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Braintree
75- 2-12
20 Catherine M. Coleman
Fall River
65- 2-20
20 Herman Mallock
Eastport, Me.
16-11-7
21 James Hoosfall
Boston
26- 1-16.
21 John P. MacTaggart
Portland, Me.
73-0-0
22 John M. Maher
Ireland
54-0-0
25 Julia Griffin
Canton
19- 1-6
26 - Connelly
Braintree 1 hrs.
Braintree 69- 9-12
Norwood
26-11-25
APRIL
1 John Edwin Rice
Quincy
2- 8-12
1 Ruth Eleanor Crawford
Braintree
0-6-0
5 John Sellars
England 35- 6-21
9 George P. Hutchinson
P. E. I.
72-11-23
12 Charles W. Holmes
Newburyport
71-2-14
14 Edward W. Parker
England
61-10-4
15 Clarrissa Nancy Howe
Braintree 87-3-16.
16 Louise Brigoli
Braintree
0-6-19
18 William Skoler
Russia
22-5-8
18 Edwin L. Loring
20 Hazel Blake
Braintree 10-6-5
Italy 54-0-0
Milford
65-0-27
27 Helen A. Zalesky
Hyde Park
19-10-27
28
- ---- Basile
Boston
9 hrs.
Elizabethtown N.Y 67-2- 8
30 Henry Eugene Marshall
Hingham 71-0-5.
24 Tony Felaccio
26 Wendell Phillips Battles
29 Eugene O. Smith
31 Evangeline Larrabee
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MAY
Date Name
Birthplace
Age
7 Nestor Savela
Finland 52- 5-27
8 Alvera Fabiano
Braintree
1-7-10
8 John H. Kirby
Braintree 46-4-0
17 John Wellshire Illingworth
Boston
65-9-26
21 Katie Lisopky
Lithuania
34- 6-17
22 Eula W. (Raymond, Moore
Weymouth 24-11-13
27 Irene D. Thayer
Braintree
93- 6-21
27 John DeYoung
Nova Scotia
67- 9-13
29 Henry Barker Whitman
Pembroke
84-10-1
Braintree
8 hrs.
24 Helen Elizabeth MacKay
Quincy
0-0-7
JUNE
3 John H. Frazier
Braintree
3-11-22
5 Thomas Conway
P. E. I.
71-4-0
5 Florence Isabelle Barclay
Mill Town N. B.
33-11-19
7 Margaret Mercier
Nova Scotia
55-0-0
8 Lambert Dewale Patten
Claremont N. H.
76-3-15
9 Margaret Summers
Manchester, Eng.
88-0-10
18 Angela Cometti
Italy 38-11-2
20
Elmira Thayer
Braintree
77-6-4
20 Stillborn
Brockton
0-0-0
21 Luther Scribner
Salem 77-4-0
25 Seth Catlin
Chicago, Ill. 66- 0-21
Braintree 0-2-13
Braintree 0-0-0
Charlestown 59- 0-0
Ireland
80-4-21
JULY
4 Emma Bridgham
7 Cyril Anderson
9 John W. Sawyer
Quebec, Can.
49- 8-22
12 Bitar
13 Henrietta C. Warburton
Randolph
56-0-0
18 Sadie Elizabeth Williams,
20 James F. Leslie
22 Mary F. Thayer
25 Josephine Silveri
27 Margaret A. Kelley
27 Warren Howard Foss
31 Mary E. Quinn
Bakersfield, Cal. 50-6-4
Braintree 0-0-15
Braintree 18 hrs.
Boston
58-8-17
S. Framingham
47-10-19
E. Randolph
70-5-24
Italy
20-11-1
Boston
23- 1-25
No. Turner, Me.
76- 8-15
Randolph
63- 0- 0
25 Mabel Gertrude Levangie
25 Stillborn
26 Susan A. Upton
30 Martha J. Driscoll
31 Christian
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AUGUST
Date Name
Birthplace
Age
1 Sarah Atwood
2 Rose A. Reed
Spencer 70-0-0
4 Abbie Florena Coleman
Norwell 74-5-7
4 Stillborn
Braintree
0-0-0
8 Albert E. Conrad
Boston 25- 1-25
10 Oscar Logren
Quincy
34- 0-16
11 Carrielena Goodspeed
Mattapoisett
65- 5-25
12 Mary Poore
Thorndike, Me.
