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31.00
Mileage
50.19
All other
28.40
$2,816.68
Assessor's Salaries
Appropriation $2,600.00
Philip W. Delano, Chairman
$1,400.00
Charles R. Crocker
600.00
Francis W. Perry
131.25
Newton E. Hyslop
468.75
$2,600.00
Assessors' Department
Appropriation
$4,734.00
Chief Clerk-Salary
$1,230.00
Assistant Clerks
1,869.73
Printing, Stationery, etc.
688.97
Mileage and Travel allowance
184.04
Telephone
32.30
Friden, maintenance
39.99
Street Listing
137.70
Membership
9.00
I.B.M. Electric Typewriter
455.00
Burroughs maintenance
13.50
All other
24.98
$4,685.21
156
Assessors Map
Appropriation Balance $ 87.47
1955 Appropriation 1,000.00
$1,087.47
Blues and photos
$106.55
R. B. Delano, C.E.
499.00
$605.55
Law Department
Appropriation $3,000.00
John J. Geogan, Esquire
legal services
$1,736.00
$1,736.00
Town Clerk's Salary
Appropriation $1,710.00
Joseph T. C. Jones, Salary
$1,710.00
$1,710.00
Town Clerk's Department
Appropriation $630.00
Clerk hire
$ 65.04
Printing, Stationery, etc.
270.04
Surety Bond
5.00
Desk and filing cabinet
244.12
All other
28.13
$612.33
Finance Committee
Appropriation $50.00
Membership dues
$15.00
Printing budget forms
18.48
$33.48
157
Appeal Board
Appropriation $821.00
Board Members salaries
$310.00
Associates
15.00
Clerk hire
60.00
Advertising
111.32
Office Supplies
18.00
Zoning Law Bulletin
10.00
$524.32
Planning Board
Appropriation
$2,000.00
Stenographic services
$130.50
Legal Advice
717.60
Printing
96.75
Postage, Stationery, etc.
49.08
$993.93
Election and Registration
Appropriation $1,790.00
Registrar's Salaries
$240.00
Town Meeting-Tellers
263.90
Police protection
41.80
Street Listing
206.37
Printing and Clerical
240.54
$992.61
Town Historian
Appropriation $100.00
Typing, postage, etc. $23.19
$23.19
158
Town Ofice
Appropriation
$4,430.00
Transfer from Reserve
1,865.00
$6,295.00
Water
$ 41.60
Fuel
732.08
Lights
363.11
Janitor's Supplies
247.64
Repairs :
Painting
1,414.02
Plumbing
148.64
Flooring
100.00
Window shades
167.50
Carpentering
2,905.10
Office Supplies
108.45
All other
56.77
$6,284.91
(General Government - Total $42,293.96)
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY
Hurricane Carol
Appropriation $11,047.65
State Reimbursement 16,200.92
$27,248.57
1954 Deficit Balance $9,512.23
1955 Expenditures :
By Highway Department
$ 110.01
By Tree Department
1,949.51
By Bridge Department
2,413.94
By Town Landing Department
2,430.73
By School Department
495.00
$7,399.19
159
Fire Department
Appropriation $19,748.00
Salaries :
Chief
$1,140.00
Permanent men
8,276.98
Relief
234.00
Call men
450.00
Volunteer Firemen
2,071.59
Janitor
75.00
Chief's Travel Allowance
400.00
Equipment and Apparatus
992.76
Fuel
711.64
Lights
368.31
Building Repairs
872.22
Furniture and Furnishings
1,672.67
Printing & Postage
60.34
Insurance
87.92
Telephones
799.16
Memberships
16.00
Water
30.40
Salvage Boat
61.00
Typewriter Maintenance
24.50
Uniforms
403.81
Boiler Inspection
10.00
Rent -- Barn
60.00
All other, including laundry
280.39
$19,098.69
Fire Department-Out of State Travel
Appropriation
$200.00
Travel costs
$55.75
$55.75
160
Police Department
Appropriation
$32,365.00
Transfer from
Reserve
1,757.56
$34,122.56
Salaries:
Chief
$ 4,945.00
Regular Patrolmen
14,480.00
Intermittent and Specials
10,639.19
Miscellaneous Equipment
100.50
Automobile expenses
2,318.48
Radio maintenance
37.23
Office expenses
575.27
Uniforms
702.67
"No Parking" signs
35.00
Raise sunken auto
25.00
Insurance
146.95
All other, including costs of
Lockup, teletype service, etc.
