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$4,295.86
DUES-BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Dues .... ... ... ....
.... 60.00
TOWN ACCOUNTANT
Salaries
$1.780.00
Expenses :
Printing, Stationery and postage
$1.50
Clerical assistance
677.65
Office expense
53.42
732.57
2,512.57
TOWN TREASURER
Salary ..
... ...........
$1,800.00
Expenses :
Printing, stationery and postage
$112.39
Office expense
124.68
Bond
....
213.50
Burglary Insurance
22.50
Telephone ....
18.85
Carfares, autos and lunches
81.70
573.62
2,373.62
TAX TITLE FORECLOSURES
Expenses :
Services
$92.60
Land Court Costs
...
...
....
137.20
Recording Decrees and Notices of Dispositions
22.65
....
....
....
... ...
....
252.45
110
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
TOWN COLLECTOR
Salary
$1,950.00
Expenses :
Printing, stationery and postage
$524.53
Advertising Tax Taking
....
....
197.50
Recording Deeds
41.00
Bonds
477.32
Burglary Insurance
..
...
31.98
Clerical assistance
1,641.60
Office expense
105.29
Carfares, auto and lunches
321.78
All other
13.80
3,354.80
5,304.80
ASSESSORS
Salaries :
Chairman
....
........
1,800.00
Associates
....
..
....
$2,700.00
Expenses :
Printing, stationery and postage .. $18.00
Carfares, auto and lunches
135.23
Clerical assistance
...
1,249.18
Office expense ....
90.86
Copying deeds
106.59
Banker and Tradesman
10.00
All other
8.25
1,618.11
4,318.11
OTHER FINANCE OFFICERS AND ACCOUNTS Certification of Notes
24.00
ADVISORY BOARD
Expenses :
Clerical assistance
$100.00
Printing and publishing
..
80.70
Office expense .... ....
40.09
All other
1.00
221.79
LAW DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Services of Town Counsel
$1,060.00
Expenses ...
140.00
1,200.00
TOWN CLERK
Salary ..
$1,200.00
Expenses :
Printing, stationery and postage ....
$34.25
Telephone
81.32
Carfares, auto and lunches
48.75
Office expense
...
94.48
Bond
7.50
....
266.30
1,466.30
........
...
111
....
900.00
2,114.08
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Services of Engineers
$1,350.90
Transportation
22.60
Supplies
126.50
1,500.00
PLANNING BOARD
Expenses
Printing and publishing
$36.25
Supplies ....
29.70
65.95
TOWN HALL
Expenses :
Janitor ...
$300.00
Fuel and light
566.59
Telephones
635.67
Water Rates
15.00
Supplies
107.66
Repairs
69.73
1,694.65
CIVIC CENTER GROUNDS
Expenses:
Trucks
$31.70
Labor
...
...
332.15
Loam
12.00
Grass Seed
.60
376.45
Protection of Persons and Property POLICE DEPARTMENT
Salaries :
Chief and Regulars
...
... ......... ....
$18,600.00
Special Officers
2,335.85
$20,935.85
...
37.32
Use of truck
18.00
Use of car
....
102.00
Office supplies
104.50
Election lunches
72.00
Printing, stationery and postage
233.09
Publishing and posting warrants
74.00
Publishing notice
9.00
All other
6.00
....
82.00
Repairing and operating amplifier
....
74.10
Repairing voting booths
$83.32
Moderator
594.00
Registrars
Election officers
507.50
Clerical
117.25
Janitors' services
..
....
....
...
112
....
..
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
TOWN MEETINGS, ELECTIONS AND REGISTRATIONS Expenses :
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Expenses :
Radio Repairs and Maintenance
$261.80
Repairs and Maintenance of Automobiles and Motorcycles
1,397.13
Telephone
614.98
Equipment
535.75
Automobile
625.00
Motorcycles
200.00
Fuel and light
404.90
Office expense
260.14
Painting interior of station house
252.76
All other
452.37
5,113.40
26,049.25
AMBULANCE
Expenses :
Maintenance
$203.88
Laundry
55.09
All other
2.38
261.35
PURCHASE OF NEW AMBULANCE
Purchase of Ambulance
2,000.00
PENSIONS
Pensions ....
