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On Charities .- Aldermen Goddard and Tolman ; Councilmen Knox, Chase, and Ladd.
On Sewers .- The Mayor and Aldermen Cleveland and Marble ; President of Council and Councilmen Ross, Hadwen, and Hewett.
STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
On Health .- The Mayor and Aldermen Kendall and Barton.
On Public Buildings .- The Mayor and Aldermen Goddard and Houghton.
On Bills in Second Reading .- Aldermen Harrington and Kendall.
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On Enrollment .- Aldermen Marble and Goddard.
On Elections and Returns .- Aldermen Houghton and Cleveland. STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE COMMON COUNCIL.
On Bills in the Second Reading .- Councilmen Houghton, Athy, and Waters.
On Enrollment-Councilmen Hammond, Hewett, and Hutchinson.
On Elections and Returns .- Councilmen Pratt, O'Driscoll, and Hudson.
SOLICITOR, WILLIAM W. RICE. Office, Post Office Building.
TREASURER AND COLLECTOR, GEORGE W. WHEELER. Office, No. 6, City Hall : Residence, 49 Thomas street. AUDITOR, GILL VALENTINE. Office, No. 3, City Hall.
ASSESSORS, Henry Griffin, 3 years. Win. L. Clark, 2 years. Jonas Bartlett, 1 year. ASSISTANT ASSESSORS,
Ward 1 .- Benjamin Walker, Ward 5 .- Joshua S. Lewis,
2 .- N. R. Hapgood, 6 .- Pitt Holmes,
3 .- N. T. Bemis, " 7 .- Stillman S. Sweetser.
4 .- F. B. Norton, 8 .- Wm. P. Daniels.
CITY ENGINEER, PHINEHAS BALL. Office, No. 5 City Hall.
HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER, DAVID F. PARKER. Office, No. 3, City Hall. WATER COMMISSIONER, WILLIAM KNOWLES. Office, No. 5, City Hall.
COMMISSIONERS OF HOPE CEMETERY, Stephen Salisbury, jr., 5 years,
Henry Chapin, 4 years, David S. Messinger, 3 years,
Albert Tolman, 2 years, Albert Curtis, 2 year.
COMMISSIONERS OF SHADE TREES AND PUBLIC GROUNDS, Stephen Salisbury, jr., 3 years, George Jaques, 2 years, Obadiah B. Hadwen, 1 year.
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DIRECTORS OF THE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY,
STEPHEN SALISBURY, President. HENRY A. MARSH, Clerk.
Caleb B. Metcalf,
George W. Russell,
; years. E. B. Stoddard, 3 years.
David Weston,
5 years.
R. R. Shippen,
Stephen Salisbury,
Samuel S. Green,
4 years.
Albert Tolman, 1 year.
Zephaniah Baker, Librarian.
Emma S. Eddy,
Sarah F. Earle,
Assistant Librarians.
Jessie E. Tyler,
SCHOOL COMMITTEE. JAMES B. BLAKE, Mayor, Ex-Officio, President. A. P. MARBLE, Superintendent. Office, No. 11, City Hall. SAMUEL V. STONE, Secretary. Office, No. 13, City Hall.
Ward. Three years.
Two years.
One year.
1 .- Caleb B. Metcalf,
2 .- Geo. W. Gale,
Edward Earle,
Ann B. Earle,
3 .- Samuel E. Staples,
John J. Power,
Samuel Putnam,
John L. Murphy,
James Melanefy,
4 .- P. T. O'Reilly, 5 .- John C. Newton,
6 .- O. O. Wheeler,
7 .- George Jaques,
Dr. E. Warner,
H. K. Pervear,
8 .- P. Emory Aldrich,
E. B. Stoddard,
Rufus Woodward.
MUNICIPAL COURT.
HARTLEY WILLIAMS, Chief Justice.
GEORGE SWAN,
Associate Justices.
JOSEPH A. TITUS,
Clark Jillson, Clerk.
TRUANT COMMISSIONERS.
JAMES B. BLAKE, Mayor.
A. P. MARBLE, Superintendent of Schools. JAMES M. DRENNAN, City Marshal.
E. D. McFARLAND, Truant Officer, Office, City Hall : Residence, No. 51 Thomas street. MARSHAL, JAMES M. DRENNAN.
Office, City Hall : Residence, No. 11 Exchange street.
Hartley Williams,
Wm. Dickenson,
Rufus N. Merriam,
Samuel V. Stone.
