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WARRANT FOR THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING 1956
ESSEX, ss. To the Constable of the Town of Hamilton:
GREETINGS : In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Hamilton. qualified to vote in election and Town affairs, to meet in the HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM in said Town on Monday, the fifth day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-six (March 5, 1956) at seven-thirty o'clock in the evening (7:30 P.M.) then and there to act on the following articles, viz.
Article 1. To bring your ballots for :
Moderator for one year.
Town Clerk for one year.
Three Selectmen for one year.
Treasurer for one year.
Tax Collector for one year.
Assessor for three years.
Tree Warden for one year.
Highway Surveyor for one year.
Member of the School Committee for three years.
Library Trustee for three years. Water Commissioner for three years. Cemetery Commissioner for three years.
Park Commissioner for three years.
Member of the Planning Board for five years
The above named officers to be voted for on one ballot on Tuesday, the thirteenth day of March, 1956. (March 13, 1956) in the HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM. The polls will be opened at 8:00 o'clock A.M. and will close at 8:00 o'clock P.M.
Article 2. To choose and appoint all other Town Officers in such manner as the Town may determine.
Article 3. To hear the reports of the Town Officers and of the Finance and Advisory Committee and all other committees and take any action thereon or relative thereto.
Article 4. To raise and appropriate money for Schools, Highways, and all other Town Expenses and determine the manner of expending the same.
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Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Construction on Chebacco Road and Linden Street, or take any action thereon or relative thereto.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Maintenance of various streets in town, or take any action thereon or relative thereto.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to provide additional water supply and additional storage and distribution facilities, and in connection therewith to acquire real estate and interest therein by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise, to construct and originally equip with pump and equipment a pump house, to lay water mains, drive and construct wells and construct new or enlarge existing reservoirs, and for the foregoing purposes raise and appropriate a sum of money and to determine the manner in which the appropriation is to be raised, whether by taxation or borrowing, by transfer of available funds or otherwise, or take any action thereon or relative thereto.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to construct, originally equip and furnish, a two-room addition to the present Manasseh Cutler School, to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the foregoing purposes and to determine the manner in which the appropriation is to be raised, whether by taxation or borrowing, by transfer of available funds or otherwise, or take any action thereon or relative thereto.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to receive and accept the Third Report of the School Building Needs Committee for the period from January 1956 to the present time as an interim report, to continue the Committee for the purpose of making further study and investigation con- cerning school housing needs, such Committee to render its report at a town meeting at or before the next annual town meeting, and that the sum of $500. be raised and appropriated for this purpose, or take any ac- tion thereon or relative thereto.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to construct a parking area on a portion of the Engine House Lot, so-called, located at the corner of Railroad Avenue and Willow Street, the work to be done under the direc- tion and supervision of the Board of Selectmen, and to raise and appropri- ate a sum of money for such purpose, or take any action thereon or relative thereto.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 670 of the Acts and Resolves of 1955, being an act "relative to increasing the amounts of pensions, retirement allowances and annuities payable to cer- tain former public employees", or take any action thereon or relative there- to.
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Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to sell for not less than $2,000. all its right, title and interest in and to a parcel of land and the casements and rights appurtenent thereto and belonging to the Town taken in 1943 by the Town by eminent domain for the purpose of a public play- ground and recreational center and shown on a Plan of "Hamilton Park" dated August 26, 1886, on file at the office of the Town Clerk, and on a Plan entitled "Plan of Highland Park" dated September 3, 1887, recorded at Essex (South District) Registry of Deeds, Book 1201, Page 1, said property being described in said taking as beginning at the northeasterly corner of Grant Avenue and Arthur Avenue and running westerly one hundred and twenty feet to Roosevelt Avenue, thence turning and running southerly one hundred feet to a passageway from Roosevelt Avenue to Grant Avenue, thence turning and running easterly one hundred and twenty feet to Grant Avenue, thence turning and running northerly to Arthur Avenue one hundred feet to the point of beginning, and containing approxi- mately twelve thousand (12,000) square feet, be all these measurements more or less, or take action thereon or relative thereto.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and approve the Board of Assessors to use available funds or "free cash" in an amount not to exceed the sum of $10,000.00 in determining the tax rate for the year 1956, or take any action thereon or relative thereto.
