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Salary of Town Accountant $1,730.00
Clerk Hire 659.59
Printing, Stationery, Postage 49.94
150
Membership and Expense of
Attending Mass. Munici- pal Auditors & Account- ants Association 69.17
All Other
6.30
$2,515.00
Assessors' Salaries
Appropriation
$2,200.00
Salaries :
Chairman
$1,100.00
Second Member
550.00
Third Member
550.00
$2,200.00
Assessors' Department
Appropriation
$2,693.00
Clerk Hire
$1,886.37
Printing, Stationery & Postage
(including transfers)
410.11
Travel Allowance
232.47
Membership Dues
9.00
Listing Agent
110.00
Telephone
40.55
All Other
4.50
$2,693.00
Assessors' Automatic Calculator
Appropriation
$610.00
Friden Calculator $600.00
$600.00
Assessors' Map
Balance
$1,182.21
151
Appropriation 1,000.00
$2,182.21
Engineering Services
$775.19
$775.19
Tax Collector's Salary
Appropriation $2,500.00
Salary of Tax Collector $2,500.00
$2,500.00
Tax Collector's Department
Appropriation $2,088.00
Clerk Hire
$788.30
Printing, Stationery & Postage
550.14
Surety Bonds
415.25
Reserve for Petty Cash
100.00
All Other, including telephone
and transportation 162.76
$2,016.45
Town Clerk's Salary
Appropriation
$1,300.00
Salary of Town Clerk
$1,300.00
$1,300.00
Town Clerk's Department
Appropriation $613.00
Clerk Hire
$174.81
Printing, Stationery & Postage
392.76
Surety Bond
5.00
All Other
5.00
$577.57
Finance Committee
Appropriation
$30.00
152
Membership, Association of Finance Committees Clerk Hire
$10.00
14.38
$24.38
Appeal Board
Appropriation
$441.00
Salaries, Appeal Board Mem- bers
$260.00
Clerk Hire
60.00
Publishing Notices
70.00
Stationery
33.16
$423.16
Planning Board
Appropriation
$1,208.00
Architect's Fees
$720.79
Reconditioned Underwood
79.50
Publishing
90.00
Clerk Hire
135.16
Planning Consultant
150.80
Miscellaneous
19.98
$1,196.23
Election and Registration
Appropriation $1,913.00
Salaries of Registrars
$240.00
Election Officers, Wages 686.60
Printing, Stationery & Postage
443.85
Services, Listing Agent
253.04
Materials for New Voting
Booths
91.04
All Other, Including Labor 110.85
$1,825.38
153
Law Department
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Transfer from Reserve 930.90
$1,930.90
Town Counsel, Retainer $ 200.00
Town Counsel, Services and Disbursements
1,580.90
Legal Advice
150.00
$1,930.90
Town Historian
Appropriation
$50.00
Postage and Materials $4.86
$4.86
Town Hall and Offices
Appropriation
$3,910.00
Labor
$296.11
Lights
332.23
Janitor's Supplies
97.48
Repairs to Buildings, including
Plumbing and Painting
1,159.64
Burroughs Adding Machine 304.20
Miscellaneous Office Supplies
195.10
Water
41.20
Mowing
46.00
All Other
25.20
Fuel
835.04
$3,332.20
Town Office, 1951
Balance of Appropriation $75.00
Desk $68.00 $68.00
154
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY
Police Department
Appropriation
$22,752.00
Salaries :
Chief of Police ·
$3,744.00
Regular Patrolmen
12,480.00
Special Police
3,523.02
Miscellaneous Equipment
338.26
Automobile Expense
1,459.74
Telephone
368.25
Uniforms
500.00
Insurance
108.75
All Other, Including Costs of
Lockup, Matron and Keeper 180.88
$22,702.90
Police Department Automobile
Appropriation
$650.00
Studebaker Sedan and Acces- sories $554.31
$554.31
Police Lighting Unit
Appropriation Balance $500.00
Mobile Lighting Unit
$500.00
$500.00
Fire Department
Appropriation $10,991.00
Salaries :
Fire Chief
$ 791.67
Regular Fireman
2,300.00
Relief Man
936.00
Firefighters
1,884.70
155
Janitor
75.00
Chief's Travel Allowance
400.00
Apparatus
781.19
Fuel
593.64
Lights
409.77
Buildiing Repairs
796.56
Janitors Supplies, etc.
