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3,000.00
Expenditures : Balance to 1958
3,000.00
TOWN HALL CONSTRUCTION
Expenditures :
Available: Appropriation
1,650.00
Labor, Supplies & Equipment To Revenue
1,623.04
26.96
1,650.00
1,650.00
NORTH MAIN STREET RECONSTRUCTION
Available: Appropriation
3,000.00
Expenditures : Balance to 1958
3,000.00
CHAIN LINK FENCE - TURKEY SHORE ROAD
Available : Appropriation
1,500.00
Expenditures : Labor, Supplies & Equipment To Revenue
1,311.30
188.70
1,500.00
1,500.00
WARNER ROAD DRAINAGE
Available : Appropriation
850.00
Expenditures : Labor, Supplies & Equipment
850.00
ESSEX CANAL IMPROVEMENT & ADJACENT PARKING
Available: Appropriation
1,500.00
Expenditures : Balance to 1958
1,500.00
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DETAILED STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES (CONT.)
PLANS AND SURVEYS
TAX MAPS
Available:
Balance January 1
775.94
Expenditures : Outside Services
459.38
Balance to 1958 316.56
775.94
775.94
RECREATION
PATRIOTIC OBSERVANCES
Available :
Appropriation Memorial Day
750.00
To Revenue
626.55
Appropriation July 4th 500.00
1,250.00
1,250.00
CEMETERIES
Available :
Expenditures :
Salaries & Wages
20,061.09
Perpetual Care Income
2,553.03
Outside Services
183.50
Refunds
184.31
Communications
162.66
Supplies
475.15
Equipment Costs
856.87
Fuel & Utilities
250.82
Insurance
755.55
22,745.64
To Revenue
448.30
23,193.94
23,193.94
Expenditures : Memorial Day
623.45
Appropriation
20,456.60
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DETAILED STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES (CONT.)
CAPITAL EQUIPMENT
MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT
Available :
Expenditures :
Appropriation
18,905.00
Police Department
Police Signal Light 130.82 Special Police Work 2,000.00
From Highway Machinery Fund
3,500.00
2,338.32
Assessing Department Typewriter
227.50
Adding Machine
290.00
517.50
Accounting Department Adding Machine
290.00
Treasurer-Collector Check Protector
550.00
Cemetery Department Jeep Truck
2,210.92
Engineering Department Reproduction Equip. Plan File
204.10
120.00
324.10
Fire Department Automatic Stoker
731.00
Recreation Department Typewriter Stand
46.95
Playgrounds
Steel Lockers
145.16
Picnic Tables
187.00
332.16
Elections & Registrations Voting Booths 990.00
Public Works-Highway Truck 3,198.00
Sand & Stone Spreader
2,066.05
Road Sweeper
11,260.00
16,524.05
24,855.00
24,855.00
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From Sale of Cemetery Lots Fund
2,450.00
Typewriter 207.50
SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES
EDUCATION
Available :
Expenditures :
General Control 14,759.40
Receipts from Feoffees 5,000.00 of the Grammar Schools From Boiler Replacement Acct. 3,843.52
Expense of Instruction 311,393.89 School Plant Operations 38,805.80
From Manning School
Maintenance & Repairs
20,077.38
Refunds
350.39
Auxiliary Agencies 49,683.52
Capital Outlay 13,964.47
To Revenue
10,830.10
459,514.56
459,514.56
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BUILDING FUND
Available:
Balance January 1
12,709.90
Expenditures : Labor, Supplies & Equipment
Refunds
199.07
per contract
11,875.22
Balance to 1958 1,033.75
12,908.97
12,908.97
SCHOOL BUILDING COMMITTEE
Available:
Balance January 1
1,278.39
Expenditures: Miscellaneous
238.60
Balance to 1958
1,039.79
1,278.39
1,278.39
IPSWICH SCHOOL CAFETERIAS
Available:
Balance January 1
3,466.24 55,600.88
Expenditures : Lunch Expenses Balance to 1958
4,387.50
59,067.12
59,067.12
LIBRARY
Available : Appropriation
20,600.00
Expenditures : Outside Services
20,599.40
To Revenue
.60
20,600.00
20,600.00
ATHLETIC APPROPRIATION
Available :
Appropriation
5,969.40 547.76
To Revenue
6.37
6,517.16
6,517.16
ATHLETIC RECEIPTS
Available:
Balance January 1
318.57 3,010.59
Expenditures : Miscellaneous Balance to 1958
2,386.76
Receipts
942.40
3,329.16
3,329.16
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54,679.62
Receipts
Refunds
Expenditures : Miscellaneous
6,510.79
Grading Acct.
