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Paid Dolley J. Haley for support of Daniel Harrington 12 00
Paid Mrs. Freeman for boarding James W.
Wilson 4 weeks at $2.25 per week ..... $9 00 Mrs. Freeman for boarding James W. Wil- son 17 3-4 weeks at $1.85 per week .... 32 25 Dr. Metcalf for medical attendance to James W. Wilson. 1 50
for medicine for James W. Wilson 4 95
47 70
Paid Peter Ford for board and care of Michael Grady 24 3-7 weeks at $1.50 per week Paid Taunton Lunatic Hospital for support of Ellen Ballou, four bills .
36 64
166 15
Paid James M. Staples for boarding Charles H. Allen 4 weeks at $1.50 per week. .. James M. Staples for boarding Charles
$6 00
H. Allen 39 2-7 weeks at $1 per week 39 28
for clothing for Charles H. Allen .
16 33
61 61
Paid School for Idiotic and Feeble Minded Youth for clothing for Ezra W. Allen .. 42 88
Paid Henry L. Patrick for goods delivered to Daniel Cunningham, two bills. $19 99
Patrick Lynch for goods delivered to Dan'l Cunningham, two bills.
20 00
Lewis Wood for 8 feet 8 inches hard wood delivered to Daniel Cunningham ...... Samuel Gaskill 8 feet hard wood delivered to Daniel Cunningham. 5 66
6 50
E. A. & L. A. Cook for { cord of hard wood delivered to Daniel Cunningham 3 00
55 15
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Paid Henry L. Patrick for goods delivered to Mrs. Luania Smith . 4 00
Paid Liberty Freeman for goods and cash fur- nished Stephen H. Scisco $3 95
Lewis Wood for wood delivered to Steph- en H. Scisco 2 50
6 45
Paid S. Jones for goods furnished Henry Moore 7 62
Lewis Wood for one cord of hard wood delivered to Henry Moore 5 00
12 62
Paid S. Jones for goods furnished John O'Sul- livan, 2 bills $29 29
Anna W. Hastings for rent for John O'Sullivan. 3 00
Davis Hill for wood furnished John O'Sul- livan. 2 50
34 79
Paid S. Jones for goods furnished George P. Tucker
$10 00
Lewis Wood for wood furnished Geo. P. Tucker 2 50
Stephen Cook for rent for Geo. P. Tucker 3 33
15 83
Paid David Sherrin for support of Mrs. Car- berry and her children.
26 55
Paid A. W. Judson for care of and furnishing tramps.
$22 25
A. W. Judson for furnishing tramps to date . 8 25
Gilbert Gaskill for straw for bunks at A lockup 75
31 25 1
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Paid Henry A. Aldrich for two C. C. Cham- bers for use of paupers $1 00
Gilbert Gaskill for straw to fill paupers' beds 75
Gilbert Gaskill for moving goods from Mr. Hill's to Mr. Broughey's. .. 1 50 E. P. Gaskill for moving paupers and helping move goods. 2 00
Dr. Metcalf for medical attendance to pau- pers last year, and omitted at settlement of Feb. 19, 1879.
2 00
A. Hixon for selling goods.
1 35
E. P. Gaskill for services as Overseer for the municipal year ending March 1st, 1880. 25 00
For postage on forty-one letters
1 23
For stationery
77
Gilbert Gaskill for services as Overseer
of the Poor for the municipal year end- ing March 1, 1880. 6 00
Liberty Freeman for services as Overseer of the Poor for the municipal year end- ing March 1, 1880. 6 00
47 60
$1086 36
SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS.
Received from account of last year. $ 17 43
on town orders 1045 00
of Davis Hill . 1 00
for goods sold 13 63
of town of Southboro
5 00
Needham 4 00
- - $1086 0G
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SUMMARY OF PAYMENTS.
Paid for support of
Elijah Penniman
$ 112 01
Freeman Miles
106 17
Nathan Streeter.
99 03
Edner Allen
52 13
Lawrence Wilber
42 95
Richard P. Madden
63 49
Delia Harrington
9 36
Daniel Harrington
12 00
James W. Wilson
47 70
Michael Grady
36 64
Ellen Ballou
166 15
Charles H. Allen
61 61
Ezra W. Allen
42 88
Daniel Cunningham.
55 15
Mrs. Luania Smith.
4 00
Stephen H. Scisco
6 45
Henry Moore
12 62
John O'Sullivan
34 79
George P. Tucker
15 83
Mrs. Carberry and children.
· 26 55
Tramps
31 25
Paid H. A. Aldrich.
1 00
Dr. Metcalf.
2 00
A. Hixon
1 35
For moving paupers and goods
3 50
straw
75
" postage and stationery.
2 00
" Overseers' services.
37 00
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$1086 36
Leaving a balance due Overseers of.
30
From the whole amount paid for support of poor .
$1086 36
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DEDUCT
What was due Davis Hill, for support of paupers to March 3d, 1879 . .. . $ 118 79
What was due A. W. Judson, for care of tramps . 18 00
What was due Taunton Lunatic Hospital, for support of Ellen Ballou. ... 30 50 What is due from the town of Milford for support of John O'Sullivan. .... 34 79 What is due from Hopkinton for support of Mrs. Carberry and her children ..... 26 55
Paid for medical attendance of paupers last year' 2 00
Paid for support of Mrs. Luania Smith. ..
4 00
$234 63.
$851 73
ADD
What is due Michael Broughey, by estima- tion, for support of paupers to March 1st, 1880 ..
