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healthy mind resides in a healthy body." Persons thus educated are not well trained to combat error, and to judge of what is true in life, but are fitted to become easy victims to the various delusions with which our age is teeming.
The Primary School-rooms in the Centre and North West Districts, demand immediate attention. In the South District, the urgency of the case is not so great, owing to the small number of scholars, yet the room is far from what it should be. The liberality with which the town responded to the request for an addi- tional appropriation for the schools as soon as the ne- cessity for it was shown, makes the Committee hope that the citizens will visit these schools-rooms, where we are sure they will be convinced of the necessity of a change, and that we shall soon have suitable accom- modations for the schools.
To increase the usefulness of our schools, there is needed a more earnest interest in education among all the inhabitants of the town. The general School Committee and the teachers are not the only guardians of the educations of our children ; every man exerts an influence upon his own children or upon other chil- dren in his neighborhood. The children bring to school the influences that they have felt at home, and which they have felt in the street, in the shops and stores they have entered. Each citizen in town should consider himself bound to obey the spirit of our statute law, and to " exert his influence, and use his best en- deavors that the youth of the town shall regularly at- tend the schools ; " and to aid our school teachers "to impress on the minds of children and youth committed
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to their care and instruction, the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard for truth, love to their country, humanity, and universal benevolence, sobrie- ty, industry and frugality, chastity, moderation and temperance, and those other virtues which are the or- nament of human society, and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded."
Finally, the Committee would call the attention of the town, particularly, to one practical difficulty which has been alluded to, and which should be recognized and understood, although at present it may be incon- venient to meet it with a sufficient remedy. They refer to the imperfect classification of Schools. The division of schools into Grammar and Primary, simply, can hardly be considered a system ; and yet a system- atic arrangement of schools, suited to the different marked degrees of intellectual development in chil- dren, is the only means of securing to all a proper training. For example, the Primary School groups together two distinct grades of scholars : the alphabet children, or beginners, and those who for two years or more have been subjected to educational discipline.
The difference between these two grades is greater than is ordinarily supposed. The child of five years, who is just beginning its school career, is impatient of long restraint and confinement, and in its carly steps in knowledge, requires considerable freedom and in- dulgence, and much personal attention on the part of the teacher. It is gently, patiently, and reasonably to be led into the method and discipline by which its young mind is to be developed. After the experience of two or three years, it has learned to submit to order,
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authority and wholesome restraint, and calls for differ- ent treatment and oversight. Now it is impossible to combine in a single school the methods of discipline which these two grades of children require One grade will be governed too loosely, and the other too strictly, if the discipline be uniform ; or if an attempt be made to govern each according to its requirements, there must result confusion in the entire discipline. The Primary School should, therefore, be divided. This has already been done to some extent in the school in the North West District. The assistant teacher has charge of the younger children in the smaller room, and their separation from the other scholars has proved to be to their mutual benefit.
In the Grammar Schools a similar necessity for sep- aration appears. In the first place, the youngest class is ordinarily too young for the Grammar School, but it has been pushed upward to make room for the increas- ing number in the Primary School, from which it has just come. Then the oldest class has attained to the point when the mind begins to appreciate and crave for knowledge, and while no longer needing so much of the artificial restraint under which it has reached its present growth, requires still the constant guidance and aid of the experienced teacher. Here, again, must be a conflict of treatment. The classes below the first have not yet outgrown the discipline which their proper culture demands ; the first class has pass- ed beyond it. The teacher then must adapt his man- agement as he best can, to the wide range of age and mental character of his school. The result must nec- essarily be, that one grade or another of scholars will suffer, through the impossibility of directing the teach- ers' attention to these widely different claims.
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This difficulty in the classification of schools is no new experience. Other communities have suffered from it, and have found its remedy. This consists in a separation of the different grades of scholars into separate schools. The Primary School is sub-divided into Alphabet and Primary Schools. The Grammar School comprises those children who are able to pass into it from the Primary School, according to a scale of qualification ; together with those who are younger than the oldest class of Grammar scholars. The chil- dren composing this oldest class are then placed in a Central, or High School, where they can receive that individual attention, and competent instruction, which their age and mental condition demand.
In the cities, a further sub-division is made, but in a town like this, the system indicated would suffice.
