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30
0
23
3
26.9
25.7
95.5
95.8
Grammar,
Duxbury. Duxbury.
34
0
16
0
29.
27.8
95.8
94.
1
Village,
.
Duxbury.
35
2
21
0
27.7
25.
90.2
92.3
2
South Duxbury,
3
Island Creek,
Kingston.
23
0
19
0
15.8
14.
88.6
90.
4
Tarkiln,
Kingston.
15
0
10
1
12.1
10.5
86.7
88.2
5
Ashdod,
18
0
14
0
16.7
15.
89.8
90.
6
North Duxbury,
Kingston. Millbrook.
28
0
14
2
23.2
19.8
85.3
86.3
7
Millbrook,
35
0
22
0
29.1
26.9
92.4
95.6
8
Point,
298
2
158
48
250.
228.
90.7
91.3
Per cent. of attendance
Number enrolled .*
of age.
14 years of age.
Number under 5 years
Number between 8 and
Number over 15 years.
Average membership.
Average attendance
Per cent. of attendance.
1897.
P. O. ADDRESS.
Duxbury.
22
13
1
18.5
17.1
92.4
91.3
Kingston.
0
*Figures in this column show the number of pupils enrolled that have not previously attended any other school in town.
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10
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Town Officers and Committees
OF THE
TOWN OF DUXBURY
FOR THE
Year Ending January I
1900 Calendar Maux 1899
PLYMOUTH THE MEMORIAL PRESS 1900.
INDEX.
Report of Selectmen, Support of Schools, School Incidentals,
3 Expenses outside Almshouse,
24
5 Inmates of Almshouse, 25
Repair of Schoolhouses,
6 Assessors' Report,
Support of Schools,
7 Treasurers' Report,
Indigent Soldiers and Sailors, State Aid,
Military,
8 Cemetery Trustees' Report,
Spanish War Aid,
8 Cemetery Treasurer's Report,
Memorial Day,
9 Town Meeting,
34 35
Incidental expenses,
9 Town Clerk's Report,
38
Incidental appropriation,
11
Marriages,
Repairs of Highways,
12
Births,
Recapitulation,
18 Deaths,
Removing Snow,
19 Summary,
50
Seeding clam flats,
.
20 List of Taxpayers,
51
Railroad notes,
20 School Committee,
64 65 69
List of Jurors,
20 Superintendent's Report,
Town Liabilities,
21 Truant Officers' Report,
77
Town Resources,
21 Partridge Academy,
78
Appropriations recommended,
22 School statistics,
80
7
Cemetery funds,
8 Board of Health Report,
26 27 30 31 32 33
Guide boards,
9 Report of Town Landings,
45 47 48
Railroad loan,
20 School Report,
3 Report of Overseers of Poor,
23
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.
SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS.
District No. I.
Paid-
Florence A. Chaffin, teaching,
$370 00
Care of House,
15 50
Fuel,
18 25
$403 75
District No. 2.
Paid-
Charlotte A. Tower, teaching,
$364 00
Care of House,
15 50
Fuel,
19 50
$399 00
District No. 3.
Paid-
Nellie F. Randall, teaching,
$248 00
Care of House,
15 50
I7 25
Fuel, $316 75
District No. 4.
Paid-
Ida M. Raymond, teaching,
$370 00
Care of House,
15 50
Fuel,
19 62
District No. 5.
Paid-
Ellen W. Downey, teaching,
$333 00
Care of House,
12 15
Fuel,
14 63
$405 12
$359 78
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District No. 6.
Paid-
Bertha M. Willey, teaching,
$180 00
Susie S. Boylston, teaching,
117 00
Care of House,
12 55
Fuel,
9 63
$319 18
District No. 7.
Paid-
Grace D. Inman, teaching,
$108 00
Elizabeth Wadsworth, teaching,
200 00
Care of House,
IO 20
Fuel,
22 00
District No. 8.
Paid-
Mary L. Harrub, teaching,
$282 00
Lola W. Randall, teaching,
56 00
Care of House,
15 20
Fuel,
24 50
$377 70
Grammar School.
