The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-01-25
State Temperance Convention.-Addi
tional Proceedings.

Nv iViiVNihS proceedings Ol inc
State Temperance Convention, on the
second day of its sitting, we're not re-
ceiveG in season for last weeks issue
Voted, to raise a committee of five
to report plan for raising perman-
cnt Fund for the promotion Of the
cause Of Temperance in this State
The President appointed DR.. Orange
Smith of Waitsfeid, Rev. Mr.. Good.
hue, Shorehom ; j. p. Fairbanks, ST.
JohnSbu,y; Asa Low, Bradford;
James Barrett, Rutland.
Resoired, That the recent act of
the Governor Of this State, in lib
Grating from prison in the County of
Windsor,two convicted and incorrigible
rumsellcrs, and thereby thwarting the
proper end Of justice, is, in the Judy
ment of this Society, an exercise Of
executive clcmcncy, unwarrantabe
and unprecedented in view of the cir
cnmstances Of the case, and that this
act Of our chief magistrate Justly mer.
its the disapprobation of all true
friends Of Temperance, law and order,
in orr commonwealth.
The committee for raising a Ten
pcrancc Fund reported as follows:
Your Committee would respectfully
recommend to the Society, to raise bv
subscription. two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars on the princiI lie Of the
Massachusetts million fund, sum to
be paid annually, not exceeding one
per cent. in any one year, as a Tenn
perancc Fund, to be expended under
tho direction of the State Executive
Committee, whose duty it shall be to
devise ways and means to carry thc
above object into effect.
ORANGE SMITH, Chairman.
The plan referred to is in the words
following: For the purpose of paving
such expenses as the Vermont State
Temperance Executive Committee
may judge necessary and proper, in
order to sustain and enforce the pres.
ent antlNiquor law ofthis State, or any
similar prohibitory Statute, against
the traffic in intoxicating liquors as a
beverage. and iii order, otherwise, to
promote the cause of Temperance as
the State Temperance Committee may
Judge best, We, the undersigned, prom.
isc and agree to subject to equal as
sessmcnt. the sums annexed to our
names respectively; the assessments
to be made by the Vermont State
Temperance Executive Committec-
not exceeding one per cent. in any one
year. to be paid on notice Of the as
sessmcnt, to the Treasurer of said
State Temperance Executive Commit
tee the engagements hereby entered
INTO " us not to take erect until the
sum OF two hunarcd ana nifty thousand
uoiiafs' al least sha'i nave been thus
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ficicnt measures for the circulation Of
the T.mperance Standard throughout
the whole community. that we cordial
" approve the ability and fearless en-
crcy eyinced By its editor in conduct.
ing this Journal, and checrfully record
our deliberate iulrmeut that. with a
patronage such as it deserves, there
ev;cts ~ tbo ,rosort lima no ;nstru.