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obliged to assist. With regard to the school- 
house and schoolmaster's residence, they are kept 
in repair, and altered as required, by the parents 
of those children who attend ; the labour contri - 
buted by each family being proportionate to the 
number of children it sends. 
When a man marries, he takes a share of 
his father's land, which land is equally divided 
among his children. The wife takes her pro- 
portion from her own father's land, and joins it 
to her husband's land ; so that the young couple 
come immediately into their landed property. 
It may appear strange that even the rocks 
upon the sea-shore should be shared out as 
private property: but they are of value for the 
collection of sea salt. 
LAWS FOR THE PUBLIC ANVIL, ETC. 
Any person taking the public anvil and 
public sledge-hammer from the blacksmith's 
shop, is to take it back after he has done with 
it; and in case the anvil and sledge-hammer 
should get lost by his neglecting to take it back, 
he is to get another anvil and sledge-hammer, 
and pay a fine of four shillings. 
With regard to the laws as to CATS, FOWLS, 
&c., the Rev. G. H. Nobbs stated as follows: 
If a CAT is killed without being positively 
detected in killing fowls, however strong the 
suspicion may be, the person killing such cat is 
obliged, as a penalty, to destroy 300 rats, whose 
tails must be submitted for the inspection of the 
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