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for efficiency and seniority in service. I have every reason to believe the work of the department, as a whole, has given satis- faction, if'judged by commendatory words, and that during the year we have made some improvement. Nevertheless, the en- forcement of law and order is ever constant, and watchful at- tention must not be permitted to lag. Obedience is imperative ; and a strict adherence to the rules and regulations governing the individual conduct of the members is necessary in order to maintain a high standard, and to retain the respect and en- dorsement of the citizens. Our force is small : therefore, con- stant activity in patrolling the various beats requires the strict attention and vigilance of every member. With that performed, we may hope for continued improvement.
No LICENSE.
By the largest majority in the history of the city, our voters have again said that the legalized saloon shall be kept beyond our borders. I believe that the no-license policy of Quincy for nearly a quarter of a century has been a most potent factor in its rapid development and growth in all desirable ways. There are rumors that intoxicating liquors are illegally sold in some sections of the city. While the work of securing evidence against violators of this law, and bringing them to justice, rests primarily with the police, it is nevertheless the duty of every citizen, who is interested in good municipal government, to assist the administration in all possible ways in the enforcement of this and other criminal laws. It not in- frequently happens that private individuals have information concerning infractions of the liquor laws which the most vigi- lant police might not be able to secure. In such cases the evidence should be immediately placed in my hands and I will take prompt action thereon for the best interest of our city. My reference to a citizen's duty in this important matter in no manner excuses our police from discharging all the obligations of their offices, and I shall hold them strictly accountable for
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the most rigid enforcement of the laws regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors.
PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS.
Our parks and playgrounds maintain their ever-increasing popularity. During the past two years the department lias commenced tree planting with partial success. This practice should be continued yearly as requirements demand to repair the losses occasioned by storm, fire and decay.
The opportunities for recreation, as provided by these grounds, are growing constantly in favor and will continue to increase in the future. The natural beauties of our parks ap- peal to the artistic sense of all lovers of the beautiful in nature, and we should strive to preserve them intact. This I fully believe to be the sentiment of our Park Board.
The incoming of the gypsy and brown-tail moths,-a pest and scourge of the most destructive character to foliage and which, if permitted to obtain a foothold, is bound to kill the trees and lay barren our parks and streets,-imposes upon us the duty as well as the requirement of the law, to use to the fullest all means for their suppression.
In compliance with the law, the Council passed the mini- mum appropriation, as required nnder Chapter 381, Acts 1905. We have had repeated visits from the superintendent for the suppression of the moths and expert employees from his de- partment to locate the infested districts in the city and to in- struct our men as to finding and treating the pests. As re- quired by law, notices have been sent to all property owners, resident and non-resident, in regard to their responsibility in the care of trees on their property, for it is only through the combined efforts of the city and property owners that we may hope to cope with the trouble.
The amount required to be appropriated by the city the current year will appear in the estimates.
As much as I dislike to recommend the creation of a new office involving a further fixed charge in our annual current
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expense, I feel it my duty, in view of this pest menacing our trees and the constant stringing and increase of wires in our streets, to recommend that the office of City Forester be estab- lished that the public grounds and trees on our streets may be under practical and scientific supervision. And I ask your care- ful consideration of this matter.
SCHOOLS.
Our school population continues its steady growth, and the accusation of race suicide in no wise applies to Quincy.
The problems that have confronted our predecessors are the same today. The provision of sufficient money to mee the requirements of our schools figures prominently in our ap- propriations and keeps us constantly straining to reach the goal. In order to keep pace with the increase in pupils, additional buildings with their furnishings, more teachers, text books and all the accessories of the equipment of the modern school are required.
The addition to the High School, a long pending matter taxing the efforts of the school committee and Council, we hoped was settled by the adoption of the plans of A. H. Gould, and the appropriation of $113,000.00, which sum, as represented by approximate estimates given, was believed to be sufficient to complete the building. Proposals were invited to construct the same according to said plans and specifications, but all bids are found to exceed the appropriation. To carry the plans into effect, an additional sum is required, and I will ask that the same be appropriated so that the contracts may be placed and the work proceeded with.
