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159.80
Traveling Expense
24.78
Labor
73.80
Material
126.13
Equipment
48.15
Furnishings and Equipment
14,516.81
$200,887.65
41
Expenditures in 1930
Architect-Professional Services
5,550.00
Sewer and Water Connections
85.26
Bond 2,006.82
Supervision
136.40
Blue Prints
134.64
Total expenditures in 1930 7,913.12
Balance carried forward to 1932
$3,306.48
(Credit $107.25)
Vocational School
Tuition for 1931
4,357.00
Continuation School
Tuition for 1930
1,598 08
42
RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED
Recreation
Parks and Playgrounds
General
Stationery
$1.65
Express charges
.79
$2.44
Parks
Labor
3,251.36
Equipment
1,630.44
Trees
30.90
Insurance
16.16
All Other
10.61
4,939.47
$4,941.91 v
Unclassified
American Legion Quarters
Rental for 1931
420.00
Memorial Day
Advertising
1.00
Services of band
75.00
Flowers
146.00
Flags
13.50
Carting
8.00
243.50 ,
Fort Phoenix Tablet
Bronze tablet
150.87
New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge Maintenance for 1930
2,063.16 ·
Coggeshall Street Bridge Maintenance for 1930
188.15*
Rogers Monument-Renovation
290.00
43
PUBLIC SERVICE ENTERPRISE
Union Wharf
Salary of Wharfinger
$300.00
Lights
11.12
Water
30.49
Labor
2.00
$343.61
INTEREST AND MATURING DEBT
Interest
Temporary Loans in Anticipation
of Revenue
$5,993.66
General Loans
14,318.82
$20,312.48 _
Debt
Temporary Loans in Anticipation of Revenue 340,000.00
General Loans
31,300.00
$371,300.00
AGENCY, TRUST AND INVESTMENT
Agency
Taxes
State Taxes
$19,407.59
County Taxes
16,290.27
$35,697.86 -
Trust and Investment Rogers Elementary Trust Fund $228.64
44
REFUNDS
Taxes
$105.77
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 1930
112.39
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 1931
273.16
Tax Titles
67.71
Sewer Connection Deposits
87.83
Estimated Receipts
5.00
$651.86
$1,050,493.11
Cash on Hand, December 31, 1931
21,862.88
$1,072,355.99
ANALYSIS OF APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS-1931
ACCOUNTS
Balances
Carried
Forward
Appropriation
Credit
Transfers
Reserve
Fund
Credit
Transfers
Overlay
Surplus
Income
Trust Funds,
Bonds, Etc.
Payments
Unexpended
Balances to
Unexpended
Balances
Carried
Forward
Overdrafts
Selectmen
$2,600.00
$2,405.08
$193.92
Selectmen's Salaries
1.500.00
1,500.00
Treasurer
2,100.00
2,398.33
25.67
Treasurer's Salary
2,100.00
2,100.00
Tax Collector
3,200.00
3,192.19
7.81
Tax Collector's Salary
1,800.00
1,800.00
Assessors
2,100.00
2,083.38
16.62
Assessor's Salaries
3,000.00
3,000.00
Plotting System
250.00
250.00
Election, Registration and Town Meeting Expense
1,500.00
200.00
1,623.60
76.40
Auditors
250.00
250.00
Law
1,000.00
278.35
721.65
Planning Board
