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13 25
Patrick Wherity,
4 37
Turner Litchfield,
22 50
Job Vinal, .
59 69
Rufus Clapp,
1 50
Thomas Patterson,
9 37
Amount,
$1,023 76
No appropriation was made for the construction of this road, but it was referred to the Selectmen, with full power to act in the matter as they might deem best for the Town. To further complete this road, according to the specification of the County Commissioners, will require the sum of $250, and we therefore recommend that sum to be raised and appropriated for the pur- pose.
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STATE AND COUNTY TAX.
Amount of State tax $1,620 00
Amount of County tax 1,603 61
Total
$3,223 61
INTEREST ACCOUNT.
Total amount of interest accrued for the year .. ... $3,922 50
COLLECTION OF TAXES AND DISCOUNTS.
Discount on taxes. $515 80
Amount of fees for collecting taxes 233 00
Total $748 80
EXPENSE OF BEACH COMMITTEE.
Amount of orders drawn. $107 75
PAYMENTS.
Rockwell & Churchill, printing fifty copies brief. . . $36 34
Charles H. Paine, services 25 00
Perez Simmons, legal advice and cash expenses 46 41
Amount $107 75
DECORATION OF SOLDIERS' GRAVES, POST 31, G. A. R.
Amount of orders drawn. $50 00
Joseph W. Tilden, Quartermaster
$50 00
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RECAPITULATION.
For-
Removing snow.
$1,802 30
Support of schools.
4,055 58
Incidentals for schools 116 86
Support of poor ..
2,747 64
Repairs of roads and bridges.
1,707 20
Repairs of public buildings
144 97
Town officers
615 13
Printing, stationery, and postage stamps.
161 44
Abatement of taxes.
327 40
State aid, chapter 301
1,124 00
Military aid, chapter 252.
646 48
Miscellaneous
443 90
Repairs of Third Cliff Road
928 68
Expense of Barker Road
1,023 76
State tax
1,620 00
County tax.
1,603 61
Interest
3,922 50
Decoration of soldiers' graves.
50 00
Expense of Beach Committee
107 75
Fees for collecting taxes
233 00
Discount on taxes. 515 80
State Treasurer, for money overdrawn
57 87
Amount of expenses. $23,955 87
Received of G. A. Tapley for one-half
expense of Third Cliff Road $464 34
Deduct State aid, chapter 301 1,124 00
Deduct Military aid, chapter 252. 323 24
1,911 58
Net expense
$22,044 29
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INCOM.E
Amount of tax bills of 1882
$20,398 34
Amount of National Bank tax 426 89
Amount of Corporation tax
841 60
Rent of Beaches
5 50
Auctioneers' licenses
4 00
Interest on C. M. Jenkins' debt
6 00
Sale of Harvey Jenkins' grass
9 50
Sale of two fish rights ..
103 00
Interest for money on deposit
142 49
' Amount
$21,937 32
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CONDITION OF THE TREASURY.
The Selectmen have examined the Town Treasurer's record of payments and receipts, and found it correct.
The following is his report :
TOWN OF SCITUATE in account with ROLAND TURNER, Treasurer.
DR.
To-
Amount of orders paid. $16,253 08
Amount of interest paid 3,922 50
Cash paid State Treasurer, State tax 1,620 00
Cash paid County Treasurer, County tax 1,603 61
Cash paid State Treasurer for money overdrawn 57 87
Amount of fees for collecting taxes
233 00
Amount of discount on taxes 515 80
Amount of uncollected taxes of 1882 4,821 23
Amount of cash in hands of Treasurer 13,994 93
Amount $43,022 02
CR.
By-
Cash on hand Feb. 1, 1882. $9,998 29
Cash received from auctioneer's licenses 6 00
Town of South Abington for aid to poor 19 50
Town of Cohasset for aid to poor 106 75
City of Boston for aid to poor 52 00
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County Treasurer, dog fund for 1881. $107 74
John Webb, rent of beach 25
Waldo Higginson, rent of beach 2 00
J. M. Weatherbee, rent of beach 1 00
Danforth P. Sylvester, rent of beach 50
Benjamin Merritt, rent of beach. 1 25
Henry H. Sylvester, rent of beach
25
Henry H. Sylvester, Jr., rent of beach.
25
Town of South Scituate for aid to poor
77 00
City of Cambridge for aid to poor 7 25
Two fish rights. 103 00
Sale of Harvey Jenkins' grass.
