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5,000 00
No. Reg. 80, interest 4 per cent. .
3,000 00
Nos. 2205 to 2206, interest 4 per cent.
2.000 00
No. Reg. 173, interest 4 per cent.
2,000 00
Nos. 2349 to 2352, interest 4 per cent.
4,000 00
Nos. 2491 to 2495; interest 4 per cent.
5,000 00
Nos. 2608 to 2611, interest 4 per cent.
4,000 00
Nos. 2750 to 2753, interest 312 per cent.
4,000 00
Nos. 2862 to 2865, interest 31/2 per cent.
4,000 00
Nos. 2991 to 2993 interest 31/2 per cent.
3,000 00
Nos. 3110 to 3113, interest 4 per cent.
4,000 00
Nos. 3170 to 3171, interest 4 per cent.
2,000 00
Nos. 3271 to 3279, interest 4 per cent.
8,000 00
Amount carried forward .
$64,000 00
$25,000 00
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REPORT OF TREASURER AND COLLECTOR OF TAXES.
Amount brought forward .
$64,000 00
No. Reg. 119, interest 372 per cent.
8,000 00
No. Reg. 10, interest 4 per cent. . 7,000 00
Nos. 3574 to 3584, interest 4 per cent.
11,000 00
Nos. 3681 to 3687, interest 4 per cent.
7,000 00
Nos. 3770 to 3780, interest 31/2 per cent.
11,000 00
Nos. 3876 to 3885, interest 4 per cent.
10,000 00
Nos. 4004 to 4017, interest 4 per cent.
14,000 00
Nos. 4155 to 4165, interest 4 per cent.
11,000 00
Nos. 4273 to 4283, interest 4 per cent. 11,000 00
Nos. 4461 to 4471, interest 414 per cent. .
11,000 00
Sewer Loan Bonds :-
No. 73, interest 4 per cent. .
1,000 00
Nos. 138 to 140, interest 4 per cent.
3,000 00
No. 190, interest 4 per cent.
1,000 00
No. 214, interest 4 per cent.
1,000 00
No. 236, interest 31/2 per cent.
1,000 00
No. 265, interest 312 per cent.
1,000 00
No. 289, interest 4 per cent.
1,000 00
No. 313, interest 4 per cent.
1,000 00
No. Reg. 137, interest 31/2 per cent.
1,000 00
No. Reg. 4, interest 4 per cent.
1,000 00
No. Reg. 24, interest 4 per cent. 2,000 00
1,000 00
No. 473, interest 31/2 per cent.
1,000 00
No. 502, interest 4 per cent.
1,000 00
No. 531, interest 4 per cent.
1,000 00
No. 550, interest 4 per cent.
1,000 00
No. 564, interest 414 per cent.
1,000 00
Water Loan Bonds :-
No. 298, interest 4 per cent. No. Reg. 107, interest 4 per cent.
3,000 00
Nos. 434 to 435, interest 4 per cent. 2,000 00
Metropolitan Park Assessment Loan Bonds :-
No. 12, interest 31/2 per cent.
1,000 00
Lowell Street' Bridge Loan Bonds :
1,000 00
Municipal Loan Bonds :-
Nos. 4566 to 4575, interest 41/2 per cent. .
10,000 00
Total amount of bonds maturing in 1914 . $203,000 00
Leaving the net funded debt December
31, 1914, $1,616,000.00, classified as follows :-
City Loan Bonds at 31/2 per cent.
$178.000 00
City Loan Bonds at 4 per cent.
724,000 00
City Loan Bonds at 414 per cent.
94,000 00
Sewer Loan Bonds at 31/2 per cent.
76,000 00
Sewer Loan Bonds at 4 per cent.
237,000 00
Sewer Loan Bonds at 414 per cent.
29,000 00
Water Loan Bonds, at 4 per cent.
26,000 00
Metropolitan Park Assessment Loan Bonds at 312 per cent. · .
15,000 00
Lowell Street Bridge Loan Bonds at 31/2 per cent. 35,000 00
Amount carried forward
$1,414,000 00
. No. 444, interest 4 per cent.
1,000 00
No. 5, interest 31/2 per cent.
30
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward .
$1,414,000 00
Municipal Loan Bonds at 412 per cent.
77,000 00
Highway Loan Bonds at 4 per cent.
125,000 00
$1,616,000 00
Funded debt within the limit fixed by law :-
City Loan .
