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3.50
Whitall Tatum Co.
4.17
$147.18
Unexpended balance
2.82
Fees paid to town
$87.25
Bills payable
$25.00
Forestry.
Total appropriations
$3,300.00
Total credits
453.21
Total taxes'
1,172.25
Total overdrafts
279.21
$5,204.67
Total payments
$5,192.93
Total unexpended balances
11.74
$5,204.67
Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth Suppression.
Appropriation
$2,400.00
Taxes
1,172.25
Credits
. . 397.71
$3,969.96
Bills Receivable $53.00
Paid Barrett Mfg. Co $11.00
Belvea, Richard
3.15
Bestick, Clarence R.
773.00
Bestick, Clarence R.
395.85
$150.00
84
Braintree Hardware Co.
11.56
Cobb, William H.
14.00
Dow Chemical Co.
544.80
Fitzhenry-Guptill Co.
15.15
Gilnan, C. E.
.24
;N. Y. N. I. & II. R. R.
1.88
Pratt & Sims
7.50
Prescott, G. W. Pub. Co.
12.38
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
7.99
Standard Oil Co., of N. Y.
29.80
Stewart, F. W.
13.35
Sundry Persons, labor
2,098.97
$3,965.62
Unexpended balance 4.34
$3,969.96
Credits
Refund
$.20
Ellis Hollingsworth
307.43
Horace F. Hunt
5.00
State
85.08
$397.71
Care of Trees.
Appropriation
$500.00
Credit
44.40
$544.40
Paid Bestick, C. R.
$100.00
Sundry Persons, labor
430.00
Thayer, I. G.
7.00
$537.00
Unexpended balance
7.40
$544.40
Credits.
Miller, Charles C.
$44.40
25.00
Loring, G. E. & Co.
85
Forest Fires.
Appropriation
$400.00
Credits
11.10
Overdrafts
279.21
$690.31
Paid Adams Express Co.
$2.50
Adams Firefighting & Instrument
Company
29.90
Brown, Lewis A. & Co.
8.33
C. C. C. Fire Hose & Rubber Co.
10.63
Cutting, James M., Warden.
125.00
Electric Express
1.00
Means, Charles J.
7.84
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.
42.80
Stevens & Willis Co.
5.96
Sundry persons work at fires
Forest Dept.
$285.20
Fire Dept.
171.15
$456.35
$690.31
Credits.
Cutting, James M. Telephone
$1.05
Horte, Robert F. Telephone
10.05
$11.10
HEALTH AND SANITATION.
Health
$1,950.00 400.00
Sanitation
Total appropriations
$2,350.00
Total credits
28.50
Total Licenses and Fecs
91.70
Health
$301.25
Sanitation 75.27
Total Overdrafts 376.52
$2,846.72
Total payments . $2,718.93
Total unexpended balances 36.09
No expenditure of Licenses and Fees
paid to Town 91.70
$2,846.72
86
Board of Health Salaries.
Appropriation
Paid Bailey, Joseph G.
$100.00
Gile, F. Herbert
100.00
Skinner, Walter B.
100.00
$300.00
Other Expenses, appropriation $100.00
Credits
13.50
Overdraft
39.83
$153.33
Paid Baldwin, J. T.
$8.00
Baldwin, Agnes T.
2.00
Gibson, Robert
13.25
Horte, Robert F.
30.00
Marstin, C. M.
5.00
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.
24.79
Skinner, Walter B.
58.38
Smith, F. A.
4.91
Sypher, James O.
... 7.00
$153.33
Credits.
Refund
$:13.50
Licenses
22.00
Printing.
Appropriation
$100.00
Overdraft
8.48
Paid Bailey. H. W. & Co.
$45.85
Hobbs & Warren
1.38
Pratt & Pratt
37.25
Prescott, G. W. Pub. Co. ..
24.00
Fumigation.
Appropriation
$200.00
Overdraft
191.14
Paid Martin, Willis H.
$88.50
Smith. Frank A.
210.39
Torrey, W. A. & Co.
92.25
$108.48
$108.48
$391.14
$391.14
$300.00
87
Contagious Diseases.
Appropriation
$500.00 15.00
$515.00
Paid Rutland State Sanatorium $47.99
Lakeville State Sanatorium
149.71
Mass. Homoeopathic Hospital
69.50
Aid at City and Town Hospitals
113.96
Cartwright & Shay
54.85
Martin, Willis H
42.00
Smith, Frank A.
