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Respectfully submitted,
ISABELLE V. FREEMAN,
Town Accountant
Receipts
TAXES
1956 Poll
$ 2,078.00
1956 Personal
39,753.18
1956 Real
519,547.10
Prior Years:
Poll
22.00
Personal
4,038.69
Real
$0,090.86
1955 District Real
1,411.56
1955 District Personal
180.54
1954 District Real
12.90
1954 District Personal
5.10
Taxes collected after abatement
34.11
193
Redemption of Tax Titles
690.89
Income Tax:
General
26,174.17
School Basis
35,100.00
Business Corporation Tax
30,500.00
$689,639.10
SALE OF LAND OF LOW VALUE
Receipts at Sale:
$1,700.86
$1,700.86
Book Value of Tax Titles
814.58
Costs
29.93
Interest
116.51
Treasurer's deed
22.00
Additional receipts
717.84
$1,700.86
Of the foregoing sum, $464.06 was in excess of the taxes, costs, interest and expense of the sale.
LICENSES AND PERMITS
Building Permits
$1,982.00
Common Victuallers license
24.00
Pistol licenses
22.50
Innholders
4.00
Oleomargarine
1.00
Bicycle registrations
50.50
Sale of Firearms
4.00
Liquor Licenses
3,254.00
Marriage Licenses
60.00
Sunday
12.00
Junk Dealers
15.00
Cabin and Motel
3.50
Milk licenses
8.00
Ice Cream Mfg. and Sales
2.00
194
Shellfish:
Commercial
320.00
"Family"
391.50
"Clam Grant"
5.00
Hawkers and Peddlers
10.00
Garbage
8.00
Garage
25.00
Methyl Alcohol
7.00
Taxicab
6.00
Gasoline registrations
6.00
$6,221.00
FINES AND FORFEITS
Third District Court of Plymouth $52.00
$52.00
GRANTS AND GIFTS
County of Plymouth, Dog Licenses
$700.38
Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
O.A.A. Meal Tax
1,589.30
Marine Fisheries
750.00
Reimbursement Lost Taxes
527.97
School House Aid
3,991.60
Transportation of Children
25,375.45
Tuition of Children
588.38
Vocational Education
1,963.47
English Speaking Classes
200.00
Youth Service Board
66.75
Smith-Barden Vocational
412.50
O.A.A. Federal Grants
27,155.75
A.D.C. Federal Grants
5,986.73
D.A. Federal Grants
3,355.40
$72,663.68
195
PRIVILEGES AND ASSESSMENTS
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
$56,683.49
Clam Grant fees
22.25
Sea Wall Assessments
683.97
$60,389.71
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Town Treasurer's fees
$ 24.22
Tax Collector's Costs
547.40
Town Clerk, Recording and Certifying
788.85
Telephone Tolls, etc.
64.37
Selectmen's Department
8.13
$1,432.97
DEPARTMENTAL INCOME
Sealer of Weights and Measures
$ 75.00
Bounties
15.50
Health Department
5.00
Water Department
291.74
School Department
189.78
Police - Beach Stickers
2,076.00
$2,653.02
HIGHWAYS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Ch. 90 Joint Construction
$11,998.69
County of Plymouth
Ch. 90 Joint Construction
5,999.35
Individual
17.70
$18,015.74
CHARITIES
Disability Assistance
$ 2,347.74
General Relief
8,772.72
Aid to Dependent Children
3,660.09
196
Old Age Assistance
31,896.97
Veterans Benefits 3,494.87
Recovery: Old Age Assistance, etc.
