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Few towns in the State pay so much per capita for their scholars. And yet the Committee find the greatest difficulty in securing efficient teachers, because of the small compen- sation they have to offer them.
Now what is the remedy for this ? Concentration, fewer schools, and graded schools, shorter time if need be and a
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better article. No one thinks of asking a youth or a man, "How long have you been at school ?" but "How much do you know ?" Berkley has got the stuff out of which to pro- duce splendid scholars. Only the opportunity and the stimulus are wanted. Why should she not celebrate the centennial year of the existence of the Republic by making a grand move in this direction? As they are now, our schools are growing smaller and smaller every year ; some- thing must be done if we would not lose an honorable pres- tige of being an educated people. By carrying it to the very door of each child, we have made education so cheap it is not appreciated. What can be had at any time is often the very thing most neglected. A school house at the very door is often the very poorest of blessings that a family can have, and for the reason that it is just at the door. Our best educated men and youths in America have toiled and are toiling now for their education. Give us graded schools and you introduce the element of friendly rivalry and com- petition among our children and youths at school. Who cares to be at the top of his or her class, when there are only two or three in the class ? And how can you have more in a class than two or three, when the whole school does not number more than seven or eight, of all ages and sizes ? It is not in human nature to be aroused to do one's best in such circumstances. You are cutting at the very root of the youthful aspirations of our children, you are injuring them for life by the continuance of little, separate school houses for all of all ages, from four to twenty years old, when the whole together are not morethan ten. " Well, my boy," said a Scotch father to his little boy, one day when he returned from school, "where are you in your class ?" "Second dux, father, said the little fellow. And the father, to show his appreciation of his child's smartness, gave him a shilling. But when he asked the boy how many
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there were in the class, he got for an answer, "None but a little lassie and myself," he found that it might have been as well to have kept his shilling in his pocket. As a general rule it will ever be found that the small, mixed school re- presses the energies, alike of teacher and scholars. How is it possible for any, teacher, man or woman, to keep up for a whole term of forty or fifty days, the enthusiasm nec- essary to sustain the attention of a school, if there are only eight or ten scholars ? The small, mixed school is ever the dull school. Not because the scholars are necessarily dull, and the teacher incompetent, but for lack of the enthusiasm and competition, which numbers inspire ; and in almost all mixed schools this dullness grows upon the scholars, be- cause there is no higher grade to which they may in time step up, and from which they may graduate.
One of our most experienced and efficient teachers writes the following on a blank page of the register :
"The school has been a pleasant one so far as the disposi- tion of scholars to obey is concerned. It would, however, have been much pleasanter, and far more satisfactory every way, had there been a greater degree of application mani- fested by several of the scholars, who it would seem were old enough to understand measurably the advantage of knowledge and the pleasure of its acquisition."
This want of interest on the part of the scholars is seen to some extent by the number of tardy marks-those Ts that so much disfigure the record of attendance. The boy or girl who is often tardy is never far up in the class.
School No. 1, shows tardy marks during the year, 151; No. 2,18; No. 3,166; No.4,200; No. 5,236; No. 6, 93.
We give below for their encouragement and to stimulate others to imitate them, the names of those who have been perfect in their attendance and almost perfect.
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Dist. No. 1. Florence G. Bissett, attendance perfect dur- ing the summer ; no tardy marks. Robbie C. French and Cora Walker, attendance perfect during the winter ; tardy marks none.
No. 2. Mary L. Smith, attendance perfect during the sum- mer; 2 tardy marks. Lydia D. Chace, attendance per- fect during the winter ; no tardy marks.
No. 4. Ruth and Fanny Chace, during the summer, ah- sent one day ; no tardy marks.
We dwell with pride on the fact that Berkley raises so much money for her schools in proportion to the number of her children of school age. We are sorry that the re- sults are so small. Why not use and furnish our Town House for a grammar school? There are fifty-five, or more than one-half of all our children at school over twelve years of age. Most of these could attend school on the Common without any physical injury. In cases of extreme distance parents might unite to carry those less able to walk in stormy weather, and we are persuaded they would gladly do so for the sake of the better education of their children.
