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PREAMBLE
The people of the City of Chelsea, desiring to manage their own affairs and conduct
their local government so that it is accountable, stable, fiscally responsible and
efficient, honest, fair, representative, and according to a code of ethics, and wishing
to participate fully in exercising the rights and responsibilities of local government,
do adhere to this Charter.
We assert our willingness to assume all responsibility for the conduct of matters
pertaining to the city, and do by this document earnestly affirm our right as inhabitants
of Chelsea, to live and grow in freedom, dignity, tranquility and prosperity. Under
God with religious freedom, we secure these qualities to ourselves, realizing them
in the community of Chelsea and its government, which provides for a system of law,
education, public safety, and public health.
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