$996,000 00
Municipal Loan
77,000 00
Sewer Loan
309,000 00
Lowell Street Bridge Loan
35,000 00
Highway Loan .
125,000 00
$1,542,000 00
Funded debt beyond the limit fixed by law :- Sewer Loan (Chapter 357, Acts 1895)
$33,000 00
Metropolitan Park Assessment Loan (Chap- ter 325, Acts 1902)
15,000 00
$48,000 00
Water Loan
26,000 00
74,000 00
$1,616,000 00
Borrowing Capacity.
Valuation, 1912
284,000 00
$69,916,540 00
Valuation, 1913
$71,906,464 00
Supplementary
257,400 00
72,163,S64 00
Valuation, 1914
$74,946,894 00
Supplementary
179,300 00
75,126,194 00
$217,206,598 00
Abatements, 1912
$476,200 00
Abatements, 1913
553,900 00
Abatements, 1914
421,600 00
1,451,700 00
$215,754,898 00
Average three years
1-3
71.918.299 33
21/2 per cent.
1,797,957.48
Amount within the limit
1,542,000 00
Borrowing capacity December 31, 1914 .
$255,957 48
Maturities January 1, 1915 .
$12,000 00
April 1, 1915
100,000 00
July 1. 1915
$S7,500 00
Less outside limit
5,000 00
S2,500 00
October 1. 1915
$6,000 00
Less outside limit 4,000 00
2,000 00
Maturities in 1915 within the limit .
196,500 00
$452,457 48
$69,632,540 00
Supplementary
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REPORT OF TREASURER AND COLLECTOR OF TAXES.
Maturities within the limit .
196,500 00
Maturities outside the limit
9,000 00
Total maturities
$205,500 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 April 1, 1914, not including non-resident bank shares, was $74,946,894, and the rate established was $21.10 on each $1,000 valuation, as follows :-
Real estate, valuation
. $66,392,100 00
Personal estate valuation
8,495,700 00
Resident Bank Shares .
59,094 00
Total valuation ·
. $74,946,891 00
At a rate of $21.10 on each $1,000 valuation
$1,581,379 46
Polls, 24,192 at $2
48,384 00
Street Sprinkling
35,526 00
$1,665,289 46
Non-resident bank shares to be paid to state (vaiua- tion $87,906 at $21.10)
1,854 82
Total amount of tax levy
$1,667,144 28
Borrowed on Funded Debt account to provide for the cost of public improvements . . Revenue, from Corporation Taxes, City Departments, etc.
145,000 00
Revenue for Outlays, improvements to incinerator Gifts : Carnegie Corporation, for Library Construction 5,000 00
$2,268,596 00
Additional Assessments :-
90 polls at $2
$180 00
Personal estate, valuation $179,300 at
3,783 23
3,963 23
$2,272,559 23
Credit Balances.
Funded Accounts :-
Electrical Department, Underground Construction
$18 95
Sewers Construction
13,101 41
Highways Construction, New Streets
1 75
Highways Construction, Permanent Pavement
297 64
Highways Construction, Macadam Pavement 355 54
89 03
Grade Crossings Expenses
5,818 09
Bennett School Addition
166 71
S. Newton Cutler School
1,269 79
Central Heating Plant
602 21
Playgrounds Extension
71 99
Building Public Buildings
1,448 10
$23,241 21
448,351 72
3,100 00
$21.10
Sidewalks Construction
32
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Public Trust Funds, Income :-
Public Library :-
Isaac Pitman Fund, Art
$35 58
Isaac Pitman Fund, Poetry .
18 30
Martha R. Hunt Fund, Art
44 89
Martha R. Hunt Fund, Books
49 16
Frances A. Wilder Children's Department .
3 68
S. Newton Cutler Fund
29 90
Martha R. Hunt Fund, Art, balance unexpended of the $1,000 withdrawn from investment account Public School :--
702 77
S. Newton Cutler Fund
319 50
$1,203 78
Private Trust Funds : - Sundry Persons
127 11
$1,330 89
Cash.
Balance on hand January 1, 1914
$133,743 46
Total receipts for the year 1914 .
3,323,111 43
Service transfers
36,239 12
Total cash disbursements for the year 1914 .
3,384,073 61
Balance in the treasury, December 31, 1914
$109,020 40
Deposits in banks
$106,541 47
Cash on hand .