151.22
Telephones
592.36
Insurance
74.96
All Other, Including Machine Maintenance
52.20
Water
32.80
Garage Rental
60.00
Uniforms
172.52
$10,104.59
Fire Engine No. 5, Radio
Appropriation
$565.00
Radio
$565.00
$565.00
Fire Department, 1951
1951 Appropriation Bal- ance $575.00
Hose (contract-1951) $575.00
$575.00
Fire Department-Out of State Travel
Appropriation
$75.00
Attendance at Fire Chief's Con- ferences $75.00
$75.00
Insect Pest Control
Appropriation
$3,112.00
Salary, Superintendent
$1,260.00
156
Labor 950.15
Truck Expense
456.44
Equipment
1.25
Insecticides
442.10
All Other
.22
$3,110.16
Control of Dutch Elm Disease
Appropriation
$3,077.00
Transfer from Reserve 600.00
$3,677.00
Labor
$2,174.10
Truck Expense
942.62
. Materials
559.65
$3,676.37
Tree Department
Appropriation
$3,088.00
Cancelled Check
12.00
$3,100.00
Labor
$1,957.82
Truck Expense
930.02
Equipment
176.16
All Other
24.00
$3,088.00
Tree Warden's Salary
Appropriation
$1,600.00
Tree Warden's Salary
$1,600.00
$1,600.00
Tree Department-Hathaway Fund
Balance of Income Distri- bution $382.78
Materials
$ 59.40
157
Trees
116.80
$176.20
Town Forest Improvement
Appropriation balance
Appropriation
$ 3.00 50.00
$53.00
Labor
$4.20
$4.20
Forest Fire Department
Appropriation $4,250.00
Forest Warden's Salary and
Travel Allowance
$ 644.00
Firemen
1,356.35
Truck Expense
630.20
Apparatus
705.48
All Other
19.50
Garage Rental
180.00
$3,535.53
Poison Ivy Control
Appropriation
$82.00
Balance of Appropriation 36.90
$118.90
Weed Killer
$86.40
$86.40
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Appropriation
$364.00
Sealer's Salary
$185.00
Travel Allowance
75.00
Equipment
25.33
158
Insurance Office Equipment
49.86
2.11
$337.30
Bounties
Appropriation
$60.00
Bounty Paid
$5.00
$5.00
HEALTH AND SANITATION
Health Department
Appropriation
$2,025.00
Health Agent's Salary
$500.00
Repair Dental Equipment
35.00
Printed Forms
1.15
Medical
3.00
T. B. Board and Care
381.00
Rat Poison
45.00
Dental Program
531.50
$1,496.65
Town Dump
Appropriation
$1,125.61
Labor
$560.21
Truck Expense
375.00
Materials
27.40
Shovel Rental
63.00
$1,025.61
Public Health Nurse
Appropriation
$525.00
Salary, Public Health Nurse
$525.00
$525.00
159
Animal Inspection
Appropriation
$125.00
Salary of Inspector $125.00
$125.00
Inspection of Slaughtered Animals
Appropriation $25.00
Salary, Inspector $25.00
$25.00
Vital Statistics
Appropriation
$15.00
Death Records $5.75
$5.75
HIGHWAYS
Highway Department
Appropriation
$32,470.00
Salary, Highway Supt. $3,380.00
Office expenses, including tele- phone
235.69
Labor
10,756.97
Truck expense
5,148.72
Stone, gravel, etc.
