Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-11-28

persons are hereby constituted said trustees, with
powers and duties as hereinafter mentioned. viz:
The Governor, :,
The Chief Justice of Supreme Court, oal TX
The Secretary of State, o"s'o'-
George p Marsh, Burlington,
Erastus Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury, State.
Norman Williams Woodstock,
Ferrand F. Merrill Montpelier,
+. p. Walton Montpelier, nes-
Charles Reed, Montpelier, iuent'
SEC. 2. Said Trustees shall have the follow
ing powers. viz:
1. To fill all vacancies in the Offices of State
and resident trustees.
2. To appoint and remove a secretary, who
shall also act as librarian, and, when necessary,
TO appoint an assistant librarian.
8. To prescribe rules and by laws for the gov
ernmenl Of the library.
a. To cxpend the money appropriated for the
library to sell or exchange imperfect ordupli-
cate hooks belonging to the library.
5. To arrange and carry on domestic and for
eign exchanges Of books for he heneGt of the
library, and for this purpose, one hundred copies
OF all publications by the authority of the State
are hereby ordered to be set aside, ubect to the
order of said trustees, except in cases when it
shall be otherwise provided by law.
SEC. 8. 1t shall Be the duies Of said trustees
to report annually TO the legislature all accesso Is
T. the library, and as 10 exchanges made, and
generally all Transactions concerning the library;
to report, as as possible, and as often there
after as they may deem expedient, a full and
perfect catalogue of all the books, maps, medals,
&c, in the library, which catalogue shall be
printed TO prescribe the duties Of the secretary
and Librarians and see that he observe them and,
generally, TO superintend the interests and man
agement Of said library; and to make distrbu-
ton Of the judicial reports, acts, journals and
other documents, as provided by law, in all cases
where such distribution shall not hereafter be
devolved by law upon some other person or Off
Ger.
SEC 4. No salary or compensation shall be
allowed TO said trustees for their services.
SEC 8. For the election oil secretary and L.
brarian, the adoption of rules and bylaws, and
for the election to fill vacancies in the board Of
trustees, six members shall constitute quorum.
For the transaction Of ordinary busnessa any three
members present shall be quorum.
SEC 6. SAID trustees shall at all times be
subject to the order and control of the general
assembly.
SEC. Z. All acts inconsistent with this act
are hereby repealed.
passage.
Approved November IL, 1857.
No. N.-An Act in addition toNn act entitled "an
act to amend section seventy of chapter thirty
one, of the compiled statutes, approved Novem-
ber IA, 1857.
It's hereby enacted, &c.
SEC. /. Whenever any person shall be ar
rested on process founded on affidavit that such
person is about to abscond or remove from this
State and has property secreted about his per-
son or elsewhere to the amount Of twenty dollars
&C.,, fba Iaht ,rh to
made returnable out of the county in which such
person resides or where the arrest is made, he
may notify the officer arresting him. and cause
reasonable notice to be given to the creditor or
his attorney in such process, that he will appear,
and thereupon he may appear before one of the
assistant judges of the county court Of the coun-
ty where such person resides, or where the
rest is made, and submit himself to examination
as is now provided to obtain discharge from
arrest, and said Judge shall have the same pow
er to act in the premises as is conferred upon the
authority signing such process.
SEC. 2. 1t shall be the duty of the officer
making The arrest, to convey the debtor or de-
fendan, if he requests it, 10 the place of such
animation, whether before such judge or before
the authority signing such rocess, and such Of
fcer shall have no right to commit such debtor
or defendant to Jail till such examination has
been had
SEC. 8. Such judge shall be allowed the same
fees, and shall tax the costs of such examination
the same as if the hearng.had been had before
the authority signing such process, and they shall
be paid in the manner provided where such ex-
animation is had before such authority.
Approved, November IL, 1857