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Unexpended,
828 48
$1,500 00
Received-
Appropriation.
$1,500 00
SUPPRESSION GYPSY AND BROWN TAIL MOTHS.
Paid-
Henry A. Fish,
$175 80
G. W. Cobbett,
57 00
Charles Mckenzie,
20 00
C. A. Boylston,
32 50
E. H. Sears,
18 00
W. S. Frazar,
12 00
C. H. Davis,
II 65
H. H. Lewis,
30 00
Friend Mfg. Co.,
48 46
C. W. Moulton & Co ..
16 00
Bowker Insectcide Co.,
16 50
Smith, Thayer Co.,
II 65
J. W. Ellis,
4I 25
David Thomas,
7 22
$616 79
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C. B. Adams,
13 00
Perry Holmes,
8 00
S. M. French, 4 00
Howard Blanchard,
4 00
N. Y., N. Y. & H. R. R. Co.,
I 81
J. D. Randall,
I 89
Geo. W. W. Scott,
I 50
Waldo Bros.,
I 60
Tony Lucas,
3 13
Unexpended,
$536 95 327 28
$864 23
Appropriation,
$748 20
Received, outside work,
116 03
$864 23
DISCOUNT ON TAXES.
The amount of discount on taxes is,
$567 49
Overdrawn, 1905, 153 28
$720 77
Received appropriation,
$600 00
Overdrawn,
I20 77
$720 77
ABATEMENT OF TAXES.
Taxes have been abated to the amount of Unexpended,
$290 15
334 30
$624 45
Received, Unexpended balance,
$500 00
124 45
$624 45
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INCIDENTAL EXPENSES PAID, 1906.
H. H. Lewis, services as Selectman, $162 00 E. H. Sears, services as Selectman, 200 17
Wendell Phillips, services as Select- man, 74 95
Sidney C. Soule, services as Select- man, 97 15
H. H. Lewis, services as Assessor, 122 00
E. H. Sears, services as Assessor, III 00
S. C. Soule, services as Assessor, IIO 50 Geo. H. Stearns, service as Treasurer, 339 50 Geo. H. Stearns, service as Town Clerk, 76 15
Geo. H. Stearns, Collector of Taxes, 284 04
Geo. H. Stearns, cash expenses, 26 82
Geo. H. Stearns, Registrar, 27 00
Percy L. Walker, services as Registrar, 25 00
D. D. Devereux, services as Registrar, 27 00 H. B. Chandler, services as Registrar, 27 00 S. C. Soule, services as Auditor, ('05) 10 00 T. W. Glover, services as Auditor, (1905), 10 00
H. H. Bills, services as Janitor, 25 09
H. H. Bills, team hire, 3 75
Elisha Peterson, janitor, Town Hall, 17 00 Charles E. Peterson, posting warrants, 12 00 J. L. McNaught, express., 12 30
Memorial Press, printing Town Reports, 270.00
· Memorial Press, printing and sup- plies, 134 25
W. P. Johnson, supplies. 60
Horace J. Stevens, stock list, 43 98
Charles S. Davis, legal advice, 150 00
T. W. Chandler, constable service, 8 95
H. S. Flagg, services at Election, 3 00
Chas. A. Boylston, Ballot Clerk, 6 00
Guy A. Stearns, Ballot Clerk. 6 00
Ernest H. Bailey, Ballot Clerk, 6 00
H. A. Ryder, Ballot Clerk, 3 00
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H. C. Freeman, Ballot Clerk, 3 00
Harold Sampson, Ballot Clerk, 3 00 John K. Parker, Inspector of Animals, 77 00 American Surety Co., 40 00
J. J. Shepard, returning deaths, I 00
C. W. Bartlett, returning births, I 25
N. K. Noyes, returning births, 6 50
Carter Ink Co., ink, 83
Emerson & Co., stamps,
I 75
Geo. Faunce, open school house for Registrars, I 00
T. W. Glover, moving safe, 5 00
Samuel Ward Co., supplies, 6 61
N. Y., N. H. & H., freight, 14 18
Winslow Symmes, team for posting warrants, 6 00
Globe Print Works, supplies, I 15
B. P. Murphy, supplies, 3 10
Town of Kingston, surveying,
7 87
J. S. Chase, returning births, 50
W. E. Rogers, loan blanks, 2 50
A. H. Bartlett, notices, 95
Hobbs Warren Co., tax books, I 46
Fred V. Hunt, team, posting warrants, 7 50
H. A. Randall, labor on guide boards, 3 50
John K. Parker, inspector of slaughtered animals, 58 50
WVm. L. Sprague, surveying Pem- broke and Duxbury Town line, 66 00
Elisha Peterson, labor on fire strip, 7 00
L. H. Cushing, team for Town officers, 5 00 H. W. Curtis, police duty, 2 00
C. M. Hayden, police duty, 3 00
Wm. J. Alden, police duty.
