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Assistant Town Clerk
$694.98
Printing, Stationery, Postage
355.30
Surety Bond
7.50
Association Meetings and fees
57.06
All other
10.60
$1,125.44
1-9 Election and Registration:
Appropriation $1,805.00
Board of Registrars
$240.00
Street Listing
300.00
Election Officers
330.70
Printing, Stationery, etc.
264.20
$1,134.90
1-10 Planning Board:
Appropriation $2,170.00
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Planning Consultant
$1,700.00
Association fees
35.00
Clerk hire
120.00
Publishing and recording
67.00
Printing, Stationery, Postage
22.39
$1,944.39
164
1-11-1 Appeal Board:
Appropriation $905.00
Salaries, Appeal Board
$310.00
Associates - fees
25.00
Clerk hire
60.00
Printing, Stationery, Postage
88.87
Publication of notices
181.33
$665.20
1-11-2 Personnel Board:
Appropriation $60.00
Association fee
$15.00
Printing, Stationery
10.65
$25.65
1-12 Town Historian:
Appropriation $100.00
Printing, Stationery, Postage, etc. $43.85
$43.85
1-13 Town Office:
Appropriation $7,670.00
Refund 3.33
$7,673.33
Fuel
$ 868.31
Lights
456.20
Janitor's Supplies
394.21
Repairs to Buildings
3,564.65
Office supplies and equipment
847.01
All other costs
71.20
$6,201.58
(Total - General Government - $48,018.87)
165
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY
2-1-2 Police Department:
Appropriation $39,396.40
Cancel Check
40.85
Transfer from
Reserve 441.95
$39,879.20
Chief of Police, Salary
$ 5,341.00
Sergeants, Salaries
8,282.74
Patrolmen, Salaries
8,777.53
Special Police, Wages
11,157.29
Cruisers, maintenance and repairs
3,214.59
Teletype, Radio
439.59
Miscellaneous equipment
485.28
Printing, Stationery, Office supplies
621.91
Town of Plymouth, Police Station and Lockup
125.75
Uniforms
443.61
All other costs
30.84
$38,920.13
2-1-3
Police Cruiser:
Appropriation $2,500.00
Ford Cruiser $2,013.11
$2,013.11
2-2-2 Fire Department:
Appropriation $22,548.00
Refund
7.00
$22,555.00
166
Salaries:
Fire Chief
$ 1,232.00
Firefighters (Permanent)
10,781.28
Firefighters
2,672.32
"Call" Firemen
450.00
Janitor
75.00
Chief's Car Allowance
400.00
Hose
735.00
Apparatus, gasoline, tires, repairs
915.70
Fuel
922.15
Lights
332.96
Buildings - repairs
1,132.63
Janitor's supplies 83.41
All other costs, buildings and grounds
271.01
Office supplies
44.49
Telephones
787.29
Insurance
71.62
Uniforms
307.30
All other, including Rent
156.69
$21,370.85
2-2-4 Hydrant Rental:
Appropriation
$550.00
Town of Marshfield
$550.00
$550.00
2-2-5 Fire, Out of State Travel:
Appropriation
$300.00
Costs of Out of State Travel
$68.95
$68.95
2-2-6 Fire, Pumping Engine 1957:
Appropriation $18,000.00
Maxim Motors - Pumping Engine $17,995.00 $17,995.00
167
2-3-2 Insect Pest Control:
Appropriation $4,510.00
Salary, Superintendent
$1,000.00
Labor
1,324.15
Repairs to Town Truck
63.72
Equipment
488.97
Insecticides
738.69
All other
34.20
$3,649.73
2-4-1 Control Dutch Elm Disease:
Appropriation
$6,590.00
Transfer from
Reserve 700.00
$7,290.00
Salary, Superintendent
$1,844.00
Labor
4,146.38
Material, including chemicals
478.10
Air Spray
600.00
$7,068.48
2-5-1 Tree Warden's Salary
Appropriation $1,900.00
Roy E. Parks, Salary $1,900.00
$1,900.00
2-5-2 Tree Department:
Appropriation $3,991.00
Labor
$2,916.00
Trucks, Gas, Oil, Repairs
419.27
Equipment and material
390.24
Telephone
72.88
All other, including insurance
61.85
$3,860.24
168
2-5-3 Tree, Hathaway Fund:
Income Distri-
bution Balance $88.76 Shrubs $78.40
$78.40
2-5-4 Tree Department, Pickup Truck:
Appropriation
$2,200.00
Pickup Truck
$2,194.45
$2,194.45
2-6-2 Forest Fire Department:
Appropriation
$4,356.00
Transfer from
Reserve 1,200.00
$5,556.00
Forest Warden's Salary
$671.00
Warden's Auto allowance
150.00
Firefighters
2,292.59
Trucks, maintenance and repairs
1,328.75
Apparatus, maintenance and replacements
776.78
Rent of Barn
180.00
Insurance
29.91
$5,429.03
2-7-1
Building Inspector:
Appropriation $4,446.00
Salary, Building Inspector $1,750.00
Clerk hire
1,572.13
Inspector's car allowance
315.00
169
Telephone 153.60
Printing, Stationery, Postage and
Miscellaneous office supplies 501.53
$4,292.26
2-8-1
Sealer of Weights and Measures:
Appropriation $385.00
Salary, Sealer of W. and M.
