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

ol', enan sVIt anu =. -. number Of votes
shall be declared to be the modera.o. ~ mat
and all future town meetings during the
year ensuing.
SEC. g. Should no person receive the
greatest number of votes for moderator, a
further ballot may no had under the prov-
sions OF this act, or In the ordinary method
as now regulated by statute, until modeg-
ator shall be elected.
SEC. 4. When moderator shall have
been elected under the provisions of this act,
or in the ordinary method az now regulated
by statute, any person may present to the
moderator demand in writing signed by at
least twenty legal voters, in the following
FORM to wit: 1--WE demand ballot with a
record of the names of the persons voting
for the following town officers, 20 wit;
One Town Clerk,
Three Selectmeu,
One Town Treasurer,
One Overseer of the Poor,
One first Constable (who shall Do collector
of tsxes,I
Three Listers or Assessors,
Three Auditors,
One Trustee of Public Moneys
Three Fence Viewers.
Three Grand Jurors,
One Inspector of Leather,
One Town Agent, and
One Superintendent of Common Schools"
And thereupon the moderator shall order
ballot with such record, and the names of
the persons voted for shall be written or
printed on one ballot under the designation
OF the Office they are intended TO All.
SEC, s. After giving reasonable time to
the voters 10 deposit their ballots, the mod
orator shall proclaim that the balloting will
cease in fifteen minutes, and at the eXpira-
ton of said fifteen minutes, if any voter
shall demand additional time TO deposit bal
lots, the moderator shall proclaim that the
balloting will peremptorily cease in fifteen
minutes, at the expiration of which time
the moderator, seectmen and civil authority
shall proceed to cut apart, sort and count
the votes given for the respective offices,
and the person receiving the greatest num-
Der of votes for the respective named offices
shall be declared elected, and their names
shall be recorded in the town clerk 8 office,
as the persons elected to their respective Of
fees for the year ensuing.
SEC. s. Should there be an equal numbeg'
| of votes for any OF the officers mentioned in
| section four OF this act, further ballot may
| be had under the provisions of this act, or in
| the ordinary method as now regulated by
statute, until such Office shall be filled by an
| election.
SEC. 7. Any vacancy in any of the above
named offices during the year may s,e 6ll1d
at any legal town meeting ns~sd for that
purpose under the provi..o ps of this act.
| SEC. g. Inc r.cord of the names of per-
sons votng shall be filed in the town clerk s
once, and the original record or duly GER
| Nned eqry thereof shall be treated in all
| courts In this State as legal evidence of the
fact, that tho persons whose names appear
upon said record, did cas-. their ballots as
indicated In said record, and all the p--ovi-
| sions of the General Statutes in regard 10
the rights, duties, and powers of town Of
hceers shall apply TO the officers elected un-
I uer tho provisions of this act, and all penal
ties for fraudulent and Illegal voting, or at
tempt to vote, or the disturbance Of town
| meetings. shalt apply to such persons us
shall commit any of the crimes or misde-
! meanors above specified.
SEC. 9. This act shall not apply to towns
| having less than three thousand five hun
dred inhabitants by the last United States
Census Report, and the provisions of this
act shall not be enforced in any town until
said town shall vote to accept tho same at
the town meeting regularly warned and
holden for that purpose.
SEQ. 10. This act shall take effect from
Its passage.
Approved, Nov. 81. 1854.
AN ACT In amendment of section eleven of
chapter twenty of tho General Statutes,
entitled 81 Of the support and removal of
paupers, and the relief the insane poor"
II is hereby enacted, &c.
SEQ. |. Section seven of chapter twenty
| of the General Statutes shall read as fol-
| lows:
Whenever an order of removal shall be
| made, ss provided by section four of this
| chapter, a copy of such order, certified by
| the justices making the same to be a true
| copy. shall be served on the overseer of the
| poor Of the town to which the pauper is or
| dered to be removed within thirty days
| after the making OF such order, unless such
| pauper shall be removed within that time;
| and the service of such order of removal
! shall be In the following. manner:
| The justice of the peace making the order,
| to the said certified copy of the same shall
| append notice, as near as may be, in the
| following form: es
| State of Vermont, To any sheriff or
County, IS. ! constable in the state.
Greeting.
BY the authority of the State of Vermont,
| you are hereby commanded TO notify the
overseer of the poor of the town Of
ordered to remove from the town of
+! In the county of aforesaid, to the
| town OF IN the county of
aforesaid, on or before the day
| of A. ID. By us, the sub
scrihirg authority, as by she above copy of
record appears.
Dated a: In the county of
| this dayof A. D.
+ =. justices OF the Pssoe
| And said copy of the order of removal, to
| zether with the said notice on the same,
shall DO served on an overseer Of the poor,
! Of the town to which the pauper IL ordered
/, to be removed, as writs Of summons are now
0y law required 70 bo served