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EXPENSES
<br />OF THE
<br />TOWN OF LEXINGTON,
<br />For one year, ending April 1835.
<br />
<br />Town Grc-- ' , 1834. rhe following orders have been dru,wn on the Treasurer to
<br />be paid out.. of the Contingent grant.
<br />For ringing the bell and tat ;ng care of the Meet- '.'o pay Benjamin Muzzy for rent of land on
<br />ing House ..5(1 001' which. Os hey..sesles scald fb .: C.M. 1, 18i
<br />Money voted for a singing school Nov. 3i 3. . 50 00Ct to Oct. 1, 1834, twoyears rent at 4 00 yr. 8,00
<br />g S per
<br />County Tax 260,00 ; or difference in exchange of school house lots. 20,00
<br />Repairing south School house - - 200,00 I ; 'o pay Col. S. Chandler, for school books fur -
<br />To pay Benjamin Muzzy for exchange,of school nished David Fiske's children by order of the
<br />house lots - - .. 20,00 'Committee - - - 1,12
<br />To pay Sexton - 25,00 To pay Col: S. Chandler for cash paid for books
<br />Constables services 8 dolls. Clerks do. 12 20,00 for Sabbath schools - - 15,00
<br />Discount on Taxes - - 340,00 To pay John Tidd for the standing of the north
<br />Assessors services - 35,00 school house on his land one year prior to April
<br />Treasurer's and Collector's do. - 65,00 1, 1834 - - 2,00
<br />Contingent expenses 400,00 To pay Chas. Tidd for writing 6 lists of voter ,ss,
<br />Borrowed money and interest 2,057,00 other services rendered the town prior to May
<br />To building a Pound - 50,00 1, 1834, not belonerhor to his duties as clerk 3,00
<br />To pay Engine men 30,00 To pay Capt. Isaac Mullikin for one day's work 1,50
<br />Overseers statement 600,00 1 doz. screws, p'allies, cord, cloth, staples, &c. 1,73
<br />To fence rail the Monument, &c. 150,00 1-2 days work 75
<br />To support schools - 1000,00 To pay Samuel Adams for stove 14,00
<br />To repair high ways "- 1100,00 ' 84 pounds funnel, 12 cts per ib. 10,08
<br />Wire, &c. - 25
<br />Total town grants $6462,00 To pay Col. P. Russell for journey to Cambridge
<br />and Boston respecting Bridges 2,00
<br />Cash paid for recording deed- 50
<br />Services one day on Wellington's road 1,50
<br />1-2 do 75
<br />Cash paid for recording deed 50
<br />Services superintending repairs on south school
<br />House - 1,50
<br />Cash paid postage on letters 56
<br />To pay Joel Viles for the followin g.. services, one
<br />day on School houses 1,50
<br />three days on roads as Committee 4,50
<br />3,87 Journey to Cambridge respecting bridge, ' 2,00
<br />Attendance at Commissioner's Court at Cam-
<br />bridge to petition for bridle -way as county road 2,50
<br />Cash paid Clerk of Court 2,10
<br />45,50 Cash paid for publishing petition and order
<br />thereon 2,0C
<br />To pay Capt. Solomon llarrington for services in
<br />examining Cambridge bridge and defining the
<br />ACCOUNT OF EXPENDITURES.
<br />The following orders have been drawn on the Treasurer to
<br />defray the expense of public schools in 1834.
<br />To pay Miss Lucy Ann. Tufts for teaching north
<br />school, 18 weeks, at 2,50 per weeks
<br />To pay Capt. Christopher Reed for 1-2 cord of
<br />wood and cutting the same 2,37
<br />Cash paid for building fires &c. 1,50
<br />3,87
<br />N. B. This money was granted last year.
<br />To pay Miss Mary Wellington for teaching the
<br />school in E. Village 13 weeks at 3,50 a week
<br />To pay James Locke for sawing 2 1-2 cords of
<br />wood for the N. School, and repairs on the N.
<br />School house - - -
<br />To pay Col. Philip Russell, for boarding Miss
<br />Phebe Cutler 17 weeks
<br />To pay Miss Phebe Cutler for instructing the
<br />North east school 17 weeks at 1,75 a week
<br />To pay Julia A. Muzzy for instructing the west
<br />school 20 weeks at 2,25 a week
<br />To pay Miss Abigal Underwood for teaching the
<br />south school 19 weeks at 3,00 per week.