200.00
74.67
125.33
Board of Appeals
50.00
30.75
19.25
Town Hall
7,500.00
6,884.22
615.78
Police Department
20,000.00
19,772.30
227.70
Purchase Police Automobiles
1,400.00
1,375.00
$25.00
Purchase of Motorcycle
350.00
350.00
Fire Department
15,500.00
15,264.36
235.64
Fire Alarm
600.00
591.68
8.32
$324.00
Revenue
From 1930
666.67
Fire Hose
500.00
423.35
76.65
Fire Alarm Signal
2,200.00
1,760.91
439.09
Forest Fires
300.00
85.51
214.49
Hydrants
9,000.00
8,937.50
62.50
Building Inspection
900.00
546.00
354.00
Building Inspector's Salary
1,000.00
1,000.00
Care of Trees
2,400.00
2,384.33
15.67
Salary of Tree Warden
100.00
100.00
Tree Sprayer
400.00
400.00
Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth Extermination
300.00
284.30
15.70
Sealer of Weights and Measures
1,000.00
955.27
4.73
Board of Health
6,000.00
1,000.00
6,247.56
752.44
Office Expense-Board of Health
200.00
100.00
234.80
65.20
Board of Health Salaries
800.00
800.00
Sewer Maintenance
9,000.00
7,415.51
1,584.49
Office Expense-Sewer Com- missioners
200.00
185.45
14.55
Sewer Commissioners Salaries
600.00
600.00
Adams Street Sewer
1,500.00
1,058.91
441.09
Collection of Ashes
5,500.00
5,305.50
194.50
Collection of Garbage Shellfish Inspection
2,500.00
2,438.21
61.79
Dental Clinic
500.00
467.15
32.85
B. C. Tuberculosis Hospital
6,962.02
6,962.02
Diphtheria Immunization
125.00
123.78
1.22
Highways
35,000.00
1,500.00
36,232.28
267.72
Superintendent of Highways
2,300.00
2,300.00
Street Lights
11,000.00
10,695.91
304.09
Superintendent of Fire Alarm
666.67
2,500.00
2,500.00
ANALYSIS OF APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS-1931-Cont.
ACCOUNTS
Balances
Carried
Forward
Credit
Reserve
Fund
Credit
Transfers
Overlay
Surplus
Income
Trust Funds,
Bonds, Etc.
Payments
Unexpended
Balances to
Unexpended
Balances
Carried
Forward
Overdrafts
Aid of Unemployed
5,000.00
4,991.16
8.84
:Street Signs
300.00
300.00
Re-surfacing Fort Street
2,800.00
2,791.17
8.83
Re-surfacing Washington Street
2,600.00
2,599.09
.91
North Walnut Street
1,500.00
1,500.00
Old Fort Road
1,500.00
1,500.00
Green Street
3,500.00
3,500.00
Macadamizing Elm Avenue
500.00
489.37
10.63
'Steam Road Roller
2,850.00
2,850.00
Public Welfare
27,000.00
785.02
$10,000.00
$65.08
38,859.35
$1,009.25
Infirmary
7,000.00
6,999.98
02
Mothers Aid
2,500.00
1,756.55
743.45
State Aid
900.00
820.00
80.00
Military Aid
500.00
180.00
320.00
Soldiers Aid
4,000.00
3,913.46
86.54
Income from Julia A. Stoddard Fund
1,942.05
1,175.00
767.05
Income from Chadwick Fund
18.75
18.75
Ricketts Fund
65.08
65.08
Old Age Assistance
2,000.00
326.13
1,673.87
Schools
133,100.00
34,157.53
165,270.27
1,987.26
High School Addition
$192,086.88
12,000.00
200,780.40
3,306.48
.
