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APPROPRIATIONS
UNEXPENDED BALANCES
ACCOUNTS
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
By Taxation
By Borrowing and Transfer
Credits and Receipts
Totals
Disburse- ments
Available for Department Only
Available for Transfer
Overdrafts
Board of Health.
$6,210 00
$382 43
$6,592 43
$6,320 26
$272 17
Board of Survey. .
500
00
500 00
350 78
149 22
Cemeteries. .
2,500 00
5,422 09
7,922 09
7,922 09
Committee on Public Safety .
3,500
00
3,424 22
6,924 22
5,979 87
$944 35
Engineering. .
3,500 00
94 97
3,594 97
3,267 50
327 47
Fire Department.
21,005 00
148 50
21,153 50
21,132 69
20 81
Health Department.
19,800 00
7 65
19,807 65
19,806 88
77
Highways. .
59,058 17
$5,141 83
12,846 10
77,046 10
76,627 84
418 26
Highway Construction.
2,300 00
27 25
2,327 25
2,027 25
300 00
Incidentals: Assessors.
1,500 00
1,500 00
1,481 37
18 63
Auditor.
. .
125 00
125 00
101 42
23 58
Committee of
Twenty-one.
200 00
200 00
190 70
9 30
Collector. .
1,225 00
1,225 00
1,210 72
14 28
Selectmen.
6,300 00
297 65
6,597 65
6,595 98
1 67
Town Clerk.
1,900 00
275 00
2,175 00
2,160 45
14 55
Treasurer.
450 00
24 00
474 00
436 05
37 95
Insurance.
5,000 00
5,000 00
4,205 97
794 03
Interest.
21,249 12
16,750 88
38,000 00
39,031 79
$1031.79
Memorial Day .
250 00
250 00
250 00
Outside [Poor.
10,000 00
5,041 08
15,041 08
15,033 37
7 71
Park Commission.
500 00
500 00
345 80
154 20
.
Police Department.
25,051 00
88 92| 25,139 92|
23,394 82|
1,745 10
Robbins Library . .
5,800 00
650 37
3,147 71
9,598 08 9,596 89
1 19
Salaries. . .
12,575 00
12,575 00 12,541 67
33 33
Schools.
144,359 00
15,000 00
1,808 04 161,167 04 157,714 67
3,452 37
Schools: Repairs
3,000 00
3,000 00
2,994 42
5 58
Sewers. .
3,000 00
1 36
3,001 36
2,777 24
224 12
Sewer Construction .
$18,507 26
2,761 36
21,268 62
21,003 17
265 45
Sidewalks. .
2400 00
651 43
3,051 43
2,783 98
267 45
Snow and Ice.
6,000 00
335 43
6,335 43
6,335 43
Spy Pond Athletic Field.
750 00
750
00
563
22
186 78
Soldiers' Relief .
400
00
24 00
State and Military Aid.
250
00
1,649 50
1,899 50
1,435 50
464 00
State Aid, German War
15 00
8,875 33
8,890 33 8,855 33
35 00
Street Lighting.
14,000 00
14,000 00
13,067 05
932 95
Suppression of Moths
5,500 00
16 45
5,516 45
5,447 27
69 18
Town House, New
4,500 00
750 00
750 00
6,000 00
5,932 50
67 50
Town House, Old.
750 00
750 00
748 01
1 99
Tree Warden.
1,250 00
830 17
2,080 17
1,990 15
90 02
Water for Public Uses
7,000 00
7,000 00
7,000 00
Water Works.
1,013 99
44,207 50
7,659 82
52,881 31
49,129 27
3,752 04
Water Extensions .
1,127 98
2,000 00
8,000 00
154 87
11,282 85
10,499 00
783 85
Wire Department
2,100 00
20 20
2,120 20
2,101 11
19 09
Planning Board ..
300 00
300 00
60 00
240 00
Reserve Fund .
3,000 00
3,000 00
1,120 41
1,879 59
Sinking Fund.
14,550 00
14,550 00
14,550 00
Town Debt
21,900 00
41,550 00
63,450 00
63,450 00
Arlington Heights Playground .
800 00
800 00
800 00
Marking New Streets, Turkey Hill.