For $350 you could secure the services of a thoroughly qualified teacher for seven or eight months in the year. Let there be four primary schools in the most thickly settled districts, and these can be carried on at an annual expense of say $500. Probably it might be found that only three primaries would be needed. Six years of age is early enough to go to a public school ; and any child of six whose health justifies the parent in sending him to school, is capa- bale of walking at least one mile.
If this system were adopted, it could be carried on at less expense to the town, and would secure a far more ef- ficient education for our children. Men with families and
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with money could be encouraged to come and settle in our pleasant town, and Berkley would become famed in the fu- ture, as she has been in the past, for the number of educa- ted men that she would then send forth. We have the material.
Yours faithfully, the Committee.
SAMUEL FAIRLEY, Chairman. HERBERT A. DEAN, CALVIN THOS. CRANE.
REPORTS
-OF THE-
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
-AND-
TREASURER
OF THE-
TOWN OF BERKLEY,
1876-7.
TAUNTON, MASS .: PRINTED AT TIIE REPUBLICAN STEAM PRINTING ROOMS, 1877.
REPORTS
-OF THE -----
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
-AND-
TREASURER
-- OF THE-
TOWN OF BERKLEY,
1876-7.
TAUNTON, MASS .: PRINTED AT THE REPUBLICAN STEAM PRINTING ROOMS,
1877.
Treasurer's Report.
RECEIPTS.
State, County and Town Taxes,
$2,634 19
Machinists National Bank, note, 2,000 00
One Oyster Note,
1,306 00
Two Fish Notes,
200 00
State Treasurer, for State Aid,
126 00
66 66 Nat'l Bank Tax,
208 78
Corporation Tax,
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66 School Fund,
222 26
County Treasurer, Dog Fund,
92 48
City of Fall River, on acct. C. B. Hathaway's
family,
147 00
Town of Middleboro, on acct. R. G. Robbins,
52 00
66 Raynham, W. F. Field, 22 17
$7,022 07
EXPENDITURES.
State and County Taxes,
$618 56
Highways and Bridges,
889 09
Notes and Interest,
2,578 20
Public Schools,
1,337 51
Support of Poor out of Almshouse,
579 63
State Aid,
90 00
Selectmen,
79 00
School Committee,
50 25
Assessors,
91 34
Incidentals, Discounts and Abatements,
708 49
$7,022 07
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EXPENDITURES IN DETAIL.
State Tax, $324 00 294 56
County Tax,
NOTES AND INTEREST.
Enoch Boyce, note and interest,
$282 25
James Webster, “ 66
423 46
B. C. Savings Bank, note, 1,200 00
100 83
Chas. L. Lovering, note and interest, 529 66
42 00
2,578 20
SELECTMEN.
Peter L. Chase,
20 75
Wm. Babbitt,
58 25
79 00
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
H. A. Dean, 1875-6,
15 00
Samuel Farley, 1875-6,
35 25
50 25
ASSESSORS.
S. S. Pierce,
31 34
J. T. Townsend,
30 00
G. L. Leach,
30 00
91 34
STATE AID.
T. P. Burt, 6 months, 36 00 Lewis Green, 12 “ 36 00
Bildad Williams, 12 mos.,
18 00
90 00
Machinists Nat'l Bank, interest on note,
B. C. Savings Bank, interest,
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PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Dog Fund,
92 48
School Fund,
222 26
Town appropriation for 1876,
1,000 00
1,314 74
EXPENDED FOR TEACHERS.
Julia Burt,
244 00
Annie Carpenter,
182 00
Anna Wilbur,
181 50
Hattie E. French,
189 00
Annie Cummings,
175 60
Carrie E. Cobb,
42 00
J. H. Leonard,
168 00
1,182 10
FUEL AND INCIDENTALS.