11,334.85
Painting white lines
179.50
Equipment and repairs to equipment
759.91
All other, including insur-
ance and surveying
241.70
$32,037.34
Bridge Department
Appropriation
$8,100.00 $2,673.65
Labor
160
Lumber, spikes, hardware
4,896.63
Crane rental
292.50
All other materials
228.52
$8,091.30
Highway Department-Hathaway Fund
Appropriation balance $496.32 Street signs $268.01
$268.01
Snow and Ice Removal
Appropriation
$14,000.00
Labor
$3,319.25
Sand
157.20
Equipment
1,161.88
Salt
1,640.52
Plows
5,651.32
Trucks
778.35
Repairs
90.95
Telephone
36.95
Miscellaneous
83.99
$12,920.41
Bridge Department-Hathaway Fund
Balance of income dis- tribution
$635.23
Labor
$322.40
Concrete Pipe
108.00
All other
63.85
$494.25
Town Landings
Appropriation
$1,750.00
Transfer from Reserve 105.00
$1,855.00
161
Labor
$884.90
Materials
336.58
Truck expense
447.48
Water
18.00
Moorings-floats
105.00
All other
63.04
$1,855.00
Town Landings-Hathaway Fund
Balance of income dis-
tribution
$379.04
Labor
$195.50
Tow Floats
53.88
Materials
11.66
All other
.28
$261.32
Chapter 90, Construction
Appropriation
$16,000.00
Publishing
$42.90
Grates, frames, guard posts
801.21
Bradford Weston, Contractor
12,756.81
$13,600.92
Chapter 90, Maintenance
Appropriation
$3,000.00
Labor
$515.90
Grader rental
448.50
Materials
1,391.91
Gravel
498.75
Sand
144.90
$2,999.96
Longfellow Terrace-Wadsworth Road Appropriation Balance $907.07
Labor $345.85
162
Grader and truck rental
519.00
Gravel 28.80
$893.65
Street Lights
Appropriation $3,800.00
Plymouth County Elect. Co. $3,691.68
$3,691.68
Mattakeesett Court-Street Light
Appropriation Balance $40.89
Plymouth County Elec. Co. $33.48
$33.48
Old Colony Road
Appropriation
$1,150.00
Labor
$196.70
Roller and grader rental
139.50
Trucks
111.00
Materials
601.53
$1,048.73
Pine Ridge Lane
Appropriation
$1,400.00
Labor
$173.50
Materials
134.32
Shovel and truck rental
334.50
$642.32
Bay View Road
Appropriation
$6,400.00
Labor
$1,168.62
Roller and grader rental
1,015.00
Trucks
358.50
Gravel
165.60
163
Pipe, asphalt and other materials
2,069.38
$4,777.10
Town Landing-Howland's, so-called
Appropriation $1,000.00
Engineering services $100.00
$100.00
Repairs for Fire and Water District
Appropriation $2,000.00
Labor
$631.78
Equipment
15.00
Materials, asphalt, etc.
620.23
$1,267.01
Blue Fish Tide Gate Search
Transfer from Reserve $50.00
Raise tide gate $8.00
$8.00
CHARITIES AND SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
Disability Assistance Federal Grants-Administration
Appropriation $114.34
Telephone
$11.60
$11.60
Disability Assistance-Federal Grants
Appropriation
$1,436.95
Cash Grants
$1,101.49
$1,101.49
164
Disability Assistance
Appropriation
$2,400.00
Transfer from Reserve 200.00
Transfer from A.D.C. 1,200.00
$3,800.00
Cash grants
$3,412.83
Administration costs
14.62
$3,427.45
Public Welfare
Appropriation $10,879.00
Salaries and wages
$1,566.18
Printing, stationery, postage 92.36
All other, including travel
108.44
Groceries and provisions
957.50
Board and care
55.00
Medicine and medical attend-
ance 924.55
Cash grants
2,335.35
All other aid
16.85
Reimbursements to other towns
822.27
$6,878.50
Aid to Dependent Children
Appropriation
$7,445.00
Cancelled checks
165.40
$7,610.40
Clerk hire
$324.98
Office expense
18.50
Cash Grants
5,210.99
$5,554.47
165
Aid to Dependent Children Federal Grants
Appropriation balance $693.18
Cancelled check 9.15
Federal grants 1952
4,713.55
$5,415.88
Cash grants
$4,140.30
$4,140.30
Aid to Dependent Children Federal Grants-Administration
Appropriation balance $89.58
Federal grants 1952 515.19
$604.77
Salary, agent
$472.48
Office supplies
41.58
$514.06
Old Age Assistance
Appropriation $46,361.00
Transfer from Public
Welfare
3,000.00
Cancelled checks 221.30
$49,582.30
Salaries and wages
$1,305.42
Office supplies
75.00
Attending conference
45.31
Mileage
188.48
Reimburse other towns
1,108.37
Cash grants
45,882.28
$48,604.86
.
