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$63,222.89
Receipts Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 108,284.11
$171,507.00
Payments Jan. 1 to
Dec. 6, 1944 $110,841.80
Balance Dec. 6. 1944 : Middleborough
Trust Company $60,359.35
Cash in office ver- ified 305.85
60,665.20
$171,507.00
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MIDDLEBOROUGH TRUST COMPANY
Balance Dec. 6, 1944,
per statement $62,265.16
Balance Dec. 6. 1944, per check book $60,359.35
Outstanding checks, Dec. 6,
1944, per list 1,905.81
$62,265.16
POLL TAXES - 1940
Outstanding Nov. 10, 1942
$6.00
Payments to treasurer Nov. 10 to Dec. 31, 1942 $4.00
Abatements Nov. 10 to Dec. 31, 1942 2.00
$6.00
PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXES - 1940
Outstanding Nov. 10, 1942 $1.60
Abatements Nov. 10, to Dec. 31, 1942 $1.60
POLL TAXES - 1941
Outstanding Nov. 10, 1942
$32.00
Payments to treasurer : Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$16.00
1943
2.00
Abatements :
$18.00
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$10.00
1943
4.00
14.00
$32.00
87
PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXES - 1941
Outstanding Nov. 10, 1942
$97.87
Payments to treasurer : Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$67.99
1943
28.85
$96.84
Abatements 1943
1.03
$97.87
REAL ESTATE TAXES - 1941
Outstanding Nov. 10, 1942
$1,605.71
Payments to treasurer :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$1,236.50
1943
293.60
$1,530.10
Abatements 1943
75.61
$1,605.71
POLL TAXES-1942
Outstanding Nov. 10, 1942 $188.00
Commitment Nov. 10 to
Dec. 31, 1942 8.00
$196.00
Payments to treasurer :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942 $52.00
1943
42.00
$94.00
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88
Abatements :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$72.00
1943
30.00
102.00
$196.00
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PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXES - 1942
Outstanding Nov. 10, 1942
$943.29
Commitment Nov. 10 to
Dec. 31, 1942 1.80
$945.09
Payments to treasurer :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$743.04
1943
202.05
$945.09
REAL ESTATE TAXES - 1942
Outstanding Nov. 10, 1942
$10,332.84
Commitment Nov. 10 to
Dec. 31, 1942 5.40
$10,338.24
Payments to treasurer :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$6,541.18
1943 3,659.32
$10,200.50
Transferred to tax titles
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31, 1942 10.62
Outstanidng Dec. 31, 1943 127.18
$10,338.24
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Outstanding Jan. 1, 1944
$127.12
Payments to treasurer Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 $114.79
Abatements Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 11.79
Transferred to tax titles Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 .54
$127.12
POLL TAXES - 1943
Commitment per warrants
$1,060.00
Payments to treasurer
$884.00
Abatements
160.00
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1943
16.00
$1,060.00
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1944
$16.00
Payments to treasurer Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 $8.00
Abatements Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944
8.00
$16.00
PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXES - 1943
Commitment per warrant
$5,691.84
Payments to treasurer
$5,448.19
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1943 243.65
$5,691.84
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1944
$243.65
Payments to treasurer Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 $243.65
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90
REAL ESTATE TAXES - 1943
Commitment per warrant
$66,540.98
Payments to treasurer
$62,397.48
Abatements
11.99
Transferred to tax titles
12.98
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1943
4,118.53
-
$66,540.98
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1944
$4,118.53
Payments to treasurer Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944
$4,074.86
Abatements Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 42.68
Transferred to tax titles Jan. 1
to Dec. 6, 1944
.99
$4,118.53
POLL TAXES - 1944
Commitment Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944, per warrant $970.00
