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Phthisis Pulmonalis. Influenza. .
Old Age.
Plural Pneumonia
Chronic Hepatitis. Chronic Bright's Dis- ease of the Kidneys .. Scarlatina
Typhoid Pneumonia ... Disease of Heart . . Intestinal Obstruction. Cerebral Hemorrhage . Embolism
Senile Dementia.
66 15
Mary E. Nason.
16
Roseanna (O'Hara) Meehan 26
10 . . Mary Lyons .. 15
76 4
11
6 Andrew Casey. 67
5 18
6 Martha A. (Hodges) Nichols 52 1 12
6 7
26
Catherine (Dewyer) Terrien. 63
52
9 25
Softening of Brain.
Heart Disease
Pneumonia
Bronchitis.
Cerebral Apoplexy.
Scarlet Fever
Place of Birth.
Parenchym. Nephritis. Asthenia Senilis
Bright's Disease.
Marasmus
Cancer
Hepatitis and Nephritis Chr'e Bright's Disease Dropsy ..
Albuminuria ..
6 Diabetes .
25
Lucinda (Cushing) Tirrell. 80
Hannorah (Kerby) Fitzgerald. 75 10
.
50 10
9 9
11
Henri Herbert .
Cause of Death.
Stillborn ..
138
DEATHS. - Continued.
Age.
Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Years.
Mos.
Days.
Apr. 12
Margaret A. (Hurley) Corthell. .. 66 2 3
66
16 Minnie C. (McFawn) French ...
28 S
66
. . 18 Annie M. (Wright) Barrows .... 75 20
66
18 Female child of George and Lucy J. Thurber.
Stillborn
19 Jarius White 83 ..
15
66
19 Emeline F. Clapp 39
.
66
23 Henry Sedgwick Abbott. 53 5
7 11 Phthisis
May
2 Jane (Stowell) Burrell, widow of Benjamin. 61
5
24
66
3 James Austin Hunt 57
3
+ Michael McCann 78
. .
66
5
Lydia L. (Bailey) Fogg, wife of John S ...
72
5 24
-1
Female child of John W. and Sarah L. Burr
3
Infantile Debility
Weymouth.
Chatham. Weymouth. Woods'k, N.B. Weymouth.
Georgetown. Newton. Weymouth.
Ireland. Hingham.
66
23
Warren Thayer. 74
3 24 Pneumonia
Weymouth.
25
Laura E. Delory. 1
8 Bronchitis 8
28
John Moran. 85
Paralysis.
28
Wallace L. Hayden 18
66
29 Lewis M. Pratt. 63
2 22
June 1
Rose (Lee) Lyons, wife of Tim- othy . 30
2 . .
Phthisis
1 9 Bright's Disease
5
Josephine Larmey . 18
7 21 Consumption
7
Betsey W. (Anderson) Peterson, wife of Judah .. 75
0
5
Apoplexy
Duxbury.
Mansfield.
66
18
Mary (Vining) Hunt, wife of Washington. 84
18
Paralysis
66
20
Joseph P. Lyons
3
4
Phthisis Pulmonalis .:
66
21
Mary E. Sheehy 3
1
2
Consumption.
27
Bridget (Giligan) Nolan. 63
Bright's Disease
66
28 Wallace Berton Burrill 18 22 Phthisis
Thomas E. Sheehey .. 5
9 Scarlet Fever
Maria C. (Harrison) McDonald, wife of John
39 12
James McGrath . 57
5 ..
Rheumatism of Heart
46
12
Eleazer S. Raymond. 67 1 23
Spinal Sclerosis
66 13
Patrick Corbett
5
3 14
Convulsions
Typhoid Fever.
66
14
2 3. 7 Catherine Madigan. ..
Diarrhea.
Phthisis Pulmonalis.
24
. . Ann Noonan 4 10
Cholera Infantun.
66
26 Clarence W. Morales.
1
. . 7 Cholera Infantum. 66
Aug. 2
Mary A. Daly 23|11|16
Phthisis
Boston. Weymouth. Vergennes, Vt.
Weymouth. 66
Randolph. Maine.
Weymouth.
Ireland.
Hanover.
