Annual Report of the Selectmen of the Town of Tremont, for tbe municipal year ending February 20, El. D. 1896. BAR HARBOR PRESS CO. PRINT, BAR HARBOR, MAINE. 1896. Selectmen's Statement. VALUATION OF TREMONT. Resident real estate, $319,610 00 Resident personal estate, 93,239 00 Non-resident real estate, 81,615 00 Non-resident personal estate, 1,625 00 Total valuation of Tremont, $496,089.00 No. of assessed polls, 618 Poll tax, $3.00 Rate of assessment. 019 per centum Population of Tremont, 2,036 Amount raised for common schools, 80 cents per capita. MONEY ASSESSED. State tax, $1,403 26 County tax, 904 28 Raised by town for common schools, 1,628 80 free high schools, 175 00 breaking snow, 150 00 poor and insane, 2,000 00 town charges, 1,400 00 Memorial day, 15 00 Tremont public library, 25 00 school-house No. 12, 1,100 00 repairs on school-houses, 100 00 school books, 100 00 2 3 Raised by town for road to Willis C. Dow's, 25 00 Paid for Carrie Harper (family occasion,) 38 24 town indebtedness, 1,100 00 Still Nutter, 79 07 repairs on highways, 800 00 Robinson children, 74 58 Total for state, county and town, $10,926 34 Lydia Walls, 5 45 Overlays, 354 74 Sally Hopkins, 101 27 burial expenses of same, 39 50 Total amount committed to collector, $11,281 08 rent of dwelling for Albert Ellis, 18 00 Amount of resident taxes, $9,699 33 Fannie Gross, (Rockland,) 25 60 Amount of non-resident taxes, 1,581 75 $11,281 08 board of Closson child, 34 22 fee for admitting Closson boy to the home for homeless children, 30 00 DISBURSEMENTS: expense of Bertha Robbins, convey- Paid for support of common schools, $3,444 51 ing child, 20 15 high schools, 1894, $126 00 city of Bangor for physicians bills, high schools, 1895, 297 00 nursing of Bertha Closson, 49 28 $423 00 burial expenses of same, 23 00 physician's bill to James Moulding, 29 75 Total cost of schools, $3,867 51 Repairs on school-houses, physician's bill to Harper child, & 00 120 86 School books, Total, $882 12 110 14 EXPENDED FOR SCHOOL-HOUSE IN DISTRICT NO. 12. Paid W. W. Hodgdon for cellar and founda- tion, $125 00 COST OF INSANE. W. W. Hodgdon for stove pipe and furnace foundation, 7 50 Paid for John Dolby, $134 64 W. W. Hodgdon for outside cellarway L. T. Ellis, 144 45 and steps, (extra) 8 50 James S. Gott, 140 03 Clark & Lunt for the building, 801 00 Lucy A. Titus, 141 43 for furniture and transportation, 141 30 E. A. Robinson, 144 60 for furnace and setting same in cellar, 78 30 Albion R. Pray, 133 68 J. W. Freeman, 136 52 Total cost of house, cellar and furnace, $1,161 60 Ida M. Bates, 124 89 Arabella Rumill, 100 31 PAID FOR SUPPORT OF LOCAL POOR. Mary H. Rich, 132 67 Paid for J. C. Walls, $1,333 22 $96 48 Fred Gott, 130 40 Roscoe Gott, Total cost of poor and insane, $2,215 34 83 13 4 5 DISBURSEMENTS. Paid J. T. R. Freeman expense and service Paid for Israel Taylor, (Deer Isle,) $34 86 of making loans and paying out John Tinker, (Trenton,) 20 85 same, 20 00 $55 71 W. A. Spear, services as Board of Long Island, state paupers, 422 42 Health for 1894, 13 00 highways and bridges, 3,744 14 plows and other tools for same, 45 30 breaking snow, 100 17 abatement of taxes of 1894, MISCELLANEOUS. 106 28 Paid W. W. A. Heath, re-survey road at $11,949 47 Clark's Point, $3 00 J. A. Freeman, storing road machine, 5 00 stationery for Town Clerk, books, etc., 13 75 MODERATOR'S SERVICES. W. A. Spear, vaccination, 1894, 25 50 Paid W. W. A Heath, March 4 and 5th, Hancock County Publishing Co., Town 1895, $4 00 Treasurer's notices, 2 25 J. S. Mayo, March 18, 1895, 2 00 Hancock County Publishing Co., adver- $6 00 tising non-resident taxes, 8 00 Hancock County. Publishing Co., print- ing Town Reports, 1894, 19 00 TOWN OFFICER'S BILLS. Hancock County Publishing Co., print- P. W. Richardson, services as Selectman, ing tax notices and receipts, 7 50 etc., $132 65 Loring, Short & Harmon for stationery A. J. Carver, " " for selectmen's office, 21 76 etc., 84 00 W. N. Abbott, constable fee, 7 50 C. M. Holden, " " Registration of vital statistics, 6 75 etc., 47 75 Quartermaster of G. A. R., by vote of $264 40 town, 15 00 Tremont Public Library, by vote of town, 25 00 Amount of School Superintendents bill, $265.50 A. W. King, attorney, Tremont VS. Paid on the same, $80 00 Trenton, 51 52 E. B. Clark, services as Town Clerk, 35 03 A. W. King, attorney, Tremont vs. J. T. R. Freeman, services as Town Titus, 64 97 Treasurer, 45 00 G. M. Wallace, road rail at Clark's J. T. R. Freeman for receiving $10,471, Cove, 3 35 taxes of 1894 and 1895, at I per G. R. Fuller, Guard. Ad Litem, L. scent., $104 71 A. Titus, 10 00