Official reports of the town of Wayland 1851-1876, Part 12

Author: Wayland (Mass.)
Publication date: 1851
Publisher: Printed at the Middlesex Freeman Office
Number of Pages: 420


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five years as provided by law, should keep to the record, and if advisable afterwards, in making their record, state in the margin the bounds of said " Farm " and "Field," but not as a part of the boundary line. This will be in accordance with the custom commenced and pursued for many years, but, for some cause not stated, afterwards altered.


The boundaries have not been altered since, unless with the exception of the line in Cochituate, occasioned by the building of the aqueduct, and it is questioned whether that alteration is legal, although assented to by the selectmen of Wayland and Natick, if not sanctioned by the Legislature.


It seems it is a straight line from the head of the meadows near Mr. Farr's in Sudbury (stone monument near white oak tree) to the river, but some of the intermediate bounds placed by the selectmen of the respective towns at different times in running the line, as described in their records, are not on the line.


It seems also, that in the ancient limits assigned by the selectmen to the highway surveyors, which are undoubtedly correct, (no record being found of the first or original division of the causeway by the towns,) the distance of sixty-four rods (64) is given as being maintained by Sudbury, immediately beyond Canal Bridge. Later limits assign fifty rods (50), a gain of fourteen rods in distance, and expense to the town of Wayland, the town not being liable therefor. No reason appears for this reduction. In case the county commissioners in the future should order a higher grade for the convenience of public travel, the authorities of the town should make permanent by a stone monument the old division, jointly with the town of Sudbury.


In regard to the line between Sudbury and Wayland, it is suggested that the town take such action as will obtain a more equitable division of the causeways, according to the intent of the act of incorporation, and such an alteration of the line, as will avoid the necessity of the surveyors of the towns crossing each others territory to repair the highways. Two attempts have been made by conference committees to alter the line, but being interested and adverse parties, and attaching undue importance to the transfer of real estate as affecting the taxes,


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were unsuccessful. A fair statement of the matter before the proper committee in the Legislature would result in such an alteration as would be generally acceptable to the inhabitants of both towns; and this course is recommended.


"MIDDLESEX SS. To Richard Heard* Gent., one of the principal Inhabitants of the Town of East Sudbury-


Agreeable to the Direction of a Law of this State, you are required to warn all the Freeholders & other Inhabitants of & Belonging to the Town of East Sudbury, qualified as the Law Directs to vote in Town affairs, to meet 'at the Meeting House in said Town, on Monday the Twenty fourth Day of April Instant, at one o'Clock in the afternoon on said day, then and there ;


1st. To Choose a Moderator.


2nd. To Choose Town Clerk, Selectmen, Town Treasurer, Assessors, Constables, & all other Town officers, that Towns are required to Chose in the Month of March annually-


3rd. To see if the Town will give Liberty for swine to go at Large from the first of April, to the Last of October the present year-


4th. To see if the Town will give Liberty for sheep to go on the Common without a Shepard, from the first of May to the last of October the present year.


5th. To see if the Town will settle with their Committee, Chosen to Carry on a Petition at the General Court, for Dividing- the Town, & Grant a sum of Money to pay them for their Expenses & Service, or do or act anything, as the Town shall think proper when met-


And make return of this Warrant with your Doings thereon, at the Time & Place above mentioned-


Framingham April 15th 1780.


JOSIAH STONE Justice Peace.


E : Sudbury April 24th 1780.


I have Warned and cause to be Warned all the freeholders, & other inhabitants of, & Belonging to said Town to meet at Time & Place as within Directed.


RICHARD HEARD, Appointed to Do said service.


*Grandfather of Dea. Richard Heard, recently deceased.


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At a Town Meeting in E: Sudbury Legally warnd., April 24th 1780, the Town proceeded & Choose


Joseph Curtis, Moderator.


Joseph Curtis Town Clerk.


Selectmen


Capt. Richard Heard Joseph Curtis Mr. Phinehas Glezen Mr. Jacob Reeves Capt. Isaac Loker


Town Treasurer Joseph Curtis


Assessors


Joseph Curtis Wm. Baldwin Esqr. Lt. Tho : Brintnall


Constables Capt. John Noyes & by their vote accepted of & Lt. Micah Goodenow to serve in his room. Collectors Mr. Isaac Damon, & by their vote accepted of


Lt. Micah Goodenow, to serve in his room.


