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pupils are changed every term, rendering any attempt to establish a regular course of study, extending over a series of years, unwise, if not utterly impracticable.
We are happy to record another advance in the dis- cipline of the school, and to say that it has been attained without a resort to the remedy, the sparing of which Solomon considers evidence of hatred of children. Doubtless pupils might be taught to behave well and study, too, in the same way King Lear taught his fool to speak the truth -" If you lie, Sirrah, we will have you whipped." But Mr. Sherburne evidently believes that is not the best way ; and we confess we agree with him, dissenting from the opinion of the wisest of kings. How much better to appeal to the nobler nature of pupils, their sense of decency and duty, manliness and honor, their self-respect and the opinion of the world.
Considerable criticism has been evoked by the action of the committee, in allowing certain pupils to enter the High School, whose literary attainments were not considered up to the standard, but we have not been much disturbed. If we were permitted to prescribe rules for admission, or exclusion from the school, they would be few, and the application of them would not require an exhaustive examination into the acquisitions of the candidates. Every one should be admitted to the High School, who could be better taught there than in the other schools, and no one should be allowed to remain there a day, or an hour, who did not conform to the rules of decency and propriety. The teacher has enough to do, without frittering away his time and patience in ceaseless admonitions to the pupils, to pre- serve order. An idle, impudent, unmanly boy, is as much out of place in the High School as a pig in a
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parlor, or an onion in a nosegay, and should be as summarily and as remorsely removed. We confess, too, that we have little sympathy with those who declaim against the hardship and cruelty of requiring children to sit still for half an hour or an hour at a time. Often, in our younger years, we joined in the laugh at the answer of the boy, who, when asked what he had learned at school ? replied that he had "learned to set." Often, in later years, we have wished from the depths of our soul that boys could be taught to sit still at home and in church, in school and the lecture room-it would be such a relief to their elders-such a redeeming grace in the little urchins.
All sanity, we are told, is self-possession; all insanity the loss of self-possession and self-control. Doubtless the sermons, an hour long, which some of us remember to have sat through in our boyhood, without daring to wink aloud, sometimes when the mercury was at ninety, sometimes at ten below zero, in a meeting house with- out a fire in winter, or window blind or curtain in summer, were lessons of self-possession and self-control, of physical and mental endurance, far more valuable and lasting to us, than. all the theology or ethics that could be learned under such circumstances. We do not care to go back to the church without fire or blinds, but we would be glad to make the acquaintance of the schoolmaster that would teach boys to sit still, even at the expense of Solomon's unfailing specific.
The Legislature, at its last session, passed " An Act to give women the right to vote for members of School Committees." Considered in itself this seems an incon- siderable matter, not likely, at present, to exert any important influence on the character or management of
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our schools. But it is claimed that it is only an enter- ing wedge to something else; the first step in a move- ment for bestowing upon women the equal right with men, to vote on all affairs, State and National. Con- sidered in this light it looms in importance, and demands the serious consideration of all thoughtful and intelli- gent minds. Hitherto woman suffrage has, with most people, been treated as a subject of jest or skepticism, but " coming events cast their shadows before," and we are confronted with the possible phenomenon of women in the halls of legislation, and the executive chairs of the State and Nation, and the question arises: What does it forebode ? peace, prosperity and progress, or misguidance and disaster. For forty years Queen Victoria has reigned over an empire on which the sun never sets, and these years have been years of peace and prosperity to the English Nation, of unexampled progress in art, science and literature, while across the channel, in France, where the Salic law prevails, they have, in the same years, had coup d' etat and revolu- tion, war and invasion. In England, too, the corn laws have been modified, Catholic and Jewish disabilities have been removed, and the elective franchise has been extended to millions of her subjects, and one of the ablest of her statesmen has put on record the statement, that none of the evils, which it was predicted would follow the passage of the reform measures, have ever happened, while all the blessings which were claimed by the advocates of those measures have been more than realized. During the reign of Victoria, all those scandals which disgraced the English Court during the reigns of the male monarchs of the House of Hanover, have disappeared from St. James, and been consigned
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to ignominious oblivion ; and, had we a Mrs. Hayes in the Presidential chair, our moral atmosphere might be purified, and intemperance shamed from the high places of the land. ·
It will be said that all this does not prove that England might not have enjoyed greater prosperity under a king, or France experienced greater evils with- out the Salic law. Granted; but the examples of Victoria and Elizabeth of England, and Catherine of Russia, do prove that women may reign and rule well, and nothing is wanting to prove that in all ages of history men have reigned and ruled badly. “I have but one lamp," said Burke, "by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience." "By their fruits ye shall know. them," is the precept of a wiser than Burke.
