HomeMy WebLinkAbout1851-1852 Auditors ReportREPORT
OF THE
AUDITORS OF ACCOUNTS
AGAINST THE
TOWN OF LEXINGTON,
FOR THE YEAR 1851-52.
BOSTON:
GEORGE C. RAND, PRINTER, NO. 3 CORNIILL.
1852.
REPORT
OF THE
AUDITORS OF ACCOUNTS
AGAINST THE
TOWN OF LEIIVGTO\',
FOR THE YEAR 1851-52.
BOSTON:
GEORGE C. RAND, PRINTER, NO. 3 CORNIIILL.
1852.
Y T.
TOWN OF LEXINGTON, IN ACCOUNT WITH NATHANIEL MULLIKEN, TREASURER. ter.
From April 24th, 1851,
To amount paid for support of Schools, $2,578 96
44
44
44
Repairs of School Houses, 161 54
Principal of sundry Notes, 3,118 61
Interest, 516 50
Roads and Bridges, 1,527 18
New School Houses, 5,286 26
Overseers of the Poor, 981 72
Grading Avenues of Burying
Ground, 30 50
Town Officers, 697 61
Miscellaneous Expenses, 169 43
To Balance due the Town, 208 82
$15,277 13
to April 22d, 1852.
By amount due the Town 24th April, 1851,
44
44
44
44
received of John Beals, Collector,
Borrowed,
State School Fund,
J. N. Damon for School House,
Andrew Wellington, 44
Joseph Davis for grass,
Crowley for land,
A. W. Farrar, rent of Town Hall,
Catholics,
O. W. Kendall,
44 44
4' 4G
Samuel Rice, rent of land,
J. S. Parker, income of Hay Scales,
$192 13
8,558 37
5,009 87
73 31
1,200 00
53 00
8 00
29 26
49 00
7 00
56 42
5 00
35 77
$ 15,277 13
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AUDITORS' REPORT.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Paid W. H. H. Reed, for
Ib. snuff 13, 1 gal. oil 75, 1 lb. tobacco 33, $1 21
4 bus. meal $3.08, 4 lb. saleratus 25, -
2 lbs. cream tartar 50, 2 lbs. ginger 25.
2 sets 50, 1 doz. plates 92, -
16i lbs. cheese $1.22, crockery 38, -
2 lbs. tobacco 67, 15 gals. molasses $3.75,
2 bus. meal $1.52, 2 bus. do. $1.56, -
2 lbs. starch 25, 4 milk pans 50,
1 ball wicking 6, 1 whip, 37
2 bus. potatoes $2, 60 crackers 25, -
2 bus. rye meal $2, 40 lbs. sugar $3.20,
lb. pimento 12, lb cassia 10,
3 lbs. nails 15, 2 bus. corn $1.54, -
1 pail 20, 3- ib. saltpetre, 7, -
1 lb. sulpher 10, 8 bus. meal $6.40, -
2 bus. potatoes $2, 30 lbs. butter $5.40,
5
" 4.50, 10 lbs. apple 70,
5 papers seed 25, 1 bar soap 24,
1 bed cord 42, 2 bus. potatoes $2,
2 hoes $1.16, 1 dust brush 25,
6 bus. potatoes $5.70, 1 gal. oil 75
1 mop handle 25, 2 gal. vinegar,
3 33
75
1 42
1 60
4 42
3 08
75
43
2 25
5 20
22
1 69
27
6 50
7 40
5 20
49
2 42
1 41
6 45
• 58
2 bus. Meal $1.50, 2 bus. rye meal $2. 3 50
2 " " 1.46, garden seeds 9, - 1 55
$57 07
5
Paid for 3 bus. potatoes $2.55, 2 bus. meal $1.44., 3 99
1 scythe and snath $1.63, rifle and stone 16, 1 '79
1 rake 28, sundries 20, - 48
2 bus. potatoes $1..60, 5 lbs mackerel 35, 1 95
1 scythe stone 10, 2 lbs. tobacco 60, - 70
lb. snuff 6, 2 bus. corn $1.40, - $1 46
6 lbs. nails 24, 2 bus. rye meal $2.00, 2 24
-41- lbs. mackerel 30, 1 gal. vinegar 17, 47
2 gal vinegar 33, 4 lb pepper, 15 - 48
1 ball twine 13, 2 baskets 33, - 46
1 qt. rum 10, 6 lbs. nails 24, - 34
X171 lbs. butter $8.08, 1 oz. indigo 12, 8 20
lb. snuff 7, 1 pint spirits 7, 14