95.13
$34,100.42
Police Dept. Car
Station Wagon Type
Appropriation $3,500.00
Car and equipment
$3,284.32
$3,284.32
Insect Pest Control
Appropriation $2,504.20
Transfer from
Reserve
300.00
$2,804.20
161
Superintendent's Salary
$905.00
Labor
606.98
Trucks
135.00
Equipment
123.81
Insecticides
982.63
All other
21.65
$2,775.07
Control Dutch Elm Disease
Appropriation
$6,102.30
Superintendent's Salary
$1,588.00
Labor
3,642.10
Trucks
369.89
Equipment
38.55
Chemicals
390.00
All other
30.00
$6,058.54
Tree Warden's Salary
Appropriation $1,900.00
Roy E. Parks, Tree Warden
$1,900.00
$1,900.00
Tree Department
Appropriation $3,822.70
Labor
$2,457.40
Misc. Equipment
974.72
Insurance
46.10
Trees
145.43
All other, including telephone
115.89
$3,739.54
162
Tree Department-Hathaway Fund
Balance of Income $38.57 Trees $38.57
$38.57
Town Forest Improvements
Balance of
Appropriation $48.80
Labor $20.96
$20.96
Forest Department
Appropriation $4,320.00
Forest Warden's Salary
$ 772.00
Firemen
976.77
Truck expense
1,232.10
Apparatus
697.89
Rent
180.00
$3,858.76
Poison Ivy Control
Appropriation
Balance
$ 39.92
1955 Appropriation
375.00
$414.92
Weed Killer
178.40
Labor
92.20
All other
89.71
$360.31
163
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Appropriation
$355.00
Sealer's Salary
$200.00
Travel allowance
75.00
Insurance
44.10
All other
4.45
$323.55
Bounties
Appropriation
$60.00
Bounties on seals
10.00
$10.00
(Protection of Persons and Property -- Total $83,023.67)
HEALTH AND SANITATION
Health Department
Appropriation $4,460.00
Health Agent, Salary
$ 550.00
Duxbury Nurse Ass'n .- services
18.20
Medicine
32.00
Polio Supplies
8.35
T.B. Board and Treatment
752.00
Supplies for T.B. patients
21.95
Rat Poison
30.00
Premature Baby
179.02
School Dental Program
1,330.00
All other
3.63
$2,925.15
164
Town Dump
Appropriation
$1,260.00
Transfer from
Reserve 300.00
$1,560.00
Labor
$ 226.73
Truck expense
165.20
Bulldozer rental
1,006.00
Wire
21.40
$1,419.33
Well Child Clinic
Appropriation $300.00
Health Nurse
$31.14
Printing
15.00
$46.14
Animal Inspection
Appropriation
$150.00
Salary, Animal Inspector $150.00
$150.00
Inspection of Slaughtered Animals
Appropriation
$25.00
Salary, Inspector $25.00
$25.00
Vital Statistics
Appropriation
$15.00
Death Records
$2.50
$2.50
(Health and Sanitation - Total $4,568.12)
165
HIGHWAYS
Highway Department
Appropriation $36,943.00
Salary, Superintendent
$ 4,623.00 510.50
Office supplies and expenses
Labor
14,200.69
Truck hire and expenses
5,094.57
Stone, gravel, asphalt, oil, etc.
