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105.18
Nahum W. Tribou
75.00
83.68
Nathan H. Vaughn
100.00
114.32
Nancy Warner
100.00
115.00
Warren Lot No. 1
50.00
53.33
Hannah C. Warren
50.00
52.91
C. P. Washburn
100.00
121.24
Philander Washburn
100.00
118.20
Thomas Waterman
100.00
113.57
Thomas Weston
150.00
226.00
B. P. Wood
100.00
145.35
Cornelius B. Wood
150.00
234.73
Ellen T. Wood
100.00
143.06
Julia M. Wood
100.00
135.94
Nelson & Albert Wood
100.00
126.45
Priscilla Wood
50.00
59.38
Thomas Wood
100.00
141.63
Cemetery at the Green
Atwood Lot
100.00
105.06
Barrett Breck lot
100.00
102.63
Ira Bryant
100.00
115.45
Rebecca Bryant
100.00
111.14
Jennie M. Carpenter
100.00
106.07
Joseph Clark et al
100.00
119.08
Nelson Cobb
75.00
79.33
Julia H. Copeland
1000.00
1164.11
Joseph F. & Chas. T. Cornish
100.00
102.63
Orion Deane
100.00
117.06
Andrew Freeman
100.00
107.27
Thomas Gammons
100.00
112.68
Branch Harlow
100.00
167.83
Stephen Harlow
100.00
118.86
189
Ira O. Littlejohn
50.00
52.70
Osamos Littlejohn
100.00
110.66
Seth Miller
300.00
365.42
Thompson Miller
50.00
52.30
James Gilbert Nichols
50.00
53.89
William Pratt
100.00
105.90
Mrs. Darius Smith
100.00
110.59
Ira Smith
100.00
106.74
Augustus Soule
100.00
128.10
J. H. & I. H. Thompson
100.00
221.30
Gustavus L. Swift
200.00
218.74
Ichabod Thomas
100.00
106.71
Lydia R. Thompson
100.00
156.61
Philander Thompson
100.00
105.43
Ruel Thompson
100.00
108.34
R. Francis Thompson
100.00
101.67
H. N. Wilbur
100.00
110.34
David Wood
100.00
131.75
Julia M. Wood and Caroline
Robbins
50.00
60.32
Rock Cemetery
Charles N. Atwood
100.00
131.16
Deborah Carver
100.00
190.74
Harvey W. Carver
200.00
232.85
Maria F. Chace
100.00
137.04
Julia S. Cobb
100.00
132.60
Dr. Samuel Cobb
45.00
57.08
Sylvester F. Cobb
100.00
202.21
Charles F. Cushman
176.75
308.55
D. B. Cushman
100.00
104.11
Jacob Cushman
50.00
50.04
Mary B. Keith
75.00
123.06
Seth Morton
150.00
170.75
Issac Perkins
150.00
196.51
Phoebe Pierce
50.00
53.86
N. Horace Ryder
100.00
114.73
Joanna S. Ryder
100.00
104.19
190
George W. Sherman
50.00
54.02
A. J. Smith
50.00
54.07
Israel Smith and Nath. F. Ryder
100.00
106.05
Ephriam H. Thomas
75.00
98.83
Thomas & Barrows
1000.00
2269.74
Winchester Lot
100.00
111.74
Jane A. Wood
18.44
20.13
St. Mary's Cemetery
Julia Broderick
100.00
105.38
Honora Creedon
100.00
147.40
T. D. Creedon
100.00
101.67
Timothy F. Creedon
100.00
111.44
Andrew Cronan
200.00
214.21
Daniel Hallisey
100.00
122.84
Hannah Fagan
50.00
51.46
George Jeffers
500.00
852.59
Jeremiah Lynch
100.00
109.94
Ellen McCarthy
75.00
85.16
Eugene S. McCarthy
100.00
118.25
Edmund S. Russell
100.00
114.21
Thomas B. Sheehan
100.00
109.34
Hannah Sullivan
100.00
121.49
Patrick Sullivan
100.00
106.13
John Walsh
50.00
54.40
North Middleborough Cemetery
Earl Henry Cushman
100.00
134.75
Oliver Eaton
100.00
130.11
Oliver Eaton
100.00
134.74
Richard Hawes & David Alden
500.00
587.29
Sumner Keith
100.00
142.99
A. W. & Justin Leonard
100.00
111.97
Levi Morse
100.00
112.16
Jared Pratt
150.00
248.11
Zebulon Pratt
250.00
286.77
Waldron & Barrows
150.00
254.69
Cora A. Whitmarsh
200.00
236.45
191
Thomastown Cemetery Care of Cemetery
260.00
491.24
Atwood Lot Levi of Taunton
100.00
274.35
Atwood Lot by Betsey Kinnicutt
100.00
152.15
Asa & Clarinda Shaw
100.00
184.20
Eleazer Thomas
100.00
203.99
Josiah H. Thomas
100.00
134.41
Col. Stephen Thomas
50.00
67.36
Marcia E. Thurston
50.00
60.30
T. T. Vaughan
100.00
106.34
South Middleborough Cemetery
Gamaliel Cushing
30.00
31.89
J. L. Feltch
100.00
105.90
Samuel N. Gammons
100.00
110.61
Ephraim A. Hunt
50.00
54.52
W. O. & S. T. LeBaron
50.00
55.42
Nathaniel F. Shurtleff
200.00
218.68
John E. Smith
50.00
54.52
John & Henry Thomas
50.00
55.24
John Tinkham
50.00
54.52
Angie W. Tripp
100.00
108.74
Purchade Cemetery
Andrew L. Alden
50.00
86.66
David Alden
100.00
120.56
Joseph Dyer
100.00
108.99
Lysander Richmond
100.00
192.53
Sachem Street Cemetery
Gammons Lot
50.87
107.02
Thomas Smith
50.00
72.81
Almeda E. Thomas
50.00
95.62
Summer Street Cemetery
Jonathan T. Washburn
200.00
337.31
Fall Brook Cemetery
Atwood & Thomas Lot
200.00
253.43
Joshua A. Bishop
100.00
120.97
Marion Road Cemetery
Isaac & Lydia Cushman
100.00
150.58
192
Wappanucket Cemetery James Cole
100.00
102.25
Benjamin Richmond
400.00
555.18
Cemetery-Taunton Avenue Albert Thompson Mason
100.00
109.72
Highland St. Cemetery Hannah E. Sherman
100.00
100.25
Pierce Cemetery G. N. Kern
20.00
20.83
Gilbert Pierce Cemetery on Marion Road.
