Report of the city of Somerville 1877, Part 2

Author: Somerville (Mass.)
Publication date: 1877
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
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The possession of this land will enable the city to control its settlement, and may, in this way, prove a benefit to the city gen- erally, and that locality in particular.


WATER.


For a few days in the summer, while the extreme hot weather prevailed, the Mystic water was in a very unsatisfactory condition. The objectionable condition was explained at the time as being the result of the great excess of heat coupled with the drought which reduced the quantity of water in the ponds, and raised the tempera- ture so as to cause the formation of vegetable matter on its surface, which finally floated down to the reservoir and passed off through the water and supply pipes. This vegetable matter was not regarded as detrimental to health, but was offensive to the taste.


Complaint has been made that the tanneries in Woburn drain into this water and contaminate it. The wonderful provision in nature by which water purifies itself is forcibly illustrated in this case, by following the stream from the inlet of the fetid water to the bridge near where the stream enters the pond, and where the water appears to be pure.


An Act was passed by the legislature of 1876, authorizing the city of Boston to build a sewer to take off this sewerage, and deposit it below the dam; but it was so amended on its passage as to render it comparatively worthless for the purpose intended. Assur- ances have been given that Boston will try to get a bill this winter, and at once enter upon the work of sewerage so much needed. The Mystic Water Board has expended in 1876 about $7,800. Length of distribution pipe laid, one mile, 1,353 feet. Number of water services put in, 135.


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HEALTH.


The city has been free from contagious disease to a degree sel- dom experienced. The Health Committee has caused to be abated many of the nuisances which usually cause sickness. There are still some places that will need attention this year. The quickest and most effectual mode of abating a nusiance is, after due notice, to prosecute the owner of the property for maintaining the nuisance.


A contract has been made for the removal of the house offal at $1,700 a year ; former contract $4,500.


TEMPORARY LOAN.


Financially, the city government begins on the first of January, and ends on the last day of December, annually. All the bills contracted each year are, or ought to be, provided for the same year. In February, bills to the amount of $30,000, more or less, will be incurred to meet the current expenses. To meet these bills the city must borrow on temporary loan in anticipation of taxes, and this process will be repeated monthly until taxes are paid in November.


In March, the City Council will estimate, as near as may be, the amount to be expended during the year. The amount so deter- mined upon is reported to the assessors, with instructions to assess upon the property of the city the sum required. The assessments are laid as of the first of May, and made payable in November. If all the taxes were paid before the first of January, of the following year, the temporary loan would be cancelled with the money received for taxes ; but since the taxes are not all paid the year they are levied, this loan holds over into the following year. The same rule applies in the case of betterment and sewer assess- ments. The office of temporary loan account is to borrow money on the credit of the city, to loan to individual citizens who do not find it convenient to pay their assessments when due.


In 1875 the expenses exceeded the estimates $11,275.87. In 1876 this deficit was paid, and the estimates exceeded the expen- ditures about $15,000. This balance to go into the sinking fund.


Gentlemen of the City Council : -


It is not expected that this address will furnish all the informa- tion necessary for the discharge of the varied, complicated, and


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important duties that will devolve upon you in the administration of the affairs of the city. You will examine the records, confer with the people, whose representatives you are, with one another, with your predecessors in office, whose knowledge, as well as judgment, will greatly aid you in forming correct conclusions. Bring to this work, if possible, minds unbiassed by personal or local prejudice, so that you may act with unclouded judgment. Be just to all, " the high and the low, the rich and the poor." Let peace, harmony, and good-will prevail in your councils. Be prompt, honest, and faithful in the discharge of your duties, and as economical in the expenditures as is consistent with the honor and dignity of the city.


TREASURER'S


SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE


FINANCIAL CONDITION


OF THE


CITY OF SOMERVILLE.


18777.


2


CITY OF SOMERVILLE.


IN BOARD OF, MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, Feb. 12, 1878.


The Report of the City Treasurer and Collector of Taxes for the year 1877 was received, accepted, and referred to the Committee on Finance, and sent down for concurrence.


CHARLES E. GILMAN, Clerk.


IN COMMON COUNCIL, Feb. 13, 1878. SOLOMON DAVIS, Clerk.


Concurred in.


IN COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, Feb. 25, 1878.


