Annual Report of the Town Officers of Wakefield Massachusetts : Including the Vital Statistics for the Year 1947

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Under and by the authority vested in me by the General Laws, you are hereby appointed Assistant Town Clerk of the Town of Wakefield to hold and exercise such office until further notice under my administration as Town Clerk according to law under Chapter 41, Section 19, and amendments thereto.

CHARLES F. YOUNG, Town Clerk

Annual Town Meeting

MARCH 10, 1947

With an attendance of approximately one thousand voters, at 7.30 P. M., just previous to the calling of the meeting, Herbert D. Anderson, outgoing chairman of the Board of Selectmen, took the platform and stated that, with the indulgence of the voters for a few minutes, he desired to perform a pleasant duty. Noting that the town has a new moderator, an event which he said only occurs in this town every four or five decades, he said it did not seem fitting that we should permit the retiring moderator to terminate his services without proper recognition. He said a group of interested citizens have caused to be inscribed a suitable scroll which he desired to present to Thomas G. O’Connell, the retiring moderator, who has served as such for most of the time for the past forty-eight years.

The scroll, handsomely ...