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CRIMINAL CODE.

Sec. 28. Parents and guardians shall be respectively liable for all forfeitures incurred by children and wards under their care.

Sec. 29. If any person shall be guilty of a breach of the preceding sections of this act, he may be required to recognize with sureties in a sum not less than one hundred dollars, to appear at the district court next to be holden in the same county, and to abide the order of said court, and in the mean time to be of good behavior.

Sec. 30. If such recognizance is forfeited, said court may require such offender to recognize with such sufficient sureties, in a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars, to appear at the next term of said court, and to abide the order thereof, and in the meantime to be of good behavior, and so from term to term as may be ordered by said court, as long as such forfeiture may be incurred.

Sec. 31. Any person may, upon view or knowledge of any offense described in this act, go before some justice of the peace of the town or adjoining town to that in which the offense was committed, who shall upon complaint under oath issue his warrant, cause such offender to be arrested, and proceed to a hearing of such complaint.

Sec. 32. All fines and forfeitures that may be collected under this act, shall be paid by the justice of the peace or court collecting the same, into the county treasury, to the credit of the common school fund of the county, within ninety days after collecting the same.

Sec. 33. No prosecution for the violation of the provisions of this act shall be sustained, unless commenced within sixty days after the commission of such offense.