reasonable sum as he may order, conditioned that the appellant shall enter and prosecute the appeal with effect, and abide the order of the court thereon, and in the mean time keep the peace and be of good behavior towards all the citizens of the State; and a commission of the like offence by the appellant before a decision is had on such appeal, shall be deemed to be a breach of the condition of the recognizance.

SEC. 5. If any person shall be found committing either of said offences in any public street or road in the night time, he may be apprehended by any magistrate, constable or watchman, or by any person by order of such officer, and kept in custody in some convenient place not exceeding twenty-four hours, during which time he shall be carried before some justice of the peace, there to be prosecuted or discharged according to law.

SECTION 1. The selectmen, on application, may license any suitable person of good moral character to exercise the business of a taverner in such town. Such license shall designate the house where such tavern shall be kept, and being first recorded by the town clerk, shall be in force as to such house and no other for one year only; but such license shall not authorize the sale of wine and spirituous liquors, unless expressly authorized therein.

SEC. 2. Every licensed taverner shall at all times be furnished at the house designated in his license, with suitable provisions and accommodations for travellers, their cattle and horses; and if any person so licensed shall not be so furnished, he shall forfeit the sum of five dollars, to be recovered by any person suing for the

same.

SEC. 3. If any licensed taverner shall permit any riotous, disorderly or irregular conduct in or about his house or buildings, or permit any person upon the Lord's day to remain drinking intoxicating liquor therein, or at any other time permit any person to remain therein drinking to excess, or permit any person to play at cards, dice or billiards, or at any bowling alley, or any game in or about his house, yards or buildings, he shall be punished by fine not exceeding twenty dollars.

SEC. 4. If any licensed taverner shall be destitute of any of the provisions or accommodations aforesaid, or shall permit in or about his house any conduct forbidden by this chapter, the selectmen on complaint shall notify the parties interested, hear and examine all evidence in relation to the same, and if they shall see cause shall forthwith revoke such taverner's license; and the said revocation being recorded by the town clerk and notice thereof given to said taverner, such license shall be void.

SEC. 5. The selectmen of the respective towns shall license one or more suitable persons to sell wine and spirituous liquors, for medicinal, mechanical and chemical purposes, and for no other use or purpose. (Laws of 1849, chap. 846, sec. 1.)

SEC. 6. If any person not being licensed shall sell any spirituous liquor or wine, mixed or otherwise, in any quantity as aforesaid, he shall on conviction be punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars nor less than twenty dollars. (R. S., chap. 117, sec. 6, as amended by laws of 1849, chap. 846, sec. 5.)

SEC. 7. All licenses granted under this act [fifth section of this chapter] shall be recorded and may be revoked in the same manner as is provided in regard to licensed taverns. [Sec. 4 of this chapter.] (Laws of 1849, chap. 846, sec. 3.)

SEC. 8. The town clerk shall be entitled to a fee of twenty cents for recording each taverner's or retailer's license. chap. 117, sec. 7.)

(R. S.,

SEC. 9. Whenever, upon proceedings had before a justice of the peace for any violation of the sixth section of the one hundred and seventeenth chapter of the revised statutes, [the sixth section of this chapter,] the magistrate before whom the examination takes place shall be of the opinion that the person complained against is guilty of the offence charged, he shall order such offender to recognize, with sufficient sureties, in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, to appear at the next court of common pleas for such county and abide the order of said court, and in the mean time to keep the peace and be of good behavior, and especially not to violate the provisions of said sixth section, and to stand committed until such order is complied with. (Laws of 1848, chap. 620.)

SEC. 10. No license which shall be granted by the selectmen to any person to exercise the business of a taverner, or to sell wine and spirituous liquors for medicinal, mechanical and chemical purposes, by virtue of the chapter of which this act is in amend

ment, [chap. 117 of R. S., this chapter] shall extend or be in force after the first day of April next after the expiration of the term of office of such selectmen. (Laws of 1845, chap. 244.)

SECTION 1. No person shall do any work, business or labor of his secular calling to the disturbance of others, works of necessity and mercy excepted, on the first day of the week commonly called the Lord's day; nor shall any person use any play, game or recreation on that day or any part thereof.

