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150.00
Sept. 18 Cemetery P. C. Funds.
Bequest, Butler-Eaton 150.00
Oct. 30 Cemetery P. C. Funds. Bequest, Mitchell-Loker 150.00
Dec. 31 Income balance 1,422.21
Dec. 31 Charity Funds $ 9,551.67 Library Funds 32,900.00 Cemetery Funds 22,825.00
Income-Charity Funds
358.25
Income-Library Funds 186.48
Income-Cemetery Funds
877.48
$66,698.88
$66,698.88
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1939 Estimated Receipts
COLLECTIONS
Interest, taxes
$2,605.35
tax titles 697.46
Fees, polls advertising T. T. Deeds
176.95
10.50
Licenses and permits
4,193.00
Moth Ext. assessments
326.52
Street Betterment
assessments 199.76
Motor Vehicle Excise
taxes
8,477.68
Court and Police Fines 192.00
$17,010.22
DEPARTMENTAL REVENUE
Moderator, salary refund
9.00 9.00
Town Hall, rent
175.00
refund, tel. tolls .35
175.35
Fire Dept. reimbursements
for fires 100.00
Sealer of Weights and
Measures, fees
41.57
District Nurse, fees
41.00
Highways, equipment rental
88.75
Welfare Dept. Sale of equipment 5.00
Refund from 1938 19.00
Reimbursements, individual 50.25
Reimbursements, other cities and towns 1,182.86
Reimbursements, state 4,797.20
6,054.31
Aid to Dependent Children Reimbursements from State 959.85
Old Age Assistance
Refund from 1938 15.00
Reimbursements from State 7,825.07
Reimbursements from
Other cities and
towns 350.45 350.45
8,190.52
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31.00
Soldiers' Benefits
State Aid 290.00
Veterans' Exemptions 47.11
337.11
Schools
Vocational Tuition 493.14 Tuition and Transportation of State Wards 550.10
Refunds, tel. tolls, etc. 10.85
Libraries. Book fines
1,054.09 86.63
Cemetery Dept. Sale of lumber 200.50
Cemetery Service 969.50
1,170.00
18,308.18
GRANTS AND GIFTS
From State, income, bu. corp. etc. $13,489.99
From State, under Ch.
232, Acts of 1939
to be credited di-
rectly to reduce tax levy 9,875.47
23,365.46
$58,683.86
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Excess and Deficiency
1939
Jan. 1 Balance $63,359.34
Jan .- Dec. Tax Title redemptions 7,932.58
May 9-Dec. 13 Foreclosure Sales 1,884.27
Dec. 15 Tax Title Disclaimed 69.48
To Revenue (Special Town Meeting ) 5,200.00
Dec. Supplemental taxes 8.00
Adjusting 1939 Levy
15
Mar. 8 Accounts closed
123.47
To balance 64,359.43
Dec. 31 Revenue 1939 5,967.73
$79,344.87
$79,344.87
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1939 Mar. 23 to Dec. 23 Oct. 25
Tax Titles $9,785.29
25
Net Funded Debt
May 15 Water Notes of 1931
$2,500.00
June 5 Water Dept. Equip. Note 1,500.00
July 3 Water Notes of 1929 2,000.00
July 17 High School Construction Notes 5,000.00
To balance
84,000.00
$95,000.00
$95,000.00
1939 Jan. 1 Balance
$95,000.00