Revenue
From 1930
Appropriation
Transfers
Vocational School
5,000.00
4,357.00
643.00
Continuation School
1,598.08
1,598.03
Park Department
5,000.00
4,941.91
58.09
Salary of Park Commissioners
150.00
150.00
Office Expense-Park Commis- sioners
·100.00
100.00
American Legion Quarters
420.00
420.00
Memorial Day
300.00
243.50
56.50
War Memorial
6,876.88
6,876.88
Fort Phoenix Tablet
170.00
150.87
19.13
New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge
2,063.16
2,063.16
Coggeshall Street Bridge
188.15
188.15
Rogers Monument Renovation
290.00
290.00
Reserve Fund
5,000.00
5,000.00
Union Wharf
200.00
43.61
156.39
Salary of Wharfinger
300.00
300.00
Debt
25,698.20
1,000.00
4,601.80
31,300.00
Accrued Interest
12,483.40
40.98
1,794.44
14,318.82
Interest on Revenue Loans
7,000.00
5,378.66
1,621.34
Granolithic Sidewalks
2,000.00
2,000.00
$201,133.76
$445,744.68
$5,000.00
$10,000.00
$42,644.73
$677,655.35
$12,328.48
$15,548.59
$1,009.25
TOWN OF FAIRHAVEN BALANCE SHEET-DECEMBER 31, 1931 General Accounts
ASSETS
LIABILITIES
Cash
$21,862.88 /
Temporary Loans : In Anticipation of Revenue
$90,000.00
John H. Stetson, Collector
205.31 V
Taxes :
Levy of 1928
1,296.14 /
Unexpended Appropriation Balances :
Levy of 1929
1,506.97 /
Levy of 1930
1,454.13 V
Levy of 1931 103,103.10 /
Adams St. Sewer 441.09 +
Land for Stations 755.45
Old Age Assistance
1,673.87~
War Memorial
6,876.88
Fort Phoenix Tablet 19.13
Granolithic Sidewalks 2,000.00 V
Addition to the High School
3,306.48v
15,536.99
Overlays-Reserved for Abatements :
Overlay 1928 1,296.14
Overlay 1929
1,506.97
Overlay 1930
1,454.13
Levy of 1929
960.12~
Levy of 1930
1,025.717
9,873.84
Levy of 1931
4,188.95 V
Reserve Fund-Overlay Surplus
6,035.93 ×
Old Age Assistant Tax
326.00V. 665.15v 60,592.01 v
Departmental 7,450.10v
Departmental :
Comm. of Mass. State Aid
820.00V
Health
521.79
Sewer Dept. 12.14~
6,096.17 v
7,450.10
Taxes 1927
16.70
Overdraft : Public Welfare
1,009.25
Surplus Revenue
8,551.72
Overlay Deficit : Overlay 1927
18.45
Revenue reserved until collected :
Committed Interest
Tax Titles
Special Assessments 1,162.33
Tax Title 60,592.01
Committed Interest 665.15
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 6,174.78 v
76,044.37
Public Welfare
107,360.34
Special Assessments :
Sewer Assessments Added to
Taxes 1928 26.41 v
Sewer Assessments Added to Taxes 1929 164.43
Sewer Assessments Added to Taxes 1930 331.84 €
Sewer Assessments Added to
Taxes 1931 639.65
1,162.33
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax :
Overlay 1931
5,616.60
6,174.78
Accounts Receivable :
Income-Julia A. Stoddard Fund 767.05 Y
Purchase of Police Automobiles $25.00
Fire Alarm Signal 439.09
Deferred Accounts
Apportioned Sewer Assessments Not Due
$3,781.92
Apportioned Sewer Assessments Due 1932
$597.81
Apportioned Sewer Assessments Due 1933
592.59
Apportioned Sewer Assessments Due 1934
584.04
Apportioned Sewer Assessments Due 1935
584.04
Apportioned Sewer Assessments Due 1936
562.31
Apportioned Sewer Assessments Due 1937
546.13
Apportioned Sewer Assessments
Due
1938
144.55
Apportioned Sewer Assessments
Due 1939
98.77
Apportioned Sewer Assessments
Due
1940
71.68
$3,781.92
$3,781.92
Debt Accounts
Net Funded or Fixed Debt
$317,655.00
Hook and Ladder Loan
$2,800.00
Cherry, Hedge and Taber St. Sewer Loan
280.00
Cottage St. Gravity Sewer Loan
2,200.00
Hedge and Taber St. Sewer Loan
5,000.00
Town Lot and Building Loan
2,475.00
New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge Loan
17,000.00
Rogers School Annex Loan
10,100.00
Anthony School Loan
35,100.00
Job C. Tripp School Addition Loan
13,500.00
Job C. Tripp School Loan
11,400.00
Oxford School Loan
4,200.00
East Fairhaven School Loan
33,600.00
Addition to High School Loan
180,000.00
$317,655.00
$317,655.00
Trust Fund Cash and Securities
Trust Accounts
$659,014.86
Henry H. Rogers Elementary Schools Fund $106,100.08
Abner Pease School Fund
7,558.12
Edmund Anthony Jr. School Fund
10,000.00
Henry H. Rogers High School Fund
512,200.00
