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school, the labors of the teacher have been very great, while at the same time, the multitude of classes pre- vented her devoting sufficient time with any. Some who know little of the labors and duties of a teacher in a school like this, may find fault because everything is not done, that would require the labors of two, but we know that faithful service has been done by this teacher, and good progress been made by the pupils.
THE HIGH SCHOOL IN EAST RANDOLPH.
T. F. Currier, A. B., under whom this school first opened, has continued in charge of the school to the present time, and it has met with all the success its friends and patrons could have anticipated. The stand- ard of admission to the school was placed high, so that the school has not as yet, been large, though averaging during the year fifty-two, but for the year to come, the school will probably number between sixty and seventy. The result has shown that the standard of admission was placed none too high, for the permanent benefit, both of the school and the pupils.
The management of the school has been very judi- cious, and such as has been calculated to develope the higher faculties and nobler instincts of nature. The de- portment of the pupils has been remarkably high and their standing in their several classes, usually corres- ponding. Though the number of pupils has not been large, still the great advance of some in the classics, higher mathematics and the sciences, has ren- dered the labors of the principal by no means light, and both himself and Miss Mary E. Lincoln, who has been associated with him as assistant teacher, have well and
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faithfully applied themselves to the duties that have devolved upon them, and no person with any adequate idea of a high school could witness an examination of this and not be impressed with its necessity in that part of the town, and with the conviction that it is affording to its pupils an opportunity for a sound, prac- tical and superior education.
The examinations have been pursued only half a day each time, that should have taken one or two days, and in future will receive it. In the fall, the examination was mostly upon the lower classes, Arithmetic, Alge- bra, History, Natural Philosophy, and Geometry; in the winter, upon the higher classes. Both examina- tions were highly gratifying, making it evident that the pupils were not crammed with learning, but were instructed in the method of acquiring it themselves, and
left mainly to their own efforts for success.
The most
advanced classes have completed Virgil, Tacitus, Ger- mania, Geometry and Trigonometry, and their familiari- ty with those classic authors, and their critical knowledge of the language, and their mastery over the higher mathematics is scarcely surpassed any where outside of a College.
Since writing the above, we reget to learn that Mr. Currier has decided not to continue his labors in this school.
THE STETSON SCHOOL.
This school is solely under the charge of the Trustees of the Stetson Fund, but our connection with the school the past year, in carrying out the vote of the town, to co-operate with the Trustees, in so extending its capac- ity, as to receive into it the advanced female, as well as
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male scholars of the town, makes it proper that we should include it in our Report, and beside this the important place which the Stetson school now fills in the town, would render a report upon the educational interest of the town quite incomplete without including it.
Probably no scheme for years has had a more marked and beneficial effect upon education, in the town, than the change made in this school, the past year. Order, system and progress at once take the place of confusion and uncertainty. From the first step in the primary to the highest class in the high school, there is now an open field and a clear track, on both sides of the town, and scholars, male and female, while enjoying the pro- tection and blessings of home, may obtain, in our public schools, an education sufficient to admit them to any college . in the land. This is as it should be. The whole number attending the Stetson school, since open- ing in its present condition, in September, has been sixty-seven, the average attendance sixty-five. The examination of the school commenced on Thursday, the 21st of March, and was to have continued two days, but the severe snow storm of Thursday night continuing on Friday, the examination was not resumed. So far as the examination of 'Thursday went, it exhibited a very gratifying condition of the school, and we may safely say its success has been greater than the most sanguine anticipated. The teachers are John F. Colby, A. B., as principal, and Miss Mary I. Peabody, as assistant.
It is to be hoped, that with the present facilities for acquiring knowledge, the young will not be satisfied with even superior acquirements in the common branches of reading, writing, arithmetic and grammar,
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or even with the higher attainments of Algebra and Ge- ometry, but that they will devote themselves also to the study of the Natural Sciences, Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, and kindred branches. A year or two in the time of youth, spent upon these studies, will enlarge and strengthen the mind, and furnish the means of thought, improvement and mental enjoyment through all subsequent life. Let parents and those who have the charge of the youth think upon this matter, and encourage them in pursuing their studies, that they may not grow impatient of the restraints of the school room, or become eager to plunge prematurely into the busy scenes of active life.