.90
$478.91
Unexpended balance
36.09
$515.00
Inspection of Animals.
Appropriation
$100.00
Paid Sampson, Josephus $100.00
Inspection of Meat and Provisions.
Appropriation
$200.00
Paid Martin, Willis II.
$200.00
Fees paid to Town $59.20
Inspection of Milk.
Appropriation
$100.00
Paid Gile, F. Herbert
$100.00
Fees paid to Town $10.50
Inspection of Plumbing.
Appropriation
$300.00
Overdraft
56.55
$356.55
Paid Chandler. F. L.
$51.00
Jordan, A. S. & Co.
1.75
Ludden, J. E. 303.80
$356.55
Credit
88
Vital Statistics.
Appropriation
$50.00 5.25
Overdraft
$55.25
Paid Ash, John H.
$.50
Cartwright & Hurley
2.75
Cartwright & Shay
4.75
Clancy, Daniel H.
2.75
Crawford, Frank W.
.75
Dearing, H. L.
4.00
Fay, A. W.
8.75
Frazier, J. C.
.75
Gile, F. Herbert
3.50
Granger, F. C.
2.00
Hunting, N. S
1.00
Marstin, C. M
1.75
Merriam, F. H.
.
3.25
Middleton, Willis J.
1.75
Myrick, A. W.
1.00
Pease, L. W.
1.75
Sullivan, C. A.
... . 14.25
1
$55.25
Sanitation.
Drain Hobart Avenue, appropriation.
$400.00
Overdraft
75.27
Paid Belyea, Richard
$12.27
Waldo Bros. .
31.68
White, Hartley L.
12.00
Sundry Persons, labor and teams
350.00
Woodsum Coal Co.
69.32
$475.27
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
Total appropriations
$23,201.50
Total credits .
966.53
Total special taxes
6,918.56
Total Overdrafts
2,442.26
$33,528.85
Total payments
$33,412.82
Total unexpended balances
116.03
$33,528.85
$475.27
89
Surveyors of Highways, Salaries.
Appropriation $487.50
Paid Drinkwater, Albion C. $27.08
Holbrook, George H. 135.42
Storm, Henry M.
162.50
Woodsum, B. Herbert
162.50
$487.50
Clerical Help and Other Expenses.
Appropriation
$175.00
Paid Porter, B. E.
$156.00
South Braintree P. O.
9.70
Torrey, W. A. & Co.
2.77
$168.47
Unexpended balance
6 53
$175.00
General Repairs.
Appropriation
$15,000.00
Credits 966.53
Street Railway Tax
3,054.97
Street Railway Excise Tax
2,454.42
Abutters Tax
1,409.17
Overdrafts
730.15
$23,615.24
Payments
$23,615.24
Bills payable
$250.00
90
Precincts
1 2
3 General
Paid Allen, William
$27.33 16.50
Barrett Manufacturing Co.
$1,786.84 $1,910.72 $1,589.59
$17.00
Bates, L. F. & Co.
21.00
Bay State Street Railway Co.
100.00
30.00
80.00
Belyea, Richard
6.00
23.52
7.00
Braintree Hardware Co.
24.58
Brown, L. A. & Co.
4.41
Chandler & Finnegan
8.25
2.40
Cobb, William H.
101.02
7.75
Dearing, Frank H.
33.74
Drollett, Albert A.
2.90
Dyer & Sullivan
11.36
Electric Express Co.
1.46
1.48
Electric Light Department
.75
Elliott, T. N.
30.30
Flint, James H.
31,28
Fogg, George E.
.40
Fore River Shipbuilding Corp.
16.00
Gage, R. Allen
3.00
Gilman, C. E.
5.00
Granite Railway Co.
45.00
Haskell, M. A.
3.65
Hayward Bros.
88.22
Hodge Boiler Works
76.35
Hollis, L. B.
5.14
Johnson, Antoine
6.00
Jordan, W. I.
36.04
Jordan, Z. P.
16.00
Kelley, John
37.00
Kinney Manufacturing Co.
300.00
Lane Quarry Co.
63.34
Levangie, W. S.
13.60
Litchfield, B. D.