1,200.00
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Salaries:
Engineers
301.95
Drivers and Fire Alarm Operators
19,893.36
Firemen
3,650.05
23,845.36
Expenses:
Apparatus supplies
$480.05
Apparatus expense
175.09
Telephones
375.13
Insurance
130.05
Office expense
45.43
Rent and storage
220.00
Allowance
45.00
Fire Alarm
Maintenance
209.09
Hose
1,432.00
Equipment
514.69
Fuel
1,026.88
Light
497.40
Maintenance
1,257.86
All other
234.12
6,642.79
30,488.15
INCH FOOT LEVY
Inch Foot Levy
30,902.12
...
Lockup expense ..
108.57
113
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Salaries
$416.66
Expenses :
Transportation
$56.17
Supplies
6.17
All other
6.05
68.39
485.05
MOTH DEPARTMENT
Services of Superintendent
$741.00
Expenses :
Trucks and teams
$880.00
Labor
2,906.80
Supplies
2.44
Printing
12.00
Remodeling sprayer frame
3.50
Gasoline and oil
108.81
Insecticides
194.13
Equipment
28.65
Spray hose
122.50
4,258.83
4,999.83
ELM TREE BEETLE
Expenses :
Trucks
$200.00
Labor
699.25
Repairs
21.69
Insecticides
74.03
Gasoline
5.00
999.97
TREE WARDEN
Salary
$300.00
Expenses :
Trucks
$200.00
Labor
426.40
Fertilizer
46.49
Gasoline
8.60
Equipment
7.48
All other
9.20
698.17
998.17
FOREST FIRES
Expenses :
Fighting Fires
$1,283.80
Apparatus supplies
65.03
Apparatus expense
7.20
Hose
347.56
Board and meals
293.00
All other
23.96
2,020.55
114
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
TOWN FORESTS
Expenses :
Labor
499.20
BOUNTIES
Expenses
Bounties on Woodchucks
136.00
SHORE PROTECTION
State Assessment
4,000.00
Health and Sanitation BOARD OF HEALTH
Salaries
$1,200.00
Expenses :
Office expense
$2.00
Use of cars
90.02
School Dentist
720.00
Pre-school Dental Clinic
150.00
Dental supplies
95.40
Well Baby Clinic
240.00
Diphtheria Clinic
95.19
Trucks
406.60
Labor
218.40
Rental of land for dump.
100.00
Care of dump
1,675.58
Burying animals
154.00
Garbage collection
3,825.00
Cleaning beaches and roadsides
570.00
Animal quarantine
21.00
Publishing and distributing
health notices
80.80
Dog Clinic
93.30
Printing
52.50
Milk Inspector
50.00
Plumbing Inspector
252.00
Meat Inspector
60.00
Animal Inspector
$125.00
Board, care and treatments, Plym-
outh County Hospital
1,362.70
Vital Statistics
147.00
Contagious Diseases :
Medicine and Medical Aid $82.00
All other 6.00
88.00
Examination of milk samples
10.00
All other
16.97
10,701.46
11,901.46
MUSHQASHCUT POND
Expenses :
Trucks
$127.00
Labor
648.20
Corn
61.30
115
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Supplies
19.19
Fish
4.00
859.69
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE
Salary
$1,600.00
Expenses :
Assistant to Nurse
$780.00
Upkeep of Car
500.00
1,280.00
2,880.00
PLYMOUTH COUNTY HOSPITAL
1940 Assessment
6,088.94
CLEAN-UP COMMITTEE
Expenses :
Removal of rubbish
$101.00
Posters
3.00
Printing Bids
5.00
109.00
PURCHASE AND CARE OF TRASH CANS
Expenses:
Trash Cans
$159.60
Disposal of Contents
65.40
225.00
MOSQUITO CONTROL MAINTENANCE
1940 Assessment
3,000.00
Highways HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
Expenses:
Salary of Highway Surveyor
$2,145.00
Use of Car
250.00
Office Expense
38.19
Clerical Assistance
1,740.00
Telephones
|100.75
Light and power
457.15
Freight and express
39.11
Trucks and Teams
6,765.31
Labor
26,218.71
Gasoline Roller
32.00
Gasoline Shovel
567.75
Equipment and Repairs
6,839.46
Stone, Sand and Gravel
1,856.09
Pipe
1,152.42
Road Surfacing Material
12,869.72
Tractor
69.00
Gasoline and oil
1,858.26
Insurance
253.54
Coal
338.21
Kerosene
93.29
Street Painting
590.40
116
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Cement Blocks
267.21
Grates and Frames
287.64
Loam
112.85
Paints
308.27
Cement Work, Gannett Road, Harbor and Mann Hill Road
201.50
Painting highway buildings
18.00
Building and Painting Fence-Old Mill
58.25
Blasting
43.83
Cedar Posts
182.40
Tools
543.00
Supplies
920.91
Moving charge for shovel
110.00
Sharpening tools
25.25
Water Rates
29.00
Sealing and adjusting scales
2.00
All other
146.90
67,531.37
SNOW REMOVAL
Expenses:
Trucks and plows
$6,318.05
Sidewalk plows
95.00
Labor
10,105.04
Equipment and repairs
4,395.46
Loading machine
10.00
Bulldozer
57.00
Sand
142.00
Salt
342.00
Shovels
45.79
Supplies
87.34
Clerical assistance
30.00
Gasoline and oil
314.48
Coal
35.10
All other
21.40
21,998.66
GANNETT ROAD
Expenses :
Trucks
$477.75
Labor
1,000.90
Bulldozer
108.23
Gasoline Crane
405.00
Moving charges for equipment
33.00
Gasoline shovel
275.00
Gravel
371.90
Pipe
133.87
Grates and frames
62.65
Equipment
131.70
Easement and plan
3.00
LAND DAMAGE-COUNTRY WAY
Land damage
50.00
COUNTRY WAY
Expenses :
Trucks
$1,395.50
Labor
3,435.05
....
....
....
3,003.00
117
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Gasoline shovel
613.25
Bulldozer
201.65
Use of compressor
21.00
Power Grader
276.00
Steam Roller
136.00
Road Surfacing Material
940.50
Pipe
1,255.95
Grates and frames
388.41
Stone
1,218.42
Blasting
3.00
All other
15.00
9,899.73
MARY'S LANE AND BOARDMAN AVENUE
Expenses :
Trucks
$560.50
; : Labor
985.78
Gasoline shovel
66.00
Blasting
57.30
Tools
12.10
Pipe
49.16
Sand
8.00
Gasoline and oil
1.15
1,739.99
MITCHELL AVENUE.
Expenses :
Trucks
$499.48
Labor
372.35
Gasoline shovel
202.50
Bulldozer
96.00
Loam
27.30
1,197.63
PUBLIC WAY-SOUTH FROM ANN VINAL ROAD
Expenses :
Trucks
$517.50
Labor
712.13
Gasoline shovel
66.00
Pipe
140.00
Blasting
45.28
Gasoline and oil
10.24
Sand
8.00
1,499.15
PUBLIC WAY-NORTH FROM UNION STREET
Expenses :
Trucks
$501.26
Labor
543.88
Gasoline shovel
246.25
Land damage
100.00
Road surfacing material
126.00
-
Excavation
75.00
Gasoline and oil
5.21
1,597.60
118
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
WIDEN EASTERLY END OF GREENFIELD LANE
Expenses :
Land damage
$5.00
Trucks
24.00
Labor
171.00
200.00
GRADING BANK-CRESCENT AVENUE
Expenses :
Trucks
$42.00
Labor
157.95
199.95
WIDEN CURVE-OLD OAKEN BUCKET ROAD
Expenses :
Land damage
40.00
CORNER TURNER AND TILDEN ROADS
Expenses :
Trucks
$121.50
Labor
536.66
Gasoline shovel
15.75
Pipe and fittings
216.20
Cement blocks
62.64
Land damage
75.00
Supplies
22.15
Gravel
7.50
Gasoline and oil
7.12
Blasting
