HomeMy WebLinkAbout1873-Annual ReportREPORT
OF THE
SELECTMEN
AND OTHER
TOWN OFFICERS OF LEXINGTON,
SHOWING THEIR DOINGS,
AND THE
EXPENDITURES OF THE TOWN FOR ELEVEN
MONTHS, ENDING JANUARY 30, 1873.
TOGETHER WITH A LIST OF THE
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, FOR THE YEAR ENDING
DECEMBER 81, 1872.
BOSTON:
PRESS OF T. R. MARVIN & SON, 27 CORNHILL.
1873.
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.
THE change in the close of the fiscal year from the first of
March 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 with the annual appropriations.
And this embarrassment is increased by the fact that within the
eleven months, we have had 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 can-
templated that the reports of the different officers should be
submitter) to the town in print. Such was the statement made
at the time by the advocates for the change ; and the main
reason for the change was, that the people might have an oppor-
tunity of sitting down at their leisure and reading in print the
acts and doings of their own officers, before the annual elec-
tion. The vote, as recorded by the Clerk, does not mention the
printing ; but it requires that these reports should be circu-
lated 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-
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 that these' accounts be printed and circulated with the
March Meeting warrant. The custom which has long pre-
vailed, is for the Highway Surveyors, Overseers of the Poo;
and other disbursing officers to obtain money from the treasury
on account, by orders drawn by the Selectmen, and at the end of
the year to render a detailed account of their expenditures, with
their vouchers to the Selectmen, who after a full examination,
have adjusted the accounts by receiving and passing over to
the treasury, if the party had overdrawn, or by drawing from
the treasury, if the balance was in favor of these officers
respectively.
Nor do we ,see perfect safety in any other course. The
Selectmen are in a manner held responsible for the safety and
use of the public money. They are, the present year, intrusted
with the power of drawing more than $135,000 from the treasury;
and nearly one half of this sum is drawn on account with the
Overseers, Surveyors, and School Committee ; and common
prudence would seem to require, and fidelity to the town to
demand, that these officers should submit a detailed account of
their expenditures to the Selectmen from whom they received
their funds ; and that these accounts should have the indorse-
ment of the Selectmen before they are submitted to the town.
Any departure from this long established custom would open a
door to abuses, and render the public funds more insecure.
The vote of March last could not have been designed to
supersede this salutary custom. Nor is this custom annulled
by any subsequent action of the town. At the meeting in
November last, it was voted, " Tliat a board of Auditors be
chosen to audit the accounts of the town the current year, and
that said board consist of two members ; " and two Auditors were
accordingly chosen,---- though it is understood that one of them
declines serving. This vote repeals nothing, but Ieaves the
vote of March last in full force ; so that the town officers are to
have to the first of February to make up their accounts, when
they will settle with the Selectmen, as heretofore, and then
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
middle of February. The practical question arises whether
two weeks will afford an opportunity to go through this process,
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and give the Auditors time to audit the accounts. Whenever
we have had a board of Auditors appointed, they have entered
upon their work with zeal, and with a sort of pledge that the
work should be completed at once, and that their report should
Boon be in the hands of the citizens. But after weeks, and
even months of delay, the report has appeared; and this fact,
with a charge of from fifty to sixty dollars for their services,
shows that they found a task more laborious than they ex-
pected. No board of' Auditors can' take the accounts and
examine them thoroughly, and arrange and prepare them for
the press short of a week's labor. It is manifest, therefore, that
if the Selectmen settle with the several classes of town officers,
it will take them several days into February ; and if they should
turn these accounts over to the Auditors then, it is evident that
the reports cannot be printed and be in the hands of the Con-
stable fourteen days before the March Meeting. Any printer
would require ten days to get out five or six hundred copies of
a pamphlet containing five or six forms of rule and figure work.
The town officers feel themselves instructed to make their re-
ports in print ; and while they are willing to do anything to aid
the auditors, they see no way in which this can be done, except
by preparing the accounts, as far as practicable, beforehand, and
arranging all the matter for the press, and submitting the mere
figuring to the Auditors in different ipstalments as they make.
up the accounts. This, though it imposes all the labor of audit-
ing upon us, the Selectmen are willing to do. They sec the
awkward position in which the Auditors are placed ; and though
no time is fixed when they are to make their report, it would
seem desirable that they examine accounts or vouchers before
the reports are printed.* We are willing to do anything we
can to relieve them from an embarrassment imposed upon them
by those whose machinery has more friction than they contem-
plated..
We confess that we do not see the wisdom in the proposed
change. The oft -repeated statement that the Selectmen should
not be allowed to audit their own accounts, however true in
* We have arranged with Mr. L. A. Saville, who was chosen as one of
the Auditors, who has kindly taken most of the tabular matter in ]land,
and revised the same, and pointed out all errors be 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-
counts but the small sum for their personal services. Nor
do we see how the fidelity of an officer for eleven months is
any guaranty that he may not be a rogue the last month of his
service, especially when he knows that his acts may not come
to light till the next year: Nor do we see Trow the appropria-
tions are to be made understandingly, or other duties be wisely
performed. How, for example, can the School Committee,
during the month of Febivary, after the school year has closed,
consistently reengage their teachers before they know what
sure of money the town will grant for the schools. But it is
our duty to obey, and get out our report in season,— which
we hope to do.
The year has been somewhat peculiar, being charged with
events which have increased our labors and responsibilities,
and added to the expenses of the town. The great fire in Bos-
ton, by prostrating many of our Insurance Companies, rendered
$22,500 of our insurance on the. Town Hall and its contents,
worthless. Knowing the wishes of the town, as Heretofore ex-
pressed, the Selectmen felt justified in causing that sura to be
reinsured in other solvent offices, which they did at a cost of
four hundred and fifty dollars.
The introduction of the small -pox in its unusually malignant
form into the town, has been a. source of great anxiety to us,
and of considerable expense to the town. The first case of this
dangerous disease, brought into town from below, that of Mr.
Wentworth, created no general alarm. And yet the Selectmen
saw in the history of the disease elsewhere, serious danger ofits
spreading; and consequently we issued a circular December 3,
1872, warning the people of the danger, and requesting every
family where the disease might break out, to isolate thetnseives
so as not to communicate the disease to their neighbors, and to
give notice to the Selectmen at once so that immediate measures
might be adopted to prevent the spread of this malady. The
physicians were also regnested to observe this provision of
law, and give notice to the Selectmen of every case of the small-
pox or varioloid which came under their observation. Some
of our citizens thought the Selectmen alarmists, creating un-
necessary apprehension by their circular.
This circular was issued three • days before Canfield was
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attacked, and five days before his death. This was the first
case that created anything like serious apprehension or general
alarm. At the time of his death, which was,an the eighth, the
Selectmen had had no notice of the case, nor was the physician
satisfied whether it was a ease of the suppressed small -pox or of
a malignant fever. But as soon as the Selectmen heard of his
death, and the preparation for a wake, the Chairman of the
Board repaired at once to the Irish village, forbade the wake,
and commanded that the remains, which they had proposed to
keep two days for a grand funeral, be removed to the place of
interment at once. These requests or commands were complied
with.
The next case to which our attention was caIIed, was one on
Lowell Street. Mr. Charles Putnam's farmer, Mr. Sims, was
visited by a brother of his, who was taken down with the small-
pox. As soon as this case was known, the. Selectmen engaged
an individual to remove the patient to an unoccupied house in
the neighborhood, employed an experienced nurse to attend
him, and, after his death, to cleanse and fumigate the house.
The Selectmen also provided for his funeral, —as .they had done
in part for two other funerals in the East Village, and have since
done in other cases. Since the death of this patient, Mr. Sims'
wife and two children have been taken down with the disease,
and have been confined to the house, which has been so per-
fectly isolated, that there has been no apprehension of the dis-
ease spreading from that place.
Subsequently, on the 14th of January, we were informed by
the physician, that a child of Canfield's had broken out with
the disease, and the Chairman repaired to the Irish village at
once, and gave orders that a red flag must be displayed at the
house, and that the family must not mix with the neighbors or
allow persons to visit the house. On the same day, viz., the
14th of January, we were notified that George Winship, at the
Harrington house, north of the Common, was attacked with
the varioloid. We immediately saw that a red flag was hung
out to apprise the pubiic of the existence of the disease, and
decided the same day that both the Canfield house and the
Harrington house should be isolated, and a messenger be ap-
pointed to go to the houses daily at a given hour, and by a pre -
concerted signal some one of the inmates should appear at the
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door or window, and give orders to the messenger without, for
whatever supplies might be necessary ; and the messenger should
see that they were procured, and left at some place agreed upon
near the house, so that they could be taken in by some one of
'1 e family at a time when no one would be exposed. In this
way we hoped to circumscribe the disease within its then pres-
ent limits. But who would act as messenger? The Chairman
of the Board offered to go to the houses, and make the prelim-
inary arrangements with the families. But for two days he
could find na one who would undertake. We called on some
of the nearest neighbors, who would be most exposed if the
houses were not isolated, and offered them a generous compen-
sation if they would act as a messenger ; but 310 one would under-
take. On Sunday, Mr. Eli Simonds was called upon, and he
engaged to take charge of both houses; and we believe that he
has done his duty faithfully, and merits public gratitude.
In the mean time the Selectmen, wishing to guard the people
as far as practicable, an Saturday the eleventh, being the day
after the two cases mentioned above, were reported to them, of
their own motion and without any request or even suggestion
from any one, prepared a circular which was printed on Mon-
day; which circular they caused to be left with the families in
all parts of the town, so that the entire population might use the
necessary precaution to limit the ravages of this dangerous dis-
order. Tliis circular was distinct and stringent, and if obeyed
would go far to stop the spread of the disease. It urged upon
families in all cases where there was any serious apprehension
of the existence of the disease, to send for their physician, and
if he pronounced it a case of the small -pox, varioloid, or even
the spotted or scarlet fever, to hang out the red flay, and
notify the Selectmen at once. In the mean time the family
must isolate themselves, and select some friend to act as their
medium with the people without. It commanded immediate
burial, forbade all public funerals and wakes, and all assembling
at the house during the sickness or after the death of a person
whose disease was the small -pox or varioloid. It also required
in all cases of sickness . from this disease, whether it proved
fatal or not, that the house be thoroughly cleansed and fumi-
gated, together with the clothing ; and that no person from such
a house should presume to mix with society, or travel in public
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conveyances, until his physician should think it could be done
with safety to the public. The circular recommended vaccina-
tion and re -vaccination.
