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300,000 00
Support of Poor, City Home 3,000 00
Support of Poor, Miscellaneous
12,500 00
Total amount assessed on a valua- tion of $66,376,338.70 at $6.40 $424,500 00
ACCOUNTS PROVIDING FOR DEBT REQUIREMENTS.
Interest
$80,000 00
Reduction of Funded Debt 150,000 00
· Total amount assessed on a valuation tion of $66,376,338.70 at $3.46 $230,000 00
PROVIDING FOR STATE AND COUNTY TAXES, ETC.
State Tax .
$93,335 00
Deduct one-half of poll taxes,. 21,683 00
$71,652 00
County Tax .
$64,730 82
Deduct one-half of poll taxes, 21,683 00
43,047 82
Metropolitan Sewer Assessment
61,151 21 -
Metropolitan Park Assessment .
33,358 29
Overlay and Abatement
20,694 41
Grade Crossing Tax
3,454 16
Wellington Bridge Tax
5,671 38
State Highway Tax
58 00
Total amount assessed on a valuation of $66,376,338.70 at $3.60 $239,087 27
Collected for State on non-resident bank shares 1,368 28
$240,455 55
MAYOR'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 17
In addition to the above, the following appropriations were made from the various income accounts :-
From the income of the water works :- --
Water Maintenance
$25,000 00
Less unexpended balance 597 84
$24,402 16
Water Loan Interest
2,220 00
Reduction of Funded Debt, Water Loan Bonds
6,000 00
Metropolitan Water Assessment ·
110,056 25
Water Works Extension $13,500 00
Less unexpended balance 2,515 37
10,984 63
Sewers Maintenance
12,000 00
Fire Department .
49,000 00
Reduction of Funded Debt .
11,612 26
$226,275 30
From the income from the state and county :- i
Police, the amount received from the state for corporation taxes
$22,398 07
Police, the amount received from the state for bank taxes 3,323 78 . Police, the amount received from the clerk of the courts, for fines, costs, etc. 3,817 00
Public Library, the amount received from the county for dog licenses . 4,085 76
Highways Maintenance, from street rail- way tax 49,645 15
Highways Maintenance, from Boston Ele- vated Railway tax
9,737 32
Total
$93,007 08
Total from water income and from
state and county
$319,282 38
The aggregate appropriations from tax levy and from in- come were as follows :-
From tax levy
. $1,306,888 71
From income . . 319,282 38 .
$1,626,171 09
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
The following tables, giving a condensed history of the city's finances, are herewith presented for reference :-
YEAR.
Amount of Funded Debt.
Increase of Funded Debt.
Reduction of Funded Debt.
Tax Rate per $1,000 Valuation on Account of Reduc- tion of Funded Debt.
Town .
Dec. 31, 1872
643,354
$50,005
.
.
66
1873
809,354
166,000
.
·
.
1875
1,571,854
152,000
66
1877
1,606,854
10,000
*58,828 58
2 30
66
1878
1,596,854
61,004 64
2 91
66
1880
1,585,000
55,739 35
2 72
1882
1,585,000
.
64,479 01
2 70
66
1884
1,585,000
67,719 33
2 78
66
1885
+1,525,000
25,000
37,000 00
1 28
66
1889
952,500
130,000
38,000 00
1 27
66
1891
1,045,500
45,000
57,000 00
1 55
66
1892 .
1,194,500
253,000
104,000 00
2 73
66
1893
1,279,500
222,000
137,000 00
3 27
66
1894
1,344,500
172,000
107,000 00
2 42
66
1897
1,548,000
167,000
150,000 00
2 39
66
1898
1,552,000
176,000
172,000 00
3 99
66
1899
1,492,500
110,000
169,500 00
3 30
1900
1,478,000
152,000
166,500 00
3 17
66
1901
1,461,000
146,000
163,000 00
3 02
60
1903
1,505,500
197,500
169,000 00
2 96
66
1904
1905
1,510,000
148,000
136,500 00
2 30
66
1906
1,464,500
100,000
145,500 00
2 41
66
1907
1,508,000
193,000
154,500 00
2 51
66
1908
1,466,500
110,000
151,500 00
2 06
1909
1,503,000
190,000
153,500 00
2 42
66
1910
1,500,000
160,000
163,000 00
2 26
.
