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13.64
$18.00
$18.00
CLARA T. BATES CEMETERY FUND
Savings Deposits
Total
On hand January 1, 1935
$372.59 $372.59
On hand December 31, 1935
$324.79 $324.79
Receipts Withdrawn from savings deposits $47.80
Payments Transferred to town $60.00
Income 12.20
$60.00
$60.00
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TOWN OF SCITUATE Balance Sheet - December 31, 1935 General Accounts
Cash :
ASSETS
Temporary Loans:
In Anticipation of Revenue
$150,000.00
Collector's Petty Cash
40.00
Water Department
15.00
Reserve for Petty Cash Advances:
$40.00
15.00
Accounts Receivable :
55.00
Taxes:
Tailings-Unclaimed Checks
47.68
Levy of 1932:
Premiums on Loans
36.05
Property
$25.74
Special State Tax-Old Age Assistance
5.00
Levy of 1933:
Highway Grant -- Chapter 464, Acts of 1935
.08
Property
336.97
Levy of 1934:
Appropriation Balances:
Polls
292.00
Police
$7.69
Property
42,757.24
Repairs to Breakwater
562.92
Levy of 1935:
Care of Roads 11.05
Polls
384.00
Property
116,044.85
159,840.80
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes:
Levy of 1932
$69.15
Levy of 1933
879.84
Levy of 1934
952.17
Prospect Avenue 250.00
1,027.33
Report of State Audit
Land Damages:
Corner Jericho and Beaver Dam Roads $150.00
Highway North Scituate to Route 3-A 627.33
Levy of 1935
1,550.72
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
In Banks and Office
$117,054.95
$117,109.95
Collector Water Department
17
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Court Judgment : Levy of 1931 Levy of 1932
32.04
28.42
3,512.34
Special Assessments :
Moth 1934
$213.45
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Water Department-Special 1933 948.89
3,193.80
Tax Titles
20,663.02
Water Receipts Reserved for Appropriation
19,646.82
Departmental:
Police
$215.00
Moth
1,003.35
Health
606.60
Public Welfare
1,867.75
Old Age Assistance
5,887.39
Levy of 1935
6,186.14
Mothers' Aid
854.05
State Aid
580.00
Military Aid
37.50
Soldiers' Relief
53.73
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
$3,512.34
Special Assessment
1,649.58
Tax Title
20,663.02
Departmental
11,149.37
1931
$108.42
1932
354.33
1933
973.70
1934
1,981.13
1935
7,588.57
11,006.15
New Town Way 6.94
Allen Memorial Library 12.50
W. P. A., Materials, Trucking and Expenses
116.48
300th Anniversary 500.00
Sea Wall
1,436.13
1,649.58
Reserve Fund -- Overlay Surplus
1,188.29
Overlays Reserved for Abatement of Taxes:
Levy of 1934
$1,794.65
7,980.79
Revenue Reserved Until Collected:
Schools
44.00
11,149.37
Water Rates and Charges:
A
Water
11,006.15
Surplus Revenue
47,980.46 97,517.50
Report of State Audit
Overdrawn Account: Snow Removal 137.46
Overlay Deficits: Levy of 1932 Levy of 1933
$376.36 1,857.44
2,233.80
Old Age Assistance Taxes Abated, to be Provided for: Levy of 1932
Levy of 1933
$30.00 69.00
99.00
Revenue 1935:
Appropriation Voted, not Raised
250.00
$327,651.47
$327,651.47
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Debt Accounts
Net Funded or Fixed Debt
$724,250.00
Concrete Bridge Loan
$12,000.00
Sea Wall Loans 11,000.00
High School Loan
1,250.00
$24,250.00
Water Loans
700,000.00
$724,250.00
$724,250.00
Report of State Audit
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Trust Accounts
Trust Funds, Cash and Securities
$17,523.08
Charity Funds:
Eliza Jenkins Fund
$3,020.80
Lucy Thomas Fund
1,000.00
Sarah J. Wheeler Fund
988.22
Hannah Dean Miller Fund
1,952.63
Cornelia M. Allen Fund
5,086.68
George O. Allen Fund
524.71
Scituate Welfare Fund
243.13
Benjamin T. Ellms Fund
4,000.00
$16,816.17
Everett Torrey Park Fund
382.12
Clara T. Bates Cemetery Fund
324.79
$17,523.08
$17,523.08
Report of State Audit
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Report of Town Accountant
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen: In compliance with the provisions of Chapter 624 of the Acts of 1910, I herewith submit the following report of the Accounting Department for the year ending December 31, 1936.
