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14 00
Albert Richards, labor
8 75
William Vidito, labor
7 00
George White, labor
13 12
Unexpended
54 01
$1,005 25
NOTES PAYABLE.
Appropriation $2,000 00
Paid Woburn Five Cents Savings Bank On account Walker School House loan
$700 00
On account Trust Funds loan
200 00
Amount carried forward
$900 00
$951 24
65
Amount brought forward $900 00
On account Fire Department loan. . 250 00 Sinking Fund Commissioners on account Whitefield School House fund . . . 850 00
$2,000 00
INTEREST.
Appropriation $550 00
Collected on taxes 576 23
Collected on deposits 120 19
Collected on Trust Funds 72 30
$1,318 72
Paid Woburn Five Cents Savings Bank On account temporary loans
$283 75
On account Walker School House loan
99 00
On account Trust Funds loan
61 87
On account Fire Department loan. .
112 50
Estabrook & Co. on account Whitefield School House bond
400 00
J. B. Nichols on account Carter Ceme- tery Trust fund 4 00
On account Carter Cemetery Trust fund (Jaques)
7 00
On account Temple Cemetery Trust fund
2 00
On account Cazneau Cemetery Trust fund
3 00
On account Carlton Cemetery Trust fund 1 00
On account Frazer Cemetery Trust fund 7 00
Amount carried forward $981 12
66
Amount brought forward $981 12
Albert Gould, on account Eames Ceme- tery Trust fund 3 50
Wm. H. Carter, on account Carter com- mon Trust fund. 5 00
On account Buck Library Trust fund . . 20 00
Due Trust fund accounts 135 13
$1,144 75
$173 97
Transferred to Printing account
$19 13
Transferred to Abatement of Taxes acct. 84 40
Transferred to Public Library acct .. .. 26 79
$130 32
Unexpended
$43 65
ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATIONS.
We recommend the following appropriations for the year 1905 :-
Schools, including teachers' and janitors' pay, fuel and maintenance $6,700 00
School books and supplies 500 00
Salary Superintendent of Schools
367 00
Salary School Committee
105 00
Highways, roads and bridges
1,800 00
Support of the poor
700 00
Repairs of public buildings
600 00
Cemeteries
200 00
Support of Public Library
350 00
Police
250 00
Salary of Town Officers
1250 00
Amount carried forward
$12,822 00
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Amount brought forward $12,822 00
Printing
175 00
Outstanding indebtedness
200 00
Notes payable (including Sinking Fund)
3,000 CO
Interest
500 00
Memorial Day
125 00
Miscellaneous
600 00
Military aid
48 00
Abatement of taxes
300 00
Fire Department
500 00
State and County Taxes
$18,270 00
ASSESSORS' VALUATION, 1904.
Real Estate $1,057,587 00
Personal property 169,918 00
$1,227,505 00
Amount of tax assessed $20,868 77
State tax assessed 925 00
County tax assessed 1,250 53
Rate of taxation per $1,000
16 30
SCHEDULE OF TOWN PROPERTY.
School houses and lots $28,000 00
Town Farm 3,500 00
Personal property at Town Farm
1,865 00
Eldad Butters' lot
75 00
Town Hall and lot
1,200 00
Cemetery land and lots
2,000 00
Public Library and lot
1,000 00
Contents of Public Library
1,800 00
Hearse house 100 00
Highway tools 100 00
Amount carried forward
$39,640 00
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Amount brought forward
$39,640 00
Town Hearse 450 00
Town scales and Sealer's office 250 00
Lock-up building 300 00
Cemetery tool house and tools
150 00
Furniture in Selectmen's office
60 00
Four safes 800 00
Two fire engines
1,300 00
Two hose wagons
250 00
Two fire engine houses and lots
1,550 00
Hose, ladders, harness, etc.
900 00
Police equipment
50 00
Land, account of tax sales
4,315 00
$50,015 00
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EDWARD A. CARTER,
HERBERT N. BUCK,
EUGENE G. SHAW, Assessors of Wilmington.
REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Names and Ages of the Inmates at the Almshouse.
Registered No. Name. Age.
22 Charlotte Butters, 33
66 James Brennan, 75
67 Oliver Nelson Butters. 73
Whole number during the year, 3.
