Annual Reports of the Auditors and Other Town

fflm mmn mm tlftV DEACESSIOHEO /^WILBUR COLLECTION UNIVER.SITY OF VERMONT 6 v L I B R R V* 3 1833 02821 5058 Gc 974.302 C41a 1893-9? A n n u a 1 reports of the auditors and other town officers of the town of Chelsea, Vermont ... Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center http://www.archive.org/details/annualreportsofaOOchel ^l\» TUE AMMI1AI PCPOPTQ %*> % THE ANNUAL REPORTS %J "ft OF THE SELECTMEN AND OTHER OFFICERS OF THE FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OF THE TOWN OF CHELSEA, For the Year ending Feb. 20th, 1894. ALSO A LIST OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. BARRE, VT.: W. A. Smith, Book and Job Printer. 1894. V/iLBUR LIBF University oi Vei : B U R W I L A -QLLECTION UNIVERSITY I HiSmU T0WN MEETING WARNING. The legal voters of the town of Chelsea are hereby noti- fied and warned to meet at the Hotel Hall, in Chelsea, on Tuesday, the 6th day of March, 1894, at 10 o'clock, a. m., to act on the following articles, viz. 1. To choose a Moderator. 2. To choose a Town Clerk. 3. To hear and act upon the reports of the several town officers 4. To choose all necessary town officers for the ensuing year. 5. To raise money to pay the indebtedness of the town and to defray the expenses for the ensuing year. 6. To see if the town will vote to put- its tax-bills into the Town. Treasurer's hands for collection in accordance with the law relating thereto. 7. To see if the town will vote the sum of twenty-five dollars for the use of Waterson Post, No. 45, G. A. R., in the observance of Memorial day, 1894. 8. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for support of the Public Library. 9. To see if the town will authorize the School Direct- ors to contract with Chelsea Academy for the instruction of any of the scholars of the town. 10. To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to collect the amount of money due on lots in Highland cemetery which are now unpaid for, and at the expiration of six months from date, if not paid, to declare the lots vacant, and to remove the bodies buried thereon to land set apart by the town for such purposes. 11. To transact any other proper business. WILLIAM ROBBINS, ) Selectmen C. P. DICKINSON, [ of HORACE MOXLEY, ) Chelsea. Chelsea, Vt., Feb. 22, 1894. THE ANNUAL REPORTS SELECTMEN AND OTHER OFFICERS OF THE FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OF THK TOWN OF CHELSEA, For the Year ending Feb. 20th, 1894. ALSO A LIST OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. BARRE, VT.: W. A. Smith, Book and Job Printer. 1894. NNlb D Allen County Public Libraiy 900 Webster Street PO Box 2270 Fort Wayne, IN 46801-2270 Town Officers for the Year 1893-94. Moderator J. M. COMSTOCK Clerk E. A. CORWIN (WILLIAM ROBBINS Selectmen \ C. P. DICKINSON I HORACE MOXLEY Treasurer J. B. BACON Overseer of Poor A. W. WHITNEY First Constable ALONZO NOYES Road Commissioner M. O. GATES Collector of Taxes W. P. TOWNSEN ( M. C. ALLEN Listers - EZRA HOOD (J. M. FLINT ( W. S. HATCH Auditors JW.P. TOWNSEN D (J. A R. CORWIN Trustee of Public Mone;y J. B. BACON School Director for three years J. M. COMSTOCK "two " H. L. BIXBY " one " FRANKLIN DEARBORN Town Superintendent B. B. SHERMAN Clerk W. P. TOWNSEND Town Grand Juror RICHARD SMITH Fence Viewers SELECTMEN Inspector of Leather L.H.SANBORN Inspector of Lumber and Shingles. FRANK BECKWITH Pound Keeper WILLIS SCALES Town Agent S. B. HEBARD WILBUR COLLECTIO N UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT " L I 6 R A I HIGHWAYS. LIST OF ORDERS DRAWN BY ROAD COMMISSIONER. i JAR Corwin, check to M W Wheelock, for order and account books $i 30 2 F E Hood, 5 days' work 7 50 3 James B Smith, 12 days' work 18 00 4 F E Hood, 7 days' work 10 50 5 Wm Kenison, 9 days and 2 hours' work 13 80 6 F E Hood, gh days' work 14 25 7 John C Royce, cutting bushes beside road on the