Highway


William Baldwin Esqr.


Lt. John Whitney


Capt. Isaac Loker


Surveyors Lt. Jonathan Hoar


Tything Mr. Phinehas Glezen


Men Lt. Joseph Dudley


Fence Mr. William Barker Viewers Mr. William Dudley


Fish Reve, Mr. Ezekiel Rice


Field Drivers, Mr. Samet. Griffyn Mr. Nathet. Reeves


Hogreve, Mr. William Revis


Selor of leather, Lt. Samtt. Russell


Surveyors of Boards & Shingles Mr. John Meriam


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3rd Article put to Vote & passed in the affirmative. 4th Article put to Vote & passed in the Negative.


5th Article put to vote, & the Town Voted to Choose a Committee to settle with their Committee who ware Chosen to Carry on the Petition for Deviding the Town of Sudbury, & to make Report at Next meeting, & Choose for their Committee, Capt. Jessa Eames, Capt. Joseph Smith, Capt. Isaac Cutting, then the Town by their Vote Desolved said Meeting


JOSEPH CURTIS Moderator "


SYLVESTER REEVES, Auditor.


WAYLAND, March 1, 1873.


THE


Auditor's Report


OF THE


TOWN OF WAYLAND


For its Ninety-fourth Municipal Year,


From March 1, 1873, to March 1, 1874.


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WALTHAM : PRESS OF JOSIAH HASTINGS, 1874.


OFFICERS OF THE TOWN. Chosen March 2, 1874.


TOWN CLERK, HENRY WIGHT.


Selectmen, GEO. W. RISLEY, HENRY C. DEANE, SYLVESTER REEVES.


Assessors, HORACE HEARD, ALBERT B. LYON, SYLVESTER REEVES.


Overseers of the Poor, HORACE HEARD, THOS. J. DAMON, JONA. M. PARMENTER.


Treasurer, Auditor, CHARLES H. CAMPBELL. SYLVESTER REEVES.


Constables,


T. H. SIMPSON,


C. W. WHITNEY,


D. D. GRIFFIN,


L. FLANDERS,


E. C. DAVIS,


W. B. WARD.


Highway Surveyors,


HORATIO G. HAMMOND,


ELBRIDGE W. GILES,


JOHN D. MOULTON.


Fence Viewers, THOS. J. DAMON, SAML. M. THOMAS, THOS. H. SIMPSON.


Field Drivers,


JOHN MCGINNESS, WM. A. JESSOP, DANL. H. SHERMAN. Measurers of Wood, EDWARD CARTER, CHAS. L. HOWARD, WILLIAM C. GROUT, GILBERT BENT, SAML. M. THOMAS, EBENEZER LOKER.


Sealer of Weights and Measures, WILLIAM C. GROUT.


Superintendents of Cemeteries, JAMES D. WALKER, JOIIN C. BUTTERFIELD.


Collector, SAMUEL, M. THOMAS.


School Committee, T. A. MERRILL, three years ; E. A. PIERCE, one year.


Trustees of Allen Fund, JAMES S. DRAPER, THOS. J. DAMON, SAML. M. THOMAS.


REPORT.


Appropriations Assessed for 1873.


For support of schools,


$2,100 00


fuel for schools,


200 00


roads and bridges,


800 00


interest on town debt,


1,600 00


reduction of town debt,


5,000 00


money borrowed for credit bills,


2,000 00


יי discount on taxes,


525 00


collector's fee, -


139 00


town library,


50 00


incidental expenses, -


1,000 00


repairing library room,


50 00


cemeteries, Centre, -


300 00


cemetery, Cochituate, -


200 00


road in Cochituate, -


250 00


66 school house in Cochituate, -


500 00


support of poor,


500 00


Total town appropriations, - $15,214 00


State tax,


- 1,237 50


County tax,


705 00


Overlayings, -


426 26


Additional assessments,


18 00


Total assessed,


$17,600 76


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Appropriations, Borrowed, for 1873.