After the case of Winship and the Canfield child had tenni-
rutted fatally,. the Selectmen employed Mr. Amos Angier, a ma
of judgment and some experience in such matters, to go to botl
of these houses, and see that they were thorougliry cleansed,
and that the clothing and bedding which had been most ex-
posed, and was comparatively worthless, be destroyed, and that
the families should not suffer on that account. These meas-
ures we deemed important to prevent a further spread of this
alarming malady.
After the death of Winship, the Chairman of the Board de-
cided that the bed and bedding which had been exposed to two
cases of the disease, should be destroyed, by being taken out
upon the meadow back of the house,,and be burned, the wind
being in such a direction that the smoke would expose no one.
But here again 'the old difficulty arose -- who would carry out
these instructions ? It was difficult to find any one who would
undertake it. The Chairman, in conference with one of the
neighbors, agreed that they would both look about for some
one who would do it. The undertaker who was expected to
come and remove the remains was spoken of approvingly, if he
could be induced to do it. The Chairman, to make sure of
this destruction of the infected articles, went to the East Vil-
lage, and engaged Mr. Angier to come and•eleanse the house
and burn the articles designated. But in the mean time the
neighbor had directed the undertaker, who had consented to
take charge of the proscribed articles, to carry them away to
some out -part of the town and destroy them. This was done
without the knowledge of the Chairman, and in direct opposi-
tion to his order to have them burned upon the meadow. The
undertaker it appears took the articles, and carried them on the
Woburn road near the border of the two towns, and threw
them off upon the roadside, set them on fire and left them to
their fate. The fire went out before the articles were con-
sumed, and as soon as this fact came to the knowledge of the
Selectmen, they took the most prompt measures to have them
destroyed by sending a man to renew the fire, and stay by till
they were consumed. We were greatly disappointed at this
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whole affair ; but console ourselves with the reflection that the
misfortune arose from departing fi-tin1 the instruction we had
given.
• Subsequently, on the 19th of January, Mr. F. E. Ballard
t us a note asking for a Messenger to communicate between
rm and the outside world. We immediately furnished him
with a messenger, and were pleased to see that he considered
his house isolated by our circular of the eleventh instant. His
case would have been attended to earlier, if we had had any
authentic knowledge of the existence of the disease in the
family. Neither the householder nor the physician had apprised
us of the fact.
At the same time we sent a message to Mr. George B.
Pierce, informing him that we had. learned that the disease.
existed in his funily, and that t]iey must be isolated, and that
going to Boston in the cars was forbidden. But the very day
we sent this note to Mr. Pierce, we were informed by his fam-
ily physician, that on a full review of the case in its more
developed stages, ire was satisfied that the case was not one of
the r:triniuid- We consequently relieved Mr. Pierce from the
restraint we had imposed upon him,— thereby shoring that
we had been hasty- rather than dilatory in our action.
It has been our constant endeavor to adopt such measures as
would best allay the excitement, and check the spread of the
disease. We appealed to the sober sense and good judgment
of the people, apprised them of the danger, pointed out the
policy best adapted to guard the public, and asked there to
cooperate with us. We have found what is generally true in
times of excitement and danger, that the very persons who are
the most clamorous for prompt and efficient action, and the
most ready to censure and condemn the action of the public
authorities, are the very last who would render any assistance,
or in any way expose themselves to any danger, real or nnag-
inary,
The policy we have adopted will create a draft upon the
treasury, but regarding. " the life more than meat, and the
body than raiment," we resolved at once that a few dollars
should not stand in the way of the public health.. We have
paid the expense of burial, the charge of nursing and doctor-
ing, the cost of cleansing and fumigating the houses with their
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contents, and for the worth of any articles which we thought
it prudent to destroy. Bills for suck expenses have not all
been paid, but we have promised to pay therm where the farn-
i1:es are unable to meet the expense.
We are happy to state that the disease at present has rlisa
peared, and we hope that by care and prudence it will not
reappear. We have been thus particular to show that we
hare not been unmindful of the health of the community, and
to correct the misrepresentations which have been circulated,
to the discredit of the town. To makeup the number of cases
existing in town at a given time, these alarmists have in some
cases included those who had recovered, and were in the midst
of society with the consent of their physician, who assured them
that they would not endanger the public. At the present time
(Feb. 8) there is no case existing in town, that we are aware. .
of, so that no apprehension of danger need be felt.
The vote of the town requiring the Selectmen to examine
the accounts of the Treasurer once a quarter, has been sub-
stantially complied with—though the uncertain condition of
the town officers during the early part of the season probably
prevented the examination in Jrnze. But the small amount of
money in the treasury at that season, renders that examination
less important than any other.
The decision of the Supreme Court, vacating the elections of
town officers chosen on the fourth of March, and the fact that
the Treasurer chosen at the adjournment, had forfeited his
election by neglecting to be qualified, rendered it necessary .
that a Treasurer pro tempore should be appointed. Conse-
quently the Selectmen appointed, July 11, 1872, L. G. Bab-
cock, Treasurer and Collector pro tempore. On the day fol-
lowing, Mr. Babcock, having accepted the appointments, and
given the required bond, was duly inducted into office, and th'e
books and funds of the late 'treasurer were passed over to
him ; and the account stood as follows :.—
L. G. Babcock, late Treasurer, had received of his predecessor,
Geo. 0. Davis
From Rent of Rooms in the Town Hall
From A. E. Scott, on settlement of School Account
From Loans . . .
From the State, for Corporation Tax and Paupers
$ 7,804.78
72.00
102.05
8,500.00
58.07
Total Receipts . 816,537.80
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And he had paid on Town Orders, Interest, and for other
authorized objects . $14,056.67
Balance . 82,481.13
hicb balance was passed to the appointed Treasurer.
Mr. Babcock being appointed pro tempore, it was deemed
wise and prudent that the town should take action on the sub-
ject; and hence the Selectmen brought the subject before the
citizens, and on the 21st of August, 1872, L. G. Babcock
was duly elected Treasurer and Collector. To make the hatter
perfectly sure, and to render the funds of the town entirely safe,
we required a new bond, and made a regular transfer of the
books and fonds from the appointed to the elected Treasurer.
We found that the appointed Treasurer had up to
September 1, 1872, received from his prcde-
cessor
From Loans
From Rent .
. . 82,481.13
2,500.00
36.00 — 5,017.13
And that he had paid out on Town Orders, and for other
lawful objects
Leaving a balance to pass over of
to the elected Treasurer.
Following the vote of the town, the Selectmen.exanined the
books and accounts of L. G. Babcock, both as Collector and
Treasurer, up to December 1, 1872. This is deemed the
most important visit of the whole year ; for it is at a time
when most of the taxes are supposed to be collected, and when
there is a surplus in the Treasury.
We found there was committed for collection . . . $41,852.17
That be had allowed in discount . $9,408.13
That the Assessors have abated . 233.65
That he had paid into the Treasury . 34,081.38-37,723.16
$3,252.12
$1,765.01 ,
Leaving, uncollected, December 1, 1872 $4,129 01
They found that the Treasurer, L. G. Babcock, liad up to
December 1, 1872, received the following sums : —
Balance on hand September 1st
Received from the Collector.
Received from Hay Scales
Received from Loans . .
Received from other sources .
81,763.01
34,081.38
56.55
1,000.00
18.00-36,920.94
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And that he had paid out since the last day of Au-
gust, on Town Orders 88,242.65
On Notes taken up . 5,500.00
For interest . 827,75-14,570.40
Leaving in the Treasury, December 1, 1872 . $22,350.5 =;,L.,
This sum of 822,350.54 was deposited as follows : In the
Commonwealth Bank, Boston . . . 812,260.60
In the Lexington Saving Banks, temporarily. 10,000.00
Cash on hand . 89.94
822,350.54
LEXIHGTDN, February 5, 1873.
The Selectmen have this day settled partially with
L. G. Babcock, Collector of Taxes, and find
that he had, December 1, 1872, uncollected . 83,039.01
And that since that date there has been committed a
supplemental tax of .
And that he has collected and paid into the Treas-
ury, sines December 1, 1872 . 1,729.70
And the Assessors have abated . 20.00-1,749.70
278-60-83,312.61
Leaving a balance uncollected of . $1,562.91
They have also this day examined the accounts of
L. G. Babcock, Treasurer, and find that on De-
cember 1, 1872, he had a balance on hand of . $22,350.54
That he has received from the Collector . . 1,729.70
From State Treasurer, Corporation tax . . 890.05
From State Treasurer for State aid . 516.00
From rent of Town Hall 90 00
From rent of Masonic Hall . .
From State Treasurer, income of School Fund
From G. Swan, overpaid on bill
And he has paid out since December 1,1872, as fol-
lows : —
Pahl on Contingent Grant
Paid on State Aid
Paid on Highway
Paid on Pauper . .
Paid on School
Paid on Interest on Notes
Paid on Notes borrowed temporarily
Paid on Special Drainage Grant .
Paid on Special Sidewalk Grant
Paid on Sexton and Constable .
Paid on Assessors . .
Pais on Special Lincoln Road .
36.00
169.64
10.00-825,791.93 '
82,243.37
93.00
300.00
212.20
1,100.00
840.76
6,500.00
246.70
180.37
46.50
73.75
237.44
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Paid on State Tax .
