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Printing reports, 20 00
Staples & Phillips, 3 75
Care of fish, Middleboro',
20 00
P. L. Chace, cow for farm,
50 00
HI. W. Clark, bill on school house, 1874, 12 00
A. B. Crane, 66
15 00
S. B. Allen, sundries,
5 00
P. H. Fletcher, repairing wagon,
3 85
W. H. S. Crane, service on warrants,
11 25
Otis Read, care of town hall,
5 00
Discount for early payments,
280 00
Sinkages,
13 40
Timothy E. French, repairs,
9 82
N. G. Case,
75
Adoniram Cummings and others,
19 75
J. Babbitt, stove pipe,
$ 77
Wm. G. Hathaway, binding dictionary,
3 50
Sarah Nichols, cleaning house,
2 00
Sundries furnished by teachers,
1 43
John A. Read, repairs,
4 67
Rollin Babbitt, school furnishings, 65
J. H. Lincoln, horse for farm,
140 00
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
Dist. No. 1.
Stephen A. Burt, labor, 39 75
Sumner Knapp, 66
4 50
Bildad Williams, 66
8 62
George Williams, 66
4 50
Elijah Wilbur, 66
5 25
697 66
7
N. G. Case, labor,
3 00
Daniel Crane,
9 60
S. B. Allen,
8 25
Jason Cummings, 66 and gravel,
9 39
G. L. Leach, 66
9 00
Benjamin Paul, 66
6 52
John A. Read,
66
13 75
Hercules Dean,
66
8 10
Joseph T. Cummings,“
3 00
David Hoxie,
66
66
8 58
Snow bill for No. 1,
12 72
Dist. No. 2.
Herbert A. Dean,
labor and stone,
29 43
Stephen Corey,
66
6 00
Charles F. Westgate,
8 25
Clarence W. Dean,
66
6 00
Shepherd Phillips,
66
2 25
N. G. T. Bowen,
66
4 50
Thomas B. Dean,
66
1 50
Alvin Briggs,
66
7 85
Silas Norcut,
4 50
Samuel Norcut,
66
3 00
William Macomber,
66
2 25
Thomas T. Burt,
66
4 50
George H. Westgate,
66
13 20
Enoch Macomber,
66
3 90
Barnard Norcut,
66
3 30
Nancy I. Burt,
66
1 50
Wm. Smith,
66
53
Chester Phillips,
66
50
Joseph Puffer,
66
58
Isaac C. French,
75
Thomas C. Dean,
and gravel,
4 32
Willard F. Westgate,
11 10
George W. Westgate,
" and gravel,
45 64
Joseph W. Carpenter,
66
7 50
Snow bill, Dist. No. 2, 1877,
3 52
6
1878,
Dist. No. 3.
Adoniram Babbitt,
labor,
3 00
Horace B. Babbitt,
66
21 50
Artemas B. Babbitt,
3 00
Isaac Babbitt,
66
6 00
Edward Babbitt,
66
4 50
Joseph H. Cummings,
66
22 85
19
8
Adoniram Cummings, labor,
9 75
John C. Crane,
66
3 75
W. H. S. Crane,
66
4 50
Samuel Covell, 66
6 75
W. W. French,
4 50
Albert Hathaway,
66
3 00
Cyrus Hathaway,
66
3 00
W. B. Haskins,
66
G. H. Merick,
66
3 00
Francis Newhall,
66
6 00
Snow bill, No. 3, 1877,
19 76
66 66 66 1878,
7 87
27 63
Dist. No. 4.
Allen Grey,
4 50
E. A. Grey,
3 00
Peter L. Chace,
12 75
Benjamin F. Chace,
4 20
Samuel S. Pierce,
1 50
Jeremiah Pierce,
1 50
George E. Boyce,
6 00
John Boyce,
6 00
Elisha Belcher,
1 50
B. G. Hathaway,
7 35
Charles Record,
75
Albert E. Dean,
2 55
Thomas F. Dean,
5 10
John Q. Dillingham,
labor,
9 75
James D. Dillingham,
66
4 05
W. D. Nichols,
7 20
Benjamin F. Coombs,
66
8 50
Benjamin Luther,
66
6 00
James Maguire,
66
6 00
Darius Phillips,
66
5 20
Charles Davis,
66
4 50
John H. Grinnels,
66
3 00
Thomas J. Tew,
66
95
Benjamin F. Luther,
66
14 15
Snow bill, 1877,
21 19
66 " 1878,
15 52
36 61
Dist. No. 5.
