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363.98
Office expenses
91.44
All other
11.00
1,165.20
$4,365.20
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ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
DUES-BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Dues
$60.00
TOWN ACCOUNTANT
Salary
$1,750.00
Expenses :
Stationery and postage
$8.75
Clerical assistance
195.20
Office expense
42.86
246.81
$1,996.81
TOWN TREASURER
Salary
$1,800.00
Expenses :
Stationery and postage
$209.37
Office expense
24.17
Bond
211.00
Burglary insurance
22.50
Telephone
16.00
Carfare and expenses
58.50
541.54
$2,341.54
TAX TITLE FORECLOSURES
Expenses :
Services
$33.50
Transportation
28.20
Land Court Costs
269.00
Recording of Decrees
13.10
New Certificate
3.00
Notice of petition
6.00
Notice of Final Disposition
2.00
Treasurer's Deeds
40.00
Examination of Titles
18.00
$412.80
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ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
TOWN COLLECTOR
Salary
$2,000.00
Expenses :
Stationery and postage
$530.34
Printing
148.25
Advertising Tax Sale
176.50
Recording Deeds
40.70
Bonds
462.00
Burglary Insurance
32.89
Clerical assistance
1,465.60
Office expense
174.09
All other
145.90
3,176.27
$5,176.27
·
ASSESSORS
Salaries:
Chairman
$1,800.00
Associates
900.00
$2,700.00
Expenses :
Carfares, autos and lunches
$152.20
Copying deeds
79.35
Clerical assistance
1,193.60
Banker and Tradesman
10.00
Land Court plans
.15
Stationery and postage
13.20
Office expense
170.28
Printing
210.00
All other
4.00
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1,832.78
$4,532.78
OTHER FINANCE OFFICERS AND ACCOUNTS
Certification of Notes $30.00
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ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
ADVISORY BOARD
Expenses :
Clerical assistance
$76.80
Printing reports
65.70
Repairing Minute Book
.35
Photostat
25.87
Office supplies
8.89
$177.61
LAW DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Town Counsel
$1,300.00
Expenses
140.00
$1,440.00
TOWN CLERK
Salary
$1,200.00
Expenses :
Stationery and postage
$31.25
Telephone
65.99
Carfares and lunches
13.15
Office expense
96.67
Bond
5.00
Express
.77
Publishing notice
4.00
Printing
2.40
All other
24.75
243.98
-
$1,443.98
TOWN MEETINGS, ELECTIONS AND REGISTRATIONS
Expenses :
Moderators
$40.00
Registrars
183.30
Election officers
96,00
Printing
269.05
Lunches
45.00
60
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
Posting Warrants
12.00
Publishing warrants
46.50
Janitors' services
20.00
Office expense
10.35
Postage
1.50
Amplifier service
10.00
Moving partitions
12.00
Voting booths
195.00
All other
1.25
$941.95
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Expenses:
Services of Engineers
$881.90
Transportation
4.20
Tracing cloth
4.25
Carfares and lunches
19.30
Blue prints and postage
7.62
Cement bounds
31.25
Stakes
2.18
Labor
11.70
$962.40
TOWN PLAN
Expenses :
Services of Engineers
$1,439.10
Transportation
44.00
Stakes
8.24
Tracing cloth and blue prints
8.66
$1,500.00
PLANNING BOARD
Expenses :
Services of Lawyer
$50.00
Publishing notice of Zoning By-Laws
7.50
:
