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" Borrowed money 3653 00
" D. W. Ford, on pauper account
5 00
" from county treasurer, for dog license
136 92
" J. O. Chilson, for oxen 180 00
" taxes committed for 1871 23,477 51
" for interest on taxes
18 22
" Whitings & Clark, for lumber 97 00
" for use of town house 30 00
" extra on taxes 10 46
Whole amount chargeable to treasury for the year, $36,812 86 *$112 88 received from guardian March 2, 1872.
RECAPITULATION.
Whole amount paid from treasury for borrowed money 7607 19 66 66 interest 935 54
$8542 73
66
66 " bank tax
66
987 40
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Amount brought forward
$8542 73 Whole amount paid from treasury, for schools
5466 34
66
66
66 snow bills
22 90
66 alms-house ac't. 993 39
" paupers out of H. 1636 55
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66 " repair highways 1963 91
66
66
66
·· mis. expenses 8492 43
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66
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and col. of taxes 2205 01
Whole amt. paid from treasury for state aid
949 00
" cash in treasury 4739 78
" uncollected tax bills March 1, 1872 877 20
$36,812 86.
Uncollected tax bills on hand March 1, 1872
877 20
Cash in treasury 4739 78
Total in and due treasurer
$5616 98
THE TOWN NOW OWES THE FOLLOWING NOTES.
One note due Dec. 1, 1873
3000 00
" 1, 1875
4000 00
66 April 9, 1876
1000 00
66 May 10, 1877
1000 00
66 66 Aug. 27, 1878
1000 00
Feb. 2, 1880
1000 00
Jan. 1, 1873
1000 00
6 notes due on demand, and all at 6 per cent,
2900 00
Total liability on notes,
$14,900 00
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66 66
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" town officers 821 00
" stationery & prin. 102 62 " abatement, dis.
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FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE TOWN.
Total liabilities on notes brought forward
$14,900 00
March 1. 1871 the town was owing 18.307 19
March 1, 1872 - 66 14,900 00
Showing a reduction of town debt of $3,407 19
Now due from state, for state aid 1,094 00
.. .. .. on pauper account 318 78
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" town of Norfolk for schools 127 43
66 66 ·· guardian of R. Graham 46 00
Mar. 2d, rec'd. from " 66
112 88
In and due the treasury
5,616 98 $7,316 07
$7,583 93
Estimated liabilities for schools and interest
due, and falling due and unpaid, 1000 00
Balance against the town $8583 93
VITAL STATISTICS OF THE TOWN OF FRANKLIN.
FROM THE RECORDS OF THE TOWN CLERK.
Births.
Whole number 37, males 22 females 15, the parents of 23 of these were American born, and 14 of the parents were of foreign birth.
Marriages.
Whole number 21, of the males two were of foreign birth, and of the females 3 were of foreign birth ; all others were American born, the ages of the males at the time of marriage were, 1 of 19 years ; 1 of 21 ; 4 of 22; 3 of 23 ; 1 of 24 ; 2 of 25; 1 of 26: 1 of 27 ; 2 of 28; 1 of 32 ; 1 of 33; 1 of 37 ; 1 of 50; 1 of 56. The ages of the females were 2 of 19 ; 2 of 20 ; 3 of 21 ; 2 of 22 ; 3 of 23 ; 2 of 21; 2 of 25; 1 of 29; 3 of 32 ; 1 of 40.
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Deaths.
The following is a copy of the record of deaths.
Jan. 15, 1871, Abigail Bullard. age 83. 3, 28. congestion of the lungs
Jan. 23, 1871, Anna Josephine Cook, age 1, 3, 14, scarlatina, Feb. 2, Elner B. Foster, " 8, 10, 16, ،،
" 6, 66 Bridget Murry, age 11, 5, 16, consumption,
" 15, William F. Foster, age 1, 21, scarlatina,
" 22, James Gillen, Jr., age 1 unknown.
Mar. º, " Georgianna Foster, age 3. 10, 9, scarlatina,
" 12, " Annie Frances Atwood. age 26, 7, 4. scrofula and tubercles
Mar. 17, 1871, Susanna Clark, age 78. 8, 13, paralysis,
4. 24, John T. Brock, " 24, 7, 3, plurisy and fever.
