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The studies of the primary schools, reading, spelling, geography, and mental arithmetic, are continued in these schools ; - writing is commenced, and written arithmetic is pursued through the division of simple numbers.
These schools are particularly difficult to teach or to govern. Very few of the scholars have yet formed good habits of study ; they have generally very little ambition, and their moral nature is not commonly so fully developed that a sense of duty controls them.
With all these difficulties to contend with, the teachers in this grade are worthy of high commendation for their almost uniform success. A teacher who can attain the
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highest success in a secondary school may safely under- take the management of any school of any grade. The energy, skill, tact, and wisdom which will give her the con- fidence of her pupils, the complete control of their persons and of their wills, in a school of this grade, are elements which will command respect and success in the most re- sponsible situation to which a teacher may be called.
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS, LOWER GRADE.
Number of schools, ..
..
..
6
teachers,
8
287
Whole number registered, - Males, Females,
288-575
Average whole number, ..
383
Average daily attendance, ..
..
346
Per centage of attendance,
..
..
.90
Average age in years and months, ..
13. 0
..
For the increase in this grade provision was made by placing an additional teacher in the west grammar school, Thomas street, which for nearly two years had em- ployed only one. To the studies pursued in the seconda- ries, which are continued here, are added the study of grammar, the writing of compositions, and the defining of words.
These schools are all taught by females, and it is not too much to say of most of them that, if their places were made vacant, it would be very difficult to find their equals to fill them. Their methods are as unlike as their mental and moral constitutions. Teachers, like lawyers, may learn much of each other, but cannot safely imitate each other. Saul's armor is only an incumbrance to David. Other things being equal, that teacher is the most successful who combines with good teaching qualities the most extensive and accurate knowledge of human nature, who does not
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too soon give up a dull or refractory child as hopeless, who when one method fails has the ingenuity to discover another, and the patience to try it,- who, after numerous failures, still believes that there is through the heart of every child an avenue to his intellect, and who insists on finding it.
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS, HIGHER GRADE.
Number of schools, ..
..
..
4
teachers, - Males, ..
..
2
Females, ..
..
3- 5
128
Whole number registered, - Males, Females,
210-338
Average whole number,
267
Average attendance,
..
250
Per centage of attendance,
..
..
.94
Average age in years and months, ..
..
14. 5.
..
No change has been made in the corps of teachers in these schools. What was said of them in last year's re- port has only been confirmed by another year's trial. After the annual examination the number of pupils promoted to this grade so far exceeded the accommodations for them that a new school to receive them was organized and lo- cated for the time in the room in the Main street house occupied during the winter by the adult schools ; but on the completion of the new house on Salem street, in Sep- tember, it was permanently located there. A teacher was placed in charge of it who had already, in the schools of the city, established a reputation which makes her a wor- thy compeer of her brilliant associates in this grade of schools.
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CLASSICAL AND ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL.
Number of teachers, - Males, ..
..
2
Females, ..
4 - 6
Number of pupils registered, - Males, 110 Females, 167-277
Average whole number of pupils, ..
202
Average daily attendance, ..
..
190
Per centage of attendance, ..
..
.94
Average age in years and months, ..
.. 16.
10.
The high school is the vertex of the pyramid of our system of public schools. It is the highest in the order of the grades, and the smallest in the number of pupils. The course of study comprises four years and the pupils are divided into four corresponding classes called the sen- ior, junior, second year, and first year, classes.
The following statement will show the number in each of these classes, the average age of each class, and also, how small a fraction of those that enter the school com- plete the course.
Number of scholars.
Average age of scholars.
Senior class,
20
17 years 8 months.
Junior class,
45
17
9
Second year class,
63
16
8
60
First year class,
76
15
7
66
Comparing the statistics of the school for the last three years we have the following results :
Whole number registered.
Average whole number.
Average daily Ratio of av'age attendance. daily attend- ance to aver- age whole No.
Number of Average num - teachers. ber of schol - ars to each teacher.
1859,
244
159
131
.82
5 32
1860,
233
187
176
.94
6
31
1861,
277
202
190
.94
6
34
The year has passed without a change in the corps of teachers, a fact without a precedent, it is thought, in the
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history of the school, certainly without a precedent in the last ten years. The interests of the school have not been promoted by the frequency of these changes, and we hail with pleasure the signs of greater permanency and a more uniform policy under teachers enjoying the confidence of the public as well as of the committee.
