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have for thoir purposes all the rights, powers and privileges given by 



sections ten t<> thirteen of said chapter inclusive, and may hold real and 

 personal estate not exceeding ten thousand dollars. 



Farmers' Clubs. 



Sect. 18. Farmer's clubs properly organized and holding regular 

 meetings shall, upon application made annually in November to the 

 secretary of the state hoard of agriculture, receive copies of the report 

 of said hoard and its other publications in proportion to the number of 

 their members and applications so made. Clubs receiving such benefits 

 shall annually in October make returns to said secretary of the agricul- 

 tural experiments made by them, and of the reports of their committees. 



CHAPTER 25. 



OF FENCES AND FENCE VIEWERS, POUNDS, AND FIELD DRIVERS. 



Fences. 



Section 1. Fences four feet high and in good repair, consisting of 

 rails, timber, boards, or stone, and brooks, rivers, ponds, creeks, ditches, 

 and hedges, or other things which the fence viewers within whose juris- 

 diction the same shall lie shall consider equivalent thereto, shall be 

 deemed legal and sufficient fences. 



Sect. 2. The respective occupants of lands enclosed with fences, 

 shall so long as both parties improve the same keep up and maintain 

 partition fences between their own and the next adjoining enclosures, in 

 equal shares. 



Sect. 3. If a party refuses or neglects to repair or rebuild a parti- 

 tion fence which he ought to maintain, the aggrieved party may com- 

 plain to two or more fence viewers of the place, who after due notice to 

 each party shall survey the same, and if they determine that the fence 

 is insufficient, they shall signify the same in writing to the delinquent 

 occupant, and direct him to repair or rebuild the same within such 

 time as they judge reasonable, not exceeding fifteen days ; and if the 

 fence shall not be repaired or rebuilt accordingly, the complainant may 

 make or repair the same. 



Sect. 4. When a deficient fence built up or repaired by a complain- 

 ant as provided in the preceding section is after due notice to each 

 party adjudged sufficient by two or more of the fence viewers, and the 

 value thereof with their fees ascertained by a certificate under their 

 hands, the complainant may demand, either of the occupant or owner 

 of the land where the fence was deficient, double the sum so ascer- 

 tained ; and in case of neglect or refusal to pay the same so due, for 

 one month after demand, he may recover the same with interest at one 

 per cent, a month, in an action of contract. 



Sect. 5. When a controversy arises about the rights of the respec- 

 tive occupants in partition fences and their obligation to maintain the 

 same, either party may apply to two or more fence viewers of the places 



