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Chimney and foundation repairs,
South Main Street house
37.00
Electrical supplies 14.80
Loom 12.00
Chime and valve 55.00
Fire police 40.50
Chemical engine hose 26.30
Acid jars and tanks 24.00
Valves, chemical engine 5.00
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Pawtucket Fire Department, ser-
vices rendered
25.00
Roan horse
300.00
Veterinary services
2.00
Syringe
4.50
Board of horse
18.75
Clipping horses
5.00
Couplings
3.50
Fire alarm keys, etc.
12.85
Brooms
11.00
Insulators
13.76
Bottles and corks
10.65
Disinfectant
7.65
Cross arm braces
3.42
Mattress
6.00
Fuses
1.35
Repairs on stove
2.50
$15,660.13
Fire Alarm Boxes.
Dr.
To appropriation
$175.00
Overdraught
1.45
$176.45
Cr.
Galvanized wire
$26.45
Alarm boxes
150.00
$176.45
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New Hose.
Dr.
To appropriation $300.00
$300.00
Cr.
500 feet of hose and couplings $289.50
Unexpended balance 10.50
$300.00
Rubber Coats.
Dr.
To appropriation $100.00
$100.00
Cr.
Rubber coats
$78.00
White drill coats 21.45
Unexpended balance
.55
$100.00
Memorial Day Observance.
Dr.
To appropriation $300.00
$300.00
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Cr.
William A. Streeter Post, G. A. R. $300.00
$300.00
Rent of G. A. R. Hall.
Dr.
To appropriation $348.00
Cr. $348.00
William A. Streeter Post, G. A. R. $348.00
$348.00
Street Lighting.
Dr.
To appropriation .$13.800.00
$13,800.00
Cr.
Paid Attleboro Steam & Electric Company :
January
$1,133.98
February 1, 133.98
March
1,133.98
April
1,147-73
May
1,147.73
June
1,153.98
July
1,153.98
August
1,153.98
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September
1,153.98
October 1,159.98
November 1,159.98
December
1, 159.98
Unexpended balance
6.74
$10,800.00
SOLDIERS' MONUMENT.
Dr.
To balance of appropriation from
1907 $7,991.25
Overdraw
12.35
Cr. $8,003.60
J. M. White & Sons, Monument .. $8,000.00 W. H. Goff, expenses 3.60
$8,003.60
Curbing Soldiers' Monument.
Dr.
To appropriation $500.00
Cr. $500.00
Curbing $350.00
Setting curbing, concreting, grad-
ing, etc. $127.70
Unexpended balance
22.30
$500.00
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SPECIAL DRAIN,
Between Park and Emory Streets. (To be assessed upon abuttors.) Dr.
To overdraft $750.00
Cr. $750.00
John Eden, construction of drain .. $750.00
$750.00
LIQUOR LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Dr.
To appropriation $250.00
Cr. $250.00
John H. Nerney .
$125.00
Unexpended balance
$125.00
SEWERAGE DISPOSAL. $250.00
(To be assessed with general sewerage account.)
To overdraft
$383.35
$383.35
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Cr.
Surveying, labor on test pits, etc. .. $345.10
Option on land 25.00
Travel, expenses, typewriting, etc. 13.25
$383.35
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
Dr.
Appropriation $14,000.00
Balance from 1907 353.3I
Excise tax from Interstate Street
Railway Co. 1,880.65
Excise tax Norton & Taunton
Street Railway Co. 199.48
Street Railway tax 2,872.89
Providence Telephone Co., use of streets for conduits 25.00
W. J. Greene for cess pool cover and stone 5.00
Norton & Taunton Street Railway Co., for work on catch basins 69.24 Attleboro Gas Light Co., repairs of street 3.60
S. M. Einstein, work and material used in building drain 74.II
Standard Oil Co., release of land ..
150.00
Sewer entrances 400.00
Sale of paving stones 5.78
Sale of dirt 105.27
Sale of stone
50.90
Sale of gravel 5.78
Sale of loam
II.55
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Work done by Highway Department for
School Department 89.59
On new street, Thacher to West Street I20.00
Connecting drain on Forest and Sturdy Streets with Thach-
er Brook drain 50.00
Water Department, repairing
roads
15.00
$20,487.15
Cr.
