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| Abatement of Taxes | 258.47 |
| Town Officers | 150.00 |
| Collecting Taxes | 270.00 |
| Expenses opposing new road | 150.00 |
| Interest on town debt | 141.00 |
| For injury of horse on drawbridge | 50.00 |
| Sexton 25.00 Miscellaneous expenses 94.56 | 119.56 |
| ——— |
| 4,353.12 |
| Schools | | 750.00 |
| Abated taxes | | 54.94 |
| Town clerk | 30.00 |
| Assessors | 214.00 | 244.00 |
| Collector's fee | | 234.52 |
| Expenses new road to Woburn | | 215.50 |
| Interest on town debt | | 141.00 |
| Great bridge | | 256.17 |
| Miscellaneous Expenses | | 29.37 |
| Allowed S. Butters | | 10.00 |
| Cleaning and repair town clock | | 16.00 |
| Hose of engine and town pump | | 8.00 |
| Trees in burying ground | | 13.24 |
| Land damage to widen road | | 38.97 |
| Grant made the singers | | 100.00 |
| | ——— |
| | 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 year, for in the winter of 1819-20 came an innovation in the old meeting-house.
On October 29 the selectmen approved
Moses Merrill's bill for cast-iron stoves and funnel, $20.00. Just think of it, all you who have furnace repairs to make just a century later—a heating plant for $20.00! But how about $200 for Parson
Osgood's supply of wood for the same year, deducted from the $500 salary?
Even with the high price