I have also included a detailed statement of disburse- ments showing amounts paid and the persons to whom payments were made as requested by vote at the annual meeting held March 7, 1927.
Bertha A. Davenport, Town Accountant.
General Revenue
TAXES
Current Year :
Poll
$2,258.00
Personal
25,911.40
Real
260,556.12
$288,725.52
Motor Vehicle Excise
10,623.55
Previous Years:
Poll
$186.00
Personal
4,958.67
Real Estate
102,162.10
107,306.77
Motor Vehicle Excise
1,332.01
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Report of Town Accountant
From the Commonwealth:
Income Tax
$16,573.22
Income Tax, Chapter 362, Acts 1936
2,218.78
Corporation Tax, Business
1,155.22
Corporation Tax, Public Service
3,333.66
Race Track Distribution
849.71
Smith-Hughes Fund
149.60
Aid to Independent Industrial Schools
1,158.74
Tuition, State Wards
332.67
State Highway, Moth
35.00
Tuberculosis
114.29
Licenses
90.00
Old Age Assistance, Chapter 438, Acts 1936
4,509.87
U. S. Grant, Old Age Assistance, Assistance
5,218.42
U. S. Grant, Old Age Assistance, Administrative
173.93
35,913.11
From the County:
Dog Licenses
778.78
Licenses and Permits
$3,927.00
Court Fines
69.67
Sealer's fees
94.26
Transient Vendor's fees
150.00
4,240.93
Special Assessments:
Moth 1934
$194.38
Moth 1936
131.75
326.13
OTHER RECEIPTS
From the Commonwealth:
Public Welfare
$427.99
Old Age Assistance
11,470.71
Mothers' Aid
805.09
State Aid
580.00
Military Aid
37.50
Veterans' Exemptions
84.29
13,405.58
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Report of Town Accountant
Other Cities and Towns:
Public Welfare
$313.50
Old Age Assistance
191.36
504.86
General Government:
Selectmen :
Advertising Hearings
$42.50
Building on Pier
25.00
Chain and Falls
5.00
$72.50
Collector:
Costs
$884.81
Petty Cash
40.00
924.81
Treasurer :
Tax Titles redeemed
$7,233.85
Foreclosure sales
930.00
8,163.85
Town Clerk, Dog Licenses
1,100.20
Town Counsel, Court Judgments
60.46
Town Hall, telephone tolls
6.25
Health Department, sale of barrels
School Department :
Sale of supplies
$110.71
Rent of Auditorium
56.45
Tuition
614.27
781.43
Moth Work
1,397.80
Police Department :
Ambulance
145.00
Water Department :
Rent of land
$35.00
Settlement of claims, auto accidents
48.88
83.88
Insurance dividend
5.00
10,328.07 14.00
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Report of Town Accountant
Refunds:
Public Welfare
$26.00
Old Age Assistance
24.00
Insurance
374.34
Police Department
3.73
Public Landings
79.56
Highway Department
3.94
Land Damage, Prospect Avenue
250.00
Federal, State and County Projects and Town Improvements
20.00
781.57
WATER DEPARTMENT
Fixture Rates
$54,529.47
Meter Rates
13,439.72
Service Charges
786.82
Miscellaneous Charges
26,513.90
95,269.91
INTEREST
On Taxes
$6,316.27
Accrued
14.58
6,330.85
TRUST FUNDS
Eliza Jenkins Fund
$90.60
Lucy Thomas Fund
30.00
Sarah J. Wheeler Fund
29.64
Hannah D. Miller Fund
58.56
Cornelia Allen Fund
152.58
Clara T. Bates Fund
44.00
George O. Allen Fund
15.72
Everett Torrey Fund
18.00
Benjamin T. Ellms Fund
100.00
