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The system of " object teaching" is rapidly advancing in public favor. Long ago, the Prussians abandoned the old plan of teaching the names of the letters of the alphabet, and have since instructed only in the sounds of the six vowels, the sounds of the twenty consonants, with the diphthongs and triphthongs. An object is delineated upon the board with its name printed and written, all of which the pupil is expect- ed to copy. When the interest flags, questions concerning the object are asked ; to which full replies are required, always with a view to securing correct grammatical construction : and thus spelling, reading, writing, drawing, and grammar are actually taught before the alphabet is ever mentioned.
How lifeless appears much of our elementary (?) teaching compared with this ! The abecedarian, with listless eye, fol- lows wearily the pointer, echoing a, b, c, through all that senseless round of twenty-six detested characters, perhaps every day in three months. How can the young child be ex- pected to turn with delight from all the attractive objects that nature everywhere presents to a column of unsuggestive letters ?
The art of drawing is of great practical advantage to eve- ry one. Every farmer boy should be able to plan a field, sketch a road, draw the outlines of a machine, and draught a simple plan of a house or barn ; and it is of especial advan- tage to the mechanic. In short, it renders every man more serviceable to his fellow-man, and better able to encounter the difficulties and discouragements of life, while it is a never- failing source of the most innocent gratification. Some in-
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born engineer, engraver, or inventor may be discovered by it at play among your little ones.
I well recollect how young Bemis, afterwards one of our best landscape painters, astonished all the good farmers of the neighborhood by his life-like sketches /of animals in full size upon his father's barn. But he would not admit that it was · natural talent, attributing it all to the closest study of the forms of nature.
Gay, the first landscapist of Boston, who has so faithfully reproduced the coast-scenes of our own South Shore, first at home, and then with Troyon at Paris, has been a most diligent student.
Our schools may never produce a Gay, nor even a Bemis ; but we trust they may send forth many intelligent and useful men and women, among whose accomplishments the art of drawing shall not be the least.
And here excuse another word for music. With vivid visions before me of many happy hearts and homes, I feel like going before the committee, and begging them to grant general instruction in vocal music to all our schools. Have no fear; O ye parents, who cannot sing ! your children shall not know less of the other branches, but more, -yes, all the more, - for its introduction. That child, in whose wandering heart evil passions may for the moment reign unhappily, shall be touched by a song in which the soft voices of childhood sweetly blend, and call him back to duty. And who will say he is not made the better by it? Ay, fathers, mothers, we must perform this duty freely ; for duty it is, although so strangely neglected.
It should be practised also because it promotes health. We can see the truth of this, even without considering the health ful exercise of the lungs. Happy people live to be old ; and there is no exercise in all the teacher's list that can call such happy smiles and such universal animation, as spring so joyously from every heart at the announcement of a song.
In a certain country where every child that can speak is considered a natural singer, and where musical instruction is given to all, the children always speak the name of the deity -" Der leibe Gott " - the dear God ! Does not music have
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an influence in this ? Has it not softened the hearts, and filled them with love and praise to the dear Father, whose blessings, falling all around, have attracted their hearts to him ?
It promotes patriotism. Probably the singing of our na- tional anthem, " America," enlisted thousands of soldiers in the late war. It will have an effect as happy upon the chil- dren. It was sung lately at the gift-tree in Number Four ; and I venture to say that there was not a heart there that did not thrill again with rapture at the enkindling strains of that grand old hymn.
A new voice was heard, too, - the tenor of the new super- intendent ; and we all felt that this subject - and all that per- tains to our schools - is left in good hands for another year.
All which is respectfully submitted.
G. HUBERT BATES,
Superintendent.
SCITUATE, March 18, 1867.
TABULAR STATEMENT.
NAME OF SCHOOL.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHER.
Number of
Average
attendance,
Spring term.
Average attendance,
Fall term.
· Average
attendance,
Winter t'm.
Average
attendance,
for the year !
