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Re: on-line auctions



Just to clarify, could she have been legally held for
theft of government property if she had failed to comply?
Or don't the laws of Maine address that issue specifically
enough to have held her accountable?

Jacqueline Haun

On 15 Jun 2000, at 12:44, NINA OSIER wrote:

> On the subject of people who want cash, cash only...I was startled a couple of
> years ago to get a phone call from a woman whose mother had been the clerk of a
> small Maine town, working out of her home as was the custom (still is in a few
> places that don't have town offices, actually).  The daughter had "inherited"
> many years' worth of vital records, and she told me firmly that she expected
> they were worth money and the State should be willing to pay her to turn them
> over to us.
>
> What made it a mind-boggling situation was that she was an employee of the
> State's own Vital Records unit.  I believe the State Archivist convinced her to
> do the right thing (legally and morally) and turn the vitals in her possession
> over to the town's current clerk - without having to contact the Attorney
> General's Office - but that one still makes me shake my head every time I think
> about it.
>
> Nina M. Osier, Director
> Division of Records Management Services
> Maine State Archives
> Nina.Osier@state.me.us
>
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