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146.00
7,505.35
Labor:
Angus F. McInnis
992.25
Frank B. Scahill
894.75
Norman Stone
558.75
Walter F. Trask
483.15
Frank Kellie
233.25
Kenneth B. Lord
135.75
William Dunbar
60.75
Angus Wright
50.10
Robert L. Day
47.25
Malcomb Gross
36.00
Ernest Lounsbury
30.00
Edgar Adams
27.75
Edward Graffum
21.00
Walter Kotek
18.00
Oscar Holm
18.00
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Louis Kelly
18.00
Charles Surpiki
18.00
Albert Sheppard
17.50
Henry Waz
17.50
Joseph Doty
17.50
Alvary Marriott
17.50
George E. Hills
14.25
Howard C. Downing
12.50
Joseph Phaneuf
6.00
Albin Lind
6.00
Edgar Migneault
6.00
Manuel Gallant
6.00
Paul Wright
3.00
3,766.50
Superintendent :
Benjamin W. Homans 1,951.88
Equipment:
Whittier & Sprague 102.75
Power Lawn Mower
Service Co. 136.53
Edmund J. M. Scahill
75.00
314.28
Bituminous Products :
Trimount Bituminous Product Co.
294.08
Care and Maintenance of Truck:
Bob's Esso Service Station 101.06
John Levere 65.30
Ipswich Motor Co. 25.66
Mac's Service Station 11.98
R. W. Davis Co. 8.95
Burke Motor Service 8.90
Metropolitan Oil Co.
5.75 227.60
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Sand and Stone:
Lynn Sand & Stone Co. 135.32
Materials :
W. E. Atkinson Co.
31.66
A. B. C. Mulholland 29.00
Harland P. Kelsey Inc. 22.40
Ipswich Grain Co.
10.60
Alex Gallant
10.50
Corliss Bros.
7.25
111.41
Insurance :
Bernard M. Sullivan, Agent 216.79
Care and Maintenance of Equipment:
N. R. Harris
48.00
James McCormack & Son
28.60
A. J. Barton & Son, Inc. 9.00
Hills & Hovey
5.50
Edward Smith
2.50
93.60
Flowers and Shrubs:
Gordon Greenhouses Inc.
53.65
Cherry Hill Nurseries
26.00
Howard Blake
3.00
82.65
Office Supplies and Equipment :
Christos Gianakos
50.00
Damons
7.30
H. B. McArdle 8.00
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A. Franklin Priest 6.00
Est., Cora H. Hulbert 5.85
Benjamin H. Homans 3.00 80.15
Tools and Supplies :
Ciolek Hardware Co. 24.45
John W. Goodwin Corp.
18.49
H. M. Dodge
2.00
Ipswich Electric Shop
1.54
46.48
Telephone :
New Eng., Tel., & Tel., Co. 43.95
Truck Hire :
Michael Ryan 15.00
Harris Oil Co.
12.00
A. B. C. Mulholland
6.00
Joseph Gauthier
5.00
38.00
Water:
Town of Ipswich Water Dept.
42.00
Garage Rent:
Gordon Player
30.00
Clerical :
Arnold Richards
25.00
Margaret Higgins
5.00
30.00
Express :
Barnett Canvas Goods & Bag Co.
.66
7,505.35
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OFFICE AND STORAGE BUILDING-CEMETERY
Balance Jan., 1, 1945 1,350.00
Transfer-Reserve Fund 350.00 1,700.00
Contract and Labor:
John A. Singer 697.50
Moving Building :
B. F. Goodwin & Son Inc. 400.00
Labor:
Joseph Hardy
164.00 .
John P. Lind
25.00
Arthur H. Warner
4.50 193.50
Materials and Lumber:
H. M. Dodge
52.50
The Diamond Match Co. 42.87
Gloucester Coal & Lumber Co. 28.99
Norcross Lumber Co.
