Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-30

Interest Qncluding Interest on Bonds). 4 464 25 Military Enrolment t......................3 .315 % outside roor s5i S Sa Roads Under Contract ,1sl s5 Roads Not Under Contract ............-. g, 163 q Registrar Births, Marriages and Deaths LIB l5 S o9 Serving Liquor Notices ..............7 .76 % State and Commutation Tax. x...........1e,M1s ,1s4 M 8 5e seiectmen's ard Town Cicrk's offices " 921 72 Town Clerks Salary .................5O 5Oo 0o W Town Physicians Salary. .......... .67O % Town Auditors Salary. ,......,.,...,.... 30 OO Watering Troughs. ......................5 59 S9 Miscellaneous Accounts . . ......... .675 o4
 Total ............. ...... .. .S7s, ,sas 7s
 REMARKS ON REPORT.
 Almshouse :-Gross amount of cash orders drawn during the year, $S,546.S5, less cash credits-S1 ,423. 40, and out standing $292. .32-which leaves the net amount chargeable to this department S8,631.13, against S5, ,469.59 last year. The increase is entirely due to the larger number of inmates during the year, and which we have ordered made. The out standing bills amounted to $92.32 more than we estimated last year. We be- lieve this years estimate (viz. $500 will cover everything, as all bills for Septem- Der are paid, salaries, etc; and the out standing will consist only of the actual necessaries. The different expenditures for this account roughly" are as fol- lows: Meat and fish bills, S1,O37.S4; bread bills, Ss10.O9; groceries and feed bills, S1, ,436.60; clothing and boots and shoes, S5S5.OO; dry goods, bedding, etc., s295.3e; hardware, farm tools, road tobacco, paints, glass, etc, $775.73; re- pairs on buildings, S317.94; coal bills, S309.17. Sund1y other bills, including salary of keeper, farm hands, matron, one new wagon, manure, one new pair young oxen, blacksmith bills, etc., etc., S2, ,541 50. The latter amount also in cludes the expenses of burial of 13 per sons that have died at the house from September 10, 1888, to September 20, 1889.
 Outside poor For this account we have drawn cash orders in gross to the amount of S12,603.47. The following l tabula!ion of this account will show how the money has been expended, viz:
 Grocery and Provision Bills S5,454. 15 Rents RATIOS Fuel 1,176.63 Funeral expenses 365.0O Monthly Allowances 1,6O2. 50 Quite number of persons make such arrangements as to have an allowance of specified sum per month, and draw it themselves. This the selectmen are generally willing and pleased to do if the parties applying are trustworthy. Clothing, boots and shoes, passage tick cts, allowance for nursing, medicine, etc, etc, s1 1,52s.13. As remarked last year, with the continued growth of our and the amount of investigation neces- sary to the proper performance of the duty certainly takes hours of each day. We have assisted in the expense of thirty-five (35) burials from our list of outside poor.
 Roads not under contract:-1n our re-
 port for last year we included in the list
 of outstanding bills the amount of $500 against this account. The amount
 proved to be S1,155.7O. This, togethe,
 with the amount reported as the net ex
 penses for last year, would make the
 amount S9,350.5S. For the year ending
 we have drawn orders in gross to the
 amount of S10,417.29. From this de
 duct cash credits amount, $97.SS, and
 the outstanding as above, viz, S1 ,155. TO-
 Our actual expenses have been $9, 163. 71
 The repairs on roads during the season that were made necessary by the excep , tionally heavy rains have cost us over :, $1 ,500. We have also purchased numer , ous tools during the year, including { new road machine, ''The American Champion" at cost of $250 for the } machine. but the improvement on the roads certainly shows the wisdom of tht ; purchase. In our last annual report w.
 advocated the propriety of leaving thi road question under the supervision O. l vinced now, after one season, that thi
 is the proper method to follow. w, , contracted several of the outsid' r sections, making a contract requiring the work to be done to tn } satisfaction of the selectmen, or } majority of the same, on account of late 3 ness of beginning. Should the section be satisfactorily worked then we wer l to pay three-eighths of the whole amour
 upon each inspection and these pay
 aents to keep said sections in satisfac
 last payment of two-eighths to be mad 7 December 20th, and to be for keepin, the roads in repair to December 3Oth We are fully satisfied that the abov Z method, with perhaps some few sligh changes, will work to good results. Tn S contracts we have made amount to S1, , 297 ,and three-fourths of this amount ha now been paid. The old contract sys tenn amounted to S3,24O.95 per year l The amount paid on roads under con e tract and not under contract last yea
 amounted to Gncluding outstanding
 S13,349.29. The total amount for thi year, for contract and not under con g tract, is $1O,504.96, including outstand ing which will not amount to more tha,
 $500.
 Indebtedness As per last report, tn
 entire floating indebtedness of the tow ' was $49, 100. During the year we hay ], paid SIG, 900 of this amount due at Dim
 savings bank. and 5000 on account du
 at Waterbury savings bank, maxim L $15,OOO in all that the debt has been re
 duced during the past year, and wi t leave this account in the following COT f dition Sept. 30, 1889:
 Due Dime Savings Bank, Loan
 | nr7or 0 dated A1,o,,of