At the recent election in Boston, where women voted for the first time, we are told that at all the voting precincts where women came to vote they were treated with courtesy and respect, and men refrained from smoking and acts of rowdyism, and the municipal election was more orderly and quiet than for many years ; and if such results were attained in Boston, we have no fear for country towns. But we are principally concerned with the effect it is likely to have upon schools, and we do not believe that the assistance of women in the selection of school committees, or a larger share of their influence in the administration of educational affairs, will prove detrimental to the cause of education, or the best interests of society; and if the influence of women should be brought to bear more largely or directly upon State or National affairs, we see no reason for supposing the people will be less wise or
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virtuous, or the Nation less prosperous and happy. On the contrary, we hope it will prove to be another of those agencies by which the race is to be refined, exalted and purified; another hastener of the time when the kingdoms of this earth shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ; another fulfil- ment of the prophecy of the poet.
" The harp, at nature's advent strung, Shall never cease to play ; The song, the stars of morning sung, Shall never die away."
WILLIAM F. WHEELER, r GEORGE FLINT,
- School GEORGE M. BAKER,
S Committee.
LINCOLN, Feb. 14, 1880.
REPORT OF THE OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF LINCOLN,
From February 1, 1880, to February 1, 1881.
ALSO, THE
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
For the School Year 1880-81.
BOSTON : TOLMAN & WHITE, PRINTERS, 383 WASHINGTON STREET. 1881.
REPORT OF THE OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF LINCOLN,
From February 1, 1880, to February 1, 1881.
ALSO, THE
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
For the School Year 1880-81.
BOSTON : TOLMAN & WHITE, PRINTERS, 383 WASHINGTON STREET. 1881.
WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
To FRANCIS C. BROWN, Constable of the Town of
Lincoln, in said County, GREETING.
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lincoln, duly qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, On Monday, the seventh day of March next, at one o'clock, P. M., to act on the following articles, viz. :
ART. 1. To choose a Moderator.
ART. 2. To act on the reports of the Town Officers, and the Committee chosen to examine the Treasurer's accounts, and to choose an Examining Committee for the ensuing year.
ART. 3. To choose Town Officers for the ensuing year.
ART. 4. To act on the revision of the Jury Box.
ART. 5. To determine the manner of collecting Taxes the ensuing year.
ART. 6. To determine the manner of repairing the Highways and Bridges of the town the ensuing year.
ART. 7. To make provision for the support of the Poor, from and after the first day of April next.
ART. 8. To make such grants and appropriations of money as the Town shall judge necessary for the support of Schools ; for the support of the Poor; for the repairs of Highways and Bridges; for Cemeteries; for the Public Library ; for the payment of Town Debts, and the interest thereon ; and for other necessary and contingent expenses and charges.
ART. 9. To hear the report of the Committee chosen in November last, in relation to widening and altering the road between the house of John R. Hartwell and that of Dr. Kidder, and to act anything in relation thereto.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will alter the Limits of Highway Districts Nos. 4 and 8.
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ART. 11. " To see whether the Town will, by its vote or otherwise, ask the Legislature to extend to women, who are citizens, the right to hold Town Offices and to vote in Town affairs on the same terms as male citizens."
ART. 12. To see if the Town will take measures to suppress thieving, or other crimes within its limits, or pay any expense that has been incurred for that purpose.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will repair the South School House.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting copies thereof at each of the Post-Offices, and at the Meeting House of the First Parish, eight days before the time of meeting, and to make seasonable return hereof, with your doings to the Town Clerk.
Dated at Lincoln, this eighteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.
