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Metropolitan Park Assessment Loan Bonds. ISSUED UNDER AUTHORITY OF CHAPTER 225, ACTS OF 1902, BEYOND THE LIMIT FIXED BY LAW.
DATE.
Number of Bonds.
Rate per cent. of Interest.
When due.
Denomi- nation.
Amount Coupon Bonds.
Amount Reg. Bonds.
July 1, 1902
6
31/2
July 1, 1908
$1,000
$1,000
· ....
July 1, 1902
Reg. 160
31/2
July 1, 1909
$1,000
July 1, 1902
8
31/2
July 1, 1910
1,000
1,000
.....
July 1, 1902
Reg. 161
31/2
July 1, 1911
1,000
July 1, 1902
Reg. 162
31/2
July 1, 1912
.
...
1,000
July 1, 1902
11
31/2
July 1, 1913
1,000
1,000
July 1, 1902
12
31/2
July 1, 1914
1,000
1,000
July 1, 1902
13
31/2
July 1, 1915
1,000
1,000
. .. .. .
July 1, 1902
14
31/2
July 1, 1916
1,000
1,000
...
July 1, 1902
15
31/2
July 1, 1917
1,000
1,000
.....
July 1, 1902
16
31/2
July 1, 1918
1,000
1,000
.....
July 1, 1902
17
31/2
July 1, 1919
1,000
1,000
......
July 1, 1902
18
31/2
July 1, 1920
1,000
1,000
.....
July 1, 1902
19
31/2
July 1, 1921
1,000
1,000
. . .....
July 1, 1902
20
31/2
July 1, 1922
1,000
1,000
......
July 1, 1902
21
31/2
July 1, 1923
1,000
1,000
......
July 1, 1902
22
31/2
July 1, 1924
1,000
1,000
......
July 1, 1902
23
31/2
July 1, 1925
1,000
1,000
......
July 1, 1902
24
31/2
July 1, 1926
1,000
1,000
......
July 1, 1902
25
31/2
July 1, 1927
1,000
1,000
. .... .
July 1, 1902
26
31/2
July 1, 1928
1,000
1,000
. .....
July 1, 1902
27
31/2
July 1, 1929
1,000
1,000
.....
$19,000
$3,000
Coupon Bonds .
$19,000
Registered Bonds
3,000
Total amount Met. Park Assessment Loan Bonds, $22,000
...
.
.....
.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Recapitulation.
City Loan Bonds
$1,102,000 00 236,000 00
Total amount of Funded Debt within the limit provided by law . Sewer Loan Bonds, issued under Chapter 357, Acts of 1895 ·
$1,338,000 00 .
$54,000 00
City Loan Paving Bonds, issued under Chapter 153, Acts of 1892
25,000 00
Metropolitan Park Assessment Loan Bonds, issued under Chapter 325, Acts of 1902
22,000 00
Total amount of Funded Debt outside of the limit allowed by law, issued under special Acts
101,000 00
Water Loan Bonds
69,000 00
Total amount of Funded Debt
. $1,508,000 00
Sewer Loan Bonds .
.
.
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TABLE C .- STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS, SHOWING APPROPRI- ATIONS, EXPENDITURES, ETC., TO DECEMBER 31, 1907.
Appropriations.
CREDIT.
Taxes, amount assessed for municipal purposes . . · $885,100 00
Property and Debt Balance, amount provided by issue of bonds
198,000 00
$1,083,100 00
DEBIT.
Appropriations from tax levy :-
Assessors
$10,000 00
City Auditor
725 00
City Clerk
5,500 00
City Engineer
11,500 00
City Messenger
2,000 00
City Solicitor
2,300 00
City Treasurer
9,700 00
Clerk of Committees and Departments
4,200 00
Contingent Fund
2,675 00
City Clerk
1,650 00
Commissioner of Public Buildings ·
900 00
Pay of Election Officers .
2,500 00
Registrars of Voters
1,550 00
Electrical Department
8,200 00
Executive Department
4,000 00
Fire Department
42,000 00
Health Department
8,000 00
Collection of Ashes and Offal
40,000 00
Medical Inspection in Public Schools Inspection of Buildings
4,300 00
Interest
63,000 00
Military Aid
900 00
Police
.
46,000 00
Printing and Stationery .
2,000 00
Public Buildings Maintenance :--
City Buildings .