The high school, as its name indicates, comprises sev- eral departments. In the order of their prominence they are the English, the Classical, and the French. None of these is wholly distinct and separate from the others. The English is not exclusively English, or the Classical exclu- sively classical, and the French department includes schol- ars connected with all the others.
That the course of study, now comprising four years, is as long as public opinion demands is evident from a com- parison of the first year and fourth year classes, the for- mer having seventy-six pupils, the latter only twenty. But a course of study, like a river which no one might wish to be longer, may sometimes be greatly improved by being made deeper or wider. The schools of our city should be adapted to our wants. Education in England is carefully conformed to the wants of English society, - in France, to the wants of French society. Our children should be educated, in no narrow, partizan, or selfish sense, to be Americans. In harmony with this principle our own local wants should not be forgotten or neglected. Provision is now made in the high school for the large class who are educated with a view to mercantile or mechanical pursuits, also for the smaller class who have college and the pro- fessions in view. Should not provision also be made for the special training of that large class who wish to be- come teachers ? Why should not Worcester educate all her own teachers, and furnish to her neighbors a better supply than they can procure anywhere else ? A slight
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modification of the English course in the high school would enable us to accomplish this desirable result and give to the committee an unfailing supply of the best teachers for all our schools.
Rev. R. R. Shippen, chairman of the visiting committee, has furnished the following report of the school :
The prosperous condition of the High School externally is indicated by its number of pupils, larger than ever before ; by the high per cent. aver- age attendance, and by the smooth record of the year, unbroken by changes of teachers or difficulty of any kind.
Its order and discipline have improved perceptibly. Whether now satisfactory will depend on whether we expect rigid, military discipline, or prefer the more genial relations that beget affection rather than fear toward a teacher, making order not so much an end in itself as the means to higher ends. One hundred pupils in a single room, reciting to several teachers, render impossible the intimate personal interest and close super- vision found in schools where one teacher has but fifty, hears all their recitations, and comes in constant contact with them. Yet the most kindly relations between teacher and pupil are perfectly consistent with complete subordination and respect for authority, without which no school is successful. We would neither apologize nor rest satisfied ; but would aim for that high moral tone which has made Rugby school famous, giv- ing every member its impress of refined manners and address, nice sense of honor and truth, and an esprit du corps which felt every merit or fault of the school as a personal matter. The committee believe the present teachers to be faithful and devoted, and ready to carry out all practical suggestions for further improvement.
The medals and marks and other stimulating influences have plainly increased the punctuality in attendance and ambition in study. Yet such influences fail to reach some and affect others unduly ; and with the same allotted studies some will despatch their task in brief time, while others seem overburdened. So that it will probably continue as now happens, that some parents will deem their children driven, while others complain that they have too little to do.
The text-books used in chemistry and physiology have been changed for better, but no change has been made in the course of study. The committee would gladly introduce book-keeping, for which our young men entering business ought not to be obliged to seek private instruction ;
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- to pay more attention to penmanship, in which our schools somewhere are sadly deficient ; to drawing, which is no mere showy accomplishment, but the training of eye and hand for a thousand useful purposes ; to mu- sic, which is no mere passing enjoyment, but a resource against gross temptation and an aid to religious worship ; and to physical exercise, to whose necessity public attention has been so largely called of late. The difficulty is more fully to crowd the four years which the teachers repre- sent as too short for the course already arranged. They have asked that another year be added. This, however, it was believed, would not prove acceptable to the public. Relief may be obtained by requiring the gram - mar schools to complete arithmetic and grammar, obviating the necessity of spending six months in the high school reviewing those studies, often to the great distaste of pupils. This would somewhat elevate the stand- ard of admission. As our rule has been to require all applicants to reach the lowest rank of those received from our grammar schools, this might in some cases exclude applicants from private schools who are often found to have gone over more studies than they have gone through. But how- ever high the standard of admission, the school cannot be deemed select or exclusive while all its seats are filled and its rooms crowded.
On the other hand, it is thought that by devoting a portion of the last year to a review of these elementary and English studies, opportunity may be afforded to young ladies about to graduate to refresh the memory and fit themselves for teaching, thus securing some advantages of a nor- mal school course, and preparing, as we ought, our own graduates as teachers for our schools.