349 19
349 19
349 19
Printing By-Laws and Statutes.
268 25
268 25
268 25
Tufts Street Land Purchase and Takings . .
7,340 00
3,500 00
10,840 00
10,822 57
17 43
400
00
376 00
STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS, SHOWING RECEIPTS, DISBURSEMENTS, UNEXPENDED BALANCES AND OVERDRAFTS - Concluded
APPROPRIATIONS
UNEXPENDED BALANCES
ACCOUNTS
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
By Taxation
By Borrowing and Transfer
Credits and Receipts
Totals
Disburse- ments
Available for Department Only
Available for Transfer
Overdrafts
Summer Street Construction
$3,000 00 500 00 3,800 00
$12,000 00
$5,000 00
$20,000 00 500 00 6,000 00
$15,974 15
$4,025 85
Free Bed at Symmes Hospital . .
500 00 6,000 00
Committee on School Accom- modations .
300 00
300 00
300 00
Overdrafts, 1917.
636 69
636 69
636 69
Establishing Voting Precincts.
500 00
11 00
511 00
511
00
Soldiers' Exemption
19 98
19 98
19 98
Committee on Roll of Honor.
100 00
00
100 00
$29,406 67 $455,607 29 |$150,857 68
$61,417 10|$697,288 74|$674,410 28 |$11,606 41 $12,303 84 $1,031 79
Land Takings, Forest Street ..
2,200 00
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS NOT HAVING APPROPRIATIONS, SHOWING RECEIPTS, EXPENDITURES AND BALANCES
AVAILABLE BALANCES
ACCOUNTS
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
Credits and Receipts
Disbursements
For Specific Purposes
For Transfer
Betterment Assessment Collections.
$10,323 19
$12 51
$10,310 68
Gypsy Moth Assessment Collections.
1,418 45
1,418 45
Sewer Assessment Collections.
$9,139 88
4,728 87
11,660 00
$2,208 75
Sidewalk Assessment Collections.
1 50
31 50
Rents: New Town Hall.
960 00
960 00
483 26
Medford Street Estate.
390 00
57 43
332 57
Interest Receipts .
6,110 16
6,110 16
Treasury Account.
1,049 52
300 00
749 52
Court Fines.
36 47
36 47
Dog Tax.
650 37
650 37
Corporation and Bank Taxes. .
19,251 64
19,035 79
215 85
State Income Tax.
48,810 79
47,161 71
1,649 08
Schools: High School Income Fund. E. Nelson Blake, Jr., Memorial Fund.
128 90
128 90
Robbins Library Art Fund. .
10 00
10 00
Citizen Soldiers' Fund.
96 00
96
00
Street Railway and Excise Taxes
141 83
11,279 86
141
83
11,279 86
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds.
3,400 00
3,400 00
Sales of Lots in Cemeteries.
3,380 00
75 00
3,305 00
Sales of Offal.
1,260 00
1,260 00
Overlayings: 1916 Street Sprinkling.
475 78
2 98
472 80
1916 Taxes. .
299 28
2 00
42 60
254 68
1917 Taxes.
5,594 30
8 00
2,183 27
669 57
2,749 46
1918 Taxes.
5,965 15
1,426 04
4,539 11
Unexpended Balances and Receipts, 1917.
40,935 07
40,935 07
$56,586 14
$120,512 44
$128,979 21
$18,739 89
$29,379 48
.
740 31
740 31
Old Town Hall.