1,656.80
$51,829.19
CEMETERIES
Sale of Lots and Graves
$ 290.00
Care of Lots
1,141.00
Interments
2,236.00
Foundations
622.00
Building Lots
348.00
All Other
175.25
$4,812.25
UNCLASSIFIED
Unidentified Cash $16.00
$16.00
TEMPORARY ACCOUNT
From Duxbury Rural Society
for Standish Cellar Lot $ 10.00
From Charles R. Crocker, Agent,
for George Chandler Flower Fund
100.00
(Acceptance of foregoing subject to vote of Town)
$110.00
WATER
Meter Resetting
$ 751.00
Water Rates
47,757.20
Service Connections
3,439.96
$51,948.16
REVOLVING ACCOUNTS
School Lunch Program
$31,246.90
Athletic Association
283.90
$31,530.80
197
INTEREST
Interest on Deposits
$1,138.52
Interest on Deferred Taxes 1,061.45
Interest on Tax Titles redeemed
48.31
Interest on Special Assessments
291.55
Interest on M. V. Excise Taxes
285.96
1
$2,825.79
AGENCY, TRUST AND INVESTMENT
Hathaway and Ford Fund Income
$ 2,315.55
Blue Cross-Blue Shield
1,583.00
Withholding Taxes
45,717.06
Retirement Deductions
8,713.53
Dog Licenses - for County
1,240.40
Sporting Licenses - for State
736.00
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
6,650.00
Cemetery, General Care Fund
250.00
Vendor's Trustee Account
3,138.90
Liquor Ad Deposits
30.00
Planning Board Deposits
20.00
Trust Fund Income withdrawn from Banks
Lucy Hathaway Fund
4,800.00
George H. Wood Fund
27.00
Partch Flower Fund
7.50
Ewell Cemetery Fund
20.00
J & R Ford Fund
272.25
Cemetery G.C.I.
480.00
Lucy Hathaway Fund
(stock purchased)
1,014.14
Cemetery Perpetual Care
3,437.23
$80,452.56
MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS
Notes, West Duxbury Water Expansion $46,000.00
Premium $51.06
198
REFUNDS AND CANCELLED CHECKS
Selectmen's Department
$ 5.38
Town Treasurer's Salary
7.22
Assessors' Department
6.00
Town Clerk's Salary
7.22
Police Department
124.20
Old Age Assistance
128.95
School Department
200.80
Parks and Playgrounds
4.50
Water, M & O
117.83
Water Dept., Petty Cash
92.00
School Lunch Program
2.86
Welfare - General Relief
76.00
Disability Assistance
47.60
O.A.A. Federal Grants
76.70
Veterans Benefits
77.00
School Dept., 1955 check
19.86
O.A.A., 1955 cancelled check
5.10
Insurance Companies
145.99
$1,145.21
Total Receipts
$1,123,489.10
Expenditures SUMMARY
General Government
$ 47,644.78
Protection of Persons and Property
88,458.62
Health and Sanitation
5,798.65
Highways
148,253.33
Charities and Veterans Benefits
116,131.58
Schools and Libraries
313,592.08
Recreation and Unclassified
44,344.93
Enterprise (Water) and Cemeteries
126,619.03
199
Revolving Funds Interest and Maturing Debt
29,212.53
72,945.96
Agency, Trust, and Investment Refunds
4,754.59
$1,132,810.78
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Moderator
Appropriation
$40.00
Moderator's Salary
$40.00
$40.00
Selectmen's Salaries
Appropriation $2,425.00
Philip W. Delano
$1,400.00
Charles R. Crocker
109.61
Newton E. Hyslop
258.96
James H. W. Jenner
149.55
Francis W. Perry
402.89
$2,321.01
Selectmen's Department
Appropriation
$4,638.63
Refunds
5.38
$4,644.01
Clerk hire
$1,094.88
Printing, stationery, postage,
and publishing
866.49
Auto allowance
100.00
Telephone
138.24
Membership dues
31.00
Engineering
1,745.00
State Census
18.00
Public Address System
70.00
Investigating Officer
50.00
$4,113.62
135,054.70
200
Town Treasurer's Salary
Appropriation
$1,818.00
Refund 7.22
$1,825.22
Joseph T. C. Jones
$
730.46
Harriet B. Borgeson
49.34
Maurice H. Shirley
1,045.42
$1,825.22
Treasurer's Department
Appropriation $4,830.00
Assistant Treasurer and Clerk hire
$2,033.02
Printing, Stationery, Postage
661.17
Surety Bonds
487.24
Telephone
133.63
Mileage
32.46
Office furniture and equipment
498.07
Certification of notes and Bank service 79.40
9.50
$3,934.49
Accounting Department
Appropriation $4,285.96
Town Accountant's Salary
$2,426.00
Clerk Hire
1,337.02
Printing, stationery, etc.