Present number, 3.
Tramps furnished lodgings and meals, 218
Males, 217.
Female, 1.
Number of meals furnished, 436.
INVENTORY OF PERSONAL PROPERTY, JAN. 1, 1904.
Live Stock $449 00
Farming tools 521 45
Hay, grain, wood, etc. 323 25
Household furniture 276 00
107 01
Groceries, provisions; etc.
Contents of lobby 5 00
$1,681 71
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EXPENDITURES AT ALMSHOUSE.
Henry A. Tolman, Superintendent.
Paid for Meat and provisions
$111 49
Groceries
36 20
Fish
25 16
Crackers
13 65
Nutriotone
7 50
Horse blanket
2 00
Window and glass
2 75
Cow
55 00
Hay
8 10
Straw
1 55
Coal
13 59
Service of bull
3 00
Fowl
7 56
Cutting wood
5 50
Labor
68 62
Planing lumber
2 50
Bble. and making cider
4 75
Killing hogs
1 50
Poultry
3 20
Repairing harness
18 78
Repairing mowing machine
11 00
Tools
3 65
Seed
22 57
Pig
5 00
Shoes
4 25
Grain
18 20
Dry Goods and clothing
16 87
Standing grass
27 00
Fruit
2 00
Amount carried forward $502 94
3
72
Amount brought forward $502 94
Pasturing heifer
5 00
Sundries 6 09
Fruit jars and tinware
5 25
Sawing lumber
10 00
Season's ice
12 00
Hardware
3 27
Medical attendance
5 00
Veterinary services
3 00
$552 55
PAID ON TOWN ORDERS.
Charles E. Hudson, groceries and
grain
$314 08
Buck Bros., groceries and grain 347 63
J. W. Murray, groceries 16 79
J. W. Perry, blacksmith work
31 76
S. R. McIntosh, blacksmith work
36 98
Harry A. Tolman, salary
475 00
$1,222 24
RECEIPTS AT ALMSHOUSE.
For Labor
$803 60
Milk
455 87
Eggs
36 17
Cow
50 00
Board of Emma J. Dustin
124 00
Calf
4 50
Fruit and vegetables
24 21
Cutting and teaming wood
15 25
$1,513 60
Expenditures over receipts
$261 19
73 INVENTORY OF PERSONAL PROPERTY,
January 1, 1905.
Live stock $538 00
Farming tools, etc. 524 05
Hay, grain, wood, etc. 418 75
· Household furniture 276 00
Groceries, provisions, etc.
104 10
Contents of lobby
5 00
$1,865 90
OUTSIDE POOR.
Expended :
On account of Edmund White and fam-
ily
$208 55
Mrs. Ramie Babine and
family
158 80
Herbert Gowing and fam-
ily
36 43
Sarah J. Eames
4$ 29 45
Edward Brennan
20 00
William Brennan
20 00
William Ganya
6 00
- $479 23
CREDITS.
Due from State, account Edward Bren-
nan
$15 00
Account William Brennan 15 00
$30 00
Net expense of outside poor .
449 23
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SUMMARY OF EXPENSES.
Appropriation
$700 00
Total expense at almshouse $1,774 79
Total receipts at almshouse 1,513 60
Net expense at almshouse
$261 19
Net expense of outside poor
449 23
$710 42
EUGENE G. SHAW, HERBERT N. BUCK, EDWARD A. CARTER, Overseers of the Poor.
COLLECTOR'S ACCOUNT.
ACCOUNT OF 1902 TAX.
Uncollected (with additions) Jan. 1, 1904
$4,245 00 Taxes collected $4,103 35
Taxes abated 141 65
$4,245 00
Interest collected, $417 23.
ACCOUNT OF 1903 TAX.
Uncollected January 1, 1904 $8,702 81
Taxes collected $4,203 25
Uncollected January 1, 1905
$4,499 56
Interest collected, $140 25.
ACCOUNT OF 1904 TAX.
Commitment $20,876 87
Taxes collected 11,230 62:
Uncollected January 1, 1905
$9,046 25,
Interest collected, $7 36.
EXCISE TAX COLLECTED.