It will be seen by the foregoing, that in our opinion, all the schools in town have been in a great measure, successful-in other words, that there has been nothing like a failure in any of the numerous schools-a thing scarcely to be expected where so many are to be dealt with. We consider that we were fortunate in our selection of teachers and in their locations, and we are of the opinion that the having a member of the school committee in each district, greatly conduced to the successful result of the past year, for we are quite sure that in a few instances, unless the teachers had had a member of the committee within a few minutes' call, on whom they could and did rely for countenance and sup- port, troubles would have arisen which would have greatly injured, if not broken up the schools. The sys- tem which we have adopted, of having female teachers the year round in all our schools, except the High and Grammar schools, renders it necessary that each district have a member of the committee to overawe the stub-
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born and intractable, as well as to look after the build- ings and other affairs connected with the interests of the school, which can be done without expense by a man who lives near by, while, if a member of the committee can only be had from a remote part of the town, expense must be incurred, of course. It is matter of much regret to us who have seen the importance of having a member of the committee in each district, or within what was formerly the districts, that this subject failed to receive at the last annual meeting, the attention it ought, and that from prejudice or other unfounded cause, the town should so summarily reduce the number of the past year, especially when it was shown that the large committee was less expensive than the smallest had been some previous years.
VENTILATION.
This is a matter of great importance, and we wish to call the attention of the town to the great deficiency in all the school rooms in town, in proper ventilation.
At all times of life, pure air is of the first importance for the preservation of health, but more especially in childhood and youth, when the physical organization is in process of developement. Let the most careless ob- server but for a moment consider the quantity of air one set of lungs inspires at a single breath, holding it sufficiently long to consume its vital virtues, then eject- ing it in such a condition that it could scarcely support a burning lamp, if confined to it alone a single moment, and then consider what condition the air must be in, that is confined within the walls of an ordinary school room, in a short time, with from fifty to a hundred sets
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of lungs rapidly and constantly consuming its vitality, and in addition to this, to consider that for hours, the brain of those confined in this vitiated and poisoned air is expected to be kept in active operation, any one can see that the effect must be bad, in the extreme.
Several of the school rooms are provided with a com- munication with the chimney, through an opening the size of an ordinary stove pipe, which is very well as far it goes, but its relief in a school room is scarcely, if at all perceptible.
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE IN EAST RANDOLPH.
The condition of affairs in District No. 9, requires the attention of the town. The old school house is in a bad state of repair, and, if it is to be used for the prima- ry and intermediate school in future, will need thorough repairs outside and in, and probably enlargement for the accommodation of the intermediate department. There is, however, abundance of school room in the district, if suitably located. In the new high school building is a large and commodious room, in excellent condition for the intermediate school, only that with many in the dis- trict, there are objections to removing the intermediate school from its present location. The old house is evi- dently in the best location for the primary school, what- ever the town may think it best to do with the interme- diate.
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SUGGESTIONS.
We are more and more impressed with the impor- tance of thorough and practical instruction in our schools. There is a tendency in scholars often to make rapid advances in their studies, without regard to the knowledge of their principles or practical application, and in some instances the teachers may have encouraged this, while in others the teachers have been found fault with, both by scholars and parents, because the scholars have been compelled to go back to principles which they have never thoroughly understood.
We are fully convinced of, the propriety of and benefit arising from, singing in the schools and have found es- pecially among the primary schools, that where singing for a minute or two at a time, is introduced with the other exercises, it relieves the tedium and removes the feeling of uneasiness and restlessness. Practising the positions-an exercise in many of the schools-has also an excellent effect upon the discipline in the school room.
The Selectmen, in their annual report, included all the items of expenditure, in relation to schools, the past year, and it would be useless for us to repeat the same.