S
Elizabeth N. (Howes) French, wife of James W .. 55
2 23
Consumption
Scarlet Fever
11
Archie S. Worden.
2
8| 8 Phthisis.
66
16
Thomas Newman
11
9 16 Meningitis
16
Eliza M. (Pearson) Bean, wife of Eben N
59
3.25
Heart Disease
60
17 Catherine L. Kerivan 17
6 19
Convulsions
5 Infantile .
66
19
Fred P. Thayer 12
66
21
Rose (Colgan) Smith, widow of Bartholomew 87
Chronic Bronchitis
·
66
22 Horatio N. Our. 63
5 22 Cardiac Disease.
Boston. Ireland.
Weymouth. Stowe, Vt.
Ireland. Braintree. Weymouth.
Weymouth. 16
Scituate. Ireland. Weymouth. 66
Virginia. Ireland. Middleboro. Weymouth.
13
Stillborn .. Mary A. McCraith
14 George T. Rand .. 40
Whitman. Weymouth. 66
15
23 Walter Everett Lowell 1 22
66
Cause of Death.
Place of Birth.
Typhoid Pneumonia .. . Pulmonary Phthisis ... Angina Pectoris
. . Acute Inflam. of Brain. Gen. Debility & Shock. Pneumonia. ..
29 Eben Otis Jaquith. 53
1 Phthisis &Tuberculosis Stricture of ŒEsophagus Congestion of Brain .. ·
Disease of Brain
0 Blanche Edna Beveridge. 3
2 21
17 Mary Casey.
9|12 Conv'ls'ns from Measles
6 5 Congestion of Lungs .. Heart Disease
15
Abbie L. (White) Watts, wife of William A ... 39 7 22
Abdominal Tumor.
1 17 Seariet Fever
21
Edwin Studley . 52
July. 3 66 11 16
Chronic Cystitis
11
4 Nehemiah H. Thayer. 67
139
DEATHS. - Continued.
Age.
Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Years.
Mos.
Days.
Aug. 3
William Fraher
14
Cholera Infantumn
3
Rebecca W. (Holbrook) Bates, widow of James 72
1
5 Phthisis Pulmonalis. ..
16
Nova Scotia. Weymouth. Ireland. Weymouth. Ireland. Weymouth.
Boston. Weymouth.
Boston.
Sandwich. Scotland. Weymouth. 6
66
Ireland. Weymouth. 6
Brockton. Weymouth. New York.
Weymouth.
Ireland. Weymouth.
Nova Scotia. Wareham. 64 Weymouth.
66
Westport. Weymouth.
Nova Scotia. Ireland.
Weymouth. England. Weymouth. Cohasset. Weymouth.
Ireland. Somerville.
66
6 Daniel C. McDonald. 36 7 22
66
Clara Durrell Wildes
5 126 Marasmus
66
11 James Wilmot Bates 30
8 22
66 13 Bartholomew Ford. 92
4 .
60 15 Etta Maria Bates. 18
1 18
18 Bertram Leslie Smith 1
1 23
20 Atta Turner.
6
3
20 George Oliver Preston. 45
9
9 Locomotor Ataxia
21
Mary Ivis Reed .. 15
9 Convulsions.
66
22 Mary R. (Reed) Bates, wife of James. . 87
Dysentery
Consumption.
Cancer of Liver.
Inflammation of Brain, Acute Meningitis.
Valvular Dis. of Heart,
Pneumonia.
18 Membranons Croup.
6
Thomas Curren. 16.11 6 Phthisis ..
8
Wallace Clifford Litchfield .. 9
6
10
Phillip Cullivan 9 27 Enteritis
11
John C. Curtin 31
1 15
= 11
Male child of Luther B. and Susie Beal
Stillborn
Colloid Liver and Tu- bercular of Intes. Canal
66
12
Eliza (Gilman) Gorman, wife of Patrick . 78 4 18
Catherine Connell. 1
2
16
Hannah (Davis) Melville, wife of Michael. 20 10
66
20 Orrin Hallett Holmes. 67
Cystitis.
Consumption
20
Elias Richards . 85 7 27 Hemiplegia.
€6
20
Horace Stanley Trufant. 1|24
66
21
Ellen M. Lowell.
