Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
Annual Report Of Treas
urer J. E. Blanchard.
Good Financial Showing Was
Made Last Year.
706 Prisoners Committed to coun.
~ jail During 1907.

The annual report of Hon. James Z.
| Blanchard of Chelsea, treasurer OF
Kennebec county, which was filed with
| tie board OF county commissioners
Thursday, shows that the increase OF
Indebtedness for the past year Is ST.
1888. which is small considering the
fact that the sum of 20,500 was paid
for the extension of the court house
and the sum OF s1s15.13 for a new heat
ing plant at the county Jail. The actual
gain. from ordinary expenses and re-
ceiots for the year 1907, excluding eX-
penses of the new building and the
new heating plant at the Jail, were
$9711 50.
The resources are given as follows:
Unpaid county taxes. $14,835.04; cash i'll
treasury, So, 95S.12; bedding and cloth
ing on hand per inventory, $510,25;
provisions on hand per inventory.
SS5.lo; sinking fund, sll,727.12; due on
rent of Jail workshop, $50; due from
Sagadailoc county from board of pris-
oners, $1T.14; liabilities more than re-
sources. S12.320.29.
The liabilities of the county are Civ
en- as follows: Court house extension
bonds of 1891, $4,000; funding bonds of
1893, $4,000; bonds of 1907, $24.500; inter-
est due on bonds of 1891, 1924; interest
due on bonds of 1898, s64; interest due
on bonds of 1907, $245; temporary loans.
21,000; interest on temporary loans,
due to Jan. l, 1907, s412.90; due the
State from fines in cases brought by
Enforcement deputies, $3.50: unpaid al
lowances now due, s377.21: resources
1;r1,t
S333S 04; liabilities more than resources,
Jan. l, 1903. s12,320.2S.
Sones of the items in the report are
as follows; Unpaid taxes. 1906, s19,
295.3i; whole amount of county tax for
1907, $41, $50; fines and costs from clerk
of courts, $269S.65: fines and costs from
the jailor. s43s7.53; fees forfeited to the
county, S10S.3S; fees converted into the
treasury under the law of 1889, S116.99.
Under the head of expenditures the
following items are of considerable in
terest: Cost of the supreme judicial
court, $31l533; cost of the superior
court, $l1 ,222.65: cost of municiual and
trial justices courts, $1127.01; paid
county officers, $16.S00; paid for the
support Of prisoners and other Jail ex-
penses, $9379.I1: paid for court house
account, $2309.95 paid Kennebec law
library, $500; paid for annual index for
the register of deeds, s125; paid for
telephone bills, $4O7.07; for coroners
inquests, $S50.61; paid coupons on bonds
of 1891, 1892; on bonds of 1893, $500:
court house extension bonds, $500;
funding bonds, $500; paid temporary
loans, $4,000; paid interest on Temporal
inonC Sepo 60 Ln
ton of cruelty to animals, s45712; paid
insurance, $3.50; making bonds of
1897. s1o1; unpaid taxes of 1907, S14,-
S35.04: cash in treasury Jan. l, 1908,
So, 95S12
The court house account is as fol-
lows: Repairs, $15013; fuel, $S2312;
lights, s321.5f water and ice, $40; fur
nishings, s215.l4.
Some of the items in the Jail ac-
count are as follows: +. w. PIaisted
for turnkey. 5000: same. care of the
sick. SIS: repairs, slS0212; provisions,
Slo69,44: cooking and serving, $1,000;
new heating plant. $19l513.
The costs to the county through the
viola ton of the prohibitory and other
laws WIS as follows: Sale of liquors.
S53lSS6; drunkenness. s+357.47; tramps
and Migrants. S9S4.75; other crimes.
S3i3i.1.. The cost of feeding the coun-
ty prisoners was S2740.SS; feeding Unit
ed States prisoners. S19.11: feeding Sag
adahoc county prisoners, 5000; feed
ing prisoners in bastardy case. sT2;
cost Of feeding poor debtors, slS.63
The amount authorized by the Iegis-
latuIe for The county tax for the sew
eral cities, towns and plantations in
the county Of kennebec for the year
1907 was $4,000, to which was added
an overlay of 1920, which was duly APP
portioned and the amount for each
city town and plantation. ard the
amount remaining unpaid at the close
OF the year are rs follows:
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