Photostat
5.15
$62.65
61
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
TOWN HALL
Expenses :
Janitor
$300.00
Fuel oil
297.31
Light
170.09
Janitor's supplies
8.34
Repairs and Maintenance
135.02
Telephones
564.47
Water Rates
16.00
All other
6.75
$1,497.98
CIVIC CENTER GROUNDS
Expenses :
Labor
$208.00
Protection of Persons and Property POLICE DEPARTMENT
Salaries:
Chief and Regulars
$18,600.00
Special officers
1,165.05
$19,765.05
Expenses :
Telephones
$590.96
Fuel and light
309.46
Office expense
89.69
Stationery and postage
11.80
First aid
5.64
Medical aid
15.00
Lockup expenses
435.67
Matron
46.10
Equipment
294.63
Automobiles
552.00
Motor Cycles
370.00
Radio Equipment
175.00
Radio Repairs and Maintenance
119.90
62
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
Repair and Maintenance of automo-
biles and Motor Cycles
1,440.16
Lead and targets
44.36
Express
.90
All other
165.15
4,666.42
24,431.47
AMBULANCE
Expenses :
Maintenance
$208.04
Laundry
32.09
Supplies
20.96
Garage rent
90.00
$351.09
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Salaries:
Engineers
$300.00
Drivers and Fire Alarm operators
18,666.08
Firemen
2,562.75
$21,528.83
Expenses :
Office expense
$103.08
Stationery and postage
23.38
Allowance
60.00
Apparatus supplies
388.70
Aparatus expense
519.42
Equipment
829.38
Fuel and light
1,115.03
Telephones
389.64
Fire Alarm Maintenance
521.57
Rent and storage
322.00
Hose
1,078.00
Maintenance
973.22
Photographic supplies
34.98
All Other
98.95
6,457.35
$27,985.18
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ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
FIRE DEPARTMENT-SPECIAL
Expenses :
Labor
$325.00
Lumber
4.77
Paint
22.04
Equipment
89.18
Material and supplies
834.85
Fire alarm boxes
1,425.00
Arm braces
37.11
Screws
17.19
Pins and arms
40.54
Relocating and guying pole
17.41
Setting poles
107.15
Bolts and nails
1.94
Glass insulators
24.10
Wire
243.05
Repeater pedestal and switches
858.00
Brackets and straps
38.53
Freight and express
4.17
Making points
1.50
Steel rod
2.00
Truck
14,178.75
Three-way Deluge Gun
350.00
Flood light
375.00
Number plates and brackets
2.70
$18,999.98
REMODELING AND ENLARGING BROOK STREET FIRE STATION
Expenses :
Architect
$850.00
Contract
8,131.05
Publishing request for bids
7.50
Use of trucks
28.00
Resetting poles
8.66
Fire Alarm supplies
30.63
Installing White units
12.50
Tying up motor
22.63
Varnish
3.25
$9,094.22
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ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
HYDRANT RENTAL
Hydrant Rental
$2,924.16
INCH FOOT LEVY
Inch Foot Levy
$25,228.31
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Salary
$437.50
Expenses :
Transportation
$100.00
Postage and telephone
4.39
Convention
17.10
Plates for Test Tank
1.00
Labor on Test Tank and painting
9.80
Supplies
18.52
150.81
$588.31
MOTH DEPARTMENT
Services of Superintendent
$771.10
Expenses :
Trucks
$705.00
Team
5.00
Labor
2,577.40
Insecticides
596.82
Repairs
22.35
Gasoline
93.11
Printing notices
6.25
Spray hose
140.45
Range oil
7.63
Freight and express
20.22
Paint
6.13
Safety cans
9.50
Tools
36.34
Supplies
2.56
4,228.76
.........
