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| 26 items concerning the auditor's reports of the Town of Marblehead for years in 1820, 1830, and 1840. 1) An example for the language used on reports. 2) Auditor Committee Report dated April 8, 1820, 4 pages 3) Auditor Committee Report dated May 12, 1821, 3 pages 4) Auditor Committee Report dated 24 March1824, 2 pages 5) Auditor Committee Report dated 20 March 1825, 1 page 6) Auditor Committee Report dated March 5, 1827, 6 pages 7) Auditor Committee Report dated March 7, 1828, 2 pages 8) Auditor Committee Report dated April 5, 1833, 4 pages (signatures and report are unreadable for the most part.) 9) Auditor Committee Report not dated. Note: A copy of this item appears at the end of this list. 10) A list of numbers, Town Departments, dates ranging from Oct 2, 1838 to Feb 11, 1841, Names of persons, and amounts from $1.00 for Amos Frost to $650.75 for Overseers of the Poor. 11) A slipof paper, unsigned, requesting the Auditor Committee for 1846 publish all bills aginst the Town 12) an invoice from William Brown dated 1842, March 12, for printing 300 copies of the Auditor's Report $6.75 13) A letter from the 1840 Auditing Committee to the Chairman of the Town Meeting dated April 5, 1841 signed by 5 committee members. 14) A copy of the record of Town Meeting on 5 April 1841 appointing Joshua Orne, Benjamin Lindsey, & William Hawkes, Jr. a committee to "Examine & ascertain such Town orders in the hands of the Town Treasurer" 15 to 23) Invoices for work done for the Auditors Committee 24A & 24B) Two printed copies of Annual Statement of Audit Committee for year ending 1843 25) Printed Statement of Town's Accounts, March 1832. The contents of report labeled "Report of Auditing Committee 1839" The Committee on Towns Accounts, to whom was recommitted their first report with instructions to revise and make additions Thereto - Ask leave further to report, That they were unable to obtain a statement Of the Contracts entered into, on account Of the Town and remaining unpaid, in season for their printed report. your Committee are also aware that they will be expected to assign a reason why an account setting forth the Debits & Assets of the Town is not included- I in reply will only say, that owing to various causes it was found utterly impracticable to present any other than a very imperfect statement & that therefore the omission of this important item was their only alternative. The Committee ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject referred to them. Unsettled contracts of the Overseers (estimated at $320.00 Do " Selectmen " 20.00 Do " Firewards " 25.00 Demands on the Town by Several Individuals For services as School Committee 118.00 All which is respectfully submitted J. Sparhawk, Jr. on behalf of the Committee |
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