The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-15
OF Work Done in City Gov
erDment Last Year
TO BARRE CITY COUNCIL
Street Department Has Expended s2o,-
s62.62--overseer Of the Poor Shurt-
left Gets Conimendation at the
Hands Of Charities Committee.

Ten annual reports Of city depart
ments and committees were accepted at
the meeting of the Barre city council
last evening and will be published in
the forthcoming city report. The other
annual reports will be received at the
next meeting. All the members were
present last night. except Alderman
Thurston.
The street commissioners repor4ed
that $20,S62.62 had been spent out of
the appropriation Of $4,000 for their
department. They had given liz per-
mits to dig up the streets to the various
companies having wires or pipes in them.
They recommend the repairing of the
North Main street sewer between Beck
ley and Sixth street and that the road
there be macadamized; also that Wash
ington street be surveyed and bounds
set to the town line, with resnrfacing OF
that portion from Spaulding school to
Richardson street
The committee on charities and cor
rections, in its report, commended the
work of the oyerseer Of the poor, O. d.
Shurtleff, Of Mr.. and Mrs. Goss, the care
takers at the city farm, and of DR.. Duffy,
the city physician.
That the ordinances have been revised
and adopted, an action recommended in
several previous years and never done,
was the report Of the committee on leg
islation
Nine applications for street lights and
five new lights installed, reported the
lighting committee, making total of
los arc lights now in use. The expenses
Of this department have increased one
dollar per light. The expenditures last
year were as follows: for streets, S4,
$3.50; public buildings, Sl.093S9; fire
station, SlT4.62; sidewalks, SIl7s
Besides stating that the legislature Of
1906 was justified in permitting the,
doubling of poll tax inventories. the city
assessors reported that the real estate
appraised of the city was $3.7S7 ,S35, the
personal estate appraisal s52s 20l, the
number Of polls 1913, the total qrsnd
list S493l26, and the amount deducted
for personal accounts $l.2s6.65937.
The trustees Of the cemetery funds re-
ported surplus Of a24684, from which
two balances on accounts had been with
drawn, one for one cent and the other
for eight, leaving q net surplus Of
S246.75.
No new litigation has been started BY
the city during 1907, stated the city at
torney, and the only matters in which
the city is a litigant are the spring wa
ter cases. the Stafford & Holden suit
against the city and the paving assess
ment case as to the city's right to assess
for permanent street betterment. in con-
nection with which some of the Main
street abutters procured an injunction
to restrain the city from selling prop
ertv TO satisfy the assessment. + - fsfk
The chief Of police reported total of
SOL arrests by hisf department, during
the year, with intoxication arrests lead
ing with 323 eases. followed by hreaeh
nf the peace cases SIS. The list has al
ready been published in this paper
The street superintendent reported
that parts of South Main, Washington
and Brook streets had been laid with
permanent roads and Central and Beck
ev streets had been graveed. The total
expenditure on streets was S20,S62.62,
iivided as follows: expenses Of streets
~ ,696.32; permanent work, S6,344.2A;
sewers, SI,TO008; surface sewers S.,
tlbsDIs r1QENdtNN F~tN1%pt~~t AAttr5No ttAs0
,ulverts, $l,5S3.57.
Covering his work for nine months.
he city engineer made a very complete
eport, going into the minute details of
lis department It told Of the surveys
made. drawings filed and the ether mat
.ers incident to the Office.
Other Acts of the Council.
t few minor acts were done BY the
.ouaeil, in addition to hearing the am
lual reports Warrants for the weekly
,ay roll were drawn as follows; street
department., $l0S go; wateS. ssl3.4S; fire,
1886; police, $7ll6 A departmental
resolution for the remain
er Of the year was adopted, and a peti
ion for street light near School street
yas dismissed.
IN the matters Of complaints present
d BIZ Harvey Hersey regarding alleged
amage to his property by city officials,
he water committee reported that city
epaired the leak in the Hersey water
vsfem caused by an unusual wrench on
-hut of, and that the matter Of al
aeea digging up water gates be dropped.
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