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NORTH-WEST DISTRICT PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Here again we have been fortunate in not being obliged to change teachers. Miss Mary C. Hill, assisted by her sisters, Adeline and Henrietta, during different terms, has continued the school through the year in a manner acceptable to all interested. This is a very large school and taxes the strength and patience of the teachers most severely. Here, as in the Centre District, we have a room filled with fine active children. packed as closely together, and treated much in the same manner as hams in a smoke house, so far as ventilation and space are concerned. The little room into which twenty-five or more are often crowded for recitation, and which would be in use through all the hours of school, were it possible for the assistant to remain in it, is about four feet wide and ten long,
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without other ventilation than the door which: opens into the school-room, which must be closed during exercises. After being occupied half an hour the air of the room becomes so impure, that no one can continue to breath it without being sick. This school should have larger and more commodious rooms. It has good teachers and is made up of agreeable and intelligent children. They deserve better accomodations.
SOUTH DISTRICT.
This School is somewhat peculiar. There is no trouble here, no fault-finding, at least, so far as the Committee are informed ; no children abused ; no partiality ; no negligence on the part of the Teacher; no intrusion of the scholars upon angry neighbors ; no running the gaunlet in passing the school- house in sleighing time. The district has seemed pleased with the school, and the teacher has been pleased with his pupils.
Mr. W. Fisk Gile, who has been the instructor the most of the year, has been earnest and successful in the discharge of his duties. The members of the district, by their generous contributions, have furnished the school-room with a beautiful cabinet of philosophical apparatus, at an expense of more than two hundred dollars. Such manifestations of interest are assurances of the right state of things. People do not give money where they have no interest in the use to which it is appropriated. Mr. Gile resigned in February, and was succeeded by Mr. R. C. Hardy, whose well established repu- tation as an excellent teacher, and an agreeable, honorable man, secures to him the utmost confidence and respect of the Committee.
SOUTH DISTRICT, PRIMARY SCHOOL.
It is a pleasure to speak of this school. Under the man- agement of Miss Amelia Douglass, it has ever been one of the best schools in town. Pretty, intelligent children, a spacious, cheerful room, and a kind-natured, skillful instructor,
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are certainly the essentials present here. Everything goes on harmoniously, and everybody seems to be satisfied and pleased.
EAST DISTRICT PRIMARY SCHOOL.
This fine little Primary School has continued under the charge of Miss S. Miranda Chase, and we most heartily continue to her the commendations of last year. Her earnest, kindly efforts to benefit the children, and their obedient, affectionate response, together with the hearty good will and steady encouragement manifested by the parents towards both, have done much towards realizing the pleasant relationship which should ever exist between the teacher and the members of the district. The last term was much broken up by severe weather. The drifting snow storms, the exposed situation of the school-house, and the tender age of many of the children, made going to school a very dangerous undertaking many times during the past cold winter; but where the teacher, the pupils and the parents are willing each to help the other, there must always be advancement. At all the visits of the Committee and at the final examination, it was evident that the teacher knew how to do her duty, and was willing and able to do it.
She has resigned her situation very much to the regret of all interested in the school, and retires with the respect and kind wishes of those whom she has most faithfully served.
Amount of money paid over by the Town Treasurer to orders from the School Committee.
To Mr. Silas Peabody,
$650 00
Charles L. Washburn,
650 00
W. F. Gile,
579 12
66
R. C. Hardy, .
62 50
" Amelia Douglass,
225 00
S. Miranda Chase,
256 00
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To Miss Lydia C. Tucker,
$275 00
Mary C. Hill,
225 00
66
Adeline Hill,
101 00
66
66
C. Jennison, .
126 00
66
Harriet Blake,
38 00
66 M. A. Shattuck,
7 20
"
Henrietta Hill,
33 00
Mr. Stephen Swan,
13 44
Abel Pierce, .
.
.
