Mayor and aldermen may grant and revoke licenses. Ibid, § 2. Fee. information concerning such places for or to such domestics, servants, or laborers, or for the purpose of procuring, for employers, domestics, servants, or other laborers, except seamen, or procuring or giving information concerning such domestics, servants, or laborers, for or to employers, without a license as hereinafter provided, under a penalty of not less than ten dollars for each and every day such office shall be so kept, to be recovered, by complaint, in any court of competent jurisdiction. 2. The mayor and aldermen of any city, may grant licenses, for the term of one year, to suitable persons, for the foregoing purposes, and may revoke and annul the same whenever they may deem it expedient; and they shall be entitled to have and recover, for each and every license so granted, the sum of one dollar and no more. Mayor and al dermen empow STATUTES. LAMPS. 1. Mayor and aldermen empow 2. Penalties for wilfully breaking or injuring the same, &c. 3. Penalty for the same under the Revised Statutes. 1. It shall be lawful for the mayor and aldermen of the ered to set up city of Boston for the time being, to cause to be set up and lamps, and make the same. 1825, 3, § 1. rules respecting affixed, such and so many lamps in the streets and other places in the said city, for the purpose of lighting the same, as they may determine to be convenient and necessary. And the said mayor and aldermen are empowered to make all necessary contracts, rules, orders, and regulations, respecting the said lamps, and the lighting and keeping the same in repair, and the regulation and preservation of the same, as they may deem most for the benefit of said city. Penalties for wilfully break 2. Whoever shall wilfully, maliciously, carelessly or wantonly break, throw down, extinguish, or otherwise in the same, &c. Ibid, $2. 1823, 113, §§ 1, 2. jure any of the said lamps, or the posts, irons, or other fur- ing or injuring niture to the same belonging, shall upon conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than thirty dollars for each lamp so broken or damnified, and the like sum for each post or the iron or other furniture so broken or damaged, and costs of prosecution; which fines and forfeitures shall enure, the one moiety thereof to the use of the commonwealth, and the other moiety to the use of the person who shall prosecute for the same.1 3. Every person who shall wilfully or maliciously ex- Penalty for the tinguish any lamp, or break, destroy or remove any lamp, Revised Statutes. or any lamp post, or any railing or posts, erected on any bridge, sidewalk, street, highway, court or passage, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail, not more than six months, or by fine not exceeding fifty dollars. 2 same, under the R. S. 126, 43. STATUTES. LEATHER. 1. Deputy inspectors of sole leather to be appointed, and to give bond. 2. Inspector general to make annual returns. 3. Sole leather not to be sold until inspected, weighed and sealed, except, &c. 4. Penalty for buying or selling 6. Deputy inspector to inspect on 7. Sole leather to be weighed and 1 The stat. of 1825, c. 3, provided for the same penalties mentioned in stat. 1823, c. 113, to be recovered and appropriated in the same manner. The statute last mentioned was repealed by the Revised Statutes. The 3d section of stat. 1825, c. 3, repealed an old act, passed June 29, 1773; 3 Sp. Laws, App. 27. 2 Whether this section is applicable to Boston and operates as a repeal of the preceding section, (stat. 1825, c. 3, § 2,)—quære. Deputy inspectors of sole leath bond. measurers' marks. 12. Penalty for fraudulently stamp- 17. Fees of measurer, and how 1. The inspector general of sole leather1 shall appoint one er to be appoint- or more deputy inspectors; and in the city of Boston, they ed, and to give shall be appointed upon the application of the mayor and aldermen, and in any town on application of the selectmen thereof; and the said inspector general shall be answerable for the doings of his deputies, and shall take a bond, with sufficient sureties, from each of them to himself and his successors in office, in a penal sum not exceeding three hundred dollars. Inspector gen eral to make annual returns. Ibid, 122. Sole leather not to be sold until inspected, weighed and &c. 2. The inspector general of sole leather shall annually, in the month of January, make a return, to the secretary of the commonwealth, of the number and weight of all the sides of sole leather, inspected by him and his deputies during the year, ending on the first day of that month; and in such return, he shall designate the quantity of each quality of leather so inspected, and the quantity of sole leather manufactured out of the state, so far as the same can be ascertained. 3. No sole leather, made of the hides of neat cattle, except such as shall have been previously inspected and sealed, except, sealed by one of the inspectors of this state, or by some inspector lawfully appointed for that purpose in some other of the United States, shall be sold to any person, for any purpose whatsoever, within any town in which there is an inspector, whether such sole leather is manufactured within Ibid, § 123. 