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Appropriation
Health Agent's Salary
$500.00
Office Supplies
8.41
400 Pounds Warfarin
120.00
School Dental Program
910.00
1,538.41
Town Dump
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Labor
$615.50
Truck Maintenance
59.65
Gasoline for Trucks
108.00
Supplies and Repairs
130.05
Bulldozer
77.50
990.70
Public Health Nurse
Appropriation
$525.00
Health Nurse's Salary
525.00
Animal Inspection
Appropriation
$150.00
150.00
Salary of Animal Inspector
Inspection of Slaughtered Animals
Appropriation
$25.00
Salary of Inspector
25.00
Vital Statistics
Appropriation
$15.00
Death Records 4.75
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HIGHWAYS Highways
Appropriation $33,530.00
Highway Superintendent's Salary $3,800.00 Office Expenses, Including Telephone and Heating Office 338.63
Labor 10,624.90
Trucks, Maintenance and Repairs 6,087.79
Stone, Gravel, Asphalt, Tar, Oil
11,137.01
Miscellaneous Equipment and Repairs to Equipment 1,092.53
Insurance
193.75
Painting White Lines
75.00
All Other Miscellaneous Expenses
150.63
33,500.24
Highway Department-Hathaway Fund Balance of Prev. Dist. $228.31
1953 Distribution of Income 1,150.00
$1,378.31
Street Signs
$244.37
Asphalt
478.86
Labor
112.00
835.23
Snow and Ice Removal
Appropriation
$12,000.00
Labor
$2,700.41
Truck, Maintenance, Repairs, Rentals 3,459.96
Plows, Rentals, Maintenance, Repairs
1,773.63
Salt
2,804.00
Sand
184.95
Miscellaneous Equipment and Tools
902.33
All Other, Including Telephone and
Lights 57.64
Fuel Oil
39.29
11,922.21
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Bridge Department $10,900.00
Appropriation
Labor
$2,996.10
Lumber and Spikes
6,862.52
Concrete Pipe
139.00
All Other, Including Machine Rental
884.17
10,881.79
Bridge Department-Hathaway Fund
Balance of Prev. Dist. $140.98
1953 Distribution of Income 575.00
$715.98
Labor
$110.40
Cement and Spikes
72.10
Creosote
22.00
204.50
Town Landings
Appropriation
$2,310.00
Labor
$793.45
Concrete, Hardware and Miscellaneous Equipment
797.43
Towing Floats, Etc.
139.50
Trucks
392.50
Sand
148.20
Water
21.60
2,292.68
Town Landings-Hathaway Fund Balance from Prev. Dist. $117.72 1953 Distribution of Income 575.00
$692.72
Labor
$221.35
Grader
30.00
Tow Floats, Etc.
110.60
361.95
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Ch. 90 Highway Maintenance $3,000.00
Appropriation
Labor
$650.90
Trucks
508.60
Asphalt
1,566.97
Pipe and Couplings
174.99
Sand
77.05
2,978.51
Ch. 90 Highway Construction
Appropriation $16,000.00
Publishing Notices
$25.20
Materials
509.59
D. J. Roach Co., Construction Work 12,624.38
Labor 167.40
13,326.57
Ch. 90 Highway Construction-1952 Contract Appropriation Balance $2,399.08
Construction Contract Balance 2,202.03
Captain's Hill Road
Appropriation
$3,500.00
Materials
1,634.03
Labor
$554.00
Trucks
1,125.00
3,313.03
Longview Road
Appropriation
$800.00
Labor
$96.18
Trucks
277.75
Materials
271.64
645.57
Blodgett Avenue, Construction Appropriation $3,500.00
Materials $1,077.52
Labor
664.70
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Trucks 1,015.00 Equipment 709.74 All Other, Including Engineering 27.00
3,493.96
Resurface Standish and Temple Streets
Appropriation $6,700.00
Labor
$1,089.65
Trucks
1,826.50
Materials
3,729.84
All Other
24.00
6.669.99
Bluefish River Tide Gates
Appropriation
$450.00
Labor
$59.35
Materials
42.51
Asphalt
90.00
All Other
61.53
253.39
Street Lights on Summer Street
Appropriation
$45.00
Plymouth County Electric Co. 38.40
Street Lights
Appropriation
$3,800.00
Plymouth County Electric Co.
