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DISTRICT OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE-TO WIT :

District Clerk's Office.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the eighth day of September, A. D. 1829, and in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JACOB B. MOORE, of the said District, has deposited in this Office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor in the words following, viz. :

"The New-Hampshire Town Officer. By WILLIAM M. RICHARDSON."

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, " entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," and also to an act entitled "an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

A true copy of Record,

CHARLES W. CUTTER, Clerk of the District Court of the United States, for the District of New-Hampshire.

Attest-CHARLES W. CUTTER, Clerk.

TABLE OF CONTENTS. «

OF TOWN MEETINGS.

SECTION 1. OF THE MANNER OF CALLING TOWN MEETINGS,

Form of a warrant for calling a town

when directed to a constable,

Form of the constable's return,

Form of a certificate that a list of the

voters has been posted up,

Form No. 4. Form of a warrant for holding a town
meeting when posted up by the selectmen,

Form No. 5. Selectmen's certificate of notice, &c.

Form No. 6. Form of an application to the selectmen

of a town to have any matter inserted in a warrant

for calling a meeting

Form No. 7. Form of an application to a justice of the

peace to call a town meeting, when the selectmen

of a town neglect or refuse to call a meeting, or to

insert a particular article in a warrant,

Form No. 8. Form of the warrant to be issued by a jus-

tice of the peace for calling a town meeting,

Form of an application to a justice of the

peace to call a meeting in a town where there are

no town officers,

Form No. 10. Form of a warrant to be issued by a jus-

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tice of the peace for calling a town meeting,

Form No. 11. Form of the freeholders' return to the
warrant of the justice,

SECTION 2. OF THE QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS,

SECTION 3. OF THE CHOICE AND DUTIES OF MODERATORS,

SECTION 4. OF THE MANNER OF HOLDING TOWN MEETINGS

FOR THE CHOICE OF TOWN, COUNTY, STATE AND OTHER

Form of a list of voters,

SECTION 5. OF THE CHOICE AND QUALIFICATIONS OF TOWN

OFFICERS, OF THEIR OATHS, AND THE DURATION OF

THEIR OFFICES, &c.

Form No. 1. Form of the oath to be administered to

Form No. 2. Form of a warrant to be directed to a con-

stable to notify town officers to take the oath by law

Form of the constable's return,

Form of an appointment of a collector,

Form of a bond to be given by collectors,

Form of an agreement between selectmen

and a collector of taxes as to the compensation of

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Form No. 7. Form of the record of the doings of a town
at the annual meeting in March,

SECTION 6. OF THE ELECTION OF GOVERNOR, COUNSEL-
LORS, SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES,

Form of a return of votes for governor,

Form No. 2. Form of the direction upon the return of

votes for governor,

Form of the certificate, to be given to

representatives, of their election,

SECTION 7. OF THE ELECTION OF REGISTERS OF DEEDS AND

COUNTY TREASURERS,

Form No. 1. Form of the return of votes for register of
deeds and county treasurer,

Form No. 2. Form of the direction to the court of com-
mon pleas,

SECTION 8. OF THE ELECTION OF ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT

AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

Form of the record of the proceedings,

Form of the attestation at the bottom of

Form No. 3. Form of the superscription,

SECTION 9. OF THE ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,

Form No. 1. Form of the return of votes for representa-

tives in the congress of the United States,

Form No. 2. Form of the superscription,

CHAP. II.

OF THE DRAWING OF GRAND AND PETIT JURORS,

The form of a warrant for a meeting in a

the purpose of drawing jurors,

Form of the town clerk's return,

Form of the certificate of notice to the

Form of the record of drawing jurors,

Form No. 5. Form of the notice to be delivered to the
jurors drawn,

OF THE PERAMBULATION OF LINES BETWEEN TOWNS,
Form No. 1. Form of the notice to be given to peram-
bulate,

Form No. 2. The form of an appointment of a person

to perambulate,

The form of a return of the perambulation

of lines,

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Form No. 4. The form of a petition to the court of com-
mon pleas to settle a line when the selectmen of the
towns cannot agree,

OF THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF CONSTABLES,

SECTION 1. THE AUTHORITY AND DUTY OF CONSTABLES IN

RELATION TO THE SERVICE OF WRITS AND EXECUTIONS

IN CIVIL CAUSES,

CONSTABLE'S FEES,

FORMS OF RETURNS,

Form No. 1. The form of a constable's return of a writ

when bail is taken,

Form No. 2. The form of a constable's return upon a

writ when a summons only is left,

Form of a constable's return on a writ

when goods are attached,

Form No. 4. Form of a constable's return upon a writ

of scire facias,

Form No. 5. Form of a constable's return upon an ex-

ecution when it is intended to charge bail,

Form No. 6. Form of a return upon an execution when

goods have been sold to satisfy it,

SECTION 4. THE AUTHORITY AND DUTY OF CONSTABLES IN

CRIMINAL CAUSES,

Form of a return upon a warrant,

Form of a constable's return upon a mit-

OF THE LAWS RELATIVE TO THE MAINTENANCE OF ILLE-

GITIMATE CHILDREN,

Form No. 1. The form of a complaint by the mother

while pregnant,

Form of the warrant,

Form of the justice's order,

Form of the bond,

Form of the mittimus,

Form of an application by a town liable

to maintain a bastard child to be admitted to prose-

cute a complaint, &c.

Form No. 7. Form of a complaint on behalf of a town

by the selectmen, when the mother of the child

neglects or refuses to prosecute,

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OF MASTERS AND APPRENTICES,

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Form of an indenture to bind an apprentice, 96

Form of the selectmen's approbation,

Form of a complaint in the name of the

selectmen against a master for abuse, of his appren-

Form No. 4. Form of the summons of a master to answer

to the information,

Form No. 5. Form of the officer's return,

Form of a judgment discharging an ap-

OF THE LAWS MADE TO PREVENT THE SPREADING OF THE

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OF THE LAWS REGULATING FENCES,

Form No. 1. The form of an agreement made by own-

ers of adjoining lands to divide the fences,

Form No. 2. Form of a notice to be given to the par-

ties by the fence-viewers before they proceed to

make a division,

Form of a division of a fence by fence-

Form of an application to fence-viewers

to examine a fence which is out of repair,

Form of a notice to the adverse party,

Form of an order of notice to be given to

repair his fence,

Form No. 7. Form of a notice to be given to a party of

the time and place when and where the repairs of a

fence are to be appraised,

Form No. 8. Form of an appraisement of the repairs

made in a fence,

Form No. 9. Form of an application to the fence-view-

ers to ascertain the value of a fence built by one

party before the other party began to improve his

adjoining land,

Form No. 10. Form of a notice to be given to the ad-

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