North Division, pay roll $6,891.60
East Division, pay roll 120.93
South Division, pay roll
2,045.99
Southwest Division, pay roll 2,008.30
Street cleaning, pay roll 2,081.27
Superintendent of Streets, salary 1,099.98
Use of team 100.00
State of Massachusetts, repairs on state highway
132.55
Stone
1,303.25
Surveying, H. F. Conant
124.95
Surveying, K. H. Hyde
197.15
Surveying, C. F. Robinson
13.85
Gravel
366.59
Supplies, roller and crusher
276.51
Snow 204.12
Shoeing 102.00
Tools and repairs
332.71
Hay and grain
929.90
Lights in barn
19.73
Freight
35-75
Stand pipes
99.44
Lumber for bridges, fences, etc. .. 375.88
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Street signs
18.25
Repairs on carts
198.85
Resetting curbing
55.48
Paving
75.42
Catch basins
16.65
Sewer grates and frames
37.85
Cleaning catch basins
149.25
Labor
76.96
Veterinary services
12.00
Carpenter work
49.00
Mason work
81.20
Pipe and cement
I22.66
Horse hire
6.00
Sponges
3.15
'Blasting
226.58
Boots
22.78
Bricks
3.61
Harness supplies and repairs
75.45
Telephone
28.30
Printing
3.00
Dynamite
20.37
Rubbish cans
18.00
Pruning trees
8.75
Burlap
6.00
Sealing scales
1.00
Tar barrel
1.00
Incidentals, medicine, paint, lead,
oil, etc.
31.50
Unexpended balance
275.64
$20,487.15
Phillips Street.
Dr.
Appropriation
$ 300.00
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Overdraft
18.80
$318.80
Cr.
Surveying
$ 16.00
Pay rolls 302.80
$318.80
Cleaning Ten Mile River.
Dr.
Appropriation
$ 100.00
Overdraft 3.34
Cr. $103.34
Pay rolls
$ 93.34
Boots
10.00
$103.34
Road Roller.
Dr.
Appropriation $2,500.00
$2,500.00
Cr.
Buffalo Steam Roller Co.
$2,500.00
$2,500.00
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Capron Street. (To be assessed in 1909.)
Amount expended on Capron Street :
Land for widening $ 459.00
Curbing 109.50
Brick
3.15
Steps
8.00
$579.65 Forest and Emory Street Drain.
Dr.
Appropriation $900.00
Simeon Sylvester
10.00
Taunton & Pawtucket Street Rail- way Co. 50.00
P. J. Crosby
10.00
Edward Ashley 10.00
W. E. Groves 10.00
Emerson E. Perry 10.00
E. O. Dexter 10.00
Nels Friedson 10.00
Overdraft 9.31
$1,029.31
Cr.
Surveying
$ 51.25
Pipe 229.71
Eveline Bros. 690.60
Resurfacing highway, work done
by Street Department 50.00
Manchester & Hudson, pipe for
drain
7.75
$1,029.31
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West Street.
Dr.
Appropriation, balance
$717.47
Overdraft
7.89
$725.36
Cr.
Surveying
$ 15.25
Pay rolls
710.II
$725.36
Pond Street.
Dr.
Appropriation $300.00
$300.00
Cr.
Surveying
$
2.50
Balance
297.50
$300.00
Sidewalks.
Dr.
Appropriation $1,000.00
Curbing, laying and changing curb-
ing, paving and gutter covers 459.54
Amount due from betterment tax . . 109.90
Amount overdrawn 322.73
$1,892.17
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Cr.
Curbing
$1,197.26
F. H. Dickinsonn, labor
92.26
Setting curbing
322.35
Paving
II0.25
Surveying
77.97
Gutter crossings
60.51
Resetting curbing
13.05
James Kelly, cutting granite
18.52
$1,892.17 New Street, Thacher to West.
Dr.
Appropriation $17,745.33
$17,745.33
Cr.
H. F. Conant, surveying $ 890.15
Eveline Bros.
16,160.00
Building catch basins
45.2I
Grates 93.63
Pay rolls, highway department 423.49
Gravel, labor and concrete
120.00
Advertising 8.10
Balance 4.75
$17,745.33
Street Sprinkling. Dr.
Appropriation 4,000.00
Overdraft 3.69
$4,003.69
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Cr.