1,074.32
SCITUATE HARBOR PARKING SPACE
Expenses :
Trucks
$1,941.34
Labor
2,215.69
Gasoline shovel
547.50
Teams
105.00
Grates and frames
28.00
Cement blocks
70.74
Equipment and repairs
15.52
Coal
22.95
Tools and supplies
16.12
Gasoline and oil
34.40
4,997.26
SIDEWALK-MORDECAI LINCOLN ROAD
Expenses :
Trucks
$69.75
Labor
626.59
Road materials
203.53
899.87
LAND NEAR PEGGOTTY BEACH
Expenses :
Trucks
56.00
119
9.80
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
HIGHWAY FUND
Expenses :
Postage
.11
STREET LIGHTS AND TRAFFIC BEACONS
Expenses :
Street lights
$11,240.76
Traffic beacons
104.11
11,344.87
SIGNS
Expenses :
Labor
$58.50
Express
9.60
Signs
1,031.30
1,099.40
Welfare and Soldiers' Benefits PUBLIC WELFARE
General Administration:
Salaries
$382.50
Office expense
97.98
Telephone
3.25
Printing, stationery and postage
30.28
Clerical assistance
849.60
Carfares, auto and lunches
178.57
1,542.18
Outside Relief:
Groceries and provisions
1,688.61
Board and care
2,674.78
Medical aid and medicine
597.15
Fuel
492.48
Cash aid
1,577.00
Rent
1,697.79
Clothing
24.37
Funerals
300.00
Burial of unknown infants
30.00
Light
19.36
Rent of warehouse for commodities
6.00
Fuel for commodities office
17.10
Gasoline for commodities office
6.20
Trucking federal commodities
6.00
Telephone-federal commodities office
9.56
Supplies federal commodities office
1.85
Administration expense - Surplus Commodities Divisions
24.76
Relief by other cities and towns
1,485.59
All other
89.18
10,747.78
12,289.96
AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN
Cash Aid
3,026.25
120
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN-ADMINISTRATIVE
Expenses :
Clerical
$108.40
Use of car
3.48
Office expense
8.43
All other
2.20
122.51
U. S. GRANT-AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN Cash Aid 1,270.93
U. S. GRANT-AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN ADMINISTRATIVE
Expenses :
Clerical
$64.40
Use of car
1.65
Office expense
12.48
Postage
.60
79.13
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
Expenses :
Cash Aid
$17,819.40
Medical aid and medicine
102.05
Board and care
7.00
Funerals
100.00
Relief by other Cities and Towns
464.32
All other
11.00
18,503.77
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE-ADMINISTRATIVE
Expenses :
Clerical
$389.35
Use of car
43.84
Office expense
52.81
Stationery and postage
18.34
504.34
U. S. GRANT-OLD AGE ASSISTANCE-ASSISTANCE Cash Aid 15,736.08
U. S. GRANT-OLD AGE ASSISTANCE-ADMINISTRATIVE
Expenses :
Clerical
$460.25
Use of car
44.20
Office expense
18.86
Postage
4.76
All other
5.06
SOLDIERS' BENEFITS SOLDIERS' RELIEF
Expenses :
Groceries and provisions
$744.12
Medical aid and medicine
144.90
533.13
121
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Fuel
669.58
Rent
324.96
Clothing
34.19
X-Ray and laboratory costs
8.25
Cash Aid
6,835.00
All other
18.75
State Aid
Military Aid
10,079.75
Schools and Libraries SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Salaries
$65,522.50
Expenses
25,128.04
90,650.54
See School Report for detail.