Article 14. To hear the report of the Committee appointed to con- sider and investigate the use or disposition of the Jonathan Lamson School Building, to vote on what use or disposition shall be made of same, and raise and appropriate a sum of money therefor, or take any action thereon or relative thereto.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to adopt a Building Code By-Law in the form or substantially in the form on file with the Town Clerk, and copies of which are included with the Annual Town Report for 1955, or take any action thereon or relative thereto.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to adopt a Wiring Code By-Law in the form or substantially in the form on file with the Town Clerk, and copies of which are included with the Annual Town Report for 1955, or take any action thereon or relative thereto.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to abandon and discontinue as a public town way a section of Cunningham Drive, such section being that portion of a circular road or turn around which lies northerly of a new northerly line of Cunningham Drive to be established as a semi-circle between stone bounds and shown on "Plan of Proposed Alteration, Cun- ningham Drive, Scale 1"-20 feet, Jan. 1956, Chas. H. Morse & Son., Eng'rs, Haverhill, Mass.", said section to be abandoned being cross-hatched on said plan, or take any action thereon or relative thereto.
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Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public town way Day Avenue, so-called, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen and shown on a Plan on file with the Town Clerk entitled "Acceptance Plan, Day Avenue, Hamilton, Mass., December 1955, Chas. H. Morse & Son, Engineers," or take any action thereon or relative thereto.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public town way a certain way, shown as Fox Run Road, on a plan on file with the Planning Board entitled "Huntswood, Section A., Hamilton, Mass." as laid out by the Board of Selectmen and shown on an Acceptance Plan on file with the Town Clerk, and that such way be named Elm Street, or take any action thereon or relative thereto.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public town way a section of Tally-Ho Drive, so called, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen and shown on a plan on file with the Town Clerk, or take any action thereon or relative thereto.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time, in anticipation of revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1957, and to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year, in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws and Amendments thereto.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Collector to use all means of collecting taxes which a Town Treasurer, when appoint- ed Collector, may use agreeable to Chapter 41, Section 37, General Laws and Amendments thereto.
Article 23. To act on any other matter that may legally come before said meeting.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof, one at the Town Hall, and one at each of the three Post Offices in said Town, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time of holding said meeting.
Given under our hands this twenty-third day of January, A.D., 1956.
LAWRENCE R. STONE EVERETT F. HALEY LAWRENCE LAMSON Selectmen of Hamilton
A true copy, Attest :
FRANCIS H. WHIPPLE, Town Clerk
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REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE FINANCE AND ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The cost of local government throughout the United States continues to rise, particularly in towns near large Metropolitan Areas. Besides the increasing cost of performing services, the two main reasons for the rise are the increasing population and the demands of that population for more services and better education for the young.
The Finance Committee believe that the proper function of govern- ment is to perform well those services that the people cannot do for them- selves. The total cost of performance of these services naturally rises as people move into a community. While the assessed valuation of the com- munity usually increases with its population growth, the tax receipts from that increase seldom rise at as fast a rate as the cost of services rendered to the newcomers. It follows that the lower the valuation of new con- struction, the higher the tax rate may be expected to rise. Consequently, those citizens of the town, who are concerned about the future of the town financially, (and aesthetically as well) should demand that steps be taken to preserve the rural character of the town and make possible the keeping of the tax rate at a reasonable level.
Hamilton, not unsurprisingly, is experiencing a constantly rising total cost of government and an increasing tax rate. The regular budget that the Finance Committee is recommending for 1956 is approximately $46,- 000.00 more than that recommended for 1955. This year's total is $546,- 000.00 compared to $500,000.00 last year, in spite of $8,500.00 reduction in Welfare and Benefits and $2,000.00 reduction in Debt Retirement and Interest.
This increase is accounted for mainly as follows :
1955
1956
Increase
1. Protection
$25,600.
$29,600.
