interest of the town. Accord- ingly negotiations were at once entered upon, and a full settlement made for the sum of $150.
We feel that under all the circumstances the town have reason to congratulate themselves that this case was settled without recourse to the courts, which in any event, however favorable to the town, would have cost very much more of money, to say nothing of time and trouble.
WILLIAM A. HOWARD - SUIT.
This case, which was a claim for $5000 for injuries re- ceived in Walnut Street, by reason of a defect in the high- way, was tried at the last term of the Superior Court, held in Cambridge. Able counsel represented the town, and what was considered a thorough defence on the part of the town was made. The jury, however, gave a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $962.50.
Exceptions have been filed, and a motion for a new trial will be argued next January.
TOWN OF MELROSE VS. MERRIMACK MUTUAL FIRE INSUR- ANCE COMPANY OF ANDOVER.
This was a suit which we commenced, to recover the sum of $3500, insured upon old High School building, de- stroyed last April. The Company, acting through its Pres- ident, refused our claim upon what we considered a frivolous excuse. We at once brought suit and entered it for trial ; thus the case stood until about the first of February, when application was made for a settlement. It was stated that the Company had elected a new president, and that the directors were willing and desirous to do all that was fair and just in the premises ; they entirely disclaimed the action of their late president, and really seemed as if they wanted the town to have its just dues. After some consultation with all parties in interest and by advice of our counsel, we
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settled upon the following terms: The Company to pay to the Town the full sum of insurance, ($3,500), all the costs of court and one-half of the interest from the date when the Company were bound to make good the loss. Thus was saved a long and tedious trial, which, in any event, would have been expensive to all parties.
OTHER CASES.
The cases of William J. Farnsworth vs. the Town, and Nelson Cochrane vs. the Town, were not reached at this term of the court and have gone over to the April term.
FINANCIAL.
Your attention is called to the healthy condition of the financial affairs of the town.
Mr. Newhall, our treasurer, has done his work well. The credit of the town was never better. Our debt is seemingly large, but we have, exclusive of our streets, abundant assets, at a fair valuation to cover it.
With taxable property of over four million dollars, with over one thousand taxable polls, with good schools, a pru- dent government, low taxation, rigid economy, good railroad facilities, beautiful scenery, a healthful soil, and an abundant supply of pure water, brought into our houses and shops by gravitation, we may hope for reasonable prosperity.
The Sinking Fund shows that we mean to pay our debts. It is simple, effective and inexpensive, doing its great work silently, vigorously, and with unerring certainty; it will consolidate into itself the town debt, contracted prior to last year, as fast as it is practicable, and pay it off as fast as it is due.
Respectfully submitted, WALTER BABB, H. G. FIELDS, GEO. A. MANSFIELD,
Selectmen of Melrose.
MELROSE, March 5, 1875.
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REPORT OF THE TOWN CLERK.
Statistics of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of Melrose, from January 1, 1874, to January 1, 1875.
BIRTHS.
Whole number of Births-Males 57, Females 45- 102
American parentage 58
Foreign
American and Foreign
MARRIAGES.
Whole number of Marriages · 33
Native born
22
Foreign "
9
Foreign and native
2
First marriage of parties . 57
Second marriage of parties . .
9
66-33 couples.
Oldest person married,
73 years.
Youngest person married,
16
INTENTIONS OF MARRIAGE RECORDED.
Whole number of couples . · 32
Both parties residing in Melrose,
·
21
But one party residing in Melrose · 11 ·
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38
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DEATHS.
Whole number .
Males (married)
19
Females (married)
9
Widows
8
Widowers .
3
Males (single)
20
Females (single)
20
Under 1 year
Over 1 year and under 10 years
8
66
20
66
..
30
9
30
..
..
40 60
3
66
40
66
66
50
66
4
50
..
60
66
7
66
60
..
6.
70
8
66
70
66
66
80
..
9
66
80
90
5
-
79
Number of Dogs licensed during the year 1874 198
188 Males at $2.00 each . $376.00
10 Females at $5.00 each
50.00
$426.00
Less clerk's fees-198 at 20 cents each . 39.60
$386.40
Amount paid to Amos Stone, County Treas- urer, as required by Law $386.40
JOHN LARRABEE, Town Clerk.
