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Our schools have more or less been accustomed to recite in concert. Concert of action is sure to remove the mountain, but concert in recitation, does not make sure that all scholars of the reciting class have thoroughly learned their lesson. It no doubt assists to a consid- erable extent, the bashful and backward and ought to be continued and practiced at the introduction, or the first commencement of schol- ars attending school. Some authors of school books have, perhaps wisely, set forward the first and last letters to an answer, which is preceded by the question ; this too, does very well for young begin- ners; but scholars should very soon become habituated to answer without concert, or depending upon the first and last letters of words or syllables being written or told them.
There is more need of strength to the memory than humor, though humor may be necessary to a limited extent. Some teachers after putting a question to a scholar, habitually commence the answer for the scholar by reciting the first letter, syllable or word of the answer in order that the scholar may more readily bring the answer to mind. This may be also admitted as of utility at the first commencement of the young pupils committing to memory, but ought not to be permitted in the middle and higher classes. By this manner of teaching, we are liable to be deceived in the real advancement of scholars. A teacher
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well skilled in this, or any of the former indulgences, may aggrandize himself and enter upon a successful reputation as a teacher, which might not be due him.
Singing as a change of exercise, ought to be cherished in all the schools; for it has the same due influence upon the teacher and scholars, as does the choir at the church upon the minister and con- gregation.
Our scholars are not all native-born citizens, and many who are native-born originate from foreign parents, who are unable to educate them other than at our common schools. Soon the boys of our Irish population will become American citizens, and through the ballot box will be called upon to act their part in carrying on the government which is to guard and protect the lives and the dearest interests of our children. Is it not our duty to do our utmost to qualify these desti- tute children to discharge with ability the trust that is soon to be put into their hands ? If we allow an ignorant and an uncivilized people to grow up in our midst, we must expect that our offspring will be perpetually exposed to the popular freaks and commotions of the illit- erate masses of the world.
Our children should be saved, not only from the contaminations of immorality, but from the contagion of coarse manners. Before the habits of youth are formed, they are as easily formed to civility and decorum as to rudeness and vulgarity ; or, if they are not as easily moulded to the former as to the latter, then the need of good breed- ing, in order to make up this difference in natural tendency, becomes so much the more urgent. If prepossessions for uncouth and inele- gant manners can once be formed in the minds of children, a natural aptitude for what is low and unseemly once developed, they will re- main a part of their constitution forever. Subsequent opportunities and efforts may relieve and partially conceal their grossness ; yet, like the inner layer of a tree, which has been diseased in its youth, though the health and vigor of a hundred subsequent years may cover them over a hundred circles of beautiful fibre, the unsoundness within will remain forever.
Our system of education is susceptible of considerable improve- ment. We may hold our colleges and other high institutions of learn- ing as reservoirs of science and other usefulness, and let every branch of science in the known world be there deposited, with due proportion of faculty always in readiness to administer it. Then let all our com- mon schools emanate from these reservoirs, and raise the schools to a standard capable of educating any and every child in every branch of English education ; and it should be so considered that a scholar who graduates with all the honors which our schools could confer upon him, should be entitled to all the confidence of the highest respecta- bility in all his future domestic circles, so far as book education is concerned. As an illustration we can make this Cochituate compar- ison.
The dam and that which holds Long Pond, is our college ; the pond is our science ; the principal conductor of the water to Boston, is our Board of Education ; the branch conductors from the main conductor are our school committees and teachers ; the places of dis-
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charge are our school-houses. Who in Boston does not prefer his child's draft there, rather than send him to dip his mug at Framingham, amid the impurities there surrounding. Parents should have their children close under their care while being educated. Remember that education does not entirely consist of merely reading of books ; there is a practical part to be learned which may in a great measure be ac- complished with the mental education, and, as opportunity occurs, if at home, we can direct them to the farm, the work-shop, or the count- ing room,-both be accomplished during the same space of time, and the health and vigor of the student not so likely to be impaired.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
ELEAZER BEAL, LEVI PAINE,
Superintending THOMAS DRIVER,
School Committee.