John Dean, D. S. Goddard,
Henry A. Marsh,
J. J. Power, 2 years.
Charles A. Chase,
Eben'r Cutler,
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ASSISTANT MARSHALS. EMORY WILSON, Office, City Hall ; residence, rear of Dr. Hill's Church. W. ANSEL WASHBURN, Office, City Hall; residence, No. 20 Trumbull street.
WATCHMEN AND DAY POLICE.
JOHN HOWE, Captain of Watch ; residence, Bartlett Place.
HARRISON H. COMINGS, Captain of Day Police ; residence, No. 44 Thomas street.
Henry J. Allen,
Joseph L. Hall,
Amos Atkinson,
Louis Harper,
Daniel G. Blackmer,
Floyd H. Harris,
Elzaphan P. Brewer,
Patrick H. Hogan,
Ezra Churchill,
J. B. Hubbard,
R. M. Colby,
Clark Jillson,
Ezra Combs,
George W. Jillson,
Benjamin Cook,
Wm. H. Johnson.
Joseph Dyson,
Edwin D. McFarland,
Henry E. Fayerweather,
Horace Mirick,
Joseph H. Flint,
Thomas R. Foster,
Harrison L. Rawson,
Jason Wilson.
CONSTABLES.
James M. Drennan,
Edwin D. McFarland,
H. H. Comings,
Patrick E. Ratigan,
Jonathan Day,
Jonathan B. Sibley,
John Fallon,
W. Ansel Washburn,
Clark Jillson,
Joseph L. Hall,
John Howe,
Sumner W. Ranger.
SPECIAL POLICE, WITHOUT PAY.
Sumner P. Hale, at
Western Railroad Station.
Jalaam Gates,
Mechanics Hall.
Charles D. Mowry,
Mission Chapel.
Horace L. Jenks,
New Worcester.
Moses P. Stearns.
South Worcester.
Loring Foskett,
Thomas N. Baird,
Laurel Hill.
Charles A. Clark,
B. & A. Freight Depot.
Charles G. Parker,
Pleasant st., near West.
Rural Cemetery.
John P. Stockwell, George Newton,
Tatnuck. Messinger & Wright's.
Charles W. Parker,
Hamor Gledhill,
Adriatic Mill.
Henry M. Harrington,
Providence St. School.
Emory Wilson,
Sumner W. Ranger,
Charles A. Garland,
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Benjamin Davis, Edward I. Comins, Woodbury C. Smith,
John H. Piper,
Samuel Putnam,
David F. Parker,
Benjamin James,
Charles W. Farnum,
J. Brown Alden, James Small,
George Howard,
Charles F. Cobb,
Leonard Gates,
Daniel Twoomy,
George P. Blake,
Merrifield's Buildings.
David Branam,
Wm. Knowles,
George W. Gale.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
JAMES B. BLAKE, Mayor.
Ex Officio
A. P. MARBLE, Sup't of Schools. members.
JAMES M. DRENNAN, City Marshal.
James B. Blake, President. George W. Gale, Clerk.
Geo. W. Gale and John C. Newton, 3 years.
David F. Parker and Walter Henry, 2 years. Geo. W. Rugg and George Geer, 1 year.
CITY PHYSICIAN. ALBERT WOOD. Office, Pearl street.
KEEPER OF ALMSHOUSE AND CITY HOSPITAL. JOHN FARWELL.
UNDERTAKERS,
George Sessions, George G. Hildreth,
Waldo E. Sessions, Thomas A. McConville.
PUBLIC WEIGHERS.
Charles A. Hoppin, N. Worcester. Silas Penniman, Lincoln Square. Charles Marvin, Salem Square. WEIGHERS OF COAL.
F. H. Knight at Jourdan's. Joseph Leland at Southbridge st.
Julius F. Knight at Wellington's. Geo. W. Comee at Central st.
Ja : es Plympton at City Coal Yd. C. W. Plympton at Manchester st. Edwin Gleason at Rice, Barton & Co.'s Works.
MEASURERS OF WOOD AND BARK.
S. Penniman, Lincoln Square. Charles Marvin, Salem Square.
Charles A. Hoppin, New Worcester. Sibley Putnam, Green st. John K. James, Jamesville.
Nor. & Wor. R. R. Depot.
Thomas St. School.
Horticultural Hall.
Green and Millbury streets.
Pond District.