1 butter tub 13, bus. salt 21,- 34
'11 bus. salt 63, 2 lbs. cearn tartar 50, - 1 13
2 oz. saltpetre 3, 3 lbs. tea $1, 1 03
1 jug 33, 2 gal. vinegar 33, - 66
2 bus. rye meal $2, lb. snuff 7, - 2 07
1 gal. oil $1, bus. salt 21, - 1 21
2 lbs. tobacco 60, - - 60
Bro't forward, -
Credit by eggs,
Paid Smith & Hill for
15 gals. molasses $3.75, 1 bag corn $1.46, 5 21
95 lbs. rye meal $1.66,1 gross matches 17, 1 83
1 Ib. pepper 12, 4 lbs. saleratus 25, - 37
141- lbs. cheese $1.09, 1 bag fine salt 20, 1 29
41 lbs. butter $7.38, 159 lbs. sugar $10.33, 17 71
1 bbl. 20, 20 lbs. potash $1.50, 1 70
1 bus. salt 42, 4 lbs. coffee 56, 98
20 lbs. butter $3.80, 1 gal. molasses 32, 4 12
1 bag rye meal $1.75, 15 gal. " $3.75, 5 50
15 gals. molasses $3.75, - 3 75
1*
$34 79
57 07
91 86
98
$90 88
$42 46
6
Paid Wm. H. Smith for
84 lbs. cheese 70, I lb. nutmeg 38, -
6 lbs. coffee 75, 6 lbs. tea $2.00, -
1 bag rye meal $1.90, 3 bags meal $4.68,
5 lbs tobacco $ 1.50, lbs. 4 tea $ 1.20, -
1 bag rye meal $1.80, 6 lbs. saleratus 38,
1 lb. cassia 40, 50 lbs. rice $2.25, -
16 gals. molasses $4, 1 broom 28, -
1 08
2 75
6 58
2 70
2 18
2 65
4 28
Paid James Whitman for labor, - 2 05
Chas. K. Tucker, wheelwright work, 7 91
47 59
A. W. Bryant, blacksmith
Edmond Simmes, dry goods, -
Bryant & Clark, grain and meal,
Ruggles, Nourse & Mason, tools,
Chas. Robinson, pasturing cows,
Paid Josiah Richardson, keeping oxen,
Wm. Butterfield, repairing clocks,
Oliver W. Lane, keeping oxen,
J. C. Wellington, services as Overseer
and Surveyor, -
W. J. Currier, medical services,
P. P. Pierce, as Overseer and Surveyor,
P. P. Pierce, keeping oxen, and articles
for house,
Whitney & Co. for fish,
Wm. Chandler for wood,
Oran Nash for brogans,
W. Adams fur face hammer,
Thos. Hamlin for fish, -
John Whipple, fresh fish,
Wm. Hudson, mending shoes, -
Allen Smith, for table, -
13 13
11'7 45
11 00
4 33
$1 75
2 00
6 00
34 25
25 25
31 50
3145
2 62
41 00
2 50
2 02
3 26
6 87
2 38
1 50
Paid Sidney Butterfield for swine, 12 00
Amrni Hall, blacksmith work, 1 38
John G. Sherman, teaming milk, 3 00
Alonzo Goddard, cooking stove, - 28 00
" Funnel, iron and tin ware, 18 37
Dr. Holmes, 4 visits at Almshouse, - 2 00
$22 22
$397 81
7
Fosdick & Carter, 2 pillows, -
James McCan, 3 months labor,
John Forgerty, 2 mo. 9 days, -
Wm. McGonagan, 3 mo. 6 days,
John F. Horn, 2if months, -
James Whaland, 2 mo. 22 days,
Bartlett Harrington, 15 days, -
John Bannon, 63 GL
Edward Sheriden, 127 -
Levi Houghton, 8i "
Oceanus Straw, 111 months, -
Wetherby & Chapman for 1 horse,
O. Straw for powder and fuse,
Oliver & Bowman Smith, 4,249 lbs. hay,
S. A. Davis, blacksmith work,
J. S. Parker for goods,
Wm. Smith, mending harness, -
1 33
39 00
29 32
36 98
33 25
37 00
8 10
63 00
110 46
8 50
265 00
120 00
2 85
30 32
26 97
5 91
1 63
Paid C. L. Pook for household furniture, 22 99
J. H. Russell, 21,940 lbs. coal, - 68 77
Wm. Brigham, 2 pr. wheels & repairs, 26 75
H. B. Fuller, dry goods, - 29 29