$200.00
Sealer's Auto allowance
75.00
Equipment
33.57
$308.57
2-9-1
Bounties:
Appropriation $10.00
Bounty on Seal
$5.00
$5.00
2-10-1
Shellfish Constable:
Appropriation
$2,797.00
Salary, Shellfish Constable
$1,872.32
Transportation allowance 600.00
Material
115.79
$2,588.11
2-11-1
Civil Defense:
Appropriation
Balance $352.75
Transfer from
Reserve 150.00
$502.75
Radio Equipment $482.05
$482.05
170
2-11-2 Duxbury Beach Lifeguard:
Appropriation $700.00 Salary Lifeguard
$628.00
Material
15.88
$643.88
(Total - Protection of Persons and Property - $113,418.24)
HEALTH AND SANITATION
3-1-1 Health Department:
Appropriation $3,900.00
Dr. G. R. Starr, Salary
$600.00
Clerk Hire
229.17
School Dentist
832.50
Plymouth County Hospital
196.50
Rodent Control, Warfarin
66.87
Clinics
283.27
All other costs
58.72
$2,267.03
3-1-2 Well Child Clinic:
Appropriation
Balance
$242.66
Duxbury Nurse Association $15.00
$15.00
3-3 Animal Inspection:
Appropriation
$150.00
Salary of Inspector
$150.00
$150.00
3-4 Inspection Slaughtered Animals:
Appropriation
$25.00
Salary of Inspector
$25.00
$25.00
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171
3-5-1 Town Dump:
Appropriation $2,510.00
Transfer from
Reserve 100.00
$2,610.00
Labor $ 402.50
Bulldozing
1,832.00
Material
95.05
Trucks, Shovel, Scoop
267.75
$2,597.30
3-6-2 Mosquito Control:
Appropriation $7,550.00
South Shore Project
$7,550.00
$7,550.00
3-8 Poison Ivy Extermination:
Appropriation $200.00
Labor and weed killer
$87.68
$87.68
(Total - Health and Sanitation - $12,692.01)
HIGHWAYS
4-1-2 Highways:
Appropriation $41,980.00
Salary, Highway Superintendent
$ 4,993.00
Labor 15,935.69
Office Expenses 360.04
Trucks, Maintenance and Repairs 7,387.04
Gravel, Mix, etc.
