"Miller, Jeffrey" wrote:
> [0] I did actually hold the position of "Weigher of Coal" in my
> hometown back in Vermont. Its a legacy governmental position left
> over from the 1800's. I was appointed when no one else at Town
> Meeting had stuck around until the bitter end (they all left after the
> school budget passed..)
>
> http://www.cybertopia.net/reporter/headlines/2939post.html
Cool article. I like the "fence viewer" position. Wondering if there'd
been something like that around here a few years back, if maybe that
horse wouldn't've been hit by a vehicle and killed. (The fences between
some different folks' land were down in spots, a horse got into someone
else's property, got through the gate that wasn't securely latched, and
got hit by a vehicle and had to be put down. It was pretty awful. And
I found out about it before the owner of the unsecure gate did, when
someone was looking for him.)
Julia
