for three years, one to be chosen every year by joint ballot of the general assembly. They make regulations for the discipline and government of the penitentiary.

10. The directors appoint a warden, whose duty it is to carry into effect the rules of the directors; to purchase the raw materials or stock to be manufactured by the convicts; and to attend to the selling of the articles manufactured. He also provides food and clothing for the convicts, and has in charge all the operations of the establishment. He has deputies to assist him.

CHAPTER XX.

Sundry Laws, regulating the conduct of citizens.-Fences, Strays, Weights, and Measures.

1. EVERY Owner of lands adjoining the land of another person, must make and maintain a just proportion of the division-fence between them, unless one of them shall choose to let his land lie open: but if he shall afterwards enclose it, he must refund a just proportion of the value of the fence, or build his proportion. A person may remove his part of a division-fence, by giving to the other party six months' previous notice.

2. If a dispute arises between the owners of adjoining lands, concerning the partition-fence, which they cannot settle themselves, either party may apply to the trustees of the township, who, after due notice shall have been given to the other party, shall proceed to view the fence, (they being fence-viewers,) and shall assign in writing to each party his equal share of the fence, to be kept in good repair. If either party neglects to keep his portion of a partition-fence in good repair, he is liable to pay for the damage which the other shall sustain in consequence of such neglect; the

are their duties? 10. Who appoint the warden? What are the warden's duties?

1. What does the law require respecting the building, &c., of divisionfences? 2. What is said as to the manner of settling disputes between persons respecting division-fenc That if one party neglects to keep

damage to be assessed, under oath, by three men appointed by a justice of the peace of the township.

3. Any person sustaining injury from a trespassing animal, may apply to the fence-viewers, after having given at least one day's notice in writing to the owner or keeper of such animal that he intends so to apply, and of the time when the fence-viewers are to examine the fence. If in their opinion the fence is such as every good husbandman ought to keep, they shall assess the damages, including the sum due for their services, and shall certify and sign the same. If the fence shall be deemed insufficient, the person calling the fence-viewers shall be liable for the cost of the view or examination. Fence-viewers are entitled to 75 cents a day.

4. Any person owning land in this state, or holding it by lease for three or more years, may take up in the township where he resides, any stray animal running at large in such township, between the first day of November and the first day of April thereafter, or a strayed horse at any time. The person taking up a stray, must, within three days, leave with the township clerk an accurate description of the marks, color, and supposed age of the animal; the clerk to record the same in a book, and to post up a copy on or near his office-door. And within five days such person must post up copies at three public places in the township.

5. If the strays are other than hogs or sheep, the person taking them up must also send a copy of the description to the clerk of the court of common pleas, to be entered on his stray-book; and must, within twenty days thereafter, state on oath before a justice, when and where he found the strays, and that he has not trimmed them nor altered their marks; or if any alteration has been made, he must so declare.

6. The justice then orders two suitable men to view and appraise the strays, and return to him the appraisement on oath, with a true description of their marks and supposed age; the appraisement and description, with the names of

his part in repair? 3. How must a man proceed to obtain remedy for damage done by trespassing animals? 4. Who may take up strays? During what time of the year? How proceed? 5. How if the strays are other than hogs or sheep? 6. What provision respecting the ap

the taker-up an appraisers, to be recorded by the justice in his stray-book. And the clerk, on the first day of the court next held after returns are made to his office, posts a list of all strays on or near the door of the court-house.

7. The owner of the strays may, within six months after they were taken up, receive such strays, on proving them to be his, and paying all lawful costs and charges. If the appraised value of the stray or strays of any one kind or spe cies does not exceed seven dollars, and they are not claimed within six months, they become the property of the person who took them up. But if the valuation shall exceed seven dollars, they are advertised and sold by the constable to the highest bidder, the purchaser to pay down a sum sufficient to pay all expenses and costs, and to have a credit of nine months for the residue of the purchase money; and the obligation to be signed by one or more sureties, made pay. able to the township treasurer, and delivered to him for the use of the township. If the owner shall claim and prove the property within two years after the sale, he shall be entitled to the obligation, or to the money.

8. A uniform standard of weights and measures is estab lished by law. The original standards of a yard, a pound, a dry gallon, a liquid gallon, and a half-bushel, are required to be kept by the secretary of state, who is the state sealer of weights and measures. The state sealer is required to procure and deposit a copy of the original standards with each county auditor, who is the county sealer, and also with the township sealer, where that office has been created.

9. Township sealers are required to compare the copies in their possession, once in three years, with those in the office of the county sealers. County and township sealers compare weights and measures brought to them, with the copies in their possession; and if they are not correct, they make them so, and mark and seal them. If a person uses a weight or measure that does not agree with the standard, and by which any purchaser suffers injury, the party inpraisement and the recording of strays? 7. On what conditions may the owner receive the strays? If they are not claimed within six months, what? What privilege has the owner after the strays are sold? 8. Where are the standards of weights and measures kept? 9. What

jured inay sue the offender, and recover three times the amount of damage.

10. The bushel measure is to be 19 inches in diameter; the half-bushel, 15 inches; and the peck, 12 inches. Coal, ashes, and all commodities usually heaped, are to be heaped as high as the article measured will admit. Meas ures used for measuring dry commodities not heaped, are to be stricken with a straight stick or roller, and of the same diameter from end to end. When there is no agreement between parties as to weight or measurement, 60 pounds of wheat or clover-seed are to be taken for a bushel, 56 of rye or corn, 48 of barley, and 33 of oats.

11. The hundred weight shall consist of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; and twenty such hundreds shall consti

tute a ton.

12. Millers are entitled by law to one-tenth part of wheat, rye, or other grain ground and bolted; one-twelfth of grain chopped only; and one-eighth of corn. For taking a greater proportion, they may be fined not exceeding $20; one-half to be paid to the township, and the other half to the person prosecuting; and they are liable to the party injured for damage.

CHAPTER XXI.

Regulations concerning Taverns; Shows; Pedlers; Auctioneers; Idiots and Lunatics; Nuisances.

1. A PERSON wishing to keep a tavern must obtain a written permission, or license, from the court of common. pleas. He is required to give twenty days' previous notice, by advertisements put up in three public places in the town.

are the duties of township and county sealers? What is the penalty for using a wrong weight or measure? 10. What must be the diameter of a bushel, half-bushel, and peck measure? What articles must be heaped and how? 11. Of how much consists the hundred weight? How much the ton? What is the lawful weight of the several kinds of grain? 12. To what part of grain are millers entitled?

1. What is required of a person in order to obtain a license to keep