USA > Massachusetts > Middlesex County > Wayland > Official reports of the town of Wayland 1876-1883 > Part 5
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18
The responsibility is with the town at the April meeting, to alter and revise its past action in reference to the whole matter of collection, and what is incident thereto, if thought desirable.
CHAS. H. BOODEY, SYLVESTER REEVES, Seclectmen.
WILLIAM HAMMOND,
WAYLAND, Feb. 1, 1879.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
Receipts from all sources for the year ending Feb. 1, 1878.
Balance in treasurer's hands Feb. 1, 1878, $4,246 11
Feb. 9. Corporation Tax, 2 02
9. L. H. Sherman, collector, 100 00
14. Edw. Pousland,
302 16
21. Edw. Pierce, use of Hall, Centre,
15 00
27. Dog license money,
258 91
Mar. 2. Edw. Pierce, use of Hall, Centre, 10 00
5. L. H. Sherman, collector, 36 95
5.
6 00
5. 66 66 66
70 20
5. 66
66 66
150 00
5. 66 66
3 00
11. Edw. Pousland, 66
758 17
15. Edw. Pierce, use of Hall, Centre,
3 50
21. C. H. Boodey, use of Hall, Cochituate, 76 00
Apr.
1. T. H. Simpson, auction license, 2 00
6. Edw. Pousland, collector,
382 26
9. L. K. Lowell, hay-scales, Centre,
15 16
15. Edw. Pousland, collector,
84 13
16. Elias Hodges, use of Hall, Cochituate, 95 00
4. State Treas. on account of State poor,
58 60
19. L. H. Sherman, collector,
176 20
20.
Edw. Pousland
66
92 27
May
2.
71 00
1. Plymouth Savings Bank loan,
10,000 00
8. W. Gould Roby,
1,200 00
10. Edw. Pousland, collector,
308 53
15. 66 233 19
190 00
30.
Amount carried forward,
$18,946 36
15
Amount brought forward,
$18,946 36
Apr. 19. L. H. Sherman, collector,
8 98
June 14. Edw. Pousland,
327 15
July 1. 66
68 61
June 19. Treas. of North Brookfield, on account of poor,
145 10
July 12. Edw. Pousland, collector,
70 00
26.
213 05
Aug. 2. Water Loan Bonds ( sale of ),
25,000 00
2. Premium on W. L. Bonds,
250 00
Aug. 21. Edw. Pousland, collector,
629 22
Sept.
3.
209 84
Oct. 1. Town Bonds ( sale of ),
44,500 00
1. Premium on Town Bonds,
310 00
2. Edw. Pousland, collector,
2,183 87
7.
2,664 28
7. 66 66
337 34
7.
66
233 00
15.
336 55
28. 66 60
134 00
28.
66
277 95
Nov. 8.
66 66
433 00
14.
66 66
375 00
21. Money borrowed in anticipation of taxes for 1879, 2,000 00
29. Money borrowed in anticipation of taxes for 1878, 2,000 00
Dec.
10. Corporation tax,
175 87
10. National Bank tax, 927 70
10. State Aid money,
246 00
10. C. H. Boodey, use of Hall, Cochituate,
120 00
16. Money borrowed in anticipation of taxes for 1879 for hose-carriage and hose,
2,000 00
18. Edw. Pousland, collector, 93 41
18.
431 68
27.
850 00
28. C. H. Boodey, use of Hall, Cochituate, 30 00
Jan.
7. Wm. Baldwin, Treas. Donation Fund, 12 00
Amount carried forward,
$106,539 93
16
Amount brought forward,
$106,539 93
Jan.
8. Edw. Pousland, collector,
426 00
23. C. H. Boodey, Auction License,
2 00
23. Edw. Pousland, collector, 33. 66
4 00
23. 66
" interest on 1877 tax,
123 41
24. Edw. Pierce, use of New Hall, Centre,
12 00
24. " sale of grass and apples,
2 00
24. C. H. Boodey, use of Hall, Cochituate,
10 00
23. Edw. Pousland,.collector,
254 90
23.
66
402 47
25. State Treas. on account of State Poor,
21 00
25. " Income of Mass. School Fund,
188 08
Sept. 2. Edw. Pousland, collector,
116 54
2. 66 66
883 46
9.
66
66
76 00
9.
66
66
66
375 00
25.
66
60
625 00
27.