Randolph, March 24, 1852.
EXTRACT OF COURT DECISIONS.
Payment of a teacher's wages by the town to any Committee, does not discharge the town, if the teacher does not receive the money .- Clark vs. Great Barrington, 11 Pick. 260.
When the Prudential Committee of a district hires a teacher, he acts as the agent of the town and not of the district, and therefore the teacher's claim is not upon the Committee but upon the town .- 1b.
The teacher of a town school is not liable to an action by a parent for refusing to instruct his children .- Spear vs. Cummings, 23 Pick. 224.
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Town of Randolph in account with Eleazer Beal, Treasurer, 1851-2.
DR.
To paying sundry Town Orders of the Selectmen num-
bered 1 to 146 inclusive, . $7,779 56
Treasury Note, No. 28, . 100 00
Sexton's returns of deaths and recording the same ; also record of marriages; also collect- ing statistics of births and recording the same, 57 25
66 Incidental,
1 65
Interest on Town Debt and to Randolph Bank on money, .
1,065 40
Balance to be placed to new account,
6,491 76
$15,495 62
CR
By Balance of last year's account, . . $4,500 80
" Cash of Gideon Howard, Ludden Farm, 180 00
" sale of salt grass, .
18 88
" Cash of State on account of paupers, £
320 95
" school fund, . 203 39
" Tax Bills committed to John T. Jordan, Collector, 10,217 60
" Randolph Bank Dividends, 54 00
$15,495 62
Randolph, March 24, 1852.
We have this day examined the account of Eleazer Beal, Esq., Town Treasurer, and find the same correct, with proper vouchers.
BRADFORD L. WALES, HIRAM ALDEN,
Town Auditors.
State of the Treasury, March 1, 1852. DR.
Bills payable, Ledger, page 4, viz :
No. 1 to Thomas McCrea, $100 00
" 5 " Elisha Mann, .
· 600 00
6 " Rufus Thayer, . 2,000 00
" 7 " Benjamin Dickerman, 400 00
Carried forward, $3,100 00
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Amount brought forward, . $3,100 00
No. 8 " Eveline Thayer,
200 00
9 " Joshua Spear,
. 1,000 00
14 " Ebenezer Alden,
600 00
" 15 " Royal Turner, .
2,000 00
" 17 " Joseph P. Bicknell,
500 00
" 18 " Lois Bicknell, .
100 00
19, 20, 21, to Benjamin Richards,
363 20
22 to Samuel H. Newcomb, 500 00
" 24 " Clara Lothrop, .
300 00
" 26 " Lucy Kingsbury,
600 00
" 27 " Aminadab Thayer,
200 00
" 30 " Moses Whitcomb,
100 00
" 31 " Bathsheba Harris, 100 00
200 00
" 37 " Martin Thayer, 2d,
400 00
" 39 " Ebenezer Alden,
300 00
" 40 " George F. Britton,
600 00
" 47 " Ephraim Wales,
470 00
" 55, 56, to Elisha N. Holbrook,
. 5,000 00
$16,633 20
Due School District No. 1,
$43 69
66
66
" 2,
7 00
66
3,
10 01
4,
13 34
K
66
7,
16 32
66
8,
8 68-110 24
$16,743 44
CR.
By 6 Shares of Randolph Bank Stock, valued at $115 per
share,
" Bills Receivable, Ledger, page 3, 594 40
" Estimate due from the State on account of Paupers, 320 00
Towns, 66
95 00
" due from School District No. 5, .
57
" 9, .
5 98
Treasurer and Collector, . 5,297 36
" Balance against the Treasury, . 9,740 13
$16,743 44
6,
11 20
$690 00
32 " Isaac N. Linfield,
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The Board of Trustees in account with the Stetson High School Fund.
DR.
1851.