Joseph Carter, splitting and getting in wood,
4 37
Esther D. Dillingham, for wood,
9 00
Bradford and H. Macomber, sawing wood,
12 25
Henry A. Dickerman, maps,
10 00
J. Macomber, broom, pail and dipper,
1 22
F. Richmond, wood and cutting,
15 62
S. Albert Burt, carrying scholars,
15 75
J. T. Cummings, repairing stove,
95
H. Dean, wood,
27 00
Wm. Caswell, wood,
4 50
Thomas Terry,
3 25
Frank Terry,
4 00
G. W. Caswell,
3 75
Chas. E. Chase,
7 00
Willard H. Hathaway,
5 25
E. Pierce,
3 50
E. Townsend,
3 50
C. Coombs,
3 50
F. Terry,
3 50
F. Macomber,
4 50
T. L. & J. H. Church,
13 00
155 41
1,337 51
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HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
Labor, Allen Gray, 2 00
E. A. Gray,
1 50
Peter Chase, 6 82
66 Samuel Pierce,
1 50
J. Pieree,
75
66 George Boyce,
6 95
66
John Boyce, 5 90
1 50
66 Simeon Luther,
3 76
Albert E. Dean,
3 00
66
Thos. F. Dean,
4 50
66
J. Q. Dillingham,
14 00
66
J. D. Dillingham,
5 00
66
W. D. Nichols,
8 75
J. T. Dean,
1 50
66 Benj. Coombs,
6 00
66
O. Lawton,
1 50
66
S. Huckings,
1 50
Benjamin Luther,
4 50
66 James Maguire,
5 45
66
D. Phillips,
3 95
66
Frank Luther,
6 00
66
Chas. Davis,
4 50
66 John Grinnell,
1 50
Labor and gravel, J. Tew,
2 40
Labor, B. Chace,
1 48
E. D. Dillingham,
5 45
Henry W. Clark,
12 75
66 Thomas Terry,
13 38
6: Cyrus Haskins,
6 30
66 Davis Allen,
8 55
66 John F. Richmond,
9 40
66 Noah H. Strange,
9 75
66 David T. Strange,
4 50
66 David F. Strange,
2 25
66 E. L. Strange,
1 50
66 E. D. Briggs,
6 30
66 Alfred Pierce, .
20 52
For shavings, Julius Haskins,
1 40
Elam Staples,
9 30
Labor and gravel, Eben Dean, 66
4 88
N. G. Townsend,
8 92
J. T. Townsend, 9 45
Elisha Belcher,
7
66 C. E. Viall,
10 95
66 and gravel, Israel Chace,
5 84
Isaac Seymour, 3 00
R. H. Seymour,
1 50
Franklin Phillips,
4 50
66 and gravel, Joseph Staples,
6 22
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66 P. H. Fletcher,
15 14
William Caswell,
46 25
66 J. Q. Dillingham,
7 80
Gravel, H. Dean,
1 20
Labor, P. L. Chase,
13 20
66 N. G. Townsend,
4 00
Benj. H. Thrasher, repairing highways,
30 00
66 Alvin Briggs,
70
Frank Puffer,
1 35
Wm. Macomber,
1 50
Wm. Babbitt,
1 65
66
Samuel Westgate,
3 00
66 Edward Terry,
3 15
B. H. Thrasher,
9 00
66
George P. Strange, 1875,
53 25
and gravel, Albert W. Allen,
9 48
David Hoxie,
6 00
66
Stephen B. Allen,
9 30
Benjamin Paull,
6 50
66 Daniel Crane,
6 50
66
Levi Bowker,
2 00
Joseph T. Cummings,
3 25
Martin Alden,
4 50
Hercules Dean,
3 45
Albert E. Burt,
1 50
Thomas Burt,
1 50
66
Sumner Knapp,
12 60
Giles L. Leach,
52 70
66
S. W. Phillips,
3 00
Elijah Wilbur,
3 75
Chas. Bissett,
3 00
Lewis Green,
45
66 and gravel, Thomas C. Dean,
12 06
66 George W. Westgate,
52 79
George H. Westgate,
16 05
66
Stephen Cory,
8 10
66 C. W. Dean,
12 00
66
Shepard Phillips,
