The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-11-12
TIE LEGISLATURE.

senators and twcnty-six representatives
were on hand. Wednesday morning
however there was a general attendance
and the work began. In the Senate,
bills were passed, TO pay John Loncrgan
the sum therein named fixing the s,lar
les of the judges Of the supreme court /;
in relation to the commissioner of the
insane; in relation TO offenses against the
lives and persons Of individuals; in rela-
ton to the qualification of voters to in
corporate the Leicester Marble Company /;
to Incorporate the Cambri ige quarry
ing and manufacturing company laying
tax on the County of Orange to in.
corporate the Powers Marble Company;
to protect the rights of married women !;
amending the village charter of Rutland;
to incorporate the Weston Boot and Shoe
Company and to incorporate the Amer
can Marble Company.
In the House, bills were passed. to
authorize the town of Sharon to purchase
the water privilege AMI dam across White
river, Or aid in completing til, dam; in
addition TO chapter 70, general statues,
relating to divorces; in relation 20 h
powers and duties of high blilih; House
bill regulating the fees of persons acting
under the authority of the probate court,
and in amendment of section 50, CHAPTER
l2G, general statutes,
Thursday in the Senate, bills were pas.
scd to legalize the grand list of the town
of Chittendon for 1866; to incorporate
the Weathersficld and Claremont railroad
company to incorporate the Vermont
State Eclectic Medical Society; to legal.
ize the grand list of the town of Grand
Isle for the years 1864, 1865, 1856 and
an act TO incorporate the Weston hotel
company.
The remainder Of the day was spent in
commemorative exercises it eing ann ,un
ccd that Hon. Merrick Gay Stna,or from
Windsor county died at his home in Stock
bridge Nov. 7th.
In the House, bill was passed in
relation TO the qualification Of voters,
providing for a registry law.
In joint assembly, Col. VIM. ID. Mum
son oi Burlington was elected Brigm,ier
General to ill the vacancy in the LIST
brigade.
Friday, in the Senate, bills were passed
changing the time of holding the supreme
court in Windsor county; relating to the
registry Of births, deaths and marriages /;
relating to the attachment Of property by
copy; to incorporate the Rutland county
peat company to incorporate the Bran
don reservoir company; in relation to di.
vorces. THIS bill provides that habitual
drunkenness may be cause for divorce.
In the House, bills were passed relating
to oil, noes against the public health,
prohibiting the killing or causing to b.
killed. or having in possession with intent
to sell, or send out of the State, any
calves less than four weeks old]; to in
corporate the Montpelier and st. Johns
bury Railroad company; for the prcscr-
walton of fish n the waters in the named
Lake Bombazine.
To protect fish in Halls ponl in New
bury; to incorporate the American Slate
company; to incorporate the Eureka Mar
bic company to incorporate the Rutland
county peat company to incorporate the
Mortified Hotel company TO incorpor.
ate the excelsior marble company; to in
corporate the Sharon mill company and
to change the corporate name of Troy
Conference Academy.
Among other bills introduced are the
following; to incorporate the Otter Greek
steamboat company; to enlarge the pow
ers of school district No. 4 in Middle
bury charging the powers of the Add
son County Grammar School to incor
porate the Munger Street Marble company
On Saturday, bills were passed in the
Senate repeating an act entitled of per-
sons claimed as fugitive slaves and to pre-
vent kidnapping providing for repair OF
highways to pay certain state officers
to change the incorporate name of Troy
conference academy to Ripley female col.
lege for the preservation Of fish in the
waters therein named; to incorporate the
Eureka marble company; in amendment
to sec i 2 and 8 chap. II of the genera
statutes relating to the registry and return
Of births, marriages and deaths to incor
porate the American slate company; Il
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