March 1. To cash, balance of last year's account, $209 61
" 10. " N. C. Berry, one year's rent of office, 25 00
April 19. dividend on 10 shares in Randolph Bank, 40 00
July 24. six months' interest on State stock, ·
250 00
Sept. 22. Randolph Bank, six months' rent, .
50 00
Oct. 29. dividend on 10 shares in Randolph Bank, 50 00
1852.
Jan. 20. six months' interest on State stock, 250 00
Mar. 24. 66 Randolph Bank, six months' rent, 50 00
Cash received during the year from sundry persons for the use of hall and offices, . 100 00
" Simon Reinstein, for rent of store, 40 00
$1,064 61
CR.
1851.
Mar. 29. By cash paid V. H. Deane, as per bill of sundries, $4 95
" 31.
John Hollis for labor, .
1 50
May 8.
66 V. H. Deane, salary and sundries, as per bill,
142 50
Aug. 4. " V. H. Deane, bill of sundries for school-room and premises, .
11 37
Aug. 13.
V. H. Deane, salary long term,
162 50
Dec. 2. . " sal. and sundries, per bill,
147 50
" 30. 66 John L. Brown, bill for labor and materials, .
23 15
1852.
Feb. 12.
150 79
Mar. 24.
V. H. Deane, bill salary and sundries, for bill of philosophical apparatus purchased of Chamber- lain & Ritchie, Boston, ·
60 00
66
B. L. Wales's bill of wood and labor,
23 04
66
wood bought of L. Burrill, .
23 00
66
" Trustees and Secretary, for one year's services, 20 00
Balance to new account, ·
.
294 31
$1,064 61
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The Stetson High School Fund consists of the original donation of Ten Thousand Dollars, (Massachusetts five per cent stock,) ten Shares in Randolph Bank, and cash, Two Hundred and Ninety-four Dollars and Thirty-one Cents, as per foregoing account.
BRADFORD L. WALES, ) TRUSTEES OF EZRA C. SCOTT, STETSON
LEVI PAINE, S HIGH SCHOOL.
SETH TURNER, Secretary.
Randolph, March 24, 1852.
The subscribers, Selectmen of the Town of Randolph, have this day examined the account of the Trustees of the Stetson School Fund, and find it correct, with regular vouchers. The original donation of Ten Thousand Dollars, Massachusetts five per cent stock, is in the hands of the Trustees. There has been added to the Fund, ten Shares of the stock of Randolph Bank, the par value being One Thousand Dollars, and a cash balance of Two Hundred and Ninety- four Dollars and Thirty-one Cents, ($294 31,) this day carried to new account.
ZENAS FRENCH, SELECTMEN ISAAC TOWER, OF
BRADFORD L. WALES, RANDOLPH.
Randolph, March 24, 1852.
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN
OF THE
TOWN OF RANDOLPH,
TOGETHER WITH THE
, REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
AND THE
Treasurer's Report,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 1,
1853.
.
-ـ
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN
OF THE
TOWN OF RANDOLPH,
TOGETHER WITH THE
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
AND THE
Treasurer's Report,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 1,
1853.
BOSTON : PRESS OF T. R. MARVIN, 42 CONGRESS STREET. 1853.
MAY 1 4 1963
£
REPORT
OF THE
SELECTMEN OF THE TOWN OF RANDOLPH,
1852 --- 53.
THE Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor of the Town of RANDOLPH respectfully submit the following REPORT, stating the Expenses of said Town, for the year ending March 1, 1853.
Expense for Schooling, 1852.
District, No. 1 .- EPHRAIM W. LITTLEFIELD, Prud. Com.
Proportion of school money, 1852,
$271 93
Balance due for last year, ·
43 69
315 62
Paid Sophia French, teaching 18 weeks, .
54 00
" Maria D. Battles, teaching 24 weeks,
120 00
" John A. Rice, teaching 32 months, .
119 00
Ephraim W. Littlefield, coal, wood, &c.,
9 98
$302 98
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District No. 2 .- LYSANDER H. WHITE, Prudential Com.
