the fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 1910, as stated by the manager, was as follows:

$324 13

Excess of income and appropriations over expenditures,

The estimates submitted by the manager for the fiscal year, beginning Feb. 1, 1910, were as follows:

The appropriations voted on March 7, 1910, were:

And at a town meeting held April 16, 1910, it was voted to appropriate for the extension of street lines the further sum of $2,721.74.

Taunton. The result of the operation of the plant for the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1909, as stated by the manager, was as follows:

The estimates submitted by the manager for the fiscal year

beginning Dec. 1, 1910, were as follows:

The following appropriations were voted on March 4, 1910:

For interest, .

For sinking fund,

$13,722 50

7,500 00 $21,222 50

Templeton.

The result of the operation of the plant for

the fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 1910, as stated by the manager, was as follows:

The following estimates were submitted by the manager for the fiscal year beginning Feb. 1, 1910:

Expenditures:

The appropriations voted at the annual town meeting, March

Wakefield.

The result of the operation of the plant for the fiscal year which ended on Dec. 31, 1909 instead of Jan. 31, 1910, as formerly fixed and therefore contained only eleven calendar months was stated by the manager, as follows:

The following estimates were submitted by the manager for

the fiscal year beginning Jan. 1, 1910:

At the town meeting held March 7, 1910, the sum of $74,300 was appropriated for the municipal light department, $10,300 to be raised by taxation and $64,000 to be taken from estimated receipts.

Wellesley. -The result of the operation of the plant for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 1909, as stated by the manager, was as follows:

The estimates submitted by the manager for the fiscal year

beginning Jan. 1, 1910, were as follows:

At the town meeting held Jan. 12, 1910, it was voted to continue the unexpended balance of the appropriations previously made for electric lighting, and that the sum of $3,000 be appropriated for the maintenance, operation and extension of the clectric light system, of which the sum of $1,000 was set apart for the depreciation fund.

At a meeting held April 4, 1910, it was voted: "That the sum of $6,500 be appropriated for the maintenance, operation and extension of the electric light system, of which the sum of $1,250 shall be set apart for the depreciation fund."

West Boylston. The second vote authorizing the construction of an electric light plant was passed on Dec. 20, 1909. At the same time the town voted: "That we raise and appropriate a sum not exceeding $15,000. The selectmen and town treasurer be authorized to borrow the sum by issuing notes of the town therefor, payable $1,000 per year, for the purpose of lighting the town with electricity and furnishing light and power to its inhabitants." At the annual town meeting, held on March 25, 1910, it was voted: "That the town modify the vote passed under Article I, at a special town meeting held on the twentieth day of December, 1909, by amending the same so that the number of notes to be issued by the town will be not over fourteen, of $1,000 each, and that the sum of $1,000 surplus remaining at the end of the fiscal year ending March 1, 1910, be used and applied for payment on the cost of construction of the said electric plant."

The plant, which is a distributing plant only, was put in operation Aug. 5, 1910, but was not completed until Sept. 30,

1910.

Westfield.

The result of the operation of the plant for the fiscal year ending Jan. 20, 1910, as stated by the manager, was as follows: