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HORACE HEARD, Treas. TRIAL BALANCES OF THE FINANCES OF THE TOWN ENDING MARCH 1, 1887.
A.
Received from all sources,
$31,343 54
County tax reserved by collector,
631 27
Amount due from collector,
7,516 53 ·
Amount paid by treasurer,
$29,819 53
County tax paid by collector,
631 27
Cash on hand March 1, 1887,
1,524 01
Due from collector,
7,516 53
$39,491 31 $39,491 31
B.
Received from all sources, including couuty tax,
$31,974 81
Amount paid out by treasurer and collector, $30,450 80
Cash on hand March 1, 1887, 1,524 01
$31,974 81 $31,974 81
c.
Unexpended balances and appropriations,
$9,223 94
Cash on hand March 1, 1887,
$1,524 01
Due from collector,
7,51€ 53
Tax title,
96 14
Overpaid money,
87 26
$9,223 94 $9,223 94
TOWN OF WAYLAND, IN ACCOUNT WITH THE TREASURER.
1887.
March 1. Total receipts, $31,343 54
Total expenditures: Schools,
$5,322 05
Ilighways and bridges, 1,070 61
State aid from contingent fund, 374 00
Support of poor,
1,543 04
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Library: ·
451 27
Incidentals, 1,544 66
Salaries of town officers,
842 70
School books and supplies, 511 47
Repairs of Centre Grammar School House. 218 40
Painting town house,
210 00
Hydrants,
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384 00
Culverts, 75 00
Collector's fees.
250 00
Decoration Day,
88 57
Firemen's pay,
224 00
Painting engine house,
91 05
Abatement of taxes,
200 00
Building farm bridge and repairing road, . 2,000 00
Repairing Bridle Point bridge,
154 97
Repairing main road to Weston, 300 00
Interest on town debt,
4,724 85
Water account, less interest,
1,092 75
Paid note, S. M. Thomas, 900 00
" Horace Heard,
1,200 00
" Waltham bank,
1,500 00
" Reduction town debt, 3,400 00 6
State tax,
1,050 00
Tax title,
96 14
Cash in treasury March 1, 1887, 1,524 01
$31,343 54 $31,343 54
To the citizens of Wayland :
In examinining the books of the town I have found them neatly and correctly kept, and accompanied with proper vouchers. The carefully prepared reports of the different officials, and their readiness-especially the treasurer-to assist your auditor in his work, has made his task comparatively light.
B. M. FOLSOM
Auditor.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
OF THE
TOWN OF WAYLAND,
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Annual Report of the School Committee,
For the year 1886-7.
To the citizens of Wayland:
The School Committee submit the following report : That work is well done, which gives to the worker satisfac- tion and pleasure in reviewing it. The continued improve- ments that have been carried forward for four successive years are certainly evidences that the citizens of Wayland are willing to give to the public schools all that is needed to make them successful and a credit to the town. One of the most gratifying facts in this record of improvements, is that whenever your committee have asked for appropriations in tl is direction there has been no di santing vote. New seats and desks have been furnished and placed in the Centre Grammar and High School room, the ceilings thoroughly cleansed and painted, and the woodwork painted and grained. In order to secure a permanent surface for a blackboard we were obliged to remove the old and put on new plastering. More work was needed on the ceiling than was expected, so that we were obliged to exceed the appropriation, or have the work meanly done. The whole room now presents a neat and attractive appearance. Within three years every school building in town has been repaired, in so far as the means furnished would allow. We are able to report our school buildings in a satis- factory condition. The almost universal improvement in
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school rooms and school furniture seems to require some ex- pense in this direction whenever the advantage secured will warrant the investment. Constant use will invariably lead to the expense of repairs. We believe in comfort and economy, both, when applied to our school rooms, but for treatment of special cases some rooms might be supplied with uncomforta- ble but not unhealthy seats, for the use of indolent scholars. Sickness has disturbed the regular attendance of some of our schools, but only for a short time, a few individual cases ex- excepted. The health and attendance of our scholars has generally been very good. Through the kindness of Mr. Horace Heard and Mr. H. B. Braman, a snow plow path was made through the village centre, greatly accommodating our school children as well as the citizens generally. We see no reason why the highway surveyor could not expend a small amount judiciously in both the villages clearing the sidewalks after a snow storm.
