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We have examined the accounts of the Overseers of Poor and find them correct.
GEO. P. CUSHMAN, WILLIAM J. BURGESS,
Auditors.
REPORT OF FOREST FIREWARDS.
The number of firewards has been increased to eight. They organized with Mr. Horatio Chandler as chairman, and Mr. F. B. Knapp as secretary.
Eight National Standard Fire Extinguishers have been bought, the seventeen old ones were put in charge of the fire- wards by the town. These twenty-five have been placed as given in the table below, and a box containing six extra charges with each; and provision has been made for their inspection. A water barrel, six pails and a tank, have been provided for each fireward. Notices containing the laws have been posted and distributed.
In accordance with the vote of the town accepting Sec. 24, Chap. 32 of the Revised Laws, the firewards have been pro- vided with blanks, and have issued permits for fires out of doors. The fire belt round the cemetery and public buildings has been kept clear.
We have escaped any extensive fires during this year, but have had many small ones.
We cannot expect this immunity always, and should be bet- ter prepared for a serious fire. At Plymouth and elsewhere, organization, trained men, constant watchfulness, and the use of wagons for chemical extinguishers and their accessories, in addition to the men with shovels, have proved of great help.
We recommend that $400 be appropriated this year for this department. We urge on every one the necessity of the greatest caution in the lighting and guarding of fires, particu- larly in the dry season. The extinguishers are placed as fol- lows :
G. H. Stearns, F. F.
Bailey Gullifer, 12 W .* (1)
2 Leonard Baker, 5
W. O. Peterson's store* I Albert M. Goulding, F.
James K. Burgess, I F. W. 6
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Levi Cushing,
. John H. Glover,
Mark L. Simmons, F. F.
Alonzo Chandler
Walter Cushing,
Horatio Chandler, F. F. TV
Asa C. Chandler,
Robert T. Randall, F. F. WV. (12)
2 Thomas Alden, - 6
2 Elisha Peterson, F. F. W .* (7) 9
3 Eden W. Soule, 7
3 Mill Brook P. O., 7
3 F. B. Knapp,* (II) 8
Edgar Chandler,
8
4 Fred V. Hunt, II
4 Ichabod Sampson, II
John A. Hunt, F. F. W. IO
5 Geo. E. Belknap, IO
*Those marked with (*) have telephone connections, and so has Damon Bros., West Duxbury, Mr. Damon being one of the Forest Firewards of Pembroke, and is just on the Dux- bury line.
Extra chemicals for the extinguishers are in bulk at Mr. Elisha Peterson's.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON GURNET BRIDGE.
To the citizens of Duxbury --
The committee appointed by the Chair in accordance with the vote at the last Annual Town Meeting to examine Powder Point Bridge, and also to ascertain what could be done in the direction of obtaining assistance to keep and maintain it in repair and to report thereon. beg to report that while working assiduously on the case and before they were quite prepared to present their report the town saw fit at a special Town Meet- ing, to appoint a new committee to do substantially the same work which this committee was appointed to do, and was doing faithfully without any expense to the town.
This committee having been completely ignored, assumes that the valuable information collected by them is not needed, and asks its discharge.
A. E. GREEN. Chairman, WENDELL PHILLIES.
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BOARD OF HEALTH REPORT.
To the citizens of Duxbury ---
Your Board of Health takes pleasure in reporting that dur- ing the past year the town has been comparatively free from contagious diseases, and thanks its fellow citizens for second- ing their efforts in the promotion of sanitation.
The growing summer population has introduced the serious problem of the removal of garbage.
Public Health requires the establishment of some system; but no system can succeed if the summer residents and hotels for whom the Board of Health is doing everything to make the town habitable, refuse to support it. The present system is to issue a license to one man who charges a nominal fee, and who is responsible to the Board of Health for the proper dis- posal of all garbage. Some objection has been raised to this system by those who have neighbors willing to remove their garbage without charge. The Board appeals to these, and to all summer residents for their earnest co-operation in giving this system a fair trial, and assures them that it is planned sole- ly in their interests, and for their comfort and convenience.
A. E. GREEN, Chairman.
POLICE REPORT.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen-
Gentlemen I submit the following report for the year, 1903. Whole number of persons arrested,
I2
Males, IO
Females,
2
Cause of Arrest.