Proportion of school money, 1852,
$208 08
Balance due for last year, 7 00
$215 08
Paid S. A. Nelson, teaching 32 weeks, 135 00
" Widow Nancy White, boarding teacher, 30 00
" John Rogers, for wood,
6 56
Lysander White, boarding teacher, glass and fires, 23 24
" Do. do. setting glass, wood, labor, . 15 03
$209 83
District No. 3 .- IRA ODELL, Prudential Committee.
Proportion of school money, 1852,
$249 88
Balance due for last year, 10 01
$259 89
Paid Elizabeth Jones, for teaching and board 16 weeks, 80 00
" Laura A. Odell, for teaching and board 26 weeks, 88 25
Elisha Mann, Jr., bill wood, 12 50
" Salmon H. Morrill, boarding teacher 8 w'ks, 4 d'ys, 22 50
" Ira Odell, bill for building fires, cutting wood, &c., 5 91 " William A. White, teaching 43 days, 43 00
$252 16
District No. 4 .- JASON HOWARD, Prudential Committee.
Proportion of school money, 1852, ·
$199 95
Balance due last year, 13 34
$213 29
Paid Sarah J. Curtis, teaching, 52 00
" Jason Howard, glass, wood-sawing, . 7 47
" H. Haywood, wood, .
11 00
$70 47
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District No. 5 .- JOEL HOLBROOK, Prudential Committee.
Proportion of school money, 1852,
$232 45
Paid Cynthia A. Beal, teaching 18 weeks, 90 00
" W. S. Clark, teaching and board, 102 days, . 102 00
Joel Holbrook, wood, fixtures, &c., . 24 18
$216 18
District No. 6 .- JOHN A. Lucus, Prudential Committee.
Proportion of school money, 1852,
$302 12
Balance due last year, 11 20
313 32
Paid Benj. Dickerman, Jr., for teaching 8} months,
297 50
John A. Lucus, bill coal and fixtures, 12 01
Asia Mayhew, furnishing room, 2 50
$312 01
District No. 7 .- HOWARD DYER, Prudential Committee.
Proportion of school money, 1852,
$196 47
Balance due last year, ·
16 32
212 79
Paid Nancy Paine, teaching 20 weeks,
70 00
P. B. Goodsell, teaching,
·
106 00
Howard Dyer, cutting wood,
.
3 25
Eleazer Beal, wood,
.
6 00
$185 25
District No. 8 .- LUTHER F. THAYER, Prudential Com.
Proportion of school money, 1852,
$520 42
Balance due last year, 8 68
$529 10
6
Paid Sarah Shankland, teaching 12 weeks, $45 00
A. Howard Flint, teaching 15 weeks, 105 00
S. Franklin Packard, teaching 3} months, 140 00
M. T. Belcher, teaching 28 weeks, . ·
140 00
E. Beal's bill, sundries, ·
1 20
" Sarah Shankland, teaching 19 weeks,
71 25
Hiram Wales, 5 tons and 2 hund. coal, 34 42
Luther F. Thayer, making fires, charcoal and fixtures, 13 41
$550 28
Overdrawn,
21 18
District No. 9 .- E. W. THAYER, Prudential Committee.
Proportion of school money, 1852,
$271 93
Paid Levi L. Paine, teaching, 25 00
" Mary H. French, teaching 12 weeks, 36 00 ·
" Orramel White, boarding teacher, . 15 00
Abby C. Mayhew, teaching 72 weeks,
30 00
" E. W. Thayer, wood, cutting wood, sundries bills, 30 74 " E. G. Ames, teaching 2 mos., and 7 w'ks primary, 94 75
$231 49
District No. 10 .- EZRA C. SCOTT, Prudential Committee.
Proportion of school money, 1852, $251 02
Paid Mary E. Thorpe, teaching 32 weeks,
39 00
" Lizzy D. Bacon, teaching 26 weeks, 76 00 .
