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Appropriation
$500.00
Payments:
City of Newton
$19.80
Town of Norwood
269.11
Auto Instruction
70.40
Balance to Revenue
140.69
$500.00
CONTINGENT
Appropriation
$2,405.00
Transfer from Reserve Fund
61.64
Refund
10.00
$2,476.64
Payments:
Typing
$95.00
Town Report
1,486.64
Care of Town Clock
168.00
Printing and Advertising
320.71
Decorations
40.00
Selectmen's Expenses
86.10
Other Expenses
280.19
$2,476.64
COUNTY RETIREMENT SYSTEM
Appropriation
$2,376.60
Payments: County Treasurer
$2,376.60
LIBRARY
Dog Tax
$573.33
Library Fines
272.47
Appropriation
1,365.00
Transfer from Granville Dailey Library Trust Income
1,682.73
Transfer from Library Trust Income
247.50
$4,141.03
131
$359.31
Payments:
Board Members
$165.00
Librarians-Salaries
1,877.90
Janitor
644.75
Books
549.52
Light
235.25
Telephone
88.48
Supplies and Binding
220.12
Magazines and Papers
120.90
Repairs
229.11
Water
10.00
$4,141.03
LIBRARY OIL BURNER
Appropriation
$1,250.00
Transfer from Granville Dailey Library Trust
1,225.00
Payments: Contractor
$2,475.00
AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE
Appropriation
$700.00
Transfer from Reserve Fund
34.50
$734.50
Payments: Insurance Premium
$734.50
FIRE INSURANCE
Appropriation
$2,550.00
Payments: Premiums
$2,129.29
Balance to Revenue
420.71
$2,550.00
PARK AND PLANNING
Appropriation
$1,386.00
Payments:
$1,115.64
Printing
59.46
Supplies and Other Expenses
192.91
Memberships
12.50
Balance to Revenue
5.49
$1,386.00
RELOCATING NORTH STREET
Appropriation Payments: Damages
$300.00 $300.00
132
$1,380.51
Payrolls
MEMORIAL DAY
$550.00
Appropriation Payments:
Music
$235.00
Decorations and Flags
96.50
Other Expenses
75.24
Refreshments and Supplies
120.35
Balance to Revenue
22.91
$550.00
SWIMMING INSTRUCTION
Appropriation
$400.00
Payments:
Instructors
$280.00
Signs
58.00
Sand
57.50
Balance to Revenue
4.50
$400.00
TOWN MEETING NOTICES
Appropriation
$100.00
Transfer from Reserve Fund.
11.00
$111.00
Payments:
Printing Notices
$96.00
Delivery
15.00
$111.00
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION & LIABILITY INSURANCE
Appropriation
$2,716.00
Payments:
Premiums
$2,683.15
Balance to Revenue
32.85
$2,716.00
AMERICAN LEGION POST QUARTERS
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Payments: Beckwith Post #110
$1,000.00
BY-LAWS COMMITTEE
Appropriation
$300.00
Payments:
Clerical Salaries
$35.00
Balance, December 31, 1953
265.00
$300.00
133
$527.09
$395.50
HONOR ROLL
Appropriation Payments: Contractor
$596.52 $596.52
PURCHASE-PUBLIC DUMP LAND
Transfer from School Land-Balance
$125.00
Transfer from School Interest Account
53.44
Transfer from Revenue
321.56
$500.00
Payments:
Legal Services
$31.53
Owners of Property
460.00
$491.53
Balance to Revenue
8.47
$500.00
TENNIS COURT
Balance, January 1, 1953
$1,300.00
Appropriation
1,300.00
$2,600.00
Balance, December 31, 1953
$2,600.00
ZONING APPEALS BOARD
Appropriation
Payments:
Clerical Salaries
$60.30
Printing and Advertising
$118.33
Balance to Revenue
31.67
$150.00
TEACHERS' MILITARY SERVICE RETIREMENT FUND
Appropriations
$250.00
Payments:
Mass. Teachers' Retirement Fund
$147.00
Balance to Revenue
103.00
$250.00
WATER DEPARTMENT
Appropriation
$19,437.50
Payments:
Board Members
$187.50
Payroll
5,819.05
Gas and Oil
366.06
Postage and Supplies
531.55
Purchase of Water
5,811.09
$150.00
58.03
134
Bond Pipe and Equipment Clerical Salaries Equipment Hire Surveying
Balance to Revenue
10.00
4,041.51
247.50
131.50
164.54
$17,310.30
2,127.20