4 13 Marasmus.
66
23
Lelloco Busisue. .
18
66
28
Male child of Rufus and Abbie F. Bates ..
Oct. 1 Joanna S. (Hlowland) Gammon, wife of Amos B. 63 1 14
8
66
6
Charlotte R. (Hamilton) Wil-
liams, wife of Clarence .. 36 11 6 Thomas O'Connell. 58 ·
Freeman B. Cushing. 70 6 24
19 Thomas Grant 43 8 27
66
21 Ellsworth Blaisdell Norton. 5 15
Samuel Beal .. 10
54 . . Exhaustion.
66
23 27 Mary Ann Tracy 33 Phthisis ..
66
John O'Halloran 55
Heart Disease ..
Diphtheria
Cause of Death.
Place of Birth.
Dysentery.
Spinal Dis. and Con ..
10
John O'Connor .. 40
4
Phthisis.
Old Age and Diarrhea Hemoptysis
Malassimilation
Cholera Infantum.
23
7 26 Alena A. (Blackwell) Jacobs, wife of Alfred W. 26
" 29
3
3
Sept. 1 1
Mabel E. Jones. 1 1 20 Wendall Otis Totman 26 . .
15
2
Lydia T. (Torrey) Cushing, wife of Benj. S. 65
3
7|11 Catherine (O'Brien) Hurlihy, wife of Dennis. 68
Helena Ella Pfefferkorn. 7
·
4
11
Ambrosine Friary . 5
Dropsy .
9 Marasmus
Typhoid Fever.
66
20
William Henry Turner, Jr. 25 10 20
Marasmus.
Heart Imperfect.
Stillborn
Asthenia.
.. Atheroma.
Pelvis Abscess.
Locomotor Ataxia .... Bilious and Typhoid Fever ..
Cerebral Apoplexy.
Spinal Meningitis
Cholera Infantum
.. 21 Joseph Diesilet .. 4 . Nov. 4 66
5 Willie Sherman Fearing .. 1| 3 ..
4
Thomas White ... 80
66
8
66
14
11 25 William Smith 57
13 Accidental Drowning -.
Phthisis Pulmonalis ...
4
Lucy P. (P att) Stoddard, wife of Nathaniel . 78 4 .
140
DEATHS. - Continued.
Age.
Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Cause of Death.
Place of Birth.
Nov. 7
Mary (McCarthy) Shaughnessy,
wife of John. .
64
9
Phthisis.
Endopericarditis.
14
Adeline R. Worster 71 11 15
ŒEdema of Lungs
66
21
George Henry Perry 48
2 16
66
22
Sarah Jane (Smith) Main, wife of George M. 28
1 11
Phthisis.
66
23
William J. McCarthy 30
2 20
Phthisis
23
Benjamin L. Cady. 63
8
46
23
Andrew J. Simpson. 53
3 14 Chronic Myelitis .
66
24
Carl Melvin Benson
h. Asthenia.
16
24
Patrick Ward. 61
5
Heart Disease
66
30
Bridget A. (Hogan) Lowell, wife of Walter E
23
3
1
Dec. 2
Hosea G. Pool.
85
6 17
2
Male child of James and Mary Barry.
. Stillborn
60
5
William Hanley.
50
Cerebral Congestion . ..
Ireland.
Weymouth. Hingham. Hanover. Weymouth.
Ireland. Quincy.
Number of marriages in the town of Weymouth for the year 1887 : -
Where one or both parties were a resident of the town
96
Non-residents
. 17
Total
Number of births :
Males
115
Females
.
121
Total
. 23.6
Number of deaths : -
Males .
92
Females
.
. 84
Total
. 176
Excess of births over deaths .
60
JOHN A. RAYMOND,
Town Clerk.
WEYMOUTH, Jan. 1, 1888.
Ireland. Weymouth. Maine. Wareham.
Maine. Weymouth. Foreign. Rhode Island. Boston. Weymouth. Ireland.
Weymouth.
Nancy W. (Richards) Weston, wife of Robert C. 71 2 12
Heart Disease.
Clinton Loud ..
67 1 23
S
Christopher S. Bass
S4 11 23
46
9
Alfred White
20
7 2
66
20
Nancy (Burrell) Nash, widow of George
S3
6 27
Paralysis.
