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SELECTMEN
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• EXPENDITURES OF THE TOWN FOR ELEVEN
MONTHS, ENDING JANUARY 30,, 1873.
TOGETHER W;TIE A LIST OF TUN
IF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, FOR THE YEAR ENDING
•T,. DECEMBER 81, 1872
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PRESS OF T R MARVIN & SON, 27 CORNHILL.
1873.
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REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.
THE change in the close of the fiscal year from the first of
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Mardi to the first of February;making a year of eleven months,
naturally creates some embarrassment in making up the ac-
{ counti, as the period neither corresponds with the full yearly
service of the town officers, nor i%ith the annual appropriations.
And this embarrassment is increased by the fact that within the
eleven months,we have hod two sets of town officers, and that
the accounts are to be made up and printed in the short period
of about two weeks.• The vote changing the fiscal year con-
- templated that the reports of the different officers should be
submitted to the town in print. Such was the statement made
at the time by the advocates for the change ; and the main
zeason for the change was,that the people might have an oppor-
tunity of sitting down at their leisure and reading in pilot the
acts and doings of their own officers, before the animal elec-
tion. The vote,as recorded by the Clerk,does not mention the
printing ; but it requires that these reports should be circu-
Iated with the warrant for March Meeting, so that every citizen
may be able to judge of the fidelity of his public servants; and
surely it could not be expected that the town officers would
make five hundred written copies of their reports, to be circu-
s: lated with the warrant to all the voters.
The following is a copy of the vote as recorded.
" Voted,—That the financial year of this town be closed on the
first of February, and that the reports of the several officers of the
town be made to that date,and be circulated with the warrant for the
March Meeting"
This vote clearly contemplates no other change in the finan-
cial accounts or reports of the town officers, than that they be
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closed on the first of February, instead of the first of March, and rive the Auditors time to audit the accounts. Whenever
and that these accounts be printed and circulated with the we have had a board of Auditors appointed, they have entered
March Meeting warrant. The custom which has long pre- upon their work with zeal, and with a sort of pledge that the
vaned, is for the Highway Surveyors, Overseers of the Poor, work should be completed at once, and that their report should
and other disbursing officers to obtain money from the treasury soon be in the hands of the citizens. But after weeks, and
on account,by orders drawn by the Selectmen,and at the end of even months of delay, the report has appeared; and this fact,
the year to render a detailed account of their expenditures,with with a chaige of from fifty to sixty dollars for their services,
their vouchers to the Selectmen,who after a full examination, shows that they found a task more laborious than they ex-
have adjusted the accounts by receiving and passing over to pected. No board of Auditors can' take the accounts and
the treasury,if the party had overdrawn,or by drawing from examine them thoroughly, and arrange and prepare them for
the treasury, if the balance was in favor of these officers _ the press short of a week's labor. It is manifest, therefore,that
respectively. if the Selectmen settle with the several classes of town officers,
Nor do we see perfect safety in any other course. The it will take them several days into February, and if they should
Selectmen are in a manner held responsible for the safety and turn these accounts over to the Auditors then,it is evident that
use of the public money. They are,the present year, intrusted the reports cannot be printed and be in the hands of the Con-
with the power of drawing more than$35,000 from the treasury; stable fourteen days before the March Meeting. Any printer
and nearly one half of this sum is drawn on account with the would require ten days to get out five or six hundred copies of
Overseers, Surveyors, and School Committee; and common a pamphlet containing five or six forms of rule and figure work.
prudence would seem to require, and fidelity to the town to The town officers feel themselves instructed to make their re-
demand, that these officers should submit a detailed account of ports in print, and while they are willing to do anything to and
their expenditures to the Selectmen from whom they received time auditors,they see no way in which this can be done, except
their funds; and that these accounts should have the indorse- by preparing the accounts, as far as practicable,beforehand,and
ment of the Selectmen before they are submitted to the town. arranging all the matter for the press, and submitting the mere
Any departure from this long established custom would open a figuring to the Auditors in different ipstalments as they make
door to abuses, and render the public funds more insecure. up the accounts. This,though it imposes all the labor of audit-
The vote of March last could not have been designed to ing upon us, the Selectmen are willing to do. They see the
supersede this salutary custom Nor is this custom annulled awkward position in which the Auditors are placed, and though
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by any subsequent action of the town. At the meeting in . - no time is fixed when they are to make their report, it would
November last, it was voted, " That a board of Auditors be seem desirable that they examine accounts or vouchers before
chosen to audit the accounts of the town the current year, and the reports are printed.* We are willing to do anything we
that said board consist of two members;" and two Auditors were can to relieve them from an embarrassment imposed upon them
accordingly chosen,—-though it is understood that one of them
by those whose machinery has more friction than they contem-
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declines serving. This vote repeals nothing, but leaves the plated
vote of March last in full force; so that the town officers are to We confess that we do not see the wisdom in the proposed
have to the first of February to make up their accounts, W hen change. The oft-repeated statement that the Selectmen should
they will settle with the Selectmen, as heretofore, and then not be allowed to audit their own accounts, however true in
these accounts and reports are to be put in form for the press,
so as to be printed and be in the hands of the Constable by the * We have arranged with Mr.L.A Saville,who was chosen as one of
middle of February. The practical question arises whether the Auditors, who has kindly taken most of the tabular matter in hand,
two weeks will afford an opportunity to go through this process, and revised the same,and pointed out all errors he could discover,which
have been few,and unimportant,except one of ten dollars in one footing.
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principle, does not apply here , for the Selectmen have no ac- attacked, and five days before his death This was the first
counts but the small sum for their personal services Nor case that created ainy thing like serious apprehension or general
do we see how the fidelity of an officer for eleven months is alarm At the time of his death, which was on the eighth, the
any guaranty that he may not be a rogue the last month of his Selectmen had had no notice of the case, not was the physician
service, especially when he knows that his acts may not come satisfied whether it ►+as a case of the suppressed small-pox or of
to light till the next year.' Nor do we see how the appropria- a malignant fevei But as soon as the Selectmen heard of his
tions are to be made understandingly, or other duties be wisely death, and the preparation for a wake, the Chairman of the
performed How, for example, can the School Committee, Board repaired at once to the lush village, forbade the wake,
during the month of February,after the school year has closed, and commanded that the remains, which they had proposed to
consistently ieiingage their teacheis before they know what keep two days for a grand funeral, he removed to the place of
sum of money the town will grant for the schools But it is interment at once. These requests or commands were complied
our duty to obey, and get out our report in season,---which with.
we hope to do. The next case to which our attention was ca]led, was one on
The year has been somewhat peculiar, being charged with Lowell Street Mr. Charles Putnam's farmer, Mr. Sims, u-as
events which have increased our labors and responsibilities, visited by a brother of his,who w as taken down with the small-
and added to the expenses of the town. The great fire in Bos- pox As soon as this case was known, the Selectmen engaged
ton, by prostrating many of our Insurance Companies, rendered an individual to remove the patient to an unoccupied house in
$22,500 of our insurance on the.Town Hall and its contents, the neighborhood, employed an expeutenced nurse to attend
worthless Knowing the wishes of the town, as Heretofore ex- him, and, after lies death, to cleanse and fumigate the house.
pressed, the Selectmen felt justified in causing that sum to be The Selectmen also prodded for Ins funei al,—as they had done
reinsured in other sol ent offices, ►►hich they did at a cost of in part fat two other funerals in the East Village,and have since
four hundred and fifty dollars. done in other cases Since the death of this patient, Mr. Sims'
The introduction of the small-pox in its unusually malignant wife and tw o children have been taken down with the disease,
form into the town, has been a source of great anxiety to us, and have been confined to the house,which has been so per-
and of considerable expense to the town The first case of this fectly isolated, that there has been no apprehension of the tits-
dangerous disease, brought into town fioin below, that of Mr ease spreading fiom that place.
Wentworth,created no general alarm And yet the Selectmen Subsequently, on the 10th of January, ►►e were informed by
saw in the history of the disease elsewhere, serious danger of its the physician, that a child of Canfield's had broken out with
spreading, and consequently we issued a circular December 3, the disease, and the Chairman repaired to the Irish village at
1872, warning the people of the dangei, and requesting every once, and gave orders that a red flag must be displayed at the
family where the disease might break out,to isolate themselves house, and that the family must not mix with the neighbours or
so as not to communicate the disease to their neighbors, and to allow peisons to visit the house. On the same day, viz., the
give notice to the Selectmen at once so that immediate measures 10th of January, we were notified that George Winship,at the
might be adopted to prevent the spread of this malady The Harrington house, north of the Common, was attacked with
physicians were also iegnested to observe this proviaron of the varioloid. We immediately saw that a red flag was hung
law,and give notice to the Selectmen of evei.y case of the small- out to apprise the public of the existence of the disease, and
pox or varioloid which came under their obser►anon. Sonic decided the same day that both the Canfield house and the
of oui citizens thought the Selectmen alarmists, creating un- - Harrington house should be isolated, and a messenger be ap-
necessary apps ehiension by theta circular. pointed to go to the houses daily at a given hour, and by a pre-
This circular was issued three days before Canfield was conceited signal some one of the inmates should appeal at the
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door or window, and give orders to the messenger without, for conveyances, until his physician should think it could be done
whatever supplies might be necessary; and the messenger should with safety to the public The en cular recommended vaccina-
,i, see that they were procured,and left at some place agreed upon tion and re-vaccination.
