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Civilian War Poll Tax
2,595.00
Town's Notes
109,725.00
Interest
5,098.19
High School Bonds
1,750.00
Commission on High School Bonds
5.56 .
Corporation taxes
145.56
Cash in Treasury
31,726.09
.
$262,114.60
FRANK L. EAMES,
Treasurer
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN ACCOUNTANT
FOR THE
Financial year ending December 31, 1923 SHOWING
APPROPRIATIONS, RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS, STATEMENT OF TOWN DEBT AND BALANCE SHEET
108
REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :--
Following is my report as Town Accountant for the financial year ending December 31, 1923, showing appropria- tions, receipts, payments, statement of Town debt, and Balance Sheet after closing books.
Audits have been made of the Assessors' valuation book, the books of the Tax Collector, Town Clerk's Dog Tax Records, Trustees of Trust Funds and S. D. J. Carter Free Lecture Committee and same were found in order.
The books and vouchers of the Treasurer have been examined and the cash balance of $31,726.09 is correct.
Respectfully,
HARRY R. DEMING, Town Accountant
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SCHEDULE I
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Selectmen
Appropriation
$850.00
Payments
Salaries
· $675.00
Perambulating town lines
30.00
Postage, printing and stationery
50.66
$755.66
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
94.34
$850.00
$850.00
Town Accountant
Appropriation
$650.00
Payments
Salary
$600.00
Book carrier
9.00
Postage, printing and stationery
27.26
$636.26
Unexpended, transferred
Balance
Account 13.74
$650.00 $650.00
.
110
Treasurer
Appropriation
$500.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
10.39
Payments
Salary
·
$400.00
Premium on bond
62.50
Postage, printing and stationery
47.89
$510.39
$510.39
.
Tax Collector
Appropriation
$1,800.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund .
437.12
Payments
Salary
.
$2,109.40
Postage, printing and stationery .
127.72
$2,237.12 $2,237.12
Assessors
Appropriation .
$1,250.00
Payments
Salaries
$1,062.50
Auto hire
23.00
Postage, printing and stationery
128.50
Record of property transfers
34.60
$1,248.60
Unexpended, transferred to Balance Account 1.40
$1,250.00 $1,250.00
.
111
Town Clerk
Appropriation
$220.00
Payments
Salary
$200.00
Postage, printing and stationery .
17.79
$217.79
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
2.21
$220.00
$220.00
Election and Registration
Appropriation . $400.00
Payments
Election :
Salaries .
$84.00
Postage, printing and sta-
tionery
32.25 $116.25
Registration :
Salaries $80.00
Postage, printing and sta-
tionery
22.90
102.90
$219.15
Unexpended, transferred to Balance Account
180.85
$400.00
$400.00
112
Town Hall
Appropriation
$400.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
6.39
Payments
Salary, janitor
$75.00
Extra services, janitor
21.00
$96.00
Telephone
31.38
Fuel
92.25
Light
35.07
Repairs and supplies
96.88
Insurance
47.81
Miscellaneous
7.00
$406.39
$406.39
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY Police Department
Appropriation
$3,000.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
799.97
·
Payments
Salaries and wages
· $3,401.75
Auto hire
199.00
Telephone
53.19
Premium on bond
5.00
Hire of outside lock-up
44.00
Medical services
17.00
Traffic signs
4.34
Printing
5.75
Legal services
25.00
Lock-up repairs
9.94
Auto list
35.00
$3,799.97 $3,799.97
113
Constable
Appropriation
$50.00
Payments
Salary .
$50.00
Fire Department
Appropriation
$2,500.00
Overdraft, transferred to Balance
Account
119.34
Payments
Salaries and wages
$910.25
Repairs and supplies
239.09
Fuel
195.12
Light
81.81
Power
59.13
Telephone
18.00
Whistle maintenance
50.00
New equipment
294.33
Coats and badges
30.40
Rent
25.00
Heating system
569.38
Gasoline
80.33
Medical services
10.00
Use of outside apparatus
50.00
Printing
6.50
.
$2,619.34 $2,619.34
114
Inspection of Buildings
Appropriation
$200.00
Payments
Salary, inspector
$150.00
Transportation .
43.50
Postage
4.00
$197.50
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
2.50
$200.00
$200.00
Sealing of Weights and Measures
Appropriation
$200.00
Payments
Salary, inspector
.
$150.00
Transportation .