10,900 00
Fire Department
3,600 00
Janitors' Salaries
28,500 00
Schoolhouses
30,000 00
Public Grounds
10,700 00
Public Library .
15,000 00
Reduction of Funded Debt
104,500 00
School Contingent
27,000 00
School Teachers' Salaries
265,000 00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
1,300 00
Sidewalks, Maintenance
1,000 00
Soldiers' Relief
22,000 00
Somerville Hospital
5,000 00
Street Lights
64,000 00
Support of Poor, City Home
2,500 00
Support of Poor, Miscellaneous
14,000 00
Suppression of Gypsy and Brown-tail Moths
4,000 00
$885,100 00
Amount carried forward
$885,100 00
.
·
Election Expenses :-
.
Hospital for Contagious Diseases .
1,000 00
1,500 00
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward
$885,100 00
Appropriations on Funded Debt account :- Electrical Department, Underground Con- struction
$3,000 00
Fire Department, Additional Apparatus ·
5,500 00
Highways, Construction
20,500 00
Highways, Construction, Clarendon Ledge Hill
8,500 00
Highways, Paved Gutters and Crossings
10,000 00
Highways, Shade Trees
500 00
Public Buildings Construction :-
Addition to Benjamin G. Brown School,
20,000 00
Addition to Sanford Hanscom School .
15,000 00
Bath House ·
3,000 00
Heating Plant, Charles G. Pope School, Incinerator
2,000 00
Vault, City Hall
2,000 00
Renewal of Funded Debt
10,000 00
Sewers, Construction
60,000 00
Sidewalks, Construction
12,000 00
Soldiers' Monument
20,000 00
$198,000 00
$1,083,100 00
Assessors.
CREDIT.
Appropriations, from Taxes, 1907
$10,000 00
"City Treasurer account, amount transferred 400 00
100 00
Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred
463 49
$10,963 49
DEBIT. (Expenditures.)
Cash, paid George W. Perkins, salary as chairman of the board of assessors
$1,800 00
Benjamin F. Thompson, assessor
800 00
Nathan H. Reed, assessor
800 00
George E. Elliott, assessor
800 00
Winsor L. Snow, assessor .
800 00
Fred B. Clapp, assistant assessor
250 00
John J. Sheeran, assistant assessor .
250 00
John F. Stackpole, assistant assessor .
250 00
James Wilson, assistant assessor
250 00
Charles F. Cuddy, assistant assessor .
250 00
James A. Butler, assistant assessor .
250 00
Jennie L. Jones, first assistant clerk carfares
12 60
Mabel E. Hall, second assistant clerk 600 00 carfares 95
Abbie D. Southworth, third assistant clerk
500 00
Theodore H. Locke, clerical services
46 00
Raymond A. Farr, clerical services 46 00
William M. Elliott, clerical services 52 00
William L. Taylor, clerical services . 52 00
Eva V. Tukey, clerical services
186 00
Amount carried forward
$8,745 49
749 94
Contingent Fund account, amount transferred .
6,000 00
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Amount brought forward
$8,745 49
Marcella F. Kendall, clerical services 16 00
Mildred A. Merrill, clerical services
169 32
Florence R. Kenneson, clerical services . 122 66 Loena A. Snowman, clerical services 117 33
Marion L. Morrison, clerical services
128 00
Florence Ham, clerical services
129 33
Bertha M. Boyd, clerical services .
104 00
Effie M. Ritchie, clerical services
114 67
Josephine M. Briggs, clerical services
126 00
American Express Co., expressing . Somerville Post-office, postage .
10 00
L. E. Clayton, stationery
1 00
Carter's Ink Co., ink .
1 13
W. A. Greenough & Co., directory
4 00
E. F. Hicks, lunch
10 00
Wesley A. Maynard, advertising
28 65
New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., service
56 00
Pneumatic Hand Stamp Co., stamps
18
Harry J. Ramsey, postage
22 00
Somerville Journal Co., printing and ad- vertising
809 96
Somerville Sun, advertising
7 50
Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co., stationery
3 80
S. Ward Co., stationery
219 57
Webcowit Press, printing
14 50
$10,961 29
City Treasurer account, repairing adding
2 20
$10,963 49
Cash.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from 1906
$92,876 74
City Clerk
$2,175 89
City Engineer
45 00
City Treasurer
5,499 43
Clerk of Committees and Departments
13 63
Contingent Fund
618 80
County of Middlesex
4,709 54
Electrical Department
597 59
Fire Department
1,891 46
Funded Debt
198,000 00
Health Department
1,444 54
Health Department, Collection of Ashes and Offal
8,153 89
Health Department, Contagious
Disease ·
Hospital . .
