Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 303:23

  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
When the propriety of any town is dissolved, or when the meeting of the proprietors of any common and undivided lands shall be dissolved, and the clerk thereof shall resign, decease or become incapacitated, any person, the town clerk of any town having 50 or more families excepted, having in his possession any record or document appertaining to such propriety, shall file and deposit it with the secretary of state, who may demand and receive the same.