Report of the city of Somerville 1907, Part 4

Author: Somerville (Mass.)
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
Number of Pages: 548


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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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APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.


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


50


1


1


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


52


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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APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.


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.


1


:


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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APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.


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


56


1


ANNUAL REPORTS.


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


1


- 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


-


8 00


58


ANNUAL REPORTS. - 1


1


$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


ANNUAL REPORTS. 1


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


APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.


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


:


1 ANNUAL REPORTS. ! 1


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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