3,723.74
Street Lights on South Street
Appropriation
$22.50
Plymouth County Electric Co.
22.50
Street Lights, Mattakeesett Court
and Peterson Road
Appropriation Balance
$7.41
Plymouth County Electric Company
7.41
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Land Damage, Tobey Garden Street Appropriation $511.00
Plymouth County Electric Company 306.00
Traffic Signs and Markers
Appropriation Balance $13.41 Street Signs 13.41
CHARITIES AND SOLDIERS' BENEFITS Disability Assistance
Appropriation
$6,751.32
Cancelled Checks 24.85
$6,776.17
Agent's Salary
$640.60
Clerk's Salary
254.20
Cash Aid
4,081.35
Medical Bills
1,345.82
Board and Care
377.00
Office Expenses
12.73
Mileage
39.62
6,751.32
Disability Assistance, Federal Grants
Balance from 1952
$335.46
Federal Grants
5,301.66
$5,637.12
Cash Aid
$3,546.90
Medical Costs
542.32
4,089.22
Disability Assistance Federal Grants-Administration Balance from 1952 $102.74
Federal Grants 363.59
$466.33
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Visitor's Salary
$300.00
Office Expenses and Supplies
5.30
8.40
Telephone Mileage
22.97
336.67
Aid to Dependent Children
Appropriation
$2,517.94
Agent's Salary
$454.36
Clerk's Salary
137.08
Cash Aid
1,862.10
Mileage
21.90
Office Supplies
42.50
2,517.94
Aid to Dependent Children Federal Grant
Balance from 1952
$1,275.58
Federal Grants
2,787.71
Cancelled Checks
159.60
$4,222.89
Cash Aid
$3,017.69
Medical Expenses
77.25
3,094.94
Aid to Dependent Children Federal Grant-Administration
Balance from 1952
$90.71
Federal Grants 1953 282.33
$373.04
Agent's Salary
$118.12
Visitor's Salary
177.18
R
Telephone
18.40
All Other
2.20
T
315.90
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Public Welfare
Appropriation
$9,201.03
Agent's Salary
$708.72
Visitor's Salary
253.08
Clerk's Salary
632.26
Mileage
111.74
Printing, Stationery, Postage
78.67
All Other Office Costs
43.82
Attending Welfare Conference
62.65
Groceries and Provisions
1,134.78
Coal, Wood and Oil
52.79
Board and Care
573.04
Medicine and Medical Attendance
1,722.95
Cash Aid
3,771.40
All Other Aid
43.13
Reimbursement-Other Towns
12.00
9,201.03
Old Age Assistance
Appropriation
$43,208.60
Cancelled Checks and
Refunds
327.20
$43,535.80
Agent's Salary
$384.36
Clerk's Salary
214.40
Cash Aid
35,635.70
Medical Expenses
6,040.05
Stationery, Printing, Postage
25.83
Mileage
103.30
Reimburse Other Towns
856.55
Reimburse Cities
50.57
Telephone and all Other Costs
19.39
43,330.15
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Old Age Assistance-Federal Grants
Balance from 1952
$3,915.29
Federal Grants
27,581.43
Recoveries
1,296.75
Cancelled Checks
229.35
$33,022.82
Cash Aid
$27,402.82
Medical Expenses
4,546.85
Burial
200.00
32,149.67
Old Age Assistance Federal Grants-Administration
Balance from 1952
$908.36
Federal Grants
2,066.76
Refund
.06
$2,975.18
Salary, Agent
$768.90
Salary, Visitor
400.00
Salary, Clerk
184.85
Stationery, Office Supplies
50.96
Mileage
88.05
Telephone
45.61
1,538.37
Veterans Benefits
Appropriation
$7,160.00
Transfer from Reserve 310.00
$7,470.00
Salary, Veterans Agent
$800.00
Salary, Clerk
100.00
Office Expenses, Including
Telephone and Travel Costs
168.14
Ordinary Allowances
4,874.00
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Fuel
744.00
Medical Expenses
777.68
7,463.82