483 26
2
194
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TRIAL BALANCE DECEMBER 31, 1918
Unexpended Balances of Appropriation $1,031.79 $23,910.25 Available Balances from Receipts 48,119.37
Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
Burials
$100.00
German War Aid 8,681.33
Mothers' Pensions
3,789.75
Advance Betterment Apportionments
1,683.50
Advance Sewer Apportionments
6,147.34
Collector of Betterment Apportionments
804.95
Collector of Sewer Apportionments
510.19
Collector of Sidewalk Assessments
185.17
Collector of Betterment Assessments
6,213.98
Collector of Sewer Assessments
7,524.07
Collector of Committed Interest
On Betterment Apportionments 61.96
On Sewer Apportionments
107.05
Collector of Moth Assessments
337.82
Collector of Street Railway Excise Taxes
937.39
Collector of Taxes, 1916
42.60
Collector of Taxes, 1917
669.57
Collector of Taxes, 1918
119,216.02
Collector of Water Rates
392.52
Town Treasurer
30,790.17
Tax Titles
374.90
Tax Title Surplus
95.81
Water Guarantee Fund
2,570.70
Betterment Assessments
8,702.43
Gypsy Moth Assessments
337.82
Sewer Assessments
14,181.60
Sidewalk Assessments
185.17
Street Railway Excise Taxes
937.39
Water Rates
392.52
Committed Interest
169.01
Loans in Anticipation of Revenue
90,000.00
$189,602.07
$189,602.07
AUDITOR'S REPORT
195
Public Property
$2,702,334.20
Surplus
$1,936,884.20
Crosby School Addition Loan
21,000.00
Crosby School Additonal Loan
1,000.00
Forest Street Land Takings Loan, 1918
2,000.00
Henderson Street Sewer Loan
10,500.00
High School Bonds, 1914
146,000.00
High School Furnishing Loan
15,000.00
High School Grading Loan
8,000.00
Locke School Loan
1,450.00
Locke School Addition Loan
20,000.00
Park Loan,
15,000.00
Park Loan, 1914
3,000.00
Parmenter School Loan
3,000.00
Schouler Court Purchase, 1914
17,000.00
Sewer Loan
100,000.00
Sewer Loan, 1916
8,000.00
Sewer Loan, 1917
18,000.00
Street Loan, 1914
4,000.00
Street Loan, 1915
3,500.00
Street Loans, 1916
8,000.00
Street Loan, 1917
7,500.00
Summer Street Bonds, 1914
6,000.00
Summer Street Loan, 1915
5,000.00
Summer Street Loan, 1916
3,000.00
Summer Street Loan, 1918
12,000.00
Town House Site Loan
52,000.00
Tufts Street Land Purchase, 1917
7,500.00
Tufts Street Land Takings Loan, 1918
3,500.00
Water Loans, (Bonds)
224,000.00
Water Loan, 1910
7,000.00
Water Loan, 1912
4,000.00
Water Loan, 1914
2,000.00
Water Loan, 1915
4,000.00
Water Loan, 1916
6,000.00
Water Loan, 1917
6,000.00
Water Loan, 1918
8,000.00
Water Pipe Renewal Loan, 1907
(
2,000.00
|
196
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Water Pipe Renewal Loan, 1908
Water Pipe Renewal Loan, 1909
$1,000.00 500.00
$2,891,936.27 $2,891,936.27
TAX LEVY, 1918
DR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$455,607.29
State Tax
40,700.00 ·
County Tax
20,170.01
Metropolitan Park Tax
9,532.40
Metropolitan Sewer Tax
17,349.75
Charles River Basin Tax
1,819.39
Alewife Brook Tax
2,395.89
Fire Prevention Tax
193.36
Overlayings
5,886.16
CR.
Estimated Receipts:
Corporation and Bank Tax
$19,000.00
State Income Tax
47,161.71
Commitment to Collector
487,492.54
$553,654.25
$553,654.25
APPROPRIATION BY TAXATION
DR.
Board of Health
$6,210.00
Board of Survey
500.00
Cemeteries
2,500.00
Engineering
3,500.00
Fire Department
21,005.00
Health Department
19,800.00
Highways
59,058.17
197
AUDITOR'S REPORT
Highway Construction
$2,300.00
Incidentals, Selectmen
6,300.00
Incidentals, Assessors
1,500.00
Incidentals, Auditor
125.00
Incidentals, Collector
1,225.00
Incidentals, Town Clerk
1,900.00
Incidentals, Treasurer
450.00
Incidentals, Committee of Twenty-one 200.00
Insurance
5,000.00
Interest
21,249.12
Memorial Day
250.00
Outside Poor
10,000.00
Park Commission
500.00
Planning Board
300.00
Police Department
25,051.00
Robbins Library
5,800.00
Salaries
12,575.00
Schools
144,359.00
School Repairs
3,000.00
Sewers
3,000.00
Sidewalks
2,400.00
Soldiers' Relief
400.00
State and Military Aid
250.00
Snow and Ice
6,000.00
Street Lighting
14,000.00
Suppression of Moths
5,500.00
Spy Pond Athletic Field
750.00
Town House, New
4,500.00
Town House, Old
750.00
Tree Warden
1,250.00
Water for Hydrants
7,000.00
Water Pipe Extensions
2,000.00
Wire Department
2,100.00
Sinking Fund
14,550.00
Town Debt
21,900.00
Reserve Fund
3,000.00
Free Bed at Symmes Hospital
500.00
Committee on Public Safety
3,500.00
Summer Street Construction
3,000.00
198
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Land for Municipal Purposes $3,800.00
Committee on School Accommodations
300.00
Establishing Voting Precincts 500.00
$455,607.29
APPROPRIATION BY BORROWING
DR.