26.00
Funnel
2.15
Dies and seals
6.41
Stationery
7.04
$191.60
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
8.40
$200.00
$200.00
.
Suppression of Moths
Appropriation $1,270.35
115
Payments
Salaries and wages
$131.50
Team hire
.
2.00
Supplies
1.50
Premium, liability insurance
143.65
Telephone
33.98
Miscellaneous
2.55
$315.18
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
.
955.17
$1,270.35 $1,270.35
Orchard Sprayer
Appropriation
$200.00
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
$200.00
Tree Warden
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Payments
Salaries and wages
$847.13
Team hire
42.24
Repairs
22.65
Tools and hose
73.67
Trees
5.50
Telephone
4.21
Miscellaneous
2.55
$997.95
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account 2.05
$1,000.00 $1,000.00
·
.
.
.
.
.
·
.
116
Forest Fires
Appropriation
$500.00
Payments
Salaries and wages
$420.61
Pumps .
22.50
Supplies
·
3.13
$446.24
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
.
.
53.76
$500.00
$500.00
Health and Sanitation
Appropriation
$600.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
94.75
Payments
Salary, inspector of meats and provisions $342.00
Salary, inspector of animals 150.00
Vital statistics, fees for return of births, deaths and marriages
127.75
Quarantine wages
60.00
Salary, agent Board of Health
15.00
$694.75
$694.75
Public Health Nurse
Appropriation ·
$1,000.00
Payments
Salary, district nurse $1,000.00
117
HIGHWAYS, ROADS AND BRIDGES Town Account (Repairs and Construction)
Appropriation .
$6,500.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
137.34
Payments
Salaries and wages
$583.24
Team and truck hire
40.00
Removing snow
3,926.70
Repairs and supplies
196.81
Gravel
8.80
Signs
8.00
Pump repairs
16.00
Premium, liability insurance
313.29
Posts
220.78
Truck repairs and maintenance
314.47
Rent
6.00
Miscellaneous
3.25
Transferred to Main St. Construction
1,000.00
$6,637.34 $6.637.34
Town and State Account (Chap. 81 G. L.)
Appropriation
$7,125.00
From State
.
3,225.00
Payments
Salaries and wages
$4,230.91
Team and truck hire
3,430.76
Repairs and supplies
107.05
Coal and water
57.95
Gravel
324.20
Road oil
.
1,721.05
Tar . .
44.46
.
.
.
·
118
Culverts
77.00
Truck repairs and maintenance
354.17
Miscellaneous
1.65
$10,349.20
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
.80
$10,350.00 $10,350.00
Salem Street Construction
Appropriation
.
$2,000.00
From State
2,000.00
From County
2,000.00
Payments
Salaries and wages
.
$2,135.89
Team and truck hire .
1,785.11
Repairs and supplies
153.38
Crushed stone
1,226.49
Gravel
153.80
Road oil
160.00
Coal and water .
195.51
Truck repairs and maintenance
122.64
Posts
59.40
Miscellaneous
6.95
.
.
.
$5,999.17
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account . 83
$6,000.00 $6,000.00
.
119
Salem and Lowell Streets (specific repairs)
Appropriation
$500.00
From State
443.46
From County
.
443.47
Transferred from Reserve Fund
.24.92
Payments
Salaries and wages
$456.11
Team and truck hire
125.75
Road tar .
.
676.81
Crushed stone
38.86
Truck repairs and maintenance
114.32
$1,411.85 $1,411.85
Main Street Construction
Appropriation ($1,000.00 transferred
from Highway, Town Account and
$4,000 borrowed on notes)
$5,000.00
Payments
Federal Contracting Co., on account
contract with Department of Public Works
$4,900.00
Boston & Maine Railroad, land damage 100.00
$5,000.00 $5,000.00
Electric Street Lights
Appropriation
$7,533.00
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Payments Paid for 486 lights at $15.50 per year . $7,533.00
CHARITIES
Poor
Appropriation $3,200.00
Overdraft, transferred
to
Balance
Account
91.12
Payments
Board
$994.87
Cash
622.00
Fuel
339.65
Rent
300.00
Groceries
670.22
Shoes
3.95
Hospital
267.43
Transportation
8.00
Burial
63.00
Medical services
22.00
.
$3,291.12 $3,291.12
Mothers' Aid
Appropriation $200.00
No Payments
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
$200.00
121
SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
State Aid
Appropriations .