Bradley & Willis, fish and tobacco, 5 20
John Simpson, furniture, 12 54
Abel Butterfied, meat, - 67 95
Warren Duren, boots and mending, 3 83
Paid A. P. Richardson, repairing plow, - $2 06
Lyman Burbank, oxen, 138 00
A. T. Perkins, drugs, - - 58
J. C. Wellington, horse keeping, yoke,
and potatoes, - - 8 60
Betsey Gleason, 3 weeks labor, 7 50
Mary Townshend 10 - 12 50
Samuel Rice, services as Overseer, 47 50
" miscellaneous charges, 53 03
Michael Tenant, 3} days labor, 3 50
Zabdiel Adams, 6 t& " 6 00
Luke Childs, 68 loads gravel, 4 25
Michael Clansey, 7 days labor, 7 00
Webster Smith, opening roads, 3 00
$818 29
8
Win. H. Littlehale, ' 50
John Crowley, 11- days labor, 1 50
Paid Isaac Parker for opening roads, 5 00
John Banner, 41 days " 4 50
Amos Angier and others, opening roads, 4 75
J. Q. A. Chandler, oxen and self, - '2 00
T. H. Rhodes, 10 days, 10 CO
13. F. Lock, 4 75
James Horley, 3 " - 1 60
Samuel Rice, miscellaneous charges, 13 50
Benjamin Fisk, 11 days labor, - 1 50
Edward Sheridan 21 " - 2 50
B. O. Wellington, 6 " - `6 00
Cyrus Reed, stone and labor, - 6 54
Duren, 4 days, - - 4 '00
Peter Wellington, labor and keeping oxen, 11 00
Daniel Cummings, 4 days labor, 3 50
Joseph Fiske, labor, 75
E. G. Locke, opening roads, 2 '00
C. Hadlock, 21- days " - 2 50
J. F. Simonds $1.25, Chas. Locke 50, 1 75
J. C. Wellington, opening roads, - 12 71
J. Bailey $1.50, E. Bridges $2, - 3 50
P. P. Pierce $2.50, Galen Allen $5, - 7 50
Dennis Murphy $2.76, M. Nutting $1.40, 4 16
James Crowley $1, M. Page, gravel $1,15, 2 65
Wm. Viles for 2 days labor, - - 2 00
$532 84
$116 66
RECAPITULATION OF CHARGES PAID BY OVERSEERS.
Paid Wm. H. 11. Reed, - $90 88
Smith & Hill, - 42 46
Wm. Henry Smith 2d, - 22 22
Amount brought frorn preceeding pages, - 397 81
884 37
532 84
116 66
$2,087 24
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Supplies Furnished out of Alms House.
To Edward Winship, -
Widow of Jonathan Wood,
John Johnson, - -
Cynthia Blodgett, at Ipswich,
Jonathan Trask,
Lucy Champney,
Mrs. Holmes for Eliza Stearns, -
Town of Bedford, John S. Holmes,
OD
Balance due the town carried to new account,
31 95
17 00
12 50
10 00
55 30
4 74
10 13
11 00
CREDIT OF OVERSEERS.
By amount received of Town Treasurer, 800 00
Gleason for horse sold, 120 00
125 00
48 00
74 55
44
44.
44
44
K
Garman for oxen "
P. Russell, 2 cows, "
Bennett, milk
Bridge and others for
wood sold, 48 52
labor of Superintendent, 6 25
44
CC for calf and pigs sold, 14 00
labor performed on the
roads, and charged to
Surveyor's account, 1,100 56
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SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAYS.
Paid Oceanus Straw, 156 days labor on roads, 156 00
Edward Sheridan, 127 " " 110 46
Wm. McGonagon, 761 " 76 50
James McCan, 69 " " 69 00
$152 62
2239 86
97 02
$2,336 88
$2,336 88
11
111 days work of horse $5.75, C. Locke 59, 6 25
Benj. Fiske $1.59, B. F. Locke 75, - 2 25
W. M. Duren $4.00, S. Locke 59, - 4 50
Surveyors' Services.