48.45
May, George
4.96
Miller, Charles O.
. 69.19
Nelson, Frank W.
88.45
New England Road Machinery . .
30.00
N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R.
159.32
262.13
172.58
10.55
Old Colony Broken Stone Co.
50.08
35.30
1,093.49
Piercy, F. W.
4.96
Pratt & Sims
.13
Precinct One
670.28
(Rhines Lumber Co.
217.51
207.34
Schraut, Joseph
5.80
Sheppard, J. F. & Sons Inc.
28.38
Skinner, Walter B.
18.30
South, Thomas
2.00
Spera, Martin
10.80
Stackhouse, H. F.
22.00
Stearns, A. T. Lumber Co.
28.82
Stevens, James T.
207.00
Strathdee, David G.
17.20
Archibald, George R. .
91
Sundry Persons, Labor and teams 5,762.80 including stone P. 1.
3,289.64
3,392.88
Thayer, Otis
24.20
Torrey, Charles E.
120.00
Universal Road Machinery Co.
155.46
W'aldo Bros. .
5.28
36.41
Walworth Mfg. Co.
4.59
5.64
White, Hartley L.
36.70
48.50
36.70
Whitman, R. E.
.25
Whittier Woodenware Co.
5.69
Woodsum Coal Co.
414.39
136.16
$9,206.10 $6,671.45 $7,197.74 $456.94
Total payments
$23,532.23
State Highway Tax (no order
drawn)
83.01
$23,615.24
Credits.
Sundry Persons, labor and
material
$820.33
$74.60
$32.80
Refunds
$15.00
23.80
Total credits
$966.53
Snow.
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Overdraft
1,712.11
$2,712.11
Paid as per vouchers
$909.98. $881.60 $920.53
Total payments
$2,712.11
Street Lights.
Appropriation
$6,039.00
Paid Electric Light Department $6,039.00
Dewey Road.
Appropriation
$400.00
Paid Bay State Street Railway Co. ... $75.00
Sundry Persons, labor and teams 215.50
$390.50
Unexpended balance 9.50
$400.00
Robinson Avenue and Mt. Vernon Street Extension.
Appropriation $100.00
No expenditure $100.00
92
CHARITIES.
Total appropriations
$7,033.50
Total credits
1,205.66
Total overdrafts
1,303.57
$9,542.73
Total payments
$9,513.73
Total unexpended balances
29.00
$9,542.73
Overseer of the Poor.
Salaries, appropriation
$487.50
Paid Drinkwater, Albion C.
$27.08
Holbrook. George H.
135.42
Storm, Henry M.
162.50
Woodsum, B. Herbert
162.50
$487.50
Clerical Help and Other Expenses.
Appropriation
$225.00
Paid Hollis, W. B. & Son $4.50
Porter, B. E. 156.00
Pratt & Pratt
9.50
South Braintree P. O.
24.25
Storm, Henry M. cash expenses ..
27.50
Webster, F. S. Co.
2.25
$224.00
Unexpended balance
1.00
$225.00
Braintree Home.
Appropriations ;
Maintenance
$1,500.00
Insurance
121.00
Repairs
700.00
$2,321.00
Credits
$707.74
Overdrafts
249.84
$3,278.58
93
Amount Paid for Expenses at Home.
Salary of Superintendent $500.00
Other employees
236.55
Rent of Pasture
40.00
Food supplies
504.60
Fuel and Light
389.67
Hay, grain and feed
253.57
Clothing
13.48
Ordinary repairs
722.66
Ordinary equipment
90.64
Medicine, Medical attendance and
nursing
90.30
Miscellaneous
316.11
Insurance
93.00
$3,250.58
Unexpended balance on insurance
28.00
$3,278.58
Credits.
Sale of Produce $597.29
Sale of Stock
Payment from Election and Registra-
tion account 60.00
Payment from Police account 2 years. 31.25
Board paid by individuals
Miscellaneous 19.20
$707.74
Outside Relief.
Appropriation
$4,000.00
Credits
497.92
Overdraft
1,053.73
$5,551.65
Paid for support under Chapter 763 Acts 1913
$514.67
State Infirmary 202.00
At other city or town Alinshouses. 45.14
94
Medical aid in city or town Hos- pitals . .. . 319.43
On account of cases chargeable to this Town for support or relief in private families 408.00
On account of other cities and towns .. For all other support or relief :
39.00
Cash allowance at disposal of re-
cipients
1,178.50
Rent
1,334.00
Food
880.97
Fuel 283.29
Clothing 28.00
Medical aid in the homes of the
persons aided 224.15
Miscellaneous 64.50
$5,551.65
Credits.