$400.00
Payments
Paid per State returns
$256.00
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
144.00
$400.00
$400.00
Military Aid
Transferred from Reserve Fund $295.00
Payments
Paid per State returns $295.00
Soldiers' Relief
Appropriation
$200.00
Paid to soldiers' dependents $144.00
Unexpended, transferred to Balance Account 56.00
$200.00 $200.00
122
EDUCATION
Schools
Appropriation
$39,500.00
Payments
Administrative salaries
.
$1,930.00
Other general salaries
.
307.83
Other general expenses
470.17
Teachers' salaries
23,052.80
Text books and supplies
1,769.57
Tuition
492.77
Transportation
3,683.00
Janitors' services
2,556.00
Fuel
3,980.34
Maintenance, grounds and buildings
575.81
New equipment
196.20
Miscellaneous
485.51
$39,500.00 $39,500.00
School (year 1922)
Balance from 1922 . $1,400.00
Payments
Woburn & Reading Bus Line for
transportation $1,400.00
(Note. These bills have been approved and order drawn on Treasurer for payment, $1050 is still held up by writ of attachment.)
Public Library
Appropriation $750.00
Received income from Trust Funds .
75.80
.
.
.
123
Payments
Salary, Librarian
$250.00
Janitor .
.
14.00
Books and magazines
272.67
Binding
95.68
Fuel
18.00
Light
11.42
Insurance
54.45
New chimney
100.00
Repairs
5.00
Postage and stationery
4.58
$825.80
$825.80
Regan Park
Appropriation
$15.00
Payments
Care of park
$15.00
Harold Rogers Park
Appropriation $15.00
Payments
Care of park
$15.00
Aid to Middlesex County Bureau of Agriculture and Home Economics
Appropriation
$200.00
Payments For demonstration work in agriculture and home economics $200.00
·
124
Unclassified
Appropriation
$800.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
54.71
Payments
Printing Town Reports
$455.00
Delivering Town Reports
42.60
Certifying Town Notes
22.00
Care of Town Clock
45.00
Town flag and staff, care and repairs
17.55
New Flag
25.80
Rent Grange Hall
10.00
Printing and stationery
82.00
Moderator
5.00
Legal services
50.00
· Rent safe deposit box
10.00
License plates
2.03
Finance Committee, printing, postage,
and stationery
87.73
$854.71
$854.71
Memorial Day
Appropriation
$350.00
Payments
Music
$102.00
Printing and postage
6.75
Flowers
32.50
Refreshments
154.00
Flags
9.00
Auto hire
25.00
$329.25
. Unexpended, transferred to Balance Account
20.75
$350.00
$350.00
125
Cemeteries
Appropriation
$900.00
Payments
Labor
$825.57
Tools and supplies
29.83
Trees and shrubs
24.66
Fertilizer
13.75
$893.81
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account 6.19
$900.00
$900.00
Trust Funds
Received from Trustees, income S. D. J.
Carter Free Lecture Fund
$240.00
Received for perpetual care fund, ac-
count cemetery lot Irvin G. Morse
100.00
Received from Trustees, income from
Common and Cemetery Funds
136.50
Payments
S. D. J. Carter Free Lecture Committee, income
$240.00
Trustees of Trust Funds, for perpetual care fund, account cemetery lot Irvin G. Morse
100.00
Mowing Common
6.00
Care Cemetery Lots :
Isaac Cazneau
3.00
Susan Carlton
3.00
Geo. W. and Minnie A. Sidelinker
10.00
126
Sabra Carter (Jaques Lot)
5.00
Dolly Harnden
·
11.00
Thomas P. Eames
4.50
Sabra Carter .
3.00
Rich Carter
4.00
James Frazer
11.00
Martha Temple
3.00
S. D. J. Carter
3.00
Charlotte C. Smith
6.00
Chas. H. Hopkins
3.00
Abner C. Childs
3.00
Gilman C. Harnden
7.00
Laura Parker
2.00
Sarah G. Sheldon
4.00
Rufus C. Eames
4.00
John Sheldon Sargent
5.00
Isabelle Holt
3.00
Henry Blanchard
4.00
Nathan B. Eames
3.00
Thomas Day
4.00
Lorenzo Meads
4.00
Almira J. Carley
3.00
Elbridge Carter and Walter H. Blanchard
4.00
George T. Eames
.
4.00
Jacob H. Shedd
·
4.00
Jonathan Eames, 2nd.
