Note 6 — Chapter I · The Period of Beginnings
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See footnote 4 for the Massachusetts law of 1789. Statutes of New Hampshire, 1830, title XCII, ch. 1, sec. 8, p. 431; also Compiled Statutes, 1853, sec. 20, p. 179. Statutes of Maine, 1821, Vol. II, sec. 2, p. 504, also Revised Statutes, 1840, ch. 17, p. 170. Supplement to Revised Statutes, 1885-1895, ch. 11, sec. 91; Acts and Resolves, 1917, ch. 228, p. 263. Revised Code of Mississippi, 1824, ch. 82, sec. 14, p. 407; Ibid., 1840, ch. 9, sec. 12, p. 124. Statutes of Indiana, 1806, p. 17. Revised Statutes of Illinois, 1833, p. 556.