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10 6
20
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
EXPENSES OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
High School.
Sam'l Harrington, twenty-nine weeks' salary,
$1,450 00
A. G. Whitman, twelve weeks' salary, to March 1, 1875, 600 00
Mary L. Charles, forty-two weeks' sal- ary, to March 1, 1875, 1,050 00
Emma A. J. Bugbee, fourteen weeks' salary to March 1, 1875, 245 00
C. E. Prior, seven weeks' salary, 122 50
$3,467 50
First Grammar.
Frank L. Smith, thirty-four weeks' salary to January 1, 1875, 930 00
Do., balance as per agreement, 200 00
Do., two weeks' salary to Jan. 16, 1875, 75 00
H. F. Woodman, five weeks' salary, to March 1, 1875, 187 50
1,392 50
Second Grammar.
Lucy W. Bisbee, forty-two weeks' salary to March 1, 1875, 630 00
630 00
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Third Grammar.
Julia M. Porter, forty-two weeks' salary to March 1, 1875, 630 00
Centre Grammar. 630 90
Emma M. Cate, forty-two weeks' sal- ary to March 1, 1875, 630 00
630 00
Centre Intermediate.
Chastine Emerson, forty-two weeks' salary to March 1, 1875. 577 50 1
577 50
Lynde St. Intermediate.
Jennie L. Crie, forty-two weeks' sal- ary to March 1, 1875, 577 50
577 50
Vinton St. Intermediate.
Emma M. Norris, forty-two weeks' salary to March 1, 1875, 577 50
577 00
Highland Primary.
Annie Woodman, eighteen weeks' sal-
ary to June 27, 1874, 247 50
Alice S. Brown, twenty-four weeks' salary to March 1, 1875, 330 00
577 50
Green St. Primary.
Nellie M. Buffum, thirty-nine weeks salary, 398 75
Lydia Mendum, twelve weeks' salary to March 1, 1875, 165 00
563 75
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Centre Primary.
Sarah E. Pratt, forty-two weeks' sal-
ary to March 1, 1875, 577 50
577 50
Upham St. Primary.
Susan D. Melcher, forty-two weeks' salary to March 1, 1875, 577 50
577 50'
Lynde St. Primary.
M. M. Gilman, forty-two weeks' sal- ary to March 1, 1875, 577 50
577 50
Vinton St. Primary.
G. F. Treadwell, ten weeks' salary, 137 50
Hannah F. Lewis, eight weeks' salary, 110 00
Etta W. Livermore, twenty-four weeks' salary, 330 00
577 50
Fannie E. Grover, teaching music,
241 00
Georgie N. Bordman, teaching music six months,
360 00
N. F. Dracopolis, teacher of French, 165 00
766 00
Janitors.
Ansel B. Pierce,
358 34
O. K. Stebbins,
133 33
Michael Murray,
100 00
J. W. Simonds,
79 17
A. L. Upham,
50 00
D. E. Wetherbee,
42 70
H. G. Fields,
12 50
776 04
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Rent.
George F. Boardman, seven months'
rent of Concert Hall, 175 00
175 00
Fuel.
S. E. Benson, coal and wood,
836 38
A. B. Pierce, charcoal, 8 00
P. G. O'Neil, 5 00
849 38
School Committee.
Nelson Cochrane, services,
30 00
J. O. Norris, services, 125 00
155 00
RECAPITULATION.
Salaries,
$12,699 75
Janitors,
776 04
Rent,
175 00
Fuel,
849 38
Committee,
155 00
$14,655 17
Contra.
Appropriation,
$13,800 00
Balance from last year,
1,013 28
Received from State,
256 37
$15,069 65
Balance to credit of fund, $414 48.
SCHOOL CONTINGENT.
Appropriation, Balance from last year,
$2300 00
248 19
$2,548 19
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Expended .- School Contingent.