9 50
C. M. Jenkins, interest on debt. . .
6 00
State Treasurer, corporation tax
841 60
State Treasurer, bank tax. 426 89
State Aid, chapter 301
1,085 00
Military Aid, chapter 252 355 87
County Treasurer, dog fund for 1882
158 00
State Treasurer, school fund 202 05
Interest for money on deposit 142 79
G. A. Tapley, one-half expense Third Cliff Road .. 464 34
Taxes collected, 1876 46 25
Taxes collected, 1877
80 76
Taxes collected, 1878 63 05
Taxes collected, 1879
531 43
Taxes collected, 1880
1,329 64
Taxes collected, 1881 6,397 48
Taxes of 1882 for collection. 20,398 34
Amount $43,022 02
ROLAND TURNER, Treasurer.
SCITUATE, Feb. 1, 1883.
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Financial Condition of the Town Feb. 1, 1883.
LIABILITIES.
Due on notes, etc., as follows :
NAMES OF PAYEES.
Principal.
Date of Notes.
Interest Paid to
Interest due to Feb. 1, 1883.
Salem Savings Bank,
$4,000 00
July 26, 1867,
Jan. 20, 1883,
$2 88
State of Massachusetts,
15,000 00
Nov. 8, 1873,
Nov. 8, 1882,
242 08
Brewster Bassett & Co., Brewster Bassett & Co.,
6,500 00
July 1, 1881,
Jan. 1, 1883,
24 37
60,000 00
Jan. 1, 1881,
Jan. 1, 1883,
200 00
Amount of Principal due, $85,500 00
Amount of Interest due, $469 33
Amount of principal of notes due $85,500 00
Amount of interest due
469 33
Amount of outstanding orders due
939 86
Due for salaries of teachers in February, 1883
1,314 34
Due for support of poor
145 00
Due for removing snow, January, 1883
500 00
Amount of liabilities $88,868 53
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RESOURCES.
Cash in hands of Treasurer $13,994 93
Uncollected taxes of 1875 to 1880 226 21
Uncollected taxes of 1880 111 67
Uncollected taxes of 1881
353 01
Uncollected taxes of 1882
4,821 23
Due from Town of South Abington for aid to F. G. Bisbee and family 228 59
Due from City of Boston for aid to Daniel Jenkins,
52 00
Due from Town of Cohasset for aid to William Henry Litchfield and family 103 00
Due from Town of Weymouth 20 65
Due from Town of South Scituate for aid to Bridget Murphy 34 09
Due from State for aid to Michael Powers 3 75
Due from State, State Aid, chapter 301
1,124 00
Due from State, for Military Aid, chapter 252
323 24
Value of C. M. Jenkins' house 103 70
Due from estate of Edmund Jenkins, 49 76
Due from estate of Eveline Jenkins 129 70
Due from estate of Harvey Jenkins
359 71
Amount of resources $22,040 24
Amount of liabilities
88,868 53
Deduct resources 22,040 24
$66,828 29
Increase of debt
$249 24
As we have been unable to get any definite information, we are obliged to omit, as in former reports, the amount due for counsel fees in the dispute concerning beaches.
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ESTIMATED EXPENSES FOR THE YEAR 1883.
For removing snow. $1,000 00
Support of schools 4,000 00
Incidentals for schools 150 00
Support of poor
3,000 00
Repairs of roads and bridges
2,100 00
Town officers 600 00
Abatement of taxes
200 00.
Printing and stationery
150 00
Miscellaneous
400 00
Collection of taxes and discount 700 00
Interest on debt
3,925 50
Repairs of public buildings
250 00
For further completion of Barker road
250 00
Total Town grant $16,725 50
Add amount of State tax (estimated)
1,620 00
Add amount of County tax (estimated) 1,600 00
Total estimated expense
$19,945 50
GUIDE BOARDS.
The guide boards throughout the Town remain about the same as last year.
Respectfully submitted,
WM. H. LITCHFIELD, H. H. NORTHEY, JOB VINAL, Selectmen and Overseers of Poor of Scituate.
FEBRUARY 1, 1883.
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LIST OF JURORS.
PRESENTED FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF THE TOWN, TO BE ACTED ON AT THE ANNUAL MEETING TO BE HELD IN MARCH, 1883.