Commissioner of Highways.
Jamesville.
Cambridge st.
Junction Shop.
East Worcester.
Hollywood st.
Quinsigamond.
Pleasant street.
J. H. & G. M. Walker's.
Zion's Church. for Worcester Water Works.
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SURVEYORS OF LUMBER. Nahum R. Hapgood, Leander Hapgood, Henry W. Reed. FENCE VIEWERS.
E. F. Chamberlain,
Calvin L. Hartshorn, George Newton.
MILK INSPECTOR. Henay Griffin, office Pleasant street. FIELD DRIVERS.
Thomas R. Foster, Wm. L. Nichols.
POUND KEEPER-David F. Parker.
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Gill Valentine. Office, No. 3, City Hall. WARD OFFICERS.
Ward 1 .- WARDEN, Albert S. Brown. CLERK, Herbert S. Rogers. INSPECTORS, John W. Howe, George E. Boyden, John M. Knapp.
Ward 2 .- WARDEN, Charles A. Chase. CLERK, Geo. W. Gale. INSPECTORS, Geo. D. Davis, Stephen C. Earle, Wm. Al- len, 2d.
Ward 3 .- WARDEN, W. W. Sprague. CLERK, George Holmes. INSPECTORS, Homer Sawtell, L. R. Hudson, Freeman Brown.
Ward 4 .- WARDEN, Henry A. Streeter. CLERK, John Toomey. INSPECTORS, John J. Brosnihan, T. Edward Murray, C. D. Tower.
Ward 5 .- WARDEN, C. W. Parker. CLERK, A. V. Newton. INSPECTORS, Argalis P. Butler, E. T. Rawson, Jackson Gordon.
Ward 6 .- WARDEN, Jonathan C. French. CLERK, L. M. Sargent. INSPECTORS, Wm. F. Merrifield, Charles B. Robbins, L. Henry Wells.
Ward 7 .- WARDEN, Joseph B. Knox CLERK, J. O. Bemis. INSPECTORS, J. P. Houghton, Jones E. Estabrook, Hudson Tolman.
Ward 8 .- WARDEN, Healy Baker. CLERK, James H. Bancroft. INSPECTORS, Charles Sibley, F. T. Blackmer, Charles H. Harvey.
BOARD OF ENGINEERS FOR 1869.
R. M. GOULD, Chief. Samuel H. Day, Clerk.
Eli B. Fairbank,
Simon E. Combs, Joseph Rideout, Assistant Engineers James L. Morse.
Silas J. Brimhall,
Samuel H. Day.
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FIRE COMPANIES.
Rapid Engine Co. No. 2, Andrew Patterson, Foreman, 40 men.
Hook and Ladder Co. 1, John W. Loring,
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No. 2, Edwin Bradbury,
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City Hose Co. No. 1, Gilbert N. Rawson, 66
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Ocean Hose Co. No. 2,
James Keegan,
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Eagle No. 3,
Wm. Flynn,
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Niagara No. 4,
Samuel Knowlton,
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Yankee
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Osborn H. Wallace,
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Steamer Gov. Lincoln, 1, Charles J. Guild,
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Col. Davis, 2, Patrick H. Carroll,
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A. B. Lovell, 3, Wm. Brophy,
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Engineers,
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City Docu- ent, No
352 0744 INAUGURAL ADDRESS W9220
1869
OF
HON. JAMES B. BLAKE,
MAYOR OF THE
CITY OF WORCESTER,
JANUARY 3, 1870,
WITH THE
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS FOR THE
MUNICIPAL YEAR ENDING JANUARY 3, 1870.
OR
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A TOWN
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NE 14.172
WHLITEMORE
WORCESTER : TYLER & SEAGRAVE, CITY PRINTERS, 252 MAIN ST.
1870.
CITY OF WORCESTER.
- IN CITY COUNCIL, Jan. 10, 1870.
Ordered, That the City Clerk be, and he is hereby authorized to cause to be printed and bound fifteen hundred copies of " City Docu- ment," to be numbered 24, to contain the Mayor's Address, together with the Annual Reports of the several Departments of the City Gov- ernment.
Attest,
SAMUEL SMITH, City Clerk.
CONTENTS.
Mayor's Inaugural, - 7
Finances 10; Schools 15; School Houses 17; Board of School Committee 19 ; Highways 21 ; Water 27; Mill Brook 29; Assessment of Sewers 32; Police 35 ; Fire Department 38; Charities 41; City Solicitor 43.