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Town of Wayland, Mass
January 1, 1940
Statement
Cash
$43,565.07
Special Assessment Revenue
$ 918.17
Taxes
87,044.19
Motor Excise Revenue 2,046.59
Assessments
3,938.98
Water Liens Revenue
974.22
Tax Titles
12,880.76
Tax Title Revenue
12,880.76
Tax Title Foreclosures
908.75
Reserve for Tax Title Foreclosures
908.75
Overlay deficits
383.79
Tax Titles, partial payments
516.02
Accounts Receivable :
Tax Titles, deposits
100.00
Old Age Assistance
447.41
Overlays 1936-1939
682.35
Aid to Dependent Children
338.67
Overlay Surplus
120.45
Welfare
2,096.58
Departmental Revenue
3,727.66
State and Military Aid
845.00
Federal Grants, Old Age Assistance
1,515.59
Water Accounts Receivable
8,771.81
Federal Grants, Aid to Dependent Children
157.04
Water Revenue
8,771.81
Water Available Surplus
14,268.27
Trust Funds, income
1,422.21
Sale of Cemetery Lots and Graves
555.00
State Tax, Parks, etc., over-estimates
25.59
Collections, dog licenses 19.80
Road Machinery Fund
1,792.30
Temporary Loans, revenue
30,000.00
'Temporary loans, reimbursements 4,112.50
Excess and Deficiency 64,359.43
Special Accounts, balances
12,562.62
State for Highway Expenditures
613.60
County for Highway Expenditures
602.52
Net funded debt
84,000.00
Street Assessments not due
115.35
Trust Funds, cash and securities
65,276.67
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Notes and Bonds
High School Construction 61,000.00
Water Dept. Equip. note 3,000.00
Watermain Extensions Notes
20,000.00
Street Assessments, 1940-43
115.35
Trust Funds, Charity
9,551.67
Library 32,900.00
Cemetery P. C.
22,825.00
$311,829.15
$311,829.15
MABEL T. S. SMALL, Town Accountant.
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REPORT OF TOWN TREASURER
Cash Balance
1939
Jan. 1 Cash Balance Total Receipts
$ 34,169.91 354,069.52
$388,239.43
Total Payments
344,674.36
Dec. 31 Cash Balance $43,565.07
Tax Notes, Borrowed in Anticipation of Taxes
1939
Jan. 1 Notes Outstanding : No. 361 due 1-25-39 $20,000.00 No. 362 due 3-28-39 10,000.00
No. 363 due 5-26-39 10,000.00
Borrowed in 1939:
Jan. 18 No. 368 Jackson & Curtis .27% due 10-10-39 10,000.00
Feb. 21 No. 369 First National
Bank, Boston, .23% due 11-7-39 10,000.00
Mar. 15 No. 370 Second National Bank, Boston, .21% due 11-22-39 10,000.00
15 No. 371 Second National Bank, Boston, .21% due 12-5-39 10,000.00
Apr. 18 No. 372 Second National Bank, Boston, .22% due 12-27-39 10,000.00
May 9 No. 373 Merchants National Bank, Boston, .23% due 1-23-40 10,000.00
9 No. 374 Merchants National Bank, Boston, .23% due 3-22-40 10,000.00
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July 5 No. 375 Second National Bank, Boston, .25% due 5-15-40 10,000.00
$120,000.00
Notes No. 376/77 cancelled.
