Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1850-12-06

LANDS.
IL is hereby enacted dc,
SEC. l. Whenever any college owning
lands in any town in this State, shall lease, o
shall have leased, the same as long as WOO
grows and water runs, securing to the lessee
the right of pre-empton, said lands so lease
shall not by virtue of any law heretofore enact
ed, be exempt from county, town and schoo
taxes.
SEC. 2. This act shall not be so construed
as TO effect in any way lands which have beer
chartered or sequesered for the benefit of any
college, or lands which may have become tn,
property of any college, prior to tho organiza
ton of the town in which they are situated.
SEC. 8. The State shall not be liable il
any event to pay any damages, costs or char
ges that may accrue if this act shall be decide
by the Supreme Court to be unconstitutional
or violation of the charter of any college.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from III
passage.
Approved Nov. 13, 1850.
No. 2S.-AN ACT IN ALTER ALTON OF
CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGIIT OF THE RE-
NlSED STATUTES, ATING TO
THE MANUFACTURE AND INSpEC.
TION OF FLOUR.
Il is hereby enacted &c.
Sec. !. 1t shall be tile duty OF every ma nu.
facturer of -four in this State to brand lepibly
on the head of each barrel or cask of flour by
him exported or sod the words, extra, Gancy,
supetne No. l. or Superfne No. ,, Scraichel
SuPerHne, fine, and fine middliHg, and likewise
the true tare or weight of each bs rre or cask,
and the weight Of the contents.
Sec. .. Every manufacturer of flour in this
State, who shall sell or export any barrel or
cask OF flour which shall contain less than the
number of pounds required by law, or which
shall not be branded as required in the prcce-
ding section, or which shall be falsely branded
in any particular, or which shall not have been
duly inspected previous to such sale or expnr-
taton, by some legal inspector, shall forfeit
and pay for each such barrel or cask the
sum of five dollars, to be recovered with costs
in action on the case, on this statute, in the
name OF the person injured, and to be equally
divided between such person and the town
where such offence is committed.
Sec. 3. 1t shall be the duty of each nspec.
tor OF flour in this State, whenever any -four is
inspected by him, first, to ascertain the quality
OF the contents OF each barrel or cask, and
brand legibly on the head of each barrel or
cask the words extra, fancy, s0perfne No. | -,
Superfae No. ., scr9!cled Superfne, fine. and
unless the same shall have been previously
and correctly branded, and in all cases where
tile same shall have been previously and incor-
recily branded, 10 alter the brand according 10
the quality, ard to brand in the same manner
all barrels or casks containing flour so damag.
ed as to be unfit for use, with the word ''bad :"
second, 20 ascertain the weight OF each barrel
or cask by him inspected, and if containing the
number OF pornis required by law, to brand
said weight Iesibly on the head Of each barrel
or cask, if not previously correctly branded,
and to brand in the same manner eac Il barrel
or cask not containing the number of pounds
required by law with the word "Hght;" third,
to ascertain by examination the weight of all
cdtks or barrels which he may suspect of be-
ing falsely or incorrectly marked, and correc,
the mark OF the tare thereon. if falsely or incur-
rectly marked.
Sec. 4. All tie penalties provided for in the
hirty-second, thirty-hlrd, and thirty.tourth Sec
tons Of chapter sXly.eight of the Revised Stat
utes shall be recovered and divided in the same
manner as the penalty provided for in the Sec
ond section Of this act.
Sec 5. All acts and parts Of acts, inconsis-
tent with the provisions Of this act, are hereby
repealed.
Sc. 6. The board Of civil authority in each
notified for that purpose, appoint ii suitable
person as an inspector OF flour, who shall be
sworn to the faithful discharge Of his duties,
and who may appoin. deputies under him, and
for whose acts AS such deputies, he shall be res
ponsible, and such board may, any regular
meeting of the board, remove such inspector,
when in their opinion such removal shall be
deemed for the public good
Sec. 7. No person who is manufacturer or
dealer in flour, either directly or indirectly,
shall be appointed flour inspector.
Sec 8. The term Of office of all persons who
are now -four inspectors, shall cease on the
first day of December next, and all persons ap-
pointed on or after the first day of December
next, 10 be flour inspectors, shall hold ther Of
flee until the first day Of December next fol-
lowing their respective appointments, unless
removed therelrom, agreeably 10 the provisions
Of tie first section Of this act.
Sec Q. Each flour inspector shall be enti-
lied to receive two cents, and no more, Tor
each barrel or cask of Hour by him inspected.
Sec. 10. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov l3, 1850.
NO. 29.-AN ACT FOR THE PRESERVA.
TION OF FISH IN LAKE ClIAMPLAlN.
II is hereby enacted &c.
Sec. /. II any person, not an inhabtant o.
this State, shall, hereafter, within the limits Of
this State, catch or take any fish in the waters
of Lake Champlain, or in the tributaries there
of by means of any seine or net, or other
snare or contrvance adapIel for the taking of
fish, in any manner except with hooks and
lines, each person so offending shall, for each
offence on complaint and conviction, be fined "a
sum not less than ten dollars nor more than
twenty dollars, in the discretion of the court,
for the use Of the poor of the town in which
such offence is committed.
Sec. Justices Of the peace shall have u-
rsdiction of the offence created by this ac I,
subject to the right of the respondent to appeal
to the County Court, rs provided in other cases.
Sec. 3. When such offence shall be com
milted in the waters of Lake Champain, the
same shall be deemed and taken to have been
within the limits of that town oppo-
site TO whose shore the same was committed
Sec 4. This act shall take effect from lis
passage.
Approved Nov. l3, 1850.
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