“Clerks, treasurers, selectmen, and constables are still a necessary part of our machinery of government, whereas fence sealers, tithingmen, wardens, deer reeves, leather sealers, surveyors of lumber, haywards, pound keepers, hog reeves and cullers of fish have ceased to have meaning…”
– Jasper Stahl, The History of Broad Bay, Vol. 1, 1956