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Apply this principle theoretically in a few cases. The direct appropriation for schools last year was $4,000, and a large additional sum was used for various expenditures. Suppose the School Committee close the account for repairs on buildings for one year ; resolve on no changes in text-books; have no
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janitor-service except in the winter terms ; reduce the terms to thirty weeks per annum ; reduce the pay of teachers of Gram- mar Schools two dollars per week, and all others one dollar per week ; 1 and reduce their own salaries from fifty to forty dollars each. Under such an arrangement $3,000 would cover the en- tire cost, including fuel.
Suppose that our highway surveyors should be restricted to fifteen cents per hour for hand and twelve cents for horse labor (good wages for these times), would not $1,200 secure nearly as much service as $1,600, at twenty and fifteen cents per hour allowed (except in two cases) last year ?? Suppose, further, that the road officers should all of them use the same care in apportioning men and teams for carting gravel, and in the use of simple contrivances for scraping when hand-work would be more expensive, and then would not $1,000 place our roads in as good repair as under the present management ?
And, it may be asked, is there any department of our muni- cipal affairs (except the Treasurer's) that could not, for one year at least, be safely conducted on a basis of reduced expen- diture ?
APPROPRIATIONS RECOMMENDED.
Guided by these principles, and after a careful survey of the . actual necessities of the town, the following recommendations are submitted as worthy of attention : -
APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE YEAR 1879-80.
For schools,3
$3,000 00
highways and bridges, 1,000 00
Amount carried forward,
$4,000 00
1 In 1869-70 the wages of Wayland teachers averaged $7.50 per week. The year following $8.50 was the average. And it is worthy of notice that, at that time, all grades of our schools were taught by females, and, further, that in the year 1870-71 business of all kinds was at "high tide," to be succeeded by the financial crash of 1872, whose depreciating results are still heavy upon us. The average wages of female teachers, already paid, for the current year is $9 per week; while two male teachers are employed for the higher grades.
2 The ratio would be 44.4 to 45.7.
3 With one-half of the dog-license money .
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Amount brought forward,
$4,000 00
For support of poor,1
300 00
Library,?
350 00
collection of taxes,
250 00
further expenses on new hall and appurtenances,
750 00
payment of interest,3
7,668 00
reduction of debt,4
5,625 00
water sinking fund,
100 00
incidentals,
500 00
State tax (not yet determined),
county tax
Total to be assessed,
The credit bills of the current year to be paid from the unex- pended balance of unappropriated moneys ; no drafts on unap- propriated moneys to be made during the coming year other than those included above, except for such objects as will be refunded to the treasury - as State aid, etc. - and for abate- ment of taxes. Assuming the sources for unappropriated moneys to be the same as last year, and excluding premiums on bonds, State aid, abatements, etc., and moneys on poor account, there will be for the payment of interest recommended above, about $2,300.00.
COLLECTION OF TAXES.
By the Collector's report it appears that on the last Monday of December, when, by order of the town, all the taxes of the current year were to be paid into the treasury, there remained uncollected the sum of $7,579.97, against the sum of $6,677.01 reported last year. This statement is enough to arouse attention to the fact that some more effectual method is
1 All moneys refunded to the Treasury for support of alien paupers, with $13.50 overdrawn, and $27.50 due from J. C. Butterfield, to be transferred from unap- propriated money to the poor account.
2 With one-half of dog-license money.
s To cover one entire year's interest, from October 1, 1879, on bonded debts and notes running for several years, with other interest on the same due before that date, and on all notes payable the coming year ($6,000 to be assessed, and $1,668 to be drawn from unappropriated moneys).
4 Comprising $2,000 borrowed for fire apparatus; $2,000 for furnishing, grading etc., at new Town Hall; $1,200 for payment of gravel land, etc. ; $425 for land for engine-house.
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peremptorily demanded to secure the prompt payment of taxes. The business of the town cannot be properly carried on unless the treasury is supplied with the means to meet all proper orders for payment. Neither the discount formerly allowed on taxes paid, nor interest charged recently on sums remaining un- paid, have proved successful ; and the indications are that our course is from bad to worse.