High School,
A. J. Sessions, G. W. Merritt, G. H. Bates,
John T. Cook,
46
33
34
30
32
No. 1, Brook Street,
A. J. Waterman, J. O. Cole,
Aurelia G. Whiting, Sarah L. Young,
4.7
36
25
30
30
No. 3, N. Main Street,
G. C. Lee,
( Mary L. Manson, Harriet R. Ellins, Deborah N. Hatch,
54
39
36
45
40
No. 4, Grove Street,
C. L. Damon,
45
38
34
36
36
No. 5, High Street,
Henry Damon,
( Flora T. Allen, Cyrus Stone, Jr., M. Kate Hall,
37
26
19
29
25
No. 6, Beach Street,
J. B. Turner, G. H. Bates,
( Abby A Cook,
43
34
34
37
35
No. 8, Willow Street,
T. Tilden,
Mary L. Manson, Lizzie J. Vinal,
46
39
31
30
33
No. 9, Central Street. No. 10, Charles Street,
A. J. Merritt,
Mary F. Perry,'
48
36
36
33
35
Harvey Curtis,
Mary C. Parkinson,
21
17
19
18
18
Aggregate attending school,*
471
32
30
31
30
* Number of scholars over 15 years of age, - High School, 25; West (High Street), 1.
Number of children between 5 and 15,
446
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66 last year,
418
Increase, 28
Apportionment of Income of School Fund, $137 00.
The average attendance has been greatly reduced by whooping-cough and mumps.
23
16
16
13
15
No. 7, Common Street,
61
36
48
46
43
No. 2, South Street.
Scholars.
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN
-ON THE --
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS
THE-
TOWN OF SCITUATE,
For the year ending March 1, 1868.
ALSO, THE
REPORTS OF THE TOWN CLERK AND SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
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PLYMOUTH: PLYMOUTHI ROCK STEAM PRESS. 1868.
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REPORT.
The Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Scituate respectfully submit the following Report, showing the Expenditures and Receipts of the Town, from March 4, 1867, to March 2, 1868, and its financial condition at the date last named.
STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE.
ITEMS OF EXPENDITURE.
For debts of previous years.
For debts accrued in 1867.
Totals.
Reimbursement of Bounties ..
$7 01
$7 01
Payments to Company C, for military services.
.....
$957 00
957 00
Payments for State Aid, under law of 1866.
......
554 00
......
Payments for State Aid, under law of 1867.
......
771 00
1,325 00
Law Expenses.
117 80
117 80
Repairs of Little's Bridge
28 77
64 07
92 81
Ordinary Repairs of Roads and Bridges.
212 83
212 83
Special Repairs of Roads and Bridges
622 24
622 24
Construction and widening of Roads.
4,167 31
101 25
4,271 56
Repairs of Public Buildings
......
202 95
202 95
Removal of Snow.
987 57
2,037 11
3,021 68
Incidental School Expenses.
6 48
58 69
65 17
Support of Schools.
268 50
3,070 26
3,338 76
Support of the Poor.
130 07
1,659 SO
1,789 87
Printing, Stationery and Postage.
189 86
180 S6
Town Officers.
39S 62
398 62
Abatement of Taxes.
...
487 91
487 91
Miscellaneous.
752 76
752 76
Total amount of Orders drawn:
$5,505 71
$12,261 15
$17,856 86
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STATEMENT OF EXPENSES FOR THE YEAR. REMOVING SNOW.
Am't of Orders drawn and expense for the year, $2,037 11 The expense incurred in March, 1867, was $385 00
Dec.
1,120 27
Jan. & Feb. '68, 531 84
$2,037 11
INCIDENTAL SCHOOL EXPENSES.
Amount of Orders drawn and expense, - - $58 69 Of which was paid-
For removal of desks and seats, -
- $5 50
" cleaning school room's, -
- 25 25
" brooms, pails, &c., -
- 13 44
" clock for High School,
-
-
4 00
" chairs,
-
-
-
-
10 50
$58 69
SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS.
Amount of Orders drawn, -
-
-
$3,070 26
Due to Mary F. Perry, for teaching School in Dist. No. 10, - $67 50
Due to Emily S. Lee, for teaching School in Dist. No. 4, -
25 00
Due for making fires in Dist. No 2, -
2 00
Claim of C. H. Sylvester, for care of
High School room,
-
6 00
$100 50
Total expense,
-
-
$3,170 76
From this deduct the Town's share of School Fund, 197 16
And the net cost of teachers' wages, fuel and care of School rooms, is - - $2,973 60
Of which the amount expended-
For teachers' wages, is -
-
- - $2,733 00
" fuel and preparation, - - - 381 01
" making fires and care of school room, - 48 00
" outline maps, - - - - 8 75
$3,170 76
Deduct amount of School Fund,
-
197 16
Balance, - - - - $2,973 60
REPAIRS OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Amount of Orders drawn, - - $202 95
Due for repairs of No. 2 School House, (estimated) 2 00
Total expense, - - - $204 95
The chief items of expense are-
Painting Armory, - -
- 81 82 -
Inside fitting for Armory, - - - - 21 92
Grading around Nos. 4 and 8 School Houses, - 34 00
Leaving for other repairs, -
67 21
$204 95
SUPPORT OF THE POOR.