Tax Notes Paid in 1939
1939
Jan. 25 No. 361 due 1-25-39
$20,000.00
Mar. 28
No. 362 due 3-28-39
10,000.00
May 26 No. 363 due 5-26-39
10,000.00
Oct. 10 No. 368 due 10-10-39
10,000.00
Nov. 7
No. 369 due 11-7-39
10,000.00
Nov. 22
No. 370 due 11-22-39
10,000.00
Dec. 5 No. 371 due 12-5-39
10,000.00
Dec. 27
No. 372 due 12-27-39
10,000.00
$90,000.00
Tax Notes Outstanding
Dec. 31
No. 373 due 1-28-40
$10,000.00
No. 374 due 3-22-40
10,000.00
No. 375 due 5-15-40
10,000.00
30,000.00
$120,000.00
Notes Borrowed in Anticipation of Reimbursement
1939
Borrowed in 1939 :
Oct. 4 No. 378, Natick Trust Co., 11/2% due 4-4-40 $4,112.50
$4,112.50
Reimbursement Notes Outstanding
Dec. 31
No.378 due 4-4-10
$4,112.50
$4,112.50
Serial Notes and Bonds Outstanding
44 High School Notes, 314% due annually 1940 to 1950
$4,000.00 $44,000.00
12 High School Notes, 314% due 1951 to 1954 12,000.00 5 High School Notes, 2% due annually 1940 to 1944 1,000.00 5,000.00
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4 Water Main Extension Notes of 1929, 41/2% due annual- ly 1940 to 1941
2,000.00
4,000.00
1 Water Main Extension Note of 1929, 41/2% due 7-1-42
1,000.00
2 Water Main Extension Notes of 1931, 4% due annually 1940 to 1941
2,500.00
5,000.00
5 Water Main Extension Notes of 1931, 4% due 1942 to 1946
10,000.00
2 Water Department Equipment Notes, 1% due annually 1940 to 1941
1,500.00
3,000.00
Due in 1940
$11,000.00
Total Outstanding
$84,000.00
Interest Account
Appropriation
$2,500.00
For Water Notes Interest, by vote
1,002.50
Payments :
Water Main Extension Notes 1929
$315.00
Water Main Extension Notes 1931
650.00
Water Department Equipment Notes
37.50
Tax Notes Discount
137.19
High School Notes
2,070.00
To Trust Funds
25.00
High School Notes Paying Charge
25.00
$3,259.69
Balance
242.81
$3,502.50
$3,502.50
Insurance Account
Appropriation
$3,100.00
Refunds
9.00
Payments :
Town Buildings
$1,584.00
Highway Department Equipment
451.53
Fire Department Equipment 10.00
Water Department Equipment
130.95
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Tax Collector, Robbery
30.00
Workingmen's Compensation
125.94
Standard Weights and Measures Tax Title Property
35.01
18.00
Balance
723.57
$3,109.00
$3,109.00
Surety Bonds
Appropriation
$400.00
From Reserve Fund
37.00
Payments :
Treasurer's Bond
$136.50
Tax Collector's Bond
273.00
Deputy Collector's Bond
10.00
Town Clerk's Bond
7.50
Water Clerk's Bond
10.00
$437.00
$437.00
Trust Funds- Investments CHARITY FUNDS
Loker Fund :
1 People's Gas, Light, & Coke, 4% 1961
$1,000.00
1 Southern California Edison Co. 334% 1960 1,000.00
Allen Fund :
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. 4% 1958
1,000.00
Donation Fund :
U. S. Treasury Bonds 314% 1944-1946
1,100.00
Provident Institution for Savings
200.00
Russell Fund :
1 Southern California Edison Co. 33/4% 1960
1,000.00
1 Boston & Albany R. R. 41/2% 1943
1,000.00
1 People's Gas, Light & Coke, 4% 1961 Provident Institution for Savings
2,251.67
$9,551.67
CEMETERY FUNDS
