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1 year $5,000.00 to Dec. 30, 1907 175.00
Stetson Fund, 1 year $2,500.00 to Sept. 22, 1907 100.00
Penniman School, 1 year $6,500.00 to Sept. 1, 1907 227.50
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Noah
Torrey School, 6 mo. $32,000.00 to June 1, 1907
$579.99
6 mo. $30,000.00 to Dec. 1, 1907
543.74
$3,418.23
Discount on notes, issued in anticipation of
Taxes
$2,335.29
COUNTY TREASURER :
County tax, 1907 ... .... $3,620.00
STATE TREASURER:
State tax, 1907 $6,200.00
Metropolitan Park, sinking fund 296.05
Metropolitan Park maintenance 711.70
Metropolitan Park, interest
1,020.31
Metropolitan Park, Series 2 sinking fund.
56.65
Metropolitan Park, maintenance
101.69
Metropolitan Park, interest
178.61
Nantasket, maintenance,
37.09
State Highway, repairs
45.23
Druggists license, 25 per cent
.
.50
$8,647.83
Exchange .10
$228,464.98
Balance on hand, Dec. 31, 1907
11,106.06
$239,571.04
The accounts of Benj. F. Dyer, Treasurer for the year 1907 as represented, have been adjusted with all vouchers furnished and the balance $11,106.06 and the same is deposited as follows to the credit of the Town of Braintree:
Nat. Shawmut Bank
$10,565.79
National Mt. Wollaston Bank
61.53
Orders drawn and charged in 1908 .. 478.83
DANIEL POTTER, Auditor.
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The Treasurer calls attention to the figures of the Electric Light Department in his Cash account.
No appropriation was made for operation or extension of the Light system during the year 1907, except the Depreciation Fund required by statute and the revenue derived from operating the plant.
The disbursements have been ... From this amount should be
$25,727.67
deducted payment of one Coal bill (none of which has been used) $1,199.80 Also sundry orders which should have been drawn against the Depreciation Fund and which now appear as a credit
in the general cash account .. . . 2,655.84
3,855.64
$21,872.03
The revenue collected is $20,987.60. There are outstanding bills due the Light department for charges made previous to Oct. 1, 1907 of about $700.00.
It is a question whether UNPAID BILLS can be called REVENUE against which to draw orders, until the money is in the Treasury.
The Treasurer respectfully begs to say that without an ap- propriation outside of the revenue, bills cannot be paid when due and even if it is considered that CHARGES made by the depart- ment to consumers are revenue, the amount cannot be known un- til after the last readings, about the 10th to 15th of October. When this point was reached in 1907 it was seen that the Light plant could not live on its revenue and the only way to avoid a large overdraft was to stop paying everything but Station wages.
One item of less than one hundred dollars, due a Citizen of the Town for labor, has been paid since Oct. 14, 1907.
All other bills owing by the Department are still outstanding and payment can only be made as fast and as far as the Depart- ment can collect its charges to consumers.
Respectfully submitted,
BENJ. F. DYER, Treasurer.
Dec. 31, 1907.
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ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPRECIATION FUND
BENJAMIN F. DYER, Treasurer,
In account with ELECTRIC DEPRECIATION FUND.
Dr.
Cr.
Balance, Dec. 31, 1906
$740.88
Town appropriation, 1907
3,954.48
Interest
24.79
Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Co. order 654
$173.98
Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Co. order 712
505.29
General Electric Co. order 701
365.20
General Electric Co. order 787
395.91
Town of Braintree, reimbursement of sums paid by the Town for meters and repairs on lines:
General Electric & West. Co., orders
625 and 626
596.00
General Electric Co., order 722 576.67
General Electric Co., order 749
. 849.98
General Electric Co., order 835
247.39
Repairs on Real Estate, orders 773, 801 and ..
814
385.90
Balance in National Shawmut Bank ..
623.93
$4,720.15 $4,720.15
BENJAMIN F. DYER, Treasurer.
Dec. 31, 1907.
The above statement is adjusted and found correct, the bal- ance $623.93 on deposit in National Shawmut Bank.
DANIEL POTTER, Auditor. 1
Jan. 13, 1908,
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SINKING FUND ACCOUNTS
BENJAMIN F. DYER, Treasurer. WATER LOAN OF 1888.
Dr.
Cr.