Care of same
75.00
75.00
REPORT OF THE TOWN ACCOUNTANT For the Year ending December 31st, 1928
Receipts
Disbursements General Government Town Manager
Taxes
Levy of Current Year
Polls, Personal & Real Estate
253,998.17
Levy of Previous Years
Polls, Personal & Real Estate
77,019.47
Other Expenses
From State
Stationery & Postage
58.21
Corporation
9,995.55
Printing & Advertising
7.97
Income
42,990.00
Transportation
432.31
Bank
2,079.68
Telephone
49.40
Soldiers Exemption
289.76
Office Supplies
48.56
Reimbursement Loss of Taxes
73.65
Bonds
12.50
Insurance
28.90
All Other
85.31
Total Town Manager 5,973.16
Town Clerk & Accountant
Alcohol
16.00
Junk
100.00
Salary
2,350.00
Pedlars
75.00
Other Expenses
24.10
Pool, Billiards & Bowling
4.00
Printing & Advertising
20.58
Milk
35.00
New Adding Machine
125.00
Marriage
65.00
All Other
53.43
All Other
753.25
Total Licenses & Permits
$1,080.25 Total Clerk & Accountant
2,573.11
Receipts-fees
1,300.24
Net Cost
1,272.87
193
Licenses & Permits
Salaries & Wages
Manager Clerk
4,500.00 750.00
Total Taxes
$386,446.28
Sunday
32.00
Stationery & Postage
Fines & Forfeits
Town Treasurer & Collector
Court fines 1,346.25
Total Fines & Forfeits
1,346.25
Salaries & Wages
Treasurer & Collector
1,500.00
Grants & Gifts
Assistant Collector 750.00
Clerical Assistants
56.30
From County-Dog licenses 2,369.12
Other Expenses
685.00
Stationery & Postage
363.14
Special Assessments
Printing & Advertising
214.88
Moth Extermination
363.14
Sidewalks
1617.56
Total Special Assessments
1,980.70 Total Treasurer & Collector
3,783.97
Receipts-Collectors costs 134.20
Net Cost
3,649.77
Departmental
General Government
134.20
Salaries & Wages
1,212.50
Clerk
1,002.00
Clerical Assistants
78.70
Other Expenses
Printing, Advertising & Postage
318.26
Transportation
439.10
Office Supplies
52.39
All Other
29.92
Total Assessors 3,132.87
194
Assessors
Collector
Clerk
254.99
Assessors
Town Hall
676.99
1,066.18
Total General Government
2,369.12
Bonds
Total Grants & Gifts
131.17
Office Supplies All Other 83.48
Law Dept.
Town Counsel 700.00
Moderator
Salary 25.00
Election & Registration
Salaries & Wages
300.00
Registrars Election Officers 504.50
Other Expenses New Voting Booths
208.96
Printing & Advertising
193.24
All Other
56.10
Total Election & Registration 1,262.80
Town Hall
Salary & Wages
Agent & Janitor
1,300.00
Assistant
14.00
Other Expenses
Fuel
471.04
Light
558.72
Repairs
759.48
Insurance
812.50
Water
14.06
Telephone
366.41
All Other
50.91
Total Town Hall
4,347.12
Receipts
676.99
Net Cost
3,670.13
Total General Government
21,798.03
195
Protection of Persons & Property
Police Dept.
600.00
All Other
5.35
Total Police Dept.
605.35
Protection of Persons & Property Police Dept.
Salaries & Wages
2 200.00
Patrolmen
5,100.00
Sergeant
1,791.50
Special Police
1,990.75
Janitor & Fireman
210.00
Other Expenses
Transportation
601.00
Equipment & Repairs
104.92
Fuel
175.37
Light
98.27
Printing, Stationery & Postage
25.70
Telephone
225.70
Rent
716.67
All Other, inl. road markings
213.46
Total Police Dept.
13,453.34
Receipts
1,951.60
Net Cost
11 501.74
Fire Dept.
Salaries & Wages
Chief
500.00
Permanent Men
11,008.00
Call Men
5,371.82
Supt. Fire Alarm
350.00
Equipment & Repairs
Hose
1,960.00
Apparatus
1,878.55
Alarm Boxes etc.
34.88
196
Fire Dept. Thomas Peirce Trustees 73.67
Rent
Chief
Sealer of Weights & Measures
Fees 193.54
Fuel & Light Fuel Light & Power
453.33 514.41
Maintenance of Building
Water
32.30
Repairs
132.99
Furniture & Furnishings
70.11
Laundry Work
94.65
All Other
82.19
Other Expenses
Stationery, Printing & Postage
36.50
Telephone
57.15
All Other
42.17
To al Fire Dept.