J. And R. Ford Fund Income Withdrawn $331.00 Medical Expenses for Worthy Cases 331.00
SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES Adult Education-Smith-Barden Funds
Commonwealth of Mass. $1,550.00
Balance from 1952 200.00
$1,750.00
Teachers' Salaries 714.16
Vocational Training Program Adult Education
Appropriation
$147.00
Janitor Service
116.00
Elementary School Expansion Committee
Appropriation Balance
$5,000.00
Architect's Services
$4,500.00
Engineering Services
87.50
Miscellaneous Materials and Costs
270.60
4,858.10
High School Stage Repairs
Appropriation Balance $4,000.00
Electrical Repairs
$660.00
Carpentering Repairs
647.54
Asbestos Curtain 950.00
Miscellaneous Theatrical Equipment 1,175.74
All Other Costs 10.27
3,443.55
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High School Stage Equipment Appropriation $3,950.00
American Theatre Service, Equipment
$2,962.62
Chester M. Sampson, Equipment
312.70
3,275.32
School Department-Hathaway Fund Balance of Prev. Dist. $700.19 1953 Distribution of Income 1,150.00
$1,850.19
Jud Williams, Inc., Arch Draperies
660.00
School-Out of State Travel
Appropriation
$200.00
Travel out of State 27.95
Vocational and Americanization
Appropriation
$1,454.00
Americanization Teacher $378.00
Tuition, Vocational Students 331.55
Transportation, Vocational Students 244.11
953.66
Public Use of School Facilities
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Janitor's Services 80.50
Lights
408.61
Fuel
494.97
984.08
Elementary School-New Wing Trans. from Avail. Funds $151,000.00 Architect's Fees $14,122.50
Construction Costs, C. A. Batson 63,320.44
Insurance 5,401.81
Parking Area Construction 985.00
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Authenticating Bonds Protective Fence Field Surveying All Other, Including Advertising
803.32
271.00
49.50
101.35
85,054.92
High School-New Wing Balance of Appropriation $152.10 Equipment 134.75
School Department
Appropriation
$188,675.00
Dog Fund
606.14
Refund
7.50
$189,288.64
School Committee Expenses
$78.10
Superintendent's Salary
7,000.00
Superintendent's Secretary
2,603.42
Truant Officer
100.00
Stationery, Printing, Postage
382.48
Telephone
488.06
Traveling Costs
505.96
Secretary, High School
1,340.00
All Other Administration Costs
166.20
Rinehart Handwriting Instruction
550.00
Teachers' Salaries
111,133.95
Substitute Teachers, Tutoring, Etc.
3,620.12
High School:
Text Books
1,646.23
Supplies and Material
3,970.23
Elementary School:
Text Books
1,522.20
Supplies and Material
3,007.67
Transportation:
High School
7,211.56
Elementary School
13,423.00
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Janitors' Services
9,698.20
Fuel and Light:
High School
3,645.99
Elementary School
2,119.00
Maintenance of Building and Grounds:
High School:
Repairs
4,331.94
Janitors' Supplies
772.59
All Other
30.73
Elementary School:
Repairs
1,627.77
Janitors' Supplies
798.84
Furniture and Furnishings:
High School
1,651.52
Elementary School
535.95
Diplomas and Graduation Exercises
116.84
Insurance
1,166.41
School Nurse
1,410.00
School Physician
734.00
Health Supplies
43.13
187,432.09
Duxbury Free Library
Appropriation
$3,000.00
Librarian's Salary
$1,770.50
Assistants, Salary
1,229.50
3,000.00
Duxbury Free Library Hathaway Fund
Bal. of prior Dist.
