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1.60
$ 3,000.00
$ 3,000.00
SPECIAL MOTH WORK
CREDIT
Transferred from Excess & Defi-
ciency Sept. 12, 1938-Art. 6 ... DEBIT
$ 1,200.00
Salaries and Wages
L. H. Twiss, Supt.
$ 90.33
Labor, as per payrolls
243.00
$ 333.33
Other Expenses
Creosote
$ 12.83
Truck Hire-L. H. Twiss
53.13
$ 65.96
Total Payments
$ 399.29
Balance transferred to 1939 ..
800.71
$ 1,200.00
$ 1,200.00
103
REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
TREE WARDEN CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 11
$ 360.00
Trans. from Reserve Fund, Dec. 31, 1938
.21
$ 360.21
DEBIT
Salaries and Wages
L. H. Twiss, Supt. $ 144.27
E. D. Evans, Labor
128.00
$ 272.27
Other Expenses
Truck Hire-L. H. Twiss
$ 82.19
Filing Saws
5.75
$ 87.94
Total Payments $ 360.21
$ 360.21
OTHER PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 8
$ 390.00
Trans. from Reserve Fund 10.47
$ 400.47
DEBIT
INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS
Salary, C. E. Pearson $ 175.00
Other Expenses
Transportation
20.00
Stationery and Postage
3.80
Telephone
.60
$ 199.40
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Salary, George A. Westover $ 75.00
Other Expenses
Transportation 25.00
Stationery and Postage
2.17
Recutting Seal and Die
2.90
Aluminum Seals
2.00
$ 107.07
104
TOWN OF LYNNFIELD
DOG OFFICER
Salary, Arthur W. Bryant $ 50.00
Other Expenses
Care and Custody of Dogs 33.00
Destroying Dogs 11.00
$ 94.00
Total Payments $ 400.47
$ 400.47
HEALTH AND SANITATION CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 12 $ 310.00
34.38
Trans. from Reserve Fund
$ 344.38
DEBIT
BOARD OF HEALTH
General Administration
Salaries
Clarence A. Studley $ 6.66
George W. Peavey 6.67
Everett S. Webster 6.67
George S. Robinson,
D. O.,
Health Officer
200.00
$ 220.00
Other Expenses
Stationery and Postage
$ 6.10
Telephone-Dr. Robinson
4.00
Removing and Disposing of Ani-
mals found dead on highways
27.50
Medical Supplies
1.78
$ 39.38
INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS
Salary, Arthur W. Bryant $ 40.00
Other Expenses-Transportation
20.00
$ 60.00
INSPECTOR OF MILK
Salary, Arthur W. Bryant $ 20.00
Other Expenses-Transportation 5.00
$ 25.00
Total Payments $ 344.38
$ 344.38
105
REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
ESSEX COUNTY SANATORIUM CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 22
$ 1,465.10
DEBIT
Paid County Treasurer
$ 1,465.10
$ 1,465.10
$ 1,465.10
HIGHWAYS GENERAL DEPARTMENT
CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 13 $ 10,000.00
DEBIT
General Administration
Salary, M. H. Carter, Supt.
$ 800.00
Office Expenses
10.75
$ 810.75
General
Labor, as per payrolls
$ 2,311.25
Trucks-M. H. Carter
60.50
Broken Stone, Gravel, etc.
875.75
Equipment and Repairs
507.54
Gasoline and Oil
564.80
Tarvia, Road Oil, etc.
1,567.17
All Other
Rent of Garage
20.00
Rent of Gravel Pit
20.00
Painting Traffic Lines
35.00
Guard Rail Cable, etc.
93.79
Rental of Roller
225.00
Rental of Pump
4.00
Drain Pipe and Culverts
167.57
Catch Basin Frames and Grates
29.29
Street Signs
243.50
Other Material and Supplies . ..
35.33
Registration-Motor Equipment.
