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$305,624.74 3,465.54
$309,090.28
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DEBT ACCOUNTS
Inside Debt Limit :
Elementary School McCarthy $65,000.00
Elementary School - Under Construction
240,000.00
West Fire Station - Under Construction
60,000.00
Betterment Notes - Surface Drainage ....
5,000.00
$370,000.00
Outside Debt Limit:
Elementary School - McCarthy
$150,000.00
Elementary School - Under Construction
600,000.00
Blanchard Auditorium
20,000.00
$770,000.00
$1,140,000.00
TRUST ACCOUNTS
In Custody of Town Treasurer:
Charity Funds :
Elizabeth M. White
$26,718.89
Georgia E. Whitney
14,137.28
Betsy M. Ball
12,449.77
Cemetery Funds :
Henry S. Raymond - Monument
938.90
Henry S. Raymond - Care
2,360.70
Hoitt and Scott
625.67
J. Roland Wetherbee
11,320.60
Perpetual Care
82,750.36
Surplus
241.07
Luke Blanchard
1,627.30
Frank C. Hayward
1,264.25
Georgia E. Whitney
1,742.70
Susan Noyes Hosmer
90,289.99
Dr. Robert I. Davis
1,052.44
Frank R. Knowlton
1,033.24
George T. Ames
465.49
Mrs. Harry O'Neil
372.39
Sarah A. Watson
2,513.54
Library Funds :
Charlotte Conant, School
1,708.93
Wilde Memorial
32,516.55
Firemen's Relief :
Acton Fund
7,948.26
West Acton Fund
914.37
Stabilization
10,632.05
$305,624.74
In Custody of Trustees:
Charlotte Goodnow Fund
3,465.54
$309,090.28
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SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS AND DISBURSEMENTS January 1, 1957 to December 31, 1957
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Appropriated or Available
Disbursed
Balance
Moderator
$75.00
$75.00
Finance Committee Expense
75.00
R
7.25
82.25
Selectmen's Salaries
1,200.00
1,160.00
$40.00
Selectmen's Expenses
500.00
496.48
3.52
Town Office
Clerk, Personnel Wages
R
17.70
10,817.70
Town Accountant - Salary
1,400.00
1,400.00
Town Accountant - Expenses
350.00
349.93
.07
Treasurer - Salary
1,400.00
1,400.00
Treasurer - Expenses
400.00
400.00
Town Collector - Salary
2,000.00
2,000.00
Town Collector - Expenses
850.00
847.46
2.54
Assessors - Salaries
4,600.00
4,600.00
Assessors - Expenses
400.00
357.57
42.43
Town Clerk - Salary
1,000.00
1,000.00
Town Clerk - Expenses
350.00
R
164.97
514.97
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Elections and Registrations
Salaries and Wages
R
405.78
1,905.78
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Elections and Registrations
Expenses
R
11.00
710.10
.90
Legal Services-Board of Select- men
500.00
500.00
Planning Board - Expenses
350.00
300.40
49.60
Planning Board - Service Fees ..
1,650.00
1,305.49
344.51
Planning Board - Guarantee De-
posits
B
75.50
A 80.25
C
140.00
102.25
33.00
A 80.25
Total General Government
$30,922.20
$30,325.38
$516.57
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
Buildings and Grounds, Wages .... Buildings and Grounds, Expenses Alterations and Furnishings, Town Hall
$3,280.00
$2,620.58
$659.42
4,730.00
4,200.68
529.32
1,800.00
713.90
1,086.10
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1,500.00
700.00
10,800.00
Alterations, Highway Dept. Build- ing
800.00
799.83
.17
. Total Buildings and Grounds $10,610.00
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY
Police, Salaries and Wages S $2,300.00 31,185.00
$31,704.55
$1,780.45
Police Dept., Expenses, including Cruiser Operation and Uni- forms S
700.00 5,315.00 43.01
6,058.01
Fire Dept., Salaries and Wages S
2,100.00
14,217.90
932.10
Fire Dept., Expenses
9,680.00
9,396.77
283.23
Fire Alarm System, Salaries and Wages
4,680.00
4,028.19
651.81
Fire Alarm System, Expenses ....
