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AUD ITORS'

TENTH PRINTED REPORT

OF THE

KECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES

OF THE

TOWN OE DORCHESTER,

BEING

A GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE FINANCES OF THE TOWN,

FROM

FEBRUARY 1, 1847, TO FEBRUARY 1, 1848.

PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TOWN.

BOSTON :

PREsTED BY DAVID CLAPP 184 WASHINGTON STREET.

1848.

AUDITORS' REPORT.

RECEIPTS OF TOWTIf TREASTJRER FROM ALL
SOITRCES, 1847-48.

From Balance in the Treasury Feb. 1, 1847 $448 30

School Fund in do. " " 195 03

State Bank Dividend, 20 shares, $60, 3 per ct. 36 00

Tremont Bank Dividend, 7 shares, $100, 3 pr ct. 21 00
Dorchester & Milton Bank Dividend, 4 shares,

$100, 3 per ct. 12 00

State Treasurer, for School Fund 245 03

" " Small Pox Account 132 61

" " " Pauper Account 18 23

Philander Morse, for Pedlar's License 11 00
Norfolk Bank Dividend of Stock, 6 sh's, $100,

8 per cent. 48 00
Sale of twelve lots of land at school pasture 3,394 47
Dorchester & Milton Bank Dividend, 4 shares,

$100, 3 per ct. 12 00
Tremont Bank Dividend, 7 shares, $100, 3J pr ct. 24 50

State Bank Dividend, 23 shares, $60, 3 per ct. 41 40
Interest on $3000 United States Loan of 1842,

from Dec. 8, 1847, to Jan. 1, 1848, 6 per ct. 12 00
George Houghton, in part of mortgage on lot

No. 2, at school pasture 115 12
William Tolman, Collector for 1847, taxes in

full 19,448 44

Interest on $1000 for one month 5 00

William Parker, for one cow 25 00

" " for one calf 5 00

Oliver Davenport, for old gate and old iron 1 63

Samuel Littlefield, for old gate 2 50
Interest of Otis Shepard, for land sold to John

Barnard 12 00

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From Eleazer J. Bispham, for sundry pauper ac-
counts 123 14
Oliver Hall, for sale of sundry articles at the
Alms House 427 59

Total Receipts of the Treasurer, including) ©o/isifiQQ
the Balance in the Treasury Feb. 1, 1847 \ *^*'«^^ ^^

EXPENDirrJEES, 184748.

SCHOOLS.

District No. 1. — Sumner Street, North End of the Town.
— One Male and one Female Teacher.

Paid Elwell Woodbury, for teaching one year 600 00

making fires and sweeping 13 35

books for desk, 3 75 ; housing coal, 50 4 25

books for indigent scholars 4 63

Sarah R. Pearson, for teaching 24 weeks and 1 day 78 65

for teaching 26 weeks 104 00

books for indigent scholars 22

Alvah Phelps & Co., for 9 boxes charcoal 3 00

Preston, Curtis & Co., for 3 tons coal 21 00

A. & J. H. Upham, for 1 mat 62

Oliver Davenport, for 1 developer 37

mending coal sifter, 25; mending 2 keys, 50 75

Total, Teaching 782 65

" Furniture 1 74

Books 8 60

" Fuel 24 50

" Making fires and sweeping 13 35

$830 84

$830 84

KEPAIKS.

Paid Asa Robinson, for 40 desks and 4 seats with

backs 64 00
cash paid for tops and carting seats 11 00
William S. Broughton, for materials and labor re-
pairing privy 6 24
Stephen Gulliver, for 12 lights glass and setting do. 3 00
E. & F. King & Co., for 6 lbs. Paris green 2 40
3 lbs. chrome do. 1 50
1 gall, turpentine 50

SS8 64

District No. 2. — High Street, Meeting House Hill. — One
Male and one Female Teacher.

Paid William S. Williams, for teaching one year 600 00

making fires and sweeping 11 25

books for desk 6 28

" for indigent scholars 9 01

matches and nails 25

Mary E.Page, for teaching 26 w'ks (bill of 1846) 104 00

Betsey Hooper, for teaching 25 weeks 4 days S3 85

teaching 24 weeks 4 days 99 20

Martha Dill, for 5 d's labor cleaning school rooms 5 82

Patrick Quigley, for sawing and splitting wood 1 75

William Homes, for 2 cords wood 15 00

Hezekiah Park, for sawing 1 cord wood twice 'i

sawing 1 cord wood 3 times > 5 50
splitting and housing 2 cords wood )

Preston, Curtis & Co., for 4 tons coal, 28 00

1 cord bark 8 00

4 feet wood 3 50

$981 41

Total, Teaching 887 05

" Furniture 25

" Books 15 29

" Fuel 61 75
" Cleaning rooms, sweeping and

making fires 17 07

$981 41

REPAIKS.

Paid Isaac Spear, for 26 lights glass and setting do. 5 20

Roswell Gleason, for 2 pad locks 50

Calvin Davenport, for 10 days labor 17 50

377 feet boards, plank and joist 8 53

carting do. 75 ; paint, 26 1 01

irons and screws 3 95

cloak pins and brass nails 1 50

hinges, hooks and staples 48

dog nails, 8 ; 11 lbs. nails, 58 66

George W. Dodge, for 10 J days labor 20 50

lime, and other stock for repairs 7 00

cleaning both school rooms 7 37

Lemuel S. Blackman, for 12 lights glass and

settinsr do. 2 52

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1* $76 72

District No. 3. — Adams Street, Loioer Road. — One Male
and two Female Teachers.

Paid S. A. Poor, for teaching from January 1 to

March 10 93 73
Samuel D. Hayden, for teaching 2 3-5 weeks 30 00
teaching 9 months 450 00
1 pail, 28 ; 8 chairs, 2 40 ; 2 mats, 1 25 3 93
Sarah Adams, for teaching 42 weeks 168 00
Eliza F. Withington, for teaching 10 weeks 40 00
Sarah M. Hayden, for teaching 13 weeks (assist-
ant in grammar school) 52 00
Preston, Curtis & Co., for ^ tons coal 32 00

1 cord bark S 00
Daniel Talbot 2d, for making fires 3 months 9 00

cleaning vault 3 50
Bacon & Baird, for balance due for chairs in bill

of 1846 1 00

2 dust pans, 40 ; 4 cups, 24 64
water pot and 2 dippers 92
86 lbs. funnel, 4 50 ; putting up stove, 1 50 6 00
8 lbs. iron, 80 ; blower, 1 00 1 80
coal hod, 1 00; sifter, 30; poker, 25 _ 1 55
handle dipper 18

$902 25

Total, Teaching 833 73

" Furniture 16 02

" Fuel 40 00

" Making fires and cleaning 12 50

$902 25

REPAIRS.

Paid A. & W. Pope & Co., for 1055 feet boards

and plank 31 78

sawing, planing and carting do. 3 35

James Jenkins, for building fence 22 50

repairing seats 2 00

Friend Crane, for 59 lbs. paint 7 37

2 days labor painting fence 3 00

Henry Crane, for hinges, bolts, hooks and staples 5 50

Thos. W. Capen, for 5 lights glass and setting do. 1 00

Nathaniel Tolman, for 7^ days labor 11 25

lumber, nails, screws and paint 2 53

Paid Nathaniel Tolman, for labor, repairing seats 75

Stephen Tolman, jr., for repairing desks 7 97

S99 00

District No. 4. — School Street, near Four Corners. — One

Male and one Female Teacher.