Cyrus Haskins,
12 75
Albert W. Allen,
33 86
Evander Strange,
1
4 50
Eliphalet Terry,
7 35
Edward Terry,
12 22
9
Lewis Terry,
15
Henry D. Clark,
2 25
Noah Strange,
7 50
Ebenezer Briggs,
10 35
George P. Strange,
75
George A. Strange,
3 60
David T. Strange,
8 25
David F. Strange,
: 25
Alfred Pierce,
3 22
Thomas Terry,
12 00
Francis Richmond,
6 00
Snow bill, 1878,
6 78
Laid out by Selectmen on road,
46 04
Dist. No. 6.
Isaac Seymour,
00
John T. Townsend,
9 00
N. G. Townsend,
13 50
Christopher French, gravel,
2 96
B. H. Thrasher,
6 15
B. F. Cheeny,
5 55
Franklin Phillips, labor and gravel,
12 10
Frank B. Chester,
2 25
Thomas H. Seekell,
6 00
William H. Smith,
6 00
Job Hamar,
3 00
John Harmon,
labor,
2 25
Dean Westgate,
4 50
Charles Shaw,
3 00
John Thrasher,
3 00
Israel Chace,
1 87
Joseph Staples,
" and gravel,
5 59
William Caswell,
66
66
7 90
Elam Staples,
66
3 00
C. E. Vial,
66
66
42 25
Paid out by Selectmen,
195 91
Snow bill, 1877,
26 90
66
66 1878,
9 90
36 80
Total,
$1,158 46
PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE TOWN.
Town House,
$1,000 00
Town Farm,
Stock, hay, utensils, &c.,
3,500 00 976 54
School houses,
4,000 00
10
Safe, 75 00
Two fish notes, due June 1, 1878,
120 00
Eight oyster notes, due June 1st, '78, '9,
'80, '1, '2, '3, '4, '5, 10,448 00
341 41
Cash in Treasury,
- 20,460 95
AVAILABLE FUNDS, JUNE 1, 1878.
One oyster note, due June 1,
1,306 00
Two fish notes,
120 00
City of Fall River,
54 00
1,480 00
TOWN DEBT.
Machinists' Bank note, due Nov. 25, 1878, 2,000 00
WM. H. S. CRANE,
Treasurer of Berkley.
SCHOOL REPORT.
FOR THE YEAR 1877-8.
FELLOW CITIZENS :- Our Schools closed on the eighth of March, with the exception of the one in the Neck, which continued four weeks longer as there were but nine weeks of town school in Summer. All of the schools have been in session the same length of time, with the exception of the Algerene school, and your Committee were unanimous in the opinion that it would be better for the scholars in that section (of which there were but 5 at the most.) to go to the Common. A suitable con- veyance was provided, but, after running a week without a scholar, was discontinued, the parents exhibiting more self-will than desire to educate their children. In the latter part of the Summer term and in Winter, teachers were provided.
Our schools on the whole have been quite successful, one or two not being what they might have been under different influences. Two Normal teachers have been employed all of the school year, with great satisfaction to your Committee, and the services of a third were en- gaged for the Winter term at the Bridge. Your Commit- tee deem it advisable to employ Normal teachers as far as our means will allow for the coming year. Marked benefit has resulted where they have remained for a year or more, and in the exercise of reading the improvement was very apparent, and in all the exercises the pupils appeared very familiar with what they had been over. Almost all the other schools showed a fair degree of improvement.
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Not all of the success of a school can depend on the teacher; the parents have a duty to perform, and in one of our most successful schools the teacher, of many years of experience, remarks "that in all of her experience she never had a school where the parents and children took such an interest in the welfare of the school as they did there," and the school shows the result in being the most advanced in town. Indifference on the part of the parents is reflected in the child, and presents to the teacher a serious obstacle to the advancement of the school. Your Committee are pleased to note, in looking over the regis- ters, a growing interest, compared with other years, on the part of the parents in visiting the schools, which promises well for the future.
Our school houses need some repairs in the way of paint and other slight repairs ; all are quite pleasant with the exception of No. 6, which is entirely out of date, and the scholars deserve a better edifice.