If we take last year and the present together the average cost to the town, for each scholar, to furnish text books and supplies will be about one dollar and fifty cents. An increase of the appropriation will be needed. The first class in the Centre Grammar and High School will complete the High School course next term, which closes in the month of June. What they have undertaken in Book-keeping, History, Alge- bra, Geometry, Physical Geography and Latin, has been well and thoroughly done. They began with eleven scholars; only six remain to complete the course.
The first class in Cochituate Grammar and High School began the High School studies the fall term with every prom- ise of success. We hope a larger proportion of this class will complete the two years' course of study. It was thought best to place an assistant teacher in this schoolroom. So many new studies involved an increase in the number of classes. It is extremely difficult for one teacher to give the time nec- essary to success, with so many recitations, especially as Mr. Merrick is expected to give thought and care to the other schools
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in this building. There are in this scoool building two hun- dred and thirty-nine scholars. The six schools in other sec- tions of the town number one hundred and fifty-nine. Your committee have done all they could with the means at their disposal to encourage high school studies, believing that more intellectual culture and a better mental discipline might be secured in Wayland. The small number inclined to continue in this direction is not very encouraging, but as this is only the beginning, we hope the number will increase as the years pass on.
If you turn to your school registers you will find that there are three hundred and ninety-eight boys and girls in this town. They are as good and as capable as can be found any- where. They are your own. Are we doing what we can to make their moral and intellectual beginnings what they should be ? While we do not want teachers who see only thes dollar they earn in our schoolrooms, would you expect a teacher to manifest more interest in your own children than you do ? Would it not be well to erase from the register the fact that two-thirds of the parents have not visited our schools during the past year ? If some of the parents were better acquaint- ed with the teachers it would be greatly to the advantage of the scholars. Let the teachers see that you take a friendly interest in their endeavors to educate your children. A true teacher will carefully consider the expressed wishes of the parents and welcome, helpful co-operation, and will not forget that outside enterprises and employments ought not to inter fere with their fullest intellectual expression and moral worth in the school room.
Thirty-six weeks complete our school year. We believe that our teachers are doing their work faithfully. There are individuals and individual acts that might be criticized, and always will be. But as regards energy, intellectual strength, moral worth and faithfulness, our teachers will compare favorably with the same number anywhere. They deserve the hearty support and cordial sympathy of all who desire the best interests of the boys and girls of Wayland.
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The Centre Grammar and High School has been taught by Mr. E. F. DeNormandie; whole number of scholars, twenty- eight; average attendance, twenty-two. The Thomas School by Miss Hattie E. Reeves; whole number of scholars, seven- teen; average attendance, thirteen. The Rutter school by Miss Carrie Lee; whole number of scholars, twenty-three; average attendance, seventeen. The Centre Primary by Miss Gertrude E. Thompson, whole number of scholars, thirty-two; average attendance, twenty. The North School by Miss Cora Alice Wilson; whole number of scholars, twenty-one; average attendance, fourteen. The Cochituate Grammar and High School has been taught by Mr. Charles F. Merrick during the past year; whole number of scholars, forty-six; average at- tendance, thirty-five. During the fall term Miss K. R. Sibley and Miss Noble were employed as assistant teachers, and Miss E. V. White during the winter term. The Intermediate School has been taught by Miss Ida A. Nutter during fall and winter terms, and Miss L. Z. Smith during the winter term; whole number of scholars, forty-nine; average attendance, forty-two. The First Primary by Miss S. L. Stearns during the spring and fall terms, and Miss E. W. Lang during the winter term; whole number of scholars, forty-six; average atten lance, forty-two. The Second Primary by Miss Olivia E. Gould, during the year; whole number of scholars, forty- nine; average attendance, forty-two. The Third Primary by Mrs. S. B. Merrick during the spring term, and Miss G. Louie Bowen during the fall and winter terms; whole number of scholars, forty-nine; average attendance, forty-two. The Lokerville School by Miss Nellie R. Rice; whole number of scholars, thirty-eight; average attendance, twenty-seven.
The whole number of scholars attending school in town is three hundred and ninety-eight. The aggregate average attendance is three hundred and eighteen.
The school committee recommend the following appropria- tion for schools, teachers' salaries, care of rooms and fuel: Forty-five hundred dollars; six hundred dollars for text books and supplies.
