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INSPECTORS OF LIME.

Each city and town in which lime is manufactured, or into which it is imported, may annually choose one or more inspectors of lime, who shall be sworn and shall inspect all lime manufactured in such place at the time when it is filled at the kiln, and all lime imported or sold therein. Pub. Sts., c. 60, § 46.

REGISTRAR OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND
DEATHS.

A city or town containing more than ten thousand inhabitants may choose a person other than the clerk to be registrar of births, marriages, and deaths, who shall be sworn, and to whom all the provisions of chapter 32 of the Public Statutes concerning clerks shall apply. The returns and notices required to be made and given to clerks shall be made and given to such registrars under like penalties. Pub. Sts., c. 32, § 16.

FOREST FIREWARDS.

In towns of less than three hundred voters, the towns may vote that the selectmen may serve as forest firewards. St. 1886, c. 296, § 2.

PARK COMMISSIONERS.

Any town in this Commonwealth which accepts the provisions of this act in the manner hereinafter prescribed, may, at a legal meeting called for the purpose, elect three competent persons who shall constitute a board of park commissioners for such town, and may prescribe their terms of office. No person shall be such commissioner who is at the same time a selectman, or treasurer or clerk of such town; and any such commissioner may be removed by a vote of twothirds of the legal voters of such town, at a legal town meeting called for the purpose. St. 1882, c. 154, § 1. St. 1890, c. 240. Any vacancy occurring in such board shall be filled for the residue of the term of the commissioner whose place is to be filled in the manner in which such commissioner was originally appointed. Such commissioners shall serve without compensation. St. 1882, c. 154, § 2.

SUPERINTENDENT OF TREES.

The officer appointed to have the care of the trees belonging to a city or town and his assistants, but no other person, except as is provided in the following section and in section 10 of chapter 54, may, and when required by the surveyors of highways or road commissioners, shall, trim or lop off trees and bushes standing

in highways, town ways, streets, or lanes, and, when ordered by vote of the mayor and aldermen, selectmen, or road commissioners, passed after public notice and hearing, shall cut down and remove such trees; and the surveyors of highways and road commissioners shall forthwith cause to be dug up and removed whatever obstructs such ways, or endangers, hinders, or incommodes persons travelling thereon; and shall forthwith cause snow to be removed from such ways or to be so trodden down as to make the ways reasonably safe and convenient. St. 1885, c. 123, § 2, amending Pub. Sts., c. 52, § 10.

There is no law expressly authorizing towns to elect a superintendent of trees, but the inference from the foregoing statute is that towns may elect such an officer.

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BATHS AND
WASH-HOUSES.

Towns which have accepted the statutes relating to public baths and wash-houses may appoint officers therefor. Pub. Sts., c. 27, § 14.

WATCHMEN.

A city or town may establish and keep a watch and determine the number and qualifications of the watchmen. The mayor and aldermen or selectmen shall appoint a suitable person to be

officer of the watch, and shall direct the manner in which watchmen shall be equipped. The expenses of the watch shall be defrayed in like manner as other town charges. Pub. Sts., c. 34, § 1.

CHAPTER IV.

OFFICERS TO BE APPOINTED BY SELECTMEN.

Forest Firewards. In all towns it shall be the duty of the selectmen to appoint annually, in March or April, one or more persons to be called forest firewards, who shall, in respect to fires in woodlands, have and exercise the powers and duties prescribed for firewards in chapter 35 of the Public Statutes. In towns of less than three hundred voters, the selectmen may serve as forest firewards if the towns shall so elect. St. 1886, c. 296, § 2.

Fish-Wardens.

The mayor and aldermen of cities and the selectmen of towns bordering on the Connecticut or Merrimack River shall appoint and fix the compensation of one or more suitable persons as fish-wardens within their respective cities and towns, who shall, respectively, make complaint of all offences under sections 32, 35, and 40 of chapter 91 of the Public Statutes. Pub. Sts., c. 91, § 42.

Inspector of Oil. The mayor and aldermen of every city, and the selectmen of every town of more than fifteen hundred inhabitants, and of

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