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12,080.57
Transformers 16,031.64
Street Lighting Equipment
3,136.06
Transportation Equipment
2,000.98
$ 83,123.66
Expended for Construction. Year 1936
Construction and Materials $ 1,641.05
Meters
509.41
Transformers
1,460.48
Transportation Equipment
649.25
Street Lighting Equipment
257.71 $ 4,517.90
Expended for Operating Expense
Electric Energy Purchased $ 16,996.00
Station Wages 630.00
Rent of Station
350.00
Meter and Transformer Operation
125.60
Maintenance of Transmission and Distribu- tion Lines 3,244.25
Maintenance of Meters and Transformers 229.88
Street Light Maintenance and Operation
401.39
Commercial Salaries and Expenses
377.36
Salary of Municipal Light Board & Manager
1,210.98
General Office Salaries 1,144.00
General Office Supplies and Expenses
584.28
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Insurance
445.11
Transportation Expense
190.25
Miscellaneous General Expense
143.82
$ 26,072.92
Total Expended for Maintenance and Construction
$ 30,590.82
Federal Tax Paid and Consumers Deposits Returned 71.19
Total Expenditures $ 30,662.01
Balance Sheet
Construction and Operating Fund
Jan. 1, 1936 $ 8,205.63
Depreciation Fund Jan. 1, 1936
19,055.88
Reserve Fund Jan. 1, 1936
1,817.50
Received from Light & Power Sales
28,648.71
Received from Miscellaneous Sales
580.55
Received from Town Appropriations
3,144.67
Interest Income
605.87
Federal Tax Collected
.58
Consumers Deposits
190.00
$ 62,249.39
Constructions and Renewals
3,868.65
Transportation Equipment
649.25
Maintenance and Operating Expense
26,072.92
Federal Tax Paid
1.19
Consumers Deposits Returned
70.00
Depreciation Fund Jan. 1, 1937
19,606.83
Reserve Fund Jan. 1, 1937
1,872.42
Returned to Town
6.000.00
Construction and Operating Fund
Jan. 1, 1937
4,108.13
$ 62,249.39
Municipal Light Board,
JOHN MARSHALL, GEORGE F. WILDE, IRVINE G. BURBECK. .
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ANNUAL REPORT OF BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS
The Board of Water Commissioners herein submit their thirty- third annual report.
Five services were installed during the year making a total of 771 services now installed.
There are 77 services not in use, or the same amount of inactive services as last year.
Estimates for the Ensuing Year
Gross Expense of Operating
$ 10,500.00
Constructions
900.00
$ 12,400.00
Estimated Income
Water Rates
$ 10,500.00
Miscellaneous Income
1,000.00
$ 11,500.00
Expended for Constructions
Materials and Labor $ 816.88
Returned to Town for Note Payment
2,000.00
$ 2,816.88
Expended for Maintenance
Maintenance. Materials and Labor $ 3,196.02
Fuel
3,511.50
Station Supplies and Expenses
1,602.48
Station Wages
1,380.50
Superintendent's Salary
719.68
Commissioner's Salary
67.50
Office Salary
520.00
Office Expense
303.76
Interest
40.00
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Truck Expense
157.48
Insurance
326.30
Miscellaneous
90.29
$ 11,915.51
Total Expended for Maintenance and
Constructions
$ 14,732.39
Monthly Report of Pumping Station
Gallons Pumped
Hours Pumped
January
5,223,000
193
February
5,418,000
200
March
5,376,000
208
April
5,601,000
209
May
6,855,000
259
June
7,466,400
257
July
8,262,000
282
August
8,580,384
302
September
9,450,699
581
October
4,981,149
196
November
5,103,989
185
December
5,226,450
192
Total Gallons Pumped
77,544,071
Balance Sheet
General Cash Balance Jan. 1, 1936 $ 2,081.58
Water Rates Collected
10,278.22
Miscellaneous Income
488.21
Water Lien Account
436.27
Appropriated by Town
1,500.00
$ 14,784.28
Returned to Town $ 2,000.00
Expended for Constructions 816.88
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Expended for Maintenance 11,915.51
General Cash Balance Jan. 1, 1937
51.89
$ 14,784.28
Merrimac Water Board,
CHAS. A. LANCASTER, JOHN MARSHALL, GEORGE F. WILDE.
