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Refunds Levy
$ 162.47 39,317.03
Collections :
Motor Excise
$6,993.42
Moth
32.50
Betterment
105.82
Adv. fees
20.00
Rent Town Hall, etc.
145.00
Sealing fees
42.06
Court fines
341.50
Library fines
76.99
$7,757.29
Interest :
Taxes
$3,888.82
Tax Titles
1,046.35
4,935.17
Licenses and permits :
Liquor
$4,256.00
Victualler
82.00
Other licenses
49.00
4,387.00
Reimbursements : Welfare and Old Age $10,014.96
State Aid
843.00
Vocational Tuition 439.91
Other tuition
271.44
11,569.31
To Excess and Deficiency
3,230.28
State Income Tax Departmental Revenue
13,412.04 648.97
$42,709.78
$42,709.78
NET FUNDED DEBT
107
1935 Jan. July 5
1
Balance Fire Equipment Note
2,000.00
July
1
Water Main Extension Notes of 1931 $2,500.00 Cochituate School Addition Note 2,000.00
26 High School Con- struction Notes 10,000.00
1
Water Main Extension Notes of 1929 2,000.00
15
High School Construc- tion 5,000.00
To balance 123,000.00
$134,500.00
$134,500.00
1935 May 31
$122,500.00
Town of Wayland, Mass.
December 31, 1935
STATEMENT
Cash
$42,112.85
Motor Vehicle Excise Revenue
$3,175.35
Taxes
87,027.56
Special Assessment Revenue 313.01
Assessments
3,488.36
Late Collector's Ch. Acct. Balance 164.94
Tax Titles
26,189.87
Tax Title Revenue
26,503.46
Town of Wayland, Tax Titles, Real Estate
313.59
Tax Title Deposits
161.00
Overlay deficits
414.56
Overlay 1935
1,845.77
Accts. Rec., State Aid
750.00
Overlay Surplus
120.45
Old Age Assistance
284.50
Departmental Revenue
5,683.89
Temporary Aid
4,774.39
Water Revenue
8,159.22
Water
8,159.22
Water Receipts reserved for appro- priation
11,776.40
State, reimbursements for Highway expenditures
820.09
Trust Funds' Income
1,534.07
Sale of Cemetery Lots and Graves
125.00
Temporary Loans
57,500.00
Excess and Deficiency
44,405.90
Assessors, Abatement expense 500.00
Cochituate Village Drainage System
246.87
Concord Rd. Sec. 4 Construction 75.77
Welfare Gift Fund 4.57
High School Construction
14,465.22
W. P. A. Projects, expense
495.70
Dudley Pond Beach Improvement
146.98
Cemeteries, General Improvement
1.62
108
County, reimbursements for High- way expenditures
273.37
Federal Gov't., reimbursement for P. W. A. discount
5,500.00
Net Funded Debt
123,000.00
Trust Funds, cash and securities
57,001.67
Tax Title Partial payments
2,703.17
Notes :
Cochituate School Addition 2,000.00
High School Construction 81,000.00
Water Main Ext. Notes of 1929 13,000.00 Water Main Ext. Notes of 1931
25,000.00
Fire Equipment
2,000.00
Trust Funds : Poor
9,551.67
Library
27,900.00
Cemetery P. C.
19,550.00
$360,110.03
$360,110.03
MABEL T. S. SMALL,
Town Accountant.