Payments to treasurer Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 $840.00
Abatements Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 130.00
$970.00
PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXES - 1944
Commitment Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944, per warrant $4,441.05
Payments to treasurer Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 $3,676.77
Outstanding Dec. 6, 1944, per list
764.28
$4,441.05
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REAL ESTATE TAXES - 1944
Commitment Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944, per warrant $55,316.43
Payments to treasurer Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 $48,375.99
Abatements Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 50.13
Transferred to tax titles Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 9.45
Outstanding Dec. 6, 1944, per list
6,880.86
$55,316.43
MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE TAXES -1941
Outstanding Nov. 10, 1942
$12.00
Payments to treasurer Nov. 10 to Dec. 31, 1942 $4.00
Abatements Nov. 10 to Dec. 31, 1942 8.00
$12.00
MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE TAXES - 1942
Outstanding Nov. 10, 1942
$99.70
Commitments :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$186.04
1943
30.01
216.05
Refunds :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$2.19
1943
8.45
10.64
$326.39
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Payments to treasurer : Nov. 10 to Dec. 31, 1942
$198.17
1943
68.51
$266.68
Abatements :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$17.84
1943
41.87
59.71
+
$326.39
MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE TAXES - 1943
Commitment per warrants
$2,750.75
Refunds
28.10
$2,778.85
Payments to treasurer
$2,676,83
Abatements
32.64
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1943
69.38
$2,778.85
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1944
$69.38
Commitment Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944
8.00
$77.38
Payments to treasurer Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944
$70.11
Abatements Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944
7.27
$77.38
MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE TAXES - 1944
Commitment Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944, per warrants $2,061.00
Refunds Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 5.02
$2,066.02
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Payments to treasurer Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 $2,023.97
Abatements Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 19.72
Outstanding Dec. 6, 1944, per list
22.33
$2,066.02
INTEREST AND COSTS ON TAXES
Collections Nov. 10 to Dec. 31, 1942 :
Taxes 1940
$1.07
Taxes 1941
57.18
Taxes 1942
52.54
$110.79
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes :
Levy of 1941
$.30
Levy of 1942
.40
.70
1943 :
Taxes 1941
$17.52
Taxes 1942
106.39
Taxes 1943
79.35
203.26
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes :
Levy of 1942
$.27
Levy of 1943
3.36
3.63
$318.38
Payments to treasurer : Nov. 10 to Dec. 31, 1942 1943
$111.49
206.89
$318.38
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Collections Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 :
Taxes 1942
$6.10
Taxes 1943
89.84
Taxes 1944
35.75
$131.69
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes :
Levy of 1943
$.75
Levy of 1944
2.48
¥
3.23
$134.92
Payments to treasurer Jan. 1
to Dec. 6, 1944
$134.92
TAX TITLES
Balance Nov. 10, 1942 $262.04
Transferred to tax titles :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31, 1942 : Taxes 1942 $10.62
1943:
Taxes 1943 12.98
23.60
$285.64
Tax Titles abated 1943 $46.53
Interest and costs on tax titles abated 3.99
$50.52
Balance Dec. 31, 1943
235.12
- $285.64
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Balance Jan. 1, 1944
$235.12
Transferred to tax titles Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 :
Taxes 1942
$.54
Taxes 1943
.99
Taxes 1944
9.45
Interset and costs
18.07
29.05
$264.17
Tax titles redeemed Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 $32.19
Balance Dec. 6, 1944, per list
231.98
$264.17
TOWN CLERK
Dog Licenses