·
13 44
Stephen Symms,
6 72
EXPENSE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Amount raised by direct taxation,
$2600.00
Received from State Fund.
85.69
Income from Cutter School Fund,
325.04
The cost of wood and coal has been about
220.00
Building fires and sweeping,
77.00
Incidental expenses, -
25.00
.
.
There were in town on the 1st of April, 1855, 387 children between the ages of five and fifteen years, 287 children under five years of age.
Does not the large number of this younger class indicate the absolute necessity of providing more room soon ?
Upon presenting to the people of West Cambridge a report upon the condition of the public schools, it seems proper to suggest to them such alterations and improvements as have appeared to be desirable in their arrangements. There can be no doubt that if all who are desirous of making these insti- tutions as useful and profitable as they are capable of being made, even with the same outlay of money, should come to- gether and patiently look into the subject, there would soon be a state of things over which the hearts of true men would rejoice. They would become interested in them, and feel something more than is manifested by the mere assent to an
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appropriation for their support on town-meeting day. They would realize more vividly the obligations they themselves should acknowledge for mental habits and wealth they have derived from them. To most of us these public schools have been the benefactors that have placed in our possession the means of starting fairly in the race of active life. Many, very many, have had nothing else to look to for the knowledge that gives them courage and confidence in their own capacity.
If we cannot have a high school, then the recommendation of the last school report should be adopted.
There should be intermediate schools established in the Centre and North-West Districts, or what would answer as well, the houses should be made large enough to give convenient and well-ventilated recitation rooms. This want of space and fresh air is the great want of our schools. Our teachers have been competent and active, and there is a set of pupils in all the districts who are willing to do credit to their instructions. They have not fallen behind our expectations, but they are capable of doing better, and would do better were they well supplied with that elastic, buoyant vitality derived from well- ventilated blood.
A bountiful God has stretched out space into infinity, and piled up the sweet atmosphere to the stars, yet we allowance our children in both, by dealing out to them most stingily what is given to them without measure.
There is no danger whatever that our children will not learn fast enough, but there is great danger that they will not grow fast enough.
Their minds are cultivated with much more care than their bodies, and we are too forgetful of looking for well developed, cheerful boys and girls, while praising and encouraging the men- tal vigor of precocious prodiges. A healthy boy at fourteen who can shoulder a bushel of corn, or swim a half mile, or a robust, warm-blooded girl who can laugh heartily, run, jump rope, and work without the " side ache," affords surer hopes of a happy life and future worth, than to be feeble and nerv- ous, and able to demonstrate every geometrical problem ever
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known, and read, in a dozen obsolete languages, all the old Mythology ever written or dreamed.
In the education of our children, we are looking too much for immediate effect; and in ministering to their comforts and bodily welfare, we overlook our short comings and follies, be- cause there is no change at once in their condition for the worse. Yet they surely are silently and always progressing towards a vigorous bodily and intellectual maturity, or re- ceding to become weak and dependent beings. If we could all of us more fully understand the terrible significance of this great truth, " The sins of the parents shall be visited upon the children, even to the third and fourth genera .. tion," we should lay aside some of our indifference and superstition, and realize the physical to be as excellent and worthy of culture and as essential to our true growth and happiness as the mental and spiritual.
If our common schools, as they are conducted, especially in cities and large towns, must necessarily be instrumental in deteriorating the development of the race, as they often do by the close confinement and overtasking to which children are subjected, their good effect may well be doubted. The physi- cal energy and common sense of one broad-chested young man from the old-fashioned, wood-warmed, well ventilated school- house in the back woods, whose stock of town-and-state-paid education enables him only to " read, write and cipher," will often carry him through more useful and difficult enterprises than would swamp a score of more learned but puny and effeminate beings. Those men and women are best educated who can best perform the duties of life, in whatever capacity they may be obliged to act, and there are few positions where health and strengh do not conduce as much to that end as mental acquirements. It is as essential that children play as that they study ; and while so much is being done to secure a proper regulation and attention to the one, we leave them to originate and conduct their sports as they can and where they can. The streets are their play-ground, and the shops and public highway their rendezvous.