•near the house, so that they could be taken in by some one of After the case of Winship and the Canfield child had tenni-
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'��e family at a time when no one would be exposed In this
temployed Mr. Amos Angie',a m . •
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way we hoped to circumscribe the disease within its then pies- of judgment and some expel fence in such matters,to go to both
ent limits But who would act as messenger? The Chairman of these houses, and see that they were thoiougliry cleansed,
of the Board offered to go to the houses, and make the prelim- and that the clothing and bedding winch had been most ex-
inary arrangements with the families. But for two days he posed, and was comparatively worthless, be destroyed,and that
could find no one who would undertake We called on some the families should not suffer on that account. These meas-
of the nearest neighbors, who would be most exposed if the urea we deemed important to prevent a fuithet spread of this
houses were not isolated, and offered them a generous compel- alarming malady
sation if they would act as a messenger, but no one would under- After the death of Winship, the Chairman of the Board de-
take On Sunday, Mr Eli Simonds was called upon, and he cided that the bed and bedding which had been exposed to two
engaged to take charge of both houses, and we believe that lie cases of the disease, should be destroyed, by being taken out
has done his duty faithfully, and nieitts public gratitude upon the meadow back of the house, and be burned, the w Ind
In the mean time the Selectmen,wishing to guard the people being in such a direction that the smoke would expose no one.
as far as practicable, on Saturday the eleventh, being the day But here again the old difficulty arose-- who would carry out
after the two cases mentioned above, were reported to them, ofthese instructions? It was difficult to find any one who would
their own motion and without any request or even suggestion undertake it. The Chairman, in conference with one of the
from any one, prepared a circular winch was printed on Mon- neighbors, agreed that they would both look about for some
day; winch circular they caused to be left with the families in one who o would do it. The undertaker whom as expected to •
all parts of the town,so that the entire population might use the come and remove the remains ►►as spoken of approvingly, if he
necessary precaution to limit the ravages of this dangerous Bis- could be induced to do it The Chairman, to make suit of
order This circular ►►as distinct and stringent, and if obeyed this destiuction of the infected articles, went to the East Vil-
would go far to stop the spread of the disease It urged upon lage, and engaged Mr Angier to come and cleanse the house
families in all cases where there was any serasys apprehension and buy n the articles designated. But in the mean time the
of the existence of the disease, to send for their physician, and neighbor had directed the undertaker,who had consented to
if he pronounced it a case of the small-pox, varioloid, or even take change of the proscribed articles, to cairy them away to
the spotted or scarlet fever, to hang out the red flay, and z;' sonic out-part of the town and destroy them This was done
notify the Selectmen at once In the mean time the family _' without the knowledge of the Chairman, and in direct opposi-
must isolate themselves, and select some friend to act as their ton to his order to have them burned upon the meadow The
medium with time people without. It commanded immediate undertaker it appears took the articles,and carried them on the
burial,forbade all public funerals and wakes,and all assembling r, Woburn road near the border of the two towns, and threw
at the house during the sickness or after the death of a person _ them off upon the roadside, set them on fire and left them to
whose disease was the small-pox or varioloid. It also required their fate The the went out before the articles were enn-
ui all cases of sickness from this disease, whether it proved sumed, and as soon as this fact came to the knowledge of the
fatal or not, that the house be thoroughly cleansed and fumi- Selectmen, they took the most prompt measures to have them
gated,together with the clothing, and that no person from such desti eyed by sending a man to renew the fire, and stay by tilt
a house should presume to mix with society, of travel in public they were consumed We were greatly disappointed at this
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whole affui► , but console ourselves w ith the reflection that the contents, and for the worth of any articles which we thought
misfortune arose fiom departing from the instruction we had it prudent to destroy Bills for such expenses hate not all
`' given• been paid,but we have promised to pay them where the fam-
Subsequently, on the 19th of January, Mr. F E. Ballard rtes ai e unable to meet the expense.
t us a note asking for a reessenger to communicate between We are Happy to state that the disease at present has rlisa
un and the outside world. We immediately fin uishecl him peared, and we hope that by care and prudence it will not
with a messenger, and were pleased to see that he considered reappear. We hay e been thus particular to show that we
his house isolated by our circular of the eletentli instant. Itis have not been unmindful of the health of the community, and
case would have been attended to earlier, if we had had any to correct the misrepresentations which have been circulated,
authentic knowledge of the existence of the disease in theto the discredit of the town. To make up the number of cases
family. Neither the householder nor the physician had apprised existing in town at a given time, these alarmists have in some
us of the fact. cases included those who had recovered, and were in the midst
At the same time we sent a George message to Mr. B.
:� of society with the consent of their physician, who assured them
Pierce, informing him that we had learned that the disease. 1 that they n►ould not endanger the public. At the present time
existed in his family, and that they must be isolated, and that (Feb. 8) there is no case existing in town, that we are aware
going to Boston in the cars was forbidden. But the very day of, so that no apprehension of danger need be felt
we sent this note to Mr. Pierce, we were informed by lis fain- The vote of the town requiring the Selectmen to examine
ily physician, that on a frill review of the case in its more = the accounts of the Treasurer once a quarter, has been sub-
developed stages, lie was satisfied that the case eas not one of - stantially complied with—though the uncertain condition of
the varioloid. We consequently relieved Mr. Pierce from the the town officers during the ea►ly part of the season probably
restraint we had imposed upon him,—thereby shone mg that prevented the examination in June But the small amount of
we had been hasty rather than chlatoi v in our action. money in the treasury at that season, renders that examination
It has been our constant endeavor to adopt such measures as less important than any other.
would best allay the excitement, and check the spread of the The decision of the Supreme Court,vacating the elections of
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disease We appealed to the sober sense and good judgment - town officers chosen on the fourth of March, and the fact that
of the people, apprised them of the danger, pointed out the the Treasurer chosen at the adjournment, had forfeited his
policy best adapted to guard the public, and asked them to election by neglecting to be qualified, rendered it necessary
cooperate with us. We have found IN hat is generally true in that a Treasurer pro tempore should be appointed Conse-
times of excitement and danger, that the -t el.),persons who are quentiv the Selectmen appointed, July 11, 1872, L. G. Bab-
the most clamorous for prompt and efficient action, and the cock, Treasurer and Collector pro tempers. On the day fol-
most ready to censure and condemn the action of the public lowing, Mr. Babcock, having accepted the appointments, and
authorities, are the very last who would render any assistance, given the required bond, was duly inducted into office, and the
or in any way expose themselves to any danger, real or imag- books and funds of the late Treasurer were passed over to
inary him; and the account stood as follows:—
The policy we have adopted will create a draft upon the •
treasury, but regarding the life more than meat, and the _ L. G. Babcock,late Treasurer,had received of his predecessor, $7,804.78
Geo 0 Davis
body than raiment," x e resolved at once that a few dollarsFrom Rent of Rooms in the Town Ball 72 00
should not stand in the way of the public health . We have From A E Scott,on settlement of School Account 102 95
paid the expense of burial, the charge of nursing and doctor- From Loans . 8,500.00
ing, the cost of cleansing and fumigating the houses with their From the State,for Corporation Tax and Paupers . . 58.07
Total Receipts . . . . . $16,6,37.80
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J!nd he had paid vn Tawn Orders,Interest,and for other And that he had paid out since the last day of An-
authorized objects . $14,055 67
gust,on Town Orders $8,242.65
On Notes taken up 5,500 00
Balance $2,481 is For interest 827,75-14,570.40 -
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balance was passed to the appointed Tieasurei Leaving in the Treasur December 1, 1872 $22,350.5
Mr Babcock being appointed pro tempore, it was deemed This sum of$22,350.54 was deposited as follows• In the
wise and prudent that the tot n should take action on the sub- Commonwealth Bank,Boston 312,260.60
ject; and hence the Selectmen brought the subject before the In the Lexington Saving Banks,temporarily 10,000 00
citizens, and on the 21st of August, 1872, L G Babcock Cash on hand 89 94
was duly elected Treasurer and Collector To make the matter $22,350.54 -
perfectly suie,and to render the funds of the town entirely safe, LEXINGTON,Febrvury 5,1873
we required a new bond, and made a regular transfer of the The Selectmen have this day settled partially with
books and funds from the appointed to the elected Treasurer L. G Babcock,Collector of Taxes, and find
We found that the appointed Treasurer had up to that he had,December 1,1872,uncollected $3,039 01
And that since that date there has been committed a
September 1, 1872, received from his prede
Lessor $2,481 13 supplemental tax of 273.60----$3,312.61 .
From Loans 2,500 00 And that he has collected and paid into the Treas-
From Rent . . . 36.00—5,017 13 ury,since December 1,1872 . . . . 1,729 70
_ And the Assessors have abated 20 00-1,749 70
And that he had paid out on Town Orders,and for other Leaving a balance uncollected of . $1,562.91
lawful objects . . . . $3,232.12
They have also this day examined the accounts of'
Leaving a balance to pass over of . . $1,765.01 , L. G.Babcock,Treasurer,and find that on De-
to the elected Treasurer. $ cember 1,1872,he had a balance on hand of. $22,350.54
Following the vote of the town,the Selectmen.exanined the t That he has received from the Collector 1,729 70
books and accounts of L G. Babcock, both as Collector and From State Treasurer,Corporation tax 890 05
Treasurer, up to December 1, 1872. This is deemed the From State Treasurer for State aid 618.40
• From rent of Town Hall . . . . 90.00
most important visit of the whole year; for it is at a time From rent of Masonic Hall . . . 36.00
when most of the taxes are supposed to be collected,and when From State Treasurer,income of School Fund . 169.64
there 1s a surplus in the Treasury. - From G Swan,overpaid on bill 10.00-$25,791 93
We found there was committed for collection . . . $41,852.17 - And he has paid out since December 1,1872,as tol-
That lie had allowed in discount . $3,408.13 lows.—
That the Assessors have abated 233 85 Paid on Contingent Grant $2,243 37
That lie had paid into the Treasury 34,081 38-37,723 16 Paid on State Aid 93.00
Leaving uncollected,December 1, 1872 $4,129 01 Paid on Highway 300 00
Paid on Pauper 212 20
They found that the Treasurer, L G- Babcock, had up to Paid on School 1,10000
December 1, 1872, received the following sums — Paid on Interest on Notes . . 840 76
Paid on Notes borrowed temporarily 6,500 00
Balance on hand September let $1,763 01 Paid on Special Drainage Grant 246 70
Received from the Collector 34,081 38 Paid on Special Sidewalk Grant 180 37
Received from Hay Scales 56 55 Paid on Sexton and Constable 46 50
Received from Loans • 1,000 00 Paid on Assessors 73 73
Received from other sources . . 18.00-36,920 94 Paid on Special Lincoln Road 237 44
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Paul on State Tax . . . 5,000 00 party to whom the execution of the vote is intrusted, w ould
Paid on County Tax 1,789 61--16,879 70 probably have a Iegal right to finish the job, though the cost
Cash on hand to balance . . $8,918 23 might exceed the appropriation. But even then it would be
prudent to bring the matter before the town for their action, if
Which balance was in the following funds —
In Town Orders,as cash X46#G5 none were to suffer in the mean tune. There may be cases in
In Commonwealth Bank 2,907 34 which delay would be prejudicial to the public interest, and
In Lexington Savnuos Bank . 5,480,37 where public officers ►'m mild be morally required to exceed the
Cash on hand . . . . . 115.87--$8,918 23 sum set apart for a given object. For instance, if an agent
were directed to shingle a public building,and a certain sum of
This exhibit shows the sum oft 0,4$1.11 in the treasury money was appropriated for that object.,and if it should turn out
and on the tax bills uncollected This sum, near ly the whole after the old shingles were stripped off, that the entire cost
amount of what is uncollected, will be realized if prompt fleas- would exceed the sum specified, the public servant would be
ares are adopted, and will meet all demands upon the treasury justified and even required to see that the whole roof was
which will be presented for the present covered in, so as not to expose the building and its contents to
The opening of the Spring will bring its usual demands upon :t waste. Cases of'this character may frequently occur.