Paid on County Tax
Cash on hand to balance
Which balance was in the following funds : —
In Town Orders, as cash
In Commonwealth Bank
In Lexington Savings Bank
Cash on hand
8,000.00
1,789.61--16,873.70
$8,918.23
$464.05
2,907.34
5,430.37
115.87—$8,918.23
This exhibit shows the sum of $1.0,481.11 in the treasury
and on the tax bills uncollected. This sum, nearly the whole
amount of what is uncollected, will be realized if prompt meas-
ures are adopted, and will meet all demands upon the treasury
which will be presented for the present.
The opening of the Spring will bring its usual demands upon
the treasury, for the Highways and other objects. The lin-.
provement of the Lincoln road will require nearly two thousand
dollars, and by a vote of' the town two thousand dollars of the
town debt is to be paid. These two items will reduce materi-
ally the amount in the treasury. Besides, closing the fiscal
year one month earlier than usual will necessarily carry over
• to the next year many bills, which would otherwise tall within
the present year. On the whole, we see nothing discouraging
in the financial condition of the town. We have had several
drafts of from two to six hundred dollars, which could not have
been anticipated ; and still the condition of the treasury will be
as favorable as it has been heretofore.
To conclude their long report the Selectmen w-onkl say, that
many of the guide -boards and street -signs are destroyed or out
of repair, and ought to be •replaced or repaired at an early day.
We would state.. that we, have contracted for the widening
and improving Lincoln Street, for twenty-two hundred dollars,
--- tlu,ee hundred dollars less than the appropriation.
"There is a practice which has grown up and become more or
:less common in every municipality, frons which we are not
:exempt, that ought to be checked,— that of overdrawing appro=
priations. We are fully aware of the difficulty with which this
subject is , environed. When a town votes to have a specific
thing done,,and appropriates a certain sum for that object, the
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party to whom the execution of the vote is intrusted, would
probably have a Iegal right to finish the job, though the cost
might exceed the appropriation. But even then it would be
prudent to bring the matter before the town for their action, if
none were to suffer in the mean time. There may be cases in
which delay would be prejudicial to the public interest, and
where public officers would be morally required to exceed the
sum set apart for a given object. For instance, if an agent
were directed to shingle a public building, and a certain sum of
money was appropriated for that object., and if it should turn out
after tate old shingles were stripped off, that the entire cost
would exceed the sum specified, the public servant would be
justified and even required to see that the whole roof was
covered in, so as not to expose the building and its contents to
waste. Cases of this character may frequently occur.
There is another class of cases, where the law, in its spirit, if
not in its letter, requires public officers to do certain things
regardless of' appropriations. Highway Surveyors, with the
concurrence or under the direction of the Selectmen, would be
required to expend money to remove certain obstructions, or
heal certain breaches on the highway when they happen to
orcur; and the Overseers of the Poor must provide for paupers
in certain cases, and the School Committee must procure a tem-
porary room for a school, if the town neglects, or even refuses
to make suitable provision. But these are exceptional cases.
Our remarks appy to the ordinary appropriations. If the town
orders its officers to expend five hundred dollars in constructing
sidewalks, they have no right to expend eight hundred ; and so
of every general subject which can be limited by the person
having the expenditure in charge. And yet, expenditures in
some of these cases, have been made as though the agent had
full power to decide what his principal ought to have done in
the premises. This is virtually taking the taxing power out of
the hands of the town, and depriving our fellow citizens in town
meeting assembled, of deciding how much they are willing to
devote to the different objects which come before them.
The practice on which we animadvert, has not been confined'
to any one class of officers, or to a single year. Duringrhe
present season there was appropriated for improvements on
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.
Ills is a small excess; but the principle is the same as though
it were greater. An appropriation of one thousand dollars was
made to repair or improve the school -houses, and their appur-
tenances ; and the sum expended has amounted to twelve hun-
dred and twenty-three dollars. Here is an increase of more
than twenty-three per cent. Apply the same per cent. of in-
crease to the sum appropriated for the support of the schools,
and it would give over seventeen hundred dollars more than the.
town decided that they would devote to the education of the
young.
But the School`Committee are not the only Board which has
exceeded the appropriation. The town appropriated five thou-
sand dollars for the repairs of the Highways, and though the bills
are not all in, the sum already paid out for the maintenance of
the roads, has exceeded the appropriation by nearly one hun-
dred 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
that our school -houses needed the repairs which have been made,
and that the work was judiciously and economically done. We
know that the repairs of the roads have given good satisfaction,
that several heavy jobs have been done, and that the drainage.
un the principal roads in town, is better now than it has been
for years ; but that does not alter the principle. It is for the
people themselves, and not for the town officers to decide what
taxes shall be assessed upon them.
The opinion seems to prevail with some, that any excess of
expenditure can be drawn from the contingent grant, as though
that grant was exhaustless. But such is not the fact. That
grant has its maximum as well as every other ; and from the
very habit to which we have reverted, has generally been over-
drawn. The Selectmen have sometimes felt that they were
transcending their duty in allowing hills after the appropriation
to which they belong, is exhausted. But we have followed the
old custom, as a deviation from it would affect third parties, and
so bear hard upon innocent people. We have thought it more
prudent, more wise, and more equitable to apprise the public in
advance if any change was to be made in this respect, after
taking the voice of the people upon the subject.
17
Knowing that the avowed object of circulating the reports of
the town officers with the warrant for the annual meeting, was
to give the citizens the greatest practicable light upon the sub-
jects on which they will be called to act, we have been more
particular than we otherwise should be; trusting that by so
doing, we shall meet the wishes of the authors of this reform,
and so enable them to pass a righteous sentence upon each and
every town officer.
To remedy the evil of overdrawing the appropriations, we
would recommend that the Surveyors, Overseers, School Com-
mittee, and others who are intrusted with the expending of
the town's money, be required to make a full report of their
expenditures to the Selectmen once a quarter, and that the
Selectmen require them to keep within the appropriations, as
near as practicable, consistent with the public interest. Such
a course would check extravagance, and prevent many abuses.
EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING THE HIGHWAYS.
The first Board of Surveyors were Eli Simonds and Nathan L.
Bryant. Their account is brought up to July 1, 1872, when, by the
decision of the Supreme Court, they were superseded by the Board
last chosen.
N0.
1. Paid Nicholas Shea, for 1 day shoveling snow $1.75
2. Patrick Powers, for 4 days on highway, at $1.75
per day 7.00
3. Nicholas Shea, for 16 hours labor at 20 cts. . 3.20
4. Barney Caffeney, 1 day and 14 hours labor . 4.55
5. D. A. Tuttle, for lumber, nails, &c., on Hancock
Street Culvert . . 2,00
6. Josiah Smith, for steeling and sharpening picks 1.60
7. C. T. Worthley, for expressage . . 2.90
8. Thomas Owen, for G4 days on highway at $1.75 11.82
9. T. H. Wright, for a horse . 175.00
10. •Patrick Caffeney, for 144 days labor at $1.75 24.94
11. R. W. Holbrook, for grain, &c. . 21.64
12. Whitcher & Saville, for grain, &c. . 61.77
13. Whitcher & Saville, for grain, &c., balance 29.44
14. L. G. Babcock, for a dog license . . 2.00.
15. Isaac Parker, for plough castings . 1.27
16. Addison G. Fay, for powder 5.20
17. Barney Caffeney, for 384 days at $1.75, and
164 days at $2 . . . 100.32
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Ka.
18. Paid Harrison Pierce, far 371 days at $2, and 31
days at $2.25
19. Nicholas Shea, for 48 days at $1.75, and 24
days at $2 . •
20. Patrick Powers, for 414 days at $1.75, and 194
at $2 .
21. Wm. Murphy, for 394 days at $1.75, and 214
at $2 .
22. Frank Caffeney, 391 days at $1.75, and 19+
at $2 . . . . .
23. John Conner, for 401 days at $1.75, and 212
at $2 . . .
24. Daniel Mullen, for 36+ days at $1.75, and 154
at $2 .
25. Daniel Harrington, for 204 days at $1.75, and
144at$2 .
•
26. Michael Crowley, 1 day, self and horse .
27. C. A. Butters, for grain, &c. . .
28. C. A. Mandleburg, for repairs of wheels, &c. .
29. T. Chisholm, for cart, saddle, &c. .
80. H. P. Webber, for smithing . • . .
31. Lyman Lawrence, for harness -making work .
32. R. W. Holbrook, for oats and nails •
38. Wm. Ham, for smithing •
34. Eli Simonds, for 35 days at $3, services as
clerk, $17 shoeing horse •
35. Overseers of the Poor, for board and labor of
horses, and labor of J. B. Brown
36. F. H. Kneeland, for smithing .
Total expenditure to July 1, 1872 •
The Surveyors had received, in town orders $2,000.00
sale of horse 50.00
labor of team 17.50
$129.49
132.00
110.68
111.62
109.06
114.31
94.37
63.93
4.00
16.30
22.50
20.45
55.42
59.96
6.72
48.00
124.13
291.50
26.64
$1,987.37
$2,067.50
Received an excess over their expenditures of $80.13, which they
paid over to the new Board.
COST OF REPAIRING HIGHWAYS.
Expended by the old Board. Brought forward .
Expended by the new Board : A. W. Locke,
N. L. Bryant, and 3. Hobart.
Paid J. A. Russell, for smithing .
. $11.20
$1,987.37
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Paid C. A. Butters, oats and tools . $13.79
F. H. Kneeland, smithing 29.30
A. Childs, grain, &c. . 41.53
Win. I3rigbam, stone drub, $8, frame for
drain. $3.25 . . . . 11.25
Josiah Sinitli, for smithing .
G. W. Adams, 63 Ioads of gravel at 10
cis. per load 6.30
S. Puffer, a culvert stone . . 3.00
B. Fiske, drilling rocks . . . 6.00
N. L. Bryant, on account with A. W. Locke 50.00
Joshua Hobart, on account with A. W.