$19,437.50
WATER-HARDING STREET
Balance, January 1, 1953
$2,156.18
Payments: Equipment Hire
$1,469.50
Legal
4.06
$1,473.56
Balance, December 31, 1953
682.62
$2,156.18
WATER-STUDY OF SOURCES BOARD
Appropriation Balance, December 31, 1953
$1,500.00
CEMETERIES
Appropriation
$4,282.50
Transfer from Cemetery Trust Income
1,031.46
Transfer from Sale of Lots
320.00
Transfer from Reserve Fund
143.17
$5,777.13
Payments:
Board Members
$82.50
Payroll
3,797.00
Trucks and Equipment Hire
733.00
Supplies and Equipment
937.24
Gas and Oil
192.97
Water
34.42
$5,777.13
WATER ACCOUNTS
Balances, January 1, 1953:
Hartford Street Extension
$575.56
Nebo Street Extension
305.86
Pine Street Extension
79.49
Pleasant Street Extension
208.50
Adams Street Extension
182.69
Balance, December 31, 1953
$1,352.10
CEMETERY LAWN MOWER PURCHASE
Appropriation Payments:
$468.00
Equipment Purchase
$468.00
135
$1,500.00
CEMETERY GRADING
Appropriation
$2,046.25
Payments: Contractor
$2,046.25
RESERVE FUND
Appropriation Transfer:
Interest
$444.59
Executive
181.15
Town Hall
161.82
Cemetery
143.17
Street Lights
135.39
Police
116.20
Contingent
61.64
Cutting Brush
46.43
Auto Insurance
34.50
Care of Trees
24.82
Sidewalks
12.94
Town Meeting Notices
11.00
Public Dump
9.50
Highways
5.00
Sealer
4.32
Balance to Revenue
2,107.53
INTEREST
Appropriation
$5,099.75
Transfer from Reserve Fund
444.59
$5,544.34
Payments:
Interest on loans:
Water
$624.25
School
4,350.00
Revenue
350.00
Trucks and Equipment
22.50
Sewer
105.00
Highway
92.59
$5,544.34
MATURING DEBT
Appropriation
$29,500.00
Payments:
$3,500.00
School
23,000.00
Trucks and Equipment
1,000.00
Sewer
2,000.00
$29,500.00
136
$3,500.00
$1,392.47
$3,500.00
Water
TOWN OF MEDFIELD BALANCE SHEET-DECEMBER 31, 1953
ASSETS
Cash in Bank and Office, December 31, 1953 Accounts Receivable:
$106,185.18
Taxes:
Levy of 1947
$ 15.42
1948
58.52
1949
240.01
1950
321.10
1951
1,609.44
1952
4,678.79
1953
14,165.64
21,088.92
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes:
1946
$ 23.01
1947
23.52
1948
117.19
1949
511.68
1950
680.19
1951
975.49
1952
1,520.11
1953
6,211.00
10,062.19
Special Assessments-Sewer 1952
181.87
Tax Titles
1,825.80
Departmental:
Disability Assistance $ 349.51
Old Age Assistance
1,807.42
Aid to Dependent Children
607.60
Veterans Benefits
174.50
$2,939.03
Cemetery Annual Care
5,054.00
Cemetery Sale of Lots
180.00
5,234.00
8,173.03
Water:
Liens Added to Taxes
41.00
Rates
5,796.39
Services
832.83
Extensions
182.94
6,853.16
State and County Aid to Highways
3,667.95
Underestimated:
State Parks Tax
177.35
Overdrawn:
County Retirement
12.81
$158,228.26
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BALANCE SHEET (continued) LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Temporary Loans:
In Anticipation of Reimbursement
$13,825.00
Employees Withheld Tax Payroll Deductions
6,823.05
Agency:
County Dog Licenses
8.40
Tailings
963.46
Trust Fund Income:
Granville F. Dailey Library Trust
$ 3,540.67
George Barden Fund-Schools
36.00
Sale of Cemetery Lots Fund
540.00
Federal Grants:
Disability Assistance
576.94
Old Age Assistance
7,860.43
Aid to Dependent Children
1,155.47
9,592.84
Revolving Funds:
School Cafeteria
452.88
School Athletics
694.26
1,147.14
Appropriation Balances:
General
10,549.77
Water
2,034.72
Non-Revenue
10,255.61
22,840.10
Receipts Reserved for Appropriations: Road Machinery
547.89
Reserve Fund Overlay Surplus
5,289.72
Overlays Reserved for Abatements:
1946
$ 2.00
1947
17.42
1948
188.43
1949
324.88
1950
1,584.10
1951
1,554.85
1952