Paid Samuel Rice,
J. C. Wellington,
P. P. Pierce, -
Brought forward, -
Cr. by cash received of Town Treasurer,
- 15 00
- 15 00
- 15 00
SCHOOLS.
CENTRE DISTRICT.
Paid B. B. Whittemore for teaching three
quarters, - - $300 00
Miss S. E. Richardson, one year, 240 00
F. Raymond, 10 weeks, - 100 00
J. Warren Towle, 1 week, - 10 00
Paid Mrs. Mack for cleaning old school-
house, - -
Charles A. Gould for sweeping and
making fires,
bill for hardware,
Samuel Rice for wood,
Isaac fluffmaster, -
Samuel Chandler, -
Harrington, -
Josiah H. Russell, coal,
J. S. Parker,
3 00
44 25
3, 00
3 12
4 00
4 50
3 50
26 00
2 12
$110 03
$155 03
945 53
$1,100 56
$650 00
4
Paid John Forgerty, 57
John F. Horn, 59
John Bannon 63
Levi Houghton 81 days labor on
James Horley, 3
Zabdiel Adams, 6
Michael Tennant, 31
Bartlet Harrington, 11-- "
Dennis Murphy, 3 4G
John Crowley, 11
James Crowley, 1
98A- days labor of oxen,
1551 64 horse,
James Whaldan, 67 6G
Michael Cransey, 7 44
J. C. Wellington, (man) 1
Daniel Cummings, 4 days labor
Peter Wellington, 11 64
Luke C. Childs for gravel
Cyrus Reed, "
Moses Page,
for Powder and Fuse,
46
44
CC
10
6G
46
G4
46
66
G6
4,
44
57 00
59 00
63 00
roads, $8 50
3 00
44 6 00
3 50
11 50
2 76
1 50
1 00
98 50
116 62
67 00
7 00
1 00
3 00
10 00
4 25
5 04
1 65
2 75
CG
G4
44
44
66
GG
46.
6G
64
46
46
46
66
4C
$945 53
PAID FOR BREAKING OUT ROADS IN WINTER OF 1851-52'
Paid B. O. Wellington $6, Galan Allen $5, 11 00
Isaac Parker $5, Webster Smith $'3, - 8 00
Wm. Viles $2, John Bannon $4.50, - 6 59
Wm. H. Littlehall 50, Amos Angier $3.50, 4 00
Nathan Chandler 25, B. Locke 50, - 75
J. F. Simonds $1.25, J. A. Fisk 75, - 2 00
Edward Sheridan $2.50, J. Q. A. Chan-
dler $2. - - - 4 50
Cyrus Reed $1.50, James Bailey 1.50, 3 00
M. Nutting $1.40, E. G. Locke $2, - 3 40
E. Bridges $2, J. C. Wellington $11.38, 13 30
Samuel Rice for self, and bills paid others, 13 50
P. P. Pierce $2.50, T. H. Rhodes $10, 12 50
C. Hadlock $2.50, Oceanus Straw $12, 14 50
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Paid shovelling snow, -
2 board -washers and chalk, -
Cr. by cash of I. N. Damon,
2 68
1 43
97 60
4 66
SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT.
Paid L. B. Ilanaford, services one year,
Miss Susan E. Rice, 39 weeks,
Josiah H. Russell for coal, -
S. W. Smith for 25 bush. charcoal, -
do. - ton of coal and teaming,
do. expenses on accouht of teachers,
Alfred Lee and J. Bryant, care of
school -rooms, -
for Ink, -
SOUTH DISTRICT.
Miss Maria A. Merriam, teaching 23
weeks, - -
Miss Ann E. Weston, 14 weeks,
Galen Allen for 9 feet oak and 10 of
pine wood, - -
sawing, splitting and piling same, -
washing and sweeping school -room, -
Ink 50, chalk $1.87, coal hod 75, -
care of wood and coal $1.00, build-
ing fires $7.00, -
brooms 50, flipper 8, do 40, ink 37, -
bell 45, lock 30, wrench 21, repairing
clock 25, - -
Josiah H. Russell, 4 tons coal,
500 CO
195 00
22 50
8 33
4 00
5 36
17 75
1 75
115 00
84 00
9 94
2 50
$1 00
3 12
8 00
1 35
1 21
26 00
92 94
742 94
754 69
252 12
13
WEST DISTRICT.
