HomeMy WebLinkAbout2239 Report of committee chosen "to purchase land and build a Town-house" (a Town Hall), May 31, 1847Lexington May 31st 1847
The Committee chosen March 30th 1846
to purchase land and build a town-house
have attended to the duty assigned them and
would respectfully submit the following report,
Your Committee purchased a lot of Land
in accordance with a vote of the town posted March
30th 1846, for the sum of eleven hundred dollars
$1,100,00
A building has been erected at an expense
including stone work, cellar, grading &c of 4,046,01
Furniture, lights, furnace & fuel &c has been
procured at an expense of 414.57
Interest has been paid on notes and accounts
that have fallen due to the amount of 75.13
Total amount $ 6,235,71
The amount received for which notes
have been given amount to $ 6217.50
leaving a balance due the Committee of $ 18.21
Your Committee have not deemed it necessary
to be very minute in particularizing all the expenditures,
but have given the aggregate (for which the [they] have
vouchers) as a board of Auditors have been chosen
whose duty it will be to examine all the above expenses.
Signed by A. W. Bryant
Peter Wellington
John Mulliken
Report of the Building
Committee on the
Town House 1847
Accepted March 31st
1847
1847 [should say 2239]