7 15
W. S. Phillips,
5 25
N. G. T. Bowen,
6 15
8
66
Samuel Norcutt,
4 50
66 Willard T. Westgate,
1 87
Wm. F. Babbitt, 1 50
.6 Chas. F. Westgate,
3 00
6. Enoch Macomber,
4 50
F. A. Puffer,
1 50
Barnard Norcutt,
7 65
66
Alvin Briggs,
7 95
66
Silas Norcutt,
6 75
66
Frederic Macomber,
3 00
Thomas T. Burt,
3 00
66 James Macomber,
2 25
66
Herbert A. Dean,
1 50
66
Thomas B. Dean,
2 40
Wm. C. Macomber,
1 50
R. H. Babbitt,
13 85
66
A. Babbitt,
9 75
66 Isaac Babbitt,
8 25
66
H. Babbitt,
6 00
66
John D. Babbitt,
7 50
66
Edward Babbitt,
95
66
Adoniram Cummings,
7 25
66 Joseph T. Cummings,
1 50
Samuel Covel,
4 50
66
W. H. S. Crane,
6 75
66
Cyrus Hathaway,
7 50
66 Francis Newhall,
6 00
66 Albert Bassett,
1 50
Nathaniel Hathaway,
4 50
66
J. C. Crane,
7 50
66 Simeon Briggs,
3 00
66
W. W. French,
2 70
$889 09
SUPPORT OF POOR OUT OF ALMSHOUSE.
B. L. Burt, aid to C. B. Hathaway's family, $102 00
Il. A. Dean, house rent “ 66 45 00
B. L. Burt, aid to Orin F. Hathaway, 35 00 Staples & Phillips, coal 66 7 50
B. L. Burt, groceries to M. Newhall, 18 94
Taunton Lunatic Hospital, F. H. French, 157 05
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City of Taunton, aid to S. D. Briggs, 27 00 City of Boston, aid to C. Harmon, 94 20
B. L. Burt, groceries to R. G. Robbins, 38 00
P. T. & H. S. Washburn, coffin, R. G. Robbins, 14 00 Groceries, wood and rent to W. F. Field's family, 22 17 Dr. Hathaway, medical attendance, C. B. Hatha- way's family, 10 75
66 F. H. French, 1 00
J. P. Haskins, wood to M. Newhall, : 00
$579 61
INCIDENTALS.
Thompson, Brown & Co.,
$47 83
W. D. Nichols, 2 50
Printing Town Reports, 20 00
Town of Middleboro, care of fish, 20 00
T. P. Burt, bal. due as Treasurer, 1875, 26 87
O. H. Thayer, rails for farm, 30 00
John A. Reed, care of Town Hall, 1875-6, 6 68
Wm. Babbitt, cash for sundries,
31 73
Julia Burt, for one Lunatillus, 10 00
W. H. S. Crane, serving dog warrant, 14 75
Collector's commission,
50 00
Treasurer's
66 85
Discount on taxes for early payment,
222 22
Sinkages and abatements,
19 65
Repairs on B. & D. bridge, Henry Hathaway and others, 14 59
Repairs on school house,
9 00
J. C. Standish, tending B. & D. bridge,
Balance of 1875, $57 07 135 82
9 months of 1876, 78 75
Expended for Incidentals and Discounts, $708 49
PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE TOWN OF BERKLEY.
Town House, $1,000 00
Town Farm, 3,500 00
School Houses, 4,000 00
Valuation of stock, provisions, hay, farming utensils, &c., on Town Farm, 974 60
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Iron safe for use of the town, 75 00
Book cases, 18 00
Two fish notes, due June 1, 1877, 134 00
Nine oyster notes, due June 1, 1877, '78, '79, '80, '81, '82, '83, '84, '85, 11,754 00
State Aid due from State, 157 50
$21,613 10
AVAILABLE FUNDS JUNE 1, 1877.