66
66
66
1,399 32
Total Receipts,
$111,994 97
1
PAYMENTS FROM THE TREASURY, WITH UNEXPENDED BALANCES AND APPROPRI- e ATIONS.
L. H. Sherman, collector for 1876,
$250 00
State tax,
620 00
Special appropriation for C. P. School,
· 23 02
$26 98
Hook and ladder house at Cochit- uate,
1,000 00
Collector's fees for 1877,
270 00
Amounts carried forward,
$2,163 02
$26 98
Unexpended.
533 86
17
Amounts brought forward, $2,163 02
$26 98
Abatements for 1876, ) Paid from un-
118 16
" 1877, 5 appropriated 146 48
" 1878, ) moneys,
202 31
For use of Committee on Water
Works,
45 00
Temporary loan
2,000 00
Lock-up at Cochituate,
14 90
Poor,
968 50
264 04
Posts and rails for S. H. lot at
Cochituate,
50 00
Hose-carriage and hose,
657 18
1,342 82
Library,
748 52
242 55
Painting and repairing Sch. Ho. at Cochituate,
148 50
51 50
Prosecuting violation of liquor law,
274 50
125 50
Road from Bent's corner to E. Loker's,
300 00
Gravel for road,
400 00
Road accepted by town, April 1, 1878,
100 00
Notes taken up by Treasurer,
2,448 53
Jesse Moore,
$435 21
F. S. Johnson, two
notes,
913 32
J. C. Cotting, two
notes, 1,100 00
$2,448 53
Fire apparatus at Cochituate,
500 00
Credit bills, paid from unappro- priated moneys,
1,372 13
Interest, 1
3,339 76
703 63
Highways,
1,467 49
182 48
Incidentals,
478 02
180 29
New Town Hall,
10,000 00
Amounts carried forward, $27,943 00
$3,119 79
1 Including interest on water bonds, paid Jan. 24, $625; and interest on tempo- rary loan, $2,000, paid Jan. 24, $15.84, for which the treasurer holds no order.
2 w
18
Amounts brought forward,
$27,943 00
$3,119 79
Water-works,
24,306 46
693 54
. Transfer of town debt,
44,500 00
Reduction of town debt,
3,000 00
Soldiers' and sailors' relief, paid from unappropriated moneys,
164 00
New Town-House lot,
2,800 00
Furnishing new Town-House, and for grading and fencing lot,
2,000 00
Schools (teachers, care of rooms, and fuel),
4,087 55
1,740 01
Expenses of Water Committee
before Legislature ; paid from un- appropriated moneys,
200 00
Unappropriated for various purposes,
1,390 62
1,635 51
State aid ; paid from unappropriated moneys,
270 00
Tax title ; paid from unappropriated money's,
31 09
Collector's fees for 1878,
110 00
Sinking fund (Water-Works),
500 00
Total,
$110,692 72
$7,798 85
TABLE OF UNEXPENDED APPROPRIATIONS AND BALANCES.
Sinking fund (Water Works),
$500 00
Collectors' fees for 1878,
110 00
Special appropriation for C. P. School,
26 98
Poor,
264 04
Library,
242 55
Painting and repairing Sch. Ho., Cochituate,
51 50
Prosecution for violation of liquor law,
125 50
Schools,
1,740 01
Interest,
703 63
Amount carried forward,
$3,764 21
19
Amount brought forward,
$3,764 21
Highways,
182 48
Incidental,
180 29
Water Loan Bonds,
693 54
Unappropriated,
1,635 51.
Hose carriage and hose,
1,342 82
Total,
$7,798 85
Trial Balances of the Finances of the Town, for the year ending Feb. 1, 1879.
A.
Cash on hand Feb. 1, 1878,
$4,246 11
Received from all sources,
107,748 86
County tax reserved by collector,
447.86
Amount due from collector, 1877,
4.412 12
1876,
542 35
66
66
1878,
6,496 60
$123,893 90
Amount paid by treasurer,
$110,692 72
County tax paid by collector,
447 86
Cash on hand Feb. 1, 1879,
1,302 25
due from collector, 1876,
542 35
66 66 1877,
4,412 12
66
66 1878,
6,496 60
$123,893 90
B.
Cash on hand Feb. 1, 1878, $4,246 11
received from all sources, including county tax,
108,196 72
$112,442 83
Amount paid by treasurer and collector,
$111,140 58
Cash on hand Feb. 1, 1879,
1,302 25
$112,442 83
20
C.