Balance, Dec. 31, 1906
$54,887.48
Town appropriation, 1907
2,000.00
Income, 1907 $2,166.98
Less interest on
Bonds bought
..... .
20.22
2,146.76
$59,034.24
INVESTMENTS.
One bond, City of Canton, O., 5 per cent. $1,000.00
Two bonds, Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn R. R. 4 1-2 per cent. 2,000.00
One bond, Rumford Falls & Rangeley R. R. 5 per cent. 1,000.00
Six bonds, Town of Braintree Water loan, 4
per cent. $1,000.00 each, due 1921, cost .. 5,962.50
Two bonds, Town of Braintree Water loan, 4 per cent. due 1918 2,000.00
Ten bonds, Town of Braintree Electric Light loan, 4 per cent. 10,000.00
One bond, Town of Braintree Electric Light loan, 4 per cent. 500.00
Five bonds, Fitchburg R. R. 4 per cent. 5,000.00
Three bonds, Ill., Cent. R. R. 3 12 per cent. $1,000.00 each, cost 2,945.00
Seven bonds, C. B. & Q. R. R. 3 1-2 per cent. $1,000.00 each, cost 6,600.00
Two bonds, West End St. R. R. 4 per cent. 2,000.00
Three bonds, N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. 4 per cent. $1,000.00 each, cost 2,615.11
NOTES, Town of Braintree, 3 1-2 per cent.
Due Sept. 1, 1909 2,500.00
Due Sept. 1, 1909 3,400.00
Due June 30, 1910 2,000.00
Due June 1, 1914 3.62 1-2 per cent. 2,000.00
Braintree Savings Bank 523.20
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Randolph Savings Bang $1,600.00
East Weymouth Savings Bank 1,148.53
Hingham Savings Bank
127.55
Quincy Savings Bank
1,629.42
South Weymouth Savings Bank
105.59
Weymouth Savings Bank
835.96
Abington Savings Bank
989.82
Rockland Savings Bank . . .. 551.56
$59,034.24
WATER LOAN OF 1891.
Balance, Dec. 31, 1906 $59,345.85
Town appropriation, 1907
3,000.00
Income, 1907
$2,426.97
Less interest on bonds bought.
53.99
2,372.98
$64,718.83
INVESTMENTS.
Six bonds, City of Canton, O. 5 per cent .. $6,000.00 Six bonds, Town of Braintree Electric Light
loan, 4 per cent. 6,000.00
Four bonds, Town of Braintree Water loan
1891, 4 per cent. $1,000.00 each, cost 3,962.50
Seven bonds, Town of Braintree Water loan 1888, 4 per cent. 7,000.00
Three bonds, Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn R. R. 4 1-2 per cent. 3,000.00
Three bonds, Ill. Cent. R. R. 3 1-2 per cent. $1,000.00 each, cost 2,940.10.
Ten bonds, C. B. & Q. R. R. 3 1-2 per cent.
$1,000.00 each, cost 9,330.68
Three bonds, C. B. & Q. R. R. 4 per cent 3,000.00
One bond, Fitchburg R. R. 4 per cent. 1,000.00
One bond, N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. 3 1-2 per cent $1,000.00, cost 6,130.11
Seven bonds, N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. 4 per cent.
$1,000.00 each, cost 6,130.11
Notes, Town of Braintree,
Due Sept. 1, 1908, 3 1-2 per cent. . . 2,000.00
94
Due June 30, 1910, 3-2 per cent. $3,000.00
Due June 1, 1914, 3.62 1-2 per cent.
3,000.00
Abington Savings Bank
1,022.18
Weymouth Savings Bank
871.95
South Weymouth Savings Bank
80.76
Quincy Savings Bank
1,752.55
East Weymouth Savings Bank
1,600.00
Braintree Savings Bank
610.26
Rockland Savings Bank
197.50
Hingham Savings Bank
141.97
Randolph Savings Bank
1,107.98
$64,718.83
WATER LOAN OF 1896.
Balance, Dec. 31, 1906
$1,452.45
Town appropriation, 1907,
120.00
Income 1907
58.66
less interest on bonds bought 4.23
54.43
$1,626.88
INVESTMENTS.
One bond, Town of Braintree Water Loan 1891,
4 per cent. $1,000.00 cost $987.50
South Weymouth Savings Bank 255.09
Randolph Savings Bank
384.29
$1,626.88
MUNICIPAL LIGHTING LOAN OF 1893.