23
Patrick McCue. 49
9
3
30
Benjamin Nightingale. 70
3 16
Typhoid Pneumonia. Paralysis
·
11
Mary J. Delorey
5
9
Years.
Mos
Days.
Apoplexy .
Suicide by Pistol Shot. : Congestion of Lungs .. :
2
.
. .
Pulmonary Phthisis ... Old Age
Consumpt'n of Bowels. Paralysis of Heart. Phthisis Pulmonalis ...
113
23 Charles Larson.
ENGINEERS' REPORT.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
GENTLEMEN, - According to custom, and in pursuance of the ordinance in relation to the Fire Department, we herewith respect- fully submit our annual report for the year ending Dec. 31, 1887. The report will be found to contain a list of members, a descrip- tion of the fire apparatus in use in the several wards, and an account of the fires which occurred during the year. There has been added to the department the past year one new hose wagon, which is placed in Ward 1. One hundred and fifty feet of new hose . has been bought and placed at Lovell's Corner, the money being taken from the appropriation to the department.
The department as now organized is under the control of Fire Engineers, as follows : -
F. D. THAYER, Chief. W. O. COLLIER, Clerk. C. E. BICKNELL, W. H. HOCKING, OTIS CUSHING.
WARD ONE.
Hose Wagon No. 1, 15 men, 1,050 feet hose. Assistant carriage, 5 men, 300 feet hose. Hook and Ladder Truck, 15 men.
WARD TWO.
Hose Carriage No. 2, 15 men. 1,850 feet hose. Steamer No. 2, 3 men.
Hook and Ladder Truck, 15 men.
WARD THREE.
Hose Carriage No. 3, 15 men, 1,900 feet hose. Steamer No. 3, 4 men.
Hook and Ladder Truck, no company.
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WARD FOUR.
Hose Company No. 4, 15 men, carriage, 600 feet hose, and set of ladders.
Assistant carriage, Lovell's Corner, 5 men, 550 feet hose. Set of ladders, 5 men, Lovell's Corner.
WARD FIVE.
Hose Carriage No. 5, 15 men, 1,400 feet hose. Hook and Ladder Truck, 15 men.
Chemical Engine No. 1, 9 men.
APPARATUS.
Steamers 2 and 3, Hose Carriages 2 and 3 have been thoroughly repaired. With the painting and varnishing of the four hook and. ladder trucks, all of the apparatus will then be in perfect order : and should no accident befall it, there will be no need of any ex- pense thereon for several years. The town still own the Active and Gen. Putnam hand engines, although we have had several parties from other towns to see them, and considerable effort has been made by the Board to dispose of them.
APPROPRIATIONS.
At a special town meeting, it was voted to pay all firemen serv- ing one year $10 for fire service. Some of the companies have sent bills for service at 30 cents per hour, the same as last year. The bills have been paid, with the understanding that the amount would be deducted from the $10 (if the town approved the vote by appropriating money for the same), as some of the companies have already been paid, and some have not a full number of men. As near as we can ascertain. $15 will be required to cover this expense. Under the present rules, when all the companies have the full number, there will be 178 men entitled to fireman's pay. The expense of the houses, the pay of the stewards, and the repairs necessary to keep the apparatus in as good condition as the past two years, would require at least $1,600 more.
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FIRE ALARM.
There is hardly need of our saying a word more of the advan- tage of a fire alarm to the town than was said in our report of last year. We stated the estimate of the cost of apparatus as given ns from the manufacturers, with whom we had a practical talk. We urge upon the town the necessity of the introduction of the tele- graph fire alarm ; it is needed to complete the practical working of the department. As every one must understand, it is the duty of engineer and firemen to get a stream of water on a fire as soon as possible, so no expense or trouble should be spared to aid in the direction and in giving to the department all the improvement of the most modern apparatus. A box in the district would have saved at least twenty minutes at the fire of Jotham Sallsbury estate in Ward 2. The one first discovering it was obliged to find some one to ring the alarm. The fire had by this time got well under way, but by hard work the house was saved, and something like two thousand dollars was saved to the insurance company ; and I wish to say here, that the department never received a word of thanks or acknowledgment that their work was well done. If the town desire a good fire department, we want a good supply of water, a perfect fire-alarm system, with engineers of cool judgment, and men of good discipline.