539.10
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Report of Town Accountant
LOANS
Anticipation of Revenue
$235,000.00 25,000.00
Town Pier
260,000.00
$838,833.85
Balance, January 1, 1936
117,054.95
$955,888.80
Expenditures
General Government
SELECTMEN
Salaries:
Chairman
$2,000.00
Associates
1,200.00
$3,200.00
Expenses :
Stationery and postage
$76.58
Printing and advertising
67.25
Clerical assistance
402.65
Telephone
11.25
Posting warrants
16.00
Carfares, autos and lunches
426.27
Office expense
104.43
All other
7.11
1,111.54
$4,311.54
DUES-BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Dues
$60.00
TOWN ACCOUNTANT
Salary
$1,750.00
Expenses :
Postage
$1.50
Clerical assistance
220.00
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Report of Town Accountant
Office expense
49.14
270.64
$2,020.64
TOWN TREASURER
Salary
$1,800.00
Expenses :
Stationery and postage
$137.00
Office expense
64.52
Bond
211.00
Insurance
22.50
Telephone
12.10
Carfares and expenses
61.50
508.62
$2,308.62
TAX TITLE FORECLOSURES
Expenses :
Supplies
$4.43
Recording
28.05
Services
46.60
Land Court expenses
150.00
$229.08
TOWN COLLECTOR
Salaries
$2,000.00
Expenses :
Stationery and postage
$394.77
Printing
193.25
Advertising Tax Sale
194.54
Recording deeds
94.75
Bonds
482.00
Insurance
54.83
Clerical assistance
1,609.83
Office, expense
86.21
All other
69.95
3,180.13
$5,180.13
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ASSESSORS
Salaries:
Chairman
$1,750.00
Associates
875.00
$2,625.00
Expenses :
Carfares, autos and lunches
$150.01
Copying deeds
80.00
Clerical assistance
1,181.34
Banker and Tradesman
10.00
Land Court plans
.45
Stationery and postage
32.75
Office expense
89.85
Printing
269.45
All other
4.00
1,817.85
$4,442.85
OTHER FINANCE OFFICERS AND ACCOUNTS
Certification of notes
$80.10
ADVISORY BOARD
Expenses :
Clerical
$75.00
Advertising meetings
6.50
Printing reports
59.33
Photostat
22.49
Summary sheets
12.45
All other
10.00
$185.77
LAW DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Town Counsel
$915.00
Expenses
85.00
$1,000.00
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TOWN CLERK
Salary
$1,200.00
Expenses :
Stationery and postage
$32.50
Telephone
78.44
Carfares and lunches
16.95
Office expense,
104.88
Bond
5.00
Publishing notice
4.00
All other
2.00
243.77
$1,443.77
TOWN MEETINGS, ELECTIONS AND REGISTRATIONS
Expenses :
Moderator
$20.00
Registrars
504.60
Election officers
253.00
Printing
235.28
Lunches
89.43
Publishing notices
17.50
Janitors' services
9.00
Office expense
28.10
Amplifier service
50.00
Moving partitions
40.51
All other
2.06
$1,249.48
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Services of Engineers
$683.75
Transportation
20.80
Tracing cloth
2.00
Blue prints
.67
Stakes
5.78
Cement bounds
56.25
Setting bounds
30.00
All other
.75
$800.00
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PLANNING BOARD
Expenses :
Typing
$3.15
Postage
1.19
Photostat
2.75
Magnigraphs
28.55
Publishing Zoning By-Laws
36.00
$71.64
TOWN HALL
Expenses :
Janitors
$300.00
