Deduct amount charged Dist. No. 1, for fuel and care,

165 70

Paid Alvan Pratt, keeping weights and measures, $10 00
Wm. D. Brown, services on School Com-

E. Stowell & Co., on Library and School,
J. M. Smith, on Library, $13 20; part
High School, $5 12,

Policemen at Cattle Show,

J. Brown, Jr., flannel for cartridges,
F. E. Bigelow, iron work for sidewalks, &c.,
S. G. Simpkins & Co., books for Assessors,
R. Warner, use of room for the police at
State encampment,

H. C. Watts, work on armory and firing
salutes,

Geo. Hosmer, flannel for cartridges in 1859,
C. B. Davis,

66

66

Richard Barrett, powder, &c.,

66

7 00

12 00

976

5 26

2 36

18 20

Derby Bros., powder for salutes,

28 00

B. Tolman, printing town reports, warrants,

&c.,

95 79

Jonas Melvin, returning 30 deaths, 1860,

3 00

51 44

56 91

21 43
10 25

23 31

18 32

4 00

1 75

2 73

Tabular Statement of Receipts and Expenditures

FROM MARCH 5TH, 1860, TO MARCH 4TH, 1861.

Ninth Annual Report of the Town Library Committee.

The Library Committee present their report for the year ending on

the first Monday in March, 1861.

The amount of money received by them is as follows:

The balance of last year's account,

$113 91

The town's appropriation for 1860,

287 00

For binding and covering books, and stationery,
Leaving a balance unexpended, of

6 95

50 92

$406 14

The whole number of books now belonging to the Library is 3,105. The number added during the past year has been, by purchase, 331; by donation, 12. No book has been lost during the year, and all but six volumes were in the Library room at the time of the annual examination.

;

The number of ratable polls in Concord in the year 1860 was 560 and the appropriation for the maintenance and increase of the Library which the town is allowed by law, and required by contract to make this year, is $280.

More books have been added to the Library during this year than in any previous year; and on an average they have been books of greater value, and better bound. The use made of the Library by the people of the town has also increased from last year.

The alteration in the Library, by extending the room so as to include within it a part of what had been the schoolroom of the Intermediate school, which was suggested in our last report, and authorized by the vote of the town, has been accomplished during the winter; and the town has now a convenient and handsome room, capable of containing eight or ten thousand volumes, and sufficient for the probable increase of the Library for the next fifteen or twenty years.

E. R. HOAR,

SIMON BROWN,

R. WALDO EMERSON,
GEO. HEYWOOD,
GRINDALL REYNOLDS,

Library

Committee.

CONCORD, March 4, 1861.