The Town Officer 1802 Accounting: Earliest known American treatise on municipal accounting
by Samuel Freeman
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1802.Original Fifth Edition Publisher-Printing Location: I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, Boston Date: 1802 Size and Page Count: 4 X 6.5 Tall 312 Pages, by Samuel Freeman Condition: Fair , Full Calf Leather Bound, hinges have been repaired, spine leather is cracked and pieces missing, text block tight, pages well used, worn on edges, yellowed, some tears, but No Pages are Missing !
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----- The earliest known American treatise on municipal accounting, The Town Officer, was originally written in 1791 by a Maine judge, Samuel Freeman. Judge Freeman suggested a "plain and regular method of accounting that is strikingly similar to current municipal accounting. This publication is the 5th of 8 editions (1791,1793,1794,1797,1802,1805,1808,1815)
1802 Contents Preface Advertisement of the Second Edition, Third Edition, Forth Edition, Fifth Edition
Constitution of the CommonWealth of Massachusetts established in the year 1780
Constitution of the CommonWealth of Massachusetts established in the year 1780
Preamble
Declaration of Rights
General Court
Senate
House of Representatives
Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Council
Secretary, Treasurer, Commissary, &c.Judiciary
Power
The University
Encouragement of Literature
Miscellaneous Chapter
The Town Officer or the Power and Duty ofSelectmen
Town Clerks
Town Treasurers
Overseers of the Poor
Assessors
Constables
Collectors of Taxes
Surveyors of Highways
Surveyors of Lumber
Fence Viewers
Tythingmen
Firewards
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Viewer and Sealer of Moulds for the making of Bricks
Assay Masters
Measurers of Wood and Bark
Measurer of Charcoal
Gaugers, Viewers and Surveyors of Casks
Surveyors, Gaugers and searchers of Tar, Pitch,
Turpentine and Rosin
Measurers of Salt
Field Drivers
Measures of Wood
Searchers and Packers of barrelled Beef, Pork and Fish
Cullers of Dry Fish
Engine Men
Weigher of Onions
Overseers of a Workhouse
Hog Reeves
Pound Keeper
Field Drivers
School Committee
Watchmen
Inspector of Lime imported by Water
Inspector of Lime manufactured within the TownHealth Officer or Health Committee
as contained in the Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with a Variety of forms, for the use of such officers
Towns
Parishes
Plantations
Journal
Accounts
Table of Crimes and Punishments
Appendix
Index
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- Samuel Freeman
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