5. If any person shall injure, mar or deface any guide post, or its substitute agreed upon as aforesaid, or board which shall be set up, as is in this Act provided, and be convicted thereof before any Justice of the Peace within this State, such person so convicted, shall forfeit a sum not more than six dollars nor less than two dollars; one half to the complainant, and the other half to the use of the town or plantation in which such guide post or its substitute, so in jured, marred or defaced was set up, and shall pay all costs of the prosecution. ch. 120, s. 5.

6. Whenever any public highway is located in any town by order of the Court of Sessions, it is the duty of the persons locating the same to place temporary monuments at every angle, on one of the exterior lines of said highway; and whenever any such highway is established, it shall be the duty of the Selectmen of the towns in which the same may be, within six months from the time it is so established to procure and set up at every angle aforesaid, stone posts, not less than three feet in length, marked with the letter R. and the Selectmen of said towns for the time being, shall cause said posts to be kept up and maintained so long as said highway shall continue as a public highway; Provided, That when any such highway shall pass over any ledge, so that the posts cannot be erected, it shall be the duty of the said Selectmen to mark at every angle on said ledge, the letter R. ch. 399, s. 1.

7. If the Selectmen of any town neglect to cause said posts to be set up or to mark said angle on such ledge, for the period of twelve months aforesaid they shall forfeit five dollars; and for each month thereafter which they so neglect shall forfeit one dollar, said forfeitures to be sued for and recovered in an action of debt by any person who may sue for the same; one half thereof to his own use and the residue to the use of the town in which said highway is located. 8. 2.

8. If any person shall throw down, remove or deface said posts, or shall erase or deface the angular marks aforesaid, or aid and assist in so doing, the person or persons so offend. ing shall be liable to all the penalties provided by law for injuries done to mile stones to be prosecuted for and recovered in the same manner and to the same uses.

G. Their duty to maintain pounds, and to appoint pound keepers....

Each town shall keep and maintain a sufficient pound or pounds, in such place or places therein as the town shall direct; and every town that shall neglect, for the space of six months, to provide and maintain such a pound, shall forfeit and pay a sum of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred for the use of the town, to be recovered by presentment of the Grand Jury in the District Court in the county; and there shall be chosen annually in each town a suitable person to keep each pound, who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duty. ch. 659, s. 1 & 4..

H.-The duty of towns to provide persons to keep ferries.

§ 1. Whenever the Court of Sessions of any County in this State, shall judge it necessary to set up a ferry for the convenience of passing any river or waters, and no person shall appear to keep the same for the stated profits thereof, the town wherein such ferry may be, shall take effectual care to provide some suitable person or persons to keep and attend the same at such place, and in such times of the year, as the said Court shall judge necessary. ch. 176, s. 4.

2. If any such ferry so judged necessary, shall be over any river or water when one town joins thereto on one side, and another town on the other side; in such case the said towns shall either jointly or alternately, provide such person or persons to keep such ferry as the said Court shall order. s.. 5.

3. Any town neglecting to provide suitable persons to keep ferries as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay forty dollars for each month's neglect, one moiety thereof to the use of the State, and the other moiety to him or them who shall inform and sue for the same; to be recovered in an action of debt, with costs of suit. s..6.

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I. The obligation of towns to indemnify individuals, whose estates are taken for neglect of Assessors.

If the estate of any inhabitant or inhabitants (not being an Assessor or Assessors of any town or plantation) shall be levied upon and taken as directed in the twenty-second section of this Act, (See Treasurer, D. s. 3.) he or they shall have an action or actions against the town or plantation, to recover the full value of the estate so levied upon and taken, with interest thereon, computed at the rate of twelve per centum per annum, from the time the said estate was taken, with legal costs of suit: and at the trial, the plaintiff or plaintiffs shall be admitted to prove the real and true value of the estate so taken, at the time the same was levied upon. ch. 116, s. 63.

D. Their power and duty to issue warrants of distress in cases of default or negligence.

(a) Warrants against inhabitants of towns and plantations.

1. Warrant on neglect to choose

Assessors to assess and cer

tify assessment of State

tax.

ib: Officer's duty.

ib. Final process, how prevented.

2. On neglect to choose and keep | ib. Rules for executing warrant.

(b) Warrants against Assessors.

(c) Warrants and executions against Collectors..

§1. Against Collector, delinquent | 2. Warrant to issue on request, in

as to State tax.

certain cases:

ib. For want of estate, to be com- 3. Delinquency as to county,town, plantation and parish rates.

mitted.

(d) Warrants against Sheriffs.

§1. Sheriff's duty in service of | 2. Treasurer's warrants on default warrants and executions. of Sheriffs.

ib. Treasurer may issue alias.

(e) As to school district taxes.

(f) Modes of executing warrants of distress and exe

cutions.

3. Arrest and commitment of delinquents.

§ 1. The Selectmen of towns, and the Assessors of plan-tations, may require the Treasurer of such town or plantation to give bond with sufficient surety or sureties to the satisfaction of such Selectmen or Assessors, for the faithful performance of the duties of his office.

2. And if said Treasurer shall neglect or refuse to give such bond, it shall be taken as a refusal to accept such of fice; and such town or plantation shall proceed to make a new choice as in the case of a vacancy in said office. ch. 337, s. 7.

3. It shall be the duty of every such Treasurer to render an account of the state of the finances of his town or plantation, and exhibit all the books and accounts appertaining to his office to the Selectmen of his town, or Assessors of his plantation, as often as once in three months, if requested, and to any committee appointed by such town or plantation for the purpose, whenever they shall require it. s. 7.