15.71
W. E. Atkinson Co.
3.66 143.73
Rental of Equipment :
A. B. C. Mulholland 85.00
Supplies :
John W. Goodhue Corp. 23.33
Est., of A. C. Damon 5.15
Damons 1.33 29.81
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Fuel :
Lathrop Brothers 37.62
Wiring :
Elmer A. Wiley 50.16
Equipment :
Massachusetts Reformatory
27.68
1,665.00
Transferred to Revenue
35.00
1,700.00
H. A. COWLES MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Balance Jan., 1, 1945
639.02
Labor:
Angus Wright
203.40
Walter F. Trask
160.30
Frank A. McGinnis
60.00
Stanley Eustace
31.50
William Arsenault
31.50
Frank Kellie
27.75
Norman Stone
27.00
Herman Shores
10.40
Joseph Phaneuf
9.00
George Riel
7.50
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Samuel Aitken 7.50
575.85
Insurance :
Bernard M. Sullivan, Agent
34.74
610.59
Balance to Revenue
28.43
639,02
SOLDIERS GRAVES
350.00
Appropriation
Labor:
Norman Stone
65.25
Frank B. Scahill
57.75
Arnold R. Richards
40.50
Angus F. McGinnis
33.75
Kenneth B. Lord
21.75
Edgar Adams
21.75
Frank Kellie
21.75
George E. Hills
16.50
Ernest Lounsbury
15.75
Edward Graffum
12.75
William Dunbar
12.00
Walter F. Trask
9.75
Manuel Gallant
8.25
Ernest Boudreau
6.50
Robert L. Day
6.00
350.00
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INTEREST AND MATURING DEBT INTEREST
Appropriation Refund-Accrued Interest
1,526.00 33.70 1,559.70
Interest :
1
Merchants National Bank of Boston 1,256.00
First National Bank of Boston 170.00
Treasurer & Receiver General Mass. 100.00
First National Bank of Boston
33.70
1,559.70
MATURING DEBT
Appropriation 12,400.00
Note Payments:
Merchants National Bank of Boston 8,400.00
First National Bank of Boston 4,000.00 12,400.00
TOWN OF IPSWICH Balance Sheet - December 31, 1945 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
Assets
Liabilities and Reserves
Cash and Securities :
State Assessments :
General
$247,898.44
State Parks and Reservations
$66.55
Petty
Payroll Deductions :
School
15.00
Blue Cross
102.60
Electric Meter · Guarantees,
15.00
Special Deposit
5,361.84
Tailings
1,038.78
Dog Licenses-Due County
1.80
Accounts Receivable:
Taxes :
Levy of 1943:
218.75
Real Estate
70.32
70.32
Sale of Cemetery Lots Fund
3,122.00
Levy of 1944:
Highway Machinery Fund
3,309.40
Personal
609.71
Sale of Real Estate Fund
14,107.23
Real Estate
3,782.26
Federal Grants :
Aid to Dependent Children:
Administration .32
Poll
28.00
Assistance
51.84
Personal
2,205.24
Real Estate
19,171.52
Administration 5.32
21,404.76
Assistance
2,140.25
25,867.05
2,197.73
Reserve for Petty Cash Advance
1
$253,275.28
Trust Fund Income: Richard T. Crane, Jr., Picnic Fund
4,391.97
Levy of 1945:
Old Age Assistance:
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes : Levy of 1945 Special Assessments : Moth 1944 Moth 1945
478.57
12.00
12.00
24.00
Electric Light:
Tax Titles and Possessions :
Operations 24,421.71
Tax Titles
8,730.08
Depreciation 93,450.47
Tax Possessions
4,567.27
Construction 14,917.20
13,297.35
132,789.38
Departmental :
Water:
Town Property
202.50
Construction
1,642.01
Police
334.49
Construction
Moth
48.50
Authorized
15,000.00
Health
1,012.36
Reserve
5,154.44
21,796.45
Highway
81.03
Aid to Dependent Children
327.83
Soldiers' Benefits
327.50
Cemetery
861.00
Levy 1943
70.32
3,195.21
Levy 1944
3,588.24
Electric Light
14,768.13
Levy 1945
2,867.20
Water Rates
9,593.39
Water Liens
228.52
Revenue Reserved Until Collected :
Water Liens Added Tax Titles
32.93
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 478.57
Special Assessment 24.00
Tax Title
8,730.08
Tax Possession
4,567.27
1
173,493.78 3,007.10
Reserve Fund-Overlay Surplus
Overlay Reserved for Abatement of Taxes:
6,525.76
9,854.84
Loan Authorized-Water Dept. . Overlay Deficits :
15,000.00
Electric Light Meter Guarantee Deposits 3,097.78 Electric Light Meter Guarantee Deposits Interest 2,264.06 Unexpended Balances : General 18,907.95
Levy of 1939 Levy of 1940
97.45 225.00
Departmental
3,195.21
322.45
Electric Light Water
14,768.13 9,854.84
County Tax 1945 (Underestimate)
148.51
Surplus Revenue
41,618.10 82,044.97
$336,231.39
$336,231.39
DEBT ACCOUNTS
Net Funded or Fixed Debt
$81,400.00 High School Loan 1935
$60,000.00
Water Extension Loan 1938
8,000.00
Water Loan-Additional Supply 1942
7,000.00
Water Loan-Additions 1927 4,000.00
Highway Equipment Loan 1941
2,400.00
$81,400.00
$81,400.00
TRUST AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS
Trust and Investment Funds, Cash and Securities
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
$57,805.46
$160,282.16
Post-War Rehabilitation Fund 50,000.00
Richard T. Crane, Jr., Picnic Fund
33,438.82
Eunice Caldwell Cowles Fund
10,000.00
Mark Newman Memorial Fund
5,209.38
Mrs. William G. Brown Animal Fund
2,082.13
Marianna T. Jones Fund
800.51
John T. Kimball Fund
511.31
Martha I. Savory Fund 294.51
Dow Boulder Memorial Fund
140.04
$160,282.16
$160,282.16
RECAPITULATION OF DEPARTMENT EXPENSES WITH CASH DISBURSEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1944.