Drunkenness,
I
Breaking and entering,
I
Disturbing the peace,
I
Assault and Battery,
2
Assault with intent to murder,
I
Bastardy,
I
Violation of liquor laws,
2
Taking shell fish,
2
Insanity,
I
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Final Disposition of Cases.
Committed to State Prison, I
Committed to House of Correction, 2
Committed to Insane Asylum, I
Number of Persons on Probation,
2
Discharged by Superior Court,
I
Number of persons fined,
6
Number of Search Warrants for liquor,
6
Amount of fines imposed by Court,
$179 62
W. W. CAMPBELL, Police.
CEMETERY TRUSTEES' REPORT.
The trustees have endeavored to keep the cemeteries under their control always in a manner satisfactory to the citizens, and are glad to receive suggestions from those interested.
As a very large percentage of burials are made in Mayflower, and most of the money is spent there. Some of the avenue grading has been advanced, but no new work has been com- menced.
A proposition we have received this year we believe is worthy of consideration by the voters. When the first large addition was made to what is now called Mayflower cemetery, the land was purchased from Ezra Weston, and he retained a portion for use of himself and family, making a part into two lots, the balance having never been improved, but has been kept up to this time, and over which the trustees have no control.
This year the heirs of the estate have been approached by the trustees, and we have received a proposition! If we will do certain grading, setting posts, etc., on and about their lots, they will give a deed to the town of that part remaining, about nine thousand (9,000) square feet, or as much as would be contained in twenty lots the usual size.
The expense, we believe, will not be over one hundred dol- lars, and trust the citizens will make the necessary special ap- propriation, fully believing it will be a satisfactory investment. First, by a great improvement to that section, and also eventual- ly by the sale of desirable lots at a large advance over cost.
Chestnut Street Cemetery (Standish) needs a new fence
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on the front, and if we consider the thousands of people who pass and visit there every year we believe it should be attended to at an early day.
West Street Cemetery (Dingley) has been cleared of a large amount of small trees and underbrush, and so much of the appropriation used as was thought advisable, and the balance kept towards a new fence, and which we hope will be ordered this year.
Ashdod Cemetery.
As the citizens most interested in the above have an organi- zation and officers, it is the wish of the trustees to co-operate with them. They are reserving such portions of their funds as can be spared toward a temporary receiving vault, and the trustees have this year's order, unexpended and available, when the work is completed.
We would ask for the following appropriations- Annual,
$250 00
Special for grading at Weston lots in Mayflower, 100 00
Special for fence at Dingley, West Street, 50. 00
Interments this year-
Mayflower,
46
Ashdod,
2
Dingley,
I
Lots Sold,
I
Taken by Citizens,
5
Respectfully submitted for Trustees.
ELISHA PETERSON, . Secretary.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
DR.
To cash, town appropriation,
$300 00
To cash, sale of lot,
10 00
To cash, sale of wood,
4 00
To cash, donations, two,
2 00
Overdrawn,
3 5I
$319 51
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By Cash paid, 1902, overdrawn, $28 22
May and July, by cash paid John Ellis, 46 75
May and July, by cash paid Everett Ryder, 28 00
May and July, by cash paid A. M. Wadsworth, 28 00
May and July, by cash paid C. Y. Peterson,
43 00
May and July, Calvin Josselyn,
28 00
By cash paid Charles Bradford. 28 00
By cash paid Duxbury Coal and Lumber Co.,
2 10
By cash paid W. J. Alden, Jr.,
16 00
By cash paid Elisha Peterson,
62 37
By cash paid Sweetser & Arnold,
9 07
$319 51
Special appropriation for West Street.
To cash,
$50 00
By cash paid W. M. Simmons,
$28 16
By cash on hand,
21 84
$50 00
ELISHA PETERSON, Treasurer.
SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS' REPORT.
The Sinking fund commission have continued the organiza- tion as effected last year, and have caused to be deposited this year two thousand dollars with interest from former deposit in the American Loan & Trust Company. The treasurer's ac- count is herewith submitted.
Respectfully, EDMUND H. SEARS, Chairman, GEORGE P. CUSHMAN, ELISHA PETERSON, Clerk.
REPORT OF ROAD SURVEYOR FOR 1903.
