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otherwise, to be appraised.

Owner ap

pearing in six

months after, to have goods, &c. or the val

ue.

No owner appearing in twelve

months, goods, &c. how disposed of.

Goods, &c. to be at the

risque of own

ers.

Surveyor-general;

who may appoint deputies.

such beast or goods, he shall have restitution thereof, upon paying to the finder or keeper, all proper charges about the same, to be assessed, when the owner and finder or keeper, cannot agree, by any justice of the peace, qualified to judge between the parties.

SECT. 3. And if no owner shall appear, within the said six months, when such beast or goods shall have been registered, or advertised as aforesaid, the town-clerk, or a justice of the peace, shall then appoint two judicious, disinterested persons, who shall, under oath, appraise such beast or goods, according to the then just and true value thereof, in money.

SECT. 4. And if the owner shall appear, within six months after such appraisement, and make good his right or claim to such beast or goods, and pay all proper charges about the same, to be assessed as aforesaid, he shall have restitution of the same, or the value thereof, according to said appraisement, at the election of the finder, or keeper.

SECT. 5. And if no owner shall appear, within twelve months, and a day, after the registering, or advertising of such beast or goods, as aforesaid, the value thereof, according to said appraisement, after all proper charges are deducted, shall belong to the treasury of the town where such beast or goods shall have been found; and the select-men of such town, are hereby empowered to recov er and receive the same, for the use of said town.

SECT. 6. If the finder or keeper of such stray beast or lost goods, shall be faithful in taking care of the same, such beast or goods shall be at the risque of the owner thereof, during the six months, next after the same shall have been informed of, or registered, or advertised, as aforesaid.

TITLE 98. Surveyors.

An Act for the appointment of Surveyors.

SECT. 1.

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly convened, That a surveyor-general shall be appointed, by the general assembly, whose duty it shall be to superintend the surveying of land in this state, according to the provisions of this act, and who shall have power to appoint a deputy in each county, except that to which he belongs, for the purpose hereinafter mentioned.

SECT. 2. The surveyor-general, and his deputies, shall, Their duty to at all times, have and keep a field compass, on the imkeep standard proved plan of the Rittenhouse compass, for a standard

seal others.

compass, in their respective counties; and they shall ex- compass, and amine all compasses presented to them, by any countysurveyor, in their respective counties, by such standard compass, or otherwise, and shall seal such as are found essentially correct, with the capital letter C. and that which begins the name of the county; and if any countysurveyor shall use any compass, which shall not have been examined, and sealed as aforesaid, or any chain that shall not have been examined and sealed, according to the provisions of the statute, entitled, "An Act prescribing and regulating Measures," shall be liable to a penalty of five dollars; one half to him who shall prosecute to effect, and the other half to the town, where the offence is committed. And the surveyor-general, or his deputy, who shall neglect his duty herein, shall be liable to the like penalty, to be recovered and applied in the

same manner.

Penalty.

SECT. 3. The county courts, in their respective coun- County surties, shall appoint one or more persons in each county, veyors. to be a county-surveyor, or surveyors, who shall have Their power. power to lay out lands, to renew the bounds of lands already laid out, according to their original grants, to run lines, to survey and measure land, and to do any other service proper for a surveyor to do; and who shall take the oath prescribed by law: Provided, that no person shall be appointed a county surveyor, unless he produce a certificate from the surveyor-general, or his deputy, within the county, that he is duly qualified, in point of science, in the art of surveying lands, in the most approved method and the surveyor-general, and his deputies, shall be entitled to one dollar for their services, from those who employ them, to examine and certify their science in surveying, and to examine and seal, or condemn, their field compasses, as in this act required.

deputies.

SECT. 4. The surveyor-general shall have power, as Powers of a public officer, to survey land in any county in the state; surveyor-genand the deputy-surveyors, and county surveyors, in the era, and his county for which they are respectively appointed; and each of them shall be entitled to one dollar and fifty cents tion. per day, for their services, besides their expenses.

Compensa

SECT. 5. It shall be the duty of the surveyor-general to Surveyor-gengive his aid, assistance, and counsel, in solving all doubts eral to solve and questions, that may arise in practice, between any questions of two or more surveyors, according to the rules of the art; for which service he shall be entitled to two dollars per day, from those who employ him.

SECT. 6. Whenever any surveyor is employed in surveying lands, in laying out lands, in renewing lost boundaries, in running lines, or doing any service in his oflice,

practice.

Surveyors may adminchain-men.

ister oath to

May pass on the lands of

others, and not be guilty of trespass.

How tavern

be nominated and licenced.

and there shall be occasion to employ men to carry the chain, such chain-men shall take the oath prescribed by law; and such surveyor shall have power to administer the same.

SECT. 7. When a surveyor is called out to run any line between adjoining proprietors, and, in order to find the course, from bound to bound, he is obliged to run a random line, to find the certain and true course, and, in so doing, runs on the land of adjoining proprietors, such surveyor shall not be deemed guilty of a trespass, in so running such random line, but may lawfully do the same; provided it be done in the months of March, April, October or November.

TITLE 99. Taverns.

An Act for Licencing and Regulating Taverns, and Suppressing unlicenced Houses.

SECT. 1.

