PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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No nolle prosequi shall be granted by the governor in case of any

prosecution by presentment or indictment for the recovery of any

fine, penalty or forfeiture only — April, 1782, ch. 42, sec. 4, .

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See Limitation of Actions.

The prosecution to be by indictment or action of debt in acts which

direct it to be by bill, plaint or information — November, 1792,

ch 20, ...........

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On acquittal, in a trial for misdemeanor, &c. or on pleading guilty, and

submission, the court may order that no compensation for attend-

ance of the prosecutor be allowed — 1809, ch. 138, ch. 24, .

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PUBLIC WORSHIP.*

An act for its protection — 1824, ch. 53, ......

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Not lawful to have any contrivance whatever for the use of selling or

giving away any spirituous or fermented liquors, within two miles

of any camp-meeting, or other place of religious meeting, during

the time of holding such meeting, except as is excepted — 1824, ch.

53, sec. 1, ..........

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Proceeding directed against such as offend, and the penalties imposed

upon those who aro guilty of a violation — 1824, ch. 53, sec. 2,

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These restrictions not to operate on a licensed tavern-keeper, at his

usual place of residence, or merchant or shop-keeper, or others in

their usual transactions, at their usual places of carrying on their

business, or those who may have authority from the managers of

the meeting, in writing — 1824, ch. 53, sec. 3, ....

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Persons sued may give this act in evidence — 1824, ch. 53, sec. 4,

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Penalty on those who may disturb any meeting — 1824, ch. 53, sec. 5,

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Prior laws repealed — 1824, ch. 53, sec. 6, .....

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The act of 1824, ch. 53, modified— 1827, ch. 29, ....

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So much of the second section as requires a seizure by two freeholders

of the forfeited property, repealed, and an additional punishment of

a fine not exceeding $10, may be imposed — 1827, ch. 29, sec. 1, .

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One justice may act — 1827, ch. 29, sec. 2, .

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Negroes for selling liquor may be punished — 1827, ch. 29, sec. 3,

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Whipping prohibited within one mile of meeting — 1827, ch. 29, sec. 4,

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A supplement to the preceding acts — 1839, ch. 293,

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All that part of 1824, ch. 53, which requires that previous notice be

given to the offenders, and the intervention of two freeholders, re-

pealed, and the mode pointed out against such as offend— -1839,

ch. 293, sec. 1, ..........

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Penalty imposed — 1839, ch. 294, sec. 2, ......

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Officers' fees— 1829, ch. 294, sec. 3, ......

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QUAKERS.

See Constitution.

An affirmation by a quakcr may be as valid as an oath to qualify him

to net as a surveyor or chain-carrier under the act for marking and

bounding lands — 1793, ch. 70, sec. 5, .....

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*See Religious Incorporations.