TABLE OF CONTENTS

OF THE

SEVERAL CHAPTERS AND TITLES

OF THIS EDITION OF THE

GENERAL STATUTES.

CHAPTER 1.-Elections...

Elections in cities of over 12,000 inhabitants..

CHAPTER 2.-Congressional Districts..

CHAPTER 3.-The Legislature....

CHAPTER 4.

Title I. Apportionment.

Title II. Organization

Title III. Election of United States Senator..

Statutes-Their Construction and Repeal......

CHAPTER 5. Printing and Distribution of Laws and Documents.

Paper for Public Printing-Stationery, etc....

CHAPTER 6.-State Officers..

Title I. Governor

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County Surveyors....

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Title XII. Coroners...

Title XIII. Clerk of District Court....

Additional provisions as to County Officers.

CHAPTER 9.—Resignations, Vacancies and Removals..........

CHAPTER 10.-Township Organization..

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Cities

Villages.

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CHAPTER 11.-Taxes...

CHAPTER 19.-Estrays, Unclaimed Property, and Beasts doing Damage.

Title I. Estrays..

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Title II. Unclaimed Property.

Title III Beasts doing Damage.

CHAPTER 20.-Preservation of Game.....

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Propagation of Fish, Fish-ways, etc....

CHAPTER 21.-Weights and Measures..

CHAPTER 22.-Official Seals....

CHAPTER 23.-Money, Bonds, Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes....

CHAPTER 24.-Regulation of Labor...

CHAPTER 25.-Indians.

CHAPTER 26.-Notaries Public..

CHAPTER 27.-Reporter of Supreme Court.

CHAPTER 28.-Auctioneers...

CHAPTER 29.-Town Plats.

CHAPTER 30.-Limited Partnership..

CHAPTER 31.-Dams and Mills.

CHAPTER 32.-Logs and Lumber.

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Title III. Surveyors-their powers and duties..

Title IV. Record of Marks and Mutilation thereof

Title V. Side-booms-injuries thereto and taking logs there-

from.

Title I. Corporations empowered to take private property for

public uses...

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Further provisions relating to Railroad Companies.

385

Municipal Bonds in aid of Railroads....

388

Title II. Corporations for pecuniary profit other than those

named in Title 1....

394

Title III. Corporations other than those for pecuniary profit...

Agricultural Societies....

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406

Chambers of Commerce and Boards of Trade..

Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Title IV. Religious Corporations..

Title VI. Insurance Companies...

Hospital for the Insane..

State Reform School....

Ancient Order of United Workmen.

Title V. Cemetery Associations and Private Cemeteries.

Insurance Commissioner.....

Provisions applicable to all classes of companies..

Fire Insurance Companies..

Town Insurance Companies.

Life Insurance Companies.

Marine Insurance Companies.

Title VII. Plank-roads and Turnpikes.

Title VIII. General provisions.

CHAPTER 35.-Charitable Institutions.....

Title I. Agricultural College.

Title II. Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind...

Title III.

Liberty of Conscience for Inmates of State Institutions.
Further duties of managers of State Institutions.
Soldiers' Orphans' Home..

Organization of School Districts

Management of School Districts..

State Superintendent of Public Instruction..

Penalties of the Common School Law.

Collection of Debts from Districts having no Trustees.

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Condemnation of Land for State

Jurisdiction ceded to United States....

Regulation of Mining on the Public Lands ....

Appropriation of Swamp Lands to State Institutions.

Condemnation of Land for United States

Consent to Purchase of Land by United States.

CHAPTER 39.-Chattel Mortgages.......

Filing of notes, contracts, etc..

Notes, etc., given for seed-grain..

CHAPTER 40.-Deeds, Mortgages and other Conveyances.

Record of Lists of Railroad Lands.

CHAPTER 41.-Frauds...

Title I. Conveyances of Lands fraudulent as against purchasers 541

Title II. Statute of frauds.....