The Committee cannot feel that they have discharg- ed their entire duty, without bringing the necessity of this change of classification of schools to the attention of their fellow citizens. It secures a complete and regular grade of schools, in which children within the school age, receive a training according to their intel- lectual condition and requirement. Uniformity, and progressive advancement are thus obtained in all the schools, and effort on the part of the scholars is stimu- lated, as they see before them the successive steps of attainment, ending at last in the highest school. The character of the schools throughout, arranged under such a system, must be that of life, interest and im- provement.
The Committee ask the careful consideration of these suggestions by parents, and friends of the schools.
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The change proposed is quite practicable. The addi- tion of a room to each school-house, and the employ- ment of an assistant in each Primary School, would effect the necessary division in the younger schools. The Grammar Schools are already provided for. It will remain to make provision for a Central School ; and this is the only alteration which will require any considerable outlay and expense.
Still the Committee are not disposed to press any plan upon their fellow-citizens, until upon examination and reflection the town is prepared to act upon the subject. They are content to leave this general state- ment of the difficulty and its remedy, feeling confident that ere long, the necessity of decided and thorough action will be seen by all.
RICHARD L. HODGDON,
WM. E. PARMENTER, School
JOSIAH CROSBY, JOSEPH UNDERWOOD, Committee.
WARREN S. FROST,
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
OF THE
Town of Telest Cambridge,
FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 28, 1859;
LIST OF TOWN, COUNTY AND STATE TAXES
ASSESSED FOR THE YEAR 1858 ;
AND THE
LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS,
FOR THE CURRENT YEAR.
ALSO, THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
BOSTON : W. & E. HOWE, PRINTERS, 39 MERCHANTS ROW. 1859.
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RECEIPTS.
Received from Jesse P. Pattee, Collector of Taxes
66
66
for 1858, including abatements, ..... $20397 05 Rent of Town House, 658 75
66
66
Interest on William Cutter, School Fund,
294 99
66
66
State School Fund,
84 42
66
Poor Widow's Fund,
12 00
66
Hay Scales,
62 66
66
Samuel Swan, Liquor Agent,
101 40
66
66
Stephen Locke, for Rent of Land, .. 40 00
66
Asa Brooks, 66
12 00
66
68
William Southwell, for Tax not As- sessed, 15 63
66
E. B. Grant, for Schooling,
7 50
66
66
S. F. Woodbridge, for Gravel, 4 50
66
66
E. J. Boardman, for Error on Bill paid by Engineer's order,
2 89
66
66
John B. Hartwell, for Lamp broken,
1 00
Borrowed
of
Cambridge Market Bank,
4897 59
Faueuil Hall Bank,
800 00
66
66
Luke Wyman, 2000 00
66
66
W. J. Lane,
945 00
6.6
66
A. P. & I. P. Wyman,
800 00
66
66 Albert Winn, 700 00
66
John A. P. Pierce,
500 00
66
Trustees of Wm. Cutter, Sch. Fund, 500 00 Andrew J. Allen, 300 00
66
66
S. F. Woodbridge,
300 00
66 Prescott & Proctor, 225 00
66
Mrs. Mary Wyman, 100 00
$33762 38
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66
EXPENDITURES.
INCIDENTAL SCHOOL EXPENSES. Bills Approved by the Selectmen. NORTH WEST DISTRICT.
Paid Josiah H. Russell & Co., for Fuel, . $75 96
" H. A. Dearborn, for making Fires, Re- pairs, &c., . 38 76
" Clark & Burr, for Carpenter Work and · Stock, 11 99
R. W. Shattuck, for Lining Stove, &c., 7 :45
Jesse Bacon & Co., for Work on School House, 2 00
" Bowen Russell, for Cleaning School House, &c., 28 00
" Wellington & Swain, Carpenter Work,
50
$164 66
CENTRE DISTRICT.
Paid J. H. Russell & Co., for Fuel, 75 44
William T. Wood, for Cash paid for Building Fires, &c., .. 57 51
R. W. Shattuck, for Stoves, Funnel, &c. 56 24
" J. H. Dodge, for Painting, Glazing, &c.
