Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-11-27

SEC. q. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, October 20, 1868.
No. l2.-AN ACT explanatory Of chapter
one hundred and eight of the General
Statutes, entitled, "Of mechanics and
other liensn Ta 4A e
H is hereby enacted, &c.
SEC. l. Section three of chapter one
hundred and eight of the General Statutes,
shall be SO construed as to apply to any
saw mill, grist mill, or factory, and TO any
water-whee or steam engine erected within
or near the same, to be used for the pur-
pose of operating machinery therein.
SIC. 2. Section four of said chapter
one hundred and eight, shall be SO con-
straed as 10 authorize the plaintiff in the
action fhu.sin provided for, to cause to be
attached said house or other building, and
said saw mill, grist MILL, or factory, water
wheel or steam engine, and the lot of land
upon which the same may stand, in the
manner therein mentioned, and that the
liens provided for in said section shall at
tach to and be held applicable TO any Of
the property aforesaid, in the manner and
for the purposes, and subject TO the rene
dies provided for in said section.
SEC. 8. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, November 4, 1868.
No. l4.-AN Act in relation TO witnesses.
IL is hereby enacted. &c.
SEC. /. In all actions, where both hus
band and wife are properly joined, either
as plaintiffs or defendants, both the husband
and the wife shall be competent witnesses.
Prorided, that this act shall not be con-
strued to permit any married woman to
testify to any admissions or conversations
of her husband, whether made to herself or
to third persons.
Approved, October 80, 1868.
No. 15.-AN ACT in addition TO chapter
ninety-four of the General Statutes, re-
latng to intoxicating drinks.
1t is hereby enacted, &c.
SEC. l. 1t shall no, be lawful for any
town or city agent, appointed in pursuance
of chapter ninety -four of the General Stat
utes, to purchase any intoxicating liquors
at the expense or credit OF the town or city
for which such agent is appointed; but il
shall be the duty of the selectmen OF such
town, or the mayor or aldermen OF such
city, TO furnish such agents at the expense
of the town or city, such liquors as said
agent is authorized by said section, 10 sell,
and shall fix the price at which said agent
shall sell said liquors, and the money re-
ceived by such sales shall be paid by such
agent, into the treasures of their respec-
tive towns or cities, whenever required by
the selectmen of such town, or mayor and
aldermen of said cities.
SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in
consistent with this act, are hereby re-
pealed.
Approved, November z, 1868.
No. l6.-AN ACT to provide against ex-
tortion by express and telegraph COM
panies.
u is hereby enacted, &c. r
Sec. /. No Express or Telegraph
Company shall make contracts within this
State, or enforce in this State contracts
made out of this Safe, unless such COM
pany shall have complied with the require
ments of this act. .r 81
SEC. 2. Every Express or Telegraph
Company, unless incorporated by the leg
islature of this State, shall keep on file and
have recorded in the town clerks Office in
each town where said Express or Telegraph
Company has place for the transaction OF
business, staten ent of the names and res.
licences of the persons SO transacting busi-
ness as such Express or Telegraph Com
pany.
SEC. 5. Every Express Company shall
post up in all of said Company's Usual
places of business, and in the post office
and town clerks office in the towns where
said Express Company has a place of bus
iness, and keep exhibited in a convenient
place, in conspicuous letters, printed tar
iff of the rates of all charges for transport
alton of goods and chattels between all
points with which said Express Company
has any business or connection.
SEC. A. Every Telegraph Company
shall constantly exhibit in said Telegraph
Company's place of business in each town
in this State, where said company has an
operator, and also in the offices of The town
clerk and post office in the town where
said Telegraph Company transacts busi-
ness, by posting up printed card,o which
shall be designated all the places with
which said Telegraph has business, and the
rates of charges for the Transmission of tel
egraph dispate hes.
SEC. 5. Said Telegraph or Express
| Comnanv shall he restricted in their char
ges TO the tariff of rates so exhibited, a:
provided in this act, and whenever any
greater sum than is designated on such
printed tariffs of rates shall have been
paid, the person paying the same may re-
cover back the amount SO paid above the
rates specified or said tariff, with twelve