To pay Ellen O. Lyon's note,


$1,200 00


Dan. L. Giles' note,


1,500 00


66 66


300 00


66 66


1,000 00


For credit bills,


2,500 00


66 interest on town debt,


800 00


State aid, -


500 00


66 schools, first term, -


700 00


school building, Cochituate,


*3,000 00


66


- *3,000 00


66


66


10,000 00


66


5,000 00


road, centre of town to Cochituate,


*4,000 00


66


- 4,000 00


66


*1,200 00


Total,


$38,700 00


Receipts from All Sources for the Year ending March 1, 1874.


Balance in the treasurer's hands March 1, 1873, $1,376 44 Cash from collector of 1873, as follows : July 12, 1873, received - 457 74


Aug. 14,


451 81


" 23, 66 815 00


יי " 27,


1,359 58


Sept. 1,


6,166 86


Oct. 27,


.6


351 00


Nov. 26,


532 00


Dec. 6, 66 66


945 00


" 29,


780 00


Jan. 19, 1874,


840 00


Feb. 5, 66


1,291 00


" 16, 66


381 00


" 27, 66 6.


242 05


" 28,


..


766 78


Cash from donation fund for 1873, -


12 00


..


1874,


12 00


..


*Borrowed for short term, and paid within the year.


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3


Cash from State school fund, -


$143 08


lumber sold,


10 00


Sudbury, bridge expense, 18 92


lumber sold,


6 00


tuition, Centre school,


6 00


national bank tax,


488 91


corporation tax, 354 31


State aid,


500 00


Newton Institution for Savings,


5,000 00


Home Savings Bank, Boston,


10,000 00


Waltham National Bank,


3,000 00


66 "


700 00


Waltham Savings Bank,


500 00


800 00


2,500 00


1,000 00


" 66


300 00


1,500 00


1,200 00


use of town hall, -


13 00


town scales, Centre, - 16 05


Cochituate, - 14 25


17 80


copper measures sold,


1 45


additional tax, 1872, -


7 90


school books furnished,


7 29


Natick National Bank,


4,000 00


" " 4,000 00


1,200 00


corporation tax, 17 73


use of school hall in Cochituate, - 20 00


county treasurer, money for dog licenses, 196 35


Receipt of county tax, 705 00


Cash from use of school hall in Cochituate,


95 00


Total,


$58,119 32


Amount paid out, 56,760 17


Balance on hand March 1, 1874, $1,359 15


money overdrawn,


66


3,000 00


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Collector's Account with the Treasurer.


By the vote of the town, after deducting the county tax, one- half of the remainder is to be paid on or before the first Monday in September; one-fourth! of said remainder' on or before the first Monday in December; the balance on or before the first Monday in February. The collector to forfeit ten per cent. on all sums not paid in at the required times.


J. A. ROBY, COLLECTOR, IN ACCT. WITH C. H. CAMPBELL, TREASURER.


Amount assessed,


Deduct county tax,


$17,600 76 705 00


Amount due the town treasurer, $16,895 76


Amount due first Monday in Sept., $8,447 88


Paid July 12, 1873, $457 74


" Aug. 14, " רו 22, " 815 00


451 81


27, 1,359 58 -


" Sept. 1, - 6,166 86


" on amount due, $9,250 99


Amount overpaid, $803 11


Amount due first Monday in Dec., - -


$3,420 38


Paid Oct. 27, 1873, $351 00


" Nov. 26, " -


532 00


" on amount due, $883 00


Due and unpaid, - $2,537 83


Amount due first Monday in Feb., 1874, -


$6,761 77


Paid Dec. 6, 1873, - " 29, " 780 00


$945 00


Jan. 19, 1874, 840 00


on amount due, - $2,565 00


Due and unpaid first Monday in Feb., -


- $4,196 77 Paid Feb. 5, 1874, - $1,291 00


" 16, " 381 00 -


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Paid Feb. 27, 1874,


$242 05 " " 28, " -


766 78


" on amount duc, - $2,680 83


Balance due and unpaid March 1, 1874, - $1,515 94


Expenditures from the Treasury FROM MARCII 1, 1873, TO MARCHI 1, 1874. INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.