In view of this state of things, the' following suggestions are offered : -
First. Tax-payers, on going to the polls to vote appropria- tions and fix the times of their payment (as by votes of last year), should fully realize what such action implies. It is not that one-half of the tax-payers shall pay the whole amount as- sessed to them " on or before the first Monday in October ;" but that each and every one on whom an assessment has been levied shall pay one-half of such assessment at that time.
Second. With the fact before us that no method has yet been pursued to successfully prevent delinquencies, our atten- tion may be directed to two other modes which lie within our reach, viz., 1st, Require the payments promptly into the treasury by the Collector, or a peremptory forfeiture of his fees for collection. 2d, Instruct the Collector to enforce legal measures for seizure and sale upon all delinquents or their prop erty.
Either of these would probably secure the desired result ; the practical operation of the first being to greatly increase the fees of the Collector, who might borrow money on his own credit to meet the required payments, and take his chance for reimbursements by pushing the collections according to his judgment. The second mode is simply compulsory on the in- dividual taxpayers ; and it is not to be supposed that any prudent man would allow a legal course to be entered upon, and thus incur extra costs ; much less to permit his property to be sold as the penalty for his delinquency.
DEPARTMENTAL EXPENDITURES.
Deeming the aggregate statements of receipts, expenditures, and cash balance for the year, and the table of unexpended balances as made by the Treasurer, together with the several
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financial statements submitted in the reports of the other officers and agents of the town, sufficient for all practical pur- poses, the detailed statements of expenditures has not only been condensed in some of its particulars, but an attempt has been made to classify the items into their proper departments, in order to present a clearer view than is usually obtained from official reports of the actual cost of maintianing them.
Completeness in this attempt is not claimed ; the imperfection and mixed character of some of the bills, and a lack of time to investigate, are the excuses for defects. It will be observed, also, that charges of special and extraordinary items are in- cluded in some departments that will not probably be repeated for long periods of time ; and that some items bear dates show- ing an interblending of the previous year with the present.
DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOLS.
[NOTE. - No arbitrary division of the money is appropriated to each school for tuition, and fuel is supplied as needed. An examination of the bills for teaching shows the price paid in the Primary Schools to be $9.00 per week, except in the Thomas School, which is $8.50. The teacher in the South Intermediate receives $9.50,; and in the two Grammar Schools $20.00 per week is paid. ]
Expenditures drawn from the Regular Resources.
Tuition in all the schools, $3,738 00
Fuel (except Cochituate schools, not drawn),
98 03
Janitor's services (including $258.75 at Cochituate
school, from June, 1877), 325 82
Cleaning school-rooms, 14 20
Cleaning privy at Cochituate,
2 00
. Cleaning and repairing clock in North School-room,
2 25
Total,
$4,180 -30
Drawn from Incidental Money.
William M. Fullick, labor and material, $11 64
A. Fischer, pump, $15.50 ; cleaning out well, $3.00, 18 50
Total,
$30 14
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Drawn from Unappropriated Money.
Sundry bills for washing school-rooms, $8 25
J. L. Hammat, bell and erasers, 2 33
Cook & Sons, cards, $3 ; bells, $3,
6 00
E. P. Butler, broom and brush, 75 cents ; chalk and
crayons, $3.25 ; paper, shovel, pail, $2.45; matches, 55 cents ; school-books, $33.90,
40 90
Wm. Ware & Co., school-books, 38 61
S. A. Holton, 14 05
W. T. Coggeshall, two cyclopædias,
12 00
Clark, Maynard, & Co., curtains and fixtures,
4 22
J. M. Barry, coat-hooks,
3 00
Chas. Bridges, work done at Centre Primary,
1 25
J. H. Wight, material and labor,
23 48
Wm. Videon, labor done on school-houses, 5 50
David Flint, work and material,
24 00
O. W. Harris, « 66
95 02
Meacham & Esty, examination and report on condi- tion of school-house in Cochituate,
30 00
E. A. Peirce, fares of the above examiners, $1; glass, 38 cents, 1 38
E. A. Peirce, one day and travelling expenses, 3 00
Knapp & Weeks, water-fixtures and plumbing, 22 54
Wm. Jessop, cleaning out well and privy, 4 50
Total, $340 03
Drawn under Credit Bills.