Licenses issued :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31, 1942
$152.00
1943
477.00
$629.00
Payments to treasurer :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$141.60
1943
439.80
581.40
Fees retained :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$10.40
1943
37.20
47.60
$629.00
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Licenses issued Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 :
Males 113 @ $2.00
$226.00
Spayed females
23 @ 2.00
46.00
Females
24 @ 5.00
120.00
Kennel
1 @ 10.00
10.00
$402.00
Payments to treasurer Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 $369.80
Fees retained Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944
32.20
$402.00
Sporting Licenses
Cash in general treasury Nov. 10, 1942 $10.25
Licenses issued :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$52.50
1943
343.00
395.50
$405.75
Payments to Division of Fisheries and Game: Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$56.25
1943
308.25
$364.50
Fees retained :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$6.50
1943
34.75
41.25
$405.75
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Licenses issued Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 $377.75
Payments to Division of Fisheries
and Game Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 $326.50
Fees retained Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944
37.25
Cash in general treasury Dec. 6, 1944
14.00
$377.75
SELECTMEN'S RECEIPTS
Receipts 1943 :
Licenses and permits
$17.25
Sale of chairs
1.50
Sale of water pump
15.00
$33.75
Payments to treasurer 1943
$33.75
Receipts Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 :
Licenses and permits
$11.50
Rent of sanding machine
39.00
$50.50
Payments to treasurer Jan. 1
to Dec. 6, 1944
$50.50
TOWN CLERK
Miscellaneous Receipts
Receipts :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31, 1942 :
Marriage permits $10.00
Recording fees .50
Miscellaneous 5.50
$16.00
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1943 :
Gasoline renewals
$9.00
Marriage permits
20.00
Recording fees
12.50
Sale of town his-
tories 20.00
Miscellaneous
27.75
89.25
$105.25
Payments to treasurer :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31, 1942
$16.00
1943
89.25
$105.25
Receipts Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 :
Gasoline renewals
$4.00
Marriage permits
28.00
Recording fees
8.00
Sale of town histories
6.00
Miscellaneous
10.75
$56.75
Payments to treasurer Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944
$56.75
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Fees collected 1943
$13.58
Payments to treasurer 1943
$13.14
Cash balance Dec. 31, 1943
.44
$13.58
Cash balance Jan. 1, 1944
$.44
Fees collected Jan. 1 to Dec. 6,
1944
11.55
$11.99
Cash on hand Dec. 6, 1944,
verified $11.99
99
HEALTH DEPARTMENT Accounts Receivable
Outstanding Nov. 10, 1942
$723.46
Charges :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$277.61
1943
182.00
459.61
$1,183.07
Payments to treasurer 1943
$1,014.68
Abatements 1943
23.32
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1943
145.07
$1,183.07
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1944
$145.07
Charges Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944
173.82
$318.89
Outstanding Dec. 6, 1944, per list
$318.89
PUBLIC WELFARE DEPARTMENT
Temporary Aid-Accounts Receivable
Outstanding Nov. 10, 1942 $1,015.29
Charges :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$623.61
1943
2,363.45
2,987.06
$4,002.35
Payments to treasurer : Nov.10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$807.48
1943
2,550.21
$3,357.69
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1943
644.66
$4,002.35
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Outstanding Jan. 1, 1944
$644.66
Charges Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944
1,422.24
$2,066.90
Payments to treasurer Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 $1,670.80
Abatements Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944
188.29
Outstanding Dec. 6, 1944, per list
207.81
$2,066.90
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT Accounts Receivable
Charges 1943
$1,008.34
Payments to treasurer 1943
$821.90
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1943
