Supreme Judicial Court of Maine June 15, 1841 (Inhabitants of Smithfield v. Inhabitants of Belgrade)

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Weston C. J.

By the sixth mode of gaining a settlement under the Statute of 1821, c. 122, § 2, it is provided, that upon the creation of a new town, out of a part of one or more old towns, “ all persons legally settled in the town or towns, of which such new town is so composed, and who shall actually dwell and have their homes within the bounds of such