2,478 93
$109,020 40
Available Assets.
Cash in treasury
$109,020 40
Funded Debt Balances
$23,241 21
Public Trust Funds, Income
1,203 78
Private Trust Funds
127 11
24,572 10
Taxes uncollected, 1912 and prior years .
$56 00
Overlay and Abatement, 1912 and prior years
96 14
Taxes uncollected, 1913
$1,029 52
Overlay and Abatement, 1913
6,507 68
Taxes uncollected, 1914
$342,983 21
Overlay and Abatement, 1914
10,497 0S
332,486 13
Highway Betterment Assessments, uncollected
10,833 60
Sidewalk Assessments, uncollected .
17,011 22
Sewer Assessments, uncollected
2,874 98
Metered Water Charges, uncollected
20,879 30
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, cash advances :-
State Aid
$14,420 00
Military Aid .
192 00
Amounts carried forward
$14,612 00
$468,533 53
.
$3,493,094 01
.
$84,448 30
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REPORT OF TREASURER AND COLLECTOR OF TAXES.
Amounts brought forward
$14,612 00
$468,533 53
Soldiers' Burials
600 00
15,212 00
Grade Crossings (cash advances for land damages, etc.) .
4,192 71
$487,938 24
Liabilities.
Temporary Tax Loans
$465,000 00
$22,938 24
Excess and Deficiency .
$15,695 89
Surplus Overlay and Abatement, 1912
40 14
Surplus Overlay and Abatement, 1913
5,478 16
· Reduction of Funded Debt, premium on bonds .
1,724 05
$22,938 24
Balance Sheet. DEBIT.
Public Property
$6,023,201 76
Excess of available assets
22,938 24
$6,046,140 00
CREDIT.
Funded Debt
$1,616,000 00 .
Property and Debt Balance .
4,407,201 76
Excess and Deficiency account .
15,695 89
Overlay and Abatement, 1912 and prior
years (in excess of outstanding taxes)
40 14
Overlay and Abatement, 1913. (in excess of outstanding taxes)
5,478 16
Reduction of Funded Debt, premium on bonds
· 1,724 05
$6,046,140 00
A detailed statement of the public property, funded debt, and of 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.
·
APPENDIX TO TREASURER ANDCOLLECTOR'S REPORT.
TABLE A .- PUBLIC PROPERTY DECEMBER 31, 1914.
Central Hill land (389,920 feet)
$270 000 00
City Hall .
$37,795 74
Furniture and fixtures
10,000 00
Storage vault
2,342 91
City Hall Annex
Central Heating Plant
32,556 07
Central Library Building Books, art, etc.
25,000 00
Public Library land and Somerville .
building, West
31,449 52
Albion A. Perry Schoolhouse, Washington street, land (46,080 feet) and building .
36,000 00
Furniture
1,080 00
Books
530 00
Bingham Schoolhouse, land (35,586 feet)
and building
69,355 50
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 feet) 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 .
5,183 50
Edgerly -Schoolhouse, land (24,000 feet) and
building
43,800 00
Furniture
2,230 00
Books
2,800 00
48,830 00
High Schoolhouse
376,695 24
Furniture
19,431 60
Philosophical and manual training
ap-
paratus
13,475 66
Amounts carried forward
$409,602 50
$905,182 78
.
·
·
35,760 00
.
88,360 00
12,420 00
28,303 50
50,138 65 45,500 00
124,999 54
181,449 06
37,610 00
74,255 50
APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT
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Amounts brought forward
$905,182 78 Books
424,902 50
Forster Schoolhouse and Annex, land
(30,632 feet) and buildings .
84,155 04
Furniture
3,290 00
Books
4,100 00
91,545 04
George L. Baxter Schoolhouse, land (11,000
feet) and building
31,800 00
Furniture
1,155 64
Books
450 00
33,405 64
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
Lincoln Schoolhouse, land (17,662 feet) and
building
17,500 00
Furniture
720 00
Luther V. Bell Schoolhouse, land (22,262
feet) and building
47,685 16
Furniture
2,400 00
Books
2,400 00
Martin W. Carr Schoolhouse, land (21,530 feet) and building
51,410 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
50,999 00
Amount carried forward . ·
$1,843,990 58
20,220 00
63,360 00
82,640 00
18,220 00
.
52,485 16
57,010 00
.