the treasury, for the Highways and other objects. The fin- There is another class of cases, where the law,in its split, if
provement of the Lincoln road will require nearly t►'m o thousand not in its letter, requires public officers to do certain things
dollars, and by a vote of' the town two thousand dollars of the regardless of' appropriations. Highway Surve)ors, w itlr the
town debt is to be paid. These t►►o items will reduce mateti- concurrence or under the direction of the Selectmen, would be
ally the amount in the treasury Besides, closing the fiscal required to expend money to remove certain obstructions, or
year one month earlier than usual will necessarily carry over heal certain breaches on the highway when they happen to
to the next year many bills, which would otherwise hill within occur, and the Overseers of the Poor must provide for paupers
the present year. On the ►►hole, we see nothing dere,ouraging in ceitarn cases,and the School Committee must procure a tem-
pi the financial condition of the town. We have had several porary room for a school, if the town neglects,or even refuses
drafts of from two to six hundred dollars, which could not bare - to make suitable provision. But these are exceptional cases.
been anticipated, and still the condition of the treasury will be Our remarks apply to the ordinary appropriations If the town
as favorable as it has been heretofore orders its officers to expend five hundred dollars in consti ucting
to conclude their long report the Selectmen w onhl say, that sidewalks, they have no right to expend eight hundred, and so
many of the guide-boards and street-signs are destroyed or out of every general subject w inch can be limited by the person
of repair, and ought to be replaced or repaired at an ear Iy day having the expenditure in charge And yet, expenditures in
We would state.that we have contracted for the widening some of these cases, have been made as though the agent had
and improving Lincoln Street, for twenty-two hundred dollars, full power to decide what lila principal ought to have done in
--tlu,ee hundred dollars less than the appropriation, the premises This is virtually taking the taxing power out of
the hands of the town,and depriving our fellow citizens in town
'inhere is a practice which has grown up and become more or ,; meeting assembled, of deciding how much they are willing to
less common in eeery mumeipaiity, from which we are not devote to time different objects which come before them.
exempt,that ought to be checked,—that of overdrawing appro= The practice on which we animadvert,has not been confined
:plutons We are fully aware of the difficulty with which tins to any one class of officers, or to a single year During rl-e
subject is environed When a town votes to have a specific j 1 present season there was appropriated for rmpro►ennents on
thing done, and appropriates a certain sum for that object, the the High School lot, the sum of four hundred dollars, and the
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expenditure has amounted to about four hundred and twenty. Knowing that the avowed object of circulating the reports of
Ills is a small eecess; but the principle is the same as though the town officers with the warrant for the annual meeting, was
it were greater. An appropriation of one thousand dollars was to give the citizens the greatest practicable light upon the sub-
made to repair or improve the school-houses, and their appur- jects on which they will be called to act, we have been more
tenances; and the sum expended has amounted to twelve hun- particular than we otherwise should be; trusting that by so
dred and twenty-three dollars Here is an increase of more doing, we shall meet the n ishes of the authors of this reform,
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than twenty-three per cent. Apply the same per cent. of in- and so enable them to pass a righteous sentence upon each and
crease to the sum appropriated for the support of the schools, every town officer.
and it would give over seventeen hundred dollars more than the. To remedy the evil of overdrawing the appropriations, we
town decided that they would devote to the education of the would recommend that the Surveyors, Overseers, School Corn-
young mittee, and others who are intrusted with the expending of
But the School`Committee are not the only Board which has the town's money, be required to make a fall report of their
exceeded the appi opriation. The town appropriated five thou- expenditures to the Selectmen once a quarter, and that the
sand dollars for the repairs of the Highways,and though the bills Selectmen require them to keep within the appropriations, as
are not all in, the sum already paid out for the maintenance of near as practicable, consistent with the public interest. Such
the roads, has exceeded the appropriation by nearly one hun- a course would check extravagance, and prevent many abuses.
died dollars, and when the bills are all in, and the teams sup-
ported till the first of March,we presume the excess will amount —
to several hundred dollars more. We do not complain of these
expenses as unwise or extravagant in themselves. We presume EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING THE HIGHWAYS.
that our school-]rouses needed the repairs which have been made, The first Board of Surveyors were Eli Simonds and Nathan L.
and that the work was judiciously and economically done. We Bryant. Their account is brought up to July 1, 1872,when,by the
know that the repairs of the roads have given good satisfaction, decision of the Supreme Court,they were superseded by the Board
that several heavy jobs have been done, and that the drainage last chosen.
on the principal roads in town,is better now than it has been sa
for ears but that does not alter theprinciple. It is for the 1 Paid Nicholas Shea,for 1 day shoveling snow $1.75
Y i 2. Patrick Powers,for 4 days on highway,at$1.75
people themselves, and not for the town officers to decide what per day . 7.40
taxes shall be assessed upon them. 3. Nicholas Shea,for 16 hours labor at 20 cts. . 3.20
The opinion seems to prevail with some, that any excess of 4. Barney utCaffeney,,for 1 day and 14 hours labor 4.55
expenditure can be drawn from the contingentgrant,as though 5. U. A.Tuttle,for lumber,nails, &c, on Hancock
p a g Street Culvert 2.00
that grant was exhaustless. But such is not the fact That 6. Josiah Smith, for steeling and sharpening picks 1 60
grant has its maximum as well as every other; and from the 7• C. 'I' Worthley,for expressage 2.90
8
very habit to which we have reverted,has generally been over- 9. Thomas Owen,for G4 days on highway at$1 75 11.82
�I 9. T.H. Wright, for a horse 175.00
drawn. The Selectmen have sometimes felt that they were 10. Patrick Caffeney,for 14+days labor at$1.75 24.94
transcending their duty in allowing bills after the appropriation 11. R.W. Holbrook,for grain,&c. . . 2154
to winch they belong, is exhausted. But we have followed the 12. Whitcher& Saville,for grain,&c. • 51.77
•old custom,as a deviation from it would affect third parties,and 13. Whitcher&Saville,for grain,&c.,balance , 29 4
14. L.G Babcock, for a dog license 2,004
so bear hard upon innocent people. We have thought it more 15. Isaac Parker, for plough castings 1.27
prudent,more wise,and more equitable to apprise the public in 16 Addison G. Fay,for powder . 5.20
advance if any change was to be made in this respect, after 17. Barney Caffeney,for 384 days at $1.75, and
164 days at$2. 1fl0.33
taking the voice of the people upon the subject.
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19
No. Paid C. A. Butters, oats and tools . . $13.79
18. Paid Harrison Pierce,for 371 days at $2,and 311 F. IL Kneeland,smithing . . 29.30
days at$2.25 . . . $129.49 A. Childs, grain,&c. . . 41.53
19. Nicholas Shea,for 48 days at $I.75,and 24 Wm. Brigham, stone drag, $8, frame for
days at $2 132.00 drain, $3.25 . . 11 25
'20. Patrick Powers,for 411. days at$1 75, and 194 Josiah Smith, for smithing . . 3.94
at$2 . 110.68 G. W Adams, 63 loads of gravel at 10
21. Wni. Murphy, for 394 days at$1.75, and 21f cis. per load . 6.30
at $2 111 62 S. Puffer, a culvert stone . . . 3 00
22. Frank Caffeney, 39; days at $1.75, and 191. B. Fiske, drilling rocks . . . . 6 00
at $2 109.06 N. L. Bryant,on account with A.W. Locke 50.00
23. John Conner, for 401 days at $1.75, and 212 Joshua Hobart, on account with A. W.
at$2 . . . . . 114.31 Locke . . . . 50 00
•
24. Daniel Mullen,for 362 days at $1.75,and 151. Lyman Lawrence, for harness repairs, &c 24 41
at $2 . . . 94.37 J. T. Gorman, for drilling fifty-five inches,
25. Daniel Harrington,for 20f days at $1.75, and at 10 cts. . . 5.50
141.at$2 . . . 63.93 E R. Smith, 3 days'work fencing road . 9.75
26. Michael Crowley, 1 day,self and horse 4.00 Thomas Lahea, 12 days at $2, land by ap-
27. C. A. Butters,for grain,&c. . . . . 16.30 - praise! . . . 29 00
28 C. A Mandleburg,for repairs of wheels,&c. . 22.50 Joshua Hobart,on account with surveyors. 27 90
29. T Chisholm,for cart,saddle,&c. 20.45 F. II Kneeland,smithing . . . 7 95
30. H. P. Webber, for smithing 55 42 Day & Callings, 18 feet drain pipe, at
31 Lyman Lawrence,for harness-making work . 59.96 57 cts • . . . . 10.26
32. R. W Holbrook, for oats and nails . . 6.72 • E.E. Smith, 5/days'labor at $1.80 10 35
33. Wm Ham,for smithing . . . 48.00 -• Patrick Pon e►s. 414 day's' labor at $2, 71
34 Eli Simonds, for 35 days at$3, services as - days' labor at $1 80, 33 hours at 20 cts 103 05
clerk, $17 shoeing horse . . . 124 13 Nicholas Shea, 92 days at $2, 131 at $1.80,
35. Overseers of the Poor,for board and labor of and 36 hours at 20 cts. . . . . 215 95
horses,and labor of J. B. Brown . 291.50 J Clifford,614 days at $2, 122 at$1.80,33
36. F. H. Kneeland,for smithing 26.64 hours at 20 cts. . 152.60
Total expenditure to July 1, 1872 . . $1,987 37 D ]I'l I lani Harrington.