490.18
1953
3,543.41
7,705.27
Revenue Reserved Until Collected:
Departmental
$ 8,173.03
Tax Titles
1,825.80
Sewer Assessments
181.87
Motor Vehicle Excise
10,062.19
Water
6,853.16
27,096.05
Surplus Revenue
58,272.67
$158,228.26
138
3,576.67
DEBT ACCOUNTS
Net Funded or Fixed Debt Inside Debt Limit: General Water
$ 8,000.00 13,000.00
$ 21,000.00
Outside Debt Limit: General-Schools
256.000.00
$277,000.00
Serial Loans:
Inside Debt Limit:
Adams Street Water
$ 1,000.00
Hartford Street Water
1,000.00
Nebo Street Water
11,000.00
Fire Truck
1,000.00
School Land Purchase
2,000.00
Adams Street Sewer
5,000.00
21,000.00
Outside Debt Limit:
Memorial School
195,000.00
High School
61,000.00
256,000.00
$277,000.00
TRUST ACCOUNTS
Balance as of December 31, 1953
$117,347.85
In Custody of Town Treasurer:
Library Trust Funds
$ 9,000.00
Granville F. Dailey Trust Funds Library
68,919.28
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
36,227.84
$114,147.12
In Custody of Selectmen:
Moses Ellis Post #117 G.A.R. Fund
3,200.73
$117,347.85
LIBRARY TRUST FUND INCOME
Interest:
Home Savings Bank
$55.00
Massachusetts Savings Bank
50.00
Dedham Institution for Savings
60.00
Provident Institute for Savings
82.50
Transfer to Library Book Purchase
$247.50
$247.50
139
CEMETERY PERPETUAL CARE FUND INCOME
Interest:
Massachusetts Savings Bank
$182.62
U. S. Treasury Department 5.00
Dedham Institution for Savings
767.52
Home Savings Bank
43.32
Medfield Co-operative Bank
33.00
Transfer to Cemetery
$1,031.46 $1,031.46
GRANVILLE F. DAILEY TRUST INCOME
Balance as of January 1, 1953
$3,982.01
Interest, Dividends and Stock Rights:
Dedham Institution for Savings
$1,083.96
General Motors
320.00
U. S. Treasury
312.50
General Electric
240.00
Guaranty Trust
219.93
Bethlehem Steel
140.00
Consolidated Edison
100.00
F. W. Woolworth Co.
50.00
2,466.39
$6,448.40
Balance as of December 31, 1953
$3,540.67
The foregoing report is an account of the financial tran- sactions and standing of the Town of Medfield for the year end- ing December 31, 1953.
February 1, 1954
LESLIE J. HOWLETT, Town Accountant
140
Transfer to Library
2,907.73
CEMETERY TRUST FUND
Dedham Institution for Savings
Name of Fund
Original Fund
Name of Fund
Original Fund
James Hewins Lot
$200.00
William Kennedy Lot 100.00
Caleb Ellis Lot
100.00
Joseph Park Lot 100 00
Sabin Smith Lot
100.00
Robert W. Baker Lot 200.00
William S. Tilden Lot
200.00
John R. Miller Lot 100.00
Moses Ellis Lot
200.00
Mary A. Abell Lot 100.00
Joseph Breck Lot 100.00
Raymond C. Weiker Lot 100.00
Mary F. Ellis Lot
100.00
William R. Roberts Lot 200.00
Mary T. Derby Lot
100.00
Bennett-Grover Lot
100.00
George M. Smith Lot
100.00
Lewis Cutler Lot 100.00
George F. Miller Lot
50 00
Vincent N. Osborne Lot 100.00 Rose Schools Lot
100.00
Grant Newell Lot
100.00
Archie Crawford Lot
100.00
James Griffin Lot
50.00
Scott B. Bell Lot
100.00
Walter Janes Lot
50.00
Alphonso L. Allen Lot
100.00
Jeremiah Hale Lot
100.00
Edward B. Bent Lot
100.00
Martha M. Mason Lot
100.00
William Bullard Lot
100.00
Geo. H. Shumway Lot
200.00
Edward Alward Lot
100.00
Isaac White Lot
100.00
J. V. Morang Lot
100.00
G. D. Hamant Lot
100.00
Lucius Houghton Lot
100.00
Mary J. Jones Lot
100.00
Alex Ogilvie Lot
100.00
Bishop-Hartshorn Lot
450.00
Clifford L. Codding Lot 100.00
Samuel E. Mitchell Lot 100.00
Henry Parker Lot
100.00
William Ryan Lot
300.00
Frederick M. Clark Lot 100.00
Wesley Balch Lot
100.00
Levi C. Taylor Lot 100.00
A. B. Parker Lot
100.00
Laura S. Pember Lot 100.00 Alida S. and Willard F.
