[Chapter 41.]

Passed February 8, 1791.

. . . where a Town shall adjoin on a Parish with Town privileges the said Parish shall be considered to all intents and purposes as the junior Town and shall be entitled to notice accordingly, and the Selectmen thereof shall have the same powers and be liable to the same penalties for all the purposes before mentioned as the Selectmen of Towns -

. . . And be it further enacted that the Inhabitants of each town in this State qualified to votes as aforesaid at any meeting duly and legally warned and holden in such town may agreeably to the Constitution grant and vote such sum or sums of money as they shall judge necessary for the settlement maintenance and support of the ministry, schools, meeting houses, school houses the maintenance of the poor, for laying out and repairing Highways for building and repairing bridges and for all the necessary charges arising within the said Town to be assessed on the polls and estates in the same town as the Law directs--

. . . And be it further enacted that all places incorporated by the names of Parishes with town privileges are hereby declared to be Towns to every intent and purpose and are entitled to all the privileges and vested with all the powers and liable to all the penalties to which towns by this Act are entitled or which such towns are vested with or to which towns are liable-

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