Charles M. Ferguson,
Alfred A. Seaverns,
Thomas O. Cole,
Henry T. Otis,
Charles N. Turner,
James Edson,
John L. Manson,
Job Vinal,
Nicholas Wherity,
Thomas Tilden,
George W. Merritt,
Israel C. Dalby,
John B. Peirce,
E. Foster Peirce,
Jetson Wade,
Kilborn B. Merritt,
George O. Allen,
Azro Turner,
Hosea B. Mott,
John E. O. Prouty,
Anthony Gray,
George W. Elliott,
Milton G. Litchfield,
William Stoddard,
Job P. Otis,
Henry Merritt, Joseph Bailey,
Charles E. Bailey,
Fenton W. Varney,
Thaddeus L. Litchfield,
Otis Litchfield,
Francis M. Litchfield,
Hatherly Merritt,
Hosea M. Orcutt,
Charles F. Clapp,
Charles E. Brown,
Israel D. Damon,
William Barker,
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM H. LITCHFIELD, H. H. NORTHEY, of JOB VINAL, Scituate.
Selectmen
FEBRUARY 1, 1883.
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TRUST FUNDS.
The Selectmen have paid from interest accrued on the Jen- kins and Thomas funds to the following named persons :
Susan M. Otis
$25 00
E. A. Otis
13 00
Mahala T. Vinal 13 00
Mary S. Bouve 12 00
$63 00
WILLIAM H. LITCHFIELD, H. H. NORTHEY, JOB VINAL,
-
Trustees.
SCITUATE, Feb. 1, 1883.
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ASSESSORS' DEPARTMENT.
VALUATION OF THE TOWN OF SCITUATE, MAY 1, 1882.
Real estate. $1,156,439 00
Personal estate 129,585 00
Total valuation of taxable property $1,286,024 00
Number of polls 609
Number of acres of land 9,663
Number of horses taxed 312
Number of cows taxed 261
Number of sheep taxed 38
Number of houses taxed. 615 ·
Tax on 609 polls at $2.00 $1,218 00
Tax on $1,286,024.00 at $14.90 per $1,000.00 19,161 75
$20,379 75
TOTAL VALUATION COMPARED WITH 1881.
Real estate, decrease $2,616 00
Personal, increase 3,423 00
Total increase $807 00
WILLIAM H. LITCHFIELD, - Assessors H. H. NORTHEY, of
JOB VINAL,
Scituate.
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ARTICLES IN WARRANT
For Town Meeting March 5, 1883.
ART. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To hear the report of the Selectmen and other Town officers, and act thereon.
ART. 3. To choose all necessary Town officers for the year ensuing.
ART. 4. To see what sum of money the Town will raise for the support of schools, repairs of roads and bridges, support of poor, and other necessary charges for the current year, and appropriate the same.
ART. 5. To establish the rate of wages for removing. snow from the public highways for the current year.
ART. 6. To revise and accept the list of jurors as prepared by the Selectmen.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will authorize the Overseers of the Poor to contract, at their discretion, for the support of the Town paupers.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will authorize their Treasurer to borrow money, under the direction of the Select- men, in anticipation of taxes.
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ART. 9. To see if the Town will cause a statement of their financial report to be printed and distributed in the month of February next.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer to borrow money, under the direction of the Select- men, to pay notes when they become due.
ART. 11. To hear the report of any committee heretofore chosen, or act thereon.
ART. 12. To make allowances to Town creditors.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of fifty dollars to be expended under the direction of Post No. 31, G. A. R., on Decoration Day.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will allow a discount on all taxes paid on or before the first day of November next, or act thereon.
ART. 15. Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town for the year ensuing.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will cause fishways to be estab- lished and maintained at Bound Brook, and make an appropriation for the same.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will furnish an Almshouse.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will take some action to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors.
ART. 19. To see what action, if any, the Town will take in regard to its beaches and shore property, and its rights in the same, and the use and leasing the same or any part thereof.
ART. 20. To see what action the Town will take with regard to its public landings. 5
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ART. 21. To see what action the Town will take toward authorizing the Town Treasurer to supply to the Committee on Beaches, from time to time, such sums of money, not exceeding in all three thou- sand dollars (already raised and appropriated) as they may require it, to be expended under the direction of said Committee in ascertaining the rights of the Town in its beaches and shore prop- erty now claimed by said Town.
