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LAWS OF VERMONT,

OCTOBER SESSION, 1858.

rs hereby enacted by the General Assep,blv
OF me STATE Of Vermont, as follocs:
SEC. L. The sum of four thousand dollars
Is hereby appropriated from the treasury of
thls state, for the purpose of paying the ex-
pense OF rebuilding the cells of the Vermont
State Prison, and making such other repairs
upon said prison, work shops and yard fence,
as shall be deemed necessary.
SEC. 2. The Superintendent of the State
Prison is hereby authorized, with the advice
OF the Directors of said Prison, to reconstruct
the cells OF said Prison. and mako such other
repairs upon the prison, work shops and
YARD fence as is deemed necessary, and shall
present his accounts for the same to tho au-
ditor of accounts, who shall allow such sum
therefor as shall be just and reasonable, and
Graw @ ts GrasrSo 60 Cine t5 s p@rGr ~ to- the same
vided that such allowance shall not exceed
the sum Of four thousand dollars.
SEC This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved November 10. loJS.
No. lS.-AN ACT in alteration of section
thirty-two OF chapter fifteen of the COM
piled statutes.
II is here6y enacted de-
SEC. l. The town clerk shall furnish and
keep in his Office a general index to the books
Of records of deeds, wherein he shall enter in
one column in alphabetical order the name of
the grantor to the grantee and in a parallel
column the name of the grantee from the gran
tor of every deed or other conveyance of land
hereafter recorded with the number of the
book or volume and the page of record in the
| following form
Blk Gntor to G'ntce P'go
Blk G,ntee from to G'ntor PFC
B from A |
Approved November Il. ! -.
No. l9.-AN ACT relating to the reports of
the Supreme Court.
II IS hereby enacted, dc.
Sec. l. Instead of the fifty copies and the
thirty-fye copies Of Vermont Reports re-
quired to be furnished to the State by Sec
tions sixty-seven and sixty-cight of Chapter
nine of the Compiled Statutes, the Reporter
shall annually furnish to the State one hnn-
dred copies of said reports, and shall be enti-
| tied to receive therefor from the State sum
equal to the actual cost OF the publication,
binding and transportation thereof
SEC. 2. Said reports shall be delivered
to the State Librarian, who shall deliver
copy on request to the several parties entitled
thereto. and the remainder of said reports
shall be subject to the contr)l of the trustees
of the State Library for the benefit of the
Library.
Sec. 8. All provisions of law or by reso-
luton, inconsistent with this act are hereby
| repealed.
SEC. A. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved, November 90, 1858.
No. 2O.-AN ACT providing for the slfety
OF Probate records.
IL IS hereby enacted DC.
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in the several counties in this State are here
by directed to provide, at the expense of the
PrUDaie District now unprovided with the
same, suitable for keeping the Probate Rec
ords of said District.
SEC. 2 This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, November 20, 1858.
No. 2l.-AN ACT in alteration of on act
entitled "ar act for the relief of the town
of Whcelock," approved November tenth,
1857.
II is hereby enacted, DC.
SEC. l.-Section two Of said act shall be
SO amended as to require the listers in said
town to complete the grand list and deposit
the same in the town clerks Office at the
same times that it is required of listers by
the general laws of this otate and so much
of said act as requires the lister to deposit
the list on or before the first day Of May is
hereby repealed.
Approved, Nov. 90. 1858.
No. 22.-AN ACT relating to highways,
is hereby enacted, DC.
SEC. l. On all public cross roads and
lanes in this State, known as pent roads,
where gates or bars now are or hereafter may
be erected across the same, the selectmen Of
the town In which said gates or bars are
situated. shall at the expense of said town,
cause good and sufficient p SITS to be erected
at convenient distances on each side of said
gates or bars, suitable for fastening horses
and teams oftravcllers thereat while opening
| and closing said gates or bars when travell-
ing upon said highway, and for neglect
thereof said town shall be liable to an indict-
ment by the Grand Jury ofthe County.
SEC. ,. In all highway districts in this
State, where there are loose stones in the trav-
eled portion of said highway, it is hereby
made the duty of the highway surveyor, or
other persons having charge of said road in
said highway district to examine or c0use
said highway to be examined, at least once a
month, while the same is bare of snow, and
remove, or cause to be removed, said loose
stones from said travelled portion of said
highway and the same compensation shall
be allowed for such services as is now allow
ed by law for other highway services.
Approved, November 20, 1853
No. 23.-An Act relating to CommonSchools.
IL is hereby enacted, &c.
Sec. l. The several Towns in this State
SHALL at their annual March meeting, elect
one person to be Superintendent OF Common
Schools within such Town, who shall hold his
office during the school year commencing on the
| first day OF April next after his election, and
when appointed by the seectmen, during the
remainder of the then current school year
and who shall receive for his services one
dollar for each day necessarily spent in the
discharge of his legal duties, and reasonable
sum for his annual report to the March
meeting and his accounts shall be audited
! by the court auditor of the County in which
he resides, and when approved shall be paid
out OF the State Treasury upon the order of
the various County clerks, who are hereby
authorized to draw orders therefor but no
order shall be drawn by any County clerk for
the amount thus allowed 10 any Superintend-
ent until such Superintendent shall have filed
with such clerk the receipt of the Secretary
of the Board OF Education for the statistical
return of the preced NJ school year, required
by law of such Superintendent but no Su-
perntendent shall receive compensation for
his services while visiting schools for a num-
ber OF days greater than twice the number of
schools in the Town ior which he acts.
Sec. >. the statistical returns required by
law to he made to the Secretary of the Board,
by the Town Superintendents of Schools an
nually on or before the first day of September,
shall hereafter be made and returned to the
Secretary ON OF before the first day Of April
OF each year, and the Secretary is directed on
the receipt of such return, to forward certi-
hcate thereof To the Superintendent making
the return.
Sec. 5. Tho examination Of teachers by
Town superintendeuts shall be public, and
held in some public place after due notice
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