6,619 10
Health Department, Contagious Disease Hospital, Department Accounts .
2,329 24
Highway Betterment Assessments
3,350 14
Highways, Construction .
1,102 66
Highways, Maintenance .
10,235 69
Highways, Paved Gutters and Crossings
122 35
Highways, Watering Streets .
115 00
Inspection of Buildings
91 31
Amounts carried forward
$247,115 26
$92,876 74
machine
e
20
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amounts brought forward .
$247,115 26
$92,876 74
Interest
11,428 64
Metered Water Charges
25,928 62
Military Aid
20 00
Overlay and Abatement
2 00
Police .
4,095 01
Printing and Stationery
64 71
Public Buildings Maintenance :-
City Buildings
247 00
Schoolhouses
138 36
Public Grounds
216 30
Public Library
969 17
Public Library, Isaac Pitman Fund, Income, Art
160 00
Public Library, Isaac Pitman Fund, Income, Poetry
40 00
Real Estate Liens
29 53
Redemption of Tax Liens
1,245 37
School Contingent
350 51
School Teachers' Salaries
6 00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
442 90
Sewer Assessments .
2,788 86
Sewers, Construction
648 48
Sewers, Maintenance
242 35
Sidewalk Assessments
13,508 61
Sidewalks, Construction
125 99
Soldiers' Relief
169 00
State Aid
57 50
State of Massachusetts
17,186 21
Sundry Persons
6 50
Support of Poor, City Home
3,792 12
Support of Poor, Miscellaneous
3,406 29
Suppression of Gypsy and Brown-tail Moths
204 00
Taxes
1,077,456 11
Temporary Loans
905,000 00
Water Maintenance
18,412 15
Water Service Assessments
3,190 61
Water Works Extension
343 88
Water Works Income
202,723 29
2,541,942 28
$2,634,819 02
PAYMENTS.
Assessors
$10,963 49
City Auditor
704 42
City Clerk
7,803 21
City Engineer
11,543 88
City Messenger
2,073 55
City Solicitor
2,291 59
City Treasurer
13,837 39
Clerk of Committees and Departments
4,515 48
Contingent Fund
1,943 52
County of Middlesex
61,897 01
Coupons .
.
48,907 50
Election Expenses :-
City Clerk
1,540 63
Commissioner of Public Buildings
886 10
Amount carried forward .
$168,907 77
Sidewalks, Maintenance .
180 95
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Amount brought forward
$168,907 77
Pay of Election Officers
2,598 00
Registrars of Voters
1,546 30
Electrical Department
9,483 91
Electrical Department, Underground Con- struction
1,947 63
Executive Department
3,910 02
Fire Department
78,301 04
Fire Department, Additional Apparatus
5,415 45
Grade Crossings
543 31
Health :-
Health Department
9,560 58
Collection of Ashes and Offal
56,196 64
Contagious Disease Hospital
6,232 66
Medical Inspection in Public Schools .
1,505 82
Highways :-
Construction
29,648 06
Construction, Clarendon Hill Ledge
8,500 00
Maintenance
68,129 01
Paved Gutters and Crossings
9,548 64
Paving Broadway, Bow and Summer Streets
688 04
Shade Trees
486 81
Watering Streets
29,569 09
Inspection of Buildings
4,339 19
Interest
35,536 96
Military Aid
1,477 00
Overlay and Abatement
649 80
Police .
