Report of the city of Somerville 1868-1871, Part 3

Author: Somerville (Mass.)
Publication date: 1871
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
Number of Pages: 846


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80 00


Charles Trull, salary as driver, etc., . 57 40


Charles D. Bonner, salary as driver, 50 00


Bunker Hill Hose Co., refreshments,


20 00


Jotham Barry, Cannell coal, 23 00


22 48


Edmund Train, oil meal, 1 60


Royal Price, hay, 20 32


A. L. Sanborn, horses and carriage hire, 10 00


D. A. Sanborn, repairs on engine, 84 57


Hugh Blackwell, care of hydrants and reservoirs, 100 00


95 00


Hook and Ladder Co., 3 months' pay,


H. R. Bishop, ladders, 30 00


S. N. Robinson, teaming hose,


4 00


H. C. Bowers, bread, 3 00


Osgood Dane, hay, 8 90


3


Mr. Wilson, carrots, .


Steam Engine Co., 3 months' pay, 47 50


34


Paid Wm. London, express, Thomas Hollis, blacking,


$4 9


3 0


$6,884 1


Cr.


Received for sale of pair of horses,


. $350 00


Balance,


$6,534 1


Appropriation, $6,000 00. Overdrawn, .. 534 12


SUPPORT OF POOR.


March 1st, 1867.


Paid C. D. Fulson, dry goods, ·


$6 50


City of Charlestown, board of paupers.


128 48


Charles J. Barry, fuel,


29 48


Charles Mongan, groceries,


16 00


T. Dwyer, shoes, .


4 00


J. Holmes, groceries,


10 00


E. L. Weeks, groceries,


9 00


Joseph Reed, groceries,


8 00


Patrick Rafferty, order Donnely, .


2 00


E. N. Moore & Co., stationery, .


27 00


James McLaughlin, groceries,


34 00


Margaret Kelly, order,


2 00


Isaac Trask, groceries, .


15 00


Michael Powers, rent of room. .


21 00


Win. H. Rockwell, Treasurer, board of Otis Russell,


105 64


Charles Barry, fuel, .


8 00


George Hadley, order,


7


7 00


Charles Mongan, groceries, ,


16 50


Brattleboro' Asylum, board of H. Kinsley,


100 00


Michael Powers, rent of room,


6 00


N. W. & C. F. Edson, groceries,


56 00


Joseph Reed, groceries, 20 00


7 00


P. Rafferty, transport of paupers, .


16 00


Samuel Littlefield, groceries,


42 00


M. Powers, rent of room,


3 00


24 50


C. S. Lincoln, professional services,


J. McLane, groceries, . 11 00


Charles Mongan, groceries,


P. Rafferty, transport of paupers,


36


Paid John P. Eberly, boots and shoes, $10 24


Wm. C. Brooks, fuel, . 109 83


Joseph Reed, groceries, 5 00


J. R. Morse, medical attendance, . 28 00


Wm. K. Fletcher, medical attendance, 4 00


George Mclaughlin, groceries,


28 00


Thomas Devins, coffin,


10 00


Thomas Devins, coffin,


10 00


John Holmes, groceries,


4 50


Mary Finogan, order, .


3 00


Clark Bennet, stationery, .


2 10


Wm. C. Brooks & Co., fuel, .


247 80


David A. Sanborn, meals to lodgers, . 28 50


N. W. & C. F. Edson, groceries, . 73 00


Edson & Wheeler, groceries,


57 00


City of Charlestown, support of paupers,


253 72


H. B. Runey, undertaker,


9 00


Charles Mongan, groceries, .


12 00


E. K. Foster, dry goods, .


8 00


T. Dwyer, shoes, .


17 00


Lock, Hart & Seeley, coffin,


12 00


George McLaugblin, groceries,


14 00


$1,682 54


Cr.


Received from City of Boston, $37 75


City of Cambridge,


77 10


Sarah Haneford,


13 50


State Treasurer, .


33 00


161 35


$1,521 19


Appropriation, . $2,500 00


1,521 19


Unexpended balance,


$978 81


GAS.


March 1, 1867.


