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The following arrangement of the work seems to reduce these evils to a minimum, and has been received with much favor by the teachers.
All schools below the High School are to be divided into two sections, -- the first section to consist of those scholars who may be considered able to complete the course of the school during the year ; all other scholars to be placed in the second section. The first section is to be divided into two classes, -- the first class to consist of those scholars who, on account of the excellence of their monthly report in behavior, attendance and scholarship have been excused from further examination for pro-
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motion at the end of the year, provided they retain their position in the first class, six out of the ten months of the school-year.
There will be a written examination at the end of each term, with questions prepared by the Superin- tendent, for the scholars of the first section who are not in the first class.
At the end of each month, teachers are to determine, by their own examination, who are to retain their position in the first class, and who are to be promoted to it. Instead of numbers, these descriptive terms are to be used in reporting the standing of scholars : Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor, Bad. Anaverage of "Good" in behavior, attendance and scholarship shall entitle a scholar to a place in the first class.
In the Grammar Schools, scholars are to be examined in Written and Mental Arithmetic, Grammar, History, Composition, and Spelling.
In the Third and Second Grade Schools, scholars are to be examined in Written and Mental Arithmetic, Geography, Spelling, and Composition.
In the Primary Schools, scholars are to be examined in the four elementary rules in Written Arithmetic, Mental Arithmetic, Reading, Spelling, and Composition.
EVENING SCHOOL.
In accordance with the vote of the Town, an evening school was opened in October last for the instruction of those young persons whose daily employments do not permit them to devote any other time than the evening
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to intellectual improvement. The appropriation for this purpose was very small, not more than enough to pay for the instruction of the school for some twenty weeks, with no provision for the rent of rooms. Application was therefore made to the Selectmen for use of rooms in the Town House, which was freely granted. These were furnished in the simplest and cheapest manner, and two very competent teachers from the Grammar Schools, Mr. C. F. Cole and Mr. E. E. Sherman, were employed to take charge of the instruction and manage- ment of the school. The attendance has been necessarily irregular, on account of the severity of the weather and the impossibility of heating the rooms to a comfortable temperature. At first the number of applicants for admission was larger than could be accommodated ; but at the present time the school consists of about forty scholars, as large a number as can profitably be taught by two teachers. Fifteen of these are foreigners, under twenty-one years of age, who, according to a late statute of the state, are not permitted to work in its manu- factories until they have obtained sufficient knowledge of English to enable them to speak and write it. As this requirement renders it necessary for us to maintain an evening school, it is to be hoped that we shall be able to appropriate a more liberal sum to its support and improvement.
The studies pursued are Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Book-keeping. For this last named study there is. much desire among the scholars.
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I would in this place express my appreciation of the constant courtesy and kindness of the Committee in all my transactions with them in the complicated interests of the schools ; and, in conclusion, it is but just to say that whatever of improvement or of excellence the schools have attained, is in a great proportion due to the ready and energetic co-operation of the teachers in whatever measures have been proposed in the way of educational progress and reform.
CHARLES BURTON.
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ROLL OF HONOR.
The following High School pupils were not absent during the school-year, from September 13, 1886, to July 1, 1887 :
Mary V. Bennett,
George V. Bennett,
Emma D. Hathaway,
Alphonso Gibbs,
Mary W. Klingenhagen,
Frank C. Holmes,
Nellie F. Pope,
Isaac T. Holmes,
Lizzie H. Sampson,
Harold Mott Smith,
Bessie A. Townsend,
Walter G. Smith.
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APPENDIX.
Statistics.
LOCATION OF SCHOOLS.
GRADES.
TEACHERS.
Salaries.
Enrolment.
Average Membership.
A verage Attendance.
|No. over 15 years.
[ No. between 8 and 14 years.
Russell St., Mt. Pleasant,
Grammar,
Seth S. Crocker,
1000
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47 11 48
North,
Grammar,
Charles F. Cole,
1000
45
41
38
6 39
Chiltonville,
Grammar,
Elmer E. Sherman,
1000
43
41 39
5 32
So. Plymouth, North,
Intermediate,
Anna A. Jones,
500
57
45
40
57
Wellingsley,
Intermediate,
Addie F. Bartlett,
360
3
29
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Russell St.,
Third Grade,
Carrie I. Mace,
360
54
46
41
53
Russell St.,
Second Grade,
Mary A. Aldrich,
320
40
37
33
40
Russell St.,
Second Grade,
May H. Chandler.