$409,602 50 15,300 00
36
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward
$1,843,990 58 .
Martha Perry Lowe Schoolhouse, land (21,650 feet) and building
$50,346 16
Furniture
1,480 00
Books
800 00
52,626 16
O. S. Knapp Schoolhouse, land (24,517 feet)
and building
48,000 00
Furniture
2,540 00
Books
3,000 00
53,540 00
Prescott Schoolhouse, land (22,000 feet)
and building
66,677 66
Furniture
2,260 00
Books
2,700 00
71,637 66
Prospect-hill Schoolhouse, land (23,733 feet) and building
15,000 00
Benjamin G. Brown Schoolhouse, land
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 (21,964 feet) and building
59,589 03
Furniture
2,180 00
Books
1,000 00
William H. Hodgkins Schoolhouse, land (47,379 feet) and building .
77,359 88
Furniture
2,400 00
Books
2,300 00
S. Newton Cutler Schoolhouse, land (53,729 feet) and building
86,296 40
Furniture
1.490 26
Books
1,500 00
Industrial School for Girls, land (8,850 feet),
4,300 00
Building
5,986 60
Equipment
408 42
.
City Stables, dwelling houses and 462,623 feet of land
95,350 12
Health Department, shed .
1,189 79
Incinerator
5,804 01
Equipments for highway repairs
26,090 00
Watering carts and sheds .
5,000 00
Spraying machine .
1,289 00
Refuse disposal equipment .
4,950 00
Water Works, land and buildings (93,500 feet) .
139.672 92 32,000 00
Amount carried forward .
$2,591,919 70
.
73,790 46
62,769 03
82,059 83
.
89,286 66
10,695 02
(26,733 feet) and building
64,851 33
APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.
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Amount brought forward
$2,591,919 70
No. 1. Fire Station land (8,937 feet) and building
$33,200 00
Engine No. 2, and equipment 3,000 00
Wagon and equipment
2,300 00
Ladder No. 3, and equipment
3,500 00
Exercising wagon
75 00
Furniture
600 00
42,675 00
No. 2 Fire Station, land (5,500 feet) and building
10,400 00
Combination wagon and equipment
2,500 00
Exercising wagon
75 00
Furniture
300 00
No. 3 Fire Station, land (13,700 feet) and building
55,743 18
Combination wagon and equipment
2,500 00
Ladder No. 1 and equipment .
3,500 00
Spare ladder truck
1,000 00
Spare engine
1,000 00
Spare wagon
300 00
Furniture
700 00
No. 4 Fire Station, land (9,100 feet) and building
15,500 00
Engine No. 4, and equipment .
6,000 00
Wagon and equipment
1,500 00
Exercising wagon
75 00
Furniture
300 00
No. 5 Fire Station, land (39,000 feet) and building
16,500 00
Motor combination wagon
5,264 00
Exercising wagon
75 00
Furniture
300 00
No. 6 Fire Station, land (8,113 feet) and building
17,600 00
Engine No. 6, and equipment .
5,000 00
Combination wagon and equipment
2,500 00
Assistant Chief's buggy and equipment Furniture
600 00
No. 7 Fire Station, land (9,903 feet) and building
14,100 00
Ladder No. 2 (motor)
5,264 00
Motor combination wagon
4,000 00
Furniture
400 00
No. 8 Fire Station, land (11,738 feet) and building
36,700 00
Engine No. 1 (motor)
8,400 00
Motor combination wagon
5,800 00
Motor chemical
1,000 00
Chief's auto
1,875 00
Assistant Chief's buggy and equipment .
450 00
Amounts carried forward
$54,225 00
$2,807,940 88
13,275 00
64,743 18
23,375 00
22,139 00
350 00
26,050 00
23,764 00
38
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amounts brought forward Furniture
$54,225 00 $2,807,940 88 1,000 00
Land for Fire Station, Winter Hill (7,829 feet) .
55,225 00 6,038 20
Fire Alarm and Police Signal apparatus .
36,610 00
Police Station, land (15,225 feet) and build- ing
58,953 12
Furniture
3,000 00
Vault
2,994 90
Ambulance and patrol auto
3,715 00
City Home, Broadway, land (421,646 feet)
and buildings
44,407 85
Furniture
1,808 72
46,216 57
Contagious and Tuberculosis Hospital
buildings
28,499 55
Land (88,364 feet)
15,600 00
44,099 55
Bath House
3,730 24
Water Works, mains. etc.