The public schools were kept 36 weeks during the year.
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The appropriation of the town, for the sup- port of schools, was $6000 00
To which was added the income of the Cod- dington Fund,
93 50
The receipts from the State School Fund,
255 43
$6348 93
Expenditures for the schools, including $300 to the Stetson School, $5908 17
Balance unexpended,
$440 76
Whole number of scholars, in the schools, in town,
1368
Average daily attendance,
1062
No. of scholars, over 15 years of age,
80
No. of scholars, under 5 years of age, 69
Expense, per scholar, excluding the Stetson School, $4 54
ISAAC TOWER, CHAIRMAN,
RICHARD STEVENS, J. FRANK PORTER, NATHAN WHITE,
Super-
DAVID WHITE,
GEORGE CUSHING,
intending
WALES FRENCH, JR., IRA W. LEWIS,
School
ABEL B. BERRY,
ELISHA WALES THAYER,
Committee.
DAVID BLANCHARD, JR., EDSON M. ROEL,
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ADDENDA .- In the report upon the Intermediate School, in District No. 6, it should be, that the whole number of scholars, was seventy-two, average attend- ance, forty-five.
Names of Scholars, who were not absent during the past year:
Georgiana Burbank,
Abbie Bowman, Elvira Blanchard,
Annie Rowe, Emma Ryan,
Marietta Curtis, Ella Crooker.
Almira Crooker.
Ella Clark,
Lilla Shankland, Mary Strickland, Emma Tower, H. Ellen Thayer,
Hattie Estabrook, Charlotte English,
Lela Gifford, Annie Gill,
Mary Wales, Jennie White, Clara Wood, Lydia Wilde,
Emma Veazic,
Avis Holbrook, Martha Houghton,
L. Alden,
Ella Jones,
Jesse Belcher,
Esther Kingsley, Mary A. Kiernan.
Mary J. O'Brien,
J. W. Chessman, Francis Curran, Eddie Curran,
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John Cahill,
Leonard Payne,
Enos Holbrook,
Francis Riley,
Loring Jones,
Eddie Sullivan,
Emerson Leach,
Edson Tucker, Alfred Tucker, Lewis Turner,
Wm. McCaughey, John McCaughey,
Harvey Mann,
Frank Whitmarsh, John Whalen.
Frank Ormsby, William Ormsby,
Had the names of those who have been absent only on account of sickness, been added, the list would have been more than doubled.
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REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN,
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR,
AND SUPERINTENDING SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF THE
TOWN OF RANDOLPH,
TOGETHER WITH THE
REPORTS OF THE TREASURER. TIIE
TRUSTEES OF THE STETSON SCHOOL FUND,
AND THE
ENGINEERS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 1, 1862.
RANDOLPH : SAMUEL P. BROWN, PRINTER. 1862.
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN,
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, AND SUPERINTENDING SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF THE
TOWN OF RANDOLPH,
TOGETHER WITH THE
REPORTS OF THE TREASURER, THE
TRUSTEES OF THE STETSON SCHOOL FUND,
AND THE
ENGINEERS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 1, 1862.
RANDOLPH :
SAMUEL P. BROWN, PRINTER.
1862.
MAY 1 4 1963
SELECTMEN AND OVERSEERS' REPORT.
The Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor submit the following as their report of the Appropriations and Expenditures of the Town "for the financial year ending February 1, 1862 :
Appropriations by Vote of the Town.
For Schools (including $550 for Stetson High School)
$6,550 00
Repairs of Highways,
2,000 00
Other Town Expenses,
9,000 00
Apparatus for Dist. No. 9,
200 00
State Tax,
1,005 00
County Tax,
3,289 80
Overlay,
976 28
23,021 08
Received from State School Fund,
$242 97
64 Coddington Fund, viz :
Sales of Salt Grass, 34 88
Divideud of Randolph Bank, 60 00
$337 85
Valuation of Town, May 1, 1861,
$2,625,260 00
No. of Polls taxed, 1,346
.80
Rate of taxation on each $ 100, Poll tax, $1 50
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The whole number of orders drawn during the year, including one of $1,000 00 drawn by Military Committee, is 294 for 552 bills; amounting to $24,738 43. These bills analyzed and condensed present the following result, viz :
EXPENSES OF SCHOOLING IN 1860-61.