Attention has been called to the fact that our graduates sometimes find difficulty in entering Harvard college, or are compelled to leave the school and incur expense elsewhere in order to make full preparation. This ought not to be. Yet there are difficulties that should fairly be stated. Harvard college, in her requirements for admission, is especially exacting in the classics and the minutiæ of the grammar. The Boston high school, organized into three departments, devotes one - the Latin school - to the specific object of fitting boys for Harvard ; and to that end takes them at the age of ten and leaving untouched chemistry, natu- ral philosophy, and all studies which the college course embraces, carries them through six years training almost exclusively in the elements of Latin and Greek. Obviously such a course would not suit the wants of this community, which sends to college only two or three out of each graduating class. As our high school completes the tuition of so many, its course must be arranged to meet the average need, and the classics occupy but their fair proportion among other studies. Since therefore
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the college standard does not measure the general attainments, but, indif- ferent to many of our studies, is stringent in certain specialties, it is no disparagement of one's scholarship that he has not the specific outfit re- quired, nor can it be expected that every graduate of the school shall be ready to enter college. Until the wants and means of our city shall make a more complete organization and system practicable, the committee would suggest that boys intending to enter college should make their decision two or three years in advance, and, forming a special class, study with express reference to college requisitions. The committee and teachers will gladly facilitate such plan when desired.
The school needs more liberal annual appropriation for books of refer- ence, maps, charts, chemicals, and working facilities. The pupils, by their own exertion, have purchased and presented to the school a carpet and a piano ; and now from the proceeds of their recent Christmas festi- val offer to appropriate one hundred and fifty dollars for the permanent uses of the school if the city will duplicate the amount. If this should be granted, the full sum would make handsome addition to the resources of the school.
The committee appreciate the earnest desire often expressed that our high school should rank with the best in the country. One obvious meth- od of attaining that end, as in so many departments of this practical world, is, to pay the cost. It is worth while to observe that while Phila- delphia, for every high school pupil, pays $32.53 tuition, or $36.42 in gross expense, and Boston pays $56.18, Worcester is paying but $20.79. Nor is the difference merely in the higher salaries paid in the larger cities. It is in the number of teachers and ample facilities provided. With lib- eral pecuniary appropriation, and cordial co-operation of parents, teachers and pupils, nothing need prevent our enjoying a school at the head of our city educational system which shall gratify our pride as one of our most honorable and valuable institutions.
The Bullock Prizes. - The judges to award the prizes for the year 1861 were Rev. Horace James, Henry S. Washburn, Esq., George Chandler, M. D., Thomas S. Nelson, Esq., and Rev. T. W. Higginson ; - and they made the award as follows :
The committee chosen to act as judges in the award of the Bullock medals in the high school, for the school-year ending May 1st, 1861, have
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attended to their duty, and, after a patient and protracted examination, are unanimous in awarding the medals as follows :
For Excellence in Deportment :
To Loise P. Grosvenor, Mary G. B. Wheeler, Charles S. Hall, Fred- eric S. Pratt.
For Excellence in Classical Studies :
To George D. Woodbury, Claudius M. Jones, Henry P. Holmes, Fanny W. Cummings.
For Excellence in Mathematics :
To Emma S. Morse, Mary E. Green, Albert E. Lamb, Minna S. Fitch.
For Excellence in English Studies, viz :
Physiology and Chemistry : Alma Morse. History : Mary A. Harring- ton. English Literature : Isabella A. Chase. Drawing : Frances M. Lincoln.
For Composition : Caroline Barnard. Declamation : Henry B. O'Reilly. Reading : Miriam B. Whiton. French : Joanna C. Woodbury.
Besides the foregoing specific awards, the committee would also make honorable mention of excellence attained in various departments by the following pupils :
In Classical Studies : William H. Drury, Emma S. Morse.
In Mathematics : Anna C. Perry, Alma Morse, Mary A. Harrington, Isabella A. Chase, Mary G. B. Wheeler, Loise P. Grosvenor.
In Physiology and Chemistry : Alma Morse, Loise P. Grosvenor, Albert HI. Inman, William S. Messenger.
In History : Caroline Barnard, John B. Colton, Loise P. Grosvenor.
In English Literature : Alma Morse, Esther M. Harrington, Emma S. Morse, Warren D. Hobbs, Amelia Nixon, Amanda Nixon.
In Drawing : Ann E. Hall, Helen F. Marsh, Maria S. Clark.