A glance at the following table will give the usual statistics.
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SUMMER TERM.
WINTER TERM.
No. of School.
.
NAMES OF TEACHERS.
No. of Weeks.
Whole No.
Pupils.
Average
Attendance.
Wages per week
No. of School.
NAMES OF TEACHERS.
No. of Weeks.
Whole No
Pupils.
Average
Attendance.
Wages per week
1 Julia R. Burt,
13
28
24
$8.00
1 Julia R. Burt,
14 23
20
$10.00
2 M. Annie B. Wilbur 13
26
22
6.00
2 M. Annie B. Wilbur 14
29
24
7.00
3 Hattie E. French,
13
15
13
6.00
3 A. L. Harris,
14
17
13%
6.00
4 Sarah Crane,
9
18
17
8.00
4 Sarah Crane,
18
21
18
10.00
5 Nellie R. Strange,
7
12
10
4.00
5 Hattie E. French,
14
7
6층
7.00
6 Annie F. Cummings 13
21
17%
6.00
6 Annie F. Cummings 14
20
143
7.00
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The measles have made the general average of attend- ance at the School at Burt's Corner much lower than it otherwise would have been, and in the Northeast School most of the pupils were small and have a long distance to go, and in bad weather are necessarily detained at home ; but the average is better than might be expected.
For the encouragement of the scholars in the future, we make mention of the number of pupils who have not been tardy during the year in each school: At the Common, only Minnie M. Williams; at Burt's Corner, nine of the misses and seven of the masters ; only one at the Bridge, Addie W. French ; at the Neck, Sybil Luther, James D. Dillingham and Carrie Coombs ; Lucy M. Eaton and Walter A. Strange at Algerene; two of the misses and six of the masters at the Northeast ; Lydia D. Chase and Mary L. Smith of Burt's Corner were not absent during the year.
The only change in text books is in readers. The Franklin Series has been adopted, as there was a want of uniformity of readers. The change is to be made as the scholars require new books, without expense to the town.
In conclusion, your Committee are convinced that it would be for the interest of the scholars in town if the schools could be consolidated into two or even three ; then with the same money we should have schools all of the year in charge of able teachers. This would require self-sacrifice on the part of many parents but would pay in the end.
CALVIN T. CRANE,
BENJ. F. COOMBS, School Committee.
ROLLIN H. BABBITT,
.
REPORTS
OF THE
TREASURER,
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR
AND
SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
OF THE TOWN OF BERKLEY, TOGETHER WITH A
LIST OF TAXES FOR 1878-79.
TAUNTON : PRINTED BY C. A. HACK & SON, 9 UNION BLOCK. 1879.
REPORTS
OF THE
TREASURER,
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR,
AND
SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
OF THE TOWN OF BERKLEY,
TOGETHER WITH A
LIST OF TAXES FOR 1878-79.
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TAUNTON : PRINTED BY C. A. HACK & SON, 9 UNION BLOCK. 1879.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
For the year ending April 1st, 1879.
RECEIPTS.
Cash in Treasury,
$256.91
Two fish notes,
120.00
One oyster note,
1,306.00
Interest on note,
23.47
City of Fall River,
176.21
Corporation tax,
8.84
National Bank tax,
216.54
State aid,
126.00
School fund,
213.35
Dog fund,
68.81
Town of Dighton, gravel,
.84
State, County and Town tax,
2,737.48
Hired as per vote of town,
300.00
$5,554.45
EXPENDITURES.
State and County Tax,
491.74
Note and Interest,
1,050.00
Public Schools,
1,213.12
Highways and Bridges,
1,039.65
Selectmen and Overseers of Poor,
95.37
School Committee,
10.88
Support of Poor out of Almshouse,
502.54
Care of Berkley and Dighton Bridge,
63.00
Assessors,
91.70
State aid,
178.00
Berkley's proportion of Somerset Bridge,
86.24
Town Clerk,
23.85
Treasurer's Commission,
70.00
Incidentals,
504.11
Cash to balance,
134.88
5,554.45
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EXPENDITURES IN DETAIL.
State tax, County tax,
$311.74 180.00
$491.74
NOTES AND INTEREST.
