Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-20
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| iof TIC yShi 1907 as 900
81. The tax assessed was s99 1894 The
total receipts of taxes and interest are S92 :
22l 20 total to be accounted for is sll9,-
j0a.7i. The Treasurer had in his hands
Mar II 1887, sl7 $40 80; total to be &C
counted for sl53,574.45. Total disburse-
ments on 1887 business sl45 ,5O7 ~. Cash
on hand Mar. ~, 1888, s4l6s2. The fol-
lowing is the financial standing of the city
Liabilities, 1888 ,607 80; Resources S24,
9l5.93. leaving balance against the city OF
S30s ,69l 81. One year ago the balance
against the city was 3l2 1898 81. showing a
decrease in 8s7 of s3646.74. The auditorE. c
Dudley has examined and burned coupons
amounting to Sll, 965 and city bond,
amounting to S2I, 100. The
balance of the five per cent. loan
of 1864 becomes due July 5, of the present
year, also $1,000 of the six per cent bonds
issue of 1879 will be due the same month
and $500 of the four per cent. loan of 1887
matured Feb. Is, 1889.
CITY SoLICIroR's REPORT.
The report of the City Solicitor, A. NJ
Goddard, shows the results and present con.
diton of litigation in which the city has been
interested during the past municipal year to
be very favorable. At the beginning of the
year just closed, three suits were pending
against the city. The first, Whitman VS.
Augusta, was decided fore the term of the
present solicitor began The second, a sui,
to recover $1,000 damages was settled for
s267 without trial. In the suit of Bickford
VS.. Augusta, the defense was shown to be-
long to the town of Oakland.
No new actions against the city have been
commenced during the last municipal year
In nd linz ,at fha IN
At the beginning of the year there were
two suits on the docket in favor Of the city
which have been satisfactorily settled On
| one of these, the case of Augusta VS.. Mercer
| there was depending not only Sl99 SO deb,
and costs, but some 5000 more for supplies
furnished the Holt family since the suit was
commence also the final determination OF
Hollis pauper settlement
But one suit, Augusta VS.. Savage, for the
collection of personal property taxes of three
years amounting to S225.l5 has been com
menced during the past municipal year. This
last is the only action which the city has now
pending, but it is recommended that one il
not two suits be instituted by the city to
determine panper settlements now in dis
pute, ard should be begun at once.
SUPERVISOR OF SCHOOLS REPORT.
The report of DIR. j. o. Webster
the Supervisor of Schools, shows
that the number of scholars in the
city April |, 1887 was 25t2. of whom there
were ljil in the village district. 49l in the
Williams district, and 507 in the rest of the
city an increase of l75 over the previous
year. The total amount for school purposes
was $50, ia. 10.
t'nder the summary of statistics of the Is
suburban schools we find that the number
of pupils registered for the year was 1913
the average wages of female teachers per
week including board. 81. 33 the length of
the school year was - weeks; and the total
receipts were 50 ,525 2s and total dsburse-
ments, 81, 1850, leavinga balance of S+l Sc
In speaking of the adjustment of the
country district the supervisor says that there
was an entire absence of opposition and the
results were very favorable, there being a
change of teachers in only four schools,
against twelve changes the year before. The
school year was also made two weeks longer
and the supervisor recommends that the
school year be still further heightened to
thirty weeks. In view of the necessity which
arose the past year of taking from the school
fund money fr repairs, the supervisor
says The school money should all be used
all be provided for by special appropriation
for that purpose. Under the head Of Teach
ers and Teaching" the report says: The
day, of lesson hearing are gone by, and the
teacher who would maintain his place must
teach almost entirely Independent of the
text book. From generals to particulars
is the golden rule for, teaching. Within the
past few years, the Supervisor believes that
there has been great improvement in the
work done in the schools. The report re-
commends the appointment of a school com
mittee to consist Of three, one retiring each
year, instead of a supervisor. 1t also rec
ommends graduating exercises at the close
of each year at some central point for those
scholars who have completed the course.
The report is an exhaustive one and treats
TO some length many subjects of common
interest,