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How can we wonder that they are so often saucy and old beyond their years in bad habits.
The fault is not theirs, and they must be visited, sometimes with suffering, for the sins of their elders. No parent has a moral right to be habitually so involved in business or pleas- ure, as not to know how and where the hours of play are occupied ; for a more rapid and permanent process of educa- tion is going on at such times, than in any school to which they are obliged to resort. Every school house should have connected with it a spacious and pleasant play-ground, that should be kept neat and made attractive. This ground should be furnished with swings, stands for jumping, conveniences for cricket, goold, football, and whatever else will best promote health and cheerfulness. Could the parents themselves, be induced occasionally to play with their children, and forget the formal conventionalism of grown up society, their hearts might perhaps be refreshed and made better by such fellow- ship with what, in its purity and innocence, we are assured, is like the Kingdom of Heaven.
The town of West Cambridge ought to be the banner town of the State for excellent schools. There is wealth enough, and it is most generously bestowed when it is needed and applied for. It is behind but few, and would be at the head, could we bring the same practical good sense to bear upon this subject that would at once be bestowed upon any scheme of money-making of half the importance. But alas! receiving quick returns in ready cash, claims, and perhaps will always claim, our first and most earnest interest; while paying heavy taxes for future good and the public welfare, meets with compara- tive indifference. Could the money expended for private instruction and the expenses incidental thereto, be kept in town and applied to the support of a High School, there would be enough, without another cent from taxation, to establish and carry on such an institution, without diminishing the number of schools already in operation. The territorial size and shape of the town would bring every corner within fair walking distance of any central location that might be chosen.
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There would then be no necessity for intermediate schools, which are now much needed, and which must be provided before long, and it will cost as much, or nearly as much, to enlarge the two school houses, or build new ones for their accommodation, as to put up a building for the High School.
J. UNDERWOOD, ADDISON HILL, JOHN WYMAN, REV. GEO. HILL, DR. ALEXANDER,
Committee.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
OF THE
Colon of Telest Cambridge,
FOR THE
FINANCIAL YEAR 1856-7,
Ending April 30th, 1857.
ALSO, THE
LIST OF TOWN, COUNTY AND STATE TAXES ASSESSED FOR THE YEAR 1857 ;
AND THE
LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS.
BOSTON: PRESS OF W. & E. HOWE, 39 MERCHANTS ROW.
1857.
RECEIPTS.
Balance in Treasury, May 1st, 1856, $ 12 15 Received from Josiah H. Russell, Collector, 16513 86
66
66
Schouler, Russell and Winn, for Note, 636 00
66 George Pierce, for Note, 400 00
66
William Cutter School Fund, Interest, 261 24
"
66
Poor Widow's Fund,
12 00
66
66
State School Fund, Interest, 78 69
66 State, for Census Statistics, 82 00
66
66 State, for Paupers,
6 00
66
" Town of Malden, for Paupers, ..
1 00
"
James Pierce, for Support of
Jerome Pierce, at the State Lunatic Hospital, Worcester, .. 40 00
66
David Clark, for Rent of Land, .. 41 00
66
66
Addison Gage, " &c.
19 50
66
Hay Scales,
53 36
66
Joel F. Hanson, for Old Lumber, &c., 6 50
66
Mansir W. Marsh, for Exchange of Cow, 25 00
Borrowed of Wm. Cutter School Fund, 500 00
$19738 30
Rent of Town House, 1050 00
EXPENDITURES.
INCIDENTAL SCHOOL EXPENSES.
Paid by orders of the Selectmen. NORTH WEST DISTRICT.
Paid Josiah H. Russell, for Fuel, $75 76
" Silas Peabody, Making Fires, &c., .. 27 83
Clark & Burr, for Carpenter Work, 8 76
Jesse Bacon, for Mason Work, 2 75
66 Solon Hardy, for Brooms, &c., 6 11
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$121 21 -
CENTRE DISTRICT.