GEORGE DEAN FUND
Expenses :
Travelling expenses
. 4.69
CIVIC CENTER GROUNDS-HIGH SCHOOL
Expenses :
Labor
$648.70
Power mower
340.00
Sharpening mowers
14.00
Mowing hay and hauling
18.00
Loam
77.00
Lime
14.70
Gravel
3.00
Tools and supplies
123.37
Tennis nets and tapes
24.60
Painting tennis courts
9.00
Gasoline and oil
11.69
Water rates
9.00
Erecting fence around ball field
24.20
1,317.26
ALLEN MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Expenses :
Librarian
$180.00
Janitor
200.00
Books
270.73
Periodicals
46.20
Fuel
234.07
Light
62.12
Installing heater
585.00
Care of grounds
55.30
Repairs to building
158.73
Water rates
25.00
Supplies
18.64
Printing
1.31
PIERCE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Expenses:
Librarian
$297.92
Assistant
15.00
122
1,837.10
$8,779.75 1,010.00 290.00
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Janitor
121.00
Books
872.01
Fuel
130.70
Light
77.95
Repairs to building
244.38
Supplies
22.03
Periodicals
7.00
Printing
7.00
Binding books
22.55
Water rates
18.00
1,835.54
Recreation and Unclassified PARK DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Labor
$2,908.80
Light
8.50
Power mower
75.00
Water rates
88.00
Loam
195.75
Paints
31.86
Painting base of flagpole
12.00
Painting buildings
18.00
Tools and supplies
235.29
Grass seed
17.10
Geraniums
12.00
Sharpening tools
6.00
Turning off water
45.72
Gasoline and oil
50.89
Repairs to mower
78.10
Lighting Christmas trees
33.30
Equipment and repairs
5.74
Repairs on Light House and Comfort Station
8.25
All other
10.00
3,840.30
LIFEGUARD-PEGGOTTY BEACH
Services of Lifeguard
220.00
UNCLASSIFIED
Expenses :
Care of Town Clock
$100.00
Printing and distributing Town Reports
682.20
Printing parking stickers
21.50
Registering persons parking
204.10
Dues-Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association
5.00
Administering oaths
19.50
Expenses to Washington regarding railroad
86.25
Wreaths-Chief Justice Cushing tomb
10.00
Bounty on Seal
5.00
Labor
78.00
Trucks
5.00
Dog Officer
75.00
Damages to Persons and Personal Property
360.00
Water Rates
65.00
Expenses Zoning Appeal Board
12.22
123
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Printing By-Laws, Street Directories and Jury
Lists
83.00
Medical aid-injury on Front Street
6.00
Expenses-Selective Draft Board
19.30
Fees for petition of layouts and subdivision plans
11.00
Court costs and easement plans
57.20
Publishing dog notices
20.50
All other
153.42
2,079.19
TAILINGS ACCOUNT Payment made on unclaimed checks 3.16
NORTH SCITUATE PLAYGROUND
Expenses :
Shuffleboard set
$7.95
Tennis nets
50.96
Concrete
183.63
Painting tennis courts
24.65
Flags
5.15
Printing notices
3.50
Turning off water
6.00
Supplies
13.31
Repairs
2.50
297.65
INSURANCE
Expenses :
Employers' and Public Liability
$1,839.00
All other
399.38
2,238.38
FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY PROJECTS AND TOWN IMPROVEMENTS
Expenses :
Town W. P. A. Agent
$1,315.00
Improving highways
13,014.93
Proposed project, mosquito
88.63
Proposed project, water
8.59
Install water mains
4,139.69
First Aid and general expense
78.65
Transportation to Hingham
367.00
School Department-Indexing
24.50
Indexing-Town Clerk
200.69
Trimming shade trees
406.65
Moth elimination
290.97
Installing filing system-Police Dept.