Unexpended appropriations and balances, $7,798 85
.
Cash on hand Feb. 1, 1879, $1,302 25
Due from collector for 1878, 6,496 60
$7,798 85
Respectfully presented,
HORACE HEARD,
Treasurer.
WAYLAND, Feb. 1, 1879.
OUTSTANDING CLAIMS AGAINST THE
TOWN.
Interest per annum.
April 27, 1863. Treas. Donation Fund,
Nov. 3, 1863. Library Fund,
Jan. 1, 1875. Allen Fund,
$411 66 - 6 per ct. 500 00 -6 “ 1,000 00 -6 “
April 21, 1874. Payable to the order of C. H. Campbell,
Payable to the order of C. H. Campbell,
2,200 00 -7 "
Interest per annum.
Nov. 8, 1875. John Pickering & Moseley, Boston.
10,100 00 - 6 per ct.
Dec. 1, 1875.
66
7,528 00 -6 16
May 1, 1878. Plymouth Savings Bank,
10,000 00 -5
May 8, 1878. W. Gould Roby, temporary loan, 1,200 001-6 66
Interest semi-annually.
Aug. 1, 1878. Water bonds issued,
25,000 00 -5 per ct.
Oct. 1. 1878. Town
44,500 00 -5 “
Nov. 21, 1878. Horace Heard, temporary loan,
Dec. 16, 1878.
2,000 001-4} 2,000 001-43
$109,439 66
HORACE HEARD,
Treasurer.
WAYLAND, Feb. 1, 1879.
1 Borrowed in anticipation of taxes for 1879.
Interest semi-annually. 3,000 00 -7 per ct.
REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
RECEIPTS.
Unexpended balance Feb. 1, 1878, $182 54
Appropriation, .
550 00
Borrowed under vote of the town, 500 00
Total, $1,232 54
EXPENDITURES.
Sundry bills due Feb. 1, 1878,
$574 98
Current expenses of the year ending
Jan 31, 1879, 393 52
Total drawn from treasury to date, $968 50
Unexpended balance, 264 04
(For items of the above, see Auditor's report.)
The following items of expenditure will be due and payable on or before April 1, 1879 : -
Warden's salary for 1878-9,
$350 00
Due town of Natick,
8 00
L. Jones,
3 50
On account of C. J. Adams, at House of Correction, 11 43
J. C. Butterfield, for feeding tramps, 36 90
J. C. Butterfield, for lamp and oil at lock-up,
1 24
C. Fairbank, for feeding tramps,
10 40
Total,
$421 47
22
ITEMS REFUNDED TO THE TREASURY.
Aid to alien paupers (State and other towns),
$203 70
Due from the State,
62 20
from J. C. Butterfield, Bill overdrawn,
27 50
13 50
264.04
Total,
206.9
$306 90
57094
229.96
421.47
$20.86
199.57
SUMMARY STATEMENT.
Cash paid for current year's ex-
penses to date,
$393 52
due April 1, 1879, 421 47
Total expense for all paupers from Feb. 1, 1878, to April 1, 1879,
$814 99
Deduct cash refunded to treasury, $306 90
paid for feeding tramps, 89 70
balance of receipts over
expenses at Alms-
house, 72 55
Total, $469 15
Cost in money of supporting paupers belonging to Wayland, from Feb. 1, 1878, to April 1, 1879, $345 84
421.47
23
ALMSHOUSE.
RECEIPTS.
Cash balance Feb. 1, 1878, $17 07
receipts from farm produce, etc., 427 00
" highway work, 100 00
Total,
$544 98
EXPENDITURES.
Cash paid for all expenses,
472 43
Balance of receipts over expenses, $72 55
INMATES.
Michael Doyle, age 86 years. -
Chas. Travis, age 60 years.
Elizabeth Garfield, age 68
Chas. Goodnow, age 59 years. Ada L. Moore, age 17 years.
years.
TRAMPS.
Furnished with lodging at Almshouse, 391
" Cochituate, 459
- -
Total, 850
Supplied with meals at Almshouse, 424
66 " " Cochituate, 473
Total, 897
J. C. Butterfield, Dr. to Town of Wayland : -
For four shoats, purchased from W. Hapgood, Warden, $22 50 lot of grass, bought at auction (purchase money drawn from Treasury), 5 00
Total, $27 50
VALUE OF PROPERTY.
