Excess of income and appropriations over expenditures, $17,152 34 The following estimates were submitted by the manager for the fiscal year beginning Jan. 21, 1910: At an adjourned annual town meeting, held March 30, 1910, it was voted to raise by taxation, for maintenance, $13,500. At the same meeting it was voted: "That, for the purpose of increasing and enlarging its gas plant by additions to the present building, the purchase of new gas apparatus and the building of new bench or benches and other necessary equipment at the gas works of the Westfield gas and electric light works on Sibley Avenue, and in accordance with the vote passed under Article 51 of this warrant, the town treasurer be and hereby is authorized and instructed to issue from time to time the negotiable bonds of the town to the amount of $15,000, signed by the treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the board of selectmen, denominated on the face thereof "Westfield Gas and Electric Light Bonds," dated Oct. 1, 1910, and payable in annual proportionate payments as follows, to wit: $1,000 thereof on the first of October in each of the years 1911 to 1925 inclusive, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 4 per cent. per annum, payable semiannually, and in denominations of $1,000; and that said treasurer may sell such bonds at public or private sale, or pledge the same for not less than the par value thereof for money borrowed for this purpose as aforesaid, in his discretion." MUNICIPAL STATISTICS. The following table contains the names of the municipalities operating lighting plants on June 30, 1910; the population of each, according to the census of 1910; the kind of supply and the year when the same was begun; the amount invested in the plant since the inception of the enterprise, including that raised by loans and by direct taxation; the total valuation of all estates in town for the year of the return, and the amount per thousand raised by taxation for all purposes. The towns of Ashburnham, Belmont, Groton, Groveland, Hingham, Norwood, Shrewsbury, Templeton and Wellesley have only distributing plants, and buy their electricity, the first and eighth named from the Gardner Electric Light Company, the second from the Cambridge Electric Light Company, the third from the Ayer Electric Light Company, the fourth from the Haverhill Electric Company, the fifth from the Weymouth Light and Power Company, the sixth and ninth from the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston, and the seventh from the Marlborough Electric Company. In the following data the financial operations of all the municipal plants in the State are combined from the items relating to the manufacture and sale of gas and electricity in the returns of the last two years: Leaving, as the expenditures, for town and city lighting, $148,061 84 $92,580 16 614 15 2,732 20 $145,329 64 $91,966 01 |