Balance, Dec. 31, 1906
$7,114.67
Town appropriation, 1907
430.00
Income, 1907
$296.18
less interest on bonds bought
11.44
284.74
$7,829.41
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INVESTMENTS.
Three bonds, Town of Braintree Water loan
of 1891, 4 per cent. $1,000.00 each, cost ..
.. $2,975.00 One bond, N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. 4 per cent. $1,000.00 cost 935.00
Randolph Savings Bank
946.56
Quincy Savings Bank
1,060.48
East Weymouth Savings Bank
1,180.64
Weymouth Savings Bank
500.15
Braintree Savings Bank
231.58
$7,829.41
SUMMARY OF DEBT WITH SINKING FUND.
Water loan of 1888
$100,000.00 $59,034.24
Water loan of 1891
150,000.00
64,718.83
Water loan of 1896
6,000.00
1,626.88
Municipal Lighting loan of 1893
16,500.00
7,829.41
$272,500.00 133,209.36
Balance of Debt Dec. 31, 1907
139,290.64
1
$272,500.00
BENJAMIN F. DYER, Treasurer.
Examined the various securities of Sinking Funds for Water Loan of 1896, 1898 and 1891 and the Municipal Lighting Loan of 1893 and find the amount as represented in the report of Treasurer Benjamin F. Dyer correct. Messrs. William A. McKean and William P. Kelley examined the Bonds and Notes and Daniel Potter the sev- eral Savings Bank deposit books.
DANIEL POTTER, WILLIAM A. MCKEAN, WILLIAM P. KELLEY,
Auditors.
Braintree, Jan, 16, 1908,
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FUNDED DEBT OF THE TOWN
WATER DEBT.
Bonds issued Jan. 1, 1888, payable Jan. 1, 1918 at 4 per cent. $100,000.00
Bonds issued June 1, 1891, payable June 1, 1921, at 4 per cent .. 150,000.00
Notes issued Aug. 1, 1896,
payable
Aug. 1,
1926, at 4 per cent. 6,000.00
$256,000.00
Less Sinking Fund of 1888. $59,034.24
Less Sinking Fund of 1891 64,718.83
Less Sinking Fund of 1896 1,626.88
$125,379.95
Net balance
130,620.05
-
$256,000.00
MUNICIPAL LIGHTING DEBT.
Bonds issued April 5, 1893, payable April 5, 1917, at 4 per cent ..
$16,500.00
Less Sinking Fund $7,829.41
Net balance 8,670.59
$16,500.00
One Note, payable Sept. 1, 1908 at 3 1-2 per cent
3,900.00
One note, payable Sept. 1, 1909 at 3 1-2 per cent
3,400.00
One note, payable June 30, 1910 at 3 1-2 per cent 2,000.00
One note, payable June 30, 1910 at 3 1-2 per cent
3,000.00
$12,300.00
GENERAL DEBT.
Trustees of Thayer Library, note dated March 7, 1874, on demand. now 4 per
cent $10,000.00
Trustees of Thayer Library, note issued March 22, 1899, 5 years at 4 per cent, known as the Caleb Stetson fund. To be a continued note as long as the Town will pay 4 1
per cent 2,500.00
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Executor of Estate of N. H. Hunt, note dated March 7, 1874, on demand, now 4 1-2 per cent $10,000.00
This note will be turned over to the
Town as a portion of the bequest of N. H. Hunt; the income of which is to be used in purchasing books for the Thayer Library.
Notes issued on account of Noah Torrey School, at 3.62 1-2 per cent :-
Payable June 1, 1908 $3,000.00
Payable June 1, 1909
3,000.00
Payable June 1, 1910
4,000.00
Papable June 1, 1911
5,000.00
Payable June 1, 1912
5,000.00
Payable June 1, 1913
5,000.00
Payable June 1, 1914
2,000.00
Payable June 1, 1914
3,000.00
$30,000.00
Notes issued on account of Penniman School
at 3 1-2 per cent :-
Payable Sept. 1, 1908
2,000.00
Payable Sept. 1, 1909
2,500.00
$4,500.00
Notes issued in anticipation of Taxes of 1907.
Payable April 22, 1908,
.$10,000.00
Payable Apr. 29, 1908
10,000.00
$20,000.00
$361,800.00
SINKING FUNDS.