WILLIAM F. WHEELER, Selectmen SAMUEL HARTWELL, of
AMOS P. SHERMAN, Lincoln.
SELECTMEN'S REPORT.
The Selectmen herewith submit a report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the town of Lincoln for the past year. Unlooked for expense has been incurred by the falling of the abutment at the Lincoln end of Lee's bridge, into the river. We have caused the abutment to be relaid with much larger stones, and we believe it is now in a condition to last many years. We were very fortunate in securing good men to do the work. We found the planks on some portions of the bridge were much decayed, and thought best to replace them with hard pine plank. The bridge near the old Thwing place was found to be unsafe, and it has been relaid with new hard pine plank. These two expenses of rebuilding the abutment, and replanking the bridges, are placed with other highway repairs, though they might as well have been placed with the contingent expenses, as they were not anticipated or provided for in making the annual appropriations. New guide-boards have been erected where they were known to be needed. A new bound stone has been set between the towns of Lincoln and Lexington, on the piece of road built a few years since by the town of Lexington, near the house of C. S. Bruce.
The number of poor to be supported by the town is gradu- ally being reduced by death, two having passed away within the year.
At the March meeting, in 1879, the Treasurer was directed by vote to collect the unpaid taxes of 1875. A demand was immediately made upon Mr. Chapin for the money due the town for the taxes of that year. No attention being paid to the demand, the matter was, in June following, placed in the hands of an attorney for collection. Upon assurances being given that the matter should be settled within the year, legal proceedings were suspended; but the promise not having been kept by Mr. Chapin, the claim was placed in the hands of Samuel Hoar, Esq., for collection. The law pro- vides that :
" If a collector neglects seasonably to account for and pay in a city or town tax commtted to him, the city or town may
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recover the amount thereof, with all damages sustained through such neglect, and interest, by action of contract, declaring on his official bond, if any has been given." [Gen. Statutes, ch. 12, § 51.]
It was necessary, therefore, to ascertain, in the first place, whether Mr. Chapin gave any bond as collector. We were told that he gave a bond, but a diligent search for a long time failed to discover it. At length, an old bond given by Mr. Chapin, as treasurer, in 1868, was found at Everett, in possession of Mr. J. W. Gray, who was one of the select- men in 1875. We were advised by our counsel, that in his opinion, based on a recent decision of the courts, that the . bond was good only for the responsibilities of the year for which it was given ; and, even if it did " hold over," it did not cover the added responsibility of collector. In other words, no bond was given as collector, although the laws require that a collector shall give a bond. Consequently, we were obliged to proceed without declaring upon a bond, which made it necessary to prove the election of a collector. Upon an examination of the records of the town, it was found that there was no vote of the election of any collector of taxes for 1875, on record, nor any vote fixing any time for the payment of the taxes, or any rate of interest thereon, although the following is printed on all the tax bills of the year :
" By vote of the town, interest at the rate of one per cent. a month will be charged on all taxes not paid on or before the first day of November; and all taxes unpaid on the fifteenth day of January next to be collected forthwith at the cost of the delinquent. Payment of taxes is hereby demanded by J. L. Chapin, Treas., Collector."
Consequently there was no legal collector. The laws also provide "that the assessors shall commit the tax list with their warrant to the collector ; or if no collector is chosen, to a constable ; or if there is no constable, to the sheriff or his deputy for collection."
There were two constables duly chosen and qualified, in 1875, and it was the duty of the assessors to commit the tax to a constable. This they failed to do, but committed the tax to one of their own number.
As it was evident that there could be no controversy about the material facts in the case, and that it would probably result in questions of law, a statement of the facts was agreed upon by the counsel for the town and the counsel
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for Mr. Chapin, and submitted to the Supreme Court for decision. We confidently expected a decision would be given in January, but up to this time (Feb. 18th) no decision has been reached. It may turn out that Mr. Chapin may commit the tax list to himself as collector ; may dis- tribute tax bills to every taxable person in town, with the sentence we have quoted above printed on them, and collect taxes of nine-tenths of all persons taxed in town; may advertise lands for the non-payment of taxes, sell and give deeds thereof, signed by himself as collector, and pay him- self one hundred dollars " for collecting taxes," and then escape all responsibility by denying that he was collector of taxes for the town of Lincoln for the year 1875.
