c. A tax bill, a permit, a certificate, or any town paper that

has or may have an official signature. d. A report of the school committee.

If you live in a city, send to the clerk of a neighbouring town for a warrant, inclosing a stamp for the reply. City documents will answer most of the purposes of this exercise.

Make any of the foregoing documents the basis of a report.

2. Give an account of the following:--

a. The various kinds of taxes raised in your town, the amount of each kind, the valuation, the rate, the proposed use of the money, etc. b. The work of any department of the town government for a year, as, for example, that of the overseers of the poor.