Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAbout1853-1854 Auditors ReportREPORT OP THE AUDITORS OF ACCOUNTS AGAINST THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON, FOR THE YEAR 1853-4. BOSTON: PRINTED BY GEORGE C. RAND, No. 3 CORNHILL. 1854. REPORT OF TIIE AUDITORS OF ACCOUNTS AGAINST THE TOWN OF LEAIYGTON, FOR THE YEAR 1853-4. BOSTON: PRINTED BY GEORGE C. RAND, No. 3 CORNHILL. 1854. Coon W=I r`7 W ) O Q) - C) O c1-4 rc pa 0 X000 OOo O O O C) O O a) cYz- GO c'Ei 0 o� 2 ©C2G'2C) 0%CO O d+ CO G'2 '—+ CO d'+ 0o a; a�et-I 4.4� 4, 0 0 0 0 0 �l bp .. .. .. .. .. .. By balance due the Treasurer, Lexington, April 21, 1854. a) GO CO CO AUDITOR'S I{b:POPT. OVERSEERS OF THE POOR. Paid Kenney & Bennett, $54 66 Reed & Davis, - 62 04 Smith & Hill, - 37 99 William H. Smith, 51 62 Lewis Henchman, - 15 45 Abel Butterfield, for meat, - - 76 02 Reynolds & Derby, " 50 15 " bbl pork, 21 00 Edmund M. Brown, for meat, 1 47 Clark & Bryant, grain and meal, 52 90 Edgerly & Co. 44 50 Ebenezer Nickerson, salt fish, - 3 00 John Whipple, fresh fish, 7 51 Joseph Allen, butter and cheese, - - 17 90 Dexter Follett, " 4 85 Allen & Taylor, " 15 61 J. S. Gillman, for bread, - - 2 00 H. B. Fuller, dry goods, - 12 37 F. F. Wade, " " - - 16 84 Edmund Symes, boots, shoes &c., - 34 81 L. Smith, 2 vests, - 2 50 Josiah H. Russell, coal, - 39 65 Parker, Varnum & others, coal and wood, 55 75 A. T. Perkins, medicine, - - 1 62 Nathan Fessenden, Jr., wood $2.50, pork, $1.62, - - - 4 12 F. H. Eastabrook, for wood, 1 50 Michael Clancy, 1 25 Galen Allen, hay, - 33 00 Charles W. Johnson, for hay, 11 65 Thomas Stiles, " 10 02 Ziba Durkee, working oxen, - 110 00 Jeremiah Russell, 2 pigs, 16 80 Jonas Munroe, cow, - 22 00 Railroad freight bills, 4 46 4 Paid Solon Hardy, for wood, - 3 50 A. W. Bryant, blacksmith work, - 17 20 S. A. Davis, " - 3 76 John A. Russell, « - - 2 32 William Brigham, wheelwright, - 8 00 Charles H. Tucker, " - 3 50 Oceanus Straw, one year's labor, 375 00 Margaret Fizgerald, for labor, - 13 50 Jane Rigg, CC 7 50 Mary Haggerty, - 2 00 Hannah Crimmens, 7 50 William Smith, harness work, - 2 28 Henry Mulliken, materials and labor repair- ing Almshouse, - 18 20 Howland Holmes, medical services 1 year, 25 00 Cyrus Reed, for stones for road, - 13 37 John Munroe, 16 feet timber, - 1 25 J. C. Wellington, labor of horse, 3 00 City of Boston, aid furnished John Colby & wife, - 20 48 Cynthia Blodgett, at Ipswich, - - 5 00 P. P. Pierce, for articles furnished for those in the almshouse and poor itinerants, 15 57 Services as Overseer and Surveyor, - 40 00 Galen Allen, " « 30 00 J. F. Simonds, " CC 30 00 J. Wheeling, labor on roads at $15 per month, 86 64 James Riggs, " " 4 mos • " CC 60 00 John Collins, 71 days, - 71 00 Patrick Joy, 2 months 22 days, - 39 84 2 " 4 " 30 20 E. Sheridan, 1154 days, - 115 75 Daniel Collins, 53 - 53 50 John Cushman, 2 days, - 2 50 Benjamin Fiske, teaming 5 days, 13 37 Wm. Hall, 44 days, 2 07 Matthew Ray, 2 " 1 07 Edward Winship, 5 months 2 days, 71 08 To Balance due Overseers, March, 1853, 148 24 Interest on the same, - - 8 89 CC $2,248 20 `l • 5 Included in this sum of $2,248,20, the overseers have furnished aid to the following named persons not in the almshouse ; viz : Edward Winship, - $44 55 Mrs Barrey, - 27 51 John Johnson, 10 57 John Stuggles, - 14 82 John Colby and wife, - 20 48 Cynthia Blodgett, - 5 00 Itinerant Poor, - 2 06 $ 124 99 The Overseers of the Poor, being also Surveyors of Highways, charge themselves with the amount drawn from