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ANNUAL STATEMENT
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CITY OF CHARLESTOWN,
Financial Year ending February 29, 1872 ;
EErORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR,
ANP THE
REPORT OF THE CITY PHYSICIAN.
B OSTON:
PRESS OF W. & E. HOWE, 39 MERCHANTS ROW.
1872.
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CITY TREASURER.
In Board of Mayor and Aldermen, March 11, 1872.
red to the Committee on Finance.
JOHN T, PRIEST, City Clerk*
Report received, and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Sent down for concurrence.
In Common Council, March 11, 1872.
Referred in concurrence.
THOMAS H. HASKELL, Clerk.
CITY OF CHARLESTOWN.
In Board of Mayor and Aldermen, March 25, 1872.
The Joint Standing Committee on Finance, to whom was
referred the City Treasurer's statement of his Receipts and
Expenditures for the financial year ending Feb. 29, 1872,
REPORT,
That they have made a careful investigation of the books,
papers, bonds, mortgages, notes, &c, in the hands of the
Treasurer. They find the books kept very systematically,
and with a care of details, which justifies commendation.
All the accounts are properly vouched ; and the balance on
hand March 1, 1872, was as he states, one hundred six thou-
sand, one hundred seventy three dollars, forty seven cents.
($106,173.47).
In conformity to ordinance, the Committee submit herewith
a detailed statement of the Expenditures of the city for the
financial year ending February 29, 1872, together with a
statement of the City Debt, a schedule of City Property, and
an estimate of the value thereof.
The Committee recommend that one thousand copies of
the same be printed for distribution among the citizens.
Respectfully submitted,
WM. H. KENT, GEO. R. KELSO,
GEO. B. NEAL, EDWIN SIBLEY,
JOSEPH SOUTHER, JONATHAN STONE,
JOSEPH W. HILL, EDGAR B. MOORE,
Committee on Finance.
In Board of Mayor and Aldermen, March 25, 1872.
Report accepted, and sent down for concurrence.
JOHN T. PRIEST, City Cleik.
In Common Council, March 25, 1872.
Report accepted in concurrence.
THOMAS H. HASKELL, Clerk.
CITY OF CHARLESTOWN.
In Board of Mayor and Aldermen, March 25, 1872.
Ordered : —
That the Joint Standing Committee on Printing cause to
be printed for the use of the citizens one thousand copies of
the City Treasurer's statement of his Receipts and Expendi-
tures for the financial year ending Feb. 29, 1872, together with
a statement of the City Debt, a schedule of City Property, and
the estimated value thereof, and that the City Clerk give public
notice when the same are ready for distribution.
The expense incurred under this order to be charged to the
Appropriation for Contingencies.
Passed, and sent down for concurrence.
JOHN T. PRIEST, City Clerk.
In Common Council, April 2, 1872.
Passed in concurrence.
THOMAS H. HASKELL, Clerk.
Dr.
LINUS E. PEARSON, Treasurer, in Account
March 1, 1872.
To Cash on hand, as per account, March 1 , 1871
" received from loans on City Notes
" " " sales of City Loan Bonds
" " " " " Water Loan Bonds
" " " collector of taxes on account of 1868
" " " " " " " 1869
" " " " " " "1870
" " " " " " "1871
" " " Mystic Water Board, "Water Rates," from
March 1, 1871 to March 1, 1872
" " " Assessments for Diains and Sewers
" " " " " Betterments
" " " u " Kdgestones and Sidewalks.
" " " Sundry Payments on Notes receivable
" " " Interest accrued on City Bonds sold, Notes
due the City, Taxes, &c
" " " Interest accrued on Water Bonds sold
" " " State, on account of disbursements of State
Aid for the year ending Dec. 31, 1870
" " " State, and sundry Cities and Towns, reim-
bursement of amounts paid by the City
for relief of Poor
" " " D. B. Weston, Agent, for board of sundry
persons, at the Aims-House
M " " D. B. Weston, Agent, for sale of Pork at
the Aims-House
" " " D. B. Weston, Agent, for sale of Manure, &c,
at the Alms-Hoube
" " " N. Tufts, Jr., and J. W. Rand, for error in
bills rendered to Poor Department
" " " Sales of House Offal, from March 1, 1871 to
March 1, 1872
" " " B. Hadley, sale of City Ledge Lot Cambridge
Street
" " " Wm. Hichborn, sale of land on Prospect St.. .
" " " D. B. Weston, amount originally paid by the
City to redeem Mortgage on Holden Estate,
Summer Street
" " " State, being yi of balance of "BridgeFund"
as per terms of Section 5, Chapter 303, Acts
of 1#70.
" " " Geo. H. Long, commissioner, being ^ of rents
collected on Charles River and Warren
Bridges to Dec. 1, 1871, sale of old materials,
&c, K of amounts
" " State, reimbursement of amount paid by the
City for the year 1871, " Militia Bounty ". .
" " State, reimbursements of amount paid by
the City for the year 1871, "Armory Rents "
•« " A. J. Bailey, Clerk, Fines, Ofiicers Fees, &c.
due the City from Police Court for 1871 . . .
•■ " E. T. Swift, Chief of Police, for extra ser-
vices of Police at Fitchburg Freight House,
support of boys at Reform School, &c
" " State, City's proportion of " School Fund,"
1870
$134,304.30
203,552.25
320,000.00
185,000.00
$24.72
1,090.42
30,999.53
450,338.81 482,453.48
185,814.79
8,181.02
14,103.89
7,559.60
3,245.49
7,178.81
2,989,71
16,000.00
5,843.06
109.00
996.05
143.67
161.03 7,252.81
6,047.68
5,984.70
2,947.50
900.00
900.00
9,832.20
4,051.58
454.77
6,784.50
1,400.00
212.50 1,112.50
1,316.62
Amouut carried forward, $1,608,63C.00
Dr. LINUS E. PEARSON, Treasurer, in Account, to
Amount brought forward, $1,608, 636.00
To Cash received from County Treasurer, Dog Licenses, refunded as
per terms of Acts of 1869, "Public Library " $683.05
" " " T. T. Sawyer, President, sales of catalogues,
fines, &c. " Public Library " 206.06 889.11
" " " Heirs of Charles Walker, amount credited to
them in excess of award for land damages
on Main Street 775.00
" " " Charlestown Five Cent Savings Bank, extra
dividend and 1 year's interest to April 20,
1871, on " Babcock Music Fund " 560.14
" " " Warren Institution for Savings. 1 year's int.
to April 20, 1871, on " Foss Flag Fund " . . 277.31
1 year's interest to April 20, 1871, on "Foss
17th of June Fund " 277.31 554.62
•' " " Wm. S. Robbins, Superintendent, for sale of
ashes, " Repairs of Streets " 261.25
" " " I. P. Magoun, for use of Steamer, sales of
old material, &c, " Fire Department "... . 136.00
" •' " Orison Little, Supt., for care of Lamps on
Charles River and Warren Bridges, " Fuel
and Lighting " 88.70
" " " E. T. Swift, Superintendent, burial fees, 1870,
" Health Department " 14.00
" " " D. B. Weston, amount collected from City of
Boston for care of Truants 15.92
" " " City Clerk, Fees, &c, as follows, viz : Record-
ing Mortgages, $201.65; Marriage Licenses, $226.00; 427.65
Billiard Licenses, $135.00; Circus Licenses, $100.00; 235.00
Junk Dealers"-' $30.00; Auctioneers' " $6.00; 36.00
Employment Office License, $1.00; 1.00 699.65
" from Costs on taxes, &c, "Contingencies " 439.95
$1,613,070.34
March 1, 1872, with CITY OF CHARLESTOWN. Cr
March 1, 1872.
By Amount paid on City Deferred Roll of 1870 $111,764.48
" " " Soldiers' Deferred Roll of 1870 1,487.40
" " " City Pay Rolls of 1871 & 1872, Nos. 1 to 12 inc. 720,582.00
" " " Soldiers' Pay Rolls of 1871 & 1872, N03.1 to 12 inc. 12,395.00
" " "City Notes 395,831.30
" " " Interest on City Bonds and Notes 79,205.38
" " " Interest on "Water Loan Bonds 70,478.75
" •' "City Sinking Fund Committee, proceeds from
sales of City Property as per terms of ordinance 8,932.20
" " " City Sinking Fund Commiteee, appropriation
- for Sinking Fund for 1871 15,000.00 23,932.20
a a " "Water Sinking Fund Committee, amount stand-
ing to credit of said fund, Dec. 1, 1871, as per
terms of ordinance 18,151.55
" " " State Treasurer, State Tax of 1871 46,200.00
" " tax on shares in National Banks
in this City held by non-residents as per terms
of Chapter 390, Acts of 1871.....
" " " County Treasurer, County Tax for 1871
" " " Cash on hand to balance
$1,013,070.34
L. E. Pearson, City Treasurer.
Chaelestown, March 1, 1872.
Dr
BALANCE SHEET.
City Property
Notes Receivable
Warren Institution for Savings
Charlestown Five Cents Savings Bank .
Water Works
Militia Bounty
Reduction of City Debt
Collector of Taxes, 1869
Collector of Taxes, 1870
Collector of Taxes, 1871 . . . :
State Aid
New Harvard Scbool
Betterments
Drain Assessments
Sidewalk Assessments
Cash
Sinking Fund Committee, "City Debt".
Extra Appropriations
Water Sinking Fund Committee
$328,539
04
15,207
06
4,000
00
3,000
00
1,364,187
90
633
50
700,110
03
2,732
12
3,0S6
68
44,869
64
15,955
68
13,776
19
17,245
10
6,182
36
6,234
67
106,173
47
46,901
42
112,800
00
18,151
55
$2,809,786
41
CITY OF CIIARLESTOWN, March, 1, 1872.
Or,
Soldiers' Deferred Roll
Notes Payable
City Bonds ,
Water Loan Bonds
Public Library
Jacob Foss' Bequest ,
A. Babcock's Legacy ,,,-...,,...,.
City Deferred Roll ,
Bunker Hill Monument Association , .
New Harvard School Furniture
Sinking Fund, '* City Debt "
Mystic River Corporation Stock
Soldiers' Monument
Maintenances of Chas. River & "Warren Bdgs.
Sinking Fund, " Water Debt "
Winthrop Square, Grading and Fencing . .
$1,560 67
204,539 05
1,009,000
1,357,000
683
4,000
3,000
66,491
2,400
407
73,220
2,299
10,500
1,875
59,107
13,700
$2,809,786
00
00
05
00
00
91
00
44
75
79
00
83
92
00
41
EXPENDITURES
FOR THE
FIN-A.N'CIA.IL, YEAR IE INTO UNTO FJEB. £9, 1873.
SALARIES OF CITF OFFICERS.
William H. Kent, Mayor,
Linus E. Pearson, City Treasurer,
Daniel Williams, City Clerk,
John T. Priest, « "
" " " Clerk of Common Council,
Thomas H. Haskell, Clerk " "
Thomas E. Smith, City Messenger,
Henry W. Bragg, " Solicitor,
William S. Stearns, " "
T. Edwards Ames, " Engineer,
Edward J. Forster, " Physician,
David B. Weston,- Secretary of Overseers of Poor,
Geo. S. Pendergast, Chairman, ^
Nahum Chapin, > Assessors,
John Gary, }
Lyman H. Bigelow, Clerk of Assessors,
Erdix T. Swift, Chief of Police,
" " " Health Officer,
" " " Superintendent of Burials,
William S. Robbins, " " Streets,
Joseph H. McDonald, " « "
Amount carried forward, $21,291 67
$2,000 00
2,500
00
575
00
1,925
00
100
00
300
00
1,700
00
53
43
1,446
57
1,500
00
500
00
r, 1,500
00
1,375
00
700
00
700
00
916
67
1,800 00
100 00
100
00
1,312 50
187 50
14
EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward,
Israel P. Magoun, Chief Engineer Fire Dep't,
Wm. E. Delano, Ass't. " " "
Edward E. Turner, " " " «
John Bartle-tt, " " " 4<
James W. Poor, « " •< "
Wm. E. Delano, Sec'y of « " "
S. Augustus Rogers, City Sealer,
Benjamin Locke, Milk Inspector,
C. G. Gibson, Assistant in Treasurer's Office,
S. A. Rogers, "
Thos H. Haskell, "
C. A. Pearson, "
E. R. Wilde,
S. A. Rogers, "
T. H. Haskell, «
U it
u u
u a
City Clerk's »
(( U U
u a u
Appropriation,
Expended,
Bal. to unapp. Funds,
244 50
230 50
$24,475 00
$24,475 00
$21,291 67
500 00
100 00
100 00
100 00
100 00
75 00
600 00
91 67
634 50
126 00
20 00
12 00
400 66
63 00
30 00
$24,244 50
SALARIES OF TEACHERS.
Caleb Emery,
Alfred P. Gage,
Charles G. Pope,
George Swan,
Warren E. Eaton,
Caleb Murdock,
George T. Littlefield,
Lucas Baker,
$2,500 00
2,200 00
2,100 00
2,100 00
2,100 00
2,100 00
2,100 00
2,000 00
Amount carried forward, $17,200 00
George W. Drew,
Henry F. Sears,
E. B. Gay,
Darius Hadley,
William B. Atwood,
Samuel J. Bullock,
James M. Mason,
Katharine Whitney,
Sarah M. Chandler,
Abbie E. Tufts,
Mary G. Pritchard,
Mary L. Coombs,
Lucy M. Small,
Anna It. Stearns,
Caroline M. Sisson,
Mary A. Eaton,
Louisa F. Parsons,
Lucy E. Howe,
Annie D. Dalton,
Ann E. Weston,
Bial W. Willard,
Harriet E. Frye,
Martha M. Kenrick,
Mary C. Sawyer,
Anna S. Osgood,
Margaret W. Veazie,
Georgie A. Smith,
Abbie P. Josselyn,
Angelia M. Knowles,
Lydia S. Jones,
Mary S. Thomas,
Ida O. Hurd,
Emma S. Randlett,
EXPENDITURES. 15
Amount brought forward, $17,200 00
1,600
00
1,600
00
1,600
00
1,600
00
1,600
00
1,600 00
1,000 00
900
00
775
00
775
00
775 00
700
00
700
00
700
00
700
00
680 24
655
13
650
00
650
00
650
00
650
00
650
00
650
00
650
00
636
09
629
65
625
00
625
00
625
00
625
00
625
00
625
00
625
00
Amount carried forward, $45,351 11
16 'EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward,
$45,351 11
Elizabeth Swords,
625 00
Frances L. Dodge,
625 00
Georgianna Haralen,
625 00
Abbie E. Holt,
625 00
Ellen A. Pratt,
625 00
Julia A. Worcester,
625 00
Maria L. Bolan,
625 00
Alice Hall,
625 00
Lois A. Rankin,
625 00
Fanny B. Hall,
625 00
Fidelia L. Howland,
625 00
Susan H. "Williams,
625 00
Emma F. Thomas,
625 00
Mary F. Goldthwaite,
625 00
Arabella P. Moulton,
625 00
,Abby M. Clark,
625 00
Ellen R. Stone,
6x5 00
Jennie E. Tobey,
625 (i0
Julia C. Powers,
625 00
Elizabeth J. Farns worth,
625 00
Ellen C. Dickinson,
625 00
Lydia A. Sears,
625 00
Georgie T. Sawyer,
625 00
Frances A. Craigen,
625 00
Helen G. Turner,
625 00
Efne G. Hazen,
625 00
Elizabeth B. Norton,
625 00
Mary H. Humphrey,
625 00
Ella Worth,
625 00
Martha B. Stevens,
625 00
Sarah A. Atwood,
625 00
S. Josephine Chase,
625 00
M. Josephine Smith,
625 00
Amount carried forward,
$65,976 11
EXPENDITURES.
