Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-11-20
ADVERTISEMENTS.
LAWS OF VERMONT.
OCTOBER SESSION. 1855.
Designated for Publication in the Nepspape

| DeSighdfed JoT Fu6ttcdtiOn IN the Newspapers.
No. IAN Act in Addition to chapter twentv-nine of
| the compiled statutes.
II is hereby enacted,5y the General Assembly
| Of The State IF Permont, as .follows:
SEC. /. Whenever any Justice of the Peace
| shall go out of Office, and while he shall reside
IN the same county in which he held such office,
he may, as Justice of the Peace, make and GER
tify copies OF the records of any official business
done by him while in Office and all copies Of
records, so made and certified, shall have the
same validity as though made and certified
while such Justice of the Peace was in Office
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
No. Am Act to Prevent Persons from Fraudulent
" Burning their own Buildings, with intent to de-
fraud Insurance Companies.
II is hereby enacted, DC.
SEC. l. Every person who shall willfully and
maliclouSly burn, or cause or procure to be burn
ed, his own dwelling house, or any other build
ing owned by himself with intent to defraud
any Insurance Company, shall be punished by
Imprisonment in the State Prison not more than
ten years, and be fined not exceeding two thou
sand dollars.
SEC 2. 1fany feme-covert shall willfullya and
maliciousy set fire, with intent to burn, and with
intent to defraud any Insurance Company, to
any dwelling house, or other building owned by
her husband or herself, or by her husband and
herself Jointly, she shall be punished by imprs-
onment in the State Prison not more than ten
years, and fined not more than one thousand
dollars.
SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
No. a-An Act in Amendment of section six of chap
Ter iorty OF the compiled statutes.
IL is hereby enacted, dc.
Src. |. Section six of chapter forty of the
compiled statutes is so amended as to read as
follows: "In cases proper for issuing a writ of
dudita queretd, the same shall be allowed and
signed by Judge of the Supreme Court, or a
Judge Of the Court to which the same is made
returnable"
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
No. Am Act to Avoid delay in Suits at Law
1t is hereby enacted, dc.
SEC. l. Any Judge of the Supreme Court
may, upon the application of any party in any
suit pending in any County Court in this State,
and on such notice of such application TO the
adverse party, or his attorney, as such Judge
shall think reasonable, cause the Clerk of the
Court in which such cause is pending to issue
commission to such person as such Judge shall
appoint, to take the testimony of any person re-
siding or being without this State, and such tes-
timony shall be taken either upon interrogatories
settled upon the order of such Judge or upon
oral examination, as such Judge shall direct
SEC. 2. All testimony taken in pursuance
of this act may be read on trial of the cause for
which it shall be taken, subject to such legal OBJ
jections as may arise upon it.
No. s-An Act relating to the Repevin of Intoxicat-
ing liquors.
IL is hereby enacted, dc.
SEC. l. Whenever any liquor seized by an
officer, as intoxicating, &C., shall be replevied
from his possession, the same shall not be de-
livered by the replevying officer to the claim
ant, but be held by such officer until the final
determination of the replevin suit, whereupon
the same shall be delivered to the plaintiff in
the replevin, if the judgment shall be for him,
but otherwise it shall be delivered to the de-
fendant in the replevin, or to such officer as
shall have warrant or authority to hold or de-
stroy the same under the original seizure pro-
ceedings.
SEC 2. No proceedings except final execu-
ton on seizure of any intoxicating liquor shall
be stayed or delayed by any replevin thereof,
but such seizure proceedings shall proceed to
final judgment thereon in the same manner as
if no replevin had been commenced
SEC. 81 This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved, November 10, 1858.