Balance Jan. 1, 1945
Appro- priations
Cash Receipts
Credit Transfer
Debit Transfer
Caslı Transferred Balance Payments To Revenue Dec. 31, 1945
$16,700.00
Emergency Increases
100.00
Moderator
5,106.00
$1,000.00
6,080.45
$25.55
Selectmen
3,402.50
$1.15
500.00
3,901.73
1.92
Accountant
8,140.33
33.00
600.00
8,215.61
557.72
Treasurer and Collector
3.164.00
200.00
3,313.22
50.78
Assessors
600.00
600.00
Law
Wild Life Refuge Land Taking
Town Clerk
2,078.00
200.00
2,116.29
161.71
Election and Registration
3,426.35
200.00
3,487.35
139.00
Town Hall
438.35
292.85
$145.50 150.00
Town Hall and Community Center Committee
18.655.50
1,754.00
20,380.21
29.29
Police
500.00
500.00
Registration of Bicycles
21,713.10
8.70
2,100.00
23.805.12
16.68
Fire
6,200.00
6,200.00
Reconstruction of Fire Alarm System
518.25
468.52
49.73
Weights and Measures
4,383.50
20.40
200.00
4.602.28
1.62
Moth
200.00
131.62
Tree Warden
600.00
469.06
130.94
Clam Commissioner
1,500.00
350.00
1,848.50
1.50
Shellfish Benefits
1,000.00
7,730.00
2.50
100.00
7,832.50
Garbage and Rubbish Equipment
6,000.00
46.49
5,651,72
394.77
Town Dump
250.00
31.14
218.86
Sewer Committee
850.00
850.00
Mosquito Control
100.00
10.00
90.00
Bounty on Seals
27.044.00
6.20
1,000.00
27.557.04
493.16
Highway
10,000.00
10,000.00
7,000.00
Snow Removal Equipment
5,400.00
5,400.00
Chapter 90 Maintenance
1,000.00
500.00
1.499.46
.54
Public Welfare
5,868.28
2,200.00
7,746.20
322.08
Aid Dependent Children, Administration
75.00
59.53
15.47
Aid Dependent Children, Assistance
2,800.00
2.55
2,070.95
731.60
Old Age Assistance, Administration
1,350.00
1,011.56
338.44
Old Age Assistance, Assistance
38,500.00
60.75
38.65
38,302.46
219.64
U. S. Grant, Aid Dependent Children, Adm.
64.74
64.42
32
U. S. Grant, Aid Dependent Children, Assist.
135.36
910.28
993.80
51.84
U. S. Grant, Old Age Assistance, Adm.
810.50
805.18
5.32
U. S. Grant, Old Age Assistance, Assistance
171.94
24,316.89
22,348.58
2,140.25
Soldiers' Benefits
4.000.00
1,205.51
2,794.49
Benjamin Stickney Memorial Hospital
2 500.00
2,500.00
Education
106,271.00
10,200.00
42.51
118,278.72
149.77
Education Special Retirement Fund
226.25
226.25
Fire Damage Manual Training School
17,167.00
12,846.52
4,320.48
Eunice C. Cowles Scholarships
282.40
Library
3.534.00
3,534.00
Parks
1,027.00
1,022.79
4.21
Playgrounds
1,135.00
1,113.51
21.49
Playground Recreation Project
1,200.00
27.51
1,227.51
Contributory Pension System
2,000.00
2,000.00
Valorous H. Grant, Pension
728.00
728.00