Amount of Orders drawn, ~ $1,659 80
Due Taunton Hospital for board of A. Hayden, from Jan. 1, $30 00
Due Taunton Hospital for board of
Mary Sylvester, from Jan. 1, 30 00
Due Taunton Hospital for board of
M. Harrub, from Jan. 1, 30 00
6
Due Town of Cohasset for ~ board
of 3 paupers from Feb. 1, $43 17
Claim of Cohasset for medical at- tendance upon paupers,
25 00
Due for supplies to Geo. E. Dyer,
7 00
$165 17
Total expense, -
$1,824 97
Deduct amount due from the Town
of Weymouth, for supplies to Geo. E. Dyer, .- -
- $7 00 7 00
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Leaving for the net expense of supporting the poor, $1,817 97
There are three persons fully supported in the Taunton Hos- pital, at an expense of $3.50 per week and clothing, each ; three; fully supported in the Cohasset Almshouse, at $3.25 per week, each, and medical attendance ; and three partially supported in Town, who have a weekly allowance of $1.25, $1.50 and $2.00 respectively. Occasional assistance has been rendered to a few others.
A family of three persons, residing in Cohasset, has been al- lowed $10.00 per month, during the year, and $130.00 has been paid the Town of Medfield, for expenses attending the sickness and burial of Lincoln Stoddard.
Henry Dean, supported in Boston, at an expense of $3.00 per week, and Lyman Brown, to whom assistance was rendered to the amount of $5.00 per week, have died during the year.
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TOWN OFFICERS.
Am't of Orders drawn up and expense for the year, $398 62
Of which, the
Superintendent of schools received, $100 00
Town Treasurer, 40 00
Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, 258 62
$398 62
PRINTING, STATIONERY AND POSTAGE.
Amount of Orders drawn and expense for the year, $189 86
The principal items are as follows :
Printing Selectmen's and School Com- mittee's Reports, - - $122 60
Twelve tax books, - - - 24 00
Two record books, - - 5 00 -
Leaving for stationery, postage and blanks,
38.26
$189 86
REPAIRS OF ROADS AND BRIDGES.
Amount of Orders drawn for ordinary repairs, $212 83
Under the appropriation of $1000.00, -
- 622 24
Due from the $1000.00 appropriation to the follow- ing named persons, when their contracts shall have been completed :-
To Turner Litchfield, for bridge in No. 3 District, - - $299. 00
To George. W. Damon, for wid-
ening road in No. 5 District, - 64 00
Due, also, to Paul Litchfield for labor completed on a bridge in No. 10 District, - - 3 00
$366 00
Total Expense of repairing our common roads and bridges, -
- - - $1,201 07
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REPAIRS OF LITTLE'S BRIDGE.
Amount of Orders drawn and expense for the year, $64 07
CONSTRUCTION AND WIDENING OF ROADS.
Amount of Orders drawn, - -
- $104 25
Due for land damages in widening Kent street, to E. S. Jenkins, -
.
$1 34
To Samuel H. Turner, - -
11 77
" Caleb W. Prouty, - - 22 25
$35 36
Expense of widening Kent street, - - $139 61 -
The cost of 2nd Cliff road, amounting to $4,167.31, has been paid during the year, but not being properly chargeable to the year's expense, is not included in this account.
The experience of the last Winter with regard to the obstruc- tion of snow, where the widening of Kent street was made, would seem to indicate that other roads in the Town might be improved in a similar manner, with benefit to the Town Treas- ury.
HINGHAM AND QUINCY BRIDGES.
The Commissioners having the care of these bridges have presented a second claim for repairs, amounting to $160.00. (The amount of both claims is $635.00.)
This claim is not a just claim, but included in the account, be- cause the Supreme Court Judges, to whom the matter has been referred, may decide otherwise.
