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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Recording Townships
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 08:14:52 -0400
References: <20020801.134946.-1036847.3.dean.scribner@juno.com>


Dean, you say you got it from the Town Clerk. In New England there are
Towns and in Maine Towns and Townships. They are NOT the same.

bob gillis

Dean Scribner wrote:
>
> > bob gillis wrote:
> >
> > Townships do exist in Maine but I think only in Maine.
>
> Those of us who grew up in the New England states know better. I had to
> get a copy of my own birth certificate from the Town Clerk, whom I
> addressed by his nickname. It was also to him I paid my first parking
> ticket when he admonished me saying: "Dean, let this be a lesson to you.
> Crime does not pay." And I attended Town Meeting as a school assignment.
> If you want to see democracy in action, attend a New England Town
> Meeting. After that, you will really appreciate the representative
> republican form of local government that most of us have today in the
> wild and woolly West.
>
> Dean
>
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