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We have had electric lights put in throughout the house, and in the barn, and have contracted for the lighting at one hundred dol- lars a year. The cost for lighting is increased, but the risk from fire materially diminished, and with this added security we feel assured that the town will approve the expenditure.
The number of inmates who have been cared for, for the whole or a portion of the year, not including boarders and tramps, is thirty-five.
Eight deaths have occurred, as follows :-
Michael Smith, a State charge, aged 24, died January 12.
James G. Paige, aged 74 years, died February 5.
Patrick Lyons, a soldier boarder, aged 75 years, died April 12. Patrick Weathers, aged 65 years, died June 11.
Rachel Spear, aged 72 years, died July 15.
Henry Shaw, aged 87 years, died December 5.
Lyman Skelton, whose settlement was in Burlington, aged 61 years, died December 10.
William T. Cushing, aged 62 years, died December 13.
The number of tramps who have been provided with food and lodgings has been 756, a decrease of 426 from that reported for 1898. Those who patronize the house, as a rule, seem to take quite cheerfully to their morning exercise at the wood pile ; those who are constitutionally opposed to labor avoid the place. There is a very gratifying reduction in the number lodged from what it was at the high water mark in 1896, when there were 2,327. If the reduction for the next three years continues at the rate of the last three, the tramp problem, at least so far as it affects Wey- mouth, will have been solved.
HOSPITALS, ETC.
There has been no considerable change in the number or cost of this class of unfortunates ; $3,127.81 has been expended for the maintenance of the twenty-one persons, who for the whole or a portion of the year have been inmates of hospitals at the expense of the town.
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POOR OUT OF ALMSHOUSE.
A slight reduction appears in the number and in the cost of the town's poor out of the house for the last year.
The amount expended has been $7,155.67, being $90.02 less than for 1898, but the cost for the State, cities and towns has continued to increase, being $1,840.42. Also there has been an increase in the class "hospital bills refunded," which comprises those cases for which the town pays, but as the cost is refunded by relatives, their names do not appear in the detailed report. The amount so expended has been $1,193.88. It will be seen that the cost for these two classes has been $3,034.30. The town has for several years appropriated without raising $2,000.00 for these classes, which it is evident must be increased by at least $1,000.00.
GENERAL REMARKS.
In our report a year ago, we stated that by the operation of Chap. 425, Sec. 2, Acts of 1898, "which provides that all settlements not fully acquired subsequent to May 1, 1860, are defeated and lost," certain of the town's poor became state charges.
This construction of the law was probably not contemplated in its passage, and the State authorities had not then acknowledged that this would be its effect, but they have since done so and by reason thereof, Elizabeth Tirrell, Alonzo Tirrell, Leroy Tirrell and Leavitt B. Torrey at the almshouse, and George W. Poole and Henry C. Bates, of the outside poor, are acknowledged by them as State charges. With the exception of Elizabeth Tirrell, and George W. Poole, for whom they allowed $1.00 a week each, they proposed to remove these cases to the State Almhouse at Tewksbury, but upon further consideration we have reason to believe that they will allow $1.00 a week for all these cases, in which event we rec- ommend that the town continue to support them and pay the bal- ance of the cost of their maintance.
The working of this law has occasioned quite a revolution in the determining of old settlements, and while it will eventually, as
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designed by it promoters, simplify the work and release towns and cities from the care of those whose record has to be traced back, perhaps a hundred years for a settlement, and who may them- selves, their parents and grandparents have lived in other states, yet its immediate effect has been to require a large amount of re- search and consquent travel unless the town was willing to con- tinue aid to those from whom by the law it was released.
Nelson W. Gardner was appointed a committee on settlements, and has performed most of this work, devoting thereto much time and research, and with good results. Considerable expense has attended this work, but it has been money well invested, as several cases where aid was being rendered by other towns and cities, involving the expenditure of hundreds of dollars in years past, and with a reasonable certainty of its being thousands in years to come, are now removed from our list. There have been also a number of new cases where settlements were alleged in Weymouth, some of them with good prospect of being long con- tinued and expensive which we have escaped by the new law.
