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Bond
168.80
Burglary Insurance
22.50
Office Expense
.
33.63
Telephone
36.04
Carfares, Autos and Lunches
92.57
Clerical Assistance
200.00
All Other .
2.00
764.57
3,072.85
TAX TITLE FORECLOSURES
Expenses :
Land Court Costs
$292.62
Publishing Land Court Cases
36.00
All Other
2.52
331.14
TOWN COLLECTOR
Salary
$2,379.21
Expenses :
Clerical Assistance
$2,140.54
Printing, Stationery and Postage
631.29
Bonds
346.00
Carfares, Autos and Lunches
245.84
Office Expense
91.63
Burglary Insurance
82.00
Advertising and Costs of Tax Taking ..
256.00
All Other
9.60
3,802.90
6,182.11
ASSESSORS
Salaries :
Chairman
$2,163.99
Associates
1,082.02
$3,246.01
Expenses :
Clerical Assistance
$1,494.59
Printing, Stationery and Postage
36.26
Carfares, Autos and Lunches
147.07
Banker and Tradesman
12.00
Copying Deeds
265,00
Office Expense
166.33
All Other
. 72
2,121.97
5 367.98
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Expenses :
Clerical Assistance
$100.00
108
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Printing, Stationery and Postage
74.60
Dues
10.00
184.60
LAW DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Services of Town Counsel
$819.00
Expenses
170.00
All Other
10.00
999.00
TOWN CLERK
Salary
$1,428.22
Expenses :
Printing, Stationery and Postage
$16.00
Bond
5.00
Office Expense
134.47
Carfares, Autos and Lunches
80.68
Telephone
59.02
Clerical Assistance
435.60
All Other
3.35
.
734.12
2,162.34
TOWN MEETINGS, ELECTIONS AND REGISTRATIONS
Expenses :
Moderator
$108.02
Registrars
86.50
Election Officers
170.00
Clerical
45.88
Janitors' Services
30.00
Use of Amplifier
15.00
Labor - Election Set Up
20.00
Use of Truck
10.00
Publishing and Posting of Warrants
35.00
Printing, Stationery and Postage
66.36
Printing of Voting List
125.00
Dinners
30.00
All Other
10.00
$751.76
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Services of Engineers
$1,097.00
Use of Car
36.99
Office Equipment and Supplies
222.74
Use of Transit
14.00
Concrete Bounds
80.00
All Other
9.80
1,460.53
109
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
PLANNING BOARD
Expenses :
Clerical Assistance
$24.75
Office Expense
.
28.75
Postage
4.62
. .
58.12
TOWN HALL
Expenses :
Janitor
$519.60
Fuel and Light
376.43
Telephone
265.84
Water Rates
13.00
Repairs
327.02
Supplies
52.39
All Other
22.75
1,577.03
CIVIC CENTER GROUNDS
Labor
179.28
Protection of Persons and Property
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Salaries:
Chief and Regulars
$24,310.56
Special Officers
2,327.73
$26,638.29
Expenses :
Radio Repairs and Maintenance
107.55
Repairs and Maintenance of Automobiles
2,293.22
Lockup Expense
212.17
Telephone
642.36
Equipment
260.66
Fuel and Light
558.99
Office Expense
147.26
All Other
170.31
4,392.52
31,030.8]
AMBULANCE
Expenses :
Maintenance
$470.39
Laundry
57.76
All Other
14.30
542.45
ANNUITY
Annuity
1,200.00
110
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Salaries:
