Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1858-12-24

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on tn
last Tuesday in March 1859, at which TIM
the term of office Of all district officers be
fore that time elected shall expire.
Approved Nov. 25, 1853. ea #
No. 54.-AN ACT to secure freedom !,
all persons within this State. SOC ae
n as hereby enacted, &c. saEte va .slss.
Sec l. No person within this Stat,
shall be considered as property, or subject
as such, to sale, purchase or delivery: no
shall any person, within the limits of thi
State, at any time. be deprived of libert,
torproperty without due process Of law.
81 oEc, z. Due process Of law mentioned
10 the preceding section of this act shall. in
all cases, be defined to mean the usual pro.
cess and forms in force BY the laws Of this
State and issuedby the courts thereof: and
under such process such person shall be en-
titled TO a trial by,iury.
oEc. .. whenever any person in this
State shall be deprived of liberty, arrested
or detained on the ground that such person
owes service or labor to another person, not
an inhabtant Of this State, either party may
clam trial by jury; and, in such case,
challenges shall be allowed to the defend
ant agreeably TO sections four and five of
chapter one hundred and eleven of the COM
piled statutes.
SEC. A.. Every person who shall de-
Prive Or attempt TO deprive any other per-
son OF his or her liberty, contrary TO the
provisions OF the preceding sections Of this
act, shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and
pay fine not exceeding two thousand dol
lars nor less than five hundred dollars. or
be punished by imprisonment in the. State
ffison Tor a term not exceeding ten years !:
Fsoraded. that nothing in said preceding
sections shall apply to. or affect the right to
arrest or imprison under existing laws for
contempt of court.
sec. 0. Neither descent near or remote
from an African whether such African is or
may have been slave or not. nor color Of
SKIN or complexion shall disqually any per-
son from being, or prevent any person from
becoming citizen OF this State, nor de-
prive such person Of the rights and privil-
eges thereof VI &
SEC. o. Every person who may have
been held as slave who shall come, or be
brought, or be in this State with or without
the consent Of his or her master or mis-
tress, or who shall come or be brought, or
be- ,nvoiuntarily or IN any wayin this State,
shall be free
SEC q Every person who shall hold. or
attemphto hold, in this State, in slavery. or
as save, any person mentioned as q slave
~ site sixth section OF this act, or any free
person IN auy form, or for any time however
short uysler the pretence that such person il
or has been a slave, saall, on eonvictidh
thereof, be imprisoned in the State Prison
Tor term not less than one year, nor more
than fifteen years, and be fined not exceed
ing two thousand dollars.
& SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts in
consistent with the provisions of this act are
hereby repealed.
SEC. 9. This act shall take effect from
IFS passage. 81 s@
approved Nov. 25, 1853. g M
No. 55.-AN ACT in addition to the seve-
raj acts in respect to the militia.
II is hereby enacted, &c. -
SEC. |. Whenever the uniformed mill
tia of this State. shall be organized into
separate regiments by the Commander-in-
chief, in pursuance of the provisions of sec
ton twenty-iwoo of ansact entitled San act ]
in relation TO the militia. approved Nov.
18th, 1S42, the field officers Of such regi-i
ments Shall be electedlby the commissioned
officers OF the several companies in each
regiment respectively,as provided by title
iyeof the said statute, approved Nov, 18th,
1912, to be convened for that purpose, for
he first elestion in each regiment after the
same shall be organized by the commander
N oiiaf ~ a f,r,a .,nl ,,lacas - H. L. L..
in the order organizing such reg
ment; and major and brigadier generals of
he uniformed militia shall be elected by the I,
Senate and House of Representatives, in
Joint Assembly, as provided by said title ,
i've of the statute of November IL. 1912;
md the several division, brigade and regi-
mental staff officers shall be appointed as :
provided by said title FIVE. s ~s s-..
SEC 2. The SIKH section of an act en-
iiled an act in relation to'the militia" ap-
'roxed October 18th, 1854. is hereby re-
,ealed. ~
Approved Nov. 25. 1858.
80. 56.-AN ACT to exempt highways !.
from the operation Of the statute of Inn !
itaiions.
His hereby enacted, SC. : ]satil
SEC. l. No person shall gain any right :
r interest within the limits of any highway
l.this State, solely by the possession and :
ceupation of any portion of such highway. :
Approved Nov. 25, 1853. !,
70. 57.-AN ACT relating to highway e
surveyors and street commissioners. d
II is hereby enacted, &c.
SEC. /. All highway surveyors and c
treet commissioners hereafter elected at ii
le annual March meetings in the respect ol
re towns in this state, shall hold office for il
ne year from the first day of April next Of
lcceeding their election. p
SEC. ?. ALI highway surveyors and
ireet commissioners, shall return their tax s
ills to or settle their accounts with the Sc al
,ctmen of their respective towns, between ca
le first and fifth days of April in each to
ear. a
SEC. 8. All acts and parts of acts, now ol