the treasury by order of the Selectmen for repairs of roads, - 1002 42 For building road to J. Gammell's, - - 88 50 Grading Town Hall yard, & extra repairs of road by Mr. Straw and team, - 51 12 Amount granted for support of Poor, 850 00 Oxen sold, 255 00 Cow " 34 00 Wood " 55 00 Produce sold, - - 14 90 Receipts, Expenditures, - $2,350 94 - 2,248 20 Balance due the town, - - $102 74 THE SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAYS CHARGE FOR LABOR Of Oceanus Straw, J. Whelden, E. Sheridan, J. Rigg, P. Joy, J. Collins, D. Collins, M. Ray, Ed. Winship, William Hall, Oxen, Horse, CC 1114 days at days, at CC 1144 1054 90 991- 71 38 2 101 4 102 1104 CC CC CC CC CC $ 1,25 per day, 1,00 1,00 per day, 1,00 " 1,00 1,00 1,00 1,00 ,90 1,00 1,00 ,621 ,62 CC CC CG CC CC CC CC 139 06 114 50 105 25 90 00 99 50 71 00 38 00 2 00 90 90 4 00 102 00 68 91 4 06 6 B. Fiske & horse, 51 days, at 2,25 J. Cushman, 2 " 1,25 Paid Cyrus Reed, 107 loads stone, Surveyors' services, - Cost of repairing bridge on Cary Road, Concord Turnpike, - Paid Galen Allen for breaking out roads, Joseph F. Simonds, - P. P. Pierce, - per day, CC 12 37 2 50 13 37 45 00 $1,002 42 5 00 11 36 29 75 54 62 24 87 $125 60 Whole cost of Roads, exclusive of new road to the house of Mr. Gammell, - $1,128 02 SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS. CENTRE DISTRICT. WILLIAM D. PHELPS, PRUDENTIAL COMMITTEE. Paid Thomas H. Barnes, services 10 months, Olive L. Weston, 22 weeks, at $5,00, - Olive L. Weston, 17 weeks, at $5,50 - Paid W. D. Phelps, expenses procuring teachers, To 7 sugar boxes for charcoal, 21 baskets charcoal, Ink 58, repairs 371, - Book -shelf and curtains, Putting in 5 tons coal Ink 30, shovelling snow 371, Paid Thomas H. Barnes, for care of school -rooms, Crayons $1,50, cleaning rooms 75, Paid Mrs. White, cleaning rooms, - Wood and coal $1,90, ink 50, - Reed & Davis's bill $1,23, Goddard, $2,67, Mr Phelps has an order for 1 ton of coal not presented for payment before settlement, and will be found charged next year, - 500 00 110 00 93 50 $703 50 3 121 1 00 7 00 95 1 50 871 67 1 30 00 2 25 4 00 2 40 3 90 $57 68 $761 18 4 00 $765 18 1p 7 SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT. P. P. PIERCE, PRUDENTIAL COMMITTEE. Paid J. D. Marston, services 10 months Susan E. Rice, services 401- weeks 500 00 202 50 Josiah H. Russell, 3 Tons Coal - 30 25 21 Baskets Charcoal 7 08 Washing School -rooms 3 00 Building Fires - 18 50 Ink $ 1,50, Pens $ 1,50, - 3 00 Brooms and Pail 50, Chalk and Chair 45, 95 SOUTH DISTRICT. GALEN ALLEN, PRUDENTIAL COMMITTEE. Paid Henry L. Parker, services 34 months, at $35, 131 25 Annie B. Cutler, services 18 weeks, at .$4,50, 81 00 J. H. Russell, 3 Tons Coal Teaming 24 Cords Wood - Sawing same 50, putting in Coal 50, Cleaning house - Brooms 70, Chalk 75, - Ink 50, Wash -Bowl 42, - Building Fires $8,00, Sweeping $2,00, - 24 00 1 00 13 00 1 00 2 00 1 45 92 10 00 702 50 62 78 $765 28 212 25 53 37 $265 62 WEST DISTRICT. JOSEPH A. WELLINGTON, PRUDENTIAL COMMITTEE. Paid Lucy A. Downing, services 22 weeks, at $5,50, 121 00 19 weeks, at $6,00, 114 00 21 Cords Wood - Sawing, splitting and housing wood Making fires and cleaning house 13 00 4 25 7 13 235 00 1 8 Paid For kindling -wood - 2 25 Crash cloth, Ink and Books 3 20 Brooms, Pan and Dipper 67 NORTH DISTRICT. 