Drivers and Fire Alarm Operators
$32,161.64 3,339.71
Firemen
$35,501.35
Expenses :
Apparatus Supplies
$564.18
Apparatus Expense
500.20
Telephone
369.99
First Aid Expense
126.93
Fire Alarm Maintenance
302.10
Fire Alarm - Special
1,223.16
Equipment
590.88
Fuel
764.75
Light
521.62
Maintenance
1,042.99
All Other
234.43
6,241.23
41,742.58
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Salary
$487.19
Expenses :
Transportation
$14.72
Supplies
4.00
All Other
1.00
19.72
506.91
MOTH DEPARTMENT
Services of Superintendent
1,385.20
Expenses :
Trucks
$600.00
Labor
2,104.70
Insecticides
999.52
Repairs on Equipment
107.13
Gasoline and Oil
150.81
Supplies
6.37
Tools and Sharpening Same
28.72
Equipment
82.80
All Other
19.65
4,099.70
5,484.90
ELM TREE BEETLE
Expenses :
Trucks
$144.00
Labor
355.90
Insecticides
483.84
Gasoline
35.26
Repairs on Equipment
36,67
1,055.67
111
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
TREE WARDEN
Salary
$324.59
Expenses :
Trucks
$276.00
Labor
1,674.60
Insecticides
153.31
Supplies
51.99
Tools and Sharpening Same
142.11
Equipment
36.50
Repairs on Equipment
21.26
Insurance
34.91
Gasoline and Oil
6.99
Postage
2.56
2,400.23
2,724.82
FOREST FIRES
Expenses :
Fighting Fires
$987.47
Maintenance
87.19
Equipment
34.09
Burning Hazards
218.00
Supplies
29.27
All Other
27.30
1,383.32
TOWN FORESTS
Labor
BOUNTIES
Expenses :
Bounties on Woodchucks
37.50
TRIMMING BUSHES-ROADSIDES
Expenses :
Trucks
$294.00
Labor
1,694.00
1,988.00
1 ROADSIDE BRUSH CUTTING TRACTOR
Expenses :
Tractor
1,123.39
Health and Sanitation BOARD OF HEALTH
Salaries
$1,297.94
Expenses :
Office Expense
$19.70
Use of Cars
51.60
School Dentist
866.57
Pre-School Dental Clinic
550.00
Dental Supplies
171.60
112
125.40
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Clean Up Day
100.00
Clerical Assistance
36.00
Trucks
1,204.00
Salary of Nurse
2,264.86
Use of Car-Nurse
652.14
Diphtheria Clinic
50.00
Garbage Collection
7,800.00
Care of Dump
2,214.50
Cleaning Beaches and Roadsides.
161.00
Ponds
224.00
Board and Treatment, Plymouth County Hospital
777.50
Vital Statistics
·173.50
Animal Inspector
131.25
Milk Inspector
55.00
Meat Inspector
66.00
Plumbing Inspector
110.00
Disposal of Animals
84.00
Disposal of Whale
85.53
Quarantine on Dogs
27.00
Care of Rubbish Cans
60.00
All Other
39.80
17,975.55
19,273.49
PLYMOUTH COUNTY HOSPITAL
1945' Assessment
9,162.06
MOSQUITO CONTROL MAINTENANCE
1945 Assessment
3,000.00
SEA WALL MAINTENANCE
· Maintenance
1,250.00
Highways HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Salary of Highway Surveyor.
$2,905.78
Use of Car
67.02
Office Expense
40.78
Clerical Assistance
1,548.18
Telephone
78.10
Light and Power
65.42
Trucks
2,892.28
Labor
20,842.15
Equipment and Repairs
3,761.82
Sand, Stone and Gravel
2,691.63
Road Surfacing Material
11,681.41
Supplies
169.35
Gasoline and Oil
2,311.72
Water Rates
25.00
Insurance
458.24
Street Painting
.
. .
