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a "GREAT FACT" FOR TEEroTAL
LEcTuRERs.-~We canprove,' says Bar
on Liebig, "with mathematical certain
ty, that as much flour or meal as can
lie on the point of table knife is more
nutritious than five measures (about
eight or ten quarts } of the best Bava-
rian beer that person who is able
daily to consume that amount of beer
obtains from it in whole year, in the
most favorable case, exactly the amount
of nutritiye constituents which is con
tanned in 5lb loaf of bread, or three
pounds Of flesh. Letters on Chcmis
try
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Political LIrE.-Demosthenes. as
Plutarch relates, once said, that if, at
the commencement of his public career,
he had known what be afterwards learn
ed, of the miseries of public life, and had
been shown two roads, one of them lea
ding to an early grave, and the other to
political power, he would have chosen
the former.
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e u / st D R N =
JTEINOy'E' RAILROAD,

COMPLETED TO BENNINGTON, where it
connects with the Troy & Boston Railroad,
forming the shortest and most desirable Rail
route between Rutland 6 Troy.
lst Mail Train leaves Rutlaud at 1920
A. NJ. or ON the arrival Of the Rutland & Bur
lington trains from Bellows Fals& Burlington.
arriving in Troy l-30 p. NJ. & in New York by
Hudson River Rail Road, . =. NJ.
I'd Mail Train leaves Rutland / 40 p. NJ,
on arrival of Express trains from Burlington
& Boston arriving in Troy at F. NJ. and
New York 1890 p. NJ. by II. r. r. r.
A Freight train leaves Rutland every morn
ing.
Tickets to be procured at the Stations on
the Rutland & Burlington Railroad and of
Conductors on the Cars
Aug. 27, 1852 15lyw.s JOHNSON, SapL
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roof reaches the Atlantic Ocean through
the River st. Lawrence, and that which
falls upon the Southern side goes down
the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
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THE DIVIDING OF THE WArEas-The
Court House of Portage County, Ohio,
in the handsome village of Ra VIENNA,
stands in such position that the water
which falls upon the North part Of its
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No 10. An Act relating to actions be-
tween copartners.
IL rs hereby enacted, &c.
Sec. /. The action of account, or
any other appropriate action at law.
may be brought and maintained by one
or more copartner or copartDers, to set
tie and adjust their copartnership ac-
counts and dealings, making all said CO.
partners parties to said action, either as
plaintiffs or defendants.
Sec. 2. The several county courts in
this state are empowered to hear, try
and determine all such actions to ap
point auditors or commissioners, in their
discretion, to take testimony, or to find
and state facts. and to take, adjust aud
state accounts between said copartners.
And said courts are also empowered to
make all such orders and decrees, either
interlocutory or final, as may enable such
courts to do complete justice to all par
ties, and such as the court Of chancery
could lawfully make in order to the adj
justment and final settlement of all CO.
partnership accounts, matters and deal
ings whatever and such courts shall
render final judgment or judgments in
any such action, in favor Of or against,
such copartncrs respectively as shall be
just and equitable, and such as the court
of chancery might render and may en-
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No. 4. An Act relating to proceedings
against trustees, in amendment of sec
tion forty-fve of chapter thirty-two
of the Compiled Statutes.
10 is hcrcJy enacted, sc.
Sec. /. Section forty-fvc of chapter
thirty-two of the compiled statutes is so
amended as to read as follows
All negotiable paper, whether under
or over due, may be attached by. and
the same is subject to the operation of,
the trustee process, unless it shall APP
pear that the same had been negotiated
and notice thereof given to the maker
or endorser before the service of the
trustee process on him Pror6fed, that
any negotiable paper which shall be ac-
tually assigned, negotiated and transfer
red before it becomes due, shall be ex-
empt from attachment by the trustee
process, if such paper shall be discoun-
ted at any banks in this state and the
bank discounting such paper shall have
the same right to collect such paper as
though it was made payable at such
bank Prorided, further, that in all
cases hereafter arising, when from the
trustees disclosure it shall appear that
he had been notified of the sale or as
signment of any demand for which he
would otherwise be adju6ged trustee,
either of the parties to that suit or
process may raise the question of the
validity of such sale or assignment 10
him or them, may be summoned as wit.
nesses and compelled to testify to the
consideration upon which such sale or
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assignment was made, and if upon all
the evidence upon that point it shall be
found that such sale or assignment was
not bona fae. then said trustee shall be
adju1gcd liable, in the same manner as
though no sale or assignment had been
pretended
Sec. 3 This act shall have no effect
upon any suit now pending and shall
take effect from its passage.
Approved, November %, 1852.
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No. 30.-An Act relating to Mochan-
les Liens.