9 69
" Storer & Blanchard, for Work on School House, &c., 23 07
Jesse Bacon & Co., for Whitewashing School House, &c., 8 00
" C. M. Proctor, for Sweeping, and Build- ing Fires, 20 00
249 95
Amount carried forward,
$414 61
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EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $414 61
EAST DISTRICT.
Paid R. W. Shattuck, for Stove, Chair, &c., $37 03
" Jesse Bacon, for Whitewashing School House, &c., 17 50
" J. H. Russell & Co., for Fuel, 48 26
Geo. H. Hill, for Cash paid for Build- ing Fires, &c., 31 50
66 Storer & Blanchard, for Work on School House, and Stock, 23 82
J. H. Dodge, for Painting and Glazing, 1 62
159 73
SOUTH DISTRICT.
Paid J. H. Russell & Co., for Fuel, 47 34
C. A. & A. C. Frost, for taking care of School Rooms, 30 00
John S. Crosby, for Cash paid for Re- pairing Apparatus, &c., 33 12
J. M. Woodbridge, for Teaming Desk, J. A. Merrifield, for Lining Stove, &c., Storer & Blanchard, for work on School House, 3 73
75
5 90
Thomas Thorpe, for repairing Clocks, 1 75
G. H. Russell, for work on School House, &c., .. 4 70
127 29
$701 63
TEACHERS' SALARIES, &c.
Paid Edward P. Bates, $428 56
" H. A. Dearborn, 750 00
" A. P. Smith, 700 00
A. Palmer, 450 00
" Caroline A. Turner, 275 00
Mary I. Hill, 275 00
Amount carried forward, $2878 56
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EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $2878 56
Paid Lucretia M. Hoyt,
275 00
66 Ellen W. Douglass,
250 00
" Francena R. Fessenden,
208 00
6 : Sarah M. Hunt,
250 00
Ellen F. Brown, 128 00
66
H. A. Dearborn, for Books, 2 31
Stephen Swan, as per vote of Town, ..
10 00
66 Abel Pierce, 66 66 66
20 00
..
1143 31 .
$4021 87
FIRE DEPARTMENT. Bills Approved by the Engineers.
Paid Wm. T. Wood & Co., for Hose Carriage, $85 00
" James Marony, for Labor, &c., on Engine No. 1, 21 27
Abel Lawrence, for Neat's Foot Oil and Belts, .. 15 00
.
John Moran, for care of Engine No. 1, 15 00
66 Enoch Clark, for Painting Hose Carriage, 10 00
E. A. G. Roulstone, for Badges, ..
11 60
J. Boyd & Sons, for Splices in Hose, &c., 9 00
" T. H. Russell, for Refreshments, &c., 10 23
. 6 51
.R. W. Shattuck, for Fluid, &c., 3 89
E. Boardman, for setting Glass, &c., 3 75
66 Josiah H. Russell, for Coal, 3 70
66 J. P. Pettee, for Crackers,
66 B. Brown, for Express Work, 4 00
66 Geo. H. Russell, for Painting and Glazing, 5 50
" Solon Hardy, for Fluid, &c., 7 30
Joel Gay, for Repairs on No. 2, 6 00
$217 75
Bills approved by the Selectmen.
Paid A. Higgins, for repairs on Engine House, No. 2, 40 80
Refunded Poll Tax to Company No. 1, 28 50
66 66 66 " 2, 18 00
$305 05
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EXPENDITURES.