Paid Miss M. A. Hartwell, for teaching 16
weeks, - - -
Charles Tidd, services 4A- months, -
John Marrett, 1 cord wood, -
Bowen A. Tufts, 2 do. sawing and
splitting same, - -
making fires 19 weeks $7.12, fixtures
$1.00, - - - -
64 00
168 62
5 50
14 50
8 12
260 74
NORTH DISTRICT.
Paid Miss Lucy B. Fiske, 5 mos. services,
E. M. Hussey, 15 weeks, - -
Chas. W. Johnson, 21 cords wood,
sawing and splitting,
pail 25, dipper 20, brooms 50, -
building fires $3.70, washing room
$1.75, - - - -
100 00
142 50
12 50
2 75
95
5 45
264 15
NORTH-EAST DISTRICT.
Paid Elizabeth N. Locke, services 22 weeks, $110 00
James Crocker, 2i months, - 137 50
Benj. Bosworth, taking care school room, 5 00
11 cords wood $7.50, sawing and split-
ting $1.50, - 9 00
Washing school room, 1 00
262 50
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PAID FOR REPAIRS OF SCHOOL -HOUSES AND SURVEYING
SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
Paid John Hadley for plastering and white-
washing house in Centre District, $8 00
2
14
Paid H. C. Emerson, repairing, - - $3 25
A. P. Richardson, lock, - 96
Waterman for mats, 4 00
I. N. Damon, labor, - 5 50
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10 46
15
South District.
Paid Galen Allen for zinc and labor,
for repairing windows,
George Gray,
E. R. Smith, -
$1 65
3 25
4 25
2 76
Credit by 2 stoves and funnel sold
I. N. Damon, -
11 91
10 00
46
West District.
$11 71
North-east District.
Paid Benj. Bosworth for whitewashing, -
repairing doors and windows,
0. W. Kendall, - - -
carting gravel around school -house, -
Loa Locke for lime and hair, -
teaming lime and sand, making mortar,
21 days work $4.13, use of horse 25,
$2 00
2 00
2 61
1 50
1 25
2 00
4 38
15 74
Paid Bowen A. Tufts, repairing windows,
Paid Sylvanus W. Smith, for grading
H. yard, - -
Chandler R. Richardson, for sure
School Districts,
I. N. Damon, 6 days,
John Crowley, 4 days,
Darius Fillebrown, 3 days, -
F. M. Harrington, for horse hire,
Andrew Wellington, 53,- days,
Sylvanus W. Smith,
$1 44
S. E. S.
28 75
eying
$16 00
10 50
5 00
450
50
9 62
5 00
$79 87
South-east District.
Paid I. Buttrick, 4 days labor, - - $7 00
325 feet lumber $6.50, door lock $1.50, 8 00
1 dozen window fasts $1.87, hooks for
clothes 75, - - 2 62
4 doz. hooks for hats $1.12, screws 33, 1 45
window glass, putty and nails, 1 00
putting up strips for black boards, 1 00
cleaning school rooms, 6 50
clock $5.00, mats $1.10, - 6 10
broom 25, brush 25, door latches and
hooks 75, - - - 1 25
1 chair $2.12, painting black boards $1.25 3 37
1 coal sieve 30, dippers 16, coal hod 83, 1 29
A. Goddard, repairing stoves $6.09,
whitewashing $1.50, - - 7 59
brooms, brush and poker $1.00, other bills
$2.25, - - - 3 25
50 42
COST OF TWO NEW SCHOOL -HOUSES AND SITES FOR SAN.