78-8-19
13 Alice Gertrude Dolbeare
So. Boston
66-0-4
13 Frances Adelia Arnold Saxonville 78-1-27
14 Bertha Agnes McGlone
Braintree
17-8-7
15 Peter Di Toro
Italy
46-0-0
15 Wing
Braintree 712 hrs.
17 Michael James Daley
Medville, Pa.
41-11-17
18 Sadie D. Bitar
Boston
19- 6-27
18 Jeremiah A. Healey
Boston
48-10-24
29 Helen Elizabeth Stevenson
Quincy
6-0-14
SEPTEMBER
1 Maurice Leo Cleary
Braintree 42-9-7
2 Hannah Branley
Braintree 68-0-0
4 Dagmar Mattson
Quincy 19- 3-11
6 Elsie Jane Clark
Augusta Maine
68-0-0
9 Azariah Smith Storm
Brooklyn, N. Y.
76-1-4
10 George Henry Holbrook
Braintree.
71- 5-29
12 John S. Carlson
Sweden
26- 6-20
15 Wilhelmina J. Coyle
Weymouth
27-6-14
23 Mary Ann Wells
Norwich, Conn.
60- 2-23
25 Mary Queeny
Ireland 83- 0-0
26 Mary Ann Crush
Old Town, Me.
57-3-13
27 Loring B. Hawes
W. Somerville
25-0-22
30 Stillborn
Weymouth 000
15 Horace Burgess
Braintree
26-0-7
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OCTOBER
9 John A. Hussey
12 Norton Eugene Hollis
12 Henry A. Putnam
12 Frank J. Yanotek
Hungary 30- 9-27
14 Alice L. Sullivan
Braintree 26-2-24
16 Helen Thompson
Quincy
29- 5-11
17 Charles H. Kendrick
New Brunswick 71-0-0
Braintree 83-0-8
Westboro 740-4
Somerville
62- 3-10~
Braintree 62-9-0
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Date
Name
Birthplace
Age
20 Hilda Gustafson
21 Catherine Venuto
Braintree
1-11-29
22 Elmer Francis French
Everett
21-11-17
22 Freeman Soper Arnold
Braintree 76-0-0
24 Albert E. White
No. Easton 64-9-24
Braintree
42-8-21
26 Louisa Rich Hobart
Plymouth
90-1-7
28 Stillborn
Braintree
0-0-0
31 Mablon Shear
Arcadia N. Y.
77-11-4
NOVEMBER
4 Ellen A. (Rea) Pratt
Weymouth
76-8-23
8 Ruth Jeanette Kennedy
Southampton 22- 1-25
8 Catherine McIsaac
New Brunswick 61-7-7
10 Emma C. Smith
Framingham
69- 0-0
12 George L. Ferguson
Braintree 0- 0-16
17 Elsie A. Seidenberg
Needham
22- 5-11
19 Adam Dinke
Poland
28-0-0
19 William A. Robinson
Halifax, N. S.
65-6-9
21 Herbert E. Belmont
Hoboken N. J.
67-0-27
25 Deane
Braintree
12 hrs.
25 Deane
Braintree
19 hrs.
27 Hannah Minerva Hobart
No. Attleboro
78-2-0
DECEMBER
1 Joseph Payette
Millbury
24-9-9
3 Stillborn
Braintree
0-0-0
6 Ellen E. Adlington
Boston
89-11-25
7 Warren Clifford Hall
Lowell
66- 7-24
10 Annie L. Wright
Auburndale
12-11-14
13 Maelwin Shewald
Boston
28-10-16
17 George Hartquist
Sweden
19-3-1
17 John Tonner
Scotland
78-9-2
18 Stillborn
Braintree
0-0-0
22 Jennie Sarah Skinner
Fairfax Vt.
78-9-15
25 Annie E. Allen
Boston 67- 6-16
26 Jeanette Fountain
Canada 61- 4-28
28 Mary Ann McCormick
Brookline 78- 7-13
30 Ella Fidelia Billings Smith
Canton
54-4-20
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26 Edith Adelaide Holbrook
Sweden 34-10-25
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Whole number of deaths 188; males 88; females 100; married 74; single 77, . divorced 4; widowed 33.