$18.70
1953 Distribution of Inc. 287.50
$306.20
Books Purchased 136.24
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RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED
Group Accident Insurance Fire and Police Department
Appropriation $176.00
Transfer from Reserve 11.00
$187.00
Insurance 187.00
Civil Defense
Appropriation Balance
$1,422.01
Telephone
$81.06
Clerk Hire
25.15
Office Supplies
11.28
Identification Equipment
69.13
Radio Receiver
208.53
395.15
Unclassified
Appropriation
$545.00
Dog Officer
$150.00
Care of Dogs
13.50
U. S. Flags, Care, and Maintenance of Flag Poles
132.33
Custodian of Town Clock
60.00
355.83
Harbor Master
$1,010.00
Appropriation
Harbor Master's Salary
$600.00
Salary, Assistant Harbor Master
100.00
Materials
31.50
Lengthen Moorings
79.92
Paint Markers
29.00
840.42
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Shellfish
Appropriation $2,225.00 Transfers from Reserve 70.24
$2,295.24
Shellfish Constable's Salary $1,575.00
Constable's Travel Allowance 600.00
Materials 12.39
Printing Regulations and Permits 64.50
Outboard Motor Repairs
43.35
2,295.24
Special Shellfish Account Balance of Appropriation $584.35
Labor 41.80
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
Appropriation $2,500.00
Insurance Policy
1,801.90
Aid To Agriculture
Appropriation
$100.00
Contribution 100.00
Fourth of July
Appropriation
$950.00
Bands
$582.00
Bus Hire
50.00
Prizes and Materials
318.00
950.00
Printing and Delivering Town Reports Appropriation $1,400.00
Printing Town Reports $1,277.84
Delivering Town Reports
89.40
1,367.24
Fire Insurance Schedule Appropriation $2,800.00
Fire Insurance Policies 2,095.83
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Duxbury Beach Sea Walls
Appropriation $18,250.00 Sea Wall Notes 18,000.00
$36,250.00
State Department of Public Works
36,250.00
Greenhead Fly Control
Appropriation
$1,500.00
State Reclamation Board 1,500:00
Little League Baseball
Appropriation
$266.00
Peat Moss and Grass Seed
$63.45
Shoveldozer Etc.
70.00
Miscellaneous Repairs to Diamond
132.55
266.00
Mower For Park Department
Appropriation
$500.00
Rotary Mower
$456.00
Blades
28.76
Express
3.56
488.32
Removal of Monument at Boomer Square Appropriation $100.00
Labor 97.55
Mosquito Control (Town Program)
Appropriation Balance $1,025.00
1953 Appropriation 500.00
$1,525.00
Aerial Spraying 1,375.00
Memorial Day
Appropriation
$425.00
Geraniums
$180.00
All Other Costs
124.00
304.00
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Mosquito Control
Appropriation $1,500.00
Contribution to State Project
1,500.00
Tarkiln Recreation Center
Appropriation $1,500.00
Directors
$270.00
Fuel
466.88
Building Maintenance and Repairs
417.39
Lights
114.94
Furniture and Equipment
131.54
1,400.75
Duxbury "Town Hall" Recreation Center Appropriation $1,616.00
Directors
$227.00
Lights
149.02
Telephone
87.71
Fuel
311.03
Water
16.00
Maintenance and Repairs to Building
191.12
981.88
Retirement System
Appropriation Balance
$487.80
1953 Appropriation 3,686.00
$4,173.80
Contribution to Retirement System
$3,686.00
Transportation, Etc. 26.00
3,712.00
Hydrant Rental
Appropriation
$550.00
Town of Marshfield 550.00
Parks and Playgrounds
Appropriation
$932.15
Labor $497.36
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Trucks
123.86
Materials
224.93
Repairs Water
28.49
51.20
925.84
Land Damage Awards-Congress St. Balance of 1949 Approp. $8.00 Award Payment 2.00
Myles Standish Lot Fund
Income Withdrawn $50.10
Labor 50.10
Expense of Tax Title Foreclosure Balance of Appropriation $595.50