Machinist National Bank, note,
1,000.00
66 66 Interest on note, 50.00
1,050.00
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
B. F. Coombs, 10.88
10.88
SELECTMEN AND OVERSEERS OF POOR.
William Babbitt, 66
51.00
Money paid out,
22.37
T. A. Briggs,
8.25
P. L. Chase,
13.75
95.37
TOWN CLERK.
John A. Read, 23.85
23.85
COLLECTOR AND TREASURER.
N. H. Strange,
70.00
70.00
ASSESSORS.
G. L. Leach,
30.00
A. E. Dean,
30.00
D. S. Briggs,
31.07
91.07
STATE AID.
Bildad Williams,
18.00
Lewis Green,
36.00
T. P. Burt,
54.00
Carlos Wellman,
70.00
178.00
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SUPPORT OF POOR OUT OF ALMSHOUSE.
B. F. Dean,
$89.00
O. F. Hathaway,
86.00
Mahala Newhall,
15.10
C. B. Hathaway,
112.00
Elam Staples,
24.00
F. French,
166.44
Town of Norton,
10.00
$502.54
MISCELLANEOUS BILLS.
Printing reports,
15.50
N. G. Townsend,
4.00
G. P. Strange, interest on $35,
8.40
H. A. Dean, Guardian for C. Norcutt,
30.22
H. L. Davis, lead and oil,
25.66
Elisha Belcher, painting school-house,
12.00
Dr. Hathaway, attendance on Poor,
5.50
Bildad Williams, cleaning school-house,
2.71
Care of fish, Middleboro,
20.00
Thomas Terry, wood,
4.00
N. G. Case,
bill on school-houses,
6.00
T. E. French,
14.93
T. H. Seekell, wood,
3.50
H. A. Dean, serving as committee,
10.00
Otis E. Read, sundries,
7.61
P. L. Chase, serving as committee,
6.00
T. A. Briggs, 66 66
9.25
G. B. Williams, lumber,
5.98
T. E. French, carpentering on Town Hall.
1.95
Sinkage on taxes,
11.77
Discount on taxes,
240.03
N. H. Strange, serving warrants,
11.00
B. F Coombs,
60
5.60
J. W. Thrasher,
66
10.50
John A. Read,
4.00
66 sundries,
· 6.00
404.11
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SCHOOLS.
EXPENDED FOR TEACHERS.
Sarah Crane.
$120.00
A. B. Wilbur,
135.50
Nellie W. Winslow,
182.00
Annie L. Harris,
182.00
Julia R. Burt,
219.00
S. P. Dillingham,
208.00
H. L. Turner,
77.00
$1,123.50
INCIDENTALS. -
James Macomber, sundries for schools,
.62
Crayons,
.50
N. G. Case,
building fires, 66
2.75
Irving Chase,
2.75
Charles S. Coombs. 66
2.75
W. H. S. Crane,
2.75
G. W. Caswell,
2.75
A. W. Strange,
2.50
B. W. Macomber, cutting wood,
3.75
F. W. French.
7.50
W. W. French,
2.50
F. B. Terry,
3.75
Everett Coombs,
3.75
J. T. Townsend, for wood,
51.00
89.62
Town appropriation,
900.00
School fund,
213.30
Dog fund,
68.81
1,182.16
Deficiency for schools,
30.96
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
DISTRICT NO. 1.
A. H. Allen,
labor and gravel,
6.28
Martin Alden,
¥ 4.50
Thomas Burt,
4.50
S. A. Burt,
-
8.25
J. T. Cummings,
8.25.
7
John Cameron,
labor,
$8.50
N. G. Case,
4.00
George Cole,
66
1.50
Jason Cummings,
66
4.00
Edgar French,
66
1.20
Henry Hathaway,
66
9.00
David Hoxie,
labor and gravel,
8.46
G. L. Leach,
66
10.10
S. W. Phillips,
. "
1.50
John A. Read,
labor and gravel,
11.96
Benj. Paull,
7.00
Alfred Pierce,
gravel,
.48
Bildad Williams,
labor,
14.25
Elijah Wilbur,
4.50
Hercules Dean,
labor and gravel,
21.77
Snow bill,
7.50
DISTRICT NO. 2.