Julia A. Stoddard Fund 21,226.00
Hannah Chadwick Fund 500.00
Ricketts Trust Fund
1,430.66
$659,014.86
$659,014.86
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Treasurer's Report
CASH ACCOUNTS
Receipts
1931
Payments
$217,304.69
January
$29,175.47
19,053.95
February
45,498.79
65,614.50
March
79,597.46
64,351.79
April
55,371.44
31,702.20
May
49,962.97
72,811.07
June
104,410.40
59,137.38
July
42,815.77
11,948.46
August
73,039.37
9,032.51
September
50,713.49
206,717.95
October
133,064.54
159,196.04
November
213,256.06
114,267.35
December
172,972.35
-Balance-
40,603.10 Jan. 1, 1931
Jan. 1, 1932
21,862.88
$1,071,740.99
Totals
$1,071,740.99
Selectmen's Warrants-Jan. 2, 1931 to
Dec. 31, 1931 Inclusive : $1,049,878.11
Cash on Hand January 1, 1932
21,862.88
$1,071,740.99
Report of the Outstanding Debt of the Town of Fairhaven, Mass. Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1932
Date of Issue
Purpose of Loan
Registered or Coupon
Rate %
Date of Maturity
Amount of Annual Payments
Amount Outstanding
Net Debt
Nov.
1, 1906
N. B. and Fairhaven Bridge
Coupon
4
1948
$1,000.00
$17,000.00
Aug
15, 1914
Oxford School
4
1934
1,400.00
4,200.00
Aug.
20, 1917
Job. C. Tripp School
41/2
1937
1,900.00
11,400 00
Aug.
19, 1920
Job. C. Tripp School
51/4
1940
1,500.00
13,500.00
Dec.
1, 1921
Anthony School
41/2
1940
3,900.00
35,100.00
May
1, 1922
Cherry, Hedge and Taber Sts. Sewer
41/4
1932
280.00
280.00
July
15, 1922
Cottage St. Sewer
41/4
1942
200.00
2,200.00
Aug.
25, 1922
Town Lot and Building
41/4
1942
225.00
2,475.00
July
15, 1922
Rogers School Annex
41/4
1941
1,130.00
10,100.00
June
15, 1924
East Fairhaven School
4
1938
4,200.00
29,400.00
Nov.
26, 1926
Hedge and Taber Sts. (Sewer)
4
1936
1,000.00
5,000.00
Mar.
15, 1928
Hook and Ladder Truck
4
1933
1,400.00
2,800.00
Nov.
1, 1931
High School Addition
Coupon
4
1949
10,000.00
180,000.00
$313,455.00
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DEBT AND INTEREST TO BE PAID IN 1932
Debt
Interest
N. B. and Fairhaven Bridge
$1,000.00
$ 680.00
Oxford School
1,400.00
168.00
Job C. Tripp School
3,400.00
1,221.75
Anthony School
3,900.00
1,579.50
Cherry, Hedge and Taber Sts. Sewer
280.00
5.95
Cottage St. Gravity Sewer
200.00
93.50
Town Lot and Building
225.00
105.20
Rogers School Annex
1,130.00
429.29
East Fairhaven School
4,200.00
1,260.00
Hedge & Taber Sts. Sewer
1,000.00
200.00
Hook & Ladder Truck
1,400.00
84.00
Addition to High School
10,000.00
7,200.00
$28,135.00 $13,027.19
Due on Debt
$28,135.00
Interest on Town Debt
13,027.19
$41,162.19
Estimated Interest on Revenue Loans
7,000.00
$48,162.19
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TRUST FUND
HENRY H. ROGERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FUND
1931
Principal
Interest
Fairhaven Institution for Savings
$10,953.00
$ 498.42
Citizens Savings Bank of Fall River
5,000.00
227.52
Union Savings Bank of Fall River
5,000.00'
212.50
N. B. Five Cents Savings Bank N. B. Institution for Savings
10,000.00
455.06
10,000.00
455.05
Securities in National Bank of Fairhaven
66,000.00
2,775.00
Fairhaven Institution for Savings
369.98
7.48
$107,322.98
$4,631.04
Transferred to Schools
4,631.04
Balance on hand January 1, 1932
$107,322.98
EDMUND ANTHONY, JR. SCHOOL FUND
Principal
Interest
N. B. Institution for Savings
$10,000.00
$ 455.06 455.06
Balance on hand January 1, 1932 $10,000.00
ABNER PEASE SCHOOL FUND
Interest
N. B. Institution for Savings
N. B. Five Cent Savings Bank
2,558.12
116.40
$7,558.12
$ 343.92
Transferred to Schools
343.92
Balance on hand January 1, 1932
$7,558.12
Transferred to Schools
Principal $5,000.00
$ 227.52
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HENRY H. ROGERS HIGH SCHOOL FUND
Principal
Interest Farmers Loan & Trust Co., Trustees $512,200.00 $27,085.83 Transferred to High School
27,085.83
Balance on hand January 1, 1932 $512,200.00
JAMES RICKETTS TRUST FUND
Principal
Interest
N. B. Institution for Savings
$1,430.66 $ 65.08
Paid to Riverside Cemetery and Poor Dept.
