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$14,000.00
52 Melrose Sewer Bonds, June 1, 1925, 4%, 101 to 105, 154 to 159, 160
52,000.00
10 Melrose Sewer Bonds, July 1, 1935, 4%, 351 to 360
10,000.00
10 Melrose Sewer Bonds, June 1, 1937, 4%, 361 to 370
10,000.00
10 Melrose Sewer Bonds, July 1, 1937, 4%, 371 to 380
10,000.00
57 Melrose Surface Drainage Bonds, July 15, 1932, 4%, 4 to 60 ..
57,000.00
3 Melrose Water Bonds, March 1, 1918, 4%, 452 to 453, 472
3,000.00
6 Wakefield, Mass., Bonds, Nov. 1, 1925, 31/2%, 90 to 95
6,000.00
1 Wakefield, Mass., Bond, Nov. 1, 1926, 31/2%, 96
1,000.00
10 Clinton, Mass., Bonds, July 1, 1930, 31/2%, 132 to 141
10,000.00
1 Los Angeles, Cal., Bond, June 1, 1932, 41/2%, 1518
1,000.00
1 Los Angeles, Cal., Bond, June 1, 1942, 41/2%, 2511
1,000.00
3 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Bonds, July 1, 1949, 31/2 %, 7695 to 7697
3,000.00
8 Boston & Maine R. R. Bonds, April 1, 1929, 41/2%, 5166 to 5169, 5171 to 5174
8,000.00
15 Fitchburg R. R. Bonds, May 1, 1928, 41/2%, 3853, 2367 to 2373, 3341 to 3345, 3468 to 3469
15,000.00
3 Connecticut River R. R. Bonds, January 1, 1923, 31/2%, 841 to 843
3,000.00
3 Boston & Albany R. R. Bonds, May 1, 1933, 4%, 2492 to 2494
3,000.00
1 Boston Elevated R. R. Bond, May 1, 1935, 4%, 21
500.00
2 Boston Elevated R. R. Bonds, Oct. 1, 1937, 41/2%, 100 to 101, registered
2,000.00
Part 1 Boston Elevated R. R. Bond, Nov. 1, 1941, 41/2%, 39, ($5,000) registered
2,500.00
10,000.00
10 Liberty Bonds, Nov. 15, 1942, 4%, Cash, in Melrose Trust Co.
921.93
$22,921.93
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CITY OF MELROSE
REPORT SCHOOL HOUSE LOAN SINKING FUNDS, 1917
Receipts
Cash in Bank January 1, 1817
$994.26
From Coupons
$182.00
Interest on Notes and Registered Bonds
490.08
Interest on Bank Deposits
5.29
City of Melrose, appropraton for 1917
2,592.56
Bonds and Notes sold and matured
8,200.00
11,469.93
$11,507.69
Payments
Bonds and Notes bought.
$10,500.00
Accrued interest on Bonds and Notes bought
102.92
Rent Safe Deposit Box
2.00
$10,604.92
Balance, Cash in Melrose Trust Co.
$902.77
W. R. LAVENDER, Treasurer.
LIST OF SECURITIES OWNED BY THE SCHOOL HOUSE LOAN SINKING FUND
4 Boston & Albany R. R. Bonds, May 1, 1933, 4%, 2495 to 2398
$4,000.00
2 Baltimore & Ohio R. R. (S. W. Div.) Bond, registered, July 1, 1925, 312%, MI531 to 532
2,00000
3 Baltimore & Ohio R. R. (S. W. Div.), July 1, 1925, 31/2%, B42, 43, 49
1,500.00
Part 1 Boston Elevated R. R. Bond, Nov. 1, 1941, 41/2%, registered, ($5,000)
2,000.00 5 Portland Terminal R. R. Bond, July 1, 1961, 4%, M1 to 4, 7 .. 5,000.00