10,506.43
Miscellaneous equipment and repairs
1,689.63
All other, including insurance
311.00
$36,935.82
Highway Department-Hathaway Fund
Balance of
Income $543.08
Sign posts and pipe
$475.01
All other
68.07
$543.08
Arrowhead Road, Construction
Appropriation $700.00
Labor
$137.70
Concrete, Mix and Blocks
215.66
Trucks
188.00
$541.36
Blue Fish Tide Gates
Appropriation
$149.30
Labor and Repairs
$110.28
$110.28
166
Snow and Ice Removal
Appropriation $15,000.00
Labor $5,659.48
Sand
1,459.00
Salt
3,835.00
Plows and Trucks
2,773.32
Sand Spreader
480.00
Miscellaneous equipment 578.69
All other including lights and telephone
194.00
$14,979.49
Resurface Standish and Temple Streets
Balance of
Appropriation
$30.01
Labor $28.40
$28.40
Street Lights
Appropriation
$4,000.00
Plymouth County Electric Co.
$4,000.00
$4,000.00
Street Lights, Bay Road
Appropriation
$700.00
Plymouth County Electric Co.
$308.18
$308.18
Street Lights, Standish St., Captains Hill Rd.
Balance of
Appropriation
$72.05
Plymouth County Electric Co.
$72.05
$72.05
167
Indian Trail Storm Sewers
Transfer from
Bay View Road $700.00
Labor
$122.58
Frames, Grates, Mix
80.09
$202.67
Longview Road
Balance of
Appropriation $154.43
Labor $149.70
$149.70
Midway and Elderberry Lane
Appropriation $3,000.00
Labor
$ 646.61
Mix, Block, Gravel, etc.
1,231.85
Trucks
817.00
$2,695.46
Oakwood Road Improvement
Appropriation $2,000.00
Labor
$ 408.28
Trucks
1,149.68
Gravel and cement
403.00
$1,960.96
Pickup Truck, 1955
Appropriation $1,100.00
Truck-equipped
$896.00
$896.00
168
Pilgrim By-Way
Balance of Appropriation $230.08 Engineering $117.00
$117.00
Bridge Department
Appropriation $9,520.00
Labor
$2,242.12
Lumber, spikes, etc.
7,058.75
Trucks and small tools
194.76
$9,495.63
Bridge Department-Hathaway Fund
Balance of
Income $170.68
Labor
$78.64
$78.64
Ch. 90 Highway Maintenance 1955
Appropriation $1,000.00
Transfer from
E & D 2,000.00
$3,000.00
Labor
$ 287.65
Trucks
681.00
Asphalt, Mix, Oil
2,027.58
$2,996.23
169
Dump Truck, 1955
Appropriation $3,000.00
Dump Truck, equipped $2,979.00
$2,979.00
Ch. 90 Highway Construction 1955
Appropriation
$ 6,000.00
Transfer from E & D 18,000.00
$24,000.00
Labor
$2,444.33
Grader, Trucks, Loader, etc.
3,383.75
Gravel, asphalt, pipe, frames, grates, etc.
2,667.32
$8,495.40
Resurface Temple and Winter Sts.
Balance of
Appropriation
$1,495.02
Labor
$
91.20
Asphalt, pipe, Mix
1,397.69
$1,488.89.
Resurface Temple, Winter and Bow Sts.
Appropriation
$7,000.00
Labor
$2,641.49
Trucks, Shovel, Grader, etc.
2,961.75
Asphalt, gravel, blocks, etc.
767.86
$6,371.10
170
Town Landings
Appropriation $2,100.00
Labor
$727.08
Floats
52.55
Plastic planks
486.00
Materials and supplies
236.12
Trucks
482.60
Signs and painting
115.00
$2,099.35
Town Landings-Hathaway Fund
Balance of
Income
$43.27
Labor
$42.80
$42.80
(Highways - Total Expenditures $97,587.49)
CHARITIES AND SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
Public Welfare Department
Appropriation $63,000.00
Welfare Agent's Salary
$ 966.84
Visitor's Salary
1,516.00
Clerk's Salary
325.23
Printing, Stationery, etc.