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In Composition : William H. Drury, Samuel D. Allen.
In Declamation : Dexter Tiffany, John G. Heywood, Albert E. Lamb. In Reading : Minna S. Fitch.
In Deportment : Maria S. Clark, Henrietta S. Clark, Maria A. Harring- ton, Mary A. Harrington, Alma Morse, Adela Fitch, Emma L. Griggs, Mary A. Hakes, Mary Partridge, Julia A. Rockwood, Agnes E. Sam- son, Louise P. Claflin, Eldora M. Aldrich, Miriam B. Whiton, Henry A. Wheeler, William S. Messenger, John D. Partridge.
For the Committee,
J. D. E. JONES, Superintendent.
GEORGE W. RUSSELL,
SAMUEL V. STONE,
NAHUM H. ANDREWS,
THOMAS MAGENNIS,
MERRICK BEMIS, LEVI BARKER,
ROBERT L. SMYTH, JOHN C. NEWTON,
OLIVER K. EARLE,
ALBERT W. CURTIS,
TIMOTHY K. EARLE,
DELANO A. GODDARD, .
JONAS BARTLETT,
CHARLES BALLARD, J. D. E. JONES, THOMAS EARLE,
JOHN J. POWER, L. M. BURRINGTON, SAMUEL D. HARDING,
RUSH R. SHIPPEN,
WILLIAM WORKMAN,
A. B. CAPRON, MOSES TAFT,
WILLIAM A. WILLIAMS.
ISAAC DAVIS, Mayor.
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APPENDIX.
Schools.
Teachers.
Salaries ...
registered ...
Whole number
Males ...
Females ..
belonging. ......
Average number
tendance .... ..
Average daily at-
Ratio of at-
No. of Teachers ..
Jan'y 1, 1862.
Average age of
CLASSICAL AND ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL.
Harris R. Greene, James K. Lombard, Anna U. Russell, Ava Williams,
$1,300 1,000
277
110
167
202
190
.94
.94
6
16
10
GRAMMAR, Higher Grade.
Thomas Street
James H Newton, Caroline Parkinson,
1,000 350
127
44
83
100
96
.96
.96
2
14
11
Sycamore Street
Addison A. Hunt,
1,100
82
25
57
53
52
.98
.98
1
15
014
Elutheria Manly,
350
69
30
39
54
51
.92
.94
1
13
7
Salem Street
Martha A. Willard,
300
60
29
31
60
51
.93
1
14
1
Lower Grade. Thomas Street
Ellen M. Hawes, Hattie Whitney,
350 250
115
59
56
75
69
.92
.92
2
13
6
Elizabeth L. Gird,
350
135
76
59
93
84
.92
.90
2
13
0
Charlotte J. Hapgood,
300
350
71
31
40
57
54
.96
.94
1
12
872
Pleasant Street
Harriet M. Walker,
350
107
50
57
60
50
.91
.90
1
13
03/4
Ash Street.
Sarah M. Rogers,
350
81
38
43
60
53
.86
.90
1
12
472
New Worcester
Mary A. Davis,
300
66
33
33
38
36
.90
.92
1
12
11
SECONDARY. Thomas Street
Elizabeth H. Coe, Margaret P. Williams,
350 250
131
58
73
110
94
.85
.85
2
11
3
Main Street
Kate A. Meade,
325
78
38
40
60
54
.83
.90
1
11
4
Salem Street
Rebecca Barnard,
275
88
41
47
58
49
.89
.86
1
11
11
Sycamore Street
Harriet E. Lamb,
325
75
38
37
55
47
.89
.85
1
11
6
325
69
36
33
60
54
.91
.91
1
10
10
Pleasant Street
Caroline Hewett,
325
70
39
31
63
56
.91
.90
1
10
5
66
66
Hester A. Greene,
325
68
35
33
60
53
.86
.88
1
10
10
Summer Street.
Sarah A. Wheelock,
325
72
40
32
54
49
.89
.90
1
11
4
66
Tirza S. Nichols,
275
67
34
33
56
50
.90
.89
1
11
1
Ash Street.
Charlotte N. Follett,
325
77
34
43
59
52
.83
.88
1
11
3
Providence Street
Mary S. Maynard,
250
78
28
50
41
32
.89
.78
1
11
7%
New Worcester
Mary M. Lawton,
200
44
25
19
32
28
.92
.88
1
10
9
PRIMARY.