985,364 77
Sewers .
1,312,608 38
Prospect street, land (7,918 feet) and building .
0,800 00
Broadway Park (cost $212,993.20) (700,000 square feet)
270,000 00
Park Buildings .
2,726 89
272,726 89
Nathan Tufts Park (about 4 54-100 acres, 217,572 feet) .
68,000 00
Lincoln Park, Washington street (288,764 square feet) ·
63,200 00
Out-door Gymnasium, fountains and seats 1,476 46
3,753 19
68,429 65
Prospect-hill Park (94,503 feet) 67,511 75
76,631 30
Kent-street Playground (40,000 feet) . Powder-house Boulevard (200,618 square feet) and build- ing
22,500 00
Joy street, land (2,700 feet)
900 00
Broadway, land (10,890 feet)
2,300 00
Webster avenue, land (10,000 feet)
2,500 00
Holland street, land (217,800 feet)
35.500 00
Gravel land in Waltham (about 30 'acres)
10,234 17
Somerville Field
27,300 00
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 (1,200 feet)
900 00
Joy-street playground (20,000 feet)
9,750 00
Charlton lot, Murdock street (6,014 square feet) .
500 00
Reserve strip, Hancock street and Spencer avenue (120 square feet) 50 00
Polling Booths
1,783 14
Total amount of public property .
$6,023,201 76
Historical Building and Observatory . 9,119 55
12,500 00
Park Building .
68,663 02
TABLE B. OUTSTANDING BONDS, JANUARY 1, 1915.
ISSUE.
Rate per cent. of Interest.
Highway
Water.
Municipal Loan.
Met. Park Assessment (Outs'e), Chap. 1325, Acts 1902.
Lowell Street Bridge.
Sewer.
Sewer (Outside of limit) Chap. 357, Acts 1895.
City.
Total.
July 1, 1888
4
·
·
......
Oct. 1, 1889
4
·
.
. . . . . .
Oct. 1, 1890
4
·
.
·
......
.
.. .
$33,000
13,000
46,000
. July 1, 1896
4
·
·
.
·
.
....
.
9,000
20,000
29,000
. July 1, 1899
4
. .
..
·
.
.
..
.
17,000
28,000
45,000
. July 1, 1902
3 12
$15,000
13,000
23,000
51,000
. July 1, 1903
4
·
.
..
.
·
..
36,000
50,000
· Oct. 1, 1903
4
.
......
. . .
15,000
25,000
40,000
. April 1, 1905
3 12
·
.
......
... . .
21,000
38,000
59,000
July 1, 1906
4:
·
. .....
12,000
19,000
31,000
-. April 1, 1907
4
......
. . .
46,000
61,000
107,000
April 1, 1908
4
·
.....
$35,000
25,000
65,000
125,000
. April 1, 1909
312
·
.
.
.
..
.
26,000
90,000
116,000
April 1, 1911
4
·
·
.
..
.
..
. .
....
96,000
109,000
. July 1, 1912
4
.
.
..
.
..
. .
. .... .
142,000
142,000
April 1, 1913
414
.
. .
. .
..
. .
29,000
......
94,000
123,000
July 1, 1913
412
$77,000
·
...
.
·
.
. .
.
145,000
$125,000
$26,000
$77,000
$15,000
$35,000
$309,000
$33,000
$996,000
$1,616,000
·
.
. . .
. .
14,000
18,000
18,000
July 1, 1904
4
.... ..
. . .
.
.
.
. .
.
.
......
126,000
143,000
. Jan. 1, 1912
4
·
·
..
......
13,000
. .
.
.
.
·
.
20,000
April 1, 1914
4
125,000
.
AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.
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APPENDIX
TO TREASURER
July 1, 1897
4
4
. .
.... .
·
·
24,000
24,000
. July 2, 1900
312
. .
.
·
..
·
. ..
.
. .. . .
..
..
12,000
.... ..
· .....
.
..
12,000
July 1, 1895
4
14,000
14,000
8,000
12,000
20,000
. July 1, 1898
14,000
14,000
.
,
. July 1, 1901
312
10,000
10,000
$4,000
$4,000
.
·
.
·
.
. . .
·
·
.
17,000
38,000
62,000
. April 1, 1910
4
·
77,000
-
-
. . .