113.69
All other administration costs
243.47
Groceries and Provisions
1,325.15
Coal and Wood
28.80
Board and Care
575.05
Medicine and Medical Attendance
802.71
Cash grants to individuals
7,385.95
Reimburse other cities and towns
1,808.27
Clothing 106.63
$15,197.79
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171
Disability Assistance
From
Public Welfare
$4,878.16
Cancelled Checks 145.25
$5,023.41
Cash Grants to Individuals
$2,868.39
Medicines and medical attendance
1,039.86
Board and Care
958.01
Office expenses
30.80
Mileage
110.00
$5,007.06
Disability Assistance
Federal Grants
$2,716.39
Balance from 1954
941.96
Cancelled Checks
118.07
Recovery
577.50
$4,353.92
Cash grants to Individuals
$2,691.13
Medicines and medical attendance
1,044.12
$3,735.25
Disability Assistance, Federal Grants-Administration
Federal Grants
$363.80
Balance from 1954
54.54
$418.34
Office supplies
$ 12.08
Machine maintenance
12.15
Telephone
12.95
Welfare Agent's Salary
110.91
Clerk's Salary
200.00
$348.09
172
Aid to Dependent Children
From Public Welfare $2,619.53 Cash grants to individuals
$2,234.90
Medicine and medical attendance 187.58
135.00
Mileage All other
62.05
$2,619.53
Aid to Dependent Children-Federal Grants
Federal Grants $3,376.10
Cash grants to individuals
$4,275.35
Medicine and medical attendance
324.85
$4,600.20
Aid to Dependent Children-Federal Grants-Administration
Federal Grants
$401.16
Balance from 1954 88.91
$490.07
Telephone
$ 24.95
Stationery
10.34
Welfare Agent's Salary
202.78
Clerk's Salary
252.00
$490.07
Old Age Assistance
From
Public Welfare $39,239.70
Cancelled Checks 134.25
$39,373.95
173
Cash grants to individuals
$30,342.05
Medicine and medical attendance
4,144.35
Board and Care
3,157.00
All other aid
23.14
Office expense
42.20
Mileage
165.00
Reimbursement to other towns
1,495.76
$39,369.50
Old Age Assistance- Federal Grants
Federal Grants
$23,145.86
Balance from 1954
5,823.46
Recoveries
1,413.45
Cancelled Checks
118.60
$30,501.37
Cash grants to individuals
$15,128.73
Medicine and medical attendance
8,892.93
Board and Care
4,254.78
All other
41.95
$28,318.39
Old Age Assistance -- Federal Grants-Administration
Federal Grants
$2,220.53
Balance from 1954 1,099.09
$3,319.62
Welfare Agent's Salary
$2,353.47
Clerk's Salary
516.89
Electric Adding Machine
292.00
Mileage
55.00
Telephone
56.35
Office equipment
9.90
$3,283.61
174
Veterans Benefits
Appropriation
$9,754.00
Cancelled Check 44.25
$9,798.25
Veterans Agent, Salary
$1,002.00
Clerk hire
100.00
Office expense, mileage, etc.
255.52
Ordinary Allowances
5,233.10
Fuel
688.75
- Medical
2,366.71
$9,646.08
J. & R. Ford Fund
Withdrawn
from Fund $1,054.72
Aid to worthy cases
$1,054.72
$1,054.72
(Charities and Soldiers Benefits - Total Expenditures $113,670.29)
SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES
School Department
Appropriation $267,818.97
Dog Fund 792.03
Refunds 19.01
$268,630.01
School Committee expenses
$
47.75
Salary of Superintendent 7,500.00
Clerk in Supt's Office
2,888.44
175
Truant Officer
120.00
Printing, Stationery and Postage
441.13
Telephones
848.49
Supt's Travel Allowance
720.00
Other travel expenses
89.95
School secretaries
2,090.00
All other Administration expenses
159.59
High School Teachers
52,551.23
Elementary School Teachers
79,964.75
Supervisors
20,169.19
Substitutes and Tutors
1,819.50
H.S. Textbooks
1,981.27
H.S. Classroom supplies
5,837.30
Elem. Textbooks
2,011.44
Elem. Classroom supplies
5,543.09
Transportation
High School
9,531.74
Elementary School
16,382.36
Janitors' Services
High School
8,170.50
Elementary School
7,740.67
Fuel and Light
High School
4,820.00
