Excerpt from A Guide to Officers of Towns, Containing the Statutes Relating to Their Official Duties, With Forms, Directions, and Legal Decisions: Adapted to the Revised Statutes of New-HampshireThe Revised Statutes are referred to by chapters and sections, thus: R. S., oh. Sec. The word I bid. Refers to the next reference preceding. If the reference, is to a chapter or section, and no more, it means that chapter of this book, or that section of the same chapter. The new-hampshire Reperts are re, ferred to by the volume and page, as, for instance, 1 jv. H. R., 38 -~meaningrv'olume 1, page 38. Tss. R., Pick. R, and Metcalf, R, , refer to the Massachusetts, Pickering's and Metcalf's Reports 3 these are all deci sions by courts in Massachusetts. Maine R, Greenleaf 12. Fairfield R., and Shepley R., refer to Maine, Green. Leaf's, Fairfield's and Shepley's Reports, these are all decisions by courts in Maine. Vermont R, refers to the Vermont Reports.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.