2 00
E. W. Chandler, constable service, 2 00
Edgar Higgins, police duty, 2 00
William J. Hastings, police duty. 2 00
Sweetser & Arnold, supplies, 2 70
Heirs, William Ellison, abatement of tax. 3 76
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Charles E. Peterson, expenses in liquor case, 43 00
Dennison Mfg. Co., index tabs, 40
Frederic Rouillard, 3 50
James Downey, ballot clerk and moderator, 8 00
Southern Massachusetts Telephone Co., telephoning, 5 83
Duxbury Coal & Lumber Co., coal, Town Hall, 5 62
Duxbury Coal and Lumber Co., lumber for auto signs, 6 59
Insurance for engine house, 28 80
H. H. Delano, Fall Inspection of Animals, 50 00
South Duxbury post office, stamped envelopes, etc., 38 27
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, supplies, I 25
Frank B. Cain, stovepipe and labor, Town Hall, 2 00
Winslow Cushing, team for Town clerk, I 50
E. Estes, making auto sign holders, 3 57
Baltimore Enamel Co., signs, 9 00
Auto List Publishing Co., I 00
Warren C. Prince, automobile services, 62 06
C. W. Crafts, automobile services, 22 00
Charles E. Peterson, automobile ser- vices, 32 97
S. C. Soule, automobile services, 52 00
B. D. Loring, stop watches, 12 00
$3,178 80
On Tree Warden account.
5 74
$3,184 54
Hawks and Crows,
50 15
$3.234 69
Received-
Balance of 1905.
$764 10
Balance Corp. Tax, 1905, 93 71
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Corp. Tax, 1906, 1,697 54
Bank Tax, 372 25
District Court Fines, 493 53
Licenses, peddler, butchers, etc., 32 00
Basket ball team, use Town Hall, 14 00
Liquor license, I 00
Added Taxes, 235 84
Overlayings on Taxes, 375 37
State, on account Cattle Inspection, 38 50
Interest on Taxes,
158 23
Due from Rocky Point Oyster Co., 280 60
$4,566 07
Expended,
$3,234 69
Unexpended,
1,331 38
$4,566 07
HATHAWAY FUND.
Deposited in Plymouth Five Cent Savings bank, 1,000 00 Deposited in Plymouth Savings bank, 1,000 00
$2,000 00
Interest,
IOI 60
$2,101 60
INTEREST CARRIED TO TREE WARDEN.
Account, leaving $2,000.00 on Deposit; balance, $2,000.00.
INTEREST ON RAILROAD NOTE.
Principal, Interest,
$25,000 00 500 00
Due, Paid,
$25,500 00 25,500 00
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STONE ROAD LOAN.
Paid, Interest, Due on Note,
$2,000 00
200 00
$4,000 00
SCHOOL HOUSE LOAN.
Paid,
$1,000 00
Interest,
80 00
Due on Note,
1,000 00
TOWN LIABILITIES AND RESOURCES, JAN. 1907.