REPORT OF THE TOWN ACCOUNTANT
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
I hereby present the Annual Report of the Town Accountant in accordance with Chapter 41, Section 60, of the General Laws. I have also presented all such financial matters as may be of general interest.
I express herewith my appreciation of the co-operation and courteous assistance rendered by you and all the other Town Officials in complying with the requirements of our system.
Respectfully submitted,
W. HAROLD WHITING,
Town Accountant.
RECEIPTS-GENERAL REVENUE
Taxes:
Current Year-
Poll, Personal, Real Estate .... $ 50,337.77 Previous Years-
Poll, Personal, Real Estate, 1935 16,689.88 Poll, Personal, Real Estate, 1934 13,080.96
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Poll, Personal, Real Estate,
1933 458.18
Poll, Personal, Real Estate, 1932 46.92
Poll, Personal, Real Estate, 1931
40.45
$ 80,654.16
From Commonwealth:
Special State Taxes-
Income Taxes:
State Valuation
860.56
Educational
2,650.00
Income Tax
3,690.00
Corporation Tax 2,158.02
Gas, Electric, Water
14.56
Race Track
130.35
Veterans Exemption
243.65
Business
114.50
9,861.64
Tax Titles redeemed
1,528.55
Old Age Assistance 1933
43.00
Total from Taxes $ 92,087.35
Licenses and Permits ----
Liquor
$ 1,080.00
All other
172.00
Total from Licenses and Permits 1,252.00
Fines and Forfeits-
Court
926.60
Grants and Gifts-
State Mass. School Fund
3,502.40
Dog Licenses
246.58
Total Grants and Gifts 3,748.98 Privileges-
Motor Vehicle Taxes 1936 ... 2,200.02
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Motor Vehicle Taxes 1935
216.89
Motor Vehicle Taxes 1933
4.21
Total from Privileges
2,421.12
Total from General Revenue
$100,436.05
RECEIPTS-COMMERCIAL REVENUE
Special Assessments:
Moth 1934 $ 6.30
Moth 1935
22.70
Moth 1936 1
109.20 -$ 138.20
Total Special Assessments
$
138.20
RECEIPTS-COMMERCIAL REVENUE; Departmental
General Government
Town Hall
· Rent of hall $ 47.00
Rent of offices
668.00
-$ 715.00
Protection of Persons and Property
Sealer, of Weights and Mea- ures fees 50.40
Town Forest Committee 12.00
Dept. Pub. Works Div. of Highways Moth 14.30
Highways Gypsy Moth 11.40
88.10
Board of Health
State-T. B. Subsidies 840.70
Health Nurse fees 24.00
John Hancock Insurance Co.
Nursing fees 86.75
Metropolitan Insurance Co.
Nursing fees 78.25
1,029.70
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Highways
State-Chapter 81
4,650.00
State-Chapter 90 375.00
County-Chapter 90
1,262.22
State-Chapter 90 Main Street 2,545.53
Town Hire Road Machinery
2,145.78
10,978.53
Charities
State-Outside Relief 4,949.89
State-Old Age
3,707.60
State-Mothers Aid
90.40
Cities and Towns Outside Re- lief 1,833.15
Cities and Towns Old Age 540.33
Individuals Old Age
28.00
U. S. Grant Old Age Admx. 174.24
U. S. Grant Old Age
5,229.14
16,552.75
State Aid
Soldiers Benefits
360.00
Schools
State-Tuition children 323.00
State-Superintendent
483.33
Sargent Coal Co. fuel reim- bursement .63
L. C. Smith Co. reimbursement Typewriter 60.00
Reimbursement transportation
.90
Telephone reimbursement
5.00
Reimbursement breakage of
chemistry supplies .95
Public Library
Fines
99.82
Trust funds
971.51
1,071.33
Kimball Park
70.00
Trust funds
70.00
. .
....
