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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Medford a century ago—1819. (search)
erest on town debt141.00 Great bridge256.17 Miscellaneous Expenses29.37 Allowed S. Butters10.00 Cleaning and repair town clock16.00 Hose of engine and town pump8.00 Trees in burying ground13.24 Land damage to widen road38.97 Grant made the singers100.00 ——— 4,418.77 According to Mr. Brooks, the item of support of poor is even arger than that we quote from the town record. But there was still another outlay of which no mention is made. The town had, forty years before from Thomas Seccomb, a gift, the interest of which in perpetuity is applied to the relief of the poor. The selectmen's records of 1819 show the sum of $42.00, in sums of one and two dollars, distributed among twenty-three persons, and also a contribution of $96.oo more, in sums of three to five dollars for the same purpose. James T. Floyd was the sexton, and the selectmen allowed his bill for setting glass and painting bell frame, in all $29.00; but we fancy the sexton's bill was larger the following ye<