Stone Road Loan Note, $4,000 00
Jose, Parker & Co.,
15,000 00
School House Loan, 1,000 00
Balance on Note, hired on anticipa- tion of Taxes, 8,000 00
Outstanding bills, estimated, 1,500 00
$29,500 00
APPROPRIATION LOAN AND INTEREST.
Paid-
Sept. 30, 1906, Natick Five Cent Savings Bank, interest,
$300 00
Brought from R. R. Loan Account,
986 96
Unexpended, $686 96
STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATION LOAN.
Due Natick Five Cent Savings Bank, $15,000 00
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RAILROAD LOANS.
Received.
Amount of sinking fund, Sale of appropriation bonds, Appropriation for interest,
$10,402 79 15,084 17 1,000 00
$26,486 96
Paid-
Note due State Treasurer, Apr. I,
1906,
$25,000 00
Interest due State Treasurer, April I, 1906, 500 00
$25,500 00
Carried to appropriation loan account, . $986 96
Resources.
Cash in treasury, $1,754 38
Uncollected taxes, 1906,
5,704 53
Uncollected taxes, 1905.
2,364 12
Uncollected taxes, 1904,
356 48
Uncollected taxes, 1903,
25 12
Due from State Aid, Chapter 79, Re- vised Laws, 2,922 00
Snow property,
422 70
Bills receivable,
317 50
$13,866 83
Total indebtedness.
$15,633 17
LIST OF JURORS.
William H. Weston, fisherman. William J. Alden, shoemaker. E. Burton Freeman, fish peddler. Herbert A. Peterson, farmer. Wendell Phillips, carpenter.
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Ellbridge W. Ford, carpenter.
George A. Baker, carpenter.
Eugene F. Atwood, laborer. Albert M. Goulding, farmer. Frank H. Dawes, painter. Arthur N. Delano, carpenter.
Everett L. Estes, carpenter.
Julius B. Chandler, peddler.
George B. Bates, carpenter. Alepheus H. Walker, laborer.
Edward Rogers, blacksmith.
Henry E. Henderson, architect.
Frederick V. Hunt, stable keeper.
Edmund H. Sears, farmer.
Frank W. Bickford, farmer.
Waldo F. Loring, storekeeper.
Horace A. Pope. farmer.
APPROPRIATIONS RECOMMENDED BY THE SE-
LECTMEN FOR THE ENSUING YEAR.
Support of schools. $5,200 00
School incidentals and repairs of schoolhouses, 700 00
Superintendent of schools.
500 00
Duxbury Free Library.
400 00
Highways and bridges,
4,000 00
Snow,
600 00
Memorial Day,
100 00
Cemeteries.
400 00
Appropriation loan,
1,500 00
Schoolhouse loan and interest.
1,080 00
Stone Road loan and interest.
2,200 00
Soldiers' and sailors' aid,
1,000 00
Support of poor.
2,000 00
Forest Fire Wards,
300 00
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Fire protection, 1,000 00
Gypsy and brown tail moths.
700 00
Discount on taxes. 700 00
Abatement of taxes,
500 00
Incidental expenses, bank and corporation taxes.
HENRY H. LEWIS,
EDMUND H. SEARS, SIDNEY C. SOULE. Selectmen of Duxbury.
AUDITORS' REPORT.
We have examined the accounts of the Selectmen and find them properly vouched and correctly cast.
THEODORE W. GLOVER, HERBERT A. RYDER, Auditors.
ASSESSORS' REPORT.
Value of buildings assessed.
$1,177,646 00
Value of land assessed. 558,693 00 Total valuation of real estate assessed, 1,736,339 00
Total valuation of personal estate assessed, 256,304 00
Total valuation, 1,992,643 00
Real estate increase from last year,
55,453 00
Personal estate increase from last year, 7,972 00
Total increase, 63,425 00
Rate of taxation, $13.80 per $1,000,
Number of houses assessed,
708 2-3
Number of acres of land assessed,
13,580 7-8 376
Number of horses assessed.