12.00
Express and Freight
6.12
$ 6,778.61 -
Total Maintenance
$ 7,589.36
106
TOWN OF LYNNFIELD
SNOW AND ICE REMOVAL
Labor, as per payrolls
$ 1,132.50
Trucks-M. H. Carter
79.50
Trucks-W. E. Wilkinson
8.00
Tools and Equipment
6.60
Gasoline and Oil
70.75
Sand
126.69
Calcium Chloride
17.00
Repairs to Snow Equipment
113.94
Plowing Snow-W. E. Wilkinson
135.00
Plowing Sidewalks
M. H. Carter
109.50
Edward Fletcher
96.00
$ 1,895.48
Total Payments
$ 9,484.84
Balance trans. to Revenue
515.16
$ 10,000.00
$ 10,000.00
STREET LIGHTS CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 30 and 31
$ 3,850.00
DEBIT
Precinct 1-Town of Reading
$ 2,248.25
Precinct 2-Peabody Electric Light Dept.
1,456.91
Total Payments
$ 3,705.16
Balance trans. to Revenue
144.84
$ 3,850.00
$ 3,850.00
MOWING BUSHES ON HIGHWAYS CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 34 $ 300.00
DEBIT
Labor, as per payrolls $ 284.00
Other Expenses Tools $ 13.95
107
REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
Express & Miscellaneous
1.00
$ 14.95
Total Payments
$ 298.95
Balance trans. to Revenue
1.05
$ 300.00
$ 300.00
PURCHASE OF SNOW PLOW
CREDIT
Trans. from Machinery Account,
Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 44 .
$ 200.00
DEBIT
Paid, Dyer Sales & Machinery Co. $ 200.00
$ 200.00
$ 200.00
RECONSTRUCTION OF SUMMER STREET CONTRACT NO. 6175-1937-CHAPTER 90
CREDIT
Balance from 1937
$
4,318.38
DEBIT
Labor
M. H. Carter, Foreman
$
126.00
Labor, as per payrolls 962.50
$
1,088.50
Trucks
Use of Town Trucks
$
180.00
Other Tools and Equipment
Use of Bulldozer-W. E. Wilkin-
son
$
37.50
Roller Hire-Buffalo-Springfield
Roller Co.
180.00
$ 217.50
108
TOWN OF LYNNFIELD
Materials
Broken Stone
$ 1,034.02
Sand
45.64
Cement
21.30
Gravel-W. E. Wilkinson
330.00
Gravel-E. M. Fletcher
18.00
Asphalt
876.21
Paint and other
7.30
$ 2,332.47
Total Payments
$ 3,818.47
Balance trans. to 1939
499.91
$ 4,318.38
$ 4,318.38
RECONSTRUCTION OF SUMMER STREET CONTRACT NO. 6511-1938-CHAPTER 90
CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 28
$ 3,000.00
Due from State
6,000.00
Due from County
3,000.00
$ 12,000.00
DEBIT
Labor
M. H. Carter, Foreman $ 448.13
Labor, as per payrolls 4,235.50
$ 4,683.63
Trucks
Use of Town Trucks $ 520.00
W. E. Wilkinson
555.00
M. H. Carter
12.00
L. H. Twiss
5.00
. .
$ 1,092.00
Other Tools and Equipment
Roller Hire-Buffalo-Springfield $ 289.50
Shovel-W. E. Wilkinson 622.50
Bulldozer-W. E. Wilkinson 289.60
Compressor-D. Zanni
490.20
$ 1,691.80
109
REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
Materials
Broken Stone
$ 868.09
Gravel-W. E. Wilkinson
1,316.98
Sand and Cement
72.42
Guard Rail Rope and Fittings .
209.82
Asphalt, etc.
938.15
Guard Rail Posts
230.00
Dynamite, Exploders, etc.
