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230.00
Postage .75
66
Telephone Printing and Advertising Travel Expense All Other
4.80
21.00
2.15
1.10
2,150.48
TOWN MEETING EXPENSE
Salaries
Clerks at Town Meeting
15.50
Police
25.00
Clerk of Finance Committe
150.00
Other Expenses
Finance Committee Reports
107.41
Printing and Advertising
446.44
Stationery and Postage
29.11
773.46
LAW DEPARTMENT
Salaries
Special Attorneys
420.75
Court Judgement
1,250.00
1,670.75
AUDITORS
Salaries
300.00
SAFETY COUNCIL
Reports
23.00
PLANNING BOARD
Salaries
Secretary
27.00
Other Expenses
Association dues
15.00
Printing and Advertising
18.95
60.95
TOWN HALL
Salaries
Janitors
2,330.00
Other Help
21.00
Other Expenses
Fuel
1,401.39
Light
857.11
67
Building Supplies
350.25
Repairs and Replacements
403.36
Insurance Telephone Water All Other
48.75
12.60
40.00
30.92
Hurricane Expense
5,495.38 316.60
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Salaries
Chief
2,594.80
Regular Officers
6,882.64
Special Police
5,899.18
Clerks
4,335.69
Equipment Maintenance
Motor Equipment
1,154.36
Gasoline and Oil
742.47
Equipment for Men
19.52
Radio Maintenance
109.69
Ambulance
106.32
Other Expenses
Printing, Stationery, Postage
30.01
Telephones
296.75
Office Supplies
66.29
Medical
31.70
Expenses for Prisoners
78.95
All Other
50.67
22,399.04
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Salaries
Engineers
150.00
Callmen
3,475.46
Permanent Men
8,695.69
Still Alarms
267.50
Equipment, Maintenance and Repairs Apparatus ,
867.50
Hose
29.37
Equipment for Men
9.50
68
Station Equipment Rental of Quarters Gasoline and Oil Fuel and Light
110.79
1,712.00
187.76
Fuel
56.83
Electricity
455.78
Maintenance of Biuldings and Grounds
Repairs
81.65
Building Supplies
123.38
Laundry
59.85
Water
45.00
Other Expenses
Office Supplies
33.85
Telephone
165.15
16,527.06
FIRE ALARM
Salaries
Labor
449.04
Other Expenses
Repairs
264.32
Storage
60.00
Hurricane
211.87
HYDRANTS
Rental and Service
8,910.00
INSPECTION OF BUILDINGS
Salaries
Inspector
500.00
Clerk
199.92
Other Expenses
Plumbing Inspections
890.00
Printing
25.75
Office Supplies
3.50
Postage
8.00
Hurricane Damage
1,627.17 205.00
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Salaries
Sealer
Helper
700.00 12.00
69
5 -
1830/ 86 95. 19
270 5 6
38
1
773.36
Other Expenses Printing and Advertising Travel Equipment All Other
4.00
229.04
25.74
2.00
972.78
BOARD OF APPEALS
Printing and Advertising
10.00
INSECT PEST EXTERMINATION
Labor
300.00
CARE OF TREES
Salaries
Tree Warden
200.00
Labor
4,696.20
Other Expenses
Hardware and Tools
133.95
Trees
787.50
Insurance
784.24
Repairs to Equipment
164.98
Gasoline and Oil
25.40
Arsenate
241.92
Water
25.00
All Other
135.16
Hurricane Damage
7,194.35 15.06
INSURANCE ON TOWN BUILDINGS
Premiums
3,122.14
CIVILIAN DEFENSE
Telephone
161.91
Insurance
5.00
Travel Expense
18.02
184.83
HEALTH AND SANITATION HEALTH
General Administration
Board Members
720.00
Stationery and Postage
30.33
Telephone
99.35
Carding, Travel Expense
228.12
70
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Dangerous Diseases Medical Attendance Drugs and Medicines
6.00
15.41
Tuberculosis
Local Board and Treatment
1,531.82
County Hospital Assessment
7,442.29
Vital Statistics
2.25
Other Expenses
Sanitary Inspector
100.00
Burying Animals
77.00
All Other
1.22
Inspection
Animal Inspection
252.50
Meat and Provisions
37.50
Health Nursing Service
1,000.00
Dental Clinic
410.44
Diphtheria Immunization
70.00
12,024.23
SHELLFISH INSPECTOR
Salaries
Inspector
1,250.00
Other Expenses
Printing and Advertising
23.75
Propogation
122.87
1,396.62
SEWER MAINTENANCE
General Administration
Commissioners
525.00
Clerk
156.00
Office Supplies
10.80
General
Labor
5,419.46
Repairs and Equipment
1,245.57
Tools and Supplies
120.98
Pipe, Lumber, Cement
109.50
Gasoline and Oil
326.04
Heat and Lights
60.82
Power
1,399.36
Water
295.62
Insurance
211.48
Telephone
49.17
71
Engineering Rent of Land All Other
65.50
100.00
312.68
10,407.98
ALPINE AVENUE SEWER
Labor
342.64
Material
564.30
906.94 .