Number of cows assessed, 201
Number of neat cattle other than cows assessed, 69
Number of swine assessed, 65
Number of sheep assessed.
30
Number of fowl assessed,
5,007
Number of persons assessed on property.
1,097
Number of residents assessed on property,
540
Number of non-residents assessed on property,
382
Number of polls assessed. 575
State tax,
$2,065 00
State tax for repairs of State highway.
193 10
County tax,
2,552 78
HENRY H. LEWIS. EDMUND H. SEARS, SIDNEY C. SOULE, Assessors of Duxbury.
REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
EXPENSES OUTSIDE ALMSHOUSE.
Paid-
Town of Stoneham, aid to Mary C. Rich and children, $240 00
Henry Shaw, services and expenses on settlement case, 31 96
Town of Plymouth, aid to Geo. Brown and wife, 220 75
Town of Hanover, aid to sundry persons, 13 90
Mrs. F. Wadsworth, cash aid,
69 00
Town of Norwell, aid to Bernard Randall, 10 00
Ida Goldberg, cash aid. 42 00
Roger Spaulding, M.D., attendance,
Frank Chandler and family. 83 00
N. K. Noyes, M. D., attendance, John McCarty, 82 25
N. K. Noyes, M. D., attendance,
Jos. Crocker family, 3 25
N. K. Noves, M. D .. attendance. Paul Plant, 8 85
N. K. Noyes, M. D., attendance, Frank Chandler, 4 50
N. K. Noves, M. D., attendance, Eva Simmons. 18 75
N. K. Noves, M. D., attendance,
Mrs. C. M. McKinzie, 15 00
N. K. Noves, M. D., attendance, Jack Barboza, 2 00
Roger Spaulding, M. D., John McCarty, 19 50
Elisha Peterson, burial. Jack Barboza, 20 00
Elisha Peterson, burial. Lewis Lobo, 20 00
Duxbury 3
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Taunton Insane Hospital, board of Mrs. Snow, I55 07
Frank Chandler, supplies, 8 00
Foxboro State Hospital, treatment Carrol F. Turner, 34 36
Roger Spaulding, M. D., attendance, Mrs. Wadsworth, 16 50
Duxbury Coal & Lumber Co., coal, 7 25
H. H. Lewis, services out of town, 3 00
Fred V. Hunt, team to Bridgewater, II 00
Elisha Peterson, care lot of Mrs Snow, 2 00
$1,141 89
EXPENSE AT ALMSHOUSE.
Paid-
Charles E. Peterson, balance salary
to April 12, 1906, $200 00
David S. Goodspeede, on account of salary as supt., 169 00
W. O. Peterson, supplies.
112 53
N. Ford & Sons, supplies.
69 52
Sweetser & Arnold, supplies.
106 45
M. M. White, supplies,
8 64
E. W. Chandler, supplies,
32 08
C. A. Langville, meats,
44 85
E. A. Higgins, meats, 12 40
E. B. Freeman, fish, etc .. 19 90
Rufus Holiday, fish, etc ..
19 97
James H. Peterson, fish, etc.,
13 42
John R. Bradley, teaming.
I 00
Stephen Henry, hay, 18 97
George H. Stearns, supplies.
4 56
N. K. Noves, medical attendance,
14 25
J. B. Chandler, oil. II 83
Duxbury Coal & Lumber Co., coal, I4I 67
Levi Cushing, wood and labor. 22 75
O. A. Symmes, fowl. 6 72
T. W. Chandler, wood. 4 00
J. W. Cushing, ice, 24 25
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John K. Parker, services of Daniel, I 00 A. A. Sprague, repairs on mill, etc., 47 63
H. J. Reynolds, supplies, 5 17
I. L. Rich, supplies, 16 23
John M. Winsor, salt fish,
2 50
Soule & Glover, lumber and labor on new fowl house, 169 15
Furnishings for Almshouse, 107 65
$1,408 09
INMATES AND THEIR AGES.
