USA > Massachusetts > Norfolk County > Randolph > Randolph town reports 1852-1874 > Part 63
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64
Paid for Ann Sloan,
37 50
66 E. O. Gorman,
5 00
Frederick Hill,
26 00
Thomas F. Ward,
115 25
Albert Howard, 21 00
Mrs. John E. Mann, 20 00
$224 75
11
STATE PAUPERS.
Paid G. A. Burrill, for 64 travellers, $25 60
Abiel Howard, rent for Hugh Roddan, 19 79
W. M. Babbitt, medical attendance, 3 00
R. Houghton, coffin, &c., for Wm. Allen, 17 00
66 William Smith, charcoal for Lockup, 3 50
R. W. Turner, coal and supplies for trav- ellers, in Lockup, 33 .64
y
A. G. Dean, crackers, 12 00
A. J. Gove, straw, 10 95
William H. Warren,* Keeper of Lockup, 252 travellers committed, 100 00
$225 48
CR.
*By fees received,
$25 00
.
FUNERAL EXPENSES.
Paid Ralph Houghton, attending 76 funerals, $114 00
John Long, use of horse and care of hearse, 98 50
Bullock & Graves, 60 31 50
66 William Campbell, repairs on hearse, 87 00
" Ralph Houghton, repairs on hearse, 21 65
$352 65
STATE AID.
Paid sundry persons as per account returned to the State, $3,189 75
12
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Paid sundry bills (for items see report of En- gineers), $1,611 01
Appropriation, 1500 00
Expenditures exceeding Appropriation. $111 01
ABATEMENTS ON TAXES. .
Paid Edson M. Roel, Collector of Taxes for 1873, $350 66
TOWN OFFICERS.
Paid Town Auditors for 1873, $10 00
Nathaniel Howard, services as School Committee from March 1, to April 1, 1873 - 11 days, 20 00
Nathaniel Howard, services as School Committee to March 1, 1874, 48₺ days, 121 25
" Nathaniel Howard, use of horse and carriage, 42 75
" Solomon L. White, services as School Committee to March 1, 1874, 115 00
" Jonathan Wales, services as School Com- mittee to March 1, 1874, 75 00
" Edson M. Roel, Collector of Taxes, 1872, 199 39
" Edson M. Roel, services as Road Com- missioner, 25 00
". John Long, services as Road Commissioner, 25 00
" Ephraim Mann 25 00
13
Paid William H. Warren, services as Constable, $25 00
" Engineers for services to May 1, 1873, 65 00
" Horatio B. Alden, expenses paid as Selectman from March 1, to April 1, 1873, 15 00
66 J. White Belcher, services as Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor, including cash paid and expenses on town business, 275 00
... Seth Mann, 2d, services as Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor, including cash paid and expenses on town business, 275 00
John T. Flood, services as Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor, including cash paid, and expenses on town business, 275 00
$1,588 39
MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.
Paid Rockwell and Churchill, printing 1200 Town Reports, $183 00
Stetson School Fund, amount collected on Bank Tax, 42 00
66 Grand Army, Post 110, 100 00
66. D. H. Huxford, advertising, printing, &c .. 56 25
Special Police for July 4, 5, and 6. 60 00
J. White Belcher, Insurance,
182 00
Seth Mann, 2d, 217 62
Royal W. Turner,
25 65
Geo. T. Day and others, bills for labor and services, 170 00
A. J. Gove, express, 7 75
14
Paid P. A. Wales, pump, $25 00
J. F. Kilton, legal services, 20 00
" Taylor, Alden, and Nichols, distributing Town Reports, 7 50
Edson M. Roel, services as auctioneer, 10 00
John Long, teams on town business, 15 50
Michael Hurley, sawing wood,
5 50
G. W. Prescott, printing,
5 00
H. C. Alden, copying,
3 50
R. W. Turner, supplies,
19 47
John G. Poole, postage,
4 76
Sundry bills for services and supplies,
17 05
.. E. A. Perry, bill for labor and material, 13 80
$1,191 35
The undersigned, Auditors of Accounts for the financial year ending March 1st, 1874, have attended to the duty assigned them, and report that they have examined the books and accounts of the Selectmen, and find them cor- rectly kept and with proper vouchers.