One oyster note, due June 1,
$1,306 00
Two fish notes, 66
134 90
40 75
City of Fall River, Town of Raynham,
22 17
$1,511 92
INDEBTEDNESS OF THE TOWN.
Machinists National Bank note, due Nov. 25, 1877,
$2,000 00
JOHN A. READ, Treasurer of Berkley.
SCHOOL REPORT
FOR THE YEAR 1876-7.
FELLOW-CITIZENS :- Your Committee would have been much better pleased if they could have reported to you a longer school year than that which closed on the 2d day of March last. But though they have only a brief school year to report, they nevertheless think they may justly congratulate you on the progress made during the year.
The number of scholars enrolled has been larger than on the previous year; and in most of the schools progress has been more marked ;- more especially in three of the largest has this progress been most noticeable. We refer to No. 1, No. 3 and No. 4. In these are found scholars of more advanced ages than in the others; and there has been among some of them a generous rivalry which has been very pleasing both to the teachers and the committee. We think that on the whole more school work has been done than on any previous year for some time.
Your committee have employed, during the year, two thoroughly qualified teachers, graduates of Bridgewater Normal School, and placed them, one at the Bridge all the school year, and the other at the Common during the win- ter, and results have shown the wisdom of the management.
New methods of instruction have been adopted with pleasing results. Thought has been drawn out, and habits
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of study formed. To some of the scholars our mother tongue has become a new language. New eyes, so to speak, have been given, through which the pupil can look into a sentence of the English language, and see its mean- ing ; and can tell the relation of each word to every other word in the sentence, so that the meaning of the writer is taken in at a glance. To pupils thus trained, "every sen- tence," as John Stuart Mill has it, «becomes a lesson in logic ;" reading becomes a delight to themselves and a pleasure to those who hear them. The mechanical effort is lost sight of, the school tone is dropped, and the mind reads out the mind of the writer. The teacher who can train her pupils in this way is invaluable in a school; and the town which employs such makes the wisest use of its school money.
In two of our schools several of the more advanced pupils are very expert arithmeticians, and seem familiar with the principles as given by Quackenbos, whose text book they have studied. And three scholars have made considerable progress in the study of algebra during the winter.
The number of children in the town of school age, ac- cording to the assessors' return, was 118. The number of scholars enrolled during the year was 130. Deduct two counted twice and five who go to Taunton, and you have enrolled as scholars for the year 123, or five more than the number returned by the assessors. Of these, however, 21 are not of school age, 19 being over 15 years old and 3 under 5, thus leaving 17 children of school age not enrolled as scholars-work for the truant committee.
By a reference to the following table the reader will be able to discover at a glance the teacher, the time, the num- bers, boys and girls, enrolled, and the average attendance of each school during the summer and winter terms respect- ively.
SUMMER TERM.
WINTER TERM.
No. of School.
NAME OF TEACHER.
No. of Weeks.
No. Enrolled.
Total.
Average attend'nce
No. of School.
NAME OF TEACHER.
No. of Weeks.
No. Enrolled.
Total.
Average attend'ce.
1 Annie E. Carpenter 14
12
7
19
16
1 Jas. M. Leonard,
14
16
5
21
18
2 M. Annie B. Wilbur
14
11
15
26
21
2 Annie E. Carpenter 14
11
14
25
20
3 Julia R. Burt,
13
11
15
26
23
3 Julia R. Burt,
14
14
13
27
23
4 Hattie E. French,
14
10
9
19
16
4 M. Annie B. Wilbur 13
9
3
12
7
5 Carrie E. Cobb,
7
4
3
7
6
5 Hattie E. French,
14
15
10
25
19
6 Annie F.Cummings
14
13
5
18
16
6
Annie F.Cummings
14
14
5
19
13
76
61
54
115
98
83
79
50
129
100
Boys.|
Girls.