109
REPORT OF TOWN TREASURER
Cash Balance
1935
Jan. 1 Cash Balance Total Receipts
$ 94,619.30
391,071.18
$485,690.48
Total Payments
443,577.63
Dec. 31
Cash Balance
$42,112.85
Tax Notes, Borrowed in Anticipation of Taxes
1935
Jan. 1 Notes Outstanding :
No. 216 due 1-30-35
$10,000.00
No. 217 due 3-1-35 10,000.00
No. 220 due 5-2-35 10,000.00
No. 221 due 6-1-35
4,000.00
No. 222 due 6-1-35 3,000.00
No. 223 due 6-28-35 10,000.00
No. 304 due 10-8-35 10,000.00
Borrowed in 1935 :
Feb. 20 No. 305 Faxon, Gade & Co.,
Inc., .65% due 10-20-35 10,000.00
Mar. 5 No. 306 Faxon, Gade & Co.,
Inc., .58% due 12-7-35 10,000.00
Apr. 3 No. 308 Natick Trust Co.,
11/2% due 1-28-36 10,000.00
Apr. 17 No. 309 Faxon, Gade & Co.,
Inc., .88% due 11-18-35 10,000.00
Apr. 17 No. 310 Faxon, Gade & Co., Inc., 1.18% due 3-3-36 10,000.00
May 22 No. 311 Natick Five Cents Savings Bank, 1.25% due 5-22-36 10,000.00
110
May 22 No. 312 Washburn & Co., 1.15% due 4-22-36 10,000.00
June 26 No. 313 Natick Five Cents Savings Bank, 1.75% due 6-26-36
12,000.00
$139,000.00
Tax Notes Paid 1935
1935
Jan. 30
No. 216
due 1-30-35
$10,000.00
Mar. 1 No. 217
due 3-1-35
10,000.00
May 2 No. 220 due 5-2-35
10,000.00
June 1 No. 221 due 6-1-35
4,000.00
June 1
No. 222
due 6-1-35
3,000.00
June 28
No. 223
due 6-28-35
10,000.00
Oct. 8
No. 304
due 10-8-35
10,000.00
Oct. 20
No. 305
due 10-20-35
10,000.00
Nov. 18
No. 308
due 11-18-35
10,000.00
Dec. 7
No. 306
due 12-7-35
10,000.00
$87,000.00
Tax Notes Outstanding
Dec. 31
No. 308
due 1-28-36
$10,000.00
No. 310
due 3-3-36
10,000.00
No. 312
due 4-22-36
10,000.00
No. 311
due 5-22-36
10,000.00
No. 313
due 6-26-36
12,000.00
52,000.00
$139,000.00
Notes Borrowed in Anticipation of Reimbursement
1935
Aug. 7
No. 327 Natick Five Cents
Savings Bank 1% due
12-28-35
$ 4,250.00
Oct. 9 No. 328 Natick Trust Co., .92% due 12-28-35 10,200.00
$14,450.00
Reimbursement Notes Paid
Dec. 28 No. 327 due 12-28-35
$ 4,250.00
No. 328 due 12-28-35
10,200.00
$14,450.00
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Tax Title Notes
1935
Jan. 1 Balance Tax Title Note Out- standing $ 4,779.50
Aug. 7 No. 326 Commonwealth of Massachusetts 21/2% due 8-7-36 1,000.00
$5,779.50
Tax Title Notes Paid in 1935 $5,779.50
Borrowed in Anticipation of Government Grant on High School Dec. 14 No. 329 Natick Five Cents Savings Bank 1% due 12-14-36 $5,500.00
High School Serial Notes
$1,000.00 2% Coupon Note dated July 1, 1935 due July 15, 1935 Above $1,000.00 note paid July 15, 1935 $9,000.00 2% Coupons Notes dated July 15, 1935. Interest January 15 and July 15. Due $1,000.00 annually July 15, 1936 to July 15, 1944 Above notes purchased by Tyler Buttrick & Co. at par $9,000.00
Fire Department Notes
June 26 No. 314 Natick Five Cents Savings Bank, 3% due June 26, 1936 $1,000.00
June 26 No. 315 Natick Five Cents Savings Bank, 3% due June 26, 1937 1,000.00
$2,000.00
Serial Notes and Bonds Outstanding
1 High School Note 4% due annually 1936 $2,000.00 $2,000.00
60 High School Notes 31/4% due an- nually 1936 to 1950
4,000.00 60,000.00