City Schools, 47
Committee of 1869, 49; Superintendent's Report 53: Questions for Examination 83; Secretary's Report 93 ; Statistics of Attendance 96; Nationalities 103; Cost of each School, etc., 109 ; Whole cost from 1850 to 1870, 114 ; City Statistics for 1868, 118 ; Real Estate 119 ; Personal Prop- erty 120 ; Salaries of Teachers 121 ; Roll of Honor 124; Report of Committee on Truant School 134 ; School Committee for 1870, 140; Calendar 144.
Free Public Library Report,
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Report of Directors 147 ; Report of Committee on Library 157 ; Report of Committee on Reading Room 161; Report of Committee on Building 163 ; Report of Finance Committee 165; Green Li- brary Fund 166 ; Treasurer's Report 168; Rules and Regulations 169.
Overseers of Poor, - -
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Fire Department, - - - - -
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Shade Trees and Public Grounds, - -
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Hope Cemetery, -
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Highways,
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Police, - - - -
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City Engineer, - -
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Water Commissioner,
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City Treasurer,
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General Report 277 ; Account Current 278; Cash Account 280 ; Receipts and Expenditures 283 ; Recapitulation 328 ; Funded Debt, Temporary Loan and Water Investment 330.
Schedule of City Property, - -
- 333
City Government, 1870, - . - 336
CLAIMS AGAINST THE CITY.
TREASURER'S OFFICE, CITY OF WORCESTER, APRIL, 1870.
TO PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE CITY.
Bills presented for the action of the Auditor of Accounts, must specify what the article or arti- cles sold were for-when for labor, where it was performed, number of days and price per day, un- less otherwise agreed upon. When there are charges belonging to different departments, separate bills must be made, including only charges belonging to each department.
ALL BILLS MUST SPECIFY THE DATE OF THE SEVERAL CHARGES.
Claimants should carefully note the name of the person who orders the article or service, and should inquire to what department the charge shall be made, and should also know that the person is duly authorized to make contracts. Unless this is done, the claimant will be put to the trouble of making out his account the second time, and run the risk of losing it.
When bills are certified to, as per chapter 3, Revised Ordinances (below,) they can be left at the Treasurer's or Auditor's Office, before 2 o'clock, P. M., on or before the THIRD DAY of each month, except bills at the close of the year, which must be left on or before Dec. 25th.
Those who attend to the above, will find their bills audited and ready at the Treasurer's Office, who will pay them promptly at the times designated below.
TIMES OF PAYMENT.
Salaries of the City Officers, and Teachers in the permanent Schools, on the first day of each quarter.
Families of Soldiers, on the 24th day of each month.
Watchmen, on the first day of each month.
Firemen, on the 15th of July and January.
All other bills on the 10th of each month.
When the above days come on Sundays, payment will be made the next day.
And persons having claims are requested to call promptly for their money ON THE DAY DESIG- NATED.
GEORGE W. WHEELER, City Treasurer.
PARTICULAR NOTICE.
AUDITOR'S OFFICE, APRIL, 1870.
All persons having claims against the City, are hereby reminded, that agreeably to an established rule, all bills, in order that they may be ready for payment on the 10th, must be left with the Treasurer or Auditor, on or before the THIRD day of each month, except the closing bills of the year, which must be left on or before Dec. 25th, before 2 o'clock, P. M. Those who fail to comply with this rule, will have to wait till the following month before their bills will be ready for pay- ment.
CHAPTER 3, REVISED ORDINANCES.
AUDITOR.
"SECTION 2. No Account or Claim against the City, other than Judgments of the Judicial Courts, shall be received or acted upon by hin, unless such account or claim shall be accompanied by a certificate of the Mayor, Committee, or other proper certifying officer of each jepartment au- thorized on behalf of the City to make the contract or cause the expenditure to be made, that the same is correct."
Office No. 3, City Hall.
GILL VALENTINE, Auditor.
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MAYOR'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
ADDRESS OF THE MAYOR, HON. JAMES B. BLAKE,
DELIVERED AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE CITY GOVERN- MENT, JANUARY 3, 1870.