11,003.33
Equipment, Maintenance and
replacement 1,135.28
172
Insurance
286.97
All other
35.92
$41,137.27
4-1-3 Highway - Sand Spreader:
Appropriation 1956 $2,400.00 Sand Spreader
$2,190.30
$2,190.30
4-1-5 Highway - Hathaway Fund:
Distribution of In-
come Balance $430.98
Labor
95.40
Material
46.00
Grader rental
162.00
$303.40
4-1-6 Highway - Truck Chassis:
Appropriation $2,800.00
Truck Chassis
$2,800.00
$2,800.00
4-1-7 Highway - Sand Spreader:
Appropriation
1957 $2,100.00
Sand Spreader $1,997.49
$1,997.49
4-2-1 Bridge Department:
Appropriation $9,639.00
Labor
$2,945.11
Lumber, Spikes
1,190.53
Generator
147.00
All other
89.28
$4,371.92
173
4-2-2 Lumber for Bridge:
Appropriation 1956 $6,000.00 Lumber $5,990.41
$5,990.41
4-2-3
Bridge - Hathaway Fund:
Income Distri-
bution Balance $129.21 Labor
$107.46
Hardware
8.24
$115.70
4-3
Snow and Ice Removal:
Appropriation $26,000.00
Transfer from
Reserve
1,000.00
$27,000.00
Labor
$8,103.34
Administration costs
96.15
Barns - Maintenance, etc. 119.50
Machinery - Plows, etc. - rentals
7,532.09
Sand
3,040.25
Salt
4,881.50
Town Trucks, maintenance and repairs 1,755.46
Equipment and repairs to
equipment 1,469.49
$26,997.78
4-4-1
Town Landings:
Appropriation
$2,539.00
Labor
$
913.35
Sand and Water
216.00
- - - -
174
Equipment 142.52 Trucks, maintenance, etc. 1,211.50
$2,483.37
4-4-2
Town Landings - Hathaway Fund:
Income Distri-
bution Balance $308.33 Labor $290.55
Material
17.09
$307.64
4-5-3 Ch. 90 Construction:
Balance 1956 $6,025.77
Labor
$1,703.38
Equipment
2,857.35
Material
1,463.39
$6,024.12
4-5-4 Ch. 90 Maintenance - 1957: Appropriation $3,000.00
Labor
$1,132.22
Trucks
232.00
Material
1,601.73
$2,965.95
4-5-5 Ch. 90 Construction - 1957:
Appropriation $24,000.00
Labor
$ 3,255.73
Equipment
1,359.10
Material
19,374.16
$23,988.99
4-6-1
Street Lights:
Appropriation $6,400.00
Plymouth County Electric Co.
$5,404.04
$5,404.04
175
4-6-2 Street Lights - Elm and Summer Sts .:
Appropriation
Balance $442.00
Plymouth County Electric Co.
$442.00
$442.00
4-6-3 Street Lights - Depot and Bay View Road:
Appropriation
Balance
$400.00
Plymouth County Electric Co.
$400.00
$400.00
4-7-1
Winter, Temple, Autumn Avenue:
Appropriation
Balance
$2,260.47
Labor
$913.74
Machinery
794.50
Material
552.02
$2,260.26
4-7-4
Brewster St., Construction:
Appropriation
Balance $257.51
Labor
$ 82.26
Material
170.50
$252.76
4-7-7
Bluefish Tidegates:
Appropriation
$1,600.00
Balance from
1956 122.31
$1,722.31
Labor
Material
$627.31 340.17
176
Machinery (Rental)
53.00
All other
50.00
$1,070.48
4-7-8 Arrowhead Road, Construction:
Appropriation
Balance $49.05
Labor
$48.15
$48.15
4-7-13 £ Howland's Landing, Improvement:
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Labor
$ 39.78
Machinery
266.25
Material
55.50
$361.53
4-7-14 Temple and Winter Sts., Improvement:
Appropriation $8,000.00
Labor
$658.98
Material
660.08
$1,319.06
4-8-1 Harbor Master:
Appropriation
$1,910.00
Salary - Harbor Master $1,153.04
Salary, Assistant Harbor Master 100.00
Channel Markers, material, etc.
351.70
Boat, rental, etc.