·
24,000
BONDS DUE IN 1915.
ISSUE.
Rate per cent. of Interest.
Highway.
City.
Sewer.
Sewer (Outside of limit) Chap. 357, Acts 1895.
Water.
Municipal Loan.
Metropolitan Park Assessment (Outside) Chap. 325, Acts 1902.
Lowell Street Bridge.
Total.
July 1, 1888
4
. ... . .
·
.. ..
$1,000
$1,000
Oct. 1, 1889
4
...
. .
...
2,000
2,000
Oct. 1, 1890
4
4
$13,000
$3,000
16,000
July 1, 1896
4
7,000
7,000
July 1, 1897
4
4,000
$1,000
...
·
.
·
5,000
July 1, 1898
4
5,000
1,000
. .
......
·
.
. .....
6,000
July 1, 1899
4
3,000
·
. .. . . .
. .....
·
3,000
July 2, 1900
312
4,000
.....
·
·
. .
. . . . ..
·
4,000
July 1, 1901
312
4,000
1,000
5,000
July 1, 1902
312
3,000
1,000
$1,000
5,000
Oct. 1, 1903
4
2,000
.... ..
.
.
.
. . . . . .
2,000
July 1, 1904
4
2,500
1,000
. .
. . . . . .
3,500
April 1, 1905
3 12
8,000
1,000
9,000
July 1, 1906
4
7,000
1,000
·
. .
. . ... .
8,000
April 1, 1907
4
11,000
2,000
.
.
. ...
13,000
April 1, 1908
4
7,000
1,000
8,000
April 1, 1909
31/2
11,000
1,000
·
$1,000
13,000
April 1, 1910
4
10,000
1,000
11,000
April 1, 1911
4
14,000
1,000
15,000
Jan. 1, 1912
4
11,000
1,000
. .
.
. . . .
. .
12,000
July 1, 1912
4
9,000
. .....
. . .
. .
. . ...
.
9,000
April 1, 1913
4 14
11,000
1,000
. . ... .
. .
.
.
. . . . ..
.....
12,000
July 1, 1913
41
10,000
April 1, 1914
4
$18,000
1,000
. . . . . .
·
$18,000
$150,500
$17,000
$3,000
$5,000
$10,000
$1,000
$1,000
$205,500
.
. .
·
.
. .
.
·
.
.
·
·
.
·
·
.
.. .
.
. .
..
.
4
4,000
1,000
. .
·
·
·
.
.
·
..
.
.
.
·
·
·
·
·
.
..
.
..
·
·
·
... ..
...
·
.
. . .. ..
.
$10,000
. .
· . .
. .
.
19,000
....
.
..
.
..
·
....
. . . . ..
.
·
.
ANNUAL REPORTS.
40
..
.
.
. .
....
.
. . . .
5,000
July 1, 1903
. . ·
2,000
2,000
July 1, 1895
.
·
.. ..
. . . . . .
... . ..
·
..
. . . . .
.
2
·
41
APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.
TABLE C-SERVICE TRANSFERS (Departmental Transactions )
City Clerk's Department :-
Executive Department
$2 00
Election Expenses, City Clerk .
450 00
Election Expenses, Registrars of Voters
700 00
Police Department
1 00
Health Department .
2 60
$1,155 60
Commissioner of Public Buildings :-
Summer Playgrounds
· 6 00
6 00
Engineering Department :-
Parks Maintenance
445 80
445 80
Police Department :-
Fire Department .
6 00
Contagious Hospital
41 39
Fire Department :-
City Messenger
30 68
Police Department
27 17
Weights and Measures Department
20 28
Electrical Department
237 03
Sewers Maintenance
10 63
Highways Maintenance
99 00
Street Sprinkling
4 63
Electrical Department :- Underground Construction
226 00
Gypsy and Brown-tail Moth Extermination :-
Care of Trees
133 73
Sewers Maintenance :-
133 73
Water Maintenance
24 12
Sewers Construction
391 68
Parks Maintenance
25 54
Sidewalks Construction
20 61
Highways Maintenance :-
Police Department
296 50
Elm-Leaf Beetle Extermination
93 80
Care of Trees
627 13
Refuse Disposal
5,055 40
Street Cleaning
3,266 03
Street Sprinkling
2,654 96
Highways, New Streets
875 60
Highways, Macadam Pavement
3,071 49
Highways, Permanent Pavement
355 44
Sidewalks Maintenance
1,189 86
Sidewalks Construction
2,437 90
Maintenance School Buildings
23 37
Parks Maintenance
93
Water Maintenance
77 92
Highways Construction, New Streets :- Highways, Macadam Pavement
$10 00
Amounts carried forward
$10 00
$22,938 22
.