April 10, Rebecca G. Gilmore, age 81, 1, 5, consumption,
May 1, 66 Ellen Martin, age 70, old age,
" 24, 66
Sidney Whiting. age 85, 2, 6, old age.
" 30, Bessie F. Bishop. " 0, 11, 12, hydrocephalus,
June 4, 66 Erepta King, age 71, 9, 1, consumption,
" 9, Michael Murphy, age 55, 9, 1,
" 9, 66 James T. Healy, age 1, 1, 2, lung fever,
" 13, 66 Silence H. Capron, 77, 1, 3, unknown,
“ 20, 66 Warren Hills, age, 71, 2, 5, stone in bladder,
" 20,
Stephen S. Hawes, age 61, 9, 22, hernia,
“ 21,
B. Geo. Trevett, age 60, unknown,
4 22, 66 Jennie Gillon, age 24, 5, 27, " " 30, 66 Ruth Mann, age 78, 2. 5, diarrhea,
Aug. 4, 66
Michael McCue, age 52, 9, unknown,
" 5, 66 Martin McCue, 13, 8, 26, heart disease,
" 29, 6. Julia Sullivan. age 1, 21, cancer,
Sept. 7, 6. Emeline C. Underhill, age 47, 8, 7, consumption,
" 26, Geo. F. Foster, age 1, 8, 19, unknown,
Oct. 9, Joel Daniels, age 84, 3, 25, old age,
" 19, 6: Isabel Ford, “ 5, 10, whooping cough,
" 3, 66 Joseph Yusoo, age 1, 5, unknown,
" 28, Abigail Harding, " 97, 2, 22, old age,
" 30, 60 Michael Murphy, age 20, 5, 10, consumption,
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Deaths Continued.
Dec. 22. 1871 Sylvia Newell, age 90, 8, old age,
" 2. " Juline Pond. age 66, 10. 15, aneurism,
5, " Oliver Dean, age 88, 9. 17. first cause heart dis- ease, second anasarca,
Dec. 8, " Mary Lizzie Allen. age 4, 10, 17, whooping cough,
" 12. " Irving W. Gould. age 2, 2, 13, cerebral merrin- getis,
Dec. 15, .. Maria Hardy, 44, 5. 2, dropsy,
" 29, - Francis Williams, 66, died in Bridgwater, cause of death unknown.
For purposes of general information, it may be proper in this connection to state some of the laws, rules and regulations con- cerning the registration of births, marriages and deaths in Massachusetts.
[General Statutes-Chapter 21.] DUTIES OF TOWN CLERK.
SECTION 1. The clerk of each city and town shall receive or obtain, and record, and index, the following facts concerning the births, marriages, and deaths, therein, separately number- ing and recording the same in the order in which he receives them, designating in separate columns :
In the record of births, the date of the birth. the place of birth, the name of the child, (if it have any,) the sex and color of the child, the names and places of birth of the parents, the occupation of the father, and the residence of the parents, and the date of the record ;
In the record of marriages. the date of the marriage, the place of marriage, the name, residence, and official station of the per- son by whom married, the names and the places of birth of the parties, the residence of each, the age and color of each, the condition of each, (whether single or widowed,) the occupation, the names of the parents, and the date of the record ;
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In the record of deaths, the date of the death, the name of the deceased. the sex, the color, the condition. (whether single widowed, or married,) the age, the residence, the occupation. the place of death, the place of birth the names and places of birth of the parents, the disease or cause of death. the place of burial, and the date of the record.
DUTY OF PARENTS.
SECTION 2. Parents 'shall give notice to the clerk of their city or town of the births and deaths of their children ; every householder shall give like notice of every birth and death hap- pening in his house ; the eldest person next of kin shall give such notice of the death of his kindred. Whoever neglects to give such notice for the space of six months after a birth or death, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five dollars.
DUTY OF PHYSICIANS.