Paid Josiah H. Russell, for Fuel, $68 21
Moses Proctor, For Making Fires and Sundries, 38 82
66 J. A. Merrifield, Repairing Stove, &c. 2 01
109 04
EAST DISTRICT.
Paid Josiah H. Russell, for Fuel, $43 S5
66 J. A. Merrifield, Repairing Stove, &c. 4 63
Wm. Price, for Making Fires, 10 00
James Peabody, Making Fires, &c., 7 10
66 Storer & Blanchard, for Painting, .. 112 93
66 :6 Carpenter
Work, 6 30
184 81
Amount carried forward, $415 06
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EXPENDITURES.
SOUTH DISTRICT.
Amount brought forward, $415 06
Paid Josiah H. Russell, for Fuel, $69 96
" J. A. Merrifield, for Stoves, &c. 45 64
66 C. W. Russell, for building Fires, .. 25 00
66 Joseph S. Spear, for Sundries, 8 99
66 J. F. Hanson, for Setting Glass, &c. 75
66 T. H. Russell, for Brooms, 1 13
J. W. Wallace, for Brushes, &c., 2 18
66 Storer & Blanchard, for Carpenter Work, 103 00
Storer & Blanchard, for Painting and Mason Work, 134 50
S. Wales, Jr., for Furniture and Desk, 233 00
624 15
$1039 21
TEACHERS' SALARIES, &c.
Paid by orders of School Committee.
Paid Silas Peabody, $772 60
C. L. Washburn,
650 00
R. C. Hardy, 487 50
66 A. R. Bullard, 125 00
66 Mary C. Hill,
250 00
66 Francena Fessenden,
225 00
Lydia C. Tucker,
200 00
66 Harriet M. Blake, 192 50
Amelia A. Douglass, 126 60
66 Abby L. Stearns,
117 78
Caroline C. Turner,
84 62
Abby L. Russell, 63 00
66 Adeline P. Hill, 42 00
Chauncy G. Lee, for Maps, 36 00
Rev. Geo. Hill, for Punctuation Charts, 1 00
Amount carried forward, $3373 60
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EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $3373 60 Paid Wm. E. Parmenter, Esq., for cash paid for
Advertising, 5 00
66 Stephen Swan, by Vote of Town, 20 16
Oliver H. Pierce, 66 " 66
13 44
Stephen Symmes, 66 . 66 6 72
$3418 92
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Paid by orders of Selectmen.
Paid T. H. Russell, for Refreshments at Fires, .... $33 14
66 Josiah H. Russell, for Fuel for Engine No. 2, 8 00
John B. Atwill, for Refreshments at Fire, .... 2 49
66 E. D. & W. H. Pattee, for Crackers, 4 95
66 Joel F. Hanson, for Blacksmith Work on Engine No. 2, 5 70
66 W. F. A. Setchell, for Services as Chief Engineer, 10 00
75
"
W. H. Richardson, Repairs on Engine No. 1, J. W. Wallace, for Stove, &c. for Engine No. 2,
11 94
Solon Hardy, for Oil, &c., for Engine No. 1, 7 90
66 Oliver Russell, for Care of Engine No. 2, .... 30 00
66 S. B. Locke, for Care of Engine No. 1, 15 00
Joel Gay, for Repairs on Engine No. 1, 8 00
66 Abel Lawrence, for Straps, 2 20
Wm. Dickson, for one Reel, for Engine No. 1, 2 50
66 T. H. Russell, for Oil, &c., " " 2, 8 33
66 Henry Deblois, for Refreshments, 5 00
66 Amount of Poll Tax Refunded to members of Engine Company No. 1, 21 00
66 Amount of Poll Tax Refunded to members of Engine Company No. 2, 36 00
$212 90
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EXPENDITURES. HIGHWAYS.