126.04
Electric adding machine and transfer cases
383.32
All other
8.55
$4,280.93
Accounting Department
Out of State Travel
Appropriation $70.00
Attendance, N. E. States and Municipal
Finance Officers Association $67.75
$67.75
All other
201
Assessors Salaries
Appropriation
$2,600.00
Philip W. Delano
$1,400.00
Charles R. Crocker
126.60
Newton E. Hyslop
303.23
James H. Jenner
175.00
Francis W. Perry
473.40
$2,478.23
Assessors' Department
Appropriation
$4,842.97
Cancelled check
6.00
$4,848.97
Clerks
$3,155.28
Listing fees
138.00
Printing, stationery, postage
725.27
Auto Allowance
200.00
Membership and attendance
34.88
Telephone
58.25
Machine maintenance
13.33
$4,325.01
Assessors' Maps
Balance
$ 481.92
Appropriation 1,000.00
$1,481.92
Engineering and drafting $550.83
$550.83
Tax Collector's Salary
Appropriation $2,860.00
Transfer from
Water Dept., by
Vote of Town 1,225.10
$4,085.10
202
Tax Collector's Salary $4,085.10 (See also Water Department)
$4,085.10
Tax Collector's Department
Appropriation $3,320.00
Transfer from
Water Dept., by
Vote of Town 796.16
$4,116.16
Clerk hire
$2,302.96
Stationery, printing, postage
1,052.05
Surety Bond
360.50
Deputy Collector
45.00
All other, including transportation,
telephone, insurance
354.69
$4,115.20
Town Clerk's Salary
Appropriation
$1,818.00
Refund
7.22
$1,825.22
Joseph T. C. Jones
$ 730.46
Harriet B. Borgeson
49.34
Maurice H. Shirley
1,045.42
$1,825.22
Town Clerk's Department
Appropriation $1,000.00
Assistant Town Clerk and Clerk hire
$323.65
Printing, stationery, postage
515.83
Surety Bond
5.00
All other
11.56
$856.04
203
Finance Committee
Appropriation
$50.00
Transfer from Reserve
2.75
$52.75
Membership
$15.00
Stationery
37.75
$52.75
Appeal Board
Appropriation $706.00 Salaries:
Chairman
$145.00
Secretary
95.00
3rd Member
70.00
Associates
15.00
Clerk
60.00
Publishing
119.45
Legal advice and zoning bulletin
60.00
Postage and printing
53.30
$617.75
Election and Registration
Appropriation
$2,090.00
Transfer from
Reserve
175.00
$2,265.00
Salaries:
Board of Registrars
$240.00
Street Lister
359.80
Clerk
34.29
"Tellers"
875.38
Policemen
141.44
204
Printing, stationery and postage
596.90
All other
15.64
$2,263.45
Town Historian
Appropriation
$100.00
Printing, stationery, postage $58.30
$58.30
Personnel Board
Appropriation $50.00
Clerical 10.81
$10.81
Planning Board
Appropriation $1,500.00
Clerk hire
$175.50
Legal advice
389.62
Publishing, stationery, and all other
315.72
$880.84
Law Department
Appropriation $2,500.00
Town Counsel: retainer and fees $2,293.45
$2,293.45
Town Office
Appropriation $7,760.00
Fuel
$ 917.16
Lights
475.50
Janitor's supplies
873.84
Painting, plumbing, carpentering
4,017.90
Office supplies
(multi-departmental use)
329.06
All other, including water
35.32
$6,648.78
(General Government - Total $47,644.78)
205
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY
Fire Department
Appropriation $21,041.13
Salaries:
Fire Chief
$ 1,232.00
Permanent Firemen
10,822.80
Volunteer Firemen
2,577.09
Call Men
450.00
Janitor
75.00
Chief's car allowance
400.00
Hose
759.50
Trucks: Maintenance and repairs
1,836.87
Buildings and grounds:
Fuel
758.62