Boston & Northern St. Ry. Co. . $1,960 0S:
JOSEPH PATCHETT, Collector.
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TAXES OF 1899.
Uncollected January 1, 1904
$88 35 Taxes collected $5 63
Taxes abated 82 72
$88 35
Interest collected, $0 86.
TAXES OF 1900.
Uncollected January 1, 1904
$247 53
Taxes collected $87 50
160 03
Taxes abated
$247 53
Interest collected, $10 53.
EUGENE G. SHAW,
Collector of Taxes.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
RECEIPTS.
Cash in Treasury January 2, 1904 $11,654 60
Cash from State Treasurer, Corp ration Tax 305 79
State Treasurer, National Bank Tax . .
27 13
State Treasurer, Military Aid 48 00
State Treasurer, State Aid 260 00
State Treasurer, Street Railway Tax ..
2 239 19
State Treasurer, Income Mass. School fund 779 86
State Treasurer, Salary Inspector of Animals 25 00
State Treasurer, tuition of children in small towns 300 00
County Treasurer, returns dog licenses
299 52
Ernest H. Hosmer, Chairman, account Superintendent of Schools
137 50
H. A. Tolman, Superintendent Town Farm 961 05
Fourth District Court, Eastern Middle- sex fines 70 00
Warren Eames, janitor, rent Town Hall 3 50
D. K. Colgate, lumber 2 85
James E. Kelley, printed records 2 00
Amount carried forward $17.415 99
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Amount brought forward $17,415 99
Norman A. Purves, cemetery lot 144B. 15 00
Wm. Studley, cemetery lot 339. 20 00
Chas. I. Freeman, cemetery lot 148B. 20 00
Alvah Jellison, cemetery lot 338. 20 00
Carrie C. Parrott, cemetery lot 336
20 00
Oscar W. Hill, cemetery lot 428.
12 00
Boston & Maine Railroad, account Highways 73 04
Licenses 5 00
Brown Building Co., account Furnish- ing Whitefield School House 5 25
Mass. Society Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for water troughs 20 00
J. W. Perry, old hearse
2 00
Trustees of the Trust Funds, interest.
72 30
First National Bank, Reading, interest on deposits 120 19
Town Notes, temporary loans
10,000 00
Eugene G. Shaw, collector, account tax 1899 5 63'
Eugene G. Shaw, collector, interest ..
86
Eugene G. Shaw, collector, account tax 1900 87 50
Eugene G. Shaw, collector, interest ..
10 53
Joseph Patchett, collector, account tax 1902 4,103 35
Joseph Patchett, collector, interest . .
417 23
Joseph Patchett, collector, account tax 1903 4,203 25
Joseph Patchett, collector, interest 140 25
Amount carried forward
$36,789 37
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Amount brought forward $36,789 37 Joseph Patchett, collector, account .ax 1904 11,230 62
Joseph Patchett, collector, interest ..
7 36
Joseph Patchett, collector, excise tax 1904, Boston & Northern Street Railway 1,960 08
$49,987 43
PAYMENTS.
Paid Selectmen's orders $35,727 19
State tax, 1904 925 00
· County tax, 1904 1,250 53
Town Notes, temporary loans 9,000 00
Town Notes, permanent loans 1,150 00
Interest on Town Notes
957 12
Cash in treasury 977 59
$49,987 43
FRED A. EAMES, Treasurer.
ASSETS AND LIABILITIES.
LIABILITIES.
Permanent Loans :-
Bond No. 1, account Whitefield School House $10,000 00
Woburn Five Cents Savings Bank, account Walker School House 1,400 00
Account Trust funds 1,175 00
Account Fire Department 2,250 00
Temporary Loans :-
Woburn Five Cents Savings Bank 7,000 00
Street Railway Tax 4,684 09
Interest on Trust funds 135 13
Third payment, account Trust funds
200 00
$26,844 22
ASSETS.
Cash in treasury $977 59
Due on tax 1903
4,499 56
Due on tax 1904
9,646 25
Due from State Treasurer, account State and Mil- itary Aid 332 00
Due from State Treasurer, account Superinten- dent of Schools 437 50
Due from Betsey George, guardian Susan George 550 91
Amount carried forward
$16,443 81
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Amount brought forward $16,443 81 !