B

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly convened, That the civil authority, select-men, constables and keepers shall grand-jurors, in the several towns in the state, shall convene, some time in the month of January, annually, and shall, by their major vote, nominate such person or persons, as they shall judge fit and suitable, to keep an house or houses of public entertainment, in such town, for the year ensuing. And if any of the persons, so nominated, shall die, or refuse to take out licence, or be denied licence by the county court, or shall remove from the town, or be legally suspended, and the civil authority and other officers, shall judge it to be matter of public conveniency and necessity, to add to the number nominated in January, they may, at any other time within the year, convene, and, by their major vote, nominate any suitable person or persons, for that purpose; which nomination, certified under the hands of a majority of the civil authority and select-men, in such town, shall be transmitted by them to the next county court in the county; which court shall grant licences to such and so many of such persons as they shall judge to be suitable and necessary to keep houses of public entertainment, and to no others; and shall take a bond to the treasurer of the county, in the sum of seventy dollars, from every person to whom licence shall be granted, for the due observance of all the laws, that are or shall be made respecting tavern-keepers, or houses of public entertainment. Which licences, granted to persons nominated in January, shall be in

force for one year, and no more; and the licences granted to persons nominated at a subsequent time, shall expire at the same time as those granted to persons nominated in January.

Not to suffer minors to sit drinking in

their houses.

SECT. 2. No licenced tavern-keeper shall suffer minors, apprentices, or servants, to sit drinking in his house, or to have any spiritous liquors, on pain of forfeiting one dollar for every such offence. SECT. 3. No licenced tavern-keeper, shall suffer Nor inhabitof the inhabitants of the town to sit tipling, or drinking to ants of the excess, in his house, or any of its dependencies, on penalty of one dollar, for every such offence.

any

SECT. 4. No licensed tavern-keeper shall sell to any persons, any spiritous liquors, on the Lord's day, (except to strangers and boarders,) nor permit any persons to meet in company or companies, at his house, on the Lord's day, or any fast day, on penalty of seven dollars, for every such offence.

town.

Not to sell liquors, or perat their houses, on Lord's day.

mit companies

to suffer it.

SECT. 5. No licenced tavern-keeper shall keep in his Not to keep house, or any of its dependencies, any cards, dice, tables, implements of billiards, or other implement, used in gaming; nor suffer gambling, or any person to play at such games, or any unlawful game, in his house, or its dependencies; on pain of forfeiting seven dollars, for every such offence; and the forfeitures aforesaid, shall be to the treasury of the town where the offence is committed.

men, may ad

SECT. 6. It shall be the duty of the civil authority and Civil authoriselect-men, to inspect the conduct of the tavern-keepers, in ty and selecttheir respective towns; and when it shall appear to them, monish tavernby their own observation, or the information of others, that keepers. any tavern-keeper does not duly observe the laws regulating houses of public entertainment, but suffers drinking, gambling, disorders, and irregularities to be practised, contrary to law, they, or a major part of them, may cite such tavern-keeper to appear before them, and examine him with regard to the matters aforesaid, by any proper evidence; and if they find him in fault, they may admonish him to refrain from such misconduct, on pain that his licence shall be vacated: and if such tavern-keeper shall disregard such admonition, and persist in his disobedience to the law, such civil authority and select-men, or a major part of them, may revoke and set aside his li- May revoke cence; and shall cause a copy of such revocation, under licence. their hands, to be left with such tavern-keeper, and to be posted on the public sign-post in said town; upon which he shall no longer have right to keep a house of public

entertainment: Provided, that such tavern-keeper shall Right of aphave a right to appeal to the next county court, in the peal. county, who, after due enquiry into the facts, may set

No person to

without li

cence.

Penalty.

aside, or confirm such revocation, as to them shall appear just and proper.

SECT. 7. No person or persons, except such as are dukeep tavern, ly licenced to keep houses of public entertainment, according to the provisions of this act, shall be a common victualler, or tavern-keeper, or shall sell, to be drunk within his or her house, shop, or dependencies, or suffer there to be drunk, when by him or her sold, any metheglin, wine, rum, brandy, gin, or other strong liquor, on penalty of forfeiting and paying the sum of ten dollars, for the first offence, and the sum of twenty dollars, for the second offence, and so double for every breach of this act, of which he or she shall be convicted, one half to him who shall prosecute to effect, and the other half to the treasury of the town where the offence is committed. And no person shall buy and drink any metheglin, wine, rum, brandy, gin, or other strong liquor, in any house, shop, or dependence, of any person not duly licenced to keep a house of public entertainment, upon the same penalty as is inflicted, for selling liquors, by this act. And it shall be the duty of constables, and all informing offiCers, to make presentment of all breaches of this act, in which case the whole penalty shall belong to the treasury of the town. And all presentments or actions, for the first offence, against this act, may be heard and determined, by a justice of the peace.

Informing offipresentment of

cers to make

breaches of this act.

SECT.1.

TITLE 100. Taxes.

CHAP. I.

An Act for the Assessment of Taxes.

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly convened, That the select-men of cach town in the state, shall warn a town-meeting, to be held on or before the first Monday ors, annually. in October, in each year, at which meeting, one or more

Towns to ap

point assess

Their duty.

judicious electors, not exceeding five, shall be chosen assessors, whose duty it shall be to receive the lists of the inhabitants of the town, containing all their taxable property, and make the assessments and valuations, by law required. The assessors, so chosen, shall, by posting notice on the sign-posts of their respective towns, or by publishing the same in some news-paper, printed in the town to which they belong, require of all persons, liable to pay taxes, in their respective towns, at least five days before the twentieth day of October annually, written or printed lists, of all taxable property belonging to such

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