166
Old Age Assistance Federal Grants
Balance of appro-
priation
$5,923.34
Federal grants 1952
28,385.29
Cancelled checks
182.60
Recovery
1,229.49
$35,720.72
Cash grants
$31,981.58
$31,981.58
Old Age Assistance Federal Grants Assistance
Balance of appro-
priation
$566.39
Federal grants 1952 2,116.62
$2,683.01
Salaries
$1,573.60
Telephone
45.80
Mileage
71.56
Miscellaneous office supplies
83.69
$1,774.65
Veterans' Benefits
Appropriation
$7,758.00
Agent's salary
$780.00
Clerk hire
75.00
Office supplies
147.64
Steel letter file
100.50
Ordinary benefits
2,495.80
Fuel allowance
603.43
Medical aid
111.47
$4,313.84
167
Jonathan and Ruth Ford Fund
Income withdrawn
$422.13
Medical care $422.13
$422.13
SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES
Vocational Training Program Adult Education
Appropriation
$100.00
Teacher's salary
$40.00
Janitor's wages
20.00
$60.00
D. H. S. Completion Account
Appropriation
$6,543.80
Architect
$730.93
Construction of building
5,463.54
Miscellaneous materials
273.53
All other supplies
60.50
$6,528.50
School Department Hathaway Fund
Appropriation balance $1,270.19 Re-tile hall $570.00
$570.00
School Department Out of State Travel
Appropriation $150.00
Transfers from reserve
30.41
$180.41
168
Out of State travel costs $180.41
$180.41
Vocational and Americanization
Appropriation $1,795.00 Americanization teacher's salary $378.00
Transportation of students 363.72
Vocational school tuition 596.90
$1,338.62
Public Use of School Facilities
Appropriation Janitor's services
$1,000.00
$46.00
Fuel
836.59
$882.59
School Drive-Way To Surface
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Labor
$106.40
Trucks
193.00
Grader rental
255.00
Materials
427.87
$982.27
D. H. S. Remodelling
Appropriation $51,357.63
Architect's services
$959.89
Construction costs
45,244.51
Equipment and materials
5,153.23
$51,357.63
D. H. S. New Wing
Appropriation
$84,747.50
169
Transfer from reserve 861.45
$85,608.95
Architect's services
$1,674.11
Construction costs
74,306.41
Equipment and materials
9,476.33
$85,456.85
Duxbury School Department
Appropriation
$166,700.86
Dog fund
751.00
Cancel check
3.12
$167,454.98
Clerk hire for school committee
$33.54
Salary of superintendent
7,000.00
Superintendent's clerk, salary
2,583.42
Truant officer
100.00
Printing, stationery, postage
303.93
Telephones
492.13
Travelling expenses
425.64
All other general expenses
207.41
Teachers' salaries
98,668.15
High school :
Text and reference books
1,927.63
Classroom supplies
4,746.01
Elementary school :
Text and reference books
1,340.60
Classroom supplies
3,196.27
All other
3.30
Transportation :
High school
6,486.42
Elementary school
11,799.47
Janitors' services
9,939.89
Fuel and lights :
High school
3,307.08
Elementary school
2,475.27
170
Maintenance of building and grounds :
High school :
Repairs
2,785.34
Janitor's Spplies
674.51
All other
56.77
Elementary school :
Repairs
971.18
Janitors' supplies
804.46
All other
57.25
Furniture and furnishings :
High school
2,233.16
Elementary school
1,133.07
Diplomas and graduation exer- cises
78.82
· Insurance
129.83
School physician
633.34
School nurse
1,370.00
All other health expenses
85.55