ROYAL W. TURNER,
RICHARD STEVENS, ELISHA MANN, JR., Auditors.
RANDOLPH, March 14, 1874.
ALMSHOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.
Appraisal of Stock, Furniture, Provisions, etc., March 2, 1874.
$200 00
1 horse, 2 cows, 80 00
18 hens, 9 00
15
8 tons hay,
$225 00
1 horse cart,
65 00
1 farm wagon,
65 00
1 sled,
3 00
3 harnesses,
25 00
1 wheelbarrow,
3 00
1 grindstone,
10 00
4 scythes and snaths,
4 00
3 rakes,
1 00
7 hay and manure forks,
5 00
7 shovels and 1 spade,
6 00
2 plows,
6 00
1 cultivator,
7 00
1 iron bar, 1 pick,
2 50
1 saw-horse,
75
4 hoes,
1 25
1 axe, 1 hatchet, 1 bill-hook,
4 00
1 churn,
2 00
1 boiler,
2 00
60 bushels potatoes,
45 00
65 lbs hard soap,
6 50
1} barrels soft soap,
9 00
3 lbs. coffee,
1 00
4 lbs. chocolate,
2 00
¿ bushel beans,
2 00
10 gallons molasses,
6 00
4 lbs. sugar,
50
1 bbl flour,
10 00
18 iron bedsteads,
100 00
16 navy blankets,
12 00
12 blue mixed blankets,
8 00
6 colored spreads,
6 00
7 feather beds,
56 00
13 under beds,
20 00
21 single sheets,
10 50
₹
16
12 double sheets, $6 00
21 pillow-cases, 10 00
16 feather pillows,
9 00
9 towels,
1 00
Table-cloths,
6 00
6 wooden trunks,
3 00
3 dining-tables,
15 00
5 light-stands,
3 00
60 chairs,
30 00
Ash-barrel, sifter, hod, and shovel,
4 00
Cooking-stove and furniture,
25 00
6 flatirons,
2 25
1 hammer,
75
1 wood-saw,
1 25
Steelyards,
1 50
Clothes-wringer,
5 00
Crockery ware,
40 00
Wooden ware,
20 00
Tin ware,
12 00
5 cords wood,
20 00
4 tons coal,
40 00
400 pounds pork,
40 00
20 pounds beef,
2 00
30 pounds lard,
3 00
9 lamps,
4 50
30 flour barrels,
6 00
$1,331 25
Names of persons supported in the Almshouse, during the year ending March 1, 1874.
Polly Copeland,
į John Currie,
Eunice Delano,
į Mary Currie,
Betsy M. Eddy, Peter Rierdon,
17
* Patrick Kiley, Ellen Kennedy,
Keilah H. Kennedy,
Mary F. Veazie,
* Edwin Howard,
Clarence Veazie,
# Jonathan Hunt,
Ellen Burke,
* Noah Thayer, Dennis Slattery,
t Thomas Stevens, # David McKay.
* Dead. + Refunded. # Discharged.
ESTIMATE OF EXPENSES FOR 1874.
The following estimate of expenses for the ensuing year is presented for the consideration of the Town : -
For Schools (see Report of School Committee), $6,950 00
" repairs, furniture and incidental expenses, 1,050 00 " Highways (see Report of Road Commis- sioners ), 3,000 00
" General Town Expenses, 10,000 00
"' Reduction of Town Debt, 5,000 00
"' Fire Department, 1,800 00
$27,800 00
Respectfully submitted,
J. WHITE BELCHER. SETH MANN, 2D, JOHN T. FLOOD, Selectmen of Randolph.
SCHOOL REPORT.
To the Selectmen and Voters of the Town : -
GENTLEMEN,-The closing of the schools and the sum- ming up of the yearly expenses, remind us that our du- ties are not completed until we have made our annual report of the condition of the schools, the changes that have been made and those which should be made, to- gether with what we deem necessary appropriations for the coming year. One of the greatest difficulties in our schools is the continued absence of the very scholars who most need the benefit of the teaching.