873.81
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Cemeteries
Perpetual care funds
586.90
Sale of lots
680.00
Care of lots
7.00
1,273.90
Public Service Enterprises
Light Department
Sale of light
24,054.53
Sale of power
7,738.85
Miscellaneous sales
580.55
Consumers deposits
190.00
Federal tax
.58
32,564.51
Water Department
Meter rates
10,278.22
Miscellaneous sales
488.21
10,766.43
Interest
Taxes 1936
32.95
Taxes 1935
449.37
Taxes 1934
760.08
Taxes 1933
30.36
Interest, Costs, Tax Title Re- leases
212.70
1,485.46
Water Liens Collected
390.67
390.67
Refunds
Rocks Bridge
4.00
Department of Agriculture
57.50
Industrial Schools
31.57
Special Income Tax
487.82
C. B. Heath Inc. Insurance
7.80
Merrimac Soldiers Relief
3.70
City of Haverhill
18.60
W. P. A. Cement Sidewalks .. 21.28
632.27
Total from Commercial Revenue Departmental $ 78,852.46
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RECEIPTS-NON REVENUE
Temporary Loans (In Anticipation of
Revenue
$ 69,000.00
Dog Licenses
280.80
Old Age Acts 1936
2,836.01
Cemetery
2,400.00
Total Non-Revenue
$ 74,516.81
Total from General Revenue, Commercial Revenue, Com- mercial Revenue Departmental, and Non-Revenue .. $253,943.52
Cash Balance January 1, 1936 6,935.67
$260,879.19
EXPENDITURES-GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Legislative
Salary, Moderator $ 12.00
-$ 12.00
Selectmen's Department
Chairman $ 412.50
Clerk
114.52
Member
91.68
618.70
Printing and postage
284.29
Selectmen's Association
6.00
Affidavits
1.75
Transportation
42.22
952.96
Public Welfare Department
Chairman
204.10
Clerk
177.02
Member
91.64
472.76
472.76
Accounting Department
999.96
Salary
70
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Transportation
5.78
Postage, Printing, Supplies
89.16
1,094.90
Treasurer's Department
Salary
270.00
Transportation
5.74
Certification notes
12.00
Printing, Postage, Supplies
214.19
Collector's Department
Salary 1933
11.86
Salary 1934
194.40
Salary 1935
238.39
Salary 1936
631.60
Affidavits
9.50
Printing and postage
130.40
Registry of Deeds
70.01
Advertising property
83.50
Assessor's Department
Salary
650.00
Transportation
8.30
Printing, Postage, Supplies
128.22
Law Department
Salary fees
75.00
Town Clerk
Salary
225.00
Recording fees
13.25
Printing, Postage
16.69
Election Officers
Salary
224.00
224.00
Registrars
Salary
112.50
112.50
Bonding Town Officers Light & Water Coll. 50.00
501.93
1,369.66
786.52
75.00
254.94
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Clerk
5.00
Treasurer
70.00
Tax Collector
140.00
Light & Water Mgr.
5.00
270.00
Vital Statistics
Fees year 1935
67.00
Fees year 1936
71.50
138.50
Town Hall Maintenance
Salary Janitor
120.00
Services Janitor
257.00
Other Expenses
Fuel
402.15
Light
47.55
Telephone
140.00
Supplies
95.72
1,062.42
Town Hall Repairs
Carpenters
5.53
Plumbing
14.20
19.73
Total for General Government $ 7,347.82
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY
Police Department
Salaries and Services:
Chief of Police $ 1,464.00
Night Patrol
1,256.00
Special Officers
356.40
Other Expenses:
Telephone
91.79
Posting warrants
14.00
Meals for prisoners
1.20
Transportation
185.15
Special labor
8.00
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Postage
3.00
Supplies, office equipment .. 68.55
- -
-$
3,448.09
Fire Department
Salaries
Engineers
200.00
Supt. of Fire Alarms
100.00
Stewards
85.00
Call Men
2,058.25
Other Expenses
Telephone
56.80
Fuel and Light
317.23
Printing, Postage
1.11
Motor expense
119.05
Equipment and repairs
259.94
3,197.38
Fire Department
Purchase of Hose
400.00
Alarm System Installation
975.00
1,375.00
Forest Warden
Labor
12.00
Supplies, Equipment
132.23
144.23
Moth Department
Salaries and Services
Superintendent
209.25
Other Employes
595.50
Horse hire
48.25
Equipment and supplies
59.42
Tree Warden
Labor
188.25
Equipment
10.00
Dog Officer
Fees
100.00
100.00
Town Forest
Labor
151.10
....