186.44
$1,008.34
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1944
$186.44
Charges Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944
1,997.80
$2,184.24
Payments to treasurer Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944 $2,111.21
Abatements Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944
73.03
$2,184.24
LIBRARY FINES, ETC.
Cash balance Nov. 18, 1942
$.65
Fines :
Nov. 18 to Dec. 31,
1942
$.30
1943
5.61
5.91
$6.56
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Payments to treasurer :
Nov. 18 to Dec. 31, 1942
$.95
1943
5.61
$6.56
Fines Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944
$5.80
Payments to treasurer Jan. 1 to Dec. 6, 1944
$5.00
Cash on hand Dec. 6, 1944, verified
.80
$5.50
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BENJAMIN ELLIS SCHOOL FUND
In Custody of Trustees
Cash
Savings Securities Deposits Par Value
Total
On hand November 10, 1942 $208.48
$349.53
$2,000.00
$2,558.01
On hand at end of year 1942
$51.73
$349.53
$2,000.00
$2,401.26
On hand at end of year 1943
$58.11
$349.53
$2,000.00
$2,407.64
On hand December 6, 1944
$194.79
$349.53
$2,000.00
$2,544.32
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Receipts
Payments
November 10, 1942 to December 31, 1943
Income:
Transferred to town:
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$45.00
1942
$200.00
1943
181.98
1943
175.00
Cash on hand Nov. 10,
Administration expense:
1942
208.48
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942 1.75
1943 .60
Cash on hand Dec. 31, 1943 58.11
$435.46
$435.46
January 1 to December 6, 1944
Income
$136.98 Administration expense $.30
Cash on hand Jan. 1,
Cash on hand Dec. 6,
1944
58.11
1944
194.79
$195.09
$195.09
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E. TILLSON PRATT SCHOOL FUND
In Custody of Trustees
Savings Securities Deposits Par Value Total
On hand November 10, 1942
$3,939.82
$100.00
$4,039.82
On hand at end of year 1942
$3,939.82
$100.00
$4,039.82
On hand at end of year 1943
$3,939.82
$100.00 $4,039.82
On hand December 6, 1944
$3,939.82
$100.00
$4,039.82
Recepits
Payments
November 10, 1942 to December 31, 1943
Income:
Transferred to town:
1943
$78.78
1943
$48.78
Surety bond 1943
30.00
$78.78
$78.78
January 1 to December 6, 1944
Income
$78.78
Transferred to town
$48.78
Surety bond
30.00
$78.78
$78.78
McFARLIN PARKWAY FUND
In Custody of the Town Treasurer
Savings Deposits
Total
On hand November 10, 1942
$132.45
$132.45
On hand at end of year 1942
$135.10
$135.10
On hand at end of year 1943
$126.56
$126.56
On hand December 6, 1944
$128.45
$128.45
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Receipts
Payments
November 10, 1942 to December 31, 1943
Withdrawn from sav-
ings deposits 1943
$8.54
Added to savings deposits Nov. 10 to Dec. 31, 1942 $2.65
Income:
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
Transferred to town
1942
2.65
1943 11.25
1943
2.71
$13.90
$13.90
January 1 to December 6, 1944
Income
$1.89 Added to savings deposits $1.89
ROSA A. COLE LIBRARY FUND
In Custody of Town Treasurer
Savings Deposits
Total
On hand Nov. 10, 1942
$1,027.06
$1,027.06
On hand at end of year 1942
$1,027.06
$1,027.06
On hand at end of year 1943
$1,047.70
$1,047.70
On hand December 6, 1944
$1,068.75
$1,068.75
Receipts
Payments
November 10, 1942 to December 31, 1943
Income: 1943
Added to savings $20.64 deposits 1943
$20.64
January 1 to December 31, 1944
Income
$21.05
Added to savings deposits
$21.05
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MARY P. S. JOWITT LIBRARY FUND
In Custody of Town Treasurer
Savings
Deposits
Total
On hand November 10, 1942
$121.28
$121.28
On hand at end of year 1942
$122.49
$122.49
On hand at end of year 1943
$124.94
$124.94
On hand December 6, 1944
$126.80
$126.80
Receipts
Payments
November 10, 1942 to December 31, 1943
Income:
Added to savings deposits :
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$1.21
1942
$1.21
1943
2.45
1943
2.45
$3.66
$3.66
January 1 to December 6, 1944
Income
$1.86
Added to savings deposits
$1.86
CEMETERY PERPETUAL CARE FUNDS
In Custody of Town Treasurer
Cash
Savings
Deposits
Total
On hand November 10, 1942
$110.00
$22,017.95
$22,127.95
On hand at end of year 1942
$22,345.93
$22,345.93
On hand at end of year 1943.