Summer Street Construction
$12,000.00
Water Pipe Extensions
8,000.00
Tufts Street Land Purchase
3,500.00
Forest Street Land Takings
2,000.00
CR.
Loans Issued
$25,500.00
$25,500.00
$25,500.00
APPROPRIATION BY TRANSFER
Sewer Assessment Collections
$11,660.00
To Interest
$5,660.00
Town Debt
6,000.00
Water Division Income
70,550.00
To Water Division
44,207.50
Interest
10,792.50
Town Debt, due 1918
15,550.00
Street Railway and Excise Taxes To Highways
141.83
141.83
Available Receipts, 1917
34,167.19
Unexpended Balance, 1917
6,767.88
To Highways
5,000.00
Interest
298.38
1 Schools
15,000.00
1
199
AUDITOR'S REPORT
Over drafts, 1917 Town Debt, due 1918
636.69
20,000.00
Dog Tax, 1918 To Robbins Library
$650.37
650.37
Treasury Account
300.00
To Land for Municipal Purposes
200.00
Committee on Roll of Honor
100.00
Reserve Fund
1,120.41
To Snow and Ice
335.43
Town House
750.00
German War Aid
15.00
Soldiers' Exemption
19.98
$125,357.68
$125,357.68
ADVANCE BETTERMENT APPORTIONMENTS
DR.
Balance December 31, 1917
$1,998.53
Assessments Apportioned
2,161.17
CR.
Assessments Abated
$173.10
Committed to Collector
1,681.36
Collections
621.74
Uncollected, December 31, 1918
1,683.50
$4,159.70
$4,159.70
ADVANCE SEWER APPORTIONMENTS
DR.
Balance December 31, 1917 $6,764.51 1,263.10
Assessments Apportioned
$2,476.20
200
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CR.
Committed to Collector Collections
$1,305.97 574.30
$1,880.27
Uncollected, December 31, 1918
6,147.34
$8,027.61
$8,027.61
ALEWIFE BROOK TAX
CR.
Tax Levy, 1918
$2,395.89
DR.
Paid State Treasurer :
Special Assessment
$1,636.79
Interest
759.10
$2,395.89
$2,395.89
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS PLAYGROUND
CR.
$800.00
Unexpended balance
$800.00
$800.00
$800.00
BETTERMENT ASSESSMENT COLLECTIONS
CR.
Assessments Collected
$10,323.19
DR.
Betterment Assessments, refunded
$12.51
Available Balance
10,310.68
$10,323.19
$10,323.19
Balance from 1917
DR.
201
AUDITOR'S REPORT
BOARD OF HEALTH CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$6,210.00
Schools
7.00
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
155.93
City of Chelsea
28.00
Sundry Reimbursements
191.50
DR.
Physician and Bacteriologist
$300.00
Nurse
440.00
Clerk of Board
1,387.66
Market Inspector
75.00
Contagious Disease, board:
City of Boston
60.00
City of Cambridge
806.00
Cullis Consumptive Home
134.86
City of Lowell
92.00
City of Malden
51.00
Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital
276.75
North Reading State Sanatorium
251.81
Rutland State Sanatorium
405.71
City of Somerville
143.58
Contagious Disease, expense
39.50
Dispensary
89.32
Laboratory
106.11
Milk Inspector
89.02
Nurse's expense
13.75
Office Expense and Sundries
305.54
Plumbing Inspector
250.00
Destroying Animals
29.50
Cost of establishing and maintaining
Emergency Hospital during In-
fluenza Epidemic
973.15
$6,320.26
Unexpended balance
272.17
$6,592.43
$6,592.43
1
202
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
BOARD OF SURVEY
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$500.00
DR.