Fuel oil
388.76
Light
165.55
Janitor's supplies
45.88
Repairs and maintenance
174.12
Telephones
613.23
Water
16.00
All other
4.90
$1,708.44
CIVIC CENTER GROUNDS
Expenses :
Truck
$12.00
Labor
403.50
Drain pipe
14.04
Oakum
1.80
Fertilizer
1.85
$433.19
Protection of Persons and Property
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Salaries :
Chief and Regulars
$18,580.70
Special officers
1,100.00
$19,680.70
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Expenses :
Telephones
$809.42
Fuel and light
343.46
Office supplies
137.38
Stationery and postage
25.38
First aid
13.02
Lockup Expenses
336.83
Matron
20.00
Equipment
537.29
Automobile
184.70
Radio Equipment
295.00
Repairing radios
14.75
Broadcasting
100.00
Repairs and Maintenance of Automo- biles and Motor Cycles
1,404.47
Material and labor on Station
799.40
Lead and targets
67.59
All other
224.46
5,313.15
$24,993.85
AMBULANCE
Expenses :
Maintenance
$158.22
Laundry
26.20
Supplies
18.81
Repairing stretcher
1.90
Garage rent
41.25
$246.38
REPAIRING POLICE BUILDING
Expenses :
Labor painting
$153.80
Shingling Roof and rebuilding chimney
268.00
$421.80
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Salaries:
Engineers $300.00
Drivers and Fire Alarm Operators
18,677.34
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Firemen
1,512.08
$20,489.42
Expenses :
Office Expense
$101.70
Stationery and postage
3.00
Allowance
60.00
Apparatus Supplies
534.49
Apparatus Expense
1,172.63
Automobile
200.00
Equipment
625.67
Fuel and light
1,091.80
Telephones
401.74
First aid
29.85
Fire Alarm Maintenance
816.15
Rent and Storage
240.00
Hose
563.50
Maintenance
1,376.88
Map of Town
66.66
Binding reports
17.85
All other
85.47
7,387.39
$27,876.81
WATER COMMISSIONERS' SALARIES AND EXPENSES,
AND HYDRANT RENTAL
Salaries
$599.99
Expenses
95.05
Hydrant Rental
26,459.51
$27,154.55
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Salary
$387.50
Expenses :
Transportation
$100.00
Postage and Telephone.
3.94
Convention at Springfield
17.30
Nickel Plating Weight
2.50
Plates for Test Tank
1.00
Insurance
3.00
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Express
1.50
Labor
2.00
Supplies
26.41
157.65
$545.15
VEHICLE TEST TANK
Vehicle Test Tank
$350.00
MOTH DEPARTMENT
Services of Superintendent
$820.60
Expenses :
Trucks
$1,063.50
Teams
40.00
Labor
1,887.50
Insecticides
730.97
Repairs
79.09
Gas and oil
216.93
Tree Food Dressing
15.00
First Aid Outfit
10.18
Printing
10.25
Spray hose
70.00
Range oil
14.00
Freight and express
18.46
Tools
7.83
Supplies
15.46
4,179.17
$4,999.77
ELM TREE BEETLE
Expenses :
Trucks
$80.00
Teams
130.00
Labor
230.40
Gas and oil
3.30
Repair parts
47.57
Sharpening tools
6.80
Freight
1.57
$499.64
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TREE WARDEN
Salary
$300.00
Expenses :
Trucks
$170.00
Labor
395.00
Gasoline
13.97
Fertilizer
17.23
Tools
89.88
Supplies
6.49
692.57
$992.57
FOREST FIRES
Expenses :
Fighting Fires
$233.75
Truck Supplies
13.57
Truck Expense
103.30
Pump Tanks
86.04
Steel Tank
43.56
Reducers, Nozzles, etc.
