Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures : With Report of the Selectmen and Other Town Officers 1904-05

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The town receives each year various amounts outside of the tax levy. In some instances these amounts have been appropriated for various municipal purposes, and in some cases used to meet legal obligations against the town without any direct action.

There are many unappropriated balances available in the treasury for appropriation, derived from various sources and your Board is causing a list thereof to be prepared, to guide our town in future appropriation meetings.

The amounts as above set forth have been received in part from the following sources: Interest on unpaid taxes, interest on bank balances, insurance money, sale of land, Commonwealth, corporation and national bank tax, other cash payments for various debts due from State, repayments from abolition of grade crossings, miscellaneous licenses, sale of merchandise, and from other sources, all of which we recommend should be considered in part from year to year, when our appropriations for annual payments on town debt and interest, or other necessary appropriations, are made.

MUNICIPAL OBLIGATIONS.

In the consideration of our municipal obligations, and II

some of the reasons for .high tax rates, our citizens should consider what we pay outside of State and County taxes, and current ...