Paid-
Nathan T. Soule, teaching,
$571 25
H. E. Walker, teaching music,
25 00
Rent of Room,
100 00
Care of Room,
21 50
Fuel,
4 75
Paid Partridge Academy, Tuition, Town of Pembroke, Tuition,
108 83
$4,252 81
Unexpended Balance,
412 86
$4,665 67
Appropriation,
$4,000 00
Massachusetts School Fund,
229 62
Dividend Dog Fund, 1898,
269 38
Balance Supt. School,
166 67
$4,665 67
$340 20
$722 50
500 00
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SCHOOL INCIDENTALS.
Paid-
Geo. H. Stearns, supplies District No. 3, $ 30
Edward E. Babb & Co., supplies,
III 74
J. L. Hammett & Co., supplies, 5.3 28
American Book Company, supplies,
138 51
William Ware & Co., supplies, 24 00
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., supplies,
19 12
Mrs. E. D. Howes, use of well District No. 7,
7 50
Henry Barstow, services as School Committee, 53 35
William J. Alden, Jr., services as School Committee,
34 81
Nathan T. Soule, services as School Committee,
34 56
William J. Alden, Jr., services as book agent, 30 00
H. H. Lewis, supplies, I 28
40
Herbert E. Walker, supplies,
2 20
Hugh R. Edgar, cleaning vaults, Districts I to 8, Ginn & Co., supplies,
69 37
D. C. Heath, supplies,
75
John Holt, use of well, District No. 5,
3 00
Mrs. H. P. Thomas, cleaning houses, Dis- tricts Nos. 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 and grammar,
22 00
Mrs. Mary Churchill, cleaning houses, Dis- tricts Nos. 2 and 3, 7 00
Mrs. Mary E. Maglathlin, cleaning house No. 4,
3 50
Boston Supply Co.,
4 32
Fred V. Hunt, carriage hire for School Com.,
4 00
Miss Susie S. Boylston, supplies,
62
Miss Ellen W. Downey, supplies,
I 60
Sweetser & Arnold, supplies,
18 35
William J. Turner, Truant Officer,
I 00
J. L. McNaught, expressing,
7 65
William J. Alden, Jr., taking school census,
8 00
Henry Barstow, taking school census,
8 00
Unexpended balance carried to incidentals,
I26 66
$812 17
Appropriation, Balance from 1898,
$550 00
262 17
$812 17
Miss Bertha M. Willey, supplies,
12 00
$685 51
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REPAIRS OF SCHOOL HOUSES.
Paid-
George H. Bailey, labor and stock,
Dist. No. 3, $ 5 42
H. W. Barstow, slating black- boards and plastering, Dists. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, 51 42
J. A. Simmons, mason work, Dist. No. 4, 12 75
Geo. W. Chandler, labor, Dist. No. 7, I 00
Otis Delano, stock and labor, Dist. No. 7, 2 00
G. W. Cobbett, labor on flagpole, Grammar, 2 25
Hugh R. Edgar, grading school grounds, No. 7, 27 00
Geo. F. Wadsworth, labor, Dist. No. 1, 3 25 Augustus Phillips, labor and stock, No. 4, 5 00
J. H. Haverstock, painting, No. 7, 35 00
E. T. Soule, labor and stock, No. 7, 2 48
J. B. Freeman, painting and grad- ing, No. 3, 34 00
Melzar Brewster, grading, Dist. No. 2, 2 80
J. R. Tafts, gravel for yard, No. 3, 1 00
Duxbury Coal and Lumber Co., lumber, Dist. 2, I 82
Duxbury Coal and Lumber Co., Grammar School,
I 69
Duxbury Coal and Lumber Co., Dist. No. 2, I 65
Duxbury Coal and Lumber Co., Dist. No. 1, 7 21
Hiram Foster, cedar posts, Dist. No. 8, 2 20
George. B. Bates, labor and stock, Grammar and No. 8, 12 55
William J. Alden, Jr., labor, Dist. No. I, 6 00
W. B. Campbell, labor and stock, 40 74
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Gershom B. Chandler, labor and
stock, Dist. No. 2, 6 50
$265 73
Unexpended balance to incidental account,
131 54
Appropriation, Unexpended 1898,
197 27
$397 27
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
Paid-
E. L. Willard,
$500 00
Unexpended balance carried sup-
port of schools,
166 67
$666 67
Appropriation,
$ 250 00
Received from State,
416 67
$666 67
AID TO INDIGENT SOLDIERS AND SAILORS AND DEPENDENT RELATIVES.