395.00
448,684.46
Appropriation 449,925.65
DETAILED STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES (CONT.) PURCHASE OF BAROWY PROPERTY
Available: Appropriation
22,000.00
Expenditures :
Purchase of Property 22,000.00
FEDERAL SCHOOL REIMBURSEMENT (PUBLIC LAW 874)
Available : Receipts
6,303.69
Expenditures : Miscellaneous
2,765.38
Balance to 1958
3,538.31
6,303.69
6,303.69
REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT PLANNING COMMITTEE
Available: Appropriation
500.00
Expenditures : Balance to 1958
500.00
TRUST FUNDS
R. T. CRANE JR. PICNIC FUND
Available: Receipts
1,282.71
Expenditures : Picnic Expenses
1,282.71
EUNICE CALDWELL COWLES FUND
Available: Receipts
300.00
Expenditures : Scholarship Awards
300.00
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DETAILED STATEMENT OF PAYMENTS
For the Year Ending December 31, 1957
Departmental Expenditures Federal Grants:
1,214, 047.26
Water Department:
Operations & Extensions
Welfare Administration
6,059.12
Water Standpipe & Pumping Station
84,192.30
Disability Assistance
6,562.92
190,418.66
60,428.28
State & County Requirements :
Maturing Debt
35,000.00
Parks & Reservations 1957
2,469.52
Interest on Maturing Debt
13,500.00
County Tax 1957
29,632.82
County Sanitorium Tax 1957
8,873.62
48,500.00
State Audit
1,837.62
42,813.58
Agency :
Refunds :
Real Estate 1955
25.00
Dog Licenses Collected for County
1,869.70
Real Estate 1956
564.80
Retirement Deductions
21,629.81
Real Estate 1957
1,396.00
Withholding Tax Deductions
92,365.01
Poll 1956
2.88
Blue Cross Deductions
12,852.45
Poll 1957
6.00
Personal 1957
568.75
M.V.X. 1956
919.79
M.V.X. 1957
24,399.47
Water Liens 1957
50.78
Trust Funds :
Cemetery Perpetual Care .
Bequests
2,325.00
Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund Income
1,676.25
R.T. Crane, Jr. Picnic Fund Expense
1,282.71
Martha I. Savory Fund
8.80
Treasury Bills
198,383.00
Eunice Caldwell Cowles Fund
615.65
New Elementary School
11,694.83
Fanny L. Appleton Memorial Fountain Fund
24.15
Mark Newman Memorial Fund
56.06
Mrs. Wm. G. Brown Animal Fund
35.00
Total Cash Payments
2,334.305.13
6,023.62
Mass. Shellfish Reimbursement
826.55
Electric Light:
Operations
358,411.53
Construction
7,941.27
Extending & Enlarging Electric Plant & System
35,934.69
402,287.49
Water
249.80
Interests & Costs
23.64
Meter Deposits & Interests
893.48
Donations
40.00
128,756.97
Electric Light
1,024.50
30,124.89
Old Age Assistance
47,806.24
106,226.36
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DETAILED STATEMENT OF CASH RECEIPTS
For the Year Ending December 31, 1957
Taxes:
Grants and Gifts: Federal:
Current Year: Poll
3,940.00
Welfare Administration
4,459.05
Personal
43,715.06
Aid to Dependent Children
2,062.24
Real Estate
685,210.68
Old Age Assistance Disability Assistance
11,228.19
732,865.74
82,371.52
Previous Years:
Poll
222.88
State:
Aid to Dependent Children
1,646.01
Real Estate
50,397.79
Old Age Assistance
64,968.39
Disability Assistance
9,101.86
Income Tax
69,588.97
Corporation Tax
44,254.67
Farm Animal Excise
156.89
Meals Tax
4,038.64
Lieu of Taxes
6,549.37
Privileges :
Vocational Education
553.89
Motor Vehicle Excise 1955
9.79
School Aid
12,992.07
Motor Vehicle Excise 1956
26,101.42
Public Welfare
2,655.21
Motor Vehicle Excise 1957
81,700.39
Aid to Highways
10,785.43
Veterans Services
6,746.11
Marine Fisheries
1,500.00
Educational Transportation
21,978.36
Civic Education
120.00
Special Assessments: Moth to Taxes
65.00
257,478.98
Licenses and Permits:
Liquor
10,465.00
County :
Hawkers & Peddlers
26.00
Aid to Highways
5.392.73
Pistol
66.50
Dog License Refund
1,545.46
Amusement
213.00
Auto Dealer
40.00
6,938.19
Cabin
4.50
Shellfish
2,525.00
Other:
Common Victualler
112.00
Feoffees of Grammar School
5,000.00
Garbage
8.00
Donations
40.00
Junk
40.00
W.R.C. for Memorial Bldg.