To the City Council of the City of Somerville : -


The Treasurer's Report for the financial year, ending Dec. 31, 1877, having been referred to the Committee on Finance, they have attended to their duty by making a thorough examination of the same in connection with the Auditor's accounts, and with the vouchers on file, and are grati- fied to report that they find each in harmony with the other, and correct in every detail ; and that the financial transactions for the year are recorded in a faithful and systematic manner, according to the most sound and accu- rate principles of book-keeping. For such reasons they recommend that the report be accepted.


O. J. DAVIS, Chairman.


IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, Feb. 26, 1878. Report accepted and adopted. Sent down for concurrence.


CHARLES E. GILMAN, Clerk.


Concurred in.


IN COMMON COUNCIL, Feb. 27, 1878. SOLOMON DAVIS, Clerk.


IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, Feb. 26, 1878.


ORDERED : That the Committee on Printing be, and they are hereby authorized to cause to be printed, a suitable number of the Treasurer's Report for the financial year, ending December 31, 1877.


Sent down for concurrence.


CHARLES E. GILMAN, Clerk.


Concurred in.


IN COMMON COUNCIL, Feb. 27, 1878.


SOLOMON DAVIS, Clerk.


CITY OF SOMERVILLE,


TREASURER'S OFFICE, February 12, 1878.


To the Honorable, the Mayor, and the City Council of the City of Somerville.


GENTLEMEN : - The undersigned presents herewith his Sixth Annual Report of the financial condition of the city, with a sched- ule of the public property, a statement of the funded debt, and a detailed exhibit of accounts.


The value of the public property Dec. 30, 1876, as shown by the books at that date, was $1,514,597.66, and the accessions thereto in 1877, - being additions to the Water Works and to the Public Library, cost of watering-carts, etc., - $17,645.74 ; making as the value Dec. 31, 1877, $1,532,243.40.


The gross amount of the funded debt Dec. 30, 1876, was $1,771,- 854, which included the sum of $165,000 borrowed in that year in anticipation of the bonds to mature in the year following ; and as it was so held and applied, it would seem that the net sum of $1,606,854 should be taken as the amount of the funded debt at that date.


On the 1st of October last, Sidewalk Loan Bond, No. 5, for $10,000, became due, and having been provided for by taxation, was paid at maturity. Late in the year the sum of $10,000 was appropriated to the credit of the Water Works account, to cover the expenditures in that department in excess of the amount to the credit of the account at the commencement of the year ; and author- ity having been given by the City Council, two Water Loan Bonds for $5,000 each were issued and disposed of, leaving the funded debt Dec. 31, 1877, $1,606,854.


The city government of 1876 left a balance of $13,039.99 to the credit of Excess and Deficiency account, but left also - an inheritance from its predecessors - several unsettled accounts ; two of these accounts-Highways (Broadway Widening) and Highways (Milk Street Widening) - were closed during the past year, and absorbed the above-named sum.


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The appropriations for 1877, beside the $10,000 already noted. amounted to $425,360.62, and a statement of the same, in detail, may be found under " Appropriations " account in Table C of the Appendix to this report. This amount, and also the State and County taxes, and the sum added for Overlay and Abatement account, made a total of $471,789.14, and was provided for by a tax levy, on a valuation of $25,479,400, at $18.10 on a thousand, and 5,306 polls, at $2.00 each.


The credit balance of Excess and Deficiency account for the year was $8,407.16, and this sum is at the disposal of the present City Council, but may be required during the year in the adjustment of the unsettled accounts before mentioned ; though successive city governments have been born into and have died out of some of them, despite the celerity of the courts, and still the accounts remain unclosed.


This sum of $8,407.16 was not, however, a balance saved from the appropriations made, the expenditures to which, in the aggre- gate, exceeded the amount appropriated ; but was acquired from that best abused of all accounts in the municipal ledger, " Inter- est," the amount to the credit of which, derived from over-due taxes, was $18,305.40.


The reduction of the rate of interest on taxes by the City Council of 1877, and the inclination toward a more speedy collection of the taxes, will so lessen this credit in the future that the overdrawal of accounts, if permitted, will simply mean increased taxes for the year following ; Chap. 209, of the Acts of the legislature of 1875, allowing no alternative.