1,045.00
1,029.49
15.51
Fire Hydrant Rental
10,900.00
10,850.00
50.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Salary
250.00
250.00
R
50.00
99,22
.78
Moth Dept., Expenses, including Poison Ivy
2,000.00
1,811.02
188.98
Dutch Elm Disease Control,
S
300.00
1,440.90
359.10
Town Forest, Maintenance
R
2.00
102.00
Shade Tree Replacement
250.00
248.25
1.75
Tree Warden, Wages
2,225.00
D
68.25
2,278.85
14.40
Tree Warden, Expenses
D
38.00
1,236.81
1.19
Wire Inspector, Salary and Travel
750.00
750.00
Wire Inspector, Expenses
100.00
86.15
13.85
Building Inspector, Wages and Travel
2,950.00
2,273.00
677.00
Building Inspector, Expenses
100.00
53.70
46.30
Dog Officer
350.00
348.50
1.50
Building Committee, Expenses
...
500.00
240.75
259.25
Fire Alarm System Extension,
3,300.00
3,280.00
20.00
Dump Water Extension S
1,500.00
1,497.40
2.60
Water Service Extension to Dump
200.00
123.50
76.50
Radio and Fire Alarm Transmitter
1,100.00
697.51
402.49
West Fire House, Land
14,800.00
14,800.00
West Fire House, Construction I
60,000.00
D 106.25
15,000.00
12,738.09
62,155.66
Moth Dept., Chapter 666, Wages
1,125.00
1,111.10
13.90
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Expenses
50.00
Chapter 761
1,500.00
100.00
1,200.00
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$8,334.99
$2,275.01
R
13,050.00
Lake Nagog Hydrant
16.86
Tree and Moth Dept. Truck
500.00 3,500.00
483.14 3,317.39
182.61
D 106.25
Total Protection of Persons and
Property
$194,806.26 $126,552.19
$68,147.82
HEALTH AND SANITATION
Board of Health, Salaries
$275.00
$275.00
Board of Health, Expenses
950.00
932.24
$17.76
Board of Health, Secretary Salary
2,645.00
2,535.00
110.00
Town and School Nurse, Salary ..
3,640.00
3,510.00
130.00
Town and School Nurse, Expenses
960.00
960.00
Assistant Nurse, Wages
800.00
360.00
440.00
Agent and Assistant Agent, Wages
2,000.00 366.00
2,356.50
9.50
Agent and
Assistant
Agent,
Expenses
R
200.00
588.85
111.15
Inspector, Milk and Food
300.00
300.00
Town Dump, Custodian Wages
3,888.00
3,876.00
12.00
Town Dump, Assistant Custodian Wages
648.00
504.00
144.00
Town Dump, Expenses
1,200.00
1,199.94
.06
Sanitorium and Hospital Bills
2,000.00
Medical Supplies
150.00
146.37
3,63
School Clinic
1,600.00
1,064.37
535.63
Garbage Collection
8,400.00
8,400.00
Inspector of Animals, Salary
150.00
150.00
Inspector of Animals, Expenses
30.00
29.75
.25
Plumbing Inspector, Wages
1,000.00
906.50
93.50
Mosquito Control Spraying
2,700.00
1,660.00
1,040.00
Total Health and Sanitation
$34,573.40
$31,925.92
$2,647.48
HIGHWAYS
Village Highways
$5,500.00
$5,499.68
$.32
Drainage
B
3,401.19
8,700.83
.36
Chapter 81, Highways
G
15,950.00
24,649.97
.03
Chapter 90, Highways,
Maintenance
2,000.00
G
3,000.00
4,999.01
.99
Snow Removal
S
2,500.00
Traffic Signs, Lines
