Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-11-28
ADJoURNMENro OF THE LEa1s1A AZURE.

ciusion on Thursday afternoon of last week,
ination Of the last hour of this Legislature was
drawing nigh there was an evident desire on
the part of large majority Of both Houses to
prolong the session another day, chiefly for the
reason that the Militia bill OF each House had
failed in the other. A Joint Resolution thus
extending the session was introduced by Colo
mel Thomas, and is passed the House without
division. 1t was sent to the Senate as speed-
lily as possible, and in that body was on the
point Of being adopted just as word came, at
five minutes past three, that the Speaker had
declared the House adjourned sine die Of
course nothing was left but for the Senate to
follow suit. Thus the General Assembly came
to an end without the usual interchange of
courteses between the two branches, and be-
tween these and the Executive.
OF what was done the acts, which we shall
publish in full next week, will give the details
so far as the public generally are interested.
Of what was considered, but in the end left un.
done, we have not space to speak in detail. We
inent measures that engaged the attention of the
Legislature during the last week of its exist.
ence and relate their fate
The bill reported by a select Committee ap-
pointed by the House, in reference to so much
of Gov. Fairbanks arrears as related to the
claims of this State against the general govern
ment, for recruiting, arming and equipping our
volunteers, and providing for the appointment
of those commissioners to adjust and attend to
the settlement of such claims, was, it will be
remembered, emasculated in the House by an
amendment which transferred the power of ap-
pointment from the Governor to the Legsla-
ture. The Senate very properly sent it back
with proposal Of amendment which restored
the bill, in this particular, 10 the form in which
it was reported, and, happily the House, al
though by close shave, concurred in the
amendment. So the bill, which should have
passed more than three weeks since, at last be-
came law in the only form that could give it
any vitality or efficiency.
A bill authorizing the Governor to recruit
and organize one or more batteries of light ar
tilery to be attached to Maj. Gen. Buffers Di-
vision, passed to be enacted. One of these
batteries is already in process of formation. 1t
will probably be recruited from the cavalry
companies which had been recruited for Gov
Sprague's Cavalry Regiment and will be speed
lily organized.
Among the most important bills of the SEES
sion, and one that will appeal to the conscious
ness or the pocket of many tax payers, was the
appropriation bill, which, it is hardly necessa-
ny TO say, passed both Houses without delay
and without the Intervention of committees of
conference. This bill assesses tax of fifty
cents on the dollar on the list of the polls and
rateable estate of the State, and appropriates
100000 for the expenses of the general assem-.
bly, and state officers; $780, 900 to pay such de-
mands against the state as may be allowed by
the auditor, the expenses of the supreme and
county court and drafts of county clerks, and
such expenses as have been or may be incurred
under the militia laws, $250,00O to pay interest
which shall fall due on the bonds and debt of
the state during the ensuing year and for the
payment of the bonds OF this state falling due
Nov. 1862. The treasurer is also authorized
by the bill to borrow sum not exceeding $780,
600 to dcfray the expenses of the government
: and pay such appropriations as may be made,
and is instructed 10 credit the several oonsta-
bles one-iortieth part of the whole sum for COL
lection.
The law of the Extra Session providing for
thae oc VI
amended and construed that no provision
shall be made for the families of other than
such as were citizens Of this State at the time of
their enlistment, nor to the families of citizens
any longer than those families reside in this
State.
Bills also passed providing that the salary of
County Commissioners, (under the liquor law
shall not exceed thirty dollars per annum that
school district officers shall enter upon their
duties as soon as chosen, instead of the first of
April following, and that they shall continue in
office until Others are elected for impounding
cattle running in the road and that no more
regimental bands shall be recruited.
The bill to incorporate the Rutland County
ipdlih Nuo tiS VI MUCH leSlluOHN anu
argument before the Senate and House Com
mittees on Banks sitting Jointly for its con-
sideraion. At the conclusion thereof the Sen
ate Committee stood two for the Bank to one
opposed, and the House Committee were three
against TO two in favor of the measure. As
matter of agreement the Committees reported
10 their respective Houses without the express
sion of any opinion as to the merits of the bill
The Senate gave the bill a thorough considera-
lion, and paesed il 20 to 9 but the House be-
ing in mood for business, put it through
under suspension of the rules for that pur-
pose, nearly unanimously. The capital to the
Bank is to be 100000.
30 much for the liviugi now for the defunct
And the most illustrious of these were the
Militia bills. We say bills, for each House had
bantllng OF its own, besides the one reported
by the commission for the revision of the
Statutes, whom nobody owned. The reunited
father of the Senate bill is Col. Washburn but
as it was not born in wedlock the Senate Com.
mittee on Military Affairs held themselves re-
sponsible for its paternity. The peculiar fea-
lures of this bill were as follows: LIST, A di.
vision of persons liable to do military duty into