73.30
Administration
10.00
All other maintenance costs
199.19
$1,887.23
(Total - Highways - $135,119.85)
177
CHARITIES AND VETERANS BENEFITS
5-2-2 Public Welfare - General Relief:
From General
Control Account $8,292.23
Cancelled Checks
68.75
$8,360.98
Salaries, See Schedule
$1,590.54
Printing, Stationery, Postage
142.24
Administration costs (all other)
208.67
Groceries and Provisions
1,099.30
Board and Care, Medicine and
Medical attendance
1,181.95
Cash Grants to Individuals
3,626.60
Relief by other Cities and Towns
511.68
$8,360.98
5-3-1 Disability Assistance - Town:
From General
Control $3,631.31
Salaries (see schedule)
$1,024.60
Administration costs
10.55
Mileage
150.00
Medicines and Medical care
998.71
Cash Grants to individuals
1,447.45
$3,631.31
5-3-2 Disability Assistance - Federal Grants:
1956 Balance
$281.69
Federal Grants
1,436.08
Cancelled checks 29.45
Recovery 401.25
$2,148.47
178
Cash aid to individuals
Medicine and medical care
$1,581.60 476.98
$2,058.58
5-3-3 Disability Assistance Federal Grants, Administration:
1956 Balance $87.50
Federal Grants 173.86
$261.36
Salaries (see schedule)
$100.00
Stationery, postage, etc.
37.07
Telephone
23.00
$160.07
5-4-1 Aid to Dependent Children - Town:
From General
Control
$6,455.55
$
890.44
Salaries (see schedule)
Administration costs 3.00
Medicine and medical costs 807.73
Cash Aid
4,654.38
Mileage
100.00
$6,455.55
5-4-2 Aid to Dependent Children -
Federal Grants:
1956 Balance $1,191.20
Federal Grants 4,815.00
$6,006.20
Cash Grants to Individuals
$3,414.10
Medicine and medical care 540.48
$3,954.58
179
5-4-3 Aid to Dependent Children - Federal Grants, Administration:
1956 Balance $20.94
Federal Grants 648.03
$668.97
Salaries (see schedule)
$500.00
Telephone
20.55
$520.55
5-5-1 Old Age Assistance, Town Fund:
From General
Control
$45,376.17
Cancelled checks 431.32
45,807.49
Salary $ 544.80
Medicine and medical care
11,662.82
Cash grants to individuals
31,870.43
Mileage and postage
135.80
Reimburse other towns
995.64
Funerals
598.00
$45,807.49
5-5-2 Old Age Assistance, Federal Grants:
1956 Balance
$3,904.05
Federal Grants
29,054.92
Cancelled checks
384.65
$33,343.62
Medicine and Medical care
$ 6,377.21
Cash Aid 21,215.75
$27,592.96
180
5-5-3 Old Age Assistance
Federal Grants, Administration:
Federal Grants
$2,170.02
Salaries (see schedule)
$1,363.72
Administration costs
127.25
Mileage
55.00
$1,545.97
Schedule of Salaries - Welfare Department
Agent
$3,925.00
"Visitor"
1,466.30
Clerk
622.80
$6,014.10
5-6-2 Veterans Benefits:
Appropriation $13,680.00
Salaries
$1,184.68
Administration costs
286.07
Ordinary Benefits
6,487.32
Fuel
923.00
Medicine and medical care
2,897.92
Burial
250.00
$12,028.99
G.L. 61 J. and R. Ford Fund:
Income
Withdrawn
$731.98
Medical Costs - Worthy Cases $731.98
(Total - Charities and Veterans Benefits - $112,849.01)
181
SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES
6-1 School Department:
Appropriation $337,129.65
Dog Fund
953.35
Refund 7.63
$338,090.63
Salary of Superintendent
$8,666.72
Clerk in Supt's Office
3,266.64
Truant Officer 120.00
Printing, Stationery, Postage
405.50
Supt's Travel Allowance
720.00
Other Travel costs
87.08
Secretaries in Principals' offices
3,485.00
Telephones
931.21
Other administration costs
897.43
Teachers and Instructors - Salaries:
High School
80,947.84
Elementary 101,326.32
Supervisors, Substitutes, and Tutors 32,912.32
Text Books and Supplies:
High School:
Text and Reference 2,524.47
Supplies, Workbooks 7,151.10
Elementary :
Text and Reference
1,224.68
Supplies, Workbooks 4,774.20
182
Transportation :
High School
14,246.58
Elementary School All Other
20,697.45
50.92
Janitors' Services 15,552.78
Fuel and Lights:
High School
4,676.55
Elementary School
6,282.52
Maintenance of Buildings and Grounds:
High School Repairs
3,690.49
Janitors' supplies
784.44
All other costs 400.25
Elementary School Repairs
6,696.55
Janitors' supplies
1,551.13
All other costs
318.15
Furniture and furnishings :
High School
2,206.67
Elementary School
984.39
Diplomas and Graduation Exercises
164.63
Miscellaneous printing
153.60
Insurance
1.50
Health:
School Physician
950.00
School Nurse
2,717.50
All Other Health
140.21
$331,706.82
183
6-2 Public Use of School Facilities:
Appropriation $1,200.00
Wages, Janitors
$ 51.00
Telephone Plymouth County Electric Co.