1 Boston Elevated R. R. Bond, Nov. 1, 1941, 41/2%, 34, regis- tered
1,000.00
Part 1 Boston Elevated R. R. Bond, Nov. 1, 1941, 41/2%, 36 ($5,000) registered
2,000.00
1/2 Melrose Water Bond, March 1, 1918, 4%, 454
450.00
2,000.00
2 Liberty Bonds, Nov. 15, 1942, 4%, registered Cash in Melrose Trust Co.
902.77
$20,902.77
REPORT SURFACE DRAINAGE LOAN SINKING FUND, 1917 Receipts
$74.79
From Coupons
$1,905.50
Interest on Notes and Registered Bonds
289.05
Interest on Bank Dep sits
15.59
City of Melrose, appropriation 1917
3,960.91
Bonds and Notes matured and sold
16,800.00
$22,971.05
$23,045.84
Cash in Bank, January 1, 1917
I65
REPORT OF SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS
Payments
Bonds and Notes bought $16,530.97
Accrued interest on Bods and Notes bought 283.38
Rent Safe Deposit Box 3.00
City of Melrose, to pay maturing Bonds
5,000.00
$21,817.35
Balance, Cash in Melrose Trust Co.
$1,228.49
LIST OF SECURITIES OWNED BY THE SURFACE LOAN SINKING FUND
38 Melrose Surface Drg. Bonds, July 15, 1932, 4%, 4, 1 to 3, 61 to 75 81 to 100
$38,000.00
4 to 10 1 Melrose Water Bond, March 1, 1918, 4%, 462 400.00
1 Wakefield, Mass., Bond, Nov. 1, 1926, 31/2%, 97 .. 1,000.00
1 Boston & Maine R. R. Bond, April 1, 1929, 41/2%, 5170 1,000.00
2 Fitchburg R. R. Bonds, March 1, 1928, 4%, 2394, 3854
2,000.00
1 Boston & Albany R. R. Bond, May 1, 1933, 4%, 2499
1,000.00
1 Baltimore & Ohio R. R. (S. W. Div.) Bond, registered, July 1, 1925, 31/2%, B44 .
500.00
3 Boston Elevated R. R. Bonds, Nov. 1, 1941, 41,2%, registered, 43 to 45
3,000.00
Part 1, Boston Elevated R. R. Bonds, Nov. 1, 1941, 41/2%, 39, registered ($5,000)
500.00
3,000.00
3 Liberty Bonds, registered, Nov. 1, 1942, 4% Cash, in Melrose Trust Co.
1,228.49
$51,628.49
W. R. LAVENDER, Treasurer.
REPORT WATER LOAN SINKING FUNDS, 1917
Receipts
Cash in Bank, January 1, 1917
$743.30
From Coupons
$2,760.00
Interest on Notes and Registered Bonds
273.06
Interest on Bank Deposits
8.42
Bonds and Notes sold and matured
11,800.00
$14,841.48
$15,584.78
Payments
Bonds and Notes bought
$14,550.11
Accrued interest on Bonds and Notes bought
187.02
Rent of Safe Deposit Box
5.00
$14,742.13
Balance, Cash in Melrose Trust Co.
$842.65
W. R. LAVENDER,
Treasurer.
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CITY OF MELROSE
LIST OF SECURITIES OWNED BY THE WATER LOAN SINKING FUND, DEC. 31, 1917
30 Melrose Water Bonds, March 1, 1918, 4%, 438 to 451, 455 to 461, 462 to 471
$30,000.00
1/2 Melrose Water Bonds, March 1, 1918, 4%, 454 500.00
6-10 Melrose Water Bonds, March 1, 1918, 4%, 462
600.00
34 Melrose Water Bonds, July 1, 1925, 4%, 400, 403 to 408, 410 to 426, 428 to 437
34,000.00
5 Melrose Surface Drainage Bonds, July 15, 1932, 4%, 76 to 80.
5,000.00
1 Bath, Maine, Bond, January 1, 1927, 4%, 14 .
500.00
1,000.00
1 Boston & Maine R. R. Bond, April 1, 1929, 41/2%, 5165 Part 1 Boston Elevated R. R. Bond, ($5,000), registered, Nov. 1, 1941, 41/2%, 36
3,000.00
1 Boston Elevated R. R. Bond, registered, Nov. 1, 1941, 41/2%, 35
1,000.00
Cash, in Melrose Trust Co.