166.15
Pipe and Culverts
280.43
Hauling Stone
M. H. Carter
215.30
H. F. Nesbitt
129.47
Catch Basin Frames and Grates
56.58
Kerosene Oil for Lanterns
33.50
Paint and Miscellaneous
11.70
$ 4,528.59
Total Payments
$ 11,996.02
Balance trans. to 1939
3.98
V
$ 12,000.00 $ 12,000.00
MAINTENANCE OF HIGHWAYS CONTRACT NO. 6316-1938-CHAPTER 90
CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 32 $ 500.00
Due from State
500.00
$ 1,000.00
DEBIT
Labor
M. H. Carter, Foreman $ 61.38
Labor, as per payrolls
314.50
$ 375.88
Trucks
Use of Town Trucks
$ 105.00
M. H. Carter
30.50
$ 135.50
Other Tools and Equipment
Roller Hire $ 48.00
1
110
TOWN OF LYNNFIELD
Materials
Asphalt
$ 246.09
Broken Stone
190.16
$ 436.25
Total Payments
$ 995.63
V
Balance trans. to 1939
4.37
$ 1,000.00
$ 1,000.00
HIGHWAY FUND-CHAPTER 500-1938 CREDIT
Received from State-Gasoline Tax $ 2,950.00
DEBIT VOKES TERRACE
Labor, as per payrolls $ 291.00
Trucks
M. H. Carter
129.00
H. F. Nesbitt
135.00
Material
Gravel
25.20
$ 580.20
BEAVER AVENUE
Labor, as per payrolls $ 657.50
Trucks
M. H. Carter
90.00
$ 747.50
Total Payments
$ 1,327.70
Balance trans. to 1939
1,622.30
$ 2,950.00
$ 2,950.00
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 14 Transferred from Excess & Defi- ciency, Sept. 12, 1938-Art. 1 ... From Commonwealth-U. S. Grant for Aid to Dependent Children Transfers from Reserve Fund
$ 5,300.00
3,000.00
72.00
334.98
$ 8,706.98
111
REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
DEBIT GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
Salaries and Wages
Board of Public Welfare
George W. Peavey $ 16.67
Everett S. Webster
16.67
Clarence A. Studley
16.66
$ 50.00
Clerical
George W. Peavey, Clerk $ 50.00
C. H. Russell, Keeping Accounts and Billing 20.00
$ 70.00
Printing, Stationery and Postage ..
19.10
All Other
Rent of Commissary - City of
Salem
$ 18.00
Tolls at Commissary - City of Salem
19.82
Bags, Twine, etc. for Surplus Commodities 11.44
Labor, Hauling Surplus Com- modities from Salem 39.50
Commonwealth - Admin. Ex- pense 45.53
U. S. Government - Processing Butter
12.54
Overhauling Typewriter
10.00
$ 156.83
Total Administration $ 295.93
OUTSIDE RELIEF BY TOWN
Groceries and Provisions
$ 1,582.60
Coal, Wood and Oil
411.25
Board and Care
1,266.75
Medicine and Medical Attendance
1,149.68
State Institutions
205.14
Cash Grants to Individuals
1,593.00
Rents
335.00
Electric Lights
43.52
Gas
21.24
Use of Ambulance
20.00
Labor
132.00
All Other
5.14 $ 6,765.32
112
TOWN OF LYNNFIELD
RELIEF BY OTHER CITIES AND TOWNS
Cities $ 696.60
Towns
414.13
$ 1,110.73
MOTHERS' AID BY
Town
$ 511.00
Total Payments
$ 8,682.98
Balance trans. to E. & D.
24.00
$ 8,706.98
$ 8,706.98
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 15
$ 7,550.00
Transferred from Excess & Defi-
200.00
ciency Dec. 19, 1938-Art. 2
182.10
Transferred from Reserve Fund .. . U. S. Grants for
Old Age Assistance-Admin. ...
215.73
Old Age Assistance-Assistance
6,473.25
$ 14,621.08
DEBIT
ADMINISTRATION
Salaries and Wages
George W. Peavey, Clerk $ 50.00
C. H. Russell - Accounting and Billing 30.00
Wesley W. Munroe, Investigator 520.00
$ 600.00
Stationery and Postage
6.40
All Other
4.31
Total Administration
$ 610.71
ASSISTANCE
Cash Grants, as per payrolls
$ 13,763.88
Board and Care
4.00
Other Cities and Towns
242.49
$ 14,010.37
Total Payments
$ 14,621.08
$ 14,621.08
113
REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
SOLDIERS' RELIEF CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 16 Refund of Payment
$ 1,200.00
$ 8.00
$ 1,208.00
DEBIT
Fuel
$ 63.10
Groceries and Provisions
210.00
Rent
100.00
Medicine and Medical Attendance .