421.50
113
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Fuel
220.95
Paints
762.92
Lumber
748.78
Tools
184.97
Cement Blocks
320.37
Cedar Posts
81.36
Shovel
773.50
Loader
54.00
Pipe
201.06
Cement
41.95
Burning Boats
113.00
All Other
142.04
Storm Emergency :
Labor
$1,677.83
Trucks
996.00
Bulldozer
56.00
Shovel
28.00
Use of Equipment
668.50
Lumber
66.76
3,493.09
Repairs on Humarock Bridge
166.67
57,265.04
SNOW REMOVAL
Expenses :
Trucking Snow Loader
$75.00
Trucks and Plows
12,582.26
Labor
9,614.76
Equipment and Repairs
1,477.34
Tools
52.42
Sand
698.26
Salt
199.30
Storing Sand for the Winter
60.00
Paints
16.59
Lumber
40.42
Clerical Assistance
171.00
Torch
6.00
All Other
6.18
24,999.53
LAND DAMAGE - JULIAN STREET
Award
20.00
STREET LIGHTS AND TRAFFIC BEACONS
Expenses :
Street Lights
$11,399.44
Traffic Beacons
74.32
11,473.76
SIGNS
Expenses :
Labor
$788.20
Signs
374.70
Materials and Supplies for Signs
116.68
All Other
17.56
1,297.14
114
53,605.28
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
CHAPTER 90 - HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE
Expenses :
Trucks
$40.00
Labor
556.44
Road Surfacing Material
1,642.16
Stone
654.61
Use of Sand Spreader
24.00
Sand
75.00
2,992.21
LAND DAMAGE - HATHERLY ROAD
Award
6.00
DRAINAGE - FIRST PARISH ROAD
Expenses :
Labor
$1,273.80
Pipe
461.96
Road Surfacing Material
243.99
Cement Blocks
17.37
Brick and Cement
2.88
$2,000.00
Welfare and Soldiers' Benefits PUBLIC WELFARE
General Administration :
Salaries
$757.06
Clerical Assistance
488.56
Carfares, Autos and Lunches
54.80
Postage
1.62
$1,302.04
Outside Relief :
Groceries and Provisions
$240.11
Board and Care
2,158.48
Medical Aid and Medicine
19.30
Fuel
40.55
Cash
Aid
596.70
Rent
195.00
Clothing
38.68
Funerals
100.00
Transportation
263.10
Relief by Other Cities and Towns
458.75
All Other
5.80
4,116.47
5,418.51
AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN
Cash Aid
4,998.84
AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN - ADMINISTRATIVE
Expenses :
Clerical Assistance
$244.29
115
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Carfares, Autos and Lunches
15.82
Postage
.14
Office Expense
2.10
All Other
.95
U. S. GRANT - AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN
Cash Aid
470.62
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
Expenses :
Cash Aid
$32,181.39
Relief by Other Cities and Towns
885.08
33,066.47
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE - ADMINISTRATIVE
Expenses :
Clerical Assistance
$1,371.23
Carfares, Autos and Lunches 39.37
Office Expense
7.30
Printing, Stationery and Postage
42.89
All Other
.93
$1,461.72
U. S. GRANT - OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
Cash Aid
12,564.50
U. S. GRANT - OLD AGE ASSISTANCE - ADMINISTRATIVE
Expenses :
Clerical Assistance
$338.80
Carfares, Autos and Lunches
12.76
Postage
.27
All Other
.42
352.25
Soldiers' Benefits
SOLDIERS' RELIEF
Expenses :
Fuel
$238.61
Medical Aid and Medicine
76.06
Cash Aid
3,288.10
All Other
16.00
State Aid
657.50
4,276.27
Schools and Libraries SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Salaries
$85,429.44
116
263.30
3,618.77
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Expenses
32,669.05 118,098.49
COMMITTEE - SCHOOL HOUSING CONDITIONS
Expenses :
Preparing Report - School Building
100.00
ADULT CLASSES
Services of Teacher
10.00
ALLEN MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Expenses :
Librarian
$500.00
Assistant
250.00
Janitor
324.59
Books
564.60
Fuel
161.52
Light
42.32
Water Rates
23.00
Repairs
22.70
All Other
44.25
1,932.98
PIERCE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Expenses :
Librarian
$640.00
Janitor
192.00
Books
682.13
Periodicals
90.00
Fuel
89.06
Light
85.70
Repairs
27.48
Water Rates
7.00
Insurance
103.11
Office Supplies
20.55
1,937.03
Recreation and Unclassified PARK DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Labor
$4,812.00
Sharpening and Repairing Mowers
66.33
Water Rates
85.00
Tools and Supplies
214.65
Fuel
36.38
Light
35.00
Plumbing and Building Repairs
176.18
Truck Maintenance
191.53
Trucks
74.00
Insurance
39.76
Flags
47.69
Cleaning Kelp from Peggotty Beach
26.00
117
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Digging and Backfilling - Lighthouse
114.00
Weed Killer
58.48
Fertilizer
88.66
Equipment
60.20
Sand Box
62.00
North Scituate Playground Work
57.73
Plants
26.50
All Other
63.89
$6,335.98
UNCLASSIFIED
Expenses :
Dog Officer
$108.02
Printing and Distributing Town Reports
888.20
Services of Auctioneer
30.00
Care of Town Clock
109.59
Printing and Publishing
468.97
Disposal of Dogs
52.00
Checking Cars
201.29
Rehabilitation
83.25
Zoning Board Expenses
69.88
All Other
62.94
2,074.14
INSURANCE
Expenses :
Employers and Public Liability
$2,352.36
All Other
15.00
2,367.36
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
Expenses :
Care of Comfort Station - Minot
$50.00
Care of Comfort Station - Harbor
134.00
Water Rates
109.00
Repairing Humarock Fire Station
327.39
Buliding and Plumbing Repairs
323.59
Supplies
.