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Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors.

Title III. Conveyances relative to lands, goods and chattels,

fraudulent as against creditors..

CHAPTER 42.-Official Trusts..

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CHAPTER 43.-Uses and Trusts......................

CHAPTER 44.-Powers....

CHAPTER 45.-Estates in Real Property.

CHAPTER 46.-Title to Real Property by Descent.

CHAPTER 47.-Wills....

CHAPTER 48.-Es ates in Dower and by the Curtesy.

CHAPTER 49.-Probate Courts....

CHAPTER 50.-Letters Testamentary and other proceedings on the Probate of a

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Will....

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CHAPTER 51.-Administration and Distribution of the Estates of Intestates...

CHAPTER 52.-Inventory and Collection of the Effects of Deceased Persons..

CHAPTER 53.-Payment of Debts and Legacies of Deceased Persons

CHAPTER 54.-Rendering Accounts by Executors and Administrators

CHAPTER 55.—Probate Bonds and the prosecution of them.

CHAPTER 56.-Partition and Distribution of Estates

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tain cases...

CHAPTER 57.-Sales of Lands by Executors, Administrators and Guardians....

CHAPTER 58.-Conveyance of Real Estate by Executors and Administrators in cer-

CHAPTER 59.-Guardians and Wards.

CHAPTER 60.-Masters, Apprentices, and Servants..

CHAPTER 61.-Marriage...

Title II. Commencement of actions; service and return of pro-

Title XII. Proceedings for contempt before Justices of the Peace

Title XIII. Forms of Civil Actions in Justices' Courts....

Title XIV. Jurisdiction of Justices in Criminal Cases, and the

proceedings therein.....

Title XV. Forms of Writs, etc., in Criminal Proceedings.

Title I. Of the Form of Civil Actions..

The Parties to Civil Actions....

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Title V. Service of Summons, Pleadings, Notices and Appearance

of parties.....

Motions and Orders..

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Title XXII. Proceedings supplementary to the Judgment...

Title XXIII. The Execution.....

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Title II. Taking the testimony of witnesses within this state...

Title III. Taking the testimony of witnesses out of this state... 795

Title IV. Proceedings to perpetuate the testimony of witnesses

within this state..

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Title V. Proceedings to perpetuate the testimony of witnesses

out of this state...

799

Title VI. Depositions taken in this state to be used in courts of

other states and countries......

799

Title VII. The Printed Statutes of this state, the records and

proceedings of courts, and the laws of other states, and for-

eign laws, as evidence...

800

Title VIII. Documentary Evidence, and the preservation thereof 800

Title IX. The Loss of Instruments, and proceedings thereon... 802

Title X. Account books, records, instruments, and justices'.

dockets, as evidence....

Title XI. Character, Competency and Effect of Evidence.

CHAPTER 74.-Actions for the Partition of Real Property.

CHAPTER 75.-Actions Concerning and Rights in Real Property

CHAPTER 76.-Actions respecting Corporations...

CHAPTER 77.-Actions by or against Executors, Administrators and Heirs....

CHAPTER 78.-Actions on Official Securities, and to rccover Fines and Forfeitures..

CHAPTER 79.-Actions to vacate Charters and Letters Patent, and to prevent the

Usurpation of an Office or Franchise...

CHAPTER 80.-Special Proceedings..

Title I. Writ of Mandamus.

Title II. Writs of Prohibition.

Title III.

Writ of Habeas Corpus..

CHAPTER 81.-Foreclosure of Mortgages.

Title I. Foreclosure by Advertisement.

Title II. Foreclosure by Action...

Attorneys' Fees on Foreclosure..

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CHAPTER 82.-Confession of Judgment without Action.

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CHAPTER 83.-Actions against Boats and Vessels....
CHAPTER 84.-Forcible Entries and Unlawful Detainers.
CHAPTER 85.-Actions by Persons holding Claims on United States Lands...

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