6.00
Cash Grants to Individuals
598.00
Labor
59.50
Total Payments
$ 1,036.60
Balance trans. to Revenue
171.40
$ 1,208.00
$ 1,208.00
EDUCATION
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 17 $ 42,700.00
DEBIT
General
Salary of Superintendent $ 1,066.68
Clerk in Superintendent's Office
271.92
Clerk of School Committee
100.00
Printing, Stationery and Postage
38.88
Telephone
33.68
Traveling Expenses
160.26
School Census
30.00
School Physician
100.00
All Other
75.90
$ 1,877.32
Teachers' Salaries
Elementary
$ 13,880.63
Text Books and Supplies
Text Books
$ 499.65
All Other
510.27 $ 1,009.92
114
TOWN OF LYNNFIELD
Tuition
High Schools
$ 12,889.23
Vocational
514.80
Evening
47.40
$ 13,451.43
Transportation
High and Elementary
$ 6,267.00
Vocational
277.10
Teachers
77.00
$ 6,621.10
Janitor's Services
Elementary
$ 2,246.50
Fuel and Light
Fuel
$ 937.74
Light
145.49
$ 1,083.23
Maintenance-Buildings & Grounds
Insurance
$ 583.75
Repairs
610.28
Janitor's Supplies
122.51
All Other
475.28
$ 1,791.82
Furniture and Furnishings
Elementary
$ 499.25
Other Expenses
Tuning Pianos
$ 21.25
Water-J. F. Smith
62.50
Moving Pianos
24.00
Repairing Radio & Phonograph
15.75
Freight, Express & Cartage
19.70
All Other
90.70
$ 233.90
Total Payments
$ 42,695.10
Balance trans. to Revenue
4.90
$ 42,700.00
$ 42,700.00
ADDITION TO CENTRE SCHOOL CREDIT
Balance from 1937
$ 5,277.92
115
REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
DEBIT
Lawson W. Oakes, Inc.
Final Payment on Contract
$ 5,042.00
Edward M. Bridge Architect's Fees
233.20
Total Payments
$ 5,275.20
Balance trans. to Revenue
2.72
$ 5,277.92
$ 5,277.92
Note: Total Cost of School Addition for 1937 and 1938-$36,297.28.
LIBRARIES
CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 18
$ 800.00
Refund from County for Dog Li-
censes Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 19 ...
395.47
Income from Trust Funds
231.46
Transferred from Reserve Fund
1,30
$ 1,428.23
DEBIT
Salaries-Librarians
Elizabeth W. Green-Main $ 182.00
Sylvia A. Maynard-Branch 182.00
-
$ 364.00
Janitors
C. W. Pierce-Main
$ 81.00
Sylvia A. Maynard-Branch
52.00
$ 133.00
Books and Periodicals
Books-Main
$ 367.89
Books-Branch
233.40
Periodicals-Main
18.00
Periodicals-Branch
18.40
$ 637.69
Binding
Books
$ 71.34
116
TOWN OF LYNNFIELD
Fuel and Light
Fuel-Main
$ 63.14
Fuel-Branch
22.60
Light-Main
24.84
Light-Branch
7.45
$ 118.03
Buildings
Insurance
$ 50.50
Repairs
25.50
All Other
2.59
$ 78.59
Other Expenses
Stationery and Printing
$ 17.57
Postage
.26
All Other
7.75
$ 25.58
Total Payments
$ 1,428.23
$ 1,428.23
RECREATION
PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS PARK DEPARTMENT CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 20 $ 500.00
DEBIT
COMMON AND FREEMAN PARK
Labor, as per payrolls $ 188.75
Other Expenses
Loam-W. E. Wilkinson 18.00
Sharpening Lawn Mowers
5.00
Trimming Trees
36.00
Painting and Miscellaneous .. 19.00
$ 266.75
SUNTAUG PARK
Labor, as per payrolls $ 115.00
Other Expenses
Loam-E. M. Fletcher 3.50
Poultry Wire for Tennis Courts 23.34
Stone Dust-W. E. Wilkinson .. 10.82
117
REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
Team-E. M. Fletcher
11.25
Salt and Supplies
4.78
$ 168.69
Total Payments
$ 435.44
Balance trans. to Revenue
64.56
$ 500.00
$ 500.00
J. B. BLOOD PLAYGROUND CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 37 $ 200.00
DEBIT
Labor, as per payrolls
$ 74.00
Other Expenses
Pipe, Material, etc., for Well ..