Paid Quincy Bicknell, jr., for teaching one year 600 00

books for desk 4 63

" for indigent scholars 75

Lucy P. Tolman, for teaching 52 weeks 208 00

cleaning school room 1 75

book for desk 50

Preston, Curtis & Co., for 4 tons coal 28 00

S. J. Willis, for making fires 5 months 10 00

Roswell Gleason, for books for desk 1 52

books for indigent scholars 1 63

broom, 25 ; brush, 25 50

dust pan, 30 ; mending hod, 25 55

blind fastening butts and screws 75

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housing: coal 1 00

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Tertius Buck, for 30 baskets charcoal 9 00

$868 58

Total, Teaching 808 00

" Furniture 1 80

Books 9 03

Fuel 38 00

Cleaning room and making fires 11 75

$868 58

EEPAIES.

Paid A. & W. Pope, for 89 feet boards and plank 2 59
Solomon H. Willis, for repairs 1 75

Thos. W. Capen, for 9 lights glass and setting do. 1 80

$6 14

District No, 5. — Paver Street, near the Loiver Mills. — One
Male and three Female Teachers.

Paid Isaac Swan, for teaching one year 600 00

making fires 10 00

cleaning school rooms 3 75

books for desk 2 55

Paid Isaac Swan, for books for indigent scholars 1 50
cash paid for coal 1 98
Mary L. French, for teaching 65 weeks 260 00
Joanna T. Tucker, for teaching 52 weeks 130 00
Mary J. Greenwood, for teaching 13 weeks (as-
sistant in grammar school) 52 00
Preston, Curtis & Co., for 4 tons 260 lbs. coal 28 86
George Haynes, for coal hod 92
cleaning, repairing and putting up stove 1 75
1 boiler, 62 ; repairing hods, 50 1 12
William N. Hart, for 43 inkstand covers 2 58
Sanford Gay, for 30 baskets charcoal 9 00

SI, 106 01
Total, Teaching 1,042 00

" Furniture 6 37

" Books 4 05

" Fuel 39 84

" Cleaning rooms and making fires 13 75

$1,106 01

REPAIRS.

Paid Seth D. Whitney, (bill of 1846) for 1417 \

feet boards and plank, 25 18 ; carting > 26 06
do. for fence, 88 j

James Jenkins, for repairing gate and latches 50

Henry Crane, (bill of 1846) for 31 lbs. hinges,

hooks and bolts 4 86

repairing hinge (bill of 1846) 25

$3167

District No. 6. — 'Norfolk Street, near the Upper Mills. —
One Male and one Female Teacher.

Paid Simon Barrows, for teaching one year 600 00

books for desk 6 74

" for indigent scholars 4 39

30 baskets charcoal 10 00

cash for housing coal 37

pulleys, hooks and cord for maps 1 45

Susan Thompson, for teaching 65 weeks 260 00

books for indigent scholars 67

pulley and weight for map 87

2 brooms, 40 ; cup, 10 ; repairing bucket, 10 60

Paid Susan Thompson, for cash for setting glass 20

repairing screws 18

Preston, Curtis and Co., for 4 tons coal 28 00

John Burt, for book case 14 50

Joseph H. Burt, for making fires 12 00

Robert M. Todd, for 2 tons coal 16 00

George Haynes, for iron screen, 21 lbs. 4 20

putting up do. 75

repairmg hod, 34; 1 sifter, 50; 4 pints, 40 1 24

Total, Teaching 860 00

" Furniture 23 99

" Books ' 11 80

«' Fuel 54 37

" Making fires 12 00

$962 16

$962 16

REPAIRS.

Paid A. & W. Pope & Co., for 200 pickets 3 20

Enoch Fenno, for repairing fence 3 00

glass, and setting do. 2 75

John Burt, for making benches and boxes 11 40

repairing desk and making water bench 2 25

$22 60

District No. 7. — River Street, West End of the Toivn. —
One Male Teacher four Months — Female Teacher the re-
mainder of the Year.

Paid Aaron D. Capen, for teaching 3 months
for do. 4 weeks

books for desk, 57 ; thermometer, 1 00
Lucy D. Osborn, for teaching 24 weeks
for do. 11 Aveeks

5 baskets charcoal
2 brooms, 34; dipper, 17

Friend Crane, for book for desk, 62 ; pail, 25

6 baskets charcoal
Oiling seats in school room

Samuel Crane, for making fires

James Jenkins, for putting locks on desk

Prouty & Co., for 4 lbs. castings for stove

$330 69

150 00

43 40

1 57

78 00

44 00

1 50

51

87

1 80

2 30

6 00

50

24

10

Total, Teaching

315 40

" Furniture

4 80

" Books

1 19

" Fuel

3 30

" Making fires

6 00

$330 69

REPAIRS.

Paid Seth D. Whitney, for 1308 feet boards
plank (for fence)
carting do.
James Jenkins, for building fence
Friend Crane, for 42 lbs. paint

2 days' labor painting fence

Henry Crane, for hinges, hasp and staples
George W. Pond, for 35 cedar posts

3 days' labor on fence

William Henley, for whitewashing room

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2 25

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$79 90

District No. 8. — Neponset Village. — Owe Female Teacher.

Paid Mary C. Seaverns, for teaching 52 weeks 208 00
Charles Clapp, for making fires 7 50

Preston, Curtis & Co., for 3 tons coal 22 00

1^ cords bark 1 1 75

housing coal and bark 75

Bacon & Baird, for cleaning and putting up stove 1 00

dust pan, 20 ; 2 cups, 12 ; sifter, 13 ; poker, 30 75
F. Leavensworth, for 2 brooms, 55 ; sand, 10 65

pail, 25 ; brush, 13 38

Total, Teaching
" Furniture
" Fuel
" Making fires

208 00

2 78

34 50

7 50

S252 78

$252 78

REPAIRS.

Paid Asa Robinson, for 16 benches, with seats ) bill 16 00

repairing seats \ '46 3 00

John W. Legallee, for 6 lights glass, and setting do. 1 50

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Paid E. & F. King & Co., for 37^ lbs. pure lead 2 97

5 lbs. Paris green 1 70

3 quarts linseed oil 54

$25 71

District No. 9. — Commercial Ft. — One Female Teacher.

Paid Mary E. Tolman, for teaching 52 weeks 208 00

cleaning school room 1 00

books for indigent scholars 1 42

Charles E. Preston, for making fires 7 50
Preston, Curtis &Co., for black-b'd, 1 75; broom, 25 2 00

lock, hinges, and labor on desk 1 25

1 ton coal 7 00

Total, Teaching 208 00

" Furniture 3 25

«' Books 1 42

" Fuel 7 00

" Cleaning room and making fires 8 50

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$228 17

REPAIRS.

Paid John Bicknell, for whitewashing school room 3 00
repairing blinds 87

$3 87

District No. 10. — Little Neck. — One Male and one Fe^

Tnale Teacher.