Boys.
Girls.
13
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In the foregoing tabular statement it will be seen that School No. 5 had only seven weeks of time during the summer. But as provision was made to convey its scholars to other schools, it is fair to count it as having had the same length of time as the others have had. According to this mode of reckoning, each school has had twenty-eight weeks or seven months, with the exception of No. 3 and No. 5, each one of which lost a week on account of the af- fliction of the teacher. This would give an average time of six months eighteen and one-third days to all the schools in the town.
The experiment of the past year has demonstrated to your committee this truth, viz : that if they could place thoroughly competent teachers in each of the schools where the most advanced pupils attend, there would be no need for parents to be at the trouble and expense of sending their children to the Grammar school or High in Taunton or else- where. But your committee think this would be a better and a more economical plan : Let some one of the more central schools in the town, or let the Town Hall, be used for the most advanced scholars from all the districts, and let a wide-awake teacher be appointed over them, and it will give the town of Berkley an educational standing which she has not attained, at least during the present generation. Now what is to prevent this? There have been in all our schools during the year about forty scholars over the age of thirteen ; and these, with a little effort on their own part and a little on the part of their parents, might all be brought into one school. More especially might this be . done in the winter. There might be found some of this age not prepared to go into a school of this higher grade ; but there undoubtedly would be found as many not arrived at this age who would be prepared to be thus promoted ; so that forty might be reckoned on as about the number
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that would attend. Put a teacher of approved ability at the head of this school, and what with the stimulus supplied by numbers, and with the growing ambition of boys and girls of this age, two winters shall not have passed away till it shall be felt and acknowledged that the town cannot do without such a school. This can be done at an expense to the town of not more than $500, including carriage of scholars.
Then let there be three or four primary schools kept in session for six or seven months in the year, avoiding the extremes of heat in summer and of cold in winter. These could be carried on at an annual expense of not more than $700 per annum. And thus for less money than the town is now expending, you will have a system of schools which your committe is persuaded will show more satisfactory results.
We note here for their encouragement the names of those scholars who have had a perfect record of attendance for the year or part of the year :-
School No. 2-Lydia D. Chace, during the summer term; Mary L. Smith, all the year; Frank Dean, Annie L. and Lizzie E. Hathaway, during the winter term.
School No. 3-Grace E. Fairley and Lulie M. Babbitt, summer term; Addie W. French and Flora A. Pierce, winter term.
School No. 4-Fannie M. Chace and Carrie M. Coombs, summer term; Frances Maguire, winter term.
School No. 5-Lucy M. Eaton, winter term.
School No. 6-George Caswell and Johnnie Cummings, winter term.
Most of you are aware that during the year Guyot's geographies have been introduced to our schools in room of
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Cornell's, displaced. This has been done at the expense of the town in accordance with the law on this point :- "If any change is made, each pupil then belonging to the pub- lic schools, and requiring the substituted book, shall be furnished with the same by the committee at the expense of the town." (General Statutes relating to Public Schools, chap. 28, sec. 28.)
Cornell's geographies are now considerably out of date, and Guyot's are rapidly taking their place throughout the schools in the land. The world is progressing, and we want our scholars to know it.
The transaction has been a source of no little anxiety and labor to your committee, without one cent of profit. The books have been furnished to the town at the very lowest terms made by any publishers, and with the old books tak- en in exchange the new ones have cost the town but a very small sum compared with the real value of the books.
Yours faithfully,
The Committee,
SAMUEL FAIRLEY, Chairman, B. F. COOMBS, CALVIN T. CRANE.
REPORTS
-OF THE-
School Committee
-AND-
TREASURER
-OF THE-
TOWN OF BERKLEY,
1877-8.
TAUNTON : PRINTED BY JOHN S. SAMPSON. 1878.
REPORTS
-OF THE-
School Committee
-AND-
TREASURER
-OF THE-
TOWN OF BERKLEY,
1877-8.
