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execution, State VS.. Azuba Herrick, February 10,
lsI4. containing four acres and thirty-eight rods
of land. and recorded in Middletown land records,
vol. 8, pages 260 and 26l.
SEC. 2. Prouidsd, that no deed shall be deliv-
cred the said Jonathan Atwater until he shall pay
into the treasury of the State Of Vermont the sum
Of fifty dollars and eighty-nine cents.
SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Feb. 9th, 1857.
No. 5.-AN ACT to incorporate the Orange Coun-
ty Hotel Company.
His hereby enacted &C.,
Sec. |. William Hebard, Lement Bacon, Elihu
Hyde, Rufus H.. Hyde, William F. Dickinson,
Perley c. Jones, Salmon j. Moore, and their as
sociates and successors, are hereby constituted a
body polite and corporate, by the name OF the
"Orange County Hotel Company for the pur-
pose of purchasing, repairing OF building a house
Of Public Entertainment, in Chelsea, in the Coun-
ty of Orange and State of Vermont, and by that
namemaylsue,and besued may have a common seal,
may purchase and hold personal and real estate to
an amount not exceeding thirty thousand dollars,
and may sell and dispose of the same.
Sec. 2. The capital stock of said Corporation
may be divided into as many shares, each share
at all meetings of said Corporation to have one
vote, and be sold and transferred, and assessments
made thereon, in such manner as said Corporation
from time to time, may deem expedient and
said Corporation may make such bylaws and re-
gulations for the government of the same as may
be deemed necessary, not inconsistent with the
Constitution and laws of this State.
Sec. 3. Any three corporatCrs above mentioned
may call the first meeting of said Corporation, by
posting up a notice of the time and place of said
meeting, at the Post Office IN said Chelsea, at least
six days prior to said meeting.
Sec. 4. This Corporation shall not contract any
debts until at least FIVE thousand dollars of the
capital stock Of said Corporation shall have been
paid or secured to said Corporation, no part Of
which shall be diverted from the business of the
Company nor shall the indebtedness of the Com
pauy at any time exceed the amount Of the capital
stock actually paid in or secured as aforesaid.
Sec. 8. In the case of the violation Of the
provisions Of the foregoing section, the private
property Of each stock holder shall be holden for
the debt. of Corporation, to an amount equal to
the amount of the stock he shall own in said
Company.
Sec. 6. This act is under the control of the
Legislature to alter, amend, or repeal, as the pub
lie good may require and shall be subject to the
provisions of chapter eighty-three of the Compiled
Statutes.
Sec. Z. This act shall take effect from its pass
age. Approved, Feb. %, 1857.
No. 6-AN ACT to pay the Secretary of Civil
and Military affairs, the Secretary and assis-
tant Secretary Of the State, and the clerk of the
House of Representatives, respectively, the
SUM therein mentioned.
II is hrebV enacted Sc.
SEC. /. The Auditor of Accounts is hereby di-
rected to draw an order on the Treasurer in favor
of William e.. Shaw, Secretary of Civil AMI Mill
tary Affairs, for the sum of one hundred dollars;
also an order in favor of Clark II. Cha pman, Sec
rotary of the Senate, for the sum of one hundred
dollars: also an order in favor Of Reuben c. Ben
ton, Jr, Assistant Secretary Of the Senate, for the
sum of seventy five dollars; also an order in ia
vor of George X. Thompson, Clerk of the House
of Representatives, for two hundred and fifty dol
lars: said sum being in full compensation for the
services rendered by said officers, respectively,
during and in consequence Of the present special
session of the General Assembly.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from Its
passage.
Approved, Feb. ~. 1857.
No. Z. AN ACT in addition to and in amend
mcnt of an act ENTITLED ian act to incorporate
the Fairhaven slate and Railroad Company
ms hereby enacted, &c.
SEC. /. The anne of the cor ~poration establish
ed by the act to which this is in addition shall
hereafter be, THE Allen Slate Company" in
stead of the " Fairhaven Slate and Rail Road
Company"
SEC. 2. Said corporation may. at any time
hereafter Increase their number of directors to
any number not exceeding nine.
SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its pas
sage.
Approved. Feb. 81, 1857.
No. SAN ACT in amendment of an act to in
corporate the Hammond Female Institute.
Hs hereby enacted, &c.
SEC. /. The fourth section Of the act incorpo-
rating the Hammond Female Institute, is hereby
SO amended that the first meeting Of said corpo-
ration may be held on or before the first day of
June, A. d, 1857.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its pas