The expenditures for highways herein reported include about two hundred and fifty dollars expended for breaking out roads and shovelling snow since February 1st, 1881.
Respectfully submitted by
WILLIAM F. WHEELER, Selectmen
SAMUEL HARTWELL, of
AMOS P. SHERMAN, Lincoln.
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Taxes assessed in 1881, Deduct County tax,
$6,587 09 354 26
Amount to be paid Town Treasurer,
$6,232 83
received,
4,469 43
Uncollected taxes of 1880,
1,763 40
66 " 1878 and 1879,
1,716 43
66 66 “ 1877,
125 00
66
66 “ 1875,
452 87
Amount of uncollected taxes, $4,057 70
In addition to which there is about $230 interest due on taxes of 1878 and 1879.
VALUATION OF THE TOWN, MAY 1ST, 1880.
Personal Estate, Real Estate,
$326,748 00 565,839 00
Total Valuation,
$892,587 00
Rate of Taxation, 1880, $6.80 per $1,000.
DEBT OF THE TOWN.
Lincoln Water Bonds, due December 1, 1894, interest 6 per cent. semi-annually, $30,000 00
TREASURER'S REPORT.
The Receipts into and Payments from the Treasury from Feb. 1, 1880, to Feb. 1, 1881, have been as follows : -
Balance in t e Treasury Feb. 1, 1880 .. $5,013 15
Paid Selectmen's orders.
$8,050 88
Received of County Treasurer, Dox Tax refunded,
125 40
State Treasurer for Bank Tax recalled
3 34
of State Treasurer, for Corporation of
1880
633 82
Amount paid.
$8,759 22
Balance in the Treasury.
4,473 67
857 02
of State Treasurer, for Reimbursement of State Aid ...
36 00
of State Treasurer, Income of Massachu- set s School Fund ..
214 47
Interest of Grammar School Fund.
58 24
66
66
" Periodical Fund ...
6 00
for old Stoves sold ..
3 00
for old Lumber sold ...
3 00
for School Books sold.
173 53
for Peddler's License. ..
3 00
for use of Town Hall ...
2 75
for rent of Sandy Pond ..
20 00
of J. L. Chapin, on account of Tax of 1875
92 29
of J. D. Sherman, on account of Tax of 1877
313 53
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of Francis Smith, on account of Tax of 1878
1,208 26
of J. D. Sherman, on account of Tax of 1880.
4,469 43
Amount received ..
$13,232 89
E. & O. E.
$13,232 89
WILLIAM F. WHEELER, Treasurer.
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" State Tax of 1880
705 00
of State Treasurer, for National Bank Tax
%
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EXPENDITURES.
FOR SCHOOLS.
RECEIPTS.
Town Grant, $2,000 00
Income Mass. School Fund, 214 47
Grammar
58 24
Rec'd for school books sold, 173 53
$2,446 24
PAYMENTS.
CENTRE SCHOOL.
F. B. Sherburne, teaching High School twenty-four weeks $360 00
A. O. Tower, teaching High School eleven weeks, 165 00
Keziah Howes, teaching Primary School thirty-five weeks, 245 00
John R. Hartwell, six tons of coal, 42 00
J. L. Chapin, ink, crayons, stove-grate, shovel, etc., 7 59
J. L. Chapin, care of Centre School-house, 45 00
Chemicals, for use of High School, 11 33
Monitor Printing Co., for printing pro- grammes, 3 00
N. F. Cousins, for repairs, 1 25
Geo. Flint, cash for washing school-house, 4 00
Do., do. sand-papering black-boards, 1 00 Do., do. one cord of hard wood, 3 ft. of pine, 7 87 Do., do. expressage on merchandise, 4 00
$897 04
NORTH SCHOOL.
Carrie B. Chapin, teaching 35 weeks, $245 00 John R. Hartwell, 6₺ cords wood, 39 75
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Charles A. Cripps, repairs, $4 00
John Dee, care of shool-house. winter term, 5 00
Hugh Curry " two terms, 10 00 James L. Chapin, lock, ink, crayons, &c., 2 01 Mrs. Lynah, cleaning school-room, 1 75
$307 .51
EAST SCHOOL.
