ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN OF THE TOWN OF TREMONT, FOR THE MUNICIPAL YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 22, A. D. 1895. ELLSWORTH, ME : HANCOCK COUNTY PUBLISHING COMPANY, PRINTERS. 1895. SELECTMEN'S STATEMENT. VALUATION OF TREMONT. Resident real estate $320,110 " personal estate 91,574 Non-resident real " 78,550 " personal estate 1,925 $492,159 Number of assessed polls, 615. Poll tax, $3.00. Rate of assessment, 21/2 per centum. I Population, 1890, 20.36. Amount raised for common schools, 80 cents per capita. MONEY ASSESSED. State tax $1,383.22 County tax 991.75 Raised by town for common schools 1,628.80 free high school 200.00 school books 150.00 breaking snow 150.00 poor and insane 2,000.00 highways and bridges 1,375.00 town charges 1,400.00 G.A. R. Post 15.00 Tremont public library 25.00 Repairs on school-house 250.00 Total for State, county and town $9,568.77 Overlays $412.05 Rebates paid in cash on account of school-houses, 346.86 $758.91 Total amount committed to collector $10,327.68 Amount for State, county and town $ 9,980.82 of school property 4,170.00 Amount of assessment $14,150.82 2 3 VALUATION OF SCHOOL PROPERTY AND DISTRICTS. Amount brought forward $292.50 HOUSE AND LOT. VALUATION OF DISTRICT. NUMBER. Paid for support of J. S. Gott 155.97 $ 29,320 " District 1, $ 135 Lucy A. Titus 140.35 138,005 " 725 Ellis Robinson 146.10 2, 65,645 " 3, 325 Albion R. Pray 180.00 80 31,355 " Ida M. Bates 108.54 4, 5, 630 38,730 J. W. Freeman 101.42 19,385 " 125 Mary H. Rich, commitment 27.60 6, 400 50,035 Total for insane $1,152.47 7, 35,377 8, 150 Total for poor and insane, $2,247.08. 9, 140 16,175 Paid for support of John V. Tinker, of Trenton $104.35 10, 1,000 24,410 " State paupers $561.70 11, 125 10,165 Paid for repairs on highways $1,205.17 50 18,487 12, " Seal Cove bridge 153.15 285 10,460 13, Total cost of highways and bridges $1,358.32 14, 15 and 16, no school property, 4,610 BREAKING SNOW. Total, $4,170 $492,159 Paid bills of 1893 $ 25.22 1894 140.25 DISBURSEMENTS. Total for breaking snow $165.47 Paid for support of common schools $3,185.86 ABATEMENTS. free high " 1893 140.00 232.00 M. R. Rich for years of 1888, '89 and '90 $ 42.31 " " 1894 $372.00 J. S. Fernald, cons. and coll., 1893 57.34 J. T. R. Freeman, col., 1893 104.70 Total cost of schools $3,557.86 Paid on taxes of 1894 .62 , $172.12 Total abatement Repairs on school-houses $204.97 LOCAL POOR. Expended for school books $151.18 Paid for support of John C. Walls $ 88.74 CONSTABLES' FEES. Fred Gott 137.18 Paid William N. Abbott, notifying town meeting, $ 6.50 Roscoe Gott 76.50 71.79 James S. Fernald, services in collecting taxes, 10.00 H. P. Harper, supplies 30.00 searching for dogs as per burial expenses of same warrant of selectmen 3.80 Josie Harper's child 16.00 Total amount for constables $20.30 support of Stillman Nutter 101.75 Robinson children 239.80 MISCELLANEOUS. Susie Rich, board and nursing 45.52 Paid Wm. C. Moore, services as truant officer $ 3.75 25.00 burial of same A. J. Bunker, 1.50 19.36 Lydia Walls, occasional rebates on school-houses in cash 346.86 support of Fanny Thurston's child 49.22 E. B. Clark, receptacles for books 18.00 " Sally Hopkins 119.45 " surveying road 1.50 Fanny Gross at Rockland 15.05 " for stationery for selectmen's office 21.85 59.25 physician's bills for same J. T. R. Freeman, hall rent, March meet- Total cost of local poor $1,094.61 ings for 1893 and 1894 20.00 INSANE HOSPITAL BILLS. M. R. Rich, collector of 1888, 1889 and 1890, for $145.04 collecting $756.69 taxes at 35/8 per cent 27.42 Paid for support of John Dolby Lucinda T. Ellis 147.46 for printing town reports for 1893 13.25 G. A. R. Post 15.00 Amount carried forward $292.50 Amount carried forward $469.13 4 .5 Amount brought forward $469.13 TOWN TREASURER'S REPORT. Paid for free public library 25.00 printing tax notices and collector's J. T. R. FREEMAN, Treasurer. DR. receipts 17.00 5.00 To cash in treasury, February 20, 1894 $1,813.03 storing road machine, 1893 advertising non-resident property sale 9.25 Received from M. R. Rich, collector of 1888, . '89 and '90 8.00 129.29 ballot clerks for September election Non-resident taxes of 1892 17.25 7:36 registration of vital statistics 1.50 Willis Watson, collector of 1892, interest 19.00 putting up voting booths and railing, etc repairs on road machine 1.85 Reinbursement for support of State paupers, 1893 publishing treasurer's notice 1.50 194.93 8.00 Refunded dog tax, 1893 48.25 A. W. King, attorney's fee 1894 recording non-resident tax deeds 11.40 24.00 vaccine virus and vaccination 173.95 Received from Henry Tracy, use of road machine 5.00 10.00 P. W. Richardson, office and safe rent " justice's fee and tele- Reimbursements of State pensions 144.00 3.50 Received for peddler's license 6.00 phone message " P. W. Richardson, fuel for selectmen's high school fund, 1893 185.00 office 2.25 Reimbursements State paupers, 1894 389.66 $366.12 State school fund 1,833.66 Received for wharf permit 5.00 TOWN OFFICER'S BILLS. " G. R. Fuller, books sold 3.34 $156.40 " Paid P. W. Richardson, selectman hall rent from No. 7 and 10 8.25 102.83 " A. J. Carver, G. R. Fuller, windows sold 2.05 C. M. Holden, " 87.80 " taxes of 1894 6,434.46 Total for selectmen $347.03 1893 3,936.04 255.45 Interest on taxes of 1893 Paid George R. Fuller, supervisor 61.00 E. B. Clark, town clerk