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Excerpt from Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of Malden, Massachusetts, 1649-1850 I want to refer to the condition of our old records, {relating to Births, Marriages, and Deaths. These are contained in a few small books and the hand-writing is rapidly fading. All the records covering a period of two hundred and fifty years should be copied and then printed in pamphlet form, ready for distribution next year. I recommend that you authorize some person to have charge of this whole matter, and that a sufficient sum of money be appropriated for that purpose. The Malden Historical Society, which had already considered the subject, following the suggestion of Mayor Farnham, on February 7, 1898, appointed a committee of seven members to formulate such a course as might be necessary to put the records in a safe and proper condition, and to present the result to the city council for definite action. The committee, after a consideration of the matter, delayed somewhat by the active preparations for the celebration of the two-hundred-and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town, petitioned the city council for an order looking towards the preservation of the ancient volumes and the perpetuation of their contents by printing. In March, 1899, a special joint committee, with power to carry into effect the proposed work, was appointed by the city council, consisting of Aldermen Daniel P. S. Page and Willard E. Rob inson, and Councilmen William A. Hastings, Frank S. Arnold. 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.