With the $2,000 appropriated for a stone road on St. George Street. I have built 2,288 running feet of stone road
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eighteen feet wide at a cost of $1,986.84, being about eighty- seven cents per foot, including grading. From the $10,000 ap- propriation, I have built 5.264 running feet of stone road eighteen feet wide on Washington street, at an expense of $5,966.27, being $1.13 per foot.
On Border Street was expended $4,036.64. The 3,970 feet of road was made sixteen feet in width of stone with two feet each side of clay and gravel, giving a road bed twenty feet wide at a cost of $1.02 per foot. Total expenditures for stone roads, $11,989.75. Amount of stone road built this year,
two and one-fifth miles. I expect a rebate of $80 for use of freight rates after July 1, being 5 per cent. on 1,600 tons. I would recommend building this year the portion of St. George Street from Duxbury station towards Tremont street, with stone, being about 830 feet, estimated cost of which would be $1,000, thereby making a stone road of St. George Street and along Washington Street to Davenport estate. The amount for general repairs has been placed where most needed. JOHN K. PARKER.
ACCOUNT OF TAX COLLECTOR.
1900 Tax.
Amount uncollected Jan. 1, 1903, as per report, $549 75
Abatements to date, 1900-I-2-3, 207 91
$341 84
Collected and charged in Treasurer's account,
244 66
Uncollected,
$97 18
1901 Tax.
$2,248 08
Amount uncollected Jan. 1, 1903, as per report, Abatements to date, 1901-2-3,
262 51
$1,985 57
Collected and charged in Treasurer's account,
1,473 63
Uncollected,
$5II 94
1902 Tax.
Amount uncollected Jan. 1, 1903, as per report,
$6,517 85
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Less over-assessment, as per Assessor's report,
4 00
Abatements to date, 1902-3,
$6,513 85 I33 91
Collected and charged in Treasurer's account,
4,895 98
Uncollected,
$1,483 96
1903 Tax.
Foot of tax bills,
$27,533 05
Added taxes,
19 43
$27,552 48
Abatements to date,
73 81
$27,478 67
Collected and charged in Treasurer's account, 21,816 31
Uncollected,
$5,662 36 GEORGE H. STEARNS, Collector.
Duxbury, January 1, 1904.
I have examined the accounts of the Collector of Taxes to the best of my ability, and find them properly kept and correctly cast.
WILLIAM J. BURGESS, Auditor.
SINKING FUND ACCOUNT.
Appropriation, 1902, $2,000 00
Appropriation, 1903, 2,000 00
$4,000 00
January 20, 1903, deposited American Loan and Trust Co., Boston, $2,000 00
January 21, 1904, deposited American Loan and
$6,379 94
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Trust Co., Boston,
2,000 00
$4,000 00 For which the undersigned holds certificates of deposit at 3 per cent., payable January 20, 1908.
GEORGE H. STEARNS,
Treasurer Sinking Fund Commissioners.
REPORT OF TOWN CLERK.
STATEMENT OF DOG LICENSES ISSUED.
Whole number of dogs licensed, 173.
Males, 147 ; females, 26.
Returned to County Treasurer, $389.40. GEORGE H. STEARNS, Town Clerk.
MARRIAGES RECORDED IN TOWN OF DUXBURY DURING THE YEAR 1903.
Jan. II. At Duxbury, Fred D. Byron and Maude L. Keene, by Rev. Frederic W. Smith, all of Duxbury.
Jan. 28. At Portsmouth, N. H., Elisha Peterson of Dux- bury and Sarah G. F. Colby of Portsmouth, N. H., by Rev. George E. Leighton of Portsmouth, N. H.
March II. At Boston, Samuel G. I. Wadsworth of Dux- bury and Serine R. Johnson of Boston, by Rev. Charles W. Wendte.
April 19. At Marshfield, Avner S. Nickerson of Duxbury and Jessie A. Weatherbee of Marshfield, by George H. Weath- erbee, Justice of the Peace.
April 30. At Kingston, Henry M. Gardner of Pembroke and Nellie W. Bates of Duxbury, by Rev. C. Y. DeNormandie.
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May 15. At Duxbury, Henry F. Swan and Mary A. Dane, both of Pembroke, by Rev. R. B. Swan of Duxbury.
May 30. At Kingston, David H. Thomas and Mary E. Nickerson, both of Duxbury, by Rev. C. Y. DeNormandie.