96.63
Hose
588.00
Lunches
2.00
Pitchforks
4.50
$1,171.35
BOUNTIES
Expenses :
Bounties on Woodchucks
$62.50
MOSQUITO CONTROL MAINTENANCE
Assessment $2,500.00
Health and Sanitation HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Salaries $937.47
Expenses :
Stationery
$2.50
Office expense
29,65
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Box rent
1.80
Publishing notices
12.50
School Dentist
720.00
Dental supplies
6.79
Dental repairs
12.58
Board and Care, Plymouth County Hos- pital
1,124.00
Board and Care, State Infirmary
274.00
Board and Care, Westfield Sanatorium
319.00
Animal Inspection
120.63
Slaughtering Inspection
90.00
Milk Inspection
50.00
Plumbing Inspection
118.00
Investigator
11.50
Burying Animals
135.00
Care of Dump
764.79
Garbage Collection
4,358.00
Cleaning Beaches and Roadsides
148.60
Extermination of Insects-Mushquashi- cut Pond
5,716.36
Services at Well Baby Clinic
220.00
Moving desk and files
2.00
Groceries and Provisions
10.96
Range oil
1.75
Furniture Storage
55.00
Painting and lettering signs
18.00
Vital Statistics
25.75
Vital Statistics to State
122.50
Examination of Milk
5.00
Treatments
1.00
Cleaning Cesspools
24.00
Contagious Diseases :
Cards for Physician's reports
$9.98
Board
67.50
77.48
14,579.14
$15,516.61
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE
Salary
$1,575.00
Upkeep of car
250.00
$1,825.00
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PLYMOUTH COUNTY HOSPITAL
1936 Assessment
$5,113.58
CLEAN-UP COMMITTEE
Expenses :
Trucks
$96.00
Labor
24.00
Care of rubbish can
6.00
Publishing notice
4.00
$130.00
Highways HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Salaries of Highway Surveyors
$2,000.00
Use of Cars
250.00
Office expense
33.41
Postage
.53
Clerical assistance
911.17
Telephone
87.40
Light
12.54
Freight and express
10.67
Trucking
12.00
Transportation
96.30
Trucks
7,150.00
Teams
150.00
Labor
28,970.83
Equipment and repairs
2,482.00
Stone
3,193.85
Sand and Gravel
439.00
Toncan pipe
759.30
Drain pipe
1,297.99
Grates and Frames
471.83
Road surfacing material
10,356.04
Shovels
267.75
Street Brooms
13.62
Lumber
444.50
Spikes and nails
26.48
Paint
394.43
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Painting streets
399.00
Gasoline and oil
935.50
Services of Engineers
170.60
Stakes
3.50
Stone chain
23.32
Kerosene
84.57
Alemite Grease Gun and Grease
32.25
Lanterns and Globes
63.55
Care of Lanterns
28.00
Fuel
.
259.88
Blasting
206.05
Rent
210.00
Wheelbarrow
5.00
Insurance
61.15
Map of Town
66.66
Calcium Chloride
32.85
Pumping Unit
58.00
First Aid Supplies
2.89
Reinforcing bars
47.46
Cement Work-Gannett Road
76.00
Cement Work-Front Street
7.00
Granite Flagstone
2.50
Loam
32.00
Bolts and screws
2.46
Stone Boats
40.50
Sand Screens
33.30
Cement
724.98
Cement Blocks and Plates
459.39
Bricks
43.50
Water
10.00
Pumping. Out Cellar
12.00
Painting Fences
4.32
Personal Property Damage
15.22
Guard Rails
377.71
Lubricating Oil
126.65
Sawing Stakes
3.00
Tools
214.81
Supplies
303.76
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$65,010.97
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SNOW REMOVAL
Expenses :
Trucks and plows
$6,404.75
Labor
9,982.78
Equipment and Repairs
513.87
Snow plows
1,068.00
Clerical
44.00