Pear Lot 300.00
Catherine Mulcahy Lot 150.00
Mary Corcoran Lot 100.00
Carl O. Harmon Lot 100.00
George Chick Lot 100.00
Michael Ryan Lot 100.00
Mrs. Selwyn Clark Lot
100.00
George Schools Lot 100.00
Cora B. Simpson Lot
100.00
Perry Lot 100.00
Saarm-Kennedy Lot
100.00
Braman Briggs Lot
100 00 Nathaniel Fairbanks Lot 100.00
Michael English Lot Hamlet Wight Lot 100.00
Walter S. Wiswell Lot 100.00
Caroline S. Leeds Lot 100.00
Samuel Ellis Lot 100.00
James L. Atherton Lot 100.00
George Ellis Lot 100.00
Isabelle Beckwith Lot 100.00
Margaret Griffin Lot 100.00
Dr. Saunders Lot
50.00
William Guild Lot
100.00
Seth Chenery Lot
100.00
Moses Johnson Lot
100.00
Samuel Johnson Lot
100.00
Edgar Sherman Lot 100.00
Elwyn A. Smith Lot
100.00
Annie I. Newell Lot 150.00
John Fisher Lot 100.00
Chas. A. Garabedian 100.00
Pattee-Turner Lot 100.00
Richard J. Gorman Lot 100.00
Robert E. Peters Lot 100.00
Blanche L. Young Lot 150.00 Frank E. Day Lot 100.00
100.00
141
Langley Lot
200.00
Leon M. Kennett Lot 100.00
CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS (Continued)
Dedham Institution for Savings
Name of Fund
Original Fund
Name of Fund
Original Fund
Hutson-Smith Lot
100.00
Grace K. Burns
100.00
Wales-Plimpton Lot
100.00
Mary A. Hotville Lot
100.00
Charles C. Wright Lot 100.00 E. March Wheelwright Lot 100.00
Giles-Lord Lot 100.00
John N. Wills Lot
150.00
Margaret T. Bearse Lot 100.00
Richard A. Mandeville Lot 100.00
William Conrick Lot 100.00
Bennett-Wilson Lot
200.00
Michael Brennan Lot 100.00
A. R. Cole Lot 150.00
Donald Howlett Lot 100.00
Thomas Barney Lot 200.00
100.00
Charles W. Haigh Lot 100.00
100.00
Nathan Fisher Lot
100.00
George Wilber Lot
100.00
Joseph Bullard Lot
200.00
Carroll B. Moore Lot
100.00
Frank W. Morse Lot 200.00
Thomas Hinshon Lot
100.00
William Anderson Lot 50.00
100.00
Emma Donlan Lot
100.00
John Hinkley Lot
100.00
Chipman Lot
500.00
Thomas Rourke Lot
100.00
Lewis Dewar Lot
100.00
Samuel Guild Lot
100.00
George W. Mills Lot
100.00
Edward Blackington 100.00
800.00
Amos Gilbert Lot 100.00
Mark Woodbine Lot
100.00
H. L. Park Lot
100.00
Chas. S. Ficicchy Lot 100.00
Charles B. Smith Lot 100.00
Edward Wood Lot 100.00
Horatio Jordan Lot
100.00
Vincent Mick Lot 100.00
George S. Cheney Lot 100.00
Fred A. Smith Lot
100.00
Wm. D. R. Owens Lot
100.00
George R. Chase Lot
100.00
Walter Russell Lot 100.00
Percy B. Read Lot
100.00
James A. Sproul Lot
100.00
Arthur Hobbs Lot
100.00
James Woodward Lot
100.00
James Carpenter Lot
100.00
John W. Wilson Lot
100.00
George Clark Lot
100.00
Rafaele Mollinaro Lot
100.00
James Wilkins Lot
100.00
Joel E. Heard Lot 100.00
Sophia Grant Lot 100.00
Edgar E. Lincoln Lot
100.00
Lonergan-Clark Lot
100.00
Joseph M. Johnson Lot 100.00
George Steere Lot
100.00
Herbert A. Koch Lot
100.00
Conrad Weiker Lot
100.00
George B. Heron Lot 100.00
Josephine M. Spear Lot 200.00
Charles Werner Lot 100.00
Eliakim Morse Lot 100.00
Margaret A. Miller Lot 100.00 Al Benny Lot 100.00
Margaret J. Ord Lot
100.00
John Cahill Lot 100.00
Henry W. Wood Lot
100.00
Claire Family Lot
100.00
Ruggles Adams Lot
300.00
Frances Ehnes Lot 100.00
Eric Leoffler Lot
100.00
Frank Gately Lot
100.00
Tyler-Thayer Lot
300,00
Sprague Lot
109.00