61,390 59
2 65
1883
1,585,000
71,305 66
2 87
1886
1,525,000
66,894 23
2 57
1887
1,525,000
70,252 88
2 56
1888
1890
1,057,500
150,000
45,000 00
1 38
1895
1,506,500
247,000
85,000 00
1 83
1896
1,531,000
177,000
152,500 00
3 11
1879
1,585,000
64,915 76
3 42
1881
1,585,000
58,498 64
2 59
1876
1,606,854
45,000
*$55,130 62
$2 07
$593,349
.
.
*$10,000 applied to payment of bonds ; balance to sinking funds,
+Sinking fund applied.
175,000
159,000 00
2 86
1902
1,447,000
1,498,500
132,500
139,500 00
2 40
+860,500
610,500
1874
1,419,854
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MAYOR'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
YEAR.
VALUATION,
TAX LEVY.
RATE.
1872
$22,755,325
. $274,374 45
$13 00
1873
29,643,100
389,214 48
12 80
1874
30,837,700
473,235 50
15 00
1875
31,317,000
518,161 40
16 20
1876
26,573,400
504,475 24
18 60
1877
25,479,400
471,789 14
18 10
1878
20,976,900
409,497 10
19 00
1879
18,950,100
352,553 80
18 00
1880
20,458,100
402,927 71
10
1881
22,569,100
452,945 45
19 50
1882
23,162,200
425,721 16
17 80
188
23,812,900
411,645 43
16 70
1884
24,331,100
418,750 26
16 60
1885
24,878,400
428,605 44
16 60
1886
26,003,200
416,987 28
15 40
1887
27,471,800
424,309 14
14 80
1888
28,765,400
421,458 60
14 00
1889
30,004,600
440,324 40
14 00
1890
32,557,500
447,704 00
14 00
1891
36,843,400
539,137 10
14 00
1892
38,093,100
596,357 50
15 00
1893
41,873,600
675,886 80
15 50
1894
44,142,900
721,165 54
15 70
1895
46,506,300
745,609 02
15 40
1896
49,070,800
786,412 32
15 40
1897
50,231,000
913,574 42
17 30
1898
50,739,700
954,187 11
17 90
1899
51,262,400
882,580 96
16 30
1900
52,578,200
889,916 08
16 00
1901
53,924,200
907,439 82
15 90
1902
55,558,300
964,535 80
16 40
1903
57,062,000
1,038,849 84
17 20
1904
58,137,900
1,059,292 56
17 20
1905
59,233,000
1,144,000 14
18 30
1906
60,371,500
1,114,023 62
17 40
1907
61,627,200
. 1,144,434 92
17 40
1908
63,158,400
1,237,694 72
18:40
1909
63,658,953 20
1,260,144 32
18 60
1910
66,376,338 70 .
. 1,306,888 71
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REPORT OF THE CITY TREASURER AND COLLECTOR OF TAXES.
Treasurer's Office, February 9, 1911. To the Honorable, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Somerville :-
Gentlemen : The undersigned presents herewith the thirty- ninth annual report of the financial condition of the city, and a statement showing, in detail, the receipts and disbursements for the year ending December 31, 1910.
Public Property.
The value of the public property of the city December 31, 1909, was $5,360,829.14. The property acquired during the
year was as follows :-
Addition to Contagious Disease Hospital
Tuberculosis Hospital
Sewers, Construction, expended
$19,469 32
Less catch basins and stock on hand 3,931 21
15,538 11
Fire Apparatus
4,958 37
Benjamin G. Brown School, Land
2,783 75
Sanford Hanscom School, Land .
2,960 98
Davis School, Vocational Equipment .
1,448 93
English High School, Sanitaries and Drinking Fountains,
3,259 66
Latin High School, Sanitaries and Drinking Fountans
238 53
English High School, Additional Equipment
2,560 13
Broadway Park Building
1,875 58
Lincoln Park Building
1,647 18
Playground (North Street Gravel Land)
1,200 00
Water Works Extension
$13,813 76
Assessments
10,984 63
$62,582 66
Total public property December 31, 1910, $5,423,411.80.
Funded Debt.
The funded debt December 31, 1909, as per Table B of the last annual report, was $1,503,000.
