The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-09-25

A VALUABLE WORK -Messrs. Dresser &
Aver will issue October 10, 1871, most valua-
BILE ADD needed work entitled "Tdr Collector
and Form Book compiled by W. w. Bolster,
E>o winch we have hitherto noticed in the
PRESS. An examination of this volume dis
closes much ability, system, care and labor ON
the part OF the author. 1t will be most sat
isfactory guide in pursuing the various
branches of business of which it treats The
necessity of such work, SO we'll suited to the
wants OF town, county, State officers, business
m-n and the legal profession has long been
felt The book contains n chapters and 4sO
pages. Its mechanical execution is trst-class;
its typographical appearance compares most
favorzbIy with law works in general use. The
work embraces digest and summary of 125
pages, giving all decisions of the courts in
New Eneand and other States relating to
taxes, tax titles and the sale of land for taxes,
step by step from the levy of the tax to the
coneum "a alton of good aud valid title, and is
adapted TO New Epgland. 1t contains COM
pete report of the tax case Greene VS. Lunt,
recently decided by the Law Court in Maine,
which involved the validity of the sale of land
for resident taxes; VIII ereln the author was
counsel for the plaintiff and for the town in
all the preliminaries from the assessment OF
The taxes to the end of the proceedings, and Is
the only title ever sustained out of tine many
tried ID the State. To the legal profession the
report of the above case, in reporting and pre-
pairing a tax case for adjudication, is worth
many times The price OF the work. 1t also
coptair 8 full aud complete set of tax forms
applicable 10 all branches of the law for town,
county and State officers, evidently SO well ar
ranged that there Iced be no error in the pro-
ceedngs of the officers in the discharge of
their several Intricate duties relating TO taxes
and the sale of property for taxes. 1t en-
braces forms for town records, full aud COM
plete set of forms for all town officers, with
citations of the statutes and decisions. In
short it lie one of the most complete works for
town officers ever published in the State. 1t
also embraces instructions and forms for
sherifs, constables and coroners SO far as they
may be necessarily concerned in the business
affairs OF cities aud towns; also forms for cor
oner's irqussts; ipquests in cases of ncendia
rism; bastardy process; fence viewers; finders
of lost goods, auctioneers, selection of Jurors
determination of marriages, dispositions, form;
of proceedings in full Tor trial justices in the
trial and disposition of civil and crimina
cases; also an appendix of 70 pages of lega
forms for the legal profession, conveyauces ant
all classes of business men, court forms TO
sberiffs and attorneys, clerks and criers G
courts foreclosures of mortgages, petition 10
location of roads, for increase OF damages o.
location and discontDuapce OF roads, promls
sorry notes, receipts, orders, mercantile agree
mepts, &c, &c. There are inserted at th
close Of The appendix some very desirable an
much needed legal and court forms CAREFUL
collected and revised by Hon. Ephraim Fin
during his many wears service as clerk q
courts. A work SO beautifully adapted to tn
wants OF SO large a portion of the bushes
community will no doubt ind, as it should,
ready sale at tn hands of its enterprisiog pub
hshers' Messrs. Dresser & Aver, AZ Exchang
street. Portland.