22,619.05
Receipts
410.15
Net Cost
22,229.77
Inspection of Wiring
Salary-Inspector
229.75
Expense-Transportation
82.20
Total Inspection of Wiring
311.95
Sealer of Weights & Measures
Salary-Sealer 1,015.00
Other Expenses Transportation 455.40
Telephone 38.11
197
Gypsy & Brown Tail Moth
Extermination
1,266.51
Sale of Lead
56.08
Total Moth
1,322.59
Printing, Stationery & Postage
1.00
Telephone ·
48.74
Insecticides
610.99
Hardware & Tools
187.39
Transportation
672.34
Repairs Sprayers
1,138.90
Insurance
124.44
All Other 45.36
Total Moth Extermination
5,097.40
Receipts
1,685.73
Net Cost
3,411.67
Planting & Trimming Trees
Wages 308.52
Other Expenses
Hardware & Tools 27.60
All Other 28.89
Total Planting & Trimming Trees 365.01
198
New Equipment All Other 48.48
62.42
Total Sealer Weights & Measures
1,619.41
Receipts
193.54
Net Cost
1,425.87
Gypsy & Brown Tail Moth Extermination
2,268.24
Wages
Other Expenses
Forest Fires
Outside Fires
336.48
Wages Other Expenses Apparatus All Other
348.28
290.93
16.28
Total Forest Fires
655.49
Dog Officer
Salary
175.00
Other Expenses
10.00
Total Protection of Persons & Property
2 531.63
Health & Sanitation
Health & Sanitation Health Dept.
Health Dept.
Contagious Diseases
543.74
General Administration
1,300.00
Tuberculosis
1,010.49
Agent
1,000.00
Stationery & Postage
12.40
Sanitation
Sewer Services
357.13
Telephone
35.15
All Other
171.55
Quarantine & Contagious Diseases
Drugs & Medicines
57.02
Hospitals
138.00
Ambulance
20.00
Tuberculosis
Board & Treatment
3,999.23
Plymouth County Hospital
3,441.16
Vital Statistics
Births 52.25
Deaths
28.00
199
All Other
25.00
Nurse
45.94
Printing & Advertising
185.00
Total Dog Officer Total Protection of Persons & Property 44,306.65
Forest Fires
Other Expenses Fumigation & Disinfectant
6.50*
Transportation
943.45
St. Lukes Hospital
500.00
District Nurse
500.00
Street Cleaning All Other
64.83
Inspection
School Children
Physician
400.00
Nurse
500.00
Animals
Inspector
250.00
Milk
Inspection
145.25
Expenses
92.22
Total Health
14,826.15
Sewer Maintenance
Labor
959.12
Pipe & Fittings
221.61
All Other
7.29
Total Sewer
1,188.02
Refuse & Garbage
Labor
2,435.61
Teams & Auto
512.00
Equipment
60.00
Total Refuse & Garbage
3,007.61
Total Health & Sanitation
19,021.78
Receipts
1,936.36
Net Cost 17 085 42
200
Total Health & Sanitation 1,936.36
1,123.20
Highways
Sale of Old Materials Marion Road & Smith St. Comm. of Mass. County of Plymouth All Other 239.80
Highways
29.16
General
2,015.36
Labor
2,702.92
Teams & Trucks
5,432.88
Stone & Gravel
1,804.42
Equipment & Repairs
4,662.20
Insurance
1,536.27
Water
78.47
Telephone
31.55
Street Signs
107.50
Fuel
176.41
Release of Right of Way
51.00
Supplies
166.27
All Other
155.74
Street Patching
3,473.00
Street Scraping
854.33
Street Oiling
6,550.06
Graveling
10,174.52
So. Middleboro Patrol
2,995.47
Mowing Brush
1,838.73
Bridges
658.95
Marion Rd. & Smith St.
4,804.99
New Trucks
1,650.00
Everett Square
4,488.39
Gravel Crusher
5,130.68
Total Highway
61,540.11
Sidewalks & Curbing
Maintenance
529.51
Construction
2,926.47
Total Sidewalks & Curbing
3,455.98
201
Total Highways
5,068.46
Salary Supt.
1,500.00
3,299.50
Snow & Ice Removal Labor New Snow Plow All Other
$1,586.38 400.00 9.90
Total Snow & Ice Removal 1,996.28
Total Highways
Receipts
1,986.52
Net Cost
65,005.85
Public Welfare Dept.
Reimbursements from
Individuals
399.75
Cities & Towns
2,592.93
State
1,905.42
Mothers Aid-State
1,727.88
Medical Attendance
200.00
Cash Aid
16,515.44
Sale of Produce
3,063.37
Board at Farm
2,931.05
Use Team & Truck
512.00
State
3,220. 60
Mothers Aid by
Town
7,459.50
State
47.00
Total Welfare Dept. Almshouse
31,320.21
Salaries & Wages Supt.
1,200.00
Other Employes
2,398.69
Other Expenses Groceries & Provisions 3,129.20 Dry Goods & Clothing 202.64
66,992.37
Public Welfare Dept.
General Administration
Salaries-Overseers
617.50
Office Supplies 69.19
Outside Relief by Town
202
Almshouse
Relief by
Other Towns
3,190.98
All Other
38.05
Farm Expenses 5,088.87 1,025.55 Fuel & Light Hay & Grain 1,724.98
Total Almshouse 14,769.93
13,170.45 Total Dept. Public Welfare Receipts 13,170.45
Net Cost
32,919.69
Soldiers Benefits
State Aid Military Aid
524.00 96.00
State Aid
438.00
Military Aid
292.00
Soldiers Burials
164.50
Soldiers Relief
Fuel
215.23
Medical Attendance
300.00
Cash Aid
1,480.00
Total Soldiers Benefits
620.00 Total Soldiers Benefits Receipts 620.00
2,889.73
Net Cost
2,269.73
School Dept.