The debt was increased during the year by appropriations as follows :-
Highways, Construction
$43,000 00
Highways, Paved Gutters and Crossings 5,000 00
Public Buildings Construction, Building Public Buildings, 70,000 00
Sidewalks, Construction 12,000 00
Sewers, Construction
30,000 00
Total amount of appropriations on Funded Debt account ·
. $160,000 00
To provide for the above-mentioned appropriations,
.
Less amounts received for Water Service 2,829 13
1,783 14
Polling Booths
·
$8,198 32 3,145 35
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coupon bonds to the amount of $160,000 at 4 per cent. were issued, viz. :-
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3846 to 3855, payable 1911
$10,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3856 to 3865, payable 1912
10,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3866 to 3875, payable 1913
10,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3876 to 3885, payable 1914
10,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3886 to 3895, payable 1915
10,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3896 to 3905, payable 1916
10,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3906 to 3915, payable 1917
10,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3916 to 3925, payable 1918
10,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3926 to 3935, payable 1919
10,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3936 to 3945, payable 1920
10,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3949 to 3951, payable 1922
3,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3952 to 3954, payable 1923
3,000 00
City Loan Bonds. Nos. 3955 to 3957, payable 1924
3,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3958 to 3960, payable 1925
3,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3961 to 3963, payable 1926
3,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3964 to 3966, payable 1927
3,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3967 to 3969, payable 1928
3,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3970 to 3972, payable 1929
3,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3973 to 3975, payable 1930 3,000 00
Sewer Loan Bonds Nos. 499 to 528, payable 1911 to 1940 .
30,000 00
Total amount of bonds issued in 1910 $160,000 00
Coupon bonds were exchanged for registered bonds dur- ing the year as follows :-
City Loan Bond, issue of 1894
$1,000 00
City Loan Bond, issue of 1895 1
1,000 00
City Loan Bond, issue of 1900
1,000 00
City Loan Bonds, issue of 1900
2,000 00
City Loan Bonds, issue of 1910
15,000 00
Sewer Loan Bonds, issue of 1910
2,000 00
$22,000 00
The following bonds became due during the year :-
City Loan Bond No. Reg. 115, interest 31/2 per cent. $9,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3530 to 3540, interest 4 per cent. 11,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3653 to 3659, interest 4 per cent. 7,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3726 to 3736, interest 31/2 per cent.
11,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 1704 to 1709, interest 4 per cent.
6,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 1977 to 1990, interest 4 per cent.
14,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 2172 to 2176, interest 4 per cent.
5,000 00
City Loan Bond No. Reg. 172, interest 4 per cent.
3,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 2331 to 2335, interest 4 per cent.
5,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 2471 to 2475, interest 4 per cent.
5,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 2592 to 2595, interest 4 per cent.
4,000 00
City Loan Bond No. Reg. 180, interest 31/2 per cent.
2,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 2726 to 2731 2734 to 2735 interest 31/2 per cent. .
8,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 2840 to 2846, interest 31/2 per cent. .
7,000 00
City Loan Bond No. Reg. 179, interest 31/2 per cent.
8,000 00
City Loan Bond No. Reg. 164, interest 31/2 per cent.
1,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3074 to 3082, interest 4 per cent.
9,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3235 to 3239, interest 4 per cent. 5,000 00
City Loan Bond No. 3240, interest 4 per cent.
500 00
Amount carried forward
$120,500 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3946 to 3948, payable 1921
3,000 00
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Amount brought forward $120,500 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3241 to 3242, interest 4 per cent. 2,000 00
City Loan Bond No. 3243, interest 4 per cent. 500 00
City Loan Bond No. Reg. 7, interest 4 per cent. 8,000 00
City Loan Bonds Nos. 3162 to 3163, interest 4 per cent.
2,000 00
Sewer Loan Bond No. Reg. 133, interest 31/2 per cent.
1,000 00
Sewer Loan Bond No. Reg. 20, interest 4 per cent. 2,000 00
Sewer Loan Bond No. 440, interest 4 per cent. 1,000 00
Sewer Loan Bond No. 469, interest 31/2 per cent.
1,000 00
Sewer Loan Bond No. 69, interest 4 per cent.
1,000 00
Sewer Loan Bond No. 186, interest 4 per cent.
1,000 00
Sewer Loan Bond No. 210, interest 4 per cent.
1,000 00
Sewer Loan Bond No. 232, interest 31/2 per cent.
1,000 00
Sewer Loan Bond No. Reg. 168, interest 31/2 per cent.