842.65
$76,442.65
Report of Cemetery Committee
Receipts
Dressing
$63.25
Foundations
331.00
Graves, single
634.00
Interments
891.00
Labor, grading lots, etc.
II3.50
Lots, care of
2,089.00
Lots, care of Perpetual Trust Fund
1,493.87
Lots, sale of
2,653.50
Slate Vaults
795.00
Sundries
48.25
$9,112.37
Expenditures
Salary of Clerk
$49.50
Salary of Committee
75.00
Salary of Superintendent
1,380.77
Bond of Superintendent
3.00
Cement
23.45
Dressing
I33.50
Engineering and Blue Prints
18.50
Freight hand teaming
139.15
Fuel
12.80
Leavitt M. D., clerical services
47.40
Markers and Signs
71.50
Miscellaneous
L41.75
Pay Rolls and teaming
5,855.01
Pipes and Fittings
93.07
Plants, shrubs and seeds
101.50
Postage, printing and stationery
52.75
Sewer drain pipe
153.62
Sharpening tools
24.10
Telephone
44.20
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Tools
55.28
Vaults, slate
245.75
Weed Exterminator
41.00
Receipts exceed payments
$98,665.60 $446.77
Respectfully submitted, W. C. GOSS, Chairman.
Report of the City Auditor of the City of Melrose
To His Honor, the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen :-
Gentlemen :- I have the honor to submit herewith a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the City of Melrose, beginning on the first day of January, 1917, and ending of the financial year on the thirty-first day ofDecember, 1917, with a detailed statement of each department, a statement of assets and liabilities, a table showing the funded debt, the dates on which the notes and bonds are payable, to- gether with a schedule of the City property.
In accordance with the requirements of Chapter 322, Acts of 1904, I have examined the several trust funds, under the control of the trustees of the public library, and find proper vouchers for, and bank books showing balances as reported by them on pages 99 to 101 of their report.
Respectfully submitted, EDWIN C. GOULD, City Auditor.
City of Melrose, Auditor's Office.
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CITY OF MELROSE
FINANCES
The assessed valuation of the City, April Ist, 1917 was :
Real Esteate
$17,242,750.00
Personal
1,530,000.00
Total Valuation
$18,772,750.00
Decrease in valuation from April 1, 1916 to April 1, 1917 $872,400.00
Number of dwelling houses April 1, 1917 .. 3,958
Number of assessed polls 5,061
Population
17,500
Rate of taxation per $1,000 April 1, 1917 $23.40, divided as follows, viz.
City Tax 13.96
County Tax .73
State Tax 1.88
Metropolitan Park Tax
.51
Metropolitan Sewer Tax
.86
Charles River Basin Tax .IO
Highway and Fire Prevention Tax
.OI
Interest, Loans and Sinking Funds
4.62
Overlays
.73
$23.40
BONDED DEBT, DEC. 31, 1916
Total amount of outstanding bonds
$863,500.00
Increase :
Sewer ..
10,000.00
Surface Drainage
10,000.00
Water Bonds
10,000.00
$30,000.00
$893,500.00
Decrease :
Auditorium
2,000.00
Park
2,000.00
Sewer
52,500.00
Water
9,500.00
73,500.00
Total outstanding bonds Dec. 31, 1917
$820,000.00
Decrease $43,500.00.
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MUNICIPAL AND PERMANENT NOTES
Total outstanding Dec. 31, 1916
$128,950.00
Increase :
Municipal Notes I year
$13,400.00
Municipal Notes over I year.