Elementary School
4,394.97
Maintenance of Buildings and Grounds:
H.S. Repairs
10,889.88
H.S. Janitors' Supplies
1,095.61
H.S .- all other
96.88
Elem. Repairs
8,847.05
Elem. Janitors' Supplies
4,986.19
Elem .- all other
28.50
Furniture and Furnishings
High School 1,543.37
Elementary School
1,468.59
Diplomas and Graduation exercises 50.91
176
Miscellaneous printing
89.18
Insurance
144.38
School Physician
867.00
Duxbury Nurse Association
2,133.60
Health Supplies and equipment
535.26
$268,599.76
School, Out of State Travel
Appropriation $200.00
To interview teachers, etc. $97.32
$97.32
Vocational and Americanization
Appropriation $2,316.80
Teacher-Americanization classes
$440.00
Vocational Schools, tuition
240.60
$680.60
Adult-Education -- Smith-Barden Fund
Grant
$1,225.00
Balance from 1954 $1,443.38
$2,668.38
Teacher's Salary $1,500.00
$1,500.00
Vocational Training Program-Evening Practical Arts
Appropriation $460.00
Janitor
$52.00
Teacher
60.80
All other
13.75
$126.55
177
Public Use of School Facilities
Appropriation $1,000.00
Janitors
$ 84.00
Lights
601.72
Fuel
259.01
Telephone
12.77
$957.50
Elementary School-New Wing
Balance of
Appropriation $61,688.97
C. A. Batson, Co., construction
$1,000.00
Insurance
375.36
Equipment
4,504.74
Shrubbery, Landscaping, etc.
3,207.68
$9,087.78
Duxbury Free Library
Appropriation $5,500.00
Librarian
$2,640.00
Assistants
2,456.69
Books and Supplies
177.67
$5,274.36
William Penn Harding Fund
Income from Fund
-Balance $90.23
Duxbury Library for books $90.23
$90.23
(Schools and Libraries-Total Expenditures $286,414.10)
178
REVOLVING FUNDS
Liquor Ad Deposits
Deposits
$48.00
Duxbury Clipper
$40.00
$40.00
Planning Board Deposits
Balance
$13.20
Deposits
20.00
$33.20
Refunds
$13.20
- Advertising
7.50
Registered mail
5.69
$26.39
Athletic Association
Balance from 1954
$179.42
1955 Receipts
932.16
$1,111.58
Miscellaneous Services and Supplies $1,072.54
$1,072.54
School Lunch Program
Balance from 1954
$ 1,984.18
Receipts in 1955 29,854.15
$31,838.33
Food
$21,710.92
Assistants
8,122.37
Equipment
338.13
Repairs
122.82
Telephone
120.73
Gas
381.89
Scavenger service
409.00
All other costs
71.88
$31,277.74 (Revolving Funds - Total Expenditures $32,416.67)
179
RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED
Aid to Agriculture
Appropriation
$100.00
Contribution to Program $100.00
$100.00
Alden Area -- Land Purchase
Appropriation
$5,000.00
Purchase price of Lots R6 and R7
$5,000.00
$5,000.00
Autumn Avenue Awards
Appropriation
$937.00
Awards for land damages
$496.00
$496.00
Duxbury Basin Expansion
Appropriation
$16,000.00
Contribution from
Duxbury Yacht Club
4,000.00
$20,000.00
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
$20,000.00
$20,000.00
Bay Road Land Damages
Balance of
Appropriation
$115.00
Awards for land damages
$100.00
$100.00
180
Boat and Outboard Motor for Harbor Master And Shellfish Constable
Appropriation $652.00
Boat and Motor $652.00
$652.00
Building Code Committee
Appropriation $200.00
Printing and Publishing
$200.00
$200.00
Civil Defense
Balance of
Appropriation $883.11
Telephone
$129.38
Radio equipment
283.40
$412.78
Eben Ellison Beach
Appropriation
$1,200.00
Balance of Gift
133.60
$1,333.60
Labor
$272.20
Trucks
384.80
Materiel and supplies
183.67
$840.67
Eradication of Rag Weed
Balance of
Appropriation
$100.00
Labor $91.44
$91.44
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181
Fire Insurance Schedule
Appropriation $3,760.00 Insurance $2,990.43
$2,990.43
Floodlights, Train Field
Appropriation
$3,200.00
Graybar Refunds 263.56
$3,463.56
Equipment and supplies
$2,788.45
Plymouth County Elect. Co.