12 High School Notes 314% due 1951 to 1954 12,000.00
9 High School Notes 2% due annually 1936 to 1944 1,000.00
9,000.00
112
12 Water Main Extension Notes of 1929 41/2% due annually 1936 to 1941
2,000.00
12,000.00
1 Water Main Extension Note of 1929 41/2% due 7-1-1942
1,000.00
6 Water Main Extension Notes of 1931 4% due annually 1936 to 1941
2,500.00
15,000.00
5 Water Main Extension Notes of 1931 4% due 1942 to 1946
10,000.00
2 Fire Department Equipment Notes 3% due annually 1936 to 1937
1,000.00
2,000.00
Due in 1936
$12,500.00
Total Outstanding
$123,000.00
Interest Account
Appropriation
$4,625.00
For Water Notes Interest, by vote
1,725.00
Accrued Interest Sale of School House Bonds
445.97
Payments :
School House Notes
$ 160.00
Water Main Extension Notes
1,725.00
Tax Notes Discount
802.45
Reimbursement Notes
34.88
High School Notes
2,470.85
To Trust Funds
25.00
Interest on Tax Title Notes
123.11
Fire Department Notes
30.00
Semi-annual Interest on Notes due June 1, 1935
140.00
$5,511.29
Balance
1,284.68
$6,795.97 $6,795.97
/
113
Insurance Account
Appropriation
Payments :
Town Buildings
$1,162.00
Highway Department Equipment
372.00
Fire Department Equipment
39.15
Water Department Equipment
65.00
Pumping Station
70.25
Tax Collector
31.26
Trucks, Fleet Policy
80.60
School Boilers
284.50
$2,104.76
Balance
295.24
$2,400.00
$2,400.00
Surety Bonds
Appropriation
$400.00
Payments :
Treasurer's Bond
$110.00
Tax Collector's Bond
219.00
Deputy Tax Collector's Bond
10.00
Town Clerk's Bond
5.00
Water Clerk's Bond
10.00
$354.00
Balance
46.00
$400.00
$400.00
Trust Funds-Investments POOR FUNDS
Loker Fund :
1 Commonwealth Edison Co. 334% 1965
$1,000.00
1 Southern California Edison Co. 334% 1960 Allen Fund :
1,000.00
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. 4% 1958
1,000.00
Donation Fund :
U. S. Treasury Bonds 314% 1944-46
1,100.00
Provident Institution for Savings
200.00
Russell Fund :
1 Southern California Edison Co. 33/4% 1960 1,000.00
1 Boston Albany R. R. 41/2% 1943
1,000.00
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$2,400.00
1 Commonwealth Edison Co. 334% 1965 Provident Institution for Savings
1,000.00
2,251.67
$9,551.67
CEMETERY FUNDS
J. M. Parmenter Fund :
2 Pacific Gas & Electric Co. 41/2% 6-1-1957
$2,000.00
1 Boston Elevated R. R. 412% 10-1-1937
1,000.00
2 N. E. Tel. & Tel. 41/2% 5-1-1961
2,000.00
$5,000.00
Other Funds :
U. S. Treasury Bonds 314% 1944-46
700.00
U. S. Treasury Bonds 23/4% 1947
300.00
U. S. Treasury Bonds 278% 1960
1,600.00
2 Boston Albany R. R. 41/2% 1943
2,000.00
1 Southern California Edison Co. 33/4% 1960
1,000.00
1 Commonwealth Edison Co. 33/4% 1965
1,000.00
1 Detroit Edison Co. 412% 2-1-1961
1,000.00
1 N. E. Tel. & Tel. 5% 1952
500.00
2 Chicago & Northwestern R. R. Co. 5% 2037
2,000.00
1 N. Y. Central R. R. 412% 2013
500.00
2 N. Y. Central R. R. 412% 2013
2,000.00
Provident Institution for Savings
1,950.00
$19,550.00
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds Received in 1935 and Included Above
William Ward Fund
$100.00
W. C. Hunting Fund