54.89
1,094.11
$1,200.00
6-3-1 Vocational and Americanization:
Appropriation
$1,704.00
Teacher, Americanization Classes $504.00
Tuition, Vocational 30.00
$534.00
6-3-2
Evening Vocational Arts:
1956 Balance
$127.60
1957 Registrations 63.00
$190.60
Wages, Janitors
$36.25
Advertising
30.00
Teacher
6.60
$72.85
6-3-3
Adult Education, Smith-Barden Funds:
1956 Balance
$668.38
1957 Grant 400.00
$1,068.38
Salary, Teacher
$1,068.38
$1,068.38
6-3-4 Vocational Training, Adult:
Appropriation
$610.00
Teachers and Tuition
$359.00
40.00
Janitor, wages
$399.00
184
6-4-1
School - Hathaway Fund:
Balance, Income
Distribution $1,420.19 Gymnasium and Playground Equipment $1,420.19
$1,420.19
6-4-2 School - Out of State Travel:
Appropriation
$200.00
Travel costs - out of State $94.03
$94.03
6-5-2 Elementary School, New Wing:
Balance of
Appropriation $9,291.41
Building Repairs
$605.87
$605.87
6-5-4 High School Survey Committee:
Appropriation $6,000.00
Engineering $396.00
Travel costs 33.30
$429.30
(Total - Schools - $337,530.44)
6-6
Libraries:
Appropriation $8,000.00
Salary - Librarian
$3,156.25
Salary - Assistants
4,186.51
Janitor
55.00
Books
434.01
Fuel 85.84
185
Lights Telephone 20.35
62.04
$8,000.00 (Total -Library - $8,000.00)
(Total - Schools and Library - $345,530.44)
RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED
7-2-1 Fire Insurance Schedule:
Appropriation
$3,850.00
Fire Insurance Schedule $3,421.66
$3,421.66
7-2-2 Workmen's Compensation Insurance:
Appropriation
$6,000.00
Insurance Policy
$5,960.54
$5,960.54
7-2-3 Group Insurance, Police and Firemen:
Appropriation
$750.00
Refund
22.00
$772.00
Insurance Policy
735.85
$735.85
7-2-4 Group Insurance, General:
Appropriation
$6,500.00
Paid by
Individuals
7.23
$6,507.23
Hospital, Surgical, Insurance
coverage
$5,397.38
$5,397.38
186
7-4-1 Parks and Playgrounds:
Appropriation
$2,855.00
Refund
79.00
$2,934.00
Labor $1,836.80
Equipment, hardware, tools
372.58
Material, etc.
469.71
Water
64.10
Sporting Equipment
92.70
$2,835.89
7-4-2 Ellison Beach Improvements:
Balance of
Appropriation $135.84
Labor
$ 27.27
Boulder, etc.
108.57
$135.84
7-4-3
Tarkiln Recreation Center:
Appropriation $1,500.00
Fuel
$170.12
Lights
54.40
Repairs
46.82
Playground Equipment
79.98
$351.32
7-4-4 Old Town Hall Recreation Center:
Appropriation $2,910.00
Directors
$1,670.00
Janitor
385.00
Lights, Telephone, Fuel, Water
730.10
Building Repairs
122.88
$2,907.98
187
7-4-7
Floodlights at Train Field:
Appropriation $450.00 Plymouth County Electric Co. $336.79
$336.79
7-4-8 Little League Diamond:
Appropriation $500.00
Labor
$ 58.48
Material
127.10
Machinery, trucks, etc.