Personal (appraised value, Feb. 1, 1879), $909 00 Real
2,500 00
24
The buildings are not in a good state of repair; and, were the general finances of the town in a condition to warrant the outlay, we should recommend the erection of a barn and out- houses the coming year, at a cost of about $1,500. As it is, we deem it the more prudent management to postpone such expen- ditures until the severe pressure of next year's taxation shall have passed.
In anticipation of legislative relief from the annoyance and expense of tramps, and of a probable reduction in the Warden's salary, we recommend an appropriation of three hundred dollars for the support of the poor for the ensuing year.
THEO. SHERMAN, Overseers JOHN C. BUTTERFIELD, of the CHAS. FAIRBANKS, Poor.
WAYLAND, Feb. 1, 1879.
ASSESSORS' REPORT.
Appropriations assessed for 1878 : -
For schools, including fuel and janitors' services, $4,000 00
reduction of town debt, 3,000 00
interest on town debt, 3,000 00
new Town-house lot,
2,800 00
highways and bridges,
1,500 00
hook and ladder house in Cochituate,
1,000 00
support of poor,
550 00
fire-apparatus in Cochituate,
500 00
sinking fund for " water debt,"
500 00
Town Library,
390 00
repair of highway in Cochituate,
300 00
painting and repairing school-house in Cochitu- ate, 200 00
prosecutions of violations of the license law,
200 00
Collector's fee,
110 00
making new road in Cochituate,
100 00
school-house tie-fence in Cochituate,
50 00
out-building Centre Primary School,
50 00
Total town appropriations,
$18,250 00
State tax,
620 00
County tax,
447 86
Total to be assessed,
$19,317 86
Overlayings, Additional assessments,
523 84
76 82
Total assessed,
$19,918 52
26
The total valuation of estates on the first day of May, 1878, was one million two hundred and seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-six dollars, recorded as follows : -
(1.)
Valuation of real estate,
$914,744 00
" personal estate,
293,252 00
Total valuation of estates,
$1,207,996 00
(2.)
Valuation of resident real estate,
$866,867 00
" non-resident real estate,
47,877 00
" resident personal,
292,952 00
66 " non-resident personal,
300 00
Total valuation of estates,
$1,207,996 00
(3.)
Valuation of real and personal estates : -
Resident, real and personal,
$1,159,819 00
Non-resident, real and personal,
48,177 00
- Total valuation of estates,
$1,207,996 00
Amounts assessed : -
State tax,
$620 00
County tax,
447 86
Town appropriations,
18,250 00
Amount ordered to be assessed,
$19,317 86
Overlayings,
523 84
Additional assessments,
76 82
Total assessed,
$19,918 52
The amount assessed on the above valuation, at the rate of $15.50 per $1,000, gives recorded as follows : -
27
(A.)
Tax on real estate,
$14,170 25
" personal estate,
4,539 45
Total tax on estates,
$18,709 70
(B.)
Tax on resident real estate,
$13,430 84
" non-resident real estate,
739 41
" resident personal estate,
4,534 80
" non-resident personal estate,
4 65
Total tax on estates,
$18,709 70
(C.)
Tax on real and personal estates resident,
$17,965 64
60
non-resident, 744 06
Total tax on estates,
$18,709 70
Tax on 566 polls, at $2 each,
1,132 00
Additional assessments,
76 82
Total tax,
$19,918 52
Increase in real estate valuation,
11,115 00
personal estate valuation,
52,608 00
Total increase as per record,
$63,723 00
Number of poll-tax payers,
566
66 who pay upon estates and polls, 267
66 who pay only a poll-tax, 299
Total, 566
The amount of abatements granted by the assessors, and allowed by the town during the year, for the taxes of 1876, '77, and '78, is $473.77.
The amount of property exempted under the provisions of the General Statutes, Chap. 11, Sect. 5, Article 10, is $3,275. .
28
Number of houses,
330
horses,
317
COWS,
675
oxen,
51
swine,
365
dogs,
133
acres taxed,
9,2651
In complying with the request of several tax-payers interested in the matter, for the assessors to state in their report, as gathered from their records, the comparative amounts of tax paid by parties in the aggregate, residing upon either side of a line (said line corresponding with the classification of regis- tered voters as made by the Selectmen) running from "Stone's bridge," so called, near the residence of James Adams ; thence southerly of the premises of Ephraim Farewell ; thence south- erly of the farm owned by Wm. R. Dudley, formerly known as the " Smith place ; " thence northerly of Geo. A. Rice's farm, we find as follows : -
Total assessed for 1878,
$19,919 52
Assessed to non-residents,
744 06
Balance assessed to residents,
$19,174 46
11,644 15
Assessed north of said line, 66 south
7,530 31
Difference in assessments, $4,113 84
The result given is correct as to persons, but approximate only as to estates, the assumed line separating different lots of land in such a manner that actual admeasurement and division of valuation only would give an absolutely correct result.