100.00
E. F. Lawrence Fund 100.00
Mabel L. McKewan Fund
50.00
Arthur G. Bennett Fund 100.00
Sydney G. Hahn Fund
100.00
LIBRARY FUNDS
J. M. Parmenter Fund :
2 Pennsylvania Ry. 41/2% 6-1-1965 $2,000.00
2 Union Pacific Ry. 414% 7-1-1967 2,000.00
3 N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co. 414% 5-1-1961 3,000.00
1 N. Y. Central Ry. 5% 10-1-2013 1,000.00
2 Jersey Central Power & Light Co. 412% 1961
2,000.00
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Grace Campbell Draper Fund :
1 City of Boston 4% 10-15-1937 1,000.00 Ada H. Wellington Fund : U. S. Treasury Bonds 278% 1955-60 300.00
U. S. Treasury Bonds 234% 1947 200.00
Cynthia G. Roby Fund :
1 N. Y. Central Ry. 5% 10-1-2013
1,000.00
2 Northern Pacific Ry. 5% 7-1-2047 Provident Institution for Savings
2,000.00
200.00
Harriet Coburn Damon Fund : 3 N. Y. Tel. Co. 41/4% 11-1-1939
3,000.00
James Draper Fund
Ella E. Draper Fund :
1 N. Y. Central Ry. 41/2% 10-1-2013
1,000.00
Sarah Webster Heard Fund :
Provident Institution for Savings
$ 100.00
Montana Central Ry. 5% 7-1-1937
1,000.00
Boston Five Cents Savings Bank
2,000.00
James Sumner Draper Fund :
1 Delaware & Hudson 4% 5-1-1943
1,000.00
1 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 4% 3-1-1958 1,000.00
1 B. & M. & Fitchburg 5% 5-1-1940 1,000.00
1 B. & M. 4-5% 9-1-1941 Boston Five Cents Savings Bank
1,000.00
1,000.00
Lydia Maria Child Fund :
Provident Institution for Savings
100.00
Isaac C. Damon Fund :
Detroit Edison Co. 412% 2-1-1961
1,000.00
Total $27,900.00
All Trust Funds are under control of the Trust Funds' Commissioners with the exception of the Sarah Webster Heard, Lydia Maria Child, and James Sumner Draper Library Funds, these three, by terms of bequests, being under the control of the Library Trustees.
Funds Income
Poor Funds Income From Investments $265.20
Cost of Investment Commonwealth Edison $
2.85
116
Russell Fund Distribution Balance to be Distributed
10.00
252.35
$265.20
$265.20
Library Funds Income
Jan. 1 Balance
$
41.89
From Investments
1,282.91
Premium on Bonds called Payments Charges Account Investments
$1,121.51
74.79
Dec. 31 Balance
228.50
$1,424.80
$1,424.80
Cemetery Funds Income
Jan. 1 Balance
From Investments
781.43
Payments
$676.20
Cost of Investments
6.75
Dec. 31 Balance
1,053.22
$1,736.17
$1,736.17
Tax Titles
1935
TAKEN IN 1930 FOR 1928 TAXES
Jan. 1 Balance
1935 Taxes
49.81
Dec. 31 Balance
$328.34
$328.34
$328.34
TAKEN IN 1931 FOR 1929 TAXES
Jan. 1 Balance
Taxes charged to Tax Collector $2,104.75
Interest and Costs charged to Excess and Deficiency 144.38
1929 Taxes retaken in 1935
2,340.98
Costs and Recording 1935 Taxes
3.25
383.83
Dec. 31 Balance
2,825.85
$5,074.98
$5,074.98
100.00
$954.74
$278.53
$2,346.92
117
1935
TAKEN IN 1932 FOR 1930 TAXES
Jan. 1 Balance 1935 Taxes
$5,120.81 243.19
Paid in 1935
$3,360.99
Charged to Excess and Deficiency 259.17 Sale of Land Taken by Fore- closure 41.00
Dec. 31 Balance
1,702.84
$5,364.00 $5,364.00 In 1935 the Town foreclosed on five pieces of property, $259.17 being charged off.
