Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-12-13

may ap, Joint a collector Of taxes and clerk who
shall have the same pow,rs and peri rm the
same duties as are now provided for school dis.
tricts, collectors and clerks.
SIC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inoonsst-
ent with the foregoing section, are hereby re-
pealed.
Sac, 3. This act shall take effect from it's pas
sage,
Approved Nov II, 1866
An Act in amendment of section nine of chapter
twenty-five Of the General Statutes.
IL Is hereby enacted, dc,
SEC. /. The last clause of section nine of
chapter twenty-five of the General Statutes is
so amended az to read as follows; But no super
intendent shall receive compensation while vs-
itng schools for number of days greater than
twice the number of schools kept In the town
for which he acts as superintendent, whatever
the number of terms of such school kept during
the year
SIC. p This act shall take effect from its pas
sage.
Approved Nov. s, 1866.
An Act in addition to the twenty.seCond chapter
of the General Statutes, in relation to the du-
ties of town superi tendents of schools
II Is heFe6y enacted, dec.
SEC. 1. Whenever the selectmen of any town
shall fail to appoint superintendent OF schools
as provided in section seventeen of chapter
twenty-five of the General Statutes, persons de
string to teach in said town may make appliCa-
perintendent of schools of any adjoining town,
who shall examiRe such applicants in relation to
their qualifications therefor and, If found salts
factory, may give his certificate to said appli-
cant IN due form of law, which certificate shall
be valid for one year from date thereof in
said town where said applicant desires to
teach
SEC. ,. This act shall take effect from its pas.
sage.
Approved Nov. ,, 1866.
An act providing for check list of voters.
II Is HEREBY e7Iacted, dc.
SEC. l. On 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
representative at the last annual freeman's meet
ing in any city or town in this State, the board
OF aldermen of such city, or the selectmcn of
such town, at least thirty days before any annual
city, town or freemen's meeting, shall make an
alphabetical list of the names of all persons le-
gaIly qualified to vote in such city. town or free
mems meeting for the several officers to be Sc
lected at suCA meeting or meetings and shall
Immediately thereafter, cause "A cOpy or comics
thereof to be posted in two or more public places
IN such city or town, and copy to te filed in the
office Of the clerk thereof
SEC 2. The mayor and aldermen of such citv
and the board of civil authority Of such town
shall hold meeting at some convenient place
therein, within ten days of such annual city,
town and treemen's meeting and shall be in SEES
sion reasonable time to hear and determine all
alterations to be made in such list of voters and
may examine upon oath all persons claiming
the right TO vote; and they may require the pro.
duction Of the naturalization papers of all nat
uraliZed persons claiming to be naturaliZed Cit-
zens. And 1t shall he their duty to insert upon
said list left in the city or town clerks office as
aforesaid, the name ofcvery legal voter omitted
and erase therefrOm the name of every person
not legally entitled 10 vote. And notice of the
time and place OF their meeting shall be given
by said aldermen and seeCtmen, by attaching
such notice to the copies of said list by them
posted up, aud lodged in the clerks office as
aforesaid.
SEC. 3. The list of voters left in said city or
town clerks Office as provided in the first sec
tiOn of this act shall be corrected as aforesaid at
said meeting of said mayor and aldermen and
board OF civil authority previous to the hour at
which said city, town, or freemen's meeting is
called, and shall be taken and deemed the cor
rected list of voters, and no alteration shall
thereafter be made thereon, except to add there
TO the names of such persons as shall at such
city, town or freemen's meeting become quail
ned TO vote therein. And no person shall be al
lowed to vote at 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 a resident or inhab-
tant OF said city or town on the day on which
said election rs held. Provided that persons
not residents of such city town, may vote for
state officers, members of Congress- and for
county officers, If residents of said State, dis
trict or county, as now provided by law, upop
making oath, if required by any legal voter In
such meeting, that he is a legal voter in the town
in which he resides when list of such voters
shall be made and kept by the city or town
clerks aforesaid
SEC. 4. Said list of voters corrected as afore-
said, shall be returned to the city or town clerk
aforesaid, who, or in his absence one of the
aldermen of such city0r selectmen of such town,
shall have present said corrected 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 maknga mark
opposite such name for each vote cast, in such
manner as to indicate for what officer or officers
said person voted, and no other check list of
such voters whose Tames are on said list shall be
required to be made; and the said check list
shall be filed in said city or town clerks office
and the original or a copy thereof duly certified
shall be treated in all courts in this State a.
legal evidence of the fact, that the person there
in referred to, and whose name is checked as
| aforesaid, voted as indicated by said check,
SEC. .. If any person shall, directly or ndi
reCtly, procure or cause to be procured the name
of any person to be inserted on said list of
voters, knowing such person not to be legal
voter in the city or town for which said list is
| made, or shall aid therein, he shall forfeit and
pay sum not exceeding one hundred dollars to
the use ofsuch town.
SEC. 6. fany person shall, directly or indi-
reCtly, procure or cause to be procured the name
of any person to be erased from said list, know.
ing him to be legal voter in such city or town.
or shall aid therein, he shall be subject to the
pthdIty PAOfluCN il tAC piCSSNN+E VI tuls
act
SEC. T. Ifany person shall knowingly falsely
swear or affirm TO aay TACT or matter which NAV
be the subject of inquiry under the second sec.
ton of this act, he shall be deemed guilty of
perjury and punished accordingly
SEC. s. This act shall take effect from its
passage
Approved Nov. 10, 1866.
An Act in relation to the qualifications of
voters
II Is hereby enacted, DEC.
SEC. /. No person who willfuly deserted
from the military or naval service of the United
States, in the late war for the suppression of the
rebellion in the Southern States, or who yolnn
tarily entered the civil, military or naval service
of the so.caled confedt rate States, shall be en-
titled to vote in any city, town or freemen's
meeting in this State; provided, that any such
deserter or person who returned to the military
or naval service of the United States, within the
time limited in the proclamation of the Presi-
dent OF the United States, or who has been
pardoned therefor shall have the right to vote.
if not otherwise disqualified by law.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov. s, 1866
An Act in relation to the naturalization of |
aliens.
His hereby enacted, dc.
SEC. 1. No court in this State shall patu-
ralize any alien except upon proceedings and /
the examination and oath of tn. opnlicapt IN |