n. Days at $2. 87.001
4 77an'1 IIarrington. 902 days at $2 . 181 00
The Surveyors had received,in town orders $2,000 00 Win hours
Murphy,91 days at $2, 114 at $1.80,
y 33 hat 20 cts. . 208.85
sale of horse 50.00 Frank Gaffney, 891 days at $2, 111. at
labor of team 17.50 $1.80, 33 hours at 20 cts . 206 80
Dan'! Mullen, 512 days at $2, 122 at
$2,067.50 $1.80, 33 hours at 20 cts. . . 132.10
• Received an excess over their expenditures of$80.13,which they T. 13. Lane, 13 days at $2.25 29.25
paid over to the new Board. Harrison Pierce, 9.21 days at $2.25 . . 208 68
Pat Joyce, 814 days at $2, 114 at $1.80,
33 hours at 20 cts. . . 190.80
` M. Murph3, 492 days at $2, 8f at $1.80,
33 hours at 20 cts . 120.40
J. Caldwell, 72 days at $1.80, 33 hours at
COST OF REPAIRING HIGHWAYS. • 20 cts. . . . 20.10
• D. Callings, 184 days at $2 . . 37.50
Expended by the old Board. Brought forward . . $1,987 37 - M Hays, 3414 days at $2 . . . 69 00
Expended by the new Board. A. W. Locke, Geo. Saunders, 8 days at $2 . . 11,.00
N L. Bryant,and J. Hobart. M. Carl, 14i days at $2 . 29.00
Paid J.A. Russell,for smithing . . . $11.20 31. Burns, 122 days at. $2 . .
2450
20 21
Paid J Conyers, 85*days at $2 $71 50
A.W. Locke,for time, use of horse and Cost of constructing and repairing Sidewalks.
' expenses 327.10
Sum appropriated,
F F. Harrington,horse and buggy 1 50 $1,000 00
Alonzo Goddard,for sundry articles 4 90 One half of said sum to be taxed to abuttors. The following
N L Bryant,for labor and services 198 87 sums were expended in or near the Centre Village, under
Wm Locke,for repairing culvert 150 the direction of J F Simonds and the tax apportioned
C. Caldwell,for 18 loads of gravel at 10l p by
cts per load 1 85 him upon the abuttors,and approved by the Selectmen —
G F Chapman, for breaking out roads 1 E.0
3 Hobart,balance for time and services 111 10 Sum
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EaPded Names of Abettors and their half of the Expense
They have paid out, as per bills $3,103.83 $32 60 Mary Merriam&Julia Stetson . . $16.30
And received in town orders, &c $2784 55 52 80 Matthew H Merriam . 26.40
And an order given to balance acct's 319 28-3,103 83 88 50 David W Muzzey 44.25
$3,103.83 11 50 Lucy Spaulding . 5.75
71 86 Richard D Blinn 85 93
Total expended on roads,as far as bills are paid, $5,091 20 8 00 I Ale]. B Adams . . 4.00
January 29, 1873 Settled with the highway surveyors and found 8.00 Samuel W. Hendley . . . 4 00
the account as stated above. 5.00 Charles Robinson • . 2 50
Selectmen 6.80 James D. Sumner 3 40
CHARLES HUDSON, 5.00 Amos Locke 2 50
R. W. REED, of 14.50 Hancock Congregational Society 7 24
L. S. PIERCE, Lexington 4,30 Sarah Chandler . 215
•r 7.26 Thomas Bisbee . 3 63
3 76 Charles Hudson . ] 88
14 50 A. G. Spaulding . 7 25
18.14 Raymond& Reed • 9 47
10 88 The Baptist
Highway Surveyors' Report. 14 50 David Wood$ooiety 7 24
7 25
82 64 town of Lexington . 16.32
The highway property consists of three horses, four carts, 2176 Hammon Reed 10 88
chains,picks,harnesses,hoes, drills,hammers, &c,the appraised s:' 3 76 Sally Hastings . . 1.88
value of which is $1,275.75 ; which is recorded in full in their = 8 00 George W Robinson . 4.00
,•: 8 76 David A Tuttle . . 1.88
valuation book. 7 26 John Hudson • . . . . 3 63
We would recommend an appropriation of four thousand dol-
` $455 08
lata for the roads the ensuing year. ➢i` $227 54
We will state that there will be outstanding bills which we Of the sum of $227.54, $211 22 has been reported to the
cannot now anticipate, to be paid before the close of the official 1• Town Ti easurer for collection, agreeably to the vote of the
year, therefore,the total expenditure cannot be ascertained with ' town The $16.82 expended against public highways was
accuracy at the present time for the full year. omitted.
Mr Simonds accounts for the money expended on sidewalks
Signed by a,.. as follows:—
A. W LOCKE, Highway
N L BRYANT, Sul ve ors Cash paid Michael Crowley, as per bill $44 00
JOSHUA HOBART, y William Viles . . . . 44.00
LBxztvGTo.[, January 30, 1873, James G Reed 78 50
Jerry Shea . . . . 22 00
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22 -. 23
Cash paid Michael O'Brien $16 00 Whole expense Names of the Abuttors and their Tax.
Expended Assessed
Dennis McCarty . . . . . 18.00 6.15 George Flint . . . . $3.07
Matthew Burns . . . . . . 4.006.15 Henry P. Webber 3.08
Jerry Callahan 22.00 14.53 Nathaniel Flint . 7.26
Cornelius Ryan 10.00 16 62 J. Harrington . . . . . 8.31
Frank H. Kneeland1 80 8 45 Thomas G. Hovey . . . . . 4.23
Gershon] Swan . . . 2.56 7 50 Albert B Smith . . . . . . 3 75
Joseph F. Simonds . 38 75 4.92 Lortna S Pierce . 2 46
Joseph G. Reed 57 87 4.00 Harrison Pierce . . . . 2 00
Michael Crowley40.00 3.21 David Hall 1 61
John Gateley 20.6324.07 Charles Harrington . . . 12 04
Joseph F. Simonds . . . . . 31.50 5.28 John Beals . . . . . 2.64
Frank H. Kneeland . . . . . .90 7 93 I Eben Ganmmell . . . . . 3.96
- 3.09 John Norcross . . 1.55
Cr. 452.51 3 00' Oliver Brown . . . . . . 1.50
By Town Order . . . . $300 00 4 281 Heirs of David Harrington . . . . 2.14
By Town Order . . . . . . 150.00-$450.00 2 50 i Albert W. Bryant . . . . . . 1.25
$2 51 23 25 Peletiah P. Pierce . . . . . 11.63
61 68 Nathaniel Pierce . . . . . . 30.84
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which balance of$2.51 was paid on two distinct settlements. See 29 32 W A. Tower . . . . . • 14.66
Order No 21 of August 8,1872,and Order No.118 of December 18.82 J S Monroe . 9.41
81, 1872.
$479.47 $239.75
N. B -The sum actually expended,it will be seen, falls a trifle The above sum of$239.75 has been committed to the Treas-
short of the sum assessed; but this is almost unavoidable in making
the apportionment. Assessors are allowed to make an overlay. urer for collection.
The following sum was expended for sidewalks in the East :' Mr. Pierce accounts for the money he has received and ex-
Village, and the tax assessed upon the abettors by Loring S. 4 pended on sidewalks as follows:-
Pierce, and approved by the Selectmen:- Cash paid William Gleason as per bill . . . . $66 00
W. S.Sanderson . . . . . 62.00
Whole expense. Names of the Abettors and their Tax Thomas Cosgrove . . . . . . 66 00
Expended. • Assessed. J M. Buttrick . . . . . 32 00
$4 54 Lexington &Arlington Railroad Co. . . $2.27 E Spaulding 10.00
14 66 Mr Slocomb's Estate . . . 7 33
2 89 Heirs of Shipley 1 45 Joseph Underwood 14.00
5.78 Nathaniel Garman . . . . 2 89 Patrick vCalahan 32.00
14 34 Patrick Mitchell. C Donovan 32.00
7 17
7.22 Elias Dupee 3.61 Timothy Brockley . . . . . . 6.00
28.89 Heirs of William L. Smith W. W. Baker . 4.00 14.45 Benjamin Brown . 4.00
( 7.76 Heirs of Abner Mellott °88 J Adams Waldo . . . . 9.70
17.33 Otis H. Dana . . . . . . 8 66
36 11 ' Caira Robbins . . •18.06 H. P. WeUber . 1.30
20.25 I Heirs of Abner Stone . . . 10.12 J S.Munroe 75 25
15.41 Edwin Holbrook . . 7.70 21i days'labor for self at $3.00 64.50
17.44 I George Munroe . . . . . 8.72 •
1 Iron rake . 72
3.21 John Chisholm . . . . . . 1.61 $479.47
6 42 i William Benjamin . . . . 3.21 .
16 32 Alduzo Goddard . 8.16 Cr. by Town Orders $300 00
6.15 Heirs of Ammi Hall . 3.07 Town Order to balance accounts 179.47-$479 47
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24 • 25
Paid Daniel Mullen for labor $7.00
Draining of Certain Streets. Patrick Powers for]shot .
8 75
No appropriation proper was made for this object, but a loan Expended $380.58
of one thousand dollars was authorized towards the expense.
Paid James Crowley,as per bill $156 00 Received in Town Orders $412 36
High School lot for manure 13.00-$425.36
Day& Collins for drain pipe, as per bill'. 185 08 Leaving,in the hands of the Surveyors,$44.78.
Joseph F.Simonds as per bill275.00
Charles Hudson . • 14.95
Eli Simonds . 377.00 The Surveyors' Report.
Eli Simonds .
193 00
Gershon' Swan • 19• 3 95 The manure has not yet been spread upon the Common, on
J F Simonds12 50 account of the grounds around the High School house, back of
Eli Simonds4.24 which the manure lies,being newly seeded down,and could not
have been traveled over without doing great damage to the
•Error in Swan's bill of$10 00,which he has paid into $1,254.73 grounds.
i the treasury, C.H. 10 04atproper
It is the intention of the Surveyor to remove it a
•
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s, time.