Lucy B. Chandler, 60. Laura Burgess, 71. W. E. B. Thomas, 34. Rosina Witherell, 85.
AVAILABLE MEANS FOR SUPPORT OF POOR.
Received- Balance from 1905,
$635 00
Appropriation,
1,600 00
Town of Wareham,
4 75
J. C. Osgood, reimbursement,
I 75
A. V. Freeman, lease of land,
10 00
Farm sales,
63 70
Due from Town of Marshfield,
4 50
Due from S. J. Snow property,
I55 07
Overdrawn,
$2,474 77 75 21
Expenses of outside poor,
$1,14I 89
Expenses of inside poor,
1,408 09
Amount of inventory in Almshouse and on farm,
$2,549 98
$2,549 98
$360 25
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We have examined the above accounts of the Overseers of the Poor and find them correct.
THEODORE W. GLOVER, HERBERT A. RYDER. Auditors.
FRANCHISES GRANTED.
Southern Massachusetts Telephone Co.
Received, Free use of telephone at Selectmen's office for Duxbury and Marshfield.
Rocky Point Oyster Co.
Received, $280, and $280 due the Town.
Plymouth Electric Light Co.
Received, Four street lights; and also to receive one light for every $1,000 gross receipts exceeding $4,000.
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FIRE ENGINEERS' REPORT.
This Board was organized Mar. 17, 1906, and during this short time the Board has held twelve meetings. We have built a new engine house for Engine No. I, on land ad- joining the Library and bought 50 feet of 2-in. hose and one set of harness and traces for each engine.
We have appointed captains for each engine, who have organized their respective companies, the limit being twenty members for each. The engines and all apparatus under the Board's jurisdiction are in first-class condition. It was im- possible to buy or lease the land on which Engine No. 2 is located. This fact necessitated buying from H. B. Chandler a piece of land 40 by 125 feet on Chestnut street, near Depot street.
The Board would like to see a new engine house built on this lot, as the one now used for Engine No. 2 is not suitable for the requirements of an engine company. All our work has been wholly connected with the engines, lack of funds for other purposes having led us to give our attention chiefly to this part of the protection. We recommend the uniting of this Board with Forest Firewards.
F. B. KNAPP, Chief Engineer. H. H. BILLS, E. W. SOULE, H. E. HENDERSON. H. S. FLAGG, J. H. GLOVER,
E. H. BAILEY. Clerk,
Board of Fire Engineers.
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REPORT OF FOREST FIREWARDS.
We have again to report many small forest fires, but no extensive ones.
There are now three fire wagons owned and equipped by us, besides two private ones for our apparatus. We have decided that the most serviceable kind for our general use is one fitted for four extinguishers, a water barrel, etc., and light enough for one horse to pull.
The formation of a Board of Fire Engineers has changed the conditions. According to the present laws the engineers and forest firewards must be two independent organizations, and, at the same time, in Duxbury the same apparatus is used to extinguish both house and forest fires, and the same men must be depended upon for both. We have had two joint meetings and it has been unanimously voted that it would be much better to have all under one head. So it was also voted to petition the legislature to pass a law which would allow this union, and a committee, consisting of Mr. A. M. Goulding and Mr. F. B. Knapp, was chosen to have charge of the matter. The Selectmen have given their unanimous approval and it is hoped that the citizens will do what they can to help secure the passage of the bill. Meanwhile the engineers have asked the forest firewards to continue temporarily the inspection of the portion of the extinguishers and connected apparatus now under their charge, but which was bought with money from the "Fire Protection" appropriation, and is therefore under the legal jurisdiction of the engineers. A list of the places where the apparatus is kept will be printed. posted and dis- tributed.
Whether we may unite or must retain our independence, it is important that some definite system for both forest and house protection should be adopted. The town would not accept the plans proposed by your former committees. but insisted on buying engines (as some of us considered very injudiciously ), without any plan and in such a way as to make the one formerly proposed, impossible.