<br />To pay Mr Joseph F. Simonds for 1 1-2 cords of
<br />woods at 5,00 a cord 7,50
<br />For one cord of wood at 4,00 a cord 4,00
<br />11,50
<br />To pay Mr Ephriam Hall for teaching school in
<br />west district, three months and two days at
<br />28,00 per month
<br />Cash paid for making fires
<br />To pay Mr. Nath. Cutler for 2 cords of wood for
<br />the south school 13,00
<br />For 2 1-2 cords of wood 15,50
<br />Making fires 2,00
<br />30,50
<br />To cash paid Mr Samuel B. Glines for teaching
<br />School in the south district, 13 weeks,'at 7,50
<br />per week
<br />To pay Samuel Fiske Esq. for teaching the north
<br />school 68 days at 1,00 per day
<br />To Mr Wm Clapp for two brooms
<br />To pay Mr Charles Tidd for teaching south east
<br />school 13 1-2 weeks at 7,50 per week 101. 25 ;
<br />To writing school 26 lessons 31,70
<br />To pay Mr N. Cutler for two cords of rood for
<br />the S. E. school
<br />To pay Nath Cutler Jr for teaching they E. school
<br />11 weeks and 4 days., at 27,00 per month
<br />To pay John Muzzy Esq. for 1 1-2 cords of wood
<br />fit for the stove in west district, and two feet
<br />pine wood
<br />To pay N. Mullikin Esq. for sundry articles viz :
<br />Hellen A. Hastings for teaching the centre
<br />'school 18 weeks at 20s. per week, 60,00, cash
<br />paid James Blodgett, 3 1-2 month at 30,00 per
<br />month 105,00. Fuel, building fires, and
<br />new broom 15,62. Expense of Miss Hasting's
<br />conveyance to Lexington and to Brighton 4,00.
<br />Map of the United States and blank book for
<br />records 5,38
<br />To pay S. Fiske Esq. for teaching school gine
<br />days in N. district
<br />To pay for making fires
<br />To pay Col. Philip Russell for 12 feet of maple
<br />wood 9,00
<br />Sawing and splitting the same 1,12
<br />Cash paid for making fires 1,50
<br />11,62
<br />45,00
<br />2,50
<br />r longth of the same 2,00
<br />25,50 Journey to Cambridge on the case of Bridge 2,00
<br />do do 2,00
<br />29,75 do do 2,00
<br />examining Wellington's road twice, 3,00
<br />45,00 superintending the repairs on the South school
<br />57,00 , house - 1,50
<br />11 o pay Jonas L. Smith for 6 feet of funnel for
<br />the S. school house - 1,65
<br />For four hooks and staples - 50
<br />To pay John Underwood for leveling S. school
<br />house yard - 5,50
<br />11,50 jf o pay Otis Heywood for entertaining select men 1,75
<br />1'o pay Josiah Conant for entertainment fo the
<br />l select men at sundry times - 2,50
<br />85,50 , for the use of rooms - 3,00
<br />3,00 ''.'o pay John Muzzy Esq. for repairs on W. school
<br />I house - - 80
<br />Cash paid Amos Town for takinE down the
<br />-stove and cleaning- funnel - 60
<br />,I'o pay Col. Philip Russell for cash paid A-
<br />Irhos Stevens for repairing Hay scales 6,00
<br />30,50 cash paid Baldwin Locke for do 25
<br />1.o pay Jacob Robinson for white washing S. E.
<br />school house - 1,7.
<br />97,50 , Co pay Capt. Solomon Harrington for cash paid
<br />Augustus Peabody for services for the town of
<br />68,00 ;Lexington. - - 24,00
<br />55 11'o poy Joel Viles for cash paid the District At-
<br />1 torney for costs laid by Court against the town
<br />of Lexington - - 11,08
<br />132,95
<br />$167,28
<br />11,00
<br />The foile4 i:sg Ui cit. -6 -w,;';-c ddr'z.cn in favor of the Town Of -
<br />78,00 ' . ficers.
<br />To pay Amos Kendall for work and materials fair-
<br />nished in painting the Centre School house as
<br />11,50 j per bill - - 37,81
<br />To pay James Brown for 11 1-2 days service as
<br />Assessor - - 17,25
<br />tTo pay Mr. Charles Beed for services as assessor 15,00
<br />To pay Capt. I. %1uilikin for stationary and ser -
<br />.vices as assessor
<br />POUND.
<br />To pay Capt. S. Harrington for 10 locust posts 8
<br />1.90,00 feet long at 1 shilling per foot
<br />To pay Joel Viles for lumber and teaming the
<br />9,00 same 8,42
<br />1,50 Cash paid I. Mullikin for 12 1-2 days inclu-
<br />board 18,35. Timber for gate stiles &c. 3,57,
<br />paid Hiram Sawtell for 8 days work on stone,
<br />including powder, tools &c. 14,00. Oxen 1-2
<br />day 0,50. E. Gaffield seven days 8,17. John -
<br />Winning for posts 4,83. Overseers of the poor
<br />11,62 for services 1,25, for cutting posts 75, for
<br />services as Superintendent for building sa'.