ART. 22. To see if the Town will accept the provisions of Chap. 27, Sects. 64, 65, 70 and 74, and other sec- tions and laws therein referred to, of the Public Statutes of the Commonwealth, relating to the mode of electing Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, and Assessors, which provide that when each of said boards are three in number, a town, accepting said statutes, may elect one of each board for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and thereafter at each annual meeting may elect one of each board to serve for three years.
ART. 23. Will the Town, by its vote or otherwise, ask the Legis- lature to extend to women, who are citizens, the right to hold Town offices and to vote in Town affairs, on the same terms as male citizens.
ART. 24. To hear and act on the report of the Selectmen, on the petition of Ira L. Moore and others for a Town way to be laid out on Mann Hill.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will accept and adopt the by-laws concerning truants, as revised by the School Com- mittee, or act thereon.
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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK.
BIRTHS REGISTERED IN SCITUATE DURING THE YEAR 1882.
DATE.
NAME OF CHILD.
NAME OF PARENTS.
MAIDEN NAME.
January 8,
Clara Ward,
Hugh and Sarah A.,
Evans. Clapp.
66
13,
Henry Dwight Cushing,
Elijah H. and Lucy A.,
Langdon W. and Lydia M.,
Doane.
29,
Thaddeus Franz Emil Hyland,
Brumbraum.
36
February
1.
William Augustus Seaverns,
Webb.
6.
20,
Willie Joseph Flynn,
Thomas and Rachel, Virgil H. and Addie F.,
Graham.
March
1,
Damon,
Charles W. and Amy F.,
66
29,
Cate,
William H. and Maria,
Prouty.
April
9,
Cudworth,
George L. and Ellen A .. Thomas and Ellen, Charles H. and Mary T.,
Sullivan.
22,
Gertrude Russell Nott,
Harrub. Vinal.
25.
Marion Berkley Clapp,
William T. and Abby C.,
May 66
12,
Winslow Whitman Simms, Edith May Wade,
Stetson.
Carter.
66
26.
McClellan,
Allen and Mary, Elisha J. and Henrietta,
Shaw.
Brown.
66
27,
Leuelen Whitmore Brown,
Oscar A. and Hannah C., N. James C. and Rachel T., Artemas S. and Amy,
Wade.
20,
23,
Arthur Stiles Vance,
Merritt.
15,
Ellen Dewire,
Webb. Allen.
2,
George Minot Frye,
21,
Susie Mildred Cook,
Thaddeus G. and Emma J., Charles P. and Martha J.,
June
5,
12,
14,
17,
July
1,
15,
15,
31.
August
2,
Driscoll,
25,
25,
30.
September 3, 4,
66
17,
October
6,
66
18,
23,
December 16,
16,
66
22,
1879.
July
4,
Margaret Stanley, Lucy Margaret Litchfield, Helen Josephine Doherty, George Freeman Turner,
James Leonard Wherity, Lanman, John Francis McIntire, Joseph Leonard Raymond, Edith Caroline Paine, - Williams, Robert Kilborne Stoddard, Arthur James Manson, Joseph Patrick Flynn, Hammond, 2 Twins, Hammond, Willie Hines,
Mary Woodis,
John P. and Mary,
Frederick and Julia, Charles H. and Ellen M., John and Rosa, Flynn. Hunt. McGinley. Cottle. James N. and Elizabeth W., Charles N. and Susan A .. F. Marcus and Josephine, John and Mary E., Henry C. and Emily A., Litchfield. Maggy, Nicholas, 2d, and Jane, Charles H. and Annie J., John F. and Kate A., Leonard and Mercy, Thomas M. and Elva J., Lina, 37
David H. and Emma G., John L. and Josephine A., Joseph and Mary, William and Adelaide F., William and Adelaide F., Edward F. and Maria F.,
Quinn. Brown. Driscoll. Hoar. Lyons. Cashman. O'Hern. Damon. Williams. Merritt. Vinal. Ford. Nowell. Nowell. Vinal.
White.
Rogers, Damon, James Welch,
Newcomb,
MARRIAGES REGISTERED
IN SCITUATE FOR THE
YEAR 1882.
DATE.
NAMES.
RESIDENCE OF EACH AT TIME OF MARRIAGE.
AGE.
BY WHOM MARRIED.
January
17,
Annie E. Penniman.
Quincy,
17
Frank A. Mitchell,
Cohasset,
26
February 12,
Phoebe Frates,
Scituate,
17
.