$1,244.73
" Signed by A W Locx.x, for the Surveyors.
Cost of Improvements on High School Lot.
if Appropriated for that purpose • $400.00
+,'i Paid Joseph F Simonds $200 D0
$ Henry Mulliken.for labor and lumber 188.58 SUPPORT OF THE POOR
«j William H Smith,for painting 26.30
Joseph F. Simonds,balance on settlement 6.12-421 00 Expenditure of the First Board brought for-
ward . $1,177 21
Excess over appropriation $21 00
• I+ pendature of'the Second Board.
Cost of Improvements on the Common. Consisting of Amos W. Locke, Nathan L.
Paid W H. Smith,for painting fence and liberty pole $72 36 Bryant, and Joshua Hobart.
Henry Mulliken,for lumber and labor . 49.47 July 13 Two days'time and expense to Cam-
N L Bryant, for labor and services 19 95 bridge,&c,for Superintendent $9 00
John D. Bacon,for manure . •
30 00 " 24. Paid Seef&Robinson,fish 2175
James Gould,for manure •
15 00 0 25 A Goddard,repairs,&c. 16 95
Darius Dow,for laborlQ 50 « " Frank Gaffney,71 days'labor 22.50
W Walcott,for manure •
46.00 0 f6 Dan Mullen,13$days'labor . 34 50
Eli Simonds,for services and labor . . 21 37 « 0 J E Hodgman,butcher's bill 44 06
Overseers,for labor . 15.12 Aug.5. C.T.Worlholey,plough points 2.75
Surveyors,for labor . . 13.50 i. 0Medicine for horse and expense
L.A.Saville,for measuring manure . .18 - to Cambridge 3 25
Daniel Harrington,for labor15.75 « 15 G. W.Arnold, three cords of
John Connor,for labor8.75 wood . 13 50
Harrison Pierce,for labor . . 11.00 0 a H.Holmes,for professional ser-
Nicholas Shea,for labor . . . . 1138 vices . . . 25.00
Barney Caffney,for labor - . . . 8.75 Sept.2 Patrick Powers,labor at hay-
Frank Caffney,for labor . . . . 8.75 . ing . . • . 35.50
Wm.Murphy, for labor . . . . . 7.00 " 14. • C. A. Butters,flour and gro-
• ceries . . . • 61.02
'a
26 27
Sept.14. Paid table and ladder $10.00 Jan 15 Paid A F. Spaulding,for shoes,&c $15.90
" 28 Frank Gaffney,labor on farm 5 00 �� City of Charlestown,aid to Per-
" " Dan Mullen,labor on farm 5 00cell and Kinnaston . 189.27
CC 66C,K.Tucker,repairing wheels, • " " George W Taylor,dry goods. 18 22
&c. • 910 ff II Parker & Gannett, repairing
" " 0. W. Kendall,funeral of I.P. • 9.75
Rhodes . 28.25 it '. Highway Surveyors,for wood
" 46 C.McMannS 15 and carting,paid to Hobart 16.00
" 30 O. G. Robinson, fishll 00 'I James Emory,services as Su•
Ili " H.Mulliken, one day's labor . 3.25
Oct.29. James Emery,Superintendent 159.31 perintendent 0
$1,150150.0.00
CC 46 City of Charlestown, aid to •
4
Kinnaston & Percell 110.77 Cr.
C6 66. Butler & Norwood, 10 pairs By Town Orders $1187.20
• of hose • •
7.50 Balance Nov.S. City of Boston, aid to.Esta- Board 47 41-$1,234.61
brook, Fiske,and Logan 166 50
" " A. Childs, grain, &c. By produce from
23.42 the farm 298.14
Dec. 9. E. P.Rich, two bills clothing 20.33 By order to bal-
" 'C C.H Lowe,for meat 50.97ante accounts 410.89-$1,943.04-$1,943.64
C.6 SCWm. Gleason,four cider bbls. 10.00
" " O. G. Robinson,for fish11.31 Total cost to February 1 . ,$3,120.85
cc ,, W Walcott,for ice 20 00
" " T H Kneeland,hoops on bbls. The Overseers submit the following report -
&c. 5.30
,1 " A.H.Sanborn, 2 empty bbls.. 5.00 The total valuation of the Almshouse property is$1,750.43.
" 64 Wm Harding,3 pigs 22 00The buildings are in good repair. The house,when taken pos-
" CCF.M.Harrington,stable bill 4.00
" 24. Expenseand time to Malden, session of by the present Superintendent,was in the most filthy
Somerville,and Charlestown 4 50 condition from the top to the bottom. Under the management
Jan.15 Expense, and time to Cam- of the present Superintendent, it has been thoroughly cleansed,
badge, Charlestown, andBoston C50 including all the furniture. There is very much needed a wash-
". " F.H. Kneeland,smiihing 2.20 room, which can be had by taking a portion of the shed adjoin-
" Stationery and postage . 0.25 _ ing the kitchen, at a small expense. There is also needed at
i< 4. C. H. Lowe,meat bill • . 63.08
'< `C A Goddard,castings, &c.,&c 26 97 the barn, sheds for the storage of carts, &c., belonging to the
°i " A. Childs,grain,&c, . . 121.75 highways, as the present is insufficient for those belonging to
" i' N.L Bryant,for services 35 00 the Farm. We would,therefore, recommend an appropriation
LiSurveyors for grain for horse 39.56 of five hundred dollars for the above improvements. We would
‘' Joshua Hobart,for services as
overseer28.50 also recommend an appropriation of twenty-five hundred dollars
i, Wm Ham,smithing 4.87 for the support of the poor the ensuing year.
44 " J.E. Hodgman,for meat 42.99
" " City of Salem,for support of J. Signed by A. W. LOCKE, for the Overseers.
H Rhodes2.00
" " City of Cambridge,for Matthew
Egan35.14 ="
" " City of Boston,for Estabrook, •
Logan,and Fiske . . 152.25
28 29
Paid Baldwin Locke, for distributing envelopes . $2 00
CONTINGENT EXPENSES. Worcester Lunatic Hospital, for boarding Mrs.
Harrington 27.15
Paid J. W Peirce,for coal .
$44.04 Cyrus Reed,for broken stone from his pit, for roads 15.36
C.T Worthley,for services as Special Police 50 00 Whitcher & Saville,for powder,and other articles 54.36
Eli Simonds,for Police services, &c. . 70 50F.M.Harrington,for horse and carriages furnished
A G. Spaulding,wood for the Library . 9 00 Town Officers . . . 46.25
L. G. Babcock,allowed for depreciation of School '= A. L. Ball, for cupboard, &c.,for Lock-up 17.45
Books
. 16.37 Charles Hudson,for town and county maps. 7.00
A. E. Scott, fees paid Clerk of Court for Truant • Foster& Cole, for insurance on Town Hall and
Laws 3.35 contents . . . . 450.00
G. L. Pierce,for powder for a salute,at East Lex- 0 W Kendall, for hand-cuff and badges for police 33.22
ington . . . . . . . 35.00 is Charles Hudson,for services on Drainage Corn &c. 37.50
J. K. Fiske,for painting Engine-house . . . 10.01 0. W. Kendall,for mattrasses, &c.,for Lock-up . 20 99
J.N. Carter,for a survey on Vine Brook, with a .. J. W. Pierce, for coal, by 0. W.Kendall . . 12.75
map - 21.00 Jas. G. Reed,for labor 5.50
C. K. Darling,for stationery for Assessors 30.12 - Worcester Lunatic Hospital, board of'Torrington
J. L. Parker, printing schedules for Assessors 14.00 and Ganamell 104.60
City of Lowell,for boarding John Dinen . . 10.85 Eli Simonds, for labor . . . . . 11.74
Worcester Lunatic Hospital, for boarding A. K. Chaffee & Cummings, for charcoal . . . 12.00
Harrington . . . . 51.40 Westborough Reform School,board of Cody. . 13.00
Marvin& Son,for printing School Report 57.80 A. L. Ball,repairing fence around Cemetery. . 13.25
Wm.0. Haskell,for settees for the Town HaIl . 96.60 • C. J. Adams,for boarding Locke at House of Cor-
Win. Welch, for laying wall on road near J. S. • rection . 13 00
Munroe's . 150.00 0. W. Kendall, for distributing Auditor's Report . 8.00
Charles Hudson, for two days'services before Leg. F J. P. Bacon, for two side-walk ploughs . • . 41.50
• Committee 6.00 r; C.T. Worthley, for services as police officer . . 25.00
Charles Hudson,for stationery for use of Select- z Darius Dow, for removing granite blocks • . 2.00
men . 2.00 A.W. Locke,for balance on settlement with Sur-
B. C. Whitcher,for gravel pit . . . 300.00 veyors 319.28
Charles Hudson,for 100 stone posts and freight, .b: Scott & Porter, stable bill, visiting schools, no
as per bills . . . . . . 31..43 voucher, . . 27.50
J. R. Carter,survey and plans for drainage . . 33.50 , Joseph Davis,for land bought near the poor farm,
• William Wyman, for coal 90.00 ,''_:.: no voucher on file . . . . 513.31
• Abijah Harrington,for labor in the old Cemetery . 6.00
E. P Rich, for flannel for cartridges . . . 4.00 $3,365.09
• Charles Hudson, for auditing the accounts for
1871-2,and attending the press . 35.00
Marvin & Son,printing Auditor's Report and cir- .
culars • • • 192.25 ;; =' The following bills were paid from the contingent grant;
Nehemiah M. Harrington,for glass and setting, in but it is believed that more light will be shed upon our expendi-
Town Hall4.60
.Har- tures by giving them a more particular classification.--
Worcester Lunatic Hospital,boarding Mrs.rington and Gammen . . 63.50 Care of the Town Hall,4.e
Henry Milliken,for lumber for Cemetery . . 12.75
Samuel Fletcher,for granite slabs,&c. . . . 18.40 Paid 0.W. Kendall for opening and taking care of the building,-
Estate of Charles Locke, for land damage onr', . From March 5th, 1872 to July 1st, 1872.