1,000.00
999.67
.33
Vacations and Holidays
1,690.00
R
20.00
1,710.00
Street Lighting
7,300.00
7,152.99
147.01
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30,000.00
23,841.46
8,658.54
5,300.00
8,700.00
R
171.40
2,171.40
R
500.00
Chapter 90, Highways, Construction G 30,000.00
30,000.00
School Street Construuction G
10,444.95
2,676.13
7,768.82
Road Machinery
7,925.00
7,924.16
.84
Brook at Homestead Street B
1,582.42
14,000.00
9,791.45
5,790.97
Sidewalks, South Acton
6,000.00
6,000.00
Signs, Changed Street Names
100.00
99.94
.06
Total Highways
$156,413.56
$98,045.29
$58,368.27
CHARITIES
Welfare District Administration
$2,400.00
$2,400.00 275.00
-
General Relief and Disability
5,000.00
4,994.43
$5.57
Federal Funds .... B
2,936.66
2,716.23
2,119.97
Old Age Assistance
Federal Funds .... B
23,979.77
G
28,621.97
L
901.79
40,553.79
12,949.74
Aid to Dependent Children
6,500.00
6,500.00
Federal Funds .... B
912.45
G
7,159.44
7,099.89
972.00
Public Welfare, Article 25
2,304.69
2,304.69
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VETERANS' AID
Veterans' Benefits
Agent's Salary
$200.00
$200.00
Veterans' Benefits,
Agent's Expense
250.00
215.56
$34.44
Veterans' Benefits,
Expenditures
10,500.00
9,310.87
1,189.13
Veterans' Services
600.00
600.00
-
Total Veterans' Aid
$11,550.00
$10,326.43
$1,223.57
EDUCATION
Instruction
Local
$131,047.00
$127,698.42
$3,348.58
Regional
109,995.84
109,995.84
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Textbooks and Supplies
Local
5,264.00
5,260.59
3.41
Regional
5,969.52
5,969.52
Plant Operation
Local
23,530.00
23,001.70
528.30
Regional
16,453.72
16,453.72
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Total Charities
$113,891.31
$97,844.03
$16,047.28
Welfare Board, Salaries G
275.00
Assistance
G
1,899.54
31,000.00
31,000.00
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Blanchard Auditorium
10,500.00
8,188.71
2,311.29
Maintenance
Local
3,375.00
3,293.44
81.56
Regional
439.00
439.00
-
Auxiliary Agencies
Local
12,125.00
12,123.54
1.46
Regional
16,721.92
16,721.92
-
General Control
Local
6,575.00
6,550.14
24.86
Regional
5,850.16
5,850.16
-
Outlay
Local
1,500.00
1,450.48
49.52
Regional
175.60
175.60
Contingency Fund
Local
400.00
400.00
Regional
175.60
175.60
Cafeteria
B
1,980.47
21,993.22
3,099.12
Athletics
B
623.75
623.74
.01
Vocational Tuition and Transpor- tation
2,500.00
1,713.79
786.21
Blanchard Auditorium, Construction
B
3,624.29
3,073.00
551.29
Blanchard Auditorium Floor
7,780.00
7,780.00
Elementary School:
Committee for Addition
B
$3,114.90
S
7,500.00
$5,785.00
$4,829.90
Construction
10,000.00
I
840,000.00
65,089.74
784,910.26
Center School Cesspool
B
1,000.00
1,000.00
Total Education
$1,252,061.97
$449,806.87
$802,255.10
LIBRARIES
Libraries, Salaries and Wages
..