Office Costs 16.45
CEMETERIES
Cemetery Department-Hathaway Fund Distribution of Inc. $287.50 Grass Seed 102.00
Cemeteries
Sale of Cemetery Lots
$400.00
Appropriation
12,611.00
Perpetual Care Funds, Income 2,603.83
$15,614.83
Salary, Superintendent
$3,363.38
Labor
8,613.75
Salary, Secretary
240.00
Office Supplies, Postage, Telephone
296.62
Loam and Gravel
620.50
Trees and Shrubs 256.00
Materials and Equipment
1,003.58
Truck and Gasoline Mowers
815.56
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Repairs to Granite Post 60.00 Water 77.55
Insurance 43.50
All Other Costs
49.90
15,440.34
Cemetery-Out of State Travel
Appropriation $40.00
Superintendent's Travel Costs 12.46
Boomer Square
Appropriation $60.00
Labor
$33.50
Hardware
9.32
42.82
George H. Wood Fund
Income Withdrawn $27.00
Flowers 27.00
F. & H. Partch Flower Fund
Income Withdrawn $2.25
Flowers
2.25
Lucy A. Ewell Cemetery Fund Income Withdrawn $31.90 Labor 31.90
INTEREST AND MATURING DEBT
Interest
Appropriation $7,735.00
Rockland Trust Co., Interest
H. S. Wing Bonds $2,320.00
Day Trust Co., Interest Elementary School Bonds 4,815.00
Rockland Trust Company, Interest Sea Wall Notes 180.00
7,315.00
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Maturing Debt-High School Bonds Appropriation $20,000.00
Rockland Trust Company 20,000.00
Maturing Debt-Elementary School Bonds
Appropriation $15,00.00
Day Trust Company 15,000.00
Unpaid Bills of 1952
Appropriation
$44.00
1952 Bills (Insurance) 44.00
AGENCY, TRUST AND INVESTMENT
County of Plymouth, County Tax $28,880.14
Rockland Trust, Co., Withholding Taxes 25,196.89
Plymouth County Treasurer,
Retirement Funds 4,374.74
Plymouth Savings Bank, Perpetual Care Funds 1,025.00
Plymouth Federal Savings & Loan Asso-
ciation, Perpetual Care Funds 4,650.00
Plymouth Savings Bank, Cemetery, General Care and Improvement Fund 25.00
Division of Fisheries and Game, Sporting Licenses 835.50
Plymouth County, Dog Licenses
1,162.20
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, State Parks and Reservations 746.91
State Audit of Municipal Accounts
1,053.99
Plymouth Federal Savings & Loan Asso- ciation, Forrest and Helen Partch Cemetery Flower Fund 300.00
Plymouth Federal Savings & Loan Associ- ation, Agnes S. Ellison Fund 1,000.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank,
Trust Fund Income 2,560.48
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Plymouth County Hospital, T.B. 10,112.63 Central Massachusetts Disaster Fund 402.26
82,325.74
REVOLVING FUNDS Athletic Association
Balance from 1952
$229.65
Received from
Athletic Association 1,389.06
$1,618.71
Miscellaneous Services and Supplies 1,321.41
School Lunch Program
Balance from 1952 $1,937.97
Receipts in 1953 24,991.42
$26,929.39
Labor
$6,135.97
Food
17,163.06
Telephone
82.55
Fuel and Lights
301.03
Miscellaneous Equipment and Supplies
733.26
Garbage Collection
274.00
All Other Costs
175.30
24,865.17
Liquor Ad. Deposits Deposits to Cover Ads. $17.00
Duxbury Clipper 17.00
Planning Board Deposits
Balance from 1952
$10.95
Deposits in 1953
70.00
Refund
5.20
$86.15
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Publishing Notices
$32.50
Clerical Services and Postage
22.40
Refunds
7.25
62.15
Transfers From Reserve
To Police Department
$1,162.67
To Fire Department
2,022.41
To Shellfish Department
70.24
To Group Insurance
11.00
To Veterans Benefits
310.00
To Appeal Board
46.88
To Town Treasurer
72.11
$3,695.31
REFUNDS
1952 Real Estate Taxes
$13.60
1953 Poll Taxes
10.00
1953 Personal Taxes
186.62
1953 Real Estate Taxes