J. L. Hammett, books and school furniture, $126 27
Carrie A. Eastman, books and stationery, 167 12
Joel Atwood, carpenter work and stock, 335 49
J. C. Howes, repairing stoves and sundries, 161 55
Bugbee & Barrett, brooms, brushes, etc., 9 66
C. S. Parker & Sons, slating High School house, 76 46
Joseph L. Ross, new desks, and repairing desks, 228 93
Walworth Manuf. Co., balance on heating apparatus, 476 55
Geo. M. McCoy, insurance agent, policies on High School house, 450 00
A. B. Pierce, sundries, 16 12
Babb & Stephens, printing,
28 00
Town of Melrose, use of hall,
20 00
Crosby, Morse & Foss, silver medals, 42 00
S. Harrington, cash paid for books, 12 11
C. E. Keith, tuning and repairs on piano, 7 00
F. T. & C. E. Palmer, painting and glazing. 16 19
M. F. Eastman, expressing, 12 25
Rice, Kendall & Co., paper, 17 77
D. Wetherbee, glazing, 4 00
Thompson, Brown & Co., books,
33 94
J. O. Norris, cash paid for singing books,
20 00
J. McCarthy, charcoal,
3 00
E. A. Robinson, teaming,
3 50
Thomas Hall, instruments,
11 00
S. A. Drake, traveling expenses,
3 70
Taylor & Pratt, repairing chair,
50
P. Edson, thermometer,
50
W. S. Upham, glazing,
5 15
Thomas Ireland, cleaning clock,
1 50
Frank Stevens, painting,
3 00
Amount carried forward,
$2,293 26
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Amount brought forward, $2,293 26
Lawrence, Wilde & Hull, shades, 31 75
4 00
Mrs. G. N. Bordman, music, C. H. Hayward, floor-brush, 3 00 J. L. Shorey, books, 7 00
Maynard & Noyes, ink,
6 70
$2,345 71
Balance unexpended,
202 48
$2,548 19
HIGHWAY FUND.
Appropriation for highways
$3,000.00
66 " sidewalks
1,000.00
Balance as shown last year
10.00
$4,010.00
Expended under direction of L. T. Freeman, surveyor, as follows :
For labor, as per vouchers,
$1,174.15
J. D. Hodges, gravel, 58.10
L. T. Freeman, « 53.00
9.50
Jonathan Barrett, gravel,
11.33
James Worthen & Co., spikes,
1.50
T. McCoubrey, sharpening tools, etc.,
25.75
J. P. Deering & Co., lumber,
฿1,333.33
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Expended under direction of James Marshall, surveyor, as follows :
For labor and teams, as per vouchers, $1,118.00
J. P. Deering & Co., lumber, 26.21
65.80
James Marshall, gravel, 66 repairing culvert,
40.50
Joseph Lynde, gravel,
25.00
F. Bennett,
19.10
J. O. Lynde, 6.10
T. McCoubrey, sharpening tools, etc., 31.29
1,332.00
Expended under direction of George P. Fuller, surveyor, as follows :
For labor, as per vouchers, $906.25
" teams, 297.00
Ami C. Chick, blasting rock,
20.00
T. McCoubrey, sharpening tools, etc.,
14.85
Mrs. E. Emerson, gravel,
7.30
G. P. Fuller, nails, etc.,
2.16
$1,247.56
Paid bill of 1872 to F. A. Messenger,
$10.00
RECAPITULATION.
Bill of 1872 to F. A. Messenger,
$10.00
Bills approved by L. T. Freeman,
1,333.33
. 6 .6 James Marshall, 1,332.00
66
George P. Fuller,
1,247.56
$3,922.89
Balance unexpended,
87.11
$4,010.00
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Engineers, for services to May 1, 1874, $75 00
Engineers, 51 poll taxes (refunded by vote of the Town), 102 00
Bugbee & Barrett, sundries, 20 20
M. F. Eastman, expressing, 2 10
J. R. Norton, record book,
2 50
T. B. Stantial, moving bell,
9 00
W. D. Cole, oil, etc.,
14 00
Members, extra services,
150 00
$374 80
Bigelow Hook and Ladder Co., No. 1.
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