Land Purchase, East Street
100.00
100.00
Unpaid Bills 1944
25.00
25.00
Lewis S. Clement Reimbursement
377.16
337.16
40.00
Town Clock
75.00
75.00
Memorial Day
450.00
25.00
462.40
12.60
Memorial Building
2,146.37
200.00
2,293.12
53.25
Civilian Defense Committee
241.36
5.3.63
187.73
Advisory Committee
1,000.00
294.73
705.27
Rationing Board
184.23
975.00
756.72
402.51
Service Flag
178.40
34.14
144.26
Town Dump Construction
500.00
500.00
Honor Roll Committee
370.37
200.00
499.07
71.30
Skating Rink
238.72
2.00
236.72
Richard T. Crane, Jr. Picnic
895.86
895.86
Reserve Fund
5,000.00
5,000.00
Electric Light Operations
25,917.20
139,486.14
30,321.41
110,660.22
24,421.71
Electric Light Construction
14,917,20
14,917.20
Electric Light Depreciation
78,046.26
15,404.21
93,450.47
Electric Light Meter Deposit
2,967.92
299.00
169.14
3,097.78
Electric Light Meter Deposit Int. Accrd.
2,151.52
115.54
3.00
2,264.06
Water Construction Fund
11,059.60
9,417.59
1,642.01
Water Reserve
30,415.22
6,739.22
32,000.00
5,154.44
Water Surplus
26,059.60
26,059.60
Loan Authorized-Construction
15,000.00
15,000.00
Cemetery
5,893.4C
1,265.95
346.00
7,505.35
H. A. Cowles Memorial Cemetery 1944
639.02
610.59
28.43
H. A. Cowles Memorial Cemetery 1945
3,97 2.00
3,972.00
Office and Storage Building Cemetery
1.350.00
350.00
1,665.00
35.00
Soldiers' Graves
350.00
350.00
Interest
1,526.00
33.70
1.559.70
Maturing Debt
12,400 00
12,400.00
$156.590.25 $391.195.49
$201,042.21 $114.575.49 $110.162.17 $557,793.33
$7,655.37
$187.792.57
68.38
Poison Ivy Control Project
1,482.50
1,482.23
.27
Forest Warden
1,000.00
Health
600.00
224.82
375.18
'Town Hall Improvements
150.00
Course of Instruction, F. B. 1, School
50.00
50.00
500.00
500.00
1,547.00
1,393.52
153.48
$16,700.00
$100.00
Water Operations
32,000.00
15,000.00
40,260.78
6,739.22
1
2,000.00
282.40
Snow Removal
7,000.00
Street Lighting
REPORT
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STATE AUDIT
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TOWN OF IPSWICH
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January 4, 1946
To the Board of Selectmen
Mr. Brainard C. Wallace, Chairman
Ipswich, Massachusetts
Gentlemen :
I submit herewith my report for an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Ipswich for the period from December 10, 1944 to November 14, 1945, made in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44, General Laws. This is in the form of a report made to me by Mr. Herman B. Dine, Assistant Director of Accounts.