Birthplace - Braintree 48; other places in Massachusetts 71; British Provinces 13; Maine 11; Ireland 9; Italy 6; England 4 New York 4 Finland, 3; Sweden, 3; Vermont, 2; Quincy, Norway, Rhode Island, Russia, Li- thuania, New Hampshire, Ill., California, Philadelphia, Connecticut . Hungary, Poland, New Jersey, Scotland, one each.
Birthplace of Fathers - Braintree, 13; other places in Massachusetts, 47 Ireland, 22: British Provinces, 22; Italy, 16; Unknown 14; England, 13; Maine, 9; Sweden 5; Finland, 4; Norway, 3; New Hampshire, 3; New York, 3; Russia, 3; Syria 2; Rhode Island, Vermont, Lithuania, Ohio, . Hungary. Poland, Austria, Colorado, Scotland one each.
Birthplace of Mothers - Braintree, 11; other places in _Iassachusetts, 42 . Unknown, 25; Ireland, 24; British Provinces 18; Italy, 16; Maine, 11; England, 7; New Hampshire 5; Sweden 5; Finland, 4; New York, 4; Ver- mont, 3; Russia, 3; Syria, 2; Austria-Hungary, 2; Scotland 2; R. I. Pa., Lithuania, Poland, one each.
Diseases - Tuberculosis 41; Heart Disease 26; Cancer 14; Pneumonia 12; : Cerebral hemorrhage 11; Nephritis, 9; Stillborn 9; Arteri sclerous, 8; Accident, 7; Premature Birth 6; Apoplexy ,5; Malnutrition, 5; Influenza, 4; . Diabetes, 3; Peritonitis, 3; Angina Pectoris, 2; Diptheria, 2; Anemia, 2; : Eleolitis, Philebitis of leg, Ocdema of Lungs, Umbilicus, Scarlet fever Gastro Enteritis, Whooping cough, Plotisis Pulmonalis, Gastric ulcer, . Pulmonary embolism, Brights Disease, Apendicitis, Spinal Mengitis, Gall Stones, Sarcoma, Paralysis, Pellagra, Cirrhosis of Liver, one each
Ages - Stillborn 9; under one year, 18; 1 to 2 years, 2; 2 to 3 years, 2; 3 to 4 years, 3; 5 to 10 years, 3; 10 to 15 years, 2; 15 to 20 years, 7; 20 to to 25 years, 10; 25 to 30 years, 18; 30 to 35 years, 5; 35 to 40 years, 7; 40 to 45 years, 3; 45 to 50 years, 6; 50 to 60 years. 15; 60 to 70 years, 28; : 70 to 80 years, 34; 80 to 90 years, 11; Over 90 years 5.
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ASSESSOR'S REPORT APPROPRIATIONS AT ANNUAL MEETING
Legislative
Moderator, salary $25.00
Executive
Selectmen's salaries
$1,650.00
Selectmen's expenses . 685.00
$2,335.00
Financial.
Accountant, salary and expenses $1,750.00
Auditors' salaries . 150.00
Treasurer, salary and expenses. . 2,015.00
Tax Collector salary and expenses 2,060.00
Assessors, salaries and expenses . 3,025.00
$9,000.00
Other General Departments
Town Clerk, salary and expenses
$1,200.00
Law.
800.00
Election and Registration
1,150.00
$3,150.00:
Town Hall.
Maintenance and Janitors' salaries $8,108.10
Police Department.
Police Salaries
$11,425.00
General expenses
1,125.00
Special Officers
125.00
Equipment.
35.00
$12,710.00
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Fire Department.
Salary Chief and Permanent Men $8,240.00
Pay of Firemen . 2,390.00
Extra Pay of Firemen 1,500.00
General Expenses.
4,130.00
Qualey's truck and man 1,300.00
Hydrant Service 500.00
Ladder Truck .
8,500.00
Repairs on Engine Houses
600.00
Insurance.
193.20
Fire Alarm Maintenance.
2,522.00
$29,875.20
Inspection.
Salary and expenses:
Sealer of Weights and Measures
$750.00
Forestry.
Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths
.
$6,000.00
Care of trees.
800.00
$6,800.00
Health.
Salaries
$700.00
Expenses, Fumigation, Care of
Dumps.