Tuition Sale of Books & Supplies Comm. of Mass. Vocational School
9,143.69
7.52
323.29
General Salaries & Wages Supt. 4,000.00
46,090.14
Soldiers Benefits
203
Schools & Library School Dept.
Total Public Welfare
Sale of Property All Other 98.77
Included in State Income Tax is $17,890. 00 for School Dept.
Supervisors Music & Drawing 3,470.00 Other Expenses
Truant Officer
30.00
Printing, Stationery & Postage
400.92
Telephone
145.63
Traveling Expenses
477.20
School Census
100.00
Office Equipment
175.35
All Other
149.05
Teachers Salaries
High
29,956.69
Elementary
48,471.65
Text Books & Supplies
High-books
1,604.07
Elementary-books
3,689.73
High-supplies
481.09
Elementary-supplies
1,934.07
Tuition
High
66.66
Elementary
671.54
Evening
93.60
Transportation
High
2,780.60
Elementary
11,431.56
Janitors Services
High
1,923.68
Elementary
4,960.58
Fuel & Light
1,902.28
High
Elementary
3,712.42
204
250.00
Maintenance of Buildings High repairs
1,207.42 80.67
High-janitors supplies
216.58
Elementary-repairs
3,066.45
Elementary-janitors supplies
201.73
Elementary-all other
300.10
Furniture & Furnishings High 474.24
Elementary
372.59
Other Expenses
Diplomas, Graduation exercises
130.17
Insurance
1,616.00
All Other
59.88
Total School Dept.
130,354.20
Receipts
27,713.27
Net Cost
102,640.93
Library
$362.36
Salaries & Wages
Librarian
1,300.00
Assistants
2,440.67
Janitor
600.00
Janitor Assistant
113.75
Fuel & Light
Fuel
402.18
Light
282.11
Building
Repairs
224.88
Furniture & Furnishings
57.98
Insurance
512.90
All Other
30.46
205
Library
Fines All Other
43.50
High-all other
Total School Dept. 9,823.27
Other Expenses
Stationery, Printing & Postage
264.51
Telephone
33.15
Supplies
150.13
40.00
Traveling Expense All Other
90.57
405.86 Total Library Receipts
6,543.29
2,774.98
Net Cost Total Schools & Library
136,897.49
Recreation & Unclassified
Recreation & Unclassified
Pensions
936.52
Bounty on Wild-cat
10.00
G. A. R.
200.00
Memorial Day Rent
283.33
Town Reports & Incidentals
816.85
Bus Waiting Room
300.75
Miller St. Land Damages
688.60
Street Lighting
4,999.90
Plymouth County Aid to Agriculture
250.00
Town Forests
173.94
Old Fire Station
107.99
Band Concerts
292.81
Painting Town Hall
1,000.00
Fire Alarm Repeater
3,438.36
New Pumping Unit
10,500.00
New Fire Station
677.22
206
Play-ground, rental 27.50
Parking Space, sale of
material
24.00
Old Fire Station, rental
60.00
Total Library
3,768.31
Painting High School 346.53 173.68 New High School-final acct. High School-Walks & Grading 2,000.00
Total Unclassified
$111.50 Total Recreation & Unclassified Receipts Net Cost
27,196.48
111.50
27,084.98
Municipal Enterprises Water Dept.
Administration
Salary-Collector
200.00
Salary-Assistant
100.00
Salary-Clerk
450.00
Printing & Advertising
14.75
Telephone
161.05
Fuel & Light
53.93
Insurance
254.30
All Other
101.52
General
Labor
5,052.60
Transportation
228.30
Pipe & Fittings
263.54
Meters & Fittings
629.41
Pumping Station
Engineers
3,751.00
Filters
1,559.31
33.70
Oil Waste & Packing Coal & Power
3,671.80
Repairs Buildings
288.97
Municipal Enterprises Water Dept.
Sale of Water Repairs Construction
21,397.91
737.48
158.19
207
All Other 94.32
Construction Pipe & Fittings 1.002.72
17,911.22
Total Water Receipts 22,293.58
Less Pay'ts. Bonds & Int.
3,200.00
19,093.58
Net Profit
1,182.36
Electric Light Dept.
Administration
Manager
2,000.01
Clerks
2,385.09
Collector & Assistant
917.08
Office Supplies
109.50
Stationery & Postage
526.48
Printing & Advertising
230.20
Transportation, incl. new car
5,421.07
Telephone 152.08
Station
Employes
4,941.94
Repairs to Plant
719.48
Repairs to Real Estate
1,177.25
Oil & Waste
67.63
Tools
218.77
Purchase of Energy
36,020.57
Repairs Water Plant
12.00
General
Care of Lights
1,047.11
8,113.04
Repairs of Lines Carbons
69.01
Total Water
22,293.58
Electric Light Dept.
Sale of Electricity
102,257.81
Miscellaneous
852.24
208
Insurance Reading Meters Repairs Meters Distr. Tools & Equip. 5,142.39
1,113.01 1,100.89 413.03
Construction
Underground Lighting 58,459.09
Brockton High Tension 667.39
Office Equipment 12.00
Meters & Transformers
2,281.21
Electric Lines
13,133.78
Installing Meters
301.81
Street Light Equip.
1,762.47
Conduits
291.03
Conductors
220.29
Total Electric Light Dept. 103,110.05
Total Electric Light Dept. 149,026.70
Gas Dept. 209
Gas Dept.