Public Works, Engineering
$117.15
Thomas J. Robinson, Clerk
200.00
Office Supplies
12.50
Recording Deeds
3.90
Advertising
17.23
$350.78
Unexpended balance
149.22
$500.00
$500.00
CEMETERIES
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$2,500 00
Income of Perpetual Care Fund
1,224.34
Income of Robbins Fund
200.00
Income S. C. Bucknam Fund
85.00
Income Soldiers' Monument Fund
140.00
Receipts of care, etc.
3,772.75
DR.
Superintendent
$1,507.50
Pay Roll, labor
4,808.43
Care of grounds
821.87
Building repairs and fuel
104.64
Tools and supplies
231.94
Office expense and sundries
298.45
Engineering
51.85
Highways
25.78
Incidentals, Town Clerk, expenses
25.00
Water Division
46.63
$7,922.09
$7,922.09
203
AUDITOR'S REPORT
CEMETERY PERPETUAL CARE FUND CR.
Mrs. Benjamin F. Russell, Lot 254
$200.00
William E. Hardy, Lot 699
200.00
William Wyman Crosby, Lot 755
200.00
J. P. Wyman, Trustee, Lot 239
200.00
Estate Irving Johnson, Lot 18512
200.00
Mary A. Ross, Lot 690
200.00
Daniel Sullivan, Lot 790
200.00
William M. Peppard, Lot 566
200.00
Mrs. Lamson Allen, Lot 192
200.00
M. Helen and Herbert Teele, Lot 69
200.00
Amos E. Hill, Lot 441
200.00
George Hill, Executor, Lot 210
200.00
Jane E. Berry, Lot 146
200.00
Estate J. H. Hardy, Lot 246
200.00
Estate F. S. Smith, Lot 341
200.00
Estate Eliza A. W. Cutter, for Lucy
T. Cutter, Lot 6
200.00
John L. Axtman, Lot 837
200.00
DR.
Paid Trustees of Fund
$3,400.00
$3,400.00
$3,400.00
CHARLES RIVER BASIN TAX
CR.
Tax Levy, 1918
$1,819.39
DR.
Paid State Treasurer
Interest
$746.61
Maintenance
1,008.08
Serial Bonds
64.70
$1,819.39
$1,819.39
CITIZEN-SOLDIERS' FUND
CR.
Trustees of Fund
$96.00
DR.
1
Aid rendered
96.00
$96.00
$96.00
204
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COLLECTOR OF APPORTIONED BETTERMENT ASSESSMENTS
DR.
Balance December 31, 1917
$338.58
Commitments
1,681.36
CR.
Paid Treasurer
$1,214.99
Uncollected, December 31, 1918
804.95
$2,019.94
$2,019.94
COLLECTOR OF APPORTIONED SEWER ASSESSMENTS
DR.
Balance, December 31, 1917
$491.75
Commitments
1,305.97
CR.
Paid Treasurer
$1,287.53
Uncollected, December 31, 1918
510.19
$1,797.72
$1,797.72
COLLECTOR OF BETTERMENT ASSESSMENTS
DR.
Balance, December 31, 1917
$9,237.96
Commitments
9,908.10
CR.
Abatements
$2,284.45
Assessments Apportioned
2,161.17
Paid Treasurer
8,486.46
$12,932.08
Uncollected, December 31, 1918
6,213.98
$19,146.06
$19,146.06
205
AUDITOR'S REPORT
COLLECTOR OF COMMITTED INTEREST ON BETTERMENT APPORTIONMENTS
DR.
Balance, December 31, 1917
$24.10
Commitment, 1918
161.57
CR.
Abatement
$.15
Paid Treasurer
/
123.56
Uncollected, December 31, 1918
61.96
$185.67 $185.67
COLLECTOR OF COMMITTED INTEREST ON SEWER APPORTIONMENTS
DR.
Balance, December 31, 1917
$67.81
Commitment 238.67
CR.