·
3.00
$476.50.
$476.50
Interest
Appropriation Transferred from Reserve Fund
.
$5,000.00
103.75
127
Payments
On temporary loans
.
.
$4,137.56
On High School Bonds
950.56
On Brush Fire Truck Note
.
15.63
$5,103.75 $5,103.75
Town Indebtedness
Appropriation .
$2,250.00
Payments
High School Bonds, Nos. 17 and 18
$1,750.00
Brush Fire Truck, Note No. 6
500.00
$2,250.00 $2,250.00
Reserve Fund
Appropriation .
$2,000.00
Transferred to:
Treasurer
$10.39
Tax Collector
437.12
Town Hall
6.39
Police
799.97
Health
94.75
Highway-Town Account
137.34
Salem and Lowell Streets
24.92
Military Aid
295.00
Unclassified
54.71
Interest .
103.75
$1,964.34
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account 35. 66
$2,000.00 $2,000.00
·
128
Abatement 1921 Taxes
Balance from 1922
$533.41
1921 Taxes abated
$71.38
Balance transferred to Overlay Reserve Account
462.03
$533.41
$533.41
Abatement 1922 Taxes
Balance from 1922
$287.67
1922 Taxes abated
$407.10
1922 Taxes refunded
39.60 446.70
Balance, transferred to Overlay Reserve Account $734.37
$734.37
$734.37
$734.37
Abatement 1923 Taxes
Overlay
No abatements
Overlay Reserve Account
Balance from 1922 $361.85
462.03
Transferred from Abatement 1921 Taxes Transferred from Abatement 1922 Taxes Balance
$734.37
89.51
$823.88
$823.88
$89.51
Balance £
$875.79
129
Property Tax Sale Account
Dr.
Balance from 1922 .
$1,883.49
Taxes and expenses on property taken
by Town
569.40
Cr.
Received from land sales and redeemed
taxes
$514.27
Balance
1,938.62
$2,452.89 $2,452.89
Balance .
$1,938.62
Excess and Deficiency Account
Cr.
Balance January 1, 1923
$4,993.16
Cemetery !Lots Reserve Account trans-
ferred
88.00
Net Gain for year (transferred from Balance Account) 2,415.32
$7,496.48
Dr.
1921 Poll Tax Warrant charged Collector twice in error
$3,470.00
Balance
4,026.48
$7,496.48
Credit Balance January 1, 1924 .
$4,026.48
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SCHEDULE 2
BALANCE ACCOUNT
Dr.
Overdrafts:
Fire Department .
$119,34
Poor
91.12
$210.46
Net gain for year (transferred to Excess and
Deficiency Account 2,415.32
$2,625.78
131
SCHEDULE 2
BALANCE ACCOUNT
Cr.
Unexpended Balances:
Selectmen ·
$94.34
Town Accountant
13.74
Assessors
1.40
Town Clerk
$2.21
Election and Registration
180.85
Building Inspection.
2.50
Sealing of Weights and Measures
.
8.40
Suppression of Moths
955.17
Orchard Sprayer
200.00
Tree Warden
2.05
Forest Fires
53.76
Highways-State and Town Account
.80
Salem Street Construction
.83
Mothers' Aid
200.00
State Aid
144.00
Soldiers' Relief
56.00
Memorial Day
20.75
Cemeteries
6.19
Reserve Fund
35.66
$1,978.65
Excess, Estimated Receipts
516.68
From Revenue Account
130.45
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
$2,625.78
.
.
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SCHEDULE 3 REVENUE ACCOUNT
Dr.
Appropriations (for Town purposes)
. $96,028.35
Transferred to Balance Account .
130.45
$96,158.80
Estimated Receipts
Dr.
Estimated :
Town Hall
$79.00
Police Department
595.92
Fire Department
38.34
Sealing of Weights and Measures
31.66
Forest Fires
64.30
Health
1.25
Highways . .
5,437.91
Schools
7,245.76
Library
67.17
Interest
2,537.86
Court fines .
523.50
Corporation Tax. P. S.
197.35
Corporation Tax, Bus.
189.46
Income Tax, General Purposes
2,975.14
Bank Tax
178.07
Street Railway tax
145.78
Soldiers' Exemptions
53.16
Reimbursement, loss of tax
4.25
Licenses
371.50
State Aid
400.00
.
.