H. A. Dean,
labor and gravel,
25.23
Enoch Macomber,
4.50
Stephen Cory,
66
4.50
Alvin Briggs,
4.87
Clarence Dean,
66
10.05
Wm. Macomber,
66
2.25
T. B. Dean,
3.19
Bernard Norcutt,
66
2.70
Edward Smith,
1.80
Samuel Norcutt,
66
3.00
Silas Norcutt,
4.50
Joseph Puffer,
66
4.50
Fred'k Macomber,
3.00
N. G. T. Bowen,
6.00
G. W. Westgate,
66
36.75
G. W. Westgate,
gravel,
9.60
Willard. F. Westgate, labor,
4.45
G. H. Westgate,
6.00
Shepherd Phillips,
66
1.50
66
.60
G. W. Westgate, Snow bill,
15.83
DISTRICT NO. 3.
A. Babbitt,
labor,
6.00
I. Babbitt,
labor and gravel,
6.80
H. B. Babbitt,
4.50
66
S
E. Babbitt,
labor,
$1.50
T. A. Briggs,
12.00
S. Briggs,
4.50
Albert Bassett,
66
1.50
Samuel Covel.
66
6.75
A. Cummings,
.6
9.30
J. C. Crane,
66
6.00
Wm. H. S. Crane, 66
7.50
S. H. Cudworth,
66
4.80
J. H. Cummings,
66
19.75
W. W. French,
66
3.00
C. Hathaway,
66
4.80
S. Hathaway, 66
3.00
A. Hathaway,
66
7.50
G. H. Myrick,
66
3.00
F. Newhall,
6.30
E. Pierce,
1.50
Snow bill,
21.24
DISTRICT NO. 4.
B. F. Chase,
labor,
6.75
B. F. Chase,
gravel,
5.00
Allen Gray,
labor,
4.50
A. T. Gray.
3.00
G. E. Boyce,
66
8.25
S. S. Pierce,
06
2.25
John Boyce,
4.50
B. G. Hathaway,
66
5.70
B. G. Hathaway,
gravel,
.84
John Dillingham,
labor,
8.00
James Dillingham,
66
3.00
W. D. Nichols,
9.00
A. E. Dean,
66
2.25
B. F. Coombs,
66
9.00
Benj. Luther,
66
6.00
B. F. Luther,
66
6.00
J. T. Dean,
66
3.00
Benj. Phillips,
3.00
P. L. Chase,
29.50
Snow bill,
15.57
DISTRICT . NO. 5.
E. D. Briggs,
labor, 66
22.65
H. W. Clark,
8.25
H. W. Clark,
gravel,
4.00
66
66
66
9
J. D. Briggs,
labor,
$12.00
C. J. Briggs,
66
12.00
Thomas Terry,
6.90
J. W. Terry, 66
2.25
F. B. Terry,
1.50
H. D. Clark,
1.50
D. T. Strange,
9.00
D. F. Strange,
66
1.35
N. H. Strange,
66
12.00
J. F. Richmond,
6.75
J. F. Richmond,
gravel,
3.32
Alfred Pierce,
labor,
4.50
Alfred Pierce,
gravel,
3.00
G. P. Strange,
labor,
7.50
G. P. Strange,
drills,
.25
A. W. Allen,
labor,
8.00
Cyrus Haskins,
66
4.50
Edward Westgate,
66
4.50
Eliphalet Terry,
.6
1.50
Clinton Briggs,
1.00
E. E. Terry,
1.50
Snow bill,
6.75
DISTRICT NO. 6.
Job Hamer,
labor,
3.00
D. P. Westgate,
21.60
Frank Phillips,
23.25
Frank Phillips,
gravel,
5.50
C. E. Viall,
labor,
7.50
N. G. Townsend,
12.00
J. T. Townsend,
14.25
W. K. Evans,
gravel,
2.00
Israel Chase,
labor,
1.00
T. H. Seekell,
3.00
P. H. Fletcher,
13.52
P. H. Fletcher,
1.48
Joseph Staples,
labor,
2.70
J. H. Thrasher,
6
6.00
C. A. Shaw,
4.50
Elam Staples,
1.50
B. F. Cheney,
3.00
W. H. Smith,
14.80
Snow bill, 1877,
3.00
Paid out by Selectmen,
170.51
$1,039.65
66
gravel,
66
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AVAILABLE FUNDS JUNE 1, 1879.
One oyster note,
Two fish notes,
$1,306.00 130.00
$1,436.00
TOWN'S DEBT.