1 The inspector general of sole leather is appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, and holds his office for five years unless sooner removed. He is required to give bonds, with sufficient sureties, to the treasurer of the commonwealth, in the penal sum of three thousand dollars. See Rev. Stat. c. 28, §§ 1, 2, 3, 4, 120. this state or brought into the same from any place whatsoever, until the same shall have been inspected, weighed and sealed, by one of the inspectors of such town1 within this state. ing or selling inspected. 4. If any person shall, within any town,1 for which an Penalty for buyinspector has been appointed, buy or sell any sole leather, sole leather not which shall not have been inspected as aforesaid, he shall ibid, § 124. forfeit one dollar for each side of leather so bought or sold, to be recovered to the use of the town where the offence shall have been committed. spect sole leath spection, except, Ibid, § 125. 5. Every inspector, whenever requested, shall inspect, Inspector to inwithin the town for which he is appointed, all sole leather er offered for inoffered for his inspection; provided, however, that when &c. there shall be less than thirty sides of leather to be inspected, and the distance shall be more than one mile from his place of residence, he may either require such sole leather to be brought to him for inspection, or may demand and shall be entitled to receive at the rate of ten cents for each mile, which he shall travel in such case, to be computed both in going from and returning to his place of residence. 6. Each deputy inspector, who is appointed for any one town in a county, shall, upon application made to him, inspect sole leather in any other town of the same county, when there is no inspector for such other town; and he shall also, upon the like application, inspect sole leather in any town of any adjoining county, when there is no inspector appointed in such adjoining county. Deputy inspecapplication, &c. Ibid, $126. tor to inspect on weighed and Ibid, § 127. 7. Each inspector shall furnish himself with proper Sole leather, how scales, weights and seals, for the purpose aforesaid, and stamped. shall weigh each side of sole leather which he shall inspect, and shall impress thereon his name, and the name of the place for which he is inspector, at full length, and also the weight thereof; and on all sole leather, which he shall find manufactured of good hides, in the best manner, he shall impress the word best, and on all manufactured of good hides, in a merchantable manner, the word good, and on all 1 In the construction of statutes, the word "town" may be construed to include all cities, &c. Rev. Stat. c. 2, § 6, clause 17. Penalty for coun- Fees. Penalty when weight varies five per cent. Ibid, 130. Manufacturers Such stamp a warranty. Penalty for fraudulently stamping. Ibid, § 132. Measurers of up per leather to be appointed by manufactured of damaged hides, in a merchantable manner, the word damaged, and on all sole leather not belonging to any of the qualities aforesaid, the word bad. 8. If any person shall counterfeit, alter or deface, such marks on any side of sole leather, so inspected, he shall for each offence forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars, to the use of the town where the offence shall have been committed. 9. The inspector general and each deputy inspector shall be paid for inspecting, weighing and sealing each side of sole leather, the sum of two cents, which shall be paid by the purchaser; and the inspector general may receive, from each of his deputies, two mills for each side of sole leather, which such deputy may inspect, weigh and seal as aforesaid. 10. If any side of sole leather shall, when dried in a merchantable manner, so vary as to weigh five per cent. more or less than the weight marked thereon by the inspector, who inspected the same, he shall be subject to the payment of the whole variation, at a fair valuation, to be recov ered, in an action of the case, by the party injured thereby. 11. Each manufacturer of leather, or of boots, half boots, shoes, pumps, sandals, slippers or over-shoes, shall have the exclusive right of stamping said articles, by him manufactured, with the first letter of his christian name, and the whole of his surname at large, and the name of the town or place of his abode; and such stamping shall be considered as a warranty that the article stamped is merchantable, and made of good materials and well manufactured; and none of the said articles shall be considered as merchantable, unless stamped as aforesaid. 12. Any person, who shall fraudulently stamp, or aid and abet in fraudulently stamping, either of the articles enumerated in the preceding section, with the name or stamp of any other person, shall be punished either by fine, not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment, not exceeding six months, or both. 13. The mayor and aldermen of the several cities, and the selectmen of the several towns in this commonwealth, |