to  choose  prudential  committee  for  each  district,

or  autliorize  district  to  choose,. 221,  22S

may  determine  that  prudential  committees  con-
tract with  teachers, 218,  222

mayl  provide  school-houses  in  district  at  com-
mon expense, 223

may  raise  money  in  school  districts  if  districts

refuse, 224

may  empower  selectmen,  &c.,  to  take  charge  of

such  money, 224

penalties  on,  for  neglect  of  scliool  committee  to
transmit  returns  and  report  to  secre-
tary of  board  of  education, 227

may  withhold  compensation  from  school

committee  in  such  cases, 227,  228

liable  to  damages   for  unlawful  exclusion  of

child  from  school, 229

may  make  by-laws,  &c.,  respecting   truancy,

subject  to  approval  of  superior  court,   230

may  appoint  truant  officers, 230

may  provide  or   discontinue   almshouses   and

workhouses, 170, 171,  173

not  to  erect  them  in  other  places  without  con-
sent of  such  places, 171

may  choose  directors  of  almshouse, 171

any  number  of,  may  provide  and  maintain  alms-
house jointly,    171,  172

directors  of  such  joint   almshouses,  how

chosen, 171

may  establish  a  watch, 173

to  maintain  poimds,  and  appoint  pound-keepers,    185

may  choose  boards  of  health,  or  health  officer,. 188

liabiUty  of,  for  impressment  of  houses,  &c.,  for

securing  infected  articles,  &&.,  .... 191

to  provide  means  of  vaccination  to  those  unable

topay,&c., 191,192

may  establish  quarantine  grounds, 192

two  or  more  may  establish  same  jointly,. 192

may  establish  hospitals  for  persons  having  dis-
ease dangerous  to  public  health,. 192,  193

fines  under  laws  relating  to  health  to  inure  to

use  of  town, 193

to  provide  suitable  places  for  burial-grounds,. 196

burial-grounds  not  to  be  established  in,  without

their  consent, 196

liable  to  make  specific  repairs  of  highways  or-
dered by  county  commissioners,. 233

neglecting  to  make,  &c.,  highway  located,  &c.,
by  county  commissioners,  to  pay  ex-
pense of  making  to  county, 238

warrant   may  be   issued   against,  in   such

cases,  by  county  commissioners,. 238

may  discontinue  town  or  private  ways,  at  meet-
ing called  for  that  purpose, 239

to  pay  damages  occasioned  by  laying  out  town

way, 240

liability  of,  for  neglect  to  complete  town  or  pri-
vate way  laid  out  by  commissioners,  240,241

not  to  discontinue  town  ways,  &c.,  laid  out  by

commissioners,  within  two  years,. 