We have no remedy in our hands which will cure this evil, and, until we have some further legislation on this subject, we can see no way of improving the present rate of attendance. As our laws now stand, we have no effi- cient method of compelling the unwilling scholar to at- tend, and even a trial of what we have fails to command respect. While the absence of scholars in any manufac- turing town will be larger than in others, in ours there are more than the proportionate number. And the ones chiefly to blame are the parents, When we have their co-operation we shall then begin to improve, And after furnishing houses, teachers, and books, where it is neces- sary, we deem it the right of every tax-payer to demand that the children for whose benefit the money has been spent shall receive the benefit of it. It is not only a
19
right belonging to the tax-payer, but it is the duty of every member of the community, to improve it by every means in his power; and we consider that this is one of the most powerful. The lists of absences and the friv- olous and trifling excuses, would dishearten any one who takes the least interest in our schools. Next year we hope for better results, as there seems to have been more interest taken by the parents this last year in visiting the schools.
In our last report we stated, that there would be an attempted change of the " grade" of the schools in our " Central district." Whether successful or not, we think it too early to decide as yet, but we are confident that it is a step in the right direction. As it stands now, we have so arranged that nine years from the lowest will finish the Grammar School,-that is with a scholar of average ability. While arranging these schools we have also attempted to establish the studies throughout all the schools, so that the children shall pursue the same studies and the same extent in an equal time in schools of equal grade. The studies have been arranged with special reference to the Central schools ; but in the ungraded schools the different classes will correspond to the different schools in the fol- lowing course of studies,-
FIRST PRIMARY.
1. Exercises in Elementary Sounds.
2. First Reader with Spelling.
3. Drawing and Printing on Slates.
SECOND PRIMARY.
1. First Half of Second Reader.
2. Primary Arithmetic to Lesson 50.
20
3. Simple Addition, Multiplication, Subtraction, and Division.
4. Part First of Guyot's Geography.
5. Exercises in Elementary Sounds.
THIRD PRIMARY.
1. Second Half of Second Reader.
2. Primary Arithmetic finished.
3. Part Second of Guyot's Geography.
4. Drawing and Printing Spelling.
5. £ Exercises in Elementary Sounds.
FOURTH PRIMARY.
1. First Half of Third Reader.
2. Intellectual Arithmetic to Section 26.
3. Guyot's Geography, Part Third.
4. Exercises in Elementary Sounds.
5. Drawing and Printing Spelling.
FIRST INTERMEDIATE.
1. Second Half of Third Reader.
2. Intellectual Arithmetic through Section 44.
3. Geography-Intermediate-First, Third.
4. Exercises in Sounds.
5. No. 1 Writing-Book.
6. Writing, Spelling Words.
SECOND INTERMEDIATE.
1. First Half of Fourth Reader.
2. Intellectual Arithmetic-finished.
3. Practical Arithmetic to U. S. Money.
4. Intermediate Geography-Second, Third.
١
21
5. Exercises in Sounds and Analysis of Words by sounds.
6. No. 2 Writing-Book.
7. Spelling by Writing Words.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
1. Fifth Reader.
2. Practical Arithmetic-finished.
3. Geography.
4. Grammar.
5. Seavey's History.
6. No. 4 Writing-Book.
7. Declamations and Compositions.
THIRD INTERMEDIATE.
1. Last Half of Fourth Reader.
2. Practical Arithmetic to " Decimals."
3. Geography-Intermediate-finished and reviewed.
4. Grammar-Part First.
5. Exercises in Sounds and Analysis of Words by sounds.
6. No. 3 Writing-Book.
7. Spelling by writing the words and defining.
And with this attempt at grading, we have tried to in- troduce the method of written examinations in all the schools capable of writing. As it is, we think, the first attempt of this kind in our Common Schools, we have made the questions easier than they would otherwise have been. This has made the scholars pass higher than we expected. The average in the papers which we have been able to look over is 61 per cent. The highest that any scholar obtained was 89 per cent., the lowest 10 per cent.