School secretary's salary
1,260.00
$167,309.44
Duxbury Free Library
Appropriation
$2,100.00
Salaries :
Librarian
. $1,200.00
Assistant librarian
830.00
Janitor
70.00
$2,100.00
Library Books
Hathaway Fund
Appropriation balance $200.79
Books for library
$182.09
$182.09
171
RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED
Group Accident Insurance Fire and Police Departments
Appropriation $240.00
Transfer from reserve 8.64
Insurance premiums $248.64
$248.64
1952 Harbor Dredging Project Deposit by Duxbury Yacht Club $8,000.00
Transferred appropri-
ation 12,000.00
1952 Appropriation
5,000.00
$25,000.00
Commonwealth of Massachu-
setts
$25,000.00
$25,000.00
Liability Insurance
Harbor Dredging
Transfer from reserve
$55.25
Contingent liability policy
$55.25
$55.25
North Duxbury Water Mains
Appropriation $23,000.00 Williams and Melvin, Inc., con- tractors $7,358.92 Pipe and miscellaneous fittings 13,714.34 $21,073.26
172
Myles Standish Cellar Lot
Income withdrawn $8.00 $8.00
Labor
$8.00
Civil Defense
Appropriation balance
$884.88
Appropriation 1952 600.00
$1,484.88
Installation of lighting unit
62.87
$62.87
Unclassified
Appropriation
$450.00
Transfer from reserve 25.00
$475.00
Dog Officer
$152.00
Flag pole repairs
171.61
Flags and flag custodians
84.53
Town clock custodian
60.00
$468.14
Harbor Master
Appropriation
$1,105.00
Salaries :
Harbor master
$545.00
Assistant harbor master
100.00
Printing
8.50
Materials
184.62
Set mooring
10.00
$848.12
Shellfish Department
Appropriation
$2,360.00
173
Constable's salary
$1,575.00
475.00
Travel allowance Printing
27.75
$2,077.75
Special Shellfish Account
Appropriation balance
$550.00
Transfer from propa- gation
150.00
State grants
550.00
$1,250.00
Labor
$160.65
101 Bushels seed
505.00
$665.65
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
Appropriation
$2,500.00
Insurance premiums
$2,107.02
$2,107.02
Fourth of July
Appropriation
$800.00
Bands
$692.00
Prizes and other costs
108.00
$800.00
Mosquito Control
Appropriation balance $1,300.00
East Coast Reclamation
$275.00
$275.00
Hydrant Rental
Appropriation
$550.00
Town of Marshfield
$550.00
$550.00
174
Parks and Playgrounds
Appropriation
$634.00
Labor
$261.49
Materials
281.51
Water
18.00
Truck hire
55.50
$616.50
Walker Field Purchase
Appropriation
$12,000.00
Purchase price, Walker
Field
$12,000.00
$12,000.00
Town Hall Recreation Center
Appropriation
$1,500.00
Lights
$162.88
Directors' salaries
554.00
Telephone
67.13
Fuel
308.70
Water
16.00
Repairs
21.15
$1,129.86
Tarkiln Youth Center
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Lights
$106.48
Fuel and gas
433.92
Painting and repairs to
building
459.60
$1,000.00
Mosquito Control Expansion
Balance of appropria- tion $600.00
175
E. Coast Aviation Corp., spraying $600.00
$600.00
Greenhead Fly Control
Appropriation
$1,500.00
State Reclamation Bureau
$1,300.00
$1,300.00
Memorial Day
Appropriation
$425.00
Geraniums
$192.00
Duxbury H. S. Band
75.00
Flags
65.12
All other, including printing
51.00
$383.12
Mosquito Control
1952 Appropriation $1,500.00
State Reclamation Board
$1,500.00
$1,500.00
Town Retirement System
Appropriation balance
$487.80
1952 Appropriation 3,357.00
$3,844.80