Our report shows a balance of but $556.80, which is plainly in- sufficient to complete the financial year, but as the amount ex- pended for other towns and cities and for hospital bills refunded was largely in excess of the appropriation, and will mostly, if not all, be paid into the treasury before the annual meeting, we recom- mend that $1,500.00 be appropriated without raising for the de- ficiency.
TOWN PHYSICIANS.
The following physicians were appointed for one year from June 6 : W. A. Drake for Ward 1 and the Almshouse at a salary of $100.00 a year; J. C. Fraser for Ward 2 at a salary of $60.00; George D. Bullock for Ward 3 at a salary of $50.00; K. H. Granger for Ward 4 at a salary of $40.00; E. N. May- berry for Ward 5 at a salary of $50.00.
Following are the conditions of their appointment :-
Dr. Drake to attend to the town's poor at the request of the Overseer of the Poor in Ward 1, or the Superintendent of the Almshouse, and the others to attend to the town's poor in their
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respective wards at the request of the Overseers of the Poor in their several wards.
They shall all furnish the medicines needed for the treatment of all cases to which they are called, but this shall not be considered to include medical foods, as cod liver oil, etc., neither surgical appliances nor vaccinnation, and added compensation shall be allowed for treatment of small-pox cases. The State poor and those having a settlement in other places shall be attended at a discount of 333 per cent. from regular fees.
GORDON WILLIS,
BRADFORD HAWES, C. E. BICKNELL, GEORGE L. NEWTON, NELSON W. GARDNER,
Overseers of the Poor.
WEYMOUTH, JJan. 1, 1900.
ALMSHOUSE SUPPLIES AND EXPENSES.
Inventory of January 2, 1899
$4,982 22
Paid Jordan Marsh & Co., for dry goods
162 36
S. S. Pierce, for medicines
5 50
Annie Cole, labor in house
6 00
Murphy & Mathewson, fish .
18 42
Charles Richards, cutting wood
104 95
Annie Grant, labor in house .
63 66
A. E. Hobart, stock food
8 00
F. W. Sanborn, lumber
12 18
Lot Lohnes, smithwork ·
11 45
F. A. Sulis, dry goods .
·
8 83
Simeon Coty, labor
23 00
Jerry Pitts, cutting wood
4 50
Williamena Atkinson, labor in house, and nurse
61 00
F. C. Small & Co., groceries
134 63
Cobb, Bates & Yerxa, groceries
.
200 39
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Paid James Milbury, labor on farm
$194 00
A. W. Baker, expressing
20.47
E. E. Gray, groceries .
22 47
Kate Leahy, labor in house
13 75
John Carr, labor on snow George Cheney, five cows
270 00
G. M. Davis, meat
283 97
John Brown, labor on snow
4 00
S. F. Brown, oil .
25 65
Annie Dyer, labor in house
19 00
Kendall, vegetables 1
3 50
Walsh Brothers repairing harness
. 10
N. E. Soap Co., soap .
18 82
Seth Blackwell, repairing sewing machines
4 75
Samuel Rudges, labor
3 75
George Bicknell, leather
2 50
Alice Quirk, labor in house
129 30
Circuit Provision Co., provisions
108 40
Thomas South, smithwork
60 78
Caswell & Livermore, fish
9 75
Medicine for P. Weathers
8 50
22 10
5 90
. 62
J. J. Kerrigan, three cows
143 00
M. P. Garey, insurance
4 50
Gustin & Saunders, potatoes
10 35
J. Breck & Son, wire fencing hospital expense for P. Weathers insect powder
9 40
2 00
A. Tracy, fish
43 90
Lizzie Ahearn, labor in house
45 50
herring
1 00
clothes for Emma Hanley ·
3 00
soap
10 00
L. J. Hart, clothing for inmates
43 85
J. B. Rhines & Co.,
31 81
C. D. Harlow & Co., bill M. Sheehy & Co., leather Everett Loud, goods freight
1 02
33 50
3 00
163
Paid W. H. Spencer, labor and material
$13 54
E. H. Frary, bill . .
.