Very truly yours,
THEODORE N. WADDELL
Director of Accounts
Mr. Theodore N. Waddell -
Director of Accounts
Department of Corporations and Taxation
State House, Boston
Sir:
As directed by you, I have made an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Ipswich for the period from December 10, 1944, the date of the previous audit, to November 14, 1945, and report thereon as follows:
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The financial transactions of the town as recorded on the books of the several departments were examined, checked and compared with the records of the town treasurer and the town accountant.
The books and accounts of the town accountant were examined and checked in detail. The receipts as recorded were compared with the departmental records of payments to the treasurer and with the treasurer's record of receipts, while the recorded payments were checked with the treasury warrants and with the treasurer's record of dis- bursements.
The appropriations as recorded on the ledger were compared with the town clerk's record of financial votes passed at town meeting and with the authorizations of the finance committee,
The ledger was analyzed, a trial balance was drawn off proving the ledger to be in balance, and a balance sheet, showing the financial condition of the town on November 14, 1945, was prepared and is appended to this report.
The books and accounts in the town treasurer's office were examined and checked. The cash book was added throughout, the receipts being analyzed and compared with the several departmental records of payments to the treasurer, with other sources from which the town received money, and with the town accountant's books. The recorded payments were checked with the selectmen's warrants authorizing the disbursement of town funds.
The cash balance on November 14, 1945 was proved by reconciliation of the bank balances with statements furnished by the banks of deposit, by verification of the cash in the office, by inspection of the savings bank books, and by examination of the securities which are held as
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part of the treasurer's cash. This cash balance, together with the books and accounts of the former treasurer, was transferred to the temporary treasurer.
The payments of maturing debt and interest were proved with the amounts falling due and with the cancelled bonds and coupons on file. The bond and coupon account was reconciled and the outstanding coupons were listed.
The securities and savings bank books representing the investment of the trust and investment funds in the custody of the treasurer, the treasurer of the library trustees, and the treasurer of the Manning School Fund were examined and listed, the income being proved and the transfers to the town, as well as the disbursements, being verified.
The deductions from the salaries of employees for Federal taxes were listed and reconciled with the amount due and paid to the Federal government.
The records of tax titles held by the town were examined and checked. The amounts added to the tax title account were compared with the collector's records, the tax titles redeemed were checked with the treasurer's cash book, and the tax titles on hand were listed and com- pared with the records at the Registry of Deeds.
The books and accounts of the town collector were examined and checked in detail. The commitment lists of all taxes were added and proved with the warrants given by the board of assessors for their collection. The re- corded receipts were checked with the payments to the treasurer and with the town accountant's books, the abate- ments as recorded were compared with the assessors' record of abatements granted, and the outstanding accounts were listed preparatory to a recommitment to the temporary collector.
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The commitments of departmental, municipal light and water accounts were examined and checked. The re- corded receipts were checked with the payments to the treasurer and with the accountant's books, the abatements as recorded were compared with the records of the depart- ments authorized to grant abatements, and the outstanding accounts were listed.
Verification of the correctness of the outstanding tax, departmental, municipal light and water accounts was obtained by mailing notices to a number of persons whose names appeared on the books as owing money to the town, the replies received thereto indicating that the accounts, as listed, are correct.
The records of licenses and permits issued by the selectmen and the health department were examined and checked, and the payments to the town treasurer were verified.