MOSQUITO CONTROL MAINTENANCE
Maintenance
1,200.00
REFUSE AND GARBAGE
Refuse
Labor
8,024.20
Trucks
484.71
Gasoline
243.00
Insurance
285.27
Garbage
Contract
3,000.00
12,037.18
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES
General Administration
Superintendent
1,500.00
Clerk
1,608.83
General
Labor
14,575.92
Trucks
1,289.24
Broken Stone, Gravel
3,476.95
Equipment and Repair
529.76
Gasoline and Oil
861.94
Tarvia and Road Oil
945.73
Light
60.95
Telephone
34.25
Insurance
1,438.85
Fuel
266.28
Travel Expense
391.25
Engineering
34.25
Supplies
36.58
All Other
53.11
27,103.89
72
Hurricane Damage Labor Equipment and Materials
9,954.18 5,053.49
15,007.67
LIGHTING
Maintenance Street Lights 10,110.78
CHAPTER 90 MAINTENANCE
Labor
593.36 1,194.30
Material
1,787.66
COGGESHALL STREET BRIDGE
Assessment for 1944 162.39
CHARITIES AND SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
PUBLIC WELFARE
General Administration
Salaries and Wages
1,643.10
Printing, Stationery
61.61
Office Expense
17.70
Travel Expense
83.59
Outside Relief by Town
Groceries and Provisions
469.51
Fuel
323.45
Board and Care
625.66
Medicine and Medical
1,533.07
State Institutions
2,067.00
Cash
8,502.98
Hospital Care
1,191.36
Rent
883.50
Clothing
49.87
Burials
535.00
Labor and Trucking
472.11
All Other
54.81
Other Cities and Towns
470.07
18,984.39
73
INFIRMARY
Salaries
Superintendent
572.00
Other Employees
1,404.00
Other Expenses
Groceries and Provisions
890.35
Dry Goods and Clothing
30.20
Building Supplies and Repairs
279.98
Fuel and Electricity
904.57
Medical and Hospital
84.41
Burial
100.00
Telephone
9.60
Insurance
45.48
Laundry
30.94
All Other
42.40
Farm
Expenses
798.92
Purchase of Live Stock
31.00
5,223.85
Special Repairs
5.55
Hurricane Damage
221.30
AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN
Administration
Supervisor
137.96
Social Worker
77.85
Clerks
501.90
Office Supplies
24.94
Travel, Telephone, All Other
34.45
Aid
Cash Grants
15,386.59
16,163.69
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
Administration
Supervisor
1,001.91
Clerks
1,008.90
Social Worker
1,271.55
Printing and Postage
203.80
Office Supplies
47.72
Telephone
8.45
Travel Expense, All Other
255.15
'Aid
Cash Grants
107,914.20
Other Cities and Towns
2,186.82
113,898.50
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JULIA A. STODDARD FUND
Cash Grants 885.00
JAMES RICKETTS FUND
Care of Lot.