912.42
198.25
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Equipment
17.92
Express
18.47
Horse
1.00
Pictures
1.54
190.03
Inspector of Wires
Salary
90.00
90.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Salary
90.00
Other Expenses
Transportation
31.08
Equipment
6.27
127.35
Total for Protection of Persons and Property
$
9,782.75
HEALTH AND SANITATION
Board of Health
Tuberculosis:
Board and Treatment at Essex Sana-
torium $ 1,089.40
Other Expenses:
Burial cats
3.00
Truck hire
6.00
Signs
4.50
Clothing
3.95
Transportation
2.85
Printing, Postage
2.04
Flood Relief:
Medical
31.00
Lime
1.50
Fuel
5.00
Special labor
7.15
Lumber
1,161.31
Public Health Nurse
Salary
1,043.36
1.46
Postage
4.92
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Motor expense
104.01
Supplies
1.50
1,150.33
Inspection
Inspector of Animals
Salary
115.00
Inspector of Slaughter
Salary
20.00
Inspector of Milk
Salary
20.00
155.00
Essex County Tuberculosis Sanatorium
Maintenance assessment for 1935
588.74
Total for Health and Sanitation $ 3,055.38
HIGHWAYS
Highway Department
Superintendent
$ 735.50
Other Expenses:
Labor
2,356.45
Town Truck
1,161.75
Town Machinery
341.03
Teams
11.75
Other trucks
564.00
Telephone
42.74
Towing
5.00
Road material
2,796.50
Stone, sand, gravel
1,078.68
Equipment, repairs
164.92
Supplies
251.48
-$
9,509.80
Snow Removal
Superintendent
99.70
Other Expenses:
Labor
817.42
Sand
7.50
Miscellaneous repairs
.50
Equipment
1.62
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Town Truck
351.50
Town Machinery
223.00
Other trucks
916.50
Sidewalk plowing
353.00
Repairs
18.00
Telephone
3.12
2,791.86
Sidewalks, Railings, Bridges
Labor
18.20
Supplies
2.16
20.36
Street Lights
Bill for 1935 appropriation
2,468.72
Rocks Bridge
Assessment for 1935
1,021.48
Chapter 90 Rebuilding Main Street
Town Truck
5.25
Tar
4.40
Salaries and wages
6.75
Payments to J. E. Watkins Co. Inc. 2,655.53
Payment to J. J. Welch and
J. B. Jacobs as Trustee in Reo. Proc. of Welch and Moynihan Co. 1,554.60
4,226.53
Road Machinery Account
Gasoline
422.15
Repairs:
Express
26.98
Misc. supplies
10.05
Parts for mixer and installa- tion of same 1.25
Parts for tractor and installa- tion of same 662.87
Parts for plow and installa- tion of same 415.15
Parts for road machine and
installation of same .... 37.55
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Parts for truck and installa-
tion of same 332.64
1,908.64
Chapter 464 Acts 1935
Sidewalk Construction So-called Bond Issue
Labor
480.78
Loam, gravel
16.50
Supplies
79.26
Gasoline
2.16
Kerosene
1.40
Notary fees
2.25
582.35
Chapter 90 Road Maintenance
Labor
207.17
Gravel
19.88
Road material
406.70
Town Truck
64.00
Other trucks
68.25
766.00
Total for Highways $ 23,295.74
CHARITIES
Groceries, provisions $ 8,169.79
Cash
402.00
Board and care
3,406.60
Fuel
1,313.33
Rent
2,085.40
Clothing
783.57
Medical aid
1,372.95
Burial
195.00
1
Storage Federal food
260.00
Transportation
3.05
Transportation C. C. C. boys ..
