The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-12-07

STATUTES, III felatiCn 10 the uutieS OF
town superintendent of publie
schools. 0
u is hcrfy enacted. SC.
Sic !. Whenever the Selecifucf
Of any town shall fail to appoint su-i
porintendents of schools MS provided
in section seventeen Of chapter t,;en-
ty-two of the General Statutes, per-
sons desiring to teach in sgid town
may make application for certificates
of qualifications to The superintend.
ents Of schools of any adjoining
town, who shall examine such appli-
+ cant in relation 10 their qualified =
tons therefor, and, if found satisfac.
tory, may give his certificate to said
applicant in due form Of law. which
certificate shall be valid for one year
, from date thereof IN said town whore
the applicant desires to teach
SIC. g. This act shall take effect
from it's passage.
Approved Nov ,, 1866.
An Act providing for check list Of
voters
II IS heroLg enacted DE.
SEC /. an petition in writing,
signed by the legal voters of any town
or city in number not less than one
( tenth Of the votes cast for town repre-
sentative at the last annual freemeu's
meeting, in any city or town in this
State, the board of Aldermen of such
city, or the seectmen of such town, at
least thirty days before any actual city,
town, or freemen's meeting shall make
an Alphabetical list of the names of all
persons legally qualified TO vote III
such city, town, or frecmaus meeting,
for the several Offices to be elected M
such meeting Or meetings, and shall
Immediately thereafter, cause copy
or copies thereof to be posted in two
or more public places in such city or
or town, and copy to be fled in the
Office of the clerk thereof
SEC ,. The mayor aud aldermen
of such city, and the board of civil au-
thority Of such town, shall hold
meeting Mt some convenient place
therein, within ten days OF such annu-
al city, town, and freeman meeting
and shall be i'll session reasonable
time to hear and determine all altera-
tons to be made in such list of voters,
and may examine upon oath all pc
sons claiming the right to vote; and
they may require the production OF
the naturalization papers of all natur
allied persons claiming to be natural
lied citizens And it shall be their
duty to insert upon said list left in the
city or town clerks Office rs aforesaid,
the name of every legal voter omitted,
and erase theretrom the name of every
person not legally entitled to vote
And notice of the time and place OF
their meeting shall be, given by said
aldermen and selectmen, by attaching
such notice to the copies of said lists
by them posted up and lodged in the
clerks Office as aforesaid.
SEC g. The list OF voters left III
said city or town clerks office as pro
vided in the first section of this act,
shall be corrected rs aforesaid Mt sa;d
meeting of said mayor and aldermen
and board of ciyil authority, previous
to the hour at which said city, town,
or freemen's meeting is called, and
shall be taken and deemed the correc
ted list of voters, and no alteration
shall thereafter be made thereon, eX-
cept to add thereto the names of such
/ persons as shall at such city, town. or
1 freemens meeting become qualified to
vote therein. And no person shall be
allowed to vote Mt such meeting or
meetings, whose name is not upon
said list as corrected, and the vote of
no person whose name is upon said
/ list shall be rejected, if resident or
J inhabitant of said city or town, on the
day on which said election is held
/ Provided: that persons not residents
of such city or town, may vote for
State officers, members of Congress.
and for county officers, il. residents oil
said State, district or county, rs now
provided by law, upon making oath,
if required, by any legal voter i'll such
meeting, that he is Il legal voter III the
town in which he resides. when list
of such voters shall be made aud kept
by the city or town clerks aforesaid.
SEC 4. Said list of voters correct
ed as aforesaid, shall be returned to
the city or town clerk aforesaid who,
or in his absence, one of the aldermen
of such city, or selectmen of snch
town, shall have present said correct
ed list, and shall check thereon the
names of all persons voting at such
city, town, or freemen's meeting, and
whose names may be thereon, by max
ing Il mark opposite such namo for
each vote cast, IN such manner as 10
indicate for what officer or officers said
perscn voted, and no other check list
of such voters whose names are on
said list shall be required to be made;
and the said check list shall be fled
in said city or town clerks Office, and
the original, or copy thereof, duly
certified, shall be treated in all courts
in this State Us legal evidence of tho
fact, that the person therein referred
to, and whose name is checked as
aforesaid, voted rs indicated by said
check.
SEC. 6. If any person, shall, direct
ly or indirectly, procure or cause to bo
procured the name of any person to
be inserted on said list OF voters.