Reimbursements by individuals $6.00
By other cities and towns 491.92
$497.92
Bills Receivable $847.76
Bills Payable 200.00
Soldiers' Benefits.
Total appropriations
$3,944.00
66 credits 95.00
overdrafts
158.29
$4,197.29
Total payments
$3,617.29
1
6. unexpended balances 580.00
$4,197.29
State Aid and Soldiers' Burials (to be refunded by State.)
Appropriation
$3,000.00
Credit 6.00
-$3,006.00
95
Paid as per vouchers :
Aid
$2,326.00
Burials 100.00
$2,426.00 580.00
Unexpended balance
$3,006.00
Credits.
Refunded $6.00
Military Aid (one-half to be refunded by State.)
Appropriation . $144.00
Paid as per vouchers $144.00
Soldiers' Relief.
Appropriation
$800.00
Credit
89.00
Overdraft
158.29
$1,047.29
Paid Cash Aid
$697.00
Medical Aid
185.31
Fuel
30.00
Miscellaneous
134.98
$1,047.29
Credits.
Reimbursements by individ-
uals
$35.00
Reimbursements by cities
and towns 54.00
$89.00
Education.
Total appropriations $55,724.21
credits from School Dept. 1,001.93
credit from Selocl Fund 350.00
.6 credit from Dog Tax $32.99
Unexpended balance Jan. 1st Abra-
ham Lincoln School 2,283.84.
96
Credit from Bond Company on ac-
count of Abraham Lincoln
school
2,000.00
Overdrafts
$63,482.32
Total payments $60,798.83
436.62
66 unexpended balances
846.49 1,283.11
66 unexpended balance Abraham
Lincoln School 1,400.38
$63,482.32
Teachers and Superintendent.
Salaries, appropriation
$36,590.00 1,600.00
$38,190.00
From School Fund 350.00
From Dog Tax
832.99
Credits 199.25
$39,572.24
Payments as per vouchers $38.725.75
Unexpended balance 846.49
$39,572.24
Credits.
From School Dept. $1.00
From State on account of
Industrial Schools .. 198.25
Janitors' Services.
Appropriation $4,619.00
Paid as per vouchers $4,619.00
Text Books and Supplies.
Appropriation
$3,000.00
Credits
276.00
$3,276.00
Paid Allyn & Bacon $47.72
American Book . Co.
117.13
American Library Co. 13.00
Appleton, D. & Co.
105.42
1,289.35
97
Atkinson, Mentzer Co.
16.96
Babb, E. E. & Co.
1,532.51
Barnard, F. J. & Co.
208.34
Bolk Merrill Co.
1.00
Brown, J. D.
20.00
Brown, Lewis A. & Co.
83.62
Dodge & Dent Mfg. Co.
16.00
Eastern Drug Co.
15.06
Fischer, Carl
2.37
Frost & Adams Co.
2.25
Ginn and Company
264.52
Hammett, J. L. Co.
163.70
Heath, D. C. & Co.
83.05
Holden Patent Book Cover Co.
18.49
Houghton Mifflin Co.
S4.26
Knott, I. E. Apparatus Co.
18.06
Little, Brown & Co.
37.85
Milton Bradley Co.
3.50
Neostyle Co.
20.07
Palmer, A. N. Co.
4.25
Reed, Charles K.
2.16
Robinson, Florence
3.29
Sanborn, Benjamin H. & Co.
5.15
Silver, Burdett & Co.
26.92
Thompson, C. W. & Co.
.60
Underwood Typewriter Co.
77.00
West Disinfecting Co.
18.00
Wright, H. E. & Sons
4.50
$3,016.75
Unexpended balance
259.25
$3,276.00
Credits.
From City of Boston
$166.50
Rindge, N. H.
40.00
School Department
45.50
Stewart, F. W.
24.00
$276.00
98
School Incidentals.
Appropriation
$800.00
Credits
15.10
Overdraft
35.49
$850.59
Paid Adams Express Co.