Lights
343.87
Building Repairs
121.80
Janitor's Supplies
156.04
All other costs
147.86
Stationery, printing, postage
55.30
Telephone
751.60
Insurance
84.92
Emergency rations
23.81
Uniforms and Badges
166.30
Memberships
17.00
All other, including laundry
79.05
$20,859.43
Fire Department
Out of State Travel
Appropriation $300.00
Chief's Travel costs
$297.56
$297.56
Fire Dept. Rescue Boat
Appropriation $1,150.00
Boat and Equipment $1,014.61
$1,014.61
206
Police Department
Appropriation
$38,494.56
Refunds
124.20
Transfer from
Reserve
600.00
$39,218.76
Salaries:
Chief of Police
$ 5,341.00
Sergeants
7,880.00
Regular Patrolmen
11,489.12
Special Patrolmen
8,325.93
Clerk
644.84
Equipment, miscellaneous
186.46
Cruisers, maintenance and repairs
3,269.75
Radio
556.23
Office costs, postage, stationery,
printing, etc.
869.87
Teletype service
99.75
Uniforms
269.57
Plymouth Lockup charges
39.75
Insurance
144.07
All other
36.89
$39,153.23
Police Department Cruiser
Appropriation $2,400.00
Cruiser and equipment $2,400.00
$2,400.00
Insect Pest Control
Appropriation $4,394.00
Salary - Superintendent
$1,000.00
Labor
1,645.12
Trucks, maintenance and repairs 378.54
207
Equipment, tools, etc. Insecticides All other
217.66
335.66
22.25
3,599.23
Control of Dutch Elm Disease
Appropriation
$6,388.00
Salary, Superintendent Labor
4,461.74
Equipment
44.05
$6,349.79
Tree Warden's Salary
Appropriation $1,900.00
Salary, Tree Warden
$1,900.00
$1,900.00
Tree Department
Appropriation $3,883.00
Labor
$2,851.08
Trucks, maintenance and repairs
126.74
Equipment and tools
717.40
Insurance
42.75
Telephone (refunds reported
in Receipts)
93.65
All other
8.75
$3,840.37
Tree Department
Hathaway Fund
Distribution of
income $600.00
Trees and Shrubs
$511.25
$511.24
Forest Fire Department
Appropriation $4,272.00
Salary, Forest Warden
$ 671.00
Firefighters
843.78
Chief's car allowance
150.00
$1,844.00
208
Trucks, maintenance and repairs
1,320.09
Apparatus and equipment 850.98 Rental 165.00
All other
56.45
$4,057.30
Building Inspector
Appropriation $3,850.00
Transfer from
Reserve 200.00
$4,050.00
Building Inspector:
Fees prior to job classification $ 435.00
Salary subsequent to job classification
1,385.43
Clerk hire
1,088.49
Mileage
298.26
Telephone
82.52
Publishing
100.25
Office equipment and supplies
660.05
$4,050.00
Building Code Revision
Appropriation $100.00
Printing Code revision
$100.00
$100.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Appropriation $355.00
Sealer's Salary
$200.00
Travel allowance
75.00
Equipment
40.86
$315.86
Bounties
Appropriation $60.00
Bounties paid
$10.00
$10.00
(Protection of Persons and Property - Total $88,458.62)
209
HEALTH AND SANITATION
Town Dump
Appropriation $2,500.00
Labor
$ 115.12
Fill
18.00
Bulldozing
$2,048.55
$2,181.67
Animal Inspection
Appropriation $150.00
Salary of Inspector $150.00
$150.00
Inspection of Slaughtered Animals
Appropriation $25.00
Salary of Inspector $25.00
$25.00
Well Child Clinic
Balance of
appropriation $253.86
Duxbury Nurse Association $11.20
$11.20
Health Department
Appropriation $3,910.00
Salary, Health Agent
$600.00
Hospital - contagious
438.25
Clinics - Polio, etc.
