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BOUNTY ON SILK. 



Revised Statutes of 1871, Chapter 38. 

 Sec. 57. The treasurers of towns shall pay a bounty of ten 

 cents for every pound of cocoons, and one dollar for every 

 pound of silk reeled from cocoons, raised in this state, to the 

 person raising it in such town, on being furnished with satis- 

 factory proof thereof; and such applicant shall make oath, 

 that no bounty had been received by any person for such 

 cocoons or silk ; and each treasurer shall keep an account of 

 the money so paid, and present it, verrified by his oath, to 

 the legislature next thereafter, and being found correct, it 

 shall be allowed and paid from the state treasury. 



MARKING SHEEP. 

 Revised Statutes of 1871, Chapter 38. 

 Sec. 58. All owners of sheep shall mark them with some 

 distinctive mark, by a cut in the ears, or a brand on some 

 part of the animal, and cause such mark to be recorded by 

 the clerk of their town in a book kept for that purpose, pay- 

 ing the clerk eight cents therefor. 



WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 

 Revised Statutes of 1871. Chapter 43. 



Sec. 1. The standard of weiohts and measures furnished 

 by the United States and adopted by this state shall continue 

 the standard of weights and measui'es for the state ; and the 

 state sealer of weights and measures shall cause all such 

 weiohts and measures of a smaller denomination than those 

 furnished by the United States, as are necessary to make a 

 complete set, to be compared and regulated by the standards 

 aforesaid ; and keep, at the expense of the state, a suitable 

 standard balance for gold, and also for avoirdupois weights, 

 to be kept with the weights and measures at the state house, 

 and used only for regulating other w^eigbts and measures. 



Sec. 2. The treasurer of state, at the expense of the state, 

 shall procure and preserve as public standards, until other- 



