Copying Book: Secretary's Letters, 1860 (page 236)

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"The Secretary, on receiving the Treasurer's order
for the deed of said lot, shall make, record, and
return said deed to the Treasurer, who will deliver
the same to the purchaser, upon his receipting therefor
upon the margin of the certificate book."

The above is the best that can be done under the
present system, perhaps. But there will always be a good
deal of inconvenience to be endured by proprietors and
the officers so long as the circumlocution of two sep-
arate offices in Boston exists. As the question of the
reorganization of these offices is not before the Trustees, I
forbear to say anything further than necessarily occurs under
this point -- that the method of making and delivering
deeds has a tendency to stretch the patience of proprietors,
and deprives the Secretary of the means of accuracy in his
work, and of knowing the particular location of the parties
in interest, to whom he is so often obliged to send notices for
various purposes. -- In truth the deed ought to be deliv-
ered by the Secretary, for the better convenience of both
the Corporation and the proprietor. But this would re-
quire the Superintendent's reports of sales also to be left
at the Secretary's office, or, at least, a duplicate copy thereof.

P. 43^d line 1 -- After the words: -- "recorded in the books of the
Corporation" -- add

"with the proper attestation thereof."

The attestation were unknown until within three or four years.
All the deeds before that are unattested. --