of necessity or charity, or who shall attend any dancing or at any public diversion, show or entertainment, or take part in any sport, game or play, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding ten dollars, for each offense.

Hotel-keepers shall not, under a penalty of five dollars, permit persons, other than their guests, to remain upon their premises on the Sabbath.

No civil suits can be commenced, nor can courts be held on the Sabbath.

Persons who intentionally interrupt or disturb any assembly of people met for the purpose of worshiping God, shall be punished by a fine of not less than two nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days.

Agreements made on the Sabbath are void. Persons who conscientiously believe that the seventh day of the week (Saturday) ought to be observed as the Sabbath, and actually refrain from secular business and labor on that day, shall not be liable to the penalties prescribed for performing secular business or labor on the first day of the week, provided they disturb no other persons.

Gaming.-If any person, by playing at any game of chance, or by betting, lose to any person so betting or playing, any money or goods, he may recover the same, or the value thereof, in an action for that purpose. If the person losing the money or goods does not, within three months after his loss, sue for the same, the winner is subject to a fine not exceeding three times the value of the money or goods lost.

If any person shall win or lose at any time or sitting, by gaming or betting on the hands or sides of such as are gaming, any money or goods of the value of five dollars or more, whether the same be paid over or not, shall forfeit and pay three times the value of such money or goods. All notes,

bonds, mortgages or conveyances in which the consideration, in whole or in part, is for money or goods won by gaming or betting, are void, except as to those who hold or claim under them in good faith, and without notice of the illegality of such contract or conveyance.

Persons who keep, or knowingly permit to be kept, in any house, building, yard or garden which he occupies, any table for the purpose of playing at billiards for hire, gain or reward, or permit persons to resort to such place for the purpose of playing at billiards, nine-pins or other like game, cards or dice, or any other unlawful game, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and give security that he will not be guilty of any offense against the chapter of the statute to compel the observance of the Sabbath and to prevent gaming.

Persons playing at such games, at such tables or alleys, thereby forfeit a sum not less than two nor more than ten dollars for each offense.

Questions - What acts are prohibited on the first day of the week? What is said of hotel keepers? What of agreements made on the Sabbath? What exception as to labor on the Sabbath is made? In case money or goods shall be lost by playing at games of chance or betting, how may the same be recovered? How and under what circumstances may the winner or loser be punished? What is said of the validity of securities or conveyances given for moneys or goods won by betting or at games of chance?

CHAPTER LV.

THE LAW OF THE ROAD

CONDUCT OF DRIVERS DESTRUC

TION OF TIMBER MARKS.

Whenever persons, traveling with a team, meet each other on any road or bridge, each person is required to drive to the right of the middle of the traveled part of the road or bridge. A failure to do this, subjects the person so failing, to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars, and to the payment of whatever damages a party may sustain by reason of such failure.

No hack or stage proprietor is allowed to keep a driver who is in the habit of using intoxicating liquors to excess; and for so doing he is liable to a penalty of five dollars a day for the time he retains him in his service.

If such driver is intoxicated while driving a coach, stage, hack or omnibus, it is the duty of the proprietor to discharge him as soon as notified of the fact by any passenger, under oath, and in writing, who witnessed the same; and a failure to discharge such driver, subjects the proprietor to a penalty of five dollars per day so long as he shall keep him.

If a driver of a carriage for the conveyance of passengers for hire, intentionally causes or permits his horses to run away, whether any person be in the carriage or not, he is liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the Court. If such driver shall leave his horses while attached to a carriage in or on which any passenger may be at the time, without some suitable person to take

charge of them, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars.

Proprietors of public conveyances are liable to persons injured, for the misconduct of the driver, while in the employment of such proprietor.

Destruction of Timber Marks. - Whoever shall unlawfully cut out, alter, or destroy any mark of the owner, made on any logs, timber or lumber, put into any lake, stream, or pond, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten dollars, for each log, stick of timber, or piece of lumber, the mark of which he shall have so altered, cut or destroyed, and shall be liable to the party injured in three times the amount of the damage.

Whoever takes, without the consent of the owner, logs, timber, boards, or planks, floating in any of the waters of this State, or lying on the banks or shores, or on any island on which they shall have drifted, is liable to the owner in three times the amount of the damages; but if they shall have remained there for two years, without the owner's having paid the owner of the land, or offered to pay him the damages. occasioned by reason of their lying on his land, and whatever damages he would sustain by their removal, they become the property of the land-owner.

Questions What does the law require of persons driving teams. on the highways, when meeting each other? What is the penalty for stage proprietors retaining in their employ intemperate drivers? What is said with reference to hitching or fastening horses attached to public conveyances? Who are liable for injuries occasioned by misconduct of drivers? What is said of the destruction of certain timber marks? What is said with reference to logs, timber and lumber that may float upon the lands of any person?

CHAPTER LVI.

LOST GOODS AND STRAY BEASTS.

Any person finding lost goods is required immediately to give notice to the owner, if known. If not, and the goods are worth three dollars or more, he must, within two days, post notices in two public places within the township where the property was found, and within seven days give written notice to the Town Clerk, and pay him twenty-five cents for making an entry thereof in a book kept for that purpose.

If the value of the goods be ten dollars or more, notice must also be published within a month, in a newspaper of the county, if there be one, and if not, then in a newspaper of an adjoining county, for six weeks.

Any resident freeholder of any township, may take up any stray horses, mules, or asses, going at large beyond the range where they usually run at large; and may also take up, between the months of November and March, stray cattle, sheep, or swine.

Such finder is required to give immediate notice to the owner, if known. He must, within ten days, have notice thereof entered in the Township Clerk's book, giving the color, age and marks of the animals, as near as may be, together with the name and place of residence of the finder, and pay the Clerk fifty cents. The Clerk sends a copy of the notice to the County Clerk.

If the owner does not appear within one month, and claim his property, and the animals taken up shall be worth more than ten dollars, the finder is required to advertise as in case of lost goods.

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