HIGHWAYS. Bills Approved by the Selectmen. -
Paid J. H. Russell, for Grain, &c., $290 65
66
for Labor, 26 25
66
J. H. Russell & Co., for Grain, &c., 115 25
Prescott & Proctor, for Horse Blankets, 3 00
66 Joshua Caldwell, for Blacksmith's Work, 57 46
66 Wm. H. Richardson, for 66
118 27
Abel Lawrence, for Harness Work 36 56
Solon Hardy, for Meal, 3 20
"
Samuel Butterfield, for Labor, &c., 24 50
A. R. Walker, for Horse, Collar and Bridle, 207 00
J. W. Presby, for Stone work at Alewive Brook, 67 55
66 Edward Fitch, for Hay, 42 44
David Constantine, for Hay, 100 56
66 James Pierce, for Hay, 14 84
66 O. Peabody, for Stone work, 60 20
66 Geo. W. Corbet, for Blacksmith work,
27 57
66 T. & J. Doane, for Survey, &c. of Concord Turnpike, 95 33
Storer & Blanchard, for Carpenter work,
66 D. W. Hollis, for Hay, 13 48
13 89
66 Wm. T. Wood, for Blacksmith work,
18 89
66 John Winn, for Stone work,
167 76
" Town of Medford, for Repairs on Weir Bridge, 21 94
City of Cambridge, for Work on Highway, and Rebuilding Bridge, 982 33
" Wm. L. Clark, for Harness work,
7 88
" Wellington & Swain, for Lumber and Carpen- ter's work, 75 46
D. K. Wellington, for Lumber and Carpenter's work, 13 19
Sam'l C. Bucknam, for Wheelwright's work, 17 75
" Thomas H. Russell, for Shovels, 12 88
66 Guardian for T. Cutter, for Labor, 168 00
Amount carried forward, $2804 08
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EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $2804 08
Paid J. Hall & Sons, for Lumber,
70 00
" Calvin H. Clark, for Hay,
47 37
" Wm. Dickson, for Wheelwright's work,
20 25
" Gale & Dudley, for Lumber,
38 08
Albert Higgins, for Labor, &c., 359 77
James Ferguson, for Labor,
1 50
" Michael White, for Labor, &c., 250 70
Edward Sullivan, for Labor, 180 00
183 70
Barney Gorman, for Teaming Gravel,
138 75
John Joyce, for Labor,
24 00
Matthew Callahan,
2 00
Eber Hill,
1 75
Edward O'Brien,
66
7 00
Peter Reardon,
66
22 25
Daniel Hurley,
66
6 50
John Kelley, 66
60
21 75
Timothy Hurley,
66
Posts,
26 16
Wm. Paine,
Labor,
5 50
Michael Campbell,
66
97 00
John McCarthy,
1 75
Patrick Rowe,
47 25
James Mahoney,
" Teaming Gravel,
558 96
" Labor,
230 75
John Lacy,
12 50
John and Edward Lacy, for Labor,
119 25
Edward Lacy,
154 75
66 Hugh McGinnis, for Labor of Men and Horses,
7 75
Jerry Connor,
15 00
" Philip Doherty, for Removing Gravel,
" Francis A. Gould, for Surveys and Superintend- ence,
336 00
Michael Fermoyle, for Labor,
16 80
66 Patrick Connor, 66
51 25
Wm. O'Donnell,
53 50
Charles Hoarne,
Dennis Mahoney, 66 66
1231 85
Amount carried forward, $7145 47
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EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $7145 47
Paid J. A. Noble, for Surveys,
24 00
Jas. Durgin, for Contract on Concord Turnpike, 3750 59
Richard Richardson, for Gravel used on Concord Turnpike, 446 31
66 Solon Hardy, for Grain, &c., .......... 48 52
$11414 89
NOTE ..... The board of the men employed on Highways is strictly chargeable under this head, but is included in the expen- ses of the Almshouse, the bills of which are approved by the Overseers of the Poor, and is estimated at abont $600.00, which being added to the above sum, makes the actual expense for Highways.
INCIDENTAL TOWN EXPENSES. Bills Approved by the Selectmen. 1
Paid J. H. Russell, for Services as Treasurer, $60 00
W. J. Lane, for Services as Selectmen and Sur- veyors of Highways, 89 50
66 W. J. Lane, Writing Contracts, &c.,
5 00
Samuel Butterfield, for Services as Selectman, and Surveyor of Highways, 69 50
Sam'l F. Woodbridge, for Services as Selectman, and Surveyor of Highways, 56 00
" Stephen Symmes, Jr., for Services as Assessor, .. 106 00
66 W. J. Lane, for Services as Assessor, and Cash paid for Books, 109 87
William Dickson, for Services as Assessor, 95 00
A. R. Proctor, for Services as Town Clerk, 25 00
66 A. R. Proctor, for Recording Births, Deaths and Marriages, 24 65
Finance Committee, for Auditing Accounts, and Making Statement, 15 00
Amount carried forward, $655 52
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EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $655 52
Paid Jesse P. Pattee, for Services as Collector,
233 97
Helen M. Jarvis, "