J. M. Parmenter Fund : 1 U. S. Treasury Bond 3% 1946-1948 1,000.00
1,000.00
2 N. E. Tel. & Tel. 41/2%, 5-1-1961 2,000.00
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$2,385.43
1 N. Y. Central-Hudson River R. R. 312% 1998 1,000.00 Home Savings Bank 1,000.00
$5,000.00
Other Funds :
U. S. Treasury Bonds 314% 1944-46
700.00
U. S. Treasury Bonds 234% 1947 300.00
U. S. Treasury Bonds 2 7/8% 1960
1,600.00
2 Boston & Albany R. R. 412% 1943
2,000.00
1 Southern California Edison Co. 33/4% 1960
1,000.00
1 Detroit Edison Co. 41/2% 2-1-1961
1,000.00
1 N. E. Tel. & Tel. 5% 1952
500.00
2 Chicago & Northwestern R. R. Co. 5% 2037
2,000.00
1 N. Y. Central R. R. 412% 2013
500.00
2 N. Y. Central R. R. 412% 2013
2,000.00
1 People's Gas, Light & Coke Co. 4% 1961
1,000.00
1,000.00
1 Southern Pacific Oregon Line 412% 1977 Provident Institution for Savings Suffolk Savings Bank
2,225.00
1,000.00
Franklin Savings Bank
1,000.00
$22,825.00
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds Received in 1939 and Included Above
William H. Gage Fund 150.00
150.00
Mitchell-Loker Fund
150.00
$+50.00
LIBRARY FUNDS
J. M. Parmenter Fund :
2 Pennsylvania Ry. 41/2% 6-1-1965
$2,000.00
3 N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co. 414% 5-1-1961 3,000.00
1 N. Y. Central Ry 5% 10-1-2013 1,000.00
2 Jersey Central Power and Light Co. 41/2% 1961 Suffolk Savings Bank
2,000.00
2,000.00
Grace Campbell Draper Fund :
1 Great Northern R. R. 4% 1946
1,000.00
Ada H. Wellington Fund :
U. S. Treasury Bonds 2 7/8% 1955-60 300.00
U. S. Treasury Bonds 234% 1947 200.00
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Butler-Eaton Fund
Cynthia G. Roby Fund :
1 N. Y. Central Ry. 5% 10-1-2013 1,000.00
2000.00
2 Northern Pacific Ry. 5% 7-1-2047 Provident Institution for Savings
200.00
Harriet Coburn Damon Fund :
Warren Institution for Savings Natick Five Cents Savings Bank
2,000.00
James Draper Fund
Ella E. Draper Fund :
1 N. Y. Central Ry. 412% 10-1-2013
1,000.00
Sarah Webster Heard Fund :
Provident Institution for Savings 100.00
1,000.00
1 Great Northern R. R. 4% 1946 Boston Five Cents Savings Bank 2,000.00
James Sumner Draper Fund :
1 Delaware & Hudson 4% 5-1-1943 1,000.00
1 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. 4% 3-1-1958 1,000.00
1 B. & M. & Fitchburg 5% 5-1-1940 1,000.00
1 B. & M. 4-5% 9-1-1941 Boston Five Cents Savings Bank
1,000.00
1,000.00
Lydia Maria Child Fund :
Provident Institution for Savings
100.00
Isaac C. Damon Fund : Detroit Edison Co. 41/2% 2-1-1961
1,000.00
Francis Shaw Fund :
1 People's Gas, Light & Coke Co. 5% 9-1-1947 1,000.00
3 Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. 312% 8-1-1969 3,000.00
Warren Institution for Savings 1,000.00
$32,900.00
All Trust Funds are under control of the Trust Funds' Commissioners with the exception of the Sarah Webster Heard, Lydia Maria Child, and James Sumner Draper Library Funds, these three, by terms of bequests, being under the control of the Library Trustees.
