Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-12-15


thorIsed upon complaints made by town
grand JURORS 1870.
a,Ising under the provisions OF said
treaty, TO proceed III the manner ana
form heretofore provided by law, any
thing In this act 10 the contrary not
wIthstsndlng.
ssc. 8. This act shall take effect nom
its passage,
Approved, Nov, %, 1864,
AN ACT relating TO the bounty and pay OF
soldiers and the support OF their fam
Hes.
lis hereby enacted. &c.
SEC. l. The bounty money or pay due
from any town In this State TO any yolun'
tecr or drafted soldier by reason OF any vote
of such lwn, shall not be subject to trustee
process, except by action In favor OF town
which has been obliged TO furnish support
10 the family of said soldier after he has en-
tered the service; and such town may re-
cover for all expense so OF necessity in
cured, and iudiciously expended in cases
where the soldier, being OF sufficient ability,
neglects to provide for his family
SEC. 2. In case said bounty or pay Is duo
directly from the town furnishing such sup
port, SO much thereof as the overseer OF said
town may deem necessary, may be applied
to such support Of the family OF said
soldier.
Sec. ;. No action shall be had or sustained
against any town by soldier, for such
bounty or pay when said soldier has deserted
the service,
SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from Us
passage.
Approved Nov. Is, 1864,
AN ACT In amendment OF an act providing
for soldiers voting.
IL is hereby enacted, &c.
SEC. |. Section one of an act providing for
soldiers voting, approved Nov. IL, 1868,
shall be amended 10 read as follows:
Every citizen of this State, of the age
of twenty one years or upwards, who shall
be In the actual military service of the United
States, either within this State or without
the same, on the days appointed for cleo
tons by the laws OF this state or of the
United States, in any year, shall be entitled
to exercise the right of suffrage at the sew
eral posts, camps or places, where the regi-
ment, or battery of artillery, or part OF
regiment, not less than one company, or
part Of a company under separate COM
mand T. which such citizens belong. may
be on that day, as fully as If such electors
were present at the places In this State where
such elections may be held, and where such
persons would be entitled to vote, any pro
visions of law now in force 10 the contrary,
Notwithstanding. ProUided, that this cleo
ton shall not extend TO and include any per-
son in any regiment, battery or company or
ganized and Differed out of this State.
SEC. 2. So much of section third as pro-
vides for their right to vote for electors of
President, and Vice President of the United
States, shall be amended so as to read as fol-
lows
At the election for electors 10 be held on
the first Tuesday after the first Monday IN
November, each elector authorized to vote
by this act, shall have the right to vote for
electors.
SEC. 3. Volunteers in the United States
service, who are citizens of this State, shall
have the right TO vote for members of Con-
gress and electors of President and Vice
President of the United States, at the polls
opened in any company from this State in
the brigade, division or corps TO which they
may be attached.
SEC. 4. Any of the special constables pro-
vided for by said act, shall have power to
administer oaths provided in the constitu-
ton for freemen in this State.
SEC. 5. The Secretary OF State shall trans
nit q statement of the votes together with
the votes cast for electors of President and
Vice President OF the United States, 10 the
board OF canvasScrs when assembled at
Montpelier on the third Tuesday of Novem-
Der, TO be canyasscd the same as provided
for In reference to votes for such officers
cast 10 the State.
SEC. 6. This act shall take effect from It's
passage.
Approved Oct. IS, 1854.
AN ACT TO repeal an act entitled An act
to encourage volunteering approved Nov.
II, 1853.
I'll hereby enocted. &c.
SEC. /. An act entitled An act to en-
courage volunteering" approved November
II, 1853, is hereby repealed.
Sec. Q. This act shall take effect from ~
passage.
Approved Nov Is, 1864,
AN ACT in amendment Of section twelve
of chapter one hundred and twenty six,
of the General Statutes.
II is hereby enacted, DC,
Spc Section twelve of chapter one hum
bred and twenty-s,sS,. of the General Stat
utes, is hereby amended so as to read as fol-
lows:
The annual salaries of the Judges of Pro.
bate in the District of Lamoille shall be
four hundred dollars, in the District of Rut-
land eight hundred dollars.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on the
first day of December next.
Approved Nov. Is, 1854.
AN ACT relating to Migrants.
Heretofore published in our columns.l
AN ACT in amendment of section thirty
two OF chapter sixteen of the General
Statutes, entitled "0f the organization of
Village Corporations and fire districts"
1t is hereby enacted, &c.
SEC. /, Section thirty-two of chapter six
teen of the General Statutes, shall be amend.
ed by adding thereto the following: pro
yided that the polls of no members of fire
companies shall be exempt from taxation,
except by vote of the town in which such
members reside, given at the annual March
meeting of said town, in each year, preyi-
GUS to such exemption"
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov. 81, 1864.
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