FOR TEACHING.
Paid T. F. Currier,
12 weeks,
$250 00
Mary H. French,
38
66
152 00
Emalie J. Pratt,
38
196 00
E: Cottle,
23
66
465 76
Hattie A. Belchet,
24
190 00
Sarah E. Shankland,
38
234 00
H. M. Roel,
38
190 00
Hannah F. Thayer,
38
152 00
Isadora Arnold,
39
6 :
202 00
Mary E. Lincoln,
36
66
203 00
Annie M. Thayer,
25
66
137 00
Ella O. Tower,
38
152 00
Mary J. White,
39
156 00
Laura A. Odell,
39
234 00
Janette F. Odell,
12
~ 48 00
Maria L. Poole,
39
207 00
Celinda Belchei;
39
156 00
Rachel A. Thayer,
12
66
72 00
Jennie B. Spear.
39
183 00
Caroline F. French,
26
66
104 00
Mary F. Vining;
5
25 00
Emma Dunbar,
12
60 00
Myra V. Clark;
13
65 00
Lucinda Thayer;
13
:
52 00
Jennie E. Henry;
14
70 00
Adelia Payne,
13
65 00
C. R. Veažie;
39
207 00
Abbie P. Blake,
10
65 00
Emily Copeland,
27
66
135 00
Mary P. Wild,
19
83 00
Mary J. Wright,
12
66
72 00
66
5
Paid George A. Marden;
6 weeks,
83 28
J. A. Towle,
4 terms,
433 34
Ada Belcher,
22 weeks,
88 00
Adeline Harris,
12
66
60 00
Lizzie H. Thayer,
14
70 00
$5,317 38
For Wood and Coal.
Paid John Adams,
$1 25
Nathan White,
4 41
D. Blanchard, Jr.
2 00
Lewis S. Belcher,
2 25
Samuel [ .. White,
3 75
Hiram Wales,
167 75
Moses French,
5 25
Simeon White,
2 00
Ira W. Lewis,
2 50
Wales French, Jr.
90 00
H. O. Weld,
69 94
H. M. White,
2 75
Hiram Belchet,
13 00
Hiram Jones,
11 00
$377 85
For Preparing Fuel.
Paid J. Howard,
53
D. Blanchard, Jr.
1 33
Ira W. Lewis,
2 50
Ezra Gill,
5 59
George Meader,
67
Hiram Belcher,
3 08
John Curtis,
3 25
$16 95
Care of Schoo' Houses.
Paid John Gill,
$6 00
John A. Blood,
6 00
Lewis Holbrook,
8 66
Henry W. Payne,
20 00
6
Paid Maria L. Poole,,
Mrs. Hollis,
1 00
Harriet M. Arnold,
8 50
Henrietta Sawin,
8 50
Weston Mann,
4 11
Celinda Belcher,
7 50
Richard Stevens,
14 06
Isaac Tower,
11 56
Ephraim H. Thayer,
12 00
Ira W. Lewis,
30 00
L. R. Peterson,
19 33
William Shedd,
4 67
John Williams,
4 00
A. B. Berry,
1 00
F .. Copeland,
2 40
E. W. Thayer,
6 50
Annie M. Thayer,
1 62
Mrs. B. Mahady,
16 00
Louisa Thayer,
3 00
Seth A. King,
3 00
Mrs. E. Doyle,
62
Jennie B. Spear,
3 50
Oren Fogg,
8 00
Edward Thayer,
4 75
Eldora Thayer,
3 00
Theodore Walsh,
7 20
$234 48
Paid Hiram Belcher for rent of school room, $30 00
John Long, 62 50-$92 50
Paid Town of Stoughton for schooling for 8 scholars, $34 46
Paid Appropriation by vote of town for Stetson school, $550 00
Expense for Schooling 1860 1861
Paid for Teachers,
5 317 38
Wood and Coal,
377 85
Preparing Fuel,
16 95
Care of school rooms
234 48
Rent of school rooms,
92 50
Teaching in Stoughton,
34 46
Appropriation for Stetson School,
550 00
Total, :6623 62
8 00
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Furniture and Repairs of School Houses.