TAUNTON : PRINTED BY JOHN S. SAMPSON. 1878.
T
REPORT
OF THE
TREASURER OF THE TOWN OF BERKLEY,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING APRIL 1st, 1878.
RECEIPTS.
City of Fall River, acct. C. B. H.,
$122 75
Cash hired as per vote of town,
150 00
Cash, Town of Raynham,
22 17
66
one oyster note,
1,306 00
66
two fish notes,
134 00
National Bank tax,
220 75
66 Corporation tax,
9 03
66 State aid,
126 00
66
School fund,
213 45
66
Dog fund,
82 71
State, County and Town taxes,
3,120 19
$5,507 05
EXPENDITURES.
State and County taxes,
$564 00
Interest and note paid,
251 00
Highways and bridges,
1,158 39
Public Schools,
1,255 46
School Committee,
114 98
Selectmen and Overseers of Poor,
118 85
Support of poor out of almshouse,
547 42
Incidentals,
697 66
Treasurer's commission,
80 00
Care of B. & D. Bridge,
136 66
Assessors,
77 15
State aid,
162 00
Cash to balance,
343 86
$5,507 05
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EXPENDITURES IN DETAIL.
State tax, $270 00 294 56
County tax,
564 56
NOTES AND INTEREST.
T. C. Crane's note and interest, 151 00
Interest on note, Machinists' Bank, 100 00
251 00
SELECTMEN AND OVERSEERS OF POOR.
Isaac Babbitt, 1876, 6 50
James Maguire, 1877,
18 00
Peter S. Chace,
22 50
55 25
Wm. Babbitt, cash paid out, 16 60
118 85
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
B. F. Coombs, 1876, 14 90
Samuel Fairley, 1876,
25 80
Rollin H. Babbitt, 1877,
21 25
Joseph R. Elsbree, '75 and '6,
15 00
B. F. Coombs, 1877,
11 95
Calvin T. Crane, 1877,
10 00
66 66 1876,
16 08
114 98
ASSESSORS.
John Townsend,
26 25
Samuel S. Pierce,
25 00
Hercules Dean,
25 90
77 15
Town Clerk, John A. Read,
28 70
Collector and Treasurer, Wm. H. S. Crane,
80 00
STATE AID.
108 00
T. P. Burt, Lewis Green, Bildad Williams,
36 00
18 00
162 00
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SCHOOLS.
EXPENDED FOR TEACHERS.
Julia R. Burt,
244 00
Sarah Crane,
252 00
Hattie E. French,
176 00
Annie F. Wilbour,
176 00
Annie T. Cummings,
177 00
A. Harris,
84 00
Nellie R. Strange,
28 00
1,137 00
INCIDENTALS.
T. L. & J. H. Church, coal,
6 00
S. A. Burt, going after scholars,
3 00
James Webster, wood,
4 50
Giles L. Leach, wood,
37 45
Hercules Dean, wood,
12 00
F. B. Terry, cutting wood,
4 37
66 66 building fires,
3 50
Henry Sandford, cutting wood,
8 75
Charles S. Coombs,
66
66
4 37
B. W. Macomber, 66 66
4 37
Everettes Pierce, 66
1 25
T. L. & J. H. Church,
10 40
Ellie M. Smith, building fires,
3 50
Frederic Macomber,
3 50
Charles F. Coombs,
4 50
3 50
3 50
118 46
1,255 46
Town appropriation,
1,000 00
School fund, Dog fund,
213 45
82 71
1,296 16
Balance due schools,
10 70
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SUPPORT OF POOR OUT OF ALMSHOUSE.
Stephen Briggs,
20 00
C. B. Hathaway,
128 50
O. F. Hathaway, 86 00
Mahala Newhall, 21 21
F. C. French, 208 30
Town of Westboro',
79 41
City of New Bedford,
4 00
547 42
MISCELLANEOUS BILLS.
Balance Town Treasurer's bill, 1876,
37 37
Town Clerk's bill for 1877, 28 70
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