17
Amount brought forward,
$65,976 11
Elizabeth W. Yeaton,
625.00
Abbie P. Richardson,
625 00
Melissa J. A. Conley,
625 00
Frances M. Lane,
625 00
Ellen Hadley,
625 00
Carrie E. Osgood,
625 00
Martha Yeaton,
625 00
Mary P. Swain,
625 00
Persis M. Whittemore,
625 00
Frances B. Butts,
625 00
Louisa W. Huntress,
625 00
Carrie C. Smith,
625 00
Louisa A. Pratt,
625 00
Elizabeth A. Pritchard,
625 00
Elizabeth R. Brower,
625 00
Mary F. Kittredge,
625 00
Catharine C. Brower,
625 00
Effie A. Kettell,
625 00
Matilda Gilman,
625 00
Elizabeth F. Doane,
625 00
Sarah E. Smith,
625 00
Caroline A. Rea,
625 00
Frances A. Forster,
625 00
Abby C. Lewis,
612 50
Mary F. Richards,
600 00
Marietta F. Allen,
595 84
Abby F. Crocker,
587 50
Anna M. Prescott,
587 50
Charlotte M. W. Tilden,
583 34
Sara H. Nowell,
575 00
Katie C. Thompson,
558 41
Jennie D. Smith,
520 83
Lottie Knight,
400 24
Amount carried forward,
,972 27
EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward,
$85,972 27
Mary A. Blanchard,
389 78
Mary A. E. Sanborn,
387 50
Ellen M. Armstead,
364 58
Josephine A. Lees,
312 50
Lilla Barnard,
312 50
Caroline S. Cushing,
306 71
Ellen A. Chapin,
287 50
Sarah A. Smith,
282 70
Lucy M. Soule,
271 53
Emma G. Shaw,
263 45
Hannah W. Heath,
239 58
Abby O. Varney,
216 39
Martha Blood,
162 52
Carrie W. Graves,
157 26
Sarah E. Butler,
157 08
L. M. Hoyt,
155 51
Mabel West,
128 38
Mary Howland,
78 84
Dora C. Chamberlain,
71 79
Frances M. Read,
58 33
Malvina Trecarton,
54 15
Elizabeth M. Gardner,
1 68
Benj. F. Tweed, Superintendent of Schools,
2,500 00
F. A. Downing, Secretary of School Committee,
300 00
Wm, H. Finney, Treasurer of " "
350 00
Abijah Blanchard, Messenger " "
600 00
$94;382 53
Appropriated, $97,700 00
Rec'd from State, City's proportion '
of School Fund, 1,316 62
,016 62
Expended, $94,382 53
Balance to Unapp. Funds, 4,634 09
$99,016 62
EXPENDITURES.
19
SCHOOL CONTINGENCIES.
John Johnston, care of rooms and labor, $894 55
Joseph Smith, " " " " 797 43
J. S. Cunningham, " " " « 808 39
Daniel L. Small, « « " « 595 87
Jeremiah Rich, " " " " 585 25
Daniel Conant, ' " " " " 346 67
J. C. Burbank, « « « " 274 99
Matthew Boyd, " " " " 258 91
Ann Taylor, " " " " 140 00
Martha Conaway, " " " " 125 00
Wm. Harrington, " " " « 87 50
Catharine Rogers, " " " " 85 00
Bridget Kelley, " " " « 70 00
L. A. Southwick, « « " « 51 50
Margaret O'Brien, " " " " 45 00
Henry Smith, " « " « 16 50
Catharine Keenan, « " " " 15 00
A. E. Cutter & Co., books, stationery, &c, 1,649 92
J. G. Jones, « « 284 99
J. W. Whittle, " " 91 62
J. L. Hammett, slates, 13 50
Oliver Ditson & Co., books, 6 00
Stedman, Brown & Lyon, state atlas, 12 00
C. S. Wason & Co., printing, 157 25
J. H. Holmes, « 170 82
Caleb Rand, " 63 00
A. W. Locke & Co., " 6 50
William W. Wheildon, advertising, 8 50
William H. De Costa, « 14 00
G. L. Norris & Co., school furniture, 360 80
George S. Woodman, « " 286 05
Wassineus & Whittle, " « 190 00
A. J. Carter, « « 91 77
Amount carried forward, $8,604 28
20
EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward,
W. O. Haskell & Son, school furniture,
Mystic Water Board, water rates,
Charlestown Gas Company, gas,
Brintnall & Maynard, towels,
N. H. Stevens & Son, stoves and repairs,
Clapp & Putnam, covering steam pipes,
John McLoud, repairing stoves, &c.,
G. Gibson, " furnaces,
Archer & Lund, carpentry,
Amos Brown, "
G. M. Starbird, "
Mark Pope, painting,
R. Mason & Son, glazing,
Charles West, painting and glazing,
E. J. Clark, glazing,
H. W. Homer, repairing furniture,
Joseph Lj. Ross, " "
W. Brown, moving "
S. P. Hill & Co., mats, brushes, brooms, &c.,
William B. Moore & Son, pails, &c,
Jasper Stone, clocks, and repairs,
American Tablet Manufacturing Co.. blackboards
I. H. Daniels, diplomas,
Frost & Adams, drawing paper,
Nichols & Hall, pencils,
George H. Marden, window shades,
Brintnall & Osgood, " "
E. O. Webster, repairing bells, locks, &c.,
J. Junio, " locks, &c,
Abijah Blanchard, labor and disbursements,
H. A. Winship & Co., military equipments,
William Read & Son, " "
Street Department, removing snow,
Amount carried forward, $ 11,229 72
$8,604 28
70
20
357
12
264 16
3
75
229 40
146
71
114
66
9
00
37
88
175
00
7 44
17
00
56
32
63
56
15
90
37
50
17
25
12 37
250
27
6
44
81
75
, 113
25
33
00
15
75
5
00
81
00
7
75
56
17
27
64
115
00
91
20
60
00
46
00
EXPENDITURES. 21
Amount brought forward,
Lswis Hunt, hardware,
Thomas E. Smith, disbursements,
Frank A. Titus, hose,
G. & E. H. Gifford, blacksmithing,
A. C. Palmer, paper hanging,
Daniels, Harrison & Co,, walnut boxes,
M. B. Scribner, weather strips,
Simonds' Express, carting,
Brewer & Co., "
A. P. Gage, chemicals,
Geo. P. Kettell, "
Hadley & Wright, apparatus,
$11,374 OL
Expended, $11,374, 01
Appropriated, $10,000 00
Bal. from Unapp. Funds, 1,374 01
11,374 01
$11,229
72
17
38
7
50
33
75
25
86
9 40
10 00
7 54
1
50
75
21
00
8
61
1
00
INFANT SCHOOL.
Mrs. F. A. Skilton, Treasurer, $200 00
Appropriated, $200 00
Expended, 200 00
EVENING SCHOOLS.
Joseph Q. Burdett, teaching, $147 50
Mrs. Burbank, " 87 50
Anna Coburn, " 84 00
Amount carried forward, $319 00
22 EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $319 00
Bial W. Willard, teaching,
64 00
Caroline M. Sisson, "
62 00
Ellen E. Stone, "
56 00
Georgie S. Pitman, "
54 25
Martha Conaway, care of rooms?
15 00
J. S. Cunningham, " u
5 00
Daniel Conant, « «
5 00
A. E. Cutter & Co., books and stationery,
10 33
C. S. Wason & Co., printing,
8 65
$599 23
Appropriated, $800 00
Expended, $599 23
Balance to Unapropriated Funds, 200 77
800 00
DRAWING SCHOOLS.
Lucas Baker, teaching,
$625 00
H. P. Langley, "
199 50
Bradford H. Locke, «
14 00
Charles O, Parsons, "
8 00
William Patterson, carpentry,
41 21
A. E. Cutter & Co., stationery,
19 32
C. S. Wason & Co., printing,
6 90
John Johnston, services,
56 00
$969 93
Expended, $969 93
Appropriated, $800 00
Balance from Unapp. Funds, 169 93
969 93
EXPENDITURES. 23
NEW HARVARD SCHOOL.
Mary Manning, land, $2,600 00
John B. Wilson, contractor, 81,227 47
S, J. F. Thayer, architect, 2,472 53
G. W. Walker & Co., steam heating apparatus, 6,554 75
Robert R. Wiley, mason work, 27 55
Turner, Kidney & Co., brick paving and materials, 226 20
S. W. Fuller, bell hanging, &c, 479 50
E. A. Burns, coal, 189 00
S. & E. Knight, coal, 90 00
John Johnston, services, 78 00
Expended prior to March 1, 1871, $29,359 94
" since » " 93,945 00
,945 00
Total cost of building, $123,302 94
To be provided for by issue of City Bonds,
NEW HARVARD SCHOOL FURNITURE.
Joseph L. Ross, furniture, $4,560 69
Daniels, Harrison & Co., desks and book cases, 770 00
C. G. Pease & Co., furniture,
Tucker Manufacturing Company, gas fixtures,
Childs, Crosby & Lane, carpeting,
Joseph W. Ross, ink wells,
Jasper Stone, clocks,
Benjamin Brintnall, sash elevators,
S. P. Hill & Co., mats, brushes, &c,
193
50
500
00
452
25
269
50
145
95
133 50
67
17
'.092 56
To be provided for by issue of City Bonds.
24
EXPENDITURES.
ALTERATIONS, RENTS AND REPAIRS OF
SCHOOL HOUSES.
Robert R. Wiley, mason work, $
C. L. Lothrop, " "
George Mitchell, plastering,
Joseph "W. Hill, carpentry,
John B. Wilson, "
William Brown, "
E. J. Norris, "
Archer & Lund, "
David S. Tucker, "
I. G. Kelso, "
Wiliam Curry, painting,
H. G. Waldron, " and glazing,
R. Mason & Son, "
Gardner Chilson, furnaces, and repairing heating
apparatus,
B. W. Dunklee & Co., furnaces,
G.- W. Walker & Co., repairing heating apparatus,
Cook, Rymes & Co., " " "
Harvard Chapel, rent,
Alexander Campbell, plumbing, &c,
F. A. Titus, " and gas fixtures,
Baldwin & Emerson, stone flagging,
Joseph L. Ross, furniture,
Daniels, Harrison & Co., repairing desks,
Crystal Ventilator Company, ventilators,
C. S. Parker & Sons, repairing roof,
S. & D. Richards, moving school house,
S. W. Wilson, agent, teaming,
Russell & Fitch, removing night soil,
S. A. Rogers, labor,
Matthew Boyd, "
L,007 84
385 69
681 73
542 21
537 84
72 60
68 93
37 07
29 61
19 98
418 24
217 20
158 90
1,055 00
652 17
175 94
7 56
600 00
176 33
111 40
142 00
154 00
25 00
88 00
72 83
60 00
56 00
22 00
8 25
8 75
Amount carried forward; $7,593 07
EXPENDITURES. 25
Amount brought forward, $7,592 07
C. H. Holm. & Son, curtain fixtures, 11 50
G. Gilman & Co., plumbing, 5 61
Expended, $7,6l0 18
Appropriated, . $5,500 00
Balance from Unapp. Funds, 2,110 18
7,610 18
',610 18
FUEL FOR SCHOOLS.
Burns & Goodwin, wood and coal, $572 30
E4 A. Burns, " « « 2,57^ 35
Wellington Brothers, " 34 00
S. & E. Knight, « 675 00
Levi Goodnow, shavings, 27 00
Matthew Boyd, sawing and splitting wood, 106 20
J. S. Cunningham, " " " " 3 00
A. Blanchard, labor, 18 00
Appropriated, $4,500 00
Expended, $4,007 85
Balance to Unapp. Funds, 492 15
4,500 00
1,007 85
FUEL AND LIGHTING.
Orison Little, superintendent of lamps, $200 00
J. S. Cunningham, lamp lighter, 440 00
J. S. Cunningham, Jr., " " 480 00
Amount carried forward, $1,120 00
26 EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $1,120 00
Daniel L. Small, lamp lighter, 480 00
Charles E. Cutter, " " 480 00
Henry C. Gardner, " " 480 00
G. W. Williamson, " " 480 00
Elmer Lufkin, « " 393 00
Frank W. Dickson, " " 400 00
Wm. A. Stoddard, " " 85 04
Alonzo C. Tyler, « " 40 00
Charlestown Gas Co., gas for street lamps, 15,571 99
" " " " and repairs, city hall, 599 78
" " " lanterns, alcohol, labor,
and repairs, 420 59
John McLoud, oil, fluid, lamps, repairs, &c, 498 82
John Louer, iron work and repairs, 327 68
E. A. Burns, wood and coal, 1,669 47
Burns & Goodwin, wood, 2 22
Levi Goodnow, shavings, 3 00
J. S. Cunningham, splitting wood, 5 00
Byam, Carleton & Co., matches, 28 80
Wm. F. Hodgkinson, repainting street lamps, 46 25
O. Little, glass and putty, 5 10
Henry C. Gardner, setting glass, 35 75
J. S. Cunningham, " " 24 15
G. Gilman & Co., gas fixtures, 8 90
David S. Tucker, carpentry, 11 75
Matthew Boyd, labor, 4 00
Caleb Rand, printing, 12 00
Expended, $23,233 29
Appropriated, $22,000 00
Sundry receipts, 88 70
Balance from Unapp. Funds, 1444 59
23,233 29
$23,233 29
EXPENDITURES. 27
NEW LAMPS AND FIXTURES.
Charlestown Gas Co., new lamps and fixtures, $712 65
John Louer, brackets, 43 70
Amos Brown, lamp posts, 19 00
Appropriated, . f 1,000 00
Expended, $775 35
Balance to Unapp. Funds, 224 65
1,000 00
$775 35
CARE AND SUPPORT OF TRUANTS, &c.
City of Lowell, care of truants,
S. P. White, truant officer, expenses to Lowell,
State Nautical School, support of boys,
" Reform " " " "
William Faunce, expenses to Bridgewater
Expended,
Appropriated, 1,000 00
Sundry receipts, 48 42
Balance from Unapp. Funds, 24 24
1,072 66
$416
03
>wel]
L,
17
90
276
07
357 66
i
5
00
$1,072
66
,072
66
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
C. S. Cartee, librarian, salary, $1,500 00
Susan Edwards, " assistant, salary, 390 00
Annie M. Stevens, " " " 283 75
Harriet Davis, " temp'y assistant, salary, 109 62
Amount carried forward, $2,283 37
28 EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward,
Bessie Dow, librarian, temporary assistant, salary,
Mrs. I. A. Stevens, " " " "
A. Williams & Co,, books and periodicals,
D. C. Colesworthy, "
W. H. Piper & Co., «
W. H. Halliday & Co,, «
Lee & Shepard, "
M, L. Phillips, «
Henry B. Dawson, "
Geo. Henry Preble, "
Moses H. Sargent, "
Boston Public Library, "
S, G. Drake, «
N. E. Historical and Geneological Society, books,
A. E. Cutter & Co., books and stationery,
T. T. Sawyer, foreign exchange periodicals,
C. S. Cartee, " «
C. S. Cartee, subscription New York papers,
William W. Wheildon, periodicals,
Fred. Small, counting machine, and repairing stamp
Seth Goldsmith, binding books,
Charles Hersey, " "
A. Storrs & Co., blank cards,
G. W. B. Taylor, cover paper^
C. S. Cartee, incidental expenses, library room,
S. V. Collins, stationery,
J. S. Locke & Co., mucilage,
F. W. Pearson, insurance,
John B. Wilson, carpentry,
H. G. Waldron, painting,
C. S. Wason & Co., printing, and subscription for
Chronicle,
W. H-. DeCosta, printing and advertising,
Amount carried forward, $4,838 69
$2,283 37
90 00
5 12
585 97
110 83
107 09
97 30
50 68
42 00
25 00
31 28
24 99
16 00
16 50
3 00
61 82
52 93
10 13
58 00
5 00
p, 22 50
162 05
157 55
21 00
28 00
95 65
5 00
2 50
37 50
525 97
83 21
f
13 25
7 50
EXPENDITURES.
29
Amount brought forward,
$4,838 69
John H. Holmes, printing,
9 00
Caleb Rand, "
90 50
Benjamin Locke, expressage,
17 60
Brewer & Co., "
7 35
S. A. Rogers, labor,
5 25
George S. Bailey, gas fixtures,
4 40
$4,972 79
Appropriated, $4,000 00
Balance from 1870 dog licenses, 769 10
Sundry receipts, 889 11
,658 21
Expended, $4,972 79
To unappropriated funds, 2 37
Balance (dog licenses, 1871,)
to New Account, 683 05
5,658 21
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Orison Little, Captain, $1,200 00
Benjamin Williams, Lieutenant, 1,200 00
Charles Stone, police services, 954 00
Albert E. Dodge, " 897 00
Charles E. Fuller, " 1,053 00
Samuel Palmer, " 1,098 00
Loring G. Hutchins, " 1,095 00
Dennis C. Brennan, " 1,050 00
Reuben T. Whittier, " 1,098 00
Joseph H. Knox, " 1,098 00
James F. Green, « 1,059 00
Amount carried forward, $11,802 00
30
EXPENDITURES.
