Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1846-11-26
TO DE CONTINUED
LAWS OF VERMONT.

3.-ANACT, to improve the management
Of state Finances.
1t is hereby enacted, SC.
sec. L. The supreme court at their
next session in each county, shall ap-
point a court auditor for such county,
who shall be sworn TO the faithful perform
anCe of his dn,es, and who shall hold his
office until the supreme cour, appoint an
other.
sec. Q. A, each session Of the several
courts in each county, or within six days
thereafter, and at no other time, the court
auditor so appointed shall audit the &C
counts of the sheriff, states attorney and
clerk, and all such as arise out of in
quests of the dead and the prosecution Of
crime, including the manlanence OF state
PRISONERS and state paupers, And in his
allowance of any claim he shall especially
note all such items thereof; ii any, as he
shall have dsalowed. And IN case ofhis
disability, the above mentioned accounts
shall be audited by the auditor of ac-
couns.
sec, 3: The County Clerks shall draw
an order on the Treasurer for the sum al
lowed by the Court Auditor on each &C
count, payable to the person in whose ia.
vor the same is allowed; but no order
payable to himself shall be valid unless
countersigned by the Auditor. And no
order shall be drawn by any clerk, unless
upon the allowance of the Court Auditor,
nor by any Chancellor or Judge.
sec. 4. With six days after the rising
Of each Court, the Clerk shall forward to
the Treasurer an abstract Of all the orders
drawn by him since the Court commence
ed, which shall be certified by the Court
Auditor to correspond with the accounts
allowed by him. And the Clerk shall draw
no further orders until the commence
ment of another supreme or County
Court, or court OF Chancery. And the
Treasurer shall pay no order drawn by
Clerk until he shall have received such
abstract of the same.
sec. 5 Previous TO each election in
which returns are made TO the County
Clerks, the treasurer shall furnish them
with funds out of Which they shall pay the
officers making returns to them their fees,
and take their receipts.
see 6. Within ten DAYS after each
Election, and the rising of each court,
the clerk haIIpay tot the Treasurer so
much of the money furnished to him TO
defray the expenses OF such Election, or
court and Of the fees accruing to the state,
as shall not have been expended in such
Election in paying returning officers their
fees, g. to such court i'll paying the fees Of
Jurors and witnesses, and Of the Assistant
Judges of the county court in state causes;
and the Treasurer shall furnish him dupIi.
cate certificates Of the amount so advanc-
ed to him, and of the amount, if any so
paid by him in the Tresurey,
Sec, 7. Within forty days after cache
lection the clerk shall forward TO the Au-
ditor o. accounts one Of the certificates so
furnished him, and The original receipts of
the returning officers.
Sec. 8. Within forty days after the rs-
ing Of each court, the clerk shall forward
to the Auditor of Accounts one Of the GER
hfcales furnished to him by the Treasu-
rer as above mentioned: also statement
Of the fees which have accrued to the state
and to the Assistant Judges of the county
courts in state causes, with copies Of tho