724.53
1952 Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes
408.71
1953 Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes
1,561.25
Tax Title Revenue (To District)
7.40
Estimated Revenue
6.31
Building Permits
1.00
Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund
25.00
Total Expenditures
2,944.42 $824,820.14
CEMETERY TRUST FUND ACCOUNT
Total Amount of Cemetery Perpetual
Care Funds, December 31, 1952
$106,355.43
Audit Adjustment, December 31, 1952
1.83
Balance Forward January 1, 1953
$106,353.60
Dividends added to Trust Funds in 1953
2,995.30
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New Funds Added in 1953:
Annie G. Woodward
$200.00
William B. Drew
600.00
Harold P. Freeman
200.00
Stephen W. Gifford
50.00
George W. Hunt
200.00
John E. Hutchins
200.00
Richard E. Kendrew
200.00
Howard G. Kitt
300.00
Minnie C. Prince
200.00
Arthur T. Rogde
200.00
Howard L. Sampson
300.00
Daniel L. Winsor
200.00
George A. Winsor
200.00
Ella M. Swift
200.00
George L. Damon et ux
200.00
Loring R. C. Mugford
200.00
Clara M. Redmond
200.00
Parker Soule
400.00
C. Winthrop Bates
200.00
Previously Established Funds Were
Increased by the Following Amounts:
Annie M. Wellman
100.00
Winthrop O. Delano 100.00
Margaret L. Edgar
200.00
William J. Alden, Jr.
150.00
Mayflower Cemetery Fund
475.00
Total Additional Funds 5,475.00
Total Trust Funds and Dividends
$114,823.90
Amount Withdrawn From Income for Care of Lots in 1953
2,603.83
Balance December 31, 1953 $112,220.07
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Total Trust Funds Reported December 31, 1952 Funds Added in 1953
$102,719.31
5,475.00
Total Principal Dec. 31, 1953
$108,194.31
Accumulated Interest
4,025.76
$112,220.07
1953 APPROPRIATION BALANCES RETAINED
Assessors' Map
$1,161.45
Police Department, 1953 Automobile
15.00
Tree Department-Hathaway Fund
376.12
Town Forest Improvements
48.80
Forest Fire Department-Truck
671.79
Poison Ivy Extermination
74.72
Highway:
Highway Department-Hathaway Fund
543.08
Bridge Department-Hathaway Fund
511.48
Town Landings-Hathaway Fund
330.77
Ch. 90 Highway Maintenance
21.49
Ch. 90 Highway Construction
2,673.43
Ch. 90 Construction (1052)
197.05
Pilgrim By-Way
230.08
Captain's Hill Road Construction
186.97
Longview Road, Construction
154.43
Blodgett Avenue, Construction
6.04
Resurface Standish and Temple Streets
30.01
Bluefish River Tide Gates
196.61
Street Lights, Summer Street
6.60
Land Damage, Tobey Garden Street
205.00
Church and Tremont Streets, Awards
52.00
Old Colony Road
101.27
Pine Ridge Lane, Construction
757.68
Bay View Road, Construction
1,622.90
Town Landing-Howland's so-called
900.00
Blue Fish Tide Gate 42.00
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Public Welfare:
Disability Assistance, Federal Grants
1,547.90
D.A. Federal Grants, Administration
129.66
Disability Assistance 24.85
A.D.C., Federal Grants
1,127.95
A.D.C., Federal Grants, Administration
57.14
Old Age Assistance, Federal Grants
873.15
O.A.A., Federal Grants, Administration Old Age Assistance
205.65
School:
Smith-Barden Funds, Adult Education 1,035.84
Elementary School Expansion Committee
141.90
High School Stage Repairs
556.45
High School Stage Equipment
674.68
H. S. Building Completion
15.30
School Department, Hathaway Fund
1,190.19
Elementary School, New Wing Available Funds Borrowed Money
280,000.00
High School, New Wing Construction
17.35
Library:
Library, Hathaway Fund
169.96
William Penn Harding Library Fund
100.00
Recreation and Unclassified:
Builders Risk Insurance, Elem. Sch.