The town clerk's record of sporting and dog licenses issued in behalf of the State and the county, respectively, were examined and checked, the payments to the Division of Fisheries and Game and to the town treasurer being verified.
The surety bonds of the officials required by law to furnish them were examined and found to be in proper form.
In addition to the accounts mentioned, the records of all other departments collecting money for the town or committing bills for collection were examined and checked in detail.
Appended to this report, in addition to the balance sheet mentioned above, are tables showing a reconciliation of the treasurer's cash, summaries of the tax, tax title, possession, departmental, municipal light and water ac-
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counts, as well as tables showing the condition and trans- actions of the various trust and investment funds.
While engaged in making the audit, cooperation was received from the officials of the town, for which, on behalf of my assistants and for myself, I wish to express appreciation.
Respectfully submitted,
HERMAN B. DINE
Assistant Director of Accounts.
TOWN OF IPSWICH
Balance Sheet - November 14, 1945 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
Assets
Liabilities and Reserves
Cash and Securities :
State Assessments : Auditing Municipal Accounts $1,312.75
General
$315,416.34
State Parks and Reservations 267.49
$1,580.24
Petty:
Payroll Deductions :
School
15.00
Withholding Tax $950.50
Essex County Retirement System 98.69
Blue Cross 201.50
1,250.69
Special Deposit 5,292.98
$320,724.32
Reserve for Petty Cash Advance
15.00
Tailings
1,040.21
Dog Licenses-Due County
418.20
Accounts Receivable :
Taxes :
Levy of 1943:
Personal $5.40
Real Estate
615.72
Picnic Fund $218.75 Eunice Caldwell Cowles Fund 125.00
343.75
$621.12
Richard T. Crane, Jr., Picnic Fund- Principal to be Invested Trust Fund Income: Richard T. Crane, Jr.,
26,250.00
Electric Meter Guarantees :
Levy of 1944:
Cemetery Perpetual Care Bequests 510.00
Poll
$44.00
Sale of Cemetery Lots Fund 3,067.00
Personal
653.76
Real Estate
5,002.31
Highway Machinery Fund Sale of Real Estate Fund
14,107.23
Levy of 1945:
Federal Grants:
Poll
$106.00
Personal
2,169.88
Real Estate 24,127.28
26,403.16
Old Age Assistance:
Administration
178.74
Assistance
2,545.05
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes:
Levy of 1944
$44.34
Levy of 1945
170.95
Electric Light Meter Guarantee Deposits
3,068.92
215.29
Electric Light Meter Guarantee Deposits Interest
2,264.06
Special Assessments :
Moth 1944
$12.00
Moth 1945
12.00
Unexpended Balances :
General
$92,023.74
24.00
Electric Light:
Tax Titles and Possessions: Tax Titles
$9,305.42
Depreciation 93,450.47
Tax Possessions
4,567.27
Construction 14,917.20
13,872.69
129,103.29
3,303.75
5,700.07
Aid to Dependent Children: Administration $41.85 Assistance 235.36
32,724.35
3,001.00
Operations $20,735.62
Departmental:
Water :
Town Property
$200.75
General $13,072.07
Police
297.00
Construction
Health
794.07
Authorized 15,000.00
Highway
12.25
Construction 11,059.60
39,131.67
260,258.70
Soldiers' Benefits
257.50
Reserve Fund-Overlay Surplus
2,692.10
Cemetery
886.00
Overlay Reserved for Abatement of Taxes:
4,874.22
Levy of 1943
$621.12
Electric Light
7,256.31
Levy of 1944
3,794.24
Water Rates
$4,028.33
Levy of 1945
3,100.80
Water Liens Added to Tax Titles 32.93
4,061.26
Revenue Reserved Until Collected :
Estimated Receipts to be Collected
18,227.29
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax $215.29
Loan Authorized-Water Department
15,000.00
Special Assessment 24.00
Overlay Deficits :
Tax Title
9,305.42
Levy of 1939
$97.45
Tax Possession
4,567.27
Levy of 1940
225.00
Departmental
4,874.22
322.45
Electric Light
7,256.31
County Tax 1945 (Underestimate)
148.51
Water
4,061.26
Water Receipts to be Collected
2,844.77
Revenue-1945 Surplus Revenue
30,303.77 507.60 58,797.08
$420,295.46
$420,295.46
Public Welfare
312.00
Old Age Assistance
2,114.65
7,516.16
DEBT ACCOUNTS
Net Funded or Fixed Debt
$88,400.00 High School Loan 1935
$66,000.00
Highway Equipment Loan 1941
2,400.00
Water Loan-Additions 1927
4,000.00
Water Extension Loan 1938
8,000.00