52.85
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19,988.15
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
Expenses :
Labor
$103.13
Trucks
43.25
Gasoline shovel
22.50
Painting Mt. Hope School, Commodity house,
Police Garage and Comfort Stations
454.07
124
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Turning off water-Comfort Stations
26.00
Care and repairs to Comfort Station
40.70
Moving Police Garage
50.00
Contract for repairs-Police Garage
172.89
Repairs
20.94
Supplies
30.49
Paints
2.15
Gravel
3.64
Water Rates
41.00
Light
14.24
1,025.00
MINOT PARKING SPACE
Expenses :
Trucks
$154.25
Labor
23.40
Gasoline shovel
22.00
199.65
PURCHASE OF LAND-SAND HILLS
Purchase of Sand Hills bathing beach
6,500.00
FEDERAL COMMODITIES OFFICE
Expenses :
Fuel
$76.26
Ice
4.60
Rent of warehouse
19.50
Telephone
32.03
Supplies
38.04
Trucking for commodities
27.00
Administrative expense-Surplus Commodities Division
123.78
All other
5.30
326.51
FISH AND GAME CONSERVATION
Expenses :
Brook trout
$22.10
White hares
32.50
Pheasants
25.00
Scratch feed
20.40
100.00
CHANNEL MARKINGS
Expenses:
Services
75.00
COUNTY AID TO AGRICULTURE
Assessment
100.00
BILLS OF PREVIOUS YEAR
Bills of 1939
132.53
MEMORIAL DAY
Observance of Memorial Day
466.00
125
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
ARMISTICE DAY
Observance of Armistice Day
112.28
QUARTERS FOR VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS Rent
350.00
CONTROL OF SHELLFISH
Expenses :
Shellfish Warden
$2,080.00 175.94
Maintenance of boat
2,255.94
REFUNDS
Taxes
$1,556.00
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
841.61
Water Rates
704.85
Moth
8.00
Estimated Receipts
.35
3,110.81
WATER DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Administration
$4,965.31
General
26,112.72
Pumping Station
6,298.94
Service Pipe
1,132.69
Extensions
8,179.66
Maturing Debt
33,000.00
Interest on Debt
22,301.25
101,990.57
PUBLIC LANDINGS
Expenses :
Salary of Harbor Master
$600.00
Labor
96.53
Repairing floats and gangway
178.50
Drums for floats
44.80
Water Rates
18.00
Crane Service
35.50
Cement
4.20
Lumber
1.94
Supplies
69.67
1,049.14
OLD CEMETERY-CUDWORTH ROAD
Expenses :
Labor
49.58
PLAN SHOWING LOCATION OF VETERANS' GRAVES Expenses :
Rent of typewriter
$1.00
Transportation
15.28
Blueprints
13.46
Supplies
2.15
31.89
126
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Interest and Maturing Debt INTEREST
Revenue Loans
$236.78
Harbor Improvement Loan
190.00
Concrete Bridge Loan
96.00
Departmental Equipment Loan
120.00
Town Pier Loan
112.50
755.28
MATURING DEBT
Harbor Improvement Loan
$5,000.00
Concrete Bridge Loan
2,400.00
Departmental Equipment Loan
3,000.00
Town Pier Loan
5,000.00
15,400.00
TEMPORARY LOANS
Anticipation of Revenue
250,000.00
Agency and Trust AGENCY
State Tax
$29,440.00
State Parks and Reservations
292.40
Auditing Municipal Accounts
484.11
County Tax
19,816.52
Hospital or Home Care for Civil War Veterans
380.00
50,413.03
TRUST
Expenses :
Cash Aid
394.26
DOG LICENSES
Proceeds from Dog Licenses
1,084.40
$908,692.95
Balance, December 31, 1940
93,089.62
$1,001,782.57
127
SUMMARY
Balance January 1,1940
1940 Appropri- ations
Receipts and Transfers
Totals
1940 Expendi- tures
Balance December 31,1940
Over- drafts
$4,350.00
$4,350.00
Selectmen's Department
$4,295.86
$54.14
60.00
60.00
Dues-Boston Chamber of Commerce
60.00
2,230.00
300.00
2,530.00
Accounting Department
2,512.57
17.43
2,375.50
2,375.50
Treasurer's Department
2,373.62
1.88
300.00
12.75
312.75