$1.65
Adams Express Co.
.33
Baker, A. W.
2.40
Electric Express
19.06
Fogg, George E.
18.90
Haseltine, David C.
1.02
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.
187.45
Patch, F. K ..
1.00
Pratt & Pratt
58.75
Prescott, G. W. Pub. Co.
106.35
Wiggin, Ralph L.
30.00
Ackroyd, Violet
$8.11
Bell, Jennie Farwel!
1.68
Blickensderfer Typewriter Co.
1.50
Boston Bank Note Co.
11.30
Cain, Thomas J.
4.50
Cass, Arthur W.
2.20
Cuff, William C.
7.50
Hammett, J. L. Co.
3.25
Smith, Frank A.
3.25
Vaughan's Daylight Store
8.48
Whitman, R. E.
3.45
$55.22
Allen, William Sons Co.
$4.50
Belvea, Richard
4.00
Bestick, C. R.
20.80
Breck, Joseph & Sons
2.10
Chandler & Finnegan
8.53
Cobb, William II.
17.85
Dacey, James F.
1.50
Dearing, G. W.
2.50
Dyer & Sullivan
3.00
French, A. R.
5.00
Gage, R. Allen
24.25
Gibson, Robert
7.20
Glines, Charles N.
3.00
Gould, Thomas H.
6.95
$426.01
. 99
Haskell, M. A. & Co.
3.65
Heath, W. H.
21.00
Hobart, C. H.
6.76
Johns, H. W. Manville Co.
103.00
Jordan Marsh Co.
5.40
Litchfield, B. D.
2.30
Loring, G. E. & Co.
2.80
Matthews, C. W.
2.20
Qualey, Lucius A.
4.80
Samson Electric Co.
7.68
Shay. Edward
2.00
Skinner, Walter B.
25.29
Slavin, Thomas
2.00
Stackhouse, II. F.
15.50
Stewart, Frank W.
12.15
Sypher, James O.
19.50
Torrey, W. A. & Co.
8.25
Tupper, Foster F.
1.50
Whitman, R. E.
11.50
$368.46
$850.59
Credits.
From School Department $15.10
Schoolhouses and Grounds
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Credits
25.75
Overdraft
1,140.73
$2,166.48
Paid Baxter, Sturgis C.
$34.00
Borden, H. W.
135.27
Chandler & Finnegan
206.10
Electric Light Department
176.10
Gibson. Robert
15.50
Gould, Thomas HI.
10.40
Highway Department
85.65
Holbrook, George H
124.06
Jordan, C. C.
16.50
Moody, C. L.
38.70
Parker, George S.
55.00
Qualey, Lucius A.
32.58
100
Remington Typewriter Co.
3.15
Rhines Lumber Co.
2.07
Skinner, Walter B.
279.46
Stone, R. N.
5.00
Stone-Underhill Heating & Ven- tilating Co.
550.00
Torrey, W. A. & Co.
50.89
Town Hall, labor
6.30
Tupper, W. A.
56.00
Walworth Manufacturing Co. 5.62
Water Department
262.13
West Disinfecting Co.
16.00
$2,166.48
Credits.
Standard Oil Co.
$.95
School Department. 24.80
$25.75
Transportation of Pupils.
Appropriation
$1,700.00
Credits
405.78
Overdraft
80.22
$2.186.00
Paid Bay State Street Railway Co. $850.00
Bestick, C. R.
120.00
Cain, Thomas J.
400.00
Drollett, A. A.
816.00
$2,186.00
Credits.
From School Department
$405.78
Fuel.
Appropriation
$2,700.00
Overdraft
13.97
Paid Gage, R. Allen
$23.13
Gibson, Robert .). 5.00
Richards, A. JJ. & Son
6.49
Sheppard. J. F. & Sons Inc.
2,570.35
Woodsum Coal Co.
109.00
$2,713.97
$2,713.97
1.01
Insurance.
Appropriation
Overdraft
$1,504.15
Paid Cummings, Charles B. $465.50
Hobart, C. H.
654.15
Miller, Charles O.
248.50
Sampson, George E.
136.00
$1,504.15
New Seats.
Appropriation $1,130.00
Credit $0.05
$1,210.05
Paid American Seating Co. $1,130.98
Unexpended balance 79.07
$1,210.05
Credits.