$ 13.00
Plowing Ball Field
22.00
Engineering & Preparing Plans
40.00
Gasoline for Roller
9.94
$ 84.94
Total Payments
$ 158.94
Balance trans. to Revenue
41.06
$ 200.00
$ 200.00
UNCLASSIFIED
MEMORIAL DAY CREDIT
Appropriation Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 21 $ 200.00
DEBIT
Payments (For itemized account see report of Memorial Day Com.) $ 200.00
$ 200.00
$ 200.00
118
TOWN OF LYNNFIELD
GOVERNMENT AND RELIEF PROJECTS CREDIT
Balance from 1937
$ 851.39
Appropriation Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 27
1,200.00
Transferred from Excess & Defi- ciency Sept. 12, 1938-Art. 2 ...
2,000.00
$ 4,051.39
DEBIT
ADMINISTRATION
Salary, W. W. Munroe $ 768.52
Postage and Stationery
2.75
Transportation, W. W. Munroe, Oct.
1 to Dec. 31 at $5.00 week 65.00
Other Expenses
Gasoline for Hauling Surplus Commodities
84.91
Telephone Tolls 12.82
Bags for Commodities
3.66
First Aid Supplies
3.35
Office Supplies
10.69 $ 951.70
Town Gypsy Moth Project
Material
Poles, Brushes, etc. $ 13.20
Moth Control Project No. 15,013
Material and Supplies
Poles, Brushes and Pails $ 31.44
Axes, Pruners, etc. 47.60
Arsenate of Lead
493.92
Creosote
77.76
Hose-500 ft. 1 in .- 6 ply
142.10
$ 792.82
Truck
W. E. Wilkinson
252.00
Other
First Aid Supplies
2.20
Express .
.51
$ 2.71
Total
$ 1,047.53
119
REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
Playground Project No. 16,769 Material and Supplies
Tools-H. P. Woodbury Co. $ 72.00
Lumber, Hardware, Paint, etc. 80.40
Stone Dust, Sand, etc.
28.58
Pipe for Playground Well
50.96
Other Supplies
32.65
$ 264.59
Labor
On Playground Well
$ 294.00
Driving Truck, etc.
13.30
$ 307.30
Other Expenses
Cost of Survey and Blueprints . $ 26.72
Use of Rototiller-Pearson Bros.
25.00
Use of Gasoline Pumps
28.75
-
$ 80.47
Total
$ 652.36
Flood and Storm Damage-Project 19,268
Material and Supplies
Tools
$ 83.68
Labor, as per payrolls
78.00
Other Expenses
Truck Hire-H. F. Nesbitt
$ 3.00
Filing Saws
16.75
Transp. of Tools-B. F. Griffin
11.00
Medical Service
4.00
Express and Miscellaneous
1.35
$ 36.10
Total
$ 197.78
Control and Suppress Leaf Feeding Insect Pests-Project No. 17,878 Materials and Supplies
Creosote
$ 29.16
Total Payments
$ 2,891.73
Balance trans. to 1939
1,159.66
$ 4,051.39
$ 4,051.39
120
TOWN OF LYNNFIELD
RICHARD J. UBBINK DAMAGE SUIT
CREDIT
Transferred from Excess & Defi-
ciency June 10, 1938-Art. 2 ... $ 3,000.00
DEBIT
Parsons & Wadleigh
Services and Expenses .
$ 304.10
Richard J. Ubbink
Amount of Judgment
$ 2,575.00
Court Costs
75.43
Interest
7.14
$ 2,657.57
Total Payments
$ 2,961.67
Balance trans. to Revenue . .
38.33
$ 3,000.00
$ 3,000.00
DAMAGES TO MEMBERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT
CREDIT
Transferred from Excess & Defi-
$ 102.75 ciency Sept. 12, 1938-Art. 5 ...
DEBIT
Lynn Hospital-Care of Chester Me- lanson $ 22.75
Charles F. Twomey, M. D .- Prof.
Services for Chester Melanson .
22.00
Chester Melanson for Injuries ..
50.00
J. Potash, M. D .- Care of Roger Mansfield
8.00
Total Payments $ 102.75
$ 102.75
HURRICANE EMERGENCY
CREDIT
Transferred from Excess & Defi-
ciency Dec. 19, 1938-Art. 2 . ...