Locke . . . 50.00
Lyman Lawrence, for harness repairs, &c. 29.41
J. T. Gorman, for drilling fifty-five inches,
at 10 cts. •
E. R. Smith, 3 days' work fencing road .
Thomas Lahea, 12 days at $2, land by ap-
praisal 29.00
Joshua Hobart, on account with surveyors. 27.90
F. H. Kneeland, smithing . . . 7.95
Day & Callings, 18 feet drain pipe, at
57 cts. 10.26
E. 1 . Smith, 5/ days' labor at $1.80 . 10.'35
Patrick Powers. 414 days' Iabor at $2, 71
days' labor at $1 80, 33 hours at 20 cts. 103.05
Nicholas Shea, 92 days at $2, 131 at $1.80,
and 36 hours at 20 cts. . . . . 215.95
3. Clifford, 611 days at $2, 122 at $1.80, 33
hours at 20 cts. . 152.60
D. McMannus, 432 days at $2. . . 87.00
Dan'l Ilarrington, 80+ days at $2 . . 181.00
Wm. Murphy, 91 days at $2, 114 at $1.80,
33 hours at 20 cts. . 208.85
Frank Galfaey, 891 days at $ 2, 11./ at
$1.80, 33 hours at 20 cts. . 206.80
Dan'l Mullen, 512 days at $2, 122 at
$1.80, 33 hours at 20 cts. . . . 132.10
T. B. Lane, 13 days at $2.25 . . 29.25
Harrison Pierce, 92+ days at $2.25 . . 208.68
Pat. Joyce, 814 days at $2, 114 at $ I.80,
33 hours at 20 cts. . . . 190.80
M. Murphy, 492 days at $2, 84 at $1.80,
33 hours at 20 cts.
3.94
5.50
9.75
. 120.40
J. Caldwell, 72 days at $I.80, 33 hours at
20 cts. . .
D. Callings, 18/ days at $2 .
IIT. Hays, 34i days at 52 .
Geo. Saunders, 8 days at $2 .
M. Carl, 14+ days at $2
M. Burns, 12+ days at $2
20.10
37.50
09.00
16.00
29.00
24.50
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Paid J. Conyers, 85* days at $2 . . . $71.50
A. W. Locke, for time, use of horse and
expenses . . . . . 327.10
F. F. Harrington, horse and buggy • . 1.50
Alonzo Goddard, for sundry articles . 4.90
N. L. Bryant, for labor and services . 198.87
Wm. Locke, for repairing culvert . 1.50
0. Caldwell, for 14 loads of gravel at 10
cts. per load . . . . . 1.85
G. F. Chapman, for breaking out roads 1 E.0
J. Hobart, balance for time and services 111.10
They have paid out, as per bills . $3,103.83
And received in town orders, &c. $2784.55
And an order given to balance acct's 319.28-3,103.83
$3,103.83
Total expended on roads, as far as bills are paid, $5,091.20
January 29, 1873. Settled with the highway surveyors and found
the account as stated above.
CHARLES HUDSON, Selecemen
R. W. REED, of
L. S. PIERCE, Lexington.
Highway Surveyors' Report.
The highway property consists of three horses, four carts,
chains, picks, harnesses, hoes, drills, hammers, &c., the appraised
value of which is $1,275.75 ; which is recorded in full in their
valuation book.
We would recommend an appropriation of four thousand dol-
lars for the roads the.ensuing year.
We will state that there will be outstanding bills which we
cannot now anticipate, to be paid before the close of the official
year; therefore, the total expenditure cannot be ascertained wit]i
accuracy at the present time for the full year.
Signed by
A. W. LOCKE,
N. L. BRYANT,
JOSHUA HOBART,
LEXINOTOX, January 30, 1873,
Highway
Surveyors.
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Cost of constructing and repairing Sidewalks.
Sum appropriated,$1,000.00
One half of said sum to be taxed to abuttors. • The following
sums were expended in or near the Centre Village, under
the direction of J. F. Simonds, and the tax apportioned by
him upon the abuttors, and approved by the Selectmen : -
Sum
Expended.
$32.60
52.80
88.50
11.50
71.86
8.00
8.00
5.00
6.80
5.00
14.50
4,30
7.26
3.76
14.50
18.14
10.88
14.50
82.64
21.76
3.76
8.00
3.76
7.26
kiames of Abettors and their half of the Expense.
Mary Merriam & Julia Stetson .
Matthew H. Merriam
David W. Muzzey .
Lucy Spaulding . .
Richard D. Blinn .
Ale]. B. Adams
Samuel W. Hendley
Charles Robinson
James D. Sumner
Amos Locke • .
Hancock Congregational Society
Sarah Chandler . .
Thomas Bisbee
Charles Hudson .
A. G. Spaulding
Raymond & Reed
The Baptist Society
David Wood
Town of Lexington
Hammon Reed
Sally Hastings
George W. Robinson
David A. Tuttle
John Hudson
$16.30
26.40
▪ 44.25
5.75
35.93
4.00
4.00
2.50
3.40
2.50
7.24
2.15
3.63
].88
7.25
9.07
▪ 5.44
7.25
• 16.32
10.88
1.88
4.00
1.88
3.63
$455.08 $227.54
Of the sum of $227.54, $211.22 has been reported to the
Town Treasurer for collection, agreeably to the vote of the
town. The $16.82 expended against public highways was
omitted.
Mr. Simonds accounts for the money expended on sidewalks
as follows :-
Cash-
Cash paid Michael Crowley, as per hill
William Viles .
James G. Reed
Jerry Shea
$44.00
44.00
78.50
22.00
22
Cash paid lllichael O'Brien
Dennis McCarty
Matthew Barns
Jerry Callahan
Cornelius Ryan
Frank H. Kneeland
Gersliom Swan
Joseph F. Simonds
Joseph G. Reed
Michael Crowley
John Gateley
Joseph F. Simonds
Frank H. Kneeland
Cr.
By Town Order
By Town Order .
$16.00
18.00
4.00
22.00
10.00
1.80
2.56
38.75
57.87
40.00
20.63
31.50
.90
$452.51
$300.00
150.00-$450.00
$2.51
which balance of $2.51 was paid on two distinct settlements. See
Order No. 21 of August 8,1872, and Order No. 118 of December
31, 1872.
N. B. - The sum actually expended, it will be seen, falls a trifle
short of the sum assessed; but this is almost unavoidable in malting
the apportionment. Assessors are allowed to make an overlay.
The following sum was expended for sidewalks in the East
Village, and the tax assessed upon the abuttors by Loring S.
Pierce, and approved by the Selectmen : --
Whole expense. Names of the Abuttors and their Tax.
Expended. • Assessed.
$4.54 Lexington & Arlington Railroad Co. . $2.27
14.66 Mr. Slocomb's Estate . 7.33
2.89 Heirs of Shipley . 1.45
5.78 Nathaniel Garman . 2.89
14.34 Patrick Mitchel]. . 7.17
7.22 Elias Dupee 3.61
28.89 heirs of William L. Smith 14.45
7.76 Heirs of Abner Mellett 3.88
17.33 Otis H. Dana . . 8.66
36.11 Caira Robbins 18.06
20.25 Heirs of Abner Stone 10.12
15.41 Edwin Holbrook 7.70
17.44 George Munroe 8.72
3.21 John Chisholm . 1.61
6.42 William Benjamin . 3.21
16.32 Aldnzo Goddard . 8.16
6.15 Heirs of Ammi Hall 3.07
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Whole expense. Names of the Abuttors and their Tax. Assessed.
Expended. $3A7
6.15 George Flint .
6.15 Henry P. Webber 3.08 7 0
14.53 Nathaniel Flint . 6
16.62 J. Harrington 8.314.23
8.45 Thomas G. Hovey
7.50 Albert B. Smith 3.75
2.46
4.92 Loring S. Pierce 2 46
4.00 Harrison Pierce
3.21 David Hall . 1.61
24.07 Charles Harrington 12.04
5.28 John Beals .2'64
7.93 Eben Gammen3.96
3.09 John Norcross . 1.55
3.00 Oliver Brown . . 1.50
4.28 Heirs of David Harrington 2.14
2.50 Albert W. Bryant . . 1.25
23.25 Peletiah P. Pierce . 11.63
61.68 Nathaniel Pierce . 30.84.
29.32 W. A. Tower 14.66
18.82 J. S. Munroe 9.41
$479.47 $239.75
The above sum of $239.75 has been committed to the Treas-
urer for collection.
Mr. Pierce accounts for the money he has received and ex-
pended on sidewalks as follows : -
Cash paid William Gleason as per bill $66.00
W. S. Sanderson . 62.00
Thomas Cosgrove . 66.00
J. M. I3uttrick . 32.00
E. Spaulding . 10.00
Joseph Underwood 14.00
Patrick Calahan . 32.00
C. Donovan 32.00
Timothy Bruckley . 6.00
W. W. Baker . 4.00
Benjamin Brown . 4.00
J. Adams Waldo 9.70
H. P. Webber . . • 1.30
J. S. Munroe 75.25
214 days' labor for self at $3.00 64.50
1 Iron rake . . 72
$479.47
Cr. by Town Orders $300.00
Town Order to balance accounts 179,47-$479.47
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Draining of Certain Streets.
No appropriation proper was made for this object, but a loan
of one thousand dollars was authorized towards the expense.
Paid James Crowley, as per bill . .
Day & Collins for drain pipe, as per bill'.
Joseph F. Simonds as per bill . .
Charles Hudson
Eli Simonds .
Eli Simonds .
Gershom Swan .
J. F. Simonds .
EH Simonds .
$156.00
185.08
275.00
14.95
377.00
193.00
*36.96
12.50
4.24
$1,254.73
*Error in Swan's bill of $10.00, which he has paid into
the treasury, C. H. . . . • . 10.00
Cost of Improvements on High School Lot.
Appropriated for that purpose .
Paid Joseph F. Simonds .
Henry Mulliken, for labor and Iumber .
William H. Smith, for painting .
Joseph F. Simonds, balance on settlement
Excess over appropriation
$1,244.73
• $400.00
$200.00
188.58
26.30
6.12-421.00
$21.00
Cost of Improvements on the Common.