27.79
Light
9.75
981.52
CIVILIAN DEFENSE
Expenses :
Telephone
$54.48
Printing
2.00
Food .
17.50
BILLS OF PREVIOUS YEARS
Bills of 1943
$20.00
Bills of 1944
686.93
73.98
706.93
118
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
CHANNEL MARKINGS
Expenses :
Services
75.00
COUNTY AID TO AGRICULTURE
Assessment
100.00
MEMORIAL DAY
Observance of Memorial Day
249.50
QUARTERS FOR VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
Rent
350.00
RATIONING BOARD
Expenses :
Services of Administrator
$2,007.57
Rent
480.00
Light
27.60
Fuel
117.92
Telephone
256.89
Clerical Assistance
734.00
Office Expense
138.41
Supplies
11.58
Repairs
72.28
Transportation
186.68
All Other
39.48
4,072.41
POST-WAR REHABILITATION FUND
Expenses :
Purchase of War Bonds
$50.000.00
Savings Fund
1.562.50
51.562.50
CONTROL OF SHELLFISH
Expenses :
Services
$417.00
Use of Car
20.07
Printing
19.25
456.32
PRINTING VALUATION BOOKS- TOWN PROPERTY
Expenses :
Printing Valuation Books
$1,756.65
Delivering Valuation Books
75.00
1.831.65
119
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
FISH AND GAME CONSERVATION
Expenses :
Trout
$50.00
Pheasants
112.50
Scratch Feed
36.50
199.00
SERVICES OF LIFEGUARD
Services of Lifeguard
300.00
PURCHASE OF LAND
Expenses :
Examination of Title
57.00
REFUNDS
Taxes
$1,570.60
Motor Vehicle Excise
40.64
Water
709.02
Moth
2.00
Estimated Receipts
16.56
2,338.82
WATER DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Administration
$6,871.33
General
17,974.93
Pumping Station
8,237.66
Service Pipe
203.65
Extensions
2,978.68
36,266.25
PUBLIC LANDINGS
Expenses :
Salary of Harbor Master
$1,081.91
Construction of Gangway and Float
1,952.27
Repairs on Floats and Pier
270.14
Labor
66.00
Barrels
88.00
Crane Service
30.00
Paints and Lumber
58.86
Water Rates
16.00
Light and Power
3.90
All Other
12.50
3,579.58
CARE OF SOLDIERS' GRAVES
Expenses :
Care of Graves
662.00
120
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Interest and Maturing Debt INTEREST
Bonds
INTEREST - WATER LOANS
Loans
MATURING DEBT - WATER LOANS
Loans
33,000.00
Agency and Trust AGENCY
State Tax
240.37
State Parks and Reservations
551.66
Auditing Municipal Accounts
25,857.45
County Tax
40,521.48
TRUST
Expenses :
311.40
Cash Aid
DOG LICENSES
1,146.60
Proceeds from Dog Licenses
WITHHOLDING TAXES
23,625.05
Withheld Taxes
$666,595.24
222,944.91
Balance, December 31, 1945
$889,540.15
121
10.20
16,776.25
$13,872.00
SUMMARY
Balance January 1, 1945
1945 Appropria- tions
Receipts and Transfers
Totals
1945 Expendi- tures
Balance December 31, 1945
$5,170.40
$5,170.40
Selectmen's Department
$5,058.44
$111.96
60.00
60.00
Dues-Boston Chamber of Commerce
60.00
2,529.50
2,529.50
Accounting Department
2,483.18
46.32
3,463.00
3,463.00
Treasurer's Department
3,072.85
390.15
400.00
400.00
Tax Title Foreclosures
331.14
68.86
6,189.00
6,189.00
Collector's Department
6,182.11
6.89
5,500.00
5,500.00
Assessors' Department
5,367.98
132.02
10.00
10.00
Certification of Notes
10.00
300.00
300.00
Advisory Committee
184.60
115.40
1,000.00
1,000.00
Law Department
999.00
1.00
2,176.60
2,176.60
Town Clerk's Department
2,162.34
14.26
1,100.00
1,100.00
Town Meetings, Elections and Registrations
751.76
348.24
500.00
$1,250.00
1,750.00
Engineering Department
1,460.53
289.47
100.00
100.00
Planning Board
58.12
41.88
1,700.00
1,700.00
Town Hall
1,577.03
122.97
275.00
275.00
Civic Center Grounds
179.28
95.72
31,271.00
31,271.00
Police Department
31,030.81
240.19
600.00
600.00
Ambulance
542.45
57.55
1,200.00
1,200.00
Annuity-Chapter 32, Section 89, General Laws. .