SECTION 3. Any physician having attended a person during his last illness, shall-when requested within fifteen days after the decease of such person-forthwith furnish for registration a certificate of duration of the last sickness, the disease of which the person died, and the date of his decease, as nearly as he can state the same. If any physician refuses or neglects to make such certificate, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars to the use of the town in which he resides.
DUTY OF SEXTON OR UNDERTAKER.
SECTION 4. Every sexton, undertaker, or other person hav- ing charge of a burial-ground, or the superintendent of burials having charge of the obsequies or funeral rites preliminary to the interment of a human body. shall forthwith obtain and re- turn to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased re- sided or the death occurred, the facts required by this chapter to be recorded by said officer concerning the deceased. and the person making such return shall receive from his city or town the fee of ten cents therefor.
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The clerk, upon recording such facts, shall forthwith give to the person making such return, a certificate that such return has been made. which certificate such person shall deliver to the person having charge of the interment, if other than himself, before the burial when practicable, otherwise within seven days thereafter. When a burial takes place and no certificate is de- livered as aforesaid, the sexton, undertaker, or other person having charge of the interment, shall forthwith give notice thereof to the clerk under penalty of twenty dollars.
SECTION 5. The clerk of each city and town shall annually on or before the first day of February, transmit to the secretary of the Commonwealth. certified copies of the records of the births. marriages, and deaths, which have occurred therein dur- ing the year ending on the last day of the preceding December.
All returns should be made to the Town Clerk on or before the first day of January of each year.
Parents and other relatives of children born, or of persons deceased, and the occupiers of tenements in which any births or deaths may take place, should report as soon after the event as may be, every case of birth which may occur and such cases of death (if any) as may not have been duly returned by persons having charge of the burial, etc.
By compliance with the foregoing requirements of law, they will confer important aid to the Town Clerk. in securing the facts connected with births and deaths, the importance in per_ fect accuracy in the collection of facts and preparation of re- turns cannot be over estimated.
OF PARTIES LIVING IN THE STATE AND MARRY- ING OUT OF IT.
When the marriage of persons one or both of whom reside in this State is solemnized in another State, the parties must with- in seven days after their return. file with the clerk of the town in which either of them resided, a certificate or declaration of the marriage, with all the particulars required by law. Penalty for neglect, $10.00.
Blanks for return of births and deaths, may be had at the Town Clerk's office.
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FOLLOWING IS AN ESTIMATE OF EXPENSES FOR 1872.
For support of schools
$5000 00
" paupers 2000 00
Payment of interest
1000 00
Printing and stationery
150 00
Town officers
800 00
Miscellaneous expenses
2500 00
Abatement discount and collection of taxes
1600 00
Repair of roads and bridges
2500 00
$15.550 00
and appropriate the dog money to the Franklin
Library amounting to $136 92
Jurors.
LIST OF JURORS FOR 1872.
Herman B. Miller,
George M. Wadsworth.
Newell Willett,
Henry R. Jenks.
Joseph Harrold,
Davis Thayer, Jr.
Emerson F. Warren,
Henry M. Greene,
Andrew Murphy,
Chas. H. Morse, 2d.
Mayo C. Darling.
Thaddeus H. Sheppardson
Chas. I. Dean,
James M. Freeman,
Jason Tower,
Aaron H. Morse.
Frank E. Hancock,
Joseph H. Wadsworth.
L. W. Daniels,
A. A. Russegue,
Alfred F. Everett,
William Mann,
C. W. Stewart,
Alfred G. Metcalf,
Nelson Corbin.
Alonzo G. Pike,
Eliab M. Pond,
Willard C. Whiting.
James II. Shaw,
William R. Howe.
Joseph G. Ray,
Lewis L. Fisher,
Adin D. Sargeant,
E. P. Chapman,
John W. Richardson,
Henry C. Peck.
Asa R. Rounds,
Geo. S. Hosie,
John L. Fitzpatrick.
Smith S. Cook.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
JAMES M. FREEMAN. SELECTMEN AARON H. MORSE. OF
JOSEPH H. WADSWORTH. ) FRANKLIN. A. A. RUSSEGUE, Treas. and Collector.
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