Paid Hugh Blackwell, lighting lamps, . $94 35


Charlestown Gas Company, street gas to March, 101 82


Charlestown Gas Company, gas in town hall, 32 19


Cambridge Gas Company, street gas to March, . 80 10


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Paid Cambridge Gas Company, street gas to April, $85 03


. Charlestown Gas Company, street gas to March, . 98 94


Charlestown Gas Campany, street gas to April, 80 59


Hugh Blackwell, lighting street lamps, 83 37


Hugh Blackwell, lighting street lamps, . 81 25


Cambridge Gas Company, street gas, to May, 71 69


Cambridge Gas Company, street gas to June, 64 83


Cambridge Gas Company, gas to Engine House, 10 92


Combridge Gas Company, gas in town hall, . 3 78


Cambridge Gas Company, gas in armory hall, 2 94


Hugh Blackwell, lighting street lamps, June, 86 67


Hugh Blackwell, lighting street lamps, July, 95 15


Charlestown Gas Company, street gas, May, . 82 51


Charlestown Gas Company, street gas, June, 57 96


Charlestown Gas Company, gas in town hall, 54 76


Charlestown Gas Company, gas in hose house, . 5 55


Charlestown Gas Co., gas posts, lanterns, and repairs, 111 47


J. A Merrifield, repairing lamps, 13 24


S. C. Ditson, repairing lamps, 5 60


Cambridge Gas Company, street gas, June, 51 25


Charlestown Gas Company, street gas, July, 77 83


Hugh Blackwell, lighting street lamps, 85 15


William Gibson, setting lamp posts, 288 00


Charlestown Gas Company, street gas, August, . 70 41


Hugh Black well, lighting street lamps, . 85 15


Charlestown Gas Company, street gas, September. 88 58


Charlestown Gas Company, gas in town hall, 17 02


Hugh Blackwell, lighting street lamps, etc., 117 95


Burner Petroleum Company, burners and oil, 67 37


Joel Robinson, lamp posts, on account, 1,000 00


Hugh Blackwell, lighting street lamps, . 130 00


Cambridge Gas Company, street gas, June, 72 17


Cambridge Gas Company, street gas, July, 65 55


Cambridge Gas Company, street gas, August, . 81 20


Cambridge Gas Company, street gas, September to Oct., 118 09


Cambridge Gas Company, gas for engine house, 10 92


Cambridge Gas Company, gas for armory, 3 36


Cambridge Gas Company, gas for armory, . 4 62


Petroleum Burner Company, kerosene oil, . 34 90


Charlestown Gas Company, street gas, October to Nov., 115 70


Charlestown Gas Company, street gas, Nov. and Dec., 139 07


Charlestown Gas Company, gas in hose house, 4 44


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Paid Joel Robinson, balance on bill of lamp post-, $631 50


Joel Robinson, lamp post and lantern head, . 49 00


Cambridge Gas Company, street gas, October and Nov., 148 25


Charlestown Gas Company, gas posts and fittings, . 200 12


Charlestown Gas Company, street gas for December, 126 42


Charlestown Gas Company, gas for town hall, 102 12


Cambridge Gas Company, street gas for December, 135 88


Hugh Blackwell, lighting street lamps, etc., . 137 35


Cr.


$5,663 48


Received from Lowell R. R. Company, for lamp posts .. 60 00


E. Conant, for lamp posts, . 84 00


Edgar Paine, for street lamp posts, 28 00


Francis Houghton, for lamp posts,


352 00


$524 00


Balance, . . $5.139 48


Appropriation, gas, . · $4,500 00


lamp posts, 1.000 00


5,500 00


Unexpended balance,


$360 52


TOWN HALL APPROPRIATION.


Paid Isaac Cushing, on contract, . $500 00


Henry N. Hooper, bell, etc., 391 65


Isaac Cushing, on contract. 600 00


Wm. O. Haskell, on settees,


375 00


A. Wentworth, marble slab, 7 90


Howland & Jones, spittoons, etc., 11 92


Nelson Howe, brooms, etc., 7 83


Wm. G. Shattuck, settees,


57 60


A. Coan, trimming and hanging blinds, .


20 25


J. H. Hollis, painting blinds,


32 00


Cutter & Parker, window blinds,


104 00


A. M. Anger, teaming blinds, .


1 00


Brooks & Darling, blind trimmings,


14 27


$2,123 42


Appropriation balance, old account, . $2,100 00


2,123 42


Overdrawn, .


$23 42


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FOSTER SCHOOL-HOUSE APPROPRIATION.