No. 30.-An Act relating to Mochan-
les Liens.
II is hereby enacted, &c.
Sec. /. No person shall have lien
upon any house or other building, by
virtue of section three of chapter one
hundred, Of the compiled statutes, un-
til he lodge in the town clerks Office
of the town where such house or other
building is situated, a copy of the con-
tract under which he is erecting, re-
pairing or altering the same, and cause
to be there recorded a declaration
signed by him of hisintcntion to claim
such lien.
Sec. 2. Within three months after
payment shall become due to him an
der such contract, such person may
commence his action for the same, and
cause said house or other building to
bc attached thereon in due course of
law, and if he shall obtain jugdment in
the suit so instituted, the record Of such
judgment shall embrace a brief state
ment of the contract upon which the
same was founded and the plaintiff
may, within five months after the date
of such judgment, cause certified cory
of tic record of such judgment TO be
recorded in the town clerks Office of
the town where such house or other
building is situated and such house or
other building shall be thereupon hcl-
den for the amount due uron such
Judgment, together with the cost of
the copy Of the record of the judg-
ment and recording, in the Same man
ner as if it had been mortgaged for
the payment Of the same, from the
time the copy of the contract and dec
laration were lodged in the town eleils
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NUMBER 38.

Sec. 2 Any person, whose capita
stock shall be attached and sold on exc
cution against such corporation, shall
have an action on the case against such
corporation. and therein shall recvTer all
damages be has sustained thereby.
Sec 3. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, November l6, 1852.
No. % An Act to amend section
cighty-four Of chapter thirteen Of
the Compiled Statutes, relating to No
tarics Public
II is hcreJy enacted, &c.
Sec /. Section cighty-four Of chap
ter thirteen Of the compiled statutes is
hereby amended so as to read as fol-
lows:
The judges Of the county court may
annually appoint, in their respective
counties. as many notaries public as the
public good shall require, to hold their
Offices one year from the time Of their
respective appointment, whose jurisdic
ton shall extend throughout tho state.
Sec 3 This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved, November ls, 1852
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No 25.-An Act in addition to chap.
ter eighty-sevcn Of the Compiled
Statutes, relating to Inn-Keepers and
Groceries. and the Traffic in Intoxica-
ting Drinks.
II is hereby cndctcd, DC.
Sec l. The judges Of the county
court in their respective counties shall
have the same power and right to grant
licenses to keep inns in the unorganizcd
towns and cores in their respective coun-
ties that is now given by law to the So
lectmcn in the organized towns in this
state.
Sec O. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved, November %, 1859.
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No. 20. An Act to amend sections
thirteen and fifteen of chapter fifty Of