Machinist National Bank note, due Nov. 25, 1879, 1,000.00 Thaddeus Lincoln's note, due June 5, 1879, 300.00
1,300.00
PROPERTY BELONGING TO TOWN.
Charles Norcutt's note, due Oct. 14, 1879,
82.43
School houses,
4,000.00
Six oyster notes,
7,836.00
Cash in Treasury,
134.88
Town house,
1,000.00
Town farm,
3,500.00
16,470.88
$16,553.31
NOAH H. STRANGE, Treasurer of Berkley.
REPORT
OF THE
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
PROPERTY AT THE TOWN FARM, MARCH 28th, 1879.
One bay horse,
$140.00
One old horse,
25.00
Seven cows,
260.00
Eight tons English hay,
112.00
One ton black grass,
9.00
One mowing machine,
40.00
One horse rake,
5.00
Four hand rakes,
1.00
Five hay forks,
1.50
Five draft chains,
4.00
Three shovels,
1.00
Three manure forks,
.75
Harnesses,
20.00
One stump hook,
1.50
One fall and blocks,
1.50
Drag rake.
.50
Two ladders,
1.00
Stone mall and iron bar.
2.00
Monkey wrench,
1.00
One large plow,
6.00
One small plow,
4.00
Narrow hoe,
.25
Whiffletree,
.25
Stable bucket,
.30
Horse blanket,
1.00
One pair hames,
.25
Potato digger,
.30
Cultivator,
.25
Sleigh,
4.00
One M. shingles,
2.75
12
Four pigs,
$16.00
Horse sled,
1.00
Ox harrow,
3.00
Two hoes, 1
.50
One top express wagon,
40.00
One farm wagon,
60.00
One hay rack,
2.00
One ton of thatch,
7.00
Grindstone,
3.00
Two scythes and snaths,
3.00
Fifty-five hens,
27.50
Five turkeys,
7.00
A lot of pop corn,
3.00
Six bushels rye,
4.50
Ten bushels cob corn,
3.00
Stub scythe,
1.00
One lot of rails,
10.00
One lot of locust and cedar posts,
10.00
One lot of wood,
30.00
Bucket,
.25
Wool,
1.20
Three axes,
1.00
Two wood saws,
1.00
Spade,
.75
21 lbs. ham,
2.10
32 lbs. lard,
2.56
Clothes wringer,
7.00
Two wash tubs,
.75
1-2 bushel salt,
.25
Thirty gallons of vinegar,
4.50
y 1-2 bushels potatoes,
9.50
6 1-2 bushels planting potatoes,
2.00
175 lbs pork,
14.00
One lot of pig potatoes,
1.00
2 1-2 bushels turnips,
1.25
One lot dried apples,
6.00
Apple parer,
.75
$933.46
The amount of the appraisal last year was $978.47. or $45.01 more than for the present year, and if we add the amount for which we appraised a horse, paid for by the Town Treasurer, $140, the appraisal would be $185 less than last year.
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We find in settling with Calvin Belcher, Agent at Town Farm, that he has charged the Town :
For sundries bought, His salary,
$426.40 175.00
$601.40
And that he has given the Town credit for sundries sold to the amount of 541.38
Leaving a balance due him of
$60.02
For which we gave him an order on the Treasurer.
Last year there was due from Mr. Belcher to the Town $30.33 which added to the amount ($60.02) due Mr. Belcher this year by the Town, makes a difference of $90.35 against Mr. Belcher, comparing his account this year with that of last year.
Mr. Belcher wishes us to state to the town, that he has not been able to sell but a small part of the milk he produced, and what he was able to sell was at a very low price. and this is the possible reason why the amount of his sales was so much less than last year.
There were at the Town Farm, March 31st, 1878, the following paupers : Amanda French, Esther Norcutt, John Westgate, Stephen Briggs, Charles Norcutt and wife. Stephen Briggs died January 19th, 1879, and Charles Norcutt and wife left the last of April, 1878, leaving at the Farm, March 28th, 1879, only three persons as paupers, namely, Amanda French, Esther Norcutt and John Westgate, who are in good health, and appear to be kindly and properly cared for.