Paid Home and Atlantic Insurance Co., $12 00


Isaac Cushing, contract, 1,000 00


Martin & Thayer, balance on plans. 350 00


Isaac C. Cushing, contract, . 4,961 01


Isaac C. Cushing, building vaults. 188 00


$6,511 01


Appropriation, balance of old account, $6,519 79


6,511 01


Unexpended balance, $8 78


LINCOLN SCHOOL-HOUSE APPROPRIATION.


Paid Kendrick Chapman, contract, $201 50


Kendrick Chapman, to S. C. Whitcher, 50 00


Kendrick Chapman, contract, 266 45


Oren S. Knapp, for J. Stevenson,


120 00


Chase & Tufts, re-laying cellar wall. .


28 50


$666 45


Appropriation, balance of old account, .


$760 45


666 45


Unexpended balance, . $94 00


SOLDIERS' RELIEF.


1867.


Paid Order to Mrs. Plant, $5 00


Order to F. H. Mason, 10 00


Order to Mrs. Plant,


6 00


N. W. & F. C. Edson, groceries,


10 00


Order to J. Oliver,


10 00


Wm. C. Brooks, fuel, 49 46


Wm. Eccles, groceries,


18 00


Order to F. H. Mason,


10 00


J. Leavett, provisions, .


5 08


Order to Mrs. Plant,


10 00


Order to B. Bannan, . 5 00


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Paid Order to Edward Bannan,


$10 00


Wm. C. Brooks & Co., fuel. .


23 89


B. Bannan, order. 8 00


C. G. Cole, order,


10 00


Lewis & Eldridge, orders. 10 00


Mrs. Brannon, order, .


5 00


Mrs. Monahan, order,


10 00


Mrs. Nelson. order, 25 00


8 00


Mrs. Day, order, .


15 00


Mrs. Kendrick, order, 16 00


65 00


John O'Brien, groceries, .


3 00


Terance Monahan, order,


10 00


Mrs. Fitzpatrick, order,


10 00


Michael Coslin, order, .


15 00


Joseph Martin, order, 5 00


4 38


Appropriation, .


$500 00


391 81


Unexpended balance,


$108 19


POLICE.


1867.


Paid Coleman Connelly, services, . $10 00


Charles Trull, services,


17 00


F. D. Snow, services, .. 10 00


Horace B. Runey, services.


126 00


John C. Berry, services, 3 00


Geo. H. Fitz, services,


3 00


Stephen Smith, services, 5 00


Milo Scott, services, . 12 00


H. B. Runey, services,


136 50


Caleb Bucknam, services, .


9 00


P. H. Tyler, services, .


50 00


Jarius Mann, services,


51 00


James Hanley, services.


197 50


H. B. Runey, services,


138 00


Michael Hanley, services.


287 50


F. E. Downer, groceries, .


Selectmens' order for soldiers' families,


Charles J. Barry, fuel,


$391 81


40


Paid G. Leland, services, . $40 00


Wm. S. Tufts, watching,


64 00


R. R. Perry, watching, 72 00


P. H. Tyler, watching, 36 50


R. R. Perry, watching, 60 00


148 00


H. B. Runey, services,


138 00


Robert R. Perry,


62 00


$1,676 00


Appropriation for police and night watch, $2,700 00


Unexpended balance, . $1,024 00


PRESCOTT SCHOOL.


Paid S. S. Woodcock, plans for school-house, $300 00


Henry Lunt, copying, . 7 50


John S. Tuttle, on contract, 1,000 00


Stimpson & Co., removing old walls, 300 00


Clement & Cresey, on contract,


1,700 00


John S. Tuttle, on contract, .


2,000 00


John S. Tuttle, on contract,


2,000 00


S. S. Woodcock, plans for school-house,


200 00


John S. Tuttle, on contract,


2,000 00


Clement & Cresey, on contract,


1,500 00


John S. Tuttle, on contract, 2.000 00


Clement & Cresey, on contract, 1,500 00


B. F. Dudley, copper gutters, 517 00


M. J. Crowley, gas piping,


25 79


City of Charlestown, water piping, 25 70


John Tuttle, on contract, 2,217 00


John Faruhar, slating school-house per contract,


1,188 02


John C. & Thos. E. Park, plastering school-house per contract, 2,112 58


Clement & Cresey, on contract,


2,000 00


John S. Tuttle, contract on privies, 797 00


Charles B. Morton, work on privies, .