Paid Samuel Bridge for land in Centre District,
David A. Tuttle, for building house,
Interest allowed on a portion of contract,
S. Wales, for desks, chairs and tables, 334 00
4 scrapers, - 50
6 common chairs, 3 36
Samuel Rice, for lime and boards, 4 10
Thomas Greenleaf, for labor, 7 00
J. F. Le Baron, - - 3 00
James Bailey, for sand $1.00, J. S. Parker
nails 75, 1 75
S. Puffer, labor, - - 63
H. G. Emerson, building 4 rods fence, 25 00
$470 37
2,842 00
8 00
Pr
16
Paid David A. Tuttle, extra labor, - 1 00
John Butterfield, teaming furniture for said
house, - 50
Paid Isaac Childs for land in South District,
George Gray, for building house, -
9 rods picket fence, -
Wm. G. Shattuck, for 10 school desks,
20 chairs, - - -
5 do. for primary school, -
19 12
35 00
20 00
3 25
380 €4
3,701 21
50 00
1,395 00
77 37
1,522 37
5,223 58
17
Paid Simon W. Robinson, expenses to Cam-
bridge to purchase lumber, - 2 50
•Self $2.00, man $4.50, setting posts, 6 50
cask nails $3.25, freight on lumber $2.38, 5 63
Haywood, 206 posts, - - 41 20
J. Hall, for lumber, 45 79
J. S. Parker, nails, - 26
Isaac Mulliken, setting posts, 4 50
O. W. Kendall, 7 08
Paid Benj. 0. Wellington for building bridge,
City of Cambridge, repairs of bridge 2
years, - - -
Paid Wm. J. Currier damage awarded for loss
of ahorse, - - 170 00
.Samuel Chandler, cost of referees, - 15 00
O. W. Kendall, for witness fees and his
services, - - 4 14
2 50
BUILDING COMMITTEE SERVICES.
Paid Charles Hudson, - 15 00
Samuel Bridge $15.00, horse hire $3.43, 18 43
Peter Wellington $16.00, horse hire $7.00, 23 00
Simon W. Robinson, for insurance of old
house, - - 6 25
Gorham Bigelow, entertaining referees,
Amount paid for damages,
Paid L. S. Wheelock, for damages by him
sustained on the Waltham road,
0. W. Kendall, journey to Wayland to
pay the above, - -
113 46
45 22
39 84
191 64
18 00
1 50
Amount brought forward, -
Whole cost of two school -houses,
62 68
5,223 58
5,286 26
Railing Roads.
Paid Galen Allen for railing roads,
Self 3/ days $7.50, man 44 days $5.81,
E. R. Smith, 3r days, - -
Putting up railing near Mr. Gould's,
Oxen one day,
13 31
5 65
75
1 25
Paid Galen Alien for grading avenues of the
burying ground,
Paid S. W. Robinson, recording two deeds, 1 00
expense of selling south school -house, 1 50
surveying and conveying land east of
Railroad, - - 1 25
laying out and setting bounds in burying
ground, - 7 50
painting guide board 25, deed of S. I1.
L. 75, - - - 1 00
repairing fire hooks $1.25, repairing
pound $3.00, - - $4 25
Other services, - 25 00
19 50
211 14
30 50
20 96.
$41 50
L.
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Paid Joseph Howe, for services, - 22 00
for setting posts, - - 38
Paid Galen Allen, for services, -
Paid William Chandler for 25 days services
as Assessor, -
postage $1.50, blank book 75,
for advertising school -house in South
District,
Paid J. S. Parker, 12 days services as Asses-
sor, -
for books, -
Paid Silas Cutler, 18 days services as Asses-
sor, - -
Paid A. W. Bryant, services as Town Clerk,
for postage, - - -
Expense in obtaining and distributing
Laws and Resolves, -
50 00
2 25
1 50
24 00
19 50
27 55
1 56
4 00
4
22 38
22 00
19
Paid Rev. Ira Leland for 34 days,
Paid Rev. J. A. Coolidge for 33 days,
Paid Nathaniel Mulliken for auditing accounts
85 88 for 1851-2, 6A days, -
Paid for procuring report printed, -
Paid J. C. Wellington, 41 days, -
O. W. Kendall for distributing report,
53 75 Paid for ringing hell in East Village,
44 Lexington Centre,
Paid John Beals,
43 50 Paid Nathaniel Mulliken for services as Town
Treasurer,
36 00
13 00
$2 00
9 00
2 50
30 00
35 00
— 33 11 AMOUNT OF NOTES AND INTEREST PAID.
