Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-03-16

incollected taxes of j. :. Turner, 1915 III
Interest due taxes due from J. :. Turner, 40 %
NEGLECTED taxes due from :. W. Lane, % 10
Cash due from \. W. Lane (cst,mated), 40 90
Incollected taxes Of Guy Turner state
County and city 1875 6i6s So
Due from State for rent Of Arfnory. 200 90
Peleg Morton's note and interest Il3 70
Due from ". NJ. Thayer. 800 90
Non resident tax deeds on file, 9I7 63
Resident tax deeds on die, l.342 OF
Cash In hands Of Collector, .02 r.
incollected Village District Taxes for 1880 927 %
Total Resources. sl3.2ls e5
CITY LIABILITIES.
Temporary Loans $4,000 90
) per cent. Bonds of 1864, 2I,30O 90
Improvement Bonds of 1867, .02, 500 90
per cent. Bonds of 1874, 5000 10
Bonds and Coupons past due Bond 300
Coupons sl2is.) 1912 co
Due school Districts, 2,91l o.
Endowment fund In hands of city, 1000 90
Total Liabilities, s33O,6s3 O5
Total Resources, 1925 90
Balance against city. s317, AGA 10
In this statement of course there is no way
of arriving at the amount of outstanding bills.
The usual temporary loan to meet the run
ming expenses of the city until the taxes are
assessed and some of them paid into the treas
ury. will have to be negotiated. and should
receive your early attention.
The HIGmwAYs.
We have many miles of streets and roads to
keep in repair. and they are necessarily very
expensive; yet | think some Improvement
can be made in the management of them.
The street commissioners are now accounta-
bletono one-their power is supreme, and am
sorry to have to state that many of them have
abused 1t. l recommend and entreat you.
gentlemen. to change the city ordinances be-
lore you elect another street commissioner,
so that both street commissioners shall be I'M
der the direction and control of committee
appointed or elected for that purpose. We
must transact the business of the city rs we
would our own. if we wish to receive the ap-
prevail of our fellow citizens. No business
man would hire horses to do his work, if he
hadfonro of his own in his stable doing nothing !;
yet that is precisely what almost every street
commissioner has done. Ii the street COM
missioners salaries are not large enough to
secure competent men. then raise them, and
let them work for the c,y's interest and not
Tor their own This does not apply to any
particular street commissioner, but to nearly
all during the last fifteen or twenty years, &C.
eording to my best knowledge and belief. |
respectfully ask you, gentlemen, that if you
eject street commissioners before you change
the city ordinances. that YOU elect them with
% ~, SUI, UNDERSTANDING mat the Ordinance Is
y. su'"s'u' making them responslDie 10
cS".n OF this board for the fa,thfui us
charge OF their official duties. The appro-
Ptiat'on for this department last year was ST.
'"; the amount expended was S.. 1881,
making the amount of appropriation over
sraWn st93.sl. The amount appropriated
%s permanent improvements. was s9,5oo,--
nNt IL 80 n .
Tur r,pr Drp,p,xrxr
r.,
-; ~ 'here is one department that should re-
s s.'e more attention than others, it is the nre
~spar'ment In proportion to the efficiency
81 S, our 'i'e department will our rates OF m