It is supposed that a straight line from " Stone's bridge" to Geo. A. Rice's would throw the tax of the residents upon the road from Ephraim Farewell's to Wm. H. Clark's, inclusive, upon the south side of the line, leaving the two amounts thus : -
Assessed north of straight line,
$11,282 92
south
7,891 54
Difference in assessment,
$3,391 38
29
We have also been requested to state in this connection the number of legal voters (derived from the Selectmen's records) upon either side of the line.
An examination of the list of "Registered voters," as com- pleted by the Selectmen, for the November election, 1878, shows as follows : -
Number of registered voters November 5, 1878,
431
Registered south of line, 278
north 153
Difference, 125
A comparison of all the items of taxation, and what is made incident thereto by statutes defining the duties of assessors, could be carried still further if necessary or desirable.
Respectfully submitted,
SYLVESTER REEVES, - Assessors LAFAYETTE DUDLEY, of
EDWARD CARTER, Wayland.
WAYLAND, Feb. 1, 1879.
COLLECTOR'S REPORT.
1877-8.
Balance due and unpaid first Monday in Feb., 1878, $4,412 12 Feb. 14, 1878, paid Treasurer, 302 16
Mar. 11, «
758 17
Apl. 6,
382 26
84 13
" 20,
190 00
" 30,
92 27
May 2,
71 00
" 10,
308 53
" 15,
233 19
June 13,
327 10
July 1,
68 61
" 13,
70 00
" 26,
213 05
Aug. 21,
209 84
Sept. 9,
66
76 00
“ 23, " 66
116 54
Oct. 28,
278 00
Dec. 18, "
93 41
Jan. 22, 1879,
533 86
" 23, "
4 00
Total
$4,412 12
Amount of interest collected on taxes due from Feb. 1, 1878, to settlement, Jan. 23, 1879, and paid to Treasurer,
Amount of interest due from Collector,
$123 41
$163 04
EDWARD POUSLAND, Collector.
Note. - The interest accruing on the above over-due taxes has been revised since the settlement, Jan. 23, by a third party, whose decision both the Collector and Auditor agreed should be final. While the Collector's accounts lack that completeness in some respects which accuracy demands, the result attained by the revision was satisfactory. AUDITOR.
15,
31
1878-9.
The Assessors' warrant to the Collector, for 1878-9, contains the following items assessed, and to be collected : -
State Tax,
$620 00
County "
447 86
Town "
18,250 00
Overlayings,
523 84
Additional Assessments,
76 82
Total,
$19,918 52
By vote of the town, after deducting the county tax, one- half of the remainder is to be paid to the Treasurer, on or before the first Monday in October, and the balance on or before the last Monday in December.
PAYMENTS.
Paid County Treasurer,
$447 86
Amount due Town Treasurer,
$19,470 66
66 first Monday in October,
$9,735 33
Paid to Town Treasurer as follows : -
Sept. 3,
$629 22
9,
375 00
66 23.
883 46
25,
625 00
" 27,
1,399 32
Oct. 2,
2,183 87
“6 7,
3,234 59
$9,330 46
Amount due and unpaid on first payment,
$404 87
Total amount due,
$10,140 20
32
Other payments to the Treasurer as follows : -
Oct. 15,
$336 55
28, 134 00
Nov. 8,
433 00
" 14, 375 00
Dec. 18,
431 68
" 26, 850 00
$2,560 23
Total amount on second payment,
Due and unpaid on second payment,
7,579 97
Payments to Treasurer, continued, Jan. 8,
$426 00
" 22, 254 90
" 24,
402 47
1,083 37
Total amount paid during the financial year, 12,974 06
Amount due at close of financial year,
$6,496 60
By vote of the town, interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum must be charged on all taxes not paid on or before the first Monday in October.
Amount of interest collected under the above vote to date, $62.38.
Respectfully presented,
EDWARD POUSLAND,
Collector.
WAYLAND, Feb. 1, 1879.
