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UNITED STATES AND OF THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

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COMPILED AND PUBLISHED

AGREEABLY TO

RESOLUTIONS OF THE LEGISLATURE,

PASSED

JUNE AND NOVEMBER SESSIONS, 1852.

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COMMISSIONERS' REPORT.

In pursuance of a resolution of the legislature, passed June session, 1852, the undersigned were commissioned by the governor and council "to compile, arrange and put into chapters, under appropriate heads, the public acts now in force, including the revised statutes and the public acts and laws passed since the revision of the statutes." On receiving our commission for that purpose, we proceeded immediately to the work, and reported to the legislature, at their November session, what portion of it we had been able to accomplish in that time.

Under a resolution of the November session, recommitting the work to us, "with instructions to proceed with the compilation," we have completed, published and herewith submit, the compilation containing all the laws now in force, including the acts of June and November sessions, 1852.

Our endeavor has been, so far as possible, to follow strictly the instructions contained in the resolution, not intending to exceed our authority, but to make a " compilation" without changing the legal sense of the original enactments. In consequence of adopting the plan to compile together in chapters and sub-divisions the various sections relating to the same subject, to avoid the perplexity that might arise in finding out the original enactments, we have made reference to the chapter and year of the laws passed since 1812 at the end of each section, and have in like manner referred to the revised statutes, excepting those chapters which are identical or nearly so.

The laws passed since 1842, being composed in a great measure of additions to and amendments of the revised statutes, contain as a matter of course references to the chapters and sections added to or amended, which references we have retained in the compilation, giving at the same time, in parenthesis, the chapter and section of the compilation. Acts required to be adopted by towns and corporations we have been obliged to arrange in the same manner, which, it will be readily seen, has rendered our task much more laborious than it would have been if we had had authority to revise in that particular.

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