Duties, No. 6.
Forgery, No. 8.
Idiots, No. 32.
Fudges, No. 2.

Perjury, No. 2, 4, 5, &

Discharge.

See Pleading, No. 6.
Sheriffs, No. 53, 54.
Theft, No. 6.

Disclosure.

See Foreign attachment, No. 29, 31.
Gaming, No. 19.

Sickness, No. 12, 14.

Testate and intestate estates, No. 9.

Discontinuance of highways.

See Highways, No. 39, 40, 41, 42.

Disfranchisement.

See Defamation, No. 3.
Election, No. 19.
Freemen, No. 6.

Disguise.

See Trespasses, No. 7.

Disorderly persons.

See Workhouses, No. 15.

5. Such person, if prosecuted, may give the act in evidence, on plea of not guilty, ib. 6. Mad dogs, and dogs doing mischief, out of the care of the owner, may be destroyed, 7. Dogs going at large to wear collars; otherwise, they may be killed, ib. 8. Owners of dogs liable for damage done by them, See Sheep, No. 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 18. Sickness, No. 27.

Donations:

ib.

See Afinisters, No. 18.

1. On writs, appeals, continuances, &c.
rated,
242
2. When, and to whom to be paid, ib.
3. Receivers of duties, when to render
their account, and to whom, ib.
4. Their compensation for receiving
and paying over the same,

ib.
5. The treasurer, in May annually, to
make return to the general assembly,
of all such accounts of duties, and of
the names of receivers who have
made no return,
242, 243
6. Receivers, who shall neglect to
make return of duties by the 20th
May annually, to be incapable of
bolding the office, by means whereof
they received such duties,
243
7. The treasurer to call to account the
receivers of duties, in case they be
not re-appointed, and their execu-
tors, &c in case of their decease, ib.
8. To certify to the superior, county,
and city courts, the neglect of their
respective clerks, in case they shall
omit to make return of duties,
9. Writs and appeals not valid, unless
the duties be certified in writing, by
the authority signing the same,
10. Duties on writs, &c. not to be re-
turned by the authority signing the
same, after signing and delivery, ib.
11. No writ, &c. filled up against one
person, to be altered and filled up
against another, without a further
certificate and duty thereon,
ib.
12. The court before whom such alter-

ib.

ib.

ed writ shall be returned, to abate
the same ex officio, and tax costs for
the defendant,
243, 244

13. The amount of duties on any writ,
&c. to be certified in words at full
length,
244

14. Duties on writs, &c. how appropri-

ated,

Peace, No. 3, 4.

1. Freemen's meetings how warned,
244, 245
2. When and where to be held, 244,
245
Representatives to be first chosen,
244, 245
4. Persons to stand in nomination for
assistants, and members of congress,
when and how nominated, 244, 248,
249, 250, 251, 252
5. The manner of voting in freemen's
meetings, regulated, 244, 245, 246,
248, 249, 250, 252.
6. Who shall preside in freemen's
meetings,

251
7. Votes for state officers, members of
congress, and for nomination for as-

15. Persons holding offices under the U.
S. ineligible as members of the le-
gislature,

ib.
16. Penalty in case any person not a
freeman, shall vote in freemen's mee-
ting, or being a freeman, shall put
in more than one vote, &c. 246, 252,
253
17. Or, in case any person shall unduly
influence the votes of others,

246,
847, 250
18. Or, in case any one shall give or re-
ceive a bribe, &c. 247, 248, 250
19. Such persons to be disfranchised for
the second offence,
247
20. Persons chosen by bribery, &c. in-
capable of serving as members of
the general assembly,

ib.

21. Constables and grand jurors to make
presentment,

ib.

22. In what cases, towns restricted to
one representative, may send two, ib.
23. Vacancies in the senate of the United
States, how supplied,
248

24. Members of congress how chosen
and declared,
249
25. Votes for persons to stand in nomi-
nation for members of congress, and
for the choice of members, when
to be opened and counted, ib.
26. Qualifications of members of con-
gress,
ib.
27. Vacancies in the representation to
congress how supplied, 249, 250
28. Persons chosen senators or repre-
sentatives in congress to signify their
acceptance to the governour, 250
29. Penalty, &c. in case any person shall
disturb freemen's meetings, 251
30. Selectmen to procure ballot box-
252

es,

31. The duty of presiding officers pre-

252

scribed, 244, 245, 246, 249, 250, 252,
253, 254, 255, 256
32. Civil authority and constables to
assist the presiding officer,
33. Votes to be lodged in the town
clerk's office,
249, 253, 255
34. Electors of president and vice-presi-
dent of the United States, how cho-
sen,
256
35. The treasurer to provide and annu-
ally to transmit to the several town
clerks, blank forms for the returns
of votes,
ib.
36. Returns of votes to be delivered to
the secretary, who shall deliver them
arranged in due order, to the com-
mittee appointed to receive them,
256,257
37. Mode of proceeding in case any
town shall neglect to make return to
the secretary,
257

See Societies, No. 23, 24. 25.

Electors of president and vice-
president of the U. States.

See Constitution of the U. S. No. 47, 48.
Election, No. 34.

Ely's (Cullick) ferry.

1. Fare of regulated,

See Ferries,

Emancipation.

See Slaves, No. 7, 9.

Embargo.

323

1. The governour, with advice of the
council, may prohibit the transporta-
tion of articles, &c. out of this state,
257,258
3. The continuance of such prohibition,
to be limited in the proclamation,
3. Exception as to the stores of ships of
war, merchant vessels, &c.

258

ib.

ib,

5. Disposition of such penalty, 259, 260
6. No appeal to be allowed in prosecu
tions for such penalty,
260
7, Burden of proof, to lie on the defen-
dant, in the trial of such prosecu
tions,
8, The select-men, &c. may without
further notice, remove such en-
croachments as often as they may be
set up, they having been once re-
moved,
9. Persons sued in trespass, for remo-
ving such encroachments, may plead
the general issue, and give the act
in evidence,

ib.

ib.
10. Proof necessary, on the part of the
ib.
plaintiff, in such cases,
11. In case judgment be for the defen-
dant, or the plaintiff be non-suited,
the defendant to recover double
costs,
ib.

under what restrictions to be allow-