The average number of paupers supported last year at Town Farm was four, which has cost the Town,
reckoning interest of Farm,
$200.00
Balance due the Agent, Mr. Belcher,
60.02
And the amount due from Mr. Belcher last year, 30.33
A total amount of $290.35
Which is about $1.40 per week for each pauper. This does not include the $185.01 difference in appraisal this year with last.
We find by Mr. Belcher's books that he has given supper, lodging and breakfast to twenty-nine tramps during the last year.
Our report does not give an account of those persons who have been in whole or in part supported by the Town outside of the Town Farm, that account will be found in the Treasurer's report.
HERBERT A. DEAN, Overseers PETER L. CHASE, of
THOMAS A. BRIGGS, the Poor.
LIST OF TAXES For the Year 1878-79.
S. B. Allen's estate,
$21.68
Amos H. Allen.
6.18
Davis AHen,
19.53
Albert W. Allen,
3.69
Jethro Ashley,
12.73
Martin Alden,
17.68
Augustus Adams,
2.00
Polly and Rachel Burt,
1.51
Abner Burt's estate,
2.25
Thomas Burt,
14.90
T. Preston Burt,
2.75
Caroline Burt,
4.50
Maria Burt,
8.21
Alex. E. Burt,
2.00
Stephen A. Burt,
2.56
Daniel S. Briggs,
14.38
Caleb S. Briggs,
6.13
Andrew Briggs,
2.75
Charles Bissett,
24.02
Maria Bissett,
.75
William Babbitt,
18.05
William Babbitt and others,
7.50
William Boyce,
8.75
Edward Babbitt,
11.12
Simeon Briggs,
13.18
Simeon Briggs, Jr.,
2.00
Thomas A. Briggs,
8.45
John D. Babbitt,
12.43
Adoniram Babbitt,
2.75
Rollin H. Babbitt,
14.16
E. B. Babbitt,
22.22
H. B. Babbitt,
2.00
Isaac Babbitt,
22.55
Gideon H. Babbitt,
2.00
Albert F. Bassett,
13.37
Levi L. Bowker,
2.75
John Boyce,
19.33
David E. Boyce,
2.00
George E. Boyce,
20.27
Elisha Belcher,
5.56
Calvin Belcher,
4.25
Galib & B3 alla
15
William H. Belcher,
$2.00
Leonard T. Belcher,
2.00
E. D. Briggs,
12.40
J. D. Briggs,
2.00
Joseph and Sarah Burt,
4.13
Wealthy C. Boyce,
1.88
Tamerlane Burt's estate,
33.94
Thomas T. Burt,
2.94
Alvin Briggs,
15.39
N. G. T. Bowen,
18.58
William Burt's estate,
3.00
George H. Bowers,
17.90
Nathaniel Burgess,
2.00
Margaret Crane,
17.52
A. B. Crane,
13.44
John Cameron,
2.00
George Cummings,
8.19
J. T. Cummings,
4.74
Jason Cummings,
11.64
Jason Cummings, Jr.,
2.00
Barzillai Crane's estate,
8.63
Nathan G. Case,
9.39
Stephen Cory,
9.50
Charles Cory,
2.00
Thomas G. Chase,
2.30
G. W. Cummings,
2.94
Charles E. Clark,
25.20
Charles E. Clark, Jr.,
2.00
John Clark,
2.00
Benj. Crane's estate,
3.00
John C. Crane,
18.88
William H. S. Crane,
12.66
Samuel Covel,
11.64
George Crane, Zeit
2.00
Sarah Crane,
6.56
Adoniram Cummings,
8.60
J. H. Cummings,
2.00
Benj. F. Coombs,
21.51
Peter L. Chase,
30.56
Benj. F. Chase,
17.94
H. W. Clark,
9.54
H. D. Clark,
2.00
Benj. F. Cheney,
5.83
Israel Chase,
6.00
Wm. Caswell,
15.30
C. T. Crane,
20.98
16
J. W. Carpenter,
$18.32
S. H. Cudworth,
9.90
Frank E. Chester,
2.00
William H. Crowninshield,
2.38
G. M. Cole,
2.00