June 10. At Kingston, Eden A. Holmes and Effie R. Glass, both of Duxbury, by Rev. C. Y. DeNormandie.
June 24. At Duxbury, Eben W. Lothrop of Chelsea and Bessie H. Fox of Duxbury, by Rev. Frederic W. Smith.
July 12. At Duxbury, Calvin Josselyn and Jane A. Furness, both of Duxbury, by Rev. J. C. Osgood.
July 16. At Duxbury, Walter H. Baker of Duxbury and Edna N. Prentice of Yarmouth, Mass., by Rev. J. C. Osgood.
Aug. 12. At Duxbury, Harry L. Tinker of Plymouth and Lola W. Randall of Duxbury, by Rev. Frederic W. Smith.
Sept. 19. At Duxbury, William G. Erving of Boston and Emma Lootz of Duxbury, by Rev. Chas. Gordon Ames of Boston.
Sept. 19. At Duxbury, Henry W. Curtis and Sarah W. Turner, both of Duxbury, by Rev. Frederic W. Smith.
Sept. 30. At Kingston, William H. D. DeLoriea and Abby A. Pert, both of Duxbury, by Rev. C. Y. DeNormandie.
Oct. 15. At Duxbury, Lyman F. Tripp and Josephine W. Swift, both of Plymouth, by Rev. Frederic W. Smith.
Nov. 29. At Duxbury, Arthur L. Parker of Somerville, Mass., and Gertrude F. McNaught of Duxbury, by Rev. Fred- eric W. Smith.
Dec. 2. At Marshfield, Benjamin F. Ellis and Ella M. Douglas, both of Duxbury, by Rev. James Nobbs.
Dec. 20. At Boston, Forrest N. Barry of Boston and Sylvia J. Plumb of Duxbury, by Rev. M. G. Prescott.
Dec. 25. At Duxbury, Otto W. Davis of Paterson, N. J., and Annie S. Thomas of Boston, by Rev. Henry B. Mason.
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BIRTHS REGISTERED IN DUXBURY DURING 1903.
DATE.
NAME.
PARENTS NAMEB.
MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER.
Jan.
8
24
David and Mary D.
White
Feb.
5
William Michael Mullen
William J. and Margaret E.
Degnan Soule
5
Barbara Bennett
Arthur C. and Grace M.
Sidney C. and Mercy A.
Parker
5
Elizabeth Parker Soule
Smith
Clarence and Nora E.
Cahill
March
31
Dimock
Hedley V. and Charlotte E.
Augustus
April
15
Loring
Harry B. and Clara A.
Chandler
Frank C. and Mabel F.
Fisher
17
Pratt
Peter and Lena
Coy
19 20
Sprague
Arthur A. and Alice M. Frederick W. and Emily F. Leonard and
Chandler
May
19
Mildred Avis Atwood
McNyr Peterson
Lucius A. and Elizabeth P.
Soule
June 66
12
Horace Irving Randall
Horace W. and Sarah E.
Randall
July
Walter Lawrence Freeman Chandler
Harry L. and Margaret M. John A. and Susan I. Hortence E. and Ruth L.
Hatch
Aug.
23 Elizabeth McFadden Merry James Otis Delano
Horan
Oct.
Soule Byrne .
Winthrop O. and Delia A. William K. and Lucy G. Fred D. and Maude L. M. Albert and .A. Ida
Partridge Keene Nickerson
Nov.
Evelyn Gertrude Bates 16
28
Emily Elizabeth Nickerson
Aner S. and Jessie A. David H and Mary E.
Wetherbee Nickerson Johnson
Dec.
13
Thomas
Sarah Jane Wadsworth
Samuel G I. and Serina R.
25
Flora May Taylor John Stillman Wadsworth Parant
Clarence M. and Flora L.
Cummings Publicover
Fred W. and Eva M.
26
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Simmons
.
Merry
27
26 7
Hayes
Delano
18
27 3
14
Wadsworth
26
DEATHS RECORDED DURING THE YEAR, 1903.
AGE.
DATR.
NAME.
Y. M. D.
Jan. 3
Cordelia J. Richmond
74
11
Duxbury
Broncho pneumonia Broncho pneumonia
25
Sarah W. Glass
Pneumonia
26
Maria L T. Chandler
84
1
6
27
Emeline Paulding
78
4
3
Feb.