Paid John Kneeland, for teaching from Oct. 11,
1847, to Jan. 1, 1848

making fires, 1 83 ; 2 brooms, 50

books for desk, 1 10 ; ink, 87

water-pot
Arethusa Whitney, for teaching 40 weeks

making fires and sweeping

2 keys for door, 40 ; 2 brooms, 40

books for desk

books for indigent scholars
Preston, Curtis & Co., for 1^ tons coal

4 feet bark
Alfred Clapp, for 2 blackboards

$292 95

99 52

2 33

1 97

75

160 00

4 20

80

12

1 26

1100

4 00

7 00

12

Total, Teaching

259 52

" Furniture

9 05

" Books

3 35

^ " Fuel

15 00

" Making fires and sweeping

6 03

S292 95

KEPAIRS.

Paid Edward Jones, for 6 sets desks with seats

20 lights glass, and setting do.

wire screen for window, 75 ; lock, 42

repairing door

1077 ft. boards, timber and joist

15 lbs. nails and spikes

carting timber for fence ^

5 days' labor building fence

digging and planking vault
"5 cedar posts, 90 ; repairing blind, 50
A. & W. Pope & Co., for rails, pickets and posts
E. & F. King & Co., for 100 lbs. pure lead

5 galls, linseed oil, 3 35 ; 1 can, 75

2 galls, turpentine

27 00

3 00

1 17

1 16

13 77

75

1 00

8 75

2 00

1 40

2 07

7 00

4 10

88

$74 05

District No. 11. — Columbia Street, near Mt. Boiodoin. —
One Female Teacher.

Paid Elizabeth Glover, for teaching 8 weeks 2^ days

for do. 43 weeks 2^ days

cleaning school room

thermometer

book for desk

books for indigent scholars
William Gowen, for making fires
Alvah Phelps & Co., for 2 boxes charcoal
Tertius Buck, for 10 baskets do.
Roswell Gleason, for taking down and cleaning
stove pipe

books for desk, 78 ; housing coal, 50
Preston, Curtis & Co., for 2^ tons coal
James Davenport, for book case

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1 27 62

174 00

1 00

1 00

25

50

5 00

67

2 50

1 00

1 28

IS 12

3 50

$236 44

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Total, Teaching 201 62

" Furniture 5 50

" Books 1 53

" Fuel 21 79

" Cleaning room and making fires 6 00

$236 44

REPAIRS.

Paid Edward Jones, for building shed by contract 34 00

ventilator in school room 1 00

Noyes & Field, for 11 lbs. Paris green 3 85

6 quarts linseed oil, 1 40 ; vitriol, 16 1 56

Elijah Tolman, for hanging blinds 1 25

$41 66

RECAPITULATION.

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epairs

No.

1

88 64

2

76 72

3

99 00

4

6 14

5

31 67

6

22 60

7

79 90

8

25 71

9

3 87

10

74 05

11

Total Repairs

41 66

$549 96

GENERAL SCHOOL EXPENSES.

Paid Richard Pike, for examining schools 22 days 22 00

Increase S. Smith, for " " 12^ " 12 50'

David Dyer, for " " 10^ " 10 00

Orin P. Bacon, for " " 23 « 23 00'

for circulating School Regulations 3 00'

David Clapp, for printing 1200 cops. Sch. Report 27 46

for printing 1350 cops. School Regulations 19 80
Charles Howe, for distributing 1250 cops. School

Report 8 00
Samuel Prescott, for 54 dinners for School Com-
mittee 54 00
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Paid William B. Fowle, for Outline Maps 25 50

Nathaniel Southard, for " " ^ 9 00

Edmund Pope, of Squantum, his school money 14 25

KECAPITTTLATION.

Total,

Teaching
Furniture
Books
Fuel

6,405 97

75 55

56 26

340 05

Making fires, sweep-
ing and cleaning 114 45
General Expenses 228 51
Repairs & Fences 549 96

No. 1.

" 2.

" 3.

" 4.

" 5.

" 6.

" 7.

" 8.

" 9.

" 10.

" 11.
General
Repairs

$228 51

830 84
981 41
902 25
868 58
1106 01
962 16
330 69
252 78
228 17
292 95
236 44
228 51

Expenses

and Fences 549 96

Total Exp. of Schools, $7,770 75 $7,770 75

Amount unexpended 220 18

$7,990 93

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Amount of Appropriation
" of do. for Repairs

Income of State School Fund
" of Town School Fund

7,387 00
200 00
245 03
158 90

$7,990 93

Of the amount expended on Repairs, $374 48 has, by
order of the Selectmen, been expended on repairs of School
Houses and building Fences; and $175 48 has been ex-
pended for Benches, and other repairs, by order of the
School Committee.

POOR IN THE ALMS HOUSE.

Paid Joel R. Howe, for services as Keeper 1 year 300 00

r. John Freeman, for 2 months and 9 days labor 60 00

Thomas Rogers, for 20 days labor (haying) 15 00

l,, Jaines Brennen, for one half day do. " 83

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Paid Samuel D. McElroy, for 3 do. do.

John Keen, jr., for 1 do. do.

Hugh Mee, for 3 do. do.

Frederick W. Howe, for IJ do. do.

William Homes, for carting 4 loads salt hay
for horse and wagon to Squantum
for 1 cask lime

Ebenezer Eaton, for advertising, selling at auc-
tion, and paj'ing duty on sale of pears, 1845-6

E. & F. King & Co., for 25 lbs. pure lead

1 gallon linseed oil
japan, 31 ; sugar of lead, 42

State Treasurer, for amount overpaid in pauper

account of 1845
Albert D. Swan, for carting goods from Boston
William Parker, for 944 lbs. beef, mutton and

veal
Stephen Wales, for 2 bbls. apples
Samuel P. Loud, for 207 lbs. swine
Samuel Downer, for 2 bbls. apples
Isaiah Royce, for 4§ days labor mowing marsh
Tallman & Woodward, for 8 bushels potatoes
Hatch & Stetson, for 148 lbs. swine
William Trask, for use of boat 13 days
Prouty & Co., for 1 D. cook stove

for 1 three grate stove

2 drums for stoves
2 soap stones for do.
33 lbs. English iron funnel
16 lbs. iron for fire place
flanges for stove funnel
labor by man

Daniel Hayes, for one cow

Atkins, Weld & Co., for 24 galls, molasses

100 lbs. fish, 3 50 ; 50 lbs. rice, 3 00

14 lbs. tea, 4 20 ; ISO lbs. sugar, 14 40

2 bushels beans
Holden & Bullard, for 1 bbl. beef

456 lbs. beef
E. & J. H. Sumner, for 888 lbs. beef
Peter Blake, for 310 lbs. fish

75 mackerel

services taking paupers to Alms House
J. C. Hewins, for 49 new ox shoes and setting 4 do. 9 58
Calvin Young, for leather 1 65

3 00

1 25

3 75

1 50

9 00

1 00

90

7 31

1 81

75

73

14 60

2 75

59 19

4 50

12 94

2 50

9 33

7 20

9 25

3 25

30 00

12 00

14 00

2 50

4 12

2 67

62

150

18 00

8 16

6 50

18 60

3 50

10 12

32 69

62 76

9 45

2 55

125

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Paid Joel Lucas Jr., for 2 prs. shoes
Henry Crane, for one new pick

irons for cart tongue and ox yote
Robert Thaxter, for medicine and attendance to

pauper
Benjamin Gushing, for medicine and attendance

to sundry persons at the Alms House
Jacob Foster, for 10 bushels potatoes
ploughing potatoes
J. John Preston, for 100 lbs. chocolate
~ Francis Swan, for 3|- days labor, mason work
stock and horse hire
Daniel Davenport, for attending funeral of Mar}'
Murphy
attending the funeral of Sally Humphrey
attending the funeral of Margaret Graham
t; Charles J. Sumner, for 32 quart dippers
sauce pan, 1 00 : tin pail, 38; 1 quart, 13
stove pipe
f Oliver Glover, for 6 bbls. flour
75 bushels corn and meal