John L. Webb,
Thomas C. Vose,
S. Augustus Johnston,
William Faunce,
Ephraim W. Freeman,
Zina Campbell,
Joseph B. Cotton,
Rufus W. Sprague,
William H. Brown,
Jeremiah H. Pearson,
Henry Fox,
Richard H. Lund,
Reuben S. Randall,
Thomas C. Kelley,
John S. Robinson,
Samuel T. Vaughan,
Charles Clark,
Silas W. Braley,
Robert Sylvester,
Thomas W. Sargent,
Ephraim Tarbox,
John H. Brower,
Sumner P. White,
Charles S. Woofindale,
Emery F. Wright,
Perez R. Jacobs,
Gustavus A. Norton,
Joseph W. Noble,
Robert Williams,
William H. Damon,
Clark D. Garey,
Liona P. Young,
Edward Parker,
Amount brought forward,
police services,
$11,802 00
1,086 00
1,092 00
1,095 00
1,095 00
1,080 00
1,089 00
1,092 00
1,071 00
1,086 00
1,089 00
1,086 00
1,089 00
1.080 00
1,089 00
1,074 00.
1,041 00
1,092 00
1,089 00
1,095 00
1,051 50
1.081 50
1,086 00
1,098 00
1,098 00
126 00
210 00
127 50
168 00
181 50
168 00
150 00
310 50
64 50
Amount carried forward, $39,333 00
EXPENDITURES. 31
Amount brought forward, $39,333 00
Andrew C. McDonald, police services,
Joseph E. Palmer, "
Theodosius J. Whittemore, "
Charles D. W. Lane, "
Thomas J. Harrington, "
Dennis Cass, - "
John Fitzgerald, "
John J. Bourne, "
John Carlisle, "
John Palmer, "
John Whittemore, "
John P. Sullivan, "
Richard Kidney, "
Henry Chandler, "
George H. Williams, "
Michael W. Fitzgerald, "
W. A. Gove, "
Edward Miskelley, «
Timothy Sullivan, "
Stephen Chandler, "
George H. Kidney, "
Solomon Stockwell, "
George F. Hatch, "
Thomas Burke, "
William H. Carthy, "
Jeremiah Murphy, "
Charles A. Winslow, "
Daniel Murphy, "
John McDonald, "
Michael Hughes, "
Thomas White, "
John Mitchell, "
C. P. Briggs, «
Amount carried forward,
57
00
135 00
60
00
37
50
96
00
195
00
19
50
1
50
132
00
75
00
100
00
102 00
50
00
75
00
73
50
19 50
6
00
12
00
6
00
3
00
3
00
3
00
3
00
6
00
6
00
3
00
3
00
6
00
6
00
6
00
75
00
6
00
3
00
|40,717
50
32 ; EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward
Sprowel Pease, police services,
William T. Gardner, «
Wm. H. Chapman, boarding horse,
Wm. S. & G. O. Wiley, " " and carriage hire,
A. Bariant, horse hire,
R. T. Whittier, carriage hire,
Weeman & Co., horse shoeing,
Thomas D. Strand, "
D. Evans & Co., badge buttons,
Dr. Edward J. Forster, medical services,
John Louer, iron work, repairing rattles, &c,
Lewis Hunt, hardware,
John B. Wilson, carpentry,
Hay ward & Co., coffee,
Geo. H. Spaulding, agent, pilot bread,
Albert Blaisdell, repairing carryall,
Mystic Water Board, water rates,
Stowell & Co., chemicals,
"Walter S. Tower, bug poison, &c,
John Bryant, repairing carryall,
Jas. Emery & Co., " "
J. Edwin Bray, meals for prisoners,
J. L. Wescott, " "
Jeremiah Harrigan, labor,
John Dunnigan, "
Peter Hamstead, "
T. V. Heath, repairing carryall,
E. J. Clark, painting "
Charlestown Gas Company, gas,
Perry & Drake, gas fixtures,
Charles Robinson, Jr., services, case of J. Clifford,
Bridget Sheehan, cleaning station house,
A. N. Swallow, soap and sand,
Amount carried forward,
$40,717 50
3 00
3 00
310 90
hire, 33 00
6 00
3 00
15 29
17 81
63 75
8 00
47 40
40
3 26
9 00
^2 26
5 75
30 00
75
4 $5
5 24
5 25
39 15
56 95
3 00
3 00
3 00
3 69
18 00
298 34
3 80
40 00
88 86
79
$41,883 99
EXPENDITURES. 33
Amount brought forward, $41,883 99
F. E. Downer, brooms, oil, soap, &c. 12 42
Charles H. Cristy, cleaning windows, 4 50
Joseph Dickson, straps and repairing belts, 5 63
D. L. McGregor, repairing harness, 11 42
William B. Moore & Son, dippers, dusters, &c, 10 71
Robert R. Wiley, mason work, 40 00
A. E. Cutter & Co., stationery, 27 24
E. T. Swift, disbursements, 12 00
R. T. Whittier, " 23 70
Benjamin H. Simonds, repairing cell, 1 50
Gary & Enwright, " furniture, 4 20
H. W. Homer, « chairs, 2 37
Boston Ice Company, ice, 7 50
Dr. S. A. Davis, examination insane person, 3 00
H. G. Waldron, painting and lettering, 70
J. Junio, lock and keys, 2 60
Dr. Stephen Day, veterinary services, .. 8 00
A. C. Palmer, curtain fixtures, 1 75
|42,063 23
Appropriated, $41,000 00
Sundry receipts, 1,080 00
Expended, $42,063 23
Balance to Unapp. Funds, 16 77
$42,080 00
42,080 00
REPAIRS OF STREETS.
James Reardon, labor, $863 50
A.J. Boynton, « 800 00
Franklin Norton, " 706 50
Amount carried forward, $2,370 00
34
EXPENDITURES.
E.. B. Cochran,
James Dwight,
Cornelius Broderick,
William J. Jordan,
Daniel Flynn,
John Murray,
John Waters,
Patrick Lally,
William Gilmore,
Patrick Fitzgibbons,
Michael Fitzgerald,
Thomas Stack,
Thomas Flaherty,
Terence McManus,
Jeremiah Cullinane,
William Casey,
James Carroll,
William F. Wells,
Patrick Toomey,
Lawrence Hewett,
I. G. Woods,
James E. Kimball,
John Turrey,
Patrick Murphy,
George W. Spurr,
George Farmer,
S. W. Robbins,
Dennis Cronin,
William H. Dennis,
G. W. Woods,
Augustus O swell,
Stephen Joyce,
John Reardon,
Amount brought forward,
$2,370 00
labor,
488 25
"
690 75
it
706 50
a
649 75
n
531 00
a
580 00
it
226 00
u
223 00
a
516 00
a
550 00
a
523 00
a
469 00
a
516 00
tt
541 00
a
504 00
u
557 00
a
540 00
a
587 00
a
255 00
a
506 00
u
439 00
a
588 00
a
246 00
u
23 00
a
176 00
a
346 00
a
82 00
a
46 00
a
365 75
u
115 00
a
85 00
a
53 00
a
298 00
Amount carried forward,
$15,392 00
EXPENDITURES.
3d
Amount brought forward,
$15,392 00
C. P. Briggs,
labor,
254 00
E, Miskelley,
K
12 00
Solomon R. Braley,
u
210 00
Michael Higgins,
u
291 00
Matthew Kerwin,
u
11 00
G. H. Stark,
«
40 00
J. H. McDonald, Jr.,
a
115 00
Patrick Grady,
a
32 00
John Welch,
a
28 00
Thomas Collins,
a
26 00
Gustus Osgood,
u
8 00
Turner, Kidney & Co.,
setting edge-stones, pav-
ing, &c,
27,710 86
R. R. Wiley, mason work, gravel, teaming, &c,
8,528 31
P. O. Riorden, stone, gi
avel, and teaming,
3,307 38
John T. Bamrick, teami
ng ashes,
861 00
Edmund Keyes, "
«
752 00
John Donovan, gravel,
131 00
James Wholly, dirt for
grading,
31 50
Hugh Kelley, gravel, dirt, and teaming,
575 00
Timothy Donovan, dirt and teaming,
160 50
James McNulty, gravel,
178 00
P. Kennen, grading,
168 00
A. D. Hoitt, hay and straw,
596 32
S- D. Sawin & Co., grain,
265 37
F. E. Downer, "
207 68
Poor & Robbins, "
70 83
R. Nason, "
salt and nails,
70 18
Thomas D. Strand, horse shoeing,
123 64
J. G. Ripley,
u
33 93
Garland & Priest,
u
44 65
C. L. Lothrop, mason work,
438 20
H. Mayers, "
169 82
Amount carried forward, $60,843 17
36 EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward,
J. E. Bray & Co., mason work,
J. F. & F. L. Gilman, stone work,
G. W. Johnson, laying stone wall,
Joseph Dickson, repairing harnesses, &c,
D. C. O' Sullivan, harness soap,
Franklin Hopkins, lumber,
A. S. Morss, hardware,
Lewis Hunt, "
G. & E. H. GifTord, iron work,
Cook, Eymes & Co., "
James Emery & Co., repairing carts,
A. Blaisdell, " «
E. J. Clark, painting wagon,
Amos Brown, carpentry,
G. M. Starbird, «
David S. Tucker, "
John Bryant, cesspool covers, and repairing carts
C. Dinevan, " "
L. E. Pearson, Treas., assessment for Maiden Bridge
Dodge, Gilbert & Co., pick and hammer handles,
William Hattie, sharpening pick ends,
M. P. Griffin, saw filing,
Perez It. Jacobs, serving notices,
Wm. T. Gardner, " "
B. S. Hussey, sundries,
C. S. Wason & Co., advertising,
William H. De Costa, printing,
Emerson & Porter, horses,
C. H. Tufts, signs,
McMath & Reed, paint,
Thomas Connorton, laying sods and cutting grass,
William Lydston & Son, cutting grass,
James Carroll, scythe,
Amount carried forward, $64,542 38
60,843 17
210 15
323 50
322 00
113 62
6 25
138 47
52 85
5 65
97 20
47 39
73 34
1 25
17 87
21 17
9 67
6 73
289 00
76 00
?e, 500 00
14 50
1 07
9 60
20 00
3 00
32 05
8 95
8 25
1,170 00
3 00
3 73
85 35
25 00
2 60
EXPENDITURES. 37
Amount brought forward,
H. R. Bishop & Co., ladders,
William Waitt, broom stuff,
Timothy Calnan, watering streets,
R. W. Gordon, " «
C. W. Alden, rubber boots,
A. E. Cutter & Co., stationery,
A. J. Boynton, horse medicines,
William Saunders, veterinary services,
Charlestown Gas Company, re-setting gas lamp,
G. E. Edmands, plumbing,
S. H. & G. Fall, coal,
E, Keyes & Son, «
Frank A. Titus, repairing hose.
Expended, $64,651 04
From account Chelsea Bridge, 5,306 52
« " Prison Point Bridge, 448 28
Abatements, sidewalk assessments, 68 52
$64,542 38
14 75
10 00
24 00
10 00
3 50
8 35
3 65
7 50
8 26
2 65
9 50
5 00
1 50
Appropriated, $50,000 00
Sidewalk assessments, 8,462 82
Sundry receipts, 261 25
Bal. from Unapp. Funds, 11,750 29
$70,474 36
70,474 36
,651 04
REPAIRS OF CHELSEA BRIDGE.
Daniel S. Lawrence, services,
Adam Bowlby, "
John P. Perkins, repairs,
Hall Brothers, lumber,
Amount carried forward, $3,623 38
$1,020 00
840 00
1,946 88
816 50
38 EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $6,623 38
William H. Kent & Co., lumber,
Matthew Rice, surveying bridge,
E. R. Robinson, iron work?
A. D. Gushing, "
Anthony S. Morss, nails,
Lewis Hunt, spikes,
McMath & Reed, paint,
B. S. Hussey, lanterns,.
Charged to account Repairs of Streets.
596
94
10
00
21
35
7
80
34
45
5
20
4
00
3 40
;5,306
52
REPAIRS OF PRISON POINT BRIDGE.
H. H. Burroughs, draw tender, $150 00
John P. Perkins, labor and materials, 209 72
Jesse U. Jones, carpentry, 85 56
Mystic Water Board, water rates, 3 00
Charged to account Repairs of Streets.
$448 28
PURCHASE AND CARE OF TREES.
Edward Miskelly, labor and materials, $172 75
Franklin Hopkins, lumber, 63 91
Lewis Hunt, hardware, 2 28
McMath & Reed, paint, 12 17
Thomas Barrett, trees, 50 00
Expended, $301 11
Appropriated, $200 00
Balance from Unapp. Funds, 101 11
$301 11
301 11
EXPENDITURES.
39
LAYING OUT STREETS.
Ann V. Thompson, damages to estate Belmont St., $100 00
Gilman heirs, land taken on Prospect St., in 1863, 490 00
John B. Wilson & others, appraising estate, 36 00
H. G. Waldron, painting, 12 00
C. S. Wason & (Jo., advertising, 24 95
Perez R. Jacobs, serving notices, 11 50
Wm. T. Gardner, « " 25 00
Willard Rice, error in award of damages on
Arlington Avenue, 10 80
$710 25
Expended,
Betterments abated,
" refunded,
From Crafts' Corner Estates,
" Decatur Street "
Arlington Avenue,
South Eden Street,
School Street, widening,
Appropriation, $15,000 00
Balance from Unapp. Funds, 22,650 69
$710 25
2,947 70
560 55
1,930 38
113 30
16,926 14
14,315 12
147 25
$37,650 69
37,650 69
ARLINGTON AVENUE.
S. & D. Richards, moving house,
Burckes & Gerrish, mason work,
John B. Wilson, carpentry,
Thomas H. McDonough, award,
Willard Rice, "
$60 00
296 34
136 13
1,500 00
6,420 00
Amount carried forward, $8,412 47
40
EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward,
$8,412 47
Daniel Murphy,
award,
100 00
Reed & Sawin,
u
3,219 00
F. C. Sewall,
u
124 80
Charles West,
u
721 80
Morris Hennessey,
u
36 00
William Lee
a
719 60
C. G. Burbank,
u
600 00
J. B. Wilson, moving and re-fitting Lee's house,
492 47
P. O. Riorden, grading and filling,
2,500 00
,926 14
Charged to account Laying out Streets.
SOUTH EDEN STREET,
P. O. Riorden, grading, contract,
Hicks & Whittle, award,
Crisp & Breed, estate, "
F. O. Reed, "
John B. Wilson, moving buildings, and repairs
Expended,
Special appropriation, 7,500 00
Bal. to laying out streets, 14,315 12
I repairs,
$7,469 37
6,754 00
3,016 75
3,000 00
1,575 00
21,815 12
21,815 12
$21,815 12
SCHOOL STREET WIDENING.
Robert R. Wiley, dirt for grading, $147 25
Charged to account Laying out Streets.
EXPENDITURES. 41
SETTLEMENT OF CRAFTS' CORNER, AND PARK
STREET BETTERMENTS.
Betterments refunded in part, per order of Committee on
Laying out Streets :
White Estate,
Hurd "
Matthew Rice, -
Heirs of "
Robert Knox, attorney,
Zen as C. Howland,
$236 64
126 66
60 00
68 25
34 50
34 50
Charged to account Laying out Streets.
$560 55
CRAFTS' CORNER ESTATES.
These Estates were sold for non-payment of Betterment As-
. sessments and Costs, and by virtue of Chapter 183, Sec-
tion 3, of the Acts of 1862, the City became the purchaser.
Estate of Samuel Knight, $258 10
" E. E. Bradshaw, 683 86
" E. B. Stetson, 544 94
« O. F. Raymond, 443 48
Charged to account Laying out Streets.
