Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-12-07

Sec. 2. On all notes, bills, or other
similar obligations, whether made payable |
on demand or at specified time with in-
terest, when payments are made such pay
mcnts shall be applied, first, to liquidate
the interest that has accrued at the time Of
such payments; and secondly, to the ex-
.inguishment Of the principal.
Sec. 8. On all notes, bills or other
similar obligations, whether made payable
on demand or at specified time, with in
terest annually, the annual interest thai
remains unpaid shall be subject to simple
interest from tie time they become due 10
the time # final settlement; but if in any
year, reckoning from the lime such annual
interest began to accrue, payments have
been made, the amounts of such payments
at the end Of such year with interest there
on from the time of payment shall be APP
Piled: first, to liquidaie the simple interest
that has accrued from the unpaid annual
interests; secondly, 10 liqnidate the annual
interests that have become due; and
thirdly, to the sxtinguishment of the
principal.
Sec. 4. Nothing in this act shall be so
construed as to affect existing laws relating
to banks and banking institutions, nor to
notes and contracts existing before the pas
sage of this act.
Sc. 5. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved Nov. 10, 1866.
An act to provide for the restoration and
preservation Of fish in the State of Yer
mont.
1 His hereby enacted, &c.
Sec. /. The Governor of the State is
hereby authorized and empowered to APP
point two persons TO be styled fish com.
missioners, whose duties it shall be to con-
fer with the fish commissioners of the New
England States and Canada; to direct and
superintend, in their discretion, the con.
struction of fsh-ways that may be built in
the ST. cams of the State; and also, at the
expense OF the State to introduce shad ant
salmon, or other good varieties of fish, int
such streams, lakes OF ponds as they may
deem suited to The habits and successful
cultivation of such fish. Provided, thu
entire expense Incurred under this act sha
not exceed five hundred dollars.
Sec. 2. Said commissioners shall hole
their oilices for the term of five years, un
less others shall be appointed to fill vacan
cies cccasioned by death, resignation, or Ii
ability to attend to The duties required.
Sec. 3. No person shall be allowed Il
take any shad or salmon in any of the wa
tiers Of this State or contiguous thereto 70
the term of five years from the date of tn
passage of this act. Provided, the State
adjoining and the province Of Canada en-
act similar prohbiIory laws respecting III
waters tributary TO and flowing from III
lakes and streams of this State ; and, Pro
vided furthermore, if the States of New
Hampshire and Massachusetts each enac
similar prohibiiory laws, then this section
, shall! prohibit the taking of shad or salmol
in the Connecticut River and the streams
lakes or ponds tributary thereto and Pro
vid, further, if the Government Of Can
ada and the State of New York shall eacl
: enact similar law, then this section shall
prohibit the taking Of shad or salmon il
J Lake Champlain and Lake Memrhrema
5 COG and he ponds and streams tributar'
: thereto, but not otherwise.
: Ser. 4. No person shall be permitter
) to takt any trout or lunge in this State
S with any look, net, or other device, for tn
Y term Of live years from the date of ihi
5 act, keep, from the first day of May Il
the fifteenth day Of August of each year
q provided however, that nothing in this sec
tion shall be construed to prohibit the tax.
ing of fish in private ponds constructed ex.
pressly for the raising of fish by the own.
u ers thereof; and provided further, that any
Q person wanting spawn for the propagation
$ of fish, may take fish from their spawning
beds or elsewhere during the spawning
season, provided such person first obtain
+ written permission from majority Of the
u hoard of civil authority Of the town il
a which such fish are to be taken.
II Sec. 5. Any person violating the thir,
g or fourth sections of this act shall be liabl
:, to prosecution before any Justice of tn
II Peace for the comfy in which the otfens
n is committed, aud shall be fined not les
Is than five dollars, nor more than one hun
n bred dollars, or imprisoned net less tina
4, ten days nor more than three months, j
n the Jail of the county in which the oifens
e is committed, or both penalties, in the di.
6 erection of the court, together with costs {
prosecution--one half OF the fine to go
N the person making the complaint, and til
other half to the treasury Of the State
Provided: that nothing in this act contain
!, ed shall prevent any person from iakin
trout or muskaunge with hook and lin,
from The fifteenth day of May to the th
&c ty-first day of August in each year.
Sec. 6. This act shall take effect frol
A. IFS passage.
d Approved Nov. II, 1866.
An act making provision for the suppo
- of Government.