Adams Street 12 00
Charles Hudson, for cash paid for statutes and For opening Selectmen's room 5 times for bank officers . $5 00 -
printing . 13$510 times for Selectmen . . 10 00
J. F. Simonds, copying valuation for auditors . 9 00 11 times for other purposes . 11 00
3031
For opening Audience Hall for Town Meetings 8 times $10 00 Paid Silas Peabody for books and
Concerts 4 times 15 00 ink . $16 25
Balls 3 times 13 00 W. A. Wilde & Co. for pri
Exhibition 1 time . . 4 00 mary slates 7.47
For two locks and putting on doors . 1 75 T. Parker express on school
furniture 3 00
From July 6, 1872,to January 30, 1873. Geo W Nichols for clock 8 00
For opening Selectmen's room for Police Court 13 times 13.00 J. L. Hammett for bell and
County Commissioners blocks 2 88
4 times 4,00 J. L. Hammett for maps 10 80
Surveyors and Assess- U S Ventilation Co. for ven-
ors 3 times . 3 00tilator,&c . . 122.43
Caucuses 8 times . 8.00 A. L Ball for labor on venti-
Committees 8 tunes . 8 00 lator . 100 08
Bank officers 4 times 4 00 Curtis Capelle, labor in pri-
Railroad meetings 2 mary school room 89 88
times . 2 00 F.J Winship for whitewash-
Citizens 3 times . 3 00 ing . . 20 00
Selectmen 24 times 24.00 W G Shattuck for school
For Opening Hall for tea party 1 time . . 5 00 furniture . . 114.02
Lectures 6 times . 24 00 Silas Peabody for tuning
Dances 5 times 20 00 piano,&c . 3.08
' Town Meetings 3 times . 9 00 R. W Holbrook for brooms
Sundry small articles furnished for the Town Hall 2 47 and brush . 2.50
-- Wm. 0 Haskell & Son for
$199.22 chair and cushion . 5 50---$487.74--$2417 49
BOWDITCH SCHOOL.
SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS
Instruction
ADAMS SCHOOL
Paid Sarah E Sturtevant . $842 00
Instruction.
Paid Silas Peabody . $962 50 Y'. Care of Rooms
Mary B Howe . . 1201)0 f Paid John A. Demar . . $11 00
Gertrude Peirce . 183 75 Knox Hill . 3.75 14'75
Carrie F Fiske . . 231 00—$1,497 25
Fuel.
Care of Rooms
Paid Silas Peabody 51 00 Paid J twood •Kendall for sawing 400
Fuel. J W Peirce for coal . 25 50
>:'Wm Viles for wood . 19.4248 92
Paid J W Peirce for coal 8I.50 ';
Incidentals and Repairs
Incidentals and Repairs. ^>.r:
Paid A. Goddard for shovel, fun-
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Paid Ginn Bros.for music charts $10 25 :" nel. &c. . . $1 90.
American Tablet Company k A.L Bali for repairs . 75
for blackboards 21 60 T. K. Fiske for painting . 42 23
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32 33
Paid T K Fiske for setting glass $0 50 Paid Ellen B Lane • . $350 00
F J Winship for whitewash- Florence W Davis . 96.25
ing . . 3.50 Francis A. Hutchinson . 150 00-$1,277.60
D. A Tuttle for repairs 2.24 .
W. G, Shattuck for slate Care of Rooms
racks 1 50 Willie E Butters 17.00
Knight, Adams & Co. for J E. A. Mulliken . 16.50
slates 2 80 Eli Simonds 10.571 44.07
T K. Fiske for setting glass,
&c. . . .75 $56.17-$461 84 Fuel.
Joseph Richardson for wood 12.40
FRANKLIN SCHOOL. J W Peirce for coal 53.50
c` Wm Files for wood . . 29 32 95 22
+A• Instruction.
Paid Ella J. Corthell . Incidentals and Repairs
$140 OD
F E. Sanderson . . . 70 00 J F Barney for ventilator 26.00
1. M E.Thompson . 78.75 -288.75 American Tablet Co. for
blackboards . 12 80
Care of Rooms. i Boston & Lowell Express
for school furniture 4.90
;; Paid Kate Cashman 16 00 F. J Winship for white-
I. washing . 3 00
i.kFuel. "Boston Advertiser" for
Paid J. W. Peirce for coal . . . 25.50 advertising for teacher . 75
• J L. IIainmett for well
r Incidentals and Repairs covers 1.35
J L. Hammett for set of
{ Paid I. M Parker for express on maps . . 8.00
chairs . $0.30 A L Ball for lumber and
T K Fiske for setting glass 3.00 repairs . 95.43
[. F.J Winship for whitewash- I. N Damon for repairing
"" ing . . 6.00 fence . . 125
11 D A. Tuttle for repairs on "Boston Journal"for adver-
pump 10.63 ' tising for teacher . .75
W D Shattuck for ink wells Hannah O'Neil for cleaning 3.86
is and chairs 2.00 A L. Ball for repairs 4.25
i. • W A Fletcher for repairs 4.68 A. Goddard for repairs on
A.Goddard for coal sieve,&c. 73 stoves,new pipe, &c. . 11.00
Gershom Swan for labor and F. J Winship for white-
cement 2.60 29 94 360 19washing . . 15 00
o. L: .
W G Shattuck for school
furniture 166.00
HANCOCK SCHOOL ',r School Committee for sun-
:_ dries . 8 15-$362 49-$1,779 28
Instruction. - a
Paid E. H Tower $200.00
A. H. Blood 87.50
CE Wasbburne 393.75
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• HIGH SCHOOL. Fuel.
Instruction. Paid J. W. Peirce for coal . . $17.00
William Viles for wood . . 17.67-$34.67
Paid A.E.White . . . $1,275.00 _Incidentals and Repairs.
E.W. Stetson 130.00 p
L.M.Thurston . . . 205.00-$I,610.00 George W. Nichols for repairing
Care Rooms. ` clock , 1.00
of A. L. Ball for repairs . 22.04
Eli Simonds 77.48 T. K. Fiske for painting . . 63.01
F. J. Winship for whitewashing 4.50
Fuel. D. A.Tuttle for repairs . 1.45
Boston&Lowell Express(chair
J. W. Peirce for coal . . . . 90.00 castings) .30
Incaderatals and Repairs aiW.G. Shattuck for chairs, slate
racks,etc. . . . 6.61
S.Ward&Co.for ex.paper $3 25 A. Goddard for repairing stove 1.00
"Daily Traveller" for ad-
T. K. Fiske for repairing blind
vertising for teacher 1.25 and painting 2.00--101.91---$5,22.08
"Daily Advertiser" for ad-
vertising for teacher . 3.75 WARREN SCHOOL.
"Daily Transcript" for ad-
vertising for teacher . 1.25 Instruction
"Daily Journal"For adder- Paid Ellen M. Underwood 350.00
tising for teacher . . 1.87
1. M.Parker for express on
globe 30 Care of Rooms.
A. L Balt for lumber and James Haygroves 10.35
repairs . 9.95 Henry Hargraves 4 50--14.85
A. Goddard for sundries . 20.19
'1' R. Marvin for printing Fuel.
ex. papers 7.50 J. W. Peirce for coal . . 8.50
Cyrus Wakefield for waste James IIargroves (sawing) . 4.50
basket 150 t
W.G.Shattuck for chair and William Vifes for wood 8.55-21.55
ink wells 3.00 Incidentals and Repairs.
C A Butters for oil 35 B.C.Whitcher for brooms mats,
H. B. &W.O.Chamberlain ,
for glass tubing . . 1.26 &c 4 65
Tucker Manufacturing Co. J. L. Hammett for bell and well
for chandelier . . 16.30--$71.72-$1,849.20 covers 1.33
J. L. Hammett for set of maps 8 00
A. Goddard for sundries . 2 98
HOWARD SCHOOL. J. K.Fiske for setting glass . 1.50
F. J Winship for whitewashing 7.00
D. A. Tuttle for repairs .94
Instruction. Knight, Adams & Co. for pre-
Paid M. E. Russell . . . . 350 00 wary slates 2.80
A.L.Bali for repairs . . 2.77
Care of Rooms. W. G Shattuck for slate racks
William Grover . . . 35.50 and ink wells . 2.10-34.07---420.47
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COMMON TO ALL SCHOOLS CARP LIBRARY.
Musical lnsdructton. THE Trustees of Cary Library report that the number of
Paid Horace Bird $472.08 bound volumes in the Library Jan. 31, 1878, was 2,996 The
number of volumes added from March, 1872 to Jan 31, 1873,
Incidentals. was 205, of which 23 were given and 182 were purchased
Bagman & Vinci for screws The names of the donors are as follows: Rev. A. B. Muzzy
and hooks $1 88 (Cambridge), 8 volumes, Rev. H Westcott, 6 volumes,
I M. Parker for express on Farmers' CIub, 4 volumes; and one volume each from Mrs.
boort, &c S5
Woolworth, Ainsworth & Co. E. W E. L Francis (Boston), Mrs H Westcott, Amos Locke,
i
fol drawing books . 59.13 and State of Massachusetts. The Library has received, also,
Nichols & Ilall for pencils, pa- donations of unbound magazines from Mrs' 1 B. Smith, Mr
per, and rubber 15 33 J. B Farr=le, and Rev. Henry Westcott. The number of vol-
School Committee for postage,
stationery, &c. 3 50 umes taken from the Library from March 1, 1872, to Jan 31,
A. S. Barnes & Co. for 24 1873, was 8,936. At the beginning of this year there was
Barnes' Histories 15 50 printed the first supplementary catalogue, containing a list of
Nichols & Hall for Sheldon's
Manual, paper,&c 7.78-108.97--$576.05 the books added td the Library since it was moved to the new
;
library-room, up to Jan. 1, 1873.
During the past year, the Library has also received from
RECAPITULATION Mr. G W Robinson, Lexington, a donation of one hundred
dollars, the interest of which is to be expended for books; and
Total kx-
talMaiden p from the same gentleman,the Libraryhas received the writin
Name of School Music. Inetrue Care of ansa oro'—
non Rooms Fuel [ale and Amount. all the
Repairs schools desk of Rev. Jonas Clarke, the former pastor of the First Con-
Adams $1497 25 $51 00, $81.50 $487 74$2117 49 gregational Church of this town.
