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CHAP. LXXXIV.] shall charge the amount of said receipt against said treasurer on the books of the county commissioners.

. 13. The district courts are hereby authorized and empowered, on application made by the proprietors of any vacate town within their proper county, to alter or vacate the same or any part thereof.

. 13. If any proprietor or proprietors of a town shall be desirous of altering or vacating the same or any part thereof, such proprietor or proprietors shall give notice in writing of such intended application, in at least two of the most public places in the county wherein such town may be situated, and insert a copy thereof in a newspaper printed or in circulation in said county, if there be one, at least forty days prior to the sitting of the court to which he or they intend to make such application.

. 15. If such applicant or applicants shall produce to said court satisfactory evidence that the notice required by the preceding section of this chapter has been given, the court shall proceed to hear and determine said petition, and may alter or vacate said town or any part thereof, and order their proceedings thereon to be recorded by the clerk, with the records of said court.

. 16. The words chapter and act as used in the foregoing provisions, shall be construed to mean one and the same thing.

. 17. This act shall take effect from and after its passage, and approval by the governor.
 * Approved April 24, 1862.

W. JAYNE, Governor.