Paid W. H. Smith, for painting fence and liberty
Henry Mulliken, for lumber and labor .
N. L. Bryant, for labor and services.
John D. Bacon, for manure . .
James Gould, for manure . ,
Darius Dow, for labor . ,
W. Wolcott, for manure .
Eli Simonds, for services and labor
Overseers, for labor . .
Surveyors, for labor .
L. A. Saville, for measuring manure
Daniel Harrington, for labor
John Connor, for labor .
Harrison Pierce, for labor
Nicholas Shea, for labor .
Barney Caffney, for labor _
Frank Caffney, for labor .
Wm. Murphy, for labor
pole $72.86
49.47
19.95
30.00
15.00
10.50
46.00
21.37
15.12
13.50
.18
15.75
8.75
11.00
11.38
8.75
8.75
7.00
25
Paid Daniel Mullen for labor .
Patrick Powers for labor .
Expended
$7.00
8.75
$380.58
Received in Town Orders . . $412.36
High School lot for manure . . 13.00- $425.36
Leaving, in the hands of the Surveyors, $44.78.
17ae Surveyors' Report.
The manure has not yet been spread upon the Common, on
account of the grounds around the High School house, back of
which the manure lies, being newly seeded down, and could not
have been traveled over without doing great damage to the
grounds.
It is the intention of the Surveyor to remove it at a proper
time.
Signed by A. W. LocxE, for the Surveyors.
SUPPORT OF THE POOR.
Expenditure of the First Board brought for-
ward . . . .
Expenditure of the Second Board.
Consisting of Amos W. Locke, Nathan L.
Bryant, and Joshua Hobart.
July 13. Two days' time and expense to Cam-
bridge, &c., for Superintendent
24. Paid Keef & Robinson, fish . •
25 A. Goddard, repairs, &c.
[{ {l Frank Gaffney, 71 days' labor.
f6 Dan Mullen, 1311 days' labor .
« ' J. E. Hodgman, butcher's bill
C. T. Worlholey, plough points
Medicine for horse and expense
to Cambridge .
'° 15. G. W. Arnold, three cords of
wood . .
H. Holmes, for professional ser-
vices .
Sept. 2. Patrick Powers, labor at bay-
ing
" 14. • C. A. Butters, flour and gro-
ceries . • .
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Aug. 5.
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$9.00
21.75
16.95
22.50
34.50
44.06
2.75
3.25
13.50
25.00
35.50
61.02
$1,177.21
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Sept. 14. Paid table and Iadder , .
" 28. Frank Gaffney, labor on farm .
`L iL Dan Mullen, labor on farm . .
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0 K. Tucker, repairing wheels,
O. W. Kendall, funeral of I. P.
Rhodes . . 28.25
C. McMann . . . 3.15
0. G. Robinson, fish . . . 11.00
H. Mulliken, one day's tabor . 3.25
Janes Emery, Superintendent 159.31
City of Charlestown, aid to
IKinnaston & PercelI . 110.77
Butler & Norwood, 10 pairs
of hose . . 7.50
City of Boston, aid to Esta -
brook, Fiske, and Logan . 166.50
A. Childs, grain, &c. . . 23.42
E. P. Rich, two bills cIothing 20.33
C. H. Lowe, for meat 50.97
Wm. Gleason, four cider bhls. 10.00
O. G. Robinson, for fish • 11.31
W. Walcott, for ice . . 20.00
T. H. Kneeland, hoops on bbls.
&c. . . 5.30
A. H. Sanborn, 2 empty bbls.. 5.00
Wm. Harding, 3 pigs . . 22.00
F. M. Harrington, stable bill . 4.00
Expense and time to Malden,
Somerville, and Charlestown 4.50
Expense, and time to Cam-
bridge, Charlestown, and
Boston . . . 4.50
F. H. Kneeland, smithing 2.20
Stationery and postage . 0.25
C. 11. Lowe, meat bill , . 63.08
A. Goddard, castings, &c., &c. 26.97
A. Childs, grain, &c, . . 121.75
N. L. Bryant, for services . 35.00
Surveyors for grain for horse 39.56
Joshua Hobart, for services as
overseer . 28.50
Wm. Ham, smithing . . 4.87
J. E. Hodgman, for meat 42.99
City of Salem, for support of J.
H. Rhodes . . . 2.00
City of Cambridge, for Matthew
Egan . . 36.14
City of Boston, for Estabrook,
Logan, and Fiske . 152.25
$10.00
5.00
5.00
9.10
Jan. 15. Paid
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A. F. Spaulding, for shoes, &c.
City of Charlestown, aid to Per -
cell and 1Kinnaston . .
George W. Taylor, dry goods .
Parker & Gannett, repairing
bay -cutter
Highway Surveyors, for wood
and carting, paid to t-lobart
James Emory, services as Su-
perintendent .
Cr.
By Town Orders
Balance from old
Board
By produce from
the farm
By order to bal-
ance accounts
$1187.20
47.41-$1,234.61
298.14
$15.90
189.27
18.22
9.75
16.00
150.00
$1,943.64
410.89-$1,943.64-$1,943.64
• Total cost to February 1.. . ,$3,120.85
The Overseers submit the following report : -
The total valuation of the' Almshouse property is 1,750.43.
The buildings are in good repair. The ]rouse, when taken pos-
session of by the present Superintendent, was in the most filthy
condition from the top to the bottom. Under the management
of the present Superintendent, it has been thoroughly cleansed,
including all the furniture. There is very much needed a wash-
room, which can be had by taking a portion of the shed adjoin-
ing the kitchen, at a small expense. There is also needed at
the barn, sheds for the storage of carts, &c., belonging to the
highways, as the present is insufficient for those belonging to
the Farm. We would, therefore, recommend an appropriation
of five hundred dollars -for the above improvements. We would
also recommend an appropriation of twenty-five hundred dollars
for the support of the poor the ensuing year.
Signed by A. W. LocxE, for the Overseers.
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CONTINGENT EXPENSES.
Paid J. W. Peirce, for coal . . . . $44.00
C. T. Worthley, for services as Special Po• lice 50.00
Eli Simonds, for Police services, &c. . . . 70.50
A. G. Spaulding, wood for the Library . 9.00
L. G. Babcock, allowed for depreciation of School
Books . . 16.37
A. E. Scott, fees pa▪ id Clerk ▪ of Co• urt f▪ or Truant
Laws3.35
G. L. Pierce, for po• wder for a salut▪ e, at ▪ East Lex-
ington. . . . 85.00
J. K. Fiske, for painting Engine -house . . 10.01
J. N. Carter, for a survey on Vine Brook, with a
map . . . . . . . 21.00
C. K. Darling, for stationery for Assessors . . 30.12
J. L. Parker, printing schedules for Assessors . 14.00
City of Lowell, for boarding John Dinen . . 10.85
Worcester Lunatic IIospital, for boarding A. K.
Harrington . 51.40
Marvin & Son, for printing School Report . 57.80
Wm. 0. Haskell, for settees for the Town Hall . 96.60
Wm. Welch, for laying wall on road near J. S.
Munroe's ▪ . 150.00
Charles Hudson, for two days' services before Leg.
Committee . . . 6.00
Charles Hudson, for stationery for use ▪ of Select-
men • 2.00
B. C. Whitcher, for gravel pit . . 300.00
Charles Hudson, for 100 stone posts an▪ d freight,
as per bills . . . . . . . 31.43
J. R. Carter, survey and plans for drainage . . 33.50
William Wyman, for coal . . . . 90.00
Abijah Harrington, for labor in the old Cemetery . 6.00
E. P. Rich, for flannel for cartridges . . . 4.00
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
Nehemiah M. Harrington, for glass and setting, in
Town Hall . . 4.60
Worcester Lunatic • Hospital, board▪ ing Mrs. Har-
rington and Ganimeli . . 63.50
Henry Milliken, for lumber for • Cemetery . . 12.75
Samuel Fletcher, for granite slabs, &c. . . . 18.40
Estate of Charles Locke, for land damage on
Adams Street 12.00
Charles Hudson, for cash paid for statutes a▪ nd
printing . . . . 13.85
J. F. Simonds, copying valuati▪ on for auditors 9.00
29
Paid Baldwin Locke, for distributing envelopes . . $2.00
Worcester Lunatic Hospital, for boarding Mrs.
Harrington . 27.15
Cyrus Reed, for broken stone from his pit, for ▪ roads 15.36
Whitcher & Saville, for powder, and other articles 54.36
F. M. Harrington, for horse and carriages furnished
Town Officers . . . . 46.25
A. L. Ball, for cupboard, &c., for Lo▪ ck-up . 17.05
Charles Hudson, for town and county maps . 7.00
Foster & Cole, for insurance on Town Hall and
contents. ▪ 450.00
0. W. Kendall, for hand ▪ -cuff a▪ nd badges ▪ for p▪ olice 33.22
Charles Hudson, for services on Drainage Com. &c. 37.50
0. W. Kendall, for mattrasses, &c., for Lock-up . 20.99
J. W. Pierce, for coal, by 0. W. Kendall . . 12.75
Jas. G. Reed, for labor . . . . 5.50
Worcester Lunatic Hospital, board of Harrington
and Gammell . . 104.60
Eli Simonds, for labor .▪ 11.74
Chaffee & Cummings, for char▪ coal . . 12.00
Westborough Reform School, board of Cody . 13.00
A. L. Ball, repairing fence around Cemetery. . 13.25
C. J. Adams, for boarding Locke at House of Cor-
rection. . 13.00
0. W. Kendall, for distributing Auditor's Report . 8.00
J. P. Bacon, for two side -walk ploughs . . . 41.50
C. T. Worthley, for services as police officer . • 25.00
Darius Dow, for removing granite blocks • 2.00
A. W. Locke, for balance on settlement with Sur-
veyors . . . . . . 319.28
Scott & Porter, stable bill, visiting ▪ schools, no
voucher, . . . . . . . 27.;i0
Joseph Davis, for land bought near the poor farm,
no voucher on file . . 513.31
$3,365.09
The following bills were paid from the contingent grant ;
but it is believed that more light will be shed upon our expendi-
tures by giving them a more particular classification : -
Care of the Town Hall, 4.e.