1,200.00
$1,223.16
38,359.17
3,000.00
42,582.33
Fire Department
41,742.58
839.75
569.20
569.20
Sealer of Weights and Measures
506.91
62.29
5,500.00
5,500.00
Moth Department
5,484.90
15.10
1,100.00
1,100.00
Elm Tree Beetle
1,055.67
44.33
2,750.00
2,750.00
Tree Warden
2,724.82
25.18
1,970.00
1,970.00
Forest Fires
1,383.32
586.68
500.00
500.00
Town Forests
125.40
374.60
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
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SUMMARY - Continued
Balance January 1,1945
1945 Appropria- tions
Receipts and Transfers
Totals
31,1915
150.00
150.00
Bounties
37.50
112.50
2.000.00
2,000.00
Trimming Bushes-Roadsides
1,988.00
12.00
1.200.00
1,200.00
Roadside Brush Cutting-Tractor
1,123.39
76.61
19,500.00
19,500.00
Health Department
19,273.49
226.51
9,162.06
9,162.06
Plymouth County Hospital
9,162.06
3,000.00
3.000.00
Mosquito Control Maintenance
3,000.00
1.250.00
1,250.00
Sea Wall Maintenance
1,250.00
38.300.00
18.968.00
57,268.00
Highway Department
57,265.04
2.96
15,000.00
10,010.50
25,010.50
Snow Removal
24,999.53
10.97
3,051.52
3,051.52
Widening First Parish Road
3,051.52
24.21
24.21
Country Way
24.21
500.33
500.33
Road Machinery Account
500.33
220.00
220.00
Land Damage-Julian Street
20.00
200.00
1,500.00
1,500.00
Country Way Sidewalk
1,500.00
154.92
154.92
Minot Parking Space
154.92
11.910.00
11,910.00
Street Lights and Traffic Beacons
11,473.76
436.24
1.000.00
298.30
1,298.30
Signs .
1,297.14
1.16
1,000.00
1,877.64
2,877.64
Chapter 90-Highway Maintenance
(Overdraft $114.57)