320
45
42
38
45
Mt. Pleasant, Cold Spring,
Primary,
Frances E. Hovey,
300
42
37
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School St.,
Primary,
Priscilla Perkins,
300
50
46
43
38
South St.,
Primary,
Charlotte A. Bearse,
300
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Oak St.,
Primary,
Lina F. Bates,
300
37
33
30
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Mt. Pleasant, North,
Primary,
Mary Moning,
300
37
33
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36
Spring St.,
Sub-Primary,
Lucy M. Harlow,
300
51
45
37
7
South St.,
Ist Sub-Primary,
Mary E. Morton,
300
40
35
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2
South St.,
2d Sub-Primary,
Katie O'Brien,
300
37
34
31
Oak St.,
Sub-Primary,
Nellie M. Smith,
300
41
32
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3
Cold Spring,
Sub-Primary,
Mary J. Ellis,
300
47
40
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North,
Sub-Primary,
Myra C. Holmes,
300
75
50
43
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Cliff,
Primary,
Martha W. Whitmore,
280
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13
Chiltonville,
Primary,
Katie W. Sampson,
280
37
31
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Russell Mills,
Primary,
Mary A. Morton,
280
43
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So. Plymouth,
Primary,
Lydia A. Sampson,
280
31
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17
South Pond,
Ungraded,
Addie E. Thrasher,
300
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14
14
17
Long Pond,
Ungraded,
Nellie F. Pierce,
280
17
14
13
2 12
Cedarville,
Ungraded,
Hepsie E. Pierce,
360
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Green,
High School,
Carrie E. Small,
$1400 146 135 129 67 79
Ellen M. Beane,
700
Merrow,
700
Anna M. Klingenhagen,
400
Jennie C. Whitten,
400
Grammar,
Aaron H. Cornish,
1000
45
38
35
45
Grammar,
Frances A. Hadaway,
400
31
24
20
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Mt. Pleasant,
Third Grade,
Augusta M. Morton,
360
54
51
36
54
Second Grade,
Nelia D. Burbank,
320
39
35
30
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Primary,
Grace D. Chandler,
300
54
50
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High School: Order of Exercises .- Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
TIME.
MISS SMALL.
MISS BEANE.
MISS MERROW.
MISS KLINGENHAGEN.
MISS WHITTEN.
8.00,
Opening Exercises,
2d Geometry,M.&W., 1st Literature,M.&W. Div. B., 4th Chem-Div. A., 4th German, 3d History, M. & W.
1st Geometry, F.,
2d Literature, F.,
istry, M. & W.,
M. & W.,
Div. B., 4th History, F.,
Div. A.,4th Chem., F., 3d Literature, F.,
9.00-9.45,
1st Geometry, M.&W. 2d Literature, M.& W. Div. A., 4th Chem- 3d Literature, M.& W., Div. B., 4th History, 2d Algebra, F., Ist German, F., 4th Latin, F., M. & W.,
9.45-10.30,
1st Composition, M., 1st German, M. & W., 2d Chemistry, M., 2d Algebra, W., 1st French, F.,
4th Latin, M., Div. B.,4th Comp., or News of the Day,
W.
Div.A.,4th Comp., }w. or News of the Day, S 3d Physical Geog., F.,
10.30-10.45, 10.50-11.30,
Recess.
2d Algebra, M., 1st Composition, W., 2d German, F,, Ist Algebra, F.,
M, & W. Div.B.,4th Physics, F.
3d Latin, F.,
3d Physical Geography, M. & W., Div. A., 4th History,F.,
11.30-12.15, 1st Algebra, M. & W., 2d German, M. & W., Div. B. 4th Physics, 3d Latin, M. & W.,
2d French, F.,
M. & W.,
Div. B .. 4th German, F.,
Div. A., 4th History, M. & W.,
12.15-1.00,
3d French, M., 2d Comp., or
1st Physics, M. & W., Div. B., 4th German, M. & W.,
.
Rhetorical Exercises, 1st Class,
F.