4 85
J. H. Elliot . 4 60
Rose Hanley, care of P. Weathers . 10 00
Baker Hardware Co., bill
21 47
Francis Abele, V. S., services
28 00
Ford Furniture Co.
6 10
Weymouth and Braintree Publishing Co. 4 00
Mrs. Rangely, labor in house
25 00
William Milbury, labor on farm 31 50
Inmates to Weymouth fair
4 00
C. D. Harlow, bill
15 25
J. R. Walsh, newspaper
2 50
Thayer, for fowl .
12 00
George Milbury, cutting wood
116 50
Lizzie O'Rourke, labor in house
40 00
Diebold Safe Co., changing combination 4 00
Lena Millbury, labor in house
13 00
Globe, newspaper
6 00
Post Office, box rent
1 00
Glenrose Farm, turnips
1 00
travelling expenses
21 00
medicine for Lyman Skeleton
3 00
French & Merchant, dry goods
23 17
Sadie Maher, labor in house . 12 00
71 34
George W. Davis .
10 00
J. E. Connell, bill
5 25
Whitcomb & Fisher, crackers
39 68
. Weymouth Clothing Store, bill Peoples Shoe Store, bill
47 30
T. H. Emerson, grain
700 35
A. J. Richards & Son, coal
215 08
Edward Flannery, wood
25 00
Fore River Engine Co., repairs
5 54
Eldridge, Baker & Bain, supplies
142 27
Bartlett Brothers, supplies ·
41 65
J. H. Stetson, Treasurer, water rent
65 00
E. W. Hunt, groceries .
82 50
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Paid E. Bourk, expressing .
$1 30
Bradford Hawes, wood .
.
57 50
Bradley Company, fertilizer
31 00
Humphrey Bros. supplies
1 45
Weymouth Light & Power Co., lights
33 33
Weymouth Seam Face Granite Co., wood
75 75
W. G. Nash, supplies .
62 48
J. F. Nickerson, supplies
16 77
truss for M. Daley
4 00
Austin B. Shaw, wood .
7 00
Town, for rent of farm .
300 00
Charles F. Atkinson and wife, services .
850 00
$10,842 02
ALMSHOUSE INVENTORY OF PERSONAL PROPERTY, JANUARY 1, 1900.
3 horses
$300 00
brush, comb and
1
12 cows
·
·
600 00
cards $3 00
4 ladders 12 00
5 ploughs
·
25 00
grain and grass seeds
11 00
7 hoes
1 40
65 cords manure ·
325 00
1 4 iron bars . . 3 00
2 double harnesses
50 00
2 picks
2 00
3 cart
25 0.0
1 brush hook
50
1 single harness .
18 00
corn sheller
2 00
75 ft. hose
1 00
meal chest and
300 ft. fire hose and nozzle
75 00
3 sleds
60 00
1 horse hay fork .
20 00
1 2-horse cart
50 00
7 stable pails
2 00
1 coal wagon
80 00
7 manure forks
2 00
2 farm wagons
100 00
1 hay knife
50
1 1-horse tip-cart
35 00
1 hay cutter
3 00
1 covered wagon .
30 00
4 horse blankets .
4 00
1 pung
5 00
halters and lead
1 roller
.
5 00
reins
5 00
1 drag
·
.
6 00
·
220 00
11 hogs
22 tons hay .
396 00
2 cultivators .
5 00
.
trough . 2 00
.
.
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1 mowing machine $25 00
1 horse rake 15 00
1 tedder 25 00
1 2-horse-harrow 25 00
1 buckling harrow 5 00
1 1-horse harrow 3 00
1 seed sower 4 00
1 seed sower hand 5 00
1 snow plough 10 00
chest tools 8 00
1 shave horse .