Reserve Fund for Investments
10% of yearly income from :
Charity Funds Income $42.50
Library Funds Income 124.71
Cemetery Funds Income 59.13
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1,000.00
Parmenter Cemetery Fund Income 17.50
Deposited in Warren Institution for Savings $243.84
Funds Income
Charity Funds Income 1939
Jan. 1 Balance
$326.11
Income
345.15
Premium on called Bonds
80.00
Distributed
$326.11
Cost of investment
24.40
To Reserve for Investments
42.50
Dec. 31 Balance
358.25
$751.26
$751.26
Library Funds Income 1939
Jan. 1 Balance
$162.02
Income
1,247.13
Payments
$929.17
Cost of Investment-$3,000.00 Pennsylvania Power Bonds
168.79
To Reserve for Investments
124.71
Dec. 31
Balance
186.48
$1,409.15
$1,409.15
Cemetery Funds Income 1939
Jan. 1 Balance
$705.61
Income
591.37
To Reserve for Investments
$59.13
Payments
526.80
Dec. 31 Balance
711.05
$1,296.98 $1,296.98
Parmenter Cemetery Fund 1939
Jan. 1 Balance Income Payments
$186.03
175.10
$177.20
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To Reserve for Investments 17.50 166.43
Dec. 31 Balance
$361.13
$361.13
Tax Titles
1939
TAKEN IN 1933 FOR 1931 TAXES
Jan. 1 Balance Paid
$344.05
$344.05
$344.05
TAKEN IN 1934 FOR 1932 TAXES
Jan. 1 Balance
$733.85
Paid in 1939
$602.17
Charged to Excess and Defi- ciency Account Foreclosure, Foreclosure on 1 Tax Title
126.68
Payment Credit 45.00
$773.85
$773.85
TAKEN IN 1935 FOR 1933 TAXES
Jan. 1 Balance
$201.86
Charged to Excess and Defi- ciency Account Foreclosure, Sale Bidder failed to pay on 2 pieces of property $201.86
$201.86 $201.86
TAKEN IN 1936 FOR 1934 TAXES
Jan. 1 Balance
1935 Taxes added
67.39
1939 Taxes
123.60
Charged to Excess and Defi-
ciency Account Foreclosure,
foreclosure on 6 Tax Titles 571.73
Charged to Excess and Defi- ciency Account Foreclosure, Bidder failed to pay at sale on 4 properties 280.85
$2,011.31
$2,011.31
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$1,820.32
Paid in 1939
$1,158.73
$344.05
TAKEN IN 1937 FOR 1935 TAXES
Jan.
1
Balance
1939 Taxes
Paid in 1939
$4,494.75 599.05
Dec. 31 Balance
$2,062.94 3,030.86
$5,093.80
$5,093.80
TAKEN IN 1938 FOR 1936 TAXES
Jan. 1 Balance 1939 Taxes Paid in 1939
$2,414.91
Dec. 31 Balance
2,544.75
$4,959.66
$4,959.66
TAKEN IN 1939 FOR 1936 AND 1937 TAXES
1936 Taxes
$127.76
1937 Taxes
2,306.66
1938 Taxes
3,267.17
1939 Taxes
2,788.89
Costs, 39 Tax Titles
183.15
Recording
39.00
Interest to date of taking
349.61
Paid in 1939
$1,678.05
Charged back to Tax Collector 79.04
Dec. 31
Balance
7,305.15
$9,062.24 $9,062.24
Number and Amount Outstanding December 31, 1939
1937
21
$3,030.86
1938
26
2,544.75
1939
36
7,305.15
Total 83 $12,880.76
Partial Payments on 10 Tax Titles
$516.12
Deposit on 1 Tax Title 100.00
The Town now holds through foreclosure of Tax Titles 10 pieces of property, the assessed valuation being $4,600.00.
Inventory of Town Property
Inventories of property from all departments, taken at the close of the year 1939, are in the hands of the Treasurer and may be inspected by any interested voter of the Town.
FRANK G. MACKENNA,
Town Treasurer.
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$4.285.97
673.69
REPORT OF BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF TRUST FUNDS
During the calendar year 1939 the following additional trust funds have been added to those under our management :
Cemetery Trust Funds
W. H. Gage $150.00
Loretta M. Butler 150.00
Hannah M. Loker 150.00
Changes in Investment :
In June, $3,000.00 Commonwealth Edison Company 314% bonds were called at 104. With the proceeds we purchased $2,000.00 People's Gas Light & Coke First Refunding 4s, July 1961. The balance was deposited in the savings bank.
In September, $3,000.00 New York Telephone Company bonds matured and were paid.
The Board has given careful consideration to the invested funds and particular consideration to the fact that some of the investments have been selling at a material depreciation from the par value at which they are carried on the books and that it appears unlikely in some cases that they will recover to their former values.