Paid Leonard Faunce for use of well,
$3 00
Nathan White for repairing pump,
2 25
Thomas B. Howard repairs and Lumber,
3 95
Isaac Tower repairs, 4 15
J. D. F. Lyons, repairs,
5 00
J. B. Thayer work on blackboard,
5 99
J. B. Thayer labor and stock Stetson school room,
54 72
E. W. Lincoln, paint,
4 17
Wales French, Jr. for paying sundry bills,
6 27
George C. Platt glass and setting,
4 90
Joseph L. Ross, chairs, settees, &c.,
44 24
Wm. O. Haske!], 345 10
F. M. Roel, furniture,
3 23
T. E. Wortman, stoves, shovels, brooms, hods, and repairs, 219 00
E. H. Kingman, moving Engine House,
13 50
C. Morton Jr. paper and hooks,
1 66
David Blanchard, Jr. repairs,
50
I. W. Ingell, repairs,
6 92
B. K. Flanders, blackboard,
5 81
Linus Belcher, lumber,
30 02
Isaac Jackson, lumber, Stetson school room,
22 88
B. Dickerman, Jr. & Co., stationary,
2 26
David White, repairs,
13 27
John F. Porter, setting glass,
2 25
Charles Foster,
4 18
H. Merrit, repairs,
79
Francis Townsend, stationary,
24 24
E. W. Thayer, for bell, &c.
4 52
A. B. Berry, paying sundry bills,
5 24
J. E. Nash, clocks,
14 50
Ira W. Lewis, brooms, &c.
2 31
Peter A. Wales, repairing pump,
50
Wm. Cole, Jr., express,
12 51
James S. Daniels, repairs,
7 03
G. W. and F. Smith, iron columns,
13 98
Geo. C. Platt, painting,
68 38
Lemuel Wentworth, repairs,
29 67
Aaron A. Prescott,
5 33
Ebenezer Moulton,
23 99 .
C. Morton, Jr. furniture,
5 08
8
Paid J. A. Towle, books, Brown and Taggard, for schoel books, 2 40 R. W. Turner, glass and hardware, J. L. Brown, paint and painting. 39 17
1 62
3 68
Total, 1074 16 School Apparatus. Paid J. M. Wightman, (by vote of town) $19 25
A. B. Chamberlain, and sons, (town appropriation,) 200 00
Total, $219 25
REPAIRS OF HIGHWAYS.
District No. 1 .- A. E. DuBois, Surveyor.
Paid A. E. DuBois, 17 2-10 days' work, $17 20
James Lyons with horse and cart 11 1-3 days, 25 5,7
James Lyons, labor 10} days, 10 50
Obediah Jones, for hand, 2 horses and cart 42 days, 15 75 Ephraim Mann, 66 3 66 10 50
Thomas Littlefield with horse and cart 1 day,
2 25
Richard Adams,
" 1 day, 2 25
Nathan White, with oxen and cart, 3 hours,
1 25
Owen Nary, for horse and cart, ¿ day,
63
James Good, for labor 7 3-5 days,
7 60
Thomas Farrell,
8 7-10 days,
8 70
10 1-5 days,
10 20
John Reynolds, Forrest, 2 days,
2 00
Simeon Linfield, 4 1-10 days,
4 12
O'Brien, 2 days,
2 00
A. W. Whitcomb, « 1 day,
1 00
Leahey, 1} day,
1 50
9
Paid Patrick Sheridan, labor 1 day,
1 00
McLaughlin, “ 1 day, 1 00
Thomas Dwyer, “ 3 days,
3 00
John S. Littlefield,« 1 day,
1 00
Hill, 1 day,
1 00
Bernard Purcell, 3 days,
3 00
John P. Turner, ¿ day,
50
Daniel Kelliher, 1 day,
1 00
66 blasting rocks,
3 50
Joseph W. Harris, for labor,
44
Charles Weeks,
25
John Logue, 66
75
A. E. Dubois, for making sluiceway, for sharpening tools,
1 80
A. E. DuBois, for 109 loads of gravel,
5 83
Ebenezer Alden, for 90 loads of gravel,
4 29
Joshua Spear, (guardian ) for 50 loads of gravel,
1 50
$154 63
District No. 2 .- HIRAM BELCHER, Surveyor.