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT.
REGISTRATION.
Births,
54
Males,
27
Females,
27
By native parentage,
22
By foreign
18
In Cochituate village,
42
In othes parts of the town,
12
Marriages,
26
Of native birth,
49
Of foreign "
3
Deaths,
40
Males,
20
Females,
20
Of native birth,
.35
Of foreign "
2
Of unknown "
3
Under five years,
15
Over seventy "
8
Oldest person, 90 years.
DISEASES.
Consumption and other lung diseases,
13
Fever,
2
Infantile,
6
Dropsy,
3
Old age,
2
Dogs licensed, 138
Clerk's fee for same,
$27 60
Amount of license-money paid to County Treasurer,
$284 40
HENRY WIGHT,
Town Clerk.
WAYLAND, Feb. 1, 1879. 3 w.
LIBRARY TREASURER'S REPORT.
RECEIPTS.
Sale of catalogues,
$10 15
" books,
1 96
Bill overpaid,
1 00
Interest on " Draper Fund,"
30 00
Fines, two years, to Feb. 1, 1879,
36 53
Total, $79 64
EXPENDITURES.
Cash deficit of last year, $9 47
Printing labels, $6.00 ; stationery, postage, oil, $10.37 ;
broom and brush, $1.30, 17 67
Binding and repairing (301 vols.), $49.39 ; expressing, $6.80 ; books, $16.87, 77 21
Locks for Cochituate boxes, .90 ; box with irons and
lock, $1.15, 2 05
$102 25
Balance due the Treasurer, Feb. 1,1879, $22 61
The unusually large expenditure for binding and repairing (and consquently for expressing) was deemed necessary to put the books in proper condition for the new rooms.
JAS. S. DRAPER, Treasurer.
Approved.
T. A. MERRILL, ED. A. PEIRCE, Library Committee. MARY E. REEVES,
ALLEN FUND." TREASURER'S REPORT.
NOTE. - The beneficiaries were settled in joint session and ac- tion with the Trustees of the "Donation Fund," their object being the same, viz., the relief of needy inhabitants of Way- land who have not become chargeable to the town.
Interest received on $1,000, invested in notes of the town, $60 00
Disbursed to three persons (in sums of $22.00, $20.00,
and $18.00), $60 00
An examination of the record of the trustees of the " Allen Fund, " for the year 1877-8, shows that the sum of $54.00 was disbursed to the poor, having a balance of $6.00 in the hands of their Treasurer, J. N. Cochrane. This balance has been re- peatedly called for by members of the present Board without success.
J. S. DRAPER,
Treasurer.
WAYLAND, Feb. 1, 1879.
" DONATION FUND." TREASURER'S REPORT.
Investment of the Funds.
Note of the town of Wayland, $411 66 at 6 per cent.
" David Heard, with sureties,
294 81
" Alpheus D. Loker, with sureties,
330 00
66
150 00 ..
6 William Baldwin,
50 00 66 66
Total, $1,236 47
Receipts the past year.
Balance in the Treasury Jan. 1, 1878, $10 01
Interest on notes, 79 49
Total,
$89 50
Disbursements.
Paid by vote of the Trustees, as follows :-
To three persons $12.00 each,
$36 00
two 15.00 30 00
one
22.00 22 00
Total,
Unexpended balance,
$88 00
1 50
WM. BALDWIN, Treasurer.
WAYLAND, Feb. 1, 1879. .
1
CEMETERIES.
NORTH AND CENTRAL CEMETERIES.
No improvements have been attempted other than keeping fences in repair.
Received for one lot sold,
$5 00
Expended in repair of fences, 2 00
Balance
$3 00.
J. A. DRAPER, Superintendent.
LAKE VIEW CEMETERY.
Number of lots sold, 35. Aggregate price of lots sold, Cash received for lots sold,
$165 00
30 00
Due,
$135 00
EXPENDITURES.
E. J. Carter, labor on cemetery,
$72 00
C. Sawyer
11 80
Joseph Bacon
4 00
H. G. Hammond “
15 00
$102 80
Balance (when collected), $52 20
J. C. BUTTERFIELD,
Superintendent.
REPORT OF FIRE ENGINEERS.
Under provisions of law (Gen. Statutes, Chap. 24, Sect. 24) the undersigned were appointed in April last, and duly organ- ized as a Board of Fire Engineers for the current year ; and our doings are reported as follows : -
The engine-house, with the hook and ladder truck ordered by the town, were placed in our charge as soon as completed and purchased.