35,000.00
Trust Fund Notes I year
3,500.00
Trust Fund Notes over I year
5,870.00
Surface Drainage Notes-Spot Pond Imp .. .
7,200.00
Park Notes-Ice House
6,600.00
71,570.00
$200,520.00
Decrease :
Municipal Notes
11,900.00
Permanent Notes
25,950.00
$37,850.00
Total outstanding Dec. 31, 1917
$162,670.00
Increase $33,720.00.
CITY OF MELROSE, MUNICIPAL DEBT, DEC. 31, 1917
Due in 1918 Municipal Debt Notes $20,100.00
Permanent Debt Notes
Due in 1918
$27,350.00
1919
32,950.00
1920
24,120.00
1921
18,550.00
1922
14,050.00
1923
6,050.00
1924
3,000.00
1925
3,000.00
1926
3,000.00
1927
3,000.00
1928
3,000.00
1929
3,000.00
1930
1,000.00
1931
500.00
$142,570.00
Total outstanding Dec. 31, 1917
$162,670.00
BONDED DEBT DEC. 31, 1917
Auditorium Loan
Due July 1, 1918 to 1931 at 4% $2,000.00 due each year $28,000.00
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Park Bond
Due Nov. 1, 1918 to 1921 at 4%, $1,000.00 due each year
$4,000.00
Due Dec. 1, 1918 to 1921 at 4%, $1,000.00 due each year
4,000.00 $8,000.00
Schoolhouse Bonds
Due March I, 1929 at 31/2%
$78,000.00
Sewer Bonds
Melrose Sewer Loans :
Due June 1, 1924 at 4%
$100,000.00
June I, 1925 at 4%
100,000.00
July 1, 1926 at 4%
50,000.00
July 1, 1935 at 4%
10,000.00
June 1, 1937 at 4%
10,000.00
July 1, 1937 at 4%
10,000.00
July 1, 1938 at 4%
10,000.00
July I, 1939 at 31/2%
10,000.00
April 1, 1940 at 4%
10,000.00
May I, 1941 at 4%
5,000.00
Nov. 1, 1941 at 4%
5,000.00
July 1, 1942 at 4%
10,000.00
May 1, 1918 to 1934 at 4% Serial
$500.00 due each year
8,500.00
May 1, 1918 to 1935 at 4% Serial
$500.00 due each year 9,000.00
Aug. 1, 1918 to 1926 at
4% Serial
$1,000.00 due each year 9,000.00
Sept. 1, 1918 to 1933 at 4% Serial
$500.00 due each year
8,000.00
Sept. 1, 1918 to 1927 at 4% Serial
$1,000.00 due each year
10,000.00
374,500.00
Surface Drainage Bonds
Melrose Surface Drainage Loans :
Due Nov. 1, 1919 at 4%
$5,000.00
July 1, 1929 at 4% 5,000.00
Sept. I, 1923 at 4%
19,000.00
July I, 1932 at 4%
100,000.00
April 1, 1918 to 1935 at 4% $500.00 due each year
9,000.00
April 1, 1918 to 1927 at 4%
$500.00 due each year 5,000.00
May 1, 1918 to 1934 at 4%
$500.00 due each year 8,500.00
June 1, 1918 to 1931 at 4%
$1,000.00 due each year
14,000.00
Sept. 1, 1918 to 1927 at 4% $500.00 due each year 5,000.00
Nov. 1, 1918 to 1925 at 4%
$500.00 due each year 4,000.00 $165,500.00
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Melrose Water Loans
Melrose Water Loan :
Due March 1, 1918 at 4%
$35,000.00
Aug. I, 1922 at 4% 10,000.00
Feb. I, 1923 at 4%
5,000.00
July 1, 1925 at 4%
38,000.00
April 1, 1918 to 1922 at 4%
$2,000.00 due each year
10,000.00
May I, 1918 to 1920 at 4%
$1,000.00 due each year 3,000.00
May 1, 1918 to 1920 at 4%
$1,000.00 due each year
3,000.00
May I, 1918 to 1924 at 4% $1,000.00 due each year 7,000.00
June 1, 1918 to 1926 at 4% $1,000.00 due each year
9,000.00
June 1, 1918 to 1932 at 31/3% $2,000.00 due each year
