See  Ch.  49,
§§  23,  2fi,  55,  77,
10],  124, 154, 1()4,
194 ;  Ch.  50,  §  7.
Libel,  when  to
be  be  filed,  and
form  thereof.
R.  S.  118,  §21.
before  whom
to  be  filed.
R.  S.  118,  §§22,
34.
1852, 314.      •
1855,  449.
Duties  of  clerk.
Notice  to  be
published.
R.  S.  118,  §  23.
Section  1.  When  goods  are  forfeited  for  any  offence,  and  no  special
provision  is  made  for  the  mode  of  their  recovery,  any  j^erson  entitled  to
recover  them,  and  when  provision  is  not  otherwise  made,  any  police
officer  or  constable  of  the  city  or  town  where  the  goods  so  forfeited  are
found,  may  seize  and  keep  them  safely  until  they  are  disposed  of  as  is
hereinafter  provided.
Sect.  2.  The  person  making  the  seizure  shall  within  fourteen  days
thereafter  file  a  libel  in  the  clerk's  office  of  the  superior  court  for  the
county  where  the  offence  Avas  committed,  or  before  any  justice  of  the
peace,  or  police  court,  as  the  case  requires,  stating  briefly  the  cause  of
the  seizure,  without  setting  forth  all  the  special  matter,  and  praying  for
a  decree  of  forfeiture  according  to  the  provisions  of  the  statute  on  which
the  seizure  is  founded,  referring  to  it  in  the  following  form :  "  according
to  the  provisions  of  the  law  concerning  the  packing  and  stamping  of
paper,"  or,  "  the  inspection  of  lime,"  (as  the  case  may  require,)  and  men-
tioning the  number  of  the  chapter  of  the  statute  referred  to,  or  re-
ferring thereto  in  some  other  general  terms.