$4,000.00
$3,701.11
$298.89
Libraries, Expenses
R
24.10
1,123.11
.99
Books
B
3.18
660.00
T
900.00
1,454.16
109.02
Chairs and Rack
250.00
247.00
3.00
Lighting Fixtures
2,000.00
1,975.00
25.00
Total Libraries
$8,937.28
$8,500.38
$436.90
RECREATION
Playgrounds, Wages
$1,000.00
$685.00
$315.00
Playgrounds, Expense
500.00
492.96
7.04
Total Recreation
$1,500.00
$1,177.96
$322.04
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C
23,111.87
729.33
729.33
Elementary School, McCarthy .. B
1,100.00
CEMETERIES
Cemetery Department
Salaries and Wages
$12,350.00
$12,216.75
$133.25
Cemetery Department, Expenses
2,500.00
2,476.63
23.37 500.00
Mount Hope Oiling B
500.00
-
Woodlawn Clearing and Grading B
68.50
68.50
-
T
500.00
532.70
22,23
Hosmer Fund
B
34.61
2,000.00
1,492.73
541.88
Blanchard Fund
T
50.00
41.00
9.00
Wetherbee Fund
B
217.53
63.64
153.89
Raymond Fund
B
37.27
26.39
10.88
Whitney Fund
B
1.22
T
50.00
42.98
8.24
Knowlton Fund
T
25.00
8.00
17.00
Davis Fund
T
25.00
15.70
9.30
Total Cemeteries
$18,414.06
$16,985.02
$1,429.04
OTHER CLASSIFIED EXPENSES
Town Reports
$1,828.05
$1,828.05
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Workmen's Compensation
R
398.98
3,098.98
Surety Bonds
675.00
660.00
$15.00
Archives Committee, Expenses
500.00
500.00
Fire Insurance, Town Buildings
1,810.00
1,801.40
8.60
Memorial Day
600.00
598.15
1.85
Pension Fund
4,439.95
4,439.95
Pension Fund Expense
226.30
226.30
Military Service Fund
33.72
33.72
Board of Appeals, Expenses
50.00
50.00
Board of Appeals,
Guarantee Deposits
B
42.25
15.75
71.50
Miscellaneous
1,500.00
425.48
1,074.52
Officer and Employee Insurance .. R
144.87
1,344.87
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Boiler and Machinery Insurance ..
778.24
590.40
187.84
Water Safety
500.00
500.00
Surface Drainage
2,403.75
1,274.00
1,129.75
Faulkner Dam
1,000.00
568.81
431.19
Civil Defense
B
114.80
R
250.00
134.41
230.39
Civil Defense, Power Unit
300.00
300.00
1956 Unpaid Bills
10,296.44
10,287.90
8.54
Stabilization Fund
B
5,000.00
5,000.00
10,000.00
-
Total Other Classified Expenses ..
$42,462.35
$37,828.17
$4,634.18
-
Civil Defense, Gonset Rigs
625.00
625.00
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Perpetual Care
B
54.93
T
2,700.00
C
45.00
1,200.00
AMORTIZATION OF DEBT AND INTEREST REQUIREMENTS
Elementary and High Schools
Maturing Debt
Interest
$16,000.00 4,615.00
$16,000.00 4,615.00
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Blanchard Auditorium Maturing Debt
20,000.00
20,000.00
Interest
800.00
800.00
-
Regional School
Maturing Debt
15,200.00
15,200.00
Interest
41,367.75
41,367.75
Surface Drainage
Mohawk and Seneca
Maturing Debt
5,000.00
5,000.00
Interest
175.00
175.00
Anticipation of Revenue Notes
Interest
500.00
457.65
42.35
Total Amortization of Debt and
Interest Requirement
$103,657.75
$103,615.40
$42.35
Total of all Departmental Items .. $1,979,800.14
$958,345.61
Transfers A and D
$186.50
Cash Disbursed
$1,021,268.03
AGENCY AND TRUST
Agency :
State Audit of
Municipal Accounts
$1,743.79
State Parks and Reservations
1,418.92
Middlesex County Tax
14,931.99
Middlesex County Hospital Assessment
4,830.72
Middlesex County Dog Licenses
1,651.65
Flood Emergency August 1955
2,970.46
Westford Tuition Payment to Regional District
181.50
Trust:
Charity
1,668.00
Cemeteries
5,837.88
Firemen's Relief Fund
270.00
Trust Fund Income
8,096.83
Certification Fees for Fire Station Notes
60.00
Anticipation of Revenue Notes
50,000.00
Guarantee Deposits Released
1,000.00
Withholding Taxes
43,299.00
Massachusetts Hospital Service
3,945.25
Middlesex County Retirement Association
5,792.03
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Massachusetts Teachers Retire- ment Fund
6,601.07
Acton Teachers Insurance
538.30
Refunds: Board of Health, Septic Tank Permit
25.00
Taxes
4,390.40
Building Permits
40.00
Total Agency and Trust
$159,292.79
Grand Total of all Cash Dis-
bursements
$1,180,560.82
Treasurer's Report - Paid
Selectmen's Orders for 1957
$1,181,127.39
Less - Checks Canceled
566.57
Net Payments - as above
$1,180,560.82
Key to alphabetical designations:
A - Audit adjustment
B - Balance from previous year
C- Cash receipts
D - Inter-departmental transfers
G- Grants from State, County, Federal Funds
I - Proceeds of Bond and Note issues
L - Lien recoveries from Welfare cases
R - Reserve Fund transfers
S- Appropriations of October 1, 1956 Special Town Meeting restricted to disbursement after January 1, 1957
T- Trust Fund transfers
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STATE AUDITOR'S REPORT
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTS
February 19, 1957
To the Board of Selectmen Mr. Leo C. Cunningham, Chairman Acton, Massachusetts
Gentlemen :
I submit herewith my report of an audit of the books and accounts of the Town of Acton for the period from December 18, 1955 to December 6, 1956, made in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44, General Laws. This is in the form of a report made to me by Mr. William Schwartz, Assistant Director of Accounts.
