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Green's Grant, one cent,

Grant to Gilmanton and Atkinson Academy, four cents,

Hart's Location, seven cents,

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Hale's Location, two cents,

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Nash and Sawyer's Location, two cents,

Northumberland, one dollar twenty-seven cents,

Odell's Township, four cents,

Pittsburg,

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Pinkham's Grant,four cents,

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Sargent's Purchase, one cent,

Second College Grant, three cents,

Thompson's and Meserve's Purchase, one cent,

Wentworth's Location, three cents,

Whitefield,

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SEC. 2. The same shall be the proportion of assessment of all public taxes until a new proportion shall be made and established; and the treasurer for the time being shall issue his warrant accordingly. (Laws of 1852, chap. 1276.)

SEC. 3. Whenever any tax shall be ordered to be raised by the State on or before any day, the treasurer shall make out the proportion thereof to be raised by each town and place, according to the apportionment of public taxes for the time being, and shall seasonably issue a warrant, under his hand and the seal of his office, to the selectmen of such town or place, directing them to assess said sum and to pay the same into the treasury of the State on or before the day specified, and he may issue an extent for all sums which shall remain unpaid after said day.

SEC. 4. The treasurer shall report to the house of representatives annually, a particular statement of all delinquencies in the payment of said tax; and of all extents issued therefor.

TITLE III.

OF CERTAIN STATE OFFICERS, AND THE TENURE OF OFFICE.

CHAPTER 11.

CHAPTER 12.
CHAPTER 13.

CHAPTER 14.

CHAPTER 15.

Of the secretary of state.

Of the state treasurer.

Of the attorney general and solicitors.
Of notaries public and commissioners in other
states.

Of the tenure and oath of office.

CHAPTER 16. Of filling vacancies.

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SECTION 1. The seal of the State of New Hampshire shall be two inches in diameter, circular, with the following device and inscription: a field encompassed with laurels; around the field in capital letters, SIGILLUM REIPUBLICÆ NEO-HANTONIENSIS; on the field a rising sun, and a ship on the stocks with the American banner displayed. It shall be kept and affixed by the secretary of state.

SEC. 2. The secretary shall prepare annually and distribute to the clerk of each town and place seasonably, before every meeting for the choice of state or county officers, representatives in congress, or electors of president and vice-president, printed blanks for the return of votes for said officers, with such instructions as may be deemed necessary or useful, which blanks shall be used by said clerks in making said returns.

SEC. 3. All blanks, laws, journals or packages directed to be sent by the secretary to the several counties, shall be suitably di

rected and sent to the office of the register of deeds for the county, who shall distribute them; and all blanks, laws, journals and packages, directed to be sent by him to the several towns in this State, shall be sent by mail, or by public or private express, as he may judge expedient, directed to the proper officer or person, and left at the post office in the town where such officer or person resides. (R. S., sec. 3; laws, 1849, chap. 877; laws, 1848, chap. 759.)

SEC. 4. The secretary shall arrange methodically, fold uniformly, file and label all the papers in his office belonging to the State, and preserve the same carefully, and he shall give copies thereof duly authenticated, whenever required and paid therefor.

SEC. 5. He shall subscribe for and take two hundred and fifty copies of each number of the New Hampshire reports which may be published, for the use of the State, until otherwise directed, and shall deliver one copy to each town, one copy to the clerk of the court of common pleas in each county for the use of said court; and shall deposit the remainder in the state library. He shall also procure a sufficient number of copies of said reports, which now are or may hereafter be published, in good binding, to supply the government of the United States and the several states and territories of the Union with one full copy each, including such of said reports as may have been already furnished and transmitted, and cause the same to be duly transmitted to the secretaries thereof. In addition thereto, he shall procure one hundred and twenty-five copies of each volume of said reports, commencing with the sixteenth volume of the "new series," provided, the same can be procured for four dol lars per volume, of the size and style of the new series already published. Such reports, when procured, shall be exchanged for other works on law and history to be deposited in the state library. (R. S., sec. 5; laws of 1843, chap. 59; laws of 1851, chap. 1152.)

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SECTION 1. The treasurer of the State shall be chosen annu

ally.

SEC. 2. Before entering upon the duties of his office, he shall give bond in the penal sum of two hundred thousand dollars, with sufficient sureties to be approved by the governor and council, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, which bond shall be deposited and safely kept in the office of the secretary of state.

SEC. 3. He shall provide and have at all times at the expense of the State, a suitable book or books for records, in which he shall keep a fair and correct account of all sums of money received into and paid from the treasury during the year.

SEC. 4. He shall keep a separate account with each officer of the State who receives a salary therefrom, in which shall be regularly entered all sums of money paid to each on account of such salary, specifying the amount paid on account of each year's salary; and all sums which may be paid from the treasury, on account of appropriations made by any general law of the State, shall be entered on separate accounts which shall be opened for the purpose, so that the amount appropriated and paid under each particular act may distinctly appear.

SEC. 5. He shall pay out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, all sums due by virtue of general or specific appropriations of the legislature, on warrants drawn by the executive, and the principal or interest of all loans which may at any time become due.

Sec. 6. Whenever any money due from the State on existing loans may be demanded, the treasurer is authorized to effect, on the credit and for the use of the State, other loans to pay the same, on time, from three to five years, as to him may seem necessary and proper, and at the lowest rate of interest at which the same can be procured, not exceeding six per cent. per annum; said loans. not to exceed in all the sum of fifty-five thousand dollars. (Laws of 1851, chap. 1142.)

SEC. 7. Upon representation made to the governor by any person, under oath, that the treasurer is insane, or manifestly insolvent, or that he has absconded, or concealed himself, or is guilty of any conduct which is to the hazard of the public treasure, the governor and council shall examine into the truth of such representation, and if it shall appear to be true, shall remove him from office and declare the same vacant. (R. S., sec. 6.)

SEC. 8. Upon the death, resignation, or removal of the treasurer, the governor, with advice of the council, shall appoint some suitable person as commissioner, to take charge of all the books, money and papers in said office, and to perform all the duties of treasurer until the next session of the legislature. Before any such commissioner shall enter upon the discharge of said duties, he shall give bond in the same manner as is hereinbefore provided for the treasurer. (R. S. sec. 7.)

SEC. 9. In case of any delinquency of the treasurer, the attor ney general upon the order of the governor and council, or if the legislature shall direct, shall commence a suit upon his official bond, and shall prosecute the same to final judgment, execution and satisfaction. (R. S., sec. 8.)

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SECTION 1. There shall be an attorney general, to be appointed by the governor and council in the manner provided by the constitution, as a vacancy may occur.

SEC. 2. The attorney general shall prosecute all indictments and informations, and defend all suits and processes against the State, but he shall not be retained or concerned in the prosecution or defence of any suit before the court of common pleas, unless where the State is a party thereto, or he is a party or interested

therein.

SEC. 3. The attorney general shall give bond to the State with sufficient sureties, to be approved by one or more justices of the superior court of judicature, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned to account for and pay over all money by him received as attorney general, to the State, county or individual to whom the same belongs, according to law.

SEC. 4. There shall be a solicitor for each county, to be appointed by the governor and council in the manner provided by the constitution, as vacancies may occnr.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the solicitor of each county to take charge of all suits and prosecutions in the name of the State, pending in the court of common pleas of such county; to prosecute or defend any suit in which such county is a party or interested; to examine and admit all claims against such county; to tax all bills of cost accruing in any proceeding where the State or county is interested, subject to be reëxamined and increased or diminished

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