351 20


$23,741 79


Appropriations,


$31,503 82


23,741 79


Unexpended balance, .


$7,762 03


Wm. S. Tufts, watching,


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SALARIES.


Paid Joshua H. Davis, 1 quarter salary as Superintendent of schools, $125 00


John C. Magoun, order, Assessor, 50 00


Charles E. Gilman, 1 quarter, order, Town Clerk, . 100 00


Joshua H. Davis, 1 quarter, order, Sup't of schools, 250 00


J. C. Magoun, balance, Assessor, . 250 00


Thomas Cunningham, 6 months' salary, 300 00


Columbus Tyler, Assessor, 200 00


John C. Tenney, Assessor, 200 00


Charles E. Gilman, 1 quarter; Town Clerk, 100 00


Charles E. Gilman, 1 quarter, Town Clerk, 100 00


B. Randall, Collector, 1 year's salary, 1,000 00


Thomas Cunningham, 4 months' salary, . . 200 00


Abram Welch, 10 months' overseer of poor, . 83 34


Clark Bennet, 10 months' overseer of poor, 83 33


Patrick Rafferty, 10 months overseer of poor,


83 34


$3,125 01


Appropriation,


$4,000 00


3,125 01


Unexpended balance,


$874 99


STEAM FIRE ENGINE.


Paid A. C. Sanborn, stone work,


$10 00


Hunneman & Co., hose carriage and fixtures, . 1,048 50


$1,058 50


Appropriation, unexpended balance, old


account, .


$767 71


1,058 50


Overdrawn,


$290 79


BOARD OF HEALTH.


Paid John Peters, contract to drain lot on Linwood Street, $50 00


Paid A. B. Morss, printing, 7 00


H. B. Runey, cash paid and service, 102 50


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Paid Thomas Cunningham, cash paid and service,


$110 00


Charles Trull, service, . · 1 00


$270 50


Appropriation,


$500 00


270 50


Unexpended balance,


. $229 50


STATE AID.


Paid Applicants to March 31st, . $752 00


Applicants to April 30th, . '680 33


Applicants to May 31st, 462 82


Applicants to June 30th, . 425 32


Applicants to July 31st,


461 38


Applicants to August 31st,


412 33


Applicants to September 30th,


415 83


Applicants to October 31st, 403 33


Applicants to November 30th, 375 33


Applicants to December 31st, 382 33


$4,771 00


Received from State Treasurer,


$7,700 00


4,771 00


Balance to new account,


$2,929 00


MEDFORD TURNPIKE APPROPRIATION.


Paid E. C. Bailey, advertising, . $11 00


Charles O. Rogers, advertising,


16 25


Charles Linahan, on contract, .


1,000 00


Charles Linahan, on contract.


1,500 00


Charles Linahan, on contract, .


1,000 00


Charles Linahan, on contract, 350 00


Charles Linahan, on contract, .


1,150 00


A. C. Sanborn, stone landmarks, .


27 00


$5,054 25


Appropriation, . . $7,000 00


5,054 25


$1,945 75


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NEW STREET APPROPRIATION.


Paid J. W. Teel, land damages, . $150 00


Bernard McCarroll, on contract, 400 00


Bernard McCarroll, on contract, 300 00


J. W. Teel, stone wall, 15 00


$865 00


Cr.


By cash received from County Treasurer on account of damages,


$150 00


Balance, .


$715 00


Appropriation,


$3.500 00


715 00


Unexpended balance, .


$2,785 00


LEDGE LOAN.


Paid Person Davis, purchase of ledge on Broadway, near Walnut Hill, .


$3,609 00


Mark Fisk, purchase of ledge on Bond Street, Winter Hill,


878 93


$4,487 93


Appropriation, . $5,000 00


4,487 93


Unexpended balance, .


. $512 07


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Cr.


Dr. TOWN OF SOMERVILLE, IN ACCOUNT WITH THOMAS CUNNINGHAM, TREASURER.


Dec, 31, 1867.


March 1, 1867.


To Schools, balance,.


$35,561 63


By Balance of old account, ..


$12,515 80


Highways, balance, .


10,100 45


Balance of Notes Payable,.


40,200 00


Miscellaneous, balanec,


7,095 94


Balance of Taxes, ..