W. News oftheDay, Rhetorical Exercises, 1
Rhetorical
Rhetorical
Rhetorical
F. Exercises, F.
Exercises,
F.
Exercises, Div. A., 4th Class, J
F.
2d Class,
3d Class,
Div. B., 4th Class,
From March to July, Botany and Physiology are substituted for Chemistry and Physics in the Fourth Class. A composition is required from each pupil once in three weeks.
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1st French, M. & W., Div. A., 4th Physics, 2d Latin, W.,
1st Physics, F.,
3d Comp., or w. News of theDay, S Div.A.,4th Physics, F. 2d Latin, F.,
istry, M. & W., 3d Book-keeping, F.,
8.15-9.00,
High School : Order of Exercises .- Tuesday and Thursday.
TIME.
MISS SMALL.
MISS BEANE.
MISS MERROW.
MISS KLINGENHAGEN.
MISS WHITTEN.
8.00, 8.15-9.00, 9.00-9.45,
Opening Exercises,
Div.B., 4th Geometry, 3d German,
2d Chemistry,
Div. A., 4th Literature, Ist History,
Div. A.,4th Geometry, 2d French,
3d Book-keeping,
1st Latin,
Div. B., 4th Literature,
9.45-10.30,
1st Geometry, Tues., 2d Composition, 1st News of the Day, Thurs.,
Tues., 3d Composition, Tues., 2d Literature, Thurs., Div. A., 4th Physics, 3d Literature, Thurs., Thurs.,
Div. B., 4th Compo- Div. A., 4th Compo- sition, Tues.,
sition, Tues.,
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10.30-10.45, Recess.
10.50-11.30, 1st Composition, Tues., 1st Algebra, Thurs.,
3d German, Tues., 3d French, Thurs.,
Div. A., 4th Chem- 1st Latin, Tues .. istry, Tues., Div. B., 4th Physics, Thurs.,
2d Latin, Thurs.,
Div. B., 4th History, Tues., Div. A., 4th History, Thurs.,
11.30-12.15, 2d Geometry,
1st Literature,
Div.B.,4th Chemistry, Div. A., 4th German, 3d History. Thurs.,
12.15-1.00,
2d Algebra, Tues., Singing, Thurs.
3d French, Tues.
1st Physics, Tues.
4th Latin, Tues.
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Grammar Schools .- Order of Exercises.
TIME.
MONDAY.
TUESDAY.
WEDNESDAY. THURSDAY.
FRIDAY.
A. M. 9.00-9.10,
Opening Exercises, Writ. Arith., Writ. Arith., Ment. Arith., Recess,
Opening Exercises,
Opening Exercises, Writ. Arith., Ment. Arith., Recess,
Opening Exercises Writ. Arith .. Ment. Arith., Recess, U.S. History.
Opening Exercises. Book-keeping Book-keeping Recess, Drawing,
P. M. 2.00-2.45,
2.45-3.30,
3.45-4.00, 4.00-4.30,
Elementary Science, Grammar, Recess, Spelling, Study.
Grammar, Recess, Spelling, Study.
Elementary Science, Grammar, Recess, Spelling, Study.
Grammar, Recess, Spelling, Study.
Composition, Recess, Reading of Compositions and Declamations
Music twice a week.
Elementary Science includes lessons in Physiology, Physical Geography, Botany, Zoology, Physics and Chemistry.
Intermediate Schools .- Order of Exercises.
TIME.
MONDAY.
TUESDAY.
WEDNESDAY.
THURSDAY.
FRIDAY.
A. M. 9.00-9.10,
Opening Exercises, Music, Arithmetic, Written Spelling. 10.20-10.30, Gymnastics, 10.30-10.50, 10.50-11.00, Recess, Correcting Spelling, 11.00-11.30, Geography, 11.30-12.00, Arithmetic,
Opening Exercises, Music, Arithmetic, Written
Opening Exercises, Spelling, Arithmetic, Gymnastics,
Opening Exercises, Music, Arithmetic, Written Spelling, Gymnastics, Recess, Correcting Spelling, Geography, Arithmetic,
General Exercises, Music, Arithmetic, Written Spelling, Gymnastics, Recess, Correcting Spelling, Geography, Arithmetic,
P. M. 2.00-2.40, 2.40-3.00, 3.00-3.15,
Writing, Mental, Correcting Spelling, Recess, Language
Drawing, Mental, Correcting Spelling, Recess, Language
Writing, Mental, Correcting Spelling,
Recess, Language
Drawing, Mental, Correcting Spelling, Recess, Language
Writing, Mental, Correcting Spelling, Recess,
3.15-3.30, 3.30-4.00,
Lessons, or Lessons, or
Lessons, or
Lessons, or
Physiology. General
4.00-4.30,
Physiology, Reading.