6.70
Moving
10.00
The Amesbury Hospital
1,250.45
Mass. General Hospital
14.70
Homeopathic Hospital
5.00
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Florence Crittenden Home
91.46
Ice
9.00
Supplies, printing, forms
37.32
$ 19,416.32
₹
Mothers Aid
. Cash
1,288.00
Cleaning
1.25
Medical
30.20
Fuel
67.50
1,386.95
Old Age Assistance
Cash
16,116.25
Medical
748.40
Burial
100.00
Fuel
42.25
17,006.90
State Aid
Cash
160.00
Soldiers Relief
Rent
604.23
Medical
285.17
Fuel
345.76
Cash
92.00
Clothing
89.17
Groceries, provisions
1,100.99
2,517.32
Total for Charities
$ 40,487.49
SCHOOLS
Schools
School Committee
172.01
Salaries
School
Total spent for year 1936 Itemized detail given in School report classified as per State Educational requirements 28.301.03
28,473.04
...
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Vocational Training:
Lynn Training School
35.00
Total for Schools
$ 28,508.04
Public Library
Librarian salary
500.00
Books
483.95
Periodicals :
38.90
Bindingi books
31.10
Fuel and light
248.32
Repairs
3.25
Care of grounds
148.50
Janitor's supplies
10.50
Stationery and postage
4.25
Card's and ink
8.43
1,477.20
Total for Library $ 1,477.20
RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED
Memorial Day
Flags
$ 17.00
Shells
13.04
Markers ·
18.19
Express
.56
Enamel
.45
Transportation
5.00
Haverhill Brass Band
92.00
-$
146.24
Kimball Park
Labor
70.00
Nozzle, hose
4.00
Meal
2.25
Shrubs, plants
4.50
80.75
Insurance
Treasurer forgery
20.62
Collector holdup
32.50
Town Buildings
... 595.40
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79
Workmen's Compensation
826.01
Health Nurse
60.80
Highway Tractor, Truck
116.18
Fire Trucks, Pumper
270.62
1,922.13
Printing Town Reports
274.72
W. P. A. and Other Federal Projects Moth
Spring, rope .75
Sharpening shears
.60
Lime
.25
Tools
.25
Transportation
5.76
Commodities
Office supplies
2.90
Bags, paper
66.06
Typewriter
40.00
Ribbon
.95
Rent
60.00
Transporting goods
89.00
Sewing Unit
Light
27.60
Thread, pins, etc.
79.66
Rent
240.00
Repairs to machines
82.27
Transporting goods
48.02
Lumber
4.66
Brush, pail
1.00
Office supplies
2.17
..
515.03
WPA
Farm to Market
First Aid
4.42
Cement
42.74
Lumber, nails, etc.
125.00
Pipe
Gasoline, oil
3.87
. :
7.67
258.91
..
29.65
Oil
1
27.30
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Sharpening tools
46.50
Tools
80.43
Tree Trimming
Tools
11.80
Transportation
19.08
Sharpening tools
...
3.20
Town Forest
Tools
111.18
Sharpening tools
3.95
First Aid kit
4.65
Stretcher
3.58
Grind stone
5.00
Paint
.75
Administration
Transportation
148.27
Flood Control
Gasoline
2.00
Sharpening: tools
3.50
Tools
5.77
Cement Sidewalks in and around
Merrimac Square
Labor
246.42
Tools
25.22
Lanterns, globes, kerosene
82.50
Sharpening tools
5.53
Lumber
73.75
Oil, grease
10.80
Pipe
17.56
Gravel, stone
21.74
Cement
34.00
517.52
Route 110
Transportation 1.50
Roadside Beautification
First Aid 3.80
330.26
34.08
129.11
11.27
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Cemetery
Trucking, express
3.08
Tools
16.01
First Aid
1.20
Cement ,grates
33.90
Lettered plaques
90.00
Wire fence
42.67
186.86
Cement Sidewalks in Merrimac
Tools
23.75
Lumber
44.13
Bolts
2.58
Tar paper
10.00
Sharpening tools
8.65
Labor, truck
576.42
Gasoline
5.37
Gravel
15.00
685.90
Lighting Town Buildings
675.95
Water in Town Buildings
317.88
Playground Commission
Map
25.00
Blueprints
1.80
Plan Tennis court
12.00
38.80
Total for Recreations and Unclassified
$
6,286.65
ENTERPRISES AND CEMETERIES
County Tax
County of Essex
2,615.72
State Taxes
Auditing Tax 962.16
State Parks and Reservations
25.56
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State Tax
2,700.00
3,687.72
Public Service Enterprises
Electric Light
30,662.01
Water
12,732.39
43,394.40
For detail account see Municipal Light and Water report.