" Librarian, 53 00
66
J. B. Hartwell, for Warning Town Meetings, &c.,
218 41
66 Rev. Geo. Hill, for Services as School Committee,
30 00
66 Wm. E. Parmenter,
66 28 00
66 Moses Proctor, 66 66 66
38 00
Edwin Locke, 66 66 66
15 00
6 Josiah Crosby, 66 66 66
10 00
66 Wm. F. Setchell, 66 6 Chief Engineer, .. 15 00
John F. Allen, for
" Engineer, . 10 00
Committee to oppose the Incorporation of the Town of Belmont, 979 69
66 Samuel Swan, for Services as Liquor Agent, ....
35 00
66 State Lunatic Hospital, at Worcester, for Sup- port of Aaron Locke and Jerome Pierce, .....
240 90
" City of Cambridge, for Care, and Repairs of Brighton Bridge, 71 95
" Thurston Boynton, for Ringing Bell, 26 00
W. & E. Howe, for Printing,
117 25
Edwin C. Bailey, for Advertising,
6 25
Charles O. Rogers, " 66
9 00
“ A. Lawrence, for Leathering Pump Box, &c., .... J. Winn, for Work on Town Pump and Lantern, Stephen Smith, for Table,
10 00
66 Charles K. Darling, for Stationery,
3 35
66 Thomas Thorpe, for Repairing Hay Scales, &c.,
9 90
" W. C. Currier, for use of Horse and Carriages, .. 13 00
64 73
J. H. Russell, for Warming, Lighting and Care of Selectmen and Overseers' Rooms, 20 00
J. H. Russell, for Cash paid for Watchmen, &c., 38 50
Homer, Caswell & Co., for Lamps and Chimnies, 7 00
John A. Loring, for Advice, &c. 25 00
" James M. Woodbridge, for Teaming, 2 40
" W. E. Parmenter, for Professional Services, &c., 41 50
" W. S. Frost, for Services as School Com., 1857, 19 00
$3052 24
1 12
3 80
Prescott & Proctor, for Books and Stationery, &c.,
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EXPENDITURES.
TOWN HOUSE.
Bills Approved by the Selectmen.
Paid R. W. Shattuck, for Oil, &c., ......
$ 17 16
" Moses Proctor, for Oil, 1 06
Andrews Howe, for Fluid, 1 14
Josiah H. Russell, for Fuel, 35 75
J. H. Dodge, for Glazing,
3 32
6 John Lawrence, for Work on Town House, and Stock, 34 09
66 Jesse Bacon, for Whitewashing, 87 00
James M. Chase, for Carpenter Stock, 32 41
James M. Cook, for Glass,
13 70
.66 J. H. Russell, for Superintendence, and Collect- ing Rents, 20 00
Thomas H. Russell, for Oil, &c., 99 72
J. A. Merrifield, for Work on Furnace, &c., .. 27 04
$372 39
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ALMSHOUSE.
Bills Approved by the Selectmen.
Paid John Pinckney, for Painting Almshouse, and Stock, $ 54 13
4 J. H. Dodge, for Glass, &c., 1 11
T. H. Russell, for Paint, 70
d' Walter Fletcher, for Rent of Spring, 10 00
$65 94
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EXPENDITURES.
ALMSHOUSE AND POOR EXPENSES.
Bills Approved by the Overseers of the Poor.
See Note under Highway Expenses.
Paid Mark A. Richardson, for Services as Superin- tendent, and for Female Help, $500 00
Moses Proctor, for Groceries, 142 79
66 T. H. Russell, 66
178 85
Andrews Howe, “
68 92
66 Solon Hardy, 66
114 16
Henry Locke, Provisions, 105 79
John Whipple, for Fish and Meat, . 78 95
" Josiah H. Russell & Co., for Fuel and Grain, .. 254 60
" Prescott & Proctor, for Dry Goods, &c.,
64 80
" W. J. Lane, for Wood at Auction,
29 98
R. W. Shattuck, for Hardware, &c.,
18 11
" J. A. Merrifield, “ 8 99
" N. F. Richardson, for Butter, 18 48
" Dr. R. L. Hodgdon, for Attendance and Medi- cine, 20 00
" Thomas Ramsdell, for Boots and Shoes,
6 97
" J. T. Kidder,
66
6 66
66 Kenny & Pierce, for Ice,
5 40
James M. Chase, for Repairing Sink, &c.,
8 52
John B. Hartwell, for Coffins, &c.,.