TAKEN IN 1933 FOR 1931 TAXES
Jan. 1 Balance
$8,927.69
1935 Taxes
1,807.81
Paid in 1935
$1,325.72
Correction charged off
15.63
Dec. 31 Balance
9,394.15
$10,735.50 $10,735.50
1935
TAKEN IN 1934 FOR 1932 TAXES
Jan. 1 Balance
$8,671.40
1935 Taxes
1,791.70 5.42
Corrections
Paid in 1935
$3,380.80
Corrections charged off
1.76
Dec. 31 Balance
7,085.96
$10,468.52 $10,468.52
TAKEN IN 1935 FOR 1933 TAXES
1933 Taxes
$1,953.44
1934 Taxes
1,960.90
Costs 51 Tax Titles
234.60
Recording
77.85
Interest to date of taking
147.47
1935 Taxes
1,673.03
118
Paid in 1935 Charged back to Collector
$1,177.61
16.95
Dec. 31 Balance
4,852.73
$6,047.29
$6,047.29
Number and Amount Outstanding December 31, 1935
1928
1
$ 328.34
1929
2
2,825.85
1930
9
1,702.84
1931
45
9,394.15
1932
34
7,085.96
1933
45
4,852.73
Total
136
$26,189.87
Partial Payments on 32 Tax Titles
$2,703.17
Deposits held Account 1 Tax Title
$161.00
FRANK G. MacKENNA,
Town Treasurer.
119
.
REPORT OF BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF TRUST FUNDS
January 20, 1936.
To the Inhabitants of the Town of Wayland :
The Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds respectfully report as follows :
During the past year the following additional trust funds have been added to those under our management :
Cemetery Trust Funds
William Ward $100
William C. Hunting 100
Ernest F. Lawrence 100
Mabel L. McKewan (additional)
50
Arthur G. Bennett 100
Sydney G. Hahn
100
The following is a statement of the trust funds now under our jurisdiction in the custody of the Town Treasurer :
Library Trust Funds
$1,000 City of Boston Sewerage Loan 4% bond due July 1, 1937 $1,000.00
$3,000 New York Tel. Co. 414% First and General Mortgage bonds due November 1, 1939 3,000.00
$1,000 New York Central Railroad Refunding and Improvement Mortgage 41/2% bond due October 1, 2013, Series A 1,000.00 $2,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Co. Gen- eral Mortgage 41/2% bonds due June 1, 1965 2,000.00
$2,000 Union Pacific Railroad Co. 41/2% bonds due July 1, 1967 2,000.00
120
$2,000 New York Central Railroad Refunding and Improvement Mortgage 5% bonds due October 1, 2013
2,000.00
$2,000 Northern Pacific Railroad Refunding and Improvement Mortgage 5% bonds due July 1, 2047
2,000.00
$3,000 New England Tel. & Tel. Co. First Mortgage 41/2% bonds due May 1, 1961 3,000.00
$1,000 Detroit Edison Co. General and Refunding Mortgage 41/2% bond, Series D, due Febru- ary 1, 1961
1,000.00
$2,000 Jersey Central Power & Light First 41/2% bonds due 1961 2,000.00
$300 U. S. Treasury Bonds 27/8% 1955-60 300.00
$200 U. S. Treasury Bonds 23/4% 1947 200.00
Provident Institution for Savings 200.00
$19,700.00
Poor Trust Funds
$1,000 Chicago, Burlington and Quin- cy Railroad Co. General Mortgage 4% bond due March 1, 1958
$1,000.00
$1,100 U. S. Treasury 314% bonds due 1944/1946
1,100.00
$2,000 Southern California Edison Co. Refunding 33/4% bonds due May 1960
2,000.00
$1,000 Boston & Albany R. R. First Mortgage 41/2% bond due April,, 1943