Evelyn Ayers Lot 100.00
Charles Wight Lot
Amos W. Shumway Lot 150.00
Alexander Petrie Lot
F. W. Morrill Lot
100.00
John H. Sweeney Lot
George H. Ellis Lot
Clarence M. Cutler Lot
100.00
Frank Laverty Lot 100.00
Wm. E. Williamson Lot 100.00
142
John G. Hutson Lot 150.00
Nellie V. Mugridge Lot 100.00
CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS (Continued)
Dedham Institution for Savings
Name of Fund
Original Fund
Name of Fund
Original Fund
John Sullivan Lot
100.00
Camille Granchelli Lot 100.00 Rebel Palumbo Lot 100.00
James Griffin Lot
100.00
John & Elizabeth Ord Lot 100.00
Granville Babcock Lot
100.00
Annie Stedman Lot
100.00
Annie Richardson Lot
100.00
Kind & Vose Lot
100.00
Thomas Callow Lot
100.00
John R. Lantz Lot
100.00
Thomas Spencer Lot
25.00
John Bartz Lot
100.00
John T. Guiney Lot
100.00
Josephine Percival Lot 100.00
Helen E. Maclean Lot 100.00
John T. Kennedy Lot 100.00
Charles E. White Lot 100.00
Napoleon Duhamel Lot 100.00
Joseph Ferrone Lot 100.00
Mary C. Wheeler Lot 200.00
Harold Morton Lot
100.00
Henry K. Bernard Lot 100.00
John A. Fraser Lot
100.00
R. B. Newcomb Lot 100.00
Lillian A. Faass Lot 100.00
J. W. Rich Lot 100.00
Thomas Howson Lot
100.00
M. Howard Blood Lot
150.00
Massachusetts Savings Bank
Clara Howard
$150.00
John Schools
50.00
Henry Wight
100.00
Baxter Lot
300.00
N. A. Stone
50.00
Edmund I. Chenery
100.00
George Morrill
100.00
Alice D. Sewell
200.00
Obed Hartshorn & Spear
200.00
John M. Richardson
500.00
Seth Maker
100.00
Edmund Bullard
50.00
Albion C. Gilbert
100.00
Daniel S. Wheeler
100.00
Keyes-Gilley
100.00
Charles J. Sawyer
200.00
Benjamin Chenery
100.00
James W. P. Dyer
50 00
A. C. Shumway
150.00
John B. Coombs
50.00
Emma Rhodes
100.00
William Salisbury
100.00
E. P. Tucker
100.00
John Balch
100.00
Oliver A. Clark
100.00
George H. Wight
100.00
E. Sablone
100.00
James T. Allen
100.00
Amelia Everett
100.00
William Crane
50.00
George Emerson
100.00
Noah Allen
100.00
E. V. Mitchell
500.00
Henry J. Dunn
100.00
Sarah G. Shumway
100.00
Francis S. Wight
100.00
George E. Pettis
100.00
John Sullivan
50.00
J. Augustus Fitts
100.00
Soldiers' Lot
700.00
John H. Pember
100.00
Moses Bullard
200.00
Bruce & Fisher
100.00
Francis Mason
200.00
John H. Gould
100.00
Francis E. Donlan
50.00
Hollis B. Wilson Lot
100.00
M. E. Schools Lot 100.00
Ellen Doyle Lot 25.00
Jos. L. Marcionette Lot
1,000.00
George C. Babcock Lot
100.00
Leon E. Mayo Lot
100.00
Susan I. Woods
100.00
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CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS (Continued)
Medfield Cooperative Bank
George P. Kennedy Lot $100.00
Michael Horgan Lot 100.00
Louise Brennan Lot 100.00
Rubin Proffitt Lot 15.00
Katherine Tapley Lot 100.00
James W. Lansberg
Mary E. Donnelly Lot 100.00
Lot
15.00
John C. Dailey Lot 25.00
Charles F. Bryant Lot
100.00
John P. McCarthy Lot
100.00
Domenico Cesolini Lot 15.00
Massachusetts Savings Bank
C. M. Clark
150.00
Samuel Ellis
100.00
Joseph A. Allen
100.00
Orion Wight
200.00
Washburn Lot
100.00
Moses F. Clark 100.00
Susan B. Ware
50.00
Medfield Cooperative Bank
Name of Fund
Original Fund
Name of Fund
Original Fund
Lester Blood Lot
100.00
Daniel C. Hinkley Lot
100.00
Ernest Bravo Lot