Plymouth County Retirement
System
$3,357.00
Print and Deliver Town Reports
Appropriation
$1,200.00
Braintree Observer, printing
$1,019.70
Delivering reports
82.40
$1,102.10
176
Fire Insurance Schedules
Appropriation
$2,400.00
Transfer from reserve
60.86
Fire insurance policies
$2,460.86
$2,460.86
Blue Fish Tide Gates
Appropriation balance $60.63
Labor
$29.90
Materials
9.50
Truck hire
18.00
$57.40
Builders Risk Insurance
Addition to High School
Transfer from reserve
$28.70
Contingent liability policy $28.70
$28.70
Duxbury Beach Engineering Survey
Appropriation
$500.00
Whitman & Howard, Engineers $450.00
$450.00
Rat Control
Appropriation
$500.00
Poison
$132.00
Bags and traps
249.23
$381.23
Eben Ellison Beach
Balance of gift
$221.60
Engineering
$88.00
$88.00
177
County Aid to Agriculture
Appropriation
$100.00
Participation in program $100.00
$100.00
CEMETERIES
Cemetery Department-Hathaway Fund
Appropriation balance
$98.34
Miscellaneous materials $98.34
$98.34
Cemetery Department
Appropriation $12,157.00
Sale of Cemetery Lots 150.00
Perpetual Care Fund income 2,041.05
$14,348.05
Superintendent's salary
$3,000.40
Labor
8,257.68
Secretary's salary
240.00
Loam, seed, gravel
831.50
Trees and shrubs
35.75
Equipment and materials
836.64
Mowers and trucks, expenses
712.35
Office supplies
169.15
Telephone
110.59
Water
46.80
Insurance, truck
25.30
All other miscellaneous expenses
41.07
$14,307.23
George H. Wood Fund
Income withdrawn $17.50
Flowers $17.50
$17.50
178
Boomer Square
Appropriation Labor
$60.00
$28.95
Materials
21.90
$50.85
INTEREST AND MATURING DEBT
Interest
Appropriation $8,100.00
Interest paid on School loans $7,623.75
$7,623.75
Premium on High School Bonds
Premium reserved
$19.80
High School maturing debt $19.80
$19.80
High School Bonds
Appropriation
$20,000.00
Rockland Trust Co.
$19,980.20
$19,980.20
Elementary School Bonds
Appropriation
$15,000.00
Day Trust Company
$15,000.00
$15,000.00
Unpaid Bills of 1951
Appropriation
$172.71
Miscellaneous bills
$172.71
$172.71
179
Unpaid Bills of 1949
Appropriation $9.81
Police Department bill $9.81
$9.81
Unpaid Bills of 1950
Appropriation
$30.00
Repairs, 1950 $30.00
$30.00
Unpaid Bills of 1950
Appropriation $15.00
Telephone bill $15.00
$15.00
AGENCY, TRUST AND INVESTMENT
County of Plymouth, County Tax $29,091.89
Rockland Trust Co., With-
holding Taxes 23,386.44
Plymouth County Treasurer, Retirement Funds 4,482.11
Plymouth Federal Savings
& Loan Assn., Perpetual Care Funds 4,600.00
Plymouth Savings Bank, Per- petual Care Funds 950.00
Division of Fisheries and
Game, Sporting Licenses 768.00
Plymouth County, Dog Li- censes 1,011.40
Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, State Parks and Reservations 848.89
State Audit of Municipal Ac- counts 975.45
180
Plymouth Savings Bank, Trust Fund Income 625.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank Trust Fund Income 1,903.69 Tailings 3.00 Plymouth County Hospital, T.B. 10,656.59
$79,302.46
REVOLVING FUNDS
Athletic Association
Balance from 1951
$886.07
Received from Ath-
letic Association 1,439.94
$2,326.01
Miscellaneous services and
supplies $2,096.36
$2,096.36
Liquor Ad. Deposits
Deposits to cover ads.