An appropriation of 83,200.00, to purchase additional land on Saville avenue, has been made for the use of the Coddington School.
Pending in Council are communications from the School Board for new buildings to replace the present Coddington school, and one at Atlantic; also in regard to the over-crowded
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condition of the Lincoln school. All these are very weighty matters, and to solve them will demand your careful considera- tion when sufficient money becomes available in the debt limit.
It is to be hoped future approval of plans by the School Committee may be such that the choice of selection will be placed upon the Council who is responsible for the city's indebt- edness.
Gentlemen, in conclusion, the labors which devo lv upon us jointly I feel assured can by cooperation and earnest effort be solved as far as the means of the city will permit.
Granting to you all the authority conferred under the Charter, believing the same will be conceded in return, I have every reason to feel that our relations will be mutually agreea- ble and materially advance the best interests of the city.
Permit me to tender to you the greetings of the season with many happy returns.
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Treasurer's Report
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City Treasurer's Office, January 1, 1906.
To His Honor, the Mayor:
Herewith I submit the annual statement of the City Treasurer for the year ending December 30, 1905.
Receipts.
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1905
$113,097.48
Board of Health-Garbage
245.00
Abating Nuisances and Contagious Dis- eases
54.60
Burial Places
5,447.07
Edgestones
6.30
Interest
13,182.14
Massachusetts, State of
Corporation Tax
11,381.38
National Bank Tax
1,118.04
Burial and Support State Paupers
841.07
State and Military Aid
4.722.00
Burial Indigent Soldiers and Sailors 140.00
Street Railway Tax
2,119.93
Water Loan Sinking Fund
316.39
Miscellaneous City Receipts
Dog Licenses
2,494.77
Dog License Fees-City Clerk 228.60
Sundry Licenses-City Clerk
877.43
Plumbers' Licenses
17.50
Pedlers' Licenses 100.00
Police Station
18.35
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Tax Title Releases 975.92
Tax Collector-Costs
1,982.85
Miscellaneous
168.06
Norfolk Co .- Seals' Tails
708.00
Notes Payable-City Debt 157,000.00
Notes Payable-Sewer Debt
25,000.00
Notes Payable-Water Debt 26,000.00
Notes Payable-Temporary Loans 360,000.00
Overseer of the Poor-Outside Aid
880.04
Almshouse
5.00
Police-Chapter 416
2,670.47
Parks
100.00
Permanent Sidewalks
689.02
Perpetual Care Fund of Public Burial Places . .
1,025.00
Schools-Books, Supplies and Sundries
196.50
Streets
689.86
Street Sprinkling
3,753.14
Sewer Assessments
31,300.83
House Connections
6,684.47
Street Railway Excise Tax
3,292.97
Tax of 1894
21.12
Tax of 1895
119.12
Tax of 1896
141.21
Tax of 1897
56.99
Tax of 1898
84.80
Tax of 1899
108.21
Tax of 1900
234.63
Tax of 1901
916.17
Tax of 1902
2,539.24
Tax of 1903
26,835.09
Tax of 1904
*149,001.09
Tax of 1905
300,440.73
Water Construction 13,734.64
Water Maintenance, 1905
94,578.07
Water Maintenance, 1904
260.98
Water Service Deposits
2,285.00
$1,370,887.29
Cash on hand Dec. 1, 1905
$185,597.03
Cash receipts for December
191,068.29
Cash expenditures for December
224,946.21
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1906
151,719.11
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Expenditures.
1904
1905
Advertising, Printing and Station- ery Com.