Paid by orders of Selectmen.
Paid Solon Hardy, for Grain, &c.,
$187 17
John Lacy,
for Labor,
222 00
66 Charles Swan, 66
66
161 00
66 James Price, 66 66
69 37
Edward Lacy, 66
66
60 00
66 John McCarty, 66
16 62
Daniel Hurley, 66
66
8 44
66 Dennis Coney, 66
66
7 18
66 Jerry Sweeney, 66
66
6 87
Michael Crowley, “ 66
3 75
66
Patrick Hurley, “ 66
6 25
66
James Mahoney, “
5 94
66
Henry Frost, Clearing Highways of Snow,
113 15
Adolphus Brown,
66
66
66
3 00
66 Joseph Teel, 66
"
66
33 75
Joseph Wyman, 66
66
66
33 00
66 Mansir W. Marsh,
66
66
6 50
Warren Rawson, "
66
66
4 50
66 T. O. & J. H. Hutchinson, 66
66
66
6 00
66 M. A. Richardson, for Cash Paid for Labor,
9 36
Edward Smith, for Hay and Clay,
14 13
Albert Winn, for Stone,
12 00
66
for lot of Gravel Land,
103 00
David Constantine, for one Horse,
225 00
66 N. Simmonds, 66
15 15
66 Henry D. Kimball, for Straw,
22 40
66 Elbridge Locke, for Standing Grass,
70 00
66 Albert L. Teel, for Gravel,
1 80
Charles Hill, for Gravel, 7 12
66 Ammi C. Teel, for Stone,
44 50
66 W. H. Richardson, for Blacksmith Work,
84 49
! ! Joshua Caldwell, 66 66
20 25
Amount carried forward, $1618 93
66 David Constantine, for Hay,
35 24
66
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EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $1618 93
Paid Joel F. Hanson, for Blacksmith Work,
1 80
Wm. T. Wood, 66
66 3 22
66 Wm. Dickson, for Wheelwright Work, 51 25
66 Samuel C. Bucknam, for Street Boards, 5 00
Wm. L. Clark, for Harness work, 53 45
Abel Lawrence, " 66 66
13 97
66 Heirs of John Adams, for Land, for Adams Street, 200 00
J. W. Presby, Balance for New Bridge over Mystic River, 668 49
Town of Medford, for half the expense of Surveys, &c., for New Road and Bridge, 28 00
$2644 11
NOTE. - The board of the men employed on Highways is strictly chargeable under this head, but is included in the expenses of the Almshouse, under the orders of the Over- seers of the Poor, and is estimated at about $500 00, which being added to the above sum, makes the actual expense for Highways.
INCIDENTAL TOWN EXPENSES.
Paid by orders of Selectmen.
Paid Mansir W. Marsh, for Services as Selectman, $43 00
66 Wm. Dickson, 66 66 66 25 00
" Albert Winn, 66
6 ! 66 30 00
Stephen Symmes, Jr., Services as Assessor,
80 00
66 Wm. Dickson, 66 66
66 70 00
George C. Russell, 66 66
66 68 00
66 Stephen Symmes, Jr., for Taking Census, 1855, 50 00
66 Wm. Dickson, & J. O. Wellington, for
Taking Statistics, 1855, 32 00
Amount carried forward, $398 00
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EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $398 00 Paid Josiah H. Russell, for Services as Treasurer and Collector, 200 00
Abel R. Proctor, for Services as Town Clerk, and Recording births, deaths & marriages, 42 75 Finance Committee, for Auditing Accounts and making out Statement, 15 00
66 John B. Hartwell, Notifying Town Meet- ings, &c., 78 27