Shovels
97.50
Gasoline and oil
253.62
Lumber
13.76
Electric Drill
145.17
Sand
301.97
Salt
203.90
Calcium Chloride
30.80
Trucking
25.50
Freight and express
19.11
Publishing notice
3.00
Transportation
53.55
Chain Hoists
21.17
Coal
27.00
Kerosene
1.00
Chains
10.25
Supplies
18.18
Light
19.65
Lunches
27.00
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$19,285.53
MANN LOT ROAD
Award
$25.00
BEAL PLACE
Truck
$12.00
Labor
488.00
$500.00
CORNER PARK AND MAPLE AVENUES
Land Damage
$40.00
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CORNER CEDAR AND SUMMER STREETS
Expenses :
Trucks
$216.00
Labor
134.00
Award
150.00
$500.00
REPAIRING HUMAROCK BRIDGE
Expenses:
Trucks
$39.00
Labor
677.45
Cedar Posts
9.00
Oak Piles
35.00
Carting Piles
10.00
Driving Piles
100.00
Lumber
8.94
Spikes and nails
3.35
Paint
59.55
Elastic Cement
1.60
Rental of Boat
2.00
Railing and Installing
205.87
Stone
3.00
Sand
4.35
Gasoline
.83
Supplies
14.42
All other
35.75
$1,210.11
LAND DAMAGE-PROSPECT AVENUE
Land Damage
$250.00
STREET LIGHTS AND TRAFFIC BEACONS
Street Lights
$9,973.20
Beacons
167.70
$10,140.90
SIGNS
Expenses :
Trucks
$16.00
Signs
128.43
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Freight
.70
Making and painting signs
91.25
Drilling holes in sign post
2.75
Cement
1.30
$240.43
Welfare and Soldiers' Benefits PUBLIC WELFARE
General Administration:
Salaries
$700.00
Office expense
210.07
Stationery and postage
135.21
Clerical
1,014.00
Investigator, Salary and expenses
241.95
Carfares, use of cars and lunches
201.86
All other
5.90
$2,508.99
Outside Relief :
Groceries and provisions
$7,582.84
Board and Care,
817.09
Medical aid and medicine
853.80
Fuel
1,613.84
Cash aid
477.50
Rent
2,015.03
Transportation
53.00
Clothing
327.68
Interest on mortgage
42,00
Funerals
210.00
Trucking Federal Commodities
58.00
Moving and packing Federal Commodi- ties
26.00
Use of Oxygen Tent
47.43
Certifying Agent
480.00
Relief by Cities and Towns
1,602.67
All other
350.93 ยท
$16,557.81
$19,066.80
69
Report of Town Accountant
MOTHERS' AID
Expenses :
Groceries and provisions
$1,365.30
Medical aid and medicine
220.45
Fuel
157.75
Cash aid
518.00
Rent
105.72
Transportation
15.00
Clothing
52.87
Funeral
118.00
Relief by Town
450.36
All other
82.19
$3,085.64
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
Expenses :
Board and Care
$735.15
Medical aid and medicine
998.44
Fuel
148.56
Cash Aid
11,157.92
Transportation
1.00
Clothing
11.46
Rent
20.00
Funerals
467.00
Relief by other Town
273.84
All other
78.92
$13,892.29
U. S. GRANT OLD AGE ASSISTANCE-ASSISTANCE Cash Aid
$5,159.50
U. S. GRANT OLD AGE ASSISTANCE-ADMINISTRATIVE
Expenses :
Clerical
$56.00
Stationery and postage
62.95
Supplies
24.39
Certification
.50
$143.84
70
Report of Town Accountant
SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
Expenses :
Investigator, services and expenses
$6.55
Groceries and provisions
1,076.04
Board and care
815.58
Medical aid and medicine
326.32
Transportation
5.95
Fuel
278.29
Cash Aid
2,604.12
Rent
150.00
Clothing
27.28
All other
27.92
$5,318.05
State Aid
770.00
Military Aid
175.00
$6,263.05
Schools and Libraries SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Salaries
$54,980.39
Expenses
28,625.83
See School Report for detail.