1 bbl. potatoes

use of horse and wagon five times
carting salt hay
Lewis G. Hearsey, for 71 lbs. susrar
9 lbs. tea, 3 96 ; 32 lbs. butter ,"6 28
41 lbs. rice, 2 25 ; 10 lbs. salasratus, 84
18 lbs. coffee, 2 16 ; 2 lbs. chocolate, 40
5 lbs. tobacco, 1 25 ; 1 lb. snuff, 23
t 25 lbs. fish, 119; 2^ lbs. oat meal, 26

2 gallons molasses, 64 ; 9 qis. vinegar, 41
, 3 pks. beans, 1 68; IS qts. fine saU, 47

(' 2 brooms, 50 ; 1 box pills, 37

1^ bushels salt, 87 ; 1 bag salt, 25
1 gallon lamp oil, 1 25 ; garden seeds, 12
tartar, 13 ; Bristol brick, 6 ; essences, 24
(' 2 J lbs. ginger, 30 ; starch, 17 ; pepper, 12
«• 15 bottles of medicines, 9 OS; balsam, 50
0 Epsom salts, 18; syrup, 33; mustard, 12
jt 2 qts. cranberries, 16 ; scythe, 1 00
^. Eleazer J. Bispham, for 65^ yards cotton cloth
39 yds. woolen cloth, 9 75 ; gingham, 38
7^ yards cotton cambric
l^ 19 yards calico, 2 38 ; 9^ lbs. yarn, 9 50
Z. 2 pairs shoes, 2 00 ; thread, 50

2 25

150

1 75

175

45 75

7 50

50

16 00

7 00

3 00

3 00

3 00

2 00

1 12

1 51

75

46 63

79 79

2 00

3 50

2 50

6 19

10 24

3 09

2 56

148

145

1 05

2 15

87

1 12

137

43

59

9 58

63

1 16

5 91

10 13

1 56

1188

2 50

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Paid A. & J. H. Upham, for 57 lbs. sugar, 4 91 ; 3 lbs
tea, 96
15 lbs. coffee, 1 50 ; 20 lbs. butter, 4 01
16^ lbs. cheese, 1 77 ; 13 lbs. snuff, 3 40
medicines, 75 ; 2 pails, 50 ; crackers, 25
1 bushel salt, 56 ; 2 lbs. chocolate, 36 ; lem-
ons, 20
oranges, 9 ; cups and saucers, 25
lemon sjTup, 25 ; 5 lbs. apple, 35
ha}' fork, 50 ; 3 lbs. hops, 42 ; mugs, 22
garden seeds, 56 ; ginger, 12 ; sand, 6
spices, 15; cayenne, 20
Preston, Curtis & Co., for 34 cords wood
2,500 lbs. coal

3 casks lime
Otis Shepard & Co., for manure of 3 horses, 1 yr.

do. 2 cows, 5 months 7 days

do. 1 cow, 3 months 12 days

soft bread, 1 46 ; crackers, 1 91

Sfinsrerbread and cake
Oliver Hall, for 34 lbs. turkeys

cash to paupers on holidays

25 doz. screws, SO ; turpentine, 8

paint brush, 50 ; hinges, 20 ; glue, 20

12 lights glass, 50 ; glass paper, S

Venetian red, S ; 3 quarts 1 pint varnish, 1 45

use of horse and wagon to Boston
Noyes & Field, for 5 barrels flour

82 bushels rye and Indian meal

25 lbs. pure lead, 1 81 ; 2 brushes, 67

1 gall, linseed oil
Andrew Glover, for 5 galls, lamp oil

2 galls molasses, 64; 58 lbs. sugar, 5 22

4 lbs. crushed sugar, 56 ; 29^ lbs. butter, 5 49
92 lbs. fish, 4 12 ; 26 lbs. coffee, 286
48 lbs. rice, 2 88 ; 31^ lbs. cheese, 3 14
7 lbs. chocolate, 1 26 \ 12 lbs. tea, 480
2 lbs. salseratus, 16 ; 16 lbs. dried apples, 1 GO
60 lbs. cut nails, 3 00 ; 3 lbs. wrought do. 42

5 lbs. tobacco, 1 25 ; 1 doz. eggs, 16 ; screws, 12
2 oz. nutmegs, 20 ; butts, 30 ; latch, 10
2 lbs. ginger, 24 ; 1 doz. files, 1 00
1 lb. pepper, 17 ; salt, 17 ; camphor, 16
15 lbs. finish nails, 90 ; 1 lb. tartar, 24
^ bushel beans, 1 12 ; matches, 5

2#

5 87

5 51

5 17

150

1 12

34

60

1 14

74

35

233 64

8 26

2 70

24 00

6 98

2 27

3 37

1 82

4 25

2 75

8S

90

68

1 53

100

34 50

77 04

2 48

80

6 41

5 86

6 05

6 98

6 02

6 06

1 16

3 42

12 1 53

60

1 24

50

1 14

1 17

Paid Andrew Glover, for 8 galls, vinegar 1 34

1 peck grass seed 70

A. & W. Pope & Co., for 2255 ft. boards, plank

and timber 44 44

half M. pine shingles 2 37

Cr.

Amount received of Charles Stimpson, for hay
Edward E. Rice, for do.
Mr. Barrett, for do.
Charles Hood, for do.
William Homes, for salt do.
William Hendry, " " "
Daniel Dav^enport, for plank
Keeping cattle in pound
Stephen Wales, for winter pears
" " for summer do.

Samuel P. Loud, for winter do.
F. W. Cram, for " do.

Ebenezer Eaton, for " do.
Hezekiah Park, for pasturing cow
John Barnard, for " "

Joseph Foster, for " "

Oliver Hall, for use of oxen
Asahel H. Glover, for use of do.
James Foster, jr., for milk
Sundry persons, for skewers
William Parker, for cow
" for calf
^ State Treasurer, for pauper account

f*^'- a 99 r. .■'

Amount of Appropriation
Expended over do.

SI, 622 38

, ' Statistics of the Abm House.

Number of Inmates, reported in 1847 13

" Admitted the past j'ear 86

" Discharged 25

< ■ " Deaths the past year 4

4-11 " Inmates now in the House 20

VI I u . ; : ... i ,., <

Sl,622 38

64 61

41 78

12 00

17 21

57 00

17 00

25

14 40

8 75

18 00

19 37

70 00

8 12

8 00

7 00

10 00

1 25

2 50

29 85

19 50

25 00

5 00

18 23

474 82

900 00

247 56

19

POOR OUT OF THE ALMS HOUSE.