22
It is a method requiring very much labor, but it seems to need no argument as to its justness and impartiality. When this style of examination is matured, it allows the scholar to take the place belonging to his or her personal exertions, and leaves the dull ones and the absentees in the same school until they are able to take the next step. This we believe to be the onlyl correct course; for, in teaching scholars their studies like teaching children to walk, they should first learn to creep properly. The fol- lowing are the lists of questions as given out this year,-
SECOND CLASS IN GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
Arithmetic.
1. Define a decimal fraction.
2. Write Five Hundred and Twenty-seven Hundred Thousandths as a decimal, and also in the form of a common fraction.
3. Multiply eighteen and five hundred thousandths by ten and five- tenths, and divide the product by three-hundredths.
4. Find the cost of two tons, four cwt., and sixty pounds, at .50 per cwt.
5. Define a solid, a surface, a line, and an angle.
6. Find the cost of a pile of wood 45 ft. long and 5 ft. high, at $5 a cord.
7. Find how many bushels a bin 4 ft. long, 2} ft. wide, and 2 ft. high, will hold, and how many gallons.
8. ' Define a circle, a sextant, and a quadrant.
9. Find the exact number of days from Feb. 1st, 1860, to March 1st, 1861.
10. One place is 2 degrees, 20 minutes, 25 seconds, E. of another. What is the difference in time?
Grammar.
1. Name the vowels, and state where W and Y are vowels.
2. Point out the dipthongs in the following words: Chaise, Ar- chitect, Motion, Partial, Option, Session.
3. Write the possessive, singular and plural, of Lady, Man, Knife, and Fly.
23
4. Compare the adjectives, Good, Bad, More, Last, Most, Com - fortable, Honorable.
5. Define a participle, and give an example of each kind of parti- ciples.
Geography.
1. Define equator.
2. Define a border sea, and name any five.
3. Define climate.
4. Name the chief products of South America, both vegetable and mineral.
5. Name the most eastern and most western capes of North and South America.
6. Locate the Kong and Atlas mountains.
7. Name the chief city (not the capitol), in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Maine, and Tennessee.
8. Name the products brought from the Southern States.
9. Name the animals of cold, temperate, and warm climates.
10. Define the right and left banks of a river.
INTERMEDIATE
Arithmetic.
1. Express in one number, three hundred dollars, three hundred cents, and seven mills.
2. John Doe owes Richard Roe, ten dollars and fifty cents, which is debtor and which creditor?
3. Define a decimal system of numbers.
4. Define integer and give an example.
5. Find the prime and composite factors of 740.
6. Find the greatest common factor and least common multi- ple of 60 and 75.
7. Give an example of a fractional number; state how many frac- tional units in it.
8. Find the cost of one-half of two-thirds of a ton of hay at $27 1-2 per ton.
9. How many pounds of tea can be bought for $1 7-8, at $2-3 a pound.
10. If 3-4 of 1-2 of a ton of coal is worth $3 6-7, what is a ton worth?
24
Geography.
1. Define equator.
2. Define a border sea, and name any five.
3, Define climate
4. Name the chief products of South America, both vegetable and mineral.
5. Name the most eastern and most western capes of North and South America.
6. Locate the Kong and Atlas mountains.
7. Name the chief city (not the capitol), in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Maine, and Tennessee.
8. Name the products brought from the Southern States.
9. Name the animals of cold, temperate, and warm climates.
10. Define the right and left banks of a river.
Grammar.
1. Define a sentence .-
2. Name the predicates in the following examples,- The Indians lived in huts.
Where is Charles gone?
In the tall grass the rabbits lived.
3. Point out the adverbs in the following examples,-
The door opened softly.
Up goes the ball swiftly into the air.
Such a very warm day.
His motions are too quick.
4. What is a preposition ?
5. Give the cases of the nouns in the following exercise, --- John's hat was lost in the pond.
Highest up the mountain grows the hardiest trees.
Up the street came the procession.
SECOND INTERMEDIATE.
Arithmetic.
1. Define a fractional number, and give an example.
2. Give an example of mixed numbers and two fractions which have a common denominator.
3. 5-8 are how many times 1-3?
