TITLE LIX
PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES

CHAPTER 610
REWARDS AND COMPENSATIONS TO PROSECUTORS

Section 610:1

    610:1 Offer of Reward. – The county commissioners of any county, the city council of a city and the selectmen of a town are authorized, whenever in their opinion the public good requires it, to offer and pay from the treasury of such county, city or town a suitable reward, not exceeding $300 in any one case, to any person who shall, in consequence of such offer, apprehend and secure any person or persons charged with having committed a capital or other high crime.

Source. 1848, 735. CS 236:1. GS 245:1. GL 263:1. PS 261:1. 1911, 143:1. PL 375:1. RL 435:1.