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District No. 3. The towns of Amesbury, Andover, Boxford, Bradford, Georgetown, Haverhill, Methuen, Newbury, Newburyport, Rowley, Salisbury, and West Newbury, in the County of Essex, and the towns of Billerica, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Groton, Littleton, Lowell, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Westford, and Wilmington, in the County of Middlesex, shall form one district, and be called DISTRICT NUMBER THree.

District No. 4. The towns of Acton, Ashby, Bedford, Boxborough, Burlington, Cambridge, Charlestown, Concord, Framingham, Hopkinton, Lexington, Lincoln, Marlborough, Pepperell, Shirley, Somerville, Stow, Sudbury, Townsend, Waltham, Watertown, Wayland, West Cambridge, Weston and Woburn, in the County of Middlesex, and the towns of Berlin, Bolton, Boylston, Fitchburg, Harvard, Lancaster, Leominster, Lunenburg, Northborough, Shrewsbury, Southborough, Sterling, and Westborough, in the County of Worcester, shall form one district, and be called DISTRICT NUMBER FOUR.

District No. 5.

The towns of Ashburnham, Auburn, Barre, Brookfield, Charlton, Dana, Douglas, Dudley, Gardner, Grafton, Hardwick, Holden, Hubbardston, Leicester, Mendon, Milford, Millbury, New Braintree, North Brookfield, Northbridge, Oakham, Oxford, Paxton, Petersham, Phillipston, Princeton, Rutland, Southbridge, Spencer, Sturbridge, Sutton, Templeton, Upton, Uxbridge, Warren, Webster, West Boylston, Westminster, Winchendon, and Worcester, in the County of Worcester, shall form one district, and be called DISTRICT NUMBER FIVE.

District No. 6. The towns of Amherst, Belchertown, Easthampton, Enfield, Granby, Greenwich, Hadley, Hatfield, Northampton, Pelham, Prescott, South Hadley, and Ware, in the County of Hampshire, Brimfield, Holland, Longmeadow, Ludlow, Monson, Palmer, Southwick, Springfield, Wales, Westfield, West Springfield and Wilbraham, in the County of Hampden, Bernardston, Deerfield, Erving, Gill, Greenfield, Leverett, Montague, New Salem, Northfield, Orange, Shutesbury, Sunderland, Warwick, Wendell, and Whately, in the County of Franklin, and Athol, and Royalston, in the County of Worcester, shall form one district, and be called DISTRICT NUMBER SIX.

District No. 7.

The County of Berkshire, and the towns of Chesterfield, Cummington, Goshen, Middlefield, Norwich, Plainfield, Southampton, Westhampton, Williamsburg, and Worthington, in the County of Hampshire, Blandford, Chester, Granville, Montgomery, Russell, and Tolland, in the County of Hampden, and of Ashfield, Buckland, Charlemont, Coleraine, Conway, Hawley, Heath, Leyden, Monroe, Rowe, and Shelburne, in the County of Franklin, shall form one district, and be called DISTRICT NUMBER SEVEN.

The County of Norfolk, and the towns of Abington, District No. 8. North Bridgewater, Hingham, and Hull, in the County of Plymouth, and Brighton, Holliston, Natick, Newton, and Sherburne, in the County of Middlesex, shall form one district, and be called DISTRICT NUMBER EIGHT.

The towns in the County of Plymouth, excepting the District No. 9. towns of Abington, Hingham, Hull, North Bridgewater, Rochester, and Wareham, together with the towns in the County of Bristol, excepting Dartmouth, Fairhaven, and New Bedford, shall form one district, and be called DISTRICT NUMBER NINE.

The Counties of Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket, to- District No. 10. gether with the towns of Rochester and Wareham, in the County of Plymouth, and of Dartmouth, Fairhaven, and New Bedford, in the County of Bristol, shall form one district, and be called DISTRICT NUMBER TEN.

vised Statutes

SECT. 3. The first and second sections of the sixth chap- Repeal of Reter of the Revised Statutes are hereby repealed, excepting chap. 6, 9 1 so far as they respect representatives in the twenty seventh & 2. Congress of the United States, or the election of any representative to the said twenty seventh Congress, who may hereafter be elected pursuant to the provisions of said sections and of existing laws.