Under the form of accounting required by the State the entire amount of loss upon the sale of a bond at a loss must be charged to income. Therefore, to sell any bonds upon which there is a substantial loss would materially and most adversely affect the funds and the Department relying upon the income therefrom. The Board felt that it was impossible to make some sales under these circumstances, which they otherwise would have advised. To solve this problem and to make it possible in the future to consider the purchase and sale of bonds entirely upon their merits it was voted by the Board that a re- serve of 10% per annum of the income of all Town Trust Funds be established as a reserve against depreciation in the value of investments, said reserve to be expended only as in-
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structed by the Board, for example, to make up to the depart- ments any income which otherwise would be lost in any par- ticular year by reason of the sale of an investment at a discount. It was further voted that the Town Treasurer be forthwith in- structed to withhold such amount from the income of all Town Trust Funds of which the Board had any control. This is be- lieved by the Board to be a step in the right direction.
So far as we have been able to ascertain the Boards or De- partments affected by this ruling have cheerfully acquiesced. It is believed that this method will give future Boards of Com- missioners of Trust Funds a freedom of action which has not been available in the past.
Owing to the great difficulty in acquiring bonds of a satis- factory quality without paying substantial premiums and owing to the unfortunate necessity for charging all premiums against the income, which so severely penalizes the users of the Funds in case of such purchases under the form of accounting already commented upon, and owing also somewhat to the fact that the above mentioned reserve was to be established for the first time this year, the Board has very largely resorted to investment in the savings banks for re-investment of its funds. The choice of savings bank is carefully supervised by the Board and the Treasurer has invested all the above mentioned funds available, other than the $2,000.00 invested as above set forth, in the va- rious approved savings banks.
Respectfully submitted, JOHN W. LEAVITT, Chairman, J. REED MORSS, J. SIDNEY STONE, Clerk, Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds.
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REPORT OF THE TAX COLLECTOR For the Year 1939
Outstanding
TAXES OF 1934
Real Estate and Personal
1/1/39
Balance
$2.55
Collections
$2.55
Motor Excise
1/1/39
Balance
$11.54
Collections
$11.54
TAXES OF 1935
Real Estate and Personal
1/1/39
Balance
$309.66
Collections
$ 15.93
Abatements
164.96
Tax Titles
128.77
$309.66
Poll
1/1/39
Balance
$4.00
Collections
$2.00
Abatement
2.00
$4.00
Motor Excise
1/1/39
Balance
$38.91
Collections
$36.91
Abatement
2.00
$38.91
TAXES OF 1936
Real Estate and Personal
1/1/39
Balance
$2,373.64
Refund
4.77
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Adj. Tax Title
61.38
To Interest 6.38
$2,446.17
Collections
$2,100.33
Abatements
203.28
Tax Titles
136.24
2,439.85
$ 6.32
Apportioned Street Assessment
1/1/39
Balance
$5.00
Collections
$5.00
Committed Interest
1/1/39
Balance
$2.40
Collections
$2.40
Poll
1/1/39
Balance
$28.00
Adj. Warrant
2.00
Recalled Abatement
2.00
$32.00
Collections
$20.00
Abatements
12.00
$32.00
Motor Excise
1/1/39
Balance
$230.24
Collections
$54.25
Abatements
68.72
122.97
107.27
TAXES OF 1937
Real Estate and Personal
1/1/39
Balance
$21,537.34
Refund
50.60
T. T. Disclaimed
30.36
$21,618.30
Collections
$17,841.02
Abatements
427.57
Tax Titles
2,380.03
20,648.62
969.68
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Apportioned Street Assessment
