Excerpt from Sixteenth Report on the Custody and Condition of the Public Records of Parishes, Towns, and Counties, 1904 The judiciary Of Massachusetts largely owes its high standard to the fact that the judges are appointed, and are absolutely removed from politics. The clerks of the police, municipal, and district courts are appointed, and opinion is growing that the clerks Of the supreme and superior courts; and the registers Of deeds and of probate, allied as they are to the judicial system, should be. Continued introduction of politics into these Offices will tend to bring this about. 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.