$22,788.55
$22,788.55
On hand December 6, 1944
$23,340.36
$23,340.36
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Receipts
Payments November 10, 1942 to December 31, 1943
Income:
Added to savings deposits:
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
$491.59
1942
$327.98
1943
446.01
1943
442.62
Bequests:
Transferred to town: Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31,
1942
50.00
1942
343.61
1943
200.00
1943
258.39
Sale of lots and graves:
Nov. 10 to Dec. 31, 1942
20.00
1943
55.00
Cash in general treasury
Nov. 10, 1942
110.00
$1,372.60
$1,372.60
January 1 to December 6, 1944
Income
$416.94
Added to savings
Bequests
200.00
deposits
$551.81
Sale of lots and graves
145.00
Transferred to town
210.13
$761.94
$761.94
POST-WAR REHABILITATION FUND
Securities
Cash
Par Value
Total
On hand at bgeinning of year 1944
On hand December 6, 1944
$125.00
$10,000.00
$10,125.00
Receipts
Payments
January 1 to December 6, 1944
Town appropriation
$10,000.00
Income
125.00
Securities purchased $10,000.00 Cash in general treas- ury Dec. 6, 1944 125.00
$10,125.00
$10,125.00
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TOWN OF CARVER Balance Sheet - December 6, 1944 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Cash:
In Bank and Office
$60,665.20
Proceeds of Sporting Licenses- Due State
$14.00
Accounts Receivable: Taxes:
Reimbursement on Health Case Tailings
134.51
Levy of 1944: Personal Property
$764.28
Real Estate
6,880.86
E. Tillson Pratt School Fund 43.40
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Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes : Levy of 1944
22.33
Tax Titles
231.98
Departmental: Health $318.89
$77.34
Public Welfare-Temporary Aid 207.81
Aid to Dependent Children: Aid
$96.73
Aid to Highways:
State
3,659.26 775.85
4,435.11
Estimated Receipts to be Collected
4,433.13
Post-War Rehabilitation Fund-Income for In- vestment 125.00
188.27
County
526.70
Administration 14.20
110.93
Federal Grants: Old Age Assistance : $61.71 Assistance Administration 15.63
49.52
7,645.14
Trust Fund Income: Benjamin Ellis School Fund $6.12
12.90
Overdrawn Accounts : Fire Storm Damage
1,109.01 811.81
1,920.82
Unexpended Balances Reserve Fund-Overlay Surplus Overlay Reserved for Abatement of Taxes Levy of 1944
2,643.94
Revenue Reserveed Until Collected:
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
$22.33
Tax Title 231.98
Departmental 526.70
Aid to Highways
4,435.11
5,216.12
Revenue 1944
104.00
Surplus Revenue
42,476.48
$79,880.41
$79,880.41
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TRUST AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS
Trust and Investment Funds, Cash and Securities: In Custody of Trustees In Custody of Town Treasureer
Benjamin Ellis School Fund
$2,544.32
E. Tillson Pratt School Fund
4,039.82
$6,584.14
34,664.36
McFarlin Parkway Fund
128.45
Rosa A. Cole Library Fund
1,068.75
Mary P. S. Jowitt Library Fund 126.00
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
23,340.36
Post-War Rehabilitation Fund
10,000.00
34,664.36
$41,248.50
$41,248.50
23,388.65 5,527.02
$6,584.14
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TOWN WARRANT
AND REPORT OF
FINANCE COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN of CARVER
MASSACHUSETTS
Annual Town Meeting, March 5, 1945 at 12:00 Noon
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TOWN WARRANT AND REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE
Plymouth, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Carver, Plymouth County, Greetings :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the Inhabitants of the Town of Carver qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs to meet at the Town Hall in said Carver on Monday, the fifth day of March 1945 at twelve o'clock noon, then and there to act on the following article, namely :
Article 1. To choose all necessary town officers, the following officers to be voted for all on one ballot, viz :- Moderator, Treasurer, Town Clerk, Collector of Taxes, Three Auditors, Three Constables, Three Herring Com- mitteemen, One Tree Warden, and One Highway Sur- veyor, each for one year. One Assessor, One Selectman, One School Committeeman, One Cemetery Commissioner, One Park Commissioner, One Member of Public Welfare and Two Library Trustees, each for Three Years.
The polls will be open for at least seven hours.
And you are directed to further notify said Inhabitants of said Town that as soon as the ballots have been counted the meeting will adjourn to Tuesday, March 6, 1945, at nine o'clock A. M. and at that time will reconvene at said Town Hall in said Carver, then and there to act on the following articles, namely :
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen,
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to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1945, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 2. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 3. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to defray town charges for the ensuing year.
Article 3. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate
a sum of money not to exceed eight hundred dollars ($800.00) from the free cash in the town treasury for the sole purpose of meeting charges against the cemetery funds in the town treasury.