For the committee,
L. K. LOVELL.
OFFICIAL REPORTS
OF THE
TOWN OF WAYLAND,
FOR ITS
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTH MUNICIPAL YEAR,
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WALTHAM FREE PRESS JOB PRINT,
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OFFICIAL REPORTS
OF THE
TOWN OF WAYLAND,
FOR ITS
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTH MUNICIPAL YEAR,
FROM
MARCH 1, 1887, TO MARCH 1, 1888.
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WALTHAM FREE PRESS JOB PRINT,
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WAYLAND BY-LAWS.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
In the Superior Court within and for the County at Mid- dlesex, Anno Domini, 1885.
The following By-laws of the town of Wayland are pre- sented to this Court for approval, to wit
1. Notice of every town meeting shall be given by post- ing a copy of the warrant therefor in three or more public places in the town, at least seven days before the time ap- pointed for such meeting.
2. The Town Clerk shall, at the time and place appointed, call the meeting to order and forthwith proceed to read the warrant for the meeting, and the return of the person or per- sons who served it; he shall then call upon the voters present to bring in their votes for moderator (if one be required at said meeting) and shall preside until a moderator is chosen and assumes the office.
3. No vote fixing the time for closing a ballot shall be re- considered after said ballot shall have begun; but an exten- sion of the time may be had by vote without reconsideration.
4. Every motion or order which is of a complicated na-
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ture, or of unusual length, shall be reduced to writing, also all other motions at the pleasure of the presiding officer.
5. The powers and duties of the presiding officer not es- specially provided for by law, or by these By-Laws, shall be determined by the rules and practice contained in Cushing's Manual, so far as they are adapted to the conditions and powers of the town.
6. The financial year shall begin on the first day of March and end on the last day of February following.
7. The Annual Town Meeting shall be held on the fourth Monday of March in each year, at such time as the Select- men may appoint, at the Town Hall.
8. The Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, School Committee, Auditor, Water Commissioners, Treasurer of the Water Board, Collector of Taxes, Town Clerk, Treas- urer of Library Funds and Treasurer of Allen Fund, shall, and such other town officers, agents or committees of the town as may deem it expedient, may make written annual reports of all matters pertaining to their several departments, relating to the general interest and welfare of the town. All such reports shall be delivered to the Auditor on or before March 7th of each year, and the Selectmen shall deliver to the Auditor, on or before March 10th, of each year, a copy of the annual Town Warrant. The auditor shall cause all such reports, and the Town Warrant, to be printed in pamphlet form and distributed to the voters of the town by leaving a copy thereof at each dwelling house, at least three days be- fore the annual town meeting each year.
9. The Treasurer, Overseers of the Poor, and School Committee, shall report an estimate of the sums of money needed to defray the necessary charges of their several de- partments, and the Selectmen shall report an estimate of what other sums of money may be needed to defray the nec- essary town charges and expenditures for the year ensuing.
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10. The Selectmen shall hold regular business meetings at least once a month, of which due notice shall be given.
11. All bills against the town shall be made out in detail with the proper date for each item and shall be approved by a majority of the Board contracting said bill and shall be presented to the Board of Select men for examination and ap- proval, and if found correct they shall give an order on the Treasurer to pay the same, said order to specify from what appropriation the same is to be drawn.
12. The Selectmen shall notify the Treasurer of the amount of orders drawn at each meeting, and the Treasurer shall not be required to pay the same until twenty-four hours after such notice.
13. A list of all taxes shall be committed to the Collector on or before August 1st, and the Collector shall pay into the Treasury one-half of said taxes on or before October 1st, including the County tax, and the balance of the taxes on or before January 1st, and shall settle with the town on or be- fore the first day of July following. On all taxes remaining unpaid October 1st., interest shall be charged at the rate of six per cent. per annum. In enforcing the payment of taxes the Collector shall proceed by sale of the property. The Collector shall make weekly payments to the Treasurer, pro- vided the sum in his hands amounts to one hundred dollars or more. The Collector shall have and possess all the au- thority, powers and privileges delegated to town Treasurers when they are made Collectors of taxes.
14. The Collector shall within thirty days after receiving the list of taxes, make out a tax bill to every person, corpor- ation or company of persons named in such tax list, in which bill shall be printed the rate of taxation, the time when all taxes are due and payable, and the time when interest will be
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charged; and shall deliver or mail through the post office to every person so taxed, his tax bill. .
