The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-02

against 81, $780, 40 last year, a decrease of
$241. 7S-not an increase of thirty-three
per cent. Bennington has a population of
$500 and a grand list of $4,000. 7s, 80
that the cost of supporting the poor was
about twenty-eight cents per capita Of the
population and some eight cents on the
dollar of the grand list, against one dollar
and se~venty-eight cents per capita OF the
population and thirty-nine cents on the
dollar of the grand list in Rutland.
In st. Adams, a town having seven
thousand and fourteen inhabitants and n
grand list of 1921, 055. 43, the expenses Of
supporting the poor, this year, were fifty
nine cents per capita Of the population, and
less than twenty cents on the dollar Of the
grand list-the entire expenses being $4,-
14S 20. These expenses, last year, were
$4,539 90, being 2 decrease, not an increase,
of some three hundred and ninety-one dol
lars.
In Castleton, the expenses for the year
ending in February, 1876 were 81 947 4S,
while for this year they were only $685.
81, showing a decrease of nearly fifty per
| cent, instead Of an increase Of thirty-three
per cent. The population of Castleton is
3243, and her grand list $500. 06, so that
the cost of supporting her poor was about
eighty cents per capita Of the population,
and less than thirty cents on the dollar Of
her grand list.
Clarendon expended for the expense of
the poor, during the past year-thst end
| ing in February-S471. 95, against $3.50 Sc
the previous year-a decrease of $214.61,
or nearly thirty-three per cent, being the
same per cent. of decrease which our over
seer tells US the increase has been. The
population of Clarendon is eleven hundred
and seventy-three, and her grand list 49,
S27.12, so that the poor expenses were
forty-one cents per capita of tho population,
and about eight cents on the dollar of the
grand list.
In Wallingford the entire expenses of
supporting the poor for the past year were
81, $50. SO, against some t%wenty-three hun
dred dollars the previous year-a decrease
of almost twenty per cent. The popula-
ton of W%allingford is 2,023, and the grand
list $7,726 36, so that the poor cost eighty
two cents per capita Of the population, and
less thar twenty-five cents on the dollar of
the grand list.
In Ludlow the expenses for the past
year were 1874 AZ a decrease from last year
the exact amount OF last years expenses
we are unable, this morning, to state. The
population of Ludlow is 1927, and her
grand list 1905. so, so that supporting her
poor costs forty-three cents per capita of
the population, and less than fourteen
cents on the dollar of the grand list.
Now let us look at Rutland. Taking
from the auditors report the amount of
orders drawn by the present overseer of
the poor which are outstanding and unpaid,
and from the report of the treasurer the
amount of the present overseer's orders
paid, we find that he has drawn orders to
the amount Of SIG, 694.3 5, against $8,546-
10 drawn by the overseer last year-an in
crease of IS, 14S. %, or nearly fifty per
cent. With our population 1884 aud our
grand list $43, 922. 03, it appears that these
expenses amount to one dollar and seventy
eight cents per capita of the population,
and to about t%hirty-nine cents on the dol
lar of the grand list; and that the increase
Of poor expenses, over those of last year,
alone amount to only a small fraction less
than eighty-three cents per capita of the
population and to nineteen cents on the
dollar of the grand list. So that not only
are our poor expenses larger per capita
and require a larger per cent of tax on the
grand list than any of the other towns men
toned, but the increase over last year
shows a larger per capita expense than the
gross expenses of any other of the towns
named, and TO meet this increase will re.
quire a tax which, last year, paid our gross
expenses and will, this year, pay the gross
expenses &C nearly every town in the state.
1t is easy enough to account for this diff
ference in expenses. The different course
pursued by those having the care of the
poor in the several towns affords all the
explanation needed. The following emo.
%"tice," which was published, by direction
Of the overseer of the poor, in the Rutland
papers, at the expense of the town, from
March 10 until late in the summer, fur.
nishes the key for understanding the enor
nous increase in the cost of taking care OF
the poor in this town
NOTICE.-Families or individuals il
IN Rutland wanting assistance from the
town, are requested 10 leave their names anG
Landon. I. ii. COCHRAN, Overseer.
The contrast is found IN the following
extract from the annual report of the Sc
lectmen Of the town of CGstleton: "Youl
L" selectmen, to whom not only has been
" committed the management of the usual
/" business of the town, but the care of the
I" needy and helpless, early saw the neces'
/" sity of urging upon the people, and par.
" ticularly those with large families who
" had not been able to lay up a store
" against a time Of stringency, to at once
" enter upon and practice the most rigid
" economy, and it is a pleasure to us to be
" able to say that in most cases our advice
" has been needed and generally a DISPOSE
/" ton manifested on the part Of applicants
, I" to act with us in our efforts to dispense
! " charity humanely and prudently." We
/ do not know as further comment is called
for.
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