PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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or if any property therein or thereon shall be injured, taken away

or destroyed, by any riotous or tumultuous assemblage, the full

amount of the damages shall be recoverable by the sufferers, by suit

at law against the county, town or city, within whose jurisdiction

it occurred — 1835, ch. 137, sec. 1, ......

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Provided, no such liability shall be incurred unless the authorities shall

have good reason to believe such riot was about to take place, or

having taken place, shall have notice of the same in time to have

prevented it by their own police or with the aid of citizens, &c. —

1836, ch. 137, sec. 1, .........

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Provided further, that in no case shall indemnity be received when it

shall be proved that the civil authorities used all due diligence, Sic.

for the prevention or suppression of such riot — 1835, ch. 137, sec. 1,

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In any suit instituted under this act, the plaintiff may declare generally,

and give the special matter in evidence — 1835, ch. 137, sec. 2,

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ROADS, PRIVATE.

County courts to grant roads to quarries or mines — 1832, ch. 292,

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On application, levy courts or commissioners to appoint three persons

to act as commissioners to open private roads or ways — their du-

ties, &.c.— 1834, ch. 253, sec. 1, . .

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Parties through whose land, road is to pass, to be notified — 1834, ch.

253, sec. 2, ..........

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Amount of compensation, awarded to be apportioned, &c. — 1834, ch.

253, sec. 3, ..........

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Commissioners to receive $2 per diem, and to appoint a surveyor: ex-

penses to be taxed in the expense of the road — 1834, ch. 253, sec. 4,

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Act of November session, 1785, ch. 49, repealed — 1834, ch. 253, sec. 5,

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Supplement prohibiting the making any rail road or way — 1835, ch. 362,

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Owners of any mill, factory, distillery, quarry or lime kiln, situated

within the distance of five hundred yards from any rail road, may

apply to the county court, levy court or county commissioners to

open a public or private road or way to the most convenient place,

for intersecting such road — 1836, ch. 255, .

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ROAD, RAIL, COMPANIES.

Responsible for injuries done by fire from engines — 1837, ch. 309,

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The several, in this state, responsible for injuries resulting in the death,

or otherwise, inflicted upon stock, cattle, sheep, hogs, &c. or by

fire— 1838, ch. 244, .........

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Persons causing obstructions to any rail road, to be guilty of felony,

and penalty therefor — 1839, ch. 83, . . . . .

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If death ensues, the party is guilty of murder — 1839, ch. 83,

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ROBBERY.

See CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.