<br />$996,24 , pound 2,00 - -
<br />33,00
<br />13,33
<br />FENCING MONUMENT.
<br />To pay Col. S. Chandler as follows :-
<br />2 days r rls et the Monument, 1,25 per day,
<br />N,50, kpar ' J4. na. Fairbanks cor work 1,25, paid
<br />Jona. Munroe for work 0,63, S. Fiske 0,63,
<br />Joseph Fiske for teaming stone 1,25, Gardner
<br />Fletcher his bill for st'>'ie work and interest on
<br />same 42,56, Cyrus Reed 1,25, contingent ,38
<br />To pay Aaron P. Richardson as follows :-sharp-
<br />ning 2 points of pick 0,8, for 1413 pounds o f
<br />fence 99,9.1, Cash paid B. Locke for weighing,
<br />25, 135 1-2 lbs. of Earns 9,48, 8 lbs. lead and
<br />putting on 0,56, putting on 4 new Earns 5,00.
<br />Deduction for tare 78 cts.
<br />To pay Oliver %V. Kendall for repairing the S.
<br />school house as by an agreement -
<br />extra work on boxes and setting nine paries of
<br />glass -
<br />Expenses for singing.
<br />To pay A. Morrell, M. P. Robbins 50,00, to be
<br />paid as follows to Josiah Smith 20,00, Wm H.
<br />Smith 10,00, Nepoleon Underwood 6,00, Mary
<br />Johnson 5,00, use of Hall &c. 9,00
<br />To pay David Tuttle for building a wood house
<br />for S. school House
<br />To pay Nehiemiah Wallington for making road
<br />between"Lncoln and Josiah Byrant's in Lex-
<br />ington - To pay J. Rugg for notifying seven Town meet-
<br />ings f0,50,.notifying representatives 80 cts
<br />To pay Jonathan Munroe for attending funeral
<br />seventeen times with horse and hearse
<br />To pay Charles Tidd for services as town clerk
<br />To pay for the following items viz :-13 feet wood
<br />9,75, ringing the bel) from March 20, 1834, to
<br />March 20 1835, 50,00, ringing the bell from
<br />March 201835, to May 4 1835, 6,72. Clean -
<br />Meeting house May 22, 1;50, repairing town
<br />clock 50, paid for repairing stove 40 cts
<br />Money granted for the repairs of highways was
<br />expended as. follows :-
<br />Money evneriaed in the South district
<br />Cash paid for labor in the Middle and North
<br />district - -
<br />Boarding rnen and oxen •
<br />Cash paid for tools, repairing cart and wheel-
<br />barrow
<br />Blacksmith's
<br />-
<br />Blacksmith's bill -
<br />Interest on nv;nev borrowed
<br />Wm. Chandler's se, vices as surveyor 54 1-2
<br />days
<br />Hammond A. Hosmer 26 1-2 days
<br />Thomas Greenleaf 3 days
<br />Credit by g;n on oxen
<br />50,45
<br />113,50
<br />230,00
<br />14,25
<br />50,00
<br />20,00
<br />400,00
<br />11,30
<br />17,00
<br />12,00
<br />68,87
<br />260,00
<br />621,00
<br />82,00
<br />14,86
<br />16,64
<br />13,94
<br />68,00
<br />32,81.
<br />3,75
<br />1,936,42
<br />33,00
<br />account of Elie Expenditures of the Overseers of the Poor,
<br /> ,; 7ra J3r ril 1st 1834., -',o ./!pril 1st 1835.
<br />Paid Elias :lead for manure " $10,75
<br />John `rlullikin Jr. for one yoke of oxen 50,00
<br />do ;''r making 8 barrels' of cider 2,67
<br />Dr. ,c.,. 'Spaulding for attending poor 1 year 25,00
<br />Jose :h 1'. Simonds for 5 rods of peat land 10,00
<br />John 'chid for pasturing 2 cows as per bill` 10,00
<br />Isaac Ilufl'master for articles bought by
<br />him °'()r the poor -house as per bill, marked
<br />1 2 and 3 260,77
<br />For a coffin and grave clothes for O. Har-
<br />ri' 'ton 3,87
<br />Cha -les Robinson, for wood as per bill 14,00
<br />' For 6 yds. of cotton flannel 0, 75.