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RECAPITULATION OF THE EXPENSE OF ROADS AND BRIDGES.
Repairs of ordinary roads and bridges, - $1,201 07 66 of Little's bridge, - - - - 64 07
Construction and widening of roads, - - 139 61
Claim for repairs of Hingham & Quincy Bridges, - 160 00
Total expense, -
- - - $1,564 75
LAW EXPENSES.
Amount of Orders drawn, - - - - $117 80
Due on the Hingham & Quincy bridge case, (estimated,) 25 00 Whole expense, - - - -
- $142 80 Of this the Counsel on Beach case received, $80 00
the Committee
34 80
the Committee on bridges, 3 00
Leaving due, - - - 25 00
$142 80
ABATEMENT OF TAXES.
Amount of Orders drawn, - - - $487 91
The taxes abated were principally assessed upon personal property, which, unknown to the Assessors, was so invested as not to be taxable.
A list of real and personal property, brought into the As- sessors annnally in the month of May, in accordance with the law, by each taxable person in Town, would materially reduce the amounts of abatements.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Amount of Orders drawn and expense for the year, The chief items are-
Returned bounty, . - - - $100 00
Safe for Treasurer's Office,
-
- 110 00
Safe for Selectmen's Office, - - 325 00
School books, - - - 44 68
Other items too numerous to mention, -
173 08
$752 76
$752 76
STATE AID. .
Orders drawn under law of 1866, from March 1,
1867, to May 1, - - -
- - $554 00
Orders drawn under law of 1867, from May 1, 1867, to Jan. 1, 1868, - - -
- 596 00
Orders drawn under law of 1867, from Jan. 1,
1868, to March 1, 1868, - -
175 00 -
Whole amount for the year, - - $1,325 00
State aid is paid to 14 persons or families, 11 of whom re- ceive pensions.
The amount paid monthly at the present time is - $87 50
MILITARY SERVICES OF COMPANY C.
Orders drawn to the amount of $957.00, for services at May Inspection, monthly drills and camp duty of members of Com- pany C, 3d Reg't Mass. Vol. Militia.
INTEREST.
Amount of interest aocurred during the year, $1,826 03
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STATE AND COUNTY TAX.
Amount of State Tax, -
-
- $5,150 00
" " County Tax, - -
- 1,132 22
.
$6,282 22
RECAPITULATION OF THE YEAR'S EXPENSES FOR ORDINARY PURPOSES.
Removing snow, -
-
-
-
$2,037 11
Incidental School expenses, -
-
-
58 69
Support of Schools, -
- 2,973 60
Repairs of public buildings, -
204 95
Support of the poor, -
1,817 97
Town officers, -
- -
-
398 62
Printing, stationery and postage,
-
-
189 86
Repairs of roads and bridges,
- -
1,425 14
Construction and widening of roads,
139 61
Abatement of taxes, - -
487 91
Miscellaneous, - -
-
-
752 76
State tax, - -
-
-
5,150 00
County tax, - -
-
-
1,132 22
Add Roland Turner's fees for collecting taxes,
200 99
Total ordinary expense for the year, - $16,969 43
RECAPITULATION OF EXTRAORDINARY EXPENSES.
Law expenses, - -
- - $142 80
State aid, -
-
-
- 1,325 00
Interest on war debt, - - - 1,826 03
Payments to Company C,
957 00
--
$4,250 83
Deduct State aid and payments to Co. C, to be re- funded, - - - -
$2,282 00
And the net extraordinary expense amounts to
$1,968 83
-
-
-
- - -
-
-
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INCOME.
Derived from Taxes, amount of Tax Bills of 1867, $20,644 88
66
Corporation Tax, -
-
233 99
66 Sale of two Fish-rights, -
57 75
66 . Letting Town Hall, - 3 00
66
Rent of Armory, - 125 00
66 £ Interest on C. M. Jenkins's debt, 6 00
Amount of income, exclusive of credits to expense
of the schools and the poor, - $21,070 62
From the amount of Income, - -
$21,070 62
Deduct amount of ordinary expenses, $16,969 43
And net extraordinary expenses, 1,968 83
-- $18,938 26
And there is left for excess of Income above all ex-
. penses, the sum of
- $2,132 36
CONDITION OF THE TREASURY.
The Selectmen have examined the Town Treasurer's Record of Payments and Receipts, and find it correct.
