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3 Kerosene Pumps
4 Stops on Pumps
@ .10
.40
22 Gasoline Meter Systems
@ .50
11.00
Amount of fees collected and turned in to Town Treasurer
$15.69
Amount Received for Salary
$100.00
Amount Received for Tel. and Postage
2.00
Amount Received for mileage-400 miles
24.00
Amount Expended for Equipment
5.09
Amount of Insurance on State Standards
18.45
$149.54
Respectfully Submitted,
EDWIN E. BISBEE,
Sealer of Weights and Measures
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REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF SLAUGHTERING
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
Gentlemen :
The following is my report as Inspector of Slaughter-
ing for of the year of 1946.
Number of Hogs Inspected 301
Number of Beef Inspected
55
Number of Sheep Inspected
11
Number of Veal Inspected
5
Number of Goats Inspected
2
Total Inspections 374
Number of Hours as Inspector
3951/2
Number of Miles Traveled 603
Respectfully yours,
EDWIN E. BISBEE,
Inspector of Slaughtering
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REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS-1946
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen:
The following is my report as Inspector of Animals for the year of 1946.
Number of Milk Cows
53
Number of Oxen
3
Number of Other Cattle
27
Number of Horses
15
Number of Sheep
3
Number of Goats
28
Number of Swine
67
Number of Complaints Investigated
10
Number of Dogs Quarantined
4
Number of Hours' Service
74
Number of Miles Traveled
300
Respectfully yours,
EDWIN E. BISBEE,
Inspector of Animals
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JURY LIST-1946-1947
Anthony Bessette, Cranberry Grower
Louis A. Bryant, Foreman
John Carter, Decorator Bradford H. Cole, Manager
Walter R. Carmichael, Merchant
Roger A. Chauvin, Machinist Robert Gray, Laborer Leonard Heikkila, Cranberry Grower Eldred S. Mosher, Cranberry Grower Samuel B. MacFarlane, Box Maker Robert McCaig, Salesman
Bernard J. Owens, Laborer
Thomas H. Reynolds, Box Maker Nathan G. Roby, Fuel Oil Dealer Frank D. Costello, Cranberry Grower Ernest W. Shaw, Cranberry Grower Frederick E. Shaw, Foreman Kenneth E. Shaw, Cranberry Grower Clarence Theo Thomas, Real Estate Paul N. Story, Machinist Roger V. Weston, Cranberry Grower
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REPORT OF THE FOREST WARDEN
Fire equipment responded to a total of sixty-nine (69) calls during the past year. For a small town, this is a large number of fires. It is an average of better than one fire each week during the year. The situation is getting no better. Lumber operations, portable saw mills, increased summer visitors in our forests, all tend to create a serious fire hazard.
Calls responded to were: Chimney-11, Autos-1, Buildings-3, Woods and Brush-51. No damage re- ported for chimney fires although some were narrow escapes. Slight damage at auto fire, total loss on one building and partial loss on two buildings. Of the 51 grass, brush, and woods fires we were very fortunate, also very much pleased with the results. Not one of these fires burned an area of over two acres, although there were several that had possibilities. We were very fortunate in getting them early.
I want to thank personally all the members of the Carver V. F. A. that have helped in compiling such a creditable record. We owe our thanks to the Depart- ment of Conservation under the supervision of Mr. Bal- lard for their willingness in assisting at our fires. The Carver V. F. A. Auxiliary has done a fine piece of work since organizing. Their assistance with food and drinks at fires has been greatly appreciated. Again we ex- tend to Mr. Ellis D. Atwood our sincere thanks for what he has done to assist our fire department. His kindness in letting us use his building for fire equip- ment, meetings, radio station, and for letting us take men from their work to help get these fires as soon as
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possible is something that we shall never forget. This privilege is second only to a fire department where several thousand dollars is appropriated each year for such a set up. Some of these are below what we have in Carver. We also extend our thanks to Selectman Roby for his fine cooperation and for the use of his building, where one piece of equipment is stored.