83,837 63
Printing and Stationery
1,934 93
Public Buildings Construction :-
Addition to Benjamin G. Brown School
11,666 12
Addition to Sanford Hanscom School
12,489 53
Heating Plant, Charles G. Pope School
6,948 69
Incinerator ·
2,622 02
L. V. Bell School Fire Escapes .
27 68
Vault, City Hall
1,567 81
Public Buildings Maintenance :-
City Buildings
12,025 99
Fire Department
5,236 49
Janitors' Salaries
28,914 60
Schoolhouses
37,449 83
Public Library,
Isaac Pitman
Fund,
Income, Art
228 85
Public Library, Isaac Pitman Fund,
Income, Poetry
54 91
Redemption of Tax Liens
1,223 37
Reduction of Funded Debt
153,500 00
School Contingent
29,817 33
School Teachers' Salaries
267,607 11
Sealer of Weights and Measures
1,765 15
Sewer Loan Interest
2,645 00
Sewers, Construction
29,178 59
Sewers. Maintenance
12,323 74
Sidewalks, Construction
30,111 22
Sidewalks, Maintenance
2,173 70
Soldiers' Burials
362 00
Amount carried forward
. $1,301,452 41
Public Grounds
10,939 74
Public Library .
20,078 65
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
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Amount brought forward
$1,301,452 41 50 00
Soldiers' Relief
22,350 69
Somerville Hospital
5,000 00
State Aid
15,816 00
State of Massachusetts
168,810 44
Street Lights
55,000 00
Support of Poor, City Home
7,001 23
Support of Poor, Miscellaneous
17,852 20
Suppression of Gypsy and Brown-tail
Moths
6,131 82
Temporary Loans
875,000 00
Water Loan Interest
1,240 00
Water Maintenance
48,995 20
Water Works, Abatements Charges
Water
552 46
Water Works Extension
17,457 31
$2,542,709 76
Balance to debit of account, 1908
92,109 26
$2,634,819 02
City Auditor.
CREDIT.
Appropriations, from Taxes, 1907 . ·
$725 00
Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred
20 58
$704 42
DEBIT. (Expenditures.)
Cash, paid Charles S. Robertson, salary as auditor
$700 00
disbursements
32
Thomas Groom & Co., pens
75
The Pneumatic Hand Stamp Co., stamps
3 35
$704 42
City Clerk.
CREDIT.
Appropriations, from Taxes, 1907 .
$5,500 00
Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred
127 32
Receipts :-
Cash, received of Frederic W. Cook, city clerk :-
Recording mortgages
$455 50
Dog licenses
392 40
Marriage certificates
418 00
Licenses for sale of fireworks
43 00
Junk licenses
475 00
Junk badges, etc.
1 75
Licenses for billiards and pool
76 00
Liquor licenses
35 00
Licenses for amusements
90 00
Auctioneers' licenses
54 00
Copies of records
56 75
Licenses for intelligence offices
10 00
Licenses for slaughtering
8 00
Licenses for street musicians
14 00
Express licenses
32 00
Amounts carried forward
$2,161 40
$5,627 32
$5,627 32
Soldiers' Monument
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Amounts brought forward
$2,161 40
$5,627 32
Interest on deposits
12 49
Sale of old ballots
2 00
2,175 89
$7,803 21
DEBIT.
(Expenditures.)
Cash, paid Frederic W. Cook, salary city clerk . .
$2,400 00
Howard E. Wemyss, assistant city clerk, . .
1,275 09
Clara B. Snow, first assistant .
800 00
Edith A. Woodman, second assistant .
600 00
Alice M. Vincent, third assistant .
600 00
Florence H. Plimpton, fourth assist-
ant
500 00
American Express Co., expressing
15 42
Allen, Doane & Co., badges
5 45
T. H. Ball, paper
4 54
G. W. Butters, year book
: 00
Bancroft's Express, expressing
95
Boston Post-office, postage
84 80
Bicknell & Fuller Paper Box Co., file boxes
16 50
Carter's Ink Co., ink, etc.
11 25
Charles E. Davis, census of births .
59 80
Duren & Kendall, repairing typewriter
1 97
Clara Z. Elliot, census of births
13 80
William C. Fickett, census of births
34 90
Annie M. Gilcrease, census of births
46 40
W. A. Greenough & Co., directory
4 00
Gilman Express Co., expressing .
15
New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., service ·
147 19
William J. Nagel, supplement to Revised Laws
5 00
Oliver Typewriter Co., repairs
2 50
Clinton I. Prouty, census of births .
25 20
Pneumatic Hand Stamp Co., stamps, etc.
10 16
Sundry persons, reporting births
394 00
Sundry persons, returns of deaths .