100.00
John Jennings Lot
100.00
Anthony Canevaro Lot 100.00
Richard E. Comrick Lot 100.00
George P. Simmons Lot 100.00 Wallace S. Spring Lot 100.00
Clifton P. Cox Lot 100.00
Thomas V. Sweeney Lot 100.00 Fred T. Young Lot 100.00
Mary A. Hennahane Lot 100.00
U. S. Government Bond
Waldo A. Fitts Lot 200.00
Home Savings Bank
Nancy H. Curtis
$50.00
Daniel D. Curtis
500.00
Mary M. Phelps
50.00
Joseph Clark
100 00
Eliza E. Williams
475.00
Ellenwood Lot
300.00
George C. Davis
100.00
144
Robert O. Hamilton Lot 100.00
ASSESSORS' REPORT
Town Appropriations Total Appropriations voted to be taken from Available Funds In 1952 In 1953
$365,665.58
9,300.00
17,983.80
$392,949.38
Overlay deficits
2,520.00
$395,469.38
State Tax and Assessments:
State Parks & Reservations
$371.25
State Parks & Reservations --- Underestimate
42.14
State Audit of Municipal Accounts
711.75
State Audit of Municipal Accounts -Underestimate
210.83
1,335.97
County Tax and Assessments:
County Tax
$6,027.54
Tuberculosis Hospital Assessment
7,016.51
Tuberculosis Hospital Assessment -Underestimate 978.06
14,022.11
Overlay of Current Year
9,101.32
GROSS AMOUNT TO BE RAISED
$419,928.78
Estimated Receipts and Available Funds:
Income Tax
$35,231.43
Corporation Taxes
12,819.25
Reimbursement on account of publicly owned land
4,786.40
Old Age Tax (Meals) Chap. 64B S10
1,138.75
Motor Vehicle & Trailer Excise
22,000.00
Licenses
2,290.50
Fines
10.00
Special Assessments
150.79
General Government
1,422.02
Health and Sanitation
763.56
Highways
165.00
Charities (Other than federal
grants for aid to dependent children) 2,367.40
Old Age Assistance (other than federal grants)
27,618.88
Veterans' Benefits
107.75
Schools
8,242.00
145
ASSESSORS' REPORT (continued)
Public Service Enterprises
15,759.85
Interest on taxes 682.59
State Assistance for School Construction-Chap. 645 Acts 1948 Old Age Other Cities & Towns
4,800.73
2,054.22
Total Estimated Receipts Overestimates:
$142,411.12
County Tax
664.36
Amounts voted to be taken from
Available Funds
November 20, 1952
50.00
November 20, 1952
667.50
November 20, 1952
880.25
November 20, 1952
1,450.00
November 20, 1952
280.00
November 20, 1952
372.25
November 20, 1952
3,500.00
December 29, 1952
2,100.00
March 9, 1953
6,000.00
March 9, 1953
500.00
March 9, 1953
272.47
March 9, 1953
573.33
March 9, 1953
1,250.00
March 9, 1953
1,500.00
March 9, 1953
1,750.00
March 9, 1953
320.00
March 9, 1953
468.00
March 9, 1953
2,350.00
March 9 1953
3,000.00
March 9, 1953
30,000.00
Total Available Funds
$57,283.80
Total Estimated Receipts and
Available Funds
$200,359.28
Net Amounts to be raise by Taxation on Polls and Property
$219,569.50
Number of Polls, 981 at $2.00 each
1,962.00
1,962.00
Total Valuation:
Personal Property
160,884.00
8,526.85
Real Estate
3,944,918.00
209,080.65
Total Taxes Levied on Polls and Property
$219,569.50
Number of Persons Assessed
16
On Personal Estate only
916
On Real Estate only
On Both Personal and Real Estate
52
Total Number of Persons Assessed Total Number of Polls Assessed
984
981
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Value of Assessed Personal Estate:
Stock in Trade Machinery Live Stock All other Tangible Property
18,500.