The following abstract from his account shows the condition of the Treasury on the 2d day of March, 1868.
TOWN OF SCITUATE IN ACCOUNT WITH ROLAND TURNER, TREASURER. DR.
To amount of orders paid, drawn by Selectmen of 1865-6, $77¿69
paid, drawn by Selectmen of 1866-7, 1,152 66
66 paid, drawn by Selectmen of 1867-8, 16,458 80 $17,689 15
" Cash paid State Treasurer, State Tax, 5,150 00
" County Treasurer, County Tax, 1,132 22 6,282 22
" Reimbursement of S. Scituate, Corporation Tax, 158 36
158 36
" paying notes due from the Town, as follows :-
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Names of Payecs.
Date of Note. Principal. Interest.
Ira Litchfield,
Aug. 15, 1864, $200 00 $6 56
$206 56
Job E. Curtis,
Aug. 15, 1864, 200 00 19 56
219 56
Galen Watson,
Feb. 9, 1866, 500 00 5 60
505 60
Anthony Gray,
June 26, 1866, 400 00 19 48 419 48
Shadrach B. Curtis,
Oct. 1, 1866, 100 00 3 42
103 42
William T. Clapp,
Aug. 15, 1864, 200 00
22 60
222 60
John Marsh,
Feb. 7, 1866, 400 00
9 40
409 40
George W. Bailey,
Feb. 7, 1866, 100 00
9 80
109 80
Charles Bates,
Mar. 7, 1866, 500 00
33 25
533 25
Hosea V. Orcutt,
Feb. 7, 1866, 100 00
3 33
103 33
Francis B. Lee,
Aug. 15, 1864, 200 00
6 50
206 50
Francis B. Lee,
Sept. 3, 1864, 50 00
2 91
52 91
George C. Lee,
Feb. 9, 1866, 300 00
10 00
310 00
Eben Bailey,
Sept. 3, 1864, 400 00
24 00
424 00
Atwood L. Dunbar,
April 20, 1866, 300 00
19 95
319 95
Otis Briggs,
Nov 10, 1862,1,000 00
60 00
1,060 00
Noah Jenkins,
Nov. 29, 1866, 300 00
19 00
319 00
Ezekiel Jones,
Aug. 1, 1862, 200 00
13 00
213 00
Ezekiel Jones,
Mar. 27, 1863, 500 00
32 50
532 50
Thomas Litchfield,
Nov. 13, 1866, 350 00
24 50
374 50
George L. Curtis,
Jan. 17, 1866, 90 00
5 40
.95 40
Shadrach B. Curtis,
Jan. 15, 1866. 600 00
24 35
624 35
Shadrach B. Curtis, Jr.,
Dec. 31, 1866, 300 00
14 70
314 70
Bennett D. Studley,
Jan. 24, 1866, 150 00
19 95
169 95
Harvey Whitcomb,
Jan. 29, 1866, 100 00
6 08
106 08
Thomas Vinal,
Jan. 29, 1866, 100 00
13 30
113 30
Amount of Notes and Interest,
$7,640 00. $429 14 $8,069 14 $8,069 14
To Cash paid for interest on Notes as follows :
+Names of Payees. Time to which Interest has been paid. Amount.
Scituate Savings Bank, · (11. notes), $574 41
South Scituate S. Bank, (4 notes), Oct. 15, 1867, 364 92
Stephen Litchfield, (7 notes), 96 00
Theodore Clements, Aug. 19, 1867,
120 00
Eunice Rodgers,
July 22, “ 10 50
14
Harvey Whitcomb,
Jan. 29, 1868, $12 00
Mary F. Gilbert,
Oct. 13, 1867, 30 00
John Marsh,
Jan. 1, 1868, 14 00
Salem Savings Bank,
Jan. 26, 1868, 140 00
Henry H. Northey,
Feb. 9, 1868, 15 00
$1,376 83
To Cash paid for interest on money borrowed and paid, - - -
4 07 4 07
To amount of fees for collecting taxes ($20,099.23) 200 99
200 99
To amount of uncollected taxes of 1867, 2,915 24
2,915 24
To Cash on hand March 2nd, 1868, and due the Town, 7,011 52 7,011 52
$43,707 52
CONTRA, CR.