184 25
Somerville Journal Co., printing and advertising
102 75
Somerville Post-office, postage
89 70
Sampson & Murdock Co., directory
6 00
A. C. Libby & Sons, stationery
8 30
Wesley A. Maynard, printing and ad- vertising
28 50
McGrath & Woodley, printing and stationery
167 75
The Macey Co., cabinet, etc. .
6 95
National Manufacturing Co., moisten- ers
1 00
Richard H. Tincker, census of births
58 80
-
Thorpe's Express, expressing
1 00
Samuel Ward Co., stationery
65 74
Webcowit Press, printing
11 25
Yawman, Erbe & Co., cards
10 15
as
.
$7,803 21
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City Engineer.
CREDIT.
Appropriations, from Taxes, 1907
$11,500 00
Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred
1 12
Receipts :--
$11,498 88
Cash, received of abutters on Loring street, plan
$5 00
Abutters on Highland Road, plan
10 00
Abutters on Lowden Avenue, plan
5 00
Abutters on Linden Avenue, plan
5 00
Abutters on Boston Avenue, plan
5 00
Abutters on Autumn street, plan
5 00
Abutters on Bay State avenue, plan
5 00
Abutters on Alpine street, plan
5 00
45 00
$11,543 88
DEBIT. (Expenditures.)
Cash, paid Ernest W. Bailey, salary as city engineer .
$3,000 00
Engineer's assistants
7,733 29
Engineer's assistants, carfares
250 75
American Express Co., expressing
1 05
D. J. Bennett, repairing
2 50
Carter's Ink Co., supplies
4 50
L. E. Clayton, cloth
5 60
H. C. Dimond & Co., type
1 90
Davenport-Brown Co., stakes
: 48
Dennison Manufacturing Co., tags
24
Eyelet Tool Co., pins
4 50
Frost & Adams Co., supplies
23 39
Thomas Groom & Co., supplies
33 35
Gaylord Bros., cloth
1 20
Gilman Express Co., expressing
15
Glines & Co., expressing
60
A. R. Hyde, repairing
2 10
Ledder & Probst, repairing level
5 00
Library Bureau, index cards
1 80
Charles E. Moss, blue print paper
6 00
B. L. Makepeace, ink
7 00
Municipal Journal, subscription
3 00
New England Telephone and Telegraph Co., service
106 57
Pneumatic Hand Stamp Co., stamps
3 40
Smith-Premier Typewriter Co., re- pairing
1 70
Sprague & Hathaway Co., cardboard
15
Somerville Post-office, postage
12 50
James Tevlin, teaming, etc.
173 90
C. L. Underhill, sharpening
25
M. L. Vinal, blank books
25
Whitney & Snow, hardware
14 45
Wadsworth, Howland, & Co., supplies
42 49
S. Ward Co., stationery
1 20
F. S. Webster Co., sharpener
3 00
A. J. Wilkinson & Co., hardware
39 62
George H. Walker & Co., maps
48 00
$11,543 88
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City Messenger.
CREDIT.
Appropriations, from Taxes, 1907 .
$2,000 00
Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred
73 55
$2,073 55
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- DEBIT.
(Expenditures.)
Cash, paid Jairus Mann, salary as city messenger
$1,500 00
disbursements 8 40
J. H. Atkinson, painting
15 00
D. J. Bennett, repairs
4 00
L. H. Brown, carriage hire
62 00
Thomas Groom & Co., pad
20
The Two Jamesons, board of horse .
294 00
Howard Lowell & Son, carriage hire
54 00
D. McDonald, harness repairs .
2 40
New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., service
22 00
Pearl-street Shoeing Forge, shoeing
25 75
R. C. Small & Co., setting tire . 2 50
Charles R. Simpson, veterinary services .
29 00
Charles L. Underhill, repairing
2 50
I. B. Walker, buggy
51 80
$2,073 55
City Solicitor.
CREDIT.
Appropriations, from Taxes, 1907 .
$2,300 00
Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred
8 41
$2,291 59
DEBIT .. :
(Expenditures.)
Cash, paid Frank W. Kaan, salary as city solicitor
$2,100 00
disbursements 42 99
100 00
Thomas Damery, salary as claim agent disbursements
13 50
Isaac I. Doane, court stenographer
19 60
Eugene H. Jones, photographs
7 50
McGrath & Woodley, printing briefs
.
$2,291 59
City Treasurer.
CREDIT.
Appropriations, from Taxes, 1907 .