The indebtedness of the city Dec. 31, 1877, other than the funded debt, was temporary loans $270,000, to which may be added the sums to the credit of the Water Works, Public Library and Beacon and Elm Streets Sewer accounts, and liable to withdrawal from the treasury,-$9,820.63,-making a total of $279,820.63 ; the assets available for the liquidation of this sum were, taxes $227,684.62; Highway Betterment, Sewer, Sidewalk, and Water Service Assess- ments, $41,668.58 ; Real Estate liens, $10,905.32 ; account against the State for State Aid paid, $1,223.50 ; and Cash, $5,133.96 : a total of $289,615.98, or $9,795.35 more than the liabilities. These figures do not include the Public Park Betterment Assessments, col- lected and uncollected, amounting to $46,932.90, nor do they provide


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for the $12,395.67, excess over appropriation in 1874 for the cost of park.


The largest current expense account (except the school accounts) is Interest ; and it is gratifying to know that there is a prospect of a gradual diminution in the sum which will be required each year for this account, the law prohibiting an increase of the debt, and a saving of one and a half and two per cent interest being made on the renewal of the maturing bonds.


Respectfully submitted.


AARON SARGENT,


Treasurer.


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APPENDIX TO TREASURER'S REPORT.


Table A.


PUBLIC PROPERTY, DEC. 31, 1877.


Central Hill Land (12 acres, 27,920


feet),


$175,000 00


City Hall,


$13,000 00


Furniture,


4,550 00


17,550 00


Public Library,


Steam Fire Engine House,


$19,500 00


Furniture,


500 00


Steam Fire Engine and Ap- paratus,


6,000 00


Steam Fire Engine Hose Car- riage and Apparatus,


2,000 00


28,000 00


High School House,


$60,000 00


Furniture,


4,000 00


Philosophical Apparatus,


500 00


64,500 00


Prescott School House Land (21,444


feet) and Building,


$55,000 00


Furniture,


3,000 00


58,000 00


Luther V. Bell School House Land (23,396 feet) and Building, $57,977 71 Furniture, 3,122 29


61,100 00


Amount carried forward,


$412,650 00


8,500 00


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Amount brought forward, Forster School House Land (32,693 feet) and Building, Furniture,


$412,650 00


$52,500 00


1,500 00


54,000 00


Morse School House Land (29,109 feet) and Building, Furniture,


1,250 00


31,250 00


Lincoln School House Land (13,000 feet) and Building,


$14,000 00


Furniture,


1,000 00


15,000 00


Prospect Hill School House Land (25,313 ft.) and Building, Furniture,


600 00


30,600 00


Jackson School House Land (11,212 feet) and Building,


$13,050 00


Furniture,


500 00


13,550 00


Bennett School House Land (20,560 feet) and Building,


$15,000 00


Furniture,


500 00


15,500 00


Webster School House Land (11,050 feet) and Building,


$12,000 00


Furniture,


500 00


12,500 00


Union School House Land (9,360 feet) and Building,


$4,500 00


Furniture, .


100 00


4,600 00


Harvard School House Land (9,810 feet) and Building,


$3,500 00


Furniture,


200 00


3,700 00


Amount carried forward,


$593,350 00


$30,000 00


$30,000 00


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Amount brought forward, Edgerly School House Land (26,428 feet) and Building, Furniture,


$593,350 00


$35,000 00


500 00


35,500 00


Brastow School House Land (10,019 feet) and Building,


$8.000 00


Furniture,


250 00


8,250 00


Franklin School House Land (33,017 feet) and Building,


$18,000 00


Furniture,


500 00


18,500 00


Beach Street School House Land (6,000 feet) and Building,


$6,000 00


Furniture,


500 00


6,500 00


Spring Hill School House Land (4,991 feet) and Building,


$2,500 00


Furniture,


200 00


2,700 00


City Farm Land (10 acres, 12,523 feet)


40,000 00


Cedar Street School House,


$1,500 00


Furniture,


100 00


1,600 00


City Stables and Dwelling Houses,


$11,000 00


Equipments for Highway Repairs,


4,500 00


Watering Carts and Sheds,


2,300 00


17,800 00


No. 1 Hose House Land (4,312 feet)


and Building,


$5,600 00


Furniture,


400 00


John E. Wool Hose Carriage and Apparatus, 2,000 00


8,000 00


Amount carried forward,


$732,200 00


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Amount brought forward, No. 2° Hose House Land (5,400 feet) and Building, $12.250 00 Furniture, 300 00 Winter Hill Hose Carriage and Apparatus, 2,000 00