BUILDINGS.
We again feel compelled to ask the town to provide better ac- commodation for the company and hose carriage at Nash's Corner, as all of the voters did not seem to be satisfied with our judgment in the matter last year. We would submit the question to the Committee on Appropriation to appropriate as much money as they think Ward 4 entitled to for an engine house.
The other buildings will not require any very extensive repairs, more than the small repairs necessary from year to year.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
We desire to extend our thanks to the Board of Selectmen for the interest taken in our department during the past year.
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To the W. O. Collyer Hose Company 1 and the Z. L. Bicknell Hose Company our thanks are due for the very courteous manner in which we were received and entertained at the banquet, and it it goes to show the good feeling that exists between the companies and the Board of Engineers. I am truly grateful for the honor conferred in selecting me a second time as chief of the depart- ment, and in behalf of the Board I wish to extend our thanks to every officer and member of the department, for the active and willing response to all calls for their services.
Respectfully submitted, F. D. THAYER, Chief Engineer Weymouth Fire Department.
LIST OF FIRES AND ALARMS FOR THE YEAR 1887.
June 13. Stable and block, owned by L. A. Cook ; Hose No. 5, Truck No. 5, and Extinguisher responded.
July 10. Slight fire in J. A. Fogg's new block ; Hose No. 5 and Truck No. 5 responded.
Aug. . Dwelling-house owned by John Fennell ; Hose No. 2 and Truck No. 2 responded.
Oct. 7. Stable owned by Jotham Salisbury ; Hose No. 2 and Truck No. 2 responded.
Nov. 14. Manufacturing shop owned by M. Abbie Rogers ; Hose No. 2 and Truck No. 2 responded.
Needless alarm for fire out of town ; Hose No. 2, Truck No. 2, Hose No. 3, and Steamer No. 3 responded. Slight fire in stable owned by Mrs. Rockwood ; re- sponded to by Hose No. 1 and Truck No. 1.
The town of Quincy sent to Weymouth for assistance at the Quincy Point fire ; Steamer No. 3 was sent, and did effective service.
Alarm caused by fire in forest ; responded to by Hose No. 3 and Steamer No. 3.
1
REPORT
OF THE
TRUSTEES OF THE TUFTS LIBRARY.
The Board of Trustees respectfully submit their ninth annual report, as follows : -
The library has been open for the delivery of books, three hundred and four days during the year 1887.
The whole number of volumes loaned during the year was 52,427, making an average of 172+ per day. Of this circulation 22,458 volumes were distributed through the agencies in North, East, and South Weymouth. The books loaned were taken from the several departments of the library in these proportions, viz. : From the department of Arts, .022; from Biography, .023; from Fiction, .73; from History, .04; from Literature, .023; from Natural Science, .02; Poetry, .02; Social Science, .01; Travels, .06; Periodicals, .05 ; and from all other departments, .002.
The number of cards issued during the year to new borrowers was 331, making the whole number issued, 4,916 ; and 781 volumes have been added to the library since our last report, which now contains a total of 10,828 volumes.
The whole sum expended for the maintenance of the library during the last year was $2,407.92.
The annual inspection of the library, under the direction of the Trustees, was made on the second and third days of January instant, and all books belonging to it were accounted for, except. two well-worn volumes, which may have been discarded as unfit for circulation, without preserving a record of the fact.
The librarian reports a marked increase during the year in the use of books in the department of works of reference in the library, and suggests, as the result of her observation, that if suitable accommodations were provided for this department, and the reading-room, which, under the supervision of the Selectmen, is well supplied with standard periodical literature, the number of
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those who would avail themselves of these privileges would be largely and permanently increased.
The importance of this suggestion is much enhanced by the con- sideration that such increase of use would come principally from the more intellectual part of the community, the studious and ambitious pupils in our schools, and those numerous graduates of our schools, who have not suffered the material in- terests of adult years, wholly to exclude from their thoughts the desire for participation in the great mental struggles and achieve- ments of the age and country in which they live.