15. All unappropriated money paid into the Treasury shall be carried to an account to be kept by the Treasurer, called the "Contingent Fund," and no money shall be drawn therefrom except by a vote of the town; and all balances of appropriations of the preceding year, remaining unexpended June 1st each year, shall be carried to said account, except the unexpended balances of the poor account, schools, abate- ment of taxes, and interest which shall remain to the credit of said accounts. All moneys for soldiers' aid shall be drawn from the Contingent Fund, on orders from the Selectmen, as if especially appropriated.
16. The Town Treasurer shall not borrow any money on behalf of the town upon any promisory note or other obliga- tion executed by him, as such Treasurer, unless the same is hrst countersigned by the Selectmen, or by a majority of them
17. No town officer or board of officers shall contract any debt or obligation on behalf of the town, beyond the appro- priation to which said debt or obligation would be chargeable, except on the unanimous vote of the Board so contracting said debt and the unanimous approval of the Board of Select- men, and in such case not to exceed the sum of five hundred dollars in any one year; and the Selectmen shall in their annual report state what emergency required such action.
18. All Boards of standing town officers shall cause rec- ords of their doings and accounts to be kept in suitable books and the persons having charge of the same shall transmit them to their successors in office. Whenever any vote affect- ing any town officer or officers is passed, the Clerk shall transmit a copy of the same to such officer (officers), and the said copy shall be kept by said officers and be transmitted to
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their successors if anything therein contained shall appertain to their duties.
19. The Water Commissioners shall choose a Clerk and Superintendent. The Clerk shall keep a record of said Board under its direction, and shall keep a set of books in which shall be entered-all receipts and expenditures of the Water works, and shall collect all bills for the use of water or otherwise pertaining to said Water Works, and shall on the first day of each month pay the same over to the Town Treasurer. The Clerk shall give bond with sufficient sureties in not less than two thousand dollars, for the faithful perfor- mance of his duties, said bond to be filed with and kept by the Selectmen. The Superintendent, under the direction of the Water Commissioners, shall have the general superinten- dence of the out door work connected with the Water Works.
20. The Treasurer of the Water Works' Sinking Fund shall give a sufficient bond for sureties for the faithful perfor- mance of his duties, said bond to be filed with and kept by the Selectmen.
21. The Water Commissioners shall have authority to draw orders on the Town Treasurer for such sums of money as may be required for the proper maintenance of the Water Works, and said orders to be paid by the Treasurer from money received from water rates.
22. At the Annual Town Meeting the town shall choose, by ballot, the Treasurer of the Library Funds, and a Library Committee of five persons.
23. The Auditor and any voter shall, at all reasonable times, have access to the books of the own, and have the right to examine them and take copies thereof.
24. No person shall pasture or tether any animal upon any street in the town, except within the limits of such streets ad- joining his own premises, without the consent of the owner
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or occupant of the land adjoining the street where pasturage is wanted. In either case the animal must be in charge of a keeper.
25. Whoever wilfully, maliciously, or wantonly, without cause, destroys, defaces, mars or injures any schoolhouse or other public building, or any out-building, shed, fence, wall, furniture, apparatus or other property belonging to or con- nected with such schoolhouses or other public building, shall be punished by a fine not less than five dollars, nor exceeding fifty dollars. No occupant of any house where there is or has been recently, small pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria or other in- fectious or contagious diseases, shall be permitted to attend any public school in the town, until a certificate of a regular physician that there is no longer danger of infection, is ob- tained and presented to the teacher. The School Committee shall post, or cause to be posted, a copy of this section in every schoolroom in the town.
26. No building shall be moved over any public way with- out a permit from the Selectmen, and the Selectmen shall not grant such permit when such removal will cause destruction or serious injury to shade trees standing in said way, or owned by any person and projecting over said way, unless the consent of the person on whose premises such trees may stand shall first be obtained. And any person moving any building through any public way (either with or without a permit) shall, with the owner of said building, be jointly and severally liable to the town for all damages, costs and ex- penses which the town may be compelled to pay in conse- quence of such removal or in consequence of any obstruction, incumbrance or injury occasioned thereby.
27. No person shall place or cause to be placed in any public way or square, without the written consent of the Selectmen, any rubbish, dirt, wood, timber or other material to obstruct or mar the appearance of said way or square.