$21,137.38
Paid State Treasurer, 1920 Corporation Tax refund
82.80
Paid State Treasurer, 1921 Corporation Tax refund .
62.76
Excess, transferred to Balance Account
516.68
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
$21,799. 62.
.
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SCHEDULE 3
REVENUE ACCOUNT
Cr.
Committed to Collector (for Town purposes)
$74,890.97
Estimated Receipts
21,137.38
$96,028.35
Additional taxes 1921
71.20
Additional taxes 1923
59.25
$96,158.80
Estimated Receipts
Cr
Amounts Actually Received :
Town Hall, Rent
$10.00
Police Department, Service .
$545.50
Liquor raids
33.40
578.90
Fire Department, Gasoline
38.85
Assistance outside
40.00
78.85
Sealing Weights and Measures, Fees
33.47
Forest Fires, B. & M. R. R.
70.35
Health, Printed Records
1.00
Highways, State Acct., Burlington
Avenue
500.00
Posts, stone, barrels
36.25
536.25
Schools, Income Tax
$5,293.80
State, acct. Supt.
1,160.00
Tuition
840.26
Vocational
279.55
Dog Licenses
.
.
572.54
Rent
.
13.50
8,159.65
.
.
.
.
134
Library, fines and damages
67.73:
Interest, Taxes
·
·
3,845.18
Bank
393.67
4,238.85
Court Fines
319.50
Corporation Tax, P. S., State
437.96
Corporation Tax, Bus., State
290.26
Income Tax, General Purposes, 1923, State
3,033.64
Income Tax, 1921, 1922, additional, State
375.75
Bank Tax, State .
109.88
Street Railway Tax, State
431.63
Soldiers' Exemptions, State .
.
62.60
Reimbursement, loss of tax, State
4.48
Licenses, Town and State
446.00
State Aid, State .
410.00
Poor, outside board
448.87
Suppression of Moths 1923
695.36
Suppression of Moths 1922
796.64
Cemetery, sale of lots
42.00
Military Aid, State
120.00
$21,799.62;
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SCHEDULE 4
STATEMENT OF TOWN DEBT
Temporary Loans (Anticipation of Revenue)
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1923:
Note No. 16
10,000.00
Note No. 17
25,000.00
Note No. 18
10,000.00
Note No. 20
.
10,000.00
Note No. 21
.
.
10,000.00
$65,000.00
Borrowed during 1923:
Note No. 23
$35,000.00
Note No. 24
10,000.00
Note No. 25
10,000.00
Note No. 26
20,000.00
Note No. 27
.
.
12,000.00
Note No. 28
11,950.00
$98,950.00
$163,950.00
Paid during 1923 :
Note No. 16
$10,000.00
Note No. 17
25,000.00
Note No. 18
10,000.00
Note No. 20
10,000.00
Note No. 21
10,000.00
Note No. 23
.
.
35,000.00
$100,000.00
Outstanding December 31, 1923
$63,950.0000
.
.
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Highway Loans
(Reimbursement Loan-Salem Street Construction 1922) Outstanding Jan. 1, 1923, Note No. 22 $4,000.00
Paid during 1923, Note No. 22 4,000.00
(Reimbursement Loan-Salem St. Construction and Chap. 81 G. L., 1923)
Borrowed during 1923, Note No. 29 $5,225.00
Paid during 1923, Note No. 29 5,225.00
(Main St. Construction Loan, 1923)
Borrowed during 1923:
Note No. 30
$1,000.00
Note No. 31 .
·
.
1,000.00
Note No. 32 . .
.
.
1,000.00
Note No. 33
1,000.00
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1923
$4,000.00
High School Bonds (Issue of 1914)
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1923
$21,000.00
Paid during 1923
1,750.00
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1923
$19,250.00
Brush Fire Truck Notes (Issue of 1920)
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1923
$500.00
Paid during 1923
500.00
. . .
.
.
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Summary
Temporary Loans (anticipation of revenue)
$63,950.00
Highway Loan (Main St. Construction)
4,000.00
High School Bonds
19,250.00
Total Indebtedness Dec. 31, 1923
$87,200.00
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SCHEDULE 5
BALANCE SHEET, DECEMBER 31, 1923
Dr.
Cash in Treasury
$31,726.09
George W. Buck, Collector:
1923 Taxes, uncollected
33,704.29
Accounts Receivable
1.75
State of Massachusetts:
Due account Highways, Chap. 81
26.03
Civilian War Poll Tax
2,595.00
Property Tax Sale Account
1,938.62
Balancing Account-High School Bonds
19,250.00
Balancing Account-Highway Notes
4,000.00
$93,241.78.