4.50
LADY FAIRHAVEN FUND
Cash Grant
28.00
ANDRUS SPRIIT FUND
Property Expense
730.19
Infirmary
107.66
Purchase of Bonds
10,000.00
10,837.85
SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
Administration
Clerks
298.20
Other Administration
172.13
State Aid
460.00
War Allowance
338.00
Soldiers' Relief
Cash
3,347.50
Burial
100.00
Clothing
6.50
Medical and Hospital
576.60
All Other
5.00
Other Cities and Towns
57.77
5,361.70
VETERANS' REHABILITATION
Clerical Assistance
100.00
Office Supplies
26.20
126.20
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SCHOOLS
ELEMENTARY AND HIGH
Superintendent
4,261.69
Clerk in Superintendent's Office
1,629.79
Truant Officer
175.00
Printing, Stationery, Postage
141.97
Telephones
665.37
Traveling Expenses
114.94
School Census
100.00
Office Expenses
49.62
All Other
114.22
Teachers' Salaries
Elementary
80,552.74
High
45,693.46
Evening
250.00
Text and Reference Books
Elementary
1,519.98
High
1,228.75
Supplies
Elementary
2,035.79
High
1,209.63
Furniture
High
150.00
Tuition
Continuation
383.04
Vocational
3,790.00
Evening
55.00
Transportation
4,214.98
Elementary High
2,067.00
Janitors' Services
Elementary
9,059.16
High
8,104.92
Fuel and Light
5,800.99
Elementary High
3,197.13
Maintenance of Buildings and Grounds Elementary
2,048.97
High
2,270.36
Health
Elementary
1,975.28
High
598.66
76
Diplomas and Graduations Exercises Elementary High Petty Cash High
35.60
83.59
10.00
183,587.63
Hurricane Damage
732.79
Special Repairs
Tripp
464.02
High
1,589.91
East Fairhaven
540.00
Oxford
189.77
Rogers
138.30
Anthony
96.50
Washington
15.00
3,033.50
Mass. Teachers' Retirement System
85.75
RECREATION
PARK DEPARTMENT
Labor
2,996.20
Equipment ·
374.38
Loam
10.00
Insurance
66.61
Gasoline
42.44
All Other
11.48
3,501.11
UNCLASSIFIED
RATIONING BOARD
Administration
Clerk and Janitor
2,414.90
Stationery and Postage
4.90
Telephone
121.31
Office Supplies
55.50
Other Expenses
Fuel and Light
205.02
Rent
180.00
Travel
28.00
Maintenance and Operation
44.32
3,053.95
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MEMORIAL DAY
Care of Lot Bands Flowers Flags
15.00
60.50
154.50
20.00
250.00
RENT FOR MILITARY ORGANIZATION Veterans of Foreign Wars 350.00
TOWN PROPERTY
Water Service
9.41
UNPAID BILLS OF PRIOR YEARS
Approved at Annual Town Meeting
120.55
POST WAR PLANNING
Purchase of Bonds
15,000.00
Interest Added to Fund
65.62
15,065.62
PUBLIC SERVICE ENTERPRISE WATER DEPARTMENT
Foreman
144.80
Printing
30.10
Purchase of Water
670.96
Water Services
468.53
Equipment
10.68
All Other
3.30
1,328.37
SCONTICUT NECK WATER SYSTEM
Administration
Certification of Notes
34.00
Coupons
50.95
All Other
6.32
General Expenses
Engineering
764.77
Trenching and Laying Pipe
15,088.28
78
Pipe and Fittings
505.08
Tools and Equipment
88.00
Labor
4.55
Guarantee Bond
280.00
Hydrants All Other
297.92
6.89
17,126.76
UNION WHARF
Salary of Wharfinger
300.00
Light
9.00
Water
14.71
Repairs
11.49
335.20
INTEREST AND MATURING DEBT
INTEREST
Temporary Loans
Anticipation of Revenue
191.03
General Loans
3,930.57
4,121.60
MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS
Temporary Loans
Anticipation of Revenue
100,000.00
Reimbursement Loan
1,200.00