$4,000.
2. Garbage & Refuse Disposal
11,000.
13,400.
2,400.
3. Water Department
26,000.
31,000.
5,000.
4. Schools
200,000.
235,000.
35,000.
$46,400.
1. Of the $4,000.00 increase in Protection, $2,500.00 is for the Police Department to engage an extra man and so to have twenty-four hour protection for the Town.
2. Garbage and Refuse Disposal is up $2,400.00 to enable the Health Department to hire more help; so that the garbage and refuse will be picked up regularly, carefully and on time.
3. The Water Department's budget is up $5,000.00 to take care of extra installations and servicing an increasing number of users. This department runs on a paying basis, and so costs the Town nothing.
4. The School budget is up $35,000.00 or 17%. The number of pupils are expected to increase 10%. The extra increase is due largely to teachers' salaries which must be kept high enough to be competitive if we are to attract and keep good teachers. The cost per pupil in 1955 was $246. In 1956 it will be $255.
COMPARATIVE CONSOLIDATED BUDGETS
1954 % Amount 37.4 175,703.24
1955 % Amount 41.2 203,747.02
%
1956 Amount
Education
Debt, Retirement
and Interest
15.4
72,100.00
14.0
71,100.00
12.7
69,250.00
Welfare
and Benefits
11.3
52,645.00
10.1
51,145.00
4.9
43,120.00
Highways
10.7
45,023.00
9.7
47,140.00
8.6
47,745.00
Public Service
6.6
31,250.00
6.0
30.060.00
6.6
36,210.00
General Government
6.1
30,015.75
6.2
31,233.84
6.8
37,232.65
Protection
4.9
23,140.00
5.1
25,642.00
5.5
29,645.00
Health
2.8
13,095.00
3.1
16,375.00
3.5
18,810.00
Unclassified
3.1
14,750.00
3.0
15,000.00
2.9
15,922.00
Recreation
1.7
7,875.00
1.6
8,775.00
1.1
9,145.00
Total
Regular Budgets
465,596.99
500,217.86
546,876.65
ACTION ON SPECIAL ARTICLES 1956 WARRANT
ARTICLE 5: Chapter 90 Highway Construction. (a) Linden Street. Cost to the Town, $250.00 Recommended; (b) Che- bacco Road. Cost to the Town, $4,000.00. Not Recom- mended.
The Finance Committee do not consider Chebacco Road to be neces- sary, particularly with the existence of Route 128, even though the town pays but twenty per cent of the construction under Chapter 90. The final cost to the town for the renovation of Chebacco Road will ultimately total more than $12,000.00. Inasmuch as there are no citizens of the town living on Chebacco Road, and inasmuch as there are three other good roads to Manchester, the Finance Committee recommends that no money for this purpose be voted. Town funds can be better spent on roads serving more people. Had this road never existed, little consideration would be given to putting one through there now.
ARTICLE 6: Chapter 90 Maintenance. Cost to the Town, $1,500.00. Recommended.
ARTICLE 7: To provide additional water for the Town.
The Town's need for water now and in the future cannot be met by existing facilities. Therefore, it is important that additional water be secured for the Town one way or another in the near future. In spite of
43.7 239.797.00
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this pressing need for more water immediately, the Finance Committee feels that such an important step should not be taken hastily: but only after thorough investigation. At the time of writing these recommenda- tions. no report had as yet been received from the engineers making the survey. The Finance Committee, therefore, recommend that the town do not vote to install any futrher facilities for water unless they are con- vinced that the water engineers have had ample time to make the study necessary for the best long-term interest of the town, and have done so.
ARTICLE S : Construction of two new Classrooms at Manasseh Cutler School. Cost to the Town, $45,000.00. Recommended. These two new classrooms will be nearly exactly like the two rooms that were accepted at the Special Town Meeting of January 4. 1956. These two rooms have proved eminently satisfactory, and have the approval of the State Department of Education so that the town can expect about a 25% building allowance from the State for their construction.