294.50
$480.08
7-4-9 Pony League:
Appropriation $300.00
Uniforms
$166.17
North River Pony League
81.90
$248.07
7-5-1
Memorial Day:
Appropriation $400.00
Flowers and wreaths
$186.00
Flags
51.20
Grave Markers
94.00
All other
64.20
$395.40
7-5-2 Fourth of July:
Appropriation $750.00
Bands
$520.00
Prizes
230.00
$750.00
G.L. 76 Unidentified Cash
Paid to Div. of Fish and Game: 1 Sporting License of 1956 $5.00
188
7-6-1 Unclassified:
Appropriation $990.00
Salary, Dog Officer
$250.00
Care of Dogs
14.50
Town Clock, Custodian
60.00
Town Clock, maintenance
67.17
Flags, Custodians
97.50
U. S. Flags
18.39
All other
35.66
$543.22
7-6-2 Town Retirement System
Appropriation $11,364.40
1956 Balance 390.97
$11,755.37
Plymouth County Treasurer
$11,314.40
$11,314.40
7-6-3
Tax Titles Account:
Appropriation $1,000.00
1956 Balance 359.32
$1,359.32
Recording and postage
$5.03
$5.03
7-6-4 Print and Deliver Town Reports:
Appropriation
$2,450.00
Sanderson Bros., printing
$2,337.87
Delivering Town Reports 107.50
$2,445.37
189
7-6-7 Aid to Agriculture:
Appropriation
$100.00
Contribution to County
$100.00
$100.00
7-7-2 Autumn Avenue - Damage Awards:
Balance of
Appropriation
$32.00
Damage awards paid
$16.00
$16.00
7-7-3 Standish Cellar Lot, Improvement:
Gift
$
10.00
Appropriation
1,000.00
$1,010.00
Monument $279.75
Survey
20.00
Labor
64.77
All other, including bushes, rails, etc.
216.36
$580.88
7-7-6 Tobey Garden Street, Damage Awards:
Balance of
Appropriation
$205.00
Damage awards paid
$90.00
$90.00
7-8-1
Appropriation
$100.00
Suit for Damages -- Compromised
$100.00
(Total - Recreation and Unclassified - $39,156.70) $100.00
190
ENTERPRISE (WATER) AND CEMETERIES WATER
8-1-1 Water Commissioners' Salaries:
Appropriation $450.00
J. Alvin Borgeson
$150.00
Leonard B. Gallagher
150.00
Lloyd B. Salt
150.00
$450.00
8-1-2 Water Department:
Appropriation $39,061.00
Cancelled check 2.76
$39,063.76
Salary, Superintendent
$ 4,178.99
Labor
10,777.47
Clerk hire 467.63
Buildings, maintenance, fuel, etc.
1,264.02
Postage, Stationery, Printing
604.98
Administration costs,
including telephone
777.48
Electric Power and lights
6,107.44
Trucks, maintenance and repairs
1,985.04
Equipment and tools
1,515.15
Stock
8,220.86
Main extension, Pilgrim By-Way
1,054.52
Adding Machine
267.00
All other
87.63
$37,308.21
8-1-3 Water, Out of State Travel:
Appropriation
$100.00
Costs of Out of State Travel
$30.33
$30.33
191
8-1-6 Engineering Services and New Sources of Water Supply:
Appropriation
Balance
$2,645.32
D. L. Maher Co., well tests
$129.50
$129.50
8-1-7 Water System Expansion Survey:
Appropriation
Balance
$380.00
Survey and appraisal
$145.00
$145.00
8-1-8 West Duxbury Water System Expansion:
Appropriation
Balance
$10,901.50
Installation of Mains $2,593.83
Engineering costs 400.00
Equipment and stock
575.50
$3,569.33
8-1-9 New Well and Equipment and Depot Street Extension:
Appropriation
Balance
$4,286.44
D. L. Maher, Co.
$73.49
6.46
Loren C. Nass
$79.95
8-1-14
Water, M. and O., 1956
1956 Balance
(Contract)
$680.00
Neptune Water Co., Meters
(1956 Contract)
$680.00
$680.00
192
8-1-16 Phase I, Water Expansion:
Appropriation
from Avail-
able Funds $ 53,900.00
Bond Issue 240,000.00
$293,900.00
Chicago Bridge & Iron - Standpipe $23,557.50
Pipe and connections 73,410.70
Installation of Mains, etc.
