MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS IN PROFIT AND Loss ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR.

ITEM.

MISCELLANEOUS CREDITS.

Debits.

Credits.

Unclaimed wages over two years old,

Discount realized on retirement of Lowell, Lawrence & Haverhill

St. Ry. Co. bonds called for redemption,

Collection of old accounts previously written off,

LOSS ON ROAD AND EQUIPMENT RETIRED. Proportion for the year of the original value of 338 passenger cars and 39 snow plows retired from service as of Aug. 1, 1917, to be written off in equal annual installments in 10 years, in accordance with instructions contained in the order of the Public Service Commission of Massachusetts dated Aug. 7, 1917,

Estimated original value, less salvage, of property retired and not replaced:

Track and overhead line, Methuen,

$61,552 781

5,640 41

Track, Federal and North streets, Salem,
One horse,

234 43

180 00

Salvage recovered on certain track material recovered in retirement of property on Front and Charter streets, Salem, in 1917, delayed,

1,494 47†

$66,113 15

$1,075 08

1,405 00 216 61

$2,696 69

Total loss on road and equipment retired,

DELAYED INCOME DEBITS.

Annual proportion of balance of amount expended in reconstruction work prior to July 1, 1914, to be written off annually in 10 years, ending June 30, 1925. Chargeable to way and structures in the classification of operating expenses, but included in this account by permission of the Interstate Commerce Commission granted in the letters dated Oct. 4, 1915, and Jan. 27, 1916,

MISCELLANEOUS DEBITS.

$43,037 33

Cancellation of balance sheet item representing charges to invest-
ment from a credit passed to "Transportation for Investment,
credit" in operating expenses in error in 1917,
Uncollectible accounts receivable (7 in number),

1 The proportion of the loss assignable to the period prior to July 1, 1914.
† Credit.

State the amount of premiums received from sales of capital stock issued since the organization of the company to December 31, 1918, and in the case of a consolidated company state the amounts of such premiums severally received by the component companies from date of organization.

State the amount of premiums received from sales of bonds since the organization of the company to December 31, 1918, and in the case of a consolidated company the amounts of such premiums severally received by component companies from date of organization.

1 Reported as "Profit on Sale of Bonds" and is supposed to be premium on the issue of $1,000,000 bonds.

COMMISSIONS AND DISCOUNTS ON BONDS.

State the amount of discounts on sales of bonds since the organization of the Company to December 31, 1918, and in the case of a consolidated company the amounts of discounts on sales of bonds by component companies from date of organization.

Reacquired $12,000, of which $10,000 were resold in January, 1916, the balance remaining in

treasury.