85,884 50


Fire Department, balance,


6,534 13


Balance of State Aid, .


Support of Poor, balance,.


1,521 19


Interest Account, balance,


8,480 46


Gas, balance, .


5,139 48


Police, balanec,.


1,676 00


Soldiers' Relief, balance,.


391 81


Town Hall, balance,.


2,123 42


Foster Sehool House, balance,.


6,511 01


Prescott School House, balanec, .


23,741 79


Lincoln School House, balance,.


666 45


Steamer, Engine Appropriation, balanec,.


1,058 50


Salaries, Appropriation, balance,


3,125 01


Board of Health, balance,.


270 50


New Street, balanec, .


715 00


Medford Turnpike, balance,.


5,054 25


Town Ledges, balance, .


4,487 93


Cash Balance,


17.274 35


$141,529 30


$141,529 30 THOMAS CUNNINGHAM, Treasurer.


The undersigned, having examined the accounts of the Town Treasurer, hereby certify that the above account is correct, and that the balance in the Treasury is seventeen thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars thirty-five cents. $17,274.35.


SOMERVILLE, January 1, 1868,


JOHN M. SCHROEDER, ) WALTER S. BARNES, BENJ. S. BINNEY,


Awlitors of Somerrille.


2,929 00


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TOWN DEBT, DECEMBER 31, 1867.


Date.


Rate Int.


To whom Payable.


Amount.


When Due.


Interest paid to.


July 29. 1859


5% per ct.


Lucy Bell


$5.454


July 29. 1879.


July 29, 1866.


Oct. 1, 1859


55 per ct.


Safety Fund Bank


14.400


Oct. 15, 1879.


Oct. 1. 1866.


Jan. 10, 1862


6 perct.


Lucius R. Paige


1,500


Jan. 10, 1872.


July 10, 1866


Jan. 10. 1862


per ct.


Cambridgep't Savings Bank


4,500


Jan. 10, 1872.


July 10, 1866.


May 16, 1862


54 perct.


Warren Instit'n for Savings ..


7.495


May 16, 1872.


Nov. 16. 1866.


Nov. 10, 1862 1


5} per ct.


20.875


Nov. 10. 1869.


Nov. 10. 1866.


Nov. 28, 1862


6 per ct.


John Peabody


2.500


Nov. 28, 1868.


Nov. 28, 1866.


Nov. 25. 1862


6 per ct.


Levi Jones


5.000


Nov. 25. 1872.


Nov. 25. 1866.


June 27. 1864


5% per ct.


Margaret Cruden .


20.000


June 27, 1884.


Dec. 27. 1866.


Sept. 23, 1864 1


6


per ct.


Warren Instit'n for Savings 66 6.


21.000


Sept. 23. 1884.


Sept. 23, 1866.


Dec. 1, 1864


6 per ct.


Lydia M. Fenno


1.300


Demand.


Nov. 5. 1866.


May 14, 1866


per ct.


J. M. Pinkerton, Trustee ..


7,000


May 14, 1868.


Nov. 14. 1866.


Jan. 10, 1867


per ct.


Rebecca Carville


750


Demand.


July 10. 1866.


April 3. 1867


per ct.


East Cambridge Savings B'k


10,000


April 3, 1872.


Oct. 3, 1866.


July 1, 1867


7 per ct.


Boston Five Cent Savings Bank.


30,000


July 1. 1872.


July 1. 1867


7 per ct.


Warren Instit'n for Savings


5.500


July 1. 1872.


July 1. 1867


per ct.


Martha Hadley


700


July 1, 1869.


July 1, 1867


7 per ct.


Henry P. Conner


8.000


July 1, 1869.


6.


July 1, 1867


1 per ct.


Sarah L Moore.


4.000


July 1, 1869.


66


66


Dec. 2, 1867


7 per ct.


John Peabody


2.500


Dec. 2. 1872.


66


$189.474


Increase since March 1st, 1867, $40,200.


THOMAS CUNNINGHAM, TREASURER.


Report of the Overseers of the t


Poor.


..


Aug. 25, 1867


7 per ct.


Warren Instit's for Savings


12.000


Aug. 25, 1872.


Dec. 1, 1866.


May 5, 1866


per ct.


5.000


Dec. 1. 1884.


Sept. 1. 1866. , None due.