Loan of 1888
$59,034.24
Loan of 1891
64,718.83
Loan of 1896
1,626.88
Loan of 1893
7,829.41
$133,209.36
Net balance of Funded Debt.
228,590.64
$361,800.00
Through the payment of maturities and the operation of the Sinking Funds the net funded debt has dimished $20,308.91 during 1907.
BENJAMIN F. DYER, Treasurer.
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BENJAMIN F. DYER, Treasurer of the TOWN of BRAINTREE, In account with the CHARLES EDWARD FRENCH, Trust.
Dr. Cr.
Oct. 14, 1907 :- Received from Otis Norcross and S. P. Stratton, Executors of Estate of Charles Edward French, check dated May 6, 1907 $2,000.00
Bequest accepted by Town Oct. 14, 1907.
Town of Braintree to pay accrued interest on Bonds 32.00
Paid Town of Braintree, advances 32.00
INVESTMENT:
Two Town of Braintree Water Loan Bonds, Nos. 8 and 9, 4 per cent.
$1,000.00 each $2,000.00
INCOME ACCOUNT:
Proportion of income accrued on Bonds, Dec. 1, 1907, deposited in Braintree
Savings Bank $8.00
EXTRACT from WILL:
"I give to the Town of Braintree, Two thousand ($2,000.00) dollars in trust, the amount to be invested in Town of Braintree Bonds; such part of the annual income of which as may be nec- essary to be expended in the purchase of three (3) silver medals in each of the Public High and Grammar Schools of said Town, to be distributed for the best scholarship (Military and Mechanic Arts not included) of the class graduating from each school, pro- vided however that a sufficient fund shall not (prior to my de- cease) have been set apart by others for the same purpose. The unexpended income to be added to and remain a part of the fund."
For the above purpose there will be available June 1, 1908 $48.00 and thereafter each June 1st, $80,00.
BENJAMIN F. DYER, Treasurer. Dec. 31, 1907
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BRAINTREE SCHOOL FUND
BENJAMIN F. DYER. Treasurer,
In account with BRAINTREE SCHOOL FUND.
Income account Dec. 31, 1906, to Dec. 31, 1907.
Dr. Cr.
Balance, Dec. 31, 1906
$390.62
N. E. & F. A. Hayden, 1 year's rent
200.00
J. P. Drollett, 1 year's rent 25.00
J. P. Drollett, 1 year's rent, to May 1, 1908 3.00
F. H. Thayer, 1 year's rent, to May 1, 1908
2.50
E. F. Trufant, 1 year's rent, to May 1, 1908 3.00
Dividends from principal account:
Quincy Savings Bank
50.88
Braintree Savings Bank 37.56
Dividends from Income account:
Braintree Savings Bank 19.03
National Granite Bank 60.00
Rebate on Bank Tax 25.74
Paid Trustees, 3 years' services $30.00
W. W. Mayhew, George H. Arnold, C. H.
Hobart, R. L. Arnold, George D. Willis,
A. S. Morrison, Trustees.
Benjamin F. Dyer, Treasurer, 3 years' services 15.00
H. W. Borden, repairs on Farm house 11.55
Town of Braintree
300.00
Balance in Braintree Savings Bank, Dec. 31, 1907 460.78
$817.33 $817.33
Adjusted the above account of Benjamin F. Dyer, Treasurer, and the balance of $460.78 (four hundred-sixty and 78-100 dollars) on deposit in the Braintree Savings Bank.
DANIEL POTTER, Auditor.
Braintree, January 15, 1908.
100
INVESTMENT OF BRAINTREE SCHOOL FUND.
10 shares Nat. Granite Bank, Quincy ....... $1,000.00 7 shares Union National Bank, Weymouth,
in liquidation $700.00
Paid 70 per cent
$490.00
Paid 15 per cent.
105.00
Paid 5 per cent. .
. .
35.00
630.00
70.00
(Probably one more small dividend)
Deposited in Braintree Savings Bank
930.00
Deposited in Quincy Savings Bank 1,272.50
$3,272.50
Real Estate :- Buildings and 21,954 acres of land on Town Street, 19,096 acres of land on Granite Street-Assessors' value 3,500.00
BENJAMIN F. DYER, Treasurer.
Dec. 31, 1907.
Correct
DANIEL POTTER, Auditor.
Braintree, Jan. 15, 1908.