$ 47 57
18 00
What is due A. W. Judson, by estimation, for care of tramps to March 1st, 1880 What is due Taunton Lunatic Hospital, for support of Ellen Ballou, to March 1st, 1880. 25 71
What is due James M. Staples, for support of Charles H. Allen, to March 1st, 1880 9 00
The amount of two bills presented by the town of Milford, one of $6.86 for sup- port of Nathan Streeter, another of $5.40 for aid to Henry H. Howard .. 12 26
112 54.
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And its makes the cost of supporting the poor for the year ending March 1st, 1880.
$964 27
All of which is respectfully submitted.
EZEKIEL P. GASKILL, GILBERT GASKILL,
LIBERTY FREEMAN,
Overseers of the Poor.
AUDITORS' REPORT.
The undersigned, elected at the annual town meeting held in Mendon, March 3d, 1879, a Board to audit the accounts of the offi- cers of said town for the current year, respectfully submit the fol- lowing report :
They have examined the accounts of the Treasurer, Select- men and Overseers of the Poor, of said town, and find the same accurately kept, and satisfactorily vouched for. The vouchers for partial payments, and for payments of interest, on the outstanding notes of the town, being the endorsements of such payments on the several notes, and the notes being in the hands of the holder there- of, your board were of course unable to positively verify such pay- ments, but do not doubt but what they have actually been made.
They also offer the following recommendations :
1. They find that parties other than the payees of town or- ders are in the habit of receipting for such orders, without the writ- ten authority of the payee. We recommend that this practice cease, and that no town order be delivered except upon the receipt of the payee, or of a party having such payee's written order for the same, or the receipted bill of said payee for like amount. And that no town order be given out for any bill or part of a bill not due at that time.
2d. That the Selectmen's days for drawing orders should be Treasurer's pay days. That the Treasurer should pay all demands by checks, so far as possible, and that all but a small amount of the funds in his hands should be deposited in some National Bank.
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3d. That the U. S. Bonds belonging to the town should be registered or deposited in Safe Deposit vaults.
4th. That the Treasurer be required to hereafter keep an itemized note and bond account, which shall show on the one hand the outstanding indebtedness of the town at the commencement of the municipal year, and the notes and bonds,given during the year, and on the other hand, those paid during the year and those out- standing at its close.
5th. That hereafter whenever the Treasurer is authorized to borrow money in the name of the town, that a limit be fixed to the amount he is to so borrow, and that all notes or bonds given by him must be approved by a majority of the board of Selectmen then in office in said town, and certified by them, in writing, upon the face of said notes or bonds, to come within the limit named in the vote ; and the Selectmen shall keep a full account of all notes or bonds so approved and certified by them.
6th. That hereafter the Treasurer shall, whenever he makes a partial payment, or a payment of interest, on an outstanding note of the town, be required to take the receipt of the holder of the note for such payment, in addition to endorsing the same upon the note.
They would also acknowledge the cheerfulness and courtesy with which the above officers have submitted their accounts for ex- amination.
All of which report is respectfully submitted.
JULIUS A. GEORGE, PUTNAM W. TAFT, Auditors. WALTER M. WHEELOCK,
Mendon, February 21, 1880.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
WORCESTER, SS.
At the Superior Court, begun and holden at Worcester, within and for the County of Worcester, on the second Monday of Decem . ber, being the eighth day of said month, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
By the Honorable FRANCIS H. DEWEY, One of the Justices of said Court.
On all days of said term, except the fourteenth, fifteenth, six- teenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and twenty-ninth days of said term, being the twenty-ninth, thirtieth and thirty-first days of December, aforesaid, and the first, second and seventeenth days of January, A. D., 1880, and on said fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seven- teenth, eighteenth and twenty-ninth days of the term aforesaid,
By the Honorable P. EMORY ALDRICH, One of the Justices of said Court.
BY-LAWS OF THE TOWN OF MENDON.
1. If any person shall use obscene language, quarrel or com- mit any manner of mischief, or otherwise misbehave in a disorder- ly manner in any street, highway or gangway, or in any building or other public place in said town, to the disturbance or annoyance of the peaceable inhabitants thereof, or any portion . of them, or shall aid, assist, encourage or promote the same to be done by any other person or persons, he shall be fined not less than two dollars nor more than twenty dollars.
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2. If any person shall, with the alleged object of celebrating the anniversary of our National Independence, or on any occasion of public or party rejoicing, or at any other time when peaceable persons are thereby annoyed or alarmed, fire or discharge any gun, fowling piece or fire arm, or make any bonfire or other needless fire, or shall aid, assist, encourage or promote the same to be done by any other person or persons, in any street or public place within one-half mile from the Post Office in said town, he shall be fined not less than two dollars nor more than twenty dollars.
3. If any person shall tie or fasten any horse, cattle, or team to any of the trees planted in any public highway or street, or any public lands in said town, for shade or ornament, or anything put up for the protection of said trees, he shall forfeit and pay for each offense a sum not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars.
4. If any person shall maliciously, wantonly or carelessly daub with paint, cut, deface, or otherwise injure any public trees, fences, buildings, furniture therein or other objects useful or orna- mental, he shall be fined not less than two dollars nor more than ten dollars.
5. If any person shall throw a carcass of any dead animal into any of the ponds, streams or waters within the limits of said town, or if any person shall leave any such carcass or any such an- imal to decay on the surface of the ground, or insufficiently buried therein, near any building or road, or other highway in said town, he shall pay for every such offense a sum not less than five dollars nor more than ten dollars.
6. If any person shall coast, or run down in, into, across or along any of the streets or highways in said town on any other thing than a single hand sled, or in the night time or on any side- walk in said town upon the snow or ice, he shall for each offense be fined not less than one dollar nor more than five dollars.
7. If any person shall play at ball, or throw balls or stones, or snow balls, or foot balls, or throw any missiles by hand or other-
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