29,000.00
July 1, 1918 to 1922 at 4% $1,000.00 due each year
5,000.00
Sent. 1. 1918 to 1923 at 4%
$1,000.00 due each year 6,000.00
Dec. 1, 1918 to 1920 at 4% $1,000.00 due each year 3,000.00
Dec. 1, 1918 to 1923 at 4%
$500.00 due each year 3,000.00 $166,000.00
Total Bonded Debt Dec. 31, 1917
$820,000.00
Less Sinking Funds
School House Loan
$20,992:77
Sewer Loan
222,921. 93
Surface Drainage Loan
51,628.49
Water Loan
76,442.65 371,895.84
Net Bonded Debt
$448,104.16
Recapitulation of City Debt
Municipal and Permanent Notes $162,670.00
Net Bonded Debt 448,104. 16 $610,774.16
Debt Statement
Total Debt Dec. 31, 1916
$589,499.89
Increase
21,274.27 $610,774.16
Increase in Notes
$33,720.00
Decrease in Sinking Funds
31,054.27 $64,774.27
Decrease in Bonds
43,500.00
$21,274.27
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CITY OF MELROSE
CASH ACCOUNT FOR 1917
Cash on hand Dec. 31, 1916
$30,819.25
Receipts :
January
$68,626.37
February
41,089.57
March
86,690.49
April
39,721.90
May
109,950.08
June
75,094.48
July
94,340.19
August
92,174.73
September
46,687.75
October
231,032.29
November
199,645.85
December
96,439.40$1,181,499.70
$1,212,318.95
Payments :
January
$34,190.77
February
42,202. 59
March
39,333.52
April
94,451.03
May
68,602.54
June
145,473.74
July
70,767. 10
August
59,619.21
September
52,915.63
October
129,017.61
November
274,391.88
December
108,902.08$1,139,869.70
Cash on hand Dec. 31, 1917
$72,449.25
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS
Receipts
Transferred from sundry account
$57,638.85
Expended
Budget appropriation
$41,700.48
Balance to Excess and Deficiency. 15,938.37
$57638.85
$57,638.85
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EXCESS AND DEFICIENCY
Receipts
Balance from 1916
$6,465.91
Transferred from sundry accounts
21,255. 44 $27,721.35
Expended
Transferred to sundry account $7,604.51
Balance to 1918
20,116.84
$27,721.35
$27,721.35
ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
Assets
To amounts invested in building, land, parks, and other property $1,040,796.57
To amount invested in Sinking Funds 371,895.84
To amount invested in Sewer System 493,287.62
To amount invested in Surface Drainage 217,671.91
To amount invested in Water System 493,091.44
Liabilities
V61674.38
Municipal Indebtedness :
Bonds
$820,000.00
Notes
162,670.00
Trust Funds
47,383.50
Assets exceed liabilities
$1,030,053.50 1,586,689.88
$2,616,743. 38$2,616,743. 38
REVENUE
Taxes of 1909-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$2.00
Taxes of 1910-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
5.80
Taxes of 1911-Balance overpaid Dec. 31, 1916
48.15
Taxes of 1912-Balance overpaid Dec. 31. 1916
8.93
Taxes of 1913-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
2.44
Transfered from City Possessions
6.12
$8.56
Collected in 1917
$22.00
Transferred from City Posses-
sions
3.05
Abatements
3.07
$28.12
Less.
