The Boston Globe, April 9th, 2000
WEYMOUTH - After a week on the job as Weymouth's first mayor, David M. Madden was alarmed to learn that he could not pay any of the town's bills. With payrolls and invoices piling on his desk, Madden discovered in January that the legal authority to pay bills still belonged to the selectmen, whose office had been abolished with last year's watershed end to the selectman/town meeting form of government. After hurriedly getting a legal ruling, Madden was able to have the town accountant and treasurer authorize the spending, and checks went out on schedule. Thus have gone the first hundred days o...
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