100.00
Methyl Alcohol
18.00
Old Age Recoveries
4,304.86
Milk, Cream & Oleo
89.00
Milk
1.00
9,444.86
Slaughtering
100.00 Trusts:
Theatre
60.00
R.T. Crane, Jr. Picnic Fund Expenses
1,282.71
Agents & Vendors
40.00
Cemetery Perpetual Care
1,676.25
Martha I. Savory Fund
8.80
Eunice Caldwell Cowles Fund
615.65
Fanny L. Appleton Fountain Fund
24.15
Mark Newman Memorial Fund
56.06
Mrs. Wm. G. Brown Fund
35.00
Executive Secretary:
Crane's Beach
6,852.53
3,698.62
Ipswich Housing
2,978.88
Town Farm Lease M.I.T.
2,500.00
Highways:
Sale of Scrap Metal
178.61
Highway Machinery
596.91
Town Property Rental(Great Neck) 100.00
Sidewalks
795.00
12,610.02
1,391.91
Nursery
6.00
Disposal Licenses
533.00
14.347.00
General Government:
64, 622.04
Personal
7,224.56
57.845.23
107,811.60
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DETAILED STATEMENT OF CASH RECEIPTS -- (Continued)
Town Clerk:
Cemeteries:
Miscellaneous Fees
948.50
Perpetual Care
1,975.00
22.00
Annual Care
636.00
Photostats Scale Receipts
23.70
Foundations, etc.
781.16
Dog Licenses
1,886.70
Internment Removal, etc.
4,031.00
2,880.90
7.423.16
Treasurer:
Perpetual Care Income Used by Cemeteries
2.553.03
Tax Certificates
72.00
Interest on Town Notes
2,650.89
Electric Light Department: Sales
431,801.33
Meter Dep. & Div.
1,152.74
5,878.08
432.954.07
Protection of Persons and Property:
Police Department:
Water Department:
Special Work
15,963.23
Sales
87.411.55
Ambulance
417.00
Liens
3,730.50
Bicycle Registrations
52.25
91,142.05
16.432.48
Education :
Civil Defense Reimbursement
380.40
Tuition
3.319.61
Ipswich School Cafeterias
55.600.88
Weights and Measures Fees
35.50
Miscellaneous
45.00
Athletic Receipts
3.010.59
Grounds and Buildings Spraying
111.00
61,976.08
Health and Sanitation:
217.14
Insurance Receipts
759.83
Garbage
181.00
Slaughter Inspection
609.65
Refunds:
Treasurer - Collector
30.36
Engineering
3.20
Fire
21.55
Recreation:
Dutch Elm
7.33
Use of Lighthouse
30.00
Weights & Measures
.30
Recreational Swimming
625.00
Health
70.87
Highway - Summer
53.33
Agency:
Dog Licenses for County
1,886.70
Veterans Services
110.00
Retirement Deductions
21,628.81
Elementary School
149.07
Withholding Deductions
92.365.01
Athletic Fund
6.00
Blue Cross
12,851.40
Teachers Annuities
15.00
Sale of Real Estate
7,639.60
Recreation
1.30
Electric Light
497.91
Sale of Town Property Pro Forma Tax
242.61
Water
25.00
Cemeteries
34.47
136,614.13
1,632.99
Miscellaneous Receipts
62.55
Treasury Bills
397.248.00
Federal School Reimbursement
6,303.69
Total Receipts
2,453.076.29
1,007.79
655.00
Old Age Assistance
501.00
Disability Assistance
106.30
Tuberculosis
3,077.79
Interest & Costs on Taxes
77.40
Tax Titles
83
COMPARATIVE TAX STRUCTURE STATEMENT
A. TotalaAppreprietaon to be Total Appropriation to be taken from available funds:
1956 1,089,317.31
1,191,532.12
90,691.07
150,448.52
1,180,008.38
1, 341,980.64
B. State Requirement:
Parks & Reservations Audit
1,522.05
1,837.62
Underestimated Previous Years: Parks & Reservations
753.31
Audit
Greenhead Fly Control
2,583.13
4,946.96
C. County Requirement :
Tax
25,060.34
24,775.56
T.B. Hospital
14,198.94
9,539.19
Underestimated T.B.Hospital
561.79
34,314.75
D. Overlay
26,882.30
25,804.23
E. Gross Amount to be Raised
1,249,294.88
1,407,046.58
F. Estimated Receipts & Available Funds :
State Income
95,562.20
113,175.20
Local Revenue
218,892.07
257,000.84
Water Revenue
56,766.00
79,304.00
Overestimates of Previous Years:
County Tax
434.74
State Parks T.B. Hospital
1,548.89
4,828.27
Surplus Revenue
80,691.07
146,948.52
Electric Light
15,000.00
Overlay Reserve Fund
10,000.00
Machinery Fund
3,500.00
Insurance Fund
Hurricane Relief
478,617.06
605,191.57
G. Net Amount to be Raised by Taxation:
Poll Tax
Personal Property
5,038.00 47,575.53 718,044.29
5,162.00 47,025.15 749,667.86
Real Estate
770,677.82
801,855.01
Gross Amount Raised
1,249,294.88
1,407,046.58
H. Assessed Valuation Real Estate Personal
11,046,825.00
11,533,345.00 723,461.00
731,926.00
11,778,751.00
12,256,806.00
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1957
1,061.08
2,356.03
County Tax
39,821.07
156,83
1956
1957
2,529
2,581
I. Tax Rate
$65.00
$65.00
STATEMENT OF 1957 ASSESSMENT
1957 Tax Rate
$65.00 per $1,000
Persons Assessed:
Personal Estate 679
Real Estate
2402
Personal and Real Estate 223
Total
3304
Polls Assessed ( Poll Tax)
2581
Value of Assessed Personal Estate:
Stock in Trade
190,920.00
Machinery
153,525.00
Live Stock
37,401.00
All other Tangible Personal Property
341,615.00
Farm Animal Excise
41,750.00
Total
765,211.00
Value of Assessed Real Estate:
Land exclusive of Buildings
2,116,116.00
Buildings exclusive of Land
9,417,229.00
Total
11,533,345.00
Total: Value of Assessed Personal
and Real Estate .