Bowditch .' 342.00 14.75 48.92 5617 461 84 The number of volumes taken from the Library, averaging
Franklin 1 . 275 1.5 00 25 30 29.94 360 Han cock 1287 50 44.07 95.22 362.49 1779.281 something near two hundred per week, furnishes the best evi-
High. 1010.00 77 48 90.00 71.72 1849 20
Howard .. 350 00 35 50 34.07 101 911 522.08 dence that the privileges of the Library are appreciated by the
Warren 350 00 14.85 21 55 34.07 420.47
AII the Schools $472 08 103 97576.05i;•
: citizens of the town.
$472 08 $5715.50 $258 65 $397.86 $1248 011
$8080 60$8486.50 The usefulness of the Library might be greatly increased by
an addition to its yearly funds, and the Trustees would recom-
Expense of repairs and incidentals . $1,248 01 mend the devotion pf the money received from the tax on dogs
Appropriation for the same . 1000,00 to the general purposes of the Library,a plan adopted by many
State School Fund used for the same 24 31 other towns, and which will be brought before the citizens of
Expense of Instruction,fuel and care this town for consideration, in an article of the warrant for the
of rooms 6,838.59 tin in March HENRY WESTCOI"r,
Appropriation for the same 750 00 � meeting
• For the Trustees.
$8,086 60 $8524 31
Leaving a balance unexpended of . . 437 71 '; The Treasurer of Cary Library charges himself as follows:--
Note of the town of Lexington,Aug.29,1868,7 per cent. $1,000.00
$8,624 31 $8,524,31 it it Feb 28,1871, a 5,000 00
Gift of George W Robinson toward a permanent fund . 100.00
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38 39
Cash received from fines . . . . . $57.24
z Tawn appropriation 40.00 COMPENSATION QF SELECTMEN.
For interest on notes 420 00 Joseph F. Simonds for four months *$42.00
B C. Whitcher 21 75
$6,617 24 Charles M Parker " X31 00
And credits himself with payments on account of•
Charles Hudson for seven months 79.35
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•• expenses and purchases of books to the amount of 431 60 R W Beed " 45 00
By deposit in Lexington Savings Bank 100 00 Lovering S Pierce " 45'00
Notes in his hands . . . 6,000 00
Cash balance now on hand . . 85 64 $264.10
-(-: Mr.Simonds charged $I2, and Mr Parker $2 far attending
I;• $6,617 24 court in the election suits,—charges not made by the other ineni-
: A E SCOTT, Treasurer
,r hers of the board.
m'i
s Paid O.W.Kendall for services connected with the Cary
s Library from March 6,1872, to February 1, 1873 $94 00
M. S Keyes, librarian,for salary and extra labor 36 25 Cost of seven Street Larng�s
`' M. S Keyes,salary and extra labor 25 75
s M. S. Keyes, salary and extra labor 27 25 Paid James Gould for two lamps $13.00
The Town's annual payment 40 00 Cash paid by Charles Hudson as per bill 47.45
i.. Hadley & Wright for ane Lamp 7-50
$223 25
',• Total $67.95
P.
? EXPENSES GROWING OUT OF THE PRESENCE OF
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k THE SMALL–PDX. EXPENSE OF SUPPORTING THE POOR.
Paid John Peak& Son, for burying Mr• Wentworth $15 00 ,, The first Board of Overseers were Eli Simonds and Nathan
Amos Angier,for removing Mr Suns to an isolated L.Bryant Their account is brought up to July 1,1872,when
c house 5.0t� by the decision of the Supreme Court they were superseded by
'•' Amos Angier,for fumigating Peters' and Can-
field's houses 15 60 the Board last chosen.
} George Neiderrnan,for nursing Sims . 28.00 Paid J. G. Brown for services of self and wife . $622.00
E P Rich, for a suit of clothes for Neiderman 15 20 J. G. Brown for sundries . 1870
Marvin & Son,for printing 500 small-pox circulars 5.50 O. G Robinson for fish . . .
S T Hawthorne,for doctoring a colored patient 30 00 Q.B. Darling for the support of Philip Russell . 26.00
iso Gershom Swan, for cash paid for destroying bed, Decoster& Plumer . . . 11.88
i &c, of Peters . . . 5 00 Barney Caffeney for two days'labor • 3.50
Eli Simonds,for acting as messenger for Winship, Tucker Manufacturing Co.for two iron bedsteads B9.000
• - Canfield, and Ballard 26.00 The Town of Malden for board of Russell
0 W Kendall,for time,is, in burying small-pox ti: Bridget Gehogan for services 15.00
subjects . . 159 00 Dr. Currier for professional services 10.00
. 1.20
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,,•: Dr Currier,for attending Sims 36 00 W A Lane for one chest
Dr Holmes for attending the Canfield child 15 00 A E. Scott for writing an agreement 1.50
O.W Kendall for distributing small-pox circulars 8.00 R W Holbrook for receries 20 93
Amos Angier for cleansing and fumigating two Franklin Alderman for exchange of horses 135.00
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houses at Sims' . 4 15.00 S.S.Sleeper for 1 box of tobacco 13.86
Whitcher&Saville for groceries • . 34.16
$37$.80B. C.Whitcher for groceries . 20.30
A.B Smith for a wagon . • 38 00
40 41
Paid E. P. Rich for clothing . . . . 38.42 Nov Paid the estate of J.W.Hudson
O.W.Kendall for coffin, &c. . . . . 31.75 for professional service as
O. W Kendall for coffin, &c. . . . 29 75 per bill . . . 152.00
J. G.Brown for services . . 162.50
C A Butters for groceries (consolidated bills) . 87.68Cash paid by J.W. Hudson for
•A. Childs for groceries . . . . 35.83 entries . . . 8.05
A. Childs for grain,&c. . . . . . 41.22 1, Clerk of Court as per
Lyman Lawrence for cushion, &c. . . . 8.00 ; bill. . 32.60
R. W.Holbrook for groceries . . . 91.65 Sheriff as per bill . 12.10
J.W. Peirce for coal (two bills) . . . 81.25 Charles Allen as per
Wm.Ham for smithing . . . . 6.50 bill. . . . 161.00
Eli Simonds for services and expenses as Overseer 44.00
W.Walcott for ice . . . . . 18.50 Expended by the last Board . . . $365.75
Barney Caffeney for 34 days' labor 6.13
Frank Caffeney for labor . . . . . 1.37 Total expenditure . . . . $692.81
John Conner for labor . . . . . . 2.37
Wm.Murphey for labor . . . . . 2.37 The whole of the above was paid in conformity with votes
Daniel Mullen for labor 1.37 of the town. The excess of $38.69, paid by the last Board
Daniel Harrington for labor . . . . 1.87
over the first,arises from the fact that the whole expense being
The sum expended by the first Board . $1,177.21 deemed justly chargeable to the town, the court did not, as in
They have drawn from the treasury . . . $900.00 ordinary cases, tax the cost to the defeated party, but left the
Received from the Highway Surveyors 291.50
W. Walcott 16.00 petitioners to pay the court charges,as it would make no differ-
Sale of eggs . . 2.00 ence with the town which party paid the costs in the first in-
Labor of men and team on Common 15.12 stance.
Total receipts $1,224,X2 The last Board charged nothing for their attendance at
Court; and their counsel fees proper,were a trifle less than the
Being an excess of receipts over expenditure of $47.41,
which was paid over to the new Board. sum paid by the first Board.
STATE AID.
EXPENSE OF THE SUITS TO ASCERTAIN THE ',', Paid Hannah O'Neil 11 months at $8 per month . $88.00
LEGALITY OF THE ELECTION OF TOWNMary Manley 11 8 88.00
OFFICERS. Emily Earle 10 4 40.00
1872,April. Paid Henry W. Paine as re- Lydia Kinnaston 10 4 40.00
twiner $5p pp William Nicholson 10 4 40.00
July. H.W. Paine,balance on James A. Mitchell 10 4.50 45.00
settlement . 100 00 Thomas Burke 11 4.50 49.50
Asa Cottrell for services 163.06 Grovtier A. Page 11 6 66.00
Oct. J. F Simonds (see Se- $456.50
lectmen's account) 12 00
1873, Jan Chas.M.Parker(see Se-
lectmen's account) . 2.00
Expended by the first Board . . $327.06 r
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FIRE DEPARTMENT Auditor
Paid Oliver Brown for Adams Engine Company . $250.00 Paid Charles Hudson,labor,stationery,and expressage $35 00
C H Adair for Hancock Engine Company . 250 00 ' Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Adams Enginemen 60 00
Lyman Lawrence . 17 50 a Paid Alonzo Goddard for his services . • 15 00
Hunnemaii& Co . . . 5 00 4
$582 50 k'
REPAIRS ON HANCOCK ENGINE—HOUSE
TOWN OFFICERS. Paid W. S. Blanchard,lumber for Engine-house $91 98
The Town Clerk,Treasurer,and Collector have rendered no bills.
Assessors.
Paid Joseph F Simonds,for 41 days as Assessor $123 00
Copying valuation twice 25 44 IMPROVEMENT OF LINCOLN STREET
Express . • 75 Paid Locke, Bryant & Hobart (65 per cent. on sum
Walter Wellington,for 29 days . . 87.00 expended) $297.44
Nathan Fessenden,for 28 days 84.00
$319 75 k...
Constables.
Paid 0 W. Kendall,for summoning 19 officers to qualify 4 00 RINGING CHURCH BELLS.
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for notifying two town meetings,and attending same 24.00
for notifying field drivers and fence viewers 1 00 PaidJ Chisholm for ringing East Village bell from May
for notifying Selectmen to draw jurors twice . 2.Q0 • 1781 to May 1872 $35 00
for notifying two thirds of the town twice,and the -
whole town once,owing to a mistake in warrant 20 00
Eli Simonds for notifying two town meetings,&c. . 24.00
for distributing School Reports 8 00
expenses of John Dinan to Tewksbury . . . 11 98
notifying Selectmen and Clerk to draw jurors . 1.00 •,
for finding notices for two town meetings 10 00 ,
for police duty fourth of July . 3 00
special duty,evening,May and June . 10.00
$118.98 .