Charles Fontneau, sprinkling $214.00
Stephen Harvey, sprinkling $ 22.75
Frank Jillson, sprinkling 385.75
William J. Kenney, sprinkling 520.50
R. D. Manchester, sprinkling 670.00
T. E. Perrin, sprinkling 604.75
A. W. Parmenter, sprinkling
595.00
Fred Read, sprinkling
I12.75
Robert Sharkey, sprinkling
441.87
Repairs on cart and painting carts.
296.12
Stand pipes and repairs on stand pipes 77.40
Barrett Mfg. Co., tarvia 59.80
Incidentals 3.00
Concrete Sidewalks. $4,003.69
Dr.
Appropriation $2,500.00
F. H. Sadler, for walk on County
Street
27.90
S. O. Bigney, for walk on County Street 159.40
Cr. $2,687.30
R. H. Jones, concrete $2,440.61
R. I. Paving Co. 25.00
Pawtucket Granolithic Co. 211.60
Balance 10.09
$2,687.30
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Thacher Street.
Dr.
Appropriation balance
$482.50
Overdraft
13.64
$496.14
Cr.
Surveying
$ 29.25
Pay rolls
416.34
Eveline Bros.
13.30
Concrete blocks
37.25
$496.14
Thacher Brook Drain.
Dr.
Appropriation
$2,000.00
Overdraft
40.16
$2,040.16
Cr.
Surveying
$ 67.55
Pay rolls
1.394.90
Retaining wall
232.50
Blasting
25.00
Lumber
78.74
Pipe, plaster, lime and cement
166.63
Boots
26.50
Stone
5.96
Tools
25.07
Plans and tracing
15.75
Incidentals
1.56
$2,040.16
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County Street.
Dr.
Appropriation
$500.00
Overdraft
22.58
$522.58
Cr.
Surveying
$ 8.80
Pay rolls
513.78
$522.58
SUMMARY OF UNEXPENDED BALANCES AND APPROPRIATIONS OVERDRAWN.
Unexpended
Overdrawn
Current and incidental
$107.87
Police and patrol
$ 27.24
Soldiers' relief
327.II
Fire Department, current and inci- dental
945.88
Fire alarm boxes
1.45
New hose
10.50
Rubber coats, fire department
.55
Street lighting
6.74
Soldiers' monument
12.35
Curbing Soldiers' monument
22.30
Enforcement of liquor laws
125.00
Phillips Street
18.80
Cleaning Ten Mile River
3.34
Forest and Emory Street drain
9.3I
West Street
7.89
Curbing sidewalks
322.73
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New street, Thacher to West
Unexpended 4.75
Overdrawn
Street Sprinkling
3.69
Concrete sidewalks
10.09
Thacher Street
13.64
Thacher Brook drain
40.16
County Street
22.58
Pauper Department
124.29
School Department, general depart- ment
180.66
School Department insurance 160.25
Capron Park
78.27
Capron Street
579.65
$919.86 $2,247.23
Total overdrawn
$1,327.37
Amount expended for sewerage to be assessed in 1909 with gen- eral sewerage account 383.35
Amount expended for drain be- tween Emory and Park Streets to be assessed upon abuttors in 1909 $750.00
The following balances carried forward : Washington Street School $5,513.72
Pond Street 297.50
Bliss School 38,098.07
Highway 275.64
$44,184.93
RECOMMENDATIONS.
The following recommendations are made by the offi- cers of the various departments :
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Selectmen's Department.
Current and incidental (with re-
ceipts) $13,000.00
Highways and Bridges (with re- ceipts) 15,000.00
Curbing sidewalks, under the Bet- terment Act 3,000.00
Building new concrete sidewalks 2,500.00
Street lighting
14,500.00
Police Department (with court
fines) 6,000.00
Watering public streets 4,000.00
Soldiers' Relief 3.300.00
Observance of Memorial Day 300.00
Enforcement of liquor laws 250.00
Military Aid
100.00
$61,950.00
Amount Recommended by the Engineer of the Fire Department.
Current and incidental
$15,700.00
$15,700.00
Amount Recommended by the Overseers of the Poor.
Aid to paupers $8,000.00 Medical attendance 500.00
$8,500.00
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Amount Recommended by the School Committee.
For maintenance, including insur-
$76,000.00 ance
$76,000.00
Amount Recommended by the Water Commissioners.
For maintenance $6,200.00
$6,200.00
Amount Recommended by the Trustees of the Public Library.
