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verification of account.

§ 1030. No accounts shall be audited, unless Form and made out and verified in the mode prescribed by section 898, for accounts presented to the board of supervisors.

1 R. S., 680, § 26.

of allow

ance.

§ 1031. The board of town auditors shall make Certificates duplicate certificates, to be signed by a majority of them, specifying the name of the claimant, the nature of the demand and the amount allowed; one of the certificates shall be filed in the town clerk's office, for the inspection of any inhabitants of the town, and the other shall be delivered to the supervisor to be by him laid before the board of supervisors at their annual meeting.

Ib., § 48.

statement.

§ 1032. The board of town auditors shall annu- Annual ally deliver to the clerk of the board of supervisors a brief abstract of the names of all persons who have presented to them accounts to be audited, the amounts claimed by each and the amounts finally audited by them respectively.

Ib., 683, § 42.

ARTICLE VII.

PROVISIONS RELATING TO SEVERAL TOWN OFFICERS.

SECTION 1033. Delivery of books and papers to successor.

1034. Demand of books and papers.

1035. Funds to be delivered.

1036. Posting notice.

§ 1033. Whenever the right of any town officer Delivery of

to his office expires, the books and papers belong

books and papers to successor.

Demand.

Funds

Posting notice.

ing to the office shall, upon his oath, or, in case of his death, upon the oath of his executors or administrators, be delivered on demand to his successor. The oath may be administered by the successor. Any person violating this section is liable to the town in a penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars.

1 R. S., 667, § 9 to 11.

§ 1034. It is the duty of each officer to make such demand on his predecessor or his executors or administrators, and to enforce the same by proceedings under article VII of chapter VI of title I of part III of this Code, entitled "Proceedings to compel the delivery of books and papers by public officers."

Ib.

§ 1035. It is the duty of every supervisor, commissioner of highways and overseer of the poor, going out of office, to pay over to his successor the balance of moneys remaining in his hands, as ascertained by the board of town auditors.

Ib.

§ 1036. If in any town there is no town-house at a time when any notice is by law required to be posted on the town-house door, it shall be posted on the outer door of the building in which the town meetings then are usually held; or in which the last previous town meeting was held.

CHAPTER IV.

STRAYS.

SECTION 1037. Notice of strays.

1038. Entry of notice.

1039. Book to be open to inspection and search.

1040. Charges for keeping strays.

1041. Fence viewers' fees.

1042. Proceedings if strays are not redeemed.
1043. Sale.

1044. Notice of sale.

1045, 1016. Proceeds.

1047. Penalty.

1018. Cities.

From 1 R. S., 660, §§ 17 to 29.

strays.

§ 1037. Whenever any person has upon his Notice o inclosed land any strayed horse at any time, or, between the first day of November and the first day of April thereafter, any strayed neat cattle or sheep, he shall, within ten days after the coming of such stray thereon, give written notice of his name and place of abode, and the age, color and marks, natural and artificial, of each stray, as near as may be, to the clerk of the town where the lands lie. If he neglects to do so within the time required, he shall be precluded from all the benefits of this chapter and from all claim to compensation for keeping such strays.

§ 1038. The town clerk shall immediately enter Entry of each notice at large in a book to be provided by him for that purpose; for which entry he shall

Book to

be open to inspection

receive six cents each for all neat cattle and horses, and three cents for each sheep, to be paid by the person delivering the notice.

§ 1039. The book for such entries shall always and search. be kept open to inspection, and no fee shall be taken by the clerk for any search therein.

Charges for keeping strays.

Fence view. er's fees.

Proceedings if

strays are not re

deemed.

§ 1040. The person delivering the notice shall be entitled to receive therefor, from the owner, nine cents each for all neat cattle and horses, and three cents for each sheep described, together with fees paid or due to the clerk, and all reasonable charges for keeping the strays; such charges being first ascertained by two of the fence viewers of the town, to be selected by him in case he and the owner of the strays cannot otherwise agree He has a lien on the strays therefor.

§ 1041. Each fence viewer is entitled to receive from the owner of the strays six cents for every mile he is obliged to travel from his house to the place where such strays are kept, and twenty-five cents for a certificate of the charges as ascertained by him.

§ 1042. Every person who gives such notice and keeps any stray described, shall, if it be not sooner redeemed, between the first and twentieth days of May, give notice to one of the fence viewers, who shall fix and certify the reasonable

charges of keeping. The fence viewer shall be paid, by the person applying for the certificate, the fees prescribed by the preceding section.

pays

§ 1043. If no owner claims such stray, and Sale. the sums charged, on or before the first day of May next after the making of the entry, the stray may be sold by public auction to the highest bidder.

sale.

§ 1044. The person selling shall give at least Notice of twenty days' previous notice of the time and place of sale, by posting notice thereof at three of the most public places in the town where the strays have been kept.

§ 1045. Out of the proceeds of sale he shall Proceeds. retain the sums charged by him under this article, and the same charges for sale as are allowed on sales under executions issued out of justices' courts. He shall pay the residue on demand, to the owner of the strays.

§ 1046. If the owner does not appear and de- Proceeds. mand the same within one year, he shall be forever precluded from recovering the same, and it shall be paid to the supervisor for the use of the town; and his receipt is evidence thereof.

§ 1047. If the person who sold such strays shall Penalty. not, within thirty days after the expiration of the year, pay such balance to the supervisor of the

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