Gentlemen of the Board of Aldermen,
and Gentlemen of the Common Council :
The garnered sheaves of another harvest-field are be- fore us ; the record of another year has been registered and closed forever; the responsibilities, the duties and the deeds of the past twelve months have in their as- sumption and fulfillment been sealed for all time. As we turn from the fading tints of the setting sun of anoth- er cycle, and greet this morning with hopeful hearts, the golden splendors of the eastern horizon so radient with bright promise, all beaming with new opportunities and fresh inspiration, we cannot forget the ruling Providence which has blessed us through another year, nor fail to acknowledge the goodness of a Heavenly Father who has guided and directed us in all our undertakings ; who has indeed kept this people in the hollow of his hand, has led them through " green pastures and beside the still waters," has watched over them through the day- light and the darkness and brought them to this advent of the new year in the abundance of health, prosperity and peace.
In this hour of our consecration to the public service and in grateful thanksgiving for the mercies of the past,
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let us with trusting hearts look to Him, the Giver of all Good, the Source of all Power, the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, the loving Father of the humblest child; in the full confidence that He will strengthen us in our weakness, direct us aright, bless all our undertakings and enable us to be faithful to the high trusts which have been placed in our keeping ; that being His servants we may more fully serve our fellow citizens, and being near to Him feel the inspiration of his power and goodness as a guiding impulse in every event of the untried future.
I entertain neither feelings of fear or distrust in haz -. arding the assertion, that probably in no place on the civilized globe is there a better or more perfect illustra- tion of the success of republican self-government, than is demonstrated to-day in our own city.
A community of forty thousand people of different na- tionalities, of the most diverse religious and political opinions and sentiments ; representing in their industries and occupation almost every department of manufacture and the highest type of skilled labor ; a working people, who through daily industry have attained by the develop- ment of mental power supremacy over the laws and con- dition of matter ; and who by ingenuity of brain, cunning hand and individual enterprise, have been able to build up this city, unaided by any special geographical advan- tage, devoid of peculiar natural resource of water as a means of power or of an avenue of communication, and have placed it only second in rank among the cities of the Commonwealth.
Here is a community with a ground work as firm as the New England hills, because based upon the eternal principles of culture and education, and composed of developed mind. A community gathered together for
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mutual aim and support, of multiform individualities, yet harmonizing into a perfect whole; living under and obe- dient to the laws of their own creation, governed by self-imposed rules, surrounded by the atmosphere of an elevated social standard tempered by the attributes of deep religious sentiments ; adding comfort and happi- ness to individual daily life by the development of ma- terial enterprises ; offering freely to all the rich treasures of its twenty thousand volumes of condensed thought of science, history, literature and art-establishing the wel- fare of the present and the safeguard of the future, by making education a necessity for each child, and provid- ing in unstinted measure the means by which teaching and learning shall be carried on from its simplest infan- tile lesson to its highest scholarly attainment ; creating its guardians of the public peace and providing ample. protection of private property-caring with tender soli- citude for the unfortunate and the poor, and furnishing for the houseless and the aged a more than comforta- ble home and maintenance ; setting apart its acres for the garden of its dead, and carefully brooding with the hand of charity the orphan within its borders ;- such is the yearly registry of the work of this body politic, each member thereof paying tribute in such proportion of the expense of maintenance and development as its self- appointed agents shall decide is the individual allot- ment.
Well may we congratulate ourselves upon being mem- bers of such a community, and proud of the honor of being servants of such a people.
As the servants of this people, therefore, we assemble this morning to take upon ourselves the solemn obliga- tions and to assume the respective duties to which we have been called by our fellow citizens ; obligations and
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duties which cannot be taken or assumed, unless we in- dividually feel and know that the spirit of true loyalty to this community, and a firm, unqalified faith and belief in this City of Worcester, is a dominant principle of the heart; a faith in the great social, moral and material en- terprise, which has been the creative power thus far ; and an unwavering belief in the future growth and develop- ment of the city, by judicious foresight, through official channels and properly directed personal effort.
In this spirit of loyalty to the highest demands of our city and faithfulness to the various interests of the municipality, would I ask your attention to the present condition and the prospective wants of the different de- partments of official labor which will be assigned to your special care and direction.
FINANCES.
The demands upon the Treasury for the past year have been greater than in any year since the organiza- tion of the city; demands which have been rendered necessary by the wants of the School Department, the action of the Council in projecting new streets, and the several orders of the Board of County Commissioners for the opening of new and the regrading of old streets ; the continued operations in the establishment of side- walks, the large increase in the number of public street lights and the progress of the work in the Departments of Water and Sewers.