Paid 0. W. Kendall for opening and taking care of the building ; -
From March 5th, 1872 to July lst, 1872.
For opening Selectmen's room 5 times for bank officers . $5.00
10 times for Selectmen . . 10.00
11 times for other purposes . 11.00
30
For opening Audience Hall for Town Meetings 3 tines
Concerts 4 times
Balls 3 times
Exhibition 1 time
For two locks and putting on doors
From July 6, 1872, to January 30, 1873.
For opening Selectmen's room for Police Court 13 times
County Commissioners
4 times .
Surveyors and As▪ sess-
ors 3 times
Caucuses 8 times
Committees 8 times
Bank officers 4 times
Railroad meetings 2
times
Citizens 3 times .
Selectmen 24 times
For opening Hall for tea party 1 time
Lectures 6 times
Dances 5 times
Town Meetings 3 times
Sundry small articles furnished for the Town Hall
SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS.
ADAMS SCHOOL.
Instruction.
Paid Silas Peabody . $962.50
Mary 13. Howe . . 120.00
Gertrude Peirce . 183.75
Carrie F. Fiske . 231.00-$1,497.25
Care of Rooms.
Paid Silas Peabody
31
$10.00 Paid Silas Peabody for books and
15.00 ink
13.00 W. A. Wilde & Co. ▪ for pri-
4.00 mary slates
1.75 T. Parker express on school
furniture
Geo. W. Nichols for c▪ lock
13.00 J. L. Hammett for bell and
blocks -
4,00 J. L. Hammett for maps
U. S. Ventilation Co. for ven-
3.00 tilator, •&c.
8.00 A. L. BaII for labor on ▪ venti-
8.00 lator .
4.00 Curtis Capelle, lab▪ or in pri-
mary school room
2.00 F. J. Winship for whitewash-
3.00 ing
24.00 W. G. Shattu▪ ck for school
5.00 furniture
24.00 Silas Peabody fo▪ r tu• ning
20.00 piano, &c.
9.00 R. W. Holbrook for ▪ brooms
2.47 and brush
__ Wm. O. Haskell & San ▪ for
$199.22 chair and cushion
$16.25
7.47
3.00
8.00
2.88
10.80
122.43
100.08
89.88
20.00
114.02
3.08
2.50
5.50---$487.74--$2,11 7.49
BOWDITCH SCHOOL.
Paid Sarah E. Sturtevant
Paid John A. Demar
Knox Hill
In$truction.
$342.00
Care of .Rooms.
$11.00
3.75 14.75
Fuel.
51.00 Paid J. W. S. Kendall for sawing
wood . 4.00
J. W. Peirce for coal i 25.50
Wm. Viles for wood . . 19.42---48.92
Incidentals and Repairs,
Paid A. Goddard for shovel, fun-
nel. &c. . . $1.90
A. L. Bali for repairs . .75
T. K. Fiske for painting 42.23
Fuel.
Paid J. W. Peirce for coal 8I.50
Incidentals and Repairs.
Paid Ginn Bros. for music charts $10.25
American Tablet Company
for blackboards ▪ 21.60
32
Paid T. K. Fiske for setting glass
F. J. Winship for whitewash-
ing . .
D. A. Tuttle for repairs .
W. G, Shattuck for slate
racks . .
Knight, Adams & Co. for
slates .
T. K. Fiske for setting glass,
&c.
$0.50
3.50
2.24
1.50
2.80
.75•
FRANKLIN SCHOOL.
$56.17-$461.84
Instruction.
Paid Ella J. Corthell . $140.00
F. E. Sanderson . . 70.00
M. E. Thompson . 78.75 288.75
Care of Rooms.
Paid Kate Cashman
Fuel.
Paid J. W. Peirce for coal
•
•
Incidentals and Repairs.
Paid 1. M. Parker for express on
chairs . $0.30
T. K. Fiske for setting glass 3.00
F. J. Winship for whitewash-
ing . . . . 6.00
D. A. Tuttle for repairs on
pump . • 10.63
W. D. Shattuck for ▪ ink wells
and chairs . . 2.00
W. A. Fletcher for repairs 4.68
A. Goddard for coal sieve, &c. 73
Gershom Swan for labor and
cement .
. 16.00
. 25.50
2.60 29.94 360.19
IIANCOCK SCHOOL.
Instruction.
Paid E. H. Tower . $200.00
A. H. Blood . 87.50
C. E. Washburne . 393.75
Paid Ellen B. Lane .
Florence W. Davis
Francis A. Hutchinson
Willie E. Butters
J. E. A. Mulliken
Eli Simonds .
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$350.00
96.25
150.00-$1,277.60
Care of Rooms.
17.00
16.50
10.57 44.07
Fuel.
Joseph Richardson for wood
J. W. Peirce for coal .
Wm. Files for wood .
12.40
53.50
29.32
Incidentals and Repairs.
J. E. Barney for ventilator
American Tablet Co. for
blackboards .
Boston & Lowell Ex▪ press
for school furniture
F. J. Winship for white-
washing . .
" Boston Advertiser• " for
advertising for teacher .
J. L. IIammett for well
covers .
J. L. Hammett for s▪ et of
maps .
A. L. Ball for lu▪ mber ▪ and
repairs .
T. Ne Damon for ▪ repairing
fence .
" Boston Journal" ▪ for adver-
• tising for teacher • .
Hannah O'Neil for cleaning
A. L. Ball for repairs
A. Goddard for repairs on
stoves, new pipe, &c.
F. J. Winship for white-
washing
W. G. Shattuck for school
furniture .
School Committee for sun-
dries .
3
26.00
12.80
4.90
3.00
.75
1.35
8.00
95.43
1.25
.75
3.86
4.25
95.22
11.00
15.00
166.00
8.15-----$362.49- $1,779.28
34
HIGH SCHOOL.
Instructions.
Paid A. E. White . . $1,275.00
E. W. Stetson . . 130.00
L. M. Thurston . . . 205.00-$1,610.00
Care of Rooms.
Eli Simonds
Fuel.
J. W. Peirce for coal
Incidentals and Repairs.
S. Ward & Co. for ex. paper $3.25
"Daily Traveller" for ad-
vertising for teacher . 1.25
" Daily Advertiser " for ad-
vertising for teacher . 3.75
"Daily Transcript" for ad-
vertising for teacher . 1.25
"Daily Journal " for adver-
tising for teacher . 1.87
1. M. Parker for express on
globe . . . . .30
A. L. Ball for lumber and
repairs . . 9.95
A. Goddard for sundries . 20.19
'1'. R. Marvin for printing
ex. papers . . 7.50
Cyrus Wakefield for waste
basket 1.50
W. G. Shattuck for chair and
ink wells . . . 3.00
C. A. Butters for oil .35
H. B. & W. O. Chamberlain
for glass tubing . . 1.26
Tucker Manufacturing Co.
for chandelier .
Paid M. E. Russell .
. 77.48
. 90.00
16.30--$71.72-$1,849.20
HOWARD SCHOOL.
Instruction.
350.00
Care of Rooms.
William Grover 35.50
35
Fuel.
Paid J. W. Peirce for coal . $17.00
William Viles for wood . . 17.67-$34.67
Incidentals and Repairs.
George W. Nichols for repairing
clock . . . 1.00
A. L. Ball for repairs . . 22.04
T. K. Fiske for painting . . 63.01
F. J. Winship for whitewashing 4.50
D. A. Tuttle for repairs . . 1.45
Boston & Lowell Express (chair
castings) .
W. G. Shattuck for ch• airs, slate
racks, etc.. • .
A. Goddard for repairing stove
T. K. Fiske for repairing blind
and painting .
.30
6.61
1.00
2.00---101.91---$5,22.08
WARREN SCHOOL.
Instruction.
Paid Ellen M. Underwood .
Care of Rooms.
James Hargroves
Henry Hargroves
Fuel.
J. W. Peirce for coal
James Hargroves (sawing)
William Viles for wood .
350.00
10.35
4.50--14.85
8.50
4.50
8.55-21.55
Incidentals and Repairs.
B. C. Whitcher for brooms, mats,
&c. . .
J. L. Hammett for hell and well
covers . .
J. L. Hammett for set of neaps
A. Goddard for sundries
J. K. Fiske for setting glass
F. J. Winship for whitewashing
D. A. Tuttle for repairs
Knight, Adams & Co. for pri-
mary slates .
A. L. Bali for repairs .
W. G. Shattuck for slate racks
and ink wells .
4.65
1.33
8.00
2.98
1.50
7.00
.94
2.80
2.77
2.10-34.07---420.47
36
COMMON TO ALL SCHOOLS.
Airusi cal Instructs on.
Paid Horace Bird .
Incidentals.
Bagman & Venal for screws
and hooks
I. M. Parker for express on
books, &c.
Woolworth, Ainsworth & Co.
for drawing books . .
Nichols & Ilall for pencils, pa-
per, and rubber
School Committee for postage,
stationery, &c.
A. S. Barnes & Co. for 24
I3arnes' Ilistories
Nichols & Hall for Sheldon's
Manual, paper, &c. .
$472.08
$1.88
.85
59.13
13.33
3.50
15.50
7.78-103.97-$576.05
RECAPITULATION.
Name of School.
Adams.
Bowditch
Franklin
Hancock
High.
Howard.
Warren
AII the Schools
Music.
Inetrua-
tion.
$1497.25
342.00
288.75
1277.50
1010.00
350.00
350.00
3472.08
3472.08 35715.50
Care of
noome.
351.00
14.75
19.00
44.07
77-48
35.50
14.85
3258.65
Fuel.
381.50
48.92
25.30
95.22
90.00
34.67
21.55
$897.36
Inciden-
tals and Amount.