By Cash on hand March 4, 1867,
$4,927 99
$4,927 99
" " from State Treas., for pay- ments to Co. C, in 1866,
76 00
66 66 from State Treas., for pay- ments to Co. C, in 1867,
957 00
1,033 00
66 66 from State Treasurer, for State Aid of 1866, 3,000 00
3,000 00
« " from State Treasurer, for rent of Armory to Jan. 1,1868, 125 00
125 00
66 from State Treasurer for Town's share of School . Fund, 197 16
197 16
from State Treasurer for Corporation Tax, 392 35.
392 35
6 from William Haywood, for use of Town Hall, 3 00
3 00
150 By Cash received of the following named persons for Treas- urer's Notes :-
Mary F. Gilbert, note dated
April 13, 1867, $1,000 00
Daniel Ford, note dated May 7, 1867, 100 00
John Marsh, note dated Ju- . ly 1, 1867, 400 00
. Geo. W. Bailey, note dated July 7, 1867, 100 00
Stephen Litchfield, note dated July 24, 1867, 400 00
Salem Savings Bank, note dated July 26, 1867, 4,000 00
Charles Bates, note dated Aug. 7, 1867, 500 00
George C. Lee, note dated Aug. 14, 1867, 100 00
Hosea V. Orcutt, note dated Aug. 28, 1867, 250 00
George C. Lee, note dated, -
Sept. 1, 1867, 300 00
Francis B. Lee, note dated
Sept. 1, 1867, 250 00
Lydia Bailey, note dated . Sept. 3, 1867, 400 00
Atwood L. Dunbar, note
.
dated Oct. 20, 1867, 300 00
Otis Briggs, note dated
Nov. 10, 1867, 1,000 00
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Hosea V. Orcutt, note dated
Dec. 18, 1867, $250 00
Ezekiel Jones, note dated
Jan. 1, 1868, 700 00
Shadrach B. Curtis, note
dated Jan 1, 1868, 450 00
Shadrach B. Curtis, Jr.,
note dated Jan. 1, 1868, 100 00
Geo. L. Curtis, note dated Jan. 17, 1868, 100 00
Bennett D. Studley, note
/
dated Jan. 24, 1868, 150 00
Thomas Vinal, note dated Jan. 29, 1868, 100 00 10,950 00
By Cash of C. M. Jenkins, for inter- est on note, 6 00
6 00 :
" " of P. M. Minot, balance due for goods bought at auction,
80
80
" " of C. W. Prouty, from sale of Fish rights,
57 75
57 75
" Taxes of 1860, collected,
93
" 1861,
1 33
" 1862,
7 02
66 " 1863, 66
16 83
66 " 1864,.
35 24
" '1865,
58 67
60 " 1866, 60
2,249 57
2,369 59
66 " 1867, Rec'd for Collection, 20,644 88 20,644 88
$43,707 52
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FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE TOWN, MAR. 2, 1868.
DEBTS.
Due for outstanding Orders of 1865-6, $17 74
" for outstanding Orders of '67-8,
1,398 06 $1,415 80
" for Reimbursements of bounties, 27 25 27 25
" to Cohasset, for board of three paupers, from Feb. 1,
43 17
" to Taunton Hospital, for board of three paupers, from Jan. 1, 90 00
" for supplies to Geo. E. Dyer,
7 00
140 17
" to Isaac S. Pratt, for building · road (when finished),
162 50
" for widening Kent street,
35 36
197 86
" to Turner Litchfield, for bridge, (when completed),
299 00
" to Geo. W. Damon, for widen- ing road (when completed),
64 00
" to Paul Litchfield, for labor on bridge, No. 10 Dist.
3 00
366 00
" for law expense, (estimated)
45 00
45 00
" for making fires in No. 2 Dist.,
.2 00
" for repairs of School House in No. 2 Dist.,
2 00
4 00
" to Mary F. Perry, for teaching school in No. 10 Dist.,
67 50
" to Emily S. Lee, for teaching school in No. 4 Dist.,
25 00
92 50
Add claim of Cohasset, for medical attendance on paupers,
25 00
" claim of C. H. Sylvester, for care of High School room,
6.00
31 00
" claim for repairs of Hingham & Quincy Bridges in 1865-6, (disputed),
635 00
635 00
$2,954 58
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Duc, also, the following Notes and Interest :-
Names of Payees.
Principal.
Date of Note.
Interest paid to.