Paid Treasurer
$199.43
Uncollected, December 31, 1918
107.05
$306.48
$306.48
COLLECTOR OF GYPSY AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH ASSESSMENTS
DR.
Balance, December 31, 1917
$383.10
Committed, 1918 1,375.78
CR.
Abatements
$2.61
Paid Treasurer
1,418.45
$1,421.06
Uncollected, December 31, 1918
337.82
$1,758.88
$1,758.88
206
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
COLLECTOR OF SEWER ASSESSMENTS
DR.
Balance, December 31, 1917
$6,861.60 4,859.06
Commitments
CR.
Abatements
$66.45
Assessments Apportioned
1,263.10
Paid Treasurer
2,867.04
$4,196.59
Uncollected, December 31, 1918
7,524.07
$11,720.66
$11,720.66
COLLECTOR OF SIDEWALK ASSESSMENTS
DR.
Balance, December 31, 1917
$188.36
Commitments
28.31
CR.
Paid Treasurer
$31.50
$31.50
Uncollected, December 31, 1918
185.17
· $216.67
$216.67
COLLECTOR OF STREET RAILWAY AND EXCISE TAX
DR.
Balance, December 31, 1917
$405.99
Commitment 531.40
CR.
Uncollected, December 31, 1918 $937.39
$937.39
$937.39
207
AUDITOR'S REPORT
COLLECTOR OF STREET SPRINKLING ASSESSMENTS 1916
DR.
Balance, December 31, 1917 $475.78
CR.
Abatements Paid Treasurer
$2.98 472.80
$475.78
$475.78
COLLECTOR OF TAXES, 1916
DR.
Balance, December 31, 1917
$299.28
CR.
Abatements Paid Treasurer
$2.00
254.68
$256.68
Uncollected, December 31, 1918
42.60
$299.28
$299.28
COLLECTOR OF TAXES, 1917
DR.
Balance, December 31, 1917
$136,669.07 8.00
Additions
CR.
Abatements
$2,183.27 133,824.23
$136,007.50
Uncollected, December 31, 1918
669.57
$136,677.07
$136,677.07
Paid Treasurer
208
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COLLECTOR OF TAXES, 1918
DR.
Commitment
Additions
$487,492.54 78.99
Reassessments
219.30
CR.
Abatements
Paid Treasurer
$1,645.34 366,929.47
$368,574.81
Uncollected, December 31, 1918 1
119,216.02
$487,790.83
$487,790.83
COLLECTOR OF WATER RATES
DR.
Balance, December 31, 1917
$2,075.03
Commitment, January 1, 1918
32,827.29
Commitment, July 1, 1918
33,584.27
Additions
1,038.62
CR.
Rebates
$1,137.35 67,995.34
Paid Treasurer
$69,132.69
Uncollected, December 31, 1918
392.52
$69,525.21
$69,525.21
1
209
AUDITOR'S REPORT
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$3,500.00
Sale of glass jars
1,645.10
Water glass and potatoes
239.73
Plowing and harrowing
516.76
Dressing
526.41
Town of Winchester
347.70
Sundry reimbursements
143.52
Department Transfer
5.00
DR.
Clerk
$360.00
Printing and Advertising
207.75
Glass jars
1,607.49
Seed potatoes
156.30
Plowing
362.71
Dressing
493.81
State Guard, uniforms
105.00
Liberty Loan, expenses
400.68
Baby Conservation, expenses
15.19
Food Conservation, expenses
245.90
Fuel Conservation, expenses
41.40
Supplies sent to camps
37.50
Supplies
123.69
Expenses establishing market garden Base Hospital 6, France
460.31
Sundry expenses
697.98
Highways, labor
33.66
Incidentals, supplies and labor
250.00
Incidentals: Town Clerk, supplies and labor
250.00
Tree Warden, labor
130.50
$5,979.87
Unexpended balance
944.35
$6,924.22
$6,924.22
210
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COMMITTEE ON SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$300.00
DR.
Unexpended
$300.00
$300.00
$300.00
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, BURIALS
DR.
Balance from 1917
$200.00
One burial
50.00
CR.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
$150.00
$150.00
Balance due
100.00
$250.00
$250.00
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, GERMAN WAR AID
DR.
