Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-04-24
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The following is the
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
To tie Village Of RutIand::
The board of trustees, whose term of
service commenced in April, 1872, was
organized by the election of John A.
Sheldon, president; John NJ. Otis, clerk
Evelyn Pierpoint was elected street
commissioner.
The citizens of the village are to be
congratulated upon the completion of
their commodious Village Hall building
which contains village hall, trustees
office, a vault for the deposit of valuable
papers, and perfect accommodations for
the fire department, the saving in eX-
pense for fire department rents, etc,
being no incOnsiderable sum. The hose
tower, in connection with the building,
will prove of great benefit in the preser-
walton of the hose, doubtless saving a
large sum yearly.
Your trustees are pleased to inform
you that the amount expended on the
village hall, outside of furnishing and
grading, has exceeded little, if any, the
estimated expense of the building on the
part of the village. The board thought
it desirable for the best interest of the
village, that the furnishing and grading
be done. The entire expense on Village
Hall, previous to our administration,
was S11, 279. so. The present board have
about $4,000 was for bills contracted by
hCnrl y 80, NJ
ture for building, furniture and grading,
S17, $50. -. No trustee has received any
pay for services connected with the cree
ton of this building
At a special meeting of the village,
held June Goth, 1872, a tax of % cents
on a dollar was assessed, and the trustees
were directed to ''eXtend the main sew
er from the school house, ON School
street, to East Creek also. to build the
connecting links between the Rutland
railroad and Forest street, and from the
sewer at or near Ripley's block to West
street, and from West street to the sewer
in rear of Center street." Your trustees,
upon survey and investigation of the
matter, found that continuation of the
sewer from School street, as heretofore
contemplated, would require large dis
bursement for the covering of the pipe
nearly its entire length and, also, would
empty the contents of the sewer into an
abandoned channel of the creek-cOn-
sequently, it was determined by an unan-
imOus vote of the board to take an entire
new route, extending through School
street and the lands of Luke Kelley to
reach live channel of the creek. Some
time was spent in endeavOring to com
promise with Mr.. Kelley to allow the
sewer to pass across his lands, and it was
finally found necessary to apply to the
Legislature for a special act, allowing
the village to take private lands for
sewerage purposes, under the same pro-
visions governing the taking of private
lands for highways. This application
to the Legislature was made at as early
a day as possible, and, when the bill
passed, contract was made with B. n.
Lampman to build the portion between
the school house and East Creek, and
this work was urged forward as rapidly
as the season would permit, until its
completion. The divergence of the
sewer through School street required
large amount of filling to protect the
pipe and leave the highwCy in as good
condition as ii was before it was occupied
for the sewer; but the expense for coy
ering pipe is estimated to be less than
one-half what it would have been on the
old route contemplated The sewer has
been completed, by the trustees, with
the exception of the connection
between Ripleys block and West
street, and short connection from
West St. to Willow st, the work al
ready accomplished being in excess of
the tax raised. These connections were
not made The net amount received on
sewer tax was S4, 2SS ~. The amount
expended for sewerage, as per detailed
statement in this report, was So, 500 68;
being an expenditure over the tax of
$1,411.56, large part of which was in
consequence of the entire destruction Of
portion of the old sewer between
West street and the Railroad, and on
Center and Willow streets, resulting
from the heavy freshet in the summer Of
1872; and, also, the result of damage to
the east end of of the sewer built by
Mr.. Lampman, caused by one of the
heaviest freshets of the season, dam
ming up and bursting the sewer where
the cement had not time to set. We
think the system of sewerage, thus be
ing perfected by the village, viii be very
beneficial, and should be continued I'M
til connecting links are completed, es-
pecially from Ripley's block to West
street, which now is public nuisance.
The condition of the highways, at the
time of the taking charge of them by
the present Board of Trustees, was such
that the trustees considered it necessary
to make extensive repairs, a detailed
statement of the expenditures for which, |
classified by streets, will be found in !
another part of this report The con-
diti0n of the streets at this time is con-
sidered by the trustees to be generally |
much improved and satisfactory, with I
some few EXCEPTIONS and we believe |
that the work on the highways, if con-
tlnued through the coming year, com
plotting the system of travelling and |
drainage, will, with the highway tax
alone, place the streets in satisfactory T
a detailed statement Of expenses in
new and repairing old sidewalks
during the past year, will be found in
another part of this report The ex-
penscs were all thought necessary and
desirable. and such as. we think. the
taxpayers Will appreciate and commend
prominent among which we refer with
pride to the new Center street walk.
At the annual village meeting, April
Path, 1872, the water commissioners
were instructed to pay the coupons on
all water leans from the rents received for
the use of water. This they have abso-
lutely refused to do, and your treasurer
has paid from the funds of the village
: ,02O OF water coupons coming due
during last season. There are $3.50
more OF coupons yet unpaid. The sum
PAID the past year on these water cOu-
pons by your treasurer from the funds
for current expenses-a to those
paid by him the previous years-has
taken from the general funds of the vii
Iage about SO, 700, which should. in onr
opinion, be paid over by the water com
nissioners.
The condition of the finances of the
village, upon the commencement of ser
vice of the present board of trustees.
showed an Indebtedness Of S11.07O %
md the tax voted of fifty cents on a dol.
ar fell some $4,000 short of paying out