American Seating Co.
$80.05
Painting Inside Jonas Perkins Schoolhouse.
Appropriation $800.00
Paid Stone, R. N. $705.00
Unexpended balance.
95.00
$800.00
Floor Penniman School Hall.
Appropriation
$300.00
Paid Holbrook, George HI.
$296.70
Unexpended balance 3.30
$300.00
New School Building, Abraham Lincoln.
Unexpended balance January 1, 1914. $2,283.84
From Bond Company 2,000.00
$4,283.84
Paid Barrett, James Mfg. Co. $45.42
Beck, Reuben
19.10
Boynton, E. P.
196.00
Carlisle-Ayer & Co. . 213.11 .
$1,485.21 18.94
102
Cary Brick Co. 260.86
Cefalo, Anthony
450.00
Corsano, James
187.40
Dwyer, Charles W.
15.76
Fogg, George E.
358.77
Mellen, Charles C.
375.00
N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R.
3.60
Simpson, Eugene A.
139.86
Structural Cement Co.
442.71
Woodsum Coal Co.
175.87
$2,853.46
Unexpended balance
1,400.38
$4,283.84
Library.
Total appropriations $1,800.00
orders drawn $1,800.00
General Expenses.
Appropriation
$1,400.00
Paid Harding, William C., Treas. $1,400.00
Distribution of Books.
Appropriation
$150.00
Paid Harding, William C., Treas. $150.00
Janitor.
Appropriation
$250.00
Paid Sullivan, Michael J. $250.00
Recreation.
Total appropriations
$583.55
66 credits
17.00
$600.55
Total payments
$357.89
unexpended balances
242.66
$600.55
103
Town Lands.
Appropriation
$300.00
Paid Gould, Thomas H.
$22.00
Holbrook, George H 23.90
Stewart, Frank W.
3.70
Sundry Persons, labor and teams
214.25
Woodsum Coal Co.
2.72
$266.57
Unexpended balance
33.43
$300.00
Hollis Playground.
Appropriation
$283.55
Credit
10.00
$293.55
Paid Bestick, C. R.
$5.35
Holbrook, George II.
61.57
Ness, Peter
24.40
$91.32
Unexpended balance
202.23
$293.55
Credits.
Grass $10.00
Playground Precinct Three.
Credit, grass
$7.00
Unexpended balance $7.00
UNCLASSIFIED Miscellaneous Expenses.
Appropriation $2,000.00
Gift 1,200.00
Credits
805.37
$4,005.37
Paid Myrick. A. W., Pinacchi injury case $9.00
Brackett, Joanna E., claim for
injury
28.00
104
Burroughs Adding Machine Co., office expenses 4.00
Carter's Ink Co. office expenses .. 1.25
15.10
Cutler, H. A., office expenses . . .. Dodge & Dent Mfg. Co., office expenses 15.00
Gray, Edward N., office expenses
5.00
South Braintree P. O., office
expenses 9.70
Mansfield, H. W., office expenses 3.00
Webster, F. S. Co., office expenses 4.80
Woodsum, B. H.
750.00
Adams Express Co., Town Re-
ports .22
Cutting, James M., delivering
Town Reports 12.50
Electric Express, Town Reports .. 4.11
Gage, R. Allen, delivering Town
Reports 7.00
Gibson, Robert, delivering Town
Reports
10.00
Maher, John J., delivering Town Reports 5.00
Pratt & Pratt, printing Town Reports 553.25
Pratt & Pratt, Report Appropria- tion Committee 55.00
Tenney, Fred A., Fire Depart- ment 500.00
N. Y., N. H. & II. R. R., Highway Department
951.90
Burdakin, John II., recording deeds 4.86
Smith, Frank A., tax deeds
41.73
Security Safe Deposit Co. 20.00
Water Commissioners Temporary Transfer 500.00
White, Hartley L.
Playground P. 3 .. $25.75
Laying
streets ... 122.70
148.45
Sundry Persons, labor on dumps 40.00
105
Sundry Persons, setting bound stones
9.00
Woodsum Coal Co., cement for bound stones
1.84
Bureau of Statistics, certification of notes 68.00
$3,777.71
Unexpended balance
227.66
$4,005.37
Credits.