$6.00
$138.18
Advertising, Printing and Station- ery, Council
25.00
1,141.75
Advertising, Printing and Station- ery, City Clerk
97.50
2,372.81
Advertising, Printing and Station- ery, Tax Collector
56.05
1,690.95
Assessors-Miscellaneous Clerical
2,236.00
Adams School Plumbing
2,743.86
Board of Health-Abating Nui- sances and Contagious Diseases
148.00
993.01
Special-Abating Nuisance
and Contagious Diseases
846.27
Garbage
98.99
3,060.34
Inspection
780.00
Miscellaneous
18.26
1,097.76
Bridges, Culverts and Drains
2,500.00
Burial Places
52.12
4,802.25
Beach Street Sidewalk
800.00
City Treasurer-Miscellaneous
11.30
240.80
Clerk-Treasurer
676.00
City Clerk
622.66
Commissioner of Public
Works
780.00
Tax Collector
1,352.00
City Hospital
4,000.00
Contingent Fund
10.00
97.50
City Officers
28.00
20,515.46
Crosswalks
101.50
Collection Delinquent Taxes
375.00
Centre Street Grading
1,000.00
Edgestones and Sidewalks
651.97
613.13
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Engineering
2,490.18
Plans and Surveys
869.06
Edwin Street Grading
136.54
Fire-Fire Alarmı
207.78
995.39
Fireman's Clothing
99.00
17.50
Fuel
2×1.56
441.50
Horse Shoeing and Keeping
1,038.54
3.075.08
Horses and Harness
1.00
495.00
Keeping Chief's Horse
200.00
Lighting Engine Houses
44.11
275.35
Miscellaneous
623.65
2,252.30
Pay of Men
19,086.24
Repairs and Fixtures
153.28
969.40
Purchase of Hose
216.00
980.00
Farnum Street Grading
300.00
Faxon Road Sidewalk
32.50
Furnace Brook Wall
32.00
G. A. R. Post SS
400.00
Glendale Road Grading
600.00
Granite Street Widening
367.20
Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth Sup- pression
754.71
Hancock Street Grading
5.000.00
Holmes Street Grading
157.65
Interest-City Debt
20.70
14.323.69
Park Debt
1,520.00
Temporary Loans
962.50
9,338.99
Sewer Debt
40.00
18,828.75
Water Debt
27.715.00
John A. Boyd Camp, No. 2
75.00
Library-Books
903.35
Catalogue Fund
680.16
Fuel and Lights
521.44
Miscellaneous
949.30
Periodicals, Binding and Print-
ing
668.40
Salaries
2,679.05
Law Library
13.50
61.30
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Miscellaneous City Expenses
509.25 2,769.05
Mass. State of
State Tax
28,880.00
Bank Tax
3,295.78
Met. Park Loan Sinking Fund
1,446.87
Int. on
3,477.10
Cost of Main
2,447.04
Met. Parks Loan Series 2, S. F. Int. on
§§1.00
Cost of Main
588.26
Cost of Main, Nantasket
232.73
Met. Sewer Loan Sinking
Fund S. Met. System. .
2,318.46
Int. on
12,661.08
Cost of Main
13,981.27
Rep. State Highways
5.04
Met. Water Loan
Sinking
Fund
8.450.84
Int. on
21.974.10
Cost Main
5,407.56
Mt. Wollaston Cemetery Entrance
280.05
Maple Place
9,500.00
Norfolk Co.
23,261.09
Notes Payable,-City Debt
$28.00
76,942.00
Sewer Debt
17,300.00
Water Debt
2,000.00
37,500.00
Park Debt
2,000.00
Temporary Loans
325,000.00
100,000.00
Overseer of the Poor-Almshouse
1,087.46
5,940.74
Outside Aid
1,826.98
2,948.40
Police-Chief
1,000.00
Pay of men
19,720.75
Special and Miscellaneous
88.80
3.738.45
Station
200.00
Enforcement Liquor Law
3.60
954.14
Parks
3.79
1,266.08
Tree Planting®
200.00
375.59
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Public Scales
600.00
Penn Street, Grading
56.50
Repair Public Buildings
524.92
6,499.73
Removal of Snow
28.11
5,000.00
Schools-Books, Supplies and Sun- dries
9,964.25
Evening
1,500.00
Fuel
6,746.85
Janitors
7,390.00
Teachers
88,593.20
Transportation
1,002.20
Streets
1,100.48
24,161.77
Street Lighting
22,278.60
Street Sprinkling
7.000.00
State Aid, Chapter 372
306.00
Chapter 374
4,756.00
Chapter 447
3,121.50
Sewer Construction
S,013.39
24,945.05
House Connections
494.75
5,534.48
Maintenance
42.15
1,370.91
Streets-St. Railway Excise Tax. .