Paid Hiram Belcher, with 3 cattle and 2 carts, 68 00
John A. Blood, 3 cattle and 1 cart, 12 00
Benjamin Ford, for 15₺ days' labor, Jacob Buker, 15
15 00
Phineas Davis, 7
8 75
Job Harris, 9 66
9 00
Henry Joy, 4₺
4 50
Elias Miller, 3 66
2 50
Lewis Holbrook, 2
66
2 50
Samuel Baker, for 74 loads of grave!,
4 44
Jonathan White, for 118 loads of gravel, 7 08
George Belcher, 16 loads of gravel, 96
$150 23
2
1 75
15 50
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District No. 3 .- ELISHA MANN, Jr., Surveyor.
Paid Elisha Mann, Jr. for horse and cart, 13} days,
$17 19
Elisha Mann, Jr. labor, 184 days, 18 25
Nathan White, oxen and hand, 12 days, 5 50
Alvan Mann, 3 cattle team and hand, 1 day, 3 50
H. P. Mann, 2 horses, cart and hand, 2 days,
7.00
H. P. Mann, 1 horse, cart and hand, 1 day, 2 25
Ephraim Mann 2 horses, cart and hand, 2 days, 7 00
Ephraim Mann, 1 horse, cart and hand, ¿ day, 1 13
Ephraim Mann, oxen and hand, 1 1-5 day, 4 25
Joshua Hunt, cart, and hand 2 days,
7 00
James Geralds, labor, 10} days,
10 50
Andrew Tracy, labor, 9} days,
9 50
George W. Tabor, labor, 142 days,
14 75
John A. Mann, labor, 1 day,
1 00
George Meader, labor, 82 days,
8 75
T. Howard Mann, labor, 32 days,
3 50
Charles Lamb, labor, 5 days,
5 00
Simeon Howard, labor, 12 days,
1 75
John Dunton, labor, 1 day,
1 00
George S. Wilbur, labor, 3 days,
3 00
Joshua Hunt, labor, 32 days,
3 75
C. H. Wild, labor, 8} days,
8 25
A. J. Mann, horse 1 day,
1 00
John Evans, carting 4 loads of gravel,
1 00
Boys picking stones,
1 75
Roel & Nichols, blasting rocks,
12 42
Wm. Campbell, sharpening tools,
1 68
Ephraim Mann, use of plough,
1 00
Ephraim Mann, 45 loads of gravel,
1 80
Charles Lamb, 30 loads of gravel,
90
Joshua Hunt, 10 loads of gravel,
60
$165 97
District No. 4 .- LEWIS J. HOLLIS, Surveyor.
Paid Lewis J. Hollis, for labor, 19} days, $19 50
Aaron Hollis, for horse and cart, 132 days, 16 87
E. S. Belcher, for horse and cart, 122 days, 15 62
William French, for team work, 1 day, 2 75
Lemuel Hollis, for labor, 18 days,
18 50
11
Paid O. H. P. Hodge, for labor, 10 days,
10 00
Augustus Belcher, for labor, 18} days, 18 50
Daniel Faxon, for labor, 4} days, 4 50
Aaron Hollis, for labor, 13} days, Madison Hayden, for labor, 8 days, Adm. Pendergrass, for labor, 4 days, Washington Madan, for labor, 1 day, Allen Crocker, for sharpening tools,
13 50
8 00
4 00
1 00
1 00
133 74
District No. 5 .- AMASA CLARK, Surveyor.