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SCHEDULE 5
BALANCE SHEET, DECMEBER 31, 1923
Cr.
Temporary Loans (anticipation of revenue)
$63,950.00
Highway Loan (Main St. Construction)
4,000.00
High School Bonds
19,250.00
Overlay Reserve Account
89.51
Abatement 1923 Taxes
875.79
Suspense Account
1,050.00
Excess and Deficiency Account
4,026.48
$93,241.78.
HARRY R. DEMING, Town Accountant
REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF TRUST FUNDS 1923
Amount
Accumulated Interest
With- drawn
Balance on Deposit
Library Funds:
Burnap .
. Andover
No. 8512
$200.00
$63.27
$263.27
Benjamin Buck
. Andover
No. 18341
500.00
105.00 .
75.80
529.20
Charlotte C. Smith . . .
. Mechanics No. 4215
500.00
104.61
604.61
Sabra Carter Common Fund
.Andover
No. 18349
200.00
98.49
6.00
292.49
Cemetery Funds:
Isaac Cazneau .
. Andover
No. 18985
100.00
50.15
3.00
147.15
Susan Carlton
Andover
No. 18345
75.00
18.45
3.00
90.45
George W. and Minnie A. Sidelinker
. Andover
No. 22450
200.00
78.49
10.00
268.49
Sabra Carter (Jaques Lot)
. Andover
No. 18347
200.00
68.30
5.00
263.30
William H. Carter
Andover
No. 24631
100.00
20.97
120.97
Dolly Harnden
Andover
No. 18342
100.00
27.45
11.00
116.45
Thomas P. Eames
Andover
No. 18346
100.00
43.16
4.50
138.66
Sabra Carter
. Andover
No. 18348
100.00
42.35
3.00
139.35
Rich Carter
. Andover
No. 22451
100.00
18.05
4.00
114.05
James Fraze
. Andover
No. 18343
200.00
71.88
11.00
260.88
Martha Temple
. Andover
No. 18344
100.00
65.30
3.00
162.30
S. D. J. Carter
Andover
No. 22579
200.00
73.77
3.00
270.77
Charlotte C. Smith .
. Mechanics
No. 4214
50.00
11.59
6.00
55.59
Charles H. Hopkins
. Blackstone
No. 4248
200.00
36.42
3.00
233.42
Abner C. Childs
Woburn
No. 33384
100.00
27.63
3.00
124.63
Gilman C. Harnden
Woburn
No. 32614
100.00
24.39
7.00
117.39
Laura Parker .
. Woburn
No. 32615
50.00
10.03
2.00
58.03
Sarah G. Sheldon ..
. Woburn
No. 33814
200.00
36.92
4.00
232.92
Rufus C. Eames
. Blackstone
No. 4642
100.00
19.08
4.00
115.08
John Sheldon Sargent
. Blackstone
No. 4859
100.00
15.38
5.00
110.38
Isabelle Holt
. Blackstone
No. 5169
75.00
12.62
3.00
84.62
Henry Blanchard
. Blackstone No. 5604
50.00
3.62
4.00
49.62
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Nathan B. Eames
. Mechanics No. 6899
100.00
14.00
3.00
111.00
Thomas Day
. Andover
No. 31514
100.00
19.83
4.00
115.83
Lorenzo Meads
Mechanics
No. 7176
100.00
17.04
4.00
113.04
Almira J. Carley .
. Andover
No. 32237
100.00
11.88
3.00
108.88
George E. Swain . .
Blackstone
No. 7304
100.00
11.72
111.72
Josiah Monroe (care Elbridge Carter and Walter H. Blanchard Lots)
. Mechanics
No. 7559
100.00
11.84
4.00
107.84
Jacob H. Shedd .
Blackstone
No. 7701
100.00
10.70
4.00
106.70
George T. Eames
. Blackstone
No. 7746
200.00
17.58
4.00
213.58
Jonathan Eames 2nd .
Andover
No. 35188
100.00
5.84
3.00
102.84
Newman Parker, Jr ..
Blackstone
No. 8259
100.00
3.77
103.77
Irwin E. Morse . .