217.85
7.135.89
Special, Repair Public Buildings. .
487.60
Sealer Weights and Measures
175.00
Squantum Street Drain
374.17
Seals' Tails
714.00
Tax Refunded, by Assessors
29.28
Tax Refunded, by Council
680.73
Taylor St. Drain and Catch Basin
799.90
Upland Road Grading
$00.00
Water Construction
$33.91
38.594.23
Post Island
1.000.00
Water Maintenance
204.38
9,852.32
Repairs on Stand Pipe and Gates
1.000.00
Water Service Deposits Refunded
2,185.00
Whitwell Street Sidewalk
6.69
Willard School Heating
25.97
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Cash deposited, to credit of Perpet- ual Care Fund of Public Burial Places, in National Granite Bank 1,025.00
$349,929.24
$869,238.94
349,929.24
$1,219,168.18 151,719.11
Cash on hand
$1,370,887.29 HENRY G. FAY, Treasurer.
Quincy, Mass., December 30, 1905.
I hereby certify that I have examined in detail the ac- counts of the City Treasurer; that all expenditures are sup- ported by vouchers, regularly approved by the proper offi- cials, and that the condition of the various accounts (includ- ing cash on hand and in banks on the 30th of December, 1905) has been verified by comparison with the records at this office.
GEO. A. SIDELINGER, City Auditor.
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Rock Island Fund.
Cash on hand January 1, 1905 $1,000.86
By interest 40.00
Bills paid by order of School Com- mittee
$40.00
Cash on hand December 30, 1905
1,000.86
$1,040.86
$1.040.86
C. C. Johnson Fund.
Cash on hand January 1, 1905
$2,000.80
By interest 80.80
Cash paid for distribution of turkeys by the Overseer of the Poor . .
$0.00
Cash on hand December 30, 1905
2,001.60
$2,081.60
$2.081.60
Perpetual Care Fund of Public Burial Places.
Cash on hand January 1, 1905 $19,788.00
Received for perpetual care of lots 1,025.00
By interest 822.73
Paid for care of lots $822.73
Cash on hand December 30, 1905
20,813.00
$21,635.73 $21.635.73
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY G. FAY, City Treasurer.
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Woodward Fund and Property
TREASURER'S REPORT.
To the Board of Managers of the Woodward Fund of the City of Quincy:
Herewith I submit a statement of the receipts and ex- penditures of the Woodward Fund for the year ending December 30, 1905. Also a list of the securities in which the Fund is invested.
RECEIPTS.
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1905
$20,894.29
Notes secured by mortgages $4,280.00
Bank stock and R.R. bonds 14,686.00
Interest on loans 8,638.76
Interest on bank balance
775.62
Interest on $10,800 bonds Central Ver- mont R. R. 432.00
Interest on $7,500 bonds Atchison, To- peka & Sante Fe R. R. 300.00
Interest on 4 bonds Philadelphia, Wil- mington & Baltimore R. R. . . .
200.00
Interest on 10 bondsN. Y. & N. E. R. R. 300.00 Interest on 5 bonds Union Pacific R. R. 200.00
Interest on 4 bonds Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western R. R. 160.00
Interest on 3 bonds C. B. & Q. R. R .. .
150.00
Interest on 5 bonds city of Minneapolis 200.00
Interest on 3 bonds city of Sheboygan 135.00 Interest on 8 bonds Mich. Telephone. . 400.00 Dividend on 32 shares Mich. Telephone Pref. 192.00
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Dividend on 27 shares Boston & Al-
bany R. R.
175.50
Dividend on 66 shares Fitchburg R. R. Pref.
330.00
Interest on Japanese bonds
164.36
Rents from sundry persons
1,015.50
Damages Sheen property
325.00
$33,059.74
$53,954.03
EXPENDITURES.
Japanese Bonds $6,663.15
Notes secured by mortgage
27,400.00
Expense of Institute 12,122.57
Expense of fund
1,368.19
47,553.91
6,400.12
$53,954.03
EXPENSE OF INSTITUTE.