2,992.21
6.00
6.00
Land Damage-Hatherly Road
6.00
2.000.00
2,000.00
Drainage-First Parish Road
2,000.00
7.000.00
7,000.00
Public Welfare
5,418.51
1,581.49
5,000.00
5,000.00
Aid to Dependent Children
4,998.84
1.16
330.00
330.00
Aid to Dependent Children-Administrative
263.30
66.70
612.21 25.39
1,129.71
1,771.92
U. S. Grant-Aid to Dependent Children
470.62
1.301.30
57.92
83.31
U. S. Grant-Aid to Dependent Children-Ad-
1945
Balance Expendi- December tures
123
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
SUMMARY - Continued
Balance January 1, 1945
1945 Appropria- tions
Receipts and Transfers
Totals
1945 Expendi- tures
Balance December 31, 1945
33,000.00 1,540.00
109.28
33,109.28
Old Age Assistance
33,066.47
42.81
Old Age Assistance-Administrative
1,461.72
78.28
3,208.51 294.36
18,099.06 600.24
21,307.57
U. S. Grant-Old Age Assistance-Assistance ...
12,564.50
8,743.07
U. S. Grant-Old Age Assistance-Administrative
352.25
542.35
Soldiers' Benefits
4,276.27
5,723.73
School Department
118,098.49
3,533.30
200.00
30,129.79 6,000.00
6,200.00
124
732.00
732.00
Adult Classes
10.00
722.00
1,500.00
438.17
1,938.17
Allen Memorial Library
1,932.98
5.19
1,500.00
438.16
1,938.16
Pierce Memorial Library
1,937.03
1.13
7,150.00
7,150.00
Park Department
6,335.98
814.02
25.00
25.00
Federal Projects
25.00
2,000.00
200.00
2,200.00
Unclassified
2,074.14
125.86
2,500.00
2,500.00
Insurance
2,367.36
132.64
1,150.00
1,150.00
981.52
168.48
1,041.78
1,041.78
73.98
967.80
634.85
634.85
Civilian Defense-Police
634.85
706.93
706.93
Bills of Previous Years
706.93
46.66
46.66
Installation of Diaphone Horn
46.66
75.00
75.00
Channel Markings
75.00
100.00
100.00
County Aid to Agriculture
100.00
300.00
300.00
Memorial Day ..
249.50
50.50
350.00
350.00
Quarters for Veterans of Foreign Wars
350.00
790.73
4,500.00
5,290.73
Rationing Board
4,072.41
1,218.32
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
ministrative
83.31
1,540.00
894.60
10,000.00 91,502.00
10,000.00
121,631.79
Expenses-Committee on School Housing Condi- tions
100.00
6,100.00
Public Buildings
Civilian Defense
SUMMARY - Continued
Balance January 1. 1915
1915 Appropria- tions
Receipts and
Transfers
Totals
1945 Expendi- tures
Balance December 31,1945
128.08
128.08
Fire Escape-Greenbush Headquarters
128.08
500.00
500.00
Control of Shellfish
456.32
43.68
Printing Valuation Books-Town Property
1,831.65
654.82
Expenses-Memorial Building Committee
200.00
200.00
200.00
Fish and Game Conservation
199.00
1.00
500.00
500.00
Airport Committee
500.00
300.00
300.00
Services of Lifeguard
300.00
10,000.00
Purchase of Land
57.00
9,913.00
2.706.20 729.19
39.829.71
48.035.91
Water Department
36,266.25
11,769.66
729.19
Extension of Water Mains
729.19
1,101.00
.401.00
Publie Landings
3,579.58
821.42
300.00
300.00
Painting Town Pier
300.00
150.00
150.00
Old Cemetery-Cudworth Road
150.00
700.00
700.00
Care of Soldiers' Graves .
662.00
38.00
400.00
10.20
410.20
Interest
10.20
400.00
33,000.00
33.000.00
Maturing Debt-Water Loans
33,000.00
16,776.25
16.776.25
Interest-Water Loans
16,776.25
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125
10.000.00 5,500.00
2,486.47
2.486.47 200.00
200.00
1
TOWN OF SCITUATE
BALANCE SHEET - December 31, 1945 General Accounts
ASSETS
Cash :
Reserve for Petty Cash Advances $ 55.00
Tailings-Unclaimed Checks
216.65
Sale of Real Estate Fund
10,397.85
Road Machinery Fund
96.98
Everett Torrey Park Fund Income
46.80
$222,999.91 Federal Grants:
Old Age Assistance : Administration 542.35
Assistance
8,743.07
Levy of 1944:
Poll
12.00
Personal
7.50
Administration
83.31
Real
8,794.95
Assistance 1,301.30
1,384.61
Levy of 1945:
Poll .
260.00
Personal
1,705.74
Real
34,157.99
Widening First Parish Road Country Way ..
24.21
Road Machinery
500.33
Land Damage-Julian Street
200.00
Country Way Sidewalk
1,500.00
203.30 Minot Parking Space . 154.92
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126
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes: Levy of 1945 . .