229.83
Labor
152.00
Electrician
201.61
Express
5.67
$3,377.56
Greenhead Fly Control
Appropriation $1,500.00
State Reclamation
$1,500.00
$1,500.00
Harbor Master
Appropriation
$1,005.00
Transfer from
Reserve 227.80
$1,232.80
Harbor Master
$700.00
Assistant Harbor Master
100.00
Printing
34.05
Materials
33.28
Channel Markers, maintenance and repairs 283.55
$1,150.88
182
Memorial Day
Appropriation $400.00
Geraniums
$140.00
Flags
93.25
Duxbury H.S. Band
75.00
Programs, bus, organist
60.50
$368.75
Parks and Playgrounds
Appropriation $1,481.60
Labor
$708.26
Materiel
604.13
Repairs and all other
166.00
$1,478.39
Printing and Delivering Town Reports
Appropriation
$1,696.49
Printing and delivering
$1,696.49
$1,696.49
Ramp at Mattakeesett Landing
Appropriation
$2,700.00
Contract-construction of ramp $2,700.00
$2,700.00
Retirement System
Balance
$
461.80
Appropriation
5,524.30
$5,986.10
Contribution to System
$5,524.30
$5,524.30
183
75 Foot Baseball Diamond
Appropriation $400.00
Grass seed and peat moss
$159.50
Rotator and truck
179.00
$338.50
Shell fish
Appropriation $2,696.00
Shellfish Constable salary
$1,729.00
Travel allowance
600.00
Equipment
140.73
Printing
76.00
All other
85.46
$2,631.19
Special Shellfish Account
Balance
$300.95
State Grant
250.00
$550.95
Labor
$276.25
Quahaug seed
250.50
$526.75
South Shore Mosquito Control
Appropriation
$7,550.00
Contribution to Control project
$7,550.00
$7,550.00
State Census, Jan. 1, 1955
1954 Appropriation
$200.00
Census taker
$200.00
$200.00
184
Expense of Tax Titles
Balance of
Appropriation $1,003.18
Legal services $207.09
$207.09
Town Field Improvements
Balance of 1954
Appropriation
$1,004.04
1955 Appropriation 1,000.00
$2,004.04
Labor
$ 460.26
Trucks
76.00
Materiel and supplies
1,247.20
$1,783.46
Town Hall Recreation
Appropriation
$1,316.00
Directors
$234.00
Telephone
112.03
Lights
123.46
Fuel
425.32
Repairs
39.02
Water
16.00
Janitor's services
235.00
$1,184.83
Unclassified
Appropriation
$610.00
Dog Officer
$150.00
Care of Dogs
54.00
Clock custodian
60.00
Oil Town Clock
53.00
Flags
182.69
Flag Custodians
100.00
All other
3.37
$603.06
185
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
Appropriation
$2,700.00
Transfer from
Reserve 288.97
$2,988.97
Century Indemnity Co.
$2,988.97
$2,988.97
Hydrant Rental
Appropriation $550.00
Town of Marshfield $550.00
$550.00
Old Town Hall-Remodeling
Appropriation $8,500.00
Architect's Services
$400.00
$400.00
(Recreation and Unclassified-Total Expenditures $67,643.54)
Group Accident Insurance
Appropriation $735.85
Insurance $735.85
$735.85
Myles Standish Lot Fund
Appropriation
$298.10
Labor and trucks
$298.10
$298.10
(Recreation and Unclassified-Total $68,677.49)
186
ENTERPRISE AND CEMETERIES
Water Department
Sept. 12 to Dec. 31
Maintenance and Operation
Transfer from
Duxbury Fire and
Water District $14,175.12
Salaries:
Superintendent
$1,268.75
Collector
612.43
Clerk
40.80
Labor
2,022.10
Trucks
508.48
Power
1,517.79
Materiel and Equipment
3,326.77
Meter expense
2.76
Maintenance of Buildings
181.69
Water Treatment
207.49
Office expenses
286.72
All other costs
299.82
$10,275.60
Water Department
Sept. 12 to Dec. 31
Service Connections
Transfer from
Duxbury Fire and
Water District $5,159.92
Labor
$ 405.28
Equipment
114.73
Laying Pipe
306.90
Stock and materiel
4,020.14
All other
11.41
$4,858.46
-
187
Cleaning Mains
Balance of 1954 appropriation Transferred from District $1,865.99
Labor
$234.34
National Water Main Co.