101
FINANCIAL SUMMARY, DEC. 31, 1907
DEBT
Dr.
Cr.
Water Loans
$256,000.00
Electric Light Plant, Notes $12,300.00, Bonds
$16,500.00
28,800.00
Thayer Public Library Note
10,000.00
Thayer Academy Note
.. 10,000.00
Caleb Stetson Fund Note
2,500.00
Noah Torrey School Notes
30,000.00
Penniman School Notes
4,500.00
Anticipation of Taxes Notes 20,000.00
Accrued Interest on Water Debt 600.00
Accrued Interest on Electric Light Debt 211.00
Accrued Interest on Sundry Notes 927.38
Sundry bills outstanding December 31, 1907 694.39
To Wit-Electric Light Department
4,595.40
Water Department
3,278.25
School Department
68.00
$372,174.42
Credits. ASSETS OF THE TOWN.
Public Buildings Not Included.
Town Treasurer's Cash balance
$11,106.06
Water Treasury Cash balance 519.66
SINKING FUND ACCOUNTS.
Water Loans of 1888
$59,034.24
Water Loans of 1891 64,718.83
Water Loans of 1896 1,626.88
$125,379.95
Electric Light Loan of 1893
$7,829.41
ACCOUNT OF TAXES UNPAID.
Amounts due from 1905 $60.43
Amounts due from 1906 12,385.20
Amounts due from 1907
35,214.55
$47,660.18
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ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE.
Due from Electric Light Department $7,825.13
Paid from Water Department from register
unpaid bills $917.52
411.40
Due from pipes, etc.
$1,328.92
Paid to Soldiers and their families from State Aid Chapter 374, 1899, January 1st, 1907 to Dec. 31, 1907 inclusive $2,454.50
On account burials under same act
$107.00
State Aid Chapter 372, amount paid Jan. 1, 1907, to Dec. 31, 1907 inclusive 336.00
50 per cent. due from State .. 168.00
$168.00
Amount due from cities, towns and State, on
claims paid in several departments $655.73
Balance carried forward $167,139.88
$372,174.42
Dr.
Net debt of Town
$167,139.88
DANIEL POTTER, Auditor.
Braintree, Dec. 31, 1907.
103
INSURANCE ACCOUNT
School Houses
Buildings
Contents
Total
Noah Torrey
$30,000.00
$2,000.00
Monatiquot
27,000.00
1,500.00
Jonas Perkins
27,000.00
3,000.00
Penniman
13,000.00
1,000.00
Union
8,000.00
500.00
Pond
7,800.00
700.00
South West
1,000.00
200.00
South
1,000.00
$123,700.00
Town Hall
$19,100.00
$900.00 $20,000.00
Alms House
10.100.00
1,200.00
11,300.00
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Union Engine House
$1,800.00
Butcher Boy Engine House
1,000.00
Wampatuck Engine House
1,000.00
Electric Light Station
6.431.00
$3,800.00 $29,569.00 $36.000.00
BOILER INSURANCE.
Electric Light Station
$15,000.00
:
Jonas Perkins School
10,000.00
Town Hall
5,000.00
Alms House
1,000.00
Noah Torrey School
10,000.00
41,000.00
Insurance on Fly Wheels
at Electric Light Station 40,000.00
40,000.00
$235,231.00
$40,569.00 $275,800.00
RECAPITULATION.
On Buildings
$154,231.00
On Contents
40,569.00
On Boilers
41,000.00
On Fly Wheels
40,000.00
$275,800.00 $275,800.00
DANIEL POTTER, WILLIAM A. MCKEAN, WILLIAM P. KELLEY,
Auditors.
Braintree, Feb. 3, 1908.
Auditors' Report STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES FOR 1907.
Appropriation.
Expended.
Unexpended.
In Excess.
Credits.
School Department.
For pay of School Teachers .. $21,000 00 )
Dog Tax, 1907.
913 14
$22,213 14
$22,002 93
$210 21
School Fund. . ..
300 00 )
Superintendent of Schools.
1,600 00
1,600 00
3,040 00
3,040 00
Text Books and Supplies.
1,800 00
1,892 01
92 01
92 01
700 00
733 90
33 90
33 90
Schoolhouse Incidentals and Repairs. .. .
1,200 00
1,299 30
99 30
35 14
Fuel ..
2,200 00
2,186 70
13 30
Conveyance of Pupils.