General Loans
38,500.00
139,700.00
Tax Title Redemptions Reserved
13,662.63
AGENCY TRUST AND INVESTMENT
AGENCY
Taxes
State County
14,646.82 23,020.20
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TRUST AND INVESTMENT
Dog Licenses for County
1,868.20
Federal Withholding Tax
28,997.80
Blue Cross Firemen's Insurance
1,049.20
14.00
Contributory Retirement System
9,163.41
78,759.63
REFUNDS
Taxes
90.00
Motor Vehicle Excise
29.24
Sewer Connection Deposits
1,080.28
Estimated Receipts
23.60
1,223.12
$826,739.85
Cash On Hand December 31, 1945
116,908.82
$943,648.67
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ANALYSIS OF APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS-1945
ACCOUNTS
Balances
Carried Forward
Appropriations
Credits
Trust Funds
and Grants
Payments
Balances
Balances
Forward
Other Accounts
Selectmen's Salaries
1,500.00
1,500.00
Selectmen's Office Expenses
2,500.00
2,493.69
6.31
Treasurer's Salary
1,567.60
1,567.60
Treasurer's Office Expense
3,500.00
3,440.77
59.23
Tax Collector's Salary
2,300.00
2,300.00
Tax Collector's Office Expense
2,700.00
2,575.11
124.89
Tax Title Expenses
287.29
2,400.00
95.75
2,150.48
632.56
Assessors' Salaries
21.73
4,243.45
4,193.97
71.21
Assessors' Office Expense
2,050.00
1,333.29
716.71
Salary of Moderator
25.00
25.00
Salary of Auditors
300.00
300.00
Election and Registration
4,100.00
4,072.75
27.25
Town Meeting Expense
800.00
773.46
26.54
Legal Expense
1,750.00
1,670.75
79.25
Planning Board
125.00
60.95
64.05
Safety Council
62.00
23.00
39.00
Board of Appeals
75.00
10.00
65.00
Town Hall
5,500.00
5,495.38
4.62
Town Hall, Hurricane
3,165.71
316.60
2,849.11
Police Department
22,000.00
400.00
22,399:04
.96
Fire Department
17,000.00
16,527.06
472.94
Fire Alarm
800.00
773.36
26.64
Fire Alarm, Hurricane
284.12
271.77
12.35
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to Revenue
Transfers to
ANALYSIS OF APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS - 1945-Continued
ACCOUNTS
Balances
Carried Forward
Appropriations
Credits
Trust Funds
and Grants
Payments
Balances
Balances
Forward
Transfers to
Other Accounts
Hydrant Rental
8,910.00
8,910.00
Care of Trees
7,000.00
6,994.35
5.65
Salary of Tree Warden
200.00
200.60
Tree Department, Hurricane
201.82
15.06
186.76
Insect Pest Extermination
300.00
300.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
1,000.00
972.78
27.22
Building Inspection
1,200.00
1,127.17
72.83
Building Inspection, Hurricane
350.00
205.00
145.00
Building Inspector's Salary
500.00
500.00
Civilian Defense
7,068.04
184.83
683.21
6,200.00
Insurance on Town Buildings
52.15
2,569.24
126.50
2,197.21
550.68
Extended Coverage Town Buildings
1,027.00
924.93
102.07
Forest Fires
100.00
100.00
Board of Health
3,750.00
2,381.50
1,368.50
Salaries of Board of Health
720.00
720.00
Dental Clinic
500.00
410.44
89.56
Diphtheria Immunization
75.00
70.00
5.00
Public Health Nursing
1,000.00
1,000.00
B. C. Tuberculosis Hospital
7,442.29
7,442.29
Shellfish Inspection
1,300.00
1,276.12
23.88
Propogation of Shellfish
2,460.70
91.75
2,368.95
Sewer Maintenance
9,000.00
750.00
9,716.18
33.82
Sewer Office Expense
170.00
166.80
3.20
Salary of Sewer Commissioners
525.00
525.00
to Revenue
