He added that if this omission continued he should be obliged to prosecute them, as the law directs, before the proper tribunals.] [Footnote k: Thus the district-attorney is directed to recover all fines below the sum of fifty dollars, unless such a right has been specially awarded to another magistrate .-- Revised Statutes, vol.i.p.

383.] [Footnote l: Several traces of centralization may be discovered in Massachusetts; for instance, the committees of the town-schools are directed to make an annual report to the Secretary of State.

See Laws of Massachusetts, vol.i.p.

367.] Of The State I have described the townships and the administration; it now remains for me to speak of the State and the Government.

This is ground I may pass over rapidly, without fear of being misunderstood; for all I have to say is to be found in written forms of the various constitutions, which are easily to be procured.