00
1 cross-cut saw 50
11 wood saws 8 25
6 axes 3 00
beetle and wedges 2 00
7 milk cans . 10 50
52 milk cans .
26 00
300 ft. wire rope
·
15 00
11 axe handles 1 00
wire line
.
3 00
50 lbs. nails . 2 00
8 chains
8 00
2 bbls. lime and
hair . 3 00
wood . 504 00 ·
2 bags phosphate . 3 00
blocks and ropes 5 00
skids 2 00
coal shovels 3 00
ladder hooks .
00
200 bean poles 10 00 ·
11 stake chains 5 00
8 wrenches . 4 00
20 bu. turnips 8 00
4 bbls. vegetables 6 50
30 gal. kerosene 3 30
1 kerosene tank 6 50
2 churns 3 00
and poles 6 50
7 bbls. soft soap . 35 00
1 grind stone ·
8 00
200 lbs. salt pork 15 00
131 25
8 spades and
175 bu. potatoes . shovels 2 00
1 carriage jack $1 00
8 whiffle trees and chains 15 00
2 hames
2 00
1 double pung 20 00
1 sleigh 10 00
6 snow shovels 1 50
2 stable brooms 50
4 feed baskets 2 00
1000 ft. lumber 11 00
1700 ft. barbed wire . 5 50
2 hogsheads 1 50
balances 3 00
4 lanterns
1 00
1 copper pump 6 00
1 oil can
1 00
shoe jack .
1 00
cleaver
50
76 cords wood 304 00
61 cords wood (in woods) ·
183 00
693 cedar posts ·
277 20
2 spade forks 1 00
measures and
baskets 5 00
50 barrels
5 00
31 fowl
15 50
scythes and
smaths, forks
84 cords prepared
3 bbls. pumpkin 3 00
166
12 boxes $ 60
1 coffee grinder $3 00
1 ice cream freezer 2 00
40 lbs evap. apples 4 00
12 stone jars
6 00
8 empty barrels 2 40
36 milk pans
7 20
5 milk pails
3 00
80 galls. vinegar
12 00
5 bbls. flour
22 50
70 lbs. lard .
5 25
300 lbs. sugar .
15 40
15 lbs. oatmeal and barley .
50
300 lbs. tea
90 00
ing in store
150 lbs. coffee
24 00
room
269 92
50 lbs. butter
13 00
household furni-
10 lbs. cheese
1 00
ture 700 00
1} bu. beans
3 38
office furniture 45 00
48 lbs. tobacco
13 44
1 bbl. apples
.
2 00
$5,645 08
4 brooms
.
1 20
We the undersigned appraise the Town Farm 64 acres land
$6,400 00
Buildings on the same
10,000 00
$16,400 00
WALTER L. BATES, HENRY A. NASH, JR., GEO. E. REED.
Auditors.
RECEIPTS ON ACCOUNT OF ALMSHOUSE FOR 1899.
From Dennis Cohen, for milk Benjamin Loring, for milk 40 00 .
$126 10
William Dowse, for milk F. W. Piercy, for milk . .
4 10
806 58
sale of wood .
179 50
preserves . 27 50
¿ bbl. crackers 20
1 tobacco cutter 50
2 tons coal . 11 00
miscellaneous groceries 26 19
dry goods, boots & shoes, cloth-
167
From sale of calves
$13 25
George Cheney, five cows
170 00
Albert Davison, board . 57 00
James Sullivan, board . 30 00
Mary F. Rosey, board . 25 00
James Field, board
16 00
C. Steadman, board
8 00
B. Bosworth, board
7 30
P. Lyons, washing
3 60
removal of snow on highways
82 50
highway repairs £ Gordon Willis, for potatoes
2 00
G. M. Davis, for potatoes
42 00
G. M. Davis, for pork .
39 00
G. M. Davis, for fowl .
4 80
E. W. Hunt, for pork .
13 34
E. W. Hunt, for vegetables
9 00
sale of corn .