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ANALYSIS OF APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS - 1945-Continued
Alpine Avenue Sewer
1,200.00
906.94
293.06
Collection of Rubbish
8,500.00
550.00
9,037.18
12.82
Collection of Garbage
3,000.00
3,000.00
Mosquito Control Maintenance
1,200.00
1,200.00
Highway Department
25,000.00
603.89
25,603.89
Highway, Hurricane Damage
15,023.07
15,007.67
15.40
Salary of Superintendent of Highways
1,500.00
1,500.00
Street Lights
10,428.79
10,110.78
318.01
Chapter 90 Maintenance
8.13
600.00
1,191.76
1,787.66
12.23
Coggeshall Street Bridge
162.39
162.39
Public Welfare
20,000.00
17,144.14
2,305.86
550.00
Public Welfare Administration
1,800.00
1,800.00
Infirmary
5,200.00
24.10
5,223.85
.25
Infirmary, Special Repairs
1,000.00
5.55
994.45
Infirmary, Hurricane Damage
1,394.80
221.30
1,173.50
Aid to Dependent Children
17.98
10,000.00
3,500.00
2,879.82
15,386.59
1,011.21
Aid to Dependent Children Adm.
31.30
500.00
251.42
777.10
5.62
Old Age Assistance
65,000.00
3,500.00
42,565.40
109,908.47
1,156.93
Old Age Assistance Administrative
130.27
2,200.00
1,298.98
3,591.58
9.63
28.04
State Aid
500.00
460.00
40.00
Military Aid
1,000.00
1,000.00
War Allowance
270.27
1,000.00
338.00
932.27
Soldiers' Relief
3,500.00
1,200.00
4,392.70
307.30
Veteran's Rehabilitation
15.00
150.00
126.20
38.80
Elementary and High Schools
163,182.00
14.85
17,386.45
179,797.63
15.92
769.75
Schools, Hurricane Damage
1,115.63
732.79
382.84
Vocational School
5,000.00
3,790.00
1,210.00
State Retirement System
114.63
85.75
28.88
Special School Repairs
3,750.00
3,033.50
716.50
Park Department
3,500.00
1.11
3,501.11
Memorial Day
250.00
250.00
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ANALYSIS OF APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS - 1945-Continued
ACCOUNTS
Balances
Carried Forward
Appropriations
Credits
Trust Funds
and Grants
Payments
Balances
to Revenue
Balances
Forward
Transfers to
Other Accounts
Veteran's Foreign Wars Quarters
350.00
350.00
War Rationing Board
412.30
3,500.00
3,053.95
858.35
Unpaid Bills of Prior Years
120.55
120.55
Water Department Operating Costs
21.41
1,000.00
1,207.82
33.59
Sconticut Neck Water Project
1.66
34,000.00
220.00 10,600.00
17,126.76
27,474.90
Union Wharf
100.00
35.20 .
64.80
Salary of Wharfinger
300.00
300.00
Debt
38,500.00
38,500.00
Accrued Interest
3,901.63
30.24
3,931.87
Interest on Revenue Loans
700.00
189.73
510.27
$33,448.01
$543,031.94
$ 21,742.34
$ 65,597.93
$604,304.09
$10,371.77 $42,394.36 $ 6,750.00
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Report of Highway Department
For the Year 1945
The Honorable Board of Selectmen
Town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
Gentlemen:
The year just ended has been an unusually active one for this department, because at the beginning of the year we had scheduled considerable unfinished work resulting from the extensive damage wrought by the destructive hurricane of September 1944.
In order to accomplish this and carry out our regular program of maintenance and repair of the Town's streets, roads, sidewalks and drains it was necessary to hire extra laborers and some equipment.