(See Credit Bills : Class, Schools, and School-houses), $181 12
(See Credit Bills : Class,Salaries, and Office Services), 150 00
Total, $331 12
Drawn from Special Appropriations.
C. A. Roberts, painting school-house in Cochituate, $148 50
J. R. Connor, repairs on 6 75'
G. W. Dixon, work and materials on out-house at Centre Primary School-house, 23 02
G. W. Dixon, work and materials on out-house at North and Rutter Schools, 12 821
1 Orders issued, but not drawn.
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Total expenditures for department of schools, $5,072 68
Summary Statement of some items.
Expenditures for washing and cleaning, $32 45
school-room fixtures, 63 77
school- books, 205 55
general repairs, including water-
fixtures and work on Lokerville school-house, 423 04
DEPARTMENT OF THE POOR.
Drawn from Regular Resources.
William Hapgood, services as Warden (1877-8), $350 00
Taunton Hospital, on account of J. A. Wing (1877-8), 60 85
F. Buttrick, lumber (1877), 35 48
State Reform School, on account of E. W. Schleicher (1877-8), 30 00
J. C. Butterfield, feeding tramps, $18.50; rubber blanket, $3.65, 22 15
T. J. Damon, pasturing cattle (1876), 16 00
C. H. Boodey, professional services (medical), 13 50
Support of E. G. Stone (1877-8), 43 00
C. Doyle (1877-8), 4 00
Total for expenses incurred in 1877-8, $574 98
Expenditures for 1878-9.
State Reform School, on account of E. W. Schleicher, $26 00
Dr. C. H. Boodey, professional services, 32 75
T. S. Sherman, on account of S. Stanley and C. H. Smith, 10 92
E. P. Butler, goods delivered to four persons (no items),
40 38
E. P. Butler, goods delivered to seven persons (no items), 158 60
Amount carried forward,
$843 63
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Amount brought forward, $843 63
T. F. Hammond, three lots of grass (two for the Almshouse establishment), 11 00
C. B. Butterfield, goods delivered to six persons (no items), 25 45
A. Bryant, merchandise to W. Lupin (no items), 6 56
J. Mathews, meat and groceries to J. Hixon (no items), 5 79
A. B. Wentworth, care of Mary Williams, 16 00
J. C. Butterfield, on account of T. Bonnin, $13.82 ; burial of Mrs. Fellows' child, $5, 18 82
J. C. Butterfield, fare of pauper to State of Maine, $6 ; conveying pauper to hospital, $3; rent on account of J. Heren, $10, 19 00
J. C. Butterfield, goods for Mrs. Tambo, $3.50 ; her fare to Lynn, $2, 5 50
Butterfield & Hammond, moving Mrs. Tambo's goods to Lynn, 14 00
J. R. Connor, stove for Almshouse, 2 75
$968 50
Drawn under Credit Bills.
Services of Overseers, $60 00
Travelling expenses of Overseers, $10; stationery and postage, 84 cents, 10 84
Total drawn from treasury for Poor Depart- ment, $1,039 34
[NOTE. - The above items include payments made for support of alien paupers; all such payments are or will be refunded to the treasury and form a part of the un- appropriated moneys. They should be transferred annually to the poor account.]
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
Drawn from Regular Resources, $1,467 49
Construction of new road in Cochituate (special appropriation), 100 00
Repairing road from Bent's corner to E. Loker's (special appropriation), 300 00
Amount carried forward,
$1,867 49
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Amount brought forward, $1,867 49
Drawn from Unappropriated Money.
Alex. Spear, labor on road near Stone's bridge, 11 26
S. D. Bryden, repairing bridge over Mill brook, 10 00
T. Burke, gravel and covering stone, 20 60
Drawn from Incidental Moneys.