6
Ann T. Winsor
81
6
11
83
5
10
Mar.
1
Eleanor Gorham
53
10
15
15
Alexander Lane
65
4
9
25
Cordelia W. Weston
74
4
7
Sub-acute bronchitis
April
6
Lydia Swift
80
2
66
10
Edwin A. Soule
77
7
7
15
Laura J. King
18
1
6
6.
24
Dora Munn
65
1
2
6.
2
Johanna Hanigan
70
11
9
Jerome Chandler
75
7
8
22
2
2
6
13
95
1
5
31
- McNavr
r
5
Abby G Soule
91
6
26
8
Abigail P. Sheldon
79
9
17
July
8
Mary E. Blank
1
3
29
30
Emeline R. Weston
60
2
2
Augustus O. Leonard
52
10
1
13
1
1
84
1
10
77
8
3
77
3
16
74
9
95
9
-
66
10
Sarah A. Hines
61
96
11
12
Old age
Rosanna E. Childs
84
4
19
39
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Boston
Appendicitis
23
David Goldbarg
.
73
-
28
Influenza
22
Lydia Keene
Arterial schrosis
Cerebral softening
1
Mary Smith
Suicide by shooting
May
1 Helen J. Barstow
Hypostatic pneumonia
Angina pectoris
Acute phthisis pulmonalis
10
Ardell Cherest Jule Charette
Tubercular meningitis
16
26
Samuel Alden
1
4
Cerebral softening
June 66
Gastro enteritis
Aug. 66
2
15
Margaret Connor
15
Saphronia E. Peterson
Intestinal obstruction
Sept.
2
Sarah J. Winsor
Cerebral embolism
22
Elizabeth S. Freeman
29
William Woodward
Embolism
Oct.
5
Edith A. Delano
Hypostatic pneumonia
12
Lucy L. Winsor
Old age
13
PLACE OF DEATH.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
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Old age
Covulsions
Old age
Cerebral embolism
66
72
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Natural causes
Drowning
Henry R Oldham
63
Hypostatic pneumonia
Consumption
Kingston Duxbury
Chronic bronchitis
Chronic nephritis
Acute intestinal obstruction
76
10
Natural causes, found dead
Fatty degeneration of heart
Natural causes Appendicitis
Pulmonary consumption
Duxbury
Nov.
19 Jane G. Beaman 22 Harry T. Needham
29
1
27
-
9
20
66
9
26
Dec.
1
Sophronią J. Silsby
4
Warren M. Simmons
65
10
11
5 Reuben Whitford
70
6
7
15 Mabel W. Blanchard
37
1
11
24
Augustus Phillips
85
6
6
36
6
24
31
Hannah D. Symmes
69
8
15
Duxbury
Pneumonia
[ture of skull Cerebral hemorrhage from frac- Gastro Enteritis Found dead, natural causes
Hypostatic congestion of lungs Locomotor ataxia General peritonitis
Chronic cystitis [and lungs Tubercular disease of larynx
BROUGHT TO TOWN FOR BURIAL,
1903.
DATE.
NAME.
Y. M. D.
72
9
5
Jan.
6
Eunice R. Chandler
Cerebral apoplexy
16
23
Rufus Cushman
Heart failure
Mar.
12
Henry D. Baker
78
4
27
Revere, Mass
April
5
Seth Weston
54
10
17
Boston
Cystitis
66
10
James R. Rutledge
52
8
4
Cambridge, Mass.
Cancer of stomach
16
23
Mary M. Eisener
52
9
Whitman, Mass.
Organic disease of heart
66
27
Joseph A. Ford
65
1
2
Kingston, Mass.
Consumption
May
1
Helen J. Barstow
62
Bridgewater, Mass
13
George Thomas
63
10
Plymouth, Mass.
Carcinoma
July
16
Pelham W. Freeman
66
6
18
Kingston, Mass.
Diabetes
26
Charles C. Delano
Sarcoma Uteri
Aug. 66
2
Anna E. S. Emerson
49
10
Brookline, Mass
20
Mary A. F. Winsor
83
6
Washington, D. C.
Sept.
19
-- Sampson
85
10
18
Boston
Oct.
20
August W. Baker
81
10
7
Marshfield
Paralysis
Nov.
1
Phoebe Peterson
77
4
Malden, Mass.