$1,930 38
DECATUR STREET ESTATES.
This Estate was sold for non-payment of Betterment and
Costs, and purchased by the City, by virtue of Chapter
183, Section 3, Acts of 1862.
Estate of Judson Murdock, $113 30
Charged to account Laying out Streets.
42
EXPENDITURES.
DRAINS AND SEWERS.
S. W. Robbins, mason work,
John Waters,
Patrick Lalley,
George Farmer,
Dennis Cronin,
Patrick Murphy,
Michael Campbell,
Dennis O'Brien,
M. Fitzgerald,
Murty Harrington,
Thomas Collins,
James Carroll,
James Lavin,
Stephen Joyce,
John Lahey,
Charles McCarty,
Barney Mc Williams,
Patrick Hudson,
John Ragan,
John Graham,
John O'Hern,
Jeremiah Hickey,
Michael McCormick,
Timothy Guiney,
Thomas McCarty,
Patrick Grady,
Thomas Ryan,
Michael Higgins,
John Harrington,
Edward Barnes,
John Keenan,
Felix McEIroy,
Matthew Kerwin,
labor,
$1,024 00
406
00
388
62
165
00
273
00
21
00
70
00
163
00
82
00
15
00
265
00
218
00
194
00
260
00
49
00
39
00
49
00
99
00
165
00
240
00
227
00
217
00
164
00
28 00
51
00
213
00
61
00
55
00
6
00
68
00
142 00
50
00
42
00
Amount carried forward, $5,509 62
EXPENDITURES.
43
Amount brought forward,
$5,509 62
Patrick Harrington,
labor,
95 00
William Ford,
a
84 00
John Reardon,
a
78 00
Edward Miskelly,
u
18 00
John D. Sullivan,
u
45 00
Jeremiah Higgins,
u
42 00
A. Oswell,
a
59 00
C. Doyle,
a
23 00
Patrick Rice,
a
78 00
James Moore,
a
27 00
Andrew Sullivan,
u
43 00
Thomas Stack,
a
42 00
Daniel Flynn,
a
52 00
Jeremiah Cullinane,
a
22 00
William Casey,
a
10 00
William Gilmore,
a
10 00
William F. Lambert,
a
15 00
Solomon Braley,
u
15 00
Cornelius Hereen,
a
10 00
Martin Moran,
a
13 00
William Cushman,
a
10 00
John P. Perkins, building sewer, Tibbett's town way, 1,415 25
John P. Perkins, "
" Canal Street,
4,315 20
Jas. Wholly, building
sewer Canal & Lincoln Sts.
, 13,088 86
Robert R. Wiley, bricks, sand, and teaming,
580 51
Bay State Brick Company, bricks,
1,103 00
S. H. & G. Fall, cement,
11 00
Wellington Bros. & Co., cement,
452 90
Winslow, Stewart & Co., " and sand,
9 35
Franklin Hopkins, lumber,
118 59
Joel Knight & Co.,
it
21 49
Hartwell Mayers, mason work,
143 25
C. L. Lothrop,
Amount carried forward,
321 15
$27,881 17
44 EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $27,881 17
Baldwin & Emerson, flagging for drain, 120 00
Turner, Kidney & Co., gravel and paving, 45 92
J. F. & F. L. Gilman, stone curbs and labor, 72 50
S. Hutch ings, carpentry, 6 19
Day & Collins, drain pipe, 149 90
Edmands & Co., " 22 00
John Donovan, laying drain in Front Street, 100 00
John Donovan, teaming, 67 00
John T. Bamrick, " 28 00
John Bryant, covers for dirt catchers, 82 50
A. S. Morss, saw, 2 25
G. & E. H. Gifford, repairing tools, 30 92
Cook, Eymes & Co., iron work, 4 70
B. S. Hussey, oil and lanterns, 22 25
G. E. Edmands, oil, 2 00
L. Stickney, pails, 1 80
Lewis Hunt, cordage and nails, 14 95
Charlestown Gas Company, removing lamp post, 3 02
William H. De Costa, advertising, 21 45
C. S. Wason & Co., " 27 10
John H. Holmes, " 2 25
Caleb Rand, printing, 1 50
P. R. Jacobs, serving notices, 8 21
Expended, $28,717 58
Assessments abated, 878 02
$29,595 60
Appropriation, $10,000 00
Extra " 5,000 00
Assessments, 7,377 39
Balance from Unapp. Funds, 7,218 21
29,595 60
,717 58
EXPENDITURES.
45
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Hose Company, No. 1, services, $500 00
" « « 2, " 500 00
» « « 3, " 500 00
« « « 4, " 493 90
Steamer Hose Company, " 400 00
Hook & Ladder « " 700 00
Albert C. Smith, engineer of steamer, and labor, 52 81
John B. Cilley, « « " 1,150 50
Isaac W. Brackett, fireman " 900 00
Daniel K. Wheelock, driver « 880 00
John Louer, iron work and repairing apparatus, 877 66
Hose Company, No. 1, repairing apparatus, 123 00
<< u u 3} u u XOo 00
James Emery & Co., " " 6 50
A. D. Hoitt, hay and straw, 58 11
C. D. Wild, " " 20 47
Ladd& Brown, " « 168 81
Brooks & Stover, " grain, 76 52
Samuel Gould, horse shoeing, 29 81
Thos. D. Strand, " " 44 46
Lunt & Magoun, grain, salt, soap, &c, 118 04
Corey & Goodwin, salt, soap and sand, 7 22
Charlestown Gas Company, gas, 161 19
Mystic Water Board, water rates, 75 00
Joseph W. Hill, carpentry, 117 27
C. H. Tufts, painting apparatus, 302 55
William Curry, " 85 00
S. O. Weston, " 7 00
McMath & Reed, painting and glazing, 84 40
W. H. Dana, varnishing, 25 00
Titus & Sons, whitewashing, 107 50
John Gallagher, " 50 00
ft *20 00
p. L. Lothrop,
Amount carried forward, $8,742 72
46 EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $8,742 72
G. E. Edmands, plumbing, 84 90
James Gaffney, " 70 66
J. R. Conant, " 52 78
Cook, Rymes & Co., repairing steamers, 660 55
James Boyd & Sons, " hose, 356 67
Harrington & Fay, " pipe, 5 00
Torsleff, Hinckley & Hammond, emery cloth and files, 7 50
E. O. Webster, keys, repairing locks, &c, 22 40
Henry A. Hall, suction hose, 56 10
Gardner Chilson, heating apparatus, 125 00
T. S. Clogston & Co., repairing heating apparatus,
packing valves, &c, 29 39
William R. Bradford, grates, 7 85
Winslow, Stewart & Co., coal, 21 87
Fitz & Todd, " 50 38
Wellington Bros., " 22 00
Edmund Keyes & Son, " 102 50
George Prescott, " and wood, 93 20
Hose Company, No. 3, expense putting Mystic
Water into house, 119 62
Joseph Dickson, blankets, repairing harnesses, &c, 187 08
John McLoud, oil, repairing stoves, &c, 258 40
J. E. Bray, refreshments, 22 95
Hose Company, No., 2, refreshments, 25 00
« " » 3, " 30 00
John E. Wool Hose Co., Somerville, refreshments, 10 00
G. H. Foster, " " " 10 00
Niagara Engine Company, Cambridge, " 25 00
T. W. Seaver, " 40 00
John Conley, " 10 00
Mullett & Bradbury, " 5 10
I. P. Magoun and 85 others, poll taxes refunded, 172 00
William H. Wilson, engineer's fire hat, 11 25
George S. Bailey, gas fixtures, 4 25
Amount cairied forv\ard, $11,442 12
EXPENDITURES. 47
Amount brought forward,
Perry & Drake, gas fixtures,
Gary & Enwright, furniture,
H. W. Homer, repairing furniture",
John G. Crowell, upholstering,
Murphy, Leavens & Co., feather duster,
Mrs. I. W. Brackett, laundry work, steamer house,
Brintnall & Maymird, sheeting and towels,
Mrs. D. K. Wheelock, making sheets, &c,
Lewis Hunt, hardware,
B. H. Lincoln, canvass,
Thomas E. Smith, cleaning carpets,
I. P. Magoun, disbursements,
T. S. Johnson, badges,
A. N. Swallow, oil, &c,
George E. Rogers, use of wagon,
Michael McLaughlin, horse hire,
Wm. S. & G. O. Wiley, "
E. W. Bean, teaming,
Mrs. S. A. Stocking, horse medicine,
Hicks & Brown, carriages,
Charles T. Clark, services Fitchburg Railroad fire,
L. H. Heywood, repairing hydrant chucks,
T. J. Whittemore, cleaning snow from hydrants,
Thomas D. Strand, " " " «
Robert R. Wiley, mason work,
John Alden, repairs at Hose Company No. 3's house,
J. Rea & Son, oil,
S. Richards, labor on hose,
H. R. Bishop & Co., ladders,
Caleb Larkin, hooks.
Alfred Morse, frame,
Jasper Stone, repairing clock,
Charles Williams, wire,
William H. Godfrey, services,
Amount carried forward,
$11,442
12
40
10
132
94
13
50
45
00
3
33
47
25
11
79
8
00
18
41
15
00
4 25
45
00
62
50
5
08
13
50
5
00
109
50
1
00
5
50
50
00
9
75
30
00
35
75
29
25
5
93
use, 7
04
1
70
9
00
108
26
1
00
4 50
1
00
27
70
7
00
$12,356
65
48 EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $12,356 65
Caleb Rand, printing,
W. H. De Costa, advertising,
G. W. Hobbs, stationery,
P. Moley, horses,
Appropriated,
Sundry receipts,
Expended, $13,245 45
Bal. to Unapp. Funds, 490 55
13,736 00
131 38
4 00
3 42
750 00
$13,600 00
136 00
$13,245 45
.$13,736 00
NEW HOSE.
James Boyd & Sons, 1,169 feet hose, $1,999 96
Appropriated, $2,000 00
Expended, $1,999 96
Balance to Unapp. Funds, 04
$2,000 00
USE OF HYDRANTS.
Mystic Water Board, mystic water, 2,400 00
Appropriated, 2,400 00
Expended, 2,400 00
FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH.
Gamewell & Co., fire alarm boxes, etc., $762 60
Dexter Bros., vitriol, 73 04
Wm. Litchfield, zinc, 11 81
Amount carried forward, $847 45
EXPENDITURES. 49
Amount brought forward, $847 45
Wm. H. Godfrey, putting up alarm boxes, 24 50
Charles Williams, battery jars and wire, 21 25
I. W. Sweetser, services on fire alarm telegraph, 8 75
Moses Crane, alarm box keys, 5 30
John Louer, brackets, 22 50
B. H. Simonds, coon for apparatus, 13 25
Wm. R. Bradford, ladle, 1 50
Joseph W. Hill, repairing apparatus, 1 09
S. O. Weston, painting, 24 00
Caleb Rand, printing, 16 00
Lewis Hunt, nails, 20
George F. Titus, labor, 9 00
Appropriated, $1,000 00
Expended, $994 79
Balance to TJnapp. Funds, 5 21
$1,000 00
$994 79
SUPPORT OF POOR.
State of Massachusetts, support of paupers, $94 69
Taunton Hospital, " 184 55
Worcester " « 2,146 94
Massachusetts Gen. Hospital, " 157 00
City of Boston, ." 336 50
City of Lynn, « 136 50
City of New Bedford, « 116 41
City of Chelsea, « 25 45
City of Cambridge, " 13 00
Town of Gloucester, " 78 10
Town of Natick, « 30 82
Amount carried forward, $3,319 96
50
EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward,
County of Middlesex,, support of convicts.
Dr. N. D. Parker, medical services,
Dr. T. J. Stevens, "
George P. Kettell, medicines,
Walter S. Tower, "
B. F. Stacey, ".
William L. Bond, "
Stowell & Co., "•
E. N. Coburn, burials,
John Bryant, "
John Reade, "
John L. Perry, "
G. B. & F. Hurd & Co., groceries,
C. W. C. A., Geo. H. Spaulding, agent, groceries,
F. E. Downer, groceries,
E. B. Burgess, "
G. & J. Flanagan, "
Brooks & Stover, u
S. P. Hill & Co., "
Mullet & Bradbury, "
A. N. Swallow, "
B. E. Gline, "
S. D. Sawin & Co., "
L. R. Bingham, "
J. W. Corey, "
C. A. Barker & Son, "
M. B. Hall, «
Learnerd Downing, "-
Wright & Fultz, «
J. W. & A. Roberts, "
L. Stickney, "
Corey & Goodwin, "
James Rea & Son, "
Sawyer &■ Smith, "
Amount carried forward,
|3,319 96
169
02
87
00
40
50
121
08
97
57
202 98
56
76
36 33
37
00
8 00
129
00
93 00
920
97
591
00
683
80
156
00
131
00
366
24
287
60
229 57
26
00
42
00
126
00
7
00
140 00
67
00
73 00
28
00
46
00
156
63
39
00
208
00
32
00
87
35
,842 36
EXPENDITURES. 51
Amount brought forward, $8,842 36
J. W. Roberts & Co., groceries and provisions, 724 18
V. M. Dunn, groceries aud fish, 375 89
Hobbs & Wilson, provisions, 793 63
Foster, Weeks & Co., " 93 36
King, Sawyer & Smith, " 187 45
Call & Fiske, " 54 60
Hayward & Co., coffee and spices, 45 39
Nesmith & Chapin, vinegar, 11 20
J. G. Holbrook, fish, 6 57
Boston Ice Company, ice, 20 75
E. A. Bums, fuel, 1,055 94
Robert Todd, " 32 63
Burns & Goodwin, " 291 34
Fitz & Todd, " 59 39
Charlestown Gas Company, coke, 61 50
Rand & Byam, soap, 35 32
Newhall Martin & Co., shoes and repairs, 118 03
J. N. Smith, repairing " 10 80
Brintnall & Maynard, dry goods, 102 68
William Murray & Son, " 164 99
J. W. Rand, hats and sewing machine, 73 74
Ladd & Brown, wood, hay and grain, 290 49
N. Tufts, Jr., & Son, grain, 155 41
A. D. Hoitt, hay, 167 72
John Kelley, mason work, 216 87
C. L. Lothrop, " 11 25
R. R. Wiley, " 6 88
J. Barry & Co., sand and lime, 7 49
S. W. Fuller & Co., lumber, 125 63
John Randall, carpentry, 160 25
Earl Wyman, " 25 56
Lewis Hunt, hardware, 20 98
Charles H. Wing, stoves, &c, 28 48
Amount carried forward, $14,378 80
52 EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $14,378 80
G. Gibson, repairing stoves, 8 90
R. Mason &> Son, painting and graining, 174 35
Carpenter, Woodward & Morton, paints and oil, 59 13
H. G. Waldron, paints, 2 03
B. S. Hussey, sundries, 34 16
F. A. Titus, plumbing, lamps and chimneys, 21 65
Cooper & Burgess, plumbing and lanterns, 65 85
Gary & Enwright, furniture, 37 72
Childs, Crosby && Lane, carpeting, 105 12
Brintnall & Osgood, paper, curtains, &c, 40 30
W. S. & G. O. Wiley, carriage hire, 23 00
Cook, Kymes & Co., iron work, 2 25
Charles J. Barry, plaster paris, 2 75
P. O. Riorden, gravel, 80 00
S. P. Langmaid & Co., doors, 16 00
Cutter & Parker, " 4 50
Thomas Gaffney, hods, 10 28
B. W. Gage, crockery, 24 23
C. S. Parker & Son, repairs at almshouse, 13 50.
Jasper Stone, repairing clocks, 23 55
E. W. Bean, teaming, 53 16
Philip Ham, blacksmithing, 9 86
E. O. Webster, repairing lock, 65
Town of Salisbury, costs of suit, 140 52
Mystic Water Board, water rates, 75 00
William H. De Costa, printing, 11 50
Caleb Rand, " and order books, 40 25
Offal Department, swill used at almshouse, 295 00
A. E. Cutter & Co., stationery, 10 42
Edward Carnes, superintendent almshouse, salary, 800 00
Edward Carnes, disbursements, 593 59
Overseers of the Poor, cash orders, 1,644 25
Amount carried forward, $18,802 27
EXPENDITURES* 53
Amount brought forward, $18,802 27
Appropriated, $12,600 00
Sundry receipts, 7,252 81
$19,852 81
Expended, $18,802 27
Bal. to Unapp. Funds, 1,050 54
— 19,852 81
MAINTENANCE OF CHARLES RIVER AND
WARREN BRIDGES.
