237. - Sect¹. 3. If any action, suit, bill, complaint, information, or indictment², for any crime or misdemeanor, other than arson³ and murder, shall be brought, had, commenced, or prosecuted⁵, after the time limited by the two preceding sections, such proceedings⁶ shall be void, and of no effect.

238. - Sect. 4. All actions and suits, upon any statute⁷, for any penalty or forfeiture⁸, given in whole or in part to any person who will prosecute⁴ for the same, shall be commenced within one year after the offence was committed, and not after.

239. - Sect. 5. If the penalty is given in whole or in part to the state, or to any county or town, or to the treasury⁹ thereof, a suit therefor may be commenced by or in behalf of the state, county, town or treasury, at any time within two years after the offence was committed, and not afterwards,

240. - Sect. 6. All actions upon any statute, for any penalty or forfeiture, given in whole or in part to the party aggrieved¹⁰, shall be commenced within four years after the offence was committed, and not after.

241. - Sect. 7. The six preceding sections shall not apply to any bill, complaint, information, indictment or action, which is or shall be limited by any statute, to be brought, had, commenced or prosecuted within a shorter or longer time than is prescribed in these six sections; but such bill, complaint, information, indictment or other suit, shall be brought and prosecuted within the time that may be limited by such statute.

242. - Sect. 8. When any bill, complaint, information or indictment shall be exhibited in any of the cases mentioned in this chapter, the clerk of the court, or magistrate¹¹, to whom it shall be exhibited, shall, at the time of exhibiting, make a minute thereon, in writing, under his official signature, of the true day, month and year, when the same was exhibited.

243. - Sect. 9. When any action shall be commenced, in any of the cases men- tioned in this chapter, the clerk or magistrate, signing the writ¹², shall enter upon it a true minute of the day, month and year, when the same was signed.

244. - Sect. 10. Every bill, complaint, information, indictment or writ, on which a minute of the day, month and year, shall not be made, as provided by the two preceding sections, shall, on motion, be dismissed.

245. - Sect. 11. None of the provisions of this chapter shall apply to suits against moneyed corporations, or against the directors or stockholders thereon to recover any penalty or forfeiture imposed, or to enforce any liability created by the act of incorporation¹³ or any other law; but all such suits shall be brought within six years after the discovery, by the aggrieved party, of the facts upon which such penalty or forfeiture attached, or by which such liability was created.

246. - 2. Real and personal actions and rights of entry. Sec. 1. No action for the recovery of any lands, or for the recovery of the possession thereof, shall be maintained, unless such action is commenced within fifteen years next after the cause of action first accrued¹⁴ to the plaintiff, or those under whom he claims.