$4,999.86
65
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
ELM TREE BEETLE
Expenses :
Trucks
$40.00
Teams
78.00
Labor
281.00
Insecticides
67.16
Gasoline
33.05
$499.21
TREE WARDEN
Salary
$300.00
Expenses :
Truck
160.00
Teams
51.00
Labor
343.20
Pump tanks
51.00
Maple trees
5.00
Repairs
1.15
Gasoline
44.23
Oats and Top Dressing
43.20
698.78
$998.78
FOREST FIRES
Expenses:
Fighting Fires
$564.00
Truck Maintenance
170.18
Hose
643.50
Soda
4.98
$1,382.66
TOWN FORESTS
Expenses :
Labor
$398.80
BOUNTIES
Expenses :
Bounties on Woodchucks
$140.50
66
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
Health and Sanitation
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Salaries
$999.96
Expenses :
Office expense
23.82
Stationery
6.72
Clerical assistance
12.50
Box rent
1.80
Use of cars
116.66
Publishing notice
4.00
School Dentist
720.00
Dental supplies
7.63
Dental repairs
3.16
Pre-School Dental Clinic
170.00
Board and care, Plymouth County Hospital
380.90
Board and care, State Infirmary
552.00
Board and care, Westfield Sanatorium
215.00
Animal Inspection
125.00
Slaughtering Inspection
90.00
Milk Inspection
50.00
Plumbing Inspection
134.00
Investigator
14.00
Burying Animals
150.00
Burning shores of Musquashcut Pond
75.00
Care of dump
1,718.27
Garbage collection
4,159.20
Cleaning Beaches and Roadsides
640.10
Services at Well Baby Clinic
260.00
Supplies for Baby Clinic
38.00
Groceries and Provisions
84.69
Range Oil
33.84
Furniture storage
5.04
Clothing
14.86
Board
18.00
Rent
115.33
Printing
31.15
Vital Statistics
24.50
Vital Statistics to State
137.00
Examination of Milk
5.00
67
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
Treatments
54.50
Medical Aid
66.90
Services at Antitoxin Clinic
45.00
Supplies for Antitoxin Clinic
16.89
Ambulance
16.00
Quarantine on dogs
9.00
Examining dog
3.00
Fumigating
30.00
Cleaning cesspools
8.00
All other
15.00
10,401.46
$11,401.42
MUSQUASHCUT POND
Expenses :
Trucks
$387.50
Labor
1,092.09
Use of cars
4.32
Lumber
38.87
Staples and nails
5.48
Paint
2.59
Brushes
1.25
Wire
20.94
Chemicals
59.84
Cement
2.60
Roofing paper
1.30
Loam
7.00
Signs
6.00
Oars and oarlocks
3.16
Forks and rakes
3.15
Snips
1.28
Pans
.85
Gasoline
29.88
Nets
7.00
Fish and Game
184.25
Grain
145.50
Barrels and bags
6.25
Care of game and screens
152.90
$2,164.00
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE
Salary
$1,600.00
Upkeep of car
466.67
$2,066.67
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ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
PLYMOUTH COUNTY HOSPITAL
1937 Assessment
$4,881.14
CLEAN-UP COMMITTEE
Expenses :
Trucks
$100.00
Labor
36.00
Care of rubbish can
7.00
Publishing notice
3.00
Signs
2.00
$148.00
MOSQUITO CONTROL MAINTENANCE
Assessment
$2,500.00
Highways
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Salary of Highway Surveyor
$2,150.00
Use of car
250.00
Office expense
8.75
Stationery and postage
15.90
Clerical assistance
1,255.00
Telephone
64.10
Light and power
512.76
Freight and express
60.39
First aid supplies
11.69
Trucks
9,230.59
Teams
198.45
Labor
31,312.13
Steam shovel
48.75
Equipment and repairs
5,039.03
Stone
3,828.89
Sand and Gravel
519.46
Toncan Culvert Pipe
2,699.23
Drain Pipe
2,062.85
Cutting Drain Pipe
1.00
Grates and Frames
971.23
Road Surfacing Material
10,770.22
69
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
Shovels
286.70
Gasoline and oil
1,207.17
Lumber
606.36
Paint
343.64
Paint Brushes
4.60
Milling
1.00
Washers, bolts, screws and nuts
13.09
Spikes and nails
22.16
Services of Engineers
164.00
Transportation
51.50
Coal
386.29
Kerosene
104.21
Lanterns and Globes
24.30
Care of Lanterns
33.25
Cement Blocks
955.35
Cement
146.30
Explosives
71.75
Blasting
18.00
Rent
270.00
Loam
56.00
Grass seed
11.80
Oakum
14.92
Jute
6.60
Boiler Inspection
10.00
Sling chains
73.80
Steel Tape
7.75
Corrugated pipe
195.80
Corrugated couplings
11.57
Soil and galvanized pipe
7.27
Brick
20.66
Water rates
10.00
Form wire
33.00
. Street brooms
42.37
Grease
49.60
Creosote
9.00
Wheelbarrows
63.70
Crusher Oil
163.80
Painting streets
399.90
White road markers
117.60