George H» Long, commissioner,
Sprowell Pease, draw tender Warren Bridge,
Charles M. Marple, « " "
Joel R. Bolan, " C. River "
Sprowell Pease, labor and material,
George H. Long, disbursements,
Joel R. Bolan, boat,
Joel R. Bolan, labor,
Ross & Lord, lumber and labor,
Boston Machine Company, castings and labor,
A. D. Cushing, iron work,
Cook, Rymes & Co., "
E. R. Robinson, " and labor*
Lincoln & Garrett, spikes and nails,
Lewis Hunt, hardware,
Dodge, Gilbert & Co., jack screws,
Sloop Island, taking up mooring stone,
Cape Ann Granite Company, granite,
Rockport " " re-setting mooring s'
Thomas Winsor, agent, use of tug boat Curlew,
Amount carried forward,
$375
00
50
00
500
00
550
00
36
58
1
05
25
00
15
00
2,997
10
1,037 67
644
13
302
57
15 92
10
85
7
■85
16
19
15
00
40
00
le, 25
00
7
50
$6,672 41
54 EXPENDITURES*
Amount brought forward,
Joseph W. Hill, carpentry,
H. N. & B. R. Tilton & Cowdin, lumber,
Loyal Lovejoy & Co., "
S. W. Fuller & Co., "
Draper & Vaughan, labor and materials,
Henry N. Stone, capstan, lanterns, &c,
C. W. C. A., George H. Spaulding, agent, salt,
oil, matches, &c,
E. W. Bean, teaming,
Charlestdwn Gas Company, gas, •
" '* " labor and materials,
Boston " " gas,
Franklin P. Crittenden, repairing gas pipes,
Joseph T. Ryan, " " lamps,
Tufts Bros., new Samps and burners,
Orison Little, lighting and cleaning lamps,
John Mulliken & Co., oil,
Cooper & Burgess, lanterns and plumbing,
Whitcomb & Potter, scow engine,
R. H. G. Hubbard, labor,
C. M. Marple, "
A. J. Ham, horse hire,
Ham & Simpson, "
Ham & Simpson, horse,
Thomas D. Strand, horse shoeing,,
Garland & Priest, 'fr
Weeman & Co., "•
D. L. McGregor, repairing harness,
Ladd & Brown, coal,
Fitz & Todd, "
John L. Leonard & Co., setting range,
J. Edward Staples, hay and coal,
William Parkinson, " and straw,
$6,672 41
336 89
76 53
14 42
32 34
189 03
60 11
27 94
4 75
327 59
100 27
103 41
209 42
20 90
8 49
44 35
63 10
12 30
25 00
52 00
20 00
51 00
47 50
175 00
6 25
5 25
2 50
17 77
14 25
42 38
5 75
80 48
34 69
Amount earned forward, $8,884 07
EXPENDITURES, 55
Amount brought forward,, $ 8,884 07
N. Tufts, Jr., & Son, grain, 121 88
Timothy Calnan, watering bridges, 292 50
J. Lockwood, plumbing, 22 80
Fairbanks, Brown & Co<., dynamometer, 15 00
W. P. Hodgkinson, painting, 6 88
J. M. Wightman, Commissioner, disbursements, 45 44
Rockwell & Churchill, printing, 13 75
Turner, Kidney & Co., paving and materials, 717 20
Mystic Water Board, water rates, 11 00
Received of State Treasurer, half of
balance of Bridge Fund, $4,051 58
Received of G. H. Long, commis-
sioner, half of sundry receipts,
(rents, &c,) 454 77
Special Appropriation, 7,500 00
$12,006 35
Expended, 10,130 52
Balance unexpended, $1,875 83
$10,130 52
REPAIRS OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.
John B. Wilson, carpentry,
Joseph W. Hill, «
John Randall, "
I. G. Kelso, "
Earl Wyman, "
A. J. Boynton, "
Griffin & Moran, "
Amount carried forward, $1,086 14
$588
51
239
82
145 34
54 87
15 00
17
00
25
60
56 EXPENDITURES,
Amount brought forward, §~.
William Curry, painting and glazing,
H. G. Waldron, " "
F. J. Almeader, " "
Robert R. Wiley, mason work, and whitewashing,
C. L. Lothrop, "
Davis & Goodrich, "
J. T. Hoyt, whitewashing,
George Mitchell, plastering,
C. P. Brooks, "
F. A. Titus, plumbing and gas fixtures,
G. Gilman & Co., " " «
Alexander Campbell, "
George S. Bailey, iron pipe and gas fixtures,
Perry & Drake, repairing gas fixtures,
G. W. Walker &- Co., heating apparatus and repairs,
Cook, Rymes & Co., iron work,
John Louer, "
Lewis Hunt, hardware,
Morse & Whyte, iron railing,
Crystal Ventilator Company, ventilators,
J. Junio, locks and keys,
E. O. Webster, gong and keys,
A. C. Palmer, window fixtures,
Newell Harding & Co., plating door knobs,
A. H. Allen, furniture,
Stephen Smith & Co., table,
F. M. Holmes & Co., repairing furniture,
Child s, Crosby & Lane, carpeting,
Gary & Enwright, carpet lining,
W. S. & G. O. Wiley, carriages,
Bay State Roofing Company, repairing roof,
C. S. Parker & Sons, " "
Hadley & Wright, repairs,
Amount carried forward, $3,608 12
,086 14
429
10
104 60
12
80
360
93
280
75
46
10
54
00
54
30
3
50
158 51
43
08
48 36
100
92
5
10
250
93
48
84
17 25
25
66
71
75
69 50
16
27
14 01
15 40
3
00
78
00
30
00
3
00
122 55
3
55
18
00
8
10
10
12
14 00
EXPENDITURES.
57
Amount brought forward, 3,608 12
R. Power & Son, marble,
Jasper Stone, care of public clocks, for 1871,
S. A. Rogers, labor,
Appropriated,
Expended, $3,858 37
Balance to Unapp, Funds, 141 63
$4000 00
4,000 00
8 25
230 00
12 00
:,858 37
PUBLIC BATHS.
Henry L. Brackett, carpentry,
Joseph W. Hill, "
Joseph B. Hutchins, bath house officer,
William Smith, " "
Lorenzo Garey, " "
Lorenzo Garey, labor and stock,
Joseph B. Hutchins, labor and sundries,
Catharine Dunn, services Medford St. bath house,
$107
84
21
99
327
00
327
00
342
50
18
68
10 48
71
68
$1,227
17
Appropriated,
Expended, . $1,227 17
Balance to Unapp. Funds, 272 83
$1,500 00
1,500 00
BURIAL GROUNDS.
Edward Miskelley, labor,
William H. Jones, "
R. R. Wiley, mason work,
$138 65
35 00
29 92
Amount carried forward, $203 57
58 expenditures.
Amount brought forward, $203 57
William Moloney, cutting grass, 84 00
Cook, Rymes & Co*, iron work, 30 59
Lewis Hunt, lock and keys, 3 10
J. Junio, " 1 00
John Reade, removing bodies to Woodlawn, 20 00
Expended, $342 26
Appropriated, $300 00
Balance from Unapp. Funds, 42 26
= — 342 26
$342 26
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Dr. N. D. Parker, vaccinating, $9 50
Dr. E. J. Forster, record books, and vaccine virus, 21 25
Jos. W. Hill, drains in Quincy and Webster Sts., 522 04
Caleb Rand, printing, 72 50
C. S. Wason & Co., « " 14 50
W, H. DeCosta, " 23 00
Expended, $662 79
Appropriated, $200 00
Balance from Unapp. Funds, 462 79
— -__ 662 79
$662 79
COLLECTION OF OFFAL.
George Todd, superintendent, $1,098 00
Robert Dower, teamster, 706 50
Morris Cochran, " 706 50
Edward Corbett, « 708 75
Amount carried forward, $3,219 75
EXPENDITURES.
5y
Amount brought forward,
$3,219 75
John Bowden, helper,
629 50
John Fleming, "
392 00
Daniel Ford, "
452 00
Patrick Rice, "
226 00
Edward Finnerty, "
188 00
Patrick Murphy, a
12 00
Martin Hassett, "
4 00
John Bowden, extra services?
6 50
Robert Dower, "
5 00
A. D. Hoitt, hay,
258 86
S. H. & G. Fall, "
17 10
F. E. Downer, grain,
178 23
Richard Nason, "
89 64
A. N. SwaUow, «
52 65
N. Tufts, Jr. & Son, "
25 10
William Saunders, veterinary services?
20 00
Thomas D. Strand, horse shoeing,
58 45
J. G. Ripley, "
47 63
Patrick Kane, horse hire,
24 00
John T. Bamrick, "
6 00
Earl Wyman, carpentry at piggery,
20 38
Joseph W. Hill, " city stables,
8 25
B. S. Hussey, paint,
2 50
A. S. Morss, hardware,
8 30
Frank A. Titus, hose, ■
16 75
Mystic Water Board, water rates,
3 75
Joseph Dickson, harness, bells, &c,
19 20
George Todd, disbursements,
10 40
S. M. Nesmith, "
30 00
T. F« Hunnewell, repairs to wagons,
37 20
John Louer, " "
2 00
Parker & Gannett, tools,
15 90
Amount carried forward, $6,087 04
60
£Xf£NDlTtJRES.
Appropriated,
Sundry receipts,
Amount brought forward,
$1,500 00
6,047 68
$7,547 68
Expended, $6,087 04
Balance to Unapp. Funds, 1,460 64
_ iL 7,547 68
,087 04
FIRE ALARM BELL AND TOWER, BUNKER
HILL SCHOOL HOUSE.
William Blake & Co., bell,
Hayden & Crafts, hoisting and placing bell,
Gramewell & Co., striking apparatus,
Osgood & Davis, castings,
Cook, Rymes && Co., labor and materials,
David S. Tucker, building tower,
S. J. F. Thayer, architect,
Herman Strater & Sons, vane,
Appropriation, (special,)
Expended,
$3,200 00
3,200 00
$743 33
71 25
1,207 02
34 39
25 49
1,048 02
42 50
28 00
$3,200 00
SOUP HOUSE.
George Prescott, fuel,
Curtis & Wood, bread,
M. Davis, "
Orrin Gilmore, "
Chs. B. Goodrich, "
$44 95
50 48
32 20
42 36
34 96
Amount carried forward, $204 95
EXPENDITURES.
61
Amount brought forward,
E. B. Stetson, bread,
Thomas Parker, "
John Armstrong, "
Michael O'Keefe, "
G. A. Sanderson, "
H. P. Dunnells, meat,
Henry Cutler, fish,
F. E. Downer, groceries,
Charles Curtis, milk,
E. W. Bean, teaming,
Cooper & Burgess, sundries,
Franklin Hopkins, lumber,
William Murray & Son, crash,
Charles P. Brooks, rent,
Caleb Rand, printing,
Edward Miskelley, services.
James Hatton, "
Charged to Account Contingencies.
$204
95
32
68
41
20
41
60
43
52
42
96
272
70
72
01
126
15
9
92
7
50
3
82
5
63
3
75
75
00
10
00
175
50
162
00
$1,330 89
SEVENTEENTH OF JUNE CELEBRATION.
Company C, 1st Battalion
Cavalry, parade,
$500 00
" A, 5th Regiment
, M.V.
M,
u
100 00
" D, " "
a
u
100 00
" h, " "
u
il
100 00
" G, 9th "
a
u
100 00
Hose Company, No. 1,
«
75 00
" " 2,
a
75 00
" " 3,
a
75 00
« « 4,
a
75 00
Amount carried forward, $1,200 00
62
EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward,
Hook and Ladder Company, parade,
Steamer " "
Engineers of Fire Department,
High School Cadets,
Post No. 11, G. A. E.,
Col. Walter Everett, parade of 5th Reg. M. V. M.,
Rev. C. F. Barnard, floral procession,
Bunker Hill Yatch Club, review,
First Massachusetts Battery, salutes,
G. W. Haywood, dioramic exhibitions,
Samuel A. King, balloon ascension,
Charlestown Gas Company, gas and labor,
O. W. Hall, refreshments for police,
W. S. & G. O. Wiley, carriages,
Hicks & Brown, "
John P. Barnard, "
Maynard Bros., "
William H. Chapman, "
P. Chevalier, "
Brown's Brigade Band,
O'Connor's "
Edmands' « "
Boston Cornet " "
Chelsea Brass " "
Shawmut " "
Charlestown City Guard, "
Joseph W. Hill, music stands, &c,
J. N. Devereux, decorations,
H. Ereichson, ice water, labor, &c,
E. Conway, ringing bell,
A. H. Allen, horse hire,
Joseph W. Noble, Jr., teaming,
W. H. De Costa, advertising,
music,
$1,200
00
75
00
75
00
75
00
100
00
100
00
400
00
250
00
200
00
100
00
100
00
200
00
125
75
100
00
40
00
35
00
20
00
30
00
20
00
10
00
327
00
262
00
264
00
184 00
182'
00
62 00
60
00
58
12
275
00
30
37
3
00
5
00
4
00
60
00
Amount carried forward, $5,032 24
EXPENDITURES.
W
Amount brought forward,
$5,032 24
C. S. Wason & Co., advertising,
47 25
R. Baker, labor,
3 00
E. G. Haven, setting glass,
5 25
Caleb Rand, printing,
29 50
J. N. Devereux, flags,
110 19
Expended, $5,227 43
Income Foss' 17th June Fund, $133 80
" A. Babcock's Legacy, 377 44
Bal. charged to Contingencies, 4,716 19
5,227 43
CONTINGENCIES.
5,227 43
C. S. Wason & Co., printing and advertising,
J. H. Holmes, " "
Caleb Rand, " and book binding,
Noyes & Poole, "
William H. De Costa, advertising,
Boston Journal, "
Boston Post, "
Boston Daily Advertiser, " and subscription,
N. G. Perkins, subscription to Chronicle,
S. V. Collins, books and stationery,
A. E. Cutter & Co., stationery,
G. W. Hobbs, "
A. W. Locke & Co., check books,
Charlestown Post Office, postage and box rent,
A. C. Libby, pens,
A. B. Shedd, services,
Amount carried forward, $2,413 75
$353
16
85
33
801
70
119
00
81
00
8
25
4 12
16
13
2
50
160
00
191
06
6
75
13
00
69
00
2
75
500
00
64
EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward,
E. R Wilde, copying statistics,
S. P. White, constable services, and collecting
poll taxes,
James Miskelley, constable services, and collect-
ing poll taxes,
William T. Gardner, constable services, and
collecting poll taxes,
Perez R. Jacobs, constable services,
Abijah Blanchard, " "
S. A. Rogers, collecting poll taxes, '
ringing
bell,
J. H. Bryant,
J. C. Burbank, "
Edward Parker, "
Joseph Smith, "
Timothy Callahan, "
Edmund Conway, "
Samuel L. Harding, "
Henry Prentiss, "
Boston Ice Company, ice,
Lewis Hunt, hardware,
G. Gilman & Co., plumbing and gas fixtures,
J. F. Beazell, counterfeit detector,
G. H. Barker, agent, bank note reporter,
J. B. & C. M. Foster, state atlas,
William H. Kent, disbursements,
Brintnall & Maynard, cotton cloth and towels,
Portable Window Ventilating Company, ventilator,
S. W. Wilson, agent, matting,
Mystic Water Board, water rates,
L. E. Pearson, disbursements,
L. H. Bigelow, sundries,
S. A. Rogers, disbursements,
H. A. Davis, State Sealer, services,
$2,413 75
50
00
134 00
71
50
40
50
72 00
31
50
30
00
6
00
9
00
9
00
9
00
9
00
9
00
9
00
100
00
65
00
9
73
6
55
3
00
6
00
12 00
6 00
12
01
:>r, 15
00
77
50
68
00
4 40
5
35
3 40
9
75
Amount carried forward, $3,306 94
EXPENDITURES.