Rev. Geo. Hill, services as School Committee, 40 00
Wm. E. Parmenter, " 66 66
27 00
Dr. R. L. Hodgdon, " 66 66
27 00
66 John P. Wyman, 66
" 1855-6, 10 00
Addison Hill, 66 66 66 15 00
Samuel Swan, 66 Liquor Agent, .... 21 65
66
M. C. Trask, for Ringing Bell, as per Vote of Town, 100 00
66 Wm. E. Parmenter, Esq., for Professional Services, and Cash Paid Witnesses in Suits connected with Town, 122 50
66 Proprietors of Boston Chronicle, for Printing,
5 50
Sawin & Lamb, 66 66
14 50
66 J. S. Potter, 66 66
85 15
James M. Chase, for Removing Lumber, &c., 2 10
66 Joseph Teel, for Plank, 4 30
James M. Woodbridge, for Teaming,
2 02
H. Riley, for Repairing Roofs,
6 39
66 State Lunatic Hospital, at Worcester, for Support of Aaron Locke and Jerome Pierce, 160 50
66 Middlesex Receptacle of Insane, for Support of Aaron Locke, 78 93
66 George H. Gray & Danforth, for Hay Scales, 235 00
66 John Winn, for Labor, 6 75
£ W. J. Lane, for Services and Notices of Sale of Lumber, 3 00
Amount carried forward, $1701 31
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EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $1701 31
Paid Prescott & Proctor, for School Books and Stationery, 25 92
Walter Fletcher, for Rent of Spring, 10 00
Thomas Thorpe, Repairing School Clocks, Pumps, &c., 8 50
Expense of Committee to Oppose the Incor- poration of New Town of Belmont, 579 36
66 City of Cambridge, for Support of Bridge to Brighton, 169 23
66 Appropriations for Juvenile Library, 30 00
Helen M. Jarvis, for Services as Librarian, .. 35 00
First Congregational Parish, as per Vote of Town, 100 00
66 Mrs. Cyrus Harrington, from Poor Widows' Fund, 4 00
Mrs. Thomas Locke, from Poor Widows' Fund, 4 00
Mrs. Lakin, from Poor Widows' Fund, 4 00
Mark A. Richardson, for expense to Worces- ter with Aaron Locke, 7 73
$2679 05
TOWN HOUSE.
Paid by orders of Selectmen.
Paid Josiah H. Russell, for Fuel, Cleaning, &c., $199 12 John B. Hartwell, Opening, Lighting, &c., 129 50
Josiah H. Russell, for Collecting Rents, and Superintendence, 20 00
Josiah H. Russell, for Lighting, Warming and Cleaning Selectmen and Overseers' Rooms, 20 00
$368 62
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EXPENDITURES. ALMSHOUSE AND POOR EXPENSES.
Paid by orders of Overseers of the Poor.
Paid Mark A. Richardson, Superintendent,
$500 00
Josiah H. Russell, for Services as Overseer,
25 00
66 Henry Frost, 66 66 66 66
22 00
66 Stephen Symmes, Jr, 66 66 66
22 00
66 Josiah H. Russell, for Fuel,
166 35
66 Henry Locke, " Meat,
128 10
66 Henry Frost, 66
66
15 82
66 Moses Proctor, for Groceries, 127 08
66 Solon Hardy, 66 66
124 09
66 T. H. Russell, "
122 46
66 Andrews Howe, " 66 and Clothing,
116 94
6 ! Prescott & Proctor, for Dry Goods, 49 21
66 Wm. Prentiss, for Two Pigs, 27 37
66 John R. Houghton, for Hay, 24 70
66 John Whipple, for Fresh Fish, 24 39
66 Amos Prentiss, for Two Pigs, 21 67
Thomas Ramsdell, for Boots and Shoes, ...