12,256,806.00
Total: Taxes Assessed for State, County
and Town Purposes, including Overlay 801,855.01
Farm Animal Excise
208.77
802,063.78
Number of Livestock Assessed:
Horses (1 year old, or over) 57
Cows (Milch) 300
Swine 31
Sheep
178
Fowl
3635
All other
404
Number of Acres of Land Assessed 17730
Number of Dwelling Houses Assessed 2553
85
No. of Polls
STATEMENT OF MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS DECEMBER 31, 1957 GLADYS M. POOLE, TREASURER
Date of Issue
Purpose
Rate
Date of Maturity
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1957
April
15, 1946
Extending Water Mains
1 1/4%
1958-1961
$ 6,400.00
October
1, 1949
Laying and Extending Water Mains
1 1/2%
1958-1959
2,000.00
September
1, 1954
Developing a New Well Field for Water Supply
1.30 %
1958-1964
21,000.00
September
1, 1956
Laying and relaying Water Mains
3
%
1958-1970
116,000.00
September
1, 1956
Stand Pipe and Pumping Station
3
%
1958-1975
99,000.00
December
1, 1951
Enlarging or Extending Electric Light Plant
1.40 %
1958-1961
28,000.00
September
1, 1954
Additions to Electric Light System
1.30 %
1958-1963
60,000.00
December
1, 1956
Extending and Enlarging Electric Light Plant
3 1/4%
1958-1975
175,000.00
October
1, 1955
New Elementary School
2 1/4%
1963-1975
260,000.00
October
1, 1955
New Elementary School Project, Act of 1948
2 1/4%
1958-1975
180,000.00
Total Bonded Debt
$1,072,400.00
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1958-1962
125,000.00
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF TRUST FUNDS IN CUSTODY OF TOWN TREASURER
Balance
Name of fund
Jan. 1, 1957
Bequests
Income
Withdrawals
Balance Dec. 31, 1957
Cemeteries
$88,492.98
$1,975.00
$3,830.95
$2,553.03
$91,745.90
Appleton Memorial Fountain
1,115.46
3.63
24.15
1,094.94
Eunice Caldwell Cowles
10,043.05
317.38
300.00
10,060.43
Mrs. William G. Brown
2,431.59
85.49
35.00
2,482.08
Dow Boulder Memorial
190.33
6.71
197.04
Marianna T. Jones
1,088.80
38.41
1,127.21
John C. Kimball
554.80
19.57
574.37
Mark Newman Memorial
5,366.15
188.48
56.06
5,498.57
Martha I. Savory
376.40
15.26
391.66
Stabilization
409.22
14.44
423.66
Post War Rehabilitation
1,791.50
63.23
1,854.73
Details of the above Trust Funds are available at the Town Treasurer's Office.
CHARLES E. GOODHUE, JR.