65
Amount brought forward, $3,306 94
Russell & Fitch, removal of night soil, 8 00
E. Hughes and three others, labor on ruins of
Wemyss factory,
Thomas B. Smith, disbursements, ,
Hovey & Co., bouquets, decoration day,
Rand & Byam, soap,
John McLoud, sundries,
Dr. Thos. Waterman, examination of insane person,
S. B. Brooks, adhesive paper,
Henry W. Bragg, disbursements in sundry suits,
Stearns & Butler, " witness fees, &c,
Sweney & O'Brien, services Commonwealth vs.
Charlestown,
Jonathan Oldham, disbursements in sundry suits,
Perez R. Jacobs, " suit City vs. A.
W. Tufts,
David Palsifer, certifying Charter Mass. Colony,
J. H. Cotton, witness fees,
J. H. Butler, "
B. F. Ham, Clerk of Courts, expenses in sundry suits, 54 60
G. W. Williams, examining records, &c, Suit
City vs. A. W. Tufts,
George P. Morgan, list mortgages, &c, for assessors,
G. Washington Warren, services,
Brintnall & Osgood, cord and shades,
John N. Devereux, canvas,
E. L. Clark, examining pension list,
J. Wrighton & Co., baskets,
H. R. Bishop & Co., ladder,
O. A. Taft, City dinner, at Point Shirley,
John Quinn, steamer Grace Irving,
A. D. Hoitt, disbursements,
Maynard Bros., carriages,
22 00
22 20
37 50
11 62
23 50
3 00
1 00
120 02
31 32
50 00
159 41
29 76
25 00
42 33
58 25
90 00
200 00
472 00
6 25
15 75
3 50
13 50
4 50
453 10
50 00
19 40
34 00
Amount carried forward, $5,368 45
66 EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward, $5,368 45
William B. Long, salary B. H. Commission, 1,500 00
George H. Jacobs, " « « 1,750 00
Loring R. Home, survey of Mill Pond and Plats,
for Bunker Hill Commissioners, balance, 700 00
John B. Wilson, estimates B. Hill Commission, 25 00
Joseph W. Hiil, carpentry, " " 2 88
J. F. Cabot & Bro.,, rollers and bindings, B. Hill
Commission, 2 25
A. E. Cutter & Co., stationery, B. Hill Commission, 6 69
Amos Brown, estimates " " 25 00
Sam'i L. Tuttle, " « " 10 00
C. S. Wason & Co., printing, « u 10 00
S. A. Rogers, street clerk for Assessors, 256 50
J. E. Ingalls, services, suit Nancy Shepard vs. City, 20 00
John B. Wilson, surveyor's stakes, 9 50
Post No. 11, G. A. R., per order C. C, Decoration Day, 500 00
W. S. & G. O. Wiley, carriages, 40 00
Hicks & Brown, " 54 00
Chevalier & Co., " 10 00
Maynard Bros., " . 30 00
G. W. Lloyd, services in adjusting Water Accounts, 82 75
Averill & Hunting, duster, 4 00
De Costa & Sawyer, selling estates, 138 42
Wm. Schouler, History of Mass. in the Rebellion, 8 00
T. Calahan, sprinkling public squares and avenues, 250 00
Lawrence, Wilde & Hull, furniture, 20 00
I. G. Kelso, carpentry, 6 00
Joseph W. Hill, " in ward rooms, 56 07
H. Currier, sprinkling Sullivan Square, 125 00
A. Porter, thermometers, 6 60
William B. Moore & Son, brooms and dusters, 9 50
T. E. Smith, cleaning windows, 11 50
J. T. Priest, directories, stationery and postage, 26 89
Amount carried forward, $11,065 00
EXPENDITURES.
67
Amount brought forward, $11,065 00
Cooper & Kelso, advertising and selling estates, 67 00
Ward Officers, services at elections, 155 00
Barney Hull, refreshments " 30 50
James Walker, " " 62 50
Barney Hull, rent of Union Hall at elections, 50 00
Trinity M. E. Church, rent of Mission Hall at elections, 60 00
Freewill Baptist Soc, " Seminary Hall " 75 00
Co. G, 9th Reg. M. V. M., repr's to Armory, order C. C, 300 00
" A, 5th « " gas for "
u jy " " K "
u jj n u u a
" G, 9th " " " "
" C, 1st Battalion Cavalry, gas for "
Thomas H. Hall, Messenger Com. Council,
G. M. Starbird, damages Perkins St. Sewer, "
Annie E. Jenkins,
J. C. Bradbury,
Richard Sullivan,
George R. Flint,
James Rawson, "
Sarah A. Chase, "
Henry Chase, "
Thomas Fleming, "
Peaslee & King, "
G. R. Whitney, "
Thomas Hunter, "
F. E. Downer, sundries,
Sampson, Davenport & Co., Boston Directory and
Massachusetts Register,
Town of Everett, tax on real estate,
B. F. Brown, insurance on City scales, weights and
measures,
Charles B. Stevens, copying deeds,
Amount carried forward, $ 13,511 53
u
u
50 00
u
«
50 00
il
a
50 00
li
n
50 00
u
u
50 00
a
u
100 00
u
n
517 00
11
u
125 00
u
a
125 00
li
a
85 00
((
a
65 00
u
a
65 00
a
a
50 00
u
u
15 00
u
u
50 00
a
a
50 00
u
u
50 00
ti
u
and
s and
25 00
29 23
7 00
20 40
8 75
9 15
68
EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward,
$13,511 53
Philander Derby, furniture,
10 50
A. J. Carter, "
6 07
Fairbanks, Brown & Co.
, weights,
60 00
John Johnston, services,
131 00
John Reade, return of deaths, 1871,
18 10
John Bryant, "
a u
16 80
John L*. Perry, "
a u
12 20
E. N. Coburn, "
a a
7 60
P. Denvir, "
a a
5 70
E. T. Swift, "
u a
6 80
Stowell & Co., paste,
25
$13,786 55
Appropriated,
$20,000 00
Sundry receipts,
1,141 00
,141 00
Expended, $13,786 55
From Soup House, 1,330 89
« 17th of June Celebration, 4,716 19
Assessment for High School Drain, 354 05
Balance to Unappropriated Funds, 935 32
$21,141 00
REFUNDING OF TAXES.
Estate of George C. Goodwin, portion of tax
of 1870, $116 80
Appropriated, $500 00
Expended, $116 80
Balance to Unapp. Funds, 383 20
500 00
EXPENDI1URES, 69
PAVING MAIN STREET, AT NECK.
Turner, Kidney & Co., contractors, $29,500 00
Appropriation, (special,) .$£9,500 00
Expended, 29,500 00
PAVING AUSTIN AND CHAPMAN STREETS,
Turner, Kidney & Co., contractors., $23,500 08
Appropriation, (special,) $23 500 00
Expended, 23,500 00
SOLDIERS' MONUMENT.
Johnson & Richmond, stone work for foundation, $1,100 00
Martin Milmore,, contract, or on account, 8,400 00
,500 00
Appropriation, { special-,) §20,000 00
Expended, 9,500 00
Balance unexpended, $10,500 00
FOSS' FLAG FUND.
J. N. Devereux, flags, $157 31
Amount of Income, $157 31
Expended, 157 31
70 EXPENDITURES.
WINTHROP SQUARE GRADING AND FENCING.
J. F. & F. L. Gilraan, contractors, stone posts, $2,900 00
Appropriation, (special,) $16,600 00 »
Expended, 2,900 00
Balance unexpended, 13,700 00
ARMORY RENTS.
Company C, first Battalion Cavalry, $800 00
" D, fifth Regiment, Mass. Vol. Militia, 512 50
Received from State, $1,400 00
Expended, $1,312 50
Balance to Unapp. Funds, 87 50
1,400 00
.,312 50
MILITIA BOUNTY.
Company A, fifth Regiment, Mass. Vol. Militia, $617 50
" D, " " " " 726 50
" H, " " " « 782 00
" G, ninth " " " 523 00
" C, first Battalion Cavalry, " 4,669 00
Expended in 1871, $7,318 00
Reimbursed by State, $6,784 50
Due from " 533 50
7,318 00
7,318 00
There is also due from the State $100 00, on account of
disbursements in 1870.
EXPENDITURES. 71
STATE AID.
Paid to Soldiers and Families, $ 13,910 73
Due from State, for State Aid, paid to
March 1,1 871, $18,044 95
Due from State, for State Aid, paid to
March 1, 1872, 13,910 73
$31,955 68
Beimbursed to City, 16,000 00
Due from State, $15,955 68
INTEREST.
Interest on City Bonds, coupons,
Discounts on " sold,
Warren Institution for Savings,
First Parish Church,
J. W. Roberts && Co.,
Trustees Poor's Fund,
Pierce Fuel Fund,
Trustees School Fund,
National Eagle Bank, Boston,
Faneuil Hall National Bank, Boston,
New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Boston
Provident Institution for Savings, Boston,
Bunker Hill National Bank,
Monument National Bank,
Andrew Sawtell,
"Winchester Home Corporation,
D. B. Weston, guardian,
George S. Putnam,
Sinking Fund Committee,
Amount carried forward,
|53,385 00
3,750
00
6,725
00
25
67
70
67
1,203
12
90
00
186
00
820
00
830
00
n, 5,600 00
1,000
00
1,025 00
307
50
1,111
29
924 00
54 00
32 40
1,500
72
$78,640 :
us
TZ
EXPENDITURES.
Amount brought forward,
$78,640 37
"Willard Rice,
414 74
J. F. HunnewelL/
28 02
County Tax,
122 25
$79,205 38
Appropriation, $70,000 00
Sundry receipts, 6,063 61
Bal. of interest on Water Accounts, 70,394 53
Expended, $79,205 38
Bal. to Unapp. Funds, 67,252 76
$146/158 14
146,458 14
ABATEMENT OF TAXES.
Taxes of 1869, (abated by Assessors,)
Taxes of 1870, « "
Amount abated, $787 04
Credited with unappropriated taxes, 787 04
$80 64
706 40
$787 04
ABATEMENT OF TAXES.
Taxes of 1871, (abated by Assessors,) $13,940 16
Amount abated, $13,940 16
Credited with Un appro. Funds, 13,940 16
EXPENDITURES. 73
UNAPPROPRIATED TAXES.
Fractional excess of Taxes of 1871, $3,356 42
Receipts from Corporation Tax &c, of previous
years, 862 69
Total amount, - $4,219 11
Abatement of Taxes, 1869
and 1870, 787 04
Deficiency in estimate by As-
sessors, of am't of Non-
Resident Bank Tax, 283 29
Balance to Unapp. Funds, 3,148 78
4,219 11
t,219 11
STATE
Amount of Tax,
Paid to State Treasurer,
TAX.
$46,200 0(
$46,200
)
$18,807
00
Amount of Tax,
Paid to County '
COUNTY TAX,
Treasurer, $18,807 96
96
NON-RESIDENT BANK TAX.
Amount paid to State Treasurer, $8,060 19
Estimated and assessed by Assessors, $7,776 90
Balance from Unapp. Taxes, 283 29
$8,060 19
74 EXPENDITURES.
TEMPORARY LOANS. RECEIPTS.
First Parish Church, $1,000 00
National Eagle Bank, Boston, 40,000 00
Sinking Fund Committee, City Debt, 10,400 70
Bunker Hill National Bank, 50,000 00
Monument " « 15,000 00
Faneuil Hall " " Boston, 60,000 00
J. W. Roberts & Co., 8,000 00
Sinking Fund Committee, Water Debt, 18,151 55
Trustees of Public Library, 1,000 00
$203,552 25
TEMPORARY LOANS. PAID.
Warren Institution for Savings, $110,000 00
Monument National Bank, 30,000 00
Bunker Hill " " 100,000 00
Eagle " " Boston, 40,000 00
Faneuil Hall « " " 60,000 00
First Parish Church, 1,000 00
J. W. Roberts & Co., 8,000 00
George S. Putnam, 555 00
Sinking Fund Committee, City Debt, 30,400 70
Andrew Sawtell, 15,875 60
$395,831 30
CITY BONDS ISSUED.
City of Charlestown, 6 per cent. 20 year Bonds, 320,000 00
EXPENDITURES. 75
WATER BONDS.
Amount issued from March 1st, 1871, to
March 1st, 1872, $185,000 00
"WATER WORKS. Construction Account.
Amount paid from March 1st, 1871, to
March 1st, 1872, $116,554 71
WATER WORKS. Maintenance Account.
Amount paid from March 1st, 1871 , to
March 1st, 1872, $46,819 27
INTEREST ON WATER BONDS.
Amount paid from March 1st, 1871, to
March 1st, 1872, $66,373 84
WATER RATES.
Amount received from March 1st, 1871,
to March 1st, 1872, $185,814 79
76 WATER WORKS,
COST OF MYSTIC WATER WORKS,
WITH STATEMENT SHOWING THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE
WORKS ON THE FIRST DAY OF MARCH, 1872.
Water Works (Construction Account), amount paid by the
City for the construction of the Works to March 1, 1871, $1,247,633.19
Amount paid from March 1, 1871 to March 1, 1872, 116,554.71
Cost of the works to March 1, 1872, 1,364,187.90
To meet the above expenditure there have been Water
Bonds issued to March 1, 1872, amounting to 1,357,000.00
Leaving a balance amounting to 7,187.90
To be met by the further issue of Water Bonds.
Section 2 of Chapter 159 of the Acts of 1871, reads as
follows:
" The income derived from Water Rates under the several
Acts authorizing the Construction and Extension of Water
Works in said City, after deducting cost of Maintenance, and
Interest on the Water Bonds, shall be applied to the reduction
of the Water Debt, and shall not be used for any other purpose
whatever."
Up to March 1, 1871, the five accounts relating to the Water
Works, viz : Construction, Water Bonds, Water Bond Interest,
Maintenance and Water Rates, have stood in the City's books
from the commencement of the Works, in June, 1860, with no
adjustment of interest or earnings whatever. The time having
arrived for the creation of a Sinking Fund for the payment of
the Water Debt under the requirements of the Act quoted
above, it became necessary that an interest account should be
made up for the purpose of ascertaining the exact financial
condition of the project, as between the City and the Works,
to said date.
This computation was made by direction of the Committee
on Finance, and the result, including a statement showing
the net earnings of the works to March 1, 1872, is as follows :
WATER WORKS. - 77
Water Rates, gross amount received to March
1, 1871, «... $518,626.34
Received from March 1, 1871 to March 1, 1872, 185,814.79
Interest on Water Bonds, paid to March 1, 1871, $304,602.16
Paid from March 1, 1871 to March 1, 1872 66,373.84
$704,441.13
370,976.00
Maintenance, paid to March 1, 1871 150,287.42
Paid from March 1, 1871 to March 1, 1872 46,819.27 197,106.69 568,082.69
Excess of receipts over payments, 136,358.44
Due the City for interest on money advanced
for the Construction of the Works, in antici-
pation of the issue of Water Bonds, 65,269.70
Due the City for interest on amount expended
for payment of Water Bond Interest, 65,895.81
Due the City for interest on the amount ex-
pended for Maintenance of the Works, .... 21,885.54
143,051.05
Due the Water Works for interest on gross
amount received from Mystic Water Board
for Water Rates 65,800.53
Showing a balance due the City of 77,250.52
77.250.52
This amount deducted from the excess of re-
ceipts from Water Rates over the cost of
Maintenance, and Water Bond Interest,
leaves a net balance of $59,107.92
Being the amount standing to the credit of the
Water Sinking Fund, March 1, 1872.
78
CITY DEBT.
FUNDED MUNICIPAL AND WATER DEBT AND TEMPORARY
LOANS.
Kate of
To whom due.
Date.
Time.
Interest.
Amount.
Trustees of Schools,
May 1, 1837
Permanent
6 per cent.
$600 00
" "
" 22, 1848
"
6 "
5,000 00
Provident Inst. Savings,
Jan. 29, 1853
20 years,
5 "
20,000 00
Warren Inst, for Savings,
Sept. 1, 1857
"
6 "
25,000 00
Pierce Fuel Fund,
Sept. 20, 1860
Permanent,
6 "
1,500 00
Warren Inst, for Savings,
Oct. 1, 1864
8 years,
6 "
25,000 00
N. E. Mut. Life Ins. Co.
Jan. 1, 1868
3 "
7 "
50,000 00
D. B. Weston, Guardian,
Feb. 26, 1868
Demand,
6 "
900 00
Trustees of Poor's Fund,
April 1, 1868
Permanent,
7 "
17,187 50
Winchester Home Corp.
