The town clerk and the borough surveyor reinforced these points in their statements to the inquiry.
Unfortunately, he town clerk did not attend to that.
The town clerk can take only two articled pupils, and they usually take up the administration of municipal law.
Obviously, one would not imagine that a town clerk or a borough treasurer would wish to do so.
To have a town clerk being able to serve as a member of the local authority is an absurdity.
Indeed, after reorganisation the present statutory functions of, say, a town clerk may be performed by more than one "proper officer".
I am informed by the town clerk that there are 635 condemned houses in the borough.
That is the problem which the town clerk of the future will have to face unless we change the policy we adopted last time.