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
In Banks and Office . $222,944.91
Petty Cash Advances: Collector
40.00
Water Department 15.00
55.00
Accounts Receivable :
Taxes :
9,285.42
Aid to Dependent Children:
8,814.45
10,670.03
Appropriation Balances :
3,051.52
36,123.73
44,938.18
127
Water Department :
Rates and Charges :
1936
76.00
1937
40.00
1938
2.00
1939
84.97
1940
6.00
1943
17.50
1944
50.01
1945
3,248.63
3,525.11
Water Liens Added to Taxes:
Levy of 1944
594.00
Levy of 1945
965.68
1,559.68
Water
5,084.79
18,066.45
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
22,985.23
Revenue Reserved Until Collected:
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 203.30
Special Assessment 76.50
Tax Title
5,771.49
Tax Possessions
3,901.67
Departmental 3,028.70
5,084.79
Committee-School Housing Con- ditions 6,100.00
Adult Classes
722.00
Federal Projects 25.00
Civilian Defense
967.80
Civilian Defense-Police
634.85
Installation of Diaphone Horn. 46.66
Rationing Board
1,218.32
Departmental :
Moth
344.85
Highway
98.00
Public Welfare
438.32
Old Age Assistance
899.88
Aid to Dependent Children
299.67
Airport Committee
500.00
Purchase of Land
9,943.00
Water Department
4,584.73
Extension of Water Mains 729.19
Painting Town Pier
32,185.43
Reserve Fund-Overlay Surplus
26,949.94
Overlays Reserved for Abatement of Taxes:
Overlay 1944
8,814.45
Overlay 1945
14,170.78
State Aid
667.50
School Department
280.48
Moth Assessments :
Levy of 1944
18.50
Levy of 1945
58.00
76.50 5,771.49
Tax Titles
Tax Possessions
3,901.67
Fire Escape Greenbush Head-
quarters 128.08
Printing Valuation Books-Town Property
654.82
Committee-Memorial Building . .
200.00
3,028.70
300.00
Underestimates :
Surplus Revenue
State Parks and Reservations . .. 240.37
Auditing Municipal Accounts 231.68
County Tax
1,732.59
163,364.66 Withholding Taxes 2,737.07 State Examination-Retirement System . 551.66
2,204.64
Overdraft:
Chapter 90-Highway Maintenance 114.57
$288,323.75
$288,323.75
Trust Funds
Charity Funds :
Eliza Jenkins Fund $3,020.80
Lucy O. 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
Benjamin T. Ellms Fund 4,000.00
Scituate Welfare Fund
283.22
$16,856.26
Everett Torrey Park Fund
360.15
Clara T. Bates Cemetery Fund
232.23
$17,448.64
Post-War Rehabilitation Fund
100,000.00
Post-War Savings Fund 3,467.32
$120,915.96
$120,915.96
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Trust and Investment Funds, Cash and Securi- ties
. . $120,915.96
128
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Net Funded or Fixed Debt
Total
Loan and Rate
Water, 334 per cent
1946
$25,000.00
1947
25.000.00
1948
25.000.00
1949
25,000.00
1950
25,000.00
1951
25,000.00
1952
25,000.00
1953
25,000.00
1954
25,000.00
1955
25,000.00
1956
25,000.00
1957
25.000.00
1958
25,000.00
1959
25,000.00
1960
25,000.00
1961
25,000.00
Water, 4 percent
1946
$ 2,500.00
1947
2,500.00
5,000.00
1946
$ 1,500.00
1947
1,500.00
1948
1,000.00
1949
1,000.00
5,000.00
1946
$ 4,000.00
Water, Standpipe, 2 per cent
1947
4,000.00
1948
4,000.00
12,000.00
$422,000.00
SELECTMEN'S DEPARTMENT
Salaries :
Williams B. James
649.19
W. Irving Lincoln
2,163.98
$3,462.36
Expenses :
Helen L. Day
1.90
High School Cafeteria
51.20
Ethyl M. Duffey, P. M.
202.50
Dennis H. Slrea
36.70
Williams B. James
28.24
W. Irving Lincoln
9.00
Plymouth County Selectmen's Association
19.51
Sanderson Brothers
1.50
H. C. Metcalf
1.58
Hobbs & Warren, Inc.
1.10
Commissioner of Public Safety
.
1,596.08
$5,058.44
129
Due
Amount
$400,000.00
Water, 41/2 per cent
$649.19
Dennis H. Shea
$1,242.85
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
DUES-BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Dues :
Boston Chamber of Commerce
$60.00
ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT
Salary :
Elizabeth Cole
. $2,165.24
Expenses :
Mary E. Halligan
$202.07
Burroughs Adding Machine Co.