$732,200 00


14,550 00


No. 3 Hose House Land (5,226 feet) and Building, $13,000 00


Furniture, 300 00


Geo. H. Foster Hose Carriage and Apparatus, 2,000 00


R. A. Vinal Hook and Ladder Truck and Apparatus. 3,400 00


Prescott Hook and Ladder Truck and Apparatus, 500 00


19,200 00


No. 4 Hose House Land (9,100 feet) and Building, $16,000 00


Furniture,


400 00


Geo. O. Brastow Hose Car- riage and Apparatus, 2,000 00


Relief Hose Carriage, 600 00


19,000 00


16,050 00


Fire Alarm Telegraph, Police Station Land (15,232 feet) and Building (Bow Street), $49,204 54 Furniture, 3,595 46


52,800 00


Prospect-Street Land (7,918 feet) and Building (old Police Sta- tion), 10,000 00


212,395 67


Public Park, Joy-Street Land (2,960 feet),


1,000 00


Walnut-Hill Land (10,890 feet),


1.500 00


Amount carried forward,


$1,078,695 67


27


Amount brought forward,


$1,078,695 67


Ledge Land on Bond St. (39,732 feet), Holland St. (5 a., 6.806 feet) , Milk Street (39,456 feet),


$5,000 00


25,000 00


7,000 00


37,000 00


Gravel Land in Waltham (about 35 acres),


35,000 00


Gravel Land in Wakefield (about 1} acres),


13,500 00


Gravel Land in Winchester (about 2 acres),


700 00


Somerville Water Works,


341,303 07


Tufts-Street Land (29,584 feet),


14,792 65


Oliver-Street Land (63 069 feet),


11,252 01


$1,532,243 40


Table B.


FUNDED DEBT, DECEMBER 31, 1877, WITH DATES FOR ULTIMATE REDEMPTION, REQUIRED BY THE LAW TO "REGULATE AND LIMIT MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS."


Date.


Loan.


Numbers of Bonds.


Rate per cent of Interest.


When due.


Denomi- nation.


Amount.


Purpose of Issue.


Date of Redemption.


Amount.


1873. Oct. 1,


City,


31, 32, 34 and 35, 33,


1878. Oct. 1, ..


$5,000


$20,000 25,000


Milk-Street Sewer


Sidewalk,


6,


"


25,000 10,000


10,000


Sidewalks


1869.


Water,


1 to 3,


Jan. 1,


10,000


30,000


Water Works .


1895. April 1, 1905. April 1,


30,000


April 1,


City,


44,


76:


April 1,


10,000


10,000


Milk Street Widening .


7


28


Ju'y 1, 1859.


2,


July 1,


5,454


5,454


Various : in lieu of Town Note re tired . Various .


1895. April 1,


69,854


Oct. 1,


Town 1,


Oct.


1,


14,400


14,400


1874.


Oct. 1.


Sidewalk, City,


143,


3,000


3,000


2,000


2.000


S


1870.


July 1, 1,


'Town 3, .. 4,


July 1,


55,000


55,000


Various


1895. April 1,


86,500


Oct. 1,


Sidewalk,


8,


10 000


10,000


Sidewalks


1905. April 1,


40,000


Oct. 1,


Water,


6,


1881.


66


Jan. 1,


20,000


20,000


Water Works .


20,000


Dec. 31,


" City,


7, Town 5, School 2,


5,000


5,000


Various .


1895. April 1.


68,000


1871. April 1, Oct. 1,


"6


School 3, 8 to 11,


66


April 1, Oct. 1,


60,000 10,000


40 000


High School-house Water Works ..


1905. April 1,


40,000


66


61,


16


5.000 10,000


5,000


Highland . Avenue Widening . Milk-Street Widening . . ·


10.000


1872.


7.


10 000


10,000


Sidewalks


66


144,


145 and 146,


5,000


10,000


1880.


Oct. 1,


21,500


21,500


Oct.


1874.


1870.


40,000


40,000


Water Works .


1870.


3,000


3,000


Morse School-house .


60,000


Water,


Land for School house on Tuf.s Street


.


51,


1879.


Jan. 1, 1874.


$55,000


..


City,


Town 6.


7.


8


16


8.


School 4,


Prescott School House


Sidewalks


1


1895. April 1,


106,000


July ..