Sale of Gas
40,002.11
Administration
Manager
999.99
Clerks
1,193.79
Collector & Assistant 458.54
Office Supplies
56.56
Stationery & Postage
263.57
Printing & Advertising
112.95
Transportation, including new car
477.24
Telephone 76.03
Station
Employes
2,643.25
Repairs to Plant
27.74
Repairs to. Real Estate
328.30
Oil & Waste
1.00
Water & Wood
76.00
General
Mains & Services
1,494.99
Meter Repairs 129.28
Maintenance Tools & Equip. 41.79
Gas Stoves & Appliances
1,770.06
Reading Meters
550.39
Jobbing Labor
182.24
Purchase of Energy
26,985.40
Insurance 357.68
Construction
Installing Meters
60.47
Street Mains
57.16
Meters
648.31
Services
2,438.30
Office Equipment
12.01
Total Gas Dept. 41,443.04
Gas & Electric Guarantee Deposits
Deposits Returned
1,003.73
Interest on Deposits
12.88
Total Deposit and Interest 1,016.61 191,486.35
Total Gas & Electric Dept.
Receipts Transfers
143,112.16 31,495.43
Less payt. Bond &
174,607.59
Int.
8,680.00
165,927.59
Net Cost 25,558.76
210
Total Gas Dept.
40,002.11
Total Gas & Electric Dept.
143,112.16
Herring
Other Towns Permit to take Total Herring
$30.00 100.00
Wages Advertising
$10.75 3.70
Total Herring Receipts
14.45
130.00
Cemeteries
Care of Endowed Lots Total Municipal Enterprise
1,374.55
166,910.29
Interest
Deposits
$868.27
Temporary Loans
Sidewalk Assessments
13.21
Anticipation of Revenue
6,131.35
Taxes
3,628.40
General Loans
Water Damage Deposits
1,495.43
New High School
5,800.00
Nemasket Bridge.
600.00
Thos. S. Peirce Trustees Nemasket Bridge Fire Station
600.00
New Fire Station
1,000.00
Plymouth Co. Hospital
200.00
Accrued Interest
Public Service Enterprises
High School
9.78
Water Dept. Loan
1,200.00
Fire Unit
18.80
M. L. P. High Tension &
Trust Funds
Gas Construction
1,680.00
Enoch Pratt Fund
425.00
M. L. H. Peirce Fund
273.67
Total Interest
16,611.35
Receipts 8,533.24
8,472.56
1,200.00 Water
1,680.00 M. L. P.
11,413.24
273. 67 M. L. H. P.
11,139.57
11,139.57
Net Cost 5,471.78
211
Water notes
140.00
Total Interest
Herring
130.00
115.55
Net Profit Total Municipal Enterprises Interest & Maturing Debt Interest
209,412.02
1,000.00
Municipal Indebtedness
Municipal Indebtedness
Temporary Loans Anticipation of Revenue 190,000.00
General Loans
New High School
10,000.00
New Fire Station
10,000.00
Nemasket Bridge 3,000.00
Plymouth Co. Hosiptal 2,000.00
Public Service Enterprises Water Dept. Mun. L. Dept.
2,000.00
7,000.00
Total Municipal Indebtedness
224,000.00
Receipts 231,000.00 2,000.00 Water 9,000.00 M. L. P.
242,000.00
Net Profit Total Interest & Maturing Debt
240,611.35
Agency & Trust
Agency
Taxes State Taxes County
19,568.72
43,801.11
Total Agency Trust Cemetery Perpetual Care Bequests
2,144.00
Care of Lots
1,360.55
Maria L. H. Peirce Charity Fund
272.35
Total Trust 3,776.90
212
Agency, Trust & Investment
Taxes collected for State, County and Non-Resident Bank Taxes are included in General Tax receipts.
Trust-Cemetery Perpetual Care 2,130.00
Total Agency & Trust 2,130.00
210,000.00
Temporary Loans General Loans
New Fire Unit
8,000.00
Thos. S. Peirce Tr. Nemasket Bridge
3,000.00
New Fire Station
10,000.00
Total Municipal Indebtedness
231,000.00
18,000.00
24,232.39
Total Agency & Trust Receipts
47,578.01 41,316.86
Net Cost
6,261.15
Refunds
Refunds
Taxes
94.06
Taxes
94.06
Moth Assessment
. 50
Moth Assessments
. 50
State Bank Tax
1.04
State Bank Tax
1.04
Interest, Water damage deposits
467.59
Interest, Water Damage Deposits
467.59
Everett Square
921.13
Everett Square
921.13
Mun. L. Construction
380.53
Mun. L. Construction
380.53
Public Welfare
198.61
Public Welfare
198.61
Health Dept.
3.00
Health Dept.
3.00
Treasurer & Collector
2.56
Treasurer & Collector
2.56
Moth Dept.
8.65
Moth Dept.
8.65
School Dept.
135.28
School Dept.
135.28
Fire Dept.
20.87
Fire Dept.
20.87
Highway Dept.
49.88
Highway Dept.
49.88
Soldiers Relief
40.00
Soldiers Relief
40.00
Total Refunds
2,323.70
Total Refunds
2,323.70
Receipts
2,323.70
Net Cost .00
Total Receipts for year Cash on hand January 1st, 1928
$838,792.86
Total Disbursements Cash on hand December 31st, 1928 Grand Total
$865,117.75
47,503.60
21,178.71
Grand Total
886,296.46
$886,296.46
213
BALANCE SHEET-DECEMBER 31ST, 1928
Revenue Accounts
Liabilities
$18,413.95
Water Supply Damages Revenue Loans Municipal Light Dept. Operation
$2,813.23
66
1928
87,466.31
Construction
145.32
$104,841.22
Depreciation
. 40
Deposits
1,097.27
Special Assessments
Moth 1927
34.26
Moth 1928
97.14
Levy 1926
446.48
Sidewalks
1,108.51
Levy 1927
850.90
1,239.91
Levy 1928
2,219.27
Departmental
Fire Dept.