City of Quincy, Rent of Reservoir. 57.24
Dyer, Benjamin F., Treas. cash over. . 1.00
Refund of Tax Titles
79.13
Water Department, Temporary Trans- fer
500.00
Licenses :
Billiard, Pool and Bowling Alley
46.00
Druggist
2.00
Junk
75.00
Under Chapter 423 Acts 1909
45.00
$805.37
Memorial Day
Appropriation
$200.00
Paid Anderson, C. G., Quarter-Master
Post 87, G. A. R. $200.00
Abatement of Taxes
Appropriationi
$1,000.00
Overdraft
1,638.17
$2,638.17
Paid Smith, Frank A., Coll.
Taxes of 1911
$131.04
Taxes of 1912
339.59
Taxes of 1913
1,244.86
Taxes of 1914
922.68
$2,638.17
106
Electric Light Department
Lighting Board, appropriations
Salaries
$300.00
Depreciation Fund 4,583.94
Street Light Extension 365.06
$5,249.00
No orders drawn
$5,249.00
Extension of Lights, French Avenue
Appropriation $224.00
Paid Electric Light Department
$224.00
Extension of Lights. Commercial
Street, Appropriation $300.00
Faid Electric Light Department $300.00
Cemetery
Plain Street, appropriation $150.00
Credits 30.00
$180.00
Paid Sundry Persons, labor $72.75
White, Hartley L. 73.00
$145.75
Unexpended Balance
34.25
$180.00
Credits.
Lots sold
$30.00
Sinking Funds
Appropriation
$430.00
5,120.00
$5,550.00
No order drawn Electric Light Loan .. $430.00
Paid Dyer, Benjamin F., Treas.
Water Loans 5,120.00
$5,550.00
1.07
Interest
Appropriations on Funded Debt :
General
$900.00
Playground
150.00
Schools
2,800.63
Town Hall
1,820.00
Electric Light
660.00
Water
10,960.00
On loans in Anticipation of Revenue 2,400.00
$19,690.36
Paid by Treasurer; no orders drawn $19,647.41
Unexpended balance 43.22
$19,690.63 -
Municipal Indebtedness
Appropriations :
General (Stetson Note no approp-
riation )
$2,500.00
Playgrounds
500.00
Schools
11,500.00
Town Hall
3,000.00
Water
1,000.00
$18,500.00
Paid by Treasurer, no orders drawn .. $16,000.00
Paid by Treasurer, no order drawn
(Stetson Note) 2,500.00
$18,500.00
108
RECAPITULATION
Orders Drawn For
Moderator, salary
$25.00
Selectmen, salaries
$487.50
Clerical help and other expenses
428.22
$915.72
Auditors, salaries
$150.00
Treasurer, salary
$525.00
Other expenses
33.25
Bond
120.00
$678.25
Tax Collector, salary
$600.00
Other expenses
181.90
$781.90
Assessors, salaries
$684.58
Clerical help and other expenses 678.29
$1,362.87
Town Clerk, salary
$650.00
Other expenses
220.76
$870.76
Law
$247.95
Election and Registration :
Registrars salaries
$150.00
Other expenses
719.59
$869.59
Town Hall :
Janitor service
$550.00
Maintenance
1,428.28
$1,978.28
109
Police Department :
Police, salaries
$3,741.25
Extra Patrolmen
252.00
Other expenses
294.24
Court expenses
110.81
$4,398.30
Fire Department :
Pay of Engineers and Firemen $1,666.50
Extra pay of Firemen
335.50
General expenses
1,312.05
Hydrant service
6,275.00
New Hose
560.00
New Apparatus
2,500.00
Insurance
20.16
Fire Alarm
506.11
$13,175.32
Weights and Measures :
Sealer, salary
$200.00
Other expenses
147.18
$347.18
Forestry :
Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth
Suppression
$3,965.62
Care of Trees
537.00
Forest Fires
. . 690.31
$5,192.93
Health and Sanitation :
Board of Health, salaries
$300.00
Other expenses
153.33
Printing
108.48
Fumigation
391.14
Contagious Diseases
478.91
Inspection of Animals
100.00
Inspection of Meat and Provisions
200.00
Inspection of Milk
100.00
Inspection of Plumbing
356.55
Vital Statistics
55.25
Drain, Hobart Avenue
475.27
$2,718.93
110
Highways and Bridges:
Highway Surveyors, salaries
$487.50
Clerical help and other expenses. 168.47
General repairs
23,532.23
Snow
2,712.11
Street Lights
6,039.00
Dewey Road
$33,329.81
Charities :
Overseers of Poor, salaries .