1,650 00
1,881 25
231 25
231 25
Repairs on South West Schoolhouse. ..
250 00
270 00
20 00
İ
Highway Department.
General Repairs of the Highways and Bridges in addition to the Excise Tax
and Street Railway Tax received from State .. .
¥4,000 00 )
Excise Tax.
1,791 63
$6,898 72
7,130 56
231 84
29 28
Street Railway Tax.
1,107 09 )
Sidewalks .
1,500 00
1,521 23
21 23
Removal of Snow.
2,500 00
2,757 51
257 51
Watering Streets ..
$750 001
$1,606 75
1,48S 40
118 35
Abutters' Tax.
856 75 S
Town Lands. ..
100 00
75 58
24 42
20 50
Stone Roads.
41 39
41 30
50 00
104
.
.
.
Janitors of Schools. .
Schools Incidentals.
·
Fire Department.
General Expenses and Repairs
$750 00
1,423 71
and Forest Fires
673 71
6 30
Engineers' and Members' Pay
including Poll Tax
1,575 00
1,573 00
2 00
New Hose.
300 00
292 50
7 50
3,175 00
320 70
129 70
Care and Maintenance Fire Alarm .
200 00
301 57
101 57
Fire Alarm Box Howard
and Haywood Sts ....
150 00
150 00
Electric Light Department
For Depreciation Fund and
$3,954 48 2 20.68
3,984 16
623 93
Revenue from Light, Power, ) Meter Rents and Wiring
21,700 94
2,100 90
623 93
ses in 1907 net.
Miscellaneous Expenses.
Salaries of Selectmen, Asses- sors, and Overseers of Poor and Surveyors of Highways Town Clerk.
$1,950 00 500 00
Treasurer's .
525 00
Tax Collector.
600 00
Auditors. .
100 00
3,910 00
3,910 00
Registrars of Voters .. .
105 00
Moderator ..
25 00
Treasurer's Bond. ..
105 00
Cemetery . . 50 00
50 00
60 67
10 67
35 00
105
acct. for operating expen-
21,700 94
27,168 07
Interest . .
Extra Pay to Firemen . 200 00
STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES FOR 1907-Continued.
Appropriation.
Expended.
Unexpended.
In Excess.
Credits.
Water Department.
For Hydrant Service.
$5,025 00
Sinking Funds ..
5,120 00 (
New Meters to be Forwarded later on .
7,000 00
Tree Warden Department
Destruction of Gypsy and
Brown Tail Moths.
$1,000 00
Trimming Trees 150 00
150 00
91 93 2,255 56
58 07
Special Town Meeting. Appro-
2,000 00
$255 56
$205 09
106
Board of Health Department.
For General Expenses
Special Town Meeting.
200 00
596 84
3 16
Poor Department
Support of Poor and Maintenance of Alms House. ..
5,500 00
2,285 24
Alms House-outside relief.
4,241 88
1,027 12
408 97
Police Department
For Pay of men. . .
2,190 00
2,190 00
Court Fees and Expenses. .
150 00
108 47
41 53
10 29
Town Department.
For Payment of Notes in 1907.
9,900 00
9,900 00
$17,145 00
$5,025 00 5,120 00
$7,000 00
priation for the Department 1,000 00
400 00
Town Department-Cont. Payment Interest on Notes ....
$3,418 25 2,500 00
$3,418 23 2,335 29
164 71
Thayer Public Library.
General expenses ..
1,000 00
1,000 00
Distribution of Books.
100 00
100 00
Miscellaneous.
Incidental Expenses .
2,250 00
3,234 19
384 19
255 61
Insurance
795 00
796 25
1 25
253 22
15 01
Town Hall.
General expenses in addition to income ...
500 00
796 15
296 15
309 00
107
Janitor of Hall and Public Library . .
650 00
650 00
Memorial Day ..
175 00
175 00
Military Aid.
336 00
336 00
168 00
State Aid and Burial of Soldiers
2,561 50
2,561 50
2,561 50
Appropriations at Special Town Meeting.
For Fire Alarm.
1,00 00
100 00
Fire Department.
319 26
319 26
Extension of Water Mains.
2,000 00
1,573 65
426 35
$134,457 22
$133,682 95
$9,366 03
$8,591 76
$5,105 77
Corrected account of Fire Department appropriations and expenditures.