3 20
Town, for cedar posts
12 40
sale of bone mill .
8 00
other sources
4 50
Town, wood for schools
116 38
wood and carting coal to outside poor .
525 00
wood and carting coal to engine houses
71 00
wood and carting coal to town house and lockups
9 75
board of Patrick Lyons, under Chap. 447 .
29 14
board of Albert Davison, under Chap. 447 . 31 86
board of Mary F. Rosey, under Chap. 447 .
77 00
Nelson W. Gardner, guardian, board of Martha Blanchard
96 00
Commonwealth, for State poor
79 86
$2,815 16
Inventory, Jan. 1. 1900
$5,645 08
Total
$8.460 24
72 00
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SUMMARY OF ALMSHOUSE.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES FOR 1899.
Dr.
To inventory of January 2, 1899 . $4,982 22
supplies and expenses, as per memorandum
4,709 80
Charles F. Atkinson and wife, services .
850 00
Town, for rent of farm .
300 00
$10,842 02
Cr.
By receipts on account of Almshouse
$2,815 16
inventory of January 1, 1900
5,645 08
$8,460 24
Cost for the year
$2,381 78
IMPROVEMENT ACCOUNT.
Paid Bates Furniture Co.
$62 69
C. J. Scott, labor .
35 98
M. R. Loud & Co.
216 85
W. W. Bouldry
15 00
Weymouth Light & Power Co.
183 75
·
.
.
$514 27
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INMATES OF THE ALMSHOUSE DURING THE YEAR 1899.
Date ad. mitted.
NAME.
Age.
Remarks.
Weeks.
Days.
1899
Jan. 1
Elizabeth Tirrell .
79
Continues
52
1
1
Elizabeth C. Tirrell
43
Continues
52
1
1
Alonzo Tirrell
58 Continues
52
1
66
1
Leroy S. Tirrell
57 Continues
52
1
66
1
Lucius Tirrell .
57 Continues
52
1
1
John W. Gillion
97
Continues
52
1
66
1
Ida A. Davis
38
Continues
52
1
66
1 Patrick Cohen
56
Continues
52
1
1
Patrick Weathers
65
Died June 11
23
1
66
1 Leavitt B. Torrey
46 Continues
52
1
66
1
Walter Gilliver
43
Continues
52
1
66
1 George A. Nash
31
Continues
52
1
66
1
Rachel Spear
72 Died July 15
28
0
66
1
James Field
54
Left Dec. 5
48
3
1
Daniel J. Gilligan
35
Left June 18
24
1
66
1 George N. Briggs
50
Left March 1
8
4
66
1 Harriet N. Maxim
75
Continues
52
1
66
1 Henry L. Lovell .
57
Continues
52
1
66
1
Rose Hanley
27
Left June 7
22
4
66
1 Martha J Blanchard
46
Continues (boarder)
52
1
66
1 James G. Paige
74 1
Left June 7
22
4
1
Rosa Reidy
71
Continues
52
1
1
Michael Smith
24 Died Jan. 12 (State)
1
5
66
28
James Sullivan
67 Left Oct. 23
42
2
Feb.
1
Albert L. Coolidge
50 Left Feb. 21
3
0
66
8 John F. Kelley
39 Left Feb. 17
1
3
Aug.23
Oliver W. Briard .
61 Left Sept. 8
2
2
Sep. 15
Fred T. Coolidge
58 Continues
15
3
Oct. 5
Wm. T. Cushing .
62 Died Dec. 13
10
0
“. 25
Jacob W. French
63
Continues
9|
5
.
Died Feb. 5
5
1
1 Emma L. Hanley
1
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INMATES OF THE ALMSHOUSE DURING THE YEAR 1899 .- Continued.
Date ad. mitted.
NAME.
Age.
Remarks.
Weeks.
Days.
-
1899
Nov. 13
Henry Shaw
87
Died Dec. 5 .