1/1/39 Balance
$15.00
Collections
$15.00
Committed Interest
1/1/39
Balance
$6.30
Collections
$6.30
Poll
1/1/39
Balance
$132.00
Collections
$54.00
Abatements
52.00
106.00
26.00
Motor Excise
1/1/39
Balance
$714.35
Collections
$278.24
Abatements
130.66
408.90
305.45
TAXES OF 1938
Real Estate and Personal
1/1/39
Balance
$61,559.33
Refund
25.00
T. T. Disclaimed
39.12
$61,623.45
Collections
$31,934.34
Abatements
4.89
Tax Titles
3,361.71
35,300.94
26,322.51
Apportioned Street Assessment
1/1/39
Balance
$25.36
Collections
$10.36
10.36
15.00
Committed Interest
1/1/39
Balance
$8.16
Collections
$2.76
2.76
5.40
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Poll
1/1/39
Balance
$424.00
Collections
Abatements
$272.00 88.00
360.00
64.00
Moth
1/1/39
Balance
$208.75
Refunds
4.12
$212.87
Collections
$144.12
Tax Titles
12.00
156.12
56.75
Motor Excise
1/1/39
Balance
$499.24
Commitment
298.55
Refunds
36.28
$834.07
Collections
$529.91
Abatements
191.34
721.25
112.82
TAXES OF 1939
Real Estate and Personal
9/27/39
Commitment
$172,022.80
12/15/39
Commitment
169.95
Refunds
486.01
$172,678.76
Collections
$106,677.86
Abatements
2,511.20
Tax Titles
3,839.92
113,028.98
Poll
4/28/39
Commitment
$2,330.00
12/29/39
Commitment
4.00
Refunds
16.00
$2,350.00
59,649.78
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Collections
Abatements
$1,962.00 222.00
2,184.00
166.00
Apportioned Street Assessment C. G. S.
9/27/39 Commitment Collections $12.50
$32.86
12.50
20.36
Committed Interest C. G. S.
9/27/39 Commitment Collections $3.75
3.75
Apportioned Street Assessment
9/27/39
Commitment-Nob Hill
$909.66
Collections
$148.79
Tax Titles
8.80
157.59
752.07
Moth
9/27/39
Commitment
$251.50
Collections
$174.55
Tax Titles
13.50
188.05
63.45
Water Liens
9/27/39
Commitment
$2,791.85
Collections
$696.71
Tax Titles
120.92
817.63
1,974.22
Motor Excise
2/28/39 Commitment
$1,311.31
4/28/39 Commitment
3,694.16
6/ 9/39 Commitment
2,649.12
8/25/39 Commitment
1,080.35
12/ 7/39
Commitment
947.00
1/ 5/40
Commitment Refunds
177.89
251.50
$10,111.95
$8.89
5.14
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Collections
Abatements
$7,694.14 896.76
8,590.90
1,521.05
12/31/39 Total Taxes Outstanding $92,143.27
THEODORE H. HARRINGTON, Collector of Taxes, Town of Wayland.
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ASSESSORS' REPORT For the Year Ending December 31, 1939
Real Estate Assessed January 1, 1938
$5,068,716.00 462,681.00
Personal Property Assessed January 1, 1938
$5,531,397.00
Real Estate Assessed January 1, 1939
$5,083,475.00
Personal Estate Assessed January 1, 1939
483,601.00
$5,567,076.00
Polls Assessed
1,165
Horses Assessed
59
Cows Assessed
298
Other Neat Cattle Assessed
:35
Swine Assessed
432
Goats Assessed
39
Fowl Assessed
7,974
Dwelling Houses Assessed
1,236
Acres of Land Assessed
8,698
December Assessment-Real Estate
5,500.00
Supplementary Polls
2
Motor Vehicles-Value, $347,400.00-Tax, $9,866.45
Exempt Property-United States Commonwealth
400.00
Town, Personal and Real
Schools, Personal and Real
$178,500.00
Parks, Real
25,800.00
Fire Dept., Personal and real
16,300.00
Police Dept., Personal 400.00
Water Dept., Personal and real 343,500.00
Moth Dept., Personal 1,000.00
Highway Dept., Personal
125,000.00
Town Hall, Personal and real
30,500.00
Library, Personal and real 40,000.00
Cemeteries
3,500.00
$764,500.00
1,500.00
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Church Property Hannah Williams Playground American Legion Parsonages
$145,300.00
2,000.00
15,700.00
11,025.00
174,025.00
Widows
38,750.00
Veterans
9,950.00
48,700.00
Total Exempt Property
$988,950.00
Tax Levy 1939
Assessed for Town Purposes
$211,043.14
Deficit in overlay, 1934-1935
14.04
State Tax-Estimated
$15.840.00
State Tax-1938, underestimated
7.920.00
State Park Tax-estimated
247.77
State Park Tax-1938, underestimated