ARTICLE 9 : To hear the report of the School Building Needs Committee and to continue it in existence. Cost to the Town, $500.00. Recommended
ARTICLE 10 : To provide off street parking on the Engine House Lot at the Corner of Railroad Avenue and Willow Street. Cost to the Town, $200.00. Recommended.
This should relieve the congestion on Railroad Avenue as it will allow parking for 15 cars.
ARTICLE 11: To accept Chapter 670 of the Acts and Resolves of 1955, which increases the amounts of pensions, retirement al- lowances and annuities payable to certain former public employees. Recommended.
This will allow anyone from Hamilton who receives a pension to share in the increase voted by the legislature. The Town's share will be negli- gible.
ARTICLE 12: To sell the "Park" off Grant Avenue for not less than $2,000.00. Recommended.
This 12,000 square feet is seldom used any more. and is unnecessary since the development of Patton Park. It is planned to sell through sealed bids; but only if the bid made is for $2,000.00 or more.
ARTICLE 13: Use of Free Cash in Determining Tax Rate. Recommended.
This Article permits the Assessors to draw on the Excess & Deficiency Fund, $10,000.00 for money to pay expenses of the 1956 budget in determ- ining the tax rate.
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ARTICLE 14: Jonathan Lamson School Demolition. Cost to the Town, $1,000.00. Recommended.
The Educational Research Associates, the Superintendent of Schools and the School Committee considered the old Jonathan Lamson School to be almost completely unsuitable for further use as a school building.
The cost of renovation and repairs to make this building even slightly satisfactory for school purposes will cost not less than $140,000.00. This building has eight classrooms. Eight new classrooms of the type construct- ed last year in the Manasseh Cutler School will cost $180,000.00. The Town may expect to receive 28% of the cost of new school construction. This will bring the cost of eight new classrooms down to the cost of re- modeling the Lamson School.
For these two reasons the committee appointed to investigate the future of the Jonathan Lamson School have decided to recommend its demolition to the Town.
This committee also recommends that the Town retain title to the site until it can decide whether or not this would be a suitable place to erect a Municipal Building to house the Fire Department, the Park De- partment, the Library and perhaps some other offices.
ARTICLE 15: To adopt a Building Code. Recommended.
ARTICLE 16 : To adopt an Electrical Code. Recommended.
ARTICLE 17: To abandon semi-circle of Cunningham Drive. Recom- mended.
This semi-circle is no longer necessary as a turn-around since the completion of Cunningham Drive.
ARTICLES 18, 19 and 20: To accept certain streets.
The Finance Committee recommends the acceptance of each of these streets, provided that they have met the by-laws and are acceptable to the Selectmen and the Planning Board after consultation with the Water Board and the Surveyor of Highways.
Respectfully submitted,
FREDERIC WINTHROP, Chairman JOHN C. GARLAND LAWRENCE E. PELKEY CLARK S. SEARS CHARLES E. GRANT
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Item No.
Expended 1954
Expended 1955
* 5.3%
* 5.3%
1
2
$10.00
$20.00
3
2,830.00
3,390.00
4
2,215.23
2,427.80
Expenses
2,500.00
Town Accountant: Salaries and Wages Expenses
300.00
Treasurer :
Salaries and Wages
1,600.00
Expenses
475.00
New Check Writer
225.00
Tax Collector : Salaries and Wages Expenses
1,800.00
11
649.90
846.24
12
2,227.70
2,399.95
13
413.01
454.96
Expenses
560.00
Law:
14
800.00
800.00
15
16
1,000.00
1,000.00
17
349.55
299.67
Expenses
350.00
18
1,991.96
1,683.23
19
2,750.00
2,900.00
20
2,310.81
2,145.00
21
500.00
22
200.00
848.11
Painting and Repairs
3,000.00
Total General Government $31,570.00
4.9%
5.1%
PROTECTION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY 5.5% of total
Police:
Salaries and Wages
11,665.00
Expenses
2,900.00
Fire:
Salaries and Wages
2,800.00
Expenses 2,500.00
Sealer of Weights & Measures: Salaries and Wages Expenses
230.00
28
98.08
93.20
29
2,030.00
2,150.00
30
860.16
1,368.96
Wages
1,370.00
Expenses
600.00
31
480.92
489.55
32
272.85
232.40
Recommended 1956
GENERAL GOVERNMENT * 6.8% of total
Moderator Finance and Advistory Committee: Expenses
$20.00
Selectmen : Salaries & Wages
3,390.00
5
3,050.00
3,500.00
4,000.00
6
299.93
299.04
7
1,500.00
1,600.00
8
560.57
451.98
9
10
1,700.00
1,800.00
850.00
Assessors :
Salaries and Wages
2,500.00
Salaries and Wages
800.00
Expenses
200.00
Town Clerk: Salaries and Wages
1,000.00
Election and Registrations: Expenses
2,500.00
Town Hall:
Salaries and Wages
3,000.00
Expenses
2,500.00
Equipment
23
8,541.65
9,596.00
24
1,991.67
1,983.99
25
2,237.80
2,657.36
26
3,471.75
2,209.25
27
230.00
230.00
100.00
Moth-Town:
Salaries of Supts.