Cemeteries
Labor
812.15
Trees, shrubs
141.00
Trucking
20.50
Pipe, coupling, nozzle
23.00
Cement
17.00
Fertilizer
22.50
Insecticides
5.00
Gravel
2.25
Lumber, nails, etc.
54.46
Equipment
38.72
1,136.58
Surveying Cemetery
Surveying
6.00
Total for Enterprises and Cemeteries
$ 50,840.42
INTEREST AND INDEBTEDNESS
Interest
Municipal relief
378.00
Water extension
40.00
Anticipation of Revenue
169.76
Municipal Indebtedness
Municipal Loan
3,600.00
Water extension
2,000.00
Anticipation of Revenue
74,000.00
1
587.76
79,600.00
Total for Interest and Indebtedness $ 80,187.76
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OTHER PAYMENTS
Refunds and Transfers
Excise 1935
13.83
Excise 1934
2.09
Excise 1936
30.44
46.36
Dog Fees Collected
280.80
Public Library Trust Funds
393.75
Cemetery Trust Funds
2,400.00
Total other payments 3,120.91
Total Revenue and Non-Revenue Expenditures $254,390.16
Cash Balance December 31, 1936 6,489.03
$260,879.19
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TABLE OF ACCOUNTS
Appropriations
Balance
Transfers In
Transfers Out
Refunds and Receipts
Total
Payments
Balance
GENERAL GOVERN-
MENT
Moderator
$ 12.00
$ 12.00
$ 12.00
Selectmen
1,275.00
1,275.00
952.96
$ 322.04
Public Welfare
500.00
500.00
472.76
27.24
Treasurer
520.00
520.00
501.93
18.07
Accountant
1,125.00
1,125.00
1,094.90
30.10
Tax Collector
950.00
$
.13
949.87
925.01
24.86
Town Counsel
75.00
75.00
75.00
Town Clerk
275.00
275.00
254.94
20.06
Assessors
850.00
850.00
786.52 .
63.48
Registrars
112.50
112.50
112.50
Town Hall maintenance
1,120.00
1,120.00
1,062.42
57.58
Town Hall repairs
100.00
100.00
19.73
80.27
Bonding Town Officers
270.00
270.00
270.00
Election Officers
220.00
$4.00
224.00
224.00
PROTECTION OF PER-
SONS AND PROPERTY
Police Department
3,450.00
3,450.00
3,448.09
1.91
Fire Department
3,200.00
3,200.00
3,197.38
2.62
Purchase of Hose &
Alarm Installation
1,375.00
1,375.00
1,375.00
TOWN REPORT
TOWN REPORT
TABLE OF ACCOUNTS-(Continued)
Appropriations
Balance
Transfers In
Transfers Out
Refunds and Receipts
Total
Payments
Balance
Forest Warden
150.00
150.00
144.23
5.77
Moth Department
900.00
$ 14.30
914.30
912.42
1.88
Town Forest
200.00
200.00
190.03
9.97
Tree Warden
200.00
200.00
198.25
1.75
Inspector of Wires
92.50
92.50
90.00
2.50
Sealer of Weights and
Measures
140.00
140.00
127.35
12.65
Dog Officer
100.00
100.00
100.00
HEALTH AND SANITA-
TION
Board of Health
2,300.00
500.00
58.50
1,858.50
1,161.31
697.19
Health Nurse
1,150.00
.33
1,150.33
1,150.33
Inspector of Animals 115.00
115.00
115.00
Inspector of Slaughtering
20.00
20.00
20.00
Inspector of Milk 20.00
20.00
20.00
Essex T. B. maintenance
assessment
588.74
588.74
588.74
HIGHWAYS
Highway Dept. and Chap-
ter 81 5,000.00
284.45
4,650.00
9,934.45
9,509.80
424.65
85
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86
TABLE OF ACCOUNTS-(Continued)
Appropriations
Balance
Transfers In
Transfers Out
Refunds and Receipts
Total
Payments
Balance
Chapter 90 road main-
tenance
500.00
16.00
375.00
891.00
766.00
125.00
Snow removal