1,


3 & 4,


1882. April 1, July 1,


17.500 5,000


17,500 10,000


Various: to pay Sundry Town Notes


Water,


12,


..


50,000


50,000


1905. April 1,


90,000


City,


9


11 & 12,


Oct.


1.


5,000


10,000


1874. Oct.


1,


Sidewalk,


10,


Sidewalks


April 1,


City,


49,


:


April 1,


10,000


10,000


Fire-Alarm Telegraph


-


Highland- Avenue Widening


1872.


1895. April 1,


114,000


29


July 1,


66, 67,


..


2,000


2,000


{ To pay School Loan Bond No. 1, in 5 part


1905. April 1.


15,000


1872.


Oct. 1,


City.


13, 14 to 17.


Oct.


1.


6,000


6,000 20,000


War : in lieu of Town Notes retired !


1874. Oct. 1,


80 to 86,


..


5,000


50,000


..


99.


..


2,500


2,500


16


100,


1,000


1,000


...


101 to 103.


3,000


9,000


..


".


104,


1,000


1,000


1


105,


2,000


2,000


..


..


5,000


30,000


106 to 111. 116,


3 000


3,000


117 to 121, 123 to 142


5,000


125,000


147 to 156.


5,000


50,000


Milk-Street Sewer


Amount carried. forward


$1,118,854


.


1


10 000


20,000


-


To pay Water Loan Bond No. 4 . . Water Works . . . Varions: to pay Sundry Town) Notes . Geo. O. Brastow, Hose House . .


1895. April 1.


45,000


Oct


1,


Sidewalk,


9,


"


10,000


10,000


1874. Oct. 1, 1872. April 1,


ity.


1,


5 & 6,


=


- 10,000


20,000


13,


40,000


40,000


8 & 10,


5,000


5,000


2,000


57 & 60,


66


1,


20,000


20,000


War: in lien of Town Note retired


July 1, 1874.


66


72 10 79,


5,000


40,000


Water,


16 to 18.


5,000


15,000


Milk. W sh'ton, & Beacon-st. Sewer J Water Works


Gravel iand in Waltham . Police Station . . . . .


5,000


Gravei iand in Wakefleid .


1895. April 1,


339,500


55,


2,000


10,000


20,000


Milk Street Widening . . .


52 to 54,


5,000


15,000


5,000


5,000


5,000


5,000


35,000


87 to 96.


6


1884.


10,000


10,000


Various . .


10,000 2,000 11.500 25,000


10 000 2,000 11,500 25,000


Public Park .


5,000


Table B. - Continued.


Date.


Loan.


Numbers of Bonds.


Rates per cent of Interest.


When due.


Denomi- nation.


Amount.


Purpose of Issue.


Date of Redemption.


Amount.


1877. Oct. 1, 1876.


32 Amount brought forward . Water,


5


1884. Oct. 1, 1885. April 1, 1885.


4,500


4.500


To pay Bond No. 45, in part .


·


Oct. 1, 1895. April 1, 1905. April 1,


4,500


April 1, 1875. July 1,


Water,


19 to 22


6


July 1,


5,000


20,000


Water Works . .


.


1895. April 1,


27,000


159


5,000


5,000


160 to 162


5,000


15,000


Milk.Street Sewer Broadway Widening


1885. July 1,


60,000


1876. April 1, 66


175 to 182


1886. April 1,


5,000


40.000


To pay Bonds Nos. 20 and 21 To pay Bonds Nos. 45 and 48


.


1895. April 1,


61,000


30


1876. Ap: il 1,


City,


189


1895. April 1,


35,500


35,500


To pay Bonds Nos. 22 to 30 &45, in part ) To pay B nds Nos. 36 to 43, 50, 56, 58, 59, 62 to 65, 68 to 74, 97, 112 to


1895. April 1,


200,500


1876. July 1, 1877.


Sewer,


1 to 7


5,000


35,000


Beacon and Elm-Streets Sewer


. .


1896. July 1, 1907. Oct. 1, 1905.


35,000


Oet. 1,


Water,


33


Oct. 1, 1905.


5,000


5,000


Water Works .


5,000


April 1,


Water,


29


5.3


4,500


4,500


To pay Water Loan B'ds 14 & 15, in part


4,500


July 1,


30 and 31


April 1, 1906. July 1,


5,000


10,000


Water Works .


$1,606,854


66


5,000


5,000


To pay Bond No. 19 . .