Mrs. J. Bowles, gravel, $1.90; E. French, gravel, $3.80, 5 70
Drawn under Credit Bills.
(See Credit Bills : Class, Highways), 271 30
Total drawn from treasury for Highways and Bridges, $2,186 35
LIBRARY.
Drawn from Regular Resources.
Salary of librarian and assistant (1877-8), $150 00
Express and delivery of books at Cochituate, 100 00
C. A. Parker, expressing from Boston, 2 15
Estes & Lauriat, books for library,
462 89
Clock for library,
5 44
Fuel,
28 04
Paid by Lib. Treas. (for items, see Lib. Treas. Rep.), 102 25
Total, $850 77
LICENSE LAW.
Drawn from Special Appropriations.
Orin Loker, team hire (two bills), $56 00
C. A. Peterson, services as prosecuting agent, 38 50
W. N. Mason, legal counsel and services (two bills), 160 00
G. C. Travis, services, 10 00
C. B. Felch, professional services, 10 00
Total,
$274 50
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PAYMENT OF INTEREST AND TOWN'S DEBT.
Interest paid from regular appropriation, $3,339 76
Interest paid under credit bills (See Credit Bills), 86 32
Total,
$3,426 08
Debts cancelled (from Special Appropriation).
Note to F. S. Johnson,
$163 32
66 750 00
" to J. C. Cutting, 100 00
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1,000 00
" to Jesse Moore,
435 21
Total,
$2,448 53
NEW TOWN HALL.
Drawn from special appropriations, on account of building-lot, $2,800 00
Drawn from money borrowed, on account of fur- nishing the building, and of grading and fencing (including posts and steps),
2,000 00
Drawn from money borrowed, on construction account, 9,700 00
Drawn from money borrowed, for architects' ser- vices, 300 00
Drawn from unappropriated money, for insurance of building, 165 00
Total,
$14,965 00
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COCHITUATE WATER WORKS.
PRELIMINARY EXPENSES.
Drawn from balance of Special Appropriation.
J. M. Bent, expenses (in part) before the Legis- lature, $45 00
Drawn from Unappropriated Money.
J. M. Bent, expenses (balance) before the Legis- lature, $140 00
Shedd & Sawyer, services as engineers' and at the State House, 60 00
L. Dudley, searching records at East Cambridge, $2; expenses $2, 4 00
T. Groom & Co., water bonds, 40 00
Drawn from Special Appropriation.
J. M. Bent, on construction account, $24,250 00
Ezra Morse, expenses of law case (Bryant vs. Wood & Co.), 56 46
Total, $24,595 46
FIRE DEPARTMENT, COCHITUATE.
Building for fire-apparatus (Special Appropria-
tion), $1,000 00
Drawn from Money borrowed by Vote of Town.
Five hundred and nineteen feet of leather hose, $599 51 Firemen's badges, $36.67 ; engineers' badges, $6 ; play-pipe, $15, 57 67
Hose carriage purchased, but not paid for from treasury (See Engineer's Report), 500 00
Cotton hose and other articles purchased (See Engineer's Report), 539 45
Total,
$1,696 63
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Drawn from Special Appropriation.
Truck, with hooks, ladders, buckets, etc., com- plete,
$500 00
Drawn from Unappropriated Money. E. P. Butler, oil, sponges, $2.50 ; wrench, pails, shovels, $5.75; lamps, $11.75 ; jack, rope, $7.40; duster, $4.50; brackets, $7; chairs, hooks, $8.25 ; keys, $6.25; groceries, $5.78 ; other sundries, $5.65, $64 83
Chas. Fairbank, grading hook and ladder house lot, 110 50
O. W. Harris, stone for basement of hook and lad- der house, 20 00
Knapp & Weeks, water-fixtures and plumbing, 8 70
Total, $203 53
Total expenditures for Fire Department, $3,400 16.
SELECTMEN'S DEPARTMENT.
Drawn from Incidental Money.
