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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.
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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
25
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
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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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