Installing spring
7.00
Sealing and adjusting scales
3.00
Chain
37.33
Anti-rust oil
4.75
70
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
Use of Trailer and Gas Roller
24.00
Pipe and elbows
26.84
Reinforcing bars
128.56
Tools
354.26
Supplies
184.72
$77,795.69
SNOW REMOVAL
Expenses :
Trucks and Plows
$1,148.97
Labor
2,402.41
Equipment and repairs
1,197.99
Snow Plows
1,407.60
Shovels
43.12
Sand
50.05
Salt
36.17
Kerosene
12.33
Lumber
43.40
Making stake driver
6.00
Paint
10.13
Creosote
35.85
Form Wire
15.91
Pump Hose
22.00
Express
1.00
Oil
80.85
Tools
8.20
Supplies
2.70
$6,524.68
COMPRESSOR UNIT
Expenses :
Dodge chassis and cab
$875.25
Portable Compressor Unit
1,950.00
Tools
974.75
$3,800.00
HENRY TURNER BAILEY ROAD
Expenses :
Trucks
$286.20
71
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
Labor
949.36
Laying Curbing
64.00
Expense of Special Commission
25.00
$1,324.56
FIRST PARISH ROAD AND ROUTE 3A
Expenses :
Trucks
$401.90
Labor
1,080.09
Explosives
17.88
$1,499.87
EDWARD FOSTER ROAD
Expenses :
Trucks
$431.40
Labor
1,168.18
Awards
65.00
$1,664.58
BEAVER DAM ROAD AND HAZEL AVENUE
Expenses :
Trucks
$349.20
Labor
1,326.08
Road Material
73.55
$1,748.83
SIXTH AVENUE
Expenses :
Trucks
$426.14
Labor
977.12
Cement
.65
Drain Pipe
95.76
$1,499.67
72
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
STREET LIGHTS AND TRAFFIC BEACONS
Expenses :
Street Lights
$10,186.98
Beacons
140.67
$10,327.65
LAND NEAR PEGGOTTY BEACH
Expenses :
Trucks
$2,776.87
Teams
67.20
Labor
3,408.00
Steam Shovel
48.75
Toncan Pipe
104.47
Lumber
135.48
Nails
4.05
Paint
29.03
Brushes
3.75
Wire
2.00
Supplies
3.00
Awards
5,125.00
$11,707.60
SIGNS
Expenses :
Truck
$7.00
Labor
14.20
Signs
693.27
Posts
27.17
Repairing and painting signs
254.50
Freight
1.31
Cement
7.80
Paint and Brushes
18.45
Bolts
1,15
$1,024.85
Welfare and Soldiers' Benefits PUBLIC WELFARE
General Administration:
Salaries
$700.00
73
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
Office expense
119.52
Postage
4.48
Telephone
2.15
Printing
17.00
Clerical
821.00
Carfares, use of cars and lunches
258.16
All other
1.20
$1,923.51
Outside Relief :
Groceries and provisions
$5,997.54
Board and care
1,856.15
Medical aid and medicine
1,085.16
Fuel
988.79
Cash Aid
867.35
Rent
1,628.32
Transportation
5.00
Clothing
250.94
Interest on Mortgage
21.00
Funeral
112.00
Trucking Federal Commodities
82.70
Moving and packing Federal Com- modities
19.06
Fuel for Commodity office
67.38
Supplies for Commodity office
5.57
Transportation for Commodity office
31.25
Administration expense - Surplus
Commodity Division
66.72
Certifying Agent
1,021.20
Supplies for Certifying Office
1.35
Relief by other Cities and Towns
2,292.65
All other
175.59
16,575.72
$18,499.23
MOTHERS' AID
Expenses :
Groceries and provisions
$27.64
Medical aid and medicine
20.00
Fuel
12.75
Cash Aid
3,550.45
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ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
Relief by other Cities and Towns
734.24
All other
5.46
$4,350.54
U. S. GRANT-MOTHERS' AID
Cash Aid $1,066.00
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
Expenses :
Board and care
$153.50
Medical aid and medicine
334.06
Cash Aid
15,280.61
Funerals
349.00
Relief by other Cities and Towns
468.04
All other
3.50
$16,588.71
U. S. GRANT OLD AGE ASSISTANCE-ASSISTANCE
Cash Aid $10,829.91
U. S. GRANT OLD AGE ASSISTANCE-ADMINISTRATIVE
Expenses :
Clerical
$241.00|
· Stationery and postage
12.30
Printing
5.00
Office supplies
17.83
Carfare and lunch
1.50
$277.63
SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
Expenses :
Groceries and provisions
$2,041.78
Board and care
218.38
Medical aid and medicine
375.97
Funeral
137.00
Transportation
20.00
Fuel
487.99
75
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
Cash Aid
3,458.81
Rent
220.00
Clothing
200.28
Printing
19.50
Housekeeper
72.78
All other
45.68
$7,298.17
State Aid
810.00
Military Aid
125.00
$8,233.17
Schools and Libraries
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Salaries
$57,476.68
Expenses
29,419.67
$86,896.35
See School Report for detail.