Mechanics
No. 8531
100.00
100.00
$5,200.00
$1,271.57
$212.30
$6,259 27
S. D. J. Carter Lecture Fund :
Am. Tel. & Tel. Co. 4% Col. Bonds, Nos. 17546, 19667, 3986, 3991, 3992, 3993 Blackstone Savings Bank No. 1879
$5,541.50
578.50
$6,120.00
Bond Interest 1923
240.00
Bank interest Accumulated
119.54
$6,479.54
Paid Frank L. Eames, Treasurer
240.00
$6,239.54
Trustees: EDWARD N. EAMES C. S. HARRIMAN C. W. NICHOLS
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REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF THE POOR
To the Citizens of Wilmington:
The Overseers of the Poor herewith submit its annual report. We have one inmate boarding at the Wakefield Town Farm, where she is well cared for.
The Town Farm is let to Mr. S. P. Pike, Jr., the same as in the past few years.
There are a number of outside poor which have to be helped and the number seems to increase each year.
ARTHUR W. EAMES, Chairman CHARLES F. PERRY CARL S. PETTENGILL Overseers of the Poor
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATIONS
General Government:
Selectmen, salaries and expenses
$850.00
Town Accountant, salary and expenses 650.00
Treasurer, salary and expenses
550.00
Collector, salary and expenses
1,800.00
Assessors, salaries and expenses
1,250.00
Town Clerk, salary and expenses 220.00 .
Finance Committee .
125.00
Election and Registration, salaries and expenses
600.00
Town Hall, janitor, lights, fuel and repairs
450.00
Town Constable
50.00
Protection of Life and Property :
Police Department
3,500.00
Fire Department
2,500.00
Suppression of Moths
275.00
Sealing of Weights and Measures
200.00
Building inspection
300.00
Tree Warden
1,000.00
Forest Fires
500.00
Health and Sanitation, Board of Health, Agent's Salary, Quarantine Wages, Inspector of Animals, Inspector of Meats and Provisions, and Vital Statistics 700.00
Highways:
Town Account (repairs, construction and snow removal) 6,500.00
State and Town Account-Chapter 81 ($3,225 from State)
7,525.00
Salem St. Construction, Chapter 90 ($2,000 each from State and County) .
2,000.00
Salem and Lowell Streets-Specific Repairs ($500 each from State and County) 500.00 . Electric Street Lights . 7,533.00
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Charities :
Care of Poor
3,300.00
Mothers'? Aid
200.00
Soldiers' Benefits:
State Aid
400.00
Military Aid
400.00
Soldiers' Relief
200.00
Schools, including salaries, books, supplies, repairs, fuel, furnishings, vocational tuition, outside tuition, transportation, including esti- mated receipts of $7,300.00
$44,700.00
Harold Rogers Park
25.00
Regan Park
25.00
Unclassified
700.00
Memorial Day
400.00
Cemeteries
1,100.00
Interest
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4,000.00
Town Indebtedness:
High School Bonds
. $1,750.00
Highway Note (Main St.)
1,000.00
2,750.00
Reserve Fund
2,000.00
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TOWN WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Middlesex ss.
To Walter A. Hill, Constable of the Town of Wilmington,
Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in the manner prescribed in the By-Laws of said Town, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town qualified by law to vote in Town affairs, to meet and assemble at the Town Hall on Monday, the third day of March next, at 5.45 o'clock in the forenoon, the polls to be opened at 6 a.m. and may be closed at 4 p.m., for the election of Town Officers.
Article 1. To bring in your votes on one ballot for three Selectmen, who shall also be Overseers of the Poor and Board of Survey; one Assessor for three years; Town Clerk; Treasurer; Collector of Taxes; three Fence Viewers; two School Committee Members for three years; one School Committee Member for two years; one School Committee Member for one year; two Trustees of the Public Library for three years; one Trustee Public Library for one year; one members of the S. D. J. Carter Lecture Committee for five years; one Tree Warden; one Moderator; one Trustee of Trust Funds for three years; also to vote on the following question, to wit: "Shall Licenses be granted for the sale of certain non-intoxicating beverages in this Town?" Yes or No.
You are also hereby further required and directed to notify and warn the said inhabitants of the Town of Wilmington, who are qualified to vote on elections and Town affairs therein,
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to assemble subsequently, and meet in Town Meeting at the Grange Hall, Wildwood Street, in said Wilmington, on Monday, the tenth (10) day of March next, A.D. 1924, at eight (8) o'clock p.m., then and there to act on the following articles :
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