Paid Amasa Clark, for labor,
$9 67
Joshua Spear, for team and hand, 5 days,
20 00
Nathan White, for team and hand, 5 days,
20 00
Alvan Mann, for team and hand. 4 days,
16 00
Lewis Jones, for labor, 5 days,
5 00
A. C. Kimball, for labor, 11 days,
11 00
Noah Cheesman, for labor, 8 days,
8 00
Peter Howard, for labor, 9} days,
9 50
Samuel Howard, for labor, 3 days,
3 00
George Burrill, for labor, ¿ day,
50
Martin L. Eddy, for labor, 1 day,
1 00
Amasa Clark, for 237 loads of gravel,
13 62
$117 29
District No. 6 .- JONATHAN THAYER, Surveyor.
Paid Jonathan Thayer, for labor, 294 days,
$36 12
Jonathan Thayer, for horse, 162 days,
16 50
E. N. Thayer, for horse, 9 days, 9 00
Jacob Niles, for use of cart, 16} days,
4 12
Jacob Niles, for man and horse, 1 day,
1 83
Joshua Spear, for hand and team, ¿ day,
1 75
Isaac Niles, Jr., for labor, 15 days,
18 75
Thomas Clark, for labor, 18₺ days,
18 50
E. H. Thayer, for labor, 6 days,
4 50
Jona. Mann, for labor, 9 days,
7 50
Sullivan Jones, for labor,
1 50
Adam F. Jones, for labor,
75
Jonathan Thayer, for 137 loads of gravel ,
7 96
12
Paid Joseph Mann, Jr., for 68 loads of gravel, 3 30
Simeon Smith, for 8 loads of gravel, 48 James Carrol, for 8 loads of gravel, 48
$133 04
District No. 7 .- MOSES W. WHITCOMB, Surveyor.
Paid Moses W. Whitcomb, with horse and cart, 152 days, $34 88 Moses W. Whitcomb, for labor, 7 days, 7 00
Wales French, Jr., with horse and cart, 82 days, 19 13
Wales French, Jr., for labor, 4 days, 4 00
George Abbot, with horse and cart, 72 days, . 16 87
George Abbot, for labor, 23 days, 2 50
J. Wentworth, with horse and cart, 4 days,
9 00
J. Wentworth, for labor, 4 days,
4 00
J. W. Harris, for labor, 62 days,
6 50
J. Curtis, for labor, 122 days,
12 75
Richard Hogan, for labor, 12} days, 12 50
Martin Gay, for labor, 6} days,
6 50
P. Kearnan, for labor, 52 days,
5 50
J. Desmond, for labor, 42 days,
4 50
T. Dollard, for labor, 42 days,
4 50
Marcus Hollis, for labor, 3 days,
3 00
66 66 for work on bridge,
75
for repairing tools,
1 05
Ebenezer Alden, for 249 loads of gravel,
5 67
P. McMahon, for 77 loads of gravel, 2 31
Mrs. S. Tolman, for 33 loads of gravel, 1 00
Moses Whitcomb, for 40 loads of gravel,
1 20
$165 11
District No. 8 .- JONATHAN WALES, Surveyor.
Paid Jonathan Wales, for horse and cart, 27} days, $34 06
Michael Buckley, for horse and cart, 42 days, 6 93
William Cole, Jr., for horse and cart, 3 days, 3 75
Nathan White, for hand, 3 cattle, 2 carts, 32 days, 13 81 Obediah Jones, for hand, 2 horses and cart, 1 day,
John Wales, for horse and cart, 7 days, 8 75
3 00
C. Ward, for labor, 372 days, 37 75
T. M. O'Neil, for labor, 272 days, 27 75
Joseph Hunt, for labor, 262 days, 26 75
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