Nov. 1, 1868
Demand,
fiYz "
7,200 00
N. E. Mut. Life Ins. Co.
Jan. 2, 1869
3 years,
7 "
30,000 00
Winchester Home Corp.
July 13, 1869
Demand,
7 "
3,000 00
Water Sinking Fund Co.
Dec. 1, 1871
"
6 "
18,151 55
Trust. Chas'n Pub. Lib.
Jan. 26, 1872
ii
7 "
1,000 00
$204,539 05
City Loan Bsnds,
Jan. 1, 1853
20 years,
5 per cent.
20,000 00
" '•
Oct. 1, 1862
20 "
5 "
20,000 00
a tt
Oct. 1, 1862
15 "
5 "
110,000 00
" "
Oct. 1, 1863
20 "
5 "
38,000 00
.1 n
Oct. 1, 1866
10 "
5 "
1,000 00
it tt
April 1, 1868
20 "
6 "
100,000 00
t. it
Jan. 1, 1869
20 "
6 "
95,500 00
" "
July 1, 1869
20 "
6 "
78,500 00
"' «
Jan. 1, 1870
20 "
6 "
136,000 00
n n
July 1, 1870
20 "
6 "
90,000 00
tt tt
Jan. 1, 1871
20 "
6 "
150,000 00
tt a
July 1, 1871
20 "
6 "
170,000 00
$1,009,000 00
Water Loan Bonds,
Oct. 1, 1862
20 years,
5 per cent.
100,000 00
a u
Oct. 1, 1863
20 ' "
5 "
202,000 00
a a
Oct. 1, 1863
30 "
5 "
6,000 00
a a
April 1, 1864
30 ".
5 "
102,000 00
it it
Oct. 1, 1864
10 "
6 "
81,000 00
ii it
Oct. 1, 1864
8 "
6 "
92,000 00
ii u
April 1, 1865
20 "
6 "
1,000 00
t. i<
April 1, 1865
10 "
6 "
7,000 00
it it
Oct.l, 1, 1865
10 "
6 "
59,000 00
t: ii
April 1, 1866
20 "
6 "
35,000 00
ii u
April 1, 1866
10 "
6 "
130,000 00
ii u
Oct. 1, 1866
20 "
6 "
60,000 00
ii tt
Oct. 1, 1866
15 "
6 "
26,000 00
it it
Oct. 1, 1866
10 "
6 "
57,000 00
ii it
April 1, 1867
10 "
6 •'
11,000 00
a ii
Oct. 1, 1867
20 "
6 "
50.000 00
ii u
April 1, 1868
30 "
6 "
3,000 00
u ii
July 1, 1870
20 "
6 "
100,000 00
ii ii
Jan. 1, 1871
20 "
6 "
51,000 00
ii ii
July 1, 1871
20 "
6 "
139,000 00
ii u
Jan. 1, 1872
20 "
6 "
45,000 00
4J> f ot[7 nnn f\n
$2,570,539 05
Average rate of interest five and four-fifths per cent.
CITY DEBT.
79
SCHEDULE, SHOWING THE AMOUNT OF FUNDED MUNICIPAL AND
WATER DEBT MARCH 1, 1872, AND THE DATES WHEN
THE SAME BECOMES PAYABLE.
MONTH.
October 1,...
C January 1,..
( January 29,
October 1, . .
i April 1,
( October 1, . . ,
t April 1,
} October 1,
f April 1,
J September 1,
V. October 1, . . ,
October 1, . . . ,
October 1, . . . ,
October 1
April 1,
i Aprii 1,
( October 1, . . . .
October 1
April 1,
( January 1, . . .
I Julyi,
C January 1,. . .
\ July 1,
C January 1,. . .
( July 1,
January 1,. . .
October 1,
April 1,.
♦Permanent. .
CITY.
20,000 00
20,000 00
1,000 00
25,000 00
110,000 00
20,000 00
38,000 00
WATER.
100,000 00
95,500 00
78,500 00
136,000 00
90,000 00
150,000 00
170,000 00
24,287 50
$1,078,287 50
92.000 00
81,000 00
7,000 00
59,000 00
130,000 00
57,000 00
11,000 00
26,000 00
100,000 00
202,000 00
1,000 00
35,000 00
60,000 00
50,000 00
3,000 00
100,000 00
51,000 00
139,000 00
45,000 00
6,000 00
102,000 00
TOTAL.
$1,357,000 00
92,000 00
40,000 00
81,000 00
66,000 00
188,000 00
146,000 00
26,000 00
120,000 00
240,000 00
1,000 00
95,000 00
50,000 00
103,000 00
174,000 00
326,000 00
510,000 00
45,000 00
6,000 00
102,000 00
24,287 50
$2,435,287 50
* Pierce Fuel Fund, and amounts held by the City belonging to Trustees of Schools, and
Trustees of Poor's Fund.
80 CITY DEBT.
CONSOLIDATED NET INDEBTEDNESS OF THE CITY,
MARCH 1, 1872.
"Water Debt Funded, $1,357,000 00
Municipal Debt Funded, 1,078,287 50
Municipal Debt "Temporary Loans," 135,251 55
Accounts audited and unpaid "Pay Bolls," 68,052 58
Amount due City Sinking Fund Committee, 26,319 33
Amount due "Water Sinking Fund Committee, 40,956 37
$2,705,867 33
To meet this there was Cash on hand March 1, 1872, $106,173 47
Amount due from sundry persons " Notes Receivable," 15,207 06
Amount due from State on State Aid and other accounts, 16,589 18
Uncollected taxes for the years 1869, 1870 and 1871, . . ., 50,688 44
Betterment Assessments uncollected, 17,245 10
Drain and Sewer Assessments uncollected, 6,182 36
Sidewalk Assessments uncollected, 6,234 67
218,320 28
2,487,547 05
STATEMENT OF THE CITY'S NET INDEBTEDNESS, EXCLUSIVE
OF THE WATER DEBT, MARCH 1, 1872.
Municipal Debt Funded, $1,078,287 50
Municipal Debt " Temporary Loans," 135,251 55
Accounts audited and unpaid, 68,052 58
Amount due City Sinking Fund Committee, 26,319 33
$1,307,910 96
To meet this there was Cash on hand March 1, 1872, $106,173 47
Amount due from sundry persons "Notes Receivable," 15,207 06
Amount due from State on State Aid and other accounts, 16,589 18
Uncollected taxes for the years 1869, 1870 and 1871, 50,688 44
Uncollected Betterment Assessments, 17,245 10
Uncollected Drain and Sewer Assessments, 6,182 36
Uncollected Sidewalks Assessments, 6,234 67
~r-. 218,320 28
$1,089,590 68
CITY DEBT. 81
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE CITY'S INDEBTEDNESS
FOR THE FINANCIAL YEARS ENDING
Feb. 28, 1871 and Feb. 29, 1872.
Debt of the City, March 1, 1872.
Water Debt Funded, $1,357,000 00
Municipal Debt Funded, 1,078,287 50
Municipal Debt Unfunded 135,251 55
Accounts audited and unpaid, 135,328 28
$2,705,867 33
Less Cash on hand and available assets, 218,320 28
Net Debt, $2,487,547 05
Debt of the City, March 1, 1871, as shown on page 72 of Treas-
urer's statement of 1871, as follows, viz :
Water Debt $1,172,000 00
Municipal Debt Funded, 758,287 50
Municipal Debt Unfunded, 327.530 60
Accounts audited and unpaid, 122,030 18
$2,379,848 28
Less Cash on hand and available assets, 266,199 88
$2,113,648 40
Net increase of Debt for the financial years 187 1 and 1872, $373,898 6
Of the above increased amount there was contracted and paid the sum of one hundred
eighty-five thousand dollars, ($185,000) on account of the Water Works, which provides for
itself. The balance of one hundred and eighty-eight thousand, eight hundred and ninety-
eight dollars, and sixty-five cents, ($188,898 65,) is composed mainly of payments on extra
appropriations for the New Harvard School House, paving Main Street from junction of
Cambridge Street to Somerville line, and Chapman Street from Main Street to Prison Point
Bridge, Soldiers' Monument, grading South Eden Street, maintenance of Charles Kiver
and Warren Bridges, and Sewer in Canal Street.
82 SINKING FUNDS.
SINKING FUNDS.
The City Ordinances have provided for the establishment
of two Funds, one called the City or Municipal Fund, the
other the Water Fund. These Funds are established to meet
the maturing of the Funded Municipal and Water Debts.
The Municipal Fund is derived from a yearly appropria-
tion of not less than $15,000, raised by taxation, and from
the sales of any property owned by the City, and the unex-
pended balances of any financial year. This Fund now
amounts to $73,224 75.
The Water Fund is derived from the excess of Water
Rates received, over and above the amounts paid for Water
Bond Interest, and the support of the Water Works. This
excess on the first of March, 1872, amounted to $59,107 92.
The above amounts, (with the exception of $9,956 37, re-
served to meet the payment of Water Bond interest falling
due April 1st, 1872,) have, since March 1st, all been drawn
from the Treasury, and invested, by the Committee having
the Funds in charge, in securities paying a rate of interest in
excess of the average rate paid by the City.
VALUATION, TAXATION, ETC.
83
VALUATION, TAXATION, &c, FROM 1847 TO 1871 INCLUSIVE.
Year.
1847. .
1848. .
1849. .
1850. .
1851. .
1852. .
1853. .
1854. .
1855..
1856..
1857..
1858. .
1859. .
I860.,
1861.
1862.
1863.
1864.
1865.
1866.
1867.
1868.
1869.
1870.
1871.
Real Estate.
$6,018,690
6,363,745
6,583,000
6,783.050
7,259,400
7,546,500
7,723,900
10,010,800
10,461,800
11,135,700
11,678,400
12,070,000
12,315,200
12,518,200
12,405,400
12,692,800
12,057,200
13,233,800
13,280,600
13,619,750
16,883,200
17,441,500
17,908,500
18,904,200
21,988,500
Personal
Estate.
J2,396,455
2,376,440
2,238,100
2,064,650
1,943,300
2,070,900
2,381,900
3,198,800
2,895,500
3,026,700
3,057,600
3,024,600
3,008,100
3,181,600
3,003,100
3,506,350
5,712,000
3,892,100
4,022,400
4,577,150
6,503,200
7,282,100
7,760,000
9,064,900
9,878,160
Total.
$8,415,145
8,740,185
8,821,100
8,847,700
9,202,700
9,617,400
10,105,800
13,209,600
13,360,300
14,162,400
14,736,000
15,094,600
15,323,300
15,699,800
15,408,500
16,199,150
18,669,200
17,125,900
17,303,000
18,196,900
23,386,400
24,723,600
25,668.500
27,969,100
31,S66,660
Amount.
Taxed.
$68,899 15
105,173 10
84,671 40
90,729_42
94,000 92
95,377 32
107,521 50
102,886 20
116,152 96
125,846 16
144,279 30
136,169 90
147,561 63
119,612 70
155,904 60
166,443 84
195,380 16
252,164 24
332,856 67
332,491 44
394,631 00
380,965 38
446,578 80
463,495 60
500,915 20
Kate.
$7 60
1 1 40
9 00
9 60
9 60
9 30
10 00
7 30
8 20
8 40
9 30
Polls.
8 30
9 00
9 00
9 60
9 60
9 80
13 60
19 60
17 60
16 50
14 80
16 80
16 00
15 20
3296
3690
3521
3861
3707
3957
4309
4302
4399
4588
4823
5016
5001
5543
5322
5466
6211
5753
5767
6113
6556
7528
7674
7995
8271
84
VALUATION OF CITY PROPERTY.
SCHEDULE AND VALUATION
OF THE
PROPERTY OWiNED BY THE CITY.
City Hall,
land and furniture, City Square,
$150,000 00
High School House,
m
Monument Square,
90,000 00
"Winthrop
H
a
Bunker Hill Street,
21000 00
Warren
((
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Summer Street,
92,000 00
Bunker Hill "
u
Baldwin Street,
80,000 00
Prescott
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Elm Street,
60,000 00
Harvard
((
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Bow Street,
130,000 00
Primary
((
u
Harvard Street,
20,000 00
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((
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Cross Street,
2,400 00
u
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Bunker Hill Street,
1,500 00
«
u
((
Mead Street,
15,000 00
((
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((
Kingston Street,
3,000 00
M
u
«
Moulton Street,
15,000 00
«
u
«
Sullivan Street,
1,500 00
((
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Soley Street,
1,000 00
((
a
((
Common Street,
20,000 00
u
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Richmond Street,
5,000 00
((
u
u
Bunker Hill Street,
20,000 00
ii
u
((
Medford Street,
500 00
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Amount carried forward,
500 00
$728,400 00
VALUATION OF CITY PROPERTY. 85
Amount brought forward, $728,400 00
Winthrop Street Building, land, &c., occupied
by Hook and Ladder Co., Armory, &c, 20,000 00
Hose House No. 1, and Land, Main Street, 8,000 00
" No. 2, " « 4,000 00
" No. 4, " Bunker Hill Street, 5,000 00
Steamer House . " Elm Street, 20,000^00
Lot of Land, Bunker Hill Street, 2,500 00
City Stables, and Land, Medford Street, 10,000 00
City Wharf Lot, Medford Street, 20,000 00
Fire Hose Carriages and Hose, 5,000 00
Furniture in Fire Department Buildings, 1,000 00
Two Steam Fire Engines, 7,000 00
Two Horses for Fire Engines, 700 00
Fire Alarm Telegraph, 15,000 00
Hooks, Ladders, and Carriages, 2,000 00
Horses, Carts, Harnesses, &c, 5,000 00
Gravel Land in Maiden, 1,500 00
" " Chelsea, 1,700 00
Water Works, 2,000 000 00
$2,856,800 00
REPORT
OYERSEERS OF THE POOR.
REPORT.
TO THE HON. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CHARLESTOWN.
Gentlemen : —
In review of the financial year just closed,
you will allow us an expression of gratitude for the ample
means appropriated for the support of this department, and
also for the establishment of the office of City Physician and
appointment of a person competent to discharge the duties*
the latter of which has releived us of unpleasant embarras-
ments in regard to the medical treatment of the indigent sick.
The following exhibit will show our resources and financial
condition on the 29th day of February, 1872.
Overseers of the Poor in account with City Treasurer.
1871-2. Dr. Cr.
By appropriation of City Council, $12,600 00
Paid Worcester Hospital, support of Insane, $2,146 94
Taunton " " " 184 55
Mass. Gen. " " patients, 157 00
State Work House, " convicts, 94 66
Middlesex Co., " " 169 02
Medical attendance, January and February, 1871, 148 50
Medicines, 514 82
Burials, 267 00
Printing and Stationery, 58 17
Tickets to State Almshouse, 26 60
Office, Travelling and Miscellaneous expenses, .... 239 93
Miscellaneous orders, 4,504 51
Cash orders 1,644 25
Towns and Cities, support of paupers, 943 00
$11,098 95
Received on account of above disbursements from State, $524 59
ii ii ii ii it ii ii Cities
andTowns, 4,359 10
$4,883 69
Amounts carried forward, $17,483 62 $11,098 95
90 OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
1871-2. Dr. Cr.
Amounts brought forward, $17,483 69 $11,098 95
ALMS-HOUSE EXPENSES.
Paid Superintendent and assistant Matron, $1,096 01
Masonry, Carpentry, Lumber, &c., 917 25
Water Eates, 75 00
Sewing Machine, 60 00
Furniture and Carpets 142 84
Paper Hangings and Curtains, 40 30
Gravel and Teaming same, 80 00
E. W. Bean, Teaming, 53 16
Offal Department, Swill, 295 00
$2,759 56
ALMS-HOUSE LIVING EXPENSE.
Paid Cash for Fuel, $610 01
" " Provisions, 793 63
" " DryGoods, 267 67
" " Shoes, 118 08
" " Fish. 119 07
" " Ice, 20 75
" " W. I. Goods, 920 97
" " Flour, Pork, &c 708 18
" " Butter, Beans, &c, „ 234 80
" " All other expenses, '. 1,150 60
SUNDRY RECEIPTS.