18 10
Storer & Blanchard, for Carpenter Work, 16 99
J. P. Pattee, for Crackers and Bread, 16 74
W. J. Lane, for Wood, at Auction, 16 50
66 J. A. Merrifield, for Tin Ware, &c., 16 17
66 City of Boston, for Support of Thomas Cutter, 14 56
Kenney & Pierce, for Ice,
12 82
66 City of Cambridge, Relief to Mrs. Estabrook, 11 26
Ammi C. Teel, for Beans, 10 50
66 E. D. & W. H. Pattee, for Crackers and Bread, 9 68
66 Dr. R. L. Hodgdon, for Medical Attendance, 7 50
66 John B. Hartwell, for Funeral Expenses of W. H. Kelley, 7 00
Cyrus Cutter, for Milk, 6 70
66 Jesse Bacon, for Mason Work, 2 31
Amouut carried forward, $1684 01
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EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $1684 01
Paid John Gammell, for Hats, 1 50
J. W. Wallace, for Tin Ware, &c., 1 25
$1686 76
TOWN DEBT.
PRINCIPAL.
Paid Hannah B. Locke, Note,
$1000 00
" J. W. Simpson,
600 00
" Francis Hill, 66 112 50
" Deborah Butterfield, .... ..
80 00
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$1792 50
INTEREST.
Paid John Albee, $1150 00
Heirs of Wm. A. Russell,
300 00
,
Charles Cutter,
150 00
Daniel C. Brown,
120 00
Hannah B. Locke,
84 00
J. W. Stimpson,
38 00
Amos Fillebrown.
30 00
Francis Hill,
¥13 81
Deborah Butterfield,
6 00
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$1891 81
$3684 31
RECAPITULATION.
Amount of Receipts as stated on page third, $19738 30
EXPENDITURES.
Incidental School Expenses, $1039 21
Teachers' Salaries,
3418 92
Fire Department, 212 90
Highways,
2644 11
Incidental Town Expenses, 2679 05
Town House, 368 62
Almshouse and Poor Expenses, 1686 76
Town Debt, Principal and Interest, ..
3684 31
State Tax, 1650 00
County Tax,
1611 48
Abatement of Taxes, 181 86
Balance in Treasury May 1, 1857, ..
561 08
-$19738 30
MANSIR W. MARSH, WILLIAM DICKSON, ALBERT WINN,
Finance Committee
JOSIAH H. RUSSELL, ABEL R. PROCTOR,
of Town of West Cambridge.
TOWN OFFICERS
OF
WEST CAMBRIDGE,
For the Year 1857-18.
Town Clerk. ABEL R. PROCTOR.
Town Treasurer and Collector. JOSIAH H. RUSSELL.
Selectmen. MANSIR W. MARSH, WILLIAM DICKSON, ALBERT WINN.
Assessors. STEPHEN SYMMES, JR. WILLIAM DICKSON, W. J. LANE.
Overseers of the Poor. HENRY FROST, STEPHEN SYMMES, JR. JOSIAH H. RUSSELL.
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TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1857-'8. School Committee. WM. E. PARMENTER, JOSIAH CROSBY, JOSEPH UNDERWOOD, RICHARD L. HODGDON, *WARREN S. FROST.
Constable. JOHN B. HARTWELL.
Surveyors of Highways. MANSIR W. MARSH, WM. DICKSON, ALBERT WINN, HENRY FROST, STEPHEN SYMMES, JR. JOSIAH. H. RUSSELL.
Finance Committee. MANSIR W. MARSH, WILLIAM DICKSON, ALBERT WINN,
JOSIAH H. RUSSELL, ABEL R. PROCTOR.
- Sealers of Leather. THOMAS RAMSDELL, BENJAMIN POLAND.
Field Drivers. DAVID PUFFER, EDWARD RUSSELL, CHARLES HILL, WARREN RAWSON.
Measurers of Wood. ENOCH D. PATTEE, SOLON HARDY, J. WILLARD RUSSELL.
*Chosen by School Committee and Selectmen in place of J. O. Wellington, who declined.
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TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1857-'8.
Fish Preservers.
JAMES DURGIN, EDWARD RUSSELL, HENRY DEBLOIS, GEORGE WOODARD, CHARLES HILL, A. PORTER DICKSON, LEONARD STEARNS, JR.
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