Included in our regular work were the yearly repairs of the seasonal damage to our suburban roads (gravel and cinders) and the patching of our town streets, necessary every Spring and Summer after the ravages of the cold and frost of Winter and the ensuing thaws.
Among the more important things accomplished we were able to apply a seal coat of road tar to a portion of Bridge Street and part of Mill Road, which was greatly needed in both instances to prevent threatened destruction.
We also performed our usual maintenance work on Alden Road and Sconticut Neck Road under Chapter 90 program and State Supervision.
We did more "hot patching" on hard surfaced streets than usual resulting in much Improvement and continued protection of these old surfaces.
The cinder and gravel roads required a lot of work this past year including the hauling of quite a quantity of material.
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In our schedule of work for 1946 we have included twenty-one streets and roads or portions of them which should be repaired and sealed with tar or asphalt and we have filed a detailed schedule with our Budget Request.
These roads are going to pieces so fast that continued patching will be expensive and impractical and unless they are sealed this coming season they may become a total loss making it necessary to rebuild them at considerable expense.
Experience indicates that the roads and streets that we were able to seal during the past three years with the money available are standing up well and the cost of patch- ing has been reduced approximately ninety per cent.
In cooperation with the Town Salvage Committee we made two town wide collections of tinned cans (one in March and one in September) obtaining a total of about eight and one half tons.
In June we again made extensive repairs to the Rogers Monument at the Fairhaven end of the bridge which had again been seriously damaged by an automobile and since the installation of new type reflectors at that time there have not been any more accidents there.
We have repeatedly requested that automobiles should not be left parked on or in the streets during snow storms as it seriously interferes with our plowing and we desire to now express our appreciation to the automobile owners for the cooperation manifested during the recent snow storms.
HURRICANE DAMAGE
As soon as the condition of the ground would permit we resumed work the latter part of February repairing the hurricane damage and up to the beginning of frost in the Fall of 1945 we had completed repairs to the roads, streets, shores, wharf and sea walls, drains, curbs and sidewalks with the exception of some cement or granolithic walks, of which there remain about 1,346 square yards to be rebuilt' at 95 different locations, after having rebuilt 1,156 square yards.
We also rebuilt 247 sq. yds. of brick sidewalk and set or reset 2,770 lineal feet of curbing.
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We expect to complete the repair of all hurricane damaged walks this coming season if sufficient funds are provided for that purpose.
RUBBISH COLLECTION
This is becoming an increasingly difficult and expen- sive operation due to constantly increasing amount of all kinds of rubbish and abandoned articles, new families moving into town, making more trips necessary to our widely separated dumping places, and the age and inade- quacy of our only available equipment, and some action should be taken soon to make it possible for us to satis- factorily meet all the demands upon this service and keep the cost down to a reasonable figure.
Respectfully submitted,
ALFRED J. TRIPANIER, Superintendent
Post War Planning Committee
To the Citizens of the Town of Fairhaven:
In the report of this committee for 1944, five major projects were listed with estimates therefor. The extension of the Sconticut Neck Water System is the only one so far under way. Others quite as desirable were mentioned as having "blue prints in the making." Unfortunately they are still in the making. The committee have been unable to get action thereon, awaiting which further meetings were pointless, therefore none have been held in 1945.
Some of these suggested plans were for a long future. Others of more immediate necessity for the growth of the town demand action and must soon emerge from the chrysalis stage.
VICTOR O. B. SLATER,
Chairman
MABEL L. POTTER,
Secretary
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State Audit
Mr. Theodore N. Waddell Director of Accounts Department of Corporations and Taxation State House, Boston
Sir :
In accordance with your instructions, I have made an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Fairhaven for the period from November 3, 1944, the date of the previ- ous examination, to October 20, 1945, and submit the fol- lowing report thereon:
The records of financial transactions of the several departments receiving or disbursing money for the town or committing bills for collection were examined and recon- ciled with the books and records of the accounting officer.