900.00
Collection of Garbage
1,400.00
Contagious Diseases 2,500.00
Vital Statistics.
60.00
Inspection of Animals.
100.00
Inspection of Meats and Provisions
350.00
Inspection of Milk . 100.00
Inspection of Plumbing
449.00
Dental Clinic.
800.00
Tuberculosis Clinic.
800.00
Norfolk County
Tuberculosis
Hospital .
5,556.33
$13,715:33
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Highways.
Salaries, Highway Surveyors ... $150.00
Salary, Superintendent of Streets
2,600.00
Expenses . 350.00
General Repairs
44,800.00
Snow Removal
13,250.00
Street Lighting .
7,110.00
Washington Street (S. Braintree
Square to Franklin Street)
2,200.00
Repairs, Adams Street 3,600.00
Liberty, Union and Commercial- Streets
2,100.00
Sidewalks .
4,200.00
New Equipment
2,693.00
Arborway Drive (Argyle Road to
Braintree Point Welfare Club) 1,200.00
Engineering Department. 500.00
$84,753.00
Charities.
Salaries, Overseers of the Poor .. $600.00
Expenses . 1,010.00
Outside Relief . 8,000.00
Mothers' Aid(Chap. 763,Acts 1913) 9,000.00
Maintenance, Braintree Home. .
3,500.00
Insurance
264.00
$22,374.00
Soldiers' Relief.
State Aid and Soldiers" Burials . : $1,452.00
Soldiers' Relief 656.00
Military Aid 100.00
$2,208.00
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Education.
"Teachers' Salaries $117,000.00
General Expenses
56,200.00
Insurance. 290.00
Purchase of land near Monati-
quot School.
1,800.00
$175,290.00
Library.
General expenses (plus fees, es-
timated .
$2,930.00
Salary Janitor
300.00
$3,230.00
Recreation
Parks and Playgrounds.
.
$800.00
Unclassified.
Miscellaneous . $2,300.00
Memorial Day, Post 87, G.A.R.
200.00
Memorial Day, Post 86, Ameri- can Legion .
100.00
Employees' Compensation
$1,500.00
Tax Sales .
200.00
District Nurse (to Apr. 1, 1923)
350.00
Reserve Fund .
5,000.00
Dyer Property (cor. Pond and Washington Streets)
2,000.00
$11,650.00
Public Service Enterprises.
Electric Light Department:
Salaries .
$300.00
Depreciation Fund . 5,695.81
Unexpended balance, 1922
2,578.64
$8,574.45
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Water Department:
Salaries .
$300.00
6" main, Standish Avenue 1,700.00
12" main, Tremont Street 4,907.18
6" main, Grove Street. 4,478.10
Additional Water Supply
2,000.00
$13,385.28
Cemetery.
Plain Street Cemetery
$450.00
Interest.
Interest on Bonds, Notes, Loans
in anticipation of Revenue ... $15,812.51
Municipal Indebtedness.
Payment of Bonds and Notes . .
$21,250.00
Total appropriations at Annual
Town meeting . . $446,245.87
Less amounts appropriated but not raised by taxation:
Tax Collector, fees
$250.00
Library, fees .
180.00
Electric Light Department:
Salaries
300.00
Depreciation Fund .
5,695.81
Unexpended balance, 1922 2,578.64
Water Department:
Salaries . 300.00
Standish Avenue 1,700.00
Tremont Street
4,907.18
Grove Street.
4,478.10
Additional Water Supply
2,000.00
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State Aid
1,452.00
Military Aid
50.00
$23,891.73
$422,354.14
Estimated Revenue
78,998.41
Town appropriations to be raised
by taxation
$343,355.73
Taxes for Town, County and State Purposes.
Town Tax . .
$343,355.73:
Charles River Basin Tax
1,351.20
State Tax
26,040.00
State Highway Tax
1,506.74
Metropolitan Parks Tax
8,582.63:
Municipal Lighting Plant
32.69
Municipal Auditing
33.37
County Tax .
19,931.48
Overlayings, 1923
5,732.73
$406,566.57
Less 3275 Poll Taxes
6,550.00.
Moth Tax for work on private property . 1,246.65
Total Commitment, September 1923 .
$401,263.22.