4. If 3-8 of the sheep in a flock are sold, 55 sheep will remain. How many sheep are there in the flock?
25
5. If a tailor sold a coat for $25, and gained 1-4 of what it cost, what did it cost?
6. Write out the table for long measure, using abbreviations.
7. How many square yards in a room 9 feet square?
8. Reduce 2-3 of a gallon to units of a lower denomination.
9. How many eggs in a score of dozens?
10. Find the interest of $100 for one year and six months at six per cent.
Geography.
1. What are the poles of the earth?
2. Name the continents in the "Old World."
3. Name the different forms of water on the surface of the earth.
4. Define commerce.
5. Name the largest river in South America, also in Africa.
THIRD INTERMEDIATE.
Arithmetic.
1. What is a number?
2. Define subtraction.
3. How many are twelve 8's plus 3 11's minus 5 sixes.
4. A man bought seven barrels of pork at $9 a barrel, and gave for it five cords of wood at $7, and the rest in money. How much money did he pay?
5. A man planted 10 bushels of potatoes and raised 12 times as many. How much are they worth at $1 a bushel.
Geography:
1. Name the occupations of men.
2. Name the different parts of a river.
3. Name three of the largest cities in the United States.
4. Name the mountain ranges of the United States.
5. Define a cape.
Words in Spelling given out.
1. Vehicle.
4. Slily. 8. Recipe.
2. Colonel.
5. Captious. 9. Scheme.
3. Separate. 6. Nauseous. 10. Witticisnı.
7. Receipt.
26
Next year, if this method is pursued, the absence of scholars will probably be taken into account, in their advancement from school to school. And if there are thirty-eight school weeks in the year, and a scholar is absent without a sufficient excuse to his teacher, say four- teen weeks, we should take away one-half from his per- centage.
We have been unfortunate as regards the sickness of our teachers, having had three sick at one time. These schools have suffered severely from this. But as far as the committee are concerned, we are satisfied that the schools have had as good teaching as the money affords, and have appeared as well as in any past year. We would again renew our invitation, and that of all our teachers, to the parents of the children and to all interested, to visit the schools and judge for yourselves what the children, their teachers, and your committee are doing.
But as we deem it necessary to make more repairs dur- ing the ensuing year, and as by the intention of the State, the aid given should be applied for school apparatus, we shall ask for an appropriation for next year as fol- lows, -
For teaching,
$6000 00
" care of rooms,
450 00
" fuel 500 00
" miscellaneous, 1050 00
$8000 00
EXPENDITURES FOR SCHOOLS, 1873-74.
FOR TEACHING.
Paid Mr. Thomas H. West, 1 year. $991 66
66 William H. Crocker. 7 days, 31 50
.. .. Lorenzo B. Grigson. 94 months, 752 00
27
Paid Mrs. A. E. Upham,
17 3-5 weeks,
$169 36
Miss Sarah E. Shankland,
450 00
66
Hannah F. Thayer,
13
1 year, weeks,
119 66
33
286 72
38
66
325 00
66
Annie Veazie,
293
66
240 26
66
66
Margaret W. Boyd,
34
66
203 28
66
Lucy D. Morton,
20 2-5
66
163 20
66
Nellie F. Thayer,
38
..
250 00
Lizzie J. French,
25
66
159 00
66 Emma D. Stetson,
29
151 44
66
66 E. H. King,
38
225 00
66
Antoinette T. Smith,
22
66
141 00
66
66
S. V. Wilde,
38
300 00
Annie M. Wilde,
25
66
176 00
66
Isabel C. Beal,
13
66
78 00
66
Julia B. White,
25
66
225 00
66 Ellen M. Rollins,
(music),
10 00
66
66 Nellie F. Estabrook,
66
13 25
$5,972 33
Paid Appropriation for Stetson High School,
700 00
FUEL.
Paid Royal W. Turner & Co., for coal,
$428 75
66 R. T. & E. M. Mann, for wood,
32 81
Nathaniel Howard,
10 55
66 Lawrence Ormsby, cutting wood,
7 75
66 Peter Brophy, 66
6 25
George Meader, ..
1 00
66 A. C. Kimball, 66
1 50
66
66
Mary J. Thayer,
31
1
165 00
Alice A. Smith,
38
66
346 00
66
Ida G. Decker,
Kate E. Ryan,
$488 61
28
CARE OF SCHOOLROOM.