new turnpike 7 °° 8 F M Perkins, 3 1-5 days' work and 90 loads of dirt at 5 cts per load 9 3° 9 James B Smith, 10 7-10 days' work 16 05 10 Albert W Chandler, 10 days' work 15 50 n Albert W Chandler, 6 days' work 9 00 12 F E Hood, 10 days' work 15 00 13 Alpheus Hood, 17 days' work 25 50 14 Alpheus Hood, 1 8-10 days' work and $1 for two logs for sluice 3 7° 15 W M Mattoon, 7 days' work self and team, and extra horse 3 days 25 00 16 Wales Moulton, 7 days' work 10 50 17 Wm A Kenison, 15^ days' work 23 25 18 Jas B Smith, 12 days' work 15 00 19 W M Mattoon, 2 days' work 3 horses, 12J work with 2 horses 48 63 20 W M Mattoon, 15 days' work with horses »...48 75 21 AW Chandler, 4A days' work 6 75 22 F M Perkins, 4 days' work 6 00 4 23 Jas B Smith, 14J days' work $21 75 24 Wales Moulton, i8£ days' work 27 75 25 F E Hood, 15J days' work 23 25 26 Jas B Smith, 8 4-10 days' work 12 60 27 Wales Moulton, 12 6-10 days' work 18 90 28 AW Chandler, 3 2-10 days' work 4 80 29 Jas B Smith, 9J days' work 14 25 30 Wm A Kenison, 15^ days' work 23 25 31 Wales Moulton, 12 days' work 18 00 32 F E Hood, 17 6-10 days' work 26 40 33 W M Mattoon, 12^ days' work with team 40 62 34 MO Gates, 7 days' work with self and oxen 24 50 35 Wales Moulton, 6 days' work 9 00 36 Jas B Smith, 7 days' work 10 50 37 Wales Moulton, 8 days' work 12 00 38 Jas B Smith, 5 6-10 days' work 8 40 39 F E Hood, 2o£ days' work 30 75 40 W A Kenison, 25 1-10 days' work 37 65 41 CM Hunt, 1 9-10 days' work and 98 ft plank 3 83 42 Wales Moulton, 2 days' work 3 00 43 W M Mattoon, 22 1-10 days' work with team 71 82 44 W M Mattoon, 22 days' work with team 71 50 45 A F Morey, lumber for highway 2 34 46 Wales Moulton, 3 6-10 days' work 5 40 47 MO Gates, 29^ days' work with team 104 12 48 MO Gates, 21 days' work with team and hired man's work 2 days - 76 50 49 MO Gates, 4 4-10 days' work with team & man 22 00 50 MO Gates, 33 J hours' work with team & man 16 75 51 W A Kenison, 26 days' work 46 25 52 CM Blaisdell, 2^ days' work 3 37 53 W A Kenison, powder and fuse for blasting 8 80 54 F E Hood, 18 9 1-0 days' work 28 35 55 Geo Andrus, 3 days' work 3 00 56 A I Dexter, cutting bushes and drawing stone 1 00 57 F M Perkins, ii days' work 2 25 58 R W Laird, 1 day's work 1 50 5 59 F T Beckwith, 150 ft plank 1 50 60 W C Goss, stone for two sluices 1 50 61 H S Fitz, two hemlock logs 1 00 62 Mrs S H Grant, two logs and 40 ft plank 1 40 63 MO Gates, 12 1-8 days' work with team & man 60 75 64 MO Gates, 26 4-10 days' work with team 86 45 65 MO Gates, 16 1-10 days' work self, 5 days' work for team, and £ day's work for man 54 70 66 Abel Merrill, 5^ hours' work 66 67 Timothy Sullivan, repairing tools and sharpening drills 10 53 68 MO Gates, keeping town oxen 29 weeks 83 00 $1487 92 BRIDGES. EXPENSE OF TRACY BRIDGE. C P Dickinson, nails $1 71 E O Tracy, railing, bolts and labor 18 57 Timothy Sullivan, sharpening drills 1 90 Horace Moxley, labor, self and team 13 75 C C Cross, " 3 75 James Smith, " 1 50 Elisha Mattoon, stone 11 50 Waterson Post, No 45, stone 2 00 Henry Clark, labor, self and team 7 50 Frank W Russell, " 9 45 Levi L, Pierce, " 8 25 L, H Bohonon, three stringers 18 00 Plank 10 00 Barnes & Townsend, stick timber 3 50 6 EXPENSE OF BUCK BRIDGE. C P Dickinson, nails $i 27 Levi L Pierce, stringers and labor 7 25 Wm Robbins, labor and cash paid 7 75 F Davis, labor, self and team 5 25 L H Bohonon, three stringers 18 00 Plank 4 00 $43 52 EXPENSE OF BRIDGE NEAR F DEARBORN'S. C P Dickinson, nails $ 12 Levi L Pierce, stringers 9 00 Levi L Pierce, labor, self and team 14 62 " " T D Spear, 4 50 " C M Blaisdell, " 14 63 M O Coburn, " " 50 $43 37 EXPENSE OF OLD CEMETERY BRIDGE. Horace Moxley, labor $2 00 James Smith, " 1 00 $3 00 EXPENSE OF COVERED BRIDGE NEAR H. MOXLEY'S. Horace Moxley, labor $2 25 EXPENSE OF BRIDGE NEAR C. W. PIXBY'S. H Moxley, labor 75 EXPENSE OF BRIDGE NEAR E.

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