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sheriff, officers or corporation by whose default the said transfer
was delayed or omitted, and may recover the value of the stock
or debt at the time the transfer should have been made, or at any
time afterwards, before the rendering of the verdict in his said,
suit.

1868, ch. 471, sec. 208.

287. Any person whom the court may appoint to make any
transfer, shall be entitled to the sum of one dollar, to be paid by
the purchaser, and recovered by him from the person who ought,
to have made the transfer.

Police.

1880, ch, 460, sec. 221.

288. Corporations owning or using any railroad, steamboat,
canal, furnace, colliery or rolling-mill in this State, may jointly
or severally apply to the governor to commission such persons as
the said corporation or corporations may designate, to act as
policemen for the protection of the property of said corporation
or corporations, and for the preservation of peace and good order
on their respective premises, railroad trains or steamboats.

Ibid. sec. 222.

289. The governor, upon such application, may, if he thinks,
it proper so to do, appoint such persons, or so many of them as he
may deem proper, to be such policemen; and shall issue to each
person so appointed a commission, and shall transmit such com-
mission to such clerk's office in the State as may, by such corpo-
ration or corporations, be designated, and he may revoke and annul
any such appointments at his pleasure.

Ibid. sec. 223.

290. Every policeman so appointed shall, before entering
upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe before a justice
ot the peace of the county or city in which his commission may
be received, the oath or affirmation prescribed by the fourth Sec-
tion of the first article of the constitution, which oath or affirm-
ation shall be recorded in the clerk's office of such county or city

and every such policeman so appointed, after the recording of
the oath or affirmation to be by Mm taken as aforesaid, shall