1,000 00
Sewer Loan Bond No. 285, interest 4 per cent.
1,000 00
Sewer Loan Bond No. 309, interest 4 per cent.
1,000 00
Sewer Loan Bond No. Reg. 1, interest 4 per cent.
1,000 00
Sewer Loan Bond No. Reg. 159, interest 41/2 per cent.
1,000 00
Sewer Loan Bonds Nos. 126 to 128, interest 4 per cent.
3,000 00
Paving Loan Bonds Nos. 86 to 90, interest 4 per cent.
5,000 00
Water Loan Bond No. 294, interest 4 per cent.
1,000 00
Water Loan Bond No. Reg. 103, interest 4 per cent.
3,000 00
Water Loan Bonds Nos. 426 to 427, interest 4 per cent.
2,000 00
Metropolitan Park Assessment Loan Bond No. Reg. 181, interest 31/2 per cent. .
1,000 00
Lowell Street Bridge Loan Bond No. 1, interest 31/2 per cent.
1,000 00
Total amount of bonds maturing in 1910 $163,000 00
Leaving the net funded debt December 31, 1910, as per Table B, $1,500,000, classified as follows :-
Registered.
Coupon.
City Loan Bonds at 31/2 per cent.
$86,000 00
$232,000 00
City L'oan Bonds at 4 per cent.
74,000 00
658,000 00
Sewer Loan Bonds at 31/2 per cent.
32,000 00
60,000 00
Sewer Loan Bonds at 4 per cent.
62,000 00
177,000 00
Sewer Loan Bonds at 41/2 per cent.
1,000 00
Paving Loan Bonds at 4 per cent.
10,000 00
Water Loan Bonds at 4 per cent.
22,000 00
28,000 00
Metropolitan Park Assessment Loan Bonds at 31/2 per cent.
2,000 00
17,000 00
Lowell Street Bridge Loan Bonds, interest 31/2 per cent.
5,000 00
34,000 00
1
$283,000 00
$1,217,000 00
Registered Bonds
$283,000 00
Coupon Bonds .
1,217,000 00
$1,500,000 00
Funded debt within the limit fixed by law :-
$1,050,000 00 ·
City Loan Sewer Loan
287,000 00
Lowell Street Bridge Loan
. .
39,000 00
$1,376,000 00
Funded debt beyond the limit fixed by law :-
·
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Paving Loan (Chapter 153, Acts 1892)
$10,000 00
Sewer Loan (Chapter 357, Acts 1895)
45,000 00
Metropolitan Park Assessment Loan
19,000 00
$74,000 00
Water Loan
50,000 00
$124,000 00
1
$1,500,000 00
Resources.
The assessors' warrant for the tax levy, assessed upon the polls and estates of the inhabitants, was duly received.
The total amount of taxable property was $66,376,338.70, and the rate of taxation was $18.50 on each $1,000 of valuation, as follows :- 1
Real estate, valuation
. $58,806,600 00 7,569,738 70
Personal estate, valuation 1
$66,376,338 70
At a rate of $18.50 on $1,000 valuation .
$1,227,962 27
Polls, 21,683 at $2
43,366 00
Street sprinkling
33,308 20
Suppression of gypsy and brown-tail moths
883 96
Non-resident bank shares to be paid to state
1,368 28
Total amount of tax levy
$1,306,888 71
Borrowed on Funded Debt account, to provide for the cost of public improvements .
160,000 00
Water works income
226,275 30
National bank taxes, applied to Police
3,323 78
Corporation taxes, applied to Police
22,398 07
Court fees, fines, etc., applied to Police
3,817 00
County of Middlesex, dog licenses, applied to Public Library .
4,085 76
Street Railway tax for the year 1910, applied to Highways Maintenance
49,645 15
Boston Elevated Railway tax for the year 1910, applied to Highways Maintenance
9,737 32
Total amount of resources
$1,786,171 09
Appropriations from Funded Debt and from Income.
CREDIT BALANCES. 1
Electrical Department, Underground Construction
$269 37
Highways, Construction
1,817 69
Highways Construction, Lowell Street Bridges
10,907 18
Public Buildings Construction :-
Building Public Buildings
1,055 03
Bennett School Addition
990 00
Burns School Addition
778 00
Davis School; Vocational Equipment
3,751 07
Martin W. Carr School, Land 'Addition
5,293 55
Schoolhouse in Ward Seven
31,992 55
Amount . carried forward
$80,043 90
(Chapter 225, Acts 1902)
.