Paid-
Edward Baker, guardian, E. Baker children,
$240 00
Town of Hanover, aid to Thomas Inglis,
137 03
Edward Sampson, expenses at Rockland and . Taunton Lunatic Hospital, 280 73
Board of Mrs. J. H. Winsor,
116 00
W. R. Amesbury, M. D., attendance Mrs. Winsor,
23 75
New Bedford, aid to Mrs. James Wilson,
77 00
Braintree, aid to A. M. Nightingale,
5 88
J. F. Myrick, cash aid,
72 00
J. H. Randall, cash aid,
24 00
Balance carried to incidental account,
23 61
$976 39
$1,000 00 $1,000 00
Appropriation,
$397 27
$200 00
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PAYMENTS FOR STATE AID. Chapter 374, Acts of 1899.
Thomas Alden,
$12 00
Elizabeth F. Randall,
44 00
John W. Alden,
36 00
Josiah D. Randall,
3 00
Melzar Brewster,
48 00
George F. Ryder,
72 00
Frederick O. Crocker,
48 00
Sarah B. Ryder,
48 00
Emmons A. Chandler,
32 00
Teresa C. Rogers,
16 00
George F. Friend,
72 00
Hannah T. Swift,
48 00
Caroline I. Foster,
48 00
Joseph A. Soule,
72 00
Hiram Foster,
48 00
Aroline A. Stearns,
48 00
Mary D. Foster,
24 00
Mary J. Simmons,
24 00
Enoch Freeman,
60 00
Sarah A. Soule,
48 00
Spencer W. Gleason,
36 00
Marcelous Soule,
72 00
Jonathan Glass,
48 00
Mary D. Sampson,
48 00
Lizzie H. Glass,
48 00
Frederick P. Sherman,
48 00
John E. Josselyn,
36 00
Sarah F. Sherman,
9 00
Josephine R. Lewis,
24 00
Eliza A. Shurtliff,
24 00
Rodney M. Leach,
48 00
Hamilton Wadsworth,
72 00
Edward M. Magoun,
48 00
Almira B. Weston,
48 00
Thomas T. McNaught,
72 00
Jabez P. Weston,
48 00
Juliet McNaught,
48 00
Georgiana M. Weston,
48 00
Bardin A. Prouty.
36 00
Leander B. Pierce,
48 00
$1,856 00
Due from the State payments from Dec. 1, 1898, to Jan. I, 1900, $2,003.00
PAYMENTS OF MILITARY AID.
Alva M. Nightingale,
$16 00
Jason H. Randall,
96 00
William H. Thomas,
48 00
William Woodward,
72 00
James S. Weston,
16 00
$248 00
One half of above sum paid by town,
$124 00
Less appropriation carried to incidentals,
76 00
Appropriation,
$200 00
Due from the State one half payment from Dec. 1, 1898, to Jan. 1, 1900, $135 00
SPANISH WAR MILITARY AID.
Esson O. Baker,
$50 00
Whole amount due from the State.
Joshua Winsor,
48 00
Mary J. Patterson,
48 00
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MEMORIAL DAY.
Paid- William Wadsworth Post No. 165, G. A. R., $75 00
Appropriation, 75 00
GUIDE BOARDS.
The guide boards are in fair condition at the present time, in some localities new ones will be required perhaps during the present year.
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.