14.92
24,022.69
County Tax-estimated
7,563.50
County Tax-1939, underestimated
12.56
Tuberculosis Hospital
2,657.23
10,233.29
Overlay-1939
3,102.15
Gross to be raised
$248,415.31
Estimated Receipts and Available Funds
Income
$13,876.79
Corporations
98.16
State Grant-Special
9,875.47
Veterans' Exemption
33.32
Overestimated 1938
Motor Vehicles
8,000.00
Licenses
4,445.00
Fines
159.00
Special assessments
500.00
Highways
45.00
Soldiers' Benefits
620.00
Soldiers' Exemption
76.53
Schools
1,474.35
Library
81.26
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Cemeteries
742.00
Interest
3,654.90
Weights and Measures
36.80
Old Age Assistance
11,955.93
Welfare
Rent
115.00
Poll Tax Fees
84.05
Release Deeds
32.00
$55,905.56
Available Funds
18,156.95
$74,062.51
Assessed
$174,352.80
On Polls and Property On Polls
On Personal Property
$ 2,330.00 14,943.27 157,079.38 .15
Fractional Error
$174,352.80
Moth Tax
$ 251.50
Betterments-Nob Hill
909.66
Betterments-Castle Gate Road
32.86
Interest Committed
8.89
Water Liens
2,791.85
3,994.76
Committed to Collector
$178,347.56
Property Rate
$30.00
Excise Rate
35.90
DANIEL BRACKETT, WILLARD C. HUNTING, CLARENCE S. WILLIAMS, Assessors of Wayland.
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On Real Property
REPORT OF THE WAYLAND PLANNING BOARD For the Year 1939
At the annual town meeting held in March, 1939, the townspeople voted almost unanimously to adopt the Zoning By- Law changes recommended in the special report presented to the meeting by this Board. These changes were later submit- ted by the Board to the Attorney-General and were duly ap- proved by him as required by law.
The most important of these changes was that made in the provisions relating to minimum lot sizes and frontages. The moderate increase in the minimum requirements applicable in certain sections of the town should help greatly in preserving the rural character of the town and at the same time should do much to encourage the building of attractive new homes here.
As a result of the construction by the Metropolitan District Commission of the new aqueduct across the southerly part of the town, a number of problems were presented during the year for the Board's attention. Members of the Board conferred with the Commission engineers, and, as a result, the original plans for the aqueduct were modified in such a way as to avoid, so far as possible, any unnecessary dislocation of town roads and water pipes or interference with present and future prop- erty developments in Woodland Park. The need of the town assessors for a new assessors' plan of the locality affected, which would show the changes in property ownership resulting from land takings for the aqueduct, was met, without expense to the town, when the Acting Chief Engineer of the Commission kind- ly agreed, at the request of this Board, to prepare such a plan free of charge. This plan will show all of the land taken per- manently in fee by the state and also the land to be taken in temporary easement only, and will include the area known as Castlegate North and possibly other adjacent areas. From the original drawing of this plan, a number of prints may be made that should be of real value to various town boards who are at present without any detailed and up-to-date plan of this par- ticular region.
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In order to make possible the orderly development of cer- tain land on Plain Road, a survey was made, under our direc- tion, to establish the street lines of Plain Road between Con- cord Road and Glen Street. Nine stone bounds were purchased and set out on the lines established by this survey. Three other stone bounds were purchased to be set out on the property lines of Millbrook Park.
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