Appropriation, $1,000 00


Paid J. D. Walker, lumber and labor on town house, cash paid expenses, -


- $20 80


" C. A. Colby, painting roof of Centre school house, -


32 00


R. Sherman, labor on highway, 6 00 -


" G. W. Risley, services as assessor, 58 00 -


C. L. Davis, labor on school house, - 17 00


Nichols E. Hall, books for teachers' desks, 4 58


" H. G. Hammond, labor on highway, - 8 75


L. N. Sherman, gravel, and cash paid care of school rooms, 8 60


" W. A. Jessop, labor on highway, - 3, 60


" C. W. Dascomb, labor and materials on school house, 9 62


" J. D. Walker, labor, and cash paid for repairing town house, &c., - 56 07


" J. D. Walker, cash paid for labor on town house, -


8 50


" R. Sherman, repairing town bridge, - 17 23


J. D. Walker, making guide boards, lumber and labor on bridges, cash paid for labor on same, 28 45


" H. Heard, services as assessor, taking in- ventory, making taxes, 48 00


" J. D. Walker, labor and cash paid for materials on bridge and town house, 15 12


J. Bullard, cash paid for repairing hearse, and labor on same, - 25 00 -


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Paid J. S. Draper, cash paid for wood for library, $5 00 L. N. Sherman, cash paid for school books and care of school rooms, - 10 02


S. Reeves, services as assessor, copying valuation, certificates of record, cash .


paid for field books, expressing, postage, 95 58 Wilde & Nichols, small pox expense, - 11 50


W. H. Jessop, labor on highway, - 19 60


66 R. Sherman, labor on highway, - 11 65


" J. D. Walker, repairing bridle point bridge, 51 13 J. G. & N. G. Gooch, lumber for bridges, 248 91 " J. D. Moulton, labor on highway, 20 00


" T. B. Jones, damage on highway, - 100 00


W. Moore, care of school house No. 1, 2 00


" J. Hastings, printing, - 27 25


" J. D. Walker, cash paid for wood and lamps for town hall, - - 11 22


Total, $981 18 Unexpended balance, 18 82


Credit Bills.


Appropriation, borrowed, $2,500 00 Balance transferred, 318 70 -


Total, $2,818 70


Paid J. A. Roby, services as clerk, 1872, re- cording births, deaths, marriages, cash paid expressing, &c., -


" Edward Carter, repairing north primary school building, - 34 05


$56 16


" C. L. Howard, school books, crayons, stationery, &c., - 35 27


" J. D. Walker, services as selectman, super- intendent of cemeteries, 1872, labor on town house, cash paid, &c., 90 40


" K. McCann, care of school house No. 2, 7 00


S. Reeves, services as auditor, 1872, cash paid for stationery, 27 00


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Paid G. W. Risley, services as selectman, 1872, $50 00


L. Buoncore, services as school committee, 1872, cash paid repairs on school build- ings, 60 27


G. C. Lincoln, medical attendance, small pox expense, 25 00


A. H. Bryant, services as selectman, 1872, 50 00


D. H. Sherman, labor on highway,* 39 57


J. Murphy, small pox expense, -


211 00


CC - 91 50


J. Bullard, services as sexton, 6 55


J. S. Draper, services as librarian, cash paid expressing, binding, &c., - 86 65


" J. H. Wright, medical attendance, small pox, - 15 00


E. W. Giles, labor on highway,* - 73 00


" E. H. Alger, small pox expense, - 3 25


H. Heard, services as overseer of the poor, 1871 and 1872, - 30 00


" T. A. Dean, labor on highway,* - 22 50


J. W. Lewis, services as school committee, repairs on school house, 1872, 37 50


J. D. Moulton, labor on highway,* 118 30


C. H. Campbell, services as treasurer, 1872, 75 00 W. C. Grout, services as sealer of weights and measures, 1872, 3 00


C. H. Campbell, labor on highway,* - 13 80


L. S. Wheelock, labor on highway, - 107 00


T. J. Damon, services as overseer of the poor, cash paid advertising, 1872, 17 25


T. H. Simpson, posting, cash paid printing warrants, 1872, 25 00


J. H. Plymton, labor on highway,* - 71 40


S. M. Thomas, labor on highway,* - 69 10


A. Randolph, care of school room No. 3, 3 25


W. H. Bemis, services as overseer of the poor, 1872, - 15 00 -


R. Sherman, labor on highway,* - 33 80


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Paid E. Lawrence, care of school room No. 1, $8 05