·


187


1,000


1,000


Water,


23 to 27


10,000


50,000


¿ To pay Water Loan Bonds Nos. ( 14 and 15, in part .


April 1,


55,500


66


28


5,500


5,500


Oct. 66


190 to 194


5,000


25,000


195 to 334


1,000


140,000


S 115 and 122 .


.


1896. July 1, 1904.


4,000


4,000


City,


157


158


3,000


3,000


Winthrop- Avenue Sewer


163 to 174


5,000


60,000


Water Works . .


·


$5,000


City,


188


$5,000


5,000


$1,118 854


1907.


20,000


183 to 185


5,000


15,000


186


1905.


April 1, 1906. July 1,


10,000


31


Table C.


STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS, SHOWING APPROPRIATIONS, RECEIPTS, EXPENDITURES, ETC, TO DEC. 31, 1877.


APPROPRIATIONS.


Credit.


TAXES, amount assessed for current


expenses,


$425,360 62


PROPERTY and DEBT BALANCE, balance


175,379 11


from 1876, since expended, Appropriated in 1877,


10,000 00


$610,739 73


Debit.


BALANCE from 1876,


$175,379 11


FIRE DEPARTMENT,


23,500 00


HEALTH DEPARTMENT,


3,400 00


HIGHWAYS,


45,000 00


INTEREST,


90,000 00


MISCELLANEOUS,


18 000 00


POLICE,


29,000 00


POLICE STATION INCIDENTALS,


3,000 00


PUBLIC LIBRARY,


1,500 00


PUBLIC PARK MAINTENANCE,


2,500 00


REDUCTION OF FUNDED DEBT,


10,000 00


SALARIES,


19,350 00


SCHOOL CONTINGENT,


11,200 00


SCHOOLHOUSE REPAIRS,


5.330 00


SCHOOL FUEL,


4,000 00


SCHOOL TEACHERS' SALARIES,


68,000 00


SEWERS,


6,000 00


SINKING FUND CONTRIBUTIONS,


46,030 62


SOLDIERS' RELIEF,


800 00


STREET LIGHTS,


9,000 00


SUPPORT OF POOR,


15,000 00


SURVEY OF STREETS,


1,000 00


SOMERVILLE WATER WORKS,


10,000 00


WATER MAINTENANCE,


13,750 00


$610,739 73


32


CASH.


Credit.


COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX,


$13.577 91


FIRE DEPARTMENT,


26,548 51


FUNDED DEBT,


175,000 00


HEALTH DEPARTMENT,


2,608 34


HIGHWAYS,


47,637 88


HIGHWAYS (BROADWAY WIDENING),


14,976 55


HIGHWAYS (BROADWAY GRADING),


103 33


HIGHWAYS (DAY STREET),


57 10


HIGHWAYS (HIGHLAND AVE. EXTEN- SION), 6 10


HIGHWAYS (MILK ST. WIDENING),


13,340 73


HIGHWAY BETTERMENT ASSESSMENTS,


1.726 63


INTEREST,


96.238 28


LIQUOR LICENSES,


993 75


MISCELLANEOUS,


11,381 69


MISCELLANEOUS (WATERING STREETS) ,


2.721 84


POLICE,


30,556 96


POLICE STATION INCIDENTALS,


2,952 05


PUBLIC LIBRARY,


2,661 06


PUBLIC PARK MAINTENANCE,


2,487 43


SALARIES,


19,350 00


SCHOOL CONTINGENT,


10,394 27


SCHOOL TEACHERS' SALARIES,


68,157 93


SCHOOLHOUSE REPAIRS,


8,590 02


SCHOOL FUEL,


2,722 96


SEWERS,


22.574 61


SEWERS (MILK ST. SEWER),


2,772 52


SEWERS (BEACON AND ELM STREET SEWER),


1,898 98


SIDEWALKS,


1,369 88


SINKING FUND CONTRIBUTIONS,


46,030 62


SOLDIERS' RELIEF,


902 73


SOMERVILLE WATER WORKS,


15,538 00


STATE AID,


4,223 50


STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS,


23,160 00


STREET LIGHTS,


7,665 06


Amount carried forward,


$680,927 22


33


Amount brought forward,


$680,927 22


SUNDRY PERSONS,


8,816 28


SUPPORT OF POOR,


17,306 54


SURVEY OF STREETS,


808 04


TAXES,


42 12


TEMPORARY LOANS,


515,000 00


WATER MAINTENANCE,


23,820 37


WATER SERVICES,


2,143 46


$1,248,8+4 03


BALANCE to debit in account of 1878,


5,133 96


-$1,253,997 99


Debit.


