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ART. 21.] EASTON. 1865
any hay or firewood on the way or brought to the said town for
sale, except for the use and consumption of himself and cattle,
under the penalty of seventy-five cents for every cord of firewood
and four dollars for every ton of hay so purchased, dealt or
bartered for.
P. L. L., (1860,) art. 20, sec. 78.
90. If any person appointed to weigh hay and cord firewood,
shall refuse or delay to weigh the hay or cord the wood which
he shall be required to weigh or cord, either by the buyer or
seller, he shall forfeit the sum of one dollar and fifty cents.
Ibid sec. 79.
91. If any person having brought fire-wood or hay to said
town for sale, and having sold the same, shall afterwards refuse to
have such wood corded, packed and measured, or such hay to be
unpacked and weighed, by the persons appointed for that purpose,
the same being required to be done by the purchaser, lie shall
forfeit the sum of one dollar and a half.
Ibid. sec. 80.
92. No person shall keep any geese or swine within the said
town, except in pens or other enclosures, and if any geese or
swine shall be found going at large, (unless they be estrays
belonging to any person not residing within the distance of two
miles therefrom,) the bailiff of the town may distrain and seize
and secure them in the common pound, and they shall be forfeited
for the benefit of the town, and sold by the bailiff to the highest
bidder, and the proceeds, except fifteen cents for every goose and
thirty cents for every swine, which shall be retained by the bailiff
for his trouble, shall be accounted for and paid to the said com-
missioners ; and any person who shall keep any geese or swine,
(except in pens or enclosures,) or shall wilfully suffer them to go
at large within said town, shall forfeit the sum of seventy-five
cents for every goose, and two dollars for every hog so kept or
going at large.
1883, ch 20.
93. All fines, penalties and forfeitures herein imposed for the
violation of the charter of the town of Easton, or which may be
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