6.60
H. C. Metcalf
1.25
Anna E. Murphy, P. M.
4.50
H. S. Horne & Co.
10.15
H. B. McArdle
6.42
Sanderson Brothers
77.45
Thomas Groom & Co., Inc.
.45
Royal Typewriter Co., Inc.
8.55
Railway Express Agency
.50
317.94
$2,483.18
TREASURER'S DEPARTMENT
Salary :
Rose A. Smith
$2,308.28
Expenses :
William M. Wade
$22.50
Mass. Collectors' and Treasurers' Ass'n.
2.00
Ethyl M. Duffey, P. M.
209.03
Hobbs & Warren, Inc ..
23.17
New Eng. Tel. & Tel. Co.
36.04
Rose A. Smith, Treas.
92.57
J. F. McJennett
168.80
H. B. McArdle
4.25
Sanderson Brothers
1.96
H. C. Metcalf
4.25
Robert W. Dwyer
200.00
764.57
$3,072.85
TAX TITLE FORECLOSURES
Expenses :
Land Court
$20.00
Rose A. Smith, Treas.
1.72
Hobbs & Warren, Inc.
.80
Franklin Publishing Co.
36.00
Laurence F. Davis
272.62
$331.14
130
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TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
COLLECTOR'S DEPARTMENT
Salary :
Joseph R. Dillon
$2,379.21
Expenses :
Sanderson Brothers
$104.63
Joseph R. Dillon
327.46
Annie E. Wilder
1,518.48
O'Brion, Russell & Co.
5.00
Hobbs & Warren
31.95
Kenmure W. Moffatt
341.00
Mass. Collectors' and Treasurers' Ass'n.
2.00
Ethyl M. Duffey, P. M.
376.38
Mary E. Halligan
622.06
Allen Calculators
1.5
Bound Brook Press
97.25
Mass. Deputy Collectors' Ass'n.
1.00
H. C. Metcalf
14.25
William C. Gregory
25.00
H. B. McArdle
5.00
Franklin Publishing Co.
160.00
J. L. Rothery
82.00
Edward C. Holmes, Register
24.00
William M. Wade
6.25
American Writing Ink Co.
1.06
The Lincoln & Smith Press
27.50
The Jamaica Press
2.50
The Satuit Press
23.60
The Railway Express Agency
.35
Royal Typewriter Co., Inc.
2.65
.
3,802.90
$6,182.11
ASSESSORS' DEPARTMENT
Salaries :
Henry T. Fitts
$541.01
W. Irving Lincoln
541 01
Henry A. Litchfield
2,163.92
$3,246.01
Expenses :
Pauline Gillis
$1,237.28
Henry T. Fitts
89.85
Henry A. Litchfield
46.06
Banker and Tradesman Pub. Co.
12.00
Mary E. Halligan
257.31
H. C. Metcalf
65.00
Anna E. Murphy, P. M.
6.50
Sanderson Brothers
29.76
W. Irving Lincoln
11.88
Edith M. Farrington
265.00
Royal Typewriter Co., Inc.
7.30
.
.
131
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Hobbs & Warren, Inc.
92.23
Land Court
1.80
2,121.97
$5,367.98
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Expenses :
Franklin Publishing Co.
$2.00
Association of Town Finance Committees.
10.00
Sanderson Brothers
72.60
June Hendrickson
100.00
$184.60
LAW DEPARTMENT
Expenses :
Vernon W. Marr
$989.00
Dennis H. Shea
3.00
Lawson C. Vickery
6.00
Edward C. Holmes, Register
1.00
$999.00
TOWN CLERK'S DEPARTMENT
Salary :
William M. Wade
$1,428.22
Expenses :
Hobbs & Warren, Inc.
$48.38
Pauline M. Fitts
435.60
New Eng. Tel. & Tel. Co ..
59.02
William M. Wade
165.03
H. S. Horne & Co.
18.59
H. C. Metcalf
7.50
. .
734.12
$2,162.34
TOWN MEETINGS, ELECTIONS AND REGISTRATIONS
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