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Amount brought forward
$80,043 90
Schoolhouses, Additional Window Space
1,900 00
William H. Hodgkins School Addition
7,980 55
Park Buildings, Broadway and Lincoln Parks Tuberculosis Hospital .
4,854 65
Sewers, Construction
5,281 94
Sidewalks, Construction
2,195 08
Highways, Maintenance
9,569 67
Reduction of Funded Debt
327 20
Public Library :-
Isaac Pitman Fund, Income, Art
172 52
Isaac Pitman Fund, Income, Poetry .
39 72
Frances A. Wilder Children's Department Fund, In- come
6 15
$90,159 16
Cash.
Balance on hand January 1, 1910
$112,839 55
Total cash receipts for the year 1910
2,517,741 64
Total cash disbursements for the year 1910 .
2,522,792 22
Balance in the treasury December 31, 1910 .
$107,788 97
Deposits in banks
$105,595 69
Cash on hand .
.
2,193 28
$107,788 97
Assets and Liabilities.
The assets of the city available for the payment of its un- funded liabilities are as follows :-
Available assets :-
Taxes, uncollected . $291,943 18 .
Highway Betterment Assess-
ments, uncollected
5,519 80
Sewer Assessments, uncollected .
2,374 03
Sidewalk Assessments, uncol-
lected
5,278 18
Metered Water Charges, uncol- 15,819 10
$320,934 29
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
17,657 50
Grade Crossings
33,760 16
Real Estate Liens
3,027 52
Cash in treasury
107,788 97
Unfunded liabilities :-
Coupons
$13,675 00
Overplus on Tax Sales
.
118 13
Sundry Persons
.
.
699 65
Temporary Loans
.
.
.
350,000 00
1
$364,492 78
Excess of available assets .
$118,675 66
lected
$483,168 44
977 24
$80,043 90
$2,630,581 19
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Balance Sheet.
DEBIT.
Public Property
$5,423,411 80 118,675 66
Excess of available assets
$5,542,087 46
CREDIT.
Excess of appropriations from Funded
Debt and from Income $90,159 16
Excess of appropriations from tax levy 7,311 63
Excess of appropriations from tax levy, Overlay and Abatement 21,204 87 1,500,000 00
Present Funded Debt
$1,618,675 66
Property and Debt Balance or Municipal Capital .
3,923,411 80
$5,542,087 46
A detailed statement of the public property, funded debt, and the receipts and disbursements of the several accounts will be found in the following appendix.
Respectfully submitted, JOSEPH S. PIKE, Treasurer and Collector of Taxes.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.
TABLE A. - PUBLIC PROPERTY DECEMBER 31, 1910.
Central Hill land (389,920 feet)
$270,000 00
City Hall .
$35,332 32 ·
Furniture and fixtures
10,000 00
Storage vault
2,342 91
47,675 23
Public Library building
42,000 00
Public Library building, West Somerville .
25,449 52
Public Library .
25,000 00
City Hall Annex
Albion A. Perry Schoolhouse, Washington street, land (46,080 fect) and building
36,000 00
Furniture
1,080 00
Books
530 00
Bingham Schoolhouse, land (35,586 feet)
and building
67,405 04
Furniture
2,600 00
Books
2,300 00
Burns Schoolhouse, land (16,080 feet) and
building
33,300 00
Furniture
1,460 00
Books
1,000 00
Charles G. Pope Schoolhouse, land (27,236
fcet) and building
83,600 00
Furniture
2,160 00
Books
2,600 00
Cummings Schoolhouse, land (11,300 feet)
and building
11,200 00
Furniture
720 00
Books
500 00
Davis Schoolhouse, land (30,155 feet) and
building
22,000 00
Furniture
720 00
Books
400 00
Vocational equipment .
1,448 93
Edgerly Schoolhouse, land (24,000 feet) and
building
43,800 00
Furniture
2,230 00
Books
2,800 00
48,830 00
English High Schoolhouse
137,259 66
Furniture
3,900 00
Philosophical and manual training ap-
paratus
10,760 13
Books
12,000 00
163,919 79
Amount carried forward
$914,553 53
.