Sexton s:
Paid 0 W Kendall,for attending 50 funerals . 50.00 '
for returning 55 deaths . . 5.50 •
$55 50
School Committee
E G Porter, Charles Tidd, A.E Scott,have rendered no bills.
THE TOWN DEBT FEBRUARY 1, 1873.*
DATE TO WHOM PAYABLE 1 RATE OF INTEREST WHEN DUE AMOUNT
Aug 29, 1866 . Concord Savings Institution . 7 per cent semi-annually On demand $3,000 00
June 8,1868. George Holden. . ... . . 6} °° " . ... June 1,1871 5,000 00
July 18, 1868 George HoIden . 6.4 44 CI .. .. July 18, 1871 2,000 00
°° 27, 1868 0 &W B Smith • 6 " annually .. On demand.. 2,000 00
" 31, 1868.• Trustees Lexington Ministerial Fund .. 7 '° C° if .. 3,000 00
Aug 10,1868 . Emily Muzzey . 64, " 4 Aug 10,1871. 1,100 00
April 27, 1869.. George Holden. . ... ... .. .. 6i- " semi-annually April 27,1872 2,300 00
Aug 27, 1869 Treasurer Cary Library ..- • 7 ,, << On demand 1,000 00
Oct. 8, 1869 • George Holden ei 44 4, •. Oct 8, 1872 5,000 00
Feb. 1, 1870 George Holden ...°< l[ ... On demand 2,000 00
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Total
PTotal Town Debt,independent of Town Hall Loan . .. .. $26,400 00 IP-
THE FOLLOWING IS THE LOAN FOR THE TOWN HALL AND SITE
June 1, 1870.. State of Massachusetts. .. . -.. 7 Per cent.for Brat five years, 1 June 1,1890.. $10,000 00
July 1, 1870 . State of Massachusetts. ... July 1, 1890.. 5,000 00
Aug 1, 1870.. State of Massachusetts.. and 6 per cent.thereafter, Ano 1, 1890 5,000 00
Sept. 1, 1870 . State of Massachusetts.. semi-annually ... Sept.1, 1890•• 5,000 00
Feb. 28, 1871.. Treasurer of Cary Library 17r tip hacm ur lly snd5Z.r'e nt Feb.28,1887 5,000 00
July 11, 1871 George Holden ... . .. . S}per cent-annually July 11,1876. 1,800 00 -
Sept. 28, 1871.. George Holden . .. 7 " « ... Jan. 1,1873 200 00
Total Town Hall Debt. ... $32,000 00
•Two thousand dollars of a aid debt to be paid before March 1,1873
STATISTICS.
NUMBER
YEAR. POPULATION. OP VALUATION- RATE OF TAX. TOWN GRANT. STATE TAX. COUNTY TAX.
POLLS.
1800 . . 1,006 219 $356,052 - - -
1810 . . 1,052 304 310,967 - - - -
1820 . . 1,200 306 234,369 -- -
1830 . . 1.543 368 247,466 -
1840 . . 1;642 489 561,549 - -
1850 . . 1,893 522 1,869,453
1860 . . 2,329 581 1,762,145 $8 00 on $1,000 $12,952 87 $497 50 $1,449 22
1861 . . 2,329 615 1,762,037 8 00 0 12,075 81 605 00 1,760 47
1862 . • 2,329 592 1,745,644 9 50 f[ 14,830 00 3,636 00 1,494 06
1863 . . 2,329 624 1,832,344 10 00 0 12,915 00 4,848 00 1,494 06
1864 . . 2,329 558 1,687,348 15 00 [{ 19,397 00 4,848 00 1,492 02
1865 . . 2,223 585 1,670,963 16 50 0 18,530 00 8,319 00 1,283 51
1866 . . 2.223 598 1,701,655 14 00 a 18,110 00 5,310 00 1,407 35
1867 . . 2,223 601 1,770,468 15 50 '° 17,660 00 8,850 00 1,576 24
1868 . . 2,223 620 1,999,137 14 00 0 23,315 00 3,540 00 1,632 53
1869 . 2,223 609 1,966,876 12 50 4, 19,839 00 4,425 00 1,800 41
1870 . . 2,377 629 2,254,831 13 50 IL 24,275 00 4,425 00 1,801 41
1871 . . 2,377 618 2,324,750 16 00 0 31,746 00 4,425 00 1,801 41
1872 . . 2,389 638 2,536,011 16 00 35,390 00 3,000 00 1,739 67
The valuation prior to 1840 was made on a basis different from that on which it has since been made.
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MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN LEXINGTON,
:•,.:., EATHS RECORDED IN LEXINGTON,
• FROM JANUARY 1, 1872, TO JANUARY 1, 1873. FROM JANUARY 1, 1872, TO JANUARY 1, 1873
• /s AOZ. E
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_ DM4i. NAM& Ina Cant ':i4+ DATE. NAME d 'a PLACE O9 BiHYi1.
Thomas H. Kyte .Boston. i,s • 4 X ..
Dau 15 Sarah 3 Smith ... Lexington :t:
George T Davis • ...Enfield N C • J+ ran 21 George N Dexter 47 b Lexington Boston
ct 1$ 87 Annie Marko Peak 11 England
Abbie 3 Simonds Lexington FebtM•. 8 Samuel? Tapley 61 6 13 Charlestown
• 11 Marin Wyman 76 8 Westminster,Yt
Daniel E �Iaynes. Bedford 29 Charles Locke 85 9 Lexington.
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2 . Mamh 8. Rather& Angier 62 i G Belem
Ahb1e J. Goodwin Bedford • 9 Ideal Ager 1 11 6 II
Lexington
9 Sally Files. 77 7
S Thomas M. Harvie . Lexington. .. " 10. Annie C Darla 41 11 " Gloucester
"� Abbie Card Lexington 12 Y stover 67 l0 14LI
Lexington
18. Patrick Buckley 1 S
Edmund HurleyMansfield. 19 Cornelius Buckley 4 6 "
Feb. 4. c " 23 Abigail Seaver 98 11 13 Roxbury
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1 Margaret Keleher ... .Lexington •Apri1 1.. Frances Huffmaster m 5 4 IC Medford
2 Hannah Smith 72 11 Bedford
t Charles T West. Lexington. • 6 Thaddeus Tower 84 7 " Sudbury
1.7 • 8 Philip Russell 76 8 2 " Essington
• Mary W. Russell Arlington18. Thomas A Russell 89 "
" 28 Nellie M Emery . . 2 6 " Portland,Me.
• Thomas Pierce Lexington. 4,• " 89 Lnmanna T Phelps 35 6 12 Lexington.
March 21 •!-,,•,•, Mar 4 Albs Frost 91 5 " Bilisrica
• 1 Bridget O'Brien .... LexingtonJune 1 John Williams Hudson 25 10 22 " Westminster
( 8 Maria,H 1lildmth 26 1 " Acton
April 11 7�7 John Strople Lexington •' '.P- • 12 Mary Jane Graham 29 2 Lexington
l Abbie Meyer... . ....Cambrid e. • 18 ismmie Belle Locke 6 8 u Exeter,N 1F
•• s 19 Mary McGrath 22 7 Lexington.
1 William B.Hughes. Lexington. •'is 20 Isaac Parker . 173 7 15 " '`
July 1. g 26 . Sarah.Brady 27 " Ireland.
Lucy N. Puffer Lexington. ••::0-..,... Jolt 1.. Allen McDougall 21 . " Nava Scotia
10..' Caroline Smith 32 "
James H. Skilton ..Woburn. ` 15.. John 8 Rhoades a9 " Salem
" ¢..... " 18.. Mary Bryant. 69 2 18 '�
Maly S. C. Walker. .Woburn. ` '-li.. Anna DI Muuay 81 27 8 - Boa ton
" -17. Lyman Benjumin Murray . . 1 .. " Lexington
• Charles W Conners... Woburn • ' . :18 Anna Matilda Hulsey.. 2
Aug. 14...... .. 22 Judith Blasdel .... ....... 62 11 " Itye,N II
Georgians T. Parker. Lexington. 24 Charles T Hanford.. 3 21 Boston.
' 25 Mary Elisabeth Dineen........, 17 2 26 ` Lexington.
Patrick Keating,Jr.... ..._ Lexington. ; ., 89 Anna Jennings . . .. 71 11 23 ` South Danvers.
Oct 19. " " Maiden.
Hannah Roche Lexington. 81 Js a Fiske 19 4
g "- Aug. 8 John Reardon 4 � Lexington.
• S Patrick Mansfield...... ..Charlestown ` 10. Lizzie Page 6 ...
Not known
Nov. 3..... r ° 10 . lfary Jane McCue •.. 6 " Boston
• Mary White..... Lexington. 18.. Sarah A Reel 1 26 Lexington.
. " 17.. Jane E Harrigan 18 6 "
Whole number of Marriages 13. 1'': " 2o.. Charles Lewis Bachelder I 1 " 8 Hartford,Ct.
g . sept I Johanna Harrington 8i Ireland
. 'Oct. 39 Byron J.Wentworth25 10 •11 " salmon Falls,N II
Nov 6 Michael O'Brien,Jr. . .. 16 2 2 '` Lexington
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' 9 Matthew Merriam 75 6 12 I. Brunswick,Me.
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' f,, Dec 8 Patrick CenSeld 85 " 1relend.
25. Joseph Davie . 78 4 10 Al Holden.
` s " 28 . Alice lilidden. 68 9 " Northfield,N H
BIRTHS REGISTERED IN LEXINGTON,
Whole number,53--Maass,22,Females,31.
1''ROM JANUARY 1, 1872, TO JANUARY 1, 1873 :t.4'" Causer of Dratk.—Consumption,18, Scarlet Fever,6,Age,6;Paralysis,4; Cholera In
` ;fan turn,5; Cancer,2, Small-pox 2;Bright's Disease,2;Rheumatic Fever„1;Electricity,1;
Whole number of Births, 33, Males, 16, Females, 17. •,' saastroke,1,Heart Disease,1;Marasmus,I;Dropsy,I,Puerperal Convnlaions 1,Unknown,
-..`•;6i Whooping Cough,1 Total,63
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':7,...! Compiled from the Town Records
` h` LEONARD G BABCOCK, Town Clerk