The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-11-23

SEC. |. Sections six seven, eight and nine Of
chapter ninety nine of the Compiled Statutes
are hereby repealed.
SEC. 9. This act shall not affect any claim
which any County shall have for any money on
account of Agricultural exhibitions which have
been made the present year.
SIC. 2. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov. 8, 1861.
No. 40.-An act authorizing Sclectmen to light
covered bridges.
Il is hereby enacted, DC.
SEC. |. The Selcctmen Of the several towns
in this State are authorized in their discretion,
to place lamps, or the necessary appliances for
gas, in such of the covered bridges in their re-
spectve GOWNS, for the purpose OF lighting such
bridges, and cause the same to be properly
lighted and taken care Of, at such times and Oh
such occasions as they shall sec fit, and as the
safety and convenience of the travel upon such
bridges may require, at the expense of their re-
spectlve towns.
SEC. .. This act shall take effect from it's
passage.
Approved Nov. 8, 1861.
No. Alan act t. prevent the circulation Of
counterfeit and altered Bank Bills.
IL is her,by enacted, dc.
SEC. |. Any and every Bank now established,
or which may be established under the author
ity of this State, which shall receive in payment
or upon deposite, or for redemption from any
other Bank, or from any person or persons, any
counterfeit Bank Bill, shall write or stamp upon
such Bank Bill the word '' counterfeit, adding
thereto or hereunder the name Of the Bank,
and the initials of its officer by which such wr-
ting or stamp shall be made.
SEC 9. Any Bank Note or Bill which may
have been altered from its original denomina-
ton or amount to some other, shall in like man
ner be stamped with the word altered" in
such manner as to give notice of its alteration.
Sec. 3. IF any Bank or its officers shall, by
mistake or inadvertance, make any such writing
or stamp upon a Bank Note or Bill which is not
counterfeit or altered, the Bank its officer
shall not be answerable in damages for any sum
greater than the actual loss or damage which
such mistake or inadvertance may produce, in
no Gaze to exceed the amount Of such Bll-eX-
cept in cases where it appears that tue stamp
or writing was fraaiulently made.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from it's
passage.
Approved NOV. 8, 1861.
VIA
State and tie United States.
IL is hertby enacted, DC.
SEC. l. Section seyenty-four Of chapter eighty
four of tie Compiled Statutes, shall not be So
: construed as to prevent any Bank from loanine
{ to the State Of Vermont, or to the Government
of the United States, Il sum exceeding ten pei
cent. of its capital stock.
SEC .. L" An act in addition to chapter eigEl-
ty-four of the Compiled statutes, relating t.
= Banks approved April 2G, 1851 is hereby re-
n pealcd.
q SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its pas
n sage.
Approved Nov. 20, 1861.
y No. 47.-An act to alter the time of holding
the County Court in the County Of Orange
IL is hereby enacted, 3cs
SEC. |. The County Court for the County o.
Orange, shall hereafter be held on the thirt
Tuesday of June, and the second Tuesday o
January of each year Provided, that this ac
s shall not abolish, nor in any way affect the tern
of the Court now appointed to be holden on the
third Tuesday Of January, A. ID. 1862
Approved Nov. 20, 1861.
II No. 4s.--An act providing for the division o
It the lands reserved for public uses in the char
r ter Of the town Of Belviderc.
l. Whereas, in the charter of the town o. Eel
It viderc to John Kelley, there was reserved TO
C public uses the " usual quantity of land reserve,
in other townships chartered 10y this State
e and uhcreas. the said John Kelley, or his heir
e or grantees did, in the survey OF said town, ac
h tualy set apart for said uses lots numbered l62
g lG3, l64, l65, l66, l67, lGS and l69, ON til,
Is plan of said town and tohereas, by force Q
J. said grant, the right of the University of Yer
,r mont, the right Of the County Grammar Schoo
ID for the County Of Lamoille, the right of th'
'e first settled munster in said Belvidere, the Cos