552.00
Williams & Melvin
83.25
$869.59
Goose Point Lane Extension
Deposit
$601.13
Labor
$13.20
$13.20
Water Department-Duck Hill Road, etc.
Transfer from
Duxbury Fire and Water District $9,960.75
Labor
$
261.68
Stock and materiel
3,948.70
All other 25.15
$4,235.53 .
Engineering Services and New Sources of Water Supply
Transfer from Duxbury Fire and Water District $5,835.90
Engineering
$2,913.23
$2,913.23
188
New Well and Equipment and Depot Street Extension
Transfer from
Duxbury Fire and
Water District $5,954.10
Whitman & Howard, engineering
$189.47
D. L. Maher, installation
719.55
All other
54.53
$963.55
- Cemetery Department
Appropriation
$15,061.00
Sale of Lots
460.00
Perpetual Care
Income 2,942.42
Transfer from
Reserve
318.25
$18,781.67
Superintendent's Salary
$ 3,857.00
Labor
11,258.12
Secretary's Salary
240.00
Loam
745.50
Shrubs, lawn seed, etc.
155.78
Materiel and equipment
1,477.39
Mowers and trucks
683.25
Office supplies
210.59
All other, including water and insurance
152.22
$18,779.85
Boomer Square
Appropriation $60.00
Labor $59.90
$59.90
189
Cemetery Department-Hathaway Fund
Balance of Income $110.00
Gravel, limestone, turf $110.00
$110.00
George W. Wood Fund
Income withdrawn $24.50 Flowers $24.50
$24.50
F & H Partch Flower Fund
Income withdrawn
$6.50
Flowers
$6.50
$6.50
Lucy A. Ewell Fund
Income withdrawn
$31.20
Labor
$31.20
$31.20
(Water Department and Cemeteries -
Total Expenditures $43,141.11)
INTEREST AND MATURING DEBT
Interest
Appropriation
$12,742.50
Interest paid
$12,082.50
$12,082.50
High School Wing - Bonds
Appropriation
$15,000.0
Rockland Trust Company
$15,000.00
$15,000.00
190
Elementary School -- Bonds
Appropriation $15,000.00 Day Trust Company $15,000.00
$15,000.00
Duxbury Beach Sea Wall - Notes
Appropriation
$2,000.00
Rockland Trust Company $2,000.00
$2,000.00
Elementary School, New Wing, Bonds
Appropriation
$15,000.00
Rockland Trust Company $15,000.00
$15,000.00
Unpaid Bills of 1954
Appropriation
$1,687.44
Unpaid Bills of previous year
$1,687.19
$1,687.19
(Interest and Maturing Debt - Total $60,769.69)
AGENCY, TRUST, AND INVESTMENT
Plymouth County Hospital $12,765.29
County of Plymouth, County Tax 32,771.49
Rockland Trust Co., Withholding Taxes 37,143.61
Plymouth County Treasurer,
Retirement Funds 6,279.56
Plymouth Savings Bank,
Perpetual Care Funds 4,585.00
Plymouth Federal Savings & Loan Association, Perpetual Care Funds 2,800.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank, Perpetual Care Funds 900.00
191
Plymouth Savings Bank, General Care
and Improvement Fund 1,130.00
J. and R. Ford Fund, Investment
1,130.00
Income deposited
657.50
Stabilization Fund, Investment
9,000.00
County of Plymouth, Dog License
942.20
Division of Fish and Game, Sporting Licenses
840.00
State Audit of Municipal Accounts
883.47
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