AMPLIFYING SYSTEM
Labor and material as agreed
$360.00
CIVIC CENTER GROUNDS- HIGH SCHOOL
Expenses :
Trucks
$17.12
Teams
12.00
Labor
734.04
Loam
12.00
Top Dressing
43.20
Gravel
277.20
Lime
4.50
Calcium Chloride
26.93
Tennis nets and tapes
48.69
Repairing and sharpening lawn mowers.
57.25
Wire
4.35
Gasoline
3.18
Repairing bubbler
10.10
Turning on water
2.50
Shutting off water
6.75
Supplies
17.25
$1,277.06
76
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
HYDRANTS-JENKINS SCHOOL
Expenses:
Hydrants and valves
$233.80
Pipe
545.99
$779.79
ALLEN MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Expenses :
Librarian
$240.00
Janitor
300.00
Books
416.15
Periodicals
47.50
Binding Books
40.51
Fuel and Light
190.13
Repairing Building
135.59
Water Rates
26.00
Shelf numbers
2.62
Insurance
7.13
$1,405.63
PIERCE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Expenses :
Librarian
$300.00
Janitors
101.00
Books
627.67
Periodicals
66.65
Binding books
15.44
Fuel and light
130.72
Repairing Building
9.55
Imprinting cards
1.00
Water rates
10.00
Publishing list of books
6.00
Insurance
50.63
Furniture
21.25
Record cards
7.00
Paste
.90
Supplies
51.26
$1,399.07
77
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
Recreation and Unclassified PARK DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Labor
$1,669.85
Maintenance of truck
39.81
Gasoline and oil
35.92
Water
85.00
Loam and Filling
454.00
Grass seed
24.03
Fertilizer
2.70
Geraniums
10.00
Repairing and sharpening lawn mowers
53.15
Storage
10.00
Paint
30.60
Paint brushes
1.45
Rope
2.24
Painting flag pole and putting up halyard
15.00
Mending flag
2.50
Maintenance Comfort Stations
12.91
Care of Peggotty Beach
264.00
Bulbs for Christmas tree
15.16
Wiring Christmas trees
10.00
Lighting Christmas tree
10.40
Tools
.60
$2,749.32
UNCLASSIFIED
Expenses :
Care of Town Clock
$ 50.00
Printing and distributing Town Reports
1,224.29
Water
31.00
Printing Parking Stickers
12.00
Registering Persons Parking
183.30
Recording Takings and Plans
26.55
Services Auctioneer and Clerk
37.75
Binding Reports
4.50
Expenses Dreamwold Hearing
298.58
Expenses to Washington-Harbor Project
302.51
Report of hearing on Scituate Harbor
18.90
Storage
7.50
78
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
Shellfish Warden
225.00
Dog Officer
50.00
Walk at Sand Hills
19.55
All other
20.70
$2,512.13
PARKING SPACE-MINOT
Expenses :
Repairing drain
$ 4.00
Maintenance of Comfort Station
85.02
$89.02
INSURANCE
Expenses :
Employers' and Public Liability
$4,024.58
All other
1,442.89
$5,467.47
FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY PROJECTS AND TOWN IMPROVEMENTS
Farm to Market
$1,150.59
Edward Foster Road Corner
799.82
Wells-Webster Meadow
2,998.99.
