PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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If there be neither widow, nor child nor grand-child, nor father, bro-

thers and sisters shall be entitled to administration — 1798, ch. 101,

sub ch. 5, sec, 13, .........

385

Males shall be preferred to females in equal degree — 1798, ch. 101, sub

ch. 6, sec. 15, ..........

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If there be a brother, or sister or child, or descendant of a brother or

sister, and no child, descendant, or father of an intestate, the said

brother, sister or child, or descendant of a brother or sister, shall

have the whole surplus of an intestate's estate — 1798, ch. 101, sub

ch. 11, sec. 89 ..........

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Every brother and sister of the intestate shall be entitled to an equal

share, and the child or children of a brother or sister shall stand in

the place of such brother or sister — 1798, ch. 101, sub ch. 11,

sec. 9, ..........

402

See Descents.

BURGLARY.

Murder committed in the perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate burglary,

to be deemed murder of the first degree — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 3,

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Every person convicted of burglary, or as an accessory before the fact,

to restore the thing taken, or pay the value, and to be sentenced to

confinement in the penitentiary not less than three nor more than

ten years — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 5, ......

575

Punishment for breaking a dwelling-house in the day time, or a store-

house, &c. by day or night, with intent to commit murder or felony,

or a shop, &c. and stealing goods, &c. — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 5,

576

See Crimes.

BURIALS.

All burials of free persons in the parish, by any protestant minister,

made known to the parish register, shall be entered by him in a

book provided for the purpose — 1798, ch. 24, sec. 19,

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The ministers directed to acquaint the registers therewith — 1798, ch.

24, sec. 19, ..........

363

If celebrated in any other parish, they shall acquaint the minister or a

vestryman thereof— 1798, ch. 24, sec, 20, .....

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Penalty on ministers, Sec. failing in the duty assigned them — 1798, ch.

24, sec. 21, ...........

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The register of the parish shall have the custody of all such registers,

to be shewn to any person reasonably desiring it, or a certificate to

be given, which, when signed by him, and under the common seal

of the vestry, shall be evidence — 1798, ch. 24, sec. 22,

364

BURNING OF HOUSES.

See CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.

BURYING-GROUND.

Land, not exceeding two acres for a church, meeting or other house of

worship, and for a bury ing-ground; excepted from the prohibition