Add to them the other public-sector staff laid off this decade: the librarians, the town hall clerks.
When the clock struck 12 they made history as the city hall clerks threw open the doors to more than 260 same-sex couples to fill out marriage licence forms, making Massachusetts the first state in the US to legally sanction same-sex marriages.
Drasdo was born in Bradford, son of William, a town-hall clerk, and his mother, Ella, a significant influence.
Peter Reginald Frederick Hall was born at 24 Avenue Approach, Bury St. Edmunds, the only son of Reg Hall, a clerk on the Railways, and Grace (née Pamment), daughter of a local pork butcher.
The love, joy, dedication, and hope our community has shown as it has gathered and rallied outside courthouses, city halls, and clerks' offices across the country and on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram in cyberspace is contagious.
In short order, there was a vacancy at town hall when the previous clerk resigned.
After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1984, Mr. Karp formally joined Paul Weiss a year later alongside another ambitious classmate who he also worked across the hall from when he clerked for Judge Irving R. Kaufman on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Théodore Rosier (Marc Lavoine), the village mayor and veterinarian, and Mademoiselle Lundi (Marie-Josée Croze), a school teacher and clerk in city hall, are two of the friendlier villagers.
To hold your ceremony with a county clerk off city hall grounds is $220.