Bound Brook Park
699.41
Sewing
.27
Clam
51.17
Curtis Street Sidewalk
807.39
Civic Center Grounds
8.00
Ridge Hill Road
511.70
Curbing, North Scituate
79.00
Preparing Reports
100.00
Town Improvements
5,563.96
$12,770.30
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
Lawson Tower
$410.61
Fire Stations
577.12
Police Station
48.87
79
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
Signs on Legion Hall
8.00
Painting Tool House-Old Cemetery
14.50
$1,059.10
BILLS OF PREVIOUS YEARS
Bills of 1935
$207.61
Bills of 1936
20.00
$227.61
COUNTY AID TO AGRICULTURE
Assessment
$100.00
PRINTING HISTORICAL BOOKLETS
Printing
$697.51
MEMORIAL DAY
Observance of Memorial Day
$496.24
ARMISTICE DAY
Observance of Armistice Day
$132.50
QUARTERS FOR VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
Rent
$291.67
CHANNEL MARKINGS
Expenses :
Use of boat
$15.00
Labor
36.50
Supplies
23.50
$75.00
CONTROL OF SHELLFISH
Expenses :
Shellfish Warden
$1,445.00
Boats
275.00
Boat hire
29.25
80
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
Printing
51.25
Transportation
8.80
Boat Equipment
35.45
Maintenance of Boats
138.20
Tools
3.80
$1,986.75
BAND CONCERTS
Concerts
$500.00
REFUNDS
Taxes
$672.63
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
557.52
Water Rates“
569.21
Estimated Receipts
2.35
$1,801:71
Enterprises and Cemeteries
WATER COMMISSIONERS
Salaries
$600.00
Transportation
124.25
$724.25
WATER DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Administration
$4,560.43
General
18,286.04
Pumping Station
6,636.77
Service Pipe
918.22
Extensions
8,215.68
Maturing Debt
29,000.00
Interest on Debt
25,336.25
$92,953.39
REBUILDING TOWN PIER
Expenses :
Trucks
$ 34.75
Labor
212.35
81
ANNUAL REPORT, TOWN OF SCITUATE, 1937
Asphalt
193.24
Lumber
2.31
Paint
.99
Cement
23.40
Stone
7.71
Drain Pipe
3.50
Supplies
1.99
Drilling opening in sheathing
3.00
$483.24
PUBLIC LANDINGS
Expenses :
Salary of Harbor Master
$400.00
Truck
14.00
Labor
83.20
Water Rates
22.00
Barrels
27.00
Repairing and painting Float and Runways
29.75
Labor and material for gangway
81.00
Moving runway
16.00
Lumber
4.72
Paint
13.93
Supplies
7.69
$699.29
TOOL HOUSE AND TOOLS-CUDWORTH ROAD CEMETERY
Expenses :
Labor
$ 25.00
Material
100.00
$125.00
OLD CEMETERY
Expenses :
Labor
$85.00
Interest and Maturing Debt
INTEREST
Revenue Loans
$758.17
Sea Wall Loan
210.00
82
ANNUAL REPORT. TOWN OF SCITUATE. 1937
Town Pier Loan
337.50
Concrete Bridge Loan
384.00
Departmental
135.00
Equipment Loan
$1,824.67
MATURING DEBT
Sea Wall Loan
$3,000.00
Town Pier Loan
5,000.00
Concrete Bridge Loan
2,400.00
$10,400.00
TEMPORARY LOANS
Anticipation of Revenue $245.000.00
Agency and Trust
AGENCY
State Tax
$21,560.00
County Tax
19,826.73
State Parks and Reservations
234.44
Auditing Muncipal Accounts
543.73
$42,164.90
TRUST
Expenses :
Labor
$ 46.80
Cash Aid
477.10
$523.90
DOG LICENSES
Proceeds from Dog Licenses
$1,153.20
$866,308.97
Balance, December 31, 1937
18,001.61
$884,310.58
83
SUMMARY
Balances January 1,1937
1937 Appropri- ations
Receipts and Transfers
Totals
1937 Expendi- tures
Balances December 31,1937
Over- drafts.