No. 20. An Act to amend sections
thirteen and fifteen of chapter fifty Of
the Compiled Statutes, relating to the
settlement of estates.
II as hercby enacted, DC.
Sec l. The thirteenth section of
said chapter is so altered and amended
as to read as follows:
If any executor or administrator shall
reside out of this state, or shall neglect,
after due notice by the probate court. to
render his account and settle the estate
according to law, or to perform any or
der or decree of such court, or shall alb
scond, or become insane, or otherwise in
capable or unsuitable to discharge the
trust, the probate court may, in its dis
crcton, order such executor or admips-
traitor to be removed; and the probate
court may allow an executor or admin
istrator to resign, when it shall appear
proper
See. 2. The fifteenth section Of said
chapter is so altered and amended as to
read as follows:
When an executor or administrator
shall be removed, or shall resign, or his
authority shall be extinguished, the re-
manning executor or administrator, if a.
ny, may execute the trust if there shall
be no other, the probate court may com
nit administration of the estate, not al
ready administered, to some suitable
person or persons, as in case Of the death
of an executor or administrator.
Sec, g. This act shall take effect
from its passage
Approved, November %, 1852.
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No. 3. An Act in amendment of sec
tion sixty-seven of chapter thirty-onc
of the Compiled Statutes, relating to
process.
IL is hereJy enacted, &c.
Sec. /. Section sixty-seyen of chap
ter thirty.one of the compiled statutes
shall be so amended as to read as fol-
lows:
No person, who is a resident citizen
of tins state, or of any other of the u
nited States, shall be arrested or i'm
prisoned by virtue of any mesne process,
which shall issue on any contract, .ex-
press or implied, made or entered into
after the first day of January, A. d.
1889, nor by virtue of an execution is
sued on a judgment recovered in an
action founded on any such contract ;
Prorided, that if the plaintiff. his agent
or attorney, praying out a writ on any
contract made after the first day of Jan
uary \. ID. 1889 shall file with the au-
thority issuing such writ an affidavit,
stating that he has good reason to be-
licve and does believe that the defend
ant is about to abscond or remove from
the state, and has secrctcd about his
person or elsewhere money or other
property to an amount exceeding TWEEN
ty dollars, or sufficient to satisfy the de-
mand upon which he is to be arrested,
such writ may issue against, and be
served upon, the body of the defendant.
Approved, November 29, 1852
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W a e e IL & $ s z $ a

Such as Spring, Hair, Moss, Palm Leaf
HuSh and Cotton.
These Mattcsses arc made of the best mate
rial to be bought in Boston, and in n manner
not inferior to any purchased there, as to ev-
enness and durability, We have supplied
some Of the first families ia town with Mat
tresses of our make, and they have given gen
eral satisfaction.
s.S' Couehes, Hair PiHOes and BolsierS made
10 order.
as- ReH0ratiRg and repairing Mattresses,
Sofas and Chair bottoms done at fair rates.
Every article will be sold as low as the same
style and quality can be bought in New York
or Boston, and in many instances lower.
All who are about TO go to. keeping house,
or those who wish TO procure new and Fash
ionable Furniture, and despense with their
old ont Of date wares, will do wen to give us
call, as we can make it for your interest to
Commission Furniture Rooms, No 2,
Nichols Building.
J. p. e. l.. w. HUNTINGTON.
Middlebury, Nov !, 1852 28
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T e r M s .

BY Mail, or at the Office, per annum, 81 so
If not paid within the year. ...........1 T5
If not paid within the ycar,............2 20
k.7~ No paper discontinued until arrearagcs
are paid.
Eg" All communications must be post paid.
sy- " b. Palmer is agent for this paper in
Boston and New York.
s-g~ S. NJ. Pcttcngill & Co., 10 State Street.
Boston, arc our authorized agents.
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No. lS.--An Act in relation to assingn-
mpnts

No. lS.--An Act in relation to assingn-
ments.
II is herc5y enacted, &c.
Sec. |. All assignments hereafter
made of property, including chooses in
action, by debtors for the benefit Of cred
itors, Shall be in writing and signed by
the debtor and in case real estate is
assigned, it shall be by deed, executed
and recorded conformably to the laws
relating to the conveyance of real es-
tate.
See p Every assignment shall be
specific, and be accompanied with full
inventory or schedule of tho property
assigned including chooses in action, and
also with list eff the creditors to be
benefited by the assignment, and the
sums due each one, as near as may be.
Sec. 3. 1t shall be the duty of the
assignor and assignee to file in the coun-
ty clerks Office, in the county where the
assignment is made, and the property
assigned is situated, true copy Of the
assignment, and of the inventory of the
property assigned, including all chooses
in action, and of the list of creditors to
be benefited by the assignment, within
ten days from the time of the execution
of the assignment, to remain ON file for
the use and inspection of all persons in
terested, as creditors, in the assignment.
Sec. 4. If both the assiguor and as
signec shall neglect or refuse to file such
copies with such county clerk for the
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THE PUBLIC
Al RE
r M " r r e %
TO AN EXAMINATION OF
j. ?. & L. w. HUNTINGTON'S
SPLENDID ASSORTMENT
81 q s !4 Z @ 81 AGI q
f i r N | L u R E
Nichols Building, No. 2, CUP Stairs }