$24.00
Duxbury Clipper
$24.00
$24.00
Planning Board Deposits
Balance from 1951
$10.24
Deposits received 40.30
$50.54
Posting and publishing, etc.
$39.59
$39.59
School Lunch Program
Balance from 1951
$1,470.40
181
Receipts for 1952
24,027.88
$25,498.28
Salaries and wages
$5,266.75
Food
16,853.74
Telephone
70.92
Equipment
438.77
Garbage removal
448.00
Gas
291.50
All other
190.63
$23,560.31
RESERVE FUND
Transfer from Overlay
Reserve
$5,000.00
Transfers to :
Disability Assistance
$200.00
Blue Fish Tide Gate Search
50.00
Selectmen's Department
350.48
Harbor Dredging, Liability Ins.
55.25
School, Out-of-State Travel
15.00
Control Dutch Elm Disease
600.00
High School, Liability Insurance
28.70
Town Landings
105.00
School, Out-of-State Travel
15.41
Treasurer's Department
37.90
Unclassified
25.00
Law Department
930.90
Insurance, Group, Fire and Police
8.64
Fire Insurance Schedule .
60.86
D.H.S. New Wing
861.45
$3,344.59
REFUNDS
Estimated Revenue
$4.93
Building Permits-overpayment
1.00
182
1951 Excise Taxes 249.38
1952 Excise Taxes
1,634.11
1951 Real Estate Tax
11.90
1952 Personal Tax
52.89
1952 Poll Tax
16.00
1952 Real Estate Tax
672.09
Tax Title Revenue
1.90
Excess and Deficiency
.35
2,644.55
Total Expenditures
$841,344.59
CEMETERY TRUST FUND ACCOUNT
Total Amount of Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds, December 31, 1951
$101,051.60
Withdrawal of Duplicate Deposit
425.00
$100,626.60
Dividends added to Trust Funds in 1952
2,419.88
New Funds Added in 1952 :
C. B. Eames
200.00
Ringchrist and Dunham
400.00
Lillian J. Sabine
200.00
Mayflower Cemetery Fund
340.00
L. H. Phillips
400.00
Harry B. Bradley
400.00
Earl J. Hill
200.00
Nellie A. Clapp
200.00
Clara C. Mansfield
100.00
Ernest Wadsworth, et al
200.00
Elnathan Delano
400.00
Helen Hodgkinson
100.00
Marion P. Older
200.00
Robert S. Means
300.00
Andrew R. Gill
200.00
Mary E. Hoffman
10.00
William J. Powell
300.00
183
George W. King
200.00
George B. Bates
200.00
Mabel B. Buckner
200.00
Peleg Gulliver
200.00
Phosie B. Sollis
200.00
Walter M. Alden
200.00
Total Trust Funds and Dividends
$108,396.48
Amount withdrawn from income for care of lots in 1952
2,041.05
Total Trust Funds, Dec. 31, 1951
$106,355.43
Total Trust Funds Reported,
Dec. 31, 1951
$97,694.31
Refund Duplicate Deposit
425.00
$97,269.31
Income Transferred to Fund
100.00
Funds Added in 1952
5,350.00
Total Principal $102,719.31
Accumulated Interest 3,636.12
$106,355.43
APPROPRIATIONS BALANCES RETAINED
Assesor's Department, Electric Calculator
$10.00
Building Inspector 700.00
Police Department, Automobile
95.69
Chapter 90 Maintenance
.04
H. S. Building Completion
15.30
School Driveway
17.73
D. H. S. Remodelling Committee
1,833.10
D. H. S. New Wing
152.10
North Duxbury Water Project
1,926.74
Water District Committee
200.00
Assessors Map Revision
1,407.02
Town Office, 1952-Contract
80.00
184
Fire Department-Contract
640.00
Tree Dept., Hathaway Fund 206.58
48.80
Town Forest Improvement Forest Fire Dept.