$4,353.00
$21.50
$4,374.50
$4,365.20
$9.30
60.00
60.00
Selectmen's Department Dues-Boston Chamber of Com-
60.00
merce
2,025.00
2,025.00
Accounting Department
1,996.81
28.19
2,348.00
2,348.00
Treasurer's Department
2,341.54
6.46
$270.92
350.00
33.25
654.17
Tax Title Foreclosures
412.80
241.37
5,183.00
3.00
5,186.00
Collector's Department
5,176.27
9.73
4,550.00
4,550.00
Assessors' Department
4,532.78
17.22
100.00
100.00
Certification of Notes
30.00
70.00
175.00
2.61
177.61
Advisory Board
177.61
1.000.00
140.00
1,440.00
Law Department
1,440.00
1.02
600.00
345.00
945.00
Town Meetings, Elections and Registrations
941.95
3.05
1,000.00
1,000.00
Engineering Department
962.40
37.60
1,500.00
1,500.00
Town Plan
1,500.00
75.00
75.00
Planning Board
62.65
12.35
1,500.00
1,500.00
Town Hall
1,497.98
2.02
150.00
64.35
214.35
Civic Center Grounds
208.00
6.35
24,345.00
92.44
24,437.44 351.09
Police Department
24,431.47
5.97
300.00
51.09
27,990.00
Fire Department
27,986.18
3.82
5,500.00
13,500.00
19,000.00
Fire Department-Special
18,999.98
02
10,000.00
10,000.00
Remodeling and Enlarging Brook Street Fire Station
9,094.22
905.78
1,445.00
1,445.00
Town Clerk's Department
1,443.98
Ambulance
351.09
27,990.00
84
SUMMARY-Continued
Balances January 1,1937
1937 Appropri- ations
Receipts and Transfers
Totals
1937 Expendi- tures
Balances December 31,1937
Over- drafts
2,890.00
2,890.00
Hydrant Rental
2,924.16
24,923.08
24,923.08
Inch Foot Levy
25,228.31
600.00
600.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
588.31
11.69
5,000.00
5,000.00
Moth Department
4,999.86
.14
500.00
500.00
Elm Tree Beetle
499.21
.79
1,000.00
1,000.00
Tree Warden
998.78
1.22
200.00
200.00
400.00
Town Forests
398.80
1.20
250.00
250.00
Bounties
140.50
109.50
11,545.00
11,545.00
Health Department
11,401.42
143.58
2,500.00
2,500.00
Musquashcut Pond
2,164.00
336.00
2,100.00
2,100.00
Public Health Nurse
2,066.67
33.33
4,881.14
4,881.14
Plymouth County Hospital
4,881.14
150.00
150.00
Clean-Up Committee
148.00
2.00
2,500.00
2,500.00
Mosquito Control Maintenance
2,500.00
77,200.00
600.00
77,800.00
Highway Department
77,795.69
4.31
5,000.00
5,000.00
6,524.68
1,524.68
3,800.00
3,800.00
3,800.00
1,325.00
1,325.00
1,324.56
44
$250.00
1,500.00
1,500.00
1,499.87
.13
1,600.00
65.00
1,665.00
First Parish Road and Route 3A Edward Foster Road
1,664.58
.42
1,750.00
1,750.00
Beaver Dam Road & Hazel Ave.