Amount of 1918 payments, allowed $8,681.33 CR.
Amount due
$8,681.33
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, STATE AND MILITARY AID
DR.
Amount of 1917 payments allowed
$1,600.00
CR.
State Treasurer $1,600.00
211
AUDITOR'S REPORT
CORPORATION AND BANK TAX
CR.
Corporation Tax, Business
$2,491.77
Corporation Tax, Public Service
3,457.27
National Bank Tax
13,302.60
DR.
Tax Levy, Assessors' Estimate
$19,000.00
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Bank Tax
35.79
$19,035.79
Available balance
215.85
$19,251.64
$19,251.64
COUNTY TAX
CR.
Tax Levy
$20,170.01
DR.
County Treasurer
$20,170.01
$20,170.01
$20,170.01
COURT FINES
CR.
Middlesex Third District Court $36.47
DR.
Available balance $36.47
$36.47
$36.47
212
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DOG TAX
CR.
County Treasurer
$650.37
DR.
Transfer to Robbins Library
$650.37
$650.37
$650.37
ENGINEERING
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$3,500.00
Reimbursements
13.00
Department Transfers
81.97
DR.
George E. Ahern, salary
$1,500.00
Pay Roll
1,313.46
Supplies and sundries
454.04
$3,267.50
Unexpended balance
327.47
$3,594.97
$3,594.97
FIRE DEPARTMENT
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$21,005.00
Sale of horse
100.00
Reimbursements
48.50
DR.
Salaries:
Engineers
$900.00
Permanent men
12,772.50
Call men
4,038.53
213
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Laundry
$79.01
Telephones
177.22
Light
130.97
Gasoline and oil
352.08
Hay and grain
293.87
Fuel
470.28
Apparatus and repairs
1,601.39
Supplies
257.19
Auto hire and expressing
17.15
Horseshoeing
32.90
Bedding
9.60
$21,132.69
Unexpended balance
20.81
$21,153.50
$21,153.50
FREE BED AT SYMMES HOSPITAL
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$500.00
DR.
Paid Trustees of Symmes Hospital
$500.00
$500.00
$500.00
GYPSY MOTH ASSESSMENT COLLECTIONS
CR. Assessments collected
$1,418.45
DR.
Available balance
$1,418.45
$1,418.45
$1,418.45
214
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HEALTH DEPARTMENT
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
Reimbursement
DR.
Pay Roll, labor
$13,382.71
Teaming
2,588.42
Rubber boots for men
36.00
Harness supplies
175.00
Tools and supplies
25.07
Wagon repairs
86.72
I abor at Garbage House
65.00
Printing and advertising
8.00
Engineering
5.45
Highways
3,434.51
$19,806.88
Unexpended balance
.77
$19,807.65
$19,807.65
HIGHWAY DIVISION
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$59,058.17
Appropriation by Transfer
5,141.83
Department Transfers
10,424.29
Reimbursements
2,421.81
DR.
Superintendent
$750.00
Clerk
597.50
Pay Roll, labor
31,573.34
Teaming
5,243.56
Awards of damages:
Highway Construction
2,000.00
Storm drains
41.08
$19,800.00 7.65
215
AUDITOR'S REPORT
Auto truck
$1,055.00
Three horses
1,250.00
Horse hire
45.00
Contract work
350.00
Sidewalk repairs
532.04
Street signs
97.50
Tools and supplies
2,488.00
Automobile supplies and expense
3,565.83
Stable expense
6,439.54
Materials and trucking
19,216.72
Freight and express
527.31
Office supplies and expense
201.96
Doctor's services in accident case
10.00
Middlesex County, House of Correction
14.46
Massachusetts State Prison
31.00
Highway Construction
27.25
Sewer Construction
239.25
Water Division
331.50
$76,627.84
Unexpended balance
418.26
$77,046.10
$77,046.10
HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$2,300.00
Transfer to Highways
27.25
DR.
Pay Roll, labor
$27.25
Highway Division
2,000.00
$2,027.25
Unexpended balance
300.00
$2,327.25
$2,327.25
216
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INCIDENTALS: SELECTMEN
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$6,300.00
Hawkers' Licenses
10.00
Refunds
5.65
Committee on Public Safety
$250.00
Voting Precincts
32.00
DR.