TINHE subscribers have long been aware of
Il the want of an establishment where
might be procured fashionable outfit for
housekeeping, and have, as they now think,
been able to supply that demand, by fitting
up some large and commodious rooms, where
may be found at all times, great variety of
Furniture, such as
SOFAS, DIVAN.S, OTTOMANS,
Secretaries, Bureaus, Card Tables,
Mahogany Parioy and Rock
ing Chairs, Cane-!Seat
Rocking aHd Gre
cidn Chairs,
All kinds of TABLES, and STANDS, MA
HOGANY STOOLS covered with hair cloth,
and almost every other article needed to fur
nish a parlor in gentccl style. Also Drawing
Room and Chamber Furniture, Of every de
sirable style and quality.
We intend to keep an assortment Of Furni-
ture of the best quality, and same that we
can sell very cheap.
In connection with the above business, the
subscribers continue to manufacture at short
notice all kinds of
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No 29.-An Act to amend an Act to
Authorize the business of Bank
ing, Approved November Seven
teen, One Thousand Eight Hun
dred and Fifty-One.
IL is hereby enacted, &c.
Sec. /. Whenever any note or
notes shall hereafter be protested, a.
greeably to the provisions of section
four Of the act to which this is an a
mendment, the same shall be lodged
with the state treasurer for redemp-
ton and one protest shall be all that
shall be required, or allowed fees
for to any one party upon demand
made in any one day.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved, November %, 1852.
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Laws Of Vermont, Session Of 1852.

No t. An Act altering the time of
holding the County Court for the
County of Windham.
II IS hcrcJy cnacted By the Gensrm As
sembly Of tic Satc cf Vermont, as
follorS
Sec. |. The county court for the
county of Windham shall hereafter be
held on the third Tuesday of April anil
the third Tuesday of September in each
year.
Approved, November II, 1852.
No. . An Act altering the time Of
holding the County Court in the coun-
ty of Addison.
IL is hereJy cndctcd, d-c.
Sec. / The county court for the
county Of Addison shall hereafter be
held on the first Tuesday in June and
December in each year
Approved: November 80, 1852
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No. l9.-An Act Relating to injunc-
tons, in addition to chapter twenty
seven of the Compiled Statutes
II is hcreJy enacted, &c.
Sec. /. The decision of any chan
ccllor, granting, dissolying, or refusing
to dissolve, any temporary injunction OIL
motion for such dissolution, except when
the same is dissolved on motion of the
party obtaining the same, may be ap
pealcd from by the party aggricved tc
the supreme court and said appeal may
be entered in the Office of the clerk ii
the county where such decision is made
and if so entered. said motion shall b,
heard, on the application Of either party
at the next session of said court sittin.
in any county in the state, either i'll reg
ular or circuit session, the adverse part,
to have reasonable notice of the tim,
and place of such hearing.
Sec. 2 Said injunction shall contin
uc in full forcc and effect during tn
pcndency of said appeal, and till the Fl
nal action of the court upon such az
peal.
Sec. 8. In case of such appeal. tn
order of the chancellor, with the othe
papers in the case, shall be certified, an
pass to the supreme court, as above pre-
vided and the order aud direction {
the supreme court in the premises, an
all things concerning the same, shall b
remitted to the court of chancery c
such chancellor, in the same manner Il
in other appeals in chanccry; and sue
chancellor shall proceed forthwith to d
what may be necessary to carry the sam
into effect
Sec H. This act shall take cffcc
from its passage.
Approved, November %, 1852.
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Approved, November l6, 1852.