$487.50
Clerical help and other expenses
224.00
Braintree Home
3,250.58
Outside Relief.
5,551.65
$9.513.73
Soldiers' Benefits :
State Aid and Soldiers' Burials ..
$2,426.00
Military Aid
144.00
Soldiers' Relief
1,047.29
$3,617.29
Education :
Teachers and Superintendent,
salaries
$38,725.75
Janitors services
4,619.00
Text Books and Supplies
3,016.75
School Incidentals
850.59
Buildings and Grounds
2,166.48
Transportation of Pupils
2,186.00
Fuel
2,713.97
Insurance
1,504.15
New Seats
1,130.98
Painting inside Jonas Perkins
building
705.00
Floor Penniman School Hall
296.70
New School building ( Abraham Lincoln)
2,883.46
$60,798.83
Library :
General expenses
$1,400.00
Distribution of Books 150.00
Janitor, service
250.00
$1,800.00
390.50
111
Recreation :
Town Lands
$266.57
Hollis Playground
91.32
$357.89
Unclassified :
Miscellaneous
$3,277.71
Memorial Day
200.00
Abatement of Taxes
2,638.17
$6.115.88
Electric Light Department :
Extension of Lights on French
Avenue
$224.00
Extension of Lights on Commer- cial Street
300.00
$524.00
Cemetery :
Plain Street
$145.75
Sinking Funds : Water Loans
$5,120.00
Total amount of orders drawn in 1914
$155,036.16
COLLECTOR'S ACCOUNT OF TAXES FRANK A. SMITH, in Account with the Town of Braintree December 31, 1914
Uncollected Taxes Dec. 31, 1913 and Commitment of 1914
Interest Collected
Total Amount
Cash Paid B. F. Dyer, Treas.
Uncollected Taxes Dec. 31, 1914
Tax of 1911, Balance due
$131.04
$131.04
$131.04
Tax of 1912, Balance due
859.27
$50.67
909.94
909.94
Tax of. 1913, Balance due
55,865.23
1,485.41
57,350.64
55,407.60
$1,943.04
Tax of 1914, Commitment
176,650.09
137.28
176,687.37
123,664.04
53,023.33
Excise Tax Bay State
St. Ry. Co.
2,454.42
2,454.42
2,454.42
$235,960.05
$1,573.36
$237,533.41
$182,567.04
$54,966.37
The above statement has been compiled from the Assessors' Commitments of Taxes for the years 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1914, and from comparison of the books of the Collector with those of the Treasurer.
The years 1911 and 1912 are now closed. .
WILLIAM A. MCKEAN, OTIS B. OAKMAN, C. FREDERICK TARBOX,
Auditors
112
Braintree, Mass., Jan. 21, 1915.
113
TREASURER'S REPORT
BENJ. F. DYER, Treasurer.
IN ACCOUNT WITH TOWN OF BRAINTREE. Jan. 1, 1914 to Dec. 31, 1914 inclusive.
Dr
Balance Jan. 1, 1914
$23,822.65
I. A. Smith Tax Collector :-
Year 1911 $131.04
Year 1912, $859.27 interest $50.29
909.56
Year 1913, $53,922.19 interest $1,485.41
55,407.60
Year 1914, $123,627.14 interest
$37.28
123,664.42
Excise Tax
2,454.42
$182,567.04
Loans in anticipation of taxes :
Maturing Dec. 17, 1914 $40,000.00
Maturing Dec. 31, 1914 20,000.00
Maturing April 2, 1915 5,000.00
Maturing April 20, 1915 10,000.00
Maturing May 6, 1915
10,000.00
$85,000.00
Average rate 4.32%
Interest :--
National Shawmut Bank $474.22
State Street Trust Co., 18.32
Old Colony Trust Co.
19.65
$512.19
For refunding the original Note issued to Gen. Sylvanus Thayer March 7, 1874, $10,000, sold to the Nathan- iel H. Hunt Trust. Ten Notes dated July 1, 1914 at 4%, $1,000. each, payable yearly July 1, 1915 to 1924 inclusive $10,000.00
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