.
47 39
429 42
226 00
461 95
20,032 33
42
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amounts brought forward
$10 00
Highways, Permanent Pavement
78 24
88 24
Highways Macadam Pavement :-
Highways, New Streets
426 88
Highways Maintenance ·
3 99
Sidewalks Construction .
.
468 94
Sidewalks Construction :-
Maintenance School Buildings
1 87
Highways Maintenance .
54 09
Sidewalks Maintenance .
5 44
61 40
Sidewalks Maintenance :-
Highways, Permanent Pavement
4 27
Highways, Macadam Pavement
1 05
Water Maintenance :-
Assessors
5 19
City Messenger
1 50
Engineering Department
95 00
Maintenance Municipal Buildings
9 77
Maintenance Police Buildings .
80
Elm-Leaf Beetle Extermination
6 30
Care of Trees
11 90
Inspection of Milk and Vinegar
49 78
Sewers Maintenance
37 83
Sewers Construction
3 00
Refuse Disposal .
25 37
Maintenance Refuse Buildings
18 90
Highways Maintenance
98 04
Highways, Street Sprinkling
265 67
Poor Department, City Home .
41 39
Maintenance School Buildings
192 34
Maintenance West Somerville Branch Library
56
Parks Maintenance
21 22
Parks Buildings
56 63
Playgrounds Maintenance
14 06
Workmen's Compensation
5 63
Water Works Extension
11,716 12
12,677 00
$36,239 12
TABLE D .- REFUNDS (Maintenance Accounts)
City Messenger :-
George H. Noone, damage to auto
$100 00
Police Department :-
Walter L. Groves on pay roll of
1914 in error .
23 03
Vital Statistics :-
J. H. Dorval. check refused .
25
Amount carried forward
$123 28
·
38 07
$22,938 22
5 32
43
APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.
Amount brought forward .
$123 28
Street Sprinkling, Massachusetts High-
way Commission .
3 00
Poor Department, Miscellaneous :- Mrs. Daniel Shea, money returned 37 00
City of Boston, M. D. Hart, money returned .
20 00
57 00
Poor Department, City Home :- S. Kasperorisez, wages unearned . 2 20
Soldiers' Relief :-
Charles J. Straw, money not called for Mrs. E. J. Williams, money not called for
6 00
Mary A. Craigue, money not called for Edgar Bootman, money not called for . 3 00
30 00
State Aid :-
Clemina F. Gorham, money not called for
4 00
Ella E. Doyle, money not called for .
4 00
Maintenance School Buildings :-
W. F. Fleming, bill paid twice
7 50
Central Library :-
Rent of High School Hall
15 00
Refund insurance premium
167 05
182 05
Interest :-
Accrued on bond issues, April 1, 1914 .
789 44
Water Maintenance :--- Michael Finnell, over-payment .
8 43
$1,210 90
Offsets to Outlays.
Sewers Construction :-
*Starret Field & Co., cement bags $121 68
J. Talaewsky, old bags
18 45
Grossman Bros., old iron . 10 55
$150 68
Highways Construction, New Streets .:- *Highland Coal Company, cement bags
85 50
Highways Construction, Permanent Pavement :- Sundry persons, one half the cost of construction 174 50
Highways Construction, Macadam Pavement :- *Highland Coal Company cement bags. 311 19
Sundry persons, one-half the cost of construction 77 35
388 54
Sidewalks Construction :-
*Highland Coal Company, cement bags 630 00
Amounts carried forward $630 00
$799 23
.
11 00
10 00
8 00
44
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amounts brought forward
$630 00
$799 22
Boston & Maine Railroad, amount due
on sundry sidewalks 341 12
Sears Condit, sidewalk
110 41
Knights of Columbus, sidewalk
159 60
Sundry Persons, amounts paid in 1913 sidewalks construction
301 00
1,542 13
$2,341 35
121 68
85 50
311 19
630 00
$1,148 37
$1,192 98
TABLE E .- REVENUE.
Corporation Taxes.
Business, 1913
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