At a recent C. V. F. A. meeting, Ralph Linton, Sr., was appointed to see that our truck in North Carver was taken care of. He should be given credit for the fine job he is doing. A suitable place to keep the equip- ment in cold weather has been completed in this sec- tion of the town. Also a group of men have been in- terested in our fire work.
The C. V. F. A. has grown a great deal during the past two years. At the present time there is an enroll- ment of 65 members. The meetings are held the first Tuesday of each month at E. D. Atwood's screenhouse with fine attendances. Fire problems as they pertain to our town are discussed. During the past year we have purchased a small truck, which will be presented to the town as soon as it is ready for use.
It has been voiced by the association that we need more equipment in town. Because of this, I have sub- mitted to the town a budget that should give us equip- ment enough to handle most any type of fire. Our present brushbreaker has taken a great deal of pun- ishment for the last five years, and is now ready for heavy repairs. When we consider that this equipment has taken care of 194 fires during the past three years, it is easy to understand why it needs attention. Ade- quate equipment gives us a chance to return some of the favors our neighbors give us when we have bad
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fires. Mutual aid is one of the greatest institutions in fire fighting that exists. Our budget this year has been carefully gone over and discussed by our V. F. A. We do not feel as though we have overdone it by asking for a piece of equipment to replace some of the relics that we now have. Our relics are poor auxiliaries but we have made them do.
Our radio equipment has paid for itself through its service to us within the past year. This investment was a very wise move as far as the Town of Carver was concerned. We have had fires in buildings that have been a total loss. We will have more of them. But regardless of this, we feel that a reasonable amount of good equipment is necessary to combat our fires, which are not on the decrease.
The slash conditions in town are still a serious prob- lem. Please cooperate by moving it away from all highways and roads where it may become a fire haz- ard. This is one way in which we can help to prevent serious fires. The State is cutting out blocked roads for us throughout the town. This is a great help to us during the fire season.
I wish to thank all that have assisted in helping us build up the Volunteer Firemen's Organization that we have in town. We have tried our best to serve as any volunteer would in any organization. In some cases it has meant a sacrifice, yet we feel that on the whole our town has been well served.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANCIS A. MERRITT,
Forest Warden.
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DEPUTY FOREST WARDENS 1947
Telephone
Homer Weston
Carver 86-11
Simon Majahad
Carver 65-4
Ellis Bumpus
Carver 24-4
Winston Weston
Carver 96-2
Byron MacFarlane
Carver 76-2
Ralph Linton, Sr.
Carver 63-11
Embert Eames, Jr.
Carver 71-3
George Raymond
Carver 19
Earl Barnes
Wareham 779-M3
Norman V. Holmes
Carver 10-4 Carver 78
Paul Williams
Carver 68-4
John Fava
Carver-None
Theodore Goodreau
Carver-None
William E. Holmes
Carver 62-3
Bernard E. Roby
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REPORT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen
Gentlemen :
The following is a report of the work of the Police Department for the year ending December 31, 1946.
CASES IN COURT
Male
Female
Total
Arrested for Other Officers
2
2
Assault and Battery
3
1
4
Capias served
1
1
Disturbing the Peace
1
1
Drunkenness
9
1
10
Insanity
4
4
Larceny
1
1
2
Murder
1
1
Neglect of Family
1
1
Non-support of Family
5
5
Operating Under the Influence
2
2
Stubbornness
1
1
Violation of Motor Vehicle Laws
9
9
38
5 43
Committed :
Taunton State Hospital
4
House of Correction
1
State Farm
1
Industrial School for Girls, Lancaster
1
Complaints investigated
119
Fires attended
8
66
Automobile accidents investigated
10
Number of persons injured in accidents 3 Hospital Trips :
St. Luke's Hospital, Middleboro 3
Tobey Hospital, Wareham 1
On August 12, 1946, a two-way radio was installed in the police cruiser car and service is obtained from the Middleboro Police Department. The radio was transferred to the new Oldsmobile cruiser purchased December 21, 1946. This service makes the cruiser available twenty-four hours of the day.