We now advise uniting the efforts and if may be the organization of the engineers and forest firewards; making the two engines as efficient as possible, each with an organ- ized company; building a new house at Hall's Corner for
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Engine No. 2; increasing the number of fire wagons in other parts of the town and the number of separate ex- tinguishers ; arranging for a more ready supply of water for the extinguishers and a more complete organization throughout the town; the further subdivisions of the larger forest areas by fire lines.
The forest firewards ask for their part of the work an appropriation of four hundred dollars ($400).
F. B. KNAPP, for the Forest Firewards.
TREE WARDEN'S REPORT.
I hereby submit my account for 1906:
Paid-
H. A. Fish, labor,
$62 05
O. B. Ryan, labor, 3 00
Bay State Nursery, 100 00
D. H. Thomas, labor
5 33
E. S. Freeman, labor,
3 00
M. L. Simmons, labor, 6 00
O. H. Brown, labor, 6 00
H. L. Soule, labor,
6 00
O. E. Lamb, labor,
17 00
Sweetser & Arnold, supplies,
2 56
Duxbury C. & L. Co ..
I 70
Smith & Thayer, pipe and fittings,
5 3I
$217 95
Amount unexpended, 1905,
122 06
Amount appropriated, 1906,
200 00
Unexpended,
$104 II
During the year I have planted some 200 trees on new work and replacing those that had died. There yet remain quite a few dead ones. The condition of the shade trees in town is fairly good, considering the condition of soil and the bad drouths we have about every year.
The practice of setting a few trees here and there without
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regard to highway boundries, I consider bad, and as very few streets in Town have any marks or boundary stone, it is hard to set trees without encroaching on some one. All streets should be resurveyed 'and boundary marks put up. Then take one street at a time and set with trees, until the whole streets are furnished with shade. Considerable brush has been cut and burned, and yet there is a-plenty left that should be cut. A large amount of spraying for private in- dividuals has been done and good results have followed, particularly on fruit trees.
The Town trees have been sprayed for the Vanessa moth, which infest the elms badly. Both the native and imported elm tree beetle have been very thick and spraying should be done at least twice each season to keep them in check.
I will say in conclusion that, had I been in my usual health, more would have been done. This work, however, can be done in early Spring.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY A. FISH.
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT FOR THE SUP- PRESSION OF GYPSY AND BROWNTAIL MOTHS.
Shortly after my appointment, myself and Mr. C. S. Mix- ter, District Inspector, commenced the inspection of the fruit and shade trees that had not been inspected by any inspec- tor. We succeeded in finding several orchards that were infested with gypsy moths, which, with those already found, made thirty estates infested. The trees on these infested places were burlaped, as required by law, and inspected sev- eral times weekly until August 15th, only four estates show- ing any sign of larvæ on those places; some egg clusters had been overlooked, thereby causing the outbreak. By attend- ing to the burlaps often I succeeded in cleaning the places so that in the inspection this fall no eggs were discovered. Commencing September, I gave the Town a thorough in- spection and found it quite badly infested all through. Egg clusters were found on 90 estates and were creosoted. In-
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stead of single egg clusters, as found last year, they were in colonies of from six to twenty, showing that they hatched from some egg cluster under loose bark or in some hollow.
The condition of orchards in Town is very bad, as a rule, and many old decayed trees are worthless and not useful even for fuel, and should be cut down and burned up, as they are only a fine harbor for the gypsy moth. Other trees are in bad condition, dead branches and loose bark form another hiding place for these insects. Property own- ers can assist us greatly by cleaning up these orchards, scraping off old bark, cutting out dead wood and cementing · up holes. Then it's an easy matter to find the egg clusters. The gypsy moth is a slow but sure spreading insect, be- ginning on fruit trees first, then spreading to the forests. where it is a difficult matter to exterminate them.