Anna R. Merrill,
300
85
44
41
67
60
.86
.89
1
8
10
Sycamore Street
Sarah W. Clements,
300
83
33
50
69
56
.82
.82
1
9
0
Main Street
Sarah J. Newton, Rebecca W. Taylor,
300
137
71
66
109
96
.87
.88
2
9
3
250
Summer Street
Esther G. Chenery, Charlotte Wheeler,
300 250
134
69
65
102
96
.83 .73
.95
2
8
0
.
.
1860 1861
Yrs. Mos.
500
400
Kate F. Leland,
375
Clara C. Plympton,
375
14
3
66
Carrie A. George,
Sycamore Street
66
Emily J. Clapp,
Thomas Street
tendance ....
scholars,
87
Schools.
Teachers.
Salaries.
registered.
Whole number
Males ...
Females ..
belonging ....
Average number
Average daily at-1
tendance ....
Ratio of at-
Jan'y 1, 1862.
Average age of
Yrs. Mos.
Ash Street
Mary J. Mack,
$300 250
152
71
81
113
95
75
.84
2
9
0
Pleasant Street
Lydia M. Wilmarth,
300
133
66
67
116
92
.84
.79
2
8
3
Front Street.
Martha Hobbs,
300
68
24
44
60
53
.83
.88
1
9
2
Kate Hobbs, .
300
78
31
47
60
53
.83
.88
1
8
2
East Worcester
Harriet Hathaway, Laura L. Newton,
250
300
108
54
54
69
51
.74
.74
1
6
9
Summer Street
Mary A. Slater,
300
161
84
77
119
96
.83
.81
2
6
1
Main Street
S. Sophie Banister,
300
108
56
52
75
61
.86
.82
1
6
2
Pleasant Street
Hattie N. Perry,
300
110
63
47
70
54
.75
.77
1
6
4
Sycamore Street
Caroline R. Clements,
300
82
39
43
60
53
.81
.88
1
7
6
66
Mary A. Smith,
300
92
44
48
66
57
.76
.86
1
5
11%
Front Street.
Abigail Pratt,
300
90
42
48
71
57
.72
.80
1
5
6
Cornelia M. Draper,
300
90
44
45
73
59
.75
.81
1
5
9
Ash Street.
Helen M. Shattuck, Mary S. Magennis,
250
300
104
48
56
64
53
.82
.83
1
5
2
East Worcester
Carrie E. Putnam, Mary D. Thayer,
300
199
94
105
136
110
.89
.81
2
5
11
PRIMARY, UNDIVIDED.
Salem Street
Mary E. Lovell,
250
95
49
46
69
58
.87
.83
1
7
8
Providence Street
Sara C. Woodbury,
150
76
36
40
48
40
.86
.83
1
8
1 1
New Worcester
Annie P. James,
300
85
40
45
43
40
.93
.94
1
7
11
SUBURBAN.
Tatnuck.
Charles W. Morrill,
*40
59
34
25
38
33
.83
.87
1
South Worcester
Carrie F. Ayres,
250
106
50
56
68
54
.76
.79
2
Adams Square
Abby B. Johnson,
200
36
22
14
22
20
.79
.91
1
Northville
Melissa U. Blanchard,
300
67
33
34
51
48
.86
.94
1
Quinsigamond
Sybil B. Lamb,
250
112
61
51
76
64
.73
.86
2
Burncoat Plain
Amelia Parker,
250
38
22
16
25
22
.84
.86
1
North Pond
Susan M. Hastings,
200
39
25
14
27
22
.62
.82
1
Leesville
Addie H. Barnes,
250
52
19
33
28
23
.81
.82
1
Valley Falls
Abbie C. Smith,
200
50
23
27
38
31
.78
.82
1
Chamberlain
Martha A. Richardson,
200
25
14
11
16
14
.88
.89
1
Pond
Hattie N. Chase,
250
54
31
23
42
38
.83
.90
1
Blithewood
Martha D. Ayres,
200
40
24
16
23
22
.82
.98
1
ADULT SCHOOLS.
Young Men's
Thomas Wheelock,
*40
87
87
0
43
38
.85
.87
1
Evening
Thomas Wheelock,
$1
71
38
33
69
55
.90
.80
1
* Per month.
t Per week.
* Per evening.