Nathaniel Howard, boarding teachers,
52 50
Wales Thayer, Jr., boarding teachers,
10 50
" J. W. Pratt, boarding teachers,
10 50
Jefferson Belcher, boarding teachers, 12 50
Ezra C. Scott, wood, fixtures, &c., .
27 34
·
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$228 34
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Roads and Bridges.
Paid Peter Howard, removing stone from highway,
$3 00
“ Benjamin Dyer, removing snow,
4 62
Adoniram J. Dyer,
2 88
" Benjamin Thayer,
2 25
Parmer Bicknell, ·
4 16
" Patrick McMahon,
.
1 97
Noah Thayer,
56
Benjamin Thayer, railing two bridges,
37 40
widening bridge,
6 50
railing, drilling and blowing rocks, and widening road,
28 83
" Zenas French, snow bill,
1 00
Clearing Snow, by Jeremiah Belcher,
2 00
66
" Jacob Niles,
1 53
" Wales French, .
2 80
" Moses Burrell, 1851,
3 75
" Loring Binney, .
2 00
" Charles Belcher,
75
" Noah Thayer, .
56
66 " Samuel Paine,
1 25
" A Woodman,
1 50
$109 36
Highway Surveyors, 1852.
District No. 1 .- BENJAMIN THAYER, Surveyor.
Paid Jonathan Clark, 5} days, $6 25
Moses Ford, 2 ¥
2 25
Adoniram Paine, 1 day, 1 00
Thomas Whalen, 1 "
1 00
Jonathan Howard, 2 days,
2 25
Joel Wood, 3 "
3 12
" Jonathan Hunt, 4 "
4 37
66 Ansel Mann, 2 "
2 37
66 Isaac Clark, 1 day, ·
1 00
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8
Paid Joseph Hunt, 1 «
$1 25
George Meader, 13 " 2 10
Simeon Howard, 1 " 1 25
Elisha Mann, Jr., 1 day, 3 hands, horse and cart, 66 66 carting 9 loads gravel, 1 80
4 00
Nathan White, 1 day oxen and cart, 2 75
Ephraim Mann, 4 days, 2 hands, 4 oxen, 2 carts, 22 50
carting 64 loads gravel, 2 56
50
Jonathan Clark, 12 loads gravel,
66 Joshua Hunt, 36 loads gravel and carting, 00. 6
Benjamin Thayer, 7 days' work, .
8 75
66 Powder fuse and repairing tools, 1 00
$81 07
District No. 2 .- AMASA S. NILES, Surveyor.
Paid Amasa Niles, 14 days, team and hand,
$35 00
Charles Lamb, 7 days' work and 63 loads gravel, 10 02
Walter Arlington, 102 days, . 10 75
" Simeon Niles, picking stone, ploughing with horse, ¿ day, 1 00
66 Ephraim Mann, use of scraper and mending same, 2 00
66 Seth Mann, 38 loads gravel, . 1 52
Amasa Niles, 12 days, 12 00 .
2 men, 1 day's work each, .
2 00
$74 29
District No. 3 .- JOSHUA SPEAR, JR., Surveyor.
Paid Loring Binney, 10 days,
$10 00
52 " horse,
5 50
4} " cart,
.
1 12
Nathan White, man and oxen, 1 day,
2 50
66 Elias Cole, 5 days,
5 00
Daniel Hunt, «
.
5 00
66 Joshua Spear, Jr., 56 days, .
56 00
66 66
14 oxen,
21 00
66 66
14 " cart,
3 50
66 66
" 2 " horse,
2 00
66
66 use plough,
1 75
Drills and powder, 90 cts., repairs of bars, chains and picks, 78 cts.
1 68
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$115 05
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District No. 4 .- ALFRED ROEL, Surveyor.
Paid Austin Roel, 42 days,
$6 37
Henry Nichols, “
.
6 37
Philip Riley and hand, 3 days,
3 75
Paul Doud, 4 days, .