EDWARD J. MARCORELLE
GEORGE C. PARSONS
Trust Fund Commissioners
GLADYS M. POOLE
Town Treasurer
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TRUST FUNDS IN CUSTODY OF TRUSTEES
BURLEY EDUCATION FUND
Deposited in Salem Savings Bank
$1,242.50
Deposited in Salem Five Cents Savings Bank
1,103.07
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank
1,879.22
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank (Caldwell Fund)
2,167.90
Ipswich Co-operative Bank - Paid Up Certificate
1,000.00
$7.392.69
Income from funds for the year 1957 as follows:
Interest Salem Savings Bank
$ 39.41
Interest Salem Five Cents Savings Bank
43.59
Interest Ipswich Savings Bank
63.34
Interest Ipswich Savings Bank (Caldwell Fund)
73.91
Dividend Ipswich Co-operative Bank
30.63
$ 250.88
Expenditures:
Rent of Safe Deposit Box
$ 5.50
Net Income
$
245.38
Wilmot E. Hall, Treasurer
BROWN SCHOOL FUND -
Balance 6th February, 1957
Salem Five Cents Savings Bank Interest to February 3rd, 1958
69.40
Balance 3rd February, 1958
$2,143.04
Balance 6th February, 1957
1,878.62
Ipswich Savings Bank Interest to 3rd February, 1958
66.31
$1,944.93
J. Perry Smith, Treasurer
$2,073.64
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THE MANNING SCHOOL FUND
January 1, 1957 - Balance
Income from Interest and Dividends
$13,648.72 1,386.68
15,035.40
Less Expense, rental of Safe Deposit Box
5.50
Balance in Account No. 14,293, Ipswich Savings Bank
$15,029.90
Securities at Book Value:
64 shares First National Bank of Boston
$ 2,941. 04
10 shares Ipswich Co-operative Bank
2,000.00
9 shares Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. preferred
746.00
16 shares Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. common
554.00
$6,600 bonds Peoria & Eastern Rwy.
6,600.00
$11, 000 bonds U. S. Savings, Series G.
11,000.00
$23.841.04
Total Assets in Fund
$38,870.94
THE R. H. MANNING FUND
January 1, 1957 - Balance
$16.413.45
Income from Interest and Dividends
641.00
Balance in Account No. 7,885 Ipswich Savings Bank
$17,054,45
Securities at Book Value: 10 shares Ipswich Co-operative Bank
2,000.00
Total Assets in Fund
$19,054.45 M. Chas. Arthur, Treasurer
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RICHARD T. CRANE, JR. PICNIC FUND
In Custody of The New England Trust Co. and Town Treasurer
Balance, January 1, 1957
$32,417.52
Income
$ 1,494.87 5,000.00
Matured U. S. Treasury Bond
Increase in value of Stock
31.25
6,526.12
$38.943.64
Expenses :
Accrued Interest
$ 20.33
Agents Fee
132.00
School Picnic
1,282.71
Purchase of $5000. U. S. Treasury Bond
5.031.25
6,466,29 $32,477.35
Cash and Securities:
Book Value
$5,000. U S A Treas 4%
$ 5,031.25
5,000. U S A Treas Reg 22%
5,000.00
5 sh American Telephone & Telegraph
884.98
38 sh C I T Financial
902.58
50 sh Commonwealth Edison
1,672.51
20 sh Crown Zellerbach
1,149.81
10 sh Du Pont E I De Nemours
1,225.00
40 sh Fidelity Phenix Fire Insurance N Y
932.55
22 sh First National Bank of Boston
1,030.43
15 sh General Electric
908.27
20 sh General Motors
826.21
10 sh International Paper $4.00 Pfd
1,027.72
45 sh Niagara Mohawk Power
1,199.54
15 sh Pacific Lighting $4.50 Pfd
1,591.54
40 sh Phillips Petroleum
576.85
40 sh Standard Oil Co. of California
596.69
40 sh Tidewater Oil $1.20 Pfd
1,129.95
110 sh Virginia Electric & Power
947.45
30 sh Wisconsin Electric Power
27,630.83
On deposit in the Ipswich Savings Bank On deposit in The New England Trust Co.
4,178.12
668.40
$32,477.35
Charles E. Goodhue, Jr.
John F. Conley
Robert M. O' Kane
Gladys M. Poole
997.50
Trustees
90
LIBRARY TRUST FUNDS IPSWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY Trust Funds - 1957
Book Value
Market Value
Lower of Cost or Market
Income
Treadwell Fund
$16,544.24
$19,084.08
$14,891.63
$ 841.96
Heard Fund
8,670.25
11,243.82
8,579.64
442.70
Lathrop Fund
1,854.90
1,854.90
1,854.90
55.53
Spiller Fund
1,812.05
1,812.05
1,812.05
51.40
Newman Fund
2,828.12
2,828.12
2,828.12
84.52
Building Fund
105.70
105.70
105.70
3.59
Total 1957
$31,815.26
$36,928.67
$30,072.04
$ 1,479.70
Total 1956
31,690.89
37.035.24
31,083.92
1,465.94
Increase or (decrease)
$ 124.37
($ 106.57)
($ 1,011.88)
$ 13.76
91
FEOFFEES OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Financial Statement
Balance, January 1, 1957 Income, 1957
$ 9,073.15 41,660.78
50,733.93
Expenditures
44,177.64
Balance December 31, 1957
$ 6,556.29
Property held in Trust by the Feoffees December 31, 1957
Little Neck Valued at
Store Building
$16,500.00 10,000.00 6,556.29
Cash on hand or in First National Bank, Ipswich
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank
2,690.36
Interest earned on same 1957
94.98
2,785.34
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank, Farm Account
6,049.32
Interest earned on same 1957
213.57
6,262.89
Cost
Present Value
54 Shares First Nat. Bank, Boston
2,685.38
3,334.50
100 Shares Natl. Shawmut Bank, Boston
2,748.63
3,875.00
Ipswich Cooperative Bank paid up share Certificate
2,000.00
2,000.00
7,434.01
9,209.50
9,209.50
$51,314.02
$5,000. was paid to the Town for support of the schools.