Respectfully submitted,
A. TREMAINE SMITH,
Chief of Police.
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REPORT OF THE HIGHWAY SURVEYOR
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen
Gentlemen :
I hereby submit my report as Highway Surveyor for the year 1946.
CHAPTER 81
Appropriation :
Town Share
State Share
$6,500.00 $14,625.00
Work done other than General Maintenance :
Hardened Surface by Penetration and Seal Coating :
1900 ft. on Gates Street
4000 ft. on Meadow Street
2600 ft. on High Street
Hardened Surface by Honing and Mixed in Place : 6480 ft. on West Street
Mixed in Place over present Hardened Surface :
1050 ft. on Main Street
1100 ft. on Tremont Street 3 Leaching Basins Installed.
4 Stone Drains Removed, 4 Steel Pipe In- stalled.
191 Cement Posts Replacing Wooden Fence Posts.
3200 ft. Secondary Roads Re-gravelled. 23,400 ft. of Hardened Surface Roads Refinished with asphalt coating and resanded.
Expenditure of Chapter 81 Funds were as follows: Plympton Street $512.50
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Plymouth Street
873.75
Wenham Road
297.00
So. Meadow Road
274.00
Meadow Street
2,889.60
Cross Street
30.00
Tremont Street
2,084.23
Wareham Road
431.36
Main Street
3,300.99
Purchase Street
537.30
Forest Street
184.00
Fuller Street
112.00
High Street
2,433.76
Brook Street
163.00
Pleasant Street
161.50
Spring Street
Gates Street
1,224.64
Pond Street
206.00
Center Street
539.40
Shurtleff Street
86.00
Ward Street
44.00
West Street
1,966.10
Fosdick Street
176.00
Holmes Street
210.00
Popes Point Street
53.00
France Street
15.00
Mayflower Road
266.02
Rochester Road
385.92
Pine Street
83.00
Indian Street
282.50
Church Street
65.00
Seipet Street
338.50
Cranberry Road
237.25
Federal Road
267.25
Hammond Street
35.00
Old Centre Street
Pine City
44.35
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Snappit Street
286.15
East Head Road
15.00
$21,111.07
CHAPTER 90
Appropriations :
State
$1,000.00
County
$1,000.00
Town
None
New Construction :
(Bridge) Holmes Street
Wooden Bridge Removed.
48 ft. 60" pipe installed.
Wooden fence constructed.
Caution Signs Installed. Expended $920.59
CHAPTER 90
Appropriations :
State
$5,000.00
Town
2,500.00
County
2,500.00
New Construction :
Purchase Street
4900 ft. from end of hardened surface to Ply- mouth Street Route 44.
4 Leaching Basins Installed.
2 Drain Pipes Installed. Shoulders Constructed.
Expended $9,999.95
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES M. HAYNES,
Highway Surveyor.