SEC. 2. No person shall on the Lord's day, within the walls of any house of public worship or near the same, behave rudely or indecently, either in the time of public service or between the forenoon and afternoon services.

SEC. 3. Any person offending against any provision of the foregoing sections of this chapter, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding six dollars nor less than one dollar, which shall be recovered by any selectman or police officer for the use of the town.

SEC. 4. Any selectman or police officer shall have power to remove any person behaving rudely or indecently in any meeting for public worship from the place of such meeting, and him detain until the close of such meeting, and the same right to command assistance as sheriffs have, and may prosecute for all violations of the preceding sections of this chapter.

SEC. 5. Parents, guardians and masters shall be respectively liable for all forfeitures incurred by children, wards or servants under their care.

SEC. 6. If any person shall disturb any religious meeting by speaking in the same so as to interrupt or prevent the stated and orderly proceedings and exercises of such meeting, or shall make

such disturbance while the people are assembling at or leaving their place of worship, and shall not desist therefrom when requested, he may be removed from such meeting or place of worship by any individual.

SEC. 7. Any person so offending shall be fined not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars, and may be required to recognize with sureties in a sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, to appear at the court of common pleas next to be holden in said county,' and to abide the order of said court, and in the mean time to be of good behavior.

SEC. 8. If such recognizance is forfeited, said court may require such offender to recognize with sufficient sureties in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, to appear at the next term of said court, and to abide the order thereof, and in the mean time to be of good behavior, and so from term to term as may be ordered by said court, so long as such forfeiture shall be incurred.

SEC. 9. No person shall keep any shop, tent, booth, wagon or carriage for the sale of, or shall sell, give or expose to sale, any spirituous or intoxicating liquors, goods or merchandise of any kind within two miles of any public assembly convened for the purpose of religious worship; but this shall not be construed to prevent any person from selling merchandise at the shop or store where he usually transacts business; nor from selling any liquors in any place where he shall have received a license therefor before the appointment of such religious meeting; nor to prevent any pedler from selling his goods to any person at the usual place of business or residence of such person.

SEC. 10. If any person shall be guilty of a breach of the preceding section, upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, he shall be fined not exceeding ten dollars, or committed to the house of correction not exceeding thirty days, or may be sentenced to both said punishments.

SEC. 11. If any person shall be guilty of noisy, rude or indecent behavior, of exhibiting shows or plays, or promoting or engaging in horse racing or gambling at or near any such religious meeting, so as to interrupt or disturb the same, upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, he shall be fined not exceeding ten dollars; or if the offence be of an aggravated nature, he may be held to recognize with sufficient sureties to appear at the court of common pleas next to be holden in the same county; and upon conviction before such court, he shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding ninety days.

SEC. 12. Any person upon view of any offence described in this chapter may apprehend such offender and bring him before some justice of the peace, who, upon complaint under oath, shall issue his warrant, cause such offender to be arrested and proceed to a hearing of such complaint.

SEC. 13. No prosecution for any violation of the provisions of

this chapter shall be sustained unless commenced within thirty days after the commission of such offence.

SECTION 1. The health officers may make regulations for the prevention and removal of nuisances, and such other regulations relating to the public health, as in their judgment the health and safety of the people may require, which shall take effect when they shall be approved by the selectmen, recorded with such approbation by the town clerk, and published in some newspaper printed in the town, or copies thereof posted in two or more public places in the town. And any person wilfully violating such regulations, shall incur a penalty of ten dollars, to be recovered by the health officers in the name of the town.

SEC. 2. Health officers and each of them shall inquire into all nuisances and other causes of danger to the public health, and whenever they shall know or have cause to suspect that any nuisance or other thing injurious to the public health is in any building, vessel or enclosure, they shall make complaint under oath to some justice of the peace, who shall issue a warrant directed to them to search such building, vessel or enclosure, and they may by virtue thereof in the day time forcibly enter therein and make such search.

SEC. 3. The health officers may give written notice to the owner or occupier of any building, vessel or enclosure, to remove or destroy any nuisance or other thing deemed by them on examination to be injurious to the public health, within a certain time limited therein; and in case such owner or occupier, the said.