8
Susan J. Emerson
80
9
18
Boston
12
Ruth T. Hutchins
1
5
Rochester, N. Y.
Dec.
1
Nathan Dorr
65
6
5
Marshfield
Merasmus
Fracture of skull
5
Hugh R. Edgar
44
4
10
Fall River, Mass.
Fibroid tumor
12
Helen R. Perry
58
11
27
Cambridge, Mass.
82
3
27
East Boston
Old age
77
-
24
Winthrop, Mass.
Paralysis
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Senility
--
2
Boston
General debility
Paralysis
Bronchitis
Whooping cough
27
James H. Peterson, Jr.
AGE.
PLACE OF DEATH
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Concord, N. H.
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4
29 Ernest E. Blank
TREASURER'S REPORT.
George H. Stearns, Treasurer, in account with Town of Duxbury.
DR.
CR.
Jan. I. To cash on hand at settlement, $4,294 62
By paid Selectmen's orders for- Incidentals,
$2,909 55
Jan. 3. County Treasurer, acct. dog fund, 340 68
Schools,
5,314 79
Mrs. Annie Desmond, burial charges, F. Pride, 20 00
School incidentals,
648 65
Jan. 22. E. S. Freeman, Tree Warden, for out- side work, 40 00
Highways,
4,347 93
Poor,
2,859 02
Jan. 26. State Treasurer, temporary support State paupers, 7 85
State aid,
2,360 00
Jan. 26. State Treasurer, income Massachusetts School fund, 263 18
Snow, 1
810 58
Soldiers' and Sailors' relief.
385 50
Stone roads,
II.993 51
Feb. 28. City of Fall River. pauper account,
142 32
284 18
March II. Exr. Thos. D. Hathaway's will,
2,000 00
2,255 86
April 7. Sale three copies Town Records, 3 00
School Superintendent,
500 00
Forest Fire Wards.
161 59 '
Sinking fund,
2,000 00
Enforcing law,
689 37
July 21. Acct. salary School Supt., reimbursed,
416 66
Aug. 8. Selectmen acct. of land sold,
55 00
Cemeteries,
400 00
Board of Health.
34 00
Hall's Corner road,
161 50
Aug. 18. Acct. Poor Farm sales,
10 00
50 50
Horatio Chandler road,
296 3I
Memorial Day,
100 00
Repairs Gurnet bridge.
1,460 64
Oct. I. F. B. Knapp, old lumber, Gurnet bridge,
100 00
Oct. 13. Acct. Poor Farm sales,
17 00
Temporary loan,
9,000 000
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June 5. State Treasurer, temporary support State paupers,
6 70
State Treasurer, temporary education children,
13 00
New road at Point,
7 80
Aug. 10. School Committee, acct. sale school building No. I,
45 00
Hollis Street,
5 00
Sept. 5. Acct. Poor Farm sales, State Treasurer, acct. Comp. inspection of animals, 56 00
Free Library, Paid-
400 00
Repairs schoolhouses,
193 32
Military aid,
228 00
Feb. 4. County Treasurer, bounty on seals, reim- bursed (1902), 36 00
Tree Warden,
New schoolhouse,
1903
Received of-
Oct. 20. Acct. Poor Farm sales, 10 00
Railroad interest,
1,000 00
Nov. 16. Acct. Poor Farm sales, 10 00
Bounties, crows, hawks and seals,
64 85 486 14
Dec. 10. State Treasurer. corporation tax,
2,267 47
State Treasurer, bank tax,
357 25
Gurnet bridge, loan and interest,
1,020 00
State Treasurer, military aid,
137 00
Interest on temporary loan,
233 63
State Treasurer, State aid,
2,101 00
County tax,
2,424 65
State Treasurer, Burial Ind. S. and S .. .
70 00
1,425 00
Dec. 31. Acct. Poor Farm sales, I90.4.
8 00
Repairs State highway,
102 75
Exchange on checks,
IO
Jan. I. County Treasurer, bounty on seals, reimbursed ( 1903),
30 00
80 00
Acct. Selectmen, acct board Miss Wadsworth, Interest on taxes.
161 00
Fines,
61 00
J. W. Swift, back taxes,
IIO 20
Licenses.