Due from James Blake 30 00
Due from cemetery lots 215 00
Sinking Fund, account Whitefield School House. 1,674 16
Excess of liabilities 8,481 25
$26,844 22
Dite Street Railway Tax account, from County Treasurer, for land damages, Middlesex Avenue, $325 00.
REPORT OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
To the Board of Selectmen :-
Gentlemen-This year we have had quite a few fires for a town of this size, and for a new department I feel good work has been done.
My frequent inspections have found the houses well taken care of at all times; apparatus well cared for and in working condition, showing an interest by the members.
A suggestion from me has always been taken with the right sort of spirit, and I must say I am highly pleased with existing conditions for so new an organization.
The additions to the fire houses are much appreciated by the members, and with the new appliances added during the year, we are very well fitted for a small town.
The members of both companies have furnished and deco- rated their respective halls at quite an outlay of money and it is well worth the time spent for one to inspect them.
To save property in times of fire all unnecessary delay must be avoided.
Having this fact in mind and also the fact that we have some seven and one-half miles north and south, and five miles east and west to cover, it seems to me the town ought to take soine step in the direction of permanent horses for the depart- ment.
The horses could be used in the street department both summer and winter, and considering the amount of money we expend each year on our streets and for removing snow, the extra net expense ought not to be heavy.
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I recommend that the town sink a well near the Wilming- ton Post Office, at least 20 feet deep and six feet in diameter; also that the town well, corner of Main and Lowell Streets, be enlarged to these dimensions.
My estimate for the year is $500.00.
C. S. HARRIMAN, Chief of Fire Department.
ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT FOR 1904 AND 1905.
C. S. HARRIMAN Chief
F. W. KIDDER. Assistant Chief
ENGINE COMPANY No. 1.
Carl A. Cady. . Captain.
Daniel W. Boynton .... First Lieutenant.
Charles E. Carter .... Second Lieutenant.
Frank W. Dayton Clerk.
Donald K. Colgate
Frank H. Boynton
Lewis P. Cady
Chas. L. Parker
Morton R. Hayden
Levi Gilson
Arnold D. Carter
Albert L. Richards
Fred Cady John W. Baxter
Theodore A. Surrette
Irving L. Lovell
Albert D. Butters
Harold Swain Eugene Surrette
Harlan H. Kidder
John W. Dailey Chas. A. Brooks
Theodore Melanson
Ellis F. Colgate Chas. B. Osborne Sumner A. Titcomb
Wm. Baxter
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ENGINE COMPANY No. 2.
Joseph Hill Captain. A. C. Thompson Lieutenant.
L. H. Smith Clerk.
E S. Wells
G. C. Hill
John Surrette
Fred Wells
Wm. Doucette
B. F. Doucette
C. W. Duke
Joseph Doucette
L. T. Doucette
Henry Croteau
Ellis Doucette
Joseph Muse
Lawrence Babine
Wm. Babine Harris Haley
Owen Roche
James White
Harry Cutter
Mark Babine
Arthur Surrette
Lois Croteau
Clarence Carter
M. J. McMahon
FIRE ALARM BOXES.
BOX. LOCATION. FIRST ALARM.
SECOND ALARM. 12-Wm. H. Haley's Eng. No. 2.
Eng. No. 1. 13-Brown's Crossing Eng. No. 2.
Eng. No. 1.
Eng. No. 1.
14-Joseph Stack's Eng. No. 2. 15-Cor. Flint and Andover Sts. . Eng. No. 2. Eng. No. 1. 16-Cor. High and Woburn Sts. . Eng. No. 2. Eng No. 1. 17-North Station Eng. No. 2. Eng. No. 1.
18-Federal Hill Eng. No. 2. Erg. No. 1.
Forest Buck Raymond White L. H. Shattuck Louis Babine
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BOX. LOCATION.
FIRST ALARM. SECOND ALARM.
21-Woburn St., near Bradley
Eames'
Eng. No. 2. Eng. No. 1.
22-East School
Eng. No. 2.
Eng. No. 1.
23-Buck's Corner Eng. No. 2. Eng. No. 1.
24-Perry's Corner Eng. No. 2. Eng. No. 1.