State Parks and Reservations
840.73
Hathaway Fund, Income deposit
2,008.82
$138,547.67
Reserve
Appropriation $7,500.00
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
$ 288.97
Insect Pest Control
300.00
Cemetery Department
318.25
Town Office and Buildings
1,865.00
Selectmen's Department
1,200.00
Police Department
1,757.56
Town Dump
300.00
Harbor Master
227.80
Total Transfers
$6,257.58
REFUNDS
Real Estate Taxes, 1954
$ 174.66
Poll Tax, 1955
10.00
Personal Property Taxes, 1955
409.29
Real Estate Taxes, 1955
1,388.20
District Tax, 1955 Personal
23.65
District Tax, 1955 Real
59.92
1954 Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes
256.04
192
1955 Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes
2,683.53
Water Rates, 1955
60.00
Building Permits 51.00
Estimates Receipts
6.35
Excess and Deficiency, District Tax
3.19
Old Age Recovery
.77
Tax Titles -- to District
10.44
$5,137.04
Total Expenditures
$976,247.30
CEMETERY TRUST FUND ACCOUNT
Total Amount of Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
January 1, 1955
$120,054.49
Dividends added to Trust Funds in 1955
2,941.43
Amounts added in 1955
Jan. 3 Elmer E. Maddocks
$100.00
Jan. 3 James F. Rice
100.00
Feb. 8
Onofrio LaGreca 200.00
Feb. 10 Bertram & Larter
200.00
Feb. 10
Peleg Cook
200.00
Feb. 10 Charles Hayden
200.00
Feb. 10
Frank Pride
200.00
Feb. 10
Fergus Steele
200.00
Feb. 18
Alpheus Holmes Walker
300.00
Mar. 17 Susan C. Beals
100.00
Mar. 25 Leroy O. Freeman
300.00
Mar. 28 Susan E. Carter
100.00
Mar. 31 Herbert E. Walker
300.00
Apr. 6 Albert H. Peterson
400.00
Apr. 6 Asa W. Glass
100.00
Apr. 21 W. E. S. Frazar
200.00
Apr. 22 Mary E. Baker
400.00
May 5 Ida May Lewis 100.00
May 6 J. W. H. Myrick
100.00
193
May 10 H. E. Merry
200.00
May 19 Wm. S. Montgomery
100.00
May 19 Randall W. Abbott
200.00
May 20 Cathy L. Watson
200.00
May 25 Caroline S. Delano
200.00
May 28 Asa W. Glass
50.00
June 27 Asa W. Glass
25.00
July 6 Flora A. Brackett
100.00
July 12
Asa W. Glass
25.00
July 12
Mary H. Beckjord
400.00
Aug. 8
Harrie E. Foster 200.00
Aug. 10
Peterson & Thomas
100.00
Aug. 23
Sarah J. Loring 400.00
Aug. 26
D. Alden and A. R. Titus
100.00
Sept. 12
Theodore M. Chase
200.00
Sept. 13
Charles W. Jaycox 500.00
Sept. 22
R. Peterson et al
200.00
Sept. 30
Mayflower Cemetery Fund
10.00
Oct. 11
Eliz. B. and Mary O. Marshall
200.00
Oct. 20
W. Fletcher Hall
150.00
Oct. 20
Bradley V. Osgood
200.00
Oct. 27
Lizzie W. Johnson
100.00
Nov. 18
Mayflower Cemetery Fund
25.00
Nov. 21 Maurice L. Chandler
400.00
Dec. 9 Laura W. Elliott
200.00
Dec. 22 Priscilla and Paul Barber
200.00
Dec. 28 Lucy M. Barker
200.00
Dec. 31 Ellen J. Hill
1,000.00
Total deposits added:
$ 9,685.00
Total Trust Funds and Dividends
$132,680.92
Amount Withdrawn from Income for Care of Lots in 1955 2,941.42
Balance December 31, 1955
$129,739.50
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