William L. Cushing,
Marshfield,
32
22,
Emma Francis Guigon,
Scituate,
31
Albert Thomas,
Boston,
23
April
19,
Caroline P. Allen.
Boston,
26
Christopher O'Neil,
Scituate,
28
30
Jane Graham,
Scituate, 30
Lawson Daniels,
Cedar Rapids, Ia. 54
Rev. Will C. Wood, at Scituate.
July
26,
Henrietta S. Daniels,
Cedar Rapids, Ia. 52
22
September 18,
Elizabeth A. Linnehan,
Scituate,
22
Nathan Hunt,
Scituate,
34
66
19,
Martha A. Bicknell,
Madison, Me.
26
David W. Totman,
Scituate,
54
23,
Alice M. Wyman,
Chelsea,
29
Everett E. Chandler,
Duxbury,
26
Laura A. Totman,
Scituate, 23
Rev. E. A. Perry, at Quincy.
Rev. Gerald Fagan, at Cohasset.
Rev. W. H. Fish, at South Scituate.
38
Rev. W. A. Spinney, at North Scituate.
Rev. Gerald Fagan, at Hingham.
Everett H. E. Litchfield,
Scituate,
Rev. Gerald Fagan, at Cohasset.
Rev. Ezra N. Smith, at Waterville, Me.
Rev. Nathaniel Seaver, Jr., at Scituate. Rev. Joseph Osgood, at Cohasset.
24,
Arthur C. Merritt,
Scituate,
28
October 1,
Benjamin F. Eldridge, Henrietta F. Merritt, George F. Welch,
Hattie M. Brown,
Charles Steele,
Hingham,
70
November 16,
Lydia A. Brown,
Scituate,
67
Walter T. Newcomb,
Scituate,
26
Cora D. Bailey,
Scituate,
20
George B. Totman,
Scituate,
26
Nora R. Bates,
Scituate,
23
Billings H. Merritt,
Scituate,
26
66
30,
Amy L. Litchfield,
Scituate.
23
James Hughes,
Cohasset, 26
Scituate, 26
Scituate,
25
December 9,
Lydia T. Chubuck,
Scituate,
24
Jeremiah F. Connell,
Scituate,
21
25,
Elizabeth J. Merritt,
Scituate,
21
Rev. Will C. Wood, at Scituate.
Scituate, 20
Scituate,
23
Scituate, 25
Rev. L. P. Causey, at Scituate. Rev. Joseph Osgood, at Scituate. Rev. Nathaniel Seaver, Jr., at Scituate.
Rev. Joseph Osgood, at Scituate.
Rev. Joseph Osgood, at Cohasset.
Rev. Gerald Fagan, at Hingham.
30,
Julia M. Donovan,
Charles H. Mott,
Rev. L. P.Causey, at Scituate.
39
Rev. Nathaniel Seaver, at Scituate.
Weymouth, 23
14,
26
30,
DEATHS REGISTERED IN SCITUATE DURING THE YEAR 1882.
AGE.
PARENTS' NAMES.
DATE.
NAMES.
DISEASE.
Years. |Months
Days.
Jan.
7,
Eliza Ann Curtis,
Gastritis,
61
2
5
Charles aud Cynthia.
Harlan P. Brown,
Bronchial Phthisis,
23
7
1
18,
Mariana Spooner,
Heart Disease,
11
2
23.
Betsey Whittaker,
Tuberculosis,
67
4
17
Ebenezer and Mabel Brown.
Feb.
6,
Thomas Mann,
Old Age,
86
7
21
John and Martha.
14,
Martha Vinal,
63
3
Jacob and Martha Cushing.
20,
George E. Litchfield,
53
4
10
Justin and Mary.
25,
Cynthia B. Dalby,
Tumor,
65
Ichabod and Mary Cook.
27,
Hydrothorax,
75
Patrick and Mary.
March 1,
Damon,
Debility,
Diphtheria and Fever,
22
8 Marcena and Elvira Webb.
26,
Catherine Ward,
Hemorrhage,
62
Timothy and Catharine McGuire.
28,
Betsey Jones,
Heart Disease,
72
13
29,
Mary B. Otis,
Supposed Apoplexy,
61
7
George and Jane Anderson.
April 9,
Cudworth,
Sudden,
1h
George L. and Ellen A.
John Tilden,
Paralysis of Brain,
84
8
21 John and Marcy.
.