Paid-
Killian & Green, auditors, 1899, $ 8 00 Henry H. Lewis, balance, Selectman's services, 1898, 61 50
E. H. Sears, balance, Selectman's services, 1898, 72 17 Wendell Phillips, balance, Selectman's services, 1898, 55 50 H. H. Lewis, stationery and postage, 3 90
D. D. Devereux, services as Registrar, 17 50
H. B. Chandler, services as Registrar, 17 50
William J. Burgess, services as Registrar, 9 50
Geo. H. Stearns, services as Registrar, 16 50
Arthur Lord, legal services, Phillips case,
272 00
H. H. Lewis, services as Selectman,
104 00
E. H. Sears, services as Selectman,
I21 00
E. H. Sears, services, Bow Street and town landings, 6 00
Wendell Phillips, services as Selectman, 106 50
E. H. Sears, services as Assessor,
100 50
H. H. Lewis, services as Assessor,
IO0 50
Wendell Phillips, services as Assessor,
97 50
E. H. Sears, team for Assessor,
9 00
J. W. Swift, State aid services,
12 00
J. W. Swift, services as Treasurer and Collector,
500 20
J. J. Shepherd, returning deaths, I OO
25 00
C. M. Hayden, painting road machine,
3 00
C. M. Hayden, special police,
3 00
William H. Weston, special police, 4 00
William J. Alden, posting warrants, etc.,
7 30
G. M. Baker, insurance on almshouse and stable,
62 80
Fred V. Hunt, team for Constable, 8 50
Freeman Manter, inquest of T. Saunders,
6 35
C. M. Hayden, removing garbage,
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E. J. Guare, care of Gurnet Bridge, 1898, 40 00
Eugene S. Freeman, care of Gurnet Bridge, 1899, 10 00
Jabez Hatch, repairing highway tools, 14 86
Otis Farwell, police duty, July 4,
2 00
John Ellis, police duty, May 30,
2 00
R. T. Randall, watching fire, 4 00
W. W. Wood, care selectmen's room,
21 00
Mrs. W. H. Thomas, cleaning selectmen's room, 1 00
L. H. Cushing, teanı for Town Clerk, 2 75
Memorial Press, printing,
II 50
E. H. Sears, services as Moderator, 1899,
5 00
E. H. Sears, supplies,
I 50
Elisha Peterson, janitor's services and sup- plies, Town Hall, 17 50
C. H. Ashcroft, watching fire, 1 00
A. W. Brownell, assessor's books, 3 00
Geo. H. Stearns, services as Town Clerk,
60 69
Board of Health, services, 4 50
Finishing rooms at almshouse,
234 77
Memorial Press, printing town reports,
98 40
Geo. Bradford, inspector of cattle and provisions, 35 00
John K. Parker, inspector of cattle and provisions, 140 00
Chandler & Glover, labor and stone, Nook Bridge, 210 25
C. W. Bartlett, reporting birth,
50
Geo. H. Haverstock, labor on drain, I 50
E. R. Bailey, irons for Gurnet Bridge, 1 25
James Downey, Ballot Clerk for 1898, 3 00
James Downey, Moderator for 1898, 5 00
L. P. Simmons, repair of road machine, 7 35
C. W. Crafts, services as Constable, Walker case, 4 70
L. W. Sherman. services as Constable, Coleman case, 5 60
T. W. Chandler, services as Constable, Goldberg case, 4 76
T. W. Chandler, Constable,
13 60
William J. Turner, Constable,
II 00
William J. Alden, Constable services, Bayett and Mann case. 16 II
T. W. Chandler, Constable services, Lambert case, 10 14
T. W. Chandler, watching fire, 4 00
L. W. Sherman, dynamite and fuse, 2 61
Martin Mullen. special police, 2 00
Harry Baker, watching fire, 2 00
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W. W. Campbell, plumbing, 7 70
G. B. Chandler, repairs at almshouse, 1 25
H. C. Freeman, Ballot Clerk, 3 00
Elisha Peterson, returning deaths,
12 00
Hiram Foster, cleaning weights and measures,
I 50
Treasurer of Commonwealth,
25
Duxbury Coal and Lumber Co., chg. for fire extinguisher, 20
Sweetser & Arnold, glass for Town Hall,
60
Adelbert Delano, wood for office,
2 65
J. L. McNaught, expressing, 5 15
J. H. Reed, watching fire,
60
Winslow Cushing, bar for road machine,
50
M. J. Perry, printing warrants,
2 00
J. Hebert, office chairs,
3 60
Carter Ink Co., record ink,
I 25
Wendell Phillips, repairs of Town Hall,
89 83
Laurence Bradford, survey of Bow Street,
8 00
Abatement of taxes,
586 39
Deficit on snow account, 1898,
812 60
Deficit on poor account,
487 14
Deficit on snow account, 1899,
201 15
Unexpended balance,
860 15
$5,915 57
INCIDENTAL APPROPRIATIONS.