27-Lowell and West Sts. . Eng. No. 2. Eng. No. 1.
25-Cor. Main and Lowell Sts. .. Eng. No. 1. Eng. No. 2.
26-Town Farm Eng. No. 1.
Eng. No. 2.
31-Nichols' Corner
. Eng. No. 1.
Eng. No. 2.
32-Methodist Church
Eng. No. 1.
Eng. No. 2.
33-South Station
Eng. No. 1.
Eng. No. 2.
34-Cor. Shawsheen Ave. and
Main St. Eng. No. 1. Eng. No 2.
35-Cor. Chestnut St. and Bur- lington Ave. Eng. No. 1. Eng. No. 2.
36-South School
. Eng. No. 1. Eng. No. 2.
37-Cor. Burlington Ave. and
Boutwell St. Eng. No. 1. Eng. No. 2.
41-West School
Eng. No. 1.
Eng. No. 2.
42-Bedell's Corner
Eng. No. 1.
Eng. No. 2.
43-Silver Lake
. Eng. No. 1. Eng. No. 2.
44-General Alarm
55-No School
2-All out.
51-Perry and Harriman's, spec-
ial
Engines 1 and 2.
52-Union Ice Co., special ...
. Engines 1 and 2. Brush Fire-1 blow before box number.
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Appropriation
$600 00
PAY ROLLS.
May 31, Perry & Harriman, horses .... $5 00
April 5, still alarm, Engine Co. 1, brush
fire 2 60
April 19, still alarm, Engine Co. 1, brush fire 1 70
April 15, still alarm, Engine Co. 1, brush fire 30
May 5, box 32, Engine Co. 1, brush fire 11 60
May 7, still alarm, Engine Co. 1, brush fire 2 00
May 23, box 43, Engine Co. 1, brush fire May 13, still alarm, Engine Co. 1, brush fire 2 75
2 00
May 7, box 15, Engine Co. 1, brush fire. 10 80
May 5, still alarm, Engine Co. 1, brush fire 5 00
May 7, box 15, Engine Co. 2, brush fire 13 40
May 8, still alarm, Engine Co. 2, brush fire 6 00
May 23, box 43, Engine Co. 2, brush fire 2 40 May 29, box 16, Engine Co. 2, house fire, Sylvester Carter 38 40
May 5, still alarm, Engine Co. 1, brush fire 30
May 7, still alarm, Engine Co. 1, brush fire 60
May 29, box 16, Engine Co. 1, house fire, Sylvester Carter 1 70
Amount carried forward $106 55
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Amount brought forward $106 55
June 14, still alarm, Engine Co. 1, house fire, H. L. Sheldon 60
May 29, A. C. Thompson, horse 2 00
July 14. Engine Co. 2, fire duty 5 40
July 3 and 4, Engine Co. 1, fire duty, brush fire 12 90
September 22. C. S. Harriman, house fire, Mrs. Musoliur 80
September 22, box 35, Engine Co. 1,
house fire, Mrs. Musoliur 6 20
September 22, W. B. McIntosh, horses. . 4 00
November 1, still alarm, Engine Co. 2, brush fire 1 20
May 29, E. S. Wells, horse 2 00
November 6, box 36, Engine Co. 1, brush fire 8 80
November 20, box 17, Engine Co. 2. house fire, G. Harnden
30 60
November 21, box 15, Engine Co. 2, brush fire
9 10
November 21, Engine Co. 2, work at engine house 2 10
C. S. Harriman, horses and labor 4 30
Charles E. Carter, horses 9 00
November 20, box 17, Engine No. 1.
house fire, G. Harnden 22 75
November 25, box 25. Engine No. 1.
house fire, Smytherman 4 50
$231 10
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REPAIRS AND SUNDRIES.
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co. 21 29
Chas. B. Osborn, freight and express ... 1 80
Chas. B. Osborn, labor 4 20
Perry & Harriman, chemicals 1 64
Perry & Harriman, chemicals 2 16
Chas. B. Osborn, labor 3 50
C. S. Harriman, badge 4 50
C. S. Harriman, repairs on Engine 1 . .
3 00
J. T. Freeman, repairs on Engine 1. .
60
C. S. Harriman, 2 bbls. 1 50
Fred A. Eames, coal 21 75
Whitall Tatum Co., stoppers
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Knight & Thomas, repairing nozzles 2 00
Perry & Harriman, chemicals 2 18
A. H. Whidden & Son, new nozzle 1 00
John W. Perry, repairing engines
6 00
F. W. Kidder, express 25
Buck Bros., sundries 3 05
$81 26
NEW APPARATUS.