2,050.
16,020.
124,314.
Total Value of Assessed Personal Estate Value of Assessed Real Estate:
$160,884.00
Land exclusive of buildings Buildings exclusive of land
656,746.
3,238,172.
Total Value of Assessed Real Estate
$3,944,918.00
Total Value of Assessed Estate
$4.105,802.00
Tax Rate per $1000 - $53.00
Taxes for State, County and
Town Purposes:
Personal Estate
$ 8,526.85
Real Estate
209,080.65
Polls
1,962.00
$219,569.50
Number of Livestock Assessed:
Horses
35
Cows
39
Steers
18
Swine
102
Sheep
16
Fowl
2830
Number of Acres of land Assessed
8062
Number of Dwelling Houses Assessed 802
CARLTON W. KINGSBURY, Chairman HARRY E. CONWAY JOSEPH S. KENNEDY Assessors of Medfield
TAX COLLECTOR'S REPORT Amos C. Kingsbury, Tax Collector
Balance, Dec. 31, 1953 Motor Vehicle Excise 1953 $6,211.00
Balance, Dec. 31, 1953 Motor Vehicle Excise 1952
1,520.11
Balance, Dec. 31, 1953 Motor Vehicle Excise 1951
975.49
Balance, Dec. 31, 1953 Motor Vehicle Excise 1950
680.19
Balance, Dec. 31, 1953 Motor Vehicle Excise 1949
511.68
Balance, Dec. 31, 1953 Motor Vehicle Excise 1948 117.19
Balance, Dec. 31, 1953 Motor Vehicle Excise 1947 23.52
Balance, Dec. 31, 1953 Motor Vehicle Excise 1946
23,01
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TAX COLLECTOR'S REPORT (continued)
Balance Dec. 31, 1953 Taxes 1953 $14,165.64
Delinquent List Collected 1954 6,133.56
$14,165.64
$14,165.64
Balance Dec. 31, 1953
Delinquent List $2,248.21
Taxes 1952 $4,678.79
Collected 1954
2,430.58
$4,678.79
$4,678.79
Balance Dec. 31, 1953
Delinquent List
$746.85
Taxes Dec. 31, 1951 $1,609.44
Collected 1954 862.59
$1,609.44
$1.609.44
Balance Dec. 31, 1953 Taxes 1950
$321.10
Balance Dec. 31, 1953 Taxes 1949
240.01
Balance Dec. 31, 1953 Taxes 1948
58.52
Balance Dec. 31, 1953 Taxes 1947
15.42
DELINQUENT LIST 1953
Allen, Joseph T. L.
$108.65
Holmquist, Robert 58.30
Holmquist, Ellen 26.50
Katherine 10.60
Allen, Joseph T.
15.90
Allen, Joseph T.
23.85
Allen, Katherine
6.36
Alger, Anna
161.65
Belmont, Angel 3.97
Bravo, Eugene & Olive 198.75
Bravo, Joseph
238.50
Bravo, Joseph
31.80
Brock, Edward &
Eileen
bal. 41.65
Koch, Elizabeth
198.75
Bryant, Ruth
bal. 100.00
Koch, Elizabeth
20.40
Carpenter, Louis & Geneva 58.30
Laverty, Sedgwick Estate bal. 27.56
Chamberlain, Earl A. 10.60
Colantonio, Alfred
271.57
Ehnes, Hugo 200.34
Goodrich & Woods
66.25
Goring, Dudley &
Evelyn 13.25
Morse, Herbert bal.44.24
Murray, Aurie L. Estate 158.73
Evelyn 13.25
Graham, Ernest' M. & Ethel R. 42 40
Greenough, Mary M.