30,732.77
Layne N. Y. Co., Inc.,
Construct Well
4,026.96
Engineering Services
10,817.05
All other costs
487.27
$143,032.25
(Total - Water Department - $185,424.57)
CEMETERIES
8-2-2 Cemetery Department:
Appropriation $18,296.00
Sale of Lots
240.00
Perpetual Care
Income
3,890.55
$22,426.55
Salary - Superintendent
$4,166.00
Labor
13,238.76
Salary - Secretary
240.00
Loam and top soil
1,124.78
Trees and Shrubs
87.50
Equipment and Material
981.44
193
Trucks and Electric mowers,
maintenance and repairs 1,026.82
Printing, Stationery and Postage 369.02
New Mower 350.00
Misc. Administration costs, including water, insurance 198.97
$21,783.29
8-2-3 Cemetery, Hathaway Fund:
Distribution of
income Balance $276.00 Top Soil $276.00
$276.00
8-2-4 Cemetery, Out of State Travel:
Appropriation
$75.00
Costs of Out of State Travel
$42.60
$42.60
8-3
Boomer Square:
Appropriation
$64.00
Labor
$39.27
Material
10.32
$49.59
8-2-4 Lucy A. Ewell Fund:
Fund Income
$18.88
Loam and Flowers
$18.88
$18.88
8-2-5 George H. Wood Cemetery Fund:
Fund Income
$25.75
Flowers
$25.75
$25.75
194
8-2-6 F. and H. Partch Flower Fund:
Fund Income $8.00 Flowers $8.00
$8.00
(Total - Cemetery Department - $22,204.11)
(Total - Enterprise (Water) and Cemeteries - $207,628.68)
INTEREST AND MATURING DEBT
9-1-1
Interest on Temporary Loans:
Appropriation $150.00
Refund 3.81
$153.81
Interest on Temporary Loans
$6.92
$6.92
9-1-2 Interest on Water Loans:
Appropriation
$2,020.75
Interest paid
$2,020.75
$2,020.75
9-1-3
Interest on General Loans:
Appropriation
$10,972.50
Interest paid
$10,172.50
$10,172.50
9-1-4
Premium, West Duxbury Water Notes:
Premium received
$51.06
Paid on Principal of Loan
$51.06
$51.06
195
9-1-5 Premium, Water Extension Phase I:
Premium received $93.60
On Account Authentication of Bonds $93.60
$93.60
9-2-1 Sea Wall Notes:
Appropriation
$2,000.00
Sea Wall Notes
$2,000.00
$2,000.00
9-2-2 Water District Notes, Misc .:
Appropriation
$8,500.00
Plymouth National Bank
$8,500.00
$8,500.00
9-2-3 West Duxbury Water Extension, Bonds:
Appropriation
$6,000.00
Bonds retired
$5,948.94
$5,948.94
9-2-4 Elementary School Bonds:
Appropriation
$15,000.00
Bonds retired
$15,000.00
$15,000.00
9-2-5 High School Wing - Bonds:
Appropriation
$15,000.00
Bonds retired
$15,000.00
$15,000.00
9-2-6 Elementary School Wing, Bonds:
Appropriation
$15,000.00
Bonds retired
$15,000.00
$15,000.00
196
9-3-1 Unpaid Bills of 1956:
Appropriation $257.94
1956 bills for:
Forest Fire Dept. $ 15.00
Water Department 11.44
Police Department
221.06
Building Inspector
10.44
$257.94
9-3-2 Unpaid Bills of 1955:
Appropriation
$40.00
1955 Bill for Health Dept. $40.00
$40.00
(Total - Interest and Maturing Debt - $74,091.71)
REVOLVING FUNDS
G.L. 53
Athletic Association:
1956 Balance
$ 97.18
Driver Training
Fees
440.50
A.A. Game
receipts
556.52
$1,094.20
Driver Training Teacher
$400.00
Referees and athletic equipment 473.84
$873.84
G.L. 54 School Lunch Program:
1956 Balance
$2,823.58
Receipts and
Subsidies
33,041.54
$35,865.12
197
Salaries
$ 9,474.00
Administration costs
163.46
Food, Milk
23,389.66
Equipment
359.54
Scavenger
402.50
Brockton-Taunton Gas Co.