3,000.00
4.80
2,995.20
2,791.86
203.34
Sidewalks, railings and bridges
100.00
100.00
20.36
79.64
Rocks Bridge
1,200.00
1,200.00
1,021.48
178.52
Street lighting
2,468.72
2,468.72
2,468.72
CHARITIES
Public Welfare
24,000.00
3,000.00
22.30
21,022.30
19,416.32
1,605.98
Mothers Aid
1,560.00
1,560.00
1,386.95
173.05
Old Age Assistance
12,000.00
2,000.00
28.00
14,028.00
14,028.00
Soldiers Relief
4,000.00
4,000.00
2,517.32
1,482.68
State Aid
400.00
400.00
160.00
240.00
SCHOOLS AND LI-
BRARIES
School Committee
175.00
175.00
172.01
2.99
School Department
28,000.00
311.06
28,311.06
28,301.03
10.03
Public Library
900.00
577.76
1,477.76
1,477.20
.56
Vocational Training
200.00
. 200.00
35.00
165.00
TOWN REPORT
TABLE OF ACCOUNTS-(Continued)
Appropriations
Balance
Transfers In
Transfers Out
Refunds and Receipts
Total
Payments
Balance
RECREATION AND UN- CLASSIFIED
W. P. A.
2,500.00
$ 1,017.03
21.28
3,538.31
2,830.18
708.13
Insurance
2,300.00
7.80
2,307.80
1,922.13
385.67
Memorial Day
150.00
150.00
146.24
3.75
Lighting Town bldgs.
675.95
675.95
675.95
Water in Town bldgs.
317.88
317.88
317.88
Printing Town Reports
274.72
274.72
274.72
Interest
1,000.00
1,000.00
587.76
412.24
Vital statistics
150.00
150.00
138.50
11.50
Reserve fund
500.00
264.95
235.05
235.05
Municipal loan note
3,600.00
3,600.00
3,600.00
Playground Commission
50.00
50.00
38.80
11.20
Cemeteries
1,000.00
136.90
1,136.90
1,136.58
.32
Surveying & Plotting
Locust Grove Cem.
200.00
200.00
6.00
194.00
Water extension note
2,000.00
2,000.00
2,000.00
$119,628.01 $ 1,017.03
$ 6,202.90
$125,382.84
$117,349.59
$ 8,033.25
TOWN REPORT
87
88
OTHER PAYMENTS NOT APPROPRIATED
Balance Dec. 31, '35
Transfers In
Transfers Out
Refunds and Receipts
Total
Payments
Balance
Excise Tax 1934
$ 2.09
$ 2.09
$ 2.09
Excise Tax 1935
13.83
13.83
13.83
Excise Tax 1936
30.44
30.44
30.44
State Highway Ch. 464 Acts 1935
$ 620.30
620.30
582.35
Temporary Loans
30,000.00
69,000
99,000.00
74,000.00
37.95 25,000.00
Dog Fees
280.80
280.80
280.80
Tax Collector 1933
4.93
$ 6.93
11.86
11.86
Tax Collector 1934
26.88
167.52
194.40
194.40
Tax Collector 1935
178.72
59.80
238.52
238.39
.13
Main St. Chapter 90
4,390.39
4,390.39
4,226.53
163.86
Road machinery maintenance
1,935.00
8.00
1,927.00
1,908.64
18.36
Road machinery
2,150.05
2,222.65
2,145.78
2,073.18
2,073.18
Old Age Assistance U. S. Grant
12.48
5,241.62
5,229.14
2,978.90
2,250.24
Kimball Park
13.50
70.00
83.50
80.75
2.75
State Tax
3,699.02
3,699.02
3,687.72
11.30
County Tax
26.50
2,589.22
2,615.72
2,615.72
Light maintenance
8,205.63
6,000.00
32,564.51
34,770.14
30,662.01
4,108.13
Water maintenance
2,081.58
1,500.00
2,000.00
11,202.70
12,784.28
12,732.39
51.89
Cemetery perpetual care
2,400.00
2,400.00
2,400.00
Library trust funds
393.75
393.75
393.75
$167,299.99
$135,836.66
$296,141.20
$254,390.16
$41,751.04
TOWN REPORT
RECAPITULATION
Appropriations Accounts balances
$119,628.01 48,689.01
$168,317.02
Transferred to Accounts
Election Officers
$ 4.00
From Reserve fund
Health Nurse
.33
From Reserve fund
Highway Dept.