$ 881.03
121
REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
DEBIT
Labor, as per payrolls
$ 510.27
Truck Hire
W. E. Wilkinson
$ 36.00
M. H. Carter
72.00
H. F. Nesbitt
72.00
L. H. Twiss
62.50
L. H. Twiss, Auto
22.50
$ 265.00
Material and Supplies
Tools
$ 43.06
Rope
29.22
Tree Paint
4.95
Other Supplies
.40
-
$ 77.63
Other Expenses
Filing Saws
$ 25.25
Lunch
.88
Medical Service
2.00
$ 28.13
Total Payments
$ 881.03
$ 881.03
CEMETERIES CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 24
$ 650.00
Withdrawals from Perpetual Care Funds-For Care of Lots
395.50
$ 1,045.50
DEBIT
Labor as per payrolls
Forest Hill Cemetery
$ 329.50
Old and West Cemeteries
53.75
Willow Cemetery
190.00
$ 573.25
Other Expenses
· Use of Rototiller-Pearson Bros. $ 11.25
Tools
2.65
Gravel and Loam-W. E. Wil- kinson
39.00
Other Material
6.78
Sharpening Lawn Mowers
2.75
Drilling and Blasting
6.00
$ 68.43
122
TOWN OF LYNNFIELD
Care of Endowed Lots
Arthur W. Bryant
$ 88.50
Raymond R. Pearson
307.00
$ 395.50
Total Payments
$ 1,037.18
Balance trans. to Revenue
8.32
$ 1,045.50
$ 1,045.50
TOOL HOUSE-WILLOW CEMETERY CREDIT
Transferred from Sale of Lots and
Graves Fund Mar. 14, 1938-Art.
$ 445.00 39
DEBIT
W. E. Wilkinson, as per Contract ..
$ 406.00
Other Expenses
Braces for Doors
$ 1.50
Stove
4.25
$ 5.75
Total Payments
$ 411.75
Balance trans. to Sale of Lots
and Graves Fund
33.25
$ 445.00
$ 445.00
INTEREST
CREDIT
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 26 $ 950.00
DEBIT
Payments on Temporary Loans
Merchants Nat. Bank, Boston $ 59.28
First Nat. Bank, Reading 62.83
$ 122.11
Payment on Tax Title Loan
Commonwealth
38.03
Payments on General Loans
Centre School Addition $ 700.00
123
REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
Fire Department Equipment . . . 7.13
Total Payments
$ 707.13 867.27
Balance trans. to Revenue
82.73
$ 950.00
$ 950.00
MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS TEMPORARY LOANS
CREDIT
Balance Outstanding Jan. 1, 1938 ..
$ 15,000.00
Receipts-Notes in Anticipation of Revenue
70,000.00
$ 85,000.00
DEBIT
Payment of Notes
First Nat. Bank, Reading
Merchants Nat. Bank, Boston . .
$ 40,000.00 30,000.00
Total Payments
$ 70,000.00
Balance due Dec. 31, 1937
15,000.00
$ 85,000.00
$ 85,000.00
GENERAL LOANS-MATURING DEBT
CREDIT
Balance from 1937-Tax Title Loan
$ 1,827.49
Appropriation, Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 25
5,166.35
Transferred from Premium on Cou- pon Notes Mar. 14, 1938-Art. 25
333.65
$ 7,327.49
DEBIT
Payments
Commonwealth-Tax Title Loan
$ 1,827.49
Fire Dept. Pumping Engine ...
2,500.00
Centre School Addition
3,000.00
Total Payments
$ 7,327.49
$ 7,327.49
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AGENCY, TRUST AND INVESTMENT
AGENCY STATE ASSESSMENTS
Balance from 1937 to be raised in
Tax Levy of 1938
$ 446.25
Assessment in 1938 for underesti-
mate of 1937
$ 446.25
$ 446.25
$ 446.25
CREDIT
Assessment in Tax Levy of 1938
State Tax
$ 4,720.00
State Parks and Reservations ..
90.01
Auditing Municipal Accounts . .
353.97
$ 5,163.98
DEBIT
Payments to Commonwealth
State Tax of 1938
$ 10,030.00
State Parks and Reservations
99.72
Auditing Municipal Accounts ..