92,449 52 20,655 02
37,610 00
72,305 04
35,760 00
88,360 00
12,420 00
.
.
24,568 93
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Amount brought forward
Forster Schoolhouse and Annex, land
(30,632 feet) and buildings
82,000 00
Furniture
3,290 00
Books
4,100 00
89,390 00
George L. Baxter Schoolhouse, land (11,000
feet) and building
31,800 00
Furniture
1,155 64
Books
450 00
George O. Proctor Schoolhouse, building (on Armory lot) (40,244 feet)
41,029 16
Furniture
1,791 30
Books
1,200 00
44,020 46
George W. Durell Schoolhouse, land
(13,883 feet) and building
19,000 00
Furniture
720 00
Books
500 00
Highland Schoolhouse, land (23,260 feet)
and building
58,000 00
Furniture
2,560 00
Books
2,800 00
Jacob T. Glines Schoolhouse, land (28,800 feet) and building
78,200 00
Furniture
2,340 00
Books
2,100 00
Latin High Schoolhouse
.112,061 29
Furniture
2,700 00
Philosophical apparatus
500 00
Books
3,300 00
Lincoln Schoolhouse, land (17,662 feet) and
building ..
17,500 00
Furniture
720 00
Books
500 00
Luther V. Bell Schoolhouse, land (22,262
feet) and building
46,496 63
Furniture
2,400 00
Books
2,400 00
Martin W. Carr Schoolhouse, land (20,450
feet) and building
51,000 00
Furniture
2,800 00
Books
2,800 00
Morse Schoolhouse, land (29,000 feet) and
building
45,859 00
Furniture
2,340 00
Books
2,800 00
Martha Perry Lowe Schoolhouse, land (21,650 feet) and building
50,346 16
Furniture
1,480 00
Books
800 00
52,626 16
Amount carried forward
$1,596,392 71
82,640 00
118,561 29
18,720 00
51,296 63
56,600 00
50,999 00
$914,553 53
33,405 64
20,220 00
63,360 00
.
28
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward
$1,596,392 71
O. S. Knapp Schoolhouse, land (24,517
feet) and building
48,000 00
Furniture
2,540 00
Books
3,000 00
Prescott Schoolhouse, land (22,000 feet)
and building
64,000 00
Furniture
2,260 00
Books
2,700 00
68,960 00
Prospect-hill Schoolhouse, land (23,733
feet) and building
15,000 00
Benjamin G. Brown Schoolhouse,
land
(26,733 feet) and building
62,861 17
Furniture
1,290 16
Books
700 00
Sanford Hanscom Schoolhouse, land (16,767 feet) and building
72,210 46
Furniture
1,080 00
Books
500 00
Clark W. Bennett Schoolhouse, land (16,250 feet) and building
57,268 32
Furniture
2,180 00
Books
1,000 00
William H. Hodgkins Schoolhouse, land
(35,034 feet) and building
69,300 00
Furniture
2,400 00
Books
2,300 00
City Stables, dwelling houses and 462,623
feet of land
95,350 12
Health Department, shed
1,189 79
Incinerator
2,704 01
Equipments for highway repairs
21,690 00
Watering carts and sheds
5,000 00
Water Works, land and buildings (93,500 feet) No. 1 Fire Station, land (8,937 feet) and building
33,200 00
Engine No. 2 and apparatus
4,000 00
Hose wagon No. 1 and apparatus
1,500 00
Furniture
400 00
No. 2 Fire Station, land (5,500 feet) and
building
10,400 00
Furniture
400 00
Hose wagon No. 2 and apparatus
1,500 00
No. 3 Fire Station, land (13,700 feet) and building
55,743 18
Furniture
400 00
Hose wagon No. 3 and apparatus
1,500 00
Hook and ladder truck and apparatus
3,400 00
Amounts carried forward .
$61,043 18
$2,216,316 74
.
.
74,000 00
125,933 92 32,000 00
39,100 00
.
·
.
12,300 00
. ,
53,540 00
.
.
64,851 33
.
73,790 46
60,448 32
.
.
APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.
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Amounts brought forward .