Received-
Balance corporation tax, 1898, $ 76
Corporation tax of 1899,
1,574 85
Bank tax of 1899,
486 37
District Court fines,
7 50
Auctioneers', pedlars', butchers', billiard license,
21 00
Omitted taxes,
165 56
Overlayings on taxes,
302 39
Interest on taxes,
121 08
From State on account cattle inspection,
125 00
Druggist license,
I 00
From State for burial of Harriet Paine,
35 00
Due from State one half expense inspection of cattle, 87 50
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From account special repairs of Washington Street, ·
193 63
Fron account new roads,
60 55
Fron account Selectmen's room,
134 07
From account Constable's outfit,
23 00
From account Overseers of Poor,
2,266 42
From account school incidentals, 1899,
126 66
Fron account repairs of school houses, 1899,
131 54
From account highway account,
51 69
$5,915 57
REPAIRS OF HIGHWAYS. District No. I.
Charles M. Hayden, labor,
$ 33 85
John K. Parker, labor,
31 62
E. H. Sears, labor,
23 00
Elisha Peterson, labor,
20 00
Fred V. Hunt, labor,
20 00
Archie Wadsworth, labor,
14 80
Wm. J. Alden, labor,
14 00
Levi H. Cushing, labor,
8 00
James L. McNaught, labor,
10 00
C. M. Taylor, labor,
IO IO
Otis Farwell, labor,
8 00
William S. Frazar, labor,
6 00
Parker E. Weston, labor,
6 00
Geo. M. Paulding, labor,
6 00
Frank T. Holmes, labor,
4 85
Frank Pope, labor,
5 20
John E. Josselyn, labor,
4 55
Harrison Wadsworth, labor,
2 80
Frank Hoyt, labor,
2 00
Otis Delano, labor,
3 00
Oscar Hunt, gravel,
66
Estate S. P. Briggs, clay,
14 25
$248 68
District No. 2.
John W. Brewster, labor, $71 89
Levi H. Cushing, labor,
142 30
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Melzer Brewster, labor,
32 85
Ira Chandler, labor,
26 50
William B. Peterson, labor,
14 10
C. M. Hayden, labor,
17 20
John E. Josselyn, labor,
14 70
George F. Ryder, labor,
14 05
Edwin A. Soule, labor,
10 80
Ellis Peterson, labor,
10 80
George Torrey, labor,
9 45
A. L. Gates, labor,
7 00
E. S. Glover, labor,
7 60
Henry B. Chandler, labor,
6 95
George Faunce, labor,
4 60
O. B. Soule, labor,
4 70
C. M. Smith, labor,
4 60
A. C. Bennett, labor,
4 40
Edgar Sturtevant, labor,
3 00
A. E. Beaman, labor,
2 80
George H. Stearns, labor,
2 19
John K. Parker, labor,
I 25
John R. Taft, gravel,
13 35
J. E. Southworth, clay,
9 70
P. S. Huckins, lumber for Nook Bridge,
42 35
$479 13
District No. 3.
Walter Cushing, labor,
$199 19
H. B. Loring, labor,
82 00
Winslow Cushing, labor,
51 55
George E. Lapham, labor,
43 60
William E. Brown, labor,
34 20
John Mullany, labor,
32 20
Herbert L. Soule, labor,
27 60
E. F. Loring, labor,
26 52
H. W. Dunham, labor,
23 85
Louis Steele, labor,
16 20
J. M. Freeman, labor,
14 00
A. F. Loring, labor,
13 50
H. L. Loring, labor,
II 50
Arthur Glass, labor,
II 20
J. W. Cushing, labor,
9 90
.
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E. W. Loring, labor,
9 00
Geo. W. Loring, labor,
5 40
2 20
O. B. Soule, labor, Albert Janes, labor,
2 10
E. H. Bailey, labor,
60
$616 3I
$286.59 of this amount expended rebuilding southerly end of Border Street.
District No. 4.