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REPORT OF TREASURER OF OLD HOME DAY ASSOCIATION
Receipts
Balance on hand, 1945 Accounts
$347.56
Town Appropriation
175.00
Interest
1.14
Dinner Tickets
1,617.75
Ice Cream
25.00
Ball Game
40.04
Tonic
86.01
Remnants
26.75
Commission on Sales
10.00
By Cash Receipts
14.00
$2,343.25
Expenditures
Cosmopolitan Band
$146.00
The Rogers Print, Programs,
Tickets 36.50
Saunders Hardware & Paint Co., Supplies 6.75
Woods Fish Market, Clams, Fish
363.00
Higgins Package Store, Inc., Potatoes, Butter 63.88
Plymouth Bottling Works, Tonic
32.70
Jesse A. Holmes & Son, Sweet Corn, Supplies 66.68
M. F. Ellis & Co., Supplies 38.01
Ellis D. Atwood, Base Balls 8.00
Ellis D. Atwood, Trucks
10.00
Jones, McDuffie, Stratton-Paid
by Town Approp. 52.60
H. W. Jordan, Supplies, Paid by Town Approp. 122.40
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H. W. Jordan, Supplies 44.08
Walter R. Carmichael, Supplies 32.76
Mayflower Sea Foods, Lobsters 75.00
Albino Faitte, Supplies 88.00
Norman V. Holmes, Supplies 5.00
Norman V. Holmes, Auto 12.00
Perez L. Shurtleff, Supplies
25.23
Perez L. Shurtleff, Truck and Auto
63.00
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Excise Tax 80.76
Shaw Radio & Furniture Co.,
Use of Sound System
15.00
Nathan Roby, Ice
3.85
$1,391.20
Services
George Raymond, Waiters
$15.00
Lena Thomas, Waiters
15.00
A. Gallagher 10.00
So. Carver Women's Society Waiters
15.00
Carver American Legion Auxiliary, Waiters
15.00
North Carver Ladies Aid Society,
Waiters
15.00
Frank H. Cole, Employees
43.91
Jesse A. Holmes & Son, Employees
6.00
Roger A. Chauvin
7.88
Francis A. Merritt
3.38
George Raymond
3.38
Leonard LaForest
3.38
Robert Merritt
3.38
Andrew Griffith, Jr.
3.38
Benjamin Hatch, Jr.
3.38
Robert Doran
3.38
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Whitman Higgins
3.38
Frank Dana
3.38
Barbara Dempsey
24.38
Martha Thomas
24.00
Ruth Maki
24.00
Catherine Thomas
14.25
Lena Thomas
3.00
Elwood C. Holmes, Jr.
9.00
John Kennedy
6.00
James E. Thomas
6.00
James E. Thomas, Jr.
6.00
LeRoy Cobb
7.50
Simon Majahad
6.00
Gerold Schiebler
3.00
Jack Agnon
7.12
Robert Agnon
3.00
Alice Shurtleff
27.60
Ellis D. Atwood, Employees
39.75
Norman V. Holmes
30.00
Perez L. Shurtleff
65.00
Bradford H. Cole
5.00
Lewis Jackson
5.25
Homer F. Weston
25.00
Homer F. Weston, Employees
72.00
$586.06
Total Expenses
$1,977.26
Receipts for year
$2,343.25
Expenditures for year
$1,977.26
Balance on Hand
$365.99
BERNARD E. SHAW,
Treasurer.
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KNOW YOUR TOWN SEAL
At the Annual Town Meeting of Carver on March 5, 1946, it was voted to accept the design submitted by the Carver Historical Society for a new and dis- tinctive Town Seal.
Previously, of the twenty-six towns in Plymouth County, Carver was one of three towns which had no distinctive town seal, that is to say, no design that portrayed either some historical, civic or industrial theme particularly appropriate to that town for use upon its official papers, stationery and town reports, etc.
When this lacking circumstance was observed by the organizer and first president of the Carver His- torical, Mr. Winsor Leach, he brought the matter be- fore the Society, proposing a contest for a suitable design be offered by the Society.
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After a few years lapse, World War II having slowed up the activities of the Society, a group of three judges, consisting of Miss Ethel Savery of South Car- ver as chairman, Miss Katherine Alden and Mr. Sidney Strictland of Plymouth, was given the task of judging the designs of the contestants, who were unknown to them.
The winning design, selected because of its appro- priateness and execution was done by Earl E. Board- way of Center Carver and depicts the industrial motif, there being no outstanding historical episodes to re- cord, like say, Plymouth has in its past, and so the iron blast furnace was selected as an important and dramatic industry long since passed in our town to represent the olden times. Two or three generations ago, iron moulders resided in Carver almost as nu- merous as our modern day cranberry growers, but they have all passed off the stage and the cranberry industry has come to the fore in this modern age and so the cranberry vine appears upon our new seal to represent our modern times.
