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Published: 2017-11-15

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ISBN-13: 9780331072471

Excerpt from Report of the Temporary Examiner of Public Records, 1909 It has also been at times necessary to suggest changes in con struction of proposed vaults, which I have deemed would increase their efficiency, and I have always found architects and engineers engaged in such construction ready to listen to and embody in their plans any suggestion which looked to better protection. Some of this work of remodeling along the lines of increased efficiencyhas only been brought about after long. Endeavor. In two cases brought to a successful issue during the present year the efiort for a change had extended over four years, but the results now obtained have justified the expenditure of time and effort. Methods have also been devised looking to better protection to certain classes of record, notably the legislation providing for promptly binding up all vital statistic returns so that all the returns for the past three years are easily accessible, while those of years preceding are for the most part a mass of mixed paper requiring great effort in order to find any desired returns and then with no certainty that the return had not been mislaid. The law requiring the placing of non-combustible fittings in vaults used for public records is part of the work of this office, and its effect has been good. The vaults in use have not all as yet been properly equipped, but in no instance have I known of a new vault which has not fully complied to the requirements of this statute. In forty-five towns has work been done by the silk process of re pairs in addition to the ordinary rebinding of books. In nearly all of these towns there remains books still in need of repairs; in other towns than these forty-five there are records which must soon be cared for. In the beginning a campaign of education was necessary, but as I have said in the commencement of this report, th ose stages are now passed and results are now more easily pro duced as the value of the work is realized. If there' is anything of value in the records of the various offices, if the laws relating to them mean anything, then the work of supervision is also of value to the State. The lamentable conditions which existed before supervision was undertaken by the State show plainly what will again become the situation if the State now ceases its work. That the changes which I have referred to above have been the result of work of the Examiner of Public Records, is the strongest. Testimony which I can adduce in favor of the continuation by the State of Connecticut of this much needed and necessary work. 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.