II 20 00

ii 4 00

Paid C. C. Holmes, for medicine and^
attendance to Nathaniel Tolman
Robert F. Tolman, for goods to

Nathaniel Tolman
E. H. R. Ruggles, for coffin for Mv. Belcher 5 00

Townof Needham, for supplies to Samuel R. Jones 11 56
Joel R. Howe, for expenses to "Worcester after

George I. Ellis 4 37

with Michael Donnelly 3 75

Robert Thaxter, for medicine and attendance at

sundry times to John Norton and wife 28 00

Benjamin Gushing, for medicine and attendance

to Mr. Francis 4 00

do. to Mr. Johnson 4 00

Mary Shaughnessy, for nursing Mrs. Norton 6 00

City of Charlestown, for supplies to Jane Kelton,

from March 10, 1846, to April 16, 1847 55 00

Town of Sandwich, for supplies to Jonathan Hall 12 00
Reuben LoveU, for board and care of " " 15 00
Clark Bellows, for board and nursing Robert

Salvage 7 50

Jonathan Ware, for medicine and attend-''
ance to John Bowman
do. to John Francis
do. to Mrs. Johnson
William F. Temple, for expenses paid

for nursing John Francis
Charles Howe, for goods to Mrs. Collins, 52

weeks 26 00

Noyes & Field, for goods to John Rogers 6 00

A. & J. H. Uphara, for goods to McDavid's

family 1. 67

Robert M.' Todd, for 2 ft. wood to Mr. Davis 1 75

Daniel Davenport, for attending the funeral of

Susan Parks 3 00

Preston, Curtis & Co., for wood and coal to Mrs.

Bryant 18 00

toMi^s. Collins 11 10

to Mrs. Pratt 7 00

to Mrs. Bird 14 00

to Zabia Wilson 7 00

to Nancy Henley 7 50

to John Rogers 4 00

to John Davis 5 50

to John Norton 6 50

-C u,

16 50

16 50

^1

6 00

OJ-S

5 37

Paid William Homes, for 1 cord wood to Mrs. Parks 8 00
Eleazer J. Bispham, for cash to Rebecca Preston 75 00
to Mary Cox

to Mrs. Dolan ^

expenses to Worcester
William Tolman, for expenses to Worcester
Oliver Hall, for " "

expenses to Sandwich
cash to Triphosa Bray
" to Susanna Clapp
" to State paupers

Amount unexpended

$641 03

Cr.

Amount received of city of Roxbury for supplies to

William Fuller 10 92

Town of Shrewsbury, for supplies to Martha Pratt 13 50
Town of Hingham, for supplies to Mrs. Bryant 9 00
John Preston, for supplies to Rebecca Preston 75 00
State Treasurer, for smallpox account 132 61

39 00

4 00

3 00

3 00

3 00

7 00

20 00

20 00

2 63

528 20

112 83

$241 03
Amount of appropriation 400 00

$641 03

SUPPORT OF LUNATICS IN HOSPITAL AT
WORCESTER.

Paid Alfred D. Foster, Treasurer, for board of Mar-
shall Floyd 1 year
clothing for do.

board of Eliza Ann Randall 1 yeai'
clothing for do.

board of George I. Ellis 1 year
clothing for do.

board of Mary Munroe 4 weeks 3 days
sexton's bill and coffin for do.
interest on account

$429 81

130 00

6 57

130 00

7 00

130 00

56

11 08

8 00

6 60

2t>

Amount of appropriation 425 00

Expended over do. 4 81

$429 81

HIGHWAYS.

Paid Ebenezer Wales, for 137 days labor as sur-
veyor ^ 239 75
4 days do. by man 4 50
227 days do. by horses 227 00
184 days use of carts 30 80
1 038 loads of gravel 62 28
Thomas Baldwin, for 138^ days labor as surveyor 241 94
101^ days do. by man " 113 89
441 days do. by horses 441 00
282 days use of carts 47 00
bridge stone 2 00
Patrick Morris, for 169 days labor 190 12
Barney Ganaiit, for 51 " " 57 37
Patrick Shaughnessy, for 144J- do. do. 162 55
Patrick Gately, for 105^ do. do. 118 68
Nicholas Dunakin, for 142 " " 159 74
Oliver Green, for 40 " " 45 00
James Connaton, for 13 " " 14 62
Patrick Melan, for 38 " " 42 75
Thomas Foote, for 6i " " 7 31
Michael Gately, for 3^ " " 3 93
Patrick Dolan, for 69f " « 78 46
Thomas Curley, for 143f " " 161 71
John Gately, for 14U " " 159 18
Michael Brown, for l"l2i " " 126 27
Phineas Goodwin, for 15^ days labor on bridge

near William Tolman's 23 25

8 days do. on bridge Centre street 12 00

use of derrick and carting do. 2 25

use of tools for surveyors 4 20

Jacob Bird, for 18 bridge stones 9 00

Prouty & Co., for 2 doz. shovels and 2 hoes 21 50

George B. Billings, for labor on roads at Squan-

tum and farms 15 00

Henry Crane, for 10 new ox shoes (bill of 1846) 1 68

repairing hoe and sharpening pick " " 33
John Kendrick, for 4J gallons molasses, 1 62 ;

ginger 12 (bill of 1846) 1 74

Paid Elihii Alden, for blasting rock (bill of 1846) 1 25
James Lucas, for 150 loads stone chips
John Preston, for 291 loads gravel
James Dorr, for 168 do. do.
Thomas W. Capen, to 2 pick handles
Joseph C. Robinson, for new steeling 7 picks

sharpening 32 do.
John C. Hewins, for 1 new pick

new laying 11 picks

new steeling bar

sharpening 182 points picks

mending bars, 55 ; shovel handle, 37
Oliver Davenport, for 4 new picks

new steeling 6 do.

sharpening 121 do.

sharpening 50 drills

repairing hammers

sharpening chisels, 18 ; repairing drill, 50

sharpening hammer, 16 ; do. 5 bars, 40

3 pick handles, 75 ; hammer handle, 10
Andrew Glover, for 8 casks powder

46^ lbs. do.

550 ft. fuse, 5 50 ; 2 hoes, 1 00

112 loads gravel

9

37

17

46

10

08

33

5 25

3

16

2

00

8

25

50

9

10

92

5 79

4

50

9

68

5

00

1

50

68

56

85

22

00

3

18

6

50

6

72

2,963 43
Amount unexpended 36 57

$3,000 00
Amount of Appropriation $3,000 00

ENGINES.

No. 1. Fountain. — Dorchester and Milton Village.

Paid James Boyd & Sons, for repairing hose (bill

of 1845) 4 50

E. Chaddack, for 2 torches 4 50

Shelton & Cheever, for repairing hose (bill of 1846)1 25
Prouty & Co., for repairing engine (bill of 1846) 4 00
1 15-gallon cauldron 10 00

Edwin A. Smith, for repairing engine 1 00

Robert M. Todd, for 1 basket charcoal 35

Henry Crane, for repairing engine and hose car'ge 9 89

23

Paid John A. Tucker, for cleaning engine and hose

sundry times from Jan. 9 to Dec. 31 46 00

John Talbot, for refreshments at sundry times 29 72

$11121

No. 2. Protector. — Meeting House Hill.