No l5-An Act in alteration Of " An
Act relating to Defendants in action
on Joint Contracts" approved Novem-
Der II, 1851.
II is hefcjy eAacietl, &c.
See. |. The first section of act pass
ed November II, A. d. 1851, is hereby
amended 50 as to read as follows:
In an action founded on a contract.
express or implied, pending before any
court in the state, in which more persons
than one are defendants, the plaintiff
shall be entitled to a judgment against
such defendants as may .bo defaulted.
and against those who shall upon trial
be found to be liable upon the contract
declared on, Notwithstanding it shall be
found upon said trial that all the defen-
dants in said action arenot jointly liable
upon the contract declared on.
Sec. 2 This act shall take effect
from it's passage. -
Approved November 10, 1852.
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rules as other witnesses Proridcd,
That the party SO called to testify may
be examined by the opposite party, un-
der the rules applicable to the cross-cx-
animation of witnesses.
Sec. 3. Nothing in this act shall i'll
any manner affect the law relating to the
attcstation of the execution oflast wi lis
and testments, or of any other instru.
ment required by law to be attested; nor
any suit brought before and pending al
the time this act shall go into effect nor
shall be so construed as to compel any
person to subject himself by his tcsti
mony to any prosecution for criminal
offence
Approved, November % 1852.
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No. l7.-An Act in amendment of Sec
Thirteen of Chapter One Hundred
and Sixteen of the Compiled Stat
utcs, relating to the Compensation and
Fees Of Grand and Petit Jurors.
II IS here'y eAacte'l, 5'c.
Sec l. So much of section thirt cen
of chapter one hundred and sixteen of
the compiled statutes as relates TO the
compensation and fees of grand and petit
jurors before the county courts, is so a.
mendcd as to road as follows for trav-
el. six cents per mile for attendance per
day, one dollar and twenty-five cents !;
to each talisman, at the rate Of one dol
lar and twenty-five cents per day.
Approved, November II, 1852.
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No. To- An Act in amendment of
Sec Thirty Three of Chapter One
Foul of the Compiled Statutes, rclat-
ing to offences against Private Prop
crty.
II is hercJy c1,acted, &c
Sec. |. The thirty-thrd section of
chapter one hundred and four of the
compiled statutes shall be amended so
as to read as follows.
If any person shall wilfully and mali
ciously break any window or door in any
state house court house. house Of public
worship, town house, college, school house,
academy. or other public building, or
any dwelling house, whether any family
reside in the same at the time or not, or
in any store, bank, shop, mill or factory,
he shall be punished by fine, not exceed
ing twenty dollars, or imprisonment in
the county Jail not exceeding ninety days,
or both of said punishmcnts, in the dis
cretion of the court.
Approved, November Is, 1852.
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No. l1.-An Act in addition to Chap
ter Sixty-One of the Compiled Stat
utes, relating to Limitations Of Ac-
tions against Towns.
70 is hcreJy enacted, &c.
Sec. /. All action against any town,
or town clerk, to recover damages for
any neglect or default of duty of any
town clerk III relation to or concerning
any deed, execution or other instrument
delivered to him, or left in his Office for
record, may and shall be brought within
six years next after there shall have
been final decision at law or in equity
against the title, right or claim of the
party under such deed, execution or in
strumcnt, and not after
Approved, November l6, 1852.
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No. 81. An Act relating to sherifTs
and high bailiffs
IL ,s LarnI,, ooocJo,J &c

No. 81. An Act relating to sherifIs
and high bailiffs
II ishere6y enacted, &c
Sec. |. The Judge or judges, whose
duty it is by law to take any rccognizance
for the faithful performance of the Office
and duty Of any sheriff, or high bailiif,
shall Immediately cause the same to be
recorded in the county clrek's office in
the county where such rccognizaacc shall
or may be taken, copy of which, GER.
tilted by the clerk of said county, shall
be deemed good and legal evidence of
the same in any court of record in this
state.
Sec. .. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved, November l6, 1852
No %. An Act in amendment of sec
ton nine of chapter eighty-three Of
tho Compiled Statutes, more eiFectr.
tually to provide for the collection of
debts against corporations.
IL rs hereby enacted, DC.
Sec, |. The capital stock of any rail,
road corporation, or any private corpo
ration, shall be liable to attachment and
sale on execution against such corpora
tion; and any number of shares Of any
one or more members thereof may be
taken and sold on each execution, suffi
cient to satisfy the same with all legal
charges thereon, in the same manner as
the shares of such capital stock owned