Article 4. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to accept the cemetery fund or funds paid into the town treasury under the perpetual care statutes, or act anything thereon or thereto.
Article 5. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 6. To see if the Town will authorize the Se- lectmen to prosecute, compromise or defend suits for or against the Town.
Article 6. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
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Article 7. To see what disposition the Town will make of the dog fund.
Article 7. Recommended by the Finance Committee that it be added to the Library Account.
Article 8. To see what amount the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the use of Plymouth County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture, and choose a Town Director as provided in Sections 41 and 45 of Chapter 128 of the General Laws, and act thereon.
Article 8. Recommended by the Finance Committee that $100.00 be raised and appropriated.
Article 9. To see what pay the Town will vote the Treasurer, Town Clerk, Collector of Taxes, and other Town Officers for the ensuing year.
Article 9. Recommended by Finance Committee as follows :
Moderator : $10.00 for the Annual Town Meeting. $5.00 for each Special Meeting.
Town Clerk: $500.00.
Town Treasurer : $800.00.
Collector of Taxes : $800.00.
Highway Surveyor : $1.00 per hour.
School Committee Members : $2.50 per day as pro- vided by the law of the Commonwealth, plus $2.50 additional per day of eight hours.
Constables : 75 cents per hour.
All Other Officers elected by the Town: 75 cents per hour.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the overlay reserve account to 1945 Reserve Account
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the sum of Two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) or such other sum of money as may be voted the 1945 Reserve Account by the Town, and act anything thereon or thereto.
Article 10. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Public Welfare to use the Federal Govern- ment Reimbursement for administration, and to act any- thing thereon or thereto.
Article 11. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 12. To choose all necessary Town Officers not elected by ballot.
Article 13. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Maintenance, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 13. Recommended by the Finance Committee that $1,000.00 be raised and appropriated, and not over $2,000.00 to be transferred from unappropriated avail- able funds in the Treasury to meet the State's and County's shares of the cost of work, the reimbursements from the State and County to be restored, upon their receipt, to unappropriated available funds in the treasury.
Article 14. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 81 Highways, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 14. Recommended by the Finance Committee that $5,417.00 be raised and appropriated, and not over
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$8,125.00 be transferred from unappropriated available funds in the treasury to meet the State's share of the cost of the work, the reimbursements from the State to be restored, upon their receipt, to unappropriated avail- able funds in the treasury.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Cemetery Commissioners and the Park Commis- sioners to employ themselves as laborers in the Ceme- teries and Parks, and act anything thereon or thereto.
Article 15. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $400.00 to be used to pay for all private work and materials in Town Cemeteries, such as, opening graves, foundations, etc., as according to Gen- eral Laws, Chapter 44, Sec. 53.
Article 16. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to establish a committee consisting of the members of the School Com- mittee, the Principal of the Center School and three addi- tional members to be appointed by the Moderator, for the purpose of studying various proposals to improve the town's educational facilities with respect to a suitable Center School building and to make a report by the annual town meeting of 1946 or earlier if advisable, or take any other action in rleation thereto.
By request of the School Committee.
Article 17. The Finance Committee voted to take no action on Article 17.
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Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Six hundred seventy nine dollars and sixty nine cents ($679.69) to pay outstanding Public Welfare bills of 1944, and act anything thereon or thereto. .
Article 18. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to discontinue that portion of South Meadow Road for a distance of approximately 3,300 feet southwesterly along South Meadow Road from the Plymouth-Carver Town Line to a point in range with the northeasterly side line of a wood road or path leading southeasterly from South Meadow Road to the small cranberry bog owned by the Estate of Theodore T. Vaughan, if and when the Navy Department of the United States Government advises the Town that it has acquired for the enlargement of its airport all the land on either side of that portion of said road to be dis- continued.
Article 19. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for the purchase of war bonds or other bonds that are legal investments for savings banks, for the postwar rehabilitation fund, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 5, Acts of 1943, and act anything thereon or thereto.
Article 20. Recommended by the Finance Committee that the sum of ten thousand dollars be taken from avail- able funds in the treasury for the purchase of an interest bearing war bond.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to establish a Veteran' Re-
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habilitation and Re-employment Committee in the Town of Carver, and act thereon or thereto.
