1862-1863 Overseers of the Poor + Highway Surveyors Report

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ANNUAL REPORT. THE Overseers and Surveyors, in submitting this, their Annual Report, have deviated from the course adopted by former Boards, as the circumstances varied their duties, and were incidental to the year. REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR. Immediately after having sworn to perform the duties of Overseers of the Poor for the year ensuing, we were urgently called upon, by anxious creditors, for the several amounts due them from our pre- decessors in office. The following list of bills are a part of their expenditures. Paid Town of Dorchester, for aid furnished Artemas Cut- ter and family, . . . . Damon & Blinn, for coal furnished the Alms -house, " Franklin V. Butters, for dry goods for the Alms -house, " A. P. Spofford, for board of Isaac Blodgett, . " William Smith, for harness work, . . " H. B. Mitchel, for fresh fish, . . " Town of Topsfield, s for aid furnished Mrs. A. M. Hill and family, (Mrs. Hill was the daughter of Isaac Blodgett,) . . . . . " Town of South Danvers, for aid furnished Randolph L. Stickney, Jr., and family, . " A. P. Richardson, for rent of pasture, . . " Nathaniel Mulliken, for milk to Mrs. Bridges, " William M. Ashby, for sawing lumber, . . " City of Lynn, for aid furnished Mrs. Ann Blodgett, the wife of a son of Isaac Blodgett, . " H. B. Mitchel, for fresh fish] . . Credit by cash of the town of Woburn, . $ 6 50 13 50 4 78 17 00 6 43 16 07 10 50 30 54 12 38 1 20 1 63 71 25 3 37 $ 195 15 7 00 $ 188 15 Cost of supporting the poor for 1861, as shown by Select- men's Report, . 1,538 24 Sum total for maintenance of poor for 1861, . . $1,726 39