Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-12-11
BRATTLEBORO, w.: DEC. ii, 1858.

No. 2s-An Act for the Relief of Trustees in cases
therein mentioned.
II is hereby enacted DC.
SEC. |. Whenever any person or persons
or corporations shall be summoned as the trus-
tee of any debtor to appear before any court in
this State and make disclosure of any goods,
chattels, rights or credits which such trustee
may have in his hands or possession belonging
to such debtor and shall be deprived of his day
in such court by fraud, accident or mistake, he
may have relief in the premises on application
by petition to the county court in the same man.
ner and under the same restrictions as is by law
provided for parties to such suit.
SEC. 3. Whenever any such trustee shall be
deprived of his appeal in any case where he is
so summoned as the trustee of any debtor by
fraud, accident or mistake he may apply to the
county court by petition for relief, and such re-
lief shall be granted, and under the same re-
strictions as is by law provided for the parties
to such suit.
SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov. 90, 1858.
No. 2o.-An Act in addition to chapter twenty-one Of
the compiled Statutes entitled obstruction to the
Deaf and Dumb and the Blind"
II is hereby enocfed, dc.
SEC. l. Whenever any person shall be np
probatcd and designated beneficiary under the
act aforesaid, the sclcctmen of the town in which
such beneficiary resides, are empowered andau
thorlzcd to defray the expenses of the convey
ance OF such beneficiary to and from the lnsti-
tuition in which such beneficiary is to be in
structed, out of the treasures of their respec-
tive towns, if in their opinion the parents or
guardians of the beneficiary have not sufficient
means to pay the same.
SEC. .. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved, November %, 1865.
No so.-An Act in addition to chapter five Of the
compiled statutes, relating to the PRONUNCIATION Of
the Statutes and Legislative Journals.
II is hereby cnocted, DC
SEC |. In addition to the various officers
and institutions to whom the acts and laws of
each session are now distributed by section nine
OF chapter five Of the Compiled Statutes, there
shall be hereafter one copy of the acts and laws
of each session ofthe General Assembly furnish
ed to each superintendent of public schools.
SEC. .. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov %, 1858.
No. 3i.-An Act entitled an Act for tie Enlargement
Of Burial Grounds.
II is horeby enacted, dc.
SEC. !. Whenever it shall become necessary
to enlarge any public burial groundn in this State
for the interment of the dead, and whenever
three or more responsible persons interested in
said burial ground shall, after endeavorng to
purchase adjoining lands for such enlargement,
and cannot do so at reasonable price, make
application in writing to the sclectmen of the
town in which said burial ground is located, lin
writing, who shall sign said writing, and be held
Responsible for the final result. whether it shall
be in damage for land, or land and cost, or eth
er and said selectmen, after application so made,
shall Immediately examine said ground and, if,
i'll their opinion, an addition is necessary for the
convenience of said burial ground, they shall
cause the same to be surveyed, and they shall
procecd to ascertain what damages shall he sus-
tanned by the owner or owners of the land in
cluded in said survey but before they deter
mine upon the amount of damage which any
one may sustain, they shall cause him to be no.
titled of the time and place of hearing, either
personally or by leaving written notice at the
residence of such owner of the land, and when
they shall have completed their inquiries they
shall make their report, stating particularly all
their proceedings and their decision. with their
survey and appraisal of damages, if any. and
shall file the same in the Town Clerks office, in
INT tbNl ltllu is situated, ana snail
cause the same to be there recorded
SEC .. Before those interested tor those
acting under them) shall enter on such lands, it
shall be the duty of such persons to pay ortend-
er to such owner or owners, the amount of such
damage so appraised by said selectmcn.
SEC 3. If any person shall be dissatisfied
with the amount of damage awarded to him for
land so taken he may make application, by pc
tition in writing, TO the County Court in the
same county, at their next stated term, if there
should be time for notice, if not, at the next
succeeding term, and any number of persons
aggrieved may join in the petition and the pc
tition, together with citation for that purpose,
shall be served on one or more of the applicants,
at least twelve days before the sitting of the
court, and the court shall appoint three disin-
terested commissioners to inquire into the con-
venience and necessity of such additional land,
as well as the mater of damages which may
have been sustainedb by the persons interested
therein.
SEC. 4. The commissioners shall give notice
to one or more of the applicants for said land
of the time and place when and where they will
make such inquiry and hear the parties and
on the report OF such commissioners, the court
may establish or set aside the survey of such
additional lands as shall appear just and may
render Judgment for the petitioners to recover
against said applicants such sum for his or their
damages as shall appear and be shown by such
report TO have been sustained, and the court
may tax costs for either party, as shall appear
to be just and equitable.
SEC. 3. application shall be made
to the County Court, as provided in the two pre-
ceding sections, the opening of the land survey
ed and laid out for the above named purpose
shall be stayed until the decision of the County
Court in the premises, and such court may fix
the time for opening and occupying the same
and the payment of damages, and if such dam
ages shall not be paid within the time limited
the court may award execution for the same
SECS. Nothing in this act contained shall be
construed to authorize the acquiring of any land
for the purpose of the enlargement or establish
ment of any burial ground so as to bring the
same nearer than twenty rods to any dwelling
house.
SEc..7. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov. 90, 1858.
No. 32-An Act in Amendment Of section thirty-four
Of the compiled statutes entitled Elections"
II is hereby enacted, dc.
SEC. l. The thirty Fourth section of chapter
one of the Compiled Statutes entitled "Elec-