$9,700 00
Amount transferred to Assessors account
$400 00
Amount transferred to School Teachers' Salaries account
500 00
900 00
Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred
501 36
Amount carried forward
$8,800 00
$8,298 64
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8 00
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$8,298 64
Amount brought forward Receipts :-
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, fees for collecting National Bank tax · Redemption of Tax Liens, fees for releas- ing tax liens · .
17 32
Assessors account, repairing adding
2 20
Cash, received of Joseph S. Pike, court fees returned
2 21
R. L. Day & Co., registering bond
50
Charles L. Ellis, telephone service . ·
20 00
Sundry Persons, certificates .
48 00
Sundry Persons, costs on taxes and assessments
5,426 52
5,538 75
$13,837 39
DEBIT. (Expenditures.)
Cash, paid Joseph S. Pike, salary as city treasurer
$3,000 00
counting officers' convention at Richmond, Virginia .
52 00
Charles L. Ellis, deputy collector of taxes
1,350 00
disbursements
18 07
Beulah M. Peirce, first assistant
1,000 00
Louise B. McLaughlin second assistant .
700 00
Florence M. Grow, third assistant
600 00
Marion C. Kendall, fourth assistant
600 00
Winnifred P. Briggs, fifth assistant .
500 00
Susan L. Briggs, clerical assistant .
209 32
Lilla A. Johnson, clerical assistant
199 99
Roberta B. McDonald, clerical assistant
140 00
Ruth G. Butters, clerical assistant
64 00
Ednah A. Whitney, clerical assistant
60 00
Charles E. Davis, fees for collecting delinquent taxes, etc. .
393 69
F. W. Hopkins, fees for collecting de- linquent taxes .
126 00
Theodore H. Locke, fees for collecting delinquent taxes
70 50
Charles B. Palmer, fees for collecting delinquent taxes
11 11
Malcolm E. Sturtevant, fees for collect- ing delinquent taxes
261 03
City Trust Company, clearing house charges
10
National Security Bank, clearing house charges
1 71
Somerville National Bank, clearing house charges 3 02
Faneuil Hall National Bank, clearing house charges .
54
American Express Co., expressing 4 70
Amount carried forward
$9,365 78
:
expenses to comptrollers' and ac-
22 00
machine .
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Amount brought forward .
$9,365 78
American Surety Company of New York,
160 00
Philip Aberle, postage
18 00
Boston News Bureau, subscription .
18 00
Burroughs Adding Machine Co., supplies and attention to machine 7 40
Carter's Ink Co., ink .
1 25
B. F. Cummins Co., receipting per- forators
156 00
City Trust Company, bonds ·
200 00
Fisher & Fowler, express charges
30
W. F. Flemming, repairing chairs
6 00
Globe-Wernicke Co., filing case
2 89
Glines & Co., expressing
1 00
W. A. Greenough & Co., directories
8 00
Thomas Groom & Co., stationery .
351 53
The J. C. Hall Co., printing checks . Howard Lowell & Son, carriage hire
2 00
Wesley A. Maynard, printing
172 75
McGrath & Woodley, supplies .
27 00
Middlesex Registry of Deeds, recording,
12 70
New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., service 121.63
National Mfg. Co., moisteners .
2 00
Outlook Envelope Co., envelopes
90 77
Pneumatic Hand Stamp Co., stamps
2 73
Perham's Express, expressing .
I 20
Edwin L. Pride, examining city books
200 00
H. J. Ramsey, postage
2 50
William F. Russell, protectograph
20 00
Smith-Premier Typewriter Co., repairs .
7 14
Somerville Journal Co., printing and ad- vertising
1,379 56
Somerville Post-office, postage
972 84
A. de Silva, services on bonds
18 13
Arthur B. Tyler, postage
50 00
Charles L. Underhill, repairing chair
1 00
Webcowit Press, printing
338 25
Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., cleaning and insuring time-lock
15 00
$13,837 39
Clerk of Committees and Departments.
CREDIT.
Appropriations, from Taxes, 1907
$4,200 00
Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred
301 85
Receipts :- $4,501 85
Cash, received of Lawrence S. Howard, telephone service, 13 63
$4,515 48
DEBIT. (Expenditures.)