Repairs.
Tota] 1t -
penee of
all the
Schools.
$487.74 32117.49
66.17. 481.84
29.94 300.19.
882.49 1779.28
71.72 1849.20
101.911 522.08
34.07 420.47
103.97: 576.05
31248.0138088.60 38088.60
Expense of repairs and incidentals
Appropriation for the same
State School Fund used for the sam▪ e
Expense of Instruction, fuel and care
of rooms
Appropriation for ▪ the same
Leaving a balance unexpended of
. $1,248.01
1000,00
24.31
. 6,838.59
750.00
$8,086.60 $8524.31.
437.71
$8,524.31 $8,524,31
37
CARY LIBRARY.
THE Trustees of Cary Library report that the number of
bound volumes in the Library Jan. 31, 1878, was 2,996. The
number of volumes added from March, 1872 to Jan. 31, 1873,
was 205, of which 23 were given and 182 were purchased.
The names of the donors are as follows : Rev. A. B. Muzzy
(Cambridge), 8 volumes ; Rev. H. Westcott, 6 volumes ;
Farmers' CIub, 4 volumes ; and one volume each from Mrs.
E. L. Francis (Boston), Mrs. H. Westcott, Amos W. Locke,
and State of Massachusetts. The Library has received, also,
donations of unbound magazines from Mrs: I. B. Smith, Mr.
J. B. Fowle, and Rev. Henry Westcott. The number of vol-
umes taken from the Library from March 1, 1872, to Jan. 31,
1873, was 8,936. At the beginning of this year there was
printed the first supplementary catalogue, containing a list of
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
Mr. G. W. Robinson, Lexington, a donation of one hundred
dollars, the interest of which is to be expended for books ; and
from the same gentleman, the Library has received the writing-
desk
ritingdesk of Rev. Jonas Clarke, the former pastor of the First Con-
gregational Church of this town.
The number of volumes taken from the Library, averaging
something near two hundred per week, furnishes the best evi-
dence that the privileges of the Library are appreciated by the
citizens of the town.
The usefulness of the Library might be greatly increased by
an addition to its yearly funds ; and the Trustees would recom-
mend the devotion of the money received from the tax on dogs
to the general purposes of the Library, a plan adopted by many
other towns, and which will be brought before the citizens -of
this town for consideration, in an article of the warrant for the
meeting in March. HENRY WESTCorr,
For the Trustees.
The Treasurer of Cary Library charges himself as follows : -
Note of the town of Lexington, Aug. 29, 1868, 7 per cent. $1,000.00
C° Feb. 28, 1871, 5,000.00
Gift of George W. Robinson toward a permanent fund . 100.00
38
Cash received from fines .
Town appropriation
For interest on notes
$57.24
40.00
420.00
$6,617.24
And credits himself with payments on account of
expenses and purchases of books to the amount of 431.60
By deposit in Lexington Savings Bank 100.00
Notes in his hands 6,000.00
Cash balance now on hand . 85.64
$6,617.24
A. E. SCOTT, Treasurer.
0r
-e s Paid 0. W. Kendall for services connected with the Cary
Library from March 6,1872, to February 1, 1873
M. S. Keyes, librarian, for salary and extra labor
M. S. Keyes, salary and extra labor -
'' M. S. Reyes, salary and extra labor .
I4 . The Town's annual payment .
141
$94.00
36.25
25.75
27.25
40.00
$223.25
EXPENSES GROWING OUT OF THE PRESENCE OF
THE SMALL-PDX.
Paid John Peak & Son, for burying Mr, Wentworth . $15.00
Amos Angier, for removing Mr. Sims to an isolated
house 5.00
Amos Angier, for fumigating Peters' and ▪ Can -
field's houses 15.60
George Neiderrnan, for ▪ nursing ▪ Si▪ ms . . . 28.00
E. P. Rich, for a suit of clothes for Neiderrnan 15.20
Marvin & Son, for printing 500 small -pox circulars 5.50
S. T. Hawthorne, for doctoring a colored patient . 30.00
Gershom Swan, for cash paid for destroying bed,
&c., of Peters ▪ . 5.00
Eli Simonds, for acting ▪ as me• sseng▪ er for ▪ Winship,
Canfield, and Ballard 26.00
0. W. Kendall, for time, &c., in bur▪ ying ▪ smal▪ l -pox
subjects . . . . 159.00
Dr. Currier, for atte▪ nding Sims . 36.00
Dr. Holmes for attending the Canfield child . . 15.00
0. W. Kendall for distributing small -pox circulars 8.00
Amos Angier for cleansing and fumigating two
houses at Sims' . . . 4 . . 15.00
$378.30
39
COMPENSATION OF
Joseph F. Simonds for four months
B. C. Whiteher
Charles M. Parker
Charles Hudson for seven months
R. W. Reed " "
Lovering S. Pierce "
SELECTMEN.
*$42.00
21.75
*31.00
79.35
45.00
45.00
$264.10
*Mr. Simonds charged $12, and Mr. Parker $2 for attending
court in the election suits,- charges not made by the other mem-
bers of the board.
Cost of . seven Street Lamps.
Paid James Gould for two lamps •
Cash paid by Charles Hudson as per bill
Hadley & Wright for one Iamp
Total .
$,13.00
47.45
7.50
$67.95
r
EXPENSE OF SUPPORTING THE P0011.
The first Board of Overseers were Eli Simonds and Nathan
L. Bryant. Their account is brought up to July 1, 1872, when
by the decision of the Supreme Court they were superseded by
the Board last chosen.
Paid 3. G. Brown for services of self and wife $62.00
J. G. Brown for sundries . 8.70
0. G. Robinson for fish
O.B. Darling for the support of Philip Russel▪ l l14.15 180
Decoster & Plumer . .
Barney Caffeney for two days▪ ' labor . •3.50
Tucker Manufacturing Co. for two iron bedstead▪ s 69.00
The Town of Malden for board of Russell . 160359...
5 00
Bridget Gehogan for services • .
Dr. Currier for professional services 10.00
W. A. Lane for one chest . . . 1.20
A. E. Scott for writing an agreement , 1.50
R. W. Holbrook for roceries 20.93
Franklin Alderman for exchange o▪ f horses •135.00
S. S. Sleeper for 1 box of tobacco . 13.86
Whitcher & Saville for groceries 34.16
B. C. Whitcher for groceries •20.30
A. B. Smith for a wagon . 88.00
40
Paid E. P. Rich for clothing .
O. W. Kendall for coffin, &c. .
O. W. Kendall for coffin, &c.
J. G. Brown for services . .
C. A. Butters for groceries (cons▪ olidated bills)
A. Childs for groceries .
A. Childs for grain, &c. .
Lyman Lawrence for cushion, &c. .
R. W. Holbrook for groceries .
J. W. Peirce for coal (two bills) .
Wm. Ham for smithing ▪ .
Eli Simonds for services and expenses as Overseer
W. Walcott for ice . . . .
Barney Caffeney for 34 days' labor .
Frank Caffeney for labor .
John Conner for labor . .
Wm. Murphey for labor .
Daniel Mullen for labor .
Daniel Harrington for labor
38.42
31.75
29.75
162.50
87.68
35.83
41.22
8.00
91.65
81.25
6.50
44.00
18.50
6J3
1.37
2.37
2.37
1.37
1.87
The sum expended by the first Board . . $1,177.21
They have drawn from the treasury .
Received from the Highway Surveyors .
W. Walcott . .
Sale of eggs .
+ Labor of men and team ▪ on Common
$900.00
291.50
16.00
2.00
15.12
Total receipts . • • . . $1,224.62
Being an excess of receipts over expenditure of $47.41,
which was paid over to the new Board.
EXPENSE OF THE SUITS TO ASCERTAIN THE
LEGALITY OF THE ELECTION OF TOWN
. OFFICERS.
1872, April. Paid
July.
Oct.
1873, Jan.
Henry W. Paine as re-
tainer
H. W. Paine, ▪ balance on
settlement .
Asa Cottrell for ser▪ vices
J. F. Simonds (see Se-
lectmen's account) .
Chas. M. Parker (see Se-
lectmen's account) .
$50.00
100.00
163.06
12.00
2.00
Expended by the first Board . $327.06
41
Nov. Paid the estate of J. W. Hudson
for professional service as
per bill 152.00
Cash paid by J. W. Hudson for
entries . 8.05
Clerk of Court a▪ s per
bill . 32.60
Sheriff as per bill . 12.10
Charles Allen as per
bill . . 161.00
Expended by the Last Board . $365.75
Total expenditure . • . $692.81
The whole of the above was paid in conformity with votes
of the town. The excess of $38.69, paid by the last Board
over the first, arises from the fact that the whole expense being
deemed justly chargeable to the town, the court did not, as in
ordinary cases, tax the cost to the defeated party, but left the
petitioners to pay -the court charges, as it would make no differ-
ence with the town which party paid the costs in the first in-
stance.
The last Board charged nothing for their attendance at
Court ; and their counsel fees proper, were a trifle less than the
sum paid by the first Board.
STATE AID.
Paid Hannah O'Neil 11 months at $8 per month
Mary Manley 11 8
Eniily Earle 10
Lydia Kinnaston 10
William Nicholson 10
James A. Mitchell 10
Thomas Burke 11
Grovner A. Page 11
4
4
4
4.50
4.50
6
$88.00
88.00
40.00
40.00
40.00
45.00
49.50
66.00
$456.50
42
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Paid Oliver Brown for Adams Engine Company . ▪ $250.00
C. H. Adair for Hancock Engine Company 250.00
Adams Enginemen . • 60.00
Lyman Lawrence . 17.50
Hunneman & Co . 5.00
$582.50
TOWN OFFICERS.
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 . 25.00
Express . • .75
Walter Wellington, for 29 days 87.00
Nathan Fessenden, for 28 days 84.00
$319.75
Constables.