Our design may be interpreted as follows: the trun- cated pyramid structure of stonework, supporting an inner cavity lined with fire brick, is a reasonable repre- sentation of the old Federal Furnace and similar iron blast furnaces throughout New England of that period when our United States was a very young republic.
While no drawings or pictures have come down to us from the past showing these blast furnaces of which there were several in Carver, Middleboro and Lake- ville, a real photograph of one still preserved in Ver- mont serves to give us an accurate idea as to how they were built, during that period of early development in the iron industry following the Revolutionary War
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when a great deal of iron cooking ware, pots, kettles, skillets, etc., was in great demand to be used in the big kitchen fireplaces of those times.
Carver founderies have been credited with having cast the first tea-kettle in America as the legend goes, consequently you will observe in the left hand border space of the seal a small representation of the old cast iron tea-kettle of great grandmother's day, so aptly carrying out our town's iron age of the past.
And so it might be of interest to note here that the iron ore to feed these furnaces was grappled for off the bottoms of our ponds or dug from our swamps where it is still evidenced by that hard, brownish red mineral encountered in many of our cranberry bog ditches of today. The charcoal fuel for the smelting of the iron ore was obtained from the farmers who had charcoal kilns in their wood lots and thereby turned a neat little sum during the winter making charcoal to sell to the blast furnace owners.
And so the blast furnace was charged by men push- ing wheel barrows up a ramp in the rear of the fur- nace to dump their load into the round hole on top, first there was laid a layer of charcoal, then a layer of iron ore and clam or oyster shell for the lime con- tent, alternating the layers until it was filled. A blast of air, supplied by a huge leather bellows operated by water power entered one of the arches, while the molten iron was drawn off from a spout in another arch into troughs in the sand on the ground near by to form the pig iron bars.
While only a small trace of the former Federal Furnace that stood on the land of the present Federal
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Cranberry Company can be found today, there are bountiful evidences of the charcoal heaps that once stood nearby. It was called the Federal Furnace be- cause during the War of 1812 it had "Federal" con- tracts from the United States government to cast can- non balls to be used by the U. S. S. Constitution during that war, and the name "Federal" has clung to that locality ever since.
Another less spectacular industry, that of timber growing, is shown by the pine trees in the background. Box making in Carver from lumber of our native pine began along shortly after the Civil War when the Cole Mill in North Carver made boxes to supply the boot and shoe manufacturers who packed their wares in the wooden boxes unwrapped. The boxes were carted by team over the sandy roads to Bridgewater and Brockton for sale.
Now we come to far the most important industry to come to Carver, namely, Cranberry growing, both in investment and the annual dollar returns brought into our town. And so it is eminently fitting that a glorious spray of cranberry vines bearing big, tangy cranberries should crown the center of our design. And the sym- bolical cranberry scoop of our day takes its place in the border on the right.
And so again Carver claims the distinction of being not only the first in the quantity of cranberries pro- duced, but the first to use the cranberry motif on its seal.
You will notice the words "Federal Furnace" in small letters beneath the picture are to suggest to those who do not understand what the odd looking structure represents.
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The inscription, "Incorporated 1790" denotes the year the act to set off Carver, formerly the South Pre- cinct of Plympton, as a separate township was passed by the Massachusetts General Court and the charter signed into law by Governor John Hancock on June 10, 1790.
An engraved plate with the likeness of this new seal and placed in a hand press, known as a seal-press, was presented to the Town of Carver by the Carver His- torical Society. It is in the custody of the Town Clerk, to be used to seal official papers of the Town with an embossed likeness of the design.
And now we hope the people of Carver, having pride in the accomplishments of its past, and a sincere faith and hope in its future, will be able to pass on to their children its traditions as exemplified in this your new Town Seal.
With greetings from
THE CARVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
By Earl E. Boardway, President.
REPORT OF TOWN AUDITORS
We, the Auditors of Carver, have completed an audit of the records and books of the Town of Carver, and find them to be correct and in good order, as of De- cember 31, 1946.