1,748.83
1.17
1,500.00
1,500.00
Sixth Avenue
1,499.67
.33
10,603.00
10,603.00
Street Lights and Traffic Beacons
10,327.65
275.35
1,200.00
1,200.00
Forest Fires
1,382.66
182.66
85
Snow Removal Compressor Unit
Henry Turner Bailey Road
250.00
Land Damage-Prospect Avenue
250.00
$34.16 305.23
SUMMARY-Continued
Balances January 1,1937
1937 Appropri- ations
Receipts and Transfers
Totals
1937 Expendi- tures
Balances December 31,1937
Over- drafts
1,000.00 16,000.00 5,000.00
20,000.00 25.17 5.00
20,000.00 1,025.17 16,005.00 5,000.00 1,066.00
Land near Peggotty Beach
11,707.60
8,292.40
Signs
1,024.85
.32
Public Welfare
18,499.23
Mothers' Aid
4,350.54
649.46
15,000.00
1,066.00 67.74 10,771.07
10,829.99
U. S. Grant-Old Age Assistance -Assistance
10,829.91
.08
30.09
359.00
389.09
U. S. Grant -- Old Age Assistance -Administrative
277.63
111.46
6,500.00
1,011.28
6,500.00 85,761.28 360.00
School Department
86,896.35
1,135.07
Amplifying Equipment
360.00
1,500.00
1,500.00
Civic Center Grounds-High School
1,277.06
222.94
791.50
791.50
Hydrants-Jenkins School
779.79
11.71
1,400.00
1,400.00
Allen Memorial Library
1,405.63
5.63
1,400.00
1,400.00
1,399.07
.93
2,350.00
400.00
2,750.00
2,749.32
.68
2,000.00
512.16
2,512.16
2,512.13
03
200.00
200.00
89.02
110.98
7,500.00
7,500.00
Insurance
5,467.47
2,032.53
12,000.00
960.00
12,960.00
Federal, State and County Proj-
12,770.30
189.70
1,000.00
80.00
1,080.00
ects and Town Improvements Public Buildings
1,059.10
20.90
Old Age Assistance
16,588.71
1,520.97
58.92
86
Soldiers' Benefits
8,233.17
1,733.17
84,750.00 360.00
Pierce Memorial Library
Park Department
Unclassified
Parking Space-Minot
2,494.23
U. S. Grant-Mothers' Aid
1,066.00
15,067.74
SUMMARY-Concluded
Balances January 1,1937
1937 Appropri- ations
Receipts and Transfers
Totals
1937 Expendi- tures
Balances December 31,1937
Over- drafts
227.61
227.61
Bills of Previous Years
227.61
100.00
100.00
County Aid to Agriculture
100.00
713.50
713.50
Publishing Historical Booklets
697.51
15.99
500.00
500.00
Memorial Day
496.24
3.76
200.00
200.00
Armistice Day
132.50
67.50
350.00
350.00
Quarters for Veterans of Foreign Wars
291.67
58.33
75.00
75.00
Channel Markings
75.00
87
1,500.00
1,500.00
Control of Shellfish
1,986.75
486.75
500.00
500.00
Band Concerts
500.00
900.00
900.00
Water Commissioners
724.25
175.75
$583.43
583.43
Rebuilding Town Pier
483.24
100.19
700.00
700.00
Public Landings
699.29
.71
85.00
85.00
Old Cemetery-Cudworth Road
85.00
125.00
125.00
Tool House and Tools
125.00
Cudworth Road Cemetery
2,000.00
1.50
2,001.50
Interest
1,824.67 10,400.00
176.83
10,400.00
10,400.00
Maturing Debt
TOWN OF SCITUATE Balance Sheet - December 31, 1937
General Accounts
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Temporary Loans:
In Bank and Office
$18,001.61
... In Anticipation of Revenue
$40,000.00
Collector's Petty Cash
40.00
Water Department
15.00
$18,056.61
Water Department
15.00
55.00
Accounts Receivable : Taxes :
Trust Fund Income-Cornelia Allen Charity Fund
152.58
Levy of 1935:
Tailings-Unclaimed checks
87.31
Polls
$208.00
Sale of Real Estate Fund
930.00
Property
716.93
Levy of 1936:
Administrative
111.46
Polls
312.94
Property
43,072.29
Levy of 1937:
Polls
598.00
Property
113,695.24
158,603.40
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes:
Levy of 1935
$510.25
Repairs to Breakwaters 562.92
Levy of 1936
655.35
Musquashcut Pond
336.00
111.54
Overestimates :
County Tax 943.69
Appropriation Balances: Tax Title Foreclosures $241.37
Remodeling and Enlarging Brook Street Fire Station 905.78
88
Cash :
ASSETS
Reserve for Petty Cash Advances: Collector $40.00
" Federal Grant-Old Age Assistance: Assistance $.08
Levy of 1937
2,350.13
3,515.73
Special Assessments:
Moth 1936
$129.12
Moth 1937
175.75
Sea Wall
1,436.13
New Town Way
6.94 8,292.40
Tax Titles
$16,853.64
Tax Possessions
6,483.90
23,337.54
Departmental :
Police
$180.00
Moth
1,015.58
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