65.08
Balance on hand January 1, 1932 $1,430.66
JULIA A. STODDARD TRUST FUND
Principal
Interest
Securities in National Bank of
Fairhaven
$21,000.00
$1,933.93
Fairhaven Institution for Savings
14.12
$21,000.00
$1,948.05
Payments
1,175.00
Balance on hand January 1, 1932
$21,000.00 $ 773.05
HANNAH CHADWICK TRUST FUND
Principal
Interest
Fairhaven Institution for Savings
$ 500.00
$ 18.75
Paid Hannah Chadwick
18.75
Balance on hand January 1, 1932
$ 500.00
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RECAPITULATION
City or Town Appropriations :
February Town Appropriations
$428,244.68
July Town Appropriations 17,500.00
State Assessments :
State Tax
13,650.00
Audit
2,288.86
Parks and Reservations
216.73
Special State Tax
Old Age Assistance
County Assessments :
County Tax
16,290.27
Overlay 1923
51.62
Overlay 1924
51.62
Overlay 1925
56.96
Overlay 1926
97.11
Overlay (of current year) (1931)
8,787.81
Total
$487,235.66 $487,235.66
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS
Income Tax
$46,420.40
Motor Vehicle Excise
15,615.06
Corporation Tax
6,366.08
Bank Tax
503.42
Licenses
2,123.02
Fines
.
1,409.95
Special Assessments
1,859.66
General Government
865.39
Protection of Persons and Property
194.18
Health and Sanitation
2,277.57
Highways
156.93
Charities
7,751.64
Soldiers' Benefits
682.00
Schools
7,866.18
Rent of Wharf and Land
1,562.08
Public Service
1,336.62
Public Service
1,491.78
Public Service
1.79
Trust Company.
.45
Interest on Taxes and Assessments
4,442.74
Chapter 122, Acts of 1931 Highway, Ap-
4,758.87
Soldiers Exemption
38.48
Total Estimated Receipts $107,724.29
Free Cash in Treasury
12,000.00
Total Deductions
$119,724.29 $119,724.29
Net Amount Raised by Taxation on Polls and Property
$367,511.37
propriation Offset
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Number of Old Age Assistance Taxes-3,181 @ $1.00 each
$3,181.00
Number of Polls-3,184 @ $2.00 each 6,368.00
Total Valuation $11,840,530.00-Tax Rate $30.50 Prop- erty Tax 361,143.37
Additional betterment and special assessments (outside the taxes levied on property at the tax rate) as follows :
Sewers :
Unapportioned-$317.94 Com. Int. $17.83 335.77
Apportioned-$618.69 Com. Int. $266.31 885.00
There is a difference of $7.20 in the total of the indi- vidual Taxes and that of the flat rate at $30.50 on the valuation of $11,840,530.00. This is because of various half cents taken as whole cents on dif- ferent pages throughout the Valuation Book.