Paid Lawrence Ormsby.
$100 00
Mary Riley, 258 03
Henry Piper, 20 00
Charles Bump.
20 00
6. Minot L. Beal, 22 35
5 00
.. Laura Taber,
1 50
L. Stetson,
7 67
Mrs. Flynn.
$434 55
FURNITURE AND REPAIRS ON SCHOOL HOUSES AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.
Paid George W. Jones, use of well, $3 00
Lawrence Hayes, “ 3 00
" Thomas West, repairing erasers, 2 00
·· Cyrus Wakefield, for mats,
16 63
.. Baker & Thayer, repairs on stoves. 4 60
". Charles A. Wales, stoves, pipe, and repairs. 78 16
.. A. J. Gove, express and cash paid, 21 22
·· Brewer and Tileston, school books, 124 21
.. T. H. West, books, 1 15
.. J. L. Hammett, books and slates. 44 17
". Maynard & Noyes, ink,
6 00
Philip Reynolds, rent of organs,
21 50
.. For school books for teachers.
30 29
R. W. Turner & Co., supplies, 18 47
. Daniel Cummings & Co., books, 4 25
.. Ralph Houghton, repairing desks. 38 50
.. Winslow Alden, labor and material,
55 44
D. H. Huxford, printing, 5 50
Nathaniel Noyes, repairs, 6 33
29
Paid Thoma's D. Morris, paint, $57 28
.. Merrill Brothers, oil, 43 12
Eugene F. Ward, painting schoolhouse, 207 75
" Jedediah French, labor,
12 25
. P. A. Wales, repairing pump,
3 00
L. B. Grigson, team procuring teachers, 5 00
Patrick Feeney, shoveling snow.
12 63
Mrs. Shields, labor,
6 00
.. Bernard Wren, glass,
4 87
. O. D. Daniels, covering erasers,
4 05
' Thompson Brown & Co., books, &c ..
4 25
George C. Platts, repairs,
1 95
J. B. Thayer, 2 00
" Sundry bills, labor and repairs, 12 90
$861 47
TOTAL EXPENSE FOR SCHOOLS.
Paid for teaching, $5,972 33
Appropriation for Stetson High School. 700 00
fuel, 488 61
66 care of school-rooms, 434 55
Incidental Expenses, 861 47
Total,
$8,456 96
Respectfully,
NATHANIEL HOWARD, SOLOMON L. WHITE, JONATHAN WALES,
Committee.
ROAD COMMISSIONERS' REPORT.
The Road Commissioners present the following as their second annual report of the expenses in this department :-
REPAIRS OF ROADS.
Paid Mace Gay, with horse and cart, town team, 35 days, $140 40
" Mace Gay, with horse and cart, town team, 4 2-5 days, 8 40
" Ephraim Mann, two horses and cart and man, 31 5-10 days, 189 00
" Ephraim Mann, one horse and cart and man, 17 7-10 days, 70 80
" Ephraim Mann, 20} days,
58 50
" R. T. and E. M. Mann, two horses, cart, and man, 11 days, 66 00
" R. T. and E. M. Mann, one horse, cart, and man, 1 day, 4 00
Seth Mann, two horses, cart, and man, 20₺ days, 123 00
John Long, horse and cart, 432 days,
87 50
8 " 19 00
.. Josiah Clark, team work (1872 and 1873), 30 50
Ellis Tucker, drawing scraper, 12 00
Joshua Hunt, team work, 3 50
Jedediah French, 38₺ days, 96 25
31
Paid John Gill,
39%
days, $88 87
Lewis Jones,
37 2-5
84 07
Noah Cheesman,
33 9-10
76 27
Edson M. Roel,
27 1-5
81 60
T. Duff,
20%
46 12
Dennis Sullivan,
35
66
78 75
60
Delazon D. Mann,
39 9-10
89 78
Daniel Lyons,
28₺
64 12
William Cunningham,
8
18 00
66
son,
1
1 00
Geo. L. Wood,
1
2 00
" John Desmond, 38₺ days, boy,
5
91 63
" . Edmund Burke,
9
20 25
John Cahill,
94-5
21 86
Patrick Feeney,
24₺
56 18
Timothy M. O'Neil
16
35 75
James Riley,
7
15 75