Asa Chandler,
$57 60
Henry B. Chandler,
93 60
Freeman L. Randall,
25 25
Chandler & Glover,
26 00
John Cooper,
22 80
Benjamin McNeir,
II 25
Mrs. J. D. Randall,
IO 20
Albert Bates,
9 60
Benjamin Sanford,
7 20
J. M. Freeman,
6 00
C. G. Tibbetts,
5 95
F. W. Anderson,
5 40
J. S. Willey,
3 60
Wilfred Glass,
4 90
S. Hamlin, clay,
90
Mrs. M. T. Gardner, gravel,
5 00
$295 25
District No. 5.
Robert T. Randall, labor,
$40 25
Henry R. Peterson, labor,
24 80
E. G. Sampson, labor,
21 25
James H. Reed, labor,
24 60
W. R. Baker, labor,
15 75
W. W. Simmons, labor,
15 60
Scott B. Belknap, labor,
13 90
John T. Sullivan, labor,
13 00
James W. Baker, labor,
12 00
L. C. Walker, labor,
9 30
W. D. Baker, labor,
-
9 00
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John Holt, labor, C. W. Crafts, labor, Ira Studley, labor, G. T. White, clay,
5 00
3 00
2 00
2 34
$211 79
District No. 6.
Thomas Chandler,
$87 57
A. M. Goulding,
63 20
W. M. Simmons,
19 05
S. P. Soule,
16 40
L. B. Abbott,
15 IO
Thomas Alden,
14 00
O. C. Crocker,
7 60
H. B. Chandler.
5 85
J. H. Crocker,
5 50
F. L. Randall,
5 40
H. H. Delano,
4 50
H. A. Anderson,
3 80
$247 97
District No. 7.
Hiram W. Barstow,
$40 37
Adelbert Delano & Son,
31 40
E. W. Simmons,
27 50
Eden W. Soule,
24 10
George E. Hathaway,
20 05
A. Harriman,
18 50
E. F. Loring.
12 45
W. H. Woodward,
14 IO
H. R. Edgar,
7 00
Otis Delano,
6 80
H. L. Cushman,
6 25
N. L. Sampson,
6 00
George W. Chandler,
II 60
Herbert A. Ryder,
5 30
G. M. Ryder,
4 50
W. S. Delano,
2 40
Seth Sprague, clay,
7 50
Hartley S. Thomas, clay,
2 15
Mrs. Edwin Chandler, soil,
3 75
$251 72
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Eden W. Soule, repairs, Beach Road, H. H. Delano, repairs, Beach Road,
133 50
15 00
$400 22
District No. 8.
Eugene S. Freeman, labor,
$81 70
Eden W. Soule, labor,
46 23
James L. McNaught, labor,
74 10
Henry A. Briggs, labor,
26 90
E. H. Sears, labor,
21 30
George W. Corbett, labor,
19 22
Walter F. Cushman, labor,
18 65
Otis Delano,
16 70
E. H. Litchfield,
14 00
James B. Alden,
10 40
George W. Chandler,
8 60
Archie Wadsworth,
8 40
Frank Hoyt,
8 00
Wm. S. Frazer,
6 20
Walter Delano,
5 00
Percy L. Walker,
5 00
W. J. Turner,
4 80
H. D. Carleton,
4 00
E. F. Loring,
3 00
Isaiah Walker,
1 00
Duxbury C. & L. Co., lumber,
IO 59
Eden W. Soule, carting lumber,
4 00
Estate S. P. Briggs, clay,
4 75
John K. Parker, labor,
20 00
$422 54
$III.91 of this amount expended on special repairs of St. George Street.
H. R. Edgar, labor,
$68 30
Elisha Peterson, labor,
49 65
Frank L. Hoyt, labor,
33 05
Charles G. Burgess, labor,
25 40
G. D. Simmons, labor,
24 00
John W. Alden, labor,
14 60
Otis Delano, labor,
13 00
H. J. Reynolds, labor,
12 60
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John Bradley, labor,
II 80
W. H. Woodward, labor,
6 40
W. J. Hastings, labor, 6 00
Parker E. Weston, labor,
6 00
J. M. Freeman, labor,
4 00
George A. Delano, labor,
4 00
L. H. Cushing, labor,
3 00
C. E. V. Hayden, clay,
18 10
Estate S. P. Briggs, clay,
7 90
Duxbury C. & L. Co., pick,
80
$308 60
Horatio Chandler, special repairs Mayflower Street,
46 85
F. L. Randall, special repairs Mayflower Street, 8 20
$363 65
District No. 10.