Total amount of all taxes listed in the collector's com- mitment list $371,913.14
TOWN OF FAIRHAVEN BALANCE SHEET-DECEMBER 31, 1930 General Accounts
ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Cash
$40,603.10
Temporary Loans : In Anticipation of Revenue
$90,000.00
John H. Setson, Collector
205.31
Taxes :
Tailings
187.44
Levy of 1927 $141.32
Levy of 1928
1,486.27
Levy of 1929
2,301.61
Levy of 1930
103,314.06
107,243.26
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes :
Levies of 1929
1,213.93
Levies of 1930
4,295.84
Special Assessments :
Overlays Reserved for Abate- ment of Taxes :
Levy of 1927
141.32
Levy of 1928
1,486.27
Levy of 1929
2,167.05
Levy of 1930
6,981.91
Committed Interest
Tax Titles
49,094.77
Departmental :
.
Reserve Fund-Overlay Surplus
10,415.34
Health
809.75
Sewer
12.14
Revenue Reserved Until Collected :
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 5,509.77
Special Assessment 1,394.17
Committed Interest 698.82
Tax Title 49,094.77
Departmental 5,347.86
Loans Authorized
190,000.00
62,045.39·
Overlay Deficits :
Levy of 1923
51.62
Levy of 1924
51.62
Levy of 1925
56.96
Levy of 1926
97.11
257.31
$400.354.37
$400 354 37
202,029.87
Sewers added to Taxes 1928 245.25
Sewers added to Taxes 1929
164.43
Sewers added to Taxes 1930
666.55
Unapportioned Sewers
317.94
1,394.17 698.82
10,776.55
Public Welfare
3,866.97
Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts-State Aid 659.00
5,347.86
Surplus Revenue
24,899.78
Unexpended Balances :
Sewer-Bridge Street $140.66
Sewer-Land for Station 755.45
Granolithic Sidewalks 2,000.00
High School Addition 192,086.88
War Memorial 6,876.88
Fort Phoenix Tablets 170.00
5,509.77
Accounts Receivable :
Deferred Accounts
Apportioned Sewer Assessments Not Due
$4,400.61
Apportioned Sewer Assessment Revenue Due in 1930
$ 10.70
1931
607.99
1932
597.81
1933
592.59
1934
584.04
1935
584.04
1936
562.31
1937
546.13
1938
144.55
1939
98.77
1940
71.68
$4,400.61
$4,400.61
Debt Accounts
Net Funded or Fixed Debt
$158,955.00
Hook and Ladder Loan
$ 4,200.00
Sewer Loans
8,960.00
Highway Loans
4,865.00
Bridge Loan
18,000.00
School Loan
121,930.00
Union Wharf Loan
1,000.00
$158,955.00
$158,955.00
Trust Accounts
Trust Funds :
J. Ricketts Charity Fund $1,430.66
Julia A. Stoddard Charity Fund 21,930.57
Hannah Chadwick Fund 500.00
In Custody of Treasurer
$148,045.85
In Custody of Trustees
512,200.00
H. H. Rogers Elementary School Fund 106,626.50
Edmund Anthony, Jr. School Fund 10,000.00
Abner Pease School Fund 7,558.12
H. H. Rogers High School Fnud
$148,045.85 512,200.00
$660,245.85
$660,245.85
Cash and Securities :
Report of the Collector of Taxes
JOHN H. STETSON, TAX COLLECTOR, IN ACCOUNT WITH THE TOWN OF FAIRHAVEN December 31, 1931 DR.
Tax List
$361,143.37
Additional Taxes
304.39
Poll Tax List
6,368.00
Additional Poll
144.00
Sewer Taxes and Committed Interest
1,270.20
Additional Sewer Taxes and Committed Int.