3
2
Dec. 1
Lyman Skelton
61
Died Dec. 10 (Burl- ington)
1
3
66
25
Benjamin Glover .
72
Continues
1 0
66
26
Chas. E. Raymond
49
Continues
0
6
26
Frank Curry
34
Continues
0
6
Jan. $1
Patrick Lyons
75
Died April 12, Soldier ( boarder)
14
4
66
1
Albert Davison
65
Absent 7 weeks, 3 days Soldier (boarder) . Soldier's widow (boar- der) absent Sept. 8 to 18
50
6
756 tramps one day each
108
Total
1276
1
Deduct for boarders .
162
2
Cost of poor per week $2.13 plus.
1113
6
·
44
5
66
1
Mary F. Rosey
63
171
ASSISTANCE RENDERED TO POOR OUTSIDE OF ALMSHOUSE.
WARD ONE.
Paid children of Cora Ruggles
$84 00
Child of Abbie L. Joy .
36 00
Wallace Manuel and family
132 00
Stephen A. Bicknell
83 00
Elizabeth A. Loud
76 26
Noble Morse and wife
92 25
John R. Burns and wife
14 60
John Garland
29 88
Mrs. Joseph McCarty and children .
18 00
$565 99
WARD TWO.
Paid Ann Lynch and children
$272 94
Mrs. Charles Tormey
120 00
Catherine Moran and children
185 27
Ann Crosby
48 00
Lavinnia Bullard
71 75
Lucy Packard
72 00
Margaret Donahue and child .
49 00
Mrs. Michael Nugent and children
237 18
Edward Dwyer and family
147 80
Harriet Burrell
138 00
William Fogarty
107 00
Joseph Bagley and wife
57 75
Catherine Barrett .
48 00
Mary Fennell
16 00
William Robert's children
72 00
Timothy Kennedy child
15 00
Mrs. John Welch and children
114 38
Seth C. Dunbar and wife
25 75
John W. Moran's children
30 00
Catherine Lively
52 00
O. W. Briard
6 00
172
Paid James Gumb
$5 00
Thomas F. Smith .
15 50
Herbert Burrell
1 00
Mrs. D. W. Spinney
20 00
Thomas F. Mawn
29 00
George W. Dunbar and family
22 00
John E. Cross and family
3 00
John Kennedy
6 00
Patrick Quinn
3 00
James Sullivan
6 00
$1,996 32
WARD THREE.
Paid Mrs. Stephen White
$126 64
Susan B. Rich and children
105 01
Mrs. Thomas McCarty and children
251 77
Robert V. Barnes and wife
123 14
Harvey Barnes and wife
91 77
Baxter Torrey
96 00
Robert Saunders
60 00
Mary Carey
72 00
Silas Ross
36 52
- Tracy children
24 00
Thomas F. Burrell and wife
3 13
John W. Griffin
40 00
Elizabeth Bailey
25 00
Mrs. John Lyons and children
66 25
William W. Dalton
84 00
Frank E. Morrison
6 00
Henry C. Perry
15 00
$1,226 23
WARD FOUR.
Paid Mrs. Godfrey Ahlstedt and children
$150 63
Mrs. Ira Noyes
46 63
Nellie Noyes and child .
.
·
93 25
173
Paid Henry Shaw
$116 50
Mary E. Derusha and children
31 75
Charles E. Tirrell
24 00
Joseph P. Dunbar
48 00
Margaret Sheehy
19 00
Mary E. Sheehy .
.
97 00
$626 76
WARD FIVE.
Paid George W. Hayden
$130 00
George W. Poole . :
104 00
Mrs. John T. Madden and children
166 75
Mrs. Charles H. Phillips and children
210 00
Henry C. Bates
68 00
James Vining
52 00
Cora E. Randall and child
188 24
Grace Hunt .
204 00
Clarence Saunders
4 00
Mrs. Charles E. Raymond and child
77 00
George Davis and family
187 10
George Orcutt
45 00
Melvin Thompson
7 50
Family of John Vogelstein
1 00
Michael Crowley .