324.17
Hospital - T.B.
507.00
Vermin control
102.39
School Dental Program:
Dentists' fees
1,290.00
Dental supplies and equipment
60.44
All other, including office expense 107.53
$3,429.78
210
Vital Statistics
Appropriation $15.00
Death Certificate $1.00
$1.00
(Health and Sanitation - Total $5,798.65)
HIGHWAYS
Highway Department
Appropriation $41,542.00
Salary, Superintendent
$ 4,993.00
Office expenses
450.54
Labor 15,249.75
Truck Repairs and Rentals
6,889.13
Stone, Gravel, Asphalt, etc.
10,749.87
Equipment and tools
1,087.99
All other, including insurance
1,000.70
$40,420.98
Highway - Hathaway Fund
Distribution of
Income $1,200.00
Labor
$213.02
Grader rental
556.00
$769.02
Bridge Department
Appropriation $9,520.00
Labor
$1,985.39
Lumber
7,083.20
Move Building
175.00
All other, including spikes and hardware
233.65
$9,477.24
Bridge - Hathaway Fund
Balance of
Income $92.04
211
1956 Distribution of Income
600.00
$692.04
Labor
$562.83
$562.83
Snow and Ice Removal
Annual
Appropriation
$20,000.00
Transfer from
Reserve 1,000.00
Appropriation at
Special Town
Meeting
9,000.00
$30,000.00
Labor
$9,358.05
Salt, Sand, etc.
8,550.00
Trucks - Plows, rentals
6,641.01
Telephone and Lights
144.28
Snow Fence
380.00
Fuel oil
38.50
Equipment
1,119.67
Town Trucks, maintenance
and repairs
3,744.04
All other
4.72
$29,980.27
Snow and Ice Removal
Emergency, March 16, 1956
Legal Overdraft $884.86
Labor
$82.88
Trucks
775.02
Sanding
26.96
$884.86
212
Snow and Ice Removal
Emergency, March 19, 1956
Legal Overdraft $2,625.97
Labor
$ 631.75
Trucks
1,495.75
Gasoline
121.51
Grader Rental
172.00
Sand and Salt
195.00
All other
$2,625.97
Snow and Ice Removal
Emergency, March 24, 1956
Legal Overdraft $1,630.95
Labor
$552.45
Trucks
455.00
Sand and Salt
$1,630.95
Town Landings
Appropriation
$2,500.00
Labor
$1,324.52
Material
719.94
Tow Floats
15.00
Trucks and Machines
389.00
Water
10.00
All other
$2,497.46
Chapter 90 Construction
1955 Contract
Balance
$15,504.60
Labor
753.90
Trucks and machine rental
12,580.57
Material
$ 2,167.52
$15,501.99
9.96
623.50
39.00
:213
Chapter 90 Maintenance
1956 Contract
Appropriation $3,000.00
Labor
$957:11
Trucks and Machine rental
647.25
Material
998.41
Concrete Posts
375.00
$2,977.77
Chapter 90 Construction
1956 Contract
Appropriation $24,000.00
Labor
$4,696.36
Machinery rental
9,063.53
Material
4,214.34
$17,974.23
Winter, Temple and Autumn Streets
Resurfacing
Appropriation $8,000.00
Labor
$1,073.52
Machinery, rental
2,280.55
Material
2,385.46
$5,739.53
Longview Road
Surfacing
Appropriation $350.00
Labor
$ 12.00
Truck rental
236.00
Material
102.00
$350.00
Howland's Landing Road
Improvement
Appropriation $1,750.00
Labor $139.40
1.99
214
Trucks - rental
891.50
Material
703.84
$1,734.74
Eagles Nest Road
Construction
Appropriation $1,600.00
Labor
$203.75
Machinery rental
522.00
Material
817.78
$1,543.53
Brewster Street
Construction
Appropriation $900.00
Labor
$214.65
Machinery rental
216.00
Material
211.84
$642.49
Old Colony Road
Appropriation $3,000.00
Labor
$816.39
Machinery Rental
725.60
Material
993.93
$2,535.92