30 50 CHARLES TIDD, PRUDENTIAL COMMITTEE. Paid James Crocker, services 24 months - 93 60 James Parker, services 1 month and part day 40 91 Lucy B. Fisk, services 20 weeks, at $5,00 100 00 4 Cords 1 Feet of Wood Sawing and splitting wood Box Crayons 75, Pail 25, Ink 45, Box Crayons 74, Sweeping School -room $2,00, Dipper 6, - Brooms 60, Brush 33, Bell 37, - NORTH-EAST DISTRICT. 24 00 1 15 1 00 1 19 2 06 1 30 HUGH GRAHAM, PRUDENTIAL COMMITTEE. Paid Charles Tidd, services 31 months, at $40, Julia Cook, services 19 weeks, at $5,00, $265 50 234 51 30 65 129 00 95 00 For 3 Tons Coal, at $9,75, 29 25 Putting in same - - 1 00 Building Fires and sweeping, 11 38 REPAIRS OF SCHOOL -HOUSES. Centre District. Paid John Glidden, for varnishing Desks, Seats, and Doors - - Damon & Kendall, for Wire Netting - Record Book $1,00, Repairing Windows 85 $265 16 224 00 41 63 $265 63 7 50 6 88 1 85 $16 23 9 South -East District. Paid William Locke, for White -washing Oliver Brown, Painting Black -boards For 1 Key Mat 92, Window -repairs 75, Broom 25, Hat Hooks 40, Blind -hooks 11, Repairing Clock 871, repairing Seats and Blinds $1,121, - Repairing Stoves $3,84, Bell 92, Curtain 25, South District. Paid for Repairing Windows, - - 'Repairing Stove $1,25, ditto Clock $1,00, 6 Chairs - - - - Credit 6 00 1 50 25 1 92 51 2 00 5 01 2 35 2 25 3 60 $17 19 8 20 2 84 $5 36 West District. Paid Henry Mulliken, for work - - 3 50 Alonzo Goddard, for stove funnel, 4 32 Cleaning the school -house 2 00 $9 82 Sum total for repairs, - Cost of New School -House, North-East District. 1183 00 Extra work 24 66 5900 Bricks - - - 54 80 60 feet under -pinning $15,60, setting same $4, ,19 60 J. D. Whitman, laying brick and finding mortar $25,22, laying slate stone, $1,74, 26 96 Wm. Locke, 7 casks cement laid in basement 28 00 Building 9 feet Chimney - 4 50 Plastering stairway and pointing - 1 75 Lining up underpinning, including bricks and mortar, - - - 15 50 Labor by Nathan Fessenden, Jr, S. Jones, E. Winship, S. H. Kemp, William Grover, B. Darling, and D. Cremens, N. Garmon, for building 261 perches wall Paid Wm. Locke, as per contract, 44 2 $48 60 43 01 39 75 $1,441 53 10 11 S. Wales, Jr., 20 sets desks and chairs " 1 table $ 10,25, 1 arm -chair $4, William O. Haskell, 4 settees $16,00 chairs $1,33 - Teaming seats, table and settees 3 Scrapers 88, ladder 92, Slate -stone $ 1,25, hooks 15, iron work 56, Writing specifications and selling old house 110 00 14 25 17 33 5 00 1 80 1 96 2 00 Francis Wyman, Louisa Winship, Nehemiah Wellington, Trustees of Lexington M. Fund, Elmira Smith, Charles Harrington, Jr., Joel Viles, - 15 00 60 00 10 00 20 00 60 00 40 20 33 00 500 00 200 00 500 00 Credit. By subscription by residents in the district 152 34 $ 1,593 87 43 00 1,000 00 $748 69 4,200 00 748 69 $4,948 69 $ 1,550 87 By Cash for old School -house - 75 00 Leaving the amount drawn from the Treasury $ 1,475 87 To which must be added, bill for Furnace, 97 10 Bill for other furniture and fixtures, 8 '77 Building Committee's services - 15 00 Whole sum drawn from the Treasury for said house $1,596 74 Charles W. Johnson has drawn from the Treasury on an account contained in last year's Report, for the new School -House in the North District, $203 75 AMOUNT PAID ON NOTES. Paid Elmira Smith, Francis Wyman, Lucy Wyman, Francis Wyman, Hammond A. Hosmer, Hannah Tuttle, - Hammond A. Hosmer, John Beals, - Eliab Brown, - Joshua Simonds, Jr., - Hammond A. Hosmer, Charles Harrington, Jr., • Interest. Principal. 