2,150.00
Moth-Private: Expenses 300.00
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Item No.
Expended 1954
Expended 1955
Recommended 1956
Tree Warden:
Salary of Supt.
1,410.00
Wages
2,080.00
35
382.50
490.64
Pruning Elms
1,500.00
Forest Fire Warden:
Salary
40.00
37
109.25
Civilian Defense
Total Protection of Persons and Property
$29,645.00
2.8%
3.1%
HEALTH AND SANITATION 3.5% of total
Health :
Salaries and Wages
180.00
Expenses
1,500.00
Milk Inspector
75.00
Animal Inspector-Salary & Expenses
140.00
Dental Clinic-Salary of Nurse 200.00
Dental Clinic-Expenses
3,300.00
Sanitation: (Garbage and Rufuse Disposal)
Salaries and Wages
11,665.00
Expenses
1,750.00
Total Health and Sanitation $18,810.00
10.7%
9.7%
HIGHWAYS-8.6% of total
Salary of Surveyor
3,560.00
Wages
18,220.00
Expenses 6,445.00
Chap. 90-Maintenance
(1,500.00) 250.00)
Snow Removal and Sanding
2,500.00
Street Lighting 10,300.00
Sidewalks
800.00
Gravel Roads
5,000.00
Heating Garage 920.00
Total Highways $47,745.00
10.0%
9.4%
55
120.00
120.00
56
2,951.56
4,529.73
57
29,994.23
29,935.90
58
1,237.71
462.70
59
4,560.31
4,359.81
60
3,387.12
4,249.27 Aid
CHARITIES-7.2% of total Public Welfare:
Salaries and Wages
120.00
Expenses
5,000.00
Old Age Assistance: Assistance
24,000.00
Expenses
2,000.00
Aid to Dependent Children: Aid 4,500.00
Disability Assistance:
3,500.00
Total Charities
$39,120.00
38
180.00
180.00
39
1,043.40
2,376.43
40
75.00
75.00
41
140.00
140.00
42
200.00
200.00
43
2,739.10
3,287.10
44
7,416.53
11,064.92
45
46
3,200.00
3,400.00
47
12,076.40
12,851.07
48
5,098.40
4,840.48
49
1,499.37
50
6,948.67
5,789.98
51
5,256.18
4,834.45
52
9,004.30
9,793.94
53
1,652.98
1,903.15
54
6,980.22
8,969.79
54A
33
1,170.00
1,250.00
34
752.64
1,321.12
36
40.00
40.00
Chap. 90-Construction
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Item No
Expended 1954
Expended 1955
Recommended 1956
VETERANS' BENEFITS -. 7% of total
61
2,777.03
3,004.49
Benefits
4,000.00
SCHOOLS-42.9% of total
62
11,468.41
12,197.10
General Expense
12,850.00
63
110,414.17
130,733.99
Expense of Instruction
155,893.00
64
7,313.70
8,504.48
Textbooks and Supplies
9,990.00
65
20,710.74
23,532.73
Operation of Plant
25,600.00
66
2,300.48
3,736.28
Maintenance of Plant
7,817.00
67
14,957.47
15,697.84
Auxiliary Agencies
18,827.00
68
261.85
1,243.50
Outlay
3,160.00
69
803.75
1,987.85
Special Appropriations
1,150.00
Total Schools
$235,287.00
.8%
.7%
LIBRARIES -. 8% of total
Salaries and Wages
1,700.00
71
2,410.91
2,300.57
Expenses
2,810.00
Total Libraries
$4,510.00
1.7%
1.6%
RECREATION-1.7% of total Parks:
Salary of Supt.
