There have been cases of fraud, such as the one in my constituency in which aparishclerkran off with a lot of money.
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There is an old saying that aparishclerkought to be able both to read and to write, and it helps if he can sing!
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It would seem to be particularly unfair to parish councillors, who receive neither pay nor allowances, with the exception of theparishclerk, who receives a small honorarium.
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He carried outparishclerkduties in a deserving and honorable way.
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Hebden has a parish council with five independent members supported by aparishclerk.
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The parish councils have the sameparishclerk.
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He received such education as theparishclerk, who was also the schoolmaster of the village, could give him.
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Cookham also has a parish council made up of fifteen councillors assisted by a part-timeparishclerkand an assistant.
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Decisions of the council are carried out by a paid officer, typically known as aparishclerk.
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The accounts of theparishclerkdate back to 930.
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In 1856 the main part of the present buildings were erected when the old days of a schoolmaster who was also theparishclerkcame to an end.
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Women are occasionally governors of prisons for women, overseers of the poor, and parish clerks.
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Originally the entries had been formed of three distinct lists of names: one for the living, one for the deceased, and a separate but supplementary list of deceased parish clerks.
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In addition, there was also a number of other units, for instance a mill, a number of cottages (gatehus) housing soldiers, parish clerks (klockare), innkeepers (gastgivare), and so on.
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We have not made any assessment of the remuneration of parish clerks.
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