BALANCE from 1876,


$8,203 21


FIRE DEPARTMENT,


113 20


FUNDED DEBT,


10,000 00


HIGHWAYS,


1,359 76


HIGHWAY BETTERMENT ASSESSMENTS,


12,070 51


INCIDENTALS,


6,256 20


INTEREST,


19,041 56


LIQUOR LICENSES,


3,975 00


MISCELLANEOUS,


1,618 19


MISCELLANEOUS (WATERING STREETS),


1,880 05


POLICE,


1,910 89


POLICE STATION INCIDENTALS,


319 35


PUBLIC LIBRARY,


1,568 48


PUBLIC PARK BETTERMENT ASSESSMENTS,


3,421 29


PUBLIC PARK MAINTENANCE,


15 00


REAL ESTATE LIENS,


5,419 88


SCHOOL CONTINGENT,


227 34


SCHOOLHOUSE REPAIRS,


7 90


SEWERS,


267 95


SEWER ASSESSMENTS,


7,528 60


SIDEWALKS,


20 34


SIDEWALK ASSESSMENTS,


2,402 57


SOLDIERS' RELIFF,


60 00


SOMERVILLE WATER WORKS,


1,692 26


STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, - STATE AID,


4,254 12


STREET LIGHTS, 160 00


Amount carried forward, $93,793 65


3


34


Amount brought forward,


$93,793 65


SUPPORT OF POOR, TAXES,


3,981 18


467,279 16


TEMPORARY LOANS,


675,000 00


WATER MAINTENANCE,


10,733 90


WATER SERVICES,


31 19


WATER SERVICE ASSESSMENTS,


3.173 91


-$1,253,997 99


COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.


Credit.


TAXES, amount assessed for county tax,


$13,577 91


Debit.


CASH paid county tax,


13,577 91


EXCESS AND DEFICIENCY.


Credit.


BALANCE from 1876,


$13,039 99


HEALTH DEPARTMENT, credit balance of account,


791 66


HIGHWAYS,


66


66


105 68


INCIDENTALS,


66


66


66


6,256 20


INTEREST,


66


66 66


4,129 69


LIQUOR LICENSES,


66


66


66


2,981 25


MISCELLANEOUS,


66


66


66


1,802 40


POLICE,


66


66


66


353 93


POLICE STATION INCIDENTALS, credit


balance of


account


367 30


PUBLIC PARK


MAINTENANCE, credit


balance of


account,


27 57


SCHOOL CONTINGENT, credit balance of account,


1,033 07


SCHOOL FUEL,


66


66


1,277 04


SUPPORT OF POOR, 66


66


66


1,674 64


STREET LIGHTS, 66


66


66


1,494 94


SURVEY OF STREETS,


66


66


66


191 96


WATER MAINTENANCE, 66 66 ·


66


1,422 58


$36,949 90


35


Debit.


HIGHWAYS (BROADWAY WIDENING), transferred, $5,677 99


HIGHWAYS (MILK STREET WIDENING), transferred,


7,362 00


FIRE DEPARTMENT, debit balance of ac- count,


2,935 31


HIGHWAYS (APPLETON ST.), debit bal- ance of account,


158 33


HIGHWAYS (BROADWAY GRADING ) , debit balance of account, 103 33


HIGHWAYS (CONCORD AVENUE), debit balance of account, 19 70


HIGHWAYS (CHURCH STREET), debit bal- ance of account, 36 00


HIGHWAYS (DAY STREET), debit balance of account, 1,656 39


HIGHWAYS (HIGHLAND AVENUE EXTEN-


SION), debit balance of account,


6 10


HIGHWAYS (MORRISON STREET), debit balance of account, 274 13


HIGHWAYS (QUINCY STREET), debit bal- ance of account, 239 85


HIGHWAYS (WALLACE STREET), debit balance of accounts,


571 08


HIGHWAYS (WARREN AVENUE), debit balance of accounts, 12 60


OVERLAY AND ABATEMENT,


6,037 15


SCHOOL TEACHERS' SALARIES,




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