4 00
Jonathan Hunt, 42 days,
4 37
Isaac Clark, 2 days,
2 00
Alvan Mann, 6 days and team,
9 00
Ephraim Mann, 1 day, 3 cattle,
3 50
Jonathan Howard, 2 days,
2 67
Edwin Burns, 1 day,
1 13
" Charles Belcher, gravel,
7 13
Alfred Roel, 42 days,
use of tools, powder, &c.,
9 43
$60 77
District, No. 5 .- J. WHITE BELCHER, Surveyor.
Paid Joel Wood, 6 days, 6 00
Jonathan Hunt, 5 " 5 00 .
Joseph Hunt, 3 “ 3 75 ·
66 Timothy Halvin, 3 "
3 00
J. White Belcher, ¿ day, horse and cart, 1 12
Ephraim Mann, horse 1 day ; man, oxen, 5 days, 16 00
10 50
Seth Mann, horse and oxen, 1 day, . 3 50
Sundry hands, 62 days, 7 08
Charles Belcher, 123 loads gravel, 5 61
$61 56
District No. 6 .- WARREN MANN, Surveyor.
Paid Ephraim Mann, oxen and cart 1 day,
Alvan Mann, 3 cattle 4 days, and 2 cattle 2 days, 19 00
Nathan White,
6 days, 2 cattle, . 15 00
Harrison Wild, 6 "
7 50
Joshua Wild, 6
3 50
Edward Maney, 5 5 00
66 Dinners, 2 hands, 7 "
1 89
Warren Mann, 11} "
13 33
O. H. P. Leach, 91 loads gravel,
4 55
John French, 50 loads 2 00
Team work, 2 days, .
5 00
Collecting and paying hands,
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$79 64
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1 05
Alvan Mann, horse and oxen, 3 days,
$2 50
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District No. 7 .- ASA THAYER, Surveyor.
Paid Asa Thayer, 13 days, and horse and cart 8 days, $22 62
Peter Capen, 2 " 2 00
Jonathan Mann, 1} day, 1 30 ·
66 Patrick Kaily, 5 days, 5 00
Jacob Niles and Isaac Tower, 134 loads gravel and spreading, 20 70
Samuel Turner, 65 loads gravel, 2 60
3 cattle 2 days, and 2 cattle 2 days, 6.00 ·
2 hands, 1 day, ·
2 00
66 Asa Thayer, 1 day, and horse,
2 00
66 Silas Dyer, 12 days,
1 50
Otis Niles, 5 hours, 62 cents ; Austin Rey- nolds, 4 hours, 50 cents, . 1 12
$66 84
District No. 8 .- ARCHIBALD WOODMAN, Surveyor.
Paid Ephraim Mann, 2 teams 5 days,
35 00
Joseph Hunt, 5 days, ·
·
.
6 25
John Kaily, 5
6 25
Joel Wood, 4 " .
4 00
Patrick Mahon, 3 .
3 00
A. Woodman, 5 6
5 00
A. Wales, 94 loads gravel, .
4 70
Frenchman, 25 " " .
1 00
William Barry, gravel,
60
66 Sharpening tools and repairing bridge, 2 22
$68 02
District No. 9 .- EPHRAIM WALES, Surveyor.
Paid 3 hands, 1 day, and oxen } day,
$4 62
2 three-cattle teams, 1 day,
6 00
4 hands, 1 day,
·
4 50
2 teams and 4 hands,
10 50
Atherton Wales, 84 loads gravel,
5 04
66 2} days,
2 81
66 Oxen and plough, .
1 00
1 day,
1 00
2 three-cattle teams and 4 hands, 3 days,
30 00
80 loads of gravel, .
4 80
Man, oxen and cart, 2 days, . .
5 00
66 2 hands, 2 days, .
4 00
5 hours' work, .
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62
$79 89
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District No. 10 .- SAMUEL LINFIELD, Surveyor.
Paid Samuel Linfield, 10 days, 3 cattle, .
$33 00
66 Mr. Collins, 9 “ 9 00 ·
William Flynn, 10 ' .
.