To meet this urgent need the Trustees hope to mature some plan of change in the present building, which will not require a large expenditure, to be submitted to the town in their next report.
The remark of one of the most successful teachers of the town, that upon the opening of the public library the " Dime Novel " of the sensational class had disappeared from his school, is a forcible illustration of the value of good books as an antidote, and also of the truth that the unperverted taste of boys and girls does not prefer poison to wholesome food for the mind, any more than it does for the body. If, indeed, a vitiation of mental taste may be an inheritance, as undoubtedly a vitiated physical one may be, it becomes for this reason more imperatively the duty of those who are in any degree responsible for the character of the reading pro- vided for youth to see, first, that it be free from immoral taint ; second, that it be attractive ; and third, instructive. From the be- ginning, it has been the aim of the Board of Trustees to devote their best efforts and a very considerable portion of the means placed at their disposal, to securing entertaining and useful read- ing for children and youth, and that they have been reasonably successful in this attempt is shown by the unusual uniformity and extent of the circulation of the library for the eight years of its existence.
A list of donations to the library during the past year, designat- ing the number of bound volumes and of pamphlets, is hereto appended.
JAMES HUMPHREY,
For the Board of Trustees.
WEYMOUTH, Jan. 2, 1888.
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DONATIONS.
Vols.
Pams.
Boston City
15
4
Brookline Public Library
1
Brooklyn Library .
2
Guimond, L. H., Esq.
1
Harris, Hon. B. W.
2
Hoar, Hon. G. F. .
4
Hopedale Public Library
1
Lovell, Hon. B. S. .
6
McIntosh, Robert, Esq. .
2
Maverick National Bank .
1
Monatiquot C. L. S. C.
1
Pierce, Hon. H. B.
3
2
Providence Public Library
1
Romero, Senor
1
Smithsonian Institution .
9
Tuttle, J. H., Esq.
1
Washington (Public Docs.)
20
8
Whitman Public Library
1
Unknown
1
Wright, C. D., Esq.
1
TREASURER'S REPORT
Of Receipts and Expenditures of Tufts. Library for the Year 1887.
RECEIPTS.
Jan. 1, 1887. Balance of cash on hand $271 17
Received fines collected by librarian . 132 02
Catalogues sold by librarian 27 54
Water supply 7 50
Interest on Tuft's Fund 100 00
One half amount of dog tax 442 27
Rent of store 400 00
Rent of Weymouth Gazette office 150 00
Of the town appropriation . 900 00
$2,430 50
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EXPENDITURES.
Paid Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for books $37 50
Cleaves, Macdonald & Co., for books . 113 75
Rev. Jacob Baker, for books 4 75
Hon. James Humphrey, for books 8 25
E. Harris, for books . 2 00
Estes & Lauriat, for books
26 51
Little & Brown, for books . 7 50
Robert Clark, for books 75
Scribner, for books 1 00
Robert Burlin, for books
34 50
Library Bureau, for books . 2 00
Laughton, Macdonald & Co., for books 609 32
$847 83
R. R. Bowker, magazines . 5 05
Historical Company, magazines .
23 75
McClurg & Co., magazines 1 05
29 83
J. G. Roberts & Co., binding 123 75
123 75
Alfred Mudge & Son, printing
28 50
C. G. Esterbrook, printing
18 25
Weymouth Gazette Pub. Co., printing, 6 25
A. W. Blanchard, printing 2 25
55 25
Library Bureau, supplies
12 32
Carroll W. Clark, supplies .
32 95
A. W. Blanchard, supplies
4 00
Estate George S. Baker, supplies
25 77
A. Storrs, supplies
1 40
N, L. Chamberlain, supplies
1 06
Smith & Morgan, supplies .
80
A. W. Bradbury, supplies .
2 00
J. W. Rand, post-office supplies
7 82
Library Association, membership
2 05
90 17
149
Librarian, services $400 00
Librarian, expenses of
. 59
L. C. Richards, assistant
10
C. E. L. Smith, services
5 75
Horace F. Trufant, janitor
75 60
$605 04
Oriental Oil Co., oil .
4 95
Haskell & Adams, oil .