Physiology, Reading.
Physiology, Reading.
Reading.
Exercises.
. 9.10-10.10, 10.00-10.30 Ment. Arith., Recess,
10.45-12.00 U.S.History,
U.S. History, U. S. History,
Reading,
Reading,
Composition,
9.10-9.30, 9.30-10.00, 10.00-10.20,
Spelling, Gymnastics, ¡Music,
Recess, Correcting Spelling, Geography, Arithmetic,
Recess, Correcting Spelling, Geography, Arithmetic,
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Primary Schools .- Order of Exercises.
TIME.
MONDAY.
TUESDAY.
WEDNESDAY.
THURSDAY.
FRIDAY.
A. M. 9.00-9.10,
9.10-9.20. 9.20-9.40,
9.40-10.00,
10.00-10.05, 10.05-10.15,
Opening Exercises, Phonics, Ist Geog., 2d Arith., 1st Arith., 2d Reading, Gymnastics, Correcting Arithmetic,
Opening Exercises, Drawing, Ist Geog., 2d Arith., 1st Arith., 2d Reading, Gymnastics, Correcting Arithmetic, Singing, Recess, Ment. Arith., Singing, Spelling, Language Lessons,
Opening Exercises, Phonics, 1st Geog., 2d Arith., Ist Arith., 2d Reading, Gymnastics, Correcting
Arithmetic, Ment. Arith., Recess,
Spelling, Language Lessons,
Opening Exercises, Drawing, Ist Geog., 2d Arith., Ist Arith., 2d Reading, Gymnastics, Correcting Arithmetic, Singing, Recess, Ment. Arith., Spelling, Language Lessons,
Opening Exercises, Phonics, Ist Geog., 2d Arith., 1st Arith., 2d Reading, Gymnastics, Correcting Arithmetic, Singing, Recess, Ment. Arith., Spelling, Language Lessons,
Singing, Drawing,
Ist Arith., 2d Reading,
2.40-3.00,
3.00-3 15,
3.15-3.30, 3.30-3.50, 3.50-4.10,
4.10-4.30,
Singing, Drawing, 1st Arith., 2d Reading, Ist Reading, 2d Arith., Correcting Arithmetic, Recess, Ment. Arith., 1st Reading, 2d Study, Spelling, Spelling,
Singing, Drawing, 1st Arith., 2d Reading, Ist Reading, 2d Arith., Correcting Arithmetic, Recess, Ment. Arith., 1st Reading, 2d Study, Spelling, Spelling.
Singing, Drawing, 1st Arith., 2d Reading, 1st Reading, 2d Arith., Correcting Arithmetic, Recess, Ment. Arith Ist Reading, 2d Study, Spelling, Spelling.
Singing, Drawing, 1st Arith., 2d Reading, 1st Reading, 2d Arith., Correcting Arithmetic, Recess, Ment. Arith., Ist Reading, 2d Study, Spelling, Spelling.
1st Reading, 2d Arith., Correcting
Arithmetic, Recess, Ment. Arithi., 1st Reading, 2d Study,
Spelling, Readings,
Recitations .
10.15-10 30, Singing,
10.30-10.50, Recess, 10.50-11.10, Ment. Arith., 11.10-11.40, Spelling, 11.40-12 00, Language
Lessons,
P. M. 2.00-2.05, 2.05-2.20, 2.20-2 40,
PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL.
** GRADUATION EXERCISES **
OF THE- -
CLASS OF '87,
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Davis Hall, Thursday Evening, June 30, 1887,
AT 7,30 O'CLOCK.
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PROGRAMME.
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PART I.
SALUTATORY,
SUSAN E. BOWDITCH. - SCHOOL.