2
7
8
300
154
74
80
117
93
.76
.83
2
8
11
SUB-PRIMARY.
1
Thomas Street
Sarah L. Phillips,
300
137
63
74
121
97
.80
.80
No. of Teachers .. |
scholars,
tendance.
..
1860 1861
Emma L. Brooks,
H. Josephine Johnson,
250
Charlotte Eaton,
250
Hattie A. Bigelow,
250
t3
Susie E. Rice,
Sarah P. Homer,
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REPORT
OF THE
CITY TREASURER.
CITY OF WORCESTER, TREASURER'S OFFICE, JANUARY 27, 1862.
To the Honorable City Council :
GENTLEMEN-The Treasurer has the honor, and would respectfully lay before you his twelfth Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures, Appropriations raised by tax, Abatements and discounts, Taxes uncollected, &c.,
from January 7, 1861, to January 6, 1862.
The Cash account accompanying the same will exhibit the Cash transactions for the same space of time.
Cash on hand January 7, 1861,
$6,441 02
received from all sources,
253,321 14
$259,762 16
Cash paid out for all departments, $254,049 61
" balance January 6, 1862,
5,712 55
$259,762 16
All of which is respectfully submitted,
GEORGE W. WHEELER,
City Treasurer.
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Dr.
CITY OF WORCESTER, in account current from January 7, 1861,
Balances January 7, 1861 :
Liquor agency,
$1,021 11
Military,
669 06
Public Library Building,
8,000 00-$9,690 17
Paid Abatement on Taxes, after payment,
283 24
Aqueduct,
1,826 50
Contingent Expenses,
-
-
1,908 00
66 Dog Fund,
78 25
Fire Department,
-
-
-
10,722 19
Free Public Library,
2,613 40
building,
-
11,953 39
Fuel, Lights, Printing, &c., -
1,459 41
Highways and Bridges,
-
11,583 27
Hope Cemetery, -
-
36 70
Interest, -
-
-
6,334 16
Lighting Streets, -
-
-
2,996 37
Liquor Agents, -
495 79
Loans, borrowed in anticipation of taxes, reduction of City Debt, -
3,604 85
Paupers, support of
9,276 71
Police, pay of, and contingencies, 1,859 13 Watchmen, 4,727 16-6,586 29
Quinsigamond Lake Causeway,
5,343 98
Salaries,
-
3,900 00
Scales, - -
-
-
30 76
Schools, - -
33,771 35
School House, Salem Street, -
9,963 74
Shade Trees, -
222 43
66 Summons, -
-
59 25
Tax, County, for 1861, -
-
23,329 48
" State,
5,973 00
War Contingents and relief of families,
16,197 10
6 per cent. discount on $126,449 02 for prompt payment, - Taxes of 1859, allowed by the City Council, of 1861, abated by Assessors,
7,586 94
1,477 30
of 1858, 1859 and 1860, uncollected,
3,222 95
of 1861, uncollected, -
7,823 63
Bills Receivable, -
75 00
Cash, - -
-
- 5,712 55
-
-
-
-
-
$289,923 55
City of Worcester, January 27, 1862.
-
-
79,500 00
scrip, -
4,000 00
-
-
285 40
91
to January 6, 1862, with GEORGE W. WHEELER, City Treasurer, Cr.
Balances, January 7, 1861 :
Abatements, -
- $3,772 31
Contingent Expenses, -
- 3,249 18
Free Public Library,
-
1,655 51
scrip,
8,000 00
Hope Cemetery, (lot account,) 66 -
36 45
Schools, -
363 30-$22,327 25
Received from Aqueduct, 66
1,684 64
City Hall Building, -
829 34
66 Scales, fees for weighing, -
356 33
66
66 Commonwealth :
Armory Rent,
300 00
Militia Bounty,
736 70
School Fund,
940 68- -
1,977 38
66 Contingent Expenses,
326 48
Dog Fund, (licenses) -
688 50
66
66 Fuel, Lights, &c.,
34 00
66
Highways and Bridges,
-
1,284 37
66
66
66 66 lots sold in 1861,
554 00
Liquor Agents,
-
-
1,323 41
66
66 Loans :
Borrowed in anticipation of taxes, 66 for Library Building,
79,500 00
10,500 00
66 " Quinsig. Lake Causway, 5,600 00 66 " Salem st. School house, 4,500 00 66 " War purposes, 14,000 00
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