Lizzie G. Chapin, teaching thirty- three weeks,
$198 00
John R. Hartwell, 1 cord wood, 6 00
John J. Dempsey, sawing and split- ting one cord wood,
1 50
Ellen Dempsey, care of house, winter term,
5 00
Sally Dempsey, care of house, two terms,
5 00
Mrs. Doherty, washing school room,
1 50
James L. Chapin, lock, broom, ink and crayons,
2 92
N. F. Cousins, repairs,
1 25
A. G. Whitcomb, castings and lock,
1 00
$222 17
SOUTH SCHOOL.
Sarah S. Baker, teaching thirty-five weeks,
$350 00
Sarah S. Baker, care of house,
4 00
Chas. H. Rice, care of house, winter term,
8 00
E. Rice, care of house,
4 00
E. Harrington, care of house in 1879,
5 00
Geo. M. Baker, keys, dust pan and brush, 1 25
Geo. M. Baker, thirteen feet wood, 9 75
Baker Bros., five cords wood, 25 00
N. F. Cousins, two cords wood, 10 00
repairs, 1 70
Mrs. Kenna, cleaning school room twice, 2 00
J. C. McDonald, repairs, 7 58
$428 28
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GENERAL SCHOOL ACCOUNT.
Knight, Adams & Co., merchandise, $167 28
Lee & Shepard, school books, &c., 26 73
S. C. Griggs & Co., " 66 6 70
Carl Schoenhof, 66 66
2 85
Clark & Maynard, test words,
2 60
Ginn & Heath, books,
2 40
George Flint, sundries for school,
3 06
$211 62
$2,066 62
Unexpended balance, $377 62
LIBRARY.
RECEIPTS.
Town grant,
$200 00
Dog tax,
125 40
Interest on periodical fund,
6 00
$331 40
PAYMENT.
Library Committee,
$331 40
SUPPORT OF POOR.
RECEIPTS.
Town grant,
$1,000 00
PAYMENTS.
Daniel H. Sherman, for support of the poor, from Jan. 1, 1880, to Jan. 1, 1881, $962 50
Unexpended balance, $37.50
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
RECEIPTS.
Town grant,
$2,000 00
PAYMENTS.
Dexter C. Harris, highway work in Dist. No. 1, $82 79
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Dexter C. Harris, railing foot of Caus- way-hill, in Dist. No. 1, 18 85
William F. Wheeler, railing on Turn- pike in Dist. No. 1, 14 70
Samuel Hartwell, highway work, in Dist. No. 2, 323 88
Samuel Hartwell, stone drag worn out in Dist. No. 2, 5 00
Samuel Hartwell, repairs on picks, bars and chains in Dist. No. 2, 4 29
Samuel Hartwell, breaking roads to Feb. 10, in Dist. No. 2, 21 60
Daniel L. Giles, highway work in Dist. No. 2, 9 00
Amos P. Sherman, highway work in Dist. No. 3, 120 53
Amos P. Sherman, breaking roads to Feb. 10, in Dist. No. 3, 19 35
G. Flint, breaking roads, Dist. No. 3,
3 50
James Kenna, breaking roads to Feb. 10, in Dist. No. 4, 31 55
J. Kenna, highway work, Dist. No. 4,
123 75
L. W. Weston, for gravel, " " 4,
7 00
P. Conway, 66 66 5,
3 00
66 highway work " "' 5,
84 19
breaking roads to Feb. 10, in Dist. No. 5, 19 15
Chas. H. Whitney, breaking roads in Dist. No. 6, 1 87
Chas. H. Whitney, highway work in Dist. No. 6, 18 00
Chas. H. Whitney, for gravel in Dist. No. 6,
4 00
M. Doherty, for gravel, Dist. No. 6, highway work, " " 6,
4 00
106 30
66 breaking roads to Feb. 10, in Dist. No. 6, 29 10
John R. Hartwell, breaking roads to Feb. 10, in Dist. No. 7, 56 13
John R. Hartwell, highway work in Dist. No. 7, 157 64
John R. Hartwell, repairs on picks in Dist. No. 7, 1 50
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Edwin C. Lewis, highway work in Dist. No. 8, $6 00
George M. Baker, 2d, highway work in Dist. No. 8,
113 90
Do., for gravel, in Dist. No. 8,
6 00
Daniel H. Sherman, highway work in Dist. No. 9, 227 92
Do., breaking roads in Dist. No. 9,
3 00
John F. Farrar, highway work in Dist. No. 10, 260 33
Do., repairs on scraper,
40
Do., cash for spikes,
30
Do., four posts and two rails,
1 20
Do., breaking roads,
39 30
James Farrar, breaking roads in 1879-80, 3 00
$1,932 02
BRIDGES.