Chas. W. Sabin, harnesses and blankets $102 00 Whitall Tatum Co., stoppers and bottles 1 13
Henry K. Barnes, axes and holders . .
18 00
Albert E. Robinson, chemical box 1 00
Boston Woven Hose Co., suction hose . .
34 00
Alex. Thompson, collars
48 00
E. E. Carter, rope, pulleys, etc., for har-
nesses 5 97
F. H. Walker, harness hangers 16 00
Amount carried forward $226 10
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Amount brought forward $226 10 A. H. Whidden & Son, chemical hose nozzles 40 72
A. H. Whidden & Son, engine connec- tions and valves 20 00
Carl A. Cady, ropes, pulley and labor .. 10 00
C. S. Harriman, collar pads 3 20
E. Caldwell, 2 stoves 43 15
$343 17
TOTAL.
Pay roll $231 10
Repairs and sundries
81 26
New apparatus 343 17
$655 53
Valuation
Insurance
Damage
Value Contents
Insurance
Damage
H. L. Sheldon
$1650 00
$ 25 00
S. Carter
500 00
$ 500 00
500 00
$ 200 00
$200 00
Mrs. Musolin
3500 00
3000 00
25 00
1500 00
$1000 00
150 00
G. Hamden .
4000 00
3600 00
1500 00
1000 00
300 00
J. Smytherman
.
.
400 00
500 00
5 00
300 00
300 00
$10050 00
$7600 00
$2055 00
$3000 00
$1300 00
$650 00
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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE TRUST FUNDS
OF THE TOWN OF WILMINGTON.
Cash deposited in the Andover Savings Bank as follows.
Benj. Buck fund, library account book No. 18,341 $500 00
Dolly Harnden fund, cemetery account book 18,342 100 00
James Frazer fund, cemetery account book 18,343 200 00
Martha Temple fund, cemetery account book 18,344 100 00
Thos. P. Eames fund, cemetery account book 18,346 100 00
Susan S. Carlton fund, cemetery account book 18,345 75 00
Sabra Carter fund, cemetery account book 18,347 200 00
Sabra Carter fund, cemetery account book 18,348 100 00
Sabra Carter fund, common account book 18,349 200 00
Isaac Cazneau fund, cemetery account book 18,985 100 00
Burnap fund, library account book 8,512 115 00
$1,790 00
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Interest paid the Town Treasurer as follows:
Benj. Buck fund, 12 months' interest .... $20 20
Dolly Hamden fund, 12 months' interest 4 04
James Frazee fund, 12 months' interest. . 8 08
Martha Temple fund, 12 months' interest 4 04
Susan S. Carlton fund, 12 months' interest 3 02
Thos. P. Eames fund, 12 months' interest 4 04
Sabra Carter fund, 12 months' interest 8 08
Sabra Carter fund, 12 months' interest 4 04
Sabra Carter fund, 12 months' interest 8 08
Isaac Cazneau fund, 12 months' interest 4 04
Burnap fund, 12 months' interest
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C. S. HARRIMAN. FRED A. EAMES, C. J. SARGENT.
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
The Assessors' and Collector's books for the year 1904 were verified and compared, and the Collector's accounts were examined on different occasions during the year, and their reports shown in this book are correct.
All bills were examined each month before being paid, and at the end of the year were checked with the Selectmens' and Treasurer's accounts.
The report of the Trustees of the Trust Funds was also examined.
The balance in the Treasurer's hands at the end of the year, nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents ($977.59), was found to be correct.
BERNARD F. DOUCETTE,
Auditor.
WHITEFIELD SCHOOL HOUSE LOAN, SINKING FUND.
COMMISSIONERS' REPORT.
Amount of Sinking Fund, December 31, 1903 .. $800 00
Received interest to October 15, 1904 24 16
Town appropriation 850 00
Total amount of fund, October 15, 1904
$1,674 16
ACCOUNTING.