425.00
Surplus Overlay
9,713.64
Forest Fires
15.75
Special Assessment Revenue
1,239.91
Moth Dept.
9.50
Departmental Revenue
8,841.65
Health Dept.
2,226.11
Mun. L. & P. Revenue
9,306.36
Sewer
95.66
Water Revenue
Highway Dept.
122.00
Premium Pumping Unit Loan
Parking Space
51.00
Public Welfare
5,866.63
Excess & Deficiency
Herring
20.00
Old Fire Station
10.00
8,841.65
Thos. S. Peirce Trustees New Fire Station Municipal Light Dept. Water Dept .- Rates
677.22
9,306.36
114.16
Water Dept .- Misc.
416.13
$500.00 80,000.00
Assets Cash in Banks and Office Accounts Receivable Taxes-Levy 1926
$559.08 16,815.83
1927
$4,056.22
Overlay Reserve for Abatements
3,516.65
214
530.29 18.80
Maria L. H. Peirce Charity Fund
1.32
34,555.02
-
Overdrawn Accounts Public Welfare Military Aid Soldiers Burial Interest Temp. Loan
7,940.14
92.00
44.50
352.62
8,429.26
$152,279.86
$152,279.86
Non Revenue Accounts
Cash in Banks
$2,764.76 Appropriation Balances High Tension Electric Lines
2,764.76
2,764.76
2,764.76
Debt Accounts
215
Net Funded or Fixed Debt
$243,000.00
Plymouth Co. Hospital Loan
2,000.00
Water Dept. Loan
29,000.00
New High School Loan
140,000.00
High Pressure Gas Main Loan
6,000.00
Nemasket Bridge Loan
12,000.00
New Fire Station Loan
15,000.00
High Tension Electric Line Loan
31,000.00
Fire Pumping Unit Loan .
8,000.00
$243,000.00
Respectfully submitted, $243,000.00
WALDO S. THOMAS,
Town Accountant.
216
GAS AND ELECTRIC DEPARTMENT ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE Which include December sales (January bills)
Gas
$6,354.24
Lighting
15,988.97
Power
2,457. 54
Jobbing
505.01
$25,305.76
TOTAL SALES
1927
1928
Gas
$41,692.76
$42,110.29
Lighting
88,670.31
91,333.03
Power
17,140.82
15,577.99
Jobbing
2,148.08
1,913.97
$149,651.97 $150,935.28
Increase in sales 1928 over 1927
Gas
$417.53
Light and Power
1,099.89
Gas, Light and Power combined
1,517.42
CONSUMERS
Jan. 1, 1929
Gas
62
Electric
1527
Gas and Electric
1034
2623
217
METERS INSTALLED
Gas Electric
1313
3066
4379
STREET LIGHTS, 1928
Total No.
Total No. Av. No.
Av. No. hours
nights
hours nights
run
run per mo.
per night
All night service 366
4,089 h. 25 m. 30
11 h. 10 m.
2.00 A. M. service 366
2,778 h. 50 m. 30
7 h. 35 m.
So. Middleboro, Rock &
No. Middleboro ser. 366
2,562 h. 30
7 h.
K. W. H. made K. W. H. purchased
199,450
1,747,340
Total
1,946,790
Total K. W. H. used for street lights 149,813
1928
OPERATING EXPENSES GAS
Production
Operation:
Wages at Gas Works
$2,643.25
Boiler Fuel
168.75
Water
76.00
Water Gas Oil and Enrichers
1.00
$2,889.00
218
Maintenance:
Maintenance of Works & Station
Structures $299.84
Maintenance of Power Plant Equipment 28.46
Maintenance of Other Equipment at Works 17.14
Gas Purchased 26,985.40
Station Tools and Appliances
27.50
$27,358.34
Transmission and Distribution
Operation :
Removing and Resetting Meters
$11.01
$11.01
Maintenance:
Maintenance of Street Mains $78.78
Maintenance of Services 1,416.21
Maintenance of Consumers' Meters 118.27
Maintenance of Tools and Appliances 67.99
$1,681.25
General and Miscellaneous
$999.99
Salary of Manager
Salaries of General Office Clerks,
Meter Readers and Collectors 2,202.72
General Office Supplies and Expenses
507.26
Insurance 357.68
282.62
Transportation Expenses
4,038.72
Depreciation
4.29
Miscellaneous General Expense
$8,393.28
Total Expenses Balance to Profit and Loss
$40,332.88
115.80
Total Debits
$40,448.68
219
INCOME-GAS
From sale of Gas
$42,110.29
Less Discounts and Rebates &
Uncollectible Revenues 1,661.61
Total Credits $40,448.68
OPERATING EXPENSES
Hydro-Electric Generation
Operation:
Electric Labor
$4,941.94
Lubricants
58.08
Station Supplies and Expense 240.27
$5,240.29
Maintenance:
Maintenance of Dams and Intakes $12.00
Maintenance of Electric Generat- ing Equipment 41.98
Maintenance of Accessory Elec- tric Equipment 741.25
Maintenance of Station Structures 1,145.25
Electric Energy
Purchased 36,020.57
$37,961.05
Transmission, Distribution and Storage
Operation: Transmission & Distribution Supplies & Expenses $4,752.45
Removing and Resetting Meters
314.58
$5,067.03
220
Maintenance: Maintenance of Transmission & Distribution Lines $8,113.04
Maintenance of Transformers 12.50
Maintenance of Consumers' Meters
98.45
$8,223.99
Utilization
Operation:
Municipal Street Lamps-Sup-
$944.45 $944.45 plies and Expense
General and Miscellaneous
Salary of Manager
$2,000.01
Salaries of General Office Clerks,
Meter Readers and Collectors
4,403.06
General Office Supplies and Expense
1,016.96
Insurance 1,113.01
