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trees within ten years after the passage of this act, and shall 

 successfuly grow and cultivate the same for three years, the 

 trees being not less in numbers than two thousand on each 

 acre and well distributed over the same, then on application 

 of the owner or occupant of such lands to the assessors of the 

 town in which the same is situated and is so successfully cul- 

 tivated or set apart to forest trees, and at the same time of 

 such application shall file with said assessors a correct plat of 

 such lands with description of their location, and setting 

 forth all the facts in relation to the growth and cultivation of 

 said grove of trees or incipient forest, the same shall be 

 exempt from taxation for twenty years thereafter ; provided 

 such grove or plantation of trees shall during that period be 

 kept alive and in a thriving condition. 



FEES OF FENCE VIEWERS. 

 Public Laws of 1S73, Chapter 129. 



Chapter twenty-tw^o, section thirty-nine of the revised 

 statutes, be amended as follows : After the words "employing 

 him at the rate of one dollar a day," insert 'at the rate of two 

 dollars per day,' so that said section as amended shall read as 

 follows : 



'Each fence viewer shall be paid by the person employing 

 him at the rate of two dollars per day for the time he is so 

 employed. If the party liable neglects to pay the same for 

 thirty days after demand, each of said fence viewers may 

 recover double the amount in an action on the case, and be 

 mutually witnesses for or against each other.' 



ENCOURAGING THE MANUFACTURE OF BEET SUGAR. 

 Public Laws of 1877. Chapter 184. 

 The governor and council are hereby authorized, upon such 

 terms and conditions as they shall deem advantageous to the 

 state, to contract -with any responsible party or company, to 

 pay said party or company a sum not exceeding one cent per 

 pound, on all beet sugar manufactured in this state, from 

 beets raised in this state ; the amount of bounty, so paid, not 



