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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and FortyFive.

AN ACT

In relation to Laws which may be hereafter repealed.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 SECT. 1. All laws, sections of laws, or provisions 2 of any law of this Commonwealth, which may be 3 hereafter repealed by the Legislature, either by an 4 express statute to that effect, or by the enactment 5 of another law upon the same subject, by which all 6 laws inconsistent with it are thereby repealed, shall

7 not, at any subsequent time, be considered a valid 8 law, binding on the citizens of this Commonwealth, 9 unless such law or provisions of law, as the case may 10 be, shall be revived or re-enacted by the Legisla 11 ture.

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SECT. 2. Whenever any law or provisions of law, 2 which shall have been repealed, but which are to be 3 revived, then all such laws or provisions of law, shall 4 be incorporated in the reviving or re-enacting law, 5 and published in the same manner as though they 6 were for the first time enacted.

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SECT. 3. This act shall take effect from and 2 after its passage.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and FortyFive.

AN ACT

Relating to impounding Cattle.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

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SECT. 1. Every field driver, or other person ta2 king up, distraining or impounding cattle or beasts of 3 any kind, under and by virtue of the nineteenth and 4 one hundred and thirteenth chapters of the Revised 5 Statutes, shall make and file, within forty-eight hours 6 thereafter, in the office of the clerk of the town or 7 city, within which such cattle or beasts are distrained,

8 a copy of the notice, given or posted, according to the 9 provisions of the eighth and ninth sections of the one 10 hundred and thirteenth chapter of the Revised Stat11 utes, with a statement of his actual and necessary 12 travel in the service of said notice, and his other acts 13 and doing in reference to the same, signed by the 14 person so distraining, and sworn to before some jus15 tice of the peace; and such affidavit, so made and 16 filed, shall be, in any proceeding in relation to said 17 taking up, distraining or impounding, evidence of such 18 acts in the same manner and with the same force and 19 effect as returns which are required to be made by 20 sheriffs.

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SECT. 2. The clerk of said town or city shall 2 make and preserve a record of the affidavit above re3 quired, and of the time of filing the same.

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SECT. 3. The field driver or other person so ta2 king, distraining or impounding, shall receive four 3 cents per mile for actual and necessary travel in the 4 service of said notice, twenty-five cents for making 5 said affidavit, and twenty five cents more for the re6 cord of the said clerk; and these fees, together with 7 the fees of the magistrate who shall administer the 8 oath as aforesaid, shall be paid by the person whose 9 cattle or beasts have been taken, distrained or im10 pounded, and shall be a part of the fees to be collect11 ed and received by virtue of such taking, distraining 12 or impounding.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and FortyFive.

AN ACT

Concerning the Study of Medicine.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 SECT. 1. The selectmen of any town, and the 2 mayor and aldermen of any city, in this Common3 wealth, shall annually designate an officer, whose 4 duty it shall be to report to the town or city clerk, 5 and, upon request, to surrender, in an undissected 6 and unmutilated state, the dead bodies of such per

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