Highway Tractor Mower
Appropriation $2,100.00
Transfer from
Reserve 266.50
$2,366.50
Ferguson Tractor Mower
$2,366.20
$2,366.20
215
Hathaway Fund
Town Landings
Balance $ .47
1956 Distribution
of Income 600.00
$600.47
Labor
$244.89
Machinery rental
47.25
$292.14
Alden Street
Curve Reduction
Appropriation $1,500.00
Labor
$412.96
Machinery rental
454.26
Material
439.40
$1,306.62
Blue Fish Tidegates
Balance
$ 39.02
Appropriation
125.00
$164.02
Labor and all other
$41.71
$41.71
Arrowhead Road
Construction
Balance $158.64
Labor
$109.59
$109.59
Bay View Road
Construction
Balance
$222.90
Asphalt and Sand
$218.25
$218.25
216
Temple, Winter, and Bow Streets
Resurfacing
Balance $628.90
Material $614.34
$614.34
Street Lights
Appropriation $5,400.00
Plymouth County Elect. Co. $5,062.88
$5,062.88
Street Lights, Bay Road
Balance of
Appropriation $391.82
Plymouth County Elect. Co.
$391.82
$391.82
(Highways - Total $148,253.33)
CHARITIES AND SOLDIERS BENEFITS
Public Welfare
General Relief
Transfer from
Welfare Control
Account
$8,829.71
Cancelled Checks
76.00
$8,905.71
Salaries $1,000.00
Printing, stationery, etc.
102.42
All other office costs
255.53
Groceries and Provisions
1,068.25
Medicine and Medical care
1,780.35
Cash Grants to Individuals
4,283.95
Reimbursement to other Towns
398.12
Reimbursement to Cities 17.09
$8,905.71
217
Disability Assistance
Town Fund
Transfer from
Welfare Control Account $3,813.04
Cash Aid
$1,961.60
Medicine and Medical care
1,683.44
Mileage allowance
165.00
Postage
3.00
$3,813.04
Disability Assistance
Federal Grants
Balance from 1955
$ 618.67
Federal Grants
2,975.91
Cancelled Checks
47.60
$3,642.18
Cash Aid
$1,963.25
Medicine and medical care
1,397.24
$3,360.49
Disability Assistance
Federal Grants, Administration
Balance from 1955
$ 70.25
1956 Federal Grants 379.49
$449.74
Salaries
$217.16
Mileage
25.00
Telephone
72.55
Office supplies
47.53
$362.24
218
Aid to Dependent Children Town Fund
Transfer from
Welfare Control
Account $7,863.09
Cash Aid
$5,846.51
Medicine and medical care
1,639.67
Mileage
110.00
Board and Care
200.01
All other
66.90
Aid to Dependent Children
Federal Grants
Balance from 1955 $ 274.51
1956 Federal Grants 5,077.49
$5,352.00
Cash Aid
$2,958.05
Medicine and Medical Care
1,202.75
$4,160.80
Aid to Dependent Children
Federal Grants, Administration 1956 Federal Grants $909.24
Salaries
$818.09
Stationery, Postage, etc.
40.21
Mileage
30.00
$888.30
Old Age Assistance
Town Fund
Transfer from
Welfare Control
Account
$45,303.62
Cancelled Checks
128.95
$45,432.57
$7,863.09
219
Salaries
Cash Aid
$ 2,000.00 29,552.30
Medicine and Medical care
12,984.15
General administration costs including mileage
177.50
Reimbursement to other towns
718.62
Old Age Assistance Federal Grants
Balance from 1955 $ 2,182.98
Federal Grants 1956 24,894.24
Recoveries 994.50
Cancelled checks 76.70
$28,148.42
Cash Aid
$17,679.45
Medicine and medical care
6,564.92
$24,244.37
Old Age Assistance
Federal Grants, Administration
Balance from 1955 $ 36.01
Federal Grants 2,261.51
$2,297.52
Salaries
$2,204.99
Stationery, postage, etc.