Paid James Boyd & Sons, for repairing hose (bill of

1845) _ 7 00

- Leonard H. Howe, for cleaning engine and hose

3 tim^es 6 50

Benjamin C. Bird, for cleaning engine and hose

8 times
Calvin Young, for 2^ galls, neat's foot oil
Lewis G. Hearsey, for 5 galls, lamp oil
2 shovels, 1 37 ; matches, 47
broom, 25 ; wicking, 10
soap, 37 ; sponge, 8 ; lustre, 12
Otis Eaton, for drawing engine to and from Rox-
bury for repairs
carting hose to and from Boston
Charles J. Sumner, for tin fender for stove
repairing lamp, 13 ; match safe, 13
repairing water pot
Davenport & Cooper, for 8 lights glass and setting

do. 1 60

Andrew Glover, for 2 qts. lamp oil, 66 ; candles, 14 80
Albert D. Swan, for carting hose to and from Boston 75
Charles 0. Eaton, for cleaning engine and hose 7

times 19 00

Otis Shepard & Co., for refreshments 9 07

Samuel G. Wood, for " 4 14

James D. Stone, for " 4 00

16 50

3 33

6 15

184

35

64

3 00

3 50

200

26

30

$90 73

No. 3. Torrent. — Near Four Corners.

Paid Mann & Wilder, for cleaning engine and hose

sundry times from May, 1846, to May, 1847 40 50
Thomas W. Capen, for 120 hours labor cleaning

engine and hose to Nov. 1847 20 33

4 lights glass and setting do. 1 00

paint, varnish and labor 1 97

George E. Delano, for 36 hours labor on engine 6 00

24

Paid Charles W. Washburn, for repairing straps for do. 4 37
James Boyd & Sons, for 105 ft. new hose
2 sets screws

repairing hose and screws
John C. Hewins, for repairing iron for engine
Charles Howe, for 2 galls, lamp oil

bottle of oil for cleaning engine
Albert D. Swan, for drawing engine to and from
Eoxbury for repairs
carting hose to and from Boston
Preston, Curtis & Co., for 800 lbs. coal and 1 ft.
bark

$161 02

63 00

6 00

7 50

12

2 40

12

3 00

75

3 96

No. 4. Alert;'. — Upper Mills.

Paid Shelton & Cheever, for repairing hose (bill of

1845-6) 2 50

George Haynes, for 2 torches 6 00

$8 50

No. 5. Independence. — Neponset Village.

Paid S. & E. Thayer, for repairing and painting

engine 35 00
Thomas Pearson, for carting engine and hose to

and from Boston 8 00

John Hoit, for use of horse at fires 2 00

James Boyd & Sons, for 1 set screws 3 00

repairing hose (bill of 1846) 2 25

Shelton & Cheever, for repairing hose (bill of

1846) 4 00

Jonathan Hammond, for 2 qts. neat's foot oil 80

3 straps, 54 ; 4 leather pipes, 80 1 34
William G. Swan, for cleaning engine and hose

sundry times from Oct. 1846, to April, 1847 23 50

1 wheel jack 1 00
George H. Rogers, for cleaning engine and hose

sundry times from April to Nov. 1847 36 56
Joseph C. Robinson, for iron and spanners for en-
gine 4 25
John W. Legallee, for 6 lights glass and setting do. 1 50
Franklin Briggs, for cart'g hose to and from Boston 3 50
Prouty & Co., for one 15 gal. cauldron 10 00

Paid Bacon & Baird, for 2 large handle pans
oil can, 50 ; 2 lamp fillers, 40
stove, 5 00 ; 3S lbs. funnel, 4,75
24 spoons, 1 50 ; water pot, 75
repairing engine pipe

9 lbs. zinc, 1 13; putting up stove, 25
3 lamps. 1 S3 ; match safe, 12

2 Avash bowls, 67 ; dipper, 25
William A. Gilbert for S^ galls, lamp oil
5i galls, neatsfoot do.
1 large hanging lamp
1 gall, lamp fluid

1 door lock with 10 keys

2 lamps, 75 ; paint brush, 42

10 lbs. nails, 59 ; sponge, 45 ; wicking, 30
2 brooms, 47 ; 2 pails, 50 ; soap, 30
rotten stone, 10 ; lustre, 6 ; sand, 4

use of horse and wagon
for refreshments

2 00

90

9 75

2 25

2 25

1 38

1 95

92

10 62

6 88

4 25

85

2 50

1 17

1 34

1 27

20

75

1 93

$189 86

No. 6. Tiger. — Near Five Corners.

Paid James Boyd & Sons, for 152^ ft. new hose

(bill of 1845-6) " 85 30

3 sets screws (bill of 1845-6) 9 00

repairing hose and screws (bill of 1845-6) 21 49

Preston, Curtis & Co., for 1 ton coal 7 00

Ralph Ware, for cleaning engine and hose sundry

times, from July 7, 1846, to March 19, 1847, 23 50

Oliver Davenport, for 4 hooks for engine 50

S. Gulliver, jr., for 2 days labor on engine house 2 50

boards, plank, butts, screws and nails 1 62

Davenport & Cooper, for painting and lettering

2 buckets
A. & J. H. Upham, for 6 qts. lamp oil

soap, 21 ; rotten stone, 20
E. & F. King & Co., for 12J lbs. pure lead

3 qts. linseed oil, 54 ; 5 lbs. Paris green, 1 70
Elias S. Warner, for cleaning engine and hose

sundr}^ times, from June to October
A. D. Swan, for carting hose to and from Boston
A. & J. H. Upham, for refreshments at sundry
times (bill of 1846)

$212 17

2 50

1 98

41

97

2 24

28 00

125

23 91

26

ENGINE MEN TAXES REFUNDED.

Company 1, 38 members, 1 31 each,

49 78

2, 23

U l( ((

30 13

u (( 2

" (1845)

1 30

8, 17

U (( ((

22 27

6, 29

l( (( (C

37 99

lOS

S141 47

RECAPITULATION.

No. 1,

111 21

2,

90 73

3,

161 02

4,

8 50

5,

189 86

6,

212 17

Taxes refunded
1 of Engines

141 47

Total Expense

S914 96

Amount of Appropriation 800 00

Expended over do.

114 96

$914 96

TOWN OFFICERS.

Paid Eleazer J. Bispham, for services as Selectman

and Overseer of the Poor one year 60 00

William Tolman, for do. do. 60 00

OHver Hall, for do. do. 60 00

Charles Howe, for services as Town Treasurer 100 00
Ebenezer Tolman, for services as Town Clerk,

from Feb. 1846, to Feb. 1847
Joseph Clapp, for 4 days service collecting polls

29 days as Assessor
Eleazer J. Bispham, for 4 days service collecting

polls
32 days as Assessor
Robert Vose, for 4 days service collecting polls

30 days as Assessor
Harvey Howe, for 5 days service collecting polls

31 days as Assessor
Henry Humphreys, for 4 days service collecting

polls 6 00

83 77

6 00

29 00

6 00

32 00

6 00

30 00

7 50

31 00

27

Paid Henry Humphreys, for 31 days as Assessor 31 00

548 27
Amount unexpended 1 73

$550 00
Amount of Appropriation $550 00

IMPROVEMENT OF BURIAL GROUNDS.

SOUTH BURIAL GROUND.

Paid Samuel Littlefield, for 41J days labor
man and oxen f do. do.
7 loads gravel
250 hedge plants, 5 00; 7 trees, 1 00

NORTH BURIAL GROUND.

Daniel Davenport, for 14 days labor
Hezekiah Park, for 22^ days do.

Amount of Appropriation
Expended over do.

r

5187

2 25

87

1

6 00

17 25

33 38

$111 62

100 00

11 62

$111 62

NEW TOWN HOUSE.