Inst. due March 2, 1868.
Scituate Savings Bank, $1,470 26
500 00
April 29, 1861,
Oct. 99, 1867,
12 05
1,500 00
Aug. 2, 1862,
Feb. º, 1868,
8 75
Nov. 27, 1862, Nov. 27, 1867,
14 93
200 00
1,000 00
Nov. 4, 1862, Jan. 8, 2863, June 26, 1863,
Jan. 8, 1868,
10 69
800 00
1,000 00
May 20, 1864, Nov 20, 1867;
19 83
400 00
June 17, 1864,
.Dec. 17, 1867, 5 83
66
700 00
July 8, 1864,
Jan. 8, 1868,
7 46
500 00
Dec. 19, 1864,
Dec. 19, 1867,
7 09
S. Scituate Savings Bank, 2,000 00
April 8, 1864,
Oct, 15, 1867, -
53 28
1,600 00
July 22, 1864,
Oct. 15, 1867,
42 62
66
500 00
July 27, 1864,
Oct. 15, 1867, 3 32
45 28
Stephen Litchfield,
200 00
Oct. 15, 1865, Apr. 28, 1863,
Oct. 28, 1867, 4 13
200 00 July 22, 1864, ' Jan. 22, 1868,
1 33
May 3, 1865, Nov. 3, 1867,
3 97
100 00
June 28, 1865,
Dec. 28, 1867,
1 07
Jan. 24, 1866,
Jan. 24, 1868, 63
2 55
Theodore Clements,
2,000 00
Aug. 19, 1864,
Aug. 19, 1867,
64 66
Henry H. Northcy,
250 00
Fcb. 7, 1866,
Feb. 7, 1868,
1 17
Harvey Whitcomb,
200 00
Dec. 24, 1866,
Dce. 24, 1867,
2 27
Eunice Rodgers,
175 00
July 22, 1865,
July 22, 1867, 6 50
Mary F. Gilbert,
1,000 00
Apr. 13, 1867,
Oct. 13, 1867,
23 17
Danicl Ford,
100 00
May 7, 1867,
4 92
George W. Bailcy,
100 00
July 7, 1867,
4 57
John Marsh,
400 00
July 1, 1867, Jan. 1, 1868,
4 82
Salem Savings Bank,
4,000 00
July 26, 1867,
Jan. 26, 1863,
28 00
Charles Bates,
500 00
Aug. 7, 1867,
19 93
George C. Lcc,
100 00
Aug. 14, 1867,
3 85
Hosea V. Orcutt,
250 00
Aug. 28, 1867,
8 94
George C. Lec,
300 00
Sept. 1, 1867.
10 56
Francis B. Lec,
250 00
Sept. 1, 1867,
8 50
Lydia Bailcy,
400 00
Sept. 3, 1867,
13 92
Atwood L. Dunbar,
300 00 Oct. 20, 1867,
7 70
Otis Briggs,
1,000 00 Nov. 1 1867,
21 78
Hosca V. Orcutt,
250 00 Dec. 18, 1867,
3 60
Jan. 1, 1853,
Jan. 1, 1868,
$18 00
"' 66
-
400 00
July 24, 1867,
14 40
100 00
300 00
July 11, 1866,
Jan. 11, 1868,
10 26
800 00
Nov. 4, 1867,
4 63
Dec. 26, 1867,
.
1,700 00
Oct. 15, 1867,
200 00
19
. Ezekiel Jones, 700 00 Jan. 1, 1868,
$8 44
Shadrach B. Curtis,
450 00
Jan. 1,1868, 5 42
Shadrach B. Curtis, Jr., 100 00
Jan. 1, 1868,
1 23
George L. Curtis,
100 00 Jan. 17, 1868,
88
Bennett D. Studley,
150 00 Jan. 24, 1868,
1 13
Thomas Vinal,
100 00
Jan. 29, 1868,
68
Am't of Principal, $29,345 26
Amount of Interest, $559 04
SUMMRAY OF DEBTS.
Due for Sundries, brought forward,
$2,954 58 $2,954 58
for Principal of Notes, 29,345 26
for Interest on Notes,
559 04 29,904 30
Total indebtedness to the Town,
$32,858 88
RESOURCES.
Cash in the hands of the Treasurer, $7,011 52 $7,011 52
Uncollected taxes of 1862-3-4-5, val-
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