Clerk
$550.00
Assistant
83.25
Elections
1,104.30
Sealer Weights and Measures
80.97
Legal expenses
1,588.30
Town Reports
1,578.40
Claims and awards
675.00
Pedlars
10.20
Building Inspector, expenses
132.00
Recording Vital Statistics
370.10
Office supplies and sundries
313.06
Repairs, Town Clock
18.85
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Reformatory for Women
36.30
Celebrations :
Ringing bells
37.50
Rent of flags
6.75
Voting Precincts
11.00
$6,595.98
Unexpended balance
1.67
$6,597.65
$6,597.65
.
217
AUDITOR'S REPORT
INCIDENTALS FOR ASSESSORS
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation $1,500.00
DR.
Assistant Assessors
$134.00
Clerical Assistance
725.98
Report of Assessed Polls
309.96
Transfer Abstracts
74.76
Telephone
30.24
Stationery and supplies
206.43
$1,481.37
Unexpended balance
18.63
$1,500.00
$1,500.00
INCIDENTALS FOR AUDITOR
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$125.00
DR.
Stationery and supplies
$88.16
Telephone
1
6.51
Table
6.75
$101.42
Unexpended balance
23.58
$125.00
$125.00
218
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
INCIDENTALS FOR COLLECTOR
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$1,225.00
DR.
Clerical Assistance
$577.81
Telephone
24.07
Postage
378.63
Printing
180.22
Office supplies
49.99
$1,210.72
Unexpended balance
14.28
$1,225.00
$1,225.00
INCIDENTALS, COMMITTEE OF TWENTY-ONE
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$200.00
DR.
Reports
$175.00
Printing
12.25
Supplies
3.45
$190.70
Unexpended balance
9.30
$200.00
$200.00
INCIDENTALS FOR TOWN CLERK
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$1,900.00
Transfers from
Committee on Public Safety
250.00
Cemeteries 25.00
219
AUDITOR'S REPORT
DR.
Clerical Assistance
$1,613.50
Telephone
122.08
Vital Statistics
124.00
Stationery and supplies
296.15
Sundries
4.72
$2,160.45
Unexpended balance
14.55
$2,175.00
$2,175.00
INCIDENTALS FOR TREASURER
CR.
Appropriation by taxation
$450.00
Reimbursement
24.00
DR.
Clerical Assistance
$192.58
Check Books
48.00
Telephone
24.17
Stationery and supplies
171.30
$436.05
Unexpended balance
37.95
$474.00
$474.00
INSURANCE
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$5,000.00
DR.
Premiums paid Fire-Town Property Automobiles
$2,917.20
437.67
Boilers
640.10
220
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Official Bonds
Insurance forms
$186.00 25.00
$4,205.97
Unexpended balance
794.03
$5,000.00
$5,000.00
INTEREST
CR.
Appropriation by Taxation
$21,249.12
Appropriation by Transfer
16,750.88
$38,000.00
Overdraft
1,031.79
DR.
Interest paid on:
$92,000 Water Bonds, 1892, 1 year, 4%
$3,680.00
$92,000 Water Bonds, 1894, 1 year, 4% 3,680.00
$10,000 Water Bonds, 1895, 1 year, 4% 400.00
$5,000 Water Bonds, 1896, 1 year, 4% 200.00
$10,000 Water Bonds, 1897, 1 year, 4% 400.00
$15,000 Water Bonds, 1898, 1 year, 4% 600.00
$1,000 Water Loan, 1905, 1 year, 4 % 40.00
$8,000 Water Loan, 1910, 1 year, 4 % 320.00 $5,000 Water Loan, 1912, 1 year, 4% 200.00
$2,000 Water Loan, 1913, 6 mos., 414% 42.50
$4,000 Water Loan, 1914, 1 year, 4 % 160.00
$6,000 Water Loan, 1915, 1 year, 4% 240.00
$8,000 Water Loan, 1916, 6 mos., 4% 160.00
221
AUDITOR'S REPORT
$6,000 Water Loan, 1916, 6 mos., 4% $120.00
$8,000 Water Loan, 1917, 1 year, 4% 320.00
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