$83,606.22
ALLEN MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Expenses :
Librarian
$210.00
Janitor
300.00
Books
488.32
Periodicals
28.42
Fuel and light
228.44
Water rates
26.00
Insurance
96.00
Grinding mower
1.50
Repairing and cleaning heater
8.35
$1,387.03
PIERCE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Expenses :
Librarian
$225.00
71
Report of Town Accountant
Janitor
88.00
Books
712.18
Periodicals
60.60
Binding
16.12
Book stamps
.78
Fuel and light
133.36
Water rates
10.00
Insurance
109.50
Sharpening lawn mower
2.00
Repairs
14.49
Making book truck
10.00
Paste
3.30
Cleaning vault
8.00
$1,393.33
Recreation and Unclassified PARK DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Labor
$1,258.80
Maintenance of truck
28.19
Gasoline and oil
28.38
Water rates
70.00
Loam
112.00
Grass seed
3.60
Geraniums
12.50
Mowers
45.00
Repairing mowers
31.20
Storage,
10.00
Paint
11.15
Painting signs
1.00
Mending flag
2.00
Cement
.70
Sharpening tools
1.50
Maintenance Comfort Stations
12.25
Care of Peggotty Beach
251.44
Wiring Christmas tree
6.00
Lighting Christmas tree
10.15
Tools
2.53
Supplies
1.36
$1,899.75
72
Report of Town Accountant
UNCLASSIFIED
Expenses :
Care of Town clock
$77.00
Printing and distributing Town reports
1,038.21
Damage to persons and property
931.45
Water rates
31.00
Rent-Parking Space
100.00
Registering persons parking
93.95
Printing Parking stickers
10.75
Recording takings and releases
41.80
Preparing order of takings for layouts
18.00
Services of WPA Administrator
67.50
Repairing and oiling chimes
18.15
Keys and padlock for Lawson tower
2.00
Land Court plans
1.00
Taking Inventory of Departments Personal Prop- erty
75.00
Transportation
5.25
Storage
15.00
Flood lights
75.50
All other
55.35
$2,656.91
PARKING SPACE, MINOT
Expenses :
Repairing drain
$38.00
Maintenance of Comfort Station
112.67
$150.67
ERA SPECIAL
Expenses :
Roadside Beautification
$70.14
Canning
3.27
$73.41
INSURANCE
Expenses :
Employers' and Public Liability
$3,337.87
All other
3,009.23
$6,347.10
73
Report of Town Accountant
300TH ANNIVERSARY
Expenses :
Truck
$28.00
Labor
182.10
Clerical
7.85
Information Booth
73.47
Bags for meal Printing
24.50
Installing lights
66.65
Signs
23.00
Repairing mill
323.46
Horse for Pageant
4.50
Fireworks
15.00
Badges and ribbons
40.80
$798.42 '
FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY PROJECTS AND TOWN IMPROVEMENTS
Expenses :
Roadside, Beautification
$1,239.26
Willow Street Drain
6,126.22
Street Numbering
497.03
Sewing
3.80
Water
3,431.58
Canning
339.96
Lincoln Mill Sluiceway
808.55
Shellfish
251.50
Town Improvements
5,521.63
$18,219.53
BILL OF PREVIOUS YEAR
Bill of 1934
$16.82
AID TO AGRICULTURE
Assessment
$100.00
MEMORIAL DAY
Observance of Memorial Day
$446.51
74
9.09
Report of Town Accountant
ARMISTICE DAY
Observance of Armistice, Day
$130.36
QUARTERS FOR VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
Rent
$87.50
CHANNEL BUOYS
Expenses :
Use of boat
$12.00
Labor
35.50
Supplies
27.50
$75.00
BAND CONCERTS
Concerts
$500.00
REFUNDS
Taxes
$265.18
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
486.58
Water Rates
1,374.17
Costs
.35
$2,126.28
Enterprises and Cemeteries WATER DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Administration
$4,243.16
General
38,547.37
Pumping Station
9,517.94
Service Pipe
1,099.82
Extensions
4,052.32
Well Construction
1,975.47
Interest on Debt
26,441.25
Maturing Debt
29,000.00
$114,877.33
REBUILDING TOWN PIER
Expenses :
Services of Engineers
$829.25
Trucks
1,532.50
75
Report of Town Accountant
Teams
99.75
Labor
3,002.51
Contract
22,625.00
Publishing notices
25.85
Blue prints