Water Loan-Additional Supply 1942
8,000.00
$88,400.00
$88,400.00
TRUST AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS
Trust and Investment Funds, Cash and Securities
$160,267.64
Eunice Caldwell Cowles Fund $10,282.40
Mark Newman Memorial Fund 5,209.38
John T. Kimball Fund 511.31
Mrs. William G. Brown Animal Fund 2,082.13
Marianna T. Jones Fund
800.51
Richard T. Crane, Jr., Picnic Fund
33,442.90
Martha I. Savory Fund
293.51
Dow Boulder Memorial Fund
140.04
Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund 57,505.46
Post-War Rehabilitation Fund 50,000.00
$160,267.64
$160,267.64
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REPORT
OF THE N
TOWN OFFICERS
OF
IPSWICH, MASS.
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THE BIRTHPLACE OF AMERICA\ INDEPENDENCE 108
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1945 and the THREE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH YEAR of the
TOWN'S INCORPORATION
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Selectmen's Report
Once again our town finds itself a unit of a great nation which has emerged from the darkness and tensions of war to the dawn of peace. As those, who by ancient custom, are termed "Town Fathers", we desire to go on record for those who come after us as having accepted fully the ob- ligations which this term implies, not only in an official, but also an intimate and personal manner.
Through many long months we sent forth, in our capacity of "Town Fathers" the sons and daughters of Ipswich to train, to fight and to die when necessary for the common ideals of town and country. We can say in the simplest sincerity that through these long months we shared with the parents and loved ones of those who went forth their anxieties and longings.
To the parents and loved ones who will never again in this life see those who left Ipswich in the full glory of their youth with its unlimited promise of the years before them only to find at short journey's end death and destruction; we say to them, not only for ourselves, but as the common expression of all our citizens; that these losses cut deep and are abiding in the hearts of all of us.
We know full well that those who will never return to walk our streets and share the dear remembered things with us; to share their hopes and destinies which held within their lives so sadly, yet so gloriously, brought to an untimely end, could have made a large contribution to our common good. We do not know why these things must be, yet the fact that they are, places upon us all strict
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obligations that their brief lives shall not have been in vain : that we always hold in remembrance that the purchase price of all these things we enjoy in peace was their blood and their suffering, not theirs alone, but that of the parents who bore them and all loved ones made desolate by their passing. These things we must always hold in our hearts and our lives with appreciation and deep reverence.
The obligations of peace, are as pressing as those of war. Peace is now ours because the sons and the daughters of Ipswich were willing to give as bond their lives for this was all they had to give. Let us all then, resolve, with full knowledge of these things that those no longer with us, yet who, in far away places dreamed in solitude and in suffering, in agony and in death of a place called Ipswich; that this Ipswich, theirs and ours, shall be full worthy of them.
We, the Board of Selectmen of Ipswich, by virtue of the . will of our people, become official custodians of their sacred trust in all our people. Without this inspiration of those who went forth; those, who returned and those who will never return, this would be a heavy burden indeed. With this inspiration our common tasks are given new meaning and higher purpose.
It is in the light of this knowledge that this Board faces its obligation, now sacred, and makes its plans for a common future. Our returning soldiers are now our first citizens, and for them because they risked all, we are ready to do all to make our town measure up to their desires. -
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