Vernon S. Dean,
2.00
James Darvell,
2.00
H. C. Dean,
20.26
S. C. Dean,
20.11
T. B. Dean,
2.00
Miles S. Dean,
13.18
A. E. Dean,
2.00
T. F. Dean,
18.46
E. D. Dillingham,
16.13
H. A. Dean,
72.91
Betsey Norcutt's estate,
2.63
Ebenezer Dean,
20 23
J. T. Dean,
14.30
Charles A. Davis,
10.48
S. P. Dillingham;
4.50
J. D. Dillingham,
2.30
J. Q. Dillingham,
33.21
J. R. Ellsbree,
16.25
2J. S. Evans,
2.00
William R. Evans,
11.79
O. F. French,
16.67
J. O. French,
16.11
T. E. French,
6.31
M. B. French,
1.05
William W. French,
3.73
·Christopher French,
9.19
Christopher P. French,
2.75
Philip H. Fletcher,
40.25
G. F. Fletcher,
2.75
L. P. Fletcher,
2.38
John Gidmark,
2.00
Lewis Green,
2.56
Allen Gray,
11.57
Alex. T. Gray,
2.86
Alma Gray,
.53
John Grinnell,
12.96
David Gaines,
2.00
J. P. Haskins,
35.83
Shadrack Hathaway,
11.37
E. S. Hathaway,
3.50
Enoch Hathaway's estate,
1.13
17
Benj. Hathaway's estate,
$3.75
Henry Hathaway,
12.69
Rebecca Hathaway,
19.65
David Hoxie,
22.36
David A. Hoxie,
2.00
E. B. Hathaway.
2.00
Elkanah Hathaway,
10.18
James H. Humphrey,
2.00
John J. Hall,
2.00
Otis Haskell,
2.75
William H. Haskell,
2.00
James A. Haskell,
2.00
Thomas Hathaway,
2.00
Cyrus Hathaway,
11.71
C. A. Hathaway,
2.56
Nathaniel Hathaway's estate,
8.03
Albert Hathaway,
2.00
Cyrus Haskins, Jr.,
2.00
James Hathaway's estate,
5.29
B. G. Hathaway,
11.00
Peter Hathaway's estate,
15.30
Cyrus Haskins,
8.41
G. A. Harmon,
2.00
F. D. Harmon,
2 00
John Harmon,
5.81
Job Hamer,
5.94
A. R. Haines,
5.00
G. F. Howard,
2.00
Stephen Hathaway,
15.36
Arthur Jones,
2.56
Summer Knapp,
2.00
G. L. Leach,
32.53
Obadiah Lawton,
13.10
Benj. Luther,
16.41
Benj. F. Luther,
3.28
Frederick Lincoln,
2.00
J. F. McDonald,
2.00
J. H. Macomber,
5.61
Enoch Macomber,
8.71
Horace Macomber,
3.36
William C. Macomber,
2.00
Frederick Macomber,
2.00
B. W. Macomber,
.75
Gideon H. Myrick,
14.23
Samuel Norcutt,
5.38
Silas Norcutt,
12.99
18
Bernard Norcutt,
$8.68
Betsey Newhall,
1.13
Francis Newhall,
17.90
W. D. Nichols,
32.75
Christopher Newhall.
1.13
Albert Pitts,
86.33
Thomas Poole,
2.00
W. H. Phillips,
2.00
S. W. Phillips,
5.11
Benj. Paull,
9.68
J. F. Phillips,
2.00
J. W. Puffer,
7.44
Andrew N. Pierce estate,
7.50
Darius Phillips,
15.32
J. W. Pierce,
2.68
S. S. Pierce,
4.66
George Pierce,
13.63
Shepherd Phillips,
4.06
Alfred Pierce,
10.67
Frank Phillips,
8.53
C. F. Pliillips,
2.00
J. A. Read,
12.32
Asa W. Read,
5.75
J. F. Richmond,
10.70
Wm. R. Smith,
2.00
Sina Seekell,
1.50
T. P. Staples,
5.15
D. D. Strange,
18.94
N. H. Strange,
2.00
Thomas Strange estate,
26.78
G. P. Strange,
3.65
P. A. Strange,
2.00
M J. Strange,
1.73
D. T. Strange,
16.52
D. F. Strange,
3.13
Elam Staples,
2.26
C. F. Staples,
2.00
Daniel Staples,
3.49
Joseph Staples,
11.60
Darius Sanford,
4.99
C. A. Shaw,
5.26
Isaac Seymour,
19.77
T. H. Seekell,
18.13
Wm. H. Smith,
6.99
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