Blackstone Savings Bank, Boston $824 16
Woburn Five Cents Savings Bank 850 00
CHESTER W. CLARK, JAMES E. KELLEY,
Commissioners.
CONTRACT RELATING TO THE ESTATE OF SABRA CARTER.
Printed by vote of the town for the information of its citizens.
Whereas, at a sitting of the Supreme Judicial Court, holden at Cambridge within and for the County of Middlesex in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, upon a hearing had on the twenty-sixth day of April, A. D. 1904, in a case in equity brought by Chester W. Clark, administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Sabra Carter, late of Wilmington, in said County of Middlesex, complainant, against the Attorney- General of the Commonwealth, and others, heirs-at-law of the said Sabra Carter, respondents, and upon consideration thereof by the Court, it was ordered, adjudged and decreed that all the property belonging to the estate of the said Sabra Carter, the testatrix, remaining undisposed of, be converted into money by the said administrator, as soon as practicable, and the net amount remaining in his hands after paying certain expenses and charges, be paid over to the Northfield Seminary, a corpo- ration organized under the laws of said Commonwealth, as trustee, upon the terms and conditions expressed in said decree and which are hereinafter fully set forth:
And whereas, in pursuance of said decree, the said Chester IV. Clark, administrator as aforesaid, has converted into money all the property of said estate that in his opinion is of any sub- stantial value or that can be realized upon, and has paid there-
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from said expenses and charges, leaving the net sum of five thousand dollars, as appears by the fourth account of said administrator, to be by him filed in the Probate Court, which sum the said administrator has paid over to the said corpora- tion simultaneously with the execution and delivery of these presents :
Now, therefore, these articles of agreement, made and entered into this twenty-third day of July, in the year one thousand nine hundred and four, by and between the Northfield Seminary, a corporation as aforesaid, party of the first part, and Chester W. Clark, administrator with the will annexed of the estate of said Sabra Carter, party of the second part, witness the following:
The said party of the first part does hereby acknowledge the receipt from the said party of the second part of said sum of five thousand dollars, upon the trust expressed in the terms of said decree and incorporated herein.
The said party of the first part, in consideration of the premises and the payment to it by the said party of the second part of said sum of five thousand dollars, in trust as aforesaid, and the payment hereafter to be made to it of the net amount of any other property of said estate of said Sabra Carter, if any- thing in the future should be realized from property now con- sidered of doubtful value, and in consideration of the entire income, of whatsoever amount it may be, to be derived from all said trust property, does hereby promise, undertake and agree to and with the said party of the second part, and his successors in office, as follows:
1. That the said party of the first part shall and will, at all times hereafter, keep separate and apart from the other funds of said corporation said sum of five thousand dollars and all other money (if any) that may hereafter be realized from said estate of said Sabra Carter and paid over to the said party of the first part, and invest the same with reasonable care and
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prudence, and pay the same, in accordance with the order of said court, upon the failure of said corporation or the termina- tion of its charter or final cessation of its business for any cause.
II. That the said party of the first part shall and will so long as it may have possession of and receive the income of said trust fund, furnish board and tuition for, and educate in its seminary, one female student upon the following plan :- A stu- dent shall be selected by the trustees of said seminary from among applicants living in the Town of Wilmington, who shall remain in said seminary until she has pursued the full course of study and has graduated, unless she elects to remain a shorter time; and upon her graduation or sooner voluntary termination of her connection with the school, another student shall be selected in like manner from applicants living in said Town of Wilmington, who shall, for a similar period of time, be admitted to and educated in said seminary; and such selec- tion shall be made as often as there is a vacancy; so that at all times the said corporation shall be furnishing board and tuition for and educating one student in said seminary under the pro- visions of this agreement. Provided, that if, when a vacancy occurs, there should be no applicant resident in said Wilming- ton, then the trustees of said seminary shall select a student from some other town or city in this Commonwealth. Pro- vided, that every student entering said seminary in accordance with the terms hereof shall observe the reasonable rules and requirements of the seminary. The term "board" as used here- in shall include ordinary washing, proportional expense of employing a trained nurse, and all incidental charges.
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