PAYMENTS FOR THWING BRIDGE.
Stetson, Mosely & Co., hard pine plank, $31 82 Amos P. Sherman, labor, 3 75
66 spikes and freight
on lumber, 2 22
$37 79
LEE'S BRIDGE.
Stetson & Pope, 2,121 ft. hard pine plank, $65 75
Stetson, Moseley & Co., 1,068 ft.
hard pine plank, 33 00
Town of Concord, three hard pine plank, 5 47
Fitchburg R. R. Co., freight on hard pine plank, Samuel Hartwell, labor and team,
7 63
13 00
spikes and nails, 38
Amos P. Sherman, labor,
8 00
William Harding,
15 75
William Connors, 66
10 00
Michael Manning,
10 00
George P. Haynes,
1 00
A. Brigham,
50
William F. Wheeler, "
8 50
15
William F. Wheeler, five stringers,
$7 50
John F. Farrar, labor and materials, 33 54
66 teaming derrick,
5 25
American Powder Co., use of derrick,
6 00
George Wright, for stones,
10 00
Edwin Wheeler, " 66 &c.,
2 50
John Dee,
2 25
James Haggerty, hauling stones,
5 75
$251 77
CEMETERY.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation,
$50 00
PAYMENTS.
William Harding, relaying and repair-
ing wall of Cemetery, near Town House,
$23 00
George F. Bemis, mowing new Cem- etery,
4 00
James L. Chapin, cutting grass,
1 50
28 50
Unexpended balance,
$21 50
INTEREST ACCOUNT.
RECEIPTS.
Town Grant,
$1,800 00
PAYMENTS.
Interest on water bonds,
$1,800 00
MISCELLANEOUS.
RECEIPTS.
$1,000 00
Town grant, Old stove, Old lumber,
1 00 3 00
$1,004 00
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PAYMENTS.
Tolman & White, printing 300 Select-
men's and School Committee Reports, $35 00 Do., printing 200 copies Town Warrant, 2 00
Do., 10 66
66 extra, 50
Do,, 66 Notices of Reward, 1 50
Do., 66 Registering Voters, 1 25
Asa White, cash paid for water rates, 6 00 Samuel Farrar, services as special police, . 2 00 N. F. Cousins, changing doors of Town Hall, 7 25 R. Stickney & Son, funnel and grate, 11 00
George P. Haynes, for damage to sleigh, 3 00
Francis Smith, abatement of taxes, 11 95
A. O. Tower, expressage on chemicals and books, 85
E. B. Barnes, services as undertaker, 2 00
66 66 returning eight deaths, 2 00
4 93
Daniel L. Giles, abatement of taxes, John D. Sherman,
54 29
James L. Chapin,
66
62 14
66 sundries for town hall,
2 01
services as town clerk, 20 00
recording 21 births, 10 50
8 marriages, 1 20
66
66
11 deaths, 3 85
2 55
66
60 care of town hall, 8 25
Amos P. Sherman, cash for relaying sluice, 1 00
66 66
half expense of bound stone, 1 25
66
66
services as selectman, 25 00
66
66
assessor, 20 00
66
66
overseer of poor, 5 00
Samuel Hartwell, cash for legal advice, 2 00
66
66
expense to Boston, 1 00
66
66
66 for police badge, 75
66
66 guide boards, 8 00
66
66
post, and putting up guide boards, 2 00
66
66
services as selectman, 40 00
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