Additional poll and omitted tax-
es, committed December, 1923
221.76
$401,484.98
$400,016.57 to be raised by taxation on 3275 polls and a valuation of $13,423,375.00 makes the rate per $1,000.00 valuation $29.80.
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TREASURER'S REPORT
OTIS B. OAKMAN, Treasurer.
In account with Town of Braintree.
Balance, January 1, 1923. 1
General Town Account balance .. $42,322.15
Balance, E. Braintree School- house Loan.
64,675.87
Water Department balance.
20,409.12
Electric Light Department
balance .
2,578.64
School Fund Income balance .. 697.36
Penniman Trust Income balance
42.57
C. E. French Trust Income balance .
73.21
Electric Depreciation Fund 5,654.88
Reserve Fund Overlays . 1,279.18
$137,732.98
George W. Stevens and Walter N. McKean, Collectors of Taxes:
Tax
Interest
1920
$296.08
$54.90
1921
27,740.04
2,875.30
1922
129,433.69
6,124.08
1923
308,352.85
185.42
Loans in anticipation of Revenue
$250,000.00
All other sources, including divi- dends on Town funds, given in «detail in Accountant's report . .
$475,062.36
$456,809.46
$1,181,871.82
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Paid by orders of Selectmen $1,049,055.34
Cash book balance, December 31, 1923 . 132,816.48
$1,181,871.82:
The above cash book balance is made up as follows:
General Town Account balance . $78,010.33:
Balance E. Braintree Schoolhouse Loan 13,060.04
Water Department balance 25,716.95.
Electric Light Department balance 2,336.35
School Fund Income balance . 756.93
Penniman Trust Income balance 44.50
C. E. French Trust Income balance 90.12
Electric Depreciation Fund 11,486.54
Reserve Fund Overlays . 1,314.72
132,816.48
Paid During the Year on Town Notes and Bonds :
Town Hall bonds . $2,000.00
Thayer notes (held by Library Trustees) 750.00
Hollis School bonds 3,000.00
High School Site bonds 2,000.00
Hunt Trust Refunding notes 1,000.00
Portable School Houses . 3,000.00
Tuberculosis Hospital bonds 1,000.00
E. Braintree Playground 3,000.00
Temporary Loans 300,000.00
E. Braintree School bonds 5,500.00
$321,250.00
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Interest Paid During the Year on Notes and Bonds:
Temporary loans (discounted) average rate 4.3% per cent . $5,743.74
Refunded Thayer Notes
140.00
High School Site
450.00
Town Hall 760.00
Hollis School 1,020.00
Tuberculosis Hospital .
585.00
E. Braintree Playground
172.51
Portable School Houses
345.00
E. Braintree School
3,340.00
$12,556.25
Paid to Commonwealth of Massachusetts
State Tax .
$26,040.00
National Bank Tax
383.38
Charles River Basin Loan Fund Interest
487.36
Maintenance .
821.27
Serial Bonds
42.57
Metropolitan Parks Sinking Fund
208.22
Interest.
1,487.14
Cost of Maintenance
4,142.97
Serial Bonds
71.30
Sinking Fund, Series 2
49.10
Interest
476.09
Cost of Maintenance
1,699.64
Serial Bonds
159.48
Metropolitan Parks Loan Fund,
Nantasket Maintenance . 273.39
Wellington Bridge, maintenance
15.30
Auditing Municipal Accounts
33.37
Repairs, State Highways
1,506.74
Municipal Lighting Plant
32.69
Civilian War Poll Tax
9,825.00
$47,755.01
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RESERVE FUND FROM OVERLAYS
Acts of 1913
Dr. Cr.
Balance, January 1, 1923
$1,279.18
Interest on deposit 35.54
Balance on hand, Dec. 31, 1923 . $1,314.72
$1,314.72 $1,314.72
Account verified. Balance, $1,314.72, on deposit in Nation Shawmut Bank.
RALPH W. ARNOLD, PAUL MONAGHAN, CHARLES H. TOBEY, Auditors, 1923.
January 10, 1924.
THE NATHANIEL H. HUNT TRUST OTIS B. OAKMAN, Treasurer
Principal :
One note, Town of Braintree, 4%, $1,000, due July 1, 1924 .