Very truly yours,
HERMAN B. DINE, Director of Accounts.
HBD:VRO
Mr. Herman B. Dine Director of Accounts Department of Corporations and Taxation
State House, Boston
Sir:
In accordance with your instructions, I have made an audit of books and accounts of the Town of Acton for the period from December 18, 1955, the date of the previous examina- tion, to December 6, 1956, and submit the following report thereon :
The financial transactions as recorded on the books of the several departments collecting or disbursing money for the Town or committing bills for collection were examined, checked, and verified.
The books and accounts of the Town Accountant were examined. The ledger accounts were analyzed; the receipts as recorded were checked with the Treasurer's record of
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receipts; the payments were compared with the Treasury warrants approved by the Board of Selectmen; and the appropriation accounts were checked with the appropriations, transfers, and loan authorizations voted by the Town as listed from the Town Clerk's record of Town Meetings. The departmental accounts receivable as recorded were checked with the records of the several departments committing the bills and with the Treasurer's books; the transfers from the reserve fund were compared with the amounts authorized by the Finance Committee; and a balance sheet, which is ap- pended to this report, was prepared showing the financial condition of the Town on December 6, 1956.
The books and accounts of the Town Treasurer were exam- ined. The recorded receipts were analyzed and checked with the records of the departments making payments to the Treas- urer and with other sources from which money was paid into the Town Treasury. The expenditures were compared with the Treasury Warrants approved by the Board of Selectmen, and the cash balance on December 6, 1956 was proved by reconciliation of the bank balances with statements furnished by the banks of deposit and by actual count of the cash in the office.
The payments on account of maturing debt and interest were proved by comparison with the amounts falling due and with the cancelled securities and coupons on file.
The savings bank books and securities representing the investment of the trust and investment funds in the custody of the Town Treasurer and the Trustees of the Charlotte L. Goodnow Fund were examined and listed, the income being proved and the payments to the Town being verified.
The payroll deductions for Federal taxes, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and the Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement and County Retirement Systems were listed and checked with the Treasurer's record of receipts; the payments to the Director of Internal Revenue, the Massachusetts Hospital Service, Inc., the Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement Board, and the County Treasurer were verified; and the balances in the General Treasury on December 6, 1956 were listed and proved with the Accountant's ledger.
The records of tax titles held by the Town were examined. The tax title register was analyzed and checked with the Collector's and Treasurer's accounts, and with the Town Accountant's ledger control.
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The books and accounts of the Town Collector were examined and checked. The tax, motor vehicle and trailer excise, assessment, and departmental accounts outstanding according to the previous examination, as well as all sub- sequent commitments, were audited and proved. The re- corded collections were checked; the abatements were com- pared with the Assessors' and other departmental records of abatements granted; the payments to the Treasurer were verified; the outstanding accounts were listed and proved with the Accountant's ledger; and the Town Collector's cash balance on December 6, 1956 was proved by reconciliation of the bank balance with a statement furnished by the bank of deposit and by actual count of the cash in office.
The outstanding accounts were further verified by mailing notices to a number of persons whose names appeared on the books as owing money to the Town, and from the replies received it appears that the accounts, as listed, are correct.
The Town Clerk's records of dog and sporting licenses issued were examined and checked, the payments to the State being verified by comparison with the receipts on file and the payments to the Town Treasurer being com- pared with the Treasurer's cash book.