8.56
Balance overpaid $19.56
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CITY OF MELROSE
Taxes of 1914-Balance Dec. 31, 1916 Additions in 1917
$2,555.44
14.06
$2,569.50
Collected in 1917
1,271.17
City Possessions
478.48
Abatements
152.49
$2,558.14
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$11.36
Taxes of 1915-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$61,330.02
Additional in 1917
72.54
$61,405.56
Collected in 1917
48,303.00
Takings
7,070.76
Abatements
2,267.21
57,640.97
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$3,764.59
Taxes of 1916-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$185,287.19
Additional in 1917
17.60 $185,304.79
Collected in 1917
122,498.75
Abatements
5,901.II
128,399.86
$56,904.93
Taxes of 1917
Amount of Warrant
$449,404.35
Additional
1,886.65
451,291.00
Collected in 1917
262,379. 10
Abatements
2,889.85
$245,268.95
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$186,022.05
STREET SPRINKLING ASSESSMENTS
1910-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$101.70
19II-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
2.97
1912-Balances Dec. 31, 1916
404.07
1913-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
30.35
1914-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$128.85
Collected in 1917
37.88
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$90.97
1915-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$1,742.87
Additional
21.97
$1,764.84
Collected in 1917
1,307.37
Taking
216.85
$1,524.22
1916-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$4,883.42
Collected in 1917
3,215.44
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$1,667.98
1917-Amount of Warrant
$11,887.63
Collected in 1917
6,684.39
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$5,203.24
$240.62
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MOTH ASSESSSMENTS
1911-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$1.50
1912-Balance Dec. 31, 1916, overpaid
1.59
1913-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
27.60
1915-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
218.15
ยท Collected in 1917
152.85
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$65.30
1916-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$56.48
Collected in 1917
22.75
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$33.73
SEWER ASSESSMENTS
1908-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$19.04
Abated in 1917
8.91
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$10.13
1910-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$45.09
Abated in 1917
7.94
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$37.15
19II-Balance Dec. 31, 1916 No collection
$1.10
1912-Balance Dec. 31, 1916, overpaid
$136.90
Abated in 1917
79.77
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$216.67
1913-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$294.74
Apportioned in 1917
35.00
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$259.74
1914-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$3,013.63
Collected in 1917
48.35
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$2,965.28
1915-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$1,864.33
Collection in 1917 .
$196.94
Abated and apportioned
106.21
303.15
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$1,561.18
1916-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$5,361.75
Collected in 1917
$596.60
Apportioned
4,411.92
$5,008.52
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$353.23
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1917-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
Assessments 1917
$1,401.31 653.42
$20,054.73 845.21
Collected in 1917
Balance Dec. 31, 1917 Apportioned
$1,209.52
1918-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$1,302.96
Assessments
489.05
$1,792.01
Collected in 1917
22.99
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$1,769.02
1919-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$1,292.45
Assessments
489.04
$1,781.49
Collected in 1917
22.99
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$1,758.50
1920-Balance Dec. 31,' 1916
$985.50
Assessment
448.86
$1,434.36
Collected in 1917
12 IO
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$1,422.26
1921-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$801.92
Assessments
44I.II
$1,243.03 .