4.80
From Snow and Washouts
Highway Dept.
271.65
From Maintenance Road machinery
Chapter 90 Main St.
16.00
From Maintenance Road machinery
Old Age Assistance
2,000.00
From Public welfare
Collector Taxes 1933
6.93
From Reserve fund
Collector Taxes 1934
167.52
From Reserve fund
Collector Taxes 1935
13
From Tax Collector 1936
Collector Taxes 1935
59.67
From Reserve fund
Maintenance Road Mch.
1,935.00
From Road machinery
County Tax
26.50
From Reserve fund
Water maintenance
500.00
From Board of Health
Water maintenance
1,000.00
From Public welfare
Highway Dept.
8.00
From Road machinery maintenance
$174,317.55
TOWN REPORT
89
RECAPITULATION-(Continued)
Transferred From Accounts
Reserve fund
264.95 To various accounts above .13 To Tax Collector 1935
Tax Collector 1936
Board of Health
500.00 To Water maintenance
Snow and washouts
4.80 To Highway Dept.
Public Welfare
2,000.00
To Old Age Assistance
Public Welfare
1,000.00
To Water maintenance
Maintenance road machinery
8.00
To Highway Dept.
Road machinery
1,935.00
To Maintenance Road machinery
Road machinery
16.00
To Highway Chapter 90
Road machinery
271.65
To Highway
Old Age Assistance U. S. Grant
12.48
To Old Age Assist ~~~~ U. S. Grant admx.
Light maintenance
6,000.00
To Revenue
Water maintenance
2,000.00
To Revenue
$14,013.01
$174,317.55-$14,013.01
$160,304.54
Refunds and receipts
135,836.66
$296,141.20 254,390.16
Payments
Balances Dec. 31, 1936
$ 41,751.04
90
TOWN REPORT
BALANCE SHEET- DECEMBER 31, 1936
Assets
Liabilities
Cash:
Temporary loans
$ 25,000.00
General
$ 6,489.03
Revenue Reserved Until Collected:
Electric Light depreciation
19,606.83
Motor vehicle excise taxes
2,745.14
Electric Light reserve
1,872.42
Moth
181.75
Accounts Receivable:
Departmental
10,436.26
Taxes
Municipal Light
651.08
Levy 1936
36,199.21
Municipal Water
957.19
Levy 1935
20,290.39
Tax titles
10,651.65
Levy 1934
4,320.76
School teachers
87.83
Levy 1933
381.51
Surplus revenue of prior years
30,381.49
Tax tailings
5.33
Overlay 1936
1,335.82
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes:
Overlay 1935
732.07
Levy 1936
1,325.69
Appropriation Balances Unexpended:
Levy 1935
680.54
Tax Collector 1936
24.86
Levy 1934
524.86
W. P.A.
708.13
Levy 1933
208.28
Surveying Cemeteries Locust Grove
194.00
Previous years
5.77
Unexpended Balances:
Old Age Assistance:
Old Age due State
43.00
Levy 1933
186.00
Old Age Assistance U. S. Grant
2,250.24
Previous years
38.00
Old Age Assistance U. S. Grant admx.
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