551.20
Hardy, Roger
185.50
Hardy, Roger
95.40
Hasting, Everett & Mary
bal. 116.96
Hinkley, Daniel &
Pepin, Joseph 78.44
George
bal. 10.60
Randall & Seidman 198.75
Johnson, Karl & Christine bal. 26.56
Johns, Yvonne 39.75
Kelley, Antoinette S. 96.93
Kelley, Antoinette S. 858.60
Kelley, Delmer & Antoinette 2.65
Keating, Barbara 26.50
Kingsbury, Robert 19.08
Laverty, Sedgwick Estate 2.65 MacKenney, Lawrence & Elizabeth bal. 177.16
Medfield Motors, Inc. 518.55
Milton, Helen E. 47.97
Goring, Dudley &
McHugh. John J. 37.10
O'Donnell, Francis E. 1.70
O'Donnell, Francis E. et al O'Donnell, Francis E. et al 266.32
Parsons, Leavitt & Margaret 467.46
148
$8,032.08
Allen, Joseph T. L. &
Johnson, Carl & Mary
137.80
Roberts, Joseph & Florence
bal. 140.37
Spender, Merlon 179.40
Rogers, Anna
bal. 116.46
Vasaturo, Pasquale
bal. 116.85
18.55
Walsh, Mary 119.25
Shugrue, Mary
246.45
Young, Fred T. Estate 178.08
Slaney, Herbert & Hildred
bal. 66.60
Personal
Casey, James
$92.75
Perrin, Thomas 79.50
Catenacci, V.
10.60
Storers Jenney Service
Colantonio, Alfred
47.70
Station
53.00
Geller, Morris
26.50
Taylor, Robert E. 10.60
Hamilton, Ralph & Ethel 15.90
POLLS
256.00
Holmquist, Ellen
78.17
Keefe, John
5.30
$8,032.08
DELINQUENT LIST 1952
December Assessment $26.80
Johnson, Carl & Mary 174.20
Allen, Joseph T. L.
137.35
Kelley, Antoinette &
Allen, Joseph T. L. & Katherine 13.40
Kelley, Antoinette bal. 122.21
Kingsbury, Robert
24.12
Allen, Joseph T. L. & Thorold
50.25
Milton, Helen 50.63
Allen, Katherine 8.04
McHugh, John
46.90
Bravo, Eugene & Olive 251.25
Smith, Herbert 73.70
Colantonio, Alfred
343.31
Ekstrom, John
bal. 95.99
Goring, Dudley & Evelyn 33.50
Personal
Casey, James F.
$117.25
Kelley, Delmer M.
201.00
Catenacci, V.
26.80
Roberts, Joseph
67.00
Colantonio, Alfred
60.30
POLLS
160.00
Geller, Morris
26.86
Hamilton, Ralph &
$2,248.21
Ethel
134.00
DELINQUENT LIST 1951 Personal
Bravo, Eugene
$5.50
Dugan, Francis 11.00
Bravo, Joseph
5.50
Geller, Morris
31.63
Casey, James F.
96.25
Getchell, Owen
11.00
Catenacci, V.
22.00
Gra'ce, Douglas
11.00
Chevarie, Eugene
11.00
Hamilton, Ralph &
Colantonio, Alfred
61.88
Ethel
121.00
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Seavey, Everett & Phyllis
Smith, Herbert H. et al 58.30
Delmer 3.35
Personal (Continued)
Iafolla, Antonio P.
11.00
Post, Norman D.
11.00
Kelley, Delmer
137.50
Roberts, Joseph Jr.
71.50
Larson, Harry
11.00
Sacchetine, Gino
11.00
Mills, Volney B.
11.00
Sullivan, Owen Jr.
11.00
Mckinnon, James E.
9.63
Walsh, Francis
11.00
Real Estate
McHugh, John
$3.46
POLLS
60.00
$746.85
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TOWN WARRANT COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
NORFOLK, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Medfield, in said County, greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth you are directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Medfield on Monday the 1st day of March A. D. 1954 at 6:00 A. M. then and there to act on the following articles:
Article 1. To choose all Town officers required to be elect- ed annually by ballot, to wit:
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