This is incorrect; according to municipal records, the building permit issued in 1856 stated that the mill should be built within two years.

"Any presumption of infallibility in municipal record keeping can lead to serious abuse," he said.

Charitable and municipal records indicate that among the labouring poor, both men and women were expected to support themselves while they could.

A number of municipal records were removed from the mayor's office on election night and burned though Merritt denied any collusion in the act.

The city clerk supervises elections and is formally charged with the maintenance of municipal records.

In such cases municipal records - births, deaths, marriages, naturalization - become very important.

From 1758 until his death he was recorder of Barnstaple, and took great delight in its municipal records.

Italy has 60,626,442 inhabitants according to 1/1/2011 municipal records (Anagrafe).

Bosch first appears in the municipal record in 1474, when he is named along with two brothers and a sister.

The first written report of the village can be found in the Moravian municipal records from 1355.