35 00
Old Colony Nat. bank, temporary loan,
10,000 00
Plymouth Five Cent Savings Bank, Stone road loan,
10,000 00
1900, taxes collected,
244 66
1901, taxes collected,
1,473 63
1902, taxes collected,
4,895 98
1903, taxes collected,
21,816 3I
Tax deed,
6 68
$61,823 19
1903.
.3
Tax deed,
6 68
156 00
On acct. schoolhouse loan and interest,
1,200 00
Interest Stone road loan,
Cash on hand,
3,926 79
$61,823 19
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Discount on taxes
State tax,
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CEMETERY FUND ACCOUNT.
FUNDS.
Balance Jan. 1, 1903
Interest.
Total Jan. 1, 1904
Paid Care of Lot. .
Balance Jan. 1, 1904
Mary Simmons
$59.06
$2.38
$61.44
$1.00
$60.44
Henry W. Hathaway
1,036.46
41 86
1,078.32
3.00
1,075.32
John Porter
112 20
4 52
116.72
3.00
113.72
Hambleton E. Smith
113.21
4.56
117.77
3.00
114.77
John Bradford,
107.06
4.32
111.38
3.00
108 38
Lydia W. Chandler
116.27
4.68
120.95
13.00
107.95
Susan B. Nickerson
183.29
7.38
190.67
35.00
155.67
Ferdinand Emerson
110 78
4.44
115.22
3.00
112.22
John Thomas
101.04
4.08
105.12
3.00
102.12
Zilpha S. Soule
100.77
4.04
104.81
3.00
101.81
Latham Fund,
414.24
Aug. 4, 1903, new deposit
77.48
July 1903. dividend .
8 28
Total deposit Aug. 4, 1903
500.00
9.22
509.22
9.00
500.22
Joshua Weston, received April 2, 1903 .
100 00
3.02
103.02
3.00
100.02
Zeniah Soule
102.87
4.12
106.99
3.00
103.99
Josiah S. Battis
100.87
4.04
104.91
2,50
102.41
Lydia A. Bates
101.00
4.08
105.08
105.08
Judah Harlow
101.00
4.08
1.05.08
2.00
103.08
Lot Soule, received Feb. 27,1903 .
100.00
3.02
103.02
103.02
Powers
Fund, received
June 13, 1904 .
100.00
2.00
102.00
102.00
I have examined the above accounts of the Treasurer to the best of my ability and find them properly vouched and cor- rectly cast.
(Signed)
WILLIAM J. BURGESS, Auditor.
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491.72
REPORT OF TOWN MEETINGS.
At the Annual Town Meeting, held March 2, 1903 :-
Chose Edmund H. Sears Moderator.
Elisha Peterson, Henry B. Chandler and James L. Mc- Naught were appointed Tellers and sworn by Town Clerk.
Henry H. Lewis was appointed as assistant to Town Clerk in checking.
Chose George H. Stearns Town Clerk.
Chose George H. Stearns Treasurer and Collector.
Chose Henry H. Lewis, Edmund H. Sears and Wendell Phillips Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor.
Chose William J. Burgess and George P. Cushman Auditors.
Chose Walter W. Campbell, Thaddeus W. Chandler and Luther W. Sherman Constables, and they were sworn by Town Clerk.
Chose Nathan T. Soule School Committee for three years.
Chose Elisha Peterson Cemetery Trustee for five years.
Chose Eugene S. Freeman Tree Warden.
Chose Alfred E. Green Board of Health for three years.
Chose John K. Parker Highway Surveyor.
Voted, That wages for labor on the highways for this year be two dollars for nine hours' work for man, and one dollar and fifty cents for horse and cart, and that the matter of employment be left to the Highway Surveyor.
Voted, That the District Fire Wards be appointed by the Highway Surveyor.
Voted, That there be four Forest Fire Wards and that they be appointed by the Selectmen.
Voted, That the Field Drivers be appointed by the Select- men.
Voted, That the Selectmen be the Fence Viewers.
Voted, That the Selectmen appoint Surveyor of Lumber and Sealer of Wood.
Voted to accept the reports of the several Town officers and committees as printed in the Town Report.
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At the request of Mr. F. B. Knapp the following ruling by the Moderator is hereby recorded: "Anything pertaining to the reports of Town officers and committees, not included in the articles of the Warrant, their reports having been accepted, is ruled by the Chair, as out of order."
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