353.97
Total Payments
$ 10,483.69
$ 5,163.98
*Balance to be raised in 1939
5,319.71
$ 10,483.69
$ 10,483.69
*Note: This deficit together with the increase in State Tax for 1939 will increase the Tax Rate ap- proximately $2.50 per thousand of valuation for 1939.
COUNTY TAX
Balance from 1937
$ 108.95
Assessment in 1938 for underestimate of 1937
$ 118.95
Transferred to Excess & Deficiency
10.00
$ 118.95 $ 118.95
CREDIT
Assessment in Tax Levy of 1938 ...
$ 5,860.43
.
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REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
DEBIT
Payment to County of Essex
$ 5,851.25
Overestimate to be Credited to 1939
9.18
$ 5,860.43
$ 5,860.43
OTHER AGENCY CREDIT
Received from Teachers for
Teachers' Retirement Fund . ..
$ 751.52
Received from Town Clerk for Dog Licenses
541.40
Collection of Tax Titles for Water District
330.79
$ 1,623.71
DEBIT
Payments
Mass. Teachers' Retirement Bd.
$ 751.52
County of Essex-Dog Licenses
541.40
Lynnfield Water District-Tax Titles
330.79
Total Payments $ 1,623.71
$ 1,623.71
TRUST FUNDS
CREDIT
Receipts for Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
$ 325.18
Withdrawal from Mary U. Nash Town Improvement Fund . . Withdrawal from Compensation Fund
103.50
13.79
$ 442.47
DEBIT
Payments
Deposits in Savings Bank for
credit to Cemetery Trust
Funds
$ 325.18
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Mary U. Nash Fund
Care of Park
$ 24.00
Flag Pole and Flag 79.50
$ 103.50
Compensation Fund
Elmer Melanson on account of
accident
13.79
Total Payments
$ 442.47
$ 442.47
REFUNDS
CREDIT
Received from L. M. Daly-Advance
$ 50.00
Amounts charged Taxes and Tax Titles
62.18
Amounts charged Motor Vehicle Ex- cise Tax Levies
160.97
Estimated Receipts
139.35
$ 412.50
DEBIT
Refunds
Overpayments on Tax Titles .. $ 56.38
Overpayments on Property Tax of 1938 5.80
-
$ 62.18
Overpayments-M. V. Excise of 1936
4.34
Overpayments-M. V. Excise of 1937 58.61
Overpayments-M. V. Excise of of 1938 98.02
$ 160.97
Overpayment of Interest on Tax Title
$ 2.20
Public Welfare-City of Lynn ..
137.15
$ 139.35
Paid C. C. Ham, Collector of Taxes-Advance for change .
50.00
Total Payments $ 412.50
$ 412.50
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REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
GRAND SUMMARY OF PAYMENTS
General Government
Salaries and Wages
$ 5,681.62
Expenses
4,990.79
Town Hall Basement Vault
200.00
Remodelling Prec. 2 Building .. 264.09
$ 11,136.50
Protection of Persons and Property
Police Department
3,908.60
Fire Department
5,321.31
Changing Fire Alarm on Turn- pike
11.52
Hydrant Rental
1,100.00
Moth Department
1,856.73
Gypsy Moth-Special
2,998.40
Special Moth Work
399.29
Tree Warden
360.21
Other Protection
400.47
$ 16,356.53
Health and Sanitation
Board of Health
$ 259.38
Inspector of Animals
60.00
Inspector of Milk
25.00
Essex County Sanatorium
1,465.10
$ 1,809.48
Highway Department
General Maintenance
$ 7,589.36
Snow and Ice Removal
1,895.48
Street Lights
3,705.16
Mowing Bushes on Highway
298.95
Purchase of Snow Plow
200.00
Reconstruction of Summer St.
Chap. 90, Contract 6,175, 1937
3,818.47
Chap. 90, Contract 6,511, 1938 Maintenance of Highways
11,996.02
Chap. 90, Contract 6,316, 1938
995.63
Highway Fund, Chap. 500, 1938
1,327.70
Total
$ 31,826.77
Less amount transferred to Ma-
chinery Account 805.00
$ 31,021.77
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Public Welfare
Welfare $ 8,682.98
Old Age Assistance - Adminis-
tration
610.71
Old Age Assistance - Assistance
14,010.37
$ 23,304.06
Soldiers' Relief
1,036.60
Education
School Department
$ 42,695.10
Addition to Centre School
5,275.20
Library Department
1,428.23
$ 49,398.53
Recreation
Park Department
$ 435.44
Playground
158.94 ·
$ 594.38
Unclassified
Memorial Day
$ 200.00
Government and Relief Projects
2,891.73
Richard J. Ubbink Damage Suit
2,961.67
Damages to Members of Fire Department
102.75
Hurricane Emergency
881.03
$ 7,037.18
Cemeteries
Maintenance
$ 641.68
Care of Endowed Lots
395.50
Tool House-Willow Cemetery ..