32.77
Old Age Assistance
3,250.00
Excise Tax List
15,986.66
Interest Collected Excise 1929
13.12
Interest Collected Excise 1930
78.53
Interest Collected Excise 1931
28.91
Interest Collected Taxes 1928
7.26
Interest Collected Taxes 1929
34.26
Interest Collected Taxes 1930
2,290.46
Com. Int. Collected Taxes 1930
93.11
Interest Collected Taxes 1931
226.54
Interest Collected Polls 1929
6.37
Interest Collected Polls 1930
15.30
Interest Collected Polls 1931
18.04
Com. Int. Collected Sewers 1931
142.33
Com. Int. Collected Sewers 1930
103.94
Cost Collected 1930
114.70
Unpaid Taxes 1927
159.57
Unpaid Taxes 1928
1,446.50
Unpaid Taxes 1929
1,769.80
Unpaid Taxes 1930
91,963.28
Unpaid Polls 1928
8.00
Unpaid Polls 1929
344.00
Unpaid Polls 1930
766.00
Unpaid Excise 1929
1,216.49
Unpaid Excise 1930
3,829.94
Unpaid Sewers
5,074.08
To Collect 1930
1,075.03
$499,324,95
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CR.
Paid Town Treasurer
$359,480.09
Remitted and Abated Taxes 1931
3,781.82
Remitted and Abated Taxes 1930
443.97
Remitted and Abated Taxes 1929
45.46
Remitted and Abated Taxes 1928
2.90
Remitted and Abated Taxes 1927
159.57
Remitted and Abated Polls 1928
8.00
Remitted and Abated Polls 1929
64.00
Remitted and Abated Polls 1930
80.00
Remitted and Abated Polls 1931
198.00
Remitted and Abated Excise 1930
242.57
Remitted and Abated Excise 1931
411.94
Remitted and Abated Sewer Tax
90.13
Added to Tax Title
11,115.01
Unpaid Taxes 1928
1,125.26
Unpaid Taxes 1929
1,150.19
Unpaid Taxes 1930
4,288.19
Unpaid Taxes 1931
96,982.98
Unpaid Polls 1929
210.00
Unpaid Polls 1930
160.00
Unpaid Polls 1931
524.00
Unpaid Old Age 1931
301.00
Unpaid Excise 1929
966.05
Unpaid Excise 1930
808.27
Unpaid Excise 1931
3,905.01
Unpaid Sewer Tax
4,730.36
Sold to Town 1928
49.01
Sold to Town 1929
148.62
Sold to Town 1930
7,852.55
$499,324.95
Report of the Police Department
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
Gentlemen :
I have the honor to respectfully submit the Annual Report for the Police Department for the year ending Dec- ember 31, 1931.
Once again the business depression and unemployment have shown their effects on Police Department activities. Our 1931 calls, complaints and reports include 9,883 more than in 1930-an increase of over 30%. Expenses include an increase of less than two-tenths of one per cent.
I take this means of expressing my appreciation of the help given the police by the other town departments and our thousands of law-abiding citizens. Such splendid coopera- tion deserves public recognition.
The cost of patrol duty increased $2,393.97 in 1931; but when we realize that thefts decreased $1,652.36 it is evident that the townspeople received almost dollar for dollar value in crime prevention.
It is interesting to note how clearly the following page reflects the wisdom of the Town Meeting Members at the 1931 Annual Town Meeting. The purchase of a second motorcycle made possible a saving in Traffic Duty of $311.00-within a few dollars of the price of the machine. Incidentally we had twenty less accidents in 1931 than in 1930. The cost of operating the two police automobiles and keeping them in repair has averaged less than a cent and a half per mile.
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These economies, and perhaps these economies alone, have made possible the efficient conduct of the Police Depart- ment within the appropriation allotted to it. It is my sincere hope that demands on the Police Department will stop in- creasing, so that a larger appropriation will not be required.
Respectfully submitted,
WALTER H. FRANCIS,
In charge of Police Department.
