ANALYSIS

OF THE

SEVERAL PARTS, TITLES AND CHAPTERS,

CONTAINED IN

THE REVISED STATUTES.

SECOND SERIES.

PART I.

OF THE INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT.

TITLE I.

CHAPTER 1. OF THE PROMULGATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF STATUTES,

TITLE. II.

OF THE LEGISLATURE.

CHAPTER 2. Of executive and legislative disabilities,

Of representation in general assembly,

Of the duration of the general assembly,

Of the qualification of canditates and electors, and frauds

CHAPTER 3.

CHAPTER 4.

CHAPTER 5.

5

6

7

7

12

13

24

26

30

OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND ESTABLISHMENTS.

CHAPTER 24. Of the commissioners of the public property,
CHAPTER 25. Of the penitentiary,

.

CHAPTER 26. Of Sable Island and the light houses,

TITLE VI.

• 80

OF THE MANAGEMENT AND REGULATION OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

CHAPTER 27. Of the coalmines.-Part the first.

98 103

124

CHAPTER 34. Of the salaries of certain public officers, and certain

CHAPTER 35. Of the qualifications, appointment, and tenure of office of the principal judicial officers,

CHAPTER 36. Of the offices of receiver general and financial secretary, and the rendering and audit of public accounts,

155

157

158

CHAPTER 37. Of the offices of surveyor general and commissioner

of crown lands,

TITLE XI.

CHAPTER 38. OF TREASURY NOTES, THE funded DEBT, AND SAVINGS

BANK,

TITLE XII.

OF COUNTIES AND COUNTY OFFICERS.

159

160

CHAPTER 43. Of prothonotaries and clerks of the crown,

CHAPTER 44.

CHAPTER 45. Of special sessions,

Of the times and places of holding the sessions,

168

169

CHAPTER 46. Of county assessments,

170

CHAPTER 47. Of jails and other county buildings,

187

TITLE XIII.

OF TOWNSHIPS AND TOWNSHIP AND PEACE OFFICERS.

CHAPTER 48. Of townships, their powers and duties, and the appointment, qualification, and duties, of township officers, CHAPTER 49. Of fences and fence viewers, and impounding of cattle,

CHAPTER 53. Of quarantine,

CHAPTER 51. Of boards of health and infectious disease,

CHAPTER 55. Of rabid animals,

CHAPTER 56. Of nuisances,

CHAPTER 57. Of regulations concerning the practice of physic and

OF HIGHWAYS, STREETS, BRIDGES, PUBLIC LANDINGS, AND FERRIES.

CHAPTER 61. Of laying out certain great roads,

220

CHAPTER 62. Of laying out roads other than certain great roads,
CHAPTER 63.

223

Of surveyors of highways and highway labor, except
in Halifax,

227

OF SEWERS. COMMONS, AND COMMON FIELDS.

CHAPTER 73. Of commissioners of sewers, and the regulation of diked

OF THE REGULATION OF TRADE IN CERTAIN CASES,

CHAPTER 76. Part the first.-Of shipping and seamen,

283

CHAPTER 81. Of bills of exchange and promissory notes,

308

TITLE XXII.

OF CORPORATIONS.

CHAPTER 88.

CHAPTER 87. Of general provisions respecting corporations,
Of agricultural and land corporations,

330

335

TITLE XXIII.

OF THE POOR.

CHAPTER 89. Of the settlement and support of the poor,

337

344

345

OF CERTAIN BIRDS AND ANIMALS.

CHAPTER 92. Of the preservation of useful birds and animals,
CHAPTER 93. Of the destruction of noxious animals,

352

354

CHAPTER 96. OF THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND
RURAL ECONOMY,

TITTLE XXVII.

OF CERTAIN MUNICIPAL REGULATIONS.

360

CHAPTER 100. Of the discharge of firearms and fireworks,

CHAPTER 101. Of the transportation of gunpowder,

CHAPTER 107. Of the going at large of infected cattle and of dogs,