$1,000.00
One Boston Elevated R. R. bond, $1,000 4% . . 1,000.00
Three Boston & Maine R. R. bonds, 4% 3,000.00
One New England R. R. bond, $1,000, 4% 1,000.00
Two C. B. & Q. R. R. bonds, $1,000, 4% 2,000.00
Two N. Y. N. H. & H. bonds, $1,000, 4% 2,000.00
Two N. Y. N. H. & H. R.R. bonds, $1,000, 4% 2,000.00
Deposited in Braintree Savings Bank 6,526.05
Deposited in Weymouth Savings Bank 4,000.00
Deposited in Quincy Savings Bank 1,750.94
$24,276.99
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Dr. Cr.
Income, 1923
$1,050.94
$1,050.94
Paid Trustees Thayer Public Library
Examined and approved. The securities listed, amount -. ing to $24,276.99, are in the custody of the Treasurer and. have been examined by us.
RALPH W. ARNOLD, PAUL MONAGHAN, CHARLES H. TOBEY, Auditors, 1923.
January 9, 1924.
THE CHARLES EDWARD FRENCH TRUST
OTIS B. OAKMAN, Treasurer
Principal:
$2,100 4th Liberty Loan
$2,100.00
Braintree Savings Bank
262.50
$2,362.50
Dr.
Cr.
Balance January 1, 1923
$73.21
Coupons .
89.25
Interest on deposit.
14.29
Paid Higgins, Magnuson & Co., medals
$86.63
Balance in Braintree Savings Bank
90.12
$176.75 $176.75
Correct, with proper vouchers for expenditures, bal- ance in Braintree Savings Bank of $90.12 and securities as listed found in custody of Treasurer.
RALPH W. ARNOLD, PAUL MONAGHAN, CHARLES H. TOBEY, Auditors, 1923.
January 10, 1924.
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THE ANN MARIA PENNIMAN TRUST
OTIS B. OAKMAN, Treasurer.
Income Account:
Dr. Cr
Balance in bank, Jan. 1, 1923. .
$42.57
Interest to January 1, 1924. 23.67
Paid F. A. Chapman and Alida N. Stevens, committee $21.74
Balance in bank
44.50
$66.24 $66.24
Amount of fund, $500.00, and balance, $44.50, on deposit in Braintree Savings Bank. Receipt for expendi- tures in hands of Treasurer.
RALPH W. ARNOLD, PAUL MONAGHAN, CHARLES H. TOBEY, Auditors, 1923.
January 10, 1924.
MUNICIPAL LIGHT BOARD
OTIS B. OAKMAN, Treasurer.
Dr. Cr.
Balance, January 1, 1923
$2,578.64
Street Lights
7,110.00
F. B. Lawrence, Manager 142,067.94
Interest on deposit .
33.85
Paid by orders (including depre- ation fund, $5,695.81).
$149,454.08
Balance, December 31, 1923
2,336.35
$151,790.43 $151,790.43
Examined and approved with balance found in the State Street Trust Company of $2,336.35.
RALPH W. ARNOLD, PAUL MONAGHAN, CHARLES H. TOBEY, Auditors, 1923.
January 10, 1924.
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The account of the Treasurer of the Water Department will be found in the Water Department report.
ELECTRIC DEPRECIATION FUND
OTIS B. OAKMAN, Treasurer.
Dr. Cr.
Balance, January 1, 1923
5,654.88
Interest on deposit . 135.85
Town Appropriation (from Elec- tric Light Department) 5,695.81
Balance on hand, Dec. 31, 1923 . $11,486.54
$11,486.54
$11,486.54
Examined and approved. Balance found on deposit as follows: National Shawmut Bank - $5,790.73; Braintree National Bank - $5,695.81.
RALPH W. ARNOLD, PAUL MONAGHAN, CHARLES H. TOBEY, Auditors, 1923.
January 10, 1924.
BRAINTREE SCHOOL FUND
OTIS B. OAKMAN, Treasurer.
Principal Account:
Real Estate (valued)
$4,000.00
Quincy Savings Bank
1,022.50
Weymouth Savings Bank
1,000.00
Randolph Savings Bank 600.00
Braintree Savings Bank.
1,747.65
Liberty Loan Bond, issue of Oct. 1918
500.00
$8,870.15
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Dr
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Income Account:
Balance, January 1, 1923
$697.36
Savings Bank Interest
223.32
Liberty Bond coupons
21.25
Rent
239.00
Scholarship, C. Luikonnon
$150.00
Scholarship, Charlotte Haynes . .
