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<br />MISCELLANEOUS EXPENDITURES.
<br />Paid W. G. Shattuck, for 5 double school desks, and team-
<br />ing same, . . . . . .
<br />Wilson & Son, for printing 500 School Reports,
<br />L. J. Livermore, for painting inside of Town Hall,
<br />22.75 ; for whitewashing Town Hall, 17.31; and
<br />washing same before and after painting, &c., 5.22,
<br />" Josiah Hastings, for *tinting 2 town meeting warrants,
<br />" T. R. Marvin & Son, for printing 500 copies of Au-
<br />ditors' Report, . . .
<br />Estate of J. P. Merriam, for land damages,
<br />A. Goddard, for sealing hay scales, .
<br />Hamlin & Kingman, for repairing pump, .
<br />W. Wellington, for special repairs on Concord
<br />Avenue,
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<br />Frank W. Robinson & Co., forlamps, &c., for T• own
<br />Hall, . . . . . . .
<br />Harrington & Locke, for painting liberty pole, hay
<br />scales, and sign boards, .
<br />C. Hudson, for laborers in lev▪ eling and manuring
<br />Common,
<br />F. M. Harrington, for use ▪ of horses and car▪ riages, .
<br />Hooper, Lewis & Co., for Record Book for Town Clk.
<br />C. Hudson, for cash paid West Cambridge, for erect-
<br />ing a monument and building a culvert on town
<br />line, 8.13 ; to Waltham, for erecting 2 monuments,
<br />3.50 ; to Stinson & Bigelow, for entertaining Lieut.
<br />Bowers and command, who fired a national salute
<br />February 22, 9.38 ; for shoveling snow for salute,
<br />1.00 ; for two journeys to Cambridge and one to
<br />Bedford, to obtain a guardian for George Holmes,
<br />6.75 ; for 2 journeys to Cambridge, to obtain guar-
<br />dians for Stephen Winship and Jonathan Trask,
<br />5.20 ; paid witnesses in the above cases, 3.00, .
<br />Rand & Co., for printing 3 warrants for town meeting,
<br />O. W. Kendall, for opening Town Hall 46 times for
<br />selectmen, assessors, engineers, &c. &c., 39.75 ; for
<br />stationery, oil, locks, and sundry materials for Town
<br />Hall and Lock-up ; for labor in repairs on Town Hall,
<br />pumps, settees, &c., for distributing Laws, Resolves
<br />and Reports ; and for removing seats in the Town
<br />Hall, and sundry other small jobs, and materials
<br />purchased for the town, 60.79,
<br />Chandler R. Richardson, for surveying the ▪ town ▪ line
<br />bordering upon Burlington, .
<br />Oliver Hastings, for lumber, . . .
<br />C. Hudson, for monuments on line of Be• dford and
<br />Burlington,
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<br />$ 26.37
<br />24.42
<br />45.28
<br />5.00
<br />138.00
<br />40.00
<br />3.00
<br />3.50
<br />25.00
<br />11.16
<br />14.20
<br />33.92
<br />5.50
<br />5.00
<br />36.96
<br />8.50
<br />100.54
<br />3.75
<br />18.14
<br />4.00
<br />Total miscellaneous payments, . $ 552.24
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<br />RECAPITU LATION.
<br />Paid to Town Officers, . . . .
<br />" for support of schools, and repairing school -houses,
<br />support of the poor, .
<br />repairing highways, . .
<br />Fire Department, .
<br />building sheds at the Alms -house,
<br />ringing the bells, . .
<br />military expenditures by the Committee,
<br />64 GG 44by the Selectmen,
<br />GGmiscellaneous objects, .
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<br />Total expenditures for the year,
<br />. $ 839.56
<br />• 3,714.91
<br />1,335.76
<br />• 2,009.28
<br />• 284.30
<br />▪ 150.00
<br />69.00
<br />• 609.82
<br />. 1,049.87
<br />• 552.24
<br />$ 10,614.84
<br />The finances of the Town do not appear, on the face of the accounts,
<br />quite as favorable as they were the last year. The balance in the Treasury,
<br />April 1, 1861, was $3,060.10, while on April 1, 1862, the balance was
<br />$2,458.59 -making a difference of $601.51. But the Treasurer has paid
<br />out $146.70 on orders drawn the preceding year, while there is only $50.97
<br />in orders already drawn which were not presented to the Treasurer before
<br />our settlement with him. This will reduce the difference in the balances
<br />to $505.78. But one large item in our expenditure, viz., the sum paid to
<br />the families of volunteers, will be entitled to considerable drawback. Up to
<br />January 1, 1862, we had paid to the families of volunteers, $702.19, and
<br />claimed of the State, $592.39 ; and since that period, we have paid to April
<br />1, 1862, $391.93, and expect to draw from the State $357.05 -making a
<br />sum of $949.44, which we hope to draw from the State, and which will in
<br />fact make a balance in favor of the year on which we have entered, of
<br />about $443.
<br />It should be borne in mind, however, that only $590 of what is drawn from
<br />the State will be available within the current year.
<br />This new element of military expenditures, has in some degree disturbed
<br />our financial arrangements ; but when we consider the crisis into which
<br />the country was precipitated, and the very profuse expenditures made in
<br />some of the towns in the vicinity, we have reason to congratulate ourselves,
<br />that we have passed through the crisis with a town expenditure of about
<br />$600, and have at the same time answered all reasonable demands upon
<br />our patriotism and sympathy.
<br />The sum raised for town purposes in 1861, was $12,075.00, which may
<br />be somewhat reduced the current year.
<br />TOWN DEBT.
<br />The Town Debt, on the first of April, 1862, was $14,089.00,
<br />which, by an exchange of notes, was reduced $32.50, from the pre-
<br />ceding year.
<br />All of which is respectfully submitted.
<br />CHARLES HUDSON,
<br />' For the Selectmen
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