Book excerpt: Excerpt from Receipts and Expenditures of the Town of Durham for the Year Ending February 28, 1852 For services as Police officer, 1850 1850, Oct. 9 For services 1 day and night at the death of R. Colby's wife. 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.