It has been deemed advisable by us to submit a brief state- ment of the most important matters that have come within the sphere of our action the past year, although there may be no- thing of any special importance or interest. The Treasurer's Statement of disbursements and receipts on Poor account, will show the amount of money expended and received to January 1, 1868. But it does not show very clearly for whom, or how, expended ; as nearly every dollar for partial support is drawn from the Treasury by parties furnishing fuel, groceries, and various articles, on the orders of our Board. At the present time, there are only four persons receiving full support from the


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Town ; viz .: Henry Kinsley, at the Vermont Asylum, Brattle- borough, at an expense of $100 per annum ; Truman Morrill, Mrs. Bridget Bradburn and her daughter Ellen, thirteen years old, at the Charlestown Almshouse, at $2.50 per week, for the two first, and about $2 per week for the last named. The cost per annum for these four persons will not vary much from $550, including clothing, &c., furnished. The sum appropriated for Poor account by the town, at its April meeting, was $2500, which leaves $1950 for relief and partial support of destitute and needy persons. Of this class, we have upon our books eigh- ty-three names entered since the first day of October last, most of whom are widows, having families of children dependent upon them for support. The average number belonging to these families is not less than four persons each family, giving an ag- gregate of 332 persons. Others will apply for aid within the year, sufficient to swell the number to 400 persons. More than 90 per cent. of these persons have no settlement in this Common- wealth, and therefore have no legal claim upon the town, further than to remove them to the State Almshouse, at Tewksbury, when they fall into distress, but most of the children of these families were born in Somerville, and have entered our schools, in which many of them are receiving important training, and culture. It will be seen by the foregoing figures, that the aver- age sum expended on each of these persons does not exceed $5.00 per annum, which is only about one-third the average cost per scholar of our schools, if we compute the interest on the cost of school-houses furnished by the town. Fuel for the ex- treme cold weather of the year, is one of the principal articles furnished these families. Most of which, during some seven months in the year, ask no assistance from the town. In aiding this class of persons the practice of our town has been more liberal than that of the cities near which we are located. Very little is done for such persons by many cities and towns, except to remove them to State Almshouses, when destitution and in- tense suffering shall ring from them a reluctant consent to such removal. There has, no doubt, been cases where the munifi- cence of the town has been bestowed upon unworthy and unde- serving persons whose distinguishing characteristics seem to be to squander and misapply their own earnings, as well as any


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charity extended to them. But these are exceptions, and when- ever it becomes known to us that the charities of the town are abused by such persons, further aid is withheld. The prevail- ing rule, we think, is this, that the comparatively small sum ex- pended by this town in proportion to its population is, and has been, instrumental in relieving, and preventing a large amount of suffering, and of holding up and keeping together many families, when weak, until they became strong enough to take care of themselves ; and therefore has resulted in accomplishing great good. We hope the same policy will be continued by the town in future.


In consequence of the general depression of business, and the small demand for labor, the present winter, thus far, has been an unfavorable one for persons dependent almost wholly on their daily labor for support.


The cost of living is very high, so that the regular earnings of a common laborer are only sufficient to keep a small family supplied with the necessaries of life.


We have had several applications for relief of families where a healthy father and mother were among its members, ready and willing to labor, if employment could be found for them, but for which, we were told, they had searched in vain, rendering it necessary for them, to save their families from suffering, to have recourse to the charities of the town, as the last alternative left them. We have had at least two cases where families have a military settlement in town under the Statute of 1865, Chap. 230. These men are apparently able and willing to labor. They have served long and honorably in the armies of the Nation in its recent gigantic struggle for national existence, and each counted as a man of Somerville. They have families to support, and having exhausted their means of living, and being unable to find employment, they too have come to the poor department for relief.


We would ask our fellow-citizens if there cannot be adopted some other method than this, more compatible with our sense of justice and moral obligations, and more congenial to the feelings of veteran soldiers, for the relief of his physical wants ?


We hope to be able, notwithstanding the adverse circumstances to which we have adverted, to keep within the appropriation of the


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year for "Support of Poor." Quite a percentage of what we are now expending is for relief of persons belonging to other places, but now residing in our town, and in whose behalf ex- penses thus incurred, will be reimbursed to the town.


The number of paupers receiving full support from the town has ever been very small in proportion to our population, and until this number shall materially increase, there can be no ne- cessity for providing a Town Almshouse, to superintend which and its inmates, would cost the town much more than for the full support of its present small number of paupers.