SINGING : " Music of the Morning,"
ESSAY : The Power of Habit, - HARRISON N. BURGESS. ESSAY : Duties to our Teachers and Ourselves, MARY V. BENNETT. PIANO DUETT : "La Chasse au Lion," - Kælling. -
MISSES BARTLETT AND HATHAWAY.
ESSAY : Earthquakes, LYMAN WARD.
ESSAY : Newspapers, - EMMA D. HATHAWAY.
ESSAY : Plymouth Banks, - CLARENCE C. SHERMAN.
SINGING : " Three Little Mice," - -
- - GIRLS' VOICES. ESSAY : The Influence of the Individual upon Society,
ESSAY : Our Navy,
JAMES SPOONER. JAMES W. BLACKMER.
ESSAY : Voices of the Past,
SINGING : The Heavens are Telling," -
TERESA A. ROGAN.
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Haydn.
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SCHOOL.
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PROGRAMME. ·
PART II.
VIOLIN SOLO: "Rigoletto," - Verdi.
LILLIAN G. EDDY.
ESSAY : A Familiar Scene, - - MARY E. BARTLETT.
ESSAY : The King's Jester, - - - SUSAN E. BOWDITCH.
SINGING : "Tally Ho," - GIRLS' VOICES. ESSAY : The Use of Tobacco, - EDWARD C. MOREY.
ESSAY : Scenes from " William Tell," MARY W. KLINGENHAGEN. SINGING : "List ! the Trumpet's Thrilling Sound," Arranged from Meyerbeer.
SCHOOL.
CLASS PROPHECY, - - - FRANK C. HOLMES. SINGING : "Good Night," - SCHOOL.
VALEDICTORY, - - LILLIAN G. EDDY.
SINGING OF CLASS SONG, - - CLASS OF '87.
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS.
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CLASS OF '87.
PRESCRIBED COURSE.
(Four Years, Two Terms.)
Mary Evelyn Bartlett, Mary Velesta Bennett, Susan Elizabeth Bowditch, Lillian Gertrude Eddy, Emma Dana Hathaway, Mary Wilhelmina Klingenhagen, Teresa Agnes Rogan,
James Weston Blackmer,
Harrison Nicol Burgess, Francis Clinton Holmes, Edward Clifton Morey,
Clarence Chase Sherman, James Spooner, Lyman Ward.
FOUR YEARS' COURSE.
Helen Southworth Finney,
Everett Franklin McLean, George Jordan Sampson.
TWO YEARS' COURSE.
Effie Holmes Bartlett,
Catherine Garvey, Louisa Grayton Holmes,
Jennie Marion Robbins, Herbert Franklin Whiting.
ANNUAL REPORT
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TOWN OF PLYMOUTH
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FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING JANUARY IST,
1889.
PLYMOUTH : AVERY & DOTEN, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. 1889.
PLYMOUTH PUBLIC LIBRARY
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REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.
The Selectmen submit the following report for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight :
The Treasurer's books have been examined and found cor- rect, and all payments properly vouched.
The Treasurer is charged for the year with-
Cash on hand January 1, 1888 $16,321 97
Received from-
Water rents, labor and materials 17,057 90
County, dog fund . 792 55
Sale of lots in Vine Hills Cemetery 261 66
Agawam and Half-way Pond fishery. 415 00
Dividend from Old Colony National Bank.
400 00
Interest from delinquent taxes
433 05
Interest on Training Green fund
30 94
Pedler's licenses
26 50
Rebate of interest on loans
17 68
State aid refunded
1,361 00
Indigent State aid refunded
649 93
National Bank tax from State
2,434 36
Corporation 66
7,156 17
Interest from Warren fund .. 50 00
Billiard licenses. . 8 00
Poor department, reimbursements
1,764 56
Road 66
1,938 77
Amount carried forward $51,120 04
4
Amount brought forward $51,120 04
Insane poor 942 83
Main's tent show license .