Pay rolls $9,040.00
C. C. Hearn 17.98
H. Partridge & Co.
1.81
Sanborn & Damon 3.67
N. Y. & Boston Despatch Ex. Co 4.60
D. E. Wadsworth & Co.
12.06
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. 33.13
South Weymouth Custom Laundry . .
4.00
WV. A. Butterfield 81.62
Ira Litchfield 164.41
G. WV. Prescott & Son
32.00
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 30.78
Lubron Mfg. Co.
6.42
Schoenhof Book Co. 6.92
Friend Crane 6.70
B. H. Sanborn & Co. 1.46
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Wm. E. Huntington 25.00
A. L. Buzzell 265.90
Geo. P. Raymond & Co. 12.35
J. F. Sheppard & Sons 875.35
Fred F. Green 21.00
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.
S.27
F. W. Burnham 6.60
John A. Lowell & Co. 24.00
W. W. Rawson
11.90
Jordan, Marsh & Co. 12.86
E. S. Beckford
4.96
F. W. Plumber
24.47
Oliver C. Faust
5.00
R. E. Kibbe 6.00
Abbott & Miller 5.04
City of Quincy, Water Dept. 30.00
Quincy Electric Light & Power Co. .. 36.60
H. L. Kincaide & Co. 9.98
Old Colony Laundry .60
F. J. Barnard & Co. 28.70
WV. H. Waterman
4.00
Johnson Lumber Co.
7.22
George E. Thomas
116.40
W. Porter & Co.
75.00
W. A. Bradford
19.65
Citizen s Gas Light Co.
41.00
Blodgett Clocl: Co.
4.82
Con. Grocery & Provision Co.
50.51
A. J. Richards & Son
2.00
Allyn & Bacon
37.50
Smith & Thayer Co. 72.29
Hodge Boiler Works 16.79
D. C. Heath & Co. 21.80
American Book Co. 49.84
H. Lavelle 77.59
C. W. Homever & Co.
43.36
Library Bureau 20.20
Quincy Mutual Fire Ins. Co. 131.00
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Wmn. H. Claflin & Co. 2.63
A. W. Hall Scientific Co.
93.64
Huey Brothers 43.00
E. E. Babb & Co.
181.03
Remington Typewriter Co.
1.30
Ginn & Company . 54.08
Hardware Suppy Co. 67.78
Samuel Ward Company
26.00
$12,122.57
EXPENSE OF FUND.
City of Quincy, Water Dept. $68.00
C. L. Hammond
10.60
H. M. Faxon
16.67
Charles Price 16.67
Paul R. Blackmur
16.66
WV. A. Bradford
32.10
Henry G. Fay
400.00
H. A. Keith
200.00
George A. Sidelinger 200.00
E. S. Thomas
11.00
Quincy Power & Heating Co. 19.30
Sanborn & Damon .67
Friend Crane
14.25
Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co.
25.00
D. J. McCurly
2.40
E. A. Hayden
12.25
City of Quincy, Taxes
275.14
Johnson Lumber Co. 21.16
George E. Thomas 6.30
Whelan & Cross 13.40
Hardware Supply Co. 2.85
H. L. Kincaide & Co. 1.45
L. A. Chapin 1.12
G. B. Bates 1.20
$1,368.19
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INCOME ACCOUNT, 1905.
Received from investments $13,799.74
Expense of Institute
$12,122.57
Expense of fund
1,368.19
Unexpended income, 1905
308.98
$13,799.74 $13,799.74
STATEMENT OF FUND, JANUARY 1, 1906.