5 75
$1,450 34
ASSISTANCE RENDERED BY WEYMOUTH IN OTHER TOWNS AND CITIES.
Paid Bridget Ryan and children, Brookline $156 00
Estelle Lincoln and children, Hingham 156 00
John A. Hickman and family, Boston
156 00
Mary Ahearn, Braintree
64 00
Gaylen F. Damon, Chelsea
12 00
$544 00
174
ASSISTANCE RENDERED BY OTHER TOWNS CITIES.
AND
Paid Town of Rockland, Mary A. Delorey and child $72 00
Emily Sargent
52 00
Catherine Lane . 52 50
Julia Lane 99 75
Town of Randolph, Mrs. John C. Welch
6 00
Town of Avon, Luther B. Beal's children
125 78
City of Boston, Harriet Stetson
56 00
Town of Abington, family of Albert Bates
20 00
City of Brockton, family of Dennis Collins
14 95
James R. McFaun
1 55
Elizabeth McFaun
28 00
Mary Fennell
80 00
Ernest F. Raymond, 1898 .
9 00
City of Chelsea, Gaylen F. Damon
32 50
City of Boston, Emma L. Hanley
7 00
Rosa Reidy, 1898
10 00
Mabel V. Keene
27 00
Stephen Murphy
47 00
Town of Maynard, Jacob W. French
3 00
Town of Norwell, George Dyer
2 00
$746 03
Total out of Almshouse
$7,155 67
TAUNTON INSANE HOSPITAL.
Paid for board, Margaret Lonnegan
$169 46
Frank W. Wrightington
169 46
Abbie A. Tirrell .
169 46
Wilfred A. Blanchard
169 46
Martha J. White .
169 46
Elizabeth A. Fox
169 46
Clara M. Bouldry
177 35
Annie C. Barnard
.
9 75
$1,203 86
175
WORCESTER INSANE HOSPITAL.
Paid for board, Clarissa E. Richards $169 46
John Donnelly ·
169 46
$338 92
WORCESTER INSANE ASYLUM.
Paid for board, James J. Brown .
$169 46
WESTBORO INSANE HOSPITAL.
Paid for board, John W. Griffin . $38 07
NORTHAMPTON INSANE HOSPITAL.
Paid for board, Rosa Nugent $111 44
MEDFIELD INSANE ASYLUM.
Paid for board, George F. Groves $146 00
DANVERS INSANE HOSPITAL.
Paid for board, Nathan H. Pratt $169 46
MASSACHUSETTS HOSPITAL FOR EPILEPTICS.
Paid for board, Everett D. Turner $169 47
Jolın H. Leduc .
169 46
Adeline Tirrell .
169 46
$508 39
CARNEY HOSPITAL.
Paid for board, Patrick Yourell
.
$126 75
176
STATE FARM.
Paid for board, James Hines $146 00
PRIVATE FAMILY, CHARLESTOWN.
Paid for board, Mary E. Sargent . $169 46
$3,127 81
TOWN PHYSICIANS.
Paid W. A. Drake, services Ward 1 and Almshouse $100 00
J. C. Fraser, services Ward 2 60 00
F. P. Virgin, services Ward 3 50 00
K. H. Granger, services Ward 4 £ 40 00 .
K. H. Granger, services Ward 4, 1898 20 00
E. N. Mayberry, services Ward 5 . 50 00
$320 00
MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.
Paid John Ford Co., burial of Henry Carr . $20 00
Weymouth and Braintree Pub. Co., reports 10 80
J. H. Stetson, Treas., water rent, F. Drayton . 6 00
F. L. King, burial of James G. Paige .
20 00
F. L. King, burial of Patrick Weathers . 20 00
G. W. Young, use of teams for Overseers
10 50
$87 30
ASSISTANCE RENDERED THOSE HAVING A SETTLE- MENT IN OTHER PLACES, AND STATE POOR.
