Excerpt from Annual Reports of the Selectmen, Overseer of the Poor, Town Treasures Town Clerk, School Board Library Trustees, and Auditors, of the Town Town of Chester: For the Year Ending February 15, 1915 No power has constituted the members of the tax com mission guardians Of the public in respect to expenditures for the support Of government, and they have 110 disposition to assume that role. Nevertheless, economy being a most essential virtue in all states, and it being L'the duty of legis lators and magistrates to countenance and ih culcate the principles of i' economy, all as set forth in the constitution of this state, the commissioners be lieve themselves to be amply justified in urging, as they have so Often urged before, the importance Of this subject upon the voters of the state. The public revenue, state and municipal, is the voters' business and they are responsible, directly or indirectly, for every extravagance affecting it from the inception Of the termination Of the fund. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.