3,000.00
73
893.42
945.00
74
1,391.76
1,399.50
2,200.00
75
1,844.21
2,153.90
75A
1,200.00
1,500.00
Truck in 1956)
750.00
Total Recreation $9,145.00
PENSIONS-1.04% of total Retirement Fund 5,753.65
UNCLASSIFIED-2.9% of total
Town Reports
1,822.00
Memorial Day
700.00
Planning Board
500.00
79
365.90
15.75
80
100.00
100.00
Town Clock
100.00
81
1,000.00
999.03
Veterans' Quarters
1,000.00
82
5,773.63
6,180.00
83
2,319.21
2,525.33
Reserve Fund
5,000.00
Total Unclassified $15,922.00
5.7%
5.2%
PUBLIC SERVICE ENTERPRISES 5.7% of total
Water Department:
Salary of Supt.
3,560.00
84
5,950.00
8,912.60
85
1,938.75
900.00
Wages
6,700.00
86
13,088.03
11,082.65
Expenses
14,275.00
87
4,995.25
6,448.66
Extension of Mains 6,500.00
Total Public Service Enterprises $31,035.00
76
.8% 3,905.75
.9% 4,388.84
3.1%
3.0%
77
1,597.00
1,822.74
78
637.37
666.74
72
2,750.00
2,900.00
Salary of Instructors and Clerk
945.00
Labor
Expenses
2,250.00
New Equipment (2nd Hand
Insurance
6,800.00
1.3%
.8 %
36.6%
40.5%
70
1,191.67
1,350.00
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Item No.
Expended 1954
Expended 1955
Recommended 1956
CEMETERIES -. 9% of total
Salary of Supt.
3,000.00
Wages
900.00
90
275.00
275.00
Expenses
275.00
New Equipment (2nd Hand
Truck in 1956) 1,000.00
Total Cemeteries
$5,175.00
15.4%
14.0%
MATURING DEBT AND INTEREST 11.7% of total
92
59,000.00
59,000.00
Maturing Debt
58,000.00
93
12,699.75
11,798.75
Interest
11,250.00
Total Debt and Interest
$69,250.00
94
Total Budget Recommendations
$546,876.65
95
Total recommended, special articles Total, all recommendations
$595,326.65
Add
Estimated State charges, county taxes, T. B. Hospital assess- ment, assessors' estimate of overlay, and all other amounts required by law to be raised
38,195.05
98 99
Grand total, Recommendations and Estimates Deductions to compute estimated tax rate: Estimated receipts, income, corporation and other taxes from State, motor vehicle excise and other local receipts from other sources than taxation, trans. available funds. Poll Taxes
$243,606.42 2,806.00
$246,412.42
101
Estimated balance to be raised by a levy on local real estate and tangible personal property, other than motor vehicle
$387,109.28
102
Estimated tax rate based upon above recom- mendations using assessors' estimate of current year $44.00
¥ Percentages are in budget terms not in terms of expenditures
.85%
.8%
88
2,750.00
2,900.00
89
1,346.24
1,575.55
91
48,450.00
96
97
$633,521.70
100
REPORT of the
TOWN ACCOUNTANT 1955
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REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
To the Citizens of Hamilton:
In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 41, of the General Laws, I submit herewith my report for the year ending December 31, 1955, show- ing the amount and source of all receipts, the amount of appropriations and expenditures therefrom, purposes of expenditures, town indebtedness, condition of trust funds and a balance sheet.
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