Article 21. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting up attested copies thereof, at the several places designated by vote of the Town seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due returns of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this 21st day of February in the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-Five.
JESSE A. HOLMES, ELLIS D. ATWOOD, BERNARD W. ROBY,
Selectmen of Carver.
Finance Committee, FRANK D. COSTELLO, Chairman GEORGE C. PAULDING, Secretary
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SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS, BALANCES AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE SELECTMEN. Tabulated for the Use of Voters in the Town Meeting, March 6, 1945.
Recommended
Other Sources
12/31/44 Balance
Ret'd to Recommended By Finance By Selctmen
Committee
General Government
Town Hall
$1,720.00
$1,720.00
Selectmen
850.00
850.00
Moderator
20.00
20.00
Auditors
90.00
90.00
Treasurer
1,166.00
1,166.00
Collector of Taxes
1,140.00
1,140.00
Town Clerk
577.00
577.00
Assessors
1,200.00
1,200.00
Elections and Reg. and St. L .-
350.00
350.00
Decennial Census
100.00
100.00
Law
50.00
50.00
Memorial Day
150.00
150.00
150.00
150.00
Health
1,200.00
19.26
1,219.26
2,800.00
2,800.00
Public Welfare
7,500.00
6,072.44
1,427.56
7,500.00
7,000.00
Public Welfare Administration
275.00
199.39
75.61
275.00
275.00
Public Welfare-Unpaid Bills 1943
65.00
65.00
Health-Unpaid Bills 1943
156.00
156.00
Work Relief
Balance 1/1/44
142.89
$142.89
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Unclassified and
500.00
307.60
192.40
500.00
400.00
Trans. from Reserve Acct. Total $1,219.26
Appropriation $7,539.50
Spent $6,087.88
Treasury $1,451.62
Appropriation 9,740.00
Other Sources
Spent
12/31/44 Balance
Recommended Ret'd to Recommended By Finance Committee Treasury By Selctmen
Old Age Assistance U. S. Grant-Bal. 1/1/44 U. S. Grant Total $16,667.51
466.76 6,460.75
14,161.16
29.06
2,477.29
9,800.00
9,000.00
O. A. A. Administration
225.00
25.00
10.53
215.32
475.85
375.00
300.00
Aid to Dependent Children
2,700.00
58.33
U. S. Grant-Bal. 1/1/44 U. S. Grant
456.00
Total $3,214.33
1,198.10
111.73
1,904.50
2,700.00
2,000.00
A. D. C. Administration
25.00
11.35
U. S. Grant-Bal. 1/1/44 U. S. Grant
23.00
44.08
11.69
3.58
40.00
40.00
Soldiers' Relief
200.00
Police
850:00
546.32
303.68
850.00
850.00
Police-Unpaid Bills 1943
18.56
18.56
Publ Safety-Civilian Defense Balance 1/1/44
348.75
30.22
318.53
Plymouth County Hospital Assessment
1,768.96
1,768.96
2,652.82
2,652.82
Rationing Board
100.00
79.69
20.31
50.00
50.00
State Guard
250.00
197.05
52.95
State Guard-Unpaid Bills 1943
7.48
7.48
Road Machinery
500.00
180.11
319.89
1,100.00
1,100.00
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Total $59.35
200.00
200.00
200.00
Trans. from Reserve Acct U. S. Grant-Bal. 1/1/44 U. S. Grant Total $475.85
Bridges
Appropriation 300.00 1,000.00
Other Sources
Spent
12/31/44 Balance
Recommended Ret'd to Recommended By Finance Treasury By Selctmen 300.00 200.00
Committee 200.00
Removal of Snow
Trans. from Reserve Acct.