Transportation Expense
4,837.19
Depreciation
9,979.75
Miscellaneous General Expense
77.60
$23,427.58
Total Expenses
Balance to Profit and Loss
22,336.78
Total Debits
INCOME-ELECTRIC
From Lighting
From Power
$91,333.03 15,577.99 300.00
From Christmas Lighting
$107,211.02
Less Discounts, Rebates and Uncollectible Revenues $4,009.85
Total Credits
$103,201.17
$80,864.39
$103,201.17
221
BALANCE SHEET
Assets
Investments-Gas
Land, Gas
$1,200.00
Structures
2,658.68
Boiler Plant Equipment
1,404.65
Miscellaneous Power Plant Equipment 514.43
Water Gas Sets 3,492.40
Purification Apparatus
341.29
Other Equipment at Works
8,224.86
Street Mains
72,179.58
High Pressure Gas Lines
14,985.68
Gas Services
16,863.38
High Pressure Services 26.84
Consumers' Meters
9,421.63
Consumers' Meter Installations
1,337.51
Office Equipment 493.89
Laboratory Equipment
350.00
Investments-Electric
Land, Electric
6,000.00
Right of Way
1,550.00
Right of Way, Brockton High Tension
3,813.70
Structures
3,261.45
Reservoirs, Dams, Canals, Waterways 7,955.66
Water Turbines, Water Wheels
2,361.23
Electric Plant, Hydro
3,304.59
Miscellaneous Power Plant
Equipment, Hydro 1,535.68
Transformer Station and
Substation Equipment 3,409.56
222
Poles, Fixtures and Overhead
Conductors
78,523.76
Consumers' Meters
24,985.83
Consumers' Meter Installations
5,208.78
Line Transformers
21,441.75
Transformer Installations
6.79
Street Lighting Equipment
8,379.47
Office Equipment 958.35
Underground Conduits
38,603.05
Underground Conductors
12,839.69
Brockton High Tension Lines
27,576.88
Current Assets :
Cash on hand
2,813.23
Accounts Receivable
25,305.76
Inventory
Reserve Funds:
.40
Construction Fund
2,910.08
Special Deposits Fund
1,097.27
Liabilities
$125,200.00
Loans Repayments
45,992.39
Notes Payable
37,000.00
Consumers' Deposits
1,097.27
Interest Accrued
218,068.07
$427,831.06 $427,831.06
Plant Investment (Book Value)
Gas
$133,494.82
Electric $251,716.22
10,493.28
Depreciation Fund
Appropriations for Construction
473.33
Profit and Loss Balance
223
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
By balance at beginning of year
$172,393.79
By balance of Jobbing Account
322.93
By Balance of Electric Operating Expense Account
22,336.78
By Balance of Gas Operating Expense Account
115.80
By Miscellaneous Credits
31,495.43
To interest paid and accrued on notes To notes paid
$1,596.66
7,000.00
To balance account
218,068.07
$226,664.73 $226,664.73
CONSTRUCTION DRAFTS 1928
Gas
Expended for:
Street Mains
$437.69
Services
2,438.30
Consumers' Meters
648.31
Consumers' Meter Installations
60.47
Office Equipment
12.01
$3,596.78
Electric
Expended for :
Poles, Fixtures and Overhead Conductors
$ 13,801.43
Consumers' Meters
1,283.94
Consumers' Meter Installations
301.81
Line Transformers
2,873.84
Office Equipment
12.00
Extension of High Tension Line
266.24
224
Purchase of Right of Way for connecting High Tension Line to Brockton Underground Conduits
401.15
38,404.58
Underground Conductors
12,778.51
Street Lighting Equipment
7,005.57
$77,129.07
$80,725.85
225
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS NOTES
Dec. 31 Transferred from Operating Fund $7,000.00 Dec. 31 Payments $7,000.00
INTEREST ACCOUNT
Dec. 31
Transferred from
Operating Fund
1,680.00 Dec. 31 Payments
1.680.00
DEPRECIATION ACCOUNT
Jan. 1 Balance on hand
9,000.40 Dec. 31
Transferred to Construction Fund
Dec. 31 Transferred from Operating Fund 14,018.47 Dec. 31 Balance in Town Treasury 40
23,018.47
$23,018.87
$23,018.87
CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT
Jan. 1 Balance on hand $4,741.50 Dec. 31 Payments
Transferred from Operating Fund 24,380.53
Award from water damages from Taunton, Fall River and N. Bedford 30,000 00
Interest on award of $30,000.00 1,495.43
Transferred from Dec. 31
Balance in Town Treasury 2,910.08
Depreciation Fund 23,018.47
$83,635.93
$83,635.93
OPERATING FUND
Jan. 1 Balance in Town Treasury $17,005.84 Dec. 31
Transferred
to Notes $7,000.00
Dec. 31 Collections 142,777.02 Dec. 31 Transferred to Interest Fund 1,680.00
Dec. 31
Received for
Christmas Lighting
300.00
Dec. 31 Transferred to Depreciation Fd.14,018.47
Dec. 31 Transferred to Construction Fd. 24,380. 53
Dec. 31 Payments 110,137.30
Dec. 31 Check received, no funds 25.33
Dec. 31 Transferred to
Deposits Fund 28.00
Dec. 31 Balance in Town
Treasury 2,813.23
$160,082,86
$160,082.86
$80,725.85
226
DEPOSITS FUND
Dec. 31 Payments
$1,003.73
Jan
Balance in Town Treasury
$1,332.00
Dec. 31
Dec. 31
Trans. from
28.00