250.00
Civil Defense
1,026.86
Shellfish, Special Account
542.55
Propagation of Shellfish
336.69
Mosquito Control
150.00
Eradication of Rag Weed
100.00
Fish Ladders, Island Creek
179.70
Tax Title Foreclosure Expense
579.05
Greenhead Fly Control
200.00
Parking Area Sign So. Duxbury
50.00
Town Retirement System
461.80
1,436.81
65,945.08
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Tax Title Accounts
149.28
Blue Fish Tide Gates
3.23
Duxbury Beach Engineering Survey
50.00
Rat Control
118.77
Field Mower for Park Department
11.68
Winter Street, Purchase of Land
25.00
Removal Monument, Boomer Square
2.45
Land Damage Award, Valley and Franklin Sts.
4.85
Land Damage Award, Congress Street
6.00
Cemetery Department, Hathaway Fund
185.50
$370,800.04
APPROPRIATION BALANCES RETURNED TO THE TREASURY
Selectmen's Department
$323.61
Town Treasurer
38.39
Accounting Department-O.S.T.
14.05
Accounting Department
97.72
Assessors' Department
93.47
Tax Collector's Department
62.59
Town Clerk's Department
258.08
Finance Committee
19.50
Planning Board
45.37
Election and Registration
71.76
Law Department
461.18
Town Historian
20.74
Investigation Officer
150.00
Town Office-1953
391.22
Town Office-1952
16.32
Police Department
23.05
Fire Department
466.49
Insect Pest Control
2.10
Control of Dutch Elm Disease
12.62
Tree Department
6.65
Forest Fire Department
1,006.75
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Sealer of Weights and Measures
10.13
Bounties
45.00
Health Department
461.59
Town Dump
9.30
Vital Statistics
10.25
Highway Department
29.76
Snow and Ice Removal
77.79
Bridge Department
18.21
Town Landings
17.32
Highway Dept .- Repairs for Duxbury Fire & Water District
1,000.00
Street Lights
76.26
Welfare-Control
921.11
Veterans Benefits
6.18
Public Welfare Dept .- Out Of State Travel
300.00
Evening Practical Arts
31.00
School-O. S. T.