57.67
Total $1,057.67
1,057.67
3,000.00
3,000.00
ROADS
Chapter 81
13,542.00
13,470.66
71.34
5,417.00
5,417.00
Chapter 90 Maintenance
3,000.00
2,999.94
06
1,000.00
1,000.00
Fires
2,200.00
2,140.70
59.30
1,200.00
1,200.00
Fire Equipment
1,209.77
1,185.03
24.74
1,875.00
1,875.00
Cemeteries
985.00
774.20
210.80
900.00
900.00
Parks
200.00
192.34
7.66
200.00
200.00
Library
300.00
Library-Dcg Fund
323.98
Trans. from Reserve Acct. $624.94 Total
.96
Plus Dog Fund
624.94
300.00
300.00
Weights and Measures
150.00
148.62
1.38
150.00
150.00
Tree Warden
750.00
745.42
4.58
600.00
600.00
Gypsy Moth
1,194.45
829.49
364.96
1,194.45
1,194.45
Schools and Vocational Education
39,721.78
39,554.78
167.00
41,097.00
41,097.62
School Dental Clinic
100.00
100.00
Benj. Ellis Fund
356.10
174.98
181.12
E. Tillson Pratt Fund
97.56
97.56
Notes
500.00
500.00
Interest
75.00
2.50
72.50
25.00
25.00
Aid to Agriculture
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
American Legion Rent
50.00
50.00
50.00
50.00
Old Home Day
175.00
175.00
175.00
175.00
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Appropriation
Other Sources
Spent 318.95
12/31/44 Balance
Recommended Ret'd to Recommended By Finance Treasury By Selctmen 81.05 400.00
Committee 400.00
Workmen's Compensation Ins. Land Damage, Meadow St. Balance 1/1/44
400.00
2.88
2.88
Land Damage So. Madow St. Balance 1/1/44
13.43
13.43
E. Tillson Pratt School, Grounds Balance 1/1/44
160.00
160.00
General Highway
400.00
197.44
202.56 200.00
300.00
300.00
Alarm System
200.00
Observation Tower Balance 1/1/44
80.10
80.10
Post War Rehabilitation Fund
10,000.00
10,000.00
Special Cemetery Account
400.00
309.14
90.86
400.00
10,000.00 400.00
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Storm Damage
2,000.00
Trans. from Reserve Acct
606.38
Total $2,606.38
1,864.25
742.13
2,000.00
2,000.00
Reserve Account
From Overlay Reserve Acct. 750.00
2,000.00
2,000.00
Trans. to Health Acct. $19.26
Trans. to O.A.A. Admin. 25.00
Trans. to Snow Acct. 57.67 Trans. to Library Acct. .96
Trans. to Storm Dam. 606.38
Balance of $40.73 re- turned to Overlay Reserve Acct. Public Welfare-Unpaid Bills 1944
679.69 679.69
200.00
200.00
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Index
Appropriations, Summary of 117
Assessors' Report 22
Births Recorded, 1944
20
Cemetery Funds, Condition of 13
Condition of Treasury 6
Deaths Recorded, 1944 21
Forest Wardens 54
Forest Warden, Report of
55
General Government Account
28
Aid to Dependent Children
35
Cemetery Account
31
County Aid to Agriculture
39
Fires Account 42
Fire Equipment
41
Gypsy Moth Account
36
Health Account
37
Highway Dept., Chapter 81
32
Highway Dept., Chapter 90
34
Highway, General
33
Library 38
41
Old Age Assistance
35
Park Account 38
Police 45
Public Safety 46
Machinery Account
122
Public Welfare Account 34
Rationing Board 38
Sealer of Weights and Measures 39
Snow Account
45
State Guard
47
Storm Damage 39
Tree Warden Account
44
Unclassified Account
37
Inspection of Animals, Report of
52
Inspection of Slaughtering, Report of 52
Jury List 53
Librarian, Report of
49
Licenses Issued 11
Marriages Recorded, 1944 18
Officers and Committees, 1944 3
Old Home Day, Report of Treasurer
59
Police Department, Report of
58
School Department Report 63
School Committee Report 65
School Nurse Report 76
School, Report of Superintendent 70
School, Age-Grade Table 77
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of 51
State Audit 80
Tax Collector's Report
16
Town Clerk's Report 17
Town Warrant and Report of Finance Committee
109
Treasurer's Account
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