150.00
Scholarship, Mary M. Branley . .
24.00
Scholarship, Edward Y. Blewett
100.00
Balance on hand, Income Ac-
count deposited in Braintree Savings Bank
756.93
$1,180.93
$1,180.93
Examined and approved with amounts of fund as stated. Principal Account, $8,870.15. Income Account, $756,93.
RALPH W. ARNOLD, PAUL MONAGHAN, CHARLES H. TOBEY, Auditors, 1923.
January 10, 1924.
Wood to the amount of $4.00 has been sold and the proceeds added to the principal account.
FUNDED DEBT OF THE TOWN WATER DEPARTMENT
The Treasurer congratulates the town that the Water Department for the first time in its history is free from debt, and that there are now no sinking funds as all debts are now payable in yearly instalments.
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GENERAL DEBT
One note, dated July 1, 1914, $1,000.
4%, payable July 1, 1924. $1,000.00
One note, dated July 1, 1914, $750. 4%, payable July 1, 1924 750.00
Hollis School Bonds, $500, each, 4%, maturing $3,000. yearly July 1, 1924-1931 inclusive. 24,000.00
Town Hall Bonds, $1,000 each, 4%, maturing $2,000. yearly, 1924-1932 inclusive 18,000.00
Tuberculosis Hospital Bonds, dated Decem- ber 1, 1919, 412%, maturing $1,000. 1924- 1935 inclusive . 12,000.00
High School Site Bonds, dated December 1, 1919, 412%, maturing $2,000.00, 1924-1925, and $1,000. 1926-1929 inclusive 8,000.00
East Braintree Playground loan 5.75% dated June 1, 1920, maturing $1,500,00 1924. ... 1,500.00
Portable Schoolhouse Loan, $12,500.00 5.75%, dated December 15, 1920, and maturing $3,000.00, 1924. 3,000.00
East Braintree School House Loan, dated Sep- tember 1, 1922, maturing $5,000.00 1924 and 1925, and $4,000.00 1926-1942 78,000.00
$146,250.00
The net funded debt of the town has decreased in 1923 $21,250.00.
In addition to the funded debt the town owes for notes issued in Anticipation of Revenue of 1923, $75,000.00, due April 15, 1924.
OTIS B. OAKMAN,
Treasurer.
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REPORT OF THE ACCOUNTING OFFICER OF THE TOWN OF BRAINTREE. 1 January 1, 1923 to December 31, 1923.
GENERAL REVENUE
RECEIPTS Taxes
Previous years :
Polls, personal and
real estate $157,468.89
Redemption Tax
Titles .
$86.15
78.02
164.17
Current year:
Polls, personal and
real estate
$308,352.85
From the State:
Corporation
27,852.04
Street Railway
1,038.75
Bank
572.78
Income.
19,952.08
Soldiers' Exemption
103.22
School Fund
44,588.00
Civilian War
24.00
Schools
Smith
Hughes Fund . . .
174.65
$530,291.43
LICENSES AND PERMITS
Licenses $659.75 Fines 824.49
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Grants and Gifts
"From County:
Dog Licenses $900.51
General Government.
Collector:
Tax information
$88.25
Interest on deposits 30.04
Advertising Tax
Sales 143.09
$261.38
Town Clerk
1.50
Town Hall Rent.
1,825.00
Selectmen:
Advertising hearings $21.50
Hollis House rent
660.00
Lease, Legion Build- ing .
2.00
Insurance rebates 19.66
Miscellaneous
8.35
$71 .51
$2, 799.39
Protection of Persons and Property.
Fire Department: Sale of old mater- ials .
$50.00
Bridge Fires
37.00
$87.00
Inspection :
Sealing of Weights
and Measures
107.26
$194.26
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Health Department.
Expenses
$18.20
Tuberculosis 761.81
Inspection, Meat and
Provisions
21.00
$801.01
Highways
Bridge(1921-1922) $300.00
Culvert pipe
26.00
Tar and labor spread- ing
254.00
Miscellaneous .
1.24
$581.24
Charities.
Almshouse:
Sale of produce and
stock .
$325.38
Board, Weymouth
Inmates .