The accounting officer's ledger was analyzed, the re- corded receipts being checked with the treasurer's books and the payments being compared with the warrants authorizing them and with the treasurer's records of pay-
ments. The appropriations, loan authorizations, and trans- fers were checked with the amounts voted by the town meetings as shown by the records of the town clerk and with the finance committee's records of the transfers from the reserve fund, and a balance sheet which is appended to this report, was prepared showing the financial condition of the town on October 20, 1945.
The books and accounts of the town treasurer were examined and checked. The receipts, as recorded, were analyzed and checked with the records of the several de- partments collecting money for the town and with other sources from which money was paid into the town treasury, while the payments were compared with the selectmen's warrants authorizing the treasurer to disburse town funds. The cash balance on October 20, 1945 was verified by actual count of the cash in the office and by reconciliation of the bank balance with a statement furnished by the bank of deposit.
The reported payments on account of debt and interest were compared with the amounts falling due and with the cancelled securities on file.
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The savings bank books and securities representing the investments of the trust, retirement, and investment funds in the custody of the town treasurer were examined and listd. The transfers to the town were verified, the income was proved, and the other reported transactions were found to be correct.
The income from the Henry H. Rogers High School Fund, as recorded by the town treasurer, was compared with a statement furnished by the City Bank Farmers Trust Company of New York, Trustees.
The records of tax titles held by the town were exam- ined and checked. The amounts added to the tax title ac- count were compared with the collector's records, the tax titles redeemed were checked with the receipts as recorded on the treasurer's cash book, the foreclosures and disclaim- ers were verified, and the tax titles on hand were listed, reconciled with the accounting officer's ledger, and checked with the records in the Registry of Deeds
The books and accounts of the town collector were ex- amined and checked. The poll, personal property, real es- tate, and motor vehicle excise taxes, as well as departmental and water accounts outstanding according to the previous examination were audited, and all subsequent commitments were checked and proved. The payments to the treasurer were checked to the treasurer's cash book, the recorded abatements were compared with the records of abatements granted, and the outstanding accounts were listed and recon- ciled with the respective controlling accounts in the ac- counting officer's ledger.
Verification of the correctness of the outstanding tax, departmental, and water accounts was made by sending notices to a number of persons whose names appeared on the books and records as owing money to the town, the replies received thereto indicating that the accounts, as listed are correct.
The town clerk's records of licenses and permits issued were examined and checked in detail, the recorded pay- ments to the treasurer being verified by comparison with the treasurer's and the accounting officer's books.
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The records of dog and sporting licenses were also ex- amined, the payments to the State being verified by com- parison with the receipts on file and the payments to the town treasurer being checked to the treasurer's cash book.
The surety bonds furnished by the several town offi- cials for the faithful performance of their duties were examined and found to be in proper form.
The records of departmental cash collections by the selectmen, the sealer of weights and measures, and the building inspector, as well as by the police, fire, health, sewer, and school departments, and of all other departments in which money was collected for the town, were examined and checked. The payments to the town treasurer were verified, and the cash on hand in the several departments was proved by actual count.
There are appended to this report, in addition to the balance sheet, tables showing a reconciliation of the treas- urer's and the collector's cash, summaries of the tax, tax title, departmental, and water accounts, together with tables showing the condition and transactions of the trust, retirement, and investment funds.
While engaged in making the audit, co-operation was received from all the officials of the town, for which, on behalf of my assistants and for myself, I wish to express appreciation.
Respectfully submitted, HERMAN B. DINE, Assistant Director of Accounts.
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Town Clerk's Report
BIRTHS RECORDED IN FAIRHAVEN-1945
Date
Name of Child
Jan. 2
Joanne Marie Dillingham
2
Diane Elizabeth Troiano
4 Warren Greenleaf Pierce
4 Mary Ann Lacerda
6 John Dennis Silva
9 Beatrice Pauline Andrade
10
Stillborn
14
Brian Aase
14
William James Morris 3rd
15
Hannah Story Sistare
17 Wayne Perks
18
Charles Kenneth Bettencourt
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