1,000.00
$2,000 Commonwealth Edison Co. First Mortgage 33/4% bonds due April, 1965, Series H 2,000.00
Provident Institution for Savings 2,451.67
9,551.67
121
Cemetery Trust Funds
$2,000 Pacific Gas & Elec. Co. First and Refunding 41/2% bonds due June 1, 1957 $2,000.00
$1,000 Boston Elevated Railway Co. debenture 41/2% bond due October 1, 1937 1,000.00
$2,000 New England Tel. & Tel. Co. First Mortgage 41/2% bonds due May 1, 1961 2,000.00
$500 New England Tel. & Tel. Co. First Mortgage, Series A, 5% bond due June 1, 1952 500.00
$2,000 Chicago & Northwestern Rail- road Co. First Refunding Mortgage 5% bonds due May 1, 2037
2,000.00
$2,500 New York Central Railroad Refunding and Improvement Mortgage 41/2% bonds due October 1, 2013, Series A 2,500.00
$1,000 Detroit Edison Co. General and Refunding Mortgage 41/2% bond, Series D, due Febru- ary 1, 1961 1,000.00
$700 U. S. Treasury 314% bonds due 1944/1946 700.00
$300 U. S. Treasury Bonds, 23/4% due 1947 300.00
$1,600 U. S. Treasury Bonds, 27/8% due 1960 1,600.00
$2,000 Boston & Albany R. R. 41/2% bonds due 1943
2,000.00
$1,000 Southern California Edison Co. 33/4% bond due 1960 1,000.00
$1,000 Commonwealth Edison Co. 33/4% bond due 1965 1,000.00
122
Provident Institution for Savings 1,950.00 19,550.00
Total Trust Funds $48,801.67 Respectfully submitted, JOHN H. KNAPP, Chairman, J. SIDNEY STONE, ALBERT F. FLINT, Clerk, Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds.
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REPORT OF TAX COLLECTOR For the Year 1935
TAXES 1929
Outstanding
Real Estate
1/1/35 Balance
$80.13
T. T. disclaimed
300.75
$380.88
Adj. Tax Titles
$
.53
Adj. Auditor
.60
Tax Titles
379.75
$380.88
TAXES 1931
Real Estate and Personal
1/1/35
Balance
$110.83
Collections
$93.33
Abatements
17.50
$110.83
Motor Excise
1/1/35 Balance
$11.34
Collections
$11.34
TAXES 1932
Real Estate and Personal
1/1/35 Balance
$1,093.95
T. T. disclaimed 372.48
To interest 1.80
$1,468.23
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Outstanding
Collections
Abatements
$831.73 98.70
Tax Titles
388.93
1,319.36
$148.87
Polls
1/1/35 Balance
$36.00
Collections
$28.00
Abatements
8.00
$36.00
Old Age Assistance
1/1/35 Balance
$21.00
Collections
$15.00
Abatements
6.00
$21.00
Motor Excise
1/1/35 Balance
$390.97
Collections
$273.93
Abatements
70.60
344.53
46.44
TAXES 1933
Real Estate and Personal
1/1/35
Balance
$26,350.93
Tax Title disclaimed
344.17
Tax Title adjusting
3.76
To Moth
.50
Refund
10.00
$26,709.36
Collections
$22,653.44
Abatements
368.56
Tax Titles
2,271.68
25,293.68
1,415.68
Polls
1/1/35 Balance
$140.00
Collections
$110.00
Abatements
30.00
$140.00
125
Outstanding
Old Age Assistance
1/1/35 Balance
$75.00
Collections Abatements
$60.00
15.00
$75.00
Motor Excise
1/1/35 Balance
$936.78
Collections
$417.93
Abatements
213.24
631.17
305.61
Moth Assessment
1/1/35 Balance
$33.75
Collections
$32.00
From Real Estate
.50
Tax Title
1.25
$33.75
Highway Betterment
1/1/35 Balance
$400.80
Committed Interest