For maintenance $7,000.00
$7,000.00
Amounts to be Raised to Meet Former Votes of the Town
Capron Park $2,000.00
Dodgeville School 1,000.00
Addition to high school building 2,000.00
Street from South Main to County Street 2,800.00
Olive Street extension 2,500.00
New street, Thacher to West Street, and Soldiers' monument 5,000.00
Washington Street school 3,000.00
$18,300.00
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Appropriations Made Since June 23, 1908, to be Assessed in 1909.
Bliss School 5,000.00
Attleboro sanitarium 700.00
$5.700.00
Amounts Required by Law to be Raised by Taxation.
State tax, approximated .$18,500.00
County tax, approximated
17,000.00
Sinking Fund 2,500.00
Interest on notes
3,500.00
Interest on bonds
2,650.00
Grade crossing account (including
interest)
14,000.00
$58,150.00
Recapitulation.
Selectmen's Departments $61,950.00
Fire Department
15,700.00
Overseers of the Poor 8.500.00
School Department 76.000.00
Water Department 6,200.00
Public Library
7,000.00
To meet former votes of the town. . 18,300.00
Appropriations made since June 23. 1908 5,700.00
Requirements of the law and inter- est 58,150.00
$257,500.00
Respectfully submitted, GEORGE M. WORRALL, MILLARD F. ASHLEY, GEORGE A. SWEENEY, Selectmen of Attleborough.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TOWN TREASURER
GENERAL DEPARTMENT
RECEIPTS.
Cash on hand, January 1, 1908 $28,057.08
S. M. Holman, Collector 246,988.24
Harry E. Carpenter, Collector 705.05
Licenses.
4 auctioneers' licenses $8.00
2 druggists' licenses 2.00
Fireworks licenses
13.00
Bowling alley, pool and billiard table licenses
362.00
131 milk licenses
65.50
IO peddlers' licenses
180.00
Merry-go-round license
7.00
Licenses for wrestling bouts
13.00
Talaquega Park license 25.00
Broker's license 50.00
Junk licenses and badges 458.00
Dance licenses 6.00
Theatre and moving picture licenses
75.00
Intelligence office license 2.00
License to loan money
5.00
$1,271.50
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Notes.
1908.
Received of
March II, Jose, Parker & Co., on note dated March II, 1908, for seven months at 4.46% ...... $10,000.00 April 3, F. I. Babcock, Treasurer of Sinking Fund, on note dated April 3, 1908, on demand at 41/2% 7,700.00
April 3, First National Bank of Attleboro, on note dated April 3, 1908, for six months at 4.46% 5,000.00
June 23, Loring, Tolman & Tupper, on note dated June 23. 1908, for four months at 3.32% 30,000.00
July 18, First National Bank of Attleboro, on note dated July 18, 1908, for four months at 4% 10,000.00
July 31, Edgerly & Crocker, on note dated Aug. 1, 1908, for 4
months at 3.20% 20,000.00
Aug. 1, F. I. Babcock. Treasurer of Sinking Fund, on note dated Aug. 1, 1908, on demand at 4% 10,000.00 Sept. 10, First National Bank of Attleboro, on note dated Sept.
10, 1908, for 1 month at 412% 5,000.00 Dec. 31, Blake Brothers & Co., on 5 notes of $5,000 each, dated Dec. 31, 1908, for I to 5 years at 4% 25,000.00 Dec. 31, Blodget, Merritt & Co., on 4 notes of $3,000 each for I to 4 years, dated Dec. 31, 1908, at
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4% 12,000.00
$134,700.00
Premiums.
1908.
Received of
Dec. 31, Blake Brothers & Co., pre- mium on notes amounting to $25,000, dated Dec. 31st, 1908, at 4% $230.00
Dec. 31, Blodget, Merritt & Co., pre- mium on notes amounting to $12,000, dated Dec. 31, 1908, at 4% 60.00
Interest. $290.00
1908.
Received of
Blake Brothers & Co., accrued in- terest for 6 days on notes amounting to $25,000, at 4% .. $16.67 Blodget, Merritt & Co., accrued in- terest for 6 days on notes amounting to $12,000, at 4% .. 8.00
First National Bank of Attleboro, interest on daily balances in P bank from Jan. Ist, 1908, to Jan. 1, 1909 282.03
Sewer Connections. $306.70
1908. Received of
Carnes estate, entrance to sewer
from building on Park Street $100.00
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Pilgrim church, entrance to sewer
from building on North Main street 37.50
Pope & Read, entrance to County Street sewer from property of F. Holman 112.50
A. S. Ingraham, entrance to Union Street sewer from building cor- ner Dunham and Union Street 75.00 Bronson Building Co., connecting building on County Street with County Street sewer 37.50
Attleboro Gas Light Co., entrance
to Dunham Street sewer 37.50
$400.00
Miscellaneous.