General Expenses. . $750 00
Engineers and Members. ..... 1,575 00
.
.
.
1,000 00
1,015 01
Soldiers' Relief.
1,000 00
746 78
Abatement of Taxes
Special Meeting-Incidental Expenses ...
600 00
02
Interest on Loans in Anticipation of Taxes
STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES FOR 1907-Continued.
Appropriation.
Expended.
Unexpended.
In Excess.
Credits.
Account of Fire Department-Cont.
New Hose.
$300 00
Extra and Special appropria- tion for paying men ..
519 26
Care of Fire Alarm
300 00
Fire Alarm Box ...
150 00
3,594 26
Amount unexpended.
9 50
In excess of appropriation
466 72
4,070 48
Amount Expended . ...
4,070 48
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Amount of Appropriation ...
$112,756 28 21,700 94
Orders Paid by Treasurer ..
$94,815 84
Revenue from Electric Light Dept ..
$134,457 22
5,753 52
Unexpended. .
9,366 03
$137,637 43
$125,091 19
Less Amount of Depreciation Fund. .. 3,954 48
Excess over Appropriations. . -
8,591 76
$133,682 95
$133,682 95
DANIEL POTTER, Auditor for 1907.
Braintree, January 31st, 1908.
Orders Paid Electric Light Plant. Notes Paid. Interest Paid in 1907.
27,168 07
9,900 00
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Report of Board of Health
ORGANIZATION for the Year 1907.
HENRY L. DEARING, M. D., Chairman.
ROBERT F. BURLEIGH, M. D. C. A. SULLIVAN, M. D.
EDWARD W. HOBART, Inspector and Clerk.
DR. C. M. MARSTIN, resigned in September, and on Oct. 7th, at a joint Meeting of the Selectmen and this Board, Dr. C. A. Sullivan was elected to fill the vacancy.
The Board of Health have the honor to submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1907:
INSPECTIONS OF THE BOARD.
The Sanitary condition of the School Buildings, Factories, and Bakeries, have twice been inspected during the year.
CLEANLINESS IN FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
Extract from Section 2, Chapter 503, Acts of 1907:
"All factories and workshops shall be well lighted, well ven- tilated and kept clean. Suitable receptacles for expectoration shall be provided in all factories and workshops by the proprietors thereof, the same to be of such form and construction and of such number as shall be satisfactory to the Board of Health of the city or town in which the factory or workshop is situated .- (Ap- proved June 13, 1907.)
Chapter 410, Acts of 1907, forbids spitting on the floors of buildings including "Mills and factories."
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FACTORIES MUST KEEP MEDICAL AND SURGICAL APPLIANCES.
Chapter 164 of the Acts of 1907 reads as follows:
AN ACT.
To Provide for the Keeping of Medical and Surgical Appli- ances in Factories.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same as fol- lows:
Section 1. Every person, firm or corporation operating a fac- tory or shop in which machinery is used for any manufacturing purpose, or for any other purpose except for elevators, or for heating or hoisting apparatus, shall at all times keep and main- tain, free of expense to the employees, such a medical and surgi- cal chest as shall be required by the local Board of Health of any city or town where such machinery is used, containing, plasters, bandages, absorbent cotton, gauze and all other necessary medi- cines, instruments and other appliances for the treatment of per- sons injured or taken ill on the premises.
Section 2. Any person, firm or corporation violating this act shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for every week during which such viola- tion continues.
Approved March 18, 1907.
In accordance with the above The Board of Health are send- ing a list of requirements to all Factories and Workshops. In some of these Factories, the above requirements have already been complied with, and the results are proving highly satisfactory and beneficial to the Employer and Employees alike. The Board has received numerous complaints regarding infected areas, in the more thickly settled parts of the town. These pollutions have been controlled with great difficulty, and it is to be hoped that the town will at an early date appropriate a sufficient amount of money to perfect a plan which will adequately care for Sew- age material infecting these sections.
MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS.
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The Board of Health has been in favor of the Medical Inspec- tion of Schools in this town for some time, and has known of the interest of the School Board in this connection, Recent Legisla-
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tive Acts make it imperative that the Town take immediate steps to secure a suitable appropriation to insure systematic attention to this very important matter. During the last year numerous cases of illness or contagious skin diseases have been referred to the Board of Health, (they having acted as Health Physicians) by School Teachers for diagnosis, and advice.
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