Paid Henrietta Shaw, Abington $22 00
Edgar E. Merrill, Berlin .
8 00
177
Paid Walter Johnson, Braintree
$146 00
Maurice Dowd, Braintree
.
304 15
Neil Neilson, Boston
18 69
Walter Forbes, Boston .
134 92
Annie Lane, Boston
56 13
Hannah Leary, Boston .
25 98
Mary Cantens, Boston .
25 00
Albree Hunt, Canton
8 00
W. W. Jones, Hingham
12 38
Alvah C. Arnold, Hingham . .
30 00
Walter B. Stetson children, Marshfield
42 00
Edwin C. Litchfield family, Norwell
147 69
Charles A. Hollis, Randolph .
40 50
Ella Winslow, Rockland
117 00
Lucy H. Thompson, Rockland
29 00
Howland L. Hunt, Scituate .
156 00
Mrs. P. F. Magnire, Stoughton
52 00
Lyman Skelton, Burlington
226 99
Martin Hennessy, Lynn
31 34
Edward Hiller, State
95 24
Daniel Mahoney family, State
17 63
. Gabriel Pelos, State
12 88
Margaret Raleigh, State
17 00
Albin Pihlcrantz, State
47 40
Michael Smith, State
15 00
Mrs. A. M. Bates .
. 50
$1,840 42
JOHN H. STETSON, Treasurer :
Dr.
To cash received as follows :
Hospital bills refunded .
$1,024 01
Sundries refunded .
90 01
From State on Almshouse account
79 86
$1,193 88
178
SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES ON ACCOUNT OF THE POOR FOR THE YEAR 1899.
Cost at Almshouse
$2,381 78
Out of Almshouse
7,155 67
At hospitals, etc., .
3,127 81
Town physicians .
320 00
Miscellaneous expenditures
87 30
Improvement account
514 27
Cost of the town poor for the year
$13,072 56
Paid for state, cities and towns
1,840 42
Sundries refunded
1,193 88
$16,621 13
APPROPRIATIONS.
Balance from 1898 .
$1,177 93
Appropriation for deficiency
1,000 00
Annual appropriation
15,000 00
$17,177 93
Unexpened balance .
$556 80
INVENTORY.
Dr.
To inventory of 1899
$5,645 08
Cr.
1
By inventory of 1898
.
$4,982 22
$662 86
TOWN.
For rent of farm
$300 00
JOHN H. STETSON, Treasurer Cr. By 376 orders drawn in 1898
$16,983 99
179
TRIAL BALANCE, DECEMBER 31, 1899.
Dr. Cr.
Cost at almshouse . $2.381 78
improvement account, almshouse . 514 27
at hospitals, etc. 3,127 81
out of almshouse
7,155 67
Miscellaneous account 87 30 .
Salaries of town physicians .
320 00
Paid for State, cities and towns
1,840 42
J. H. Stetson, Treas., sundries re- funded .
1,193 88
Inventory
662 86
Town for rent of farm ·
$300 00
J. H. Stetson, Treas., orders drawn
16,983 99
$17,283 99
$17,283 99
ASSESSORS' REPORT.
The undersigned Assessors of the Town of Weymouth present a statement of their work for the year ending Dec. 31, 1899.
We have assessed upon the polls and estates of all persons and corporations liable to taxation in this town the sum of $143,517.95, and have committed the same to Willard J. Dunbar, Esq., the duly elected Collector of Taxes, with a warrant in due form of law for collection and payment in accordance with the vote of the town, viz. :
Town grant
. $128,278 00
State tax
3,915 00
County tax
6,214 28
Non-resident bank tax .
2,650 36
Street railway excise tax :
Quincy and Boston Street Railway
705 14
South Shore and Boston Street Railway
360 66
Overlayings
1,292 35
Supplementary commitment
102 16
$143,517 95
182
VALUATION AND POLLS.
WARD.
Valuation of Per- sonal Property Assessed.
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