C. L. Howard, care of town clock, - 15 00


A. H. Bryant, cash paid small pox expenses, 9 00


A. Bryant, school books, crayons, &c., 5 48


H. G. Hammond, labor on highway,* 58 35


O. Loker, labor on highway,* 30 40


G. H. Wight, care of school room, Centre, 6 00


66 W. Allen, small pox expense, 7 00


H. B. Braman, gravel for highways, 20 00


L. H. Sherman, services as school com- mittee, and cash paid care of school room, &c., 1872, - 44 15


L. H. Sherman, labor on highway,* - 33 80


J. C. Cloyes, covering stones for sluice, 5 00


W. W. Hayes, repairs school room No. 3, 7 50 W. D. Parlin, small pox expense, - 12 72


Town of Natick, labor and materials on highway, - - 529 31


Rand & Avery, printing, -


8 50


G. A. Underwood, labor and materials on tomb, Cochituate, 40 30


" WV. H. Jessop, labor on highway,* - 27 25


M. E. Society, use of vestry for town meetings, - - 35 00


66 T. A. Dean, labor on highway,* - 69 83


66 G. B. Cochran, medical attendance, small pox expense, 49 09


L. H. Sherman, cash paid care of school rooms, 5 75


" J. M. Parmenter, wood for town house, 8 87


" J. Hastings, printing town reports, - 84 93


" F. Ward, small pox expense, - 12 00


F. Corman, small pox expense, - 56 00


Total, $2,792 85


Unexpended balance, 25 85


*Snow bills.


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Unappropriated Money.


Cash from overlayings on taxes,


- $426 26


additional assessments, 25 90


money for school books, 7 29 -


town scales, Cochituate,


14 25


copper measures sold,


1 45


use of town hall,


13 00


money overdrawn,


5 00


town scales, Centre, -


16 05


66 State treas., State aid,


500 00


יל


66


corporation tax,


354 31


bank tax, 488 91


6 00


sale of lumber, -


16 00


"


Sudbury, half expense of bridge, 18 92


17 73


40


hall in Cochituate,


20 00


95 00 -


Total, $2,026 07


Deficit of last year,


- $148 65


Paid committee on new road, centre of the town, - 300 00


C. H. Campbell, repairs on school house, Centre, 19 75


C. H. Campbell, labor, and cash paid for care of school rooms and repairs on school buildings, 97 52


J. N. Morse, land taken for highway, 100 00


' S. Reeves, cash paid for part expense of town seal, 6 50


J. A. Roby, services as town clerk, 1873, - 40 00


J. A. Roby, recording births, deaths, marriages, cash paid for record book, postage, expressing, copies of records, &c., - 63 05


J. N. Hammond, gravel for highway, 90 00


Abatement of taxes, 458 89


Deficit on reduction of debt, discount on taxes, 241 78


125 00


Total,


$1,691 14


Unexpended balance, 334 93


school tuition, -


corporation tax, -


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Schools.


REGULATION ADOPTED BY THE TOWN MAR. 1, 1871.


That the school committee be instructed to divide all school monies, excepting twenty-five per cent. of the State School Fund, or such part of twenty-five per cent. of said fund as has been expended for school apparatus, in such a manner that each school in town shall be entitled to and shall receive an equal term time throughout the year,-the surplus left in each district to be expended in such district the succeeding year, and the school committee to notify in writing the selectmen and treas- urer of such division, to be entered by them upon their books.


Appropriation,


$2,100 00


Unexpended balance of last year,


190 75


Money refunded on licenses, -


167 81


State School Fund,


143 08


Town 6


12 00


Money overdrawn last year,


12 80


Total,


$2,626 44


Amount assigned for schools, -


$2,526 55


66


books and maps, 12 50


unassigned, -


87 39


Total,


$2,626 44


Amount expended for schools,


- $1,873 50


Unexpended balance,


752 94


CENTRE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.


Amount assigned, -


-


$374 00


Paid Miss M. E. Dager,


$121 00


“ Mrs. M. A. Newman,


110 00


66


143 00


Total,


$374 00


13 CENTRE PRIMARY SCHOOL.


Amount assigned, - -


$304 00


Unexpended balance of 1872, -


20 00


Total,


$324 00


Paid Miss N. L. Farr, -


$20 00


E. A. Folsom,


99 00


J. A. Moore,


88 00


66 לל


117 00


Total,


$324 00


SOUTHI GRAMMAR SCHOOL.