John A. Hunt, labor,
$27 00
William A. Hunt, labor,
23 20
H. H. Delano, labor,
22 50
G. T. White, labor,
22 06
Artemas Inglis, labor,
17 IO
John H. Hunt, labor,
13 40
E. C. Estes, labor,
12 00
George S. Studley, labor,
9 40
C. A. Boylston, labor,
8 05
H. H. Lewis, labor,
8 75
Chandler & Glover, labor,
5 00
C. W. Studley, labor,
2 80
George Magoun, labor,
10 00
I. M. Paine, gravel,
3 42
E. H. Sears, carting drain tile,
I 50
$186 18
District No. II.
John K. Parker, labor,
$74 60
Fred V. Hunt, labor,
32 00
E. H. Sears, labor,
29 00
S. W. Sheldon, labor,
23 50
J. J. Hayes, labor,
15 40
Duxbury 2
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Otis Farwell, labor,
16 00
W. S. Frazar, labor,
20 10
C. A. Taylor, labor,
14 40
Parker E. Weston, labor,
II 80
George M. Paulding, labor,
10 00
Archie Wadsworth, labor,
4 00
E. W. Soule, labor,
5 00
H. R. Edgar, labor,
I 92
Duxbury C. & L. Co., lumber,
I 72
J. E. V. Hayden, clay,
5 29
Estate S. P. Briggs, clay,
12 35
$277 08
District No. 12.
Bailey Gullifer, labor,
$32 80
T. W. Chandler, labor,
28 65
George W. Lewis, labor,
25 60
Arthur Shuenfelt, labor,
12 90
H. R. Peterson, labor,
10 20
J. W. Nickerson, labor,
7 20
L. B. Gardner, labor,
9 70
C. H. Snell, labor,
4 90
Ray Lapham, labor,
2 70
John Holt, labor,
2 50
F. L. Randall, labor,
6 00
E. H. Chandler, gravel,
56
S. Von Bushirk, labor,
7 20
F. C. Clark, labor,
9 60
$160 51
RECAPITULATION.
District No. I,
$248 68
District No. 2,
479 13
District No. 3,
616 31
District No. 4,
295 25
District No. 5,
2II 79
District No. 6,
247 97
District No. 7,
400 22
District No. 8,
422 54
District No. 9,
363 65
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District No. 10, District No. II, District No. 12,
186 18
277 08
160 51
Drain Tile,
39 00
$3,948 31
Carried to Incidental account,
51 69
$4,000 00
Appropriation,
$4,000 00
REMOVING SNOW.
Orders have been drawn for removing snow for Appropriation,
$2,701 15
2,500 00
Carried to Incidental account,
$201 15
The expenses on the highways for the year 1899, as per the surveyors books are $3,907.69. Mr. Harrison Loring made the proposition to rebuild one half of Border Street from the junction of Loring and Border Streets to the Kings- ton line, providing the town would rebuild the balance. Your Selectmen thinking it best to take advantage of all such offers in the interest of the town, agreed to the pro- posal at the expense of $286.59.
The road at Cut island was badly damaged by the storm of November 27, and was repaired at the expense of $148.50. Special repairs have been made to Mayflower Street of $55.00, and St. George Street, of $III.91.
REPAIRS OF GURNET BRIDGE.
Paid- Duxbury Coal and Lumber Co.,
$ 39I
Unexpended,
196 09
$200 00
$200 00
Appropriation,
$3,909 31
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SEEDING CLAM FLATS.
Orders drawn for Unexpended,
$ 31 75 168 25
$200 00
$200 00
Appropriation, 1898,
RAILROAD NOTES AND INTEREST.
1899 paid-
April 1, Treasurer of Commonwealth, note, $2,000 00
April I, Treasurer of Commonwealth, interest, 635 00
Oct. I, Treasurer of Commonwealth, interest, 590 00
$3,225 00
STATEMENT OF RAILROAD LOAN.
One note, $25,000 at 4 per cent., $25,000 00
Two notes, $2,000, at 4} per cent., 4,000 00
$29,000 00
GURNET BRIDGE LOAN.