Michael Forrest,
5 75
Richard Forrest,
4₺
9 00
Patrick Riley,
3
6 25
Eugene Sullivan,
24-5
6 38
Albert M. Taber,
3 7-10
7 40
Charles Hayden,
34-5
8 56
James Lyons,
1
2 25
Owen Sullivan,
1 12
Mr. Buckley,
3
1 00
John Lyons,
74
7 25
Patrick Hurley 3 days, and boy 1 day,
7 50
3920 loads gravel,
197 95
6 Edwin A. Taber, horse and cart, and 3 boys to pick stones,
9 75
66 James Barrett, Chas. Dolan, and other boys, to pick stones, 130 80
Caleb Tucker, “ 3 00
" Ephraim Mann and men, shovelling snow, 108 73
32
Paid E. M. Roel and men, shovelling snow, *93 50
John Long and men, 66
24 80
" Daniel Kiley, blasting rocks, 3 50
Wm Campbell, repair tools,
1 15
". Thomas Fardy, 80
T. B. Gould, 3 dinners, 1 50
E. M. Roel, account book, errands of boys,
67
30
D. Burrill, damage to fence, 1 00
" Bush scythe, 2 40
" Ephraim Mann, time and expenses to Boston, $3 ; Dedham, $4 ; Stoughton, $4; and horse and wagon 2 days in town, $8, 19 00
$2,442 16
RAILING AND BRIDGES.
Paid Loud & Pratt, for plank,
$30 98
carting plank,
4 65
John Long, for plank,
3 25
" Gardner Brothers, for plank,
12 52
John Long, for carting plank,
3 25
$6 William Campbell, iron and labor,
89 25
R. W. Turner & Co., nails,
1 10
P. McMahon, stone and labor,
38 00
Ephraim Mann, 24 posts, delivered, 6 50
F. Porter & A. J. Gove, for brimstone, 2 30
Austin Roel, labor, 102 94
Lemuel Wentworth, labor,
11 85
Charles Belcher, labor, 4 54
18 75
Ephraim Mann, labor, 64 days, for two men and two
horses, 3} days, 28 75
33
Paid Ephraim Mann, for one man and two horses, 62 days, $40 50
" Ephraim Mann, for one man and one horse, 62 days, 27 00
" Ephraim Mann, for two men, 1 day,
4 50
Ephraim Mann, for carting load flat stones, 3 50
" Ephraim Mann, horse and wagon part of day, 2 50
" John Gill, 42 days, 10 62
Sand and Gravel, 3 08
$450 33
NEW ROADS.
ROEL STREET.
Paid for construction of the road,
$405 30
Land damage, to Ralph Houghton, 100 00
to Minot Baker's heirs, 65 00
to Obadiah Jones,
50 00
to Samuel C. Veazie, 40 00
$660 39
ALLEN STREET.
Paid for construction,
$468 88
Land damage to John May,
125 00
to S. L. Hawes,
50 00
66
to Minot Baker's heirs,
Commissioners' award, 800 00
$1,443 88
34
Paid for Land damage, extra award of Jury to Baker heirs,
$550 00
Costs, 66
192 39
66 Witness fees on part of the town to W. H. Warren, 69 10
Waldo Colburn, counsel fee, &c., 107 26
66 E. Beal, plan of land for Jury, 11 90
W. B. Hathaway, dinners for Jury and others, 55 00
$2,429 53
INCIDENTAL EXPENCES.
Paid E. Beal, survey and plan, &c., of Warren Street,-
$35 05
John Long, expense,
10 80
E. M. Roel, postage,
68
E. Beal, survey of Main St.,
36 30
Seth Mann, 2d, clerical services,
15 00
W. E. Jewell, legal
4 00
J. F. Kilton, “
5 00
John Long, for “ " Mr. Kilton, * 5 00
" J. N. Bullock, carriages, Co. Commissioners, 2 25
$114 08
Total,
$6,096 49
* Refunded to Treasurer.
On examination of the expenditures made under the direction of your commissioners and others, it will be seen that the whole amount expended is $6,091 49
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.