WOW! I lived in laconia for decades and I never knew a newsletter exists! Thanks for the link!
As for registering at the city hall, the city gets a chunk of the registration. I always mailed mine in to the state so that the marine patrol gets the chunk.
On the last budget go round, I read that the registration revenue goes into the general funds and distributed as the legislature sees fit!
I'd rather give it to the city than let the Concord clowns play with it.