1899 paid-
June 1, Plymouth Five Cent Savings Bank, $1,000 00
June I, Plymouth Five Cent Savings Bank, interest, 100 00
Dec. I, Plymouth Five Cent Savings Bank, interest, 80 00
STATEMENT OF GURNET BRIDGE LOAN. Due on notes, $4,000 00
LIST OF JURORS. As revised by the Selectmen, January, 1900. George F. Friend, laborer. William H. Weston, fisherman. Wendell Phillips, carpenter. William J. Alden, Jr., shoemaker.
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Warren M. Simmons, laborer. Harrison G. Weston, carpenter. Howard Blanchard, laborer. Joshua M. Cushing, auctioneer. Arthur N. Delano, carpenter. Edwin H. Wright, carpenter. Charles M. Hayden, painter. George W. Lewis, painter. Horatio Chandler, farmer. Robert T. Randall, farmer. James A. Simmons, mason. Carrol C. Foster, carpenter. Edmund H. Sears, farmer.
Harry A. Randall, painter.
Arthur C. Holmes, laborer. Eugene T. Soule, carpenter.
J. Dexter Randall, carpenter.
Waldo B. Church, farmer.
Percy L. Walker, farmer. Frank Hoyt, farmer.
William E. Brown, farmer.
Oscar C. Hunt, fisherman.
LIABILITIES OF THE TOWN.
1900- Jan. I, outstanding railroad notes, $29,000 00
April interest, railroad notes, 590 00
Plymouth Five Cent Savings Bank, note at 4 per cent., $1,000 to be paid yearly,
4,000 00
June interest,
80 00
Balance on note for money hired in anticipa- tion of taxes, with interest,
4,500 00
Outstanding bills estimated,
800 00
$38,970 00
RESOURCES OF TOWN.
Cash in treasury,
$2,206 16
Uncollected taxes, 1899,
5,850 59
Uncollected taxes, 1898,
1,476 84
Uncollected taxes to 1898,
1,266 80
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Due from the State, State Aid, Chapter 374, Acts 1899, 2,003 00
Chapter 372, Acts 1899,
135 00
Spanish War,
50 00
Due part expense Ashdod bridge,
150 00
Town's indebtedness,
$13,138 39
25,831 61
$38,970 00
We have examined the accounts of the Selectmen and find them correctly cast and properly vouched.
A. E. GREEN, J. H. KILLIAN, Auditors.
APPROPRIATIONS RECOMMENDED
BY
THE
SELECTMEN FOR THE ENSUING YEAR.
Support of schools,
3,600 00
Support of poor,
3,000 00
Repairs of highways,
4,000 00
Railroad loan,
2,000 00
Railroad interest,
1,135 00
Gurnet Bridge interest,
140 00
Military aid,
200 00
Aid to indigent soldiers and sailors,
1,000 00
School incidentals,
700 00
Repairs of school-houses,
400 00
Removing snow,
500 00
Superintendent of Schools,
250 00
Memorial Day,
75 00
Cemetery,
250 00
Gurnet Bridge loan,
1,000 00
Duxbury Free Library,
200 00
Incidental expenses, money received from bank and cor- poration taxes, and balances from other departments.
H. H. LEWIS, E. H. SEARS, IVENDELL PHILLIPS, Selectmen of Duxbury.
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REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Expenses at Almshouse for the year ending Jan. 1, 1900.
Paid-
Overseers of Poor, general services year 1898, $ 15 00
H. H. Lewis, chairman, 7 50
Elijah W. Reed, balance salary to April 12, 1899,
85 00
Elijah W. Reed, use of horse,
2 00
Charles E. Peterson, on account salary Su- perintendent, 182 00
John W. Cushing, ice 1898 and 1899,
18 88
Bradford Freeman, milk,
12 66
L. B. Sherman, meat,
71 05
W. B. Gardner, meat,
71 84
Winsor & Peterson, supplies,
102 42
E. Burton Freeman,
56 21
Sweetser & Arnold,
99 83
N. Ford & Sons,
80 99
Ginter Grocery Co.,
31 76
Tobias Saunders, supplies,
10 00
James H. Peterson, fish, etc.,
14 68 ·
R. M. Leach, clams,
50
Alonzo Frost, clams,
I 00
Henry A. Briggs, two pigs,
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