Paid Oliver W. Kendall for opening Town
Hall 21 times for Selectmen, - 12 00
for opening Town Hall for Concerts,
Town Meetings & Lectures 40 times, 40 00
for oil and wicking, - - - 10 47
Paid O. W. Kendall for notifying inhabitants
and attending 5 Town Meetings, 30 00
for notifying Selectmen 6 times to draw
jurors, - - 3 00
for attending 23 funerals, - 23 00
for making returns of deaths, - 1 90
Paid Rev. Fiske Barrett for 32 days services
on School Committee, -
for horse hire,
▪ 32 00
1 90
62 47
57 90
33 50
Nehemiah Wellington,
Lucy Wyman, -
Francis Wyman,
Hannah Tuttle, -
John Beals, -
Louisa Winship,
Hammond A. Hosmer,
Samuel Bridge,
Bunker Hill Bank,
Charles Harrington, Jr.,
Joshua Simonds, Jr., -
Trustees Lexington M. Fund,
Interest.
12 00
39 00
33 00
30 00
- 2700
30 00
60 00
30 00
13 37
11 39
12 00
15 84
1 20
84 00
17 50
31 50
33 00
98 00
$15 00
11 50
65 00
73 00
60 00
Erin cipat.
470 37
400 00
1,000 00
500 00
150 00
500 00
20
Ellen M. Harrington, • 6 - 98 21
Charles Harrington, Jr.., -
ll (4
Almire. Smith,
18 00
'22 20
60 00
,$516 50 $3,118 61
AMOUNT PAID FOR MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS.;
0. W Kendall paid Caleb Rand for printing
Notifications and Voters' List,
Various bills connected with the use of the
Town Hall,
A. Goddard for stove funnel,
J. H. Russell for coal, -
George C. Rand & Co. for printing Reports
of Auditors and School Committee, -
S. W. Smith, care of engine and repairs
S. W. Smith, by order of Selectmen Feb. 21,
1851, -
19 50
13 26
3 31
12 50
30 00
$ 6 50
5 00
Billings Smith for 1 bag of meal, 1 56
Rev. J. A. Coolidge for printing School Re-
ports of 1851-52, - - 12 00
Buttrick & Marrett, Counsel for the Town in
case of Ellen A. and Julia Robbins, 66 36
Hugh Graham, Prudential Committee of the
N. E. District, a portion of the appro-
priation of 1850, -
Error in S. W. Smith's account,
*167 93
32 32
200 25
05
$200 20
21
RECAPITULATION OF DISBURSEMENTS.,
Paid to Overseers of the Poor, -
Surveyors of Highways, including Bridges
and damages to Wm. J. Currier and.
L. S. Wheelock, sustained on the
Waltham Road, -
Paid for support of Schools.
Paid Centre District,
for repairs of house,
South-east District, -
for repairs of house,
South District,
for repairs of house,
West District,
for repairs of house,
North-east District, -
for repairs of house,.
North District,
New House and land in Centre District,
" " South 5G
Building Committee's services, -
Surveying Districts and grading S. E. School
yard,.
Paid Board of Selectmen,
" " Assessors,
" School Committee,
Town Clerk,
Oliver W. Kendall,
981 72'
1,561 68
742 94
11 71
754 69
50 42
252 12
11 91.
260 74
1 44
262 50
15 74
264 15
2,628 36
3,701 21
1,522 37
62 GS
79 87
7,994 49
1,561 6S
981 72•
10,537 89
85 8S
133 25
98 00
33 11
120 37
22
for auditing and distributing Reports,
for ringing bells,
John Beals, -
Treasurer's services,
Notes and Interest, -
Miscellaneous accounts,
Balance carried to new account,
RECEIPTS OF THE TREASURER.
Balance due the Town on settlement, 1851,
Received of John Beals, Collector, -
GG GG I. N. Damon for School House,
GG Andrew Wellington,
GG GG Joseph Davis for grass, -
`� GG Crowley for land, -
�� GG Farrar for rent of Town Hall,
GG
GG
GL
GG
GG
" Catholics, GG GC GG
GG 0. W. Kendall, GG GG
GG J. S. Parker, income of Hay Scales,
GG Samuel Rice for rent of land,
GG State Treasurer,
Amount borrowed,
•
The principal of sundry notes against the town is
The town holds a note signed by Benj. Muzzey for
All which is respectfully submitted by
26 50
65 00
73 00
60 00
3,635 11
200 20
208 85
$15,277 13
192 13
8,558 37
1,200 00
53 00
8 00
29 26
49 00
7 00
56 42
35 77
5 00
73 31
5,009 87
$ 15,277 13
10,620 00
1,000 00
NATHANIEL MULLIKEN,
JONAS GAMMELL, ` Committee.
ANSEL W. PUTNAM, 3
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