3 00
Contingent department, reimbursements
525 00
School 66
100 28
" from Murdock fund. 18 25
Poor
66 " 18 25
Widows fund 11 00
Sale of herring brooks
23 25
Burial Hill, reimbursements
40 50
Liquor licenses
1 00
Taxes, 1886
1,710 97
66 1887
7,510 07
1888
74,872 52
Lighting streets, reimbursemants 10 90
Watch and police,
9 35
New road, 66
88 00
$137,005 21
The Treasurer is credited with payments as follows :
For-
Duxbury & Cohasset R. R. sinking fund $1,500 00
Payment on note at Plymouth Savings Bank,
temporary loan. 1,000 00
National Bank, non-resident tax 4,214 73
State tax 6,165 00
County tax 5,514 93
Vine Hills Cemetery. 110 73
Widows 145 00
Water works.
17,630 69
Watch and police. 1,807 87
Amount carried forward
$38,088 95
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$38,088 95
Treasurer
600 00
Sexton
125 00
Town debt, interest
2,209 17
State aid
1,348 00
Schools
25,943 65
Roads and bridges
13,083 23
New roads.
2,504 00
Insane poor
3,044 01
Poor
9,651 54
Fire department
3,187 55
Burial Hill 248 17
Contingent expenditures 5,456 14
Lighting streets and town house.
2,722 66
Assessors 996 28
Plymouth Public Library. 1,000 00
Agawam and Half-way Pond fishery
131 06
Warren fund 40 50
Collector of taxes
504 00
Indigent soldiers aid
1,210 92
Abatements 971 78
Copying town records
30 00
State of Massachusetts, one-fourth liquor license.
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Bounty on seals killed.
122 00
Chiltonville burial ground
124 96
Cash on hand. 23,661 39
$137,005 21
The undrawn balances of the several appropriations are as follows :
$161 77
Town debt and interest
Chiltonville burial ground 04
Amount carried forward $161 81
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Amonut brougyt forward $161 81
Watch and police
686 19
Lighting streets and town house
177 88
Insane poor 698 82
Fire department 12 45
Collector of taxes
27 38
Roads and bridges
766 05
Vine Hills Cemetery .
752 97
Fresh Brook fishery
4 92
Warren fund.
1,024 43
Training Green fund
792 72
Abatement
2,341 80
$7,447 42
The overdrawn balances of the several departments are as
follows :
Water works
$472 88
Poor
886 98
Assessors
93 04
Copying town records.
200 00
Contingent 868 18
Indigent aid
603 46
New roads 248 50
Schools
137 17
$3,510 21
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Town Debt.
WATER LOAN FUNDED.
70,000 four per cent. bonds dated June
1, 1885, payable within 20 years in proportional payments of $2,800 each year, commencing June 1st, 1890 $70,000 00
20,000 six per cent, bonds, dne August 1, 1894 20,000 00
2,000 six per cent bonds, due June 1,1885 2,000 00
37,700 four per cent. bonds dated August 1, 1887, $1,300 due and payable each year, commencing August 1, 1888 37,700 00
Note to Plymouth Savings Bank, due April 1, 1890, interest 5 per cent. 6,000 00
Note to Plymouth Five Cents Sav- ings Bank, due August 2, 1890, interest 43 per cent 6,000 00
$141,700 00
DUXBURY AND COHASSET RAILROAD LOAN.
Note to Plymouth Savings Bank, due
April 1, 1890, interest 4 per cent, 4,500 00
Note to Plymouth Five Cents Sav- ings Bank, due April 1, 1890, interest 4 per cent. 4,500 00
9,000 00
Amount carried forward $150,700 00
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Amount brought forward $150,700 00
TEMPORARY LOAN. Note to Plymouth Savings Bank,
payable April 13, 1888, interest 4 per cent. $5,000 00
Note to Plymouh Five Cents Savings Bank, payable March 20, 1888, interest 4 per cent 6,700 00
Note to Plymouth Savings Bank, due September 18, 1886, interest 4 per cent 10,000 00
Plymouth Savings Bank on demand, interest 4 per cent 4,000 00
Note to Plymouth Savings Bank, due March 31, 1891, interest 4 per cent. 5,000 00
Note to Plymouth Savings Bank, due June 9, 1892, interest 4 per cent 3,000 00
Note to sundry persons on demand, interest 4 per cent. 1,700 00
35,400 00
$186,100 00
Undrawn balances of the several departments
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7,447 42
Gross indebtedness
$193,547 42
LFSS.