1908. Received of
George F. Pratt, County Treasurer,
dog licenses $1,766.01
Fines for non-payment of dog li- censes 325.00
Redemption of land sold for taxes
13.26
Edwin F. Thayer, Clerk, court fines 1,072.62
I. Granville Carrier, Keeper of Jail, court fines and expenses 95.00
J. Arthur Taylor, Keeper of Jail, court fines 10.00
Town of Mansfield, Moth Inspector, for burlap 2.70
Sale of Old Home Week badges . .
1.00
Sale of desk, Town Clerk's office .. 20.00
W. J. Newman, Sealer of Weights and Measures, for fees, sealing weights, etc. 89.42
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Hiram R. Packard, sale of old hose 14.25 Park Commissioners, for sale of soil 38.00
Town of Grafton, for Soldiers' Relief paid to John H. Kimball 72.00
State Aid, to be credited to Soldiers' Relief, on account of D. K. Franklin 5.00
On account of Michael Murray Providence Telephone Co., use of
42.00
streets for underground wires 25.00 Norton & Taunton Street Railway Co., for work on catch basins .. 69.24
F. H. Sadler, for sidewalk on County Street . 27.90
S. O. Bigney, for sidewalk on County Street 159.40
S. M. Einstein, for work and ma- terial used in building drain .. 74.II
J. E. Blake, for change of curbing and repairing sidewalk 20.00
Attleboro Gas Light Co., repairing street over gas pipes 3.60
Change of curbing, driveway and labor 8.75
W. J. Green, for cesspool cover and stone 5.00
Standard Oil Co., for land on Tur- ner Street I 50.00
Simeon Sylvester. on account of Emory Street drain 10.00
Taunton & Pawtucket Street Rail-
way Co., on account of Emory Street drain 50.00
P. J. Crosby, on account of Emory Street drain 10.00
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Edward Ashley, on account of Em-
ory Street drain 10.00
W. E. Groves, on account of Emory 10.00 Street drain 10.00
Emerson E. Perry, on account of Emory Street drain 10.00
E. O. Dexter, on account of Emory Street drain 10.00
Nels Friedson, on account of Emory Street drain 10.00
-
George Sykes, on account of curb- ing sidewalk on County Street 50.40
Bronson Building Co., for corners and change of curbing 8.75 . . Edward L. Gowen, for gutter covers and curbing 72.48
H. E. Sweet, for curbing 184.20
A. S. Ingraham, for gutter covers
and outside stone 51.06
Rabbeting curbing 3.75
Change of curbing on Dunham Street 7.90
Tappan Brothers, for change of curbing on Mill Street 12.20
E. A. Briggs & Co., for paving and labor on curbing 10.10
Superintendent of Streets, sale of dirt 105.27
Sale of stone
50.90
Sale of gravel 5.78
Sale of loam
11.55
Sale of paving stone 5.78
School Department, for work done
by Highway Department 89.59
Water Department, for repairing streets, torn up to repair water pipes
15.00
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For covers and curbing . , 29.95 Work done by Highway Depart- ment on new street, from Thacher to West Street .. 120.00
On drain connecting Forest and Sturdy Streets with Thach- er Brook drain 50.00
School Department, sale of old ef- fects
$ 22.13
Tuition from Town of Reho- both
130.00
Tuition from Town of Seekonk 341.00
Tuition from individuals 105.30
Sale of brick, etc., Robinson school 46.00
Sale of text books and supplies 30.00
Refund on teachers' pay roll .. 8.00
Rebate on insurance policy
11.25
$693.68
Overseers of the Poor :
Town of Foxboro
$ 97.73
City of New Bedford 116.29
City of Somerville 100.00
City of Taunton
138.10
Town of Wilbraham 358.85
City of Boston 20.45
Town of Franklin 4.00
Town of North Attleboro
53.55
City of Brockton 69.00
Town of Mansfield 158.25
Town of Norton
19.50
City of Waltham 3.00
City of Worcester
28.00
$5.113.92
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Reimbursement for care of
Amos Walton, at Town Farm 6.00
.