In cleaning up the so-called Town Dump, back of the cemetery, where they had been located, I found it quite ex- pensive, and wish to call the attention of the citizens of the Town to the fact that there should be one or more Town dumps provided and oblige those who carry away rubbish to place the same on the Town dump where it may be burned up, as much of this rubbish comes from infested places. I hope the Town will take some action in this matter and stop this dumping rubbish anywhere in the wood lots.
Up to this time I have not examined the forests, but shall do so before Spring.
In conclusion, I will say that if property owners will take an interest in this matter we can hold these insects in check and in time get clear of them. Remember, it is costing nothing now compared with what it will should they get seeded in our forests.
Respectfully submitted,
H. A. FISH.
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CEMETERY TRUSTEE'S REPORT.
Year ending December 31, 1906.
We would report Town property in our care as in good condition. During the year, in addition to the regular work, the fence at Mayflower cemetery has been repaired and painted.
Owing to lack of funds a much needed fence has not been built at Standish and we trust the Town will make a special appropriation therefor. We are in need of a public dump, adjacent to the cemetery, where large stumps and such ref- use, as cannot be burned, may be placed. In the perpetual care fund is a deposit of one hundred dollars standing in the name of Lydia A. Bates. There is no lot on our record standing in that name and it is supposed the donor neglected to give the name of the party owning the lot, and attention is called to it here, trusting the parties may be found and the proper record made.
The Town has received a deed of gift from Ladies' Ceme- tery Association of six acres adjoining Mayflower cemetery and street, to which your attention is called by article in Town warrant.
Interments in Mayflower Cemetery, forty-two.
The Treasurer's report is herewith submitted.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
DR.
To cash from old account. $5 32
To cash, sale of Tower, Bell, Samp- son lots, 30 00
To cash, donation Gershom Bradford,
I 00
To cash, Town appropriation, 400 00
CR.
By cash to Lawrence Bradford, $17 00 By cash to A. E. Parks, 26 00
By cash to A. F. Peterson. 63 13
$436 32
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By cash to Thomas Gorham, 47 12
By cash to Calvin Josselyn, 47 13
By cash to John Ellis, 56 80
By cash to Wm. J. Alden, 39 00
By cash to A. M. Wadsworth, 47 80
By cash to Elisha Peterson, 69 90
By cash to Duxbury Coal & Lumber Co. 3 55
By cash to C. T. Harris & Son, 3 00
By cash to Plymouth Tallow Co., I 75
By cash to Sweetser & Arnold,
IO 4I
By cash to E. E. Chandler. 2 00
Cash to new account, I 73
$436 32
ELISHA PETERSON, Sec. and Treas.
FRANCHISES.
Town of Duxbury to Southern Massachusetts Telephone Company. Permit.
You are hereby notified that you are duly authorized by vote of the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, to place and maintain wires upon poles and fixtures wherever located in said Town or of any other person or corporation under arrangements made with the owner for such attachments, and to erect and maintain poles and wires to be placed thereon, together with such support- ing and strengthening fixtures and wires as said Company may deem requisite and to place and maintain guy wires upon trees in the following named streets and highways of said Town. All construction under this permit shall be in accordance with the following specifications : poles shall be from 25 to 40 feet in length and of cedar or chestnut, and the wire thereon, and wire upon trees and upon poles and fixtures of any person or corporation, shall be at a height and placed in a manner satisfactory to the Board of Selectmen.
Following are the streets and highways above referred to : All streets and highways now occupied by the poles and wires of the Southern Massaschusetts Telephone Company. This permit confirms the locations of all existing poles and wires of said Company and authorizes such modifications in such locations as may be required for rebuilding existing poles, lines and the extension of additional wires upon sup- ports now used and upon poles and fixtures of any other person or corporation. £
Said Company is also authorized to allow attachment to its poles of the wires and fixtures of any other person or corporation. All such attachments to be maintained in a manner satisfactory to the Selectmen. Said Telephone Company shall be responsible for all dam- ages incurred.
Signatures of Selectmen :
HENRY H. LEWIS. EDMUND H. SEARS, WENDELL PHILLIPS.
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