SECT. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its When to take passage. [September 16, 1842.]

effect.

CHAPTER 100.

AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CON-
FINEMENT OF IDIOTS AND INSANE PERSONS.

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1. County commissioners authorized to 2. Such apartments to be deemed parts provide apartments out of houses

of correction for insane persons
not furiously mad.

of houses of correction, for the
purposes of st. 1836, c. 223.

thorized to pro

houses of cor

SECT. 1. The county commissioners of any county of County comthis Commonwealth are hereby authorized to provide a suit- missioners auable and convenient apartment or receptacle for idiots and vide apartlunatic or insane persons, not furiously mad, by providing ments out of a separate building or buildings therefor, at any place out rection, for inof the present precincts of the house of correction for such sane persons not furiously county, if, in the judgment of the said commissioners, such mad. apartment or receptacle cannot conveniently be provided within the said precincts.

SECT. 2. Such separate building or buildings, when provided, shall be deemed to be a part of the house of correction in the county where the same shall be erected, for the purposes of the act passed on the thirteenth day of April,

Such apart

ments to be deemed parts

of houses of correction, for the purposes of st. 1836, c. 223.

in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, entitled An Act to provide for the confinement of idiots and insane persons. [September 16, 1842.]

Bank commissioners not to

CHAPTER 101.

AN RELATING TO THE BANK COMMISSIONERS.

Bank commissioners not to become indebted to banks.

From and after the first day of January next, no bank become indebt- cominissioner shall incur any new liability, either as principal, surety, or indorser, at any bank within this Commonwealth. [September 16, 1842.]

ed to banks.

THE

GENERAL LAWS

OF THE

Commonwealth of Massachusetts,

PASSED AT THE

JANUARY SESSION, 1843.

NOTE. [The omitted chapters are those which contain the Special Statutes.]

CHAPTER 1.

AN ACT TO PUNISH LARCENY IN A DWELLING HOUSE IN THE
NIGHT TIME, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

SECTION

SECTION

1. Punishment of larceny in a dwellinghouse in the night time.

committed in the night time, to be
taken as committed in the day
time.

2. Larceny, not alleged to have been

SECT. 1. Every person who shall feloniously steal, take Punishment of and carry away the money, goods, chattels or property of larceny in a another in a dwelling house, in the night time, shall be in the night dwelling house punished by solitary imprisonment in the State prison or time. house of correction, not exceeding five days, and by con- 3 Met. 460. finement afterwards to hard labor not exceeding five years, or by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, and imprisonment in the common jail not exceeding two years.

been commit

SECT. 2. Whenever, in any complaint, indictment or Larceny, not other criminal process, the offence of larceny is alleged to alleged to have have been committed on any particular day, it shall be ted in the night deemed and taken to have been committed in the day time, time, to be unless there be an express averment that it was committed mitted in the in the night time. [February 18, 1843.] day time.

taken as com

Time of hold

ing.

Repeal.

CHAPTER 4.

AN ACT RELATING TO THE PROBATE COURT IN THE COUNTY
OF NANTUCKET.

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SECT. 1. The probate court for the county of Nantucket shall be hereafter holden on the first Saturday of every mouth.

SECT. 2. All acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. [February 21, 1843.]

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CHAPTER 5.

AN ACT RELATING TO MARRIAGES BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS OF
CERTAIN RACES.

Marriages between negroes, &c. and white persons no longer prohibited.

So much of the fifth section of the seventy fifth chapter, and of the first section of the seventy sixth chapter of the Revised Statutes, as relates to marriages between white persons and negroes, indians and mulattoes, is hereby repealed. [February 25, 1843.]

Duties of the judge of the municipal court to be performed by the court of common pleas.

CHAPTER 7.

AN ACT RELATING TO THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, AND
THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

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SECT. 1. All the duties, now required by law to be performed by the judge of the municipal court of the city of Boston, shall hereafter be performed within and for the of Suffolk by the justices of the court of common county pleas, or by some one of them; provided, however, that no

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