406.37
All other costs
41.28
$34,236.81
(Total - Revolving Funds - $35,110.65)
AGENCY, TRUST AND INVESTMENT
G.L. 51 Planning Board
Deposits $ 18.92
G.L. 52 Liquor Ad Deposits 32.00
G.L. 55 Group Hospital and Insurance
6,573.83
G.L. 56 Federal Withholding Taxes
51,206.94
G.I. 57
Retirement System
8,565.41
G.L. 58 Sporting Licenses
888.00
G.L. 59 Dog Licenses
1,861.70
G.L. 61 J. and R. Ford Fund
690.00
G.L. 62 Lucy Hathaway Fund
1,832.85
G.L. 63 Cemetery Perpetual
Care Funds
4,175.00
G.L. 65 General Care and
Improvement Fund 150.00
G.L. 66 State Parks and Reservations 1,904.62
G.L. 67 State Audit Municipal Accounts 1,319.77
G.L. 69 Plymouth County
Hospital 12,905.56
198
G.L. 70 County Tax
42,322.81
G.L. 85 Stabilization Fund 30,122.50
G.L. 86 George Chandler Flower
Fund 100.00
G.L. Investment proceeds
Water Loan 247,850.00
$412,519.91
LEGAL OVERDRAFT
Forest Fire - Overdraft
Emergency, Plymouth, May 1 to 10, 1957
Firefighters $1,823.13
Policemen 15.70
$1,838.83
(Memo, Town of Plymouth has reimbursed
Duxbury in the sum of $1,823.13)
TEMPORARY TRUST FUND
Myles Standish Temporary Trust Fund
Deposit of Funds in Savings Bank $138.47
REFUNDS
1956 Personal Property Tax
$ 21.20
1956 Real Estate Tax
328.07
1957 Poll Tax
10.00
1957 Personal Property Tax
67.57
1957 Real Estate Tax
1,255.05
1956 Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
668.67
1957 Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
3,016.78
Water Rates 112.96
Service Connections
5.78
Estimated Receipts
9.55
Building Permits
30.00
E. and D. to Commonwealth
19.86
$5,545.49
199
RESERVE
7-1 Transfers By Journal Entry:
to Civil Defense $ 150.00
to Forest Fire Department 1,200.00
to Control of Dutch Elm Disease 700.00
to Town Collector 177.54
to Town Dump
100.00
to Snow and Ice
1,000.00
to Law Department
42.08
to Police Department 382.12
Total Transfers from Reserve
$3,751.74
Total Expenditures
$1,543,658.86
200
1957 APPROPRIATION BALANCES RETURNED TO TREASURY
Selectmen's Department
$1,094.81
Accounting Department
221.36
Finance Committee
35.00
Treasurer's Department
254.32
Tax Collector's Department
54.57
Assessors' Department
450.13
Assessors' Map
765.76
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Town Clerk's Department
242.06
Election and Registration
670.10
Planning Board
225.61
Appeal Board
239.80
Personnel Board
34.35
Town Historian
56.15
Town Office
1,471.75
Police Department
2.84
Fire Department
575.15
Fire, Out of State Travel
231.05
Insect Pest Control
750.27
Control Dutch Elm Disease
11.52
Tree Department
18.76
Greenhead Fly Control
1,500.00
Forest Fire Department
51.97
Building Inspector
.74
Sealer of Weights and Measures
76.43
Bounties
5.00
Shellfish Constable
58.89
Duxbury Beach Lifeguard
56.12
Health Department
1,632.97
Vital Statistics
15.00
Town Dump
2.70
Poison Ivy Extermination
19.52
Highway Department
19.73
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Bridge Department
5.98
Snow and Ice Removal
2.22
Town Landings
16.63
Street Lights
995.96
Harbor Master
22.77
Bluefish Tidegates
651.83
Public Welfare Control
682.24
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