28,
Harvey Curtis,
Cardiac Dropsy,
73
10
7
Charles and Abagail.
Franklin Ward,
Pulmonary Tuberculosis,
18
4
Edward and Ann.
John McGowan,
Peritonitis,
35
Hugh and Celia.
Consumption,
86
2
Daniel and Susannah.
Consumption,
3
5
15 Frank M. and Lucy J.
July
9,
Cornelius L. Tracy,
Old Age,
76
8
Gardner and Catharine.
Bright's Disease,
49
1
27
Lemuel and Lucy Webb.
Convulsions,
8
6
28 Thomas and Emma.
Premature,
4 Frank M. and Lucy J.
40
1
7,
Adelaide F. Damon,
4h
Virgil H. and Addie F.
Cyrus and Sally Dunbar.
June 2,
10,
20,
Ruth Newell,
24,
14,
Louisa W. Smith,
66
20,
Rogers J. Mann,
20,
Damon,
Phthisis,
Patrick Rogan,
Lewis and Lydia. Henry L. and Mary E.
10,
15,
Georgietta T. Damon,
": 29 Chas. F. Bowker, Jr., 29, Cornelia M. Sadgebury, Rachael Hawthorne,
Aug. 20,
22, 22,
Solon H. Studley,
Disease of Brain,
23
6
77
-
82
5
29,
Mercy G. Clapp,
. Sept. 6,
Stanley Treat,
11,
Elisha Whitman,
Gun Shot,
28
4
Anasarca,
16
8
29
18.
Martin Litchfield,
Typhoid Dysentery,
86
4
29
Simeon and Lucy.
20,
23,
Adeline A. Brown,
Hepatic Tumor,
44
- -
-
-
Oct.
4,
Thomas Flynn,
Phthisis,
80
5
Leonard and Betsey.
13,
Henry Clapp,
Old Age,
68
7
28
Charles and Abagail Curtis.
41
20.
24.
Perez L. Litchfield,
Embolism of Heart,
45
1
Perez and Polly.
Sarah B. Peirce,
Carcinoma,
53
9
18 Elijah and Lucy P.
Mary E. Bisbee,
Diphtheretic Croup,
10
11
Frederick and May C.
Nov. 8,
9,
McDonald,
Stillborn,
Paralysis,
75
John and Joanna Prouty.
-
11,
Bennett D. Studley,
Dropsy,
86
5
28
Lewis and Lucy.
Found dead,
74
5
5
Asa and Silence.
Old Age,
83
9
John and Winnet.
Child Birth,
30
-
Dec. 23,
Maria F. Hines,
23,
Willie Hines,
Cordelia A. Taylor,
Rheumatism,
35
2
13
John S. and Cordelia A.
28,
Bridget Murphy,
Old Age,
90
4
70
7
-
77
10
7 21 [ Charles F. and Florence I. Zenas and Fanny Hutchinson. Simeon and Rachel Bates. Solon and Eunice W.
13 Leonard and Betsey. - Stephen and Mercy Mott. - 3 Leonard A. and Mary D. 16 Jeremiah and -
William and Fanny D.
14,
George A. Wills,
Thomas O'Neil,
Consumption,
54
Christopher and Catharine.
Horatio and Rachel Leonard.
1
Thomas and Julia.
13.
Lydia C. Ferguson, - Mannix,
Stillborn,
Michael and Deborah.
28.
Claribel Bisbee,
Diphtheretic Croup,
9
-
Frederick and May C.
James and Mary M.
10.
Mary A. Clement,
11.
20.
Jonathan Hunt,
26,
Joseph Otis,
Charles and Esther Vinal.
Infantile,
1
Edward F. and Maria F.
27,
Cholera Infantum,
Chronic Malaria, Uterine Tumor,
Sarah B. Weatherbee,
Consumption,
Obstruction of Bowels,
Cholera Infantum,
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68
Congestion of Lungs,
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Unknown.
THE FOLLOWING WERE BROUGHT TO TOWN FOR INTERMENT.
AGE.
DATE.
NAME.
DISEASE.
Years.
Months.
Days.
Jan. 23,
Benjamin Litchfield,
79
-
-
South Scituate. Danvers Hospital.
Feb. 13,
Mary C. Munroe,
51
-
March 4,
Priscilla G. Litchfield,
Childbirth,
29
9
16
Boston.
66 27,
Lemuel P. Otis,
Consumption,
37
-
Boston.