Paid J. & C. Tolman, for 10,557 ft. of land, by

order of Committee 844 56

Gridley J. F. Bryant, for designs, plans, making
drawings, specifications, and time spent with
the Committee at various dates 175 00

$1,019 56
Amount of Appropriation 1,000 00

Expended over do. 19 56

$1,019 56

LAND FOR NEW SCHOOL HOUSE, COLUMBIA

STREET.

Paid Marshall P. Wilder, for lot of land $240 00

Amount of Appropriation $240 00

ABATEMENTS, FEES, AND DISCOUNT.

Paid Elbridge G. McElroy, Collector, for abate-
ments on tax of 1S45 18 50
William Tolman, Collector, for abatements on tax

of 1846 44 59

do. do. on tax of 1847 250 32

Fees and discount on tax of 1847 738 20

■ $1,051 61

Amount of Appropriation 1,050 00

Expended over do. 1 61

81,051 61

SCHOOL PASTUEE.

Paid J. C. Sharp, for survey of land, including plan 20 33
survey of 12 lots of laiad, 12 00 ; stakes, 25
Samuel P. Loud, for drawing 3 deeds
Ebenezer Eaton, for notices of sale and advertis-
ing in papers
commissions for selling at auction
duty paid the State
Eleazer J. Bispham, for preparing deeds
cash paid for acknowledging do.
" " for recording mortgage do.

$106 00
Appropriation taken from proceeds of sale $106 00

12 25

4 25

8 00

15 00

32 48

10 00

1 19

2 50

WIDENING POND STREET.

l^aid Elizabeth Howe, for land 75 00

Daniel Hayes, for 9 days labor 13 50

9 days' by oxen, 13 50 ; 7J do. by man, 9 37 22 87

use of plough 25

Michael Quigley, for 3 days labor 3 75

Benjamin Baker, for 116 loads of gravel 7 25

Patrick Quigley, for 8^ days labor 10 63

A. & W. Pope & Co., for 364 ft. IJin. spruce bds. 4 73

4 spruce poles 2 50

140 48
Amount unexpended 159 52

Amount of Appropriation $300 00

$300 00

29

WIDENING NORFOLK STREET.

Paid P. Goodwin, for 4 days labor blasting rocks

powder and sharpening drills
Rufus G. Merrill, for 15^ days labor

14 days do. by horse and cart
Elijah Withington, for 35 days labor

5 days do. horse and cart

Amount unexpended

Amount of x\ppropriation

$100 00

6 00

1 34

19 37

17 50

43 75

5 62

93 58

6 42

$100 00

SPURR'S HILL AND ENTRANCE TO SOUTH
BURIAL GROUND.

Paid Edward Curtis, for 76^ days labor on vi^all 123 75

6 days labor by oxen 9 00

use of derrick and cartino; do. 14 75

Asaph Churchill, for lot of stone for wall 22 50

E. W. Robinson, for 2 days labor by man and oxen 6 00

Joshua W. Blanchard, for 2 days labor by man

and oxen 6 00

carting 8 loads stone 2 50

Aaron D. Capen, for 12 loads stone 3 75

Phineas Goodwin, for 26^ days labor on wall (at

the entrance of Burial Ground)

Amount of Appropriation
Expended over do.

39 75

200 00

28 00

$228 00

$228 00

WIDENING ADAMS STREET.

Paid Joseph Pillsbury, for 56 days labor by himself

and men 70 00

55^ days by horse and cart 55 30

Thomas Baldwin, for 2^ days labor 3 75

do. 10^ days by man 11 81

do. 5 days by 2 horses and cart 10 06

Michael Quigley, for li days labor 1 87
3#

30

Paid P. Goodwin, for 24 days labor blasting rocks
do. for powder and tubes
John Lovett, for 32f days labor
John Freeman, for one month and 11 days labor
James Connaton, for 20 days labor
Patrick Quigley, for 9 days labor

Amount unexpended
Amount of Appropriation, $300 00 $300 00

36 00

3 30

40 93

31 43

20 00

9 00

293 45

6 55

DORCHESTER AND MILTON BRIDGE.

Paid Thomas Hollis, jr., for building new bridge by

contract 1,213 00

Gridley Bryant, for making survey ) one half to be
and estimate of cost of bridge ) ^^^f lufit^^"
Ebenezer Holmes, for removing Engine House

No. 1 45 50

James Jenkins, for 4^ days labor on platform for

Engine House 7 67

repairing doors and putting up railing to platform 4 75
Phineas Goodwin, for 4 days labor on drain near

the bridge 6 00

9 days labor on wall for Engine House 21 00

$1,372 92
Amount of Appropriation 1,250 00

Expended over do. 122 92

$1,372 92

ENLARGING SCHOOLHOUSE AT LITTLE NECK.

Paid Edward Jones, for stock and labor by contract 250 00
Amount of Appropriation $250 00

SCHOOL FUND INVESTED.

Paid United States Loan of 1842 3,000 00

three shares State Bank stock 177 00

$3,177 00

m

INCIDENTAL TOWN EXPENSES.

Paid interest on money borrowed in anticipation of
taxes for 1S47
Eleazer J. Bispham, for preparing warrants for
town meetings
cop3'' of deed for Town House lot
supplements to Statutes for Selectmen and

Assessors, 2 00 ; ^ ream paper, 2 00
paper for Avarrants, 75 ; steel pens, 50
blank book, 1 00 ; tape, 25 ; postage, 45
expenses to Dedham

paid Otis Shepard, for administering oath
Aaron D. Capen, for 4 extra cedar posts
T. "W. Capen, for setting glass at Town House
John A. Tucker, for repairing and oiling hearse

harness
Ebenezer Wales, for 31 days labor blasting rock
(near Robert F. Tolman's)
for horse thirty-eight days, cart 28
days
Michael Brown, for 7^- da.js labor
Aaron D. Capen, for 26 loads stone
Henry Crane, for sharpening picks and

bar ^ ^

Edward Holden, for preparing and distributing

Auditor's Ninth Report
David Clapp, for printing 1500 copies do.
Otis Shepard, for returning to Town Clerk (by

order of School Committee) 187 births
P. Blake, for posting 81 warrants for town meet'gs
services as constable, attending town meetings
notifying Town Officers and Committees
sixteen dinners for Town Officers
refreshments for Selectmen
Eayrs & Fairbanks, for printing 2200 tax bills

1 tax book
James Jenkins, for guide post
Cook & Hunt, for 100 fence rails ")

50 chesnut posts
Edward Curtis, for 5^ days labor i
use of horse and cart J

Robert M. Todd, for 78 ft. plank
Henry Jones, for 2 padlocks
Daniel Davenport, for returning to Town Clerk,
in 1845, 6 & 7, 129 deaths

211 15

3 '-' !?

i Fencing town
y land in Mil-
ton.

