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The town officer : or, The power and duty of selectmen, town clerks, town treasurers, overseers of the poor, assessors, constables, collectors of taxes, surveyors of highways, surveyors of lumber, fence viewers, field drivers, measurers of wood, and other town officers, as contained in the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ; with a variety of forms for the use of such officers : to which is prefixed the constitutions of said commonwealth and of the United States : and thereto is added, the power and duty of towns, parishes and plantations, and a plain and regular method of keeping town accounts, and a table of crimes and punishments : also, an appendix, containing some inspection laws at large, with other useful matter / by Samuel Freeman.