Tax Title Foreclosures
252.45
60.30
5,350.00
5,350.00
Collector's Department
5,304.80
45.20
4,400.00
4,400.00
Assessors' Department
4,318.11
81.89
80.00
80.00
Certification of Notes
24.00
56.00
4.50
300.00
304.50
Advisory Board
221.79
82.71
1,200.00
1,200.00
Law Department
1,200.00
1,456.50
10.00
1,466.50
Town Clerk's Department
1,466.30
.20
1,250.00
864.08
2,114.08
Town Meetings, Elections and Registrations
2,114.08
1,500.00
1,500.00
Engineering Department
1,500.00
200.00
200.00
Planning Board
65.95
134.05
1,600.00
100.00
1,700.00
Town Hall
1,694.65
5.35
400.00
400.00
Civic Center Grounds
376.45
23.55
25,555.00
495.35
26,050.35
Police Department
26,049.25
1.10
300.00
300.00
Ambulance
261.35
38.65
2,000.00
2,000.00
Purchase of Ambulance
2,000.00
1,200.00
1,200.00
Pensions-Chapter 32, Section 89, General Laws
1,200.00
30,640.00
30,640.00
Fire Department
30,488.15
151.85
30,902.12
30,902.12
Inch Foot Levy
30,902.12
500.00
500.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
485.05
14.95
5,000.00
5,000.00
Moth Department
4,999.83
17
1,000.00
1,000.00
Elm Tree Beetle
999.97
.03
1,000.00
1,000.00
Tree Warden
998.17
1.83
2,500.00
2,500.00
Forest Fires
2,020.55
479.45
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128
SUMMARY-Continued
Balance
1940 Appropri- ations
Receipts and
1940 Expendi- tures
Balance December 31,1940
Over- drafts
500.00
500.00
1,000.00
Town Forests
499.20
500.80
200.00
200.00
Bounties
136.00
64.00
4,000.00
4,000.00
Shore Protection
4,000.00
11,630.00
400.00
12,030.00
Health Department
11,901.46
128.54
1,000.00
1,000.00
Mushquashcut Pond
859.69
140.31
2,880.00
2,880.00
Public Health Nurse
2,880.00
6,088.94
6,088.94
Plymouth County Hospital
6,088.94
250.00
250.00
Clean Up Committee
109.00
141.00
225.00
225.00
Purchase and Care of Trash Cans
225.00
3,000.00
3,000.00
Mosquito Control Maintenance
3,000.00
67,500.00
31.50
67,531.50
Highway Department
67,531.37
13
20,000.00
20,000.00
Snow Removal
21,998.66
1,998.66
107.81
1,000.00
1,983.87
3,091.68
Gannett Road
3,003.00
88.68
50.00
50.00
Land Damage-Country Way
50.00
3,000.00
6,899.73
9,899.73
Country Way
9,899.73
1,740.00
1,740.00
Mary's Lane and Boardman Avenue
1,739.99
01
1,200.00
1,200.00
Mitchell Avenue
1,197.63
2.37
1,500.00
1,500.00
Public Way-South from Ann Vinal Road
1,499.15
.85
1.600.00
1,600.00
Public Way-North from Union Street
1,597.60
2.40
200.00
200.00
Widen Easterly End of Greenfield Lane
200.00
200.00
200.00
Grading Bank-Crescent Avenue
199.95
05
40.00
40.00
Widen Curve-Old Oaken Bucket Road
40.00
1,075.00
1,075.00
Corner Turner and Tilden Roads
1,074.32
.68
5,000.00
5,000.00
Scituate Harbor Parking Space
4,997.26
2.74
900.00
900.00
Sidewalk-Mordecai Lincoln Road
899.87
.13
500.00
500.00
Road Machinery Account
500.00
.11
Highway Fund, Chapter 500, Acts of 1938
11
250.00
250.00
Land Damage-Prospect Avenue
250.00
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
129
January 1,1940
Transfers
Totals
SUMMARY-Continued
Balance January 1,1940
1940 Appropri- ations
Receipts and Transfers
Totals
1940 Expendi- tures
Balance December 31,1940
Over- drafts
57.40
Land Near Peggotty Beach
56.00
1.40
Street Lights and Traffic Beacons
11,344.87
55.13
Signs
1,099.40
.60
40.06
17,000.00
Public Welfare
12,289.96
4,750.10
4,000.00 200.00
4,000.00
Aid to Dependent Children
3,026.25
973.75
200.00
Aid to Dependent Children-Administrative
122.51
77.49
1.32
1,273.66
1,274.98
U. S. Grant Aid to Dependent Children
1,270.93
4.05
2.30
81.23
83.53