3,384.00
Board, Individuals
50.00
$3,759.38
Reimbursements: Poor
From individuals
$62.14
From
cities and
towns .
722.47
From State
739.65
$1, 524.26
Reimbursements: "763"
From Individuals
$16.00
From
cities
and
towns.
134.34
From State
2,326.83
$2, 477.17
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Soldiers' Benefits
State Aid
$1,542.00
Soldiers' Burials 311.59
Military Aid 40.00
$1,893.59
$9,654.40
EDUCATION.
Tuition from State:
Individuals .
$140.00
Industrial Schools 500.86
Continuation School 2, 033.42
$2,674.28
Tuition, Continuation School:
Quincy
$2,800.24
Holbrook .
127.60
Weymouth 404.84
Pembroke 8.12
Brockton
82.36
Avon .
11.60
Randolph
120.64
$3,555.40
Miscellaneous
34.74
$6,264.42
UNCLASSIFIED.
All other - Electric Light Depart.
$55.12
ENTERPRISES AND CEMETERIES.
Water Department.
$65,119.05
Electric Light Department.
149, 177.94
$214, 296.99
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INTEREST.
Deposits:
General
$1,915.07
Taxes
9,240.62
Water
875.07
Electric Light
33.85
$12,064.61
MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS.
Temporary Loans:
Anticipation of Revenue . . $250,000.00
AGENCY.
Liquor license
.25
REFUNDS.
Highways
$17.64
Poor
23.84
Schools .
5.50
Braintree Home
32.50
$79.48
Total Receipts.
$1,029,467.35
TRANSFERS
Highways.
$102.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund to:
Salaries Police
$ 325.00
Expenses Police
140.00
Miscellaneous .
2,631.50
Expense Collector
200.00
Highways, General .
81.00
Highways New Equipment.
431.00
Expense Poor
590.00
Care of Trees
301.50
Moth
139.86
Election and Registration
102.70
$4, 942.56
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Balance, January 1, 1923:
General Cash
$16 993.02
Water Department.
20409.12
Electric Light Department.
2,578.64
$129,985.78
$1,164,497.69
EXPENDITURES.
General Government.
Legislative:
$25.00
Salary Moderator
Executive.
Selectmen :
Salaries
$1,565.38
Clerk 210.00
$1,775.38
Other Expenses:
Stationery and Postage $ 84.30
Printing, advertising 195.75
Telephone 95.31
Supplies . 62.15
$437.51
$2,212.89
Financial
Auditors:
Salaries
$150.00
Accountant:
Salary
$1,600.00
Stationery, supplies
82.63
$1,682.63
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'Treasurer:
Salary
$1,500.00
Clerk . 210.00
Stationery. postage 112.02
Printing,advertising
20.75
Expenses .
30.00
Bond
120.00
Supplies
5.95
$1,998.72
"Collector:
Salary . $1,050.00
Stationery, postage
272.89
Printing, advertising 209.59
Bond .
255.00
Supplies.
12.29
Advertisng Tax Sales
144.09
Expenses
14.36
$1,958.22
Assessors:
Salaries
$1,650.00
Clerk .
300.00
Clerical help
210.00
$2,160.00
Other expenses: i
Supplies, Stationery
and postage. . . . $46.09
Printing, advertising 293.80
Auto hire. 26.00
Abstracts of Deeds and printing . . . . 194.00
. Preparing descrip-
tions - Tax Sales 1921.
100.00
$659.89
$8,609.46
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Other General Departments.
Law:
Salary Town Counsel
$600.00
Expenses
10.00
$610.00
Town Clerk :
Salary
$650.00
Other expenses:
Recording fees . . . . $423.00
Stationery, postage 26.18
Printing, advertising
27.75
Telephone
31.40
All other
14.39
$522.72
$1,172.72.
Election and Registration :
Salaries, Registrars
$300.00
Election Officers . . $472.00
Janitors
15.00
487.00
Other expenses:
Stationery, postage
$12.95
Printing, advertising 270.00
Auto hire 93.50
Meals .
83.85
Equipment - pol-
ling booths 5.40
$465.70
$1,252.70}
Town Hall:
Janitor Service . . $900.00
Assistant Janitor .
1,144.00
$2,044.00
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»Other expenses:
Fuel
$783.00
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