4 08
J. Loud & Co., coal . 73 43
82 46
J. W. Bartlett, transporting and dis-
tributing books 52 00
W. O. Totman, distributing books 18 months 78 00
W. G. Nash, distributing books 25 00
Clark & Foster, distributing books
25 00
F. D. Pratt, transporting and distribut- ing books 40 00
A. L. Hobart, transporting books 10 50
Otis Cushing, transporting books 40 00
270 50
E. Bourk, expressing . 2 70
W. K. Baker & Son, expressing
13 55
Town of Weymouth, water tax
10 00
Elias Richards, insurance . 30 00
A. S. Jordan & Co., insurance
54 00
W. T. Burrell, painting
20 62
G. W. Hersey, painting, etc.
6 25
S. W. Pratt, repairs, etc.
12 46
Alexander Sherman, repairs, etc.
73 51
E. M. Nash, furnace .
55 00
John Ford, sprinkling
8 00
Clinton F. Pope, services
4 80
Mrs. McEvoy, services
12 20
Cash on hand
22 58
325 67
$2,430 50
AMOS S. WHITE, Treasurer.
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ASSESSORS' REPORT.
The undersigned, Assessors of the town of Weymouth, respect- fully submit the following report of their work for the year ending Dec. 31, 1887 : -
We have assessed upon the polls and estates of all persons liable to taxation in said town the following sums, which have been com- mitted to Alfred O. Crawford, Esq., Collector of Taxes, with our warrant in due form of law, for collection and payment of the same, in accordance with a vote of the town, passed at the last annual meeting : -
Town grant, $87,700 ; State tax, $7,470 ; county tax, $3,379.13 ; overlayings, $2,018.71 ; non-resident bank tax, $4,623.72. Total amount of commitment, $102,191.56. Number of polls assessed, 2,946 ; amount of real estate assessed, $4,185,516 ; personal, $1,536.718 ; total valuation, $5,722,234. Number of persons as- sessed only a poll-tax, 1,472. Total number assessed, 3,597.
Number of acres of land, 9,266 ; number of houses, 2,198 ; num- ber of horses, 903 ; number of cows, 564 ; number of neat cattle, other than cows, 65; number of swine, 61; number of sheep, 3.
Amount of Union Bank : resident stock, $239,120 ; non-resident stock, $248,880 ; total Union Bank stock, $488,000.
Amount of South Weymouth Bank : resident stock, $138,397 ; non-resident stock, $40,103 ; total South Weymouth Bank stock, $178,500. Total resident bank stock, $377,517. Total non-resi- dent bank stock, $288,983. Total amount of bank stock assessed, $666,500. Amount of property exempted from taxation, $114,- 715.
Respectfully submitted, LEONARD GARDNER, WILMOT CLEVERLY, JOHN P. BURRELL, GEORGE A. CUSHING, JACOB BAKER,
Assessors.
REPORT OF THE WATER COMMISSIONERS
OF THE
TOWN OF WEYMOUTH FOR THE YEAR 1887.
The Water Commissioners of the town of Weymouth respectfully submit their fifth annual report to the citizens of the town.
It is with great pleasure that we can congratulate the town at the continued success of their water works, and at the satisfactory re- turns we are receiving for the expense incurred.
Your Commissioners have continued to extend mains where called for, and as the funds at their disposal warranted.
A summary of the work performed, also of the income which the town derives from its water, may be seen from the following table.
(For a more itemized report of labor performed, see Superintend- ent's report. )
Whole number of services . 1,318
Number of services put in 1887
247
Number of feet of pipe laid in 1887
13,532
Income to Dec. 31, 1887 : -
From the town, for hydrants and fountains
$7,700 00
Water rents collected
. 16,337 64
Water rents due
612 27
$24,649 91
Less water rents for 1886, per last report
2,637 97
Income for year
$22,011 94
The principal extension of the past year has been in North Wey- mouth. Early in the summer a proposition was made to your Commissioners by the Bradley Fertilizer Company, that they should be allowed to take up the 6-inch main pipe from Bridge Street to their works, and replace it with a 10-inch main; also to lay an 8-inch pipe in Neck Street, from North to Bridge Street, connecting with the 10-inch main, at their expense, the town to allow the Bradley
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