ROGER V. WESTON, WARREN L. CHANDLER, ARTHUR W. PETERSON, Board of Auditors.
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REPORT OF STATE AUDITOR
October 29, 1946
To the Board of Selectmen
Mr. Jesse A. Holmes, Chairman Carver, Massachusetts
Gentlemen:
I submit herewith my report of an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Carver for the period from December 7, 1944, to July 24, 1946, made in accord- ance with the provisions of Chapter 44, General Laws. This is in the form of a report made to me by Mr. Herman B. Dine, Assistant Director of Accounts.
Very truly yours, FRANCIS X. LANG,
Director of Accounts.
FXL:GEM
Mr. Francis X. Lang
Director of Accounts
Department of Corporations and Taxation
State House, Boston Sir:
As directed by you, I have made an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Carver for the
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period from December 7, 1944, the date of the pre- vious examination, to July 24, 1946, and report thereon as follows :
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 with the books of the town treasurer.
General ledger accounts were compiled for the period covered by the audit, the appropriations and transfers as recorded being checked with the town clerk's records of town meetings and with the finance committee's records of transfers authorized. A balance sheet, showing the financial condition of the town on July 24, 1946, was prepared and is appended to this report. An examination of this balance sheet indicates that the financial condition of the town is very good.
The books and accounts of the town treasurer were examined. The recorded receipts were analyzed and checked with the records of the departments making payments to the treasurer and with the other sources from which money was paid into the town treasury, while the payments were compared with the treasury warrants approved by the board of selectmen author- izing the treasurer to disburse town funds. The cash balance on July 24, 1946 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 the treasurer's office.
The savings bank books and securities representing the investment of the trust and investment funds in the custody of the town treasurer and trustees were
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examined and listed. The income was proved and the withdrawals were checked with the receipts as re- corded on the treasurer's cash book.
The records of tax titles held by the town were ex- amined and checked. The amounts added to the tax title account were compared with the tax collector's records. The reported redemptions were checked with the receipts as recorded on the treasurer's cash book, and the tax titles on hand were listed and checked with the records in the Registry of Deeds.
The books and accounts of the tax collector were examined and checked. The accounts outstanding ac- cording to the previous examination and all subsequent commitment lists were audited and proved. The col- lections as posted on the commitment books were com- pared with the cash book collections and with the re- corded payments to the town as shown by the treas- urer's cash book.
The abatements of taxes as entered on the commit- ment books were checked with the assessors' records of abatements granted, and the outstanding accounts were listed.
Verification of the outstanding accounts was made by sending notices to a number of persons whose names appeared on the boks as owing money to the town, the replies received thereto indicating that the ac- counts, as listed, are correct.
The records of the departmental accounts receivable were examined and checked. The recorded receipts were checked with the payments to the treasurer and the outstanding accounts were listed and proved.
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The town clerk's records of dog and sporting li- censes issued were examined, 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 surety bonds of the town officials required by law to furnish them were examined and found to be in proper form.
The records of the sealer of weights and measures and of the health and cemetery departments, as well as of all other departments collecting money for the town, were examined, checked, and reconciled with the treasurer's books.
Appended to this report, in addition to the balance sheet, are tables showing a reconciliation of the treas- urer's cash, summaries of the tax, tax title, and de- partmental accounts, together with tables showing the transactions and condition of the trust and investment funds.
For the cooperation received from all the town offi- cials during the progress of the audit, I wish, on be- half of my assistants and for myself, to express appre- ciation.
Respectfully submitted,
HERMAN B. DINE,
Assistant Director of Accounts.
HBD:GEM
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RECONCILIATION OF TREASURER'S CASH
Balance Dec. 7, 1944
$60,665.20
Receipts :
Dec. 7 to 31, 1944 $10,783.40
1945
135,435.79
146,219.19
$206,884.39
Payments:
Dec. 7 to 31, 1944
$13,185.67
1945
120,435.00
Balance Dec. 31, 1945
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