By vote of the town, passed November 6, 1878, the engineers were authorized to expend $2,000 in the purchase of a hose- carriage and hose. In fulfilment of that trust we have pur- chased the same, with other articles as enumerated below, at an entire expenditure of $1,696.63,1 leaving an unexpended bal- ance of $303.37.
- ARTICLES PURCHASED.
Leather hose [519 ft.] $599 51
| Stove [for cooking], 16 00
Badges and play-pipe, 57 67
Coal and wood, 5 26
Cotton hose [500 ft.], 450 00
Printing, 15 00
Spanner belts [6], 7 50
Repairs,
1 00
Hose-spanners [6], 3 00
Sundries,
5 86
Ladder belts [6], 7 50
Labor,
5 00
Hose-brushes [2], 1 50
Hose-carriage, .
500 00
Washers for hydrants, 9 83
Fire-hook, $12 00
$1,696 63
The entire property pertaining to the department is enumer- ated and described as follows :-
Land, ¿ of an acre.
Axes [4].
Engine-house [27 × 40 ft.]
Lanterns [6].
Hook and ladder truck.
Small hooks [4].
Ladders [5].
Play-pipes [3].
Rubber buckets [24].
Nozzles [4].
Chain hooks with poles [2].
Firemen's badges [46].
1 This sum has not all been drawn from the treasury. - Auditor.
39
Hydrant-wrench. Reflecting-lantern.
Carriage-wrenches [2].
Hose-carriage.
Stove [cooking].
Leather hose [519 ft.]
Carriage jack.
Cotton hose [500 ft.]
Hose-spanners [6].
Dippers [50].
Ladder-straps [6].
Chairs [3].
Spanner-belts [6].
Roof-ladder hooks [2].
Lamps with brackets [6].
The Fire Department consists of a Hook and Ladder Com- pany with twenty-five members, organized as follows : -
A. C. Sturtevant, Foreman, F. J. Bigwood, Clerk,
W. G. Webster, 1st Assistant, C. H. Trumble, Treasurer,
H. B. Phalen, 2d B. S. Hemenway, Steward.
Hose Company, with fifteen members, organized as follows :
W. C. Neal, Foreman,
G. W. Whitney, 1st Assistant,
E. A. Brigham, Clerk, D. W. Mitchel, Treasurer,
A. J. Ricker, 2d F. Fairbank, Steward.
The department has been called to actual service in the vil- lage of Cochituate on six different occasions since its organiza- tion, at three of which ample opportunity was afforded to test its efficiency. At each of these, it is confidently believed, a large amount of endangered property was saved by the skill and exertions of the department ; and in one case the spread of a serious conflagration prevented.
Twice the firemen have been called to service in other towns.
We respectfully recommend an appropriation of $500, to pay for services of firemen and the expenses of the department for the year ensuing.
CHAS. W. DASCOMB, Chief RALPH BENT, Clerk, EDW'D P. BUTLER, W. M. FULLICK, DAN'L W. RICKER,
Fire Engineers for
Town of Wayland.
WAYLAND, Feb. 1, 1879.
Hydrants [29]. Pump [at Rice's dam]. Shovels [2].
Keys [44].
LIBRARY COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
The event which has marked the year as an important one in the history of the Library, has been its removal to the new rooms in the building just completed. The humble apartments in which it had its home during the first 29 years of its exist- ence, and which served its purpose so well during the years of its infancy, have been vacated, and the ample, attractive, and commodious apartments in the new building are now occupied. We lay our tribute of reverence upon the grave of the OLD, loving it for its memories, and honoring it for its usefulness, while with fresh anticipations we turn to the NEW. From its beginning, this Library has had a quiet but healthy increase until it had outgrown its early environments, and imperatively demanded surroundings more appropriate to its expanding pro- portions and its beneficent uses. In its new home. with the busts of eminent men, representatives of Science, and History, and Morals ; and with the faces of those, who, years since, took so deep an interest in its early life, looking down serenely upon well-filled alcoves, interested patrons, and gratified and sur- prised visitors, our Library is now really an ornament as well as an indispensable blessing to the people of this town. The interest prevailing among the people, who, to so large an extent, avail themselves of its important and valuable advantages, is an indication at once gratifying to all lovers of books, and hopeful in regard to the intelligence and worth of the future citizens.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.