PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

own knowledge, or from the best information he can
obtain, value such person's salary, emoluments, in-
come, wages, pay, profit, or advantage, to the full
amount of what he believes the same to be worth, and
if any person shall give a false or partial account of
his said salary, emoluments, income, wages, pay,
profit, or advantage, with intent to defraud, such per-
son shall forfeit and pay a fine of ten dollars, to be
recovered by the surveyor, before a single justice of
the peace, and paid over to the superintendent, when
duly elected and qualified for school purposes.

CHAP. 221.

SEC. 22. And be it enacted. That the said surveyor
shall complete his said assessment, on or before the se-
cond Monday of September next ensuing the date of
the passage of this act and shall on that day make re-
turn and deliver to the board of education a certificate,
or statement in writing, designating in alphabetical or-
der, the names of the persons whose offices, professions
or occupations he has assessed, and the amount of the
salary, emoluments, income, wages, pay, profits or ad-
vantage he has assessed to each, and also the number
of children between the ages of six and twenty years,
which each person so assessed has residing in the said
county not bound out to service or indentured as ap-
prentices in said county, and also designating the elec-
tion district in which each person so assessed resides.

When duties
are to be com-
pleted.

SEC. 23. And be it enacted, That the said surveyor
shall at the same time make 'return, and deliver to the
board of education a statement in writing, designating
in alphabetical order, the names of all merchants, me-
chanics, manufacturers, farmers, sailors, and other per-
sons doing business in the said county in any of the vari-
ous departments of labor, to whom any child or children
between the said ages of six and twenty years are bound
put to service or indentured as apprentices, with the
name or names, and the number of the children so in-
dentured or bound to each.

Surveyor to
return an alph-
abetical list.

SEC 24. And he it enacted, That the board of edu-
cation, at their meeting on the said second Monday in
September next after the passage of this act, required
by the third section of this act, shall receive the returns
of the assessment and the statements of the said survey-
or, as required by the two last sections, and shall pro-
ceed to consider and examine the same, and if any per-
son assessed by the said surveyor, or any master of ap-
prentices, reported, by said surveyor, as liable to the
taxes provided for in this act, shall feel himself ag-
grieved by any of the acts of the said surveyor in
making his said assessment or returns of children and

Board of Edu-
cation — certain
duties prescri-
bed.