28 00
" Jesse P. Pattee, for Bread and Crackers, 15 14
J. H. Russell, for Services as Overseer, 27 00
S. Symmes, Jr., 25 00 66
66 Henry Frost, 66 66
22 00
Thomas H. Russell, for Interest on Order, 1 42
$1750 53
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EXPENDITURES. POOR WIDOW'S FUND.
Paid Mrs. Gibson,
$4 00
Lakin,
4 00
Rankin,
4 00
$12 00
TEMPORARY LOANS,
Paid Cambridge Market Bank,
$3897 59
Faneuil Hall Bank,
800 00
W. J. Lane, 945 00
" Albert Winn,
700 00
S. F. Woodbridge, 300 00
Andrew J. Allen,
300 00
" Prescott & Proctor, 225 00
66 Interest on foregoing, 98 63
$7266 22
TOWN DEBT AND INTEREST.
Paid John Albee, Interest, $862 50
" Heirs of William A. Russell, Interest, 150 00
" Charles Cutter, 150 00
" Daniel C. Brown, 120 00
30 00
William Cutter, School Fund,
30 00
" Stephen Symmes, Jr.,
18 00
" Francis Hill,
6 76
S. Hardy,
on Order,
1 06
Deborah Butterfield,
4 25
Principal, 20 00
Treasurer balance due him, May 1, 1858, 350 01
$1742 58
2
" Amos Fillebrown,
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EXPENDITURES. STATEMENT OF THE TOWN DEBT, DUE MARCH 28TH, 1859.
Due to John Albee, . .............. $15000 00
66 Estate of William A. Russell, 5000 00
66 Charles Cutter, 2500 00
66 Daniel C. Brown,
2000 00
66 Amos Fillebrown,
500 00
66 Stephen Symmes, Jr.,
66 Trustees of the Wm. Cutter School Fund, ..
100 0.0
66 66 Juvenile Library,
349 82
66 Francis Hill,
Luke Wyman,
2000 00
Cambridge Market Bank,
1000 00
66 A. P. & G. P. Wyman,
800 00
66 Mrs. Mary Wyman,
100 00
66 John A. P. Pierce, 500 00
$31149 82
There is also due from the Town sundry Bills and Claims, amounting to about $200.00. Also, the Expense of the Com- mittee to oppose the incorporation of the Town of Belmont, amounting to $1320.00.
There is due to this Town from the Town of Watertown, for Repairs on the Concord Turnpike, $389 92.
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300 00
1000 00
ICEDE RECAPITULATION.
Amount of Receipts, as stated on page third, .... $33762 38
EXPENDITURES.
Incidental School Expenses, $ 701 63
Teachers' Salaries, &c.,
4021 87
Fire Department, .. 305 05
Highways,
11414 89
Incidental Town Expenses,
3052 24
Town House,
372 39
Almshouse Repairs, &c., 65 94
Almshouse and Poor Expenses, .. 1750 53
Town Debt, Principal and Interest, 1742 58
Temporary Loans and Interests thereon, 7266 22
State Tax,
990 00
County Tax,
1741 85
Poor Widow's Fund, 12 00
Abatement of Taxes, 1857, 38 73
66 66 " 1858,
242 44
Balance in Treasury, March 28th, 1859, 44 02
$33762 38.
WASHINGTON J. LANE, SAMUEL BUTTERFIELD, SAMUEL F. WOODBRIDGE, JOSIAH H. RUSSELL, ABEL R. PROCTOR,
Finance Committee.
TOWN OFFICERS OF MOETST
WEST CAMBRIDGE, For the Year 1859-60.
Selectmen. WASHINGTON J. LANE, n
SAMUEL BUTTERFIELD, SAMUEL F. WOODBRIDGE.
Assessors.1 STEPHEN SYMMES, JR., WILLIAM DICKSON, WASHINGTON J. LANE.