The assumption of the duties and the peculiar respon- sibilities of this branch of the public service, should im- press each officer of the government with the full meas- ure of his accountability to the people for the faithful discharge of its several particular demands. In the ex- ercise of official functions, it is very difficult to decide
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the exact limitation of the necessary expense of the cor- poration, when its members are so importunate in their demands for the development of material enterpises in all its departments.
If we may judge of the wants of the community by the petitions presented to the government of the past year, we should feel justified in the belief that, but a small proportion of the necessities of the people had been sup- plied, and as we present the large outlays rendered necessary in answering the requests of petitioners, it may be thought that the government had exceeded the bounds of discreet judgment in the accomplishment of so much.
When a citizen petitions for a new street, a sidewalk, or public street light ; for water, sewers or school houses, it should not be forgotten that the accomplishment of his expressed desire must invole the expenditure of money from the City Treasury, to be annually replen- ished by the people. The public officer, as servant of the people, desires to answer all reasonable requests as petitioned for, and if the expenditures of a year may seem large, and but half the petitions received are granted, certainly the citizens should criticise with caution, the action of the government as their agents for the time be- ing in dispensing the moneys of such people, in accord- ance with their several requests, supported and enforced by special argument and personal influence.
Let it be our aim to administer the affairs of the mon- etary interests of our city, frankly, openly and honestly, void of all qualification or concealment ; to decide every call for expenditure upon its true merits, with no dispo- sition to evade responsibility or ignore the reasonable demands of our community, in the disposition of their money for their supposed benefit.
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The present financial condition of the city, as near as can be ascertained from the Treasurer at this time, is as follows :
The amount distinguished as old debt, is $54,140.07
The amount of war debt, after deducting the amount due from the State, 53,900.00
The amount of sewer debt, 221,685.39
Making the total permanent debt of the city, Jan.
1, 1870, $329,725.46
And showing an increase during the year, of $100,- 485.39, which amount has been expended upon Mill Brook - no other item of expenditure has been added to the permanent debt of the city.
The Sewer debt is represented by the Sewer Bonds of the city to the amount of $130,000 - of which amount $87,600 mature June 15, 1877,- $33,600 mature June 15, 1878,- and $8,800 June 15, 1879,- the balance of expenditure appears as a temporary loan and will be funded as soon as practicable. The difference in the rate of interest payable on the Bonds and the average rate of interest in the market, has prevented the disposal of more bonds during the past year.
The temporary loan, created to cover the expense of construction of Sewers in the streets of the city, and which amount is to be assessed upon the estates benefit- ted, is $207,649.82.
The water investment, the income from which is con- siderably in excess of the accruing interest and the cost of maintenance, is $505,333.00.
The total valuation, as returned by the Assessors for the year 1869, is $31,251,350 - of which amount $21,- 608,800 is real and $9,642,550 is personal estate, showing a total increase in valuation of $5,031,150 over the val- uation of 1868.
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The total amount assessed upon this valuation is $469,- 953.44, and distributed as follows :
State tax,
$51,075.00
County tax,
23,032.69
City appropriations,
376,500.00
Overlayings,
19,345.75
$469,953.44
The rate of taxation for 1869 was $14.40 on one thou- sand dollars. Number of Polls assessed 11,869, being an increase of 830 over the previous year.
The absolute increase of the real and assumed liabili- ties of the corporation for the past year, incident to the necessary outlays of the various departments, and the orders of the County Commissioners, shows an aggregate of $412,777.63.
The exact condition of these liabilities in their rela- tion to the City Treasury, will be understood by the fol- lowing detailed statement, showing by analysis each specific charge, and their true character and standing. The increase in the water investment, $95,000.00
The expenses of the past year on Mill Brook and which amount is charged directly to the per- manent debt, is 100,485.39
The cost of sewers in the streets to be assessed upon the estates directly benefitted, 120,498 59
The expenditures on new streets ordered by the County Commissioners, and ultimately to be largely paid for by the county, 27,500.00
The cost of new school houses and land, incurred since the annual appropriation of 1869, were made, 31,853.65
And the cost of increase of street lights by order of the Council, 5,000.00
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These four items enumerated appear as the tem- porary loan of the city, to be liquidated when the cost of the sewers shall have been paid by the individuals (for whose accomodation this loan is created and maintained), and from the appropriation of the coming year. The amount paid on account of the subscription to the B. B. & G. R. R. also appears in the temporary loan of the city,
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