Personal property received from estate
of Dr. Ebenezer Woodward ..... $30,089.83
Personal property received from execu- tors of the will of Mrs. Mary A. W. Woodward 51,556.78
Real estate sold 93,765.16
Pews sold 120.00
Damages Sheen property 325.00
Income from investments 108,308.57
Unexpended income 6,219.33
$290,384.67
INVESTED AS FOLLOWS:
$10,800 Central Vermont R. R. 4's ... . $9,460.00 $7,500 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
R. R. 4's 7,500.00
$4,000 Philadelphia, Wilmington & Bal- timore R. R. 5's 4,000.00
$5,000 Union Pacific R. R. 4's 4,419.00
$4,000 Detroit, Grand Rapids & West- ern R. R. 4's . 4,000.00
$3,000 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. 5's 3,000.00
$5,000 City of Minneapolis 4's 5,000.00
$3,000 City of Sheboygan 41/2's
3,000.00
$8,000 Mich. Telephone Co. 5's, 32 shares preferred, 19 shares com-
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mon
10,000.00
27 shares Boston & Albany R. R. 4,900.00
66 shares Fitchburg R. R., preferred .. 7,260,00
9 shares Central Vermont R. R. 500.00
£1500 Japanese Bond 6,663.15
Sheen property, Greenleaf street
6,747.36
Peabody property, Freeman street
2,500.00
Linden street house
2,820.04
Loans on personal security
16,900.00
Loans secured by Mortgage 185,315.00
Cash on hand December 30, 1905
6,400.12
Net fund January 1, 1906 $290.384.67
Respectfully submitted, HENRY G. FAY, Treasurer of the Fund.
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Auditor's Report
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Quincy, Jan. 1, 1906.
To the City Council:
The undersigned herewith presents the annual report of the expenditures of the City of Quincy for the financial year 1905, together with a statement of the assets and liabilities, also a statement of the city debt at the close of the year. The receipts are shown in the preceding report of the City Treasurer.
Respectfully submitted, GEORGE A. SIDELINGER, City Auditor.
BUDGET OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1905.
BY THE BOARD OF ASSESSORS:
Transfers from Register of Deeds and Probate, books, advertising, bind-
ing, postage and miscellaneous .. $614.00 Clerical services 2,236.00
$2,850.00
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BY THE BOARD OF HEALTH:
Miscellaneous expenses, abating nuis-
ances and contagious diseases, and clerical services $1,500.00
Inspection 780.00
Garbage
3,000.00
5,280.00
BY THE MANAGERS OF PUBLIC BURIAL PLACES:
Cemeteries 4,000
BY THE MAYOR:
Approved by the President of the Council: Contingent fund $100.00
Advertising, printing and stationery
..
900.00
1,000.00
BY THE AUDITOR:
Salary of city officers, including $175
for clerical services for the Auditor
20,613.00
BY THE CITY CLERK:
Advertising, printing, stationery, elec-
tions and miscellaneous
$2,450.00
Clerical services 624.00
State and Military Aid and Soldiers'
Relief
7,800.00
- $10,874.00
BY THE CHIEF ENGINEER, FIRE DEPARTMENT:
Pay of men $19,168.00
Horse shoeing and keeping 3,300.00
Fire alarm 1,400.00
Lighting engine houses
300.00
Fuel
500.00
Firemen's clothing 200.00
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Repairs and fixtures 1,300.00
Miscellaneous 2,000.00
Keeping Chief's horse 200.00
Horses and harnesses
600.00
Hose
1,000.00
$29,968.00
BY THE TAX COLLECTOR:
Advertising, printing, stationery, and
miscellaneous
$1,725.00
Clerical services 1,352.00
For collection of delinquent taxes 400.00
3,477.00
BY THE CITY TREASURER:
Clerical services
$676.00
Stationery and miscellaneous 274.00
950.00
APPROVED BY THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE:
Grand Army, Post 88 $400.00
John A. Boyd Camp 2, S. W. V. 75.00
City Hospital 4,000.00
$4,475.00
BY THE CITY ENGINEER:
Expense of office 2,500.00
BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE THOMAS CRANE PUBLIC LIBRARY:
Replacing and purchase of books, periodicals, binding and printing, salaries and assistance, fuel and lighting, miscellaneous, catalogue, insurance $6,500.00
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BY COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS:
Bridges, culverts and drains $2,500.00
Removal of snow 5,000.00
Street lighting 22,300.00
Advertising, printing and stationery . . 150.00
Clerical services 780.00
Repairing public buildings and care City Hall
6,500.00
Miscellaneous expenses, repair
of
streets, maintenance of horses, and purchase of tools 23,500.00
Edgestone and setting (abuttors pay-
ing one-half the cost) 1,000.00
Watering streets (schedule to be fur-
nished by the Council)
7,000.00
68,730.00
BY THE PARK COMMISSIONERS:
Parks (with receipts from pasturage) .. $1,200.00
Tree planting 200.00
1,400.00
BY THE CITY SOLICITOR:
Law library 75.00
BY THE CHIEF OF POLICE:
Chief of Police $1,000.00
Permanent men 19,747.00
Keeper of station 200.00
Special police and miscellaneous
3,300.00
Enforcement of liquor law
1,000.00
25,247.00
BY THE MAYOR:
Miscellaneous city expenses and claims 3,000.00
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BY THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR:
Almshouse and outside poor .... 9,000.00
BY THE SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES:
Expense of office 175.00
BY THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE:
Salaries, fuel, janitors, transportation,
books, supplies and sundries .