Collected in 1917
7.00
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$1,236.03
1922-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$679.66
Assessment
429.72
$1,109.38
Collected in 1917
7.00
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$1,102.38
1923-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$671.67
Assessments
429.72
$1,101.39
Collected in 1917
7.00
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$1,094.39
1924-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$518.57
Assessments
429.72
$948.29
Collected in 1917
3.50
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$944.79
1925-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$335.53
Assessments
429.72
$765.45
Collected in 1917
3.50
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$761.95
1926-Assessments 1917
$429.49
Collected in 1917
3.53
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$425.95
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AUDITOR'S REPORT
SIDEWALK ASSESSMENTS
1910-Balance Dec. 31, 1916 No collection
$4.91
19II-Balance Dec. 31, 1916, overpaid
$4.58
No collection
1912-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$86.40
No collection
1913-Balance Dec. 31,, 1916
100.24
No collection
1914-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$508.39
Collection in 1917
10.22
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$498.17
1915-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$784.48
Collected in 1917
$199.21
Apportioned
372.14
$571.35
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$213.13
1916-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$1,064.57
Assessments
1,807. 30
Collected in 1917
$1,818.35
Apportionment
1,095. 55
Apportionment over Dec. 31, 1917
42.03
1917-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$1,394.62
Assessments
875.67
$2,270.29
Collected in 1917
1,008.93
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$1,267.36
1917-Assessment order
$11,351.88
Collected in 1917
$1,972.46
Apportioned
4,377.04
$6,349.50
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$5,002.38
1918 Apportioned
Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$832.67
Assessments
875.67
$1,708.34
Collected in 1917
158.29
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$1,550.05
1919-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$710.44
Assessments
764.70
$1,475. 1.4
Collected in 1917
106.18
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$1,368.96
ISO
CITY OF MELROSE
1920-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$605.94
Assessments
703.31
$1,309.25
Collected in 1917
106.0'
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$1,203.18
1921-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$377.20
Assessments
588.40
$965.60
Collected in 1917
59.45
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$906.15
1922-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$338.62
Assessments
417.86
$756.48
Collected in 1917
44.61
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$711.87
1923-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$327.65
Assessments
417.86
$745.50
Collected in 1917
33.67
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$711.83
1924-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$319.99
Assessments
400.68
$720.67
Collected in 1917
26.56
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$694.1I
1925-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$320.25
Assessments
400.68
$720.93
Collected in 1917
26.51
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$694.42
1926-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$2.54
Assessments
399.91
$402.45
Collected in 1917
19.28
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$383.17
STREET BETTERMENT ASSESSMENTS
1912-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$88.32
1913-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
7.74
1914-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$76.70
Collected in 1917
49.16
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$27.74
1915-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$1,569.31
Assessments
72.55
$1,641.86
Collected in 1917
109.84
Apportioned
$1,211.41
Abated
72.55
Takings
18.19
$1,411.99
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$229.87
AUDITOR'S REPORT
ISI
1916-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$2,212.46
Collected in 1917
$1,056.95
Apportioned
1,035.85
$2,092.80
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$119.66
1917-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$944.75
Assessment
$1,563.33
2,508.08
Collected in 1917
615.60
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$1,892.48
1918-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$912.70
Assessments
243.52
$1,156.23
Collected in 1917
61.71
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$1,094.51
1919-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$894.86
Assessments
243.52
$1,138.38
Collected in 1917
61.71
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$1,076.67
1920-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$809.63
Assessments
243.52
$1,053.18
Collected in 1917
61.74
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$991.41
1921-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$712.37
Assessments
243.51
$955.88
Collected in 1917
28.74
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$927. 14
1922-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$551.71
Assessments
205.94
$757.65
.Collected in 1917
28.74
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$728.91
1923-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$551.67
Assessments
205.94
$757.61
Collected in 1917
28.74
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$728.87
1924-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$507.09
Assessments
205.94
$713.03
Collected in 1917
28.74
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$684.29
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CITY OF MELROSE
1925-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$270.14
Assessments
205.94
$476.08 28.74
Collected in 1917
Balance Dec. 31, 191
$447-34
1926-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$144.04
Assessments
205.91
$349.95
Collections in 1917
28.70
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$321.25
WATER RATES
I9II and Prior Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$587.66
Collections in 1917
35.48
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$552.18
1912-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$192.50
Collections in 1917
3.35
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$189.15
1913-Balance Dec. 31, 1916, overpaid
$226.97
Collected in 1917
13.97
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$240.94
1914-Balance Dec. 31, 1916, overpaid
$881.25
Collected in 1917
72.64
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$953.89
1915-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$570.97
Collected in 1917
148.29
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$422.68
1916-Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$7,152.20
Assessments
155.21
$7.307.47
Collected in 1917
$6,385.57
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$921.90
1917-Commitment
$35,289.00
Assessment Ist Quarter
821.74
Assessment 2nd Quarter
$1,757.06
Assessment of 3rd Quarter
3,000.2I
Assessment 4th Quarter
Fractional
1,042.58
$41,910.59
Collection in 1917
41,228.03
Correcting Commitment
96.89
41,324.92
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$585.67
Summons Collected 1917
$126.20
183
AUDITOR'S REPORT
TAX TITLES
Balance Dec. 31, 1916 $57.89
No collection
Tax Takings
Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$11,117.39
Additional in 1917
6,845.41
$17,962.80
Collected in 1917
5,874.54
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
$12,088.26
Real Estate Taken By City
Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$4,213.56
Additional .