We will refer now particularly to Ellen Bradburn, thirteen years old, at the Charlestown Almshouse, hoping that by so doing it will meet the eye of some one of our citizens who will take her into his family, in the capacity of servant, extending to her all reasonable and proper privileges and advantages. The number of applicants for relief having become too large to be received into our residences ; we have since last November held regular meetings of the Board twice a week, at the court room, to hear applications, consider and act upon the same. Thus far this plan has, we think, worked well, for all parties concerned, as all our transactions appear on one set of books, and the col- lective judgment of the Board is at command when intricate cases arise requiring its exercise.


PATRICK RAFFERTY, CLARK BENNETT,


Overseers of Poor.


ABRAM WELCH,


STATEMENT


OF


tate, County


axes,


For the Year Ending March, 1868.


Tax Payers.


Assessed.


Abatem't. Discount. Uncol'ctd.


A.


Agen, Francis


$12 85


$ 51


Allen, Mary A ..


71 30


2 85


Andrews, Mrs. Harriett


100 75


$62 00


Armstrong. William


20 60


6 20


58


Atkins, Sullivan H.


$71 75


Anderson, John A.


12 85


52


Adams, John G.


18 60


74


Adams, Freeborn


141 50


5 66


Anthony, Joseph


39 20


Arnold, Leonard


53 93


Arnold, Irene G. Mrs.


15 50


Ashley, John E.


91 90


Allen, Benjamin F.


408 10


16 32


Adams, Edward


33 00


Angier, Amos M.


87 25


3 59


Allen, John N.


75


Ames, Nathan W.


79 80


3 18


Armstrong, David


17 50


Allen, Charles C.


45 40


Ayer, John F.


95 00


36 10


Arthur, David


29 90


1 19


Armstrong, Hannah


12 40


40


Atkinson, Robert J.


9 75


39


Appleton, John C.


48 50


Allen David


81 05


3 24


Alden, William


Adams, Frank, Heirs of


41 85


1 67


Adams, Wm. H., Heirs of


27 90


1 12


Allen, Benjamin F., Guardian


16 28


65


Allen, W. W.


24 03


Ashley, Daniel


20 15


Ashley, Roderick


30 23


4


9 75


Allen, Fisher


14 40


Allison, Mrs. Sarah


50


Tax Payers.


Assessed.


Abatem't.


Discount.


Uncol'ctd.


B.


Brown, Benjamin G.


95 00


Burns, John


11 30


Blanchard, Walter


40 75


1 63


Byard, Maurice


25 25


Bartlett, George W.


64 00


Brookhouse, John H.


122 90


1 91


Besent, Gilman F.


133 75


Baldwin, Nicholas


14 40


57


Buffum. George S.


5 10


Burke Edward


51


Bennett. John


25 25


Blackwell, Hugh


85 70


3 43


Bradford, Wm.


57 80


2 35


Bucknam, Caleb


56 25


Bucknam. David P.


17 50


Baxter, William


11 30


Brackett, Samuel E.


149 25


5 97


Barnes, Walter S.


101 20


4 04


Bullard, Charles


197 30


7 89


Bullard, Charles H.


25 25


1 01


Belknap, Austin


110 50


4 42


Bailey, Albon H.


56 25


2 25


Brastow, George O.


271 70


10 87


Benton, Ruben P.


240 70


8 20


Blaisdell. Abner


51 60


2 06


Bishop, Henry H., Heirs of


3 25


7 75


62


Byrne, Michael


17 50


Buckingham, Edwin B.


428 25


17 12


Benjamin, Daniel S.


9 75


Benjamin, Frances C.


54 25


Baker, William A.


5 10


20


Blanchard, Benjamin


48 50


Blackbird, George


33 00


Bailey, Sally


18 60


74


Byrnes, John


23 35


1 13


Bean, Danforth L.


56 25


2 25


Brackett, Charles


158 88


33 88


Bolton, John B.


144 60


5 78


Burrows, Theodore


3 55


Bowditch, Azel


9 75


Bixby, Benoni


79 50


3 18


Buswell, Charles


9 75


Brazillian, James S.


74 .85


3 00


Bigelow, Timothy


74 85


Beals, Henry M.


71 75


Barry, David


71 75




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