Amount assigned, -


$385 00


Paid Miss F. M. Woodworth,


$121 00


" «


88 00


Total, $209 00


Unexpended balance, -


$176 00


SOUTH PRIMARY SCHOOL.


Amount assigned, - -


$315 00


Paid Miss L. H. Norton,


$99 00


לי


72 00


Total, $171 00


Unexpended balance, -


$144 00


NORTH SCHOOL.


Amount assigned, -


$315 00


Paid Miss A. H. Stanley,


$27 00


66


M. A. E. Downs, 72 00


66 66


66 99 00


66


108 00 -


Total, $306 00


Unexpended balance, -


9 00


" RUTTER SCHOOL."


Amount assigned, - -


$315 00


Paid Miss P. M. Lee, -


$45 00


A. M. Barlow, -


99 00


-


Total, $144 00


Unexpended balance, -


-


$171 00


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"THOMAS SCHOOL."


Amount assigned, -


$315 00


Unexpended balance of 1872, -


170 75


Amount overdrawn in 1872,


12 80


Total,


$498 55


Paid Miss N. C. Wetherbee, - $126 00


- 117 00


M. L. Pike,


90 00


Total,


$333 00


Unexpended balance,


165 55


SCHOOL COMMITTEE.


Geo. B. Cochran,


term expires 1876


Ed. A. Pierce,


66


1875


T. A. Merrill, -


1877


FUEL FOR SCHOOLS.


Appropriation,


$200 00


Unexpended balance of 1872, -


15 53


Total,


$215 53


Paid W. Ward,


$31 00


L. H. Sherman,


13 81


Union Coal Co., Natick, -


54 00


C. H. Campbell,


13 89


W. A. Bird,


20 00


W. Ward,


76 37


C. H. Campbell, -


5 50


Total,


$214 57


Unexpended balance,


-


96


Town Library.


Appropriation,


$50 00


Unexpended balance of 1872, -


27 34


Total,


$77 34


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Paid J. S. Draper, for cash paid for books, $26 70


33 66


Unexpended balance, - Total,


$60 36


$16 98


REPAIRING LIBRARY ROOM.


Appropriation, - -


$50 00


Paid J. S. Draper, cash paid for repairs, $21 15


- 20 90


Total,


$42 05


Unexpended balance,


$7 95


Reduction of Town Debt.


Appropriation 1st,


$5,000 00


2d, credit bills, - 2,000 00


3d, schools, first term,


700 00


Total,


$7,700 00


Paid Newton Institution for Savings,


$5,000 00


2,125 00


Waltham National Bank,


700 00


Total,


$7,825 00


Overdrawn,


$125 00


Transfer of Town Debt.


Appropriation, - -


$4,000 00


Paid Ellen O. Lyon's note, $1,200 00


D. L. Giles'


- 1,500 00


1,000 00


300 00


Total, $4,000 00


Also, borrowed for short time, and repaid as follows:


To Waltham National Bank,


$3,000 00


- 3,000 00


" Natick


66


4,000 00


- 1,200 00


Total,


$11,200 00


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Debt March 1, 1873, as per treasurer's record,


66 " 1874, "


- $21,399 87 $73,698 79


Increase of debt during the year, -


- $52,298 92


Notes paid on debt of 1873, as follows : D. L. Giles,


$1,500 00


1,000 00


300 00


Newton Savings Bank,


2,125 00


Total paid, $4,925 00


Notes given in addition (excluding notes given and paid within the year) as follows :


Mass. C. R. R. Corporation,


$35,115 17


Home Savings Bank, Boston,


- 10,000 00


Natick National Bank, -


4,000 00


Waltham Savings Bank,


4,000 00


3,800 00


J. Bullard, -


-


233 75


T. J. Damon,


75 00


Total given, $57,223 92


Excess in notes given to notes paid, $52,298 92


J. Bullard's and T. J. Damon's notes were given by the committee on cemetery in Cochituate, in 1872, and not upon the treasurer's books until the present year, making the actual increase of debt less the amount of said notes.


The debt March 1, 1874, is at the rate of fifty-nine dollars to every inhabitant (1240) of the town, as per census of 1870; one hundred thirty-five dollars to every tax-payer (546), ex- cluding non-residents, May 1, 1873; excluding those who pay only a poll tax (227), two hundred thirty-one dollars ; between seven and eight dollars per acre of the taxable acreage of the first of May last, and seven per cent. of the valuation of the town.