April 19,
Lucy T. Gannett,
44
3
16
Milton.
23,
Mary F. Clapp,
36
Taunton.
May
3,
Mary W. Chubbuck,
72
9
Boston.
42
14,
Sally Damon,
1
5
Cohasset.
June
1,
Alice M. Ward,
7
6
Cohasset.
8,
Bridget Lynch,
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7
22
Quincy.
Aug. 19,
Henry M. Adams,
-
1
21
Cohasset.
Oct.
7,
Clarissa Pettis,
47
-
-
Danvers.
10,
Sarah J. Bailey,
Exhaustion,
57
Boston.
26,
Franklin Howard,
64
Hanover.
Nov.
7,
Hannah Tilden,
72
4
Chelsea.
66
21,
Francis Birchmore,
86
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South Scituate.
23,
C. W. Curtis,
36
-
Jersey City.
25,
Alice L. Briggs,
31
South Scituate.
16,
Jane T. Curtis,
Apoplexy,
13
Somerville.
Sept. 16,
Walter L. Antoine,
1
Cerebral Heira,
87
South Scituate.
Dropsy of Brain,
PLACE OF DEATH.
43
SUMMARY.
Whole number of births during the year 1882
39
Males. 26
Females. 13
Whole number recorded in 1882 40
Number of marriages recorded . 19
Number of marriage certificates issued 18
Number of deaths in Scituate during the year 54
Males. 28
Females. 26
Whole number recorded during the year 74
Of those who died in Town, eleven were under ten years four between ten and twenty, four between twenty and thirty, three between thirty and forty, three between forty and fifty, three between fifty and sixty, eight between sixty and seventy, nine between seventy and eighty, eight between eighty and ninety, and one over ninety. Average age, forty-five years and sixteen days. Sixteen bodies were brought to Town for interment.
Number of dogs licensed during the year 1882. 83
Amount received for the same $190.00
CHARLES E. BAILEY, Town Clerk.
SCITUATE, February 1, 1883.
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ANNUAL REPORT
-- OF THE-
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
- OF THE-
TOWN OF SCITUATE
FOR THE YEAR
1882.
PLYMOUTH : AVERY & DOTEN, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. 1883.
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Report of the School Committee.
FELLOW CITIZENS :
It is a well recognized requirement that from those to whom great trusts are committed and upon whom great responsibilities are laid, there should come in some tangi- ble and definite form a statement of the manner, and to what extent these responsibilities have been met.
Your Committee are fully aware that there is no greater or more solemn trust than the moral and intel- lectual training of the young, and were it a fact that all of the responsibility rested upon us, we should shrink from assuming such a trust ; but we are only one (really the smallest) of the factors working to accomplish the desired result.
The parent first, the teacher second, the Committe last. How important that there should be perfect harmony and mutual co-operation in this great work.
Our Commonwealth has an established system of free public schools. It compels the towns to provide suitable school buildings. It compels with a penalty, every par-
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ent or guardian who has under his control a child between the ages of eight and fourteen years to send that child reg- ularly to school, at least twenty weeks every school year. It compels a certain course of studies. It commands the people to support schools enough for all the children of school age. And yet the State cannot be said to act arbitrarily in requiring these things if the results which our free schools produce are necessary to the well being . of the State ; and what intelligent citizen will say our form of government could exist, and the happiness and prosperity of the people be insured, except by the gen- eral diffusion of knowledge.
Let parents in Scituate rejoice that they live in such a Commonwealth, and let them do all in their power to encourage a constant and punctual attendance of their children, and aid in every possible way, the teacher in their intellectual and moral education.
We feel that the first important duty that devolves upon us is to secure good teachers, and in this we have been highly favored. Without an exception our teachers love their work, and in a good degree seem fitted for the discharge of the duties imposed upon them.
We cannot in this brief report speak particularly of each school, and as there are some questions of import- ance which should be presented for your consideration, we pass to notice first,
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THE EAST GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
At the opening of the Fall term of this school, the teacher found herself surrounded with seventy-four schol- ars, in a room capable of seating only sixty. What could be done ? Scholars could not be sent back into the pri- mary schools without showing favoritism ; besides the child should go forward instead of backward. The first class could not be promoted to the High School, for they were not qualified. The law demands "that where there are more than fifty scholars an assistant shall be em- ployed ;" but how could an assistant work to good advan- tage in so small a room ?
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