18.03
$418.83
Collections
105.82
313.01
TAXES 1934
Real Estate and Personal
1/1/35
Balance
$65,890.38
Tax Title disclaimed
323.85
Adj. abatements
9.80
Refunds
60.60
$66,284.63
Collections
$39,978.14
Abatements
703.80
Tax Titles
2,279.65
42,961.59
23,323.04
126
Outstanding
Polls
1/1/35 Balance Collections Abatements
$332.00 100.00
432.00
54.00
Motor Excise
1/1/35 Balance
$2,911.14
2/7/35
Commitment
5.78
Refunds
10.24
$2,927.16
Collections
$1,736.07
Abatements
371.70
2,107.77
819.39
TAXES 1935
Real Estate and Personal
6/12/35
Commitment
$163,080.50
12/20/35
Commitment
3,122.37
Refunds
406.33
$166,609.20
Collections
$98,253.91
Abatements
638.74
Tax Titles
5,988.93
104,881.58
61,727.62
Polls
4/12/35
Commitment
$1,920.00
Collections
1,568.00
352.00
Motor Excise
3/8/35
Commitment
$4,304.27
8/2/35 Commitment
1,379.90
11/13/35
Commitment
881.81
12/31/35
Commitment
211.47
Refunds
148.58
$6,926.03
127
$486.00
Outstanding
Collections
Abatements
$4,554.15 347.21
4,901.36
2,024.67
12/31/35
Total Taxes Outstanding
$90,530.33
T. H. HARRINGTON, Collector of Taxes, Town of Wayland.
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ASSESSORS' REPORT For the Year 1935
Real Estate for 1934
$5,144,098 530,737
Personal for 1934
$5,674,835
Real Estate January 1, 1935
$5,052,298
Personal January 1, 1935
620,141
$5,672,439
Polls assessed
960
Horses assessed
79
Cows assessed
282
Neat cattle other than cows
46
Sheep
None
Goats
17
Swine
818
Fowl
9,356
Number of dwelling houses
1,125
Number of motor vehicles
1,302
Value of motor vehicles
$255,350.00
Tax on motor vehicles
$6,777.52
Rate on property
$29.30 per thousand of value $33.06 per thousand of value
Property exempt :
Widows
$55,308
Veterans of Civil and Spanish Wars
9,734
Church property
119.000
American Legion
15,700
Pequod Lodge
200
Hannah Williams Play Ground
2,200
Abatements-Levy 1931
Real Estate
$ 17.50
1932 66
98.70
1933 66 66
794.03
1934
703.80
1935
66
580.14
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Rate on motor vehicles
Old Age abatements 1932 and 1933 to be assessed in 1936 146
Tax Levy 1935 Liabilities
Town appropriations
Special for Cemeteries
State Tax
$184,267.81 55.00 8,265.00
Park (State)
45.00
County Tax
8,291.20
Special loan on Tax Titles
7,031.90
Deficit in overlay of 1931 to 1934
964.01
Overlay for 1935
2,484.51
$211,404.43
Assets
Estimated Receipts
Available Funds
Polls
$39,317.03 7,086.90 1,920.00
$48,323.93
Levied on Property
$163,080.50
Levied on Polls
1,920.00
Betterments
43.86
Interest on Betterments
18.03
Committed to Collector
$165,062.39
State Tax estimated by Commissioner
$8,265.00
State Tax as per warrant
8,700.00
Park Tax estimated
45.00
Park Tax as per warrant
75.82
County Tax estimated
8,291.20
County Tax as per warrant
8,255.73
The Value of property given above contains January and December assessments. December assessments not used in determining the tax rate.
DANIEL BRACKETT, CLARENCE S. WILLIAMS, SIDNEY LOKER,
Assessors, Town of Wayland.
December 31, 1935.