Paid 0. W. Kendall, for summoning 19 officers to qualify 4.00
for notifying two town meetings, and attending same 24.00
for notifying field drivers and fence viewers. . 1.00
for notifying Selectmen to draw jurors twice • 2.00
for notifying two thirds of the town twice, and the
whole town once, owing to a mistake in warrant 20.00
EIi 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
Sexton.
Paid 0. W. Kendall, for attending 50 funerals
for returning 55 deaths .
$118.98
50.00
5.50
$55.50
School Committee.
E. G. Porter, Charles Tidd, A. E. Scott, have rendered no bills.
43
Auditor.
Paid Charles Hudson, labor, stationery, and expressage $35.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Paid Alonzo Goddard for his services . . 15.00
REPAIRS ON HANCOCK ENGINE -HOUSE.
Paid W. S. Blanchard, lumber for Engine -house . . $91.98
IMPROVEMENT OF LINCOLN STREET.
Paid Locke, Bryant & Hobart (65 per cent. on sum
expended) . . . . • • $297.44
DINGING CHURCH BELLS.
Paid J. Chisholm for ringing East Village bell from May
1781 to May 1872 . .
$35.00
THE TOWN DEBT FEBRUARY 1, 1873.*
DATE.
Aug. 29, 1866..
June 8, 1868..
July 18, 1868..
" 27, 1868..
" 31, 1868•
Aug. 10, 1868..
April 27, 1869..
Aug. 27, 1869..
Oct. 8, 1869 . •
Feb. 1, 1870..
TO WHORE PAYABLE.
RATE OF INTEREST.
WREN DUE.
AMOUNT.
Concord Saving Institution...
George Holden
George Holden
0. &"W. B. Smith.
Trustees Lexington Ministerial Fund
Emily Muzzey
George Holden
Treasurer Cary Library.
George Holden
George Holden
7 per cent. semi-annually.....
6+ if « •.•••
6+ CL L1
annually .
11
6
7
6+
6+
7
6+
7
1
LC
se
La
1L
semi annually.
Li Lf
On demand...
June 1, 1871..
July 18, 1871.
On demand...
„
Aug. 10, 1871..
April 27, 1872.
On demand...
Oct. 8, 1872...
On demand...
$3,000 00
5,000 00
2,000 00
2,000 00
3,000 00
1,100 00
2,300 00
1,000 00
5,000 00
2,000 00
Total Town Debt, independent of Town Hall Loan
THF., FOLLOWING IS THE LOAN FOR THE TOWN HALL AND SITE.
rA
$26,400 00 141 -
June
July
Aug.
Sept.
Feb.
July
Sept.
1, 1870..
1, 1870..
1, 1870..
1, 1870..
28, 1871..
11, 1871..
28, 1871..
State of Massachusetts..
State of Massachusetts..
State of Massachusetts..
State of Massachusetts..
Treasurer of Cary Library..
George Holden
Gco ge Holden
1 7 per cent. for first five years, r
and 6 per cent. thereafter,
semi-annually
5 7 per cent fie four yeas, and !Per cent.
snare fler, semi-.nnueny . .
6* per cent. annually
7 1,
CC
June 1, 1890. .
July 1, 1890..
Aug. 1, 1890..
Sept. 1, 1890• •
Feb.28,1887..
July 11,1876..
Jan. 1, 1873..
$10,000 00
5,000 00
5,000 00
5,000 00
5,000 00
1,800 00
200 00
Total Town Hall Debt.
•'rwo thousand dollars of saki debt to be paid before March 1, 1873.
STATISTICS.
$32,000 00
_
YEAR.
POPULATION.
N UMBER
OP
POLLS.
VALUATION-
RATE OF TAX.
-TOWN GRANT
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
1861 ..
2,329
615
1,762,037
8 00 ,i
12,075 81
1862 . .
2,329
592
1,745,644
9 50 {L
14,830 00
1863 . .
2,329
624
1,832,344
10 00 a
12,915 00
1864 . .
2,329
558
1,687,348
15 00 If
19,397 00
1865 ..
2,223
585
1,670,963
16 50 1'
18,530 00
1866 . .
2.223
598
1,701,655
14 00 ,i
18,110 00
1867..
2,223
601
1,770,468
15 50 ic
17,660 00
1h68 . .
2,223
620
1,999,137
14 00 t,
23,315 00
1869..
2,223
609
1,966,876
12 50 if
19,839 00
1870 . .
2,377
629
2,254,831
13 50 Ll
24,275 00
1871 . .
2,377
618
2,324,750
16 00 L1
31,746 00
1872 ..
2,389
638
2,536,011
16 00 1r
35,390 00
STATE TAX..
$497 50
605 00•
3,636 00
4,848 00
4,848 00
8,319 00
5,310 00
8,850 00
3,540 00
4,425 00
4,425 00
4,425 00
3,000 00
COUNTY TAX.
$1,449 22
1,760 47
1,494 06
1,494 06
1,492 02
1,283 51
1,407 35
1,576 24
1,632 53
1,800 41
1,801 41
1,801 41
1,739 67
'rhe 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,
Jan.
u
FROM JANUARY 1, 1872, TO JANUARY 1, 1873.
DAM NAltx. seaIDxiee)2•
ton.
15" " " 1 Sarah ah J. Smith Thomas H. te ex Lexington.
18
' George T. Davis Enfield, N. C.
Abbie J. Simonds Lexington.
24. Daniel E. Elaynes. Bedford.
1 Abbie J. Goodwin Bedford.
Thomas M. Harvie Lexington.
Abbie Card Lexington.
S Edmund Hurley Mansfield.
1 Margaret Keleher. Lexington.
15 S Charles T. West. Lexington.
Mary W. RusseIl.. . Arlington.
Thomas Pierce Lexington.
Bridget O'Brien Lexington.
John Strople. ... , Lexington.
1 Abbie Meyer. ... Cambridge.
',Wiliam B. Hughes. Lexington.
Lucy N. Puffer Lexington.
u 14 James H. Skilton .. Woburn.
Mary S. C. Walker Woburn.
Aug. 14..... J Charles W. Conners... Woburn.
Georgiana T. Parker 1 exington.
19 S Patrick Seating, Jr Lexington.
Hannah Roche Lexington.
3 S Patrick Mansfield..... Charlestown.
Mary White.. Lexington.
Whole number of Marriages 13.
it 25.
Feb. 4.
March 2I.
April
July
1.
Oct.
Nov.
BIRTHS REGISTERED IN LEXINGTON,
FROM JANUARY 1, 1872, TO JANUARY 1, 1873.
Whole number of Births, 33 ; Males, 16; Females, 17.
47
• DEATHS RECORDED IN LEXINGTON,
FROM JARUA.H.Y 1, 1872, TO JANUARY 1, 1878.
DATE.
Ian. 51..
t. 87..
Feb. 8..
11..
IC 29,
March 3..
9.
" - 10..
" 12..
18..
O 19...
Ag23..
ra 1..
6..
8..
✓ 16..
28..
32..
1.
6..
16 .
1.0..
20..
26..
1..
10..
1b..
/f i7..
i/ . 37..
:18.
" 81..
Ali!. 19.. ..
• 10..
1 10..
'•17.,
14 20..
Sept. 1..
' Oct. 80..
Nov. 6..
9
Dee. 8..
O 28..
NAME.
George it. Dexrcr..............
Annie Maria Palk
Samuel T. Tapley. .......
Morin Wyymen.................
Charles Locke
Esther R. Angler
Ideal Ages
Rally Flies
Annie C. Dads
Maria Y. a rover
Patrick Buckley
Cornelius Buckley
Abigail Sensor
Frances Muffinsaeer....
Hannah S With
Thaddeus Tower. .
Philip Russell ....
Thomas A. ftusaell..,.........
Nellie M. Emery
Lnaanna T. Phelps
Alice Frost
John Williams Hudson
Maria H. Iiildretb
Mary Jane Graham...... .....
Jimmie Belle Locke......... ,
Mary McGrath
Isaae Parker
Sarah Brady
Allen McDougall
Caroline Smith
John S. ilhoadea. ....
Mary Bryant
Anna M. Muzzsy.. .,
Lyman Benjamin Mummy
Anna Matilda Mntey,
Judith Blasdel
Charles T. Hanford
Mary Elizabeth Dineen.........
Anna Jennings, . ............ . .
Louie T. Fiske
John Reardon
Lizzie Page.. . , ..
Mary Jane McCue.—
Sarah A. Reed.........
Jane E. iiarrigan
Charles Lewis Bachelder
Johanna Harrington
Byron J. Wentworth
Michael O'Brien, Jr
Matthew Merriam. ..... ......
Patrick Cs add
Joseph Davie
Alice Glidden. ........
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84
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Boston.
England.
Charlestown.
Westminster, Vt.
Lexington.
Salem.
Lexington.
Gloucester.
Lexington.
Roxbury.
Medford.
Bedford.
Sudbury.
Lexhng ton.
Portland, Me.
Lexington.
Wisner..
Westminster.
Acton.
Lexington.
Exeter, N 11.
Lexington.
Ireland.
Nova Scotia..
Salem.
Boston.
Lexington.
Rye, N. 1.1.
Boston.
Lexington.
$oath Danvers.
Malden.
Lexington.
Not known.
Boston.
Lexington.
E. Hartford, Ct.
Ireland.
Salmon Fa114, N. H.
Lexington.
Brunswick, Dfa.
Irel.nd. '
Malden.
Northfield, N. H.
Whole number, 63:—Ma co, 22; Females, 31.
Cerraes of Death.—Consumption, 18; Scarlet Fever, 6; Age, 6; Paralysis, 4; Cholera fo-
• fantunt, 6; Cancer, 2; Small -pox, 2; Bright's Disease, 2; Rheumatic Fever „1; Electricity, 1;
Sanatroke, 1; Heart Disease, 1; Marasmus, 1; Dropsy, 1; Puerperal Convulsions 1; -Unknown,
6; Whooping Cough, 1. Total, 68.
Complied from the Town Records.
LEONARD G. BABCOCK, Town Clerk.