52.93
Telephone
39.60
$2,297.52
Veterans Benefits
Appropriation
$11,692.00
Cancelled checks
77.00
Transfers from
Reserve
2,800.00
$14,569.00
$45,432.57
220
Salary, Veterans Agent
$1,084.68
Clerk hire
100.00
Stationery, postage, etc.
240.49
Ordinary Benefits
7,496.99
Fuel Allowances
1,011.73
Medicine and Medical care
4,189.77
Reimbursement to other Cities and Towns
257.54
Veteran's Burial
150.00
$14,531.20
Jonathan and Ruth Ford Fund
Fund Income 1 $690.00
Withdrawals from
Fund
272.25
Medical costs - worthy cases $272.25
(Charities and Veterans Benefits - Total $116,131.58)
SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES
School Department
Appropriation $299,220.00
Dog Fund 691.38
Cancelled Checks 200.80
$300,112.18
Salary of Superintendent
$ 7,833.36
Clerk, Supt's. Office
3,000.16
Truant Officer 120.00
Stationery, printing, postage
305.76
Telephones
903.17
Travelling allowances
788.88
Salaries, School Secretaries
3,196.00
All other general administration 702.79
221
Teachers Salaries:
High School
67,211.18
Elementary School
89,555.76
Supervisors and Instructors
27,554.36
Substitutes and Tutors
1,922.00
Books and Supplies:
H.S. Text Books
1,833.78
H.S. Work books and
Classroom supplies
5,393.42
Elem. Text Books
2,429.49
Elem. Work books and
Classroom supplies
4,610.60
Transportation:
High School
12,047.01
Elementary
20,481.82
Janitors salaries
15,929.88
Fuel and Light:
High School
4,707.96
Elementary
4,750.93
Buildings and Grounds:
H.S. Repairs
4,771.72
H.S. Janitors Supplies
1,065.66
H.S. All other
60.00
Elem. Repairs
5,247.38
Elem. Janitors supplies
1,668.43
All other - Elem.
285.02
Furniture and Furnishings:
High School
3,242.90
Elementary School
851.59
Diplomas and Graduation Exercises
55.24
Miscellaneous printing
90.00
Insurance 1,411.08
222
School Health:
Physician
915.00
Nurse
2,562.30
Health Supplies
748.14
$298,252.77
Public Use School Facilities
Appropriation $1,200.00
Janitors Salaries
$119.00
Telephone
54.40
Lights
878.05
Fuel
148.55
$1,200.00
Vocational and Americanization
Appropriation
$2,131.68
Trade School Tuition
$149.70
Teacher, Americanization Classes
384.00
$533.70
Elementary School, New Wing
Balance of
Appropriation $38,492.03
(Borrowed Money)
Balance due, construction
$500.00
Miscellaneous supplies
809.78
$1,309.78
($37,182.25 transferred by vote of Town to Elementary School Two Room Addition)
Vocational Training, Adult
Appropriation $410.00
$ 25.25
Janitors
304.50
. . ...