26.69
Transportation
2.00
Certified copy of license
1.00
Recording license and plan
4.00
Lumber
402.18
Piles
40.00
Moving piles
14.00
Paint and brushes
75.42
Creosote
.30
Padlock and hasp
1.20
Lanterns and globes
4.95
Care of lanterns
10.00
Bolts
45.91
Cutting and threading bolts and nuts
3.00
Sharpening tools
7.00
Gasoline and oil
1.19
Screws and washers
7.21
Nails and spikes
25.47
Pipe
2.58
Sheet copper and solder
8.70
Sheet metal
3.50
Bricks
19.75
Cement
59.25
Cast iron cover
14.80
Iron pipe and installing
83.76
Mason work on man hole
24.50
Drilling and blasting cement
12.50
Shovels
21.00
Keystone
26.00
Iron rods
25.80
Reinforcement rods
58.90
Welding
8.00
Soft coal
9.68
Liquid asphalt
149.67
Sand
2.21
Tools
7.55
Supplies
92.04
$29,416.57
76
Report of Town Accountant
PUBLIC LANDINGS
Expenses :
Salary of Harbor Master
$400.00
Labor
70.50
Barrels
54.50
Hoisting gang ways
4.00
Water rates
22.00
Services of Engineers
70.30
Transportation
4.70
Labor on float
50.25
Lumber
119.50
Nails and spikes
13.86
Screws and bolts
9.08
Paint
18.55
Painting and oiling runways
10.50
Making and painting signs
20.75
Welding and drilling iron bars
5.00
Iron hangers
6.86
Kerosene
.80
Care. of lanterns
35.00
$916.15
OLD CEMETERY
Expenses :
Labor
$85.00
Interest and Maturing Debt
INTEREST
Revenue Loans
$337.91
High School Loan
50.00
Sea Wall Loans
385.00
Concrete Bridge Loan
480.00
Town Pier Loan
187.50
$1,440.41
MATURING DEBT
High School Loan
$1,250.00
Sea Wall Loans
5,000.00
Concrete Bridge Loan
2,400.00
$8,650.00
77
Report of Town Accountant
TEMPORARY LOANS
Anticipation of Revenue
$325,000.00
Agency and Trust
AGENCY
State Tax
$17,600.00
County Tax
19,687.27
State Parks and Reservations
103.71
Auditing Municipal Accounts
399.58
$37,790.56
TRUST
Expenses :
Labor
$62.00
Cash aid
324.52
$386.52
DOG LICENSES
Proceeds from Dog Licenses
$1,100.20
PETTY CASH
Collector's Petty Cash
$40.00
BANK CHARGE
Check returned-insufficient funds
$110.51
$924,566.96
Balance, December 31, 1936
31,321.84
$955,888.80
78
SUMMARY
Balances January 1,1936
1936 Appropri- ations
Receipts and Transfers
Totals
1936 Expendi- tures
Balances December 31,1936
Over- drafts
$4,510.00
$4,510.00
Selectmen's Department Dues-Boston Chamber of Com-
$4,311.54 60.00
$198.46
60.00
60.00
merce
2,025.00
2,025.00
Accounting Department
2,020.64
4.36
2,350.00
2,350.00
Treasurer's Department
2,308.62
41.38
500.00
500.00
Tax Title Foreclosures
229.08
270.92
5,230.00
5,230.00
Collector's Department
5,180.13
49.87
4,100.00
4,500.00
Assessors' Department
4,442.85
57.15
75.00
100.00
Certification of Notes
80.10
19.90
200.00
200.00
Advisory Board
185.77
14.23
1,000.00
1,000.00
Law Department
1,000.00
1,445.00
1,445.00
Town Clerk's Department
1,443.77
1.23
900.00
350.00
1,250.00
Town Meetings, Elections and Registrations
1,249.48
.52
800.00
800.00
Engineering Department
800.00
200.00
200.00
Planning Board
71.64
128.36
1,800.00
1,800.00
Town Hall
1,708.44
91.56
150.00
433.19
Civic Center Grounds
433.19
24,745.00
244.10
24,996.79
Police Department
24,993.85
2.94
250.00
250.00
Ambulance
246.38
3.62
425.00
425.00
Repairing Police Building
421.80
3.20
27,889.08
27,889.08
Fire Department
27,876.81
12.27
26,733.60
425.91
27,159.51
Water Commissioners' Salaries
and Expenses, and Hydrant Rental
27,154.55
4.96
Report of Town Accountant
79
$7.69
283.19
$400.00 25.00
SUMMARY-Continued
Balances January 1,1936
1936 Appropri- ations
Receipts and - Transfers
Totals
1936 Expendi- tures
Balances December 31,1936
Over- drafts
550.00
550.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
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