<br />E. Lane for pasturing oxen as per bill 10,50
<br />J. srant for mith work 11,27
<br />To cash to the clerk of the Overseers for
<br />balance due him on the settlement fi r
<br />the support of the Poor the year 18:.' 3 140,07
<br />Interest on the same for seen months 5,20
<br />The interest on $100 from May first o
<br />Nov. 6, 1834 3,00
<br />Postage on letters ,26
<br />• For clothes for Jerome Fisk :3 Qii.
<br />Joshua Russell for assistance furnishe l
<br />David Fisk's family j' 13,00
<br />For one pr. shoes for Jerrome Fisk ,92
<br />' For Abel Walker's sickness and funeral
<br />expenses 5,00
<br />Paid J. Mullikin Jr. for a journey to West k
<br />Cambridge 1,50
<br />do to Burlington 1,50
<br />• Dr Casey for atending A. Walker 2,00
<br />' Mrs B. Locke Boston 13,00
<br />For fuel for Daniel Mason 3,00
<br />The city of Boston for Hadley and Trask,
<br />as per bill 4,57
<br />• John Johnson in sickness 50
<br />J. Mullikin jr journey to Cambridge court 2,00
<br />do for coffin for Whitten 3,50
<br />Tho. Greenleaf for services as overseer
<br />as per bill 12,00
<br />Hammond A. Hosmer for his services as
<br />overseer, and turf found Mr Mason as
<br />per bill 10,50
<br />J. Mullikin Jr. for his services as clerk
<br />of the board of overseers and as over-
<br />seer, making coffins &c. as per bill 24,33
<br />Jona. Munroe for digging graves as per bill 10,25
<br />• Joseph Rugg for meat as per bill 47,95
<br />Nathan Chandler Jr. for wood delivered J.
<br />Johnson as per bill 4,80
<br />Trustees of the Ministerial fund for wood
<br />as per bill 43,50
<br />Isaac Huffmaster for services of himself and
<br />wife one year 300,00
<br />1073,77
<br />account of Receipts.
<br />Received of Nath. Mullikin Town trelsurer, bal-
<br />ance due the clerk of the overseers of
<br />the Poor on settlement for the support
<br />poor for the year 1833 $148,07
<br />of S. Spaulding for use of oxen 1,00
<br />do payment of note 2,57
<br />do cash 1,08
<br />of I. Huffmaster for sale of produce,
<br />labor &c. as per bill marked 1, 2, 3 383,85
<br />of J. Mullikin Jr. for one beef cow 25,00.
<br />of Joel Read for rent of a bed 2 years
<br />up to Nov. lst 1834 6,00
<br />of Josiah Byrant payment of note 11,55
<br />of the commonwealth for the support
<br />of state paupers to Jan. 1st 1834 75,30
<br />of Joseph Rugg in part payment for
<br />oxen and hides had in 1834 59,03
<br />of N. Wellington for heifer and calf 18,00
<br />of Augustus Wellington for milk 2,70
<br />of AT. Mullikin Town Treasurer for
<br />support of the poor 360,00
<br />Amount of Receipts 1094,07
<br />do expenditures 1073,77
<br />Balance due the Town 20,30
<br />Dr.'• Treasurer of the Town of Lexington
<br />By brisnce due, 24 April 1834 72,73
<br />Tax `:',,at of 1834 6437,11
<br />May 19, Borrowed 220,00
<br />do do 400,00
<br />do do 95,35
<br />Rent of Burying ground for 1833 7,25
<br />do F,.. 1834 9,00
<br />July 835 borrowed 400,00
<br />March Rec'd of State Treas. Military duty 123,00
<br />Income of Hay -scales 48,79
<br />do of the common for 1834 10,00
<br />61,84
<br />Printed at the GJ.iZETT 4- WHIG OFd'iCE,-CONCORD MSS.
<br />7823,26
<br />in account with the Selectmen. Cr.
<br />Paid Concord Bank 750,00
<br />Indorsement of Benj. Muzzy's note 11,25
<br />Principal and interest of said note 39,46
<br />do 98,02
<br />H. A. Hosmer's note 220,50
<br />N. Dudley's do 226,25
<br />N. Russell's do 112,55
<br />Trustees do 411,60
<br />J. Mullikin Jr. 732,80
<br />Schools 996,24
<br />Contingencies 462,04
<br />Officers 1985,58
<br />Miscellaneous 1204,22
<br />Abatements 70,28
<br />Discount allowed 488,87
<br />Discount at 5 per cent. 4,18
<br />`t'reasurer's percentage 97,79
<br />7911,57
<br />7823,26
<br />88,31
<br />JOSEPH RUGG, Committee.
<br />DAVID TUTTLE,
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