Dec. 31
Collections
741.00
$2,101.00
$2,101.00
SUMMARY
2,910.08
Balance in Construction Fund
.40
Balance in Depreciation Fund
Balance in Operating Fund
2,813.23 1,097.27
Balance in Deposits Fund
Total Collections Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1928
142,777.02
Balance in Town Treasury 1,097.27
Operating Fund
227
TOWN INDEBTEDNESS
Notes and Bonds of the Town as of December 31st, 1928
Plymouth County Hospital Loan 5%
One note due the Middleboro Savings Bank December 15th 1929 $2,000.00
Water Loan 4% 12 Notes due the Middleboro Savings Bank $1,000.00 each Jan. 1st 1929 to Jan. 1st 1940 12,000.00
17 Notes due the Middleboro Savings Bank $1000.00 each June 1st 1929 to June 1st 1945 17,000.00
New Fire Station 4%
One Note due April 15th 1929 $10,000.00
One Note due April 15th 1930
5,000.00
15,000.00
Nemaskett Bridge Construction
Four Notes $3000.00 each due October 1st 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932 12,000.00
Gas Construction 4%
One note due October 1st 1929 $3,000.00
One note due October 1st 1930 3,000.00
6,000.00
High School Notes 4%
14 Notes due each year 1929 to 1942,
$10,000.00 each
140,000.00
Electric light loan 4%
31 Notes $4,000.00 each due March 1st 1929
to 1936
31,000.00
228
Temporary Loans due the Merchants National Bank One note due Jan. 1st 1929 4.70% 10,000.00
One note due Jan. 15th 1929 4.70% 10,000.00
One note due Nov. 4th 1929 4.85% 20,000.00
One note due Nov.13th 1929 4.85% 10,000.00
One note due Nov.21st 1929 4.85% 10,0000.0
One note due Dec. 2nd 1929 4.85% 20,000.00
$80,000.00
Purchase of New Fire Engine 4%
2,000.00
One note due April 9th 1929
2,000.00
One Note due April 9th 1930
2,000.00
One Note due April 9th 1931
2,000.00
One Note due April 9th 1932
8,000.00
Total
$323,000.00
229
REPORT OF THE TOWN TREASURER FOR THE YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1928
Cash on hand Jan. 1st 1928 Less cost on School Bonds
$47,665.36 335.00
$47,330.36
Cash received to Jan. 1st 1929
838,903.10
$886,233.46
Cash paid 1928 Cash on hand Jan. 1st 1929
$865,054.75
21,178.71
$886,233.46
W. W. BRACKETT,
Treasurer.
230
COLLECTOR OF TAXES
1926 Taxes
Outstanding Jan. 1st 1928
$18,174.69
Abatements 191.59
Collections
17,568.48
$17,760.07
Less Adjustments
144.46 17,615.61
$559.08
1927 Taxes
Outstanding Jan. 1st 1928 $76,484.91
Abatements
469.87
Collections
59,163.46
Adjustments
35.75
$59,669.08
$16,815.83
1928 Taxes
Commitment
1928
$342,903.83
Dec. 1928
331.16
$343,234.99
Collections
$254,077.60 1,691.08
Abatements
$255,768.68
~~ $87,466.31
Polls 1928
May and December Commitment $5,458.00 5,446.00
Collected $12.00
231
Moth Tax 1926
Outstanding Jan. 1st 1928
$29.80
Adjustments 9.71
39.51
Collected and Abated
39.51
Moth Tax 1927
Outstanding Jan. 1st 1928
148.26
Collections and abatements
and Adjustments 114.00
$34.26
Moth Tax 1928
Committment August 1928
$323.63
Collections and Abatements 226.49
$97.14
WILLIAM W. BRACKETT,
Collector.
INDEX
Town Officers.
GENERAL REPORTS:
71
Annual Town Meeting
132
Appointments by the Selectmen.
176
Assessors.
66
Dog Officer
135
Election Officers.
164
Forest Warden.
130
Gas and Electric Dept.
147
Highway Department.
126
Inspector of Animals
145
Inspector of Slaughtering.
139
Librarian, Public Library
152
Moth Department.
94
Public Health Nurse
150
Public Welfare.
158
School Committee
15
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
120
Selectmen
8
Special Town Meeting, April 30, 1928.
98
State Primary.
102
Town Clerk.
79
Marriages
109
Deaths.
10
Town Manager
70
Water Department.
128
Wire Inspector
129
Tree Warden.
122
FINANCIAL REPORTS:
Assessors. 176
214
Cemetery Trust Funds
182
Collector of Taxes. .
230
Gas and Electric Department. 216
225
Town Accountant. 193
227
Town Indebtedness.
Trustee of Maria L. H. Pierce Fund for Inmates of Town Farm
122
Treasurer, Public Library.
179
Town Treasurer. 229
Trustees under the Will of Thomas S. Peirce
173
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
-
.
.
136
Inspector of Milk
144
Jury List.
123
Presidential Primary
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
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·
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
113
Births
117
98
State Election
.
.
+
.
.
.
.
.
·
.
.
.
.
.
170
Health Officer
.
.
.
.
.
.
·
.
Chief Police
131
Fire Department, Chief of.
.
.
.
Balance Sheet.
Statement of Accounts
.
Trustee of Maria L. H. Peirce Fund for Inamtes of Town Farm
5
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