$61,043 18 $2,216,316 74
Engine No. 3
5,375 00
Combination hose and chemical
2,250 00
68,668 18
No. 4 Fire Station, land (9,100 feet) and
building
15,500 00
Furniture
400 00
Engine No. 4 and apparatus
4,000 00
Combination wagon and apparatus ·
2,500 00
22,400 00
No. 5 Fire Station, land (39,000 feet) and
building
16,500 00
Furniture
400 00
Hose wagon No. 5 and apparatus
1,500 00
No. 6 Fire Station, land (8,113 feet) and ·
building
17,600 00
Furniture
600 00
Apparatus
10,265 45
Combination hose and chemical .
2,250 00
Hook and Ladder Station No. 2, land (9,903 feet) and building .
14,100 00
Furniture
1,200 00
Apparatus
12,458 37
Central Fire Station, land (11,738 feet) and building
36,700 00
Furniture
500 00
Engine No. 1 and apparatus
4,000 00
Hose wagon and apparatus
2,000 00
Two relief hose carriages
1,000 00
One relief hook and ladder .
400 00
Chemical Engine A and equipment
2,498 53
Fire Alarm and Police Signal apparatus
Police Station, land (15,225 feet) and
building
54,000 00
Furniture
3,000 00
City Home, Broadway, land (421,646 feet)
and buildings
36,807 64
Furniture .
1,426 09
Contagious Disease Hospital
19,454 48
Land (88,364 feet)
15,600 00
35,054 48
Tuberculosis Hospital building
3,145 35
Bath House
3,730 24
Water Works
927,837 11
Sewers .
Prospect street, land (7,918 feet) and building
1,249,263 30 6,800 00
Broadway Park (cost $212,993.20) (700,000 square feet)
$270,000 00 1,875 58
Nathan Tufts Park (about 4 54-100 acres, 217,572 feet)
271,875 58 68,000 00
Amount carried forward
.
$5,128,907 06
.
.
.
30,715 45
27,758 37
47,098 53 36,610 00
57,000 00
38,233 73
Park Buildings
.
.
.
18,400 00
30
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward
$5,128,907 06 .
Lincoln Park, Washington street (288,764
square feet)
Out-door Gymnasium
$63,200 00 800 00 1,647 18
65,647 18
Prospect-hill Park (94,503 feet)
$67,511 75
Historical Building and Observatory
9,119 55
Franklin Park (40,000 feet) '
12,000 00
Powder-house Boulevard (200,618
. square
feet) and
building .
22,500 00 500 00
Broadway, land (10,890 feet) .
2,300 00
College avenue, land (18,000 feet)
6,000 00
Webster avenue, land (10,000 feet)
2,500 00
Holland street, land (217,800 feet)
35,500 00
Gravel land in Waltham (about 35 acres)
14,393 12 6,700 00
Gravel land rear North street (199,043 feet) Clarendon-hill ledge
8,500 00
Oliver street, land (40,500 feet)
18,000 00
Beacon street, land (10,000 feet)
2,800 00
Passageway on Putnam street (1,135 feet)
400 00
Stand Pipe lot (17,176 feet)
5,100 00
Glen street, land (6,370 feet) .
2,300 00
Somerville avenue, land (305 feet) .
300 00
Broadway, junction Main street, land (1,260 feet)
900 00
Joy-street playground (20,000 feet)
9,750 00
Polling Booths
1,783 14
Total amount of public property .
$5,423,411 80
Park Building .
76,631 30
Joy street, land (2,700 feet) ..
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TABLE B. OUTSTANDING BONDS, JANUARY 1, 1911.
ISSUE.
Rate per cent. of Interest.
Water.
Paving.
Metropolitan Park Assessment.
Lowell Street Bridge.
Sewer.
Sewer, Outside limit.
City.
Total.
July 1, 1888
4
$8,000
Oct. 1, 1889
4
22,000
. .
.
.
.
.
.
..
Oct. 1, 1890
4
20,000
Oct. 1, 1892
4
$10,000
. . . .
.
.
. .
.
. . .
Oct. 1, 1893
4 1/2
·
. ..
.
.. ..
.
.. .
July 1, 1894
4
......
.
4,000
$24,000
July 1, 1895
4
.
. . .
. . ...
.
·
.
4
.
.. .
. . . . . .
.
.
.
12,000
29,000
July 1, 1898
13,000
40,000
July 1, 1899
July 2, 1900
312
42,000
July 1, 1901
3 12
21,000
47,000
July 1, 1902
3 12
17,000
47,000
July 1, 1903
4
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