60 00 33 00 39 00 30 00 60 00 27 00 90 00 30 00 15 50 84 00 1 66 28 33 12 00 it EXPENSE OF REPAIRS OF HAY SCALES. Paid Isaac Mulliken, for 9 days' labor, For hard pine $ 1,44, S. Jones 25, Samuel Jones, 2 days' labor, - Benjamin Fiske, with horse and cart, 2 days, Joseph Eaton, 2 days $4,00, stone 25 - Joseph Reed, 1 day's shovelling, Edward Hagan, 1 day, - Nails and spikes, S. A. Davis, for iron work, Damon & Kendall, for labor and materials, painting beam -house and sign, Oliver W. Kendall, 9 days' labor, For lumber $3,37, lock 63, - Oliver W. Kendall, surveying lumber, Sticking up same 87, sealing scales twice $3,00, repairing same 50, - Shot and pail to balance the beam, Book for weigher of hay, 15 75 1 69 2 50 5 38 4 25 1 25 1 25 2 50 2 38 14 16 15 75 4 00 1 25 4 37 1 33 3 00 $80 81 500 00 500 00 1,000 00 EXPENSES OF TOWN HALL. Paid O. W. Kendall, opening Hall : 5 times for town meetings, 2 Temperance meetings, 4 Political meetings, - 7 Concerts, - 9 times for the Catholics, 24 times for Selectmen's meetings 5 00 2 00 4 00 7 00 9 00 12 00 12 5 times for the Auditors, 2 50 2 for Caucuses, 1 00 Repairs &c., O. W. Kendall, 3 lamp chimneys, 36 3 baskets charcoal $1,00, 1 pitcher 25, 1 25 Repairing settees $1,75, brass fasten- ings $1,50. - - 3 25 8 gallons lamp oil, 6 80 Stationery, - 1 50 Paid Alonzo Goddard for 2 lanterns, 1 38 J. M. Damon, labeling ballot boxes and varnishing $1,00, repairing windows 40, $42 50 1 40 $15 94 Whole expense, Credit. By cash received for use of Hall : For Political Lectures, 7 00 Of the Catholics, - 31 00 Of Concert performers, 27 00 411, Net income of Hall, REPAIRS OF THE HEARSE. Paid O. W. Kendall, 2 days labor, - 3 50 3 journeys to West Cambridge, 1 50 Prescott & Proctor, for broadcloth, doeskin, alpacca and other materials used for the hearse and bier covering, - Wm. Smith, for trimming hearse, making bier covering, new cushions, new patent - leather front, oiling harness, and other repairs, - - 15 00 Damon & Kendall, for painting hearse $8,00, for 4 doz. plated nails 84, - 8 84 A. W. Bryant, repairing shafts and springs, 4 40 For horse hire and altering irons, . - 1 00 $90.66 $58 44 $65 00 58 44 $6 56 13 EXPENSES OF TOWN OFFICERS. Paid A. W. Bryant, Town Clerk, for collecting, recording, and returning a copy to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 43 births, at 20 cts. - - 8 60 Recording and returning 28 deaths, at 8, 2 24 Recording and returning 10 marriages, at 10, 1 00 Paid postage and express, - 1 16 Attending town -meetings, selectmen meet- ings to draw Jurors, and services as Clerk, 17 00 $30 00 Paid Joel Viles, for 14-1 days' services as one of the selectmen, - 29 00 Attending 23 evening meetings 11 50 $40 50 Paid Isaac N. Damon, 18 days' services as one of the selectmen, - Attending 25 evening meetings, Recording accounts and writing orders and report, - Stationery, postage, and acknowledgement of deed, - - Marshall Preston, for professional services, 36 00 12 50 10 00 1 00 2 00 $61 50 Paid Alonzo Goddard, 71- days' services as one of the selectmen, - 15 00 Attending 26 evening meetings, 13 00 $28 00 ASSESSORS. 56 42 Paid J. C. Wellington, 27 days' services, - Invoice book 75, collector's book 75, - Record book $12,00, stationery 70, - y; Printing hand bills, - Paid J. S. Parker, 19 days' services, - 21 days' horse and wagon, - Postage $2,49, expenses to Boston 56, P. W. Chandler, for legal advice, Paid Charles Brown, 151 days' services, 54 00 1 50 12 70 1 00 38 00 5 00 3 05 20 00 $69 20 $66 05 $31 00 - 14 CONSTABLE. Paid O. W. Kendall, for notifying and attending 5 town meetings, - For distributing maps of the town, Distributing Auditors' Report, - Distributing laws and resolves $7,00, consti- tution proposition, $4,00, - - Notifying James Pierce and others to meet selectmen, - - Notifying to draw jurors 5 times, O. W. Kendall, as Sexton : Attending 26 funerals, Returning deaths to Clerk's office, 11 day's setting monument in grave -yard, Paid A. Harrington, 11 day's setting monument in grave -yard, day housing lumber under town -house, Caleb Rand, for printing notifications and 50 copies of list of voters, - Paid Nathaniel Mulliken, Town Treasurer, services, Jacob Robinson, collector for 1852, 1353, - Paid for ringing Centre and East Village bells : Charles Brown for 1 year i. e. 1852-3, Charles K. Tucker for 1 year, 1853-4, Auditors. Paid Nathaniel Mulliken, 8 days' services, George C. Rand, for printing Report, Express man, - C. P. Wheeler, 4 days' services, Elbridge Brown, 3 days, paid since settle- ment, Crosby, Nichols & Co., for printing 500 copies of School Committee's Report, O. W. Kendall, for distributing same, - 30 00 5 00 4 00 11 00 2 00 2 50 26 00 2 80 2 63 1 87 87 18 00 $54 50 $52 17 60 00 70 00 94 00 35 00 35 00 $70 00 16 00 25 00 25 8 00 $49 25 16 84 4 00 $20 84 $797 01 15 EXPENSE OF NEW ROAD TO J. GAMMELL'S. Paid Hannah Penney, land damage, - John A. Russell, " for building said road, - " " face wall, by J. F. Simonds, - MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS. Paid Galen Allen, repairing a bridge near B. O. Wellington's—Lumber, Labor, 100 10 88 21 00 00 50 00 $219 50 8 61 2 75 $11 26 P. P. Pierce, repairing bridge on the Cary Road, for grading Town Hall yard, for building face wall next J. Skinner, By P. P. Pierce to various persons for breaking out roads, - By Galen Allen, to various persons, for like services, By J. F. Simonds, Oliver Hastings, for lumber, I. N. Damon, paid expense of railing road, near the house of James Wyman and elsewhere, - - Do. self, horse and wagon, setting town bounds, N. Jewett, for moving town bounds, F. M. Harrington, for horse hire, Carrying E. Billings to East Cambridge, - Removing a nuisance, - Carrying an Indian to Almshouse, C. P. Wheeler, for delivering envelopes, - Andrew Wellington, " Hosea Kendall, Samuel Chandler, outstanding school order, Jonas Gammell, for auditing 1852 accounts, City of Cambridge, for repairs of " Great Bridge," State Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 7 years' interest on Premium Note, - 5 90 3 50 38 2 00 3 50 1 00 25 5 00 30 00 19 37 34 24 29 75 54 62 34 04 $16 53 3 00 2 00 2 00 27 00 2 00 21 82 22 68 16 O. W. Kendall, for 4 guide boards, - 3 23 I. N. Damon, painting and putting up same, 5 50 O. W. Kendall, repairing railing, - 1 07 School Committee, text books for each School, - 50 00 $375 28 RECAPITULATION OF DISBURSEMENTS BY TOWN TREASURER. Paid Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors of Highways, the amount appropriated to both departments, - $1,850 00 Support of Public Schools, - - - - 2,588 37 Repairs of School -houses, - - - 48 60 Balance for new house in North District, - 203 75 Notes and Interest, - 4,948 69 Repairs of Hay Scales, - 80 81 Expense and care of Town Hall, - 58 44 Repairs of the Hearse, 90 66 Town Officers, - 797 01 Cost of New Road, 219 50 Miscellaneous Charges, 375 28 State Tax, - - 594 00 New School -house, N. E. District, - 1,596 74 Balance due Town Treasurer, - 2 37 Credit by receipts for use of Town Hall, $13,454 22 - 65 00 $13,389 22 All of which is respectfully submitted by NATHANIEL MULLIKEN, AARON P. RICHARDSON, ELBRIDGE BROWN, Auditors. Lexington, May, 1854.