G. F. Keep, services as Selectman (1877), $25 00
Wm. Hammond, services as Selectman (1877-8), 25 00
C. H. Boodey, services as chairman of Selectmen (1877-8), 40 00
Travelling expenses (1877-8), $22 ; stationery, postage, etc., $8.60, 30 60
Supplement to General Statutes, $2.50 ; metallic binders, .50, 3 00
Washing Selectmen's room (April 5, 1878), 1 00
Drawn from Unappropriated Moneys.
S. Reeves, services as Selectman (1878-9), $50 00
Travelling expenses (1878-9), $9 ; sta-
tionery, postage, etc., $3.58, 12 58
Amount carried forward, $187 18
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Amount brought forward, $187 18
S. Reeves, book-case for Selectmen's room, 90 00
Moving safe, books, and furniture to new room, 16 00
Gray's "Decisions," one copy, $3, 3 00
Total expenditures for Selectmen's Depart- ment, $296 18
ASSESSORS' DEPARTMENT.
Drawn from Incidental Money.
S. Reeves, taking invoice and making taxes, 35} days, $88 75
R. T. Lombard, examining records at East Cam- bridge, 9 days, 49 50
Postage and expressing, 45
Drawn from Unappropriated Moneys.
L. H. Dudley, making taxes, 24} days, $61.25 ; horse, 20 days, $32, $93 25
T. H. Simpson, 34 dinners, $17; 19 horse-feeds, $9; use of horse, $2.50, 28 50
Drawn under Credit Bills.
Horace Head, for 22 days, Assessors' work, 44 00
S. M. Thomas, " 7 " 66
17 50
H. G. Hammond, for 7} days Assessors' work, 18 75
S. Reeves, " 17} " 35 00
Stationery, $6.70 ; valuation books, $3,
9 70
Total expenditures Assessors' Department, $385 40
TREASURER'S DEPARTMENT.
Drawn under Credit Bills.
Horace Heard, services as Treasurer, $25 00
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TOWN CLERK'S DEPARTMENT.
Drawn under Credit Bills.
Henry Wight, services as Town Clerk, $25 00
recording 45 births, $22.50 ; 32 deaths, $11.20 ; 16 marriages, $2.40, 36 10
Cash paid J. Everett for returns of deaths, 1 50
Express fees, $1.95 ; stationery, $2.45, 4 40
Total,
$67 00
ABATEMENTS OF TAXES.
Drawn from Unappropriated Money.
By order of Assessors (1876) ; Horace Heard, Chairman.
Jas. Adams, Jr.,
$2 78 | J. F. Elliott, $9 14
Lyman Kemp, 2 28 Twenty-eight poll-taxes, 56 00
By order of Assessors (1877) ; Sylvester Reeves, Chairman.
Leander Brooks,
$7 91
Lyman Kemp, $4 49
B. Hodges, 2 71
Jesse Moore, 40 34
A. Hemenway,
4 84 Anna Bullard's heirs, 2 78
Thirty-seven poll-taxes, $74.
By order of Assessors (1878) ; S. Reeves, Chairman.
Wm. H. Hills,
$54 25
W. G. Roby,
$60 45
Henry A. Bemis,
6 82
J. C. Wade,
18 60
H. B. Braman,
1 86
S. Richardson,
7 75
E. Leadbetter,
3 10
Dan Haynes,
1 99
W. B. Ward,
1 55
Tho. Evans,
5 03
C. H. Chapman,
3 88
P. Lochland,
2 00
Joel Lincoln,
9 56
Israel Tracy,
3 42
W. H. Clark,
8 13
F. Corman,
4 65
C. W. Whitney,
2 00
By votes of the town.
Henry A. Bemis,
$23 50
Wm. Hills,
$4 41
Mr. Malloy,
5 48
H. H. Tilton,
9 31
John Watts,
5 36
C. W. Draper,
3 31
Ten poll-taxes, $20.
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As certified by H. Wight, Town Clerk, at meeting, March 5, 1878 (no names given),
$16 41
Total abatements, $473 771
STATE AID.