Reimbursement of aid 260.00
Board of Health, for transport- ation of Hugh McNulty .. 5.00
Receipts from sale of pigs, cows and pork 284.41
Receipts from sale of milk
896.65
Soldiers' Relief Department, for aid to Michael Murray at Town Farm
81.90
State of Massachusetts :
$2,700.68
Corporation tax $5,448.12
National Bank tax 712.20
Street Railway tax 2,872.89
Military and State Aid
2,714.00
Armory rent
873.65
Transportation, aid and support of State paupers 95.15
Burial of State paupers 25.00
Burial of soldiers and sailors .. 37.00
State Board of Charity for con- tagious diseases 34.50
Tuition of children
40.50
$12,853.01
C. S. Holden, Treasurer of Library
Building Fund $9,873.87
Duplicate bills, Pauper Depart-
ment 22.50
Duplicate bills, Capron Park 21.50
$9.917.87
$443,997.73
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EXPENDITURES.
1908.
Notes.
Paid.
Jan. 27, Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., note dated Feb. 4, 1902, and due Feb. 4, 1908, at 31/2% $1,000.00
March 23, Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., note dated April 4, 1906, and due April 4, 1908, at 4% 2,800.00
Aug. 3, Note dated Aug. 7, 1903, and due .Aug. 7, 1908, at 4% . . 2,000.00 Sept. 30, First National Bank of Attleboro, note dated April 3, 1908, and due Oct. 3, 1908, at 4.46% 5,000.00
Oct. 5, Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., note dated March II, 1908, and due Oct. 12, 1908, at 4.46% 10,000.00 Oct. 9, First National Bank of Attle- boro, note dated Sept. 10, 1908, and due Oct. 10, 1908, at 41/2% 5,000.00
Oct. 17, Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., note dated June 23, 1908, and due Oct. 23, 1908, at 3.32% 30,000.00
Nov. 18, First National Bank of At- tleboro, note dated July 18, 1908, and due Nov. 18, 1908, at 4% 10,000.00
Nov. 28, Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., note dated Aug. I, 1908, and due Dec. 1, 1908, at
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3.20%
20,000.00
$85,800.00
Interest.
I908. Paid.
Jan. 27, Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., interest for six months on notes amounting to $4,000, dated Feb. 4, 1902, at 31/2% $ 70.00
Feb. I, Interest for six months on notes amounting to $4.000, . dated Aug. 7, 1903, at 4%, held by individuals 80.00
March II, Jose, Parker & Co., in- terest for seven months on note of $10,000, dated March II, 1908, at 4.46% 266.21
March 23, Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., interest for six months on 4 notes of $2.800, dated April 4, 1906, at 4% $224.00
April 3, First National Bank of Attleboro, interest
for six months on note of $5,000,
dated April 3, 1908, at 4.46% .. I12.75
April 23, Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., interest due on bonds May 1, 1908 525.00
May 20, Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., interest due on bonds June 1, 1908 800.00
June 23, Loring, Tolman & Tupper, interest for four months on note of $30,000, dated June 23, 1908, at 3.32% 337.53
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July 15, Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., interest for six months on notes amounting to $3,000, dated Feb. 4, 1902, at 31/2% 52.50
July 18, First National Bank of At- tleboro, interest for four months on note of $10,000, dated July 18, 1908, at 4% ... 136.67 July 31, Edgerly & Crocker, inter- est for four months on note of $20,000, dated Aug. 1, 1908, at 3.20% 213.33
Aug. 3, Interest for six months on notes amounting to $4,000, dated Aug. 7, 1903, at 4% . Sept. 14, Boston Safe Deposit &
Trust Co., interest for six
80.00
months on three notes of $2,800, dated April 4, 1906, at 4% 168.00)
Sept. 14. First National Bank of Attleboro, interest for one month on note of $5,000, dated Sept. 10, 1908, at 41/2% 18.12
Nov. I, Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., interest due on bonds, Nov. 1, 1908 525.00
Nov. 17, Boston Safe Deposit &
Trust Co., interest due on bonds, Dec. 1, 1908 800.00
Dec. 31, F. I. Babcock,, Treasurer of Sinking Fund,
Interest from Dec. 28, 1907, to Dec. 31, 1908, on note of $3,000. dated May 28, 1907, at 5% I 50.00
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Interest from April 3, 1908, to Jan. 3, 1909, on note of $7,700, dated April 3, 1908, at 412% 259.87
Interest from Dec. 28, 1907, to Dec. 31, 1908, on note of $4,500, dated May 28, 1907, at 5% 225.00
Interest from Aug. 1, 1908, to
Dec. 31, 1908, on note of
$10,000, dated Aug. I,
1908. at 4% 166.66
$5,210.64
1908.