972.72
$5,186.28
Collected in 1917
189.61
Balance Dec. 31, 1917 $4,996.67
Sewer Assessment Takings
Balance Dec. 31, 1916 $415.78
No collections
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS-PENSIONS
Balance Dec. 31, 1916
$3,246.80
Pay Rolls State Aid
2,632.00
Pay Rolls State Aid German
3,430.66
Soldiers Burial
100.00
$9,409.46
Cash received Nov., 1917
3,246.80
Balance due Dec. 31, 1917
$6,162.66
Payable November, 1918.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Tax Commissioner Income Collected by Commonwealth
Receipts
Income Tax Collected by Commonwealth
Cash received from Commonwealth $39,415.79
Expended
Asseso's Warrant Budget $38,835.14
Balance to 1918
580.65
$39,415.79
$39,415.79
184
CITY OF MELROSE
GRANTS AND GIFTS Receipts
Middlesex County Dog Tax
$1,295.73
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Soldiers' Exemption
255.4I
J. C. F. Slayton
5,854.55
J. W. Maguire
3,345.45 $10,751.14
Expended
Transferred to Estimated Receipts
$1,295.73
Transferred to Overlay and Abatements 1917. 255.41
Transferred to Surface Drainage, Spot Pond Improvement
4,800.00
Transferred to purchase Ice house property ..
4,400.00
$10,751.14
$10,751.14
BANK AND CORPORATION TAX Receipts
Commonwealth of Massachusetts $28,343.63
Expended
Transferred to Estimated Receipts
$24,627.01
Balance to 1918
3,716.62
$28,343.63
$28,343.63
General Government DEPARTMENTAL
ALDERMEN-Salaries and Wages Receipts
Appropriation-Budget
$800.00
Expended
Salary of Clerk of Committee
$800.00
$800.00
$800.00
OTHER EXPENSES Receipts
Appropriation-Budget
$300.00
Transferred from Excess and Deficiency-
No. 10567 $250.00
185
AUDITOR'S REPORT
Expended
Advertising
$34.00
Automobile, use of
33.00
Books and Stationery
29.22
Inaugural
94.38
Miscellaneous
3.15
Printing Particular Account
65.56
Printing
41.57
Posting Notices
33.00
Postage and Box Rent
30.16
Portraits Transfer
110.00
Police, Special Com. Investigation Transfer ..
2.60
Wreaths-Deceased Member City Govern-
ment
30.00
Balance to Excess and Deficiency
43.36
$550.00
$550.00
POLICE INVESTIGATION Receipts
Balance from 1916
$41.40
Transfer from Other Expenses
2.60
Expended
Stenographers Services
44.00
$44.00
$44.00
MAYOR-Salaries and Wages
Receipts
Appropriation-Budget
$1,360.00
Expended
Salary of Mayor
$1,000.00
Salary of Clerk
360.00
$1,360.00
$1,360.00
OTHER EXPENSES
Receipts
Appropriation-Budget $150.00
186
CITY OF MELROSE
Expended
Advertising
$4.50
Miscellaneous
7.12
Postage and Stationery
79.13
Telephone
58.96
Balance to Excess and Deficiency
.29
$150.00
$150.00
PRINTING INAUGURAL ADDRESS
Receipts
Transfer from Excess and Deficiency ..
$75.00
Expended
Printing
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