Overseers of the Poor.
JOSIAH H. RUSSELL, STEPHEN SYMMES, JR., CHARLES HILL.
School Committee. JOSIAH CROSBY, for three years. STEPHEN SYMMES, for three years. WM. E. PARMENTER, for two years. MOSES PROCTOR, for two years. REV. GEO. HILL, for one year. JOHN D. FREEMAN, for one year.
TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1859-60. 17
Town Clerk. 1
ABEL R. PROCTOR.
Treasurer. JOSIAH H. RUSSELL.
Collector. JOSIAH H. RUSSELL.
Constables. W
JOHN B. HARTWELL, WOODMAN C. CURRIER.
Surveyors of Highways. WASHINGTON J. LANE, SAMUEL BUTTERFIELD, SAMUEL F. WOODBRIDGE. L
Prudential School Committee. JOHN D. FREEMAN, RALPH W. SHATTUCK, JOHN PEABODY.
Finance Committee. WASHINGTON J. LANE, SAMUEL BUTTERFIELD, SAMUEL F. WOODBRIDGE, ABEL R. PROCTOR.
Field Drivers. JAMES M. CHASE, HENRY DEBLOIS, JESSE P. PATTEE.
YUTUL
Measurers of Wood. JOSIAH H. RUSSELL, SOLON HARDY, SAMUEL C. BUCKNAM, JAMES C. BLANCHARD. 2*
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TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1859-60.
Fish Preservers. JAMES DURGAN, HENRY DEBLOIS, CHARLES HILL, J. HARRIS PIERCE, GEORGE HILL.
Measurers of Stone and Gravel. MARK A. RICHARDSON, ALFRED BROOKS.
Fence Viewers. JESSE P. PATTEE, WOODMAN C. CURRIER.
Pound Keeper. JOHN WINN.
Town Sexton.
JOHN B. HARTWELL.
Town Weigher. THURSTON BOYNTON.
Clerk of the Market. JAMES M. CHASE.
Sealers of Leather. THOMAS RAMSDELL, BENJAMIN POLAND.
Surveyors of Painting and Plastering. JESSE BACON, JOHN FORD.
Surveyors of Lumber. JAMES M. CHASE, : EDWARD STORER, DAVID H. WELLINGTON. KAN
TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1859-'60. 19
Committee on Mount Pleasant Cemetery. THOMAS THORPE, ALBERT WINN, JOHN B. HARTWELL.
Hog Reeves.
GEORGE WRIGHT,
CHARLES H. CRANE, CHARLES B. FESSENDEN,
WILLIAM H. LOCKE,
E. NELSON BLAKE.
Sealers of Weights and Measures. THOMAS THORPE.
Liquor Agent. SAMUEL SWAN.
The Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, Surveyors of High- ways, Treasurer and Clerk, meet for the transaction of the busi- ness of their respective departments, at their Rooms in the Town House, on the last Monday Evening of each month, except March, when they meet on the Monday Evening preceding the last Monday of that month.
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Colon, County and State Cares,
AS ASSESSED FOR THE YEAR 1850.
A.
B.
Aharan Dennis, $1 72
Boardman, Edwin $1 72
Adams, Henry J. 1 72
Burns, Thomas 1 72
Anderson, Charles E. 3 54
Brian, Peter O. 6 35
Amory, Henry C. 5 47
Butler, Michael J. 5 03
Ahearn, James 1 72
Buntland, Daniel G. 3 06
Armstrong, John 4 38
Burgess, George 1 72
1 72
Amana, Andrew,
1 72
Brina, John O.
1 72
Ahearn, William
1 72
Burkley, Jeremiah
1 72
Ahearn, Edward 1 72
Burkley, James
1 72
Allen, David 1 72
Bell, William
1 72
Adams, Capt. John 152 35
Berry, John
1 72
Allen, John F. 4 54
Barrett, James
1 72
Allen, William H. 23 10
Barry, George
1 72
Allen, Andrew F. 11 72
Blackington, John
1 72
Avery, Widow Sarah :. 7 03
Burchard, Charles
67 41
Adams, Dea. William .. 102 97
Bates, Edward
1 72
Adams, Amos 6 72
Benham, Daniel 1 72
Barnett, Daniel
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