Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-12-03

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ftion, shall be liable to fine not less than ten
dollars for each neglect or refusal,
Approved, October 30, 1851
No 3D. AN Aorin relation to Burial Grounds 3
Il is hereby enacted, 9e.
SEC / In all CASES where from any cause 1t
shall ba impracticable to preserve any burial
ground in proper condition, and removal Of
the Remains Of the dead inferred therein shall
be required by proper respect to the memory
Of the deceased aud when the seectmen of any
town shall not be able, upon diligent inquiry
made by them, to ascertain that any descendant
or relative of the deceased resides in this State,
then and in all such cases the selectmen are au.
taorized in their discretion to remove such re-
mains to a more suitable burial ground, and, il
necessary, to erect such monuments as may be
absolutely necessary to perpetuate the memory
Of the deceased. But this act shall not extend
to any case where upon proper inquiry any de
scendant or relative of such deceased person can
be found.
Sec, 2. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved, November ii, 1857.
No s5-AN ACT in addition to an act approved October
49, 1885, relating to Burial Grounds.
IL is hereby enacted, DC.
Sec |. When any town within this State
shall neglect to repair, or keep in repair. the
fence around any burial ground within said town,
such town may b. indicted, for any such neg
ect, by the grand jury, before the county court
Of the county, in which such burial ground shall
be located, and on conviction thereof shall be
foed not less than fifty dolhrs nor more than
one hundred dollars, ia the discretion Of the
court, whether any special damage shall have
been sustained or not.
Sec 2. Whenever any person or persons shall
sustain damage by cattle, horses, sheep or swine
breaking into any burial ground, and injuring
any grave, grAvestone, monument shrubhery or
flower, in consequence Of not having q lawful
fence around said burial ground, he she, or they
may recover Of said town double the amount Of
damage, befors any justice of the peace in the
county, or before the county court of the county,
where such damage is sustained
SEC. 3. No town in this State shall DO 10
dicted for not keeping in repair the fence around
any burial ground, or be liable for damage DONE
unless the seIectmen thereof shall have been
notified twenty days previous, in writing, that
the said fence was out of repair.
SEC 4. This act shall not apply TO any
burial ground belonging to any association or
corporation, nor to anysburia ground which is
by law made subject to any other control than
that named In the first section Of the act to
which this is n addition
SEC. s. This act shall take f,ct from its
passage.
Approved, November 10. 1857.
No 56AN ACT in addition to act approved November
II, 1884, relating to Fire Districts.
II is hereby enacted, DC.
SEC. l. Every FIRE district in this State may
By its prudential CON nittee, purchase AMI hold
in addition to the apparatus for extinguishng
fires, such real and personal estates not exceed,
ing in value ten thousand dollars, as may be ne
cessary for the protection and preservation of the
engine, hose, and other fire apparatus in such
district
SEC. 2. Every such district MY elect at its
annual meeting IA chief engineer and such as
sistant engineers as may be necessary, who shall
hold their offices for one year, and until Others
are elected; and who shall rank in the order in
which they shall be elected.
Sec. 3. ln every district in which such chief
engineer and assistants are elected and exercise
their Office, the powers now vested by law in fire
wardens shall cease.
Sec 4. The chief engineer, and in his alb
sence, the assistant highest in rank present. shall
have on the occasion of any fire 10 such district
the entire charge and control of all engines
hose hooks, ladders and other apparatus, and of
all companies and persons attending such fire,
for the purpose of cxtinguishing such fire and
preventing it's spread, and such engineer in
charge shall have all the powers conferred on
fire wardens by section twelve Of chapter six
teen of the compiled statutes.
SEC 5. The engineers aforesaid, when on
duty, shall wear conspcuously on their persons
badge of Office with their respective rank3 in
scrbed thereon,
. SEC. G. Every such fire district shall have
power, at any meeting thereof duly called, to
regulate by bye-laws the manufacture and safe
keeping Of ashes, gunpowder and all combusti
bles, and the preservation of buildings from fires
by precautionary measures, and the inspection
of buildings, and the chief engineer shall have
power to carry such regulations and bye laws
into effect, and shall also have the right Of direct
ing the making Of alterations in the position
and repair of stove pipes, furnaces, fire places,
and other things from which damage from fire
may be unprecedented and ia case the possessor
or owner Of any thing, the change Of position or
: the repair of which shall be 80 directed, shall
neglect to comply with the direction of such en-
gineer Immediately, such engineer may cause
such direction to be complied with at the ex-
pense of such possessor or owner, and such ex
4, pense shall be recovered by an action on the
case in the name of such district with full costs
/ SEC. 7. Any vacancy in any of the Offices in
such fire district may be filled by the district al
a special meeting called for that purpose.
SEC. 8. II any person shall refuse to obey
the orders or directions of any of such engineers
, in any manner authorized by law, or shall il
! like manner. dsobey any bye-law of such dis
! trict, such offender shall, on conviction thereo
before any justice of the peace proper to try the
f. same, forfeit and pay ii fine to such district o.
+ not less than five dollars and not more than ter
! dollars prouided such offender be prosecuted
therefor in an action of debt, brought in tb,
name of such district, within ninety days frou
the time of committing such offence.
SEC. 9. The chief engineer and in bis ab
sence the assistants in the order Of their ranl
shall, under the supervision Of the prudential
committee, have charge Of all the apparatus il
such district, for the prevention and extinguish
ment Of fires, and shall cause the same to be con
sttntly kept in serviceable order.
Sec. 10. The members of any fire compan,
in any such district TO the number of forty
shall not, in time of peace, be required to
military duty under the laws of this State
SEC i. This act shall take effect from it
passage
Approved, November TO- 1857.
No 27.--AN ACT relating to Villages.
IL is hereby enacted, dc.
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