Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-11-04

the compensation TO be liked by the supreme CouEL
case Of disagreement between the roads and the T NJ.
General. After some discussion the amendment was
withdrawn by the mover, who substituted an amend
ment s~ubiecting the company to general law to be
hereafter enacted applicable to all companies rejected.
An amendment requiring the company to file their con
sent to this act in the secretary OF states ONCE was
rejected. Kittredge of F, moved an amendment pro-
viding for a connection of the Brattleboro' and Fitch
burgh Railroad Co. with the N%orthamton and Green
field Railroad Co. This question pending, the House
Adjourned.
SENATE, 9 o'clock, P " Bills reponed By
Kimball, from the committee on roads, in favor OF the
bill incorporating the village OF Castleton, passed. by
Nash from the committee on banks, IN favor OF the Dill
rechartering the bank of Orleans. Nash replying toa
Question of Miner, that no appearance had been made
before the committee either or against the oil. dar-
rington moved to lay the bill on the table, carried ny
Mead, from the judiciary committee, IN favor oil le
house bill extending the jurisdiction OF justices IN UuS-
tee suits to 500, with an amendment, providing ulut
the disclosure shall be made in writing, ana sIlall DC
recorded by the Justice; and the amendment, after re-
marks BY Messrs Mead, Harrington, Hodges, Kldder
and Foster, was adopted. The bill was supported by
Miner, Cushnan, Harrington, Sweat, Hodges ara
Beeman, and opposed by MesSrs kidder, Burton ana
Kimball, and after a spirited discussion, pending whlch
the senate went into JOINT assembly, was passed ~
4 -Messrs Burton, Hilton, Kidder and himball, Young
in the negative.
A CtlttUHO hIU IJHtOtIntl uHlt' - AAONSNi -
drew Thompson and SO others Of Keesyllle N Y, and
of Bradley Barlow and 81 others Of Fairfield, and OF
Heman Allen and ll8 others Of Hlghgate; by HlD-
bard, of R NJ Miller and so others OF Pittsburgh N
and vicinity, and by Morse, of Henry q Iisdale ana
18 others, Of Whitehall, n Y; by Fox OF w | Cutting
and 20 others, of w estport, n I, all against bridging.
lake Champlain, to committee on roads; by hidder, OF
l. II Spear and % others, and of A J Durtur and 81
others, for a land limitation, homestead exemption, and
feedom of the public lands, referred to Judiciary COM
mltttee. ADJ,
HOUSE Bills introduced ard referred, From SEN
ate, relating in money interpretations; to committee on
banks. BY lIarwood, in addition to chap, Is R. s.; to
committee on education. BY English, in amendment
of chapter "a R. S. imprisonment for life in capital ca
SEES to select committed on this subject. By Royce,
in addition to act incorporating Vermont and Canada
railroad company to committee on roads. by Miles,
Incorporating Hinesburg manufacturing company to
committee on manufacturers. BY Farrar, to alter
sec. z chap. 81 r. S. to general committee.
Passed. Bill Chartering West Concord manutactur-
ing company.
Mr.. NeedIam moved to reconsider the vote reject
ing the amendment to the Brattleboro' and F~itchburg
railroad bill, relating to future legislation; laid on the
table, and the bill made the special order for to-nor-
row.
The house proceeded to consider the special order,
being the bill to recharter the bank Of Burlington
Lyman of Burlington opposed the passage in an elab-
OilNC PPGtNtf III NtflNti IC ClANA CAN w SiV' HGN
nearly three fourths of the stock of the bank is owned
by fourteen persons, and their representatives-that
they have had the advantage of one recharter, and
therefore a continuous existence since l8lS-that they
have been exempted, beyond every other bank, from
the operate of the Safety Fund act and the state tax,
saving to them on an average about $1,000 per annum
and finally, that they have now received not only
their whole original capital back in profits, but divid-
ends averaging 8 per cent, per annum in addition. l."
argued that Justice to capitalists and sound public pol
icy require that no bank shall be rechartered, unless it
be, by the common consent of all interested and that
! where applications for a recharter and a new bank are
made, the Legislature shall give the preference to the
latter.
The senate came in and the following apI continents
were made:
UindSor County.
Sewall FulIam, States Attorney.
CaiedOnia County.
Robert Harvey, John p Ingalls,, Assistant Judges Of
the County Court.
Jonas Flint Sheriff, Andrew Mcmillan, High Bailiif,
Geo c. Cahoon, States Attorney, Samuel B. MattocHs,
Judge of Probate, Samuel Ingalls,, Senaca LAID, John
Kelsey, Jail Commissioners.
Grand Isle County
Henry II. Reynolds, Loenzo Hall, Assistan! Judges
Of the County Court.
LamoiMe County.
Vernon w. Waterman, Alpheus Morse, Assistant
Justices Of the County Court, G.. A Eaton, w. Mat
llCNo5 DufluC billpbClA Jul CNUhiiAooiphNip'
The Joint assembly adjourned to 10 ~. NJ. Friday
next and the senate withdrew,
The house resumed consideration of the Burlington
bank bill, when Porter stated various facts which had
been elected in the committee, and stating that the
committee had reported in favor of the bill from a con-
vlction that a reclarter was demanded by far the lar
gest portion of the people in the vicinity Of the bank.
Bottum argued very spiritedIy against the doctrine of a
recharter to adopt it would make these corporations
perpetual, and he very strongly urged the house not to
establish this principle, warning it that unless checked,
the whole character of our legislation would be changed
and controlled by the power OF corporations. Collamcr
deprecated the idea that if a recharter is granted, 1t Is
to be for the benefit of stockholders; he would act upon
higher grounds, for the public good. The bill was
made the order for tomorrow morning. Adjourned.
SENATE, Thursday, Oct, 28.--Prayer by the
Chaplain,
Rep0ris.-By Hodges, from committee on claims,
asking to be discharged from further consideration of
the petition of Sylvester Phelps, praying to be lndem-
nlied for seizure Of tobacco, on the ground that 1t had
been before acted on by the legislature; committee dis
charged, and after remarks by Harrington, the pctl-
ton was recommitted by a two thirds votei by Nash
; from the committee on banks, in favor of the bill IN
cooperating the Orleans iron co, bill passed; by Sweat,
from the committee on claims, in favor OF the bill an
nexing part of Hancock to Rochester; supported by
Cushnan, and on motion of Nash, who remarked that
Addison county might perhaps be interested in the
! uuGoJlOu, Tux jill WhE ldlu III lHS - wa
ton; by Foster from the Judiciary committee, in favor
of the bill relating to fire societies, and it was ordered
to a third reading; by Cram, from the committee on
elections, in favor of the bill requiring the election of
town representative to be made on a ballotng com
menced before ~ o'clock at night of the first Tuesday
in September, on motto of Cushman, laid Oil the table.
House bill ferred-Incorporating the west Concord
manufacturing company, to committee on mahufact-
ures.
House resolution. - Instructing the auditor to audit
the account for printing the third annual report of the
state G%eologlst, and to draw an order upon the state
treasurer to pay the same, passed,
Bill taroduced.-By Keyes, laying a tax on Orange
county, of three cents on the dollar, to build a court
house at Chelsea; Robinson suggested that this might
be considered a revenue bill, and consequently should
originate in the other house. On motion of Kidder it
=, was laid on the table.
MIR Harrington called up the bill extending the
charter of the bank Of Orleans. Nash remarked that
this case differed from the bank of Burlington, which
was one of the Oldest banks of the state, and which
had been before rechartered, On account of its com
paratiyely recent origin, no such Legislative benefit