ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN, SCHOOL BOARD AND SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS OF THE TOWN OF TREMONT FOR THE MUNICIPAL YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 26, A. D. 1898. ELLSWORTH, ME.: HANCOCK COUNTY PUBLISHING COMPANY, PRINTERS. 1898. SELECTMEN'S STATEMENT. VALUATION OF TREMONT. Resident real estate $313,800 " personal estate 77,794 Non-resident real estate 96,350 " personal estate 785 Total valuation of Tremont $488,729 Number of assessed polls, 609. Poll tax, $3.00. Rate of assessment, .0205. Population of Tremont, 2,036. Amount raised for schools, per capita, 80 cents. Resident taxes $9,855 92 Non-resident taxes 1,991 63 Total committed $11,847 55 MONEY ASSESSED. For State tax $1,562 5I county tax 884 38 common schools 1,628 80 free high schools 200 00 repairs of school-houses 600 oo school-books IOO oo repairs of highways 1,500 00 breaking snow IOO oo poor and insane 2,000 00 town charges 1,300 00 aid to public library 25 00 Memorial Day 15.00 municipal debt 1,500 00 S. W. Harbor hydrants 80 00 M. R. Rich, damages 50 00 $11,545 69 Overlays 301 86 Total assessment $11,847 55 4 5 DISBURSEMENTS. Amounts brought forward $523 97 $6,772 18 Paid for E. A. Robinson 127 04 Paid for support of schools $4,379 20 Albion R. Pray I30 OI free high schools 349 oo Joseph W. Freeman I3I 70 Total. for schools $4,728 20 Mary H. Rich 126 46 Paid for school-books 127 33 Charles Young I35 IO incidentals and repairs of school-houses 223 II Antoinette Harmon 95 97 Ida M. Bates 73 73 SUPPORT OF THE LOCAL POOR. Total cost of insane $1,343 98 Paid for usan-Morris $207 96 Total cost of poor and insane $3,037 52 J. C. Walls 150 IO Fred Gott 118 46 Paid for Israel Taylor, of Stonington $3.1 60 Roscoe. Gott 83 36 John Holland, of Eastport 76 72 $108 32 James Molden 30 75 Paid for Long Island State paupers 578 66 Will Nutter and family, sickness and burial repairs of highway and bridges 1,834 04 expenses 145 25 breaking snow 572 75 Charles J. Thurston 13 37 Rose Dawes ABATEMENT OF TAXES. 29 21 Rhoda Albee 100 85 Taxes for 1894, $ 4 68 Lydia Walls II 65 1895 45 17 Harry Robinson 74 56 " 1896 78 26 Mary Adams, sickness and burial and house- " 1897 II 97 keeper's expenses 85 46 Total abatements $140 08 Eliza Davis, for same 49 50 Charles Tinker MISCELLANEOUS EXPENDITURES. I30 oo Frank Ober 27 IO Paid for printing town report of 1896 $ 23 25 George S. Ober 25 32 posting dog notices I 25 Sophronia Herrick 4 36 M. R. Rich for deficient ways (damages) 50 oo W.G. Norwood 170 03 W. W. A. Heath, March, 1897 (moderator), 6 oo town of Bucksport for sickness and burial W. N. Abbott, constable fee 5 50 of S. P. Leach 78 14 James S. Fernald, dog constable 6 oo Fanny Gross, at Rockland 36 84 repairs of road machine 5 00 Mrs. Ezra D. Lurvey 16 83 Loring, Short & Harmon, stationery 24 26 William and E. H. Norwood 29 44 printing tax receipts and postals 23 00 physicians' bills for the poor 75 oo E. C. Neal, vital statistics IO oo aid public library 25 00 Total for local poor $1,693 54 ? ballot clerks for special election 8 oo INSANE HOSPITAL. recording tax deeds. II 40 Paid for John Dolby $126 07 R. M. Rumill, sheep killed by dogs 3 oo L. T. Ellis 130 60 printed stationery for town treasurer 6 90 James S. Gott I27 65 P. W. Richardson for going to Augusta on Lucy A. Titus 139 65 State pauper business, two times 40 40 Amounts carried forward $523 97 $6,772 18 Amounts carried forward $248 56 $11,350.41 6 7 Amounts brought forward $248 56 $11,350 41 TOWN TREASURER'S REPORT. Paid for advertising non-resident property 50 J. T. R. FREEMAN, Treasurer. extinguishing forest fires in Manset 235 95 DR. use of hydrants 80 oo To cash in treasury, February 8, 1897 $ 629 89 A. T. Richardson for surveying 325 from town of Stonington, Israel Taylor 4I 37 W. W. Hodgdon, watering tub 3 00 " city of Eastport, John Holland 97 IJ Southwest Harbor Water Co., same 300 " pauper reimbursement IO OC J. T. R. Freeman, safe rent 5 00 " State bounty on seals 18 oo stationery and stamps 5 00 reimbursement of Long Island State paupers 593 91 A. L. Somes, town clerk, stationery and " insane State pauper, William stamps 279 McKenzie 76 61 P. W. Richardson, oaths on State pauper on account of Ida Bates, insane, and selectmen's returns 6 oo 58 42 cash from State, free high school 2 85 178.50 P. W. Richardson, stamps and registry " for State pensions 204 00 " rent of office and safe 5 oo school fund 1,708 62 " coal for selectmen's of- town clerk for dog tax 55 00 fice 2 50 607 4 cash for non-resident advertising I 64 from P. W. Richardson on account of Mary $11,957 8I Adams, expenses 8671 " Paid for hall rent IO 00 from-same of John Adams' expenses 31 50 " $13 " George R. Fuller, sale of books special election 3 00 4 39 " G. R. Fuller, affidavits in McKenzie case oo " tax-payers of 1895 544 38 " " " 1896 4,610 33 TOWN OFFICERS' BILLS. " 1897 6,799 47 Paid P. W. Richardson, services selectman and $15,749 85- assessor, etc $148 50 a CR. E. G. Stanley, same 86 85 By paid State pensions $ 204 00 S. H. Mayo, same 62 75 $298 IO bounty on seals 8 oo J. T. R. Freeman, treasurer 45 00 county tax 884 " " for receiving taxes of 1895 dog tax to State treasury 55.00 $544 38 at I per cent 5 44 note to Tremont savings bank 600 00 for receiving taxes of 1896 interest on same 24 00 $4,603 25 at I per cent 46 03 State tax less dog tax refunded 1,509 65 for receiving taxes of 1897 discount allowed tax-payers 367 64 $6,784.53 at I per cent. 67 84 $119 31 interest on town orders and notes outstanding, 313 26 G. R. Fuller, superintendent of schools 2470 by non-resident property sold to town 28 36 A. L. Somes, town clerk 35 33 making and acknowledging four tax deeds 2 68 E. L. Higgins, services on board of health 5 00 orders of selectmen