THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF TOWNS, AS SET FORTH IN PART II. THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE SEVERAL TOWN OFFICERS. PART III. THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF RELIGIOUS AND SCHOOL BY SAMUEL WHITING, ESQ. DANBURY: PRINTED BY NATHANIEL L. SKINNER. " 165949 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1900 L.S. DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, $3: BE it Remembered, That on the sixteenth day of September, in the thirty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, SAMUEL WAITING, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit: "The Connecticut Town-Officer; in three parts, containing in "Part 1.-The power and duty of Towns, as set forth in the "Statutes, which are recited. Part 11.-The powers and du"ties of the several Town Officers, with a variety of forms for "the use of such Officers. Part 111.-The powers and duties "of Religious and School Societies, and their several and res56 pective Officers, with suitable forms. By SAMUEL WHIes TING, Esq." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing "the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." HENRY W. EDWARDS, 1 RECOMMENDATION. TO THE PUBLIC. A compilation, entitled "THE CONNECTICUT TOWNOFFICER," by Samuel Whiting, Esq. has been submitted to the perusal and inspection of the subscribers. A well executed publication in the nature of a guide and assistant to the several town and society officers, in the discharge of their respective duties, wherein the several laws under which those duties arise, whether they relate to the powers and duties of towns and societies, as corporations, or those of the individual officers who are the immediate agents, are placed in a connected view under a perspicuous arrangement, would, in our opinion, be particularly and highly useful to the public. By bringing into one view the several laws applicable to any particular subject or duty, and also the several subjects and duties to which any particular "office hath relation ;" and combining with that view the directions and forms, which the details of the office may require, placed in alphabetical arrangement, the labours of the officer will be rendered comparatively easy, a more punctual observance of the laws secured, and correctness and perspicuity in the proceedings greatly promoted. The compilation above mentioned, the professed object of which is to supply the public with an aid of the foregoing description, appears to us to be so far calculated to answer the valuable end proposed, that we are induced to express our approbation of the same, and to recommend it to the attention and patronage of the public. ELIZUR GOODRCH, SAMUEL B. SHERWOOD. August 19, 1813. |