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agreement of the parties recorded in the town clerk's office, 

 where the land lies, the owners shall erect, and support it 

 accordingly ; but if any person lays his lands common, and 

 determines not to improve any part of them adjoining such 

 fence, and gives six months' notice to all occupants of adjoin- 

 ing lands, he shall not be required to maintain such fence 

 while his lands so lie common and unimproved. 



Sec. 14. Nothing herein extends to house lots, the con- 

 tents of which does not exceed half an acre ; but if the owner 

 of such lot improves it, the owner of the adjacent land shall 

 make and maintain one-half of the fence between them, 

 whether he improves or not ; nor shall the provisions of this 

 chapter make void any written agreement respecting public 

 fences. 



FENCES ON C03IM0N FIELDS. 

 Revised Statutes of 1871, Chapter 22. 



Sec. 15. When several lots or pieces of land are inclosed 

 and fenced in one common field, or when all the proprietors 

 of such lands agree to inclose them in that manner, said pro- 

 prietors may hold regular meetings when they judge proper, 

 make such rules for manaoino; their common concerns, and 

 adopt such equitable modes of improvement as their common 

 interest requires ; but in all other respects each proprietor 

 may, at his own expense, inclose, manage and improve his 

 own land as he thinks best, maintaining his proportion of 

 fence inclosing the general field. 



Sec. 16. Upon the application of any two or more pro- 

 prietors to any justice of the peace for the county, where such 

 land lies, he shall issue his Avarrant to one of the applicants, 

 or to the clerk of the proprietors, requiring him to call a 

 meeting of the proprietors, and expressing in the warrant the 

 time, place and purpose thereof. 



Sec. 17. Notice of the meeting shall be served at least 

 fourteen days previous to the time appointed, when all the 

 proprietors reside in the town where the land lies, by reading 

 the warrant to each proprietor, or giving him a copy in hand, 

 or by leaving it at his usual place of abode, if the proprietors 