10 00
66 Picking stones,
2 00
C. White and J. Hobart, 4 days, 4 50
66 P. Maqueny, 2 days, . .
1 00
Moses Burrell, 3 cattle, 1 day,
3 50
66 Use of carts, 7 days, ·
·
1 92
66 119 loads of gravel, .
5 95
$70 87
District No. 11 .- ISAAC PIERCE, Surveyor.
Paid Rufus Thayer, 2 hands, 2 teams, 4 days, $20 00
Josiah Clark, 1 day, 2 hands 1 team,
3 16
66 66 hand and team, 2 hours,
50
66 George Howard, 4 days,
4 67
Jedediah French, 4 “
4 67
Charles Burrell, 3 " 8 hours,
2 85
" Isaac Pierce, 6 66
7 00
Leonard Pierce, 5
5 83
66 Henry D. Thayer, 1 day,
1 16
8 hours,
92
$50 76
District No. 12 .- MARTIN GAY, Surveyor.
Paid Ephraim Wales, 3 days, team,
$9 00
John Wales,
22 50
. Timothy O'Neil, 7 7 88 ·
66 Michael Kelly, ·
7 31
Nicholas English, 6
6 75
66 Martin Gay, 16
18 00
66 Frenchman for gravel,
5 00
66 Elisha W. Beal, 2} days, oxen and cart, 3 25
66 William H. Clay, 2
1 50
66 Royal Turner, cart ¿ day,
13
66 Z. T. Jordan, 1} " 1 69
" Solomon White, 1 75
66 Horse and cart, breaking rock, mending picks, &c. 1 20
$84 96
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District No. 13 .- THOMAS GOOD, Surveyor.
Paid Obadiah Jones, team 1 day, and man ¿ day,
$2 13
Seth Mann, horse and cart, 12 day, . 1 87
Atherton Wales, 23 loads gravel,
80
" Thomas Good, 2 days, ·
2 50
Timothy O'Neil, 2 "
2 50
Foss Hunt, 1 day,
1 25
Owen Toomey, 1} "
1 87
Dennis Connell, 1 "
1 25
Nicholas English, 1 .
.
1 25
$15 42
District No. 14 .- WALES FRENCH, Surveyor.
Paid William English, 6 days, $8 16
Wales French and boy, horse and cart, 7 days, 18 30
3 69
Enoch Livingston and boy, 4 days, . 4 50
one day, and powder, 2 00
$36 65
District No. 15 .- PATRICK McMAHON, Surveyor.
Paid 2 men, 2 teams and 2 carts, 3 days, . $16 50
" Dennis Connel, 3 days, ·
3 00
Amos Curtis, 1} day,
1 50
Richard Hogan, 3 days,
.
·
3 00
Peter Brophy, 1 day,
75
Mr. Connel, ¿
25
Edward Kelly, 3 days,
3 50
Patrick McMahon, 4} "
5 37
87 loads gravel,
3 48
Repairing pick,
50
$37 85
District No. 16 .- SAMUEL PAINE, Surveyor.
Paid 4 days repairing road,
$4 50
" Zenas French, hand, 3 cattle, 2 carts, 2 days, 7 50
John Pero, 2 days, 2 50
John Gill, 2 " · ·
2 50
Ezra Gill, 2 4 . .
·
2 50
Stephen Hayden, Jr., 3 days and 3 hours, ·
13
Paid John A. Blood, 2 days,
$2 50
Moses French, hand, horse and cart, 1 day, . 2 00
" Lucius Paine, 1 day, 1 00
$25 00
District No. 17 .- AARON HOLLIS, Surveyor.
Paid Moses Burrell, 52 days,
$5 50
66 6 oxen, cart and plough, 11 00
E. S. Belcher, 6
horse and cart, 13 50
Hosea Hollis, 6
66
6 00
" N. Goodwin, 6
6 00
66 O. W. Vinton, 6
6 00
" J. T. Hobart, 6 66
·
6 00
Aaron Hollis, 6 66 . 6 00
$60 00
District No. 18 .- CHARLES A. HARRIS, Surveyor.