Miscellaneous.
Paid.
George F. Pratt, County Treasurer,
County tax for 1908 $16,230.93
Treasurer of Sinking Fund, yearly appropriation 2,500.00
Water Department, appropriation made at annual town meeting,
March 2, 1908 3.000.00
Deed of land redeemed from tax sale 3.00
State Aid for 1908
2,963.00
Military Aid for 1908 I35.00
Bills approved by the Selectmen for 1908 249,708.75
$274,540.68
State of Massachusetts :
State Tax for 1908 $18,425.00
National Bank tax 2,444.90
Abolition of Grade Crossing
account 8,846.51
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Abolition of Grade Crossing account, interest 3,118.86
Repairs of State Highway 132.55
Druggists' licenses .50
$32,968.32
Cash on hand January 1, 1909 45,478.09
$443,997.73
OUTSTANDING BONDS AND NOTES.
January 1, 1909.
Bonds due June 1, 1916 $40,000.00
Bonds due November 1, 1920 30,000.00
$70.000.00
Note dated Feb. 4, 1902, for 7 years, at 312% $1,000.00 Note dated Feb. 4, 1902, for 8 years, at 31/2% 1,000.00
Note dated Feb. 4, 1902, for 9 years, at 31/2%
1,000.00
Registered note dated Aug. 7. 1903. at 4% 2,000.00
Note dated April 4, 1906, for 3 years, at 4% 2,800.00
Note dated April 4, 1906, for 4 years, at 4% 2,800.00
Note dated April 4, 1906. for 5 years, at 4% 2,800.00 Note dated Dec. 31, 1908, for I year, at 4% 3,000.00 Note dated Dec. 31, 1908, for 2 years, at 4% 3,000.00 Note dated Dec. 31, 1908, for 3 years, at 4% 3,000.00
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Note dated Dec. 31, 1908, for 4
years, at 4% 3,000.00
Note dated Dec. 31, 1908, for I
year, at 4% 5,000.00
Note dated Dec. 31, 1908, for 2
years, at 4% 5,000.00
Note dated Dec. 31, 1908, for 3
years, at 4% 5,000.00
Note dated Dec. 31, 1903, for 4
years, at 4%
5,000.00
Note dated Dec. 31, 1908, for 5
years, at 4% 5,000.00
Note on demand, dated May 28, 1907, at 5% 7,500.00
Note on demand, dated April 3,
1908, at 41/2% 7.700.00
Note on demand, dated Aug. I,
1908, at 4%
10,000.00
$75,600.00
WATER DEPARTMENT.
Receipts.
Cash on hand. January 1, 1908 $1.253.76
George H. Snell, Water Registrar. $45,893.67 Appropriation made by the Town, March 2, 1908 3,000.00
$48,893.67
Bonds.
1908.
Received from
Sale of bonds, dated April 1, 1908. and payable April 1, 1934 . . .. $50,000.00
$50,000.00
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Premiums.
1908.
Received from
Premium on bonds, dated April I,
1908
$785.00
$785.00
Interest.
1908.
Received from
Accrued interest on bonds, dated
April 1, 1908
$166.67
Interest on daily balance in bank ..
74.67
$241.34
.
Notes.
1908.
Received from
First National Bank of Attleboro, on note, dated Feb. 20, 1908, for
60 days, at 5% $15,000.00
$15,000.00
$116,173.77
EXPENDITURES.
Notes.
1908. Paid
First National Bank of Attleboro,
note dated Oct. 16, 1907, for 3 months, at 6% $10,000.00
Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., note dated Dec. 23, 1907, for 3 ' months, at 6.57% 15,000.00
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First National Bank of Attleboro, note dated Feb. 20, 1908, for 60 days, at 5% 15,000.00
Frank I. Babcock, Treasurer of Sinking Fund, note dated Dec.
31, 1907, on demand at 6%
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