Drawn from Unappropriated Money.
(Under Law of 1878.) (Under Old Law.)
John Finn, $24 00
H. B. Fischer, $54 00
Moses Casewell, 24 00
E. W. Schleicher, 48 00
W. H. Ricker, 20 00
Adeline Adams, 48 00
J. M. Pierce, 12 00
Rebecca Dickey, 48 00
Geo. W. Haskins, 60 00
E. A. Farmer, 48 00
Conrad Homer,
24 00
Susan Mellen, 48 00
$164 00
$294 00
MISCELLANEOUS EXPENDITURES AND PAYMENTS.
Drawn from Incidental Money.
M. Hammond, moving the lock-up in Cochituate,
$25 00
T. S. Sherman, use of team for Selectmen and As- sessors, 6 50
Union Lumber Co., lumber (purpose not stated), 9 13
E. R. Hoar, consultation and advice relative to Wa- ter Works, etc., 25 00
Rand, Avery, & Co., printing Library Catalogues, 113 25
Drawn from Unappropriated Money.
E. R. Hoar, consultation and advice relative to Mass. C. R.R., $25 00
H. Wight, wood for Town Hall, $3 ; E. A. Peirce, do. $7.50; D. Heard, do. $3.50, 14 00
1 H. A. Bemis, not drawn.
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J. R. Connor, watering-pot and extinguisher, $2 00
P. B. Davis, damages sustained on highway, 5 00
D. B. Read, painting and repairing hearse, 18 50
P. A. Leary, blacksmithing (object not stated), 11 07
D. Coakley and C. Moulton, sawing, splitting and packing wood at Town House, 6 50
W. Jessop, burying carcass of a horse, 2 00
Lithograph Co., town bonds,
38 00
H. Heard, advertising for sale of bonds, 8 00
Ryder & Morse, posters (object not stated), 1 35
D. W. Ricker, service (2 days), $5 ; use of team, $2 (purpose not stated), 7 00
E. P. Butler, lamp-chimneys (purpose not stated), 3 60
D. J. Goss & Co., gasoline (355 gallons) for new Town House, 69 80
E. Pousland, tax-title, 31 09
H. Heard, insurance of new Town House, 165 00
State aid (regular), 194 00
State aid (under law of 1878), 164 00
Transfer to Credit Bills of 1877-8, 507 01
OUTSTANDING ORDERS.
Rand, Avery, & Co., printing Library Catalogues,
$113 25
John Gilbert, 11 11
Nellie R. Rice,
95 75
J. R. Connor,
6 75
H. A. Bemis,
6 82 *
CREDIT BILLS.
Drawn from Unexpended Balances, $865.12 ; and Unappropriated Moneys, $507.01 = $1,372.13.
The following bills were presented at the town meeting in April last, and were referred to the Selectmen : -
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HIGHWAYS.
J. W. Parmenter, for road-railings, $9.73 ; snow work, $17.20, $26 93 A. S. Morse, for 139} hours' work, $27.42; over- work, 95 cents, 28 37
Wm. Hapgood, for snow work, at 20 cents per hour, 13 25
S. D. Bryden,
20
30 40
G. W. Philbrick,
20
66
21 00
R. M. Flint,
15
17 00
J. D. Moulton,
20
66 13 00
Chas. Fairbank,
20
11 20
Isaac Damon,
(gross sum), 13 20
Chas. Fairbank, for work on roads, by order of Selectmen, 74 20
H. F. Lee, 55 loads of gravel, at 5 cents, 2 75
J. N. Morse, for gravel for roads (1876-7), 20 00
Total, Highways, $271 30
POOR.
E. P. Butler, goods delivered to Jos. Mathews (no items 1877), $45 68
C. C. Atwood, goods delivered to Jos. Mathews (no items), 25 00
Moore, Neal, & Co., goods delivered to T. Beaney (no items), 17 00
E. P. Butler, goods for Mrs. Hope (no items), 2 95
Total for poor, $90 63
SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-HOUSES.