The records of licenses and permits issued by the Select- men were examined and checked, the payments to the Treasurer being verified.
The surety bonds of the Town officials bonded for the faithful performance of their duties were examined and found to be in proper form.
The records of receipts of the Sealer of Weights and Measures and of the Police, Fire, Health, School, and Cemetery departments, as well as of all other departments collecting money for the Town or committing bills for col- lection, were examined and checked with the Treasurer's cash receipts and with the records of the Town Accountant.
Appended to this report, in addition to the balance sheet, are tables showing reconciliations of the Treasurer's and the Town Collector's cash, summaries of the tax, excise, street betterment assessment, tax title, and departmental accounts, as well as schedules showing the condition and transactions of the trust and investment funds.
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For the cooperation received from all Town officials during the progress of the audit, I wish, on behalf of my assistants and for myself, to express appreciation.
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM SCHWARTZ, Assistant Director of Accounts.
WS:VRO
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TOWN OF ACTON GENERAL ACCOUNTS ASSETS
Cash:
General
$284,231.99
Advances for Petty:
School General
$20.00
School Lunch
50.00
$70.00
Accounts Receivable :
Taxes:
Levy of 1951
Personal Property
$170.25
Levy of 1952
Personal Property
365.05
Levy of 1953
Personal Property
412.35
Real Estate
45.18
Levy of 1954
Personal Property
1,337.30
Real Estate
408.61
Levy of 1955
Personal Property
1,948.40
Real Estate
7,615.29
Levy of 1956
Poll
148.00
Personal Property
3,703.62
Real Estate
37,471.34
$53,625.39
Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise:
Levy of 1954
$74.16
Levy of 1955
1,095.90
Levy of 1956
13,730.17
$14,900.23
Special Assessments:
Unapportioned Street Betterment
11,286.06
Tax Titles and Possessions:
Tax Titles
$491.50
Tax Possessions
400.19
$891.69
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BALANCE SHEET - DECEMBER 6, 1956
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Payroll Deductions:
County Retirement System
$421.84
Blue Cross and Blue Shield
234.40
$656.24
Guarantee Deposits:
Contract Bids
$350.00
Board of Appeals
47.25
Planning Board
77.00
$474.25
Dog Licenses - Due County
$21.60
Tailings - Unclaimed Checks
$111.63
Trust and Investment Funds Principal : Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
$17.50
Stabilization Fund
5,000.00
$5,017.50
Trust Fund Income:
Cemetery Funds:
Perpetual Care
$78.33
J. Roland Wetherbee
243.64
Georgia E. Whitney
1.22
Susan Noyes Hosmer
319.16
$642.35
Federal Grants:
Disability Assistance:
Administration
$19.69
Assistance
2,760.66
Aid to Dependent Children:
Administration
196.61
Aid
212.70
Old Age Assistance:
Administration
145.75
Assistance
22,846.68
Old Age Assistance Recoveries
$26,182.09 $3,934.43
Revolving Funds:
School Lunch
$1,568.51
School Athletics
769.27
$2,337.78
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Departmental:
Dog Officer
$195.00
Highway
90.00
Disability Assistance
165.56
Aid to Dependent Children
1,244.39
Old Age Assistance
583.92
Cemetery
289.00
$2,567.87
Aid to Highways:
State
$27,201.26
County
5,390.58
$32,591.84
Unprovided For or Overdrawn Accounts:
Revenue 1957 (Appropriations Voted October 1, 1956)
$20,200.00
Overdrawn Account - Section 31, Chapter 44, G. L .:
Flood Damage
$5,326.22
Underestimates 1956:
State Parks Assessment
$432.42
County Tax
553.32
$985.74
Due From Trust Funds:
Elizabeth White Charity Fund
$735.00
Henry L. Raymond Cemetery Care Fund
12.73
$747.73
$427,424.76
DEBT ACCOUNTS
Net Funded or Fixed Debt: Inside Debt Limit: General
$81,000.00
Outside Debt Limit:
General
200,000.00
$281,000.00
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Appropriation Balances: Revenue $103,446.24
Non-Revenue : Elementary School Construction .... 729.33
$104,175.57
Overestimate 1956:
County Hospital Assessment
$612.37
Sale of Cemetery Lots Fund
$2,610.35