401.50
Control Poison Ivy
32.50
Highway Dept., Hathaway Fund
228.31
Bridge Dept., Hathaway Fund
140.98
Town Landings, Hathaway Fund Cove Street, Town Landing Pilgrim By-Way Improvement
230.08
Longfellow-Terrace Improvement
13.42
Church and Tremont Streets Award
52.00
Mattakeesett Street Lights
7.41
South Street Street Light
22.50
Old Colony Road
101.27
Pine Ridge Lane
757.68
Bay View Road
1,622.90
Town Landing, Howlands
900.00
Traffic Signs
13.41
Work by Highway Department for Fire and Water District
732.99
Blue Fish Tide Gates 42.00
Disability Assistance, Fed. Gr. Adm.
102.74
Disability Assistance, Federal Grants
335.46
Aid to Dependent Children, Federal Grants
1,275.58
Aid to Dependent Children, Fed. Gr. Adm.
90.71
Old Age Assistance, Federal Grants
3,739.14
Old Age Assistance, Fed. Gr. Adm.
908.36
Elementary School Expansion Committee
5,000.00
High School Stage Repairs
4,000.00
School Dept., Hathaway Fund
700.19
Library Dept., Hathaway Fund
18.70
Civil Defense
1,422.01
Special Shellfish Account
584.35
Propagation of Shellfish
336.69
Poison Ivy Control
6.06
Mosquito Control
1,025.00
117.72
25.00
185
Eradication of Ragweed
100.00
Fish Ladders, Island Creek Pond
179.70
Land Damage Award, Valley and Franklin Streets Land Damage Award,
4.85
Congress Street
8.00
Tax Titles Foreclosure
595.50
Greenhead Fly Control
200.00
Parking Area Sign
50.00
Town Retirement System
487.80
Tax Titles Account
149.28
Blue Fish Tide Gates
3.23
Duxbury Beach Engineering Survey
50.00
Rat Control
118.77
Duxbury Beach Sea Wall
18,125.00
Chapter 90, Construction
2,399.08
$54,790.97
APPROPRIATION BALANCES RETURNED TO THE TREASURY
Selectmen's Department
$ .56
Town Treasurer's Department
8.97
Accounting Department,
Out of State Travel
20.29
Tax Collector's Department
71.55
Town Clerk's Department
35.43
Finance Committee
5.62
Appeal Board
17.84
Planning Board
11.77
Election and Registration
87.62
Town Historian
45.14
Town Offices, 1952
497.80
Town Offices, 1951
7.00
Police Department
49.10
Fire Department
246.41
Insect Pest Control
1.84
186
Control Dutch Elm Disease
.63
Tree Department
12.00
Forest Fire Department
312.97
Sealer of Weights & Measures
26.70
Bounties
55.00
Health Department
528.35
Town Dump
4.39
Vital Statistics
9.25
Highway Department
432.66
Snow and Ice Removal
1,079.59
Bridge Department
8.70
Street Lights
108.32
Disability Assistance
372.55
Public Welfare
1,000.50
Aid to Dependent Children
855.93
Old Age Assistance
977.44
Public Welfare:
Out of State Travel
300.00
Veteran's Benefits
3,444.16
School Department
145.54
Vocational and Americanization
456.38
Public Use School Facilities
117.41
Unclassified
6.86
Harbor Master
256.88
Shellfish
282.25
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
392.98
Parks and Playgrounds
17.50
Town Hall Recreation Committee
370.14
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