172.05
School Department
1,856.55
Vocational and Americanization
500.34
Public Use of School Facilities
15.92
Unclassified
189.17
Harbor Master
169.58
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
698.10
Parks and Playgrounds
6.31
Town Hall Recreation Center
634.12
Memorial Day
121.00
Tarkiln Recreation Center
99.25
Printing and Delivering Town Reports
32.76
Fire Insurance Schedule
704.17
Cemetery Department
174.49
Boomer Square
17.18
Cemetery-Out of State Travel
27.54
Interest
420.00
$12,434.09
TOWN OF DUXBURY BALANCE SHEET - December 31, 1953 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Cash:
Dog Licenses
$10.20
Tailings
183.28
Sale of Cemetery Lots
420.00
Collector (Petty Cash) 250.00
Town Clerk (Petty Cash)
25.00
$556,394.57
Elem. Sch. Wing Bonds $254.80
Sea Wall Notes
10.00
Accounts Receivable :
264.80
Eben Ellison Beach
133.60
Taxes:
Ship Weathervane
60.50
Levy of 1953
$28,814.54
28,814.54
$1,199.71
County Tax
1,265.65
Motor Vehicles Excise Taxes:
Old Age Assistance:
Levy of 1950
$48.58
Levy of 1952
122.29
Levy of 1953
4,870.46
Revolving Funds:
School Lunch Program
$2,064.22
Tax Titles
$4,471.39
Athletic Association
297.30
Tax Possessions
93.85
4,565.24
Unexpended Appropriation Balances
2,361.52 335,654.84
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Cherry Sheet Overestimates: Plymouth County Hospital
2,465.36
Recoveries-Reserved for Distribution
4,861.13
5,041.33
Planning Board Deposits Premium :
24.00
In Banks and Office $556,119.57
Balance Sheet - Continued
Departmental:
Public Welfare
$1,422.50
Aid to Dependent Children 292.06
Old Age Assistance
1,224.93
Veterans' Benefits
1,049.86
Cemetery
246.00
Dutch Elm Disease Control
69.50
Overlays Reserved for Abatement of Taxes: 1953 Overlay Overlay Surplus
$11,161.90 27,879.72
39,041.62
Motor Vehicle Tax Revenue
5,041.33
Tax Title Revenue
4,565.24
Departmental Revenue
4,304.85
Aid to Highway Revenue
3,172.97
Commonwealth of Mass.
$2,112.92
County of Plymouth
1,060.05
Excess and Deficiency
199,694.72
Cherry Sheet Underestimates
241.46
Appropriation from
Stabilization Fund $31,650.36
Post-War Rehabilitation Fund 3,494.84
35,145.20
$637,680.16
$637,680.16
DEBT ACCOUNTS
Net Funded or Fixed Debt
$622,000.00
Elementary School Loan
$199,000.00
High School Wing Loan 125,000.00
Duxbury Sea Wall Notes
18,000.00
Elementary School Wing Loan
280,000.00
$622,000.00
$622,000.00
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School Construction authorized from:
Stabilization Fund
$31,650.36
Post-War Rehabilitation Fund 3,494.84
35,145.20
Aid to Highways:
4,304.85
Reserve for Petty Cash
275.00
3,172.97
TRUST ACCOUNTS
Trust Funds, Cash and Securities $206,982.61
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
$112,220.07
George H. Wood Cemetery Fund 1,028.72
Thomas D. Hathaway Fund 2,854.32
Myles Standish Cellar Fund
1,631.47
Lucy Hathaway Trust Fund
21,381.05
Jonathan and Ruth Ford Fund
28,766.02
William Penn Harding Library Fund
1,056.41
Lucy A. Ewell Cemetery Funds
525.61
F. and H. Partch Cemetery Flower Fund
304.50
Agnes S. Ellison Trust Fund
1,015.00
Mayflower Cemetery General Care and Improvement Fund
25.00
* Stabilization Fund
32,635.92
* Post-War Rehabilitation Fund
3,538.52
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$206,982.61
$206,982.61
* School Construction authorized from: Stabilization Fund $31,650.36 Post-War Rehabilitation Fund 3,494.84
$35,145.20
(not yet withdrawn from Banks)
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF DUXBURY
637
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31
1953
SCHOOL COMMITTEE Year Ending December 31, 1953
SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Term Expires
Morrison M. Bump, Chairman
1956
Mrs. Elizabeth Nickerson
1956
Albert P. Richards
1954
Earle C. Grenquist
1955
Dominic LaGreca
1954
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Everett L. Handy
SECRETARY TO THE SUPERINTENDENT Mrs. Eileen P. Jones
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REPORT OF THE DUXBURY SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Duxbury:
It is hoped that you will all examine carefully the report of the Superintendent of Schools. Here may be found the detailed information on our curriculum, "special services," personnel, enrollment, buildings, state aid, and finances.
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