411.75
$ 1,448.93
Interest
867.27
Municipal Indebtedness
Anticipation of Revenue Loans
$ 70,000.00
General Loans-Maturing Debt
5,500.00
Tax Title Loan
1,827.49
$ 77,327.49
Agency and Trust
State Assessments
$ 10,483.69
County Tax
5,851.25
Other Agency
1,623.71
Trust Funds
442.47
$ 18,401.12
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REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
Refunds
Taxes and Tax Titles
$ 62.18
Motor Vehicle Excise
160.97
Other Overpayments
139.35
Collector's Advance
50.00
$ 412.50
Total Payments by Treasurer .
$240,152.34
Cash on hand Dec. 31, 1938
Treasurer
$ 9,587.97
Collector
50.00
Surplus War Bonus
1,167.70
$ 10,805.67
$250,958.01 $250,958.01
DETAIL OF BALANCE SHEET ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
TAXES, PROPERTY-1935
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1938
$ 1,099.45
Abatements by Assessors
$ 72.08
Payments reported by Collector
389.62
Adjustments a/c audit
52.44
Transferred to Tax Titles
275.35
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1938
309.96
$ 1,099.45
$ 1,099.45
TAXES, PROPERTY-1936
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1938
$ 8,585.19
Abatements by Assessors
$ 536.96
Payments reported by Collector
3,248.45
Adjustments a/c Audit
22.20
Transferred to Tax Titles
3,199.67
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1938
1,577.91
$ 8,585.19 $ 8,585.19
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TOWN OF LYNNFIELD
TAXES, PROPERTY-1937
Outstanding Jan: 1, 1938
$ 31,311.34
Abatements by Assessors
$ 828.96
Adjustments a/c Audit
7.71
Transferred to Tax Titles
9,873.63
Payments reported by Collector
18,888.14
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1938
1,712.90
$ 31,311.34
$ 31,311.34
TAXES, PROPERTY-1938
Commitments to Collector
$ 94,189.61 5.80
Overpayments Refunded
Abatements by Assessors
$ 1,110.85
Transferred to Tax Titles
4,702.64
Payments reported by Collector
65,343.98
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1938
23,037.94
$ 94,195.41
$ 94,195.41
TAXES, POLL-1934
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1938
$ 84.00
Abatements by Assessors
$ 2.00
Payments reported by Collector
6.00
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1938
76.00
$ 84.00
$ 84.00
TAXES, POLL-1935
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1938
$ 172.35
Abatements by Assessors
$ 4.00
Payments reported by Collector
50.00
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1938
118.35
$ 172.35
$ 172.35
TAXES, POLL-1936
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1938
$ 252.00
Payments reported by Collector
$ 78.00
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1938
174.00
$ 252.00
$ 252.00
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REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
TAXES, POLL-1937
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1938
$ 488.00
Abatements by Assessors
$ 10.00
Adjustments a/c Audit
4.00
Payments reported by Collector
272.46
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1938
201.54
$ 488.00
$ 488.00
TAXES, POLL-1938
Commitment to Collector
$ 1,386.00
Abatements by Assessors
$ 12.00
Payments reported by Collector
1,038.00
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1938
336.00
$ 1,386.00
$ 1,386.00
MOTH ASSESSMENT-1936
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1938
$ 4.25
Payments reported by Collector
$ .50
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1938
3.75
$ 4.25
$ 4.25
MOTH ASSESSMENT-1937
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1938
$ 20.50
Payments reported by Collector
$ 16.00
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1938
4.50
$ 20.50
$ 20.50
MOTH ASSESSMENT-1938
Commitment to Collector
$ 47.00
Payments reported by Collector
$ 28.50
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1938
18.50
$ 47.00
$ 47.00
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