Teachers $329.75
223
Adult Education
Smith-Barden Funds
Balance from
prior years
$1,168.38
1956 Grant
412.50
$1,580.88
Salary of Teachers 912.50
912.50
Evening Vocational Arts
Balance from 1955
$119.60
Class Registrations 58.00
$177.60
Teacher $50.00
$50.00
School, Out of State Travel
Appropriation $200.00
Travel Costs $199.53
$199.53
Elementary School Wing
2-Room addition
Appropriation $42,000.00
Advertising
$ 48.40
Architects
3,000.00
$3,048.40
Library
Appropriation $7,000.00
Salaries:
Librarian
$2,851.00
Assistants
3,477.96
Janitor
68.00
1
224
Fuel, lights, water, 'phone
129.57
Books and periodicals
466.52
All other
5.40
$6,998.45
Library - Hathaway Fund
Balance from
prior years $ 7.20
Distribution of Income 300.00
$307.20
Purchase of Books $307.20
$307.20
Contributory Retirement
Military Service
Appropriation
$450.00
Paid to School Retirement System
$450.00
$450.00
(Schools and Libraries - Total $313,592.08)
RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED
Autumn Avenue Awards
Balance of
Appropriation $441.00
Damage Awards
$409.00
$409.00
Civil Defense
Balance of
Appropriation $470.33
Telephone
$44.10
Postage
73.48
$117.58
Eben Ellison Beach
Balance of Gift $ 43.40
Appropriation
Balance 449.53
225
$492.93
Sand, Oil, Labor, Trucks
$338.44
$338.44
Fire Insurance Schedule
Appropriation $4,381.25
Fire Insurance Policies
$4,160.71
$4,160.71
Fourth of July
Appropriation $750.00
Bands
$595.00
Prizes
155.00
$750.00
Floodlights, Train Field
Appropriation
Balance
$ 86.00
Appropriation 1956 400.00
$486.00
Plymouth County Electric Co.
$247.38
Transformer Rental
100.00
Electrical work
86.00
$433.38
Fire and Police Accident Insurance
Appropriation $735.85
$735.85
735.85
Harbor Master
Appropriation $1,618.00
Salary, Harbor Master
$700.00
Salary, Ass't Harbor Master
100.00
Material
131.11
Channel Marker costs
487.70
All other
31.90
$1,450.71
Insurance Policies
226
Hydrant Rental
Appropriation
$550.00
Town of Marshfield $550.00
$550.00
Job Evaluation
Appropriation
$500.00
Clerical $50.00
$50.00
Life Guard, Duxbury Beach
Appropriation
$700.00
Salary, Life Guard 452.00
$452.00
Little League Bleachers
Appropriation
$300.00
Hussey Mfg. Co., Bleachers $248.00
$248.00
Greenhead Fly Control
Appropriation
$1,500.00
State Reclamation Board $1,500.00
$1,500.00
Mosquito Control
Appropriation
$7,550.00
South Shore Mosquito Control $7,550.00
$7,550.00
Aid To Agriculture
Appropriation $100.00
County of Plymouth
$100.00
$100.00
Memorial Day
Appropriation $400.00
Flowers
$144.00
Flags
133.80
All other
76.50
$354.30
227
Pony League Expenses
Appropriation $400.00
Browne's Sport Shop, misc. equipment $400.00
$400.00
Print and Deliver Town Reports
Appropriation $1,623.67
Town Reports
$1,523.67
Delivering Town Reports
100.00
$1,623.67
Parks and Playgrounds
Appropriation $2,574.00
Cancelled Checks 4.50
$2,578.50
Labor
$1,366.61
Equipment
953.68
Trucks
153.87
Water
90.20
$2,564.36
Poison Ivy Extermination
Appropriation $375.00
Labor
$118.16
Weed Killer, etc.
58.63
$176.79
Tarkiln Recreation Center
Appropriation $1,500.00
Lights
$ 59.08
Fuel
298.69
Merry-Go-Round
234.00
Hot Air Boiler
908.23
$1,500.00
Tax Titles
Balance of
Appropriation $796.09
Legal Expenses
$436.77
$436.77
228
75 Foot Baseball Diamond
Balance of Appropriation $61.50 Labor $35.84
$35.84
Special Shellfish Account
Balance of Grant $ 24.20
State Grant, 1956 1,250.00
$1,274.20
Labor
$490.00
All other
2.21
$492.21
Shellfish Constable
Appropriation
$2,859.50
Shellfish Constable, Salary
$1,872.32
Transportation allowance
600.00
Equipment and all other
150.63
$2,622.95
Town Clock, Electrification
Appropriation $850.00
Howard Clock Company $830.00
$830.00
Town Field Improvements
Balance of
Appropriation $220.58
Labor
$ 77.80
Miscellaneous supplies
142.78
$220.58
Town Hall Recreation
Appropriation $1,745.00
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