. . . .112,500.00
Evening schools 1,500.00
114,000.00
Total
$314,114.00
BY THE TREASURER:
City debt $77,942.00
Interest, City debt
14,307.92
Park debt
2,000.00
Interest, Park debt
1,520.00
Interest, temporary loans
12,000.00
$107,769.92
Grand total
$421,883.92
WATER DEPARTMENT:
To be paid from the water rates of 1905: Water debt $37,500.00
Interest on Water debt 27,295.00
Maintenance 10,000.00
Repairs on stand-pipe and gates 1,000.00
75,795.00
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SEWER DEPARTMENT:
To be paid from Sewer Assessments:
Sewer debt
$17,300.00
Interest on Sewer debt 19,008.75
Maintenance 1,500.00
$37,808.75
Passed to be ordained April 3, 1905.
Attest :
GEORGE T. MAGEE, Clerk of the Council.
Approved April 6, 1905.
JAMES THOMPSON, Mayor.
A true copy. Attest :
HARRISON A. KEITH, City Clerk.
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Expenditures 1905
POOR DEPARTMENT.
ALMSHOUSE.
Balance Jan. 1, 1905 $31.02
Special appropriation
3,000.00
$3,031.02
Expended Account 1904.
G. A. & W. L. Sullivan, provisions $139.84
Charles E. Moody, provisions 102.51
P. P. Combs, provisions 39.31
Brown & Crowell, provisions 211.15
Loud & Iribou, hay and grain
33.85
A. J. Richards & Son, coal 327.51
Patrick Desmond, horse shoeing
11.52
Meadow Brook Ice Co., ice 47.15
Ella L. Stetson. shoes
20.95
F. D. Fellows, clothing
19.63
Quincy Department Store, dry goods
10.13
T. L. Williams, optician
1.00
F. C. Packard, sundries
13.25
Henry E. Emerson, sundries
2.90
Quincy Electric Light Co., lighting
7.26
Charles C. Hearn, drugs
9.40
H. A. Souther. veterinary
8.00
Geo. W. Prescott & Son, publication .. . Fred F. Green. publication
2.00
Hilma Rantamiki. labor
11.00
Aluna Nevala, labor
15.00
Geo. Wilson, superintendent
50.00
Geo. Wilson, sundry expense
1.60
$1,087.46
2.50
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OUTSIDE AID.
Expended Account 1904.
Mass. School for Feeble Minded $45.96
Commonwealth Mass. 151.89
Mass. Hospital for Epileptics
86.93
Hospital Cottage for Children 42.71
Town of Plymouth 4.85
Town of Milford
32.00
Town of Milton
89.00
Town of Concord
32.12
Town of Randolph
18.00
Town of Warwick
33.75
City of Pittsfield
91.30
City of Malden
37.81
City of Salem
20.00
City of Worcester
72.99
City of Medford
4.00
City of Lynn
19.00
City of Brockton 109.40
City of New Bedford
22.00
City of Springfield
80.06
City of Fall River
29.50
City of Boston
511.91
A. J. Richards & Son, coal 114.43
G. H. Mitchell, coal
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