U. S. Grant Aid to Dependent Children- Administrative
79.13
4.40
7.00
22,000.00
18.00
22,025.00
Old Age Assistance
18,503.77
3,521.23
Old Age Assistance-Administrative
504.34
695.66
5.52
15,735.03
15,740.55
U. S. Grant Old Age Assistance- Assistance
15,736.08
4.47
9.97
524.45
534.42
U. S. Grant Old Age Assistance --- Administrative
533.13
1.29
9,000.00
9,000.00
Soldiers' Benefits
10,079.75
1,079.75
411.00
90,160.00
112.32
90,683.32
School Department
90,650.54
32.78
5.64
10.00
15.64
George Dean Fund
4.69
10.95
1,750.00
1,750.00
Civic Center Grounds-High School
1,317.26
432.74
1,400.00
437.65
1,837.65
1,837.10
.55
1,400.00
437.64
1,837.64
1,835.54
2.10
3,200.00
641.30
3,841.30
3,840.30
1.00
225.00
225.00
220.00
5.00
2,250.00
2,250.00
Unclassified
2,079.19
170.81
309.96
309.96
North Scituate Playground
297.65
12.31
3,800.00
3,800.00
Insurance
2,238.38
1,561.62
20,000.00
20,000.00
Federal Projects
19,988.15
11.85
1,025.00
1,025.00
Public Buildings
1,025.00
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130
11,400.00 900.00
200.00
57.40 11,400.00 1,100.00 17,040.06
1
1,200.00
1,200.00
Allen Memorial Library
Pierce Memorial Library
Park Department Life Guard-Peggotty Beach
SUMMARY-Concluded
Balance January 1,1940
1940 Appropri- ations
Receipts and Transfers
Totals
1940 Expendi- tures
Balance December 31,1940
Over- drafts
200.00
200.00
Minot Parking Space
199.65
.35
6,500.00
6,500.00
Purchase of Land-Sand Hills
6,500.00
500.00
500.00
Federal Commodities Office
326.51
173.49
100.00
.100.00
Fish and Game Conservation
100.00
: 75.00
75.00
Channel Markings
75.00
100.00
100.00
County Aid to Agriculture
100.00
132.53
132.53
Bills of Previous Year
132.53
500.00
500.00
Memorial Day
466.00
34.00
ยท100.00
15.00
115.00
Armistice Day
112.28
2.72
29.18
350.00
379.18
Quarters for Veterans of Foreign Wars
350.00
29.18
2,300.00
2,300.00
Control of Shellfish
2,255.94
44.06
1,075.00
1,075.00
Public Landings
1,049.14
25.86
100.19
100.19
Rebuilding Town Pier
100.19
85.00
85.00
Old Cemetery-Cudworth Road
49.58
35.42
150.70
150.70
Plan Showing Location of Veterans' Graves
31.89
118.81
1,200.00
1,200.00
Interest
755.28
444.72
15,400.00
15,400.00
Maturing Debt
15,400.00
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
131
TOWN OF SCITUATE Balance Sheet - December 31, 1940 General Accounts
ASSETS
Cash :
In Banks and Office
$93,089.62
Petty Cash Advances:
Collector
$40.00
Tailings-Unclaimed Checks
84.15
Sale of Real Estate Fund 3,761.85
Road Machinery Fund
681.88
Overestimates 1940:
State Assessments
50.99
Everett Torrey Park Fund Income.
15.60
Levy of 1937:
Property
$224.78
Levy of 1938:
Poll
$14.00
Property
571.00
Assistance
4.47
Levy of 1939:
Aid to Dependent Children:
Administration
$4.40
Personal
1,845.12
Real Estate
40,693.26
42,834.38
Levy of 1940:
Poll
$722.00
Personal
4,696.72
Real Estate 96,520.91
101,939.63
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes:
Levy of 1938 14.57
Civic Center Grounds-High School ... 432.74
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
25.16
Appropriation Balances:
Tax Title Foreclosure Expense
$60.30
Gannett Road 88.68
Road Machinery
500.00
145,583.79
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Temporary Loans:
In anticipation of Revenue 1940 $150,000.00
Reserve for Petty Cash Advances 55.00
Water Department
15.00
55.00
$93,144.62
Accounts Receivable:
Taxes:
132
Federal Grants:
Old Age Assistance:
Administration $1.29
585.00
$5.76
Poll
$296.00
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