Uncollected taxes, 1887 . $1,907 43
Uncollected taxes, 1888 8,821 33
State aid, due from State Mass 1,343 00
Indigent aid, due from State Mass ... 607 46
Due from County of Plymouth, bounty
paid on seals killed 122 00
Cash on hand 23,661 39
36,467 61
Leaving indebtedness, Dec. 31, 1888. $157,079 81
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Debt December 31st, 1888 $157,079 81
Debt December 31st, 1887 167,152 08
Decrease of debt in 1888 $10,072 27
Debt Dec. 31, 1888. $157,079 81
Debt less Water Script Sinking Fund 8,708 17
Net debt, Dec. 31, 1888 $148,371 64
Debt less Sinking Fund, Dec. 31, 1887 158,894 13
Decrease in debt, less Sinking Fund, in 1888 $10,522 49
Payments have been made during the year on principal of outstanding notes of the Town in the sum of $2,500 making the temporary indebedness $44,400 against $46,900, December 31, 1887.
The funded dedt has been reduced by the payment of $1,300 of the last issued of Water Loan bonds which became due under the provisions of the Sinking Fund leaving the bonded indebtedness, $141,700 against $143,000 December 31, 1887.
There has been covered into the Treasury from Bank and Cor- poration taxes, received from the State, and from miscellaeous receipts in excess of estimated revenue, and difference in over- drawn balances as compared with last year, the sum of $6,272.77, and including the payment above referred to, of $3,800 has effect- ed a reduction of $10,072.27, in the indebtedness the past year.
There has been derived from income from Water Scrip Sinking Fund during the year, $450.22 making the fund at the close of the year, $8,708.17, and the net indebtedness $148,371- 64, against $158 894.13, December 31, 1887.
The expenditure on account of indigent soldiers aid has been $1,210.92, the amount due from the State, will leave a deficiency of $603.64 to be provided for.
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The amount assessed for taxes in 1838 was $83,693.85, against $84,899.49 in 1887 with an increased valuation of $214,- 368.76 of which $54,195.40 was in personal, and $160,173.36 in real property, reducing the rate of taxation from $14.80 in 1887, to $14.00 in 1888.
The increase in County, and probably State taxes will leave little margin for increased appropriations without incurring an added rate of taxation the coming year.
Town Debt and Interest Account.
CR.
By balance from old account $420 21
appropriation 2,500 00
rebate of interest on loans paid before maturity 17 68
interest received from delinquent taxes 433 05
$3,370 94
DR.
To payment on principal of outstand-
ing notes ....
$1,000 00
interest on Duxbury & Cohasset Railroad loan
390 00
interest on temporary loans. 1,576 67
interest on loans in anticipation of taxes 156 00
interest on Warren fund 50 00
interest on Murdock fund
36 50
3,209 17
Undrawn $161 77
To provide for payment of interest on temporary and Duxbury & Cohasset Railroad loans, and loans in anticipation of taxes, including a payment of $1,000 on outstanding loans, will require in addition to interest, which may be expected from delinquent taxes, an appropriation of $2,700, which is recommended.
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Roads and Bridges.
CR.
By appropriation
$10,200 00
appropriation .
1,000 00
appropriation .
800 00
reimbursements
1,938 77
$13,938 77
DR.
Dec. 31, 1887.
To balance
$89 49
payments in 1888
13,083 23
13,172 72
Undrawn $766 05
The net expenditures for roads and bridges the past year has been $11,144.46 against $10,572.96 in 1887.
The excess has been applied chiefly in the Manomet ponds and Cedarville districts where increased appropriations were granted at the annual meeting.
In the report of last year the attention of the Town was called to the necessity of providing under-drainage for the surface water at Jabez Corner, as parties owning the land on which the drainage was discharged desired to improve their land aud would not continue the privilege, but would allow under-drain- age through their land to the shore.
This necessitated laying a 20-inch pipe from a point in the street, south from the Willingsley school-house, about 700 feet to the shore, and making connections to receive the surface water from Warren Street, including paving of the gutters to the top of the hill.
The cost of the improvement, exclusive of 160 feet 20-inch pipe on hand, was about $750, and, including the pipe, about
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$950. It has so far satisfactorily provided for disposing of the surface water accumulating with heavy rains and freshets in that locality, and obviated what has heretofore been a source of complaint and annoyance to travel and residents in that vicinity.
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