The following taxes were paid to the Town:
Land
Assessed value
$17,000.00
$1,105.00
Store
Assessed value
6,000.00
390.00
Barn
Assessed value
300.00
19.50
Cottages
Assessed value
308,850.00
20,075.25*
$21,589.75
- This amount was prepaid to the Town by the Feoffees and in turn collected * from the individual owners of the cottages.'
92
Detailed Statement of Taxes Gladys M. Poole, Collector For year ending December 31, 1957
OUTSTANDING JAN. 1, 1957
COMMITMENTS
REFUNDS
COLLECTIONS
ABATEMENTS
TAX TITLES
OUTSTANDING DEC. 31, 1957
TAXES:
Poll 1957
$
$ 5,164.00
$ 6.00
$ 3,940.00
$ 1,068.00
$
$ 162.00
Personal 1957
47,025.15
568.75
43,715.06
692.90
3,185.94
Real Estate 1957
749,729.61
1,396.00
685,210.68
14,310.08
286.00
51,318.85
Poll 1956
270.00
2.88
222.88
50.00
Personal 1956
7,612.94
7,224.56
375.38
13.00
Real Estate 1956
54,159.44
455.00
37,330.01
469.75
74.75
16,739.93
Real Estate 1955
13,216.65
25.00
13,067.78
108.32
65.55
$75,259.03
$801,918.76
$2,453.63
$790,710.97
$17,074.43
$ 426.30
$71,419.72
MOTH: 1957
65.00
65.00
WATER LIENS ADDED TO TAXES:
1957
4,178.36
50.78
2,637.09
1,592.05
1956
2,943.57
637.79
2,305.78
1955
455.62
455.62
$ 3,399.19
$ 4,178.36
$ 50.78
$ 3,730.50
$ 3,897.83
MOTOR VEHICLE & TRAILER EXCISE:
(Dec.) 7,102.96
1957
89,709.67
1,708.20
81,700.39
6,209.48
10,610.96
1956
11,299.81
17,240.85
799.65
26,101.42
3,238.89
1955
9.79
9.79
$11,299.81
$114,063.27
$2,507.85
$107,811.60
$ 9,418.37
$10,610.96
FARM ANIMAL EXCISE: 1957
208.77 156.89
51.88
93
DETAILED STATEMENT OF DEPARTMENTAL ACCOUNTS
DEPARTMENT
OUTSTANDING JAN. 1, 1957
COMMITMENTS COLLECTIONS ABATEMENTS REFUNDS ADDED TO TAXES
OUTSTANDING DEC. 31, 1957
Cemetery
$ 225.75
$ 8,208.91
$ 7,423.16
$171.00
$
$
$ 840.50
Town Property
880.00
3,278.61
2,778.61
880.00
500.00
Disability Assistance
5,822.82
5,822.82
Police-Special
713.76
16,523.47
15,963.23
6.00
1,280.00
Police -- Ambulance
391.00
514.00
417.00
488.00
Veterans Services
6,746.11
6,746.11
Moth
165.00
620.05
50.00
115.00
620.05
Sidewalk
795.00
795.00
Health
527.57
608.79
1,007.79
128.57
Highway
127.25
5.76
5.76
127.25
Highway Machinery
94.25
1,157.25
698.91
9.00
543.59
Public Welfare
2,369.97
1,118.22
2,567.22
920.97
Aid to Dependent Children
688.40
1,334.39
1,646.01
376.78
Old Age Assistance
1,725.23
64,342.74
64,968.39
660.02
439.56
Education
1,190.00
2,346.61
3,464.61
72.00
Disability Assistance Adm.
279.00
279.00
94
WATER DEPARTMENT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Balance Sheet - December 31, 1957
Fixed Assets:
Liabilities : Appropriation from Tax
Engineering Land
8,219.12
New Well System
53,041.67
24,083.03
Pumping Station
17,830.39
Reservoirs & Stand Pipes
97,408.73
39.338.91
Storage Basin
27,693.59
Notes Payable
244,400.00
Distribution Reservoir
17,827.56
Premium on Notes
1,403.00
Bull Brook Reservoir
50,476.43
Departmental Building
2,367.97
Total Liabilities
309,224.94
Store House
178.70
Pumps & Pumping Equip.