Received, Sale of Pork, $996 05
" " Junk, 6 00
" " Manure, 137 67
Board on private account, 489 10
" " account, Town and Cities, 740 30
4,943 76
$19,852 81 $18,802 27
Unexpended balance, 1,050 54
$19,852 81
RECAPITULATION.
To appropriation of City Council, $12,600 00
Sundry amounts from Towns and Cities, 4,883 69
Alms-house, 2,369 12
Cash paid for outside relief, , $11,098 95
Sundry expenses at Alms-house, repairs, &c, 2,759 56
Living " «« 4,943 76
Unexpended balance, 1,050 54
$19,852 81
$19,852 81
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR. 91
The Almshouse has been under the watchful care of this
Board, which, with the judicious care of the Superintendent
and Matron, we have reason to believe will, in all respects,
compare favorably with any other like Institution in this Com-
monwealth. Daring the year we have had eighty-eight in-
mates under our care, forty-five of which is our present
number. Six of our decimated number have been removed
by death, and as I think of those who have forever gone from
us, the sad thought comes to my mind that one of them, at
the breaking out of the rebellion, inspired with love for his
adopted country, left his wife and three young children, for
three years' service, (if required,) to preserve our nation and
people from a rebellious foe. Eleven months of which time
were spent in Andersonville and Libby Prisons, where his suf-
fering no record will ever truthfully tell, and the foundation of
disease was laid which terminated fatally.*
The health of the inmates lias generally been good, and
while, in some instances given to complaining, it is rather a
chronic idea, than real disease which is the cause. It is very
certain that no deleterious effects have been experienced from
what the wisdom of our State has endeavored to make out
an abominable nuisance maintained on the premises.
Of our present number of inmates, six are on account of
the City of Somerville ; two are a charge to the City of Bos-
ton ; three to the Town of Revere ; one to the Town of
Melrose ; one to the State ; four are on private account ; four
at work for their board, and twenty-four on account of this
City. Of the inmates, four are insane ; six idiots ; two are
blind, and three are incapacitated by fits. Our Board fully
believe that the Almshouse was not intended to foster the idle
and disolute, nor such as are possessed of sufficient physical
ability to earn their own living elsewhere, and notwithstand-
* Andrew Donnell enlisted in the 29th Regiment unas signed Recruits,
August 26th, 1862, 3 years, and died January 25th, 1872, aged 43 years.
92 OVERSEERS OF THE FOOR.
\
ing the valid rights of such are often asserted, we have not
felt it to be our duty to burden our tax payers for support of
that class of people in the Almshouse. Such a course may
lead to the censure of some, who upon mature deliberation,
would acknowledge the decision just.
LAWS FOR SUPPORT.
As early as 1630, of our natal history, we find our great
and good General Court devising plans for relief and support
of the poor, at which time a spirit of the old English laws
were not wholly without influence, and the criminality of pov-
erty was in their estimation as bad in the new as in the old
world ; hence an adult, if found seeking public charity, was
taken and bound out to service for a term of time sufficient
to rid his mind of the idea of a gratuitous support; ther*
again if a family desired to make the town their residence and
home, the Sheriff, with a precept, was despatched to warn
them to leave, and so strictly was the law enforced that if a ser-i
vant was employed in a family it was a criminal offence for
the employer to neglect to notify the Selectmen, that they
might warn such person to leave the Town ; in fact, a person
had no legal abiding place for more than a century after the
provisions first made by the General Court, unless so decided
by the Town, by its approbation at a regular warned Town
Meeting. The subject was often before our Legislature, with
acts, resolves, repeals and amendments, many of which by
their vague and obscure wording, tended to mislead Town
authorities, and result in litigation, and large sums of money
were spent in that way, that should have been for the relief of
the deserving poor.
In 1794, or more than one hundred and fifty years after the
first laws passed on this matter, the Revolutionary War hav-
ing terminated, and our independence gained, new ideas were
instilled into the minds of our people in regard to supporting
the poor, and in that year laws were enacted which remained
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR. 93
virtually, without change, for nearly seventy years, when, after
the breaking out of the rebellion, an act was passed in 1865,
giving a military settlement, so called. In 1868, a law was
passed repealing so much of the act of 1794, as required a
foreigner to be naturalized ten years, with other qualifications,
in order to give him a legal settlement for support.* In 1870
an act was passed giving to any unmarried woman, twenty-
one years of age, who shall hereafter reside in any place in
this Commonwealth, for ten years together, without being aid-
ed as a pauper, or being convicted of a crime, a legal settle-
ment in such place for support. And in the same year it was
passed that all settlements acquired by virtue of any provision
of law in force previous to the eleventh day of February,
1794, are hereby declared defeated and lost.
We are aware that the idea entertained by many of our
kind hearted people is quite adverse to the general provisions
of the law, which, if rightly understood, they would readily
see, does not delegate any power to this Board to expend the
means provided for the support of this department on those
not having complied with the law in regard to the acquisition
of a legal settlement. A brief extract from a decision render-
ed, gives much light on this point. It is as follows : " If a
person not having a legal settlement in the Town, falls into
distress here, it is the duty of the Overseers of the Poor to
afford him temporary relief at the expense of the Town in
which he has a settlement, if he has such a settlement in this
Commonwealth, and if he has no such settlement, then they
ought forthwith to take the necessary steps to have him re-
* As this is evidently an ex post facto law, which by Article 1, Section
10, of the Constitution of the United States, (and ratified by the State, of
Massachusetts, in convention, February, 1788,) the several States are pro-
hibited from passing, we question its validity with all due deference to our
wise Legislators who appear to repudiate their own acts, and thereby violate
the Constitution of the United States.
94 OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
moved to one of the State Almshouses. Cities and Towns
are not empowered to raise or appropriate money for the sup-
port of paupers not belonging to them, and no person has such
claim to support, either in whole or in part, unless he has a
legal settlement in the Town where he resides, or some other
City or Town in this Commonwealth." As this, like all other
laws, is supposed to be founded on justice and equity, we
can easily see that if we support a pauper here, whom we
should send to a State Almshouse to be supported, and are
taxed by the State for his support in such Almshouse, we
should impose an unjust burden, and one not warranted in
our official capacity.
METHOD OF SUPPORT.
The methods devised for support of the Poor has attracted
the attention of our local and State authorities for a long
series of years, and still remains a field for judicious improve-
ment. In my own opinion, formed after many years of prac-
tical experience, the County is the proper party to support the
poor rather than the local authorities, and I am more fully con-
vinced of the practibility of this mode, when in our own
County I find more than four thousand acres of land, with
proper buildings thereon, and property valued at $521,615 60,
an annual cost of $21,493 66 for Superintendence, and
$120,360 17 for maintenance of an average number of 587
persons in the Almshouses of this County.
I think if all these were concentrated in one, a vast saving
to the local authorities would be the result. Take one item
of the present system for an example, viz : Superintendents ;
and in that alone, twenty thousand dollars could be saved an-
nually by such a change, to different municipalities in the
County ; and then the property would be subject to taxation
and improvement, while it is now shut out from either. I
would, if it were left to my opinion, suggest that a good
elevated site, adapted by nature, be selected in the upper part
OVERSEERS OP THE POOR. 95
of our County, easy of access by railroad, where from 500
to 1,000 acres of good fertile land could be obtained, at a
reasonable pries, upon which suitable buildings should be
erected for the accommodation of 1,000 persons, so arranged
as to classify the inmates, and as far as possible to throw
around it all the comforts and associations of home, where
the aged, whose toilsome days have been spent in making
others rich, should be kindly cared for, whilst the man who is
ceaselessly dunning the world for the living it owes him, could
find ample scope on the farm to dig amd find it, and in turn
assist in supporting those who have already borne the heat
and burden of the day, and now seek quiet and rest. Such
an arrangement I think could be carried out in detail for less
than one half the present estimated Value of Alms-house
property, and the product of the Farm would contribute
largely to the support of the whole inmates of the house, and
if managed by skilful men a saving would be the result of one
half the present expense, and the real comfort of every inmate
promoted by the change. Some might object to the removal
of old acquaintances and friends to a distant part of the coun*
ty where they would be isolated from the outside world ; but
judging from past experience I am led to think that distance
if not too great would lend a charm and more friends would
visit such an Institution, than would visit one in their imme-
diate neighborhood.
RELIEF OUT OF ALMS-HOUSE.
By far the greatest part of our work is for relief furnished
for individuals and families out of the Alms-house. We have
aided directly from this office during the year 353 families,
who have received 1,167 orders for fuel, groceries, provisions
and shoes, 246 orders on the City Treasurer for cash, in addi-
tion to which number 128 have been medically treated, making
the total number of families relieved in this City 481. In
addition to this number there has been 23 families in other
Cities or Towns, 16 persons at the Insane Asylum, 5 at the
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workhouse at Bridgewater, and 18 convicts in the House of
Correction, (for whose support we have paid what was appro-
priated for support of the poor of this City,) buried 20 adults
and 15 children, provided transportation for 31 persons to the
State Alms-house, had correspondence with 57 Towns and
Cities in the State, and time would fail us to enter into detail
of all our work, and perhaps we might in brief say, to clothe
the naked, feed the hungry, administer to the sick, bury the
dead, console the afflicted, rid houses of bad tenants, find
employment for every one asking for it, reconcile all family
quarrels, reclaim the wanderer who has deserted his family
bring wayward children to a sense of filial obedience, and in
fact to right all wrongs of whatever name or nature. Such is
deemed our legitimate work which every applicant expects us
to do when required.
The ladies with a true and commendable spirit are at all
times diligent in seeking out the destitute and worthy poor, to
whose appeals she openeth her hands and withholdeth not.
Our churches too, assured by the divine Master that the poor
should be with them always, have not been unmindful of the
sacred trust, and streams of benevolence have been constantly
flowing out to cheer the homes of many desponding hearts. I
might also mention the several organizations in our City, whose
prominent object is the relief of the worthy poor, whether under
the ban of secrecy or otherwise, all tend to elevate the condition
of the poor, and cause them to feel that in times of distress
and darkness, a bright sun may pierce the intervening clouds
and cause them to rejoice in the midst of their distress.
When the sad tidings reached us that a distant city was in
flames, by which calamity thousands of persons who were in
affluence, were suddenly reduced to penury and want, our
people, with a commendable spirit most cheerfully responded
to the call for relief, and an amount in excess of the total cost
of supporting the poor of this City for the past year was the
result. We had supposed that our own poor might feel the
effects of so large an amount going out from the benevolent
OVERSEERS OF THE ROOR.
97
of our City ; but in this we have been happily disappointed,
for I really think that many streams of benevolence were
opened by the heat of those flames, and resulted in larger
gifts for our own poor. May such be the result, and charity,
which never faileth, be at all times ready to do its perfect
work.
Very respectfully submitted by
the Overseers of the Poor.
DAVID B. WESTON,
Secretary.
REPORT
CITY PHYSICIAN
REPORT.
To His Honor the Mayor
and Gentlemen oe the City Council:
In accordance with the ordinance creating this office, requir-
ing an annual report, the following is submitted for your
consideration.
From my election March 6, 1871, until the end of February,
1872, I have professionally attended, at the request of the
Overseers of the Poor, 146 persons, making 558 visits at their
homes, and receiving at my office 75, making a total of 633
visits, exclusive of attendance at the Almshouse. Except in
cases needing immediate attention, an order from the Secretary
of the Overseers of the Poor is required, and then, after the
first visit ; otherwise the City Physician would be entirely at
the mercy of any person who desired his services, whether
entitled or not; for in every community there are those who
desire to receive medical attendance gratis, though perfectly
nble to pay for it.
There is no stated time for making visits to the Almshouse.
len any inmate is sick, the physician is summoned and
itinues his visits as often as in his opinion it is necessary.
ere have been 130 professional visits made. The general
health of the inmates is good, owing no doubt in great meas-
ure to the regularity of habits and the simplicity of the food*
The piggery, and the storing of the offal, though in the opinion
102 CITY PHYSICIAN.
of the State Board of Health, injurious to the neighorhood,
appears to have had no deleterious effect upon the inmates ;
but on the contrary, it has furnished what seemed to be health-
ful employment for some who seemed to revel in it as much
as the swine they tended. There has been no case of fever of
any kind, the majority of patients being those who before
entrance were confirmed invalids, and the usual number who
in every institution suffer from slight affections peculiar to the
different seasons.
The chemical works in Everett are i-n such close proximity to
the house that the odors and gases are highly obnoxious to the
inmates, and in some cases no doubt producing an injurious
effect upon their health.
A much needed improvement was made last October, by
furnishing a dispensary where the necessary drugs might be
kept, thus obviating the necessity of sending to the city for
every prescription that might be written. The latter method
sometimes giving rise to a delay which might prove fatal to the
patient. There have been four deaths, one from consumption,
three from old age.
The police department have called for my serviees at the
station house, 16 times ; outside they have called me 7 times.
The attendance has been to several fatal accidents ; two
attempted suicides, one of which was successful ; three insane
persons; the other calls have mostly been to those who, from
the use of liquor, have been suffering from delirium tremens,
or while under the influence of liquor, have met with some
injury to their persons.
By direction of the committee on health, free vaccination at
the City Hall, was commenced in April, and continued every
week up to the present time. 481 persons have presented
themselves for vaccination, 15 of whom did not require it. Of
the 466 vaccinated, it is impossible to say in how many cases
it was successful, for only 116 have returned as requested. A
careful record is kept of those vaccinated and of the virus
CITY PHYSICIAN. 103
used. The record of the virus shows the source from which
it was obtained, and if from a child, its name, age and resi-
dence. The virus is only taken from such children as are
healthy and of healthy parentage. I have furnished virus free
of charge to many physicians of this city, and to several in
Boston.
To such as desired, of those successfully vaccinated, certifi-
cates to that effect have been given, in all, only 74. I think
every pupil attending school (private as well as public) should
have such a certificate from a physician before they are ad-
mitted; for the great majority of persons vaccinated never
show their arms to the doctor after the operation, satisfying
themselves with the very erroneous idea, that if they have a
sore arm it has surely "taken." Owing to the prevalence of
this idea there are probably now very many in our schools
who are not protected against the small pox. I have accom-
panied the Health Officer at various times in visits to different
parts of the city and given my opinion in regard to the exist-
ence of nuisances. Attention was called to the necessity of
better drainage in Webster and Quincy Streets, and a tem-
porary drain was laid in each by order of the Health Officer ;
before this was attended to, the air in the neighborhood was
loaded with the germs of typhoid fever and allied diseases
arising from the streams of filth which flowed down each
steeet, and for quite a distance upon Medford Street, before it
found an entrance to a sewer. There are still very many places
in the city where, owing to defective or no drainage, it is not
safe for human beings to reside. There has been only one
case of small pox which has come to my knowledge.
id to the general health and the prevalence of difTer-
es, I would refer to the annual report of the State
Health, of which I have been the correspondent for
ear.
Among the city patients out of the Almshouse, there have
been 7 deaths from consumption, 1 from pneumonia, cholera
morbus and cancer each, and 2 from delirium tremens.
104 CITY PHYSICIAN.
The expenses of this Office have been :
Salary to 1st March, 1872, $500 00
Printing, 4 00
Vaccine virus purchased of Dr. Martin of Roxbury, and City
Physician of Boston, 4 75
Record book, persons vaccinated "6 50
" " of virus used, 5 00
" " Almshouse patients, . .' 6 00
" " patients out of Almshouse, 10 50
Total, $536 75
I desire to acknowledge the uniform courtesy and co-opera-
tion of all with whom I have been brought in contact by my
official position.
Very respectfully,
EDWARD J. FORSTER, M. D.,
City Physician.
Charlestown, February 29, 1872.
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CITY OF CHARLESTOWN,
Financial Tear ending February 28, 1873 ;
TOGETHER WITH
THE REPORTS
OF THE
SECRETARY OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE
POOR, CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE FIRE
DEPARTMENT, CITY PHYSICIAN,
AND BRIDGE COMMISSIONER.
BOSTON :
PRESS OF W. & E. HOWE, 39 MERCHANTS ROW.
1873.
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