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REPORT OF WAYLAND PLANNING BOARD (1935)
The year 1935 has seen the Planning Board making sub- stantial progress on two important problems, by careful expen- diture of the generous appropriation voted by the Town. These are :
1. Improvement of the Dudley Pond Section in Cochituate so as to make it the asset to the town that its natural beauty warrants.
2. Improvement and landscaping of the school and park land around the new High School.
Both these projects have been carried forward not only with an eye to the permanent benefit to the Town that may confidently be anticipated, but also for the purpose of provid- ing hand labor jobs that may readily be carried out by use of government emergency funds, as contemplated by the Finance Committee in recommending the appropriation for the Board.
Let us take up first the Dudley Pond improvement.
The 1935 annual meeting authorized the Selectmen to acquire land for a bathing beach on Dudley Pond near West Plain Street, and the preparation of suitable bathing facilities, as recommended in our last annual report. The Planning Board was glad to cooperate with the Selectmen, Highway Sur- veyor, and other town officials in this enterprise. Mr. Hobbs, of our Board, did much toward securing the necessary land at a reasonable expenditure. The Board is grateful to him, as well as to the Arancio Brothers and other property owners who made this possible. A plan was prepared under the Board's direction by Arthur A. Shurcliff, the renowned landscape archi- tect, and the work was done by citizens of the town under E. R. A. and W. P. A. appropriations. Life guards were pro- vided by the Red Cross, and the beach has become a real asset to the Town instead of a menace to the neighborhood.
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In studying this improvement, it appeared that the Town would be benefitted by acquiring the acre or more of land belonging to the State, at the other end of the pond, which con- trols the outlet. The Selectmen, through the Town Counsel, carried on successful negotiations with the Metropolitan Dis- trict Commission, and the Fall Town Meeting authorized this addition to the assets of the Town. The area has since been put in first class condition by citizens under government appro- priation.
Meanwhile the engineers who originally laid out much of the land at the west end of Dudley Pond, had been called in to work out improvements on the original speculative layout. Old blueprints of different properties were brought together so as to make one single map of the whole district, and studies were made of the best methods of providing wide roads which would open up Woodland Park and adjoining districts to the main highways, as directed by the 1935 Town Meeting. This dis- trict alone has 63 acres and 119 dwellings, 26 of which are occupied all the year around. Arrangements have been made for acquiring considerable of the necessary property for high- way widenings without cost, and it is our hope that this project may be started next summer with the assistance of government funds.
A start has also been made to prepare a suitable highway layout to Beechwood Point, on the east side of the Pond.
To quote our special report on these camp districts, made at the last annual meeting, "This is not merely a real estate and tax problem. It is closely related to all of our town expense problems; our schools, transportation, district nursing, fire department, water department, police, and welfare."
A sound solution ought to repay many times over the cost of the studies made by this Board.
The Board has been equally concerned with securing the most effective results in landscaping the park and school lands around the new High School. Here we have worked in full cooperation with the Park Commission and the School Board. Mr. Shurcliff, the landscape architect, has laid out a most attractive setting for the new building. One of our public spirited citizens, Dr. Martin Edwards, has offered a large and valuable donation of nursery stock and growing trees, to assist in the plan.
This project has already been approved by the W. P. A.
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authorities, and it offers an unusual chance to use a large amount of hand labor to advantage.
Another matter to receive the attention of the Board is a proposal for the relocation and continuation of Stone Bridge Road, and the reconstruction of the bridge itself, which is a narrow four-arched stone bridge. It is too narrow for two- way traffic and it gives evidence of needing substantial repairs.
The Board wishes to thank the Selectmen, E. R. A. and W. P. A. Authorities, and all other Town officials for their helpful cooperation.
GILBERT SMALL, Chairman. HOWARD S. RUSSELL, Clerk.
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REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE For the Year Ending December 31, 1935
Wayland Police
State Police
Assault
4
4
Breaking and entering and larceny
2
5
Concealing leased property
Larceny
5
Violation of Town traffic laws
1
Delinquency
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