E. A. Peirce, binding dictionary, $2; wall paper, $1.20 (Centre Primary), $3 20
Wm. Goodnow & Son, six office-chairs, 10 00
C. A. Parker, expressing, 1 40
Wm. Videon, plastering and whitewashing (Centre Primary), 2 00
Amount carried forward,
$16 60
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Amount brought forward,
$16 60
Edward Carter, repairs (North School-house), 4 85
C. Bridges, material and labor (Centre and Rutter), 1 25
(High School-house), 3 50
66 (Centre Primary), [3 95
G. W. Dixon, work and material (Rutter and Centre), 3 15
C. Lee, paint, varnish, and labor (Rutter, Centre, and Thomas), 13 11
C. W. Fairbank, drawing water to wash school- house (Cochituate), 50
L. K. Lovell, crayons, $5.98; ink, $5.60 ; brooms, $2.34; erasers, $3.60; school-books (chiefly), $47.11, 64 63
E. P. Butler, brooms, $2.10; feather duster, $4 ; erasers, $3.60 ; school-books (chiefly), $59.88, 69 58
Total, Schools, $181 12
SALARIES AND OFFICE SERVICES.
Henry Wight, town clerk, $25 00
Horace Heard, treasurer, 25 00
J. C. Butterfield, services as Overseer of Poor, 20 00
T. S. Sherman,
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20 00
Edward Carter,
20 00
Horace Heard, for 22 days Assessors' work, at $2, 44 00
S. M. Thomas, 7
$2.50, 17 50
H. G. Hammond, 7} "
$2.50, 18 75
S. Reeves, 172 " $2,
35 00
J. C. Butterfield, services as Superintendent of Cemetery, 15 00
E. A. Atwood, services as Sealer of Weights and Measures, 5 00
C. H. Boodey, services on School Committee, 50 00
Elias Hodge, " 66
50 00
E. A. Peirce,
50 00
Total, Salaries, etc.,
$395 25
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MISCELLANEOUS.
C. W. Dascomb, painting school-house blinds and cemetery gates, $8 00
H. Wight, recording 45 births, $22.50 ; 32 deaths,
· $11.20 ; 16 marriages, $2.40, 3.6 10
H. Wight, printing reports, $6; wood, $6; other charges, $7.50, 19 50
T. S. Sherman, journey to Lowell and Shirley, $8 ; postage and stationery, 84 cents,
8 84
J. C. Butterfield, return of 20 deaths, $5; journey to Boston, $2, 7 00
J. Bullard, return of 14 deaths,
3 50
H. Heard, stationery (Assessors' office), 6 70
T. H. Simpson, posting 7 warrants, $17.50 ; other items, $4.75, 22 25
Chas Bridges, setting glass in Town Hall, 1 25
E. A. Peirce, care of Town Hall, 20 00
Methodist Episcopal Society, rent of land for lock-up, 25 00
Committee on road from Cochituate to Natick line, interest on money borrowed, 86 32
L. H. Sherman, for 8 journeys to Boston on case of Adams vs. Wayland, $24 ; telegram, 37 cents, 24 37
George Phinney, printing town-meeting warrants, list of jurors, and notices, 11 25
E. L. Barry, printing official reports, 600 copies, 70 00
G. W. Dixon, work and material on Town Hall, 3 10
L. K. Lovell, care of town clock,
20 00
stationery, $4.02; oil wicks, chim- neys, $6.53 ; other items, $3.80, 14 35
E. P. Butler, stationery, $1.20; oil (89} gallons), wicks, chimneys, $34.20 ; burners, $7.20 ; lamps, $3.70, 46 30
Total, Miscellaneous, $433 83
Total amount of Credit Bills, $1,372 13
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The Auditor has stepped aside from the ruts of custom in pre- paring his report. He hopes that by so doing he has aided some of his fellow-citizens to a better understanding of our town af- fairs, and an improved management of them.
The following extracts from the Waltham town reports (1877) indicate a method of conducting municipal business, believed to have some advantages over our own : -
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