Paid Jeremiah Belcher, 11} days, team, $40 25
C. A. Harris, 14 17 50
Jacob Buker, 72 7 50 ·
" Horse and cart, 1} 66
1 88
" W. B. Belcher, 3
3 00
E. N. Holbrook, 26 loads gravel,
1 56
Seth Belcher, 31 66 66
78
C. A. Harris, ¿ day,
50
$72 97
District No. 19 .- ZENAS FRENCH, Surveyor.
Paid 2 hands and oxen, 2 carts, 4 days, $16 00
John Pero, 5} days, . 6 88 ·
" Ezra Gill, 4}
5 62
John Gill, 3 66
.
3 75
Benjamin Pratt, 1} day,
1 00
Robert Pratt, 13 4
1 50
2 hands, 3 cattle, ¿
2 37
Elisha N. Holbrook, 64 loads gravel,
2 56
Zenas French, 49
1 96
2 hands, horse and cart, ¿ day,
1 50
11 days, single hands,
13 17
14
Paid horse and cart, { day, $1; Ruth Crocker, 68 loads gravel, $2 72, ·
$3 72
" 2 hands, oxen, and 2 carts, 3 days, . 12 00
$72 03
District No. 20 .- NATHANIEL SPEAR, Surveyor.
Paid Joseph Linfield, man and team, 12 days,
$4 50
Simeon Whitcomb, man, horse and cart, 62 days, 13 00
66 Boy, 1 day, .
50
Thomas White, horse, cart and man, 5} days,
10 50
Alvan Snell,
& day,
1 50
Nathaniel Spear, “ " 66
8 days, 17 25
25
Salmon Buck, 10 days,
·
12 25
66 John Blood, 6
7 50
John Pero, 3 " .
3 75
66 Elihu Holbrook, 3 " 12 hour,
3 96
66 Otis Thayer, 1 day,
1 25
66 Thomas J. Reed's 2 boys, ¿ day,
50
66 Theophilus E. Wood, 1 boy,
15
E. N. Holbrook, 181 loads gravel,
3 62
$80 48
District No. 21 .- ISAAC SPEAR, 2d, Surveyor.
Paid Isaac Spear, 2d, horse, cart and man, 4 days,
$9 38
Elihu Holbrook, 4 days, ·
5 00
Nathaniel E. Hobart, 4 "
5 00
Cornelius White, 4
5 00
Samuel Spear, 1 day,
1 00
Ezra Whitcomb, } "
62
Daniel Faxon, 2 days, with horse and cart,
4 50
Elbridge G. Packard, 1 day, «
66
2 25
" Thomas West,
1 "
2 25
$35 00
District No. 22 .- JEREMIAH BELCHER, Surveyor.
Paid Jeremiah Belcher, 18} days,
$21 75
17 oxen,
.
20 44
66
7 " horse,
5 25
66
66
21
" cart,
.
5 15
·
·
.
Zenas French, team, ¿ hour, ·
15
Paid Jeremiah Belcher, 4 days, plough, .
$1 00
Hiram Belcher, 14 66
·
.
16 63
" George Belcher, 16
19 50
Phineas Davis, 6 66
7 25
Friend Cain, 6
7 43
Abner Belcher, 42
5 12
" Festus Drew, 43
4 50
" Lewis Belcher, 17
20 13
Elijah Porter, 1 day,
1 00
110 loads gravel,
6 75
Repairing tools,
.
37
$142 27
Town Expenses.
Paid Allen Merritt, repairs on Aquarius Engine, . $8 87
Elisha Mann, Jr. " Norfolk 66 6 20
Archibald Woodman," Relief 66 1 12
Royal W. Turner, stationery,
1 18
66 Richard Ford, school books,
10 35
Eleazer Beal, surveying roads, 2 25 . « distributing Acts and Resolves, horse and wagon, 3 days, 6 00
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