The town clerk of each town, consolidated town and city and consolidated town and borough shall, annually, within ten days from the assessment date of such municipality, furnish to the chairman of the board of assessors a list which shall include all transfers of taxable property recorded in such municipality from the assessment date of the year preceding to the assessment date of such year. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any town in which the board of assessors has a clerk or a member who discharges the duties herein required of the town clerk.