Receipts Reserved for Appropriations: Road Machinery Fund
$13,523.93
Reserve Fund - Overlay Surplus
8,490.81
Overlays Reserved for Abatements:
Levy of 1951
$170.25
Levy of 1952
365.05
Levy of 1953
457.53
Levy of 1954
1,745.91
Levy of 1955
5,757.66
Levy of 1956
8,371.88
$16,868.28
Revenue Reserved Until Collected:
Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise
$14,900.23
Special Assessment
11,286.06
Tax Title and Possession
891.69
Departmental
2,567.87
Aid to Highway
32,591.84
$62,237.69
Reserve for Petty Cash Advance
$70.00
Surplus Revenue :
Current Year
$60,060.01
$179,457.89
Prior Years
119,397.88
$427,424.76
Serial Loans:
Inside Debt Limit:
High School
$1,000.00
Elementary School
70,000.00
Surface Drainage
10,000.00
$81,000.00
Outside Debt Limit:
Elementary School $160,000.00
Blanchard Auditorium 40,000.00
$200,000.00
$281,000.00
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TRUST AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS
Trust and Investment Funds:
Cash and Securities: In Custody of Town Treasurer In Custody of Trustees
$286,973.13 3,524.50
$290,497.63
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In Custody of Town Treasurer:
Charity Funds:
Betsy M. Ball
$12,046.59
Elizabeth White
27,820.57
Georgia E. Whitney
14,826.36
Charlotte Conant School Fund
1,666.61
Wilde Memorial Library Fund
32,470.53
Acton Firemen's Relief Fund
7,444.02
West Acton Firemen's Relief Fund
886.47
Cemetery Funds:
Perpetual Care
78,134.48
Surplus
234.00
Hoit and Scott
609.85
J. Roland Wetherbee
10,989.51
Georgia E. Whitney
1,739.57
Luke Blanchard
1,627.60
Frank C. Haywood
1,227.36
Susan Noyes Hosmer
89,480.05
Henry L. Raymond Care
2,339.57
Henry L. Raymond Monument
910.30
Dr. Robert I. Davis
1,041.24
Frank R. Knowlton
1,027.65
Stabilization Fund
450.80
$286,973.13
In Custody of Trustees:
Charlotte L. Goodnow Fund
3,524.50
$290,497.63
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A SPECIAL REPORT ON THE ACTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY
The Acton Memorial Library in Acton Centre, adjacent to our Town Hall, stands not only as a memorial to the past, but it also strives to provide courteous and efficient service to its modern patrons. Anyone who visits the library can see for himself the blending of old and new, of past and present.
In a Town with many historical memories, the library is an institution which plays an important part in preserving these colorful traditions. Here can be found the silver shoe buckles and sword worn by Captain Isaac Davis on April 19, 1775, or James Hayward's powder-horn through which a fatal bullet passed into his body during the Revolu- tion.
Alongside these exhibits from history can be seen such modern best sellers as Jean Kerr's Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, and James Cousin's By Love Possessed. The library supplies a number of cur- rent books in literature, biography, history, and science. It serves the elementary school child, the teen-ager, and the college student. The library serves also as a source of reference information - historical and otherwise.
Additional specimens from history include life-sized busts of Washington and Lincoln, and an oil painting of Captain Isaac Davis leaving with his company on April 19, 1775.
Above the fireplace in the reading room of the library appears this inscription, "This building a gift to his native town by William Allen Wilde." This makes clear the origin of the Acton Memorial Library. It was dedicated as a Memorial to the soldiers and sailors of the Civil War who fought for the Union and who were credited to this Town.
The architecture of the building is Romanesque in style. It was built under plans of Hartwell & Richardson and is of red brick, with finely carved sandstone trimmings. Within the low wide spreading arched entrance are two slate tablets. On these tablets are the names of the Acton men serving in the Civil War, those who returned and those who died in service.
The building was dedicated April 19, 1890. Mr. Wilde, the donor, was born in the Southeast part of Acton in 1827.
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