Cash, paid William P. Mitchell, salary as clerk of committees and departments . $2,000 00
Lawrence S. Howard, assistant 1,000 00
Amount carried forward
$3,000 00
treasurer's bond deputy collector's bond 10 94
43 10
60
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Amount brought forward .
$3,000 00
Lawrence S. Howard, fee as notary public
5 00
Lucia A. Manning, assistant .
600 00
Bessie L. L. Crosby, assistant .
600 00
Allen Bros., seal press
3 00
W. A. Greenough & Co., directory
4 00
Glines & Co., express
65
Thomas Groom & Co., stationery
34 20
New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., service 83 48
Pneumatic Hand Stamp Co., stamps
9 00
Somerville Journal Co., printing
52 25
Somerville Post-office, postage
65 00
Smith-Premier Typewriter Co., type-
52 90
Sampson & Murdock Co., directory
.
$4,515 48
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
CREDIT.
State Tax
$70,160 00
National Bank Tax
1,730 43
Metropolitan Sewer Tax :- Sinking Fund Requirements
$7,174 53
Interest
16,720 88
Maintenance
13,680 36
37,575 77
Metropolitan Park Tax :-
Sinking Fund Requirements
$4,162 90
Interest
14,090 71
Maintenance
9,887 30
28,140 91
Armory Tax :-
Sinking Fund Requirements
$1,613 58
Interest
2,255 41
Middlesex Avenue or Wellington Bridge Tax :-
Assessment .
$4,659 34
Interest
905 64
Maintenance .
284 77
$5,849 75
Over-assessment on interest last year . 2,112 35
3,737 40
Metropolitan Water Assessment, 1907 :- Sinking Fund Requirements
$25,365 30
Interest
62,089 30
Maintenance
18,880 01
106,334 61
Military Aid, 1906, refunded
5 00
Unpaid National Bank Tax, 1906
47 70
Unpaid Soldiers' Burials, 1906, to debit of 1907 account
70 00
Cash
$427 52
23 00
2,803 54
Amounts carried forward .
$3,254 06
$251,670 81
3,868 99
writer .
6 00
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61
Amounts brought forward .
$3,254 06
$251,670 81
2,054 92
171 42
751 50
1,098 00
651 51
15 00
8,945 53
68 00
128 57
17,138 51
$268,809 32
DEBIT.
Balance from 1906
$19,760 96
Corporation Taxes, 1906
2,054 92
Corporation Taxes, 1907
21,551 43
National Bank Tax, 1906
33 78
National Bank Tax, 1907
3,769 45
Burial State Paupers
5 00
Support of Sick Paupers .
878 65
Temporary Support of Paupers
336 55
Tuition of Children .
131 50
Street Railway Tax .
40,439 71
Boston Elevated Railway Tax
8,908 18
Contagious Disease Hospital .
548 56
Health Department
37 35
Suppression of Gypsy and Brown-tail Moths
427 52
Rent of Armory ·
1,098 00
Fees for collecting National Bank Tax
17 32
Cash
168,810 44
$268,809 32
State Aid, 1907
15,758 50
Soldiers' Burials, 1906
70 00
Soldiers' Burials, 1907
362 00
Military Aid, 1907
733 50
Corporation Tax, 1907
3,357 13
Balance to debit of account, December 31, 1907 .
20,281 13
Contingent Fund.
CREDIT.
Appropriations, from Taxes, 1907 .
$2,675 00
Amounts transferred and unused :-
Amount transferred to Assessors account
$100 00
Salaries account
1,003 11
1,103 11
Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred .
$1,324 72
Receipts :-
Cash, received of sundry persons, licenses to peddle ·
$100 00
Sundry persons, druggists' licenses . .
35 00
Amounts carried forward
$135 00
$1,324 72
1
$20,281 13
Amount transferred to School Teachers'
$1,571 89
247 17
.
62
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Amounts brought forward .
$135 00
$1,324 72
Charlestown Gas & Electric Co., legal penalty Patrick Keating, Executor, settlement of claim
100 00
383 80
618 80
$1,943 52
DEBIT. (Expenditures.)
Cash, paid F. C. Ames, ringing bell $2 00 .
John Bousfield, ringing bell 5 00
L. H. Brown, carriage hire 20 00
Jackson Caldwell & Co., use of chairs
2 50
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, twenty- five per cent. of liquor licenses
8 75
Company M, Eighth Regiment, M. V. M., rifle practice
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