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28. No person shall behave himself or herself in a rude or disorderly manner, or use any indecent, profane or insulting language in any public place in the town, or near any dwell- ing house or other buildings therein, or be and remain upon any sidewalk, doorstep oľ other projection
from any house or building, SO as to annoy or disturb any person or obstruct any passage to the same. No person shall throw any stones, snow balls, base balls, or other missiles, or coast or course upon any sled, or play at base ball or foot ball in any public way, or obstruct in any manner the travel upon said way, nor make any alarming noise or outcrys to the disturbance of persons in the town.
29. No person shall tie or fasten any horse, cattle or team to any of the trees in public ways of the town, nor drive into the same any nails, spikes, hooks or clasps, nor affix any boards thereto.
30. No person shall post, affix, or in any way attach any poster, handbill, notice, advertisement or placard, or paint, draw, or stamp any letter, figure, advertisement or mark upon or into, or otherwise deface, any wall, fence, post, tree build- ing or structure not his own, within the town, without the permission of the owner of said wall, fence, post, tree, build- ing or structure.
31. Every violation of the foregoing By-Laws, not other- wise provided for, shall be punished by a fine of not less than two dollars, nor more than twenty dollars, and all penalties recovered from such violation shall be paid into the Treasury of the town, to inure to such use as the town shall from time to time direct.
Which said By-Laws being seen and understood by the Court, are on this fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, approved.
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In testimony with the foregoing is a true copy of the record, I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of said SEAL. Superior Court, this sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred and eighty six.
WILLIAM C. DILLINGHAM,
2d Assist. Clerk.
LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS.
Town Clerk, R. T. LOMBARD. Treasurer, BENJ. M. FOLSOM. Auditor, EVANDER FRENCH. Selectmen,
CHAS. H. BOODEY, THEO. S. SHERMAN,
WM. H. BENT.
Assessors,
RICHARD T. LOMBARD, LLEWELLYN FLANDERS, CHAS. R. DAMON. Overseers of Poor,
JOHN C. BUTTERFIELD, WILLARD B. WARD,
DANIEL W. RICKER. Fence Viewers,
EDWARD CARTER, EVANDER FRENCH, HORATIO G. HAMMOND. School Committee, 3 Years, CHAS. H. BOODEY. Water Commissioner, 3 Years, ALFRED H. BRYANT. Collector of Taxes. WILLARD B. WARD. Constables, DANIEL W. RICKER, WM. C. NEAL, GEO. W. WHITNEY.
WILLARD B. WARD, WM. T. HANCOCK, GEO. H. WIGHT,
Highway Surveyors. . S. D. BRYDEN,
WM. C. NEAL, BENJ. M. FOLSOM, DANIEL W. RICKER,
GEO. E. SHERMAN,
LEWIS J. BEMIS,
JOSIAH W. PARMENTER,
HORATIO G. HAMMOND,
ROBERT ERWIN.
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Field Drivers,
WILLIAM A. JESSOP, GEO. H. WIGHT.
L. K. LOVELL,
Measurers of Wood and Bark, ED. CARTER, ED. A. ATWOOD. Sealer of Weights and Measures, ED. A. ATWOOD. Surveyors of Lumber.
GEO. B. HOWE, JAS. H. SMALL.
Superintendents of Cemeteries.
JOHN C. BUTTERFIELD, ANDREW S. MORSE.
JAS. S. DRAPER,
Trustees of Allen Fund,
SAMUEL M. THOMAS,
ISAAC DAMON.
Library Committee,
HERBERT H. MOTT,
CHAS. R. DAMON,
HENRY D. PARMENTER, EMILY A. HEARD, ELLEN M. BRAMAN. Treasurer Library Funds. L. K. LOVELL.
Registrars of Voters,
ISAAC DAMON, 2 yrs.,
WM. W. LOVEJOY, I yr.,
L. H. SHERMAN, 3 yrs.
TOWN MEETING.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
To Daniel W. Ricker, or either of the Constables of the Town of Wayland, in said County, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Wayland qualified to vote in elections and town affairs to meet at the Town Hall in said town on MONDAY, the twenty- sixth day of March, instant, at nine o'clock A. M., to act upon the following articles, viz. :
ART. 1. To choose a Moderator.
ART. 2. To choose all necessary Town Officers, Trustees, Agents and Committees for the year ensuing.
ART. 3. To hear the reports of Town Officers, Agents and Committees and act thereon.
ART. 4. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray town charges the present year, and order the same to be assessed.
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