27 63

37

4 00

1 25

1 70

81

20

3 50

28

1 63
54 25

42 67

8 44

8 12

1 04

28 00
58 15

9 35
13 50
12 75

8 00
12 00

1 50
7 70
1 00
1 75
10 00

9 00
7 33

75

1 40

2 00

6 45

Bill of 70 40
1846. 3 75

m

Paid D. Davenport, for ringing bell for town meetings 1 50
one small pall 3 63
E. Fenno, for serv. as constable attend'g town meet. 2 50
Datnrell & Moore, for printing blank receipts 1 50
George L. Harding, for lettering sign post 75
Dorchester Post Office, for postage for Assessors 4 20
William Tolman, for ringing bell, sweeping Town
House, coal, and making fires for town meet-
ings and Committees 11 50
use of horse and wagon 16 times 13 50
" " and expenses peram-
bulating town lines 2 75
preparing nine lists voters, 1 50 ; postage, 90 2 40
returning to Town Clerk 30 deaths 1 50
Joseph Clapp, for 25 dinners for Assessor 12 50
Eleazer J. Bispham, for 26 " " " 13 00
Robert Vose, for 25 " " " 12 50
Harvey Howe, for 25" " " 12 50
Henry Humphreys, for 25 " " " 12 50
John H. Robinson & Co., for 8 32-40
tons pine timber
carting do.

(for capping piling on new road)
Alpheus T. French, for damages fOr want of rail-
ing on bridge on Adams Street 200 00
G. S. Newell, for 51 elm trees and setting out do. 64 00
Thomas Pierce, for 40 elm trees 40 00
3^ days labor setting out do. 5 25
drawing stone for bridge 1 00
2^ days labor on do. 3 75
iron posts for railing, 1 57 ; joist for do., 32 1 89
labor on railing 75
George Enger, for staking elm trees 1 00
S. N. Dickinson, for printing 1600 warrants, no-
tices and handbills 17 00
C. Howe, for refreshments for Assessors 25 days 7 50
coal and making fires for do. 10 times 5 00
postage, 30 ; paid for recording deed, 50 SO
fire and lights for fire wards 1 50
" " " " town committees 4 00
" " " " Town House cominittee 6 75
Marshall P. Wilder, for rent of land for school

house (Columbia street) one year 14 00

Cyrus Balkum, for repairing hooks and ladders 4 00

Ellis Houghton, for 2i days' labor by man and oxen 7 50

covering stones for bridge 6 00

Town of Milton for repairing D. and M. Bridge 87

33

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be

Paid Preston, Curtis & Co., for hoisting draw at
Tenean bridge 17 times
John Bicknell, for gravel (pine neck road, 1S46)
P. Goodwin, for S days' hibor on bridge at sch. past.
4 days do. on sea wall
8 days do. at tide mill bridge
John H. Robinson & Co., for 3 15-40 tons
pine timber
1173 feet sawed do.
372 feet spruce do.
carting do.

C. B. Hildreth, for 33 days' labor
use of horse, 3 00 ; spikes, 3 58
Ebenezer Holmes, for cartino- siravel
Jos. W. Foster, for 4 days' labor on railing
stone, carting, and laying do.
4 lbs. spikes, 24 ; 3 lbs. sulphur, 24
John C. Hewins, for 32 lbs. irons for railing
Jacob Flinn, for gravel
A. & W. Pope & Co., for 3886 ft. pine timb.
226 feet spruce plank
carting timber and plank
Francis Swan, for 12 days' labor on wall
Elijah Tolman, for labor on gates
A. & J. H. Upham, for salt, lampblack and

vinegar for coloring wall
Olivier Davenport, for 63 lbs. hinges
hooks for gate
hasp, hook, staples and stop for gate
repairing door to receiving tomb
irons for hearse
E. A. Smith, for 6 cedar posts (turned) for S. B
A. & W. Pope & Co., for 1029 ft. spruce"^
timber and joist
sawing timber and carting timber and joist
Isaiah Royce, for drilling 426 inches for set

ting irons, 21 30 ; repairing wall, 2 62
Harris Lynds, for 1313 lbs. irons
Andrew Glover, for 38 lbs. brimstone for set-
ting irons

and [-H

Gr

8 50
2 55

12 00
6 00

13 00

27 00

17 59

4 46

2 75

52 58
6 58

11

7
5

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g

B
o

c

b£

00

00

50

48

2 75

96

62 17

2 94

2 00

22 25
5 62

91

1134
39
75

45
d4 00

13 37
68

23 92
65 65

1 90

Cr.

$1,532 15

Amount received of Town of Milton for repairs on

D. and M. Bridge 14 72

Samuel Downer, Jr., for rent of land on High St. 1 00

Oliver Davenport, for old gate and old iron 1 63

34

Amount received of Samuel Littlefield, for old gate 2 50

Interest on $1000 one month 5 00

" on land sold to John Barnard 12 00

36 85
Amount of Appropriation 996 98

Expended over do. 498 32

$1,532 15

SCHEDULE OF SCHOOL PROPEETY.

Benjamin Pettee's Note secured by mortgage IS 47

Eliphalet Fuller's « "

George Houghton's " "

Charles Hunt's " "

Lyman Willard's " "

Theodore L. HoAve's" "

Joseph Harris's " "

United States Loan of 1842

Twenty-three shares State Bank, $60

Seven shares Tremont Bank, $100

Four shares Dorchester & Milton Bank, $100

Six shares Norfolk Bank (a dividend of stock

42 per cent having been received)
Cash on hand, balance of School Fund

Total School Fund $9,411 30

Note. — Since the examination of the accounts, February
1, 1848, the Treasurer (by order of the Selectmen) has in-
vested the balance of School Fund then on hand by pur-
chase of four shares Western Rail Road stock.

156 12

683 18

428 12

503 00

342 00

1,030 80

$3,161 69

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700 00

400 00

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421 61

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John W. Munroe's Note, secured by mortgage $100 00

Cash on hand 1 21

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payment of current expenses —

Am't due from the State for support of State paupers 74 47

from the town of Hingham, for supplies to Mrs.

Bryant 9 00

from the town of Milton, for plan and repairs on

Dorchester and Milton Bridgre 38 37

Total Means of the Treasury $123 05

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Upon a careful examination of the Accounts of the Town
Treasurer, the Auditors are enabled to certify that the books
have been kept with a degree of correctness which war-
rants an expression of their entire satisfaction ; the several
payments being vouched by the certified receipts required
by the By-Laws of the Town. With this testimonial, this
Tenth Report is

Respectfully submitted.

EDWARD HOLDEN, \
EDWARD PIERCE, } Auditors.
SAMUEL J. CAPEN, j

Dorchester, February 18, 1848.

The following Estimate for 1848, made by the Select-
men, is presented for the consideration of the Inhabitants
of the Town.

Expenses.

For Repairs of Highways 3,000 00
Support of Schools 7,600 00
do. ofPoorinAlms

House 1,100 00

do. out of A. House 4.50 00
Support of Lunatics

at Hospital 400 00

Repair of Engs. and

P. Tax to Eng'men 1,000 00
Imp. ofN.&S. Buri-

rial Grounds 100 00

Salary of T. Officers 600 00
Abatement of Taxes 400 00
Collectors, Fees & Dis. 700 00
Widening Adams St. 200 00
Widening and raising

Washington St. near

the Bridge, L. Mills 500 00
Wid'ing do. at Spurr's

Hill 200 00

Planting Trees on M.

House Hill 100 00

Incidental Expenses 1,015 04

$17,365 04

Resources.

State School Fund 22.S 00

Interest on School Proper-
ty and Bank Dividends 518 00
Due from State and Towns 122 04
Sundries at Alms House 200 00
To be raised by Tax 16,300 00

$17,365 04

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