Quere. What percentage of debt to the valuation is it expedient for a town to incur on the ground of public improve- ment ?


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Interest on Town Debt.


Appropriation, assessed,


$1,600 00


borrowed, -


800 00


Total,


$2,400 00


Paid Dan. L. Giles,


- $78 97


J. G. Sherman, - 24 00


A. T. Parmenter, -


14. 00


Middlesex Inst. for Savings, 88 48


66 Waltham Savings Bank, 80 50


Jesse Moore,


26 11


Dan. L. Giles,


6 05


66 Middlesex Inst. for Savings,


187 22


Jerusha C. Cotting, - 60 00


Joseph Bullard, - 16 36


Artemas Bond, -


108 00


Newton Inst. for Savings,


74 35


66 Frank S. Johnson, - 17 50


Newton Inst. for Savings, 18 05


Waltham National Bank,


49 59


Waltham Savings Bank,


338 33


Middlesex Inst. for Savings, - -


263 48


treasurer of "Allen Fund,"


60 00


66 "Donation Fund," 24 70


Natick National Bank, - 189 00


treasurer of " Library Fund," 30 00


Home Savings Bank, -


350 00


Frank S. Johnson, 52 50


Total, $2,157 19 -


Unexpended balance, -


242 81


Highways and Bridges.


Appropriation,


$800 00


Unexpended balance of 1872,


80 38


Total,


$880 38


Paid Charles H. Campbell, surveyor, -


$50 40


Horatio G. Hammond, " - 105 00


3


-


18


Paid Otis Loker,


surveyor,


$60 00


William A. Jessop,


75 00


Dan. H. Sherman,


65 50


Roger Sherman,


80 45


John D. Moulton,


68 00


66


-


81 00


Otis Loker,


100 00


John W. Moore,


60 00


S. M. Thomas,


80 00


T. J. Damon,


- 54 90


Unexpended balance,


For the Poor.


Appropriation,


$500 00


Unexpended balance of 1872,


557 25


Total,


$1,057 25


Paid J. H. Plymton, warden, -


$102 01


" T. J. Damon, overseer,


312 00


J. M. Parmenter, "


97 50


Total,


$511 51


Unexpended balance,


$545 74


THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR Present the following statement in their report : Receipts from the farm, -


$726 06


Cash paid for groceries, &c., - $423 75


warden's salary,


- 300 00


Total, $723 75


2 31


Unexpended balance,


It will be seen from the above statement that nothing has been drawn from the regular appropriation for the warden's salary, or support of the inmates. The amount drawn was for part pay of the previous warden, and for cattle upon the farm. It will not be necessary, under the management of the present warden, to make any appropriation the ensuing year.


.


-


Total,


$880 25


13


19


State Aid.


$500 00


Appropriation, borrowed, - Paid Henry B. Fischer,


$54 00


Rebecca J. Dickey,


48 00


Marshall Garfield, guardian, 48 00


6 Louisa M. Smith,


48 00


Adeline Adams,


48 00


Elizabeth A. Farmer,


-


48 00


Anna W. Draper,


93 73


Susan Mellen,


49 06


Emilie Q. Loker, 16 09


Ursula M. Bullard, -


32 00


Total,


$484 79


Unexpended balance, -


15 21


State School Fund.


Amount assigned for book and maps,


$12 50


Paid G. B. Cochran, -


$12 50


State Tax.


Appropriation,


- $1,237 50


Treasurer paid the same,


1,237 50


County Tax.


Appropriation,


$705 00


Collector paid the same,


705 00


Discount on Taxes.


Appropriation,


$525 00


Allowed J. A. Roby, collector, -


766 78


Overdrawn,


$241 78


Collector's fee, -


$139 00


Paid J. A. Roby, collector, -


- -


139 00


-


-


20


New School Building, Cochituate.


Appropriation 1st, borrowed,


$10,000 00


2d, 66


- 5,000 00


Total,


$15,000 00


Paid T. W. Silloway, architect, - - $165 00


C. B. Felch, writing contract, - 10 00


O. W. Harris, as per contract, 10,937 00


66 " extra labor and material, 696 50




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