6,607.02
Purification System
3,050.86
Surplus:
Pipe Lines & Distribution Mains
449,580.87
Service Pipes
141,911.40
Profit & Loss
122,066.05
Meters
13,173.37
Hydrants
1,438.98
Office Equipment
299.45
Shop Equipment
2,834.01
Transportation Equip.
16,143.13
Misc. Equipment
7,241.00
926,638.96
Less: Reserve for
Depreciation
335.768.16
Net Plant Investment
590,870.80
Current Assets :
Cash - Operating
22,338.28
Cash - Construction
10,149.09
Standpipe & Pumping Station Cash
10,054.88
Cash - Well Construction
1,211.16
Accounts Receivable
18,444.85
Materials & Supplies
27,630.20
Total Current Assets
89,828.46
Ipswich Water Dept.
Property Account
249,408.27
9,314.71
Levy for Note Payments and Construction Appropriation from Light Dept. for Construction
680,699.26 Total Liabilities & Surplus 680,699.26 Total Assets
95
WATER DEPARTMENT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
PROFIT AND LOSS STATEMENT For the Year Ending December 31, 1957
Income :
Expenses
Metered Sales
69,973.99
Operating Expenses:
Maint. Water Supply Structures
35.50
Electricity Purchased
4,533.95
Maint. of Pumping Equip.
974.03
Purification Supplies &
Expenses
365.07
Inspection of Customers' Installations
3,519.57
General Labor
8,942.76
Maint. of Mains
3,661.95
Maint. of Services
7,211.16
Maint. of Meters
2,773.86
Maint. of Hydrants
1,670.24
Total Operating
33,688.09
Administrative Expenses:
General Office Salaries
3,240.00
General Office Supplies & Expenses
812.40
Insurance
1,356.02
Transportation Expense
1,737.64
Maint.ofGen. Structures
423.81
Misc. General Expense
822.71
Depreciation
17,841.36
Pensions
769.86
Total Administrative
27,003.80
Total Expenses
60,691.89
Profit for 1957
26,616.33
Net Revenue
87,308.22
87.308.22
Flat Rate Sales
12,759.50
Sale of Services
1,717.00
Sale of Supplies
13,170.84
97,621.33
Less: Interest on Notes 7.347.00 Abatements 2,966.11 10.313.11
96
ELECTRIC DEPARTMENT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Balance Sheet - December 31, 1957
Current Assets :
Cash Operating
28,524.90
Notes Payable
263,000.00
Cash Construction
1,696.80
Consumers Deposits
10,292.54
Depreciation Cash 43,079.14
Interest Accrued
766.62
Bal. Bond Receipts Cash
7,710.10
Cash Consumers Deposits
12,203.35
Accounts Receivable
26,078.40
Inventory Materials and Supplies
20,145.08
Inventory Fuel Oil
6,767.52
Inventory Lub Oil
377.85
146,583.14
Other Assets:
Land
841.20
Structures
78,706.88
Fuel System
9,165.75
Internal Combustion Engines
797,611.55.
Auxiliaries
34,355.42
Electric Plant
27,399.07
Transformer Station Equip.
56,963.76
Poles, Fixtures, and Overhead Conductors
281,774.11
Underground Conductors
10,903.59
Consumers Meters
60,803.92
Consumers Meter Installations
1,291.48
Line Transformers
104,752.67
Transformer Installation
1,091.64
Street Lighting Equip.
26,206.15
Engineering & Superintendence
4,178.68
Office Equipment
2,734.40
Transportation Equip.
15,739.78
Laboratory Equip.
366.08
1,514,886.13
Less Reserve for Depreciation
509,148.40
1,005,737.73
Total Assets
1,152,320.87
Total Liabilities & Surplus
1,152,320.87
Premium on Bonds
813.82
274,872.98
Surplus :
Loans Repayment
319,000.00
Approp. for Construction
1,511.06
Repayment Profit & Loss
556,936.83
877,447.89
Liabilities :
97
ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS PROFIT AND LOSS STATEMENT For the Year Ending December 31, 1957
Sales:
Expenditures:
Domestic Sales
209,755.04
Operating Expenses:
Commercial Sales
161,277.72
Engine Labor
51,968.50
Sales to Other Utilities
42,198.60
Engine Fuel
133.531.49
Municipal Sales
21,163.18
Lubricants
6,380.85
Miscellaneous Revenue
22,718.46
Sta. Supplies & Exp.
5,256.17
Maint. Station Structures
283.14
Maint. of Fuel System
169.82
Maint. of Engines
5,727.29
Maint. of Accessory Equip.