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1931
POLICE DEPARTMENT EXPENDITURES
Chief Walter H. Francis
$3,128.56
Albert C. Aiken
408.75
Investigating
870.00
Patrol Duty
9,265.72
Clerical Work, day and night
2,954.00
Traffic Duty
1,239.50
Policing Town Hall
92.00
Policing Parks
75.00
Police Duty
116.50
Female Aides (insane cases)
6.00
Automobile Hire (regular work)
399.63
Automobile Hire (insane cases )
41.00
Taxi Hire
11.00
Boat Hire
20.00
Gasoline, etc. for motorcycles
39.70
Gasoline, etc. for automobiles
149.29
Equipment for Men
32.19
Repairs :
Carpenter
14.76
Repairs to Motorcycles
95.61
Repairs to Automobiles
88.69
Repairs to Typewriter
5.75
Flashlights, batteries and bulbs
19.75
Supplies
25.42
Furniture and Fixtures
63.20
Physicians (insane and emergency cases )
85.00
Advertising
6.00
Directory
12.00
Town Clerk's Fees
20.50
Printing
50.75
Stationery, Postage, and Express
58.25
Telephones
354.78
Killing twenty-three dogs
23.00
$19,772.30
Appropriation, annual town meeting
$20,000.00
Unexpended balance, December 31, 1931 227.70
$20,000.00 $20,000.00
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OFFENSES
Males Females Total
Assault and Battery
2
3
5
Assault on a police officer
2
0
2
Being a delinquent
13
0
13
Being an unlicensed operator
2
0
2
Breaking and Entering and attempt to
commit larceny in the night time
1
0
1
Breaking and Entering and intent to
commit larceny in the night time
1
0
1
Breaking and Entering and larceny in the night time
1
0
1
Breaking glass
1
1
2
Carrying a Revolver
1
0
1
Contempt of Court
1
0
1
Desertion
1
0
1
Disturbing the peace
1.
0
1
Drunkenness
22
1
23
Failing to stop when signalled to do so
2
0
2
Giving insufficient weight
1
0
1
Idle and Disorderly
1
0
1
Illegal sale of intoxicating liquor
1
0
1
Insane
7
3
10
Interfering with a police officer
2
0
2
Keeping an unlicensed dog
4
0
4
Keeping a punchboard
1
0
1
Keeping a slot machine
1
0
1
Larceny
5
2
7
Liquor keeping with intent to sell
9
1
10
Neglect of Family
5
0
5
Operating a motor vehicle after sus- pension of license
2
0
2
Operating a motor vehicle negligently
4
0
4
Operating a motor vehicle while under
the influence of intoxicating liquor
8
0
9
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Operating a motor vehicle with defec-
tive breaks
1
0
1
Overspeeding
3
0
3
Rape
1
0
1
Receiving stolen property
1
0
1
Robbery and assault
2
0
2
Selling leased property
1
0
1
Taking and possession of seed scallops
5
0
5
Threatening bodily harm
1
0
1
Trespass
1
0
1
Unlawful use of gas
1
0
1
Violating lobster law
4
0
4
Violating scallop law
1
0
1
Violating shellfish laws
15
0
15
Wilfully doing injury to real property
2
1
3
141
12
153
ARRESTS BY THE MONTH
Males Females Total
January
0
0
0
February
13
0
15
March
10
0
10
April
4
2
6
May
7
0
7
June
12
0
12
July
20
2
22
August
22
1
23
September
5
0
5
October
13
1
14
November
3
0
3
December
12
0
12
121
6
127
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DISPOSITION OF CASES
Number of fines imposed
62
Appealed cases
5
Continued cases
2
Suspended Sentences
5
Filed
15
Probation
20
Dismissed
11
Shirley School
2
House of Correction
5
Released
8
Taunton Hospital
10
Nol Prossed
3
State Farm
1
Placed under bonds
1
Surrendered to parole officer
1
Parole revoked
1
Lyman School
1
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NATIVITY OF THOSE ARRESTED
Azores Islands
11
Bermuda
1
Brazil
2
Canada
18
England
4
Greece
1
Ireland
2
Portugal
8
Russia
1
United States
78
Unknown
1
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Amount of money received by the town in court fines $744.68
Number of calls, complaints and reports received by the Police Department 32,380
Number of investigations made to obtain results from the above calls, complaints and reports 32,380
Resident arrests 76
Non-Resident arrests 51
Arrests for out-of-town police, 8 males, no females 8
Stolen property reported to the value of $4,777.26
Property recovered to the value of $4,503.40
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