889.67
Less:
Discounts
23,971.92
Abatements
1,887.79
25,859.71
Distribution:
Insp. & Test Meters
2,060.52
Remove & Reset Meters
2,111.36
Remove & Reset Transformers
595.64
Maint. of Lines
45,240.92
Operation of Street Lamps
1,562.77
Total Distribution
51,571.21
Administration:
Commercial Salaries
7.371.48
Salaries of Gen. Officers
6,400.00
Other Gen. Office Salaries
5.931.74
Gen. Office Supplies & Exp.
2,714.40
Insurance
6,744.74
Pensions
769.86
Transportation Expense
1,962.48
Maint. of Gen. Structures
142.24
Misc. General Expense
128.40
Depreciation
43.079.14
Total Administrative
75,244.48
Interest on Notes
7,487.98
Total Expenditures
338,510.60
Profit for 1957
93,130.95
431,641.55
431,641.55
Int. Rec. on Consumers Dep.
388.26
457.501.26
Total Generating
204,206.93
98
IPSWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY
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DEDICATION PAGE REPORTS Board of Selectmen
Executive Secretary
Departmental Finance
Assessing
Legal
Health
6
Reading Supervisor 41
Purchasing
8
Audio-Visual Director
43
Planning
9
Opportunity Class Director
44
Records
9
Town Meetings & Elections
10
Guidance Director 45
School Health 46
School Calendar 49
Statistic Data 48
Personnel 13
Engineering
14
Shellfish
15
Public Library
15
Fire
17 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Police
18
Balance Sheet 56
Water
20
Consolidated Expenditures 59
24 Detailed Expenditures 63
Electric
21
Comparative Tax Structure 84
1957 Assessments 85
Municipal Indebtedness 86
Trust Funds 87
Detailed Taxes 93
SCHOOL REPORT
School Committee
28
Superintendent's Report
29
2 High School Principal 31
3 Administrative Assistant 33
5
Burley & Shatswell School
34
6 Winthrop School 36
6
Music Supervisor
38
6 Art Supervisor 39
Veterans' Services
10
Recreation
11
Welfare
13
High School Graduates 50
The Staff 51
School Salary Schedule
53
Forestry
Highway
23
Sanitation
24
Cemetery
24
LIST OF JURORS
25
Water Department
95.
Electric Department 97
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE TOWN OF IPSWICH AT YOUR SERVICE
A handy Check-List and Directory of Often-Used Town Services Emergency - FIRE POLICE AMBULANCE 237 237 137
HOSPITAL 320
SERVICE
DEPARTMENT
PHONE
Administration, General
Executive Secretary
241
Assessments (Taxes)
Assessors
176
Bicycle Licenses
Police
237
Bills and Accounts
Treasurer
92
Birth Certificates
Town Clerk
318
Burial Permits
Town Clerk
318
Business Certificates
Town Clerk
318
Cemeteries
Cemetery Division
634-W
Cemetery Deeds
Cemetery Division
634-W .
Death Certificates
Health Department
896
Dog Licenses
Town Clerk
318
Elections
Registrars of Voters
318
Electric
Electric Department
140
Employment
Executive Secretary
241
Engineering
Engineering Department
933
Entertainment Licenses
Selectmen
241
Town Clerk
318
Fire Department
137
Garbage Collection
Public Works Department
466
Health
Home for Aged and Infirm
Welfare Department
621
Housing
Housing Authority
1464-W
Library
Public Library
834
Licenses (General)
Selectmen
241
Light Department (Office)
140
Lighting Department (Plant)
139
Town Engineer
933
Town Clerk
318
Milk Inspection
Health Department
896
Mortgages, Personal Property
Town Clerk
318
Mortgages, Real Estate
Assessors
176
Moth Protection
Moth Division
1181
Municipal Pensions
Treasurer
92
Municipal Finances
Accountant
553
Old Age Assistance
Welfare Department
621
Ordinance, Town
Town Clerk
318
Parks
Park Division
1247
Planning
Planning Board
919-M
Playgrounds
Playground Division
1247
Purchasing
Executive Secretary
241
Recreation
Recreation Directors
1247
Treasurer
92
Rubbish Collection
Public Works Department
466
School Department (Supt.)
34
High School
34
Burley
367-R
Shatswell
367-W
Winthrop
35
Nurse
186
Sewers
Health Department
896
Shellfish
Clam Commissioner
1101-R
Shellfish, Licenses
Police Department
237
Streets, Maintenance
Highway Division
466
Subdivisions
Planning Board
919-M
Collector
92
Trees
Grounds Division
1181
Health Department
896
Veterans' Agent
318
Registrars of Voters
140
Water
Water Division (Office)
139
Water Division (Plant) Sealer
896
Welfare Department
621
Wire Inspector
140
Health Department
896
Lights, Street
Maps
Marriage Certificates
Schools
Tax Collections
Tuberculosis Hospital
Veterans' Benefits
318
Voting, Registration
Weights & Measures Welfare Wiring Inspector
Retirement
Fishing & Hunting Licenses
Fuel Oil Storage
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