The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1867-04-12

CATION ALL THE STwsPAFEEs
An act TO enable the towns thereing men,
toned, to aid in obtaining necessary
railroad communications
( 1t is hereby enacted Jy the General 4Sse1aJ-
. !y or tie State OF Vermont: -
Sec. l The towns of Bennington. Shafts
bury, Arlington, Sunderland, Manchester,
Winhali, Peru, Landgrove, Sandgate.
Dorset and Woodford, in the county OF
Bennington, and the towns, of Danny,
Mount Tabor, Clarendon, Tinmouth,
Wallingford and Rutland, in the county
of Rutland, or any or either of them, are
hereby authorized and empowered to
subscribe for, purchase, or acquire, upon
tue conditions in this act specified, the
bonds of the Lebanon Springs Railroad
Company, 4 corporation existing in the
Stale OF New York, or the bonds OF stock
of any other Railroad Company, now or
hereafter organized. whose road shall con-
meet with the Bennington and Rutland
Railroad or with any road connecting
Herewith, in such manner and direction
as TO atforl to said Bennington and Rut-
land road, communication by railroad
with New York, Albany, or Boston; and
10 make any contract incident TO the sub
scrlptiOn for, or purchase of such bonds or
stock. Or said towns or either of them
may contract for, purchase, OF acquire
from said Bennington and Rutland Rail
road Company. upon the conditions In
this act specified, and upon such terms as
may be agreed ON with said company.
any of the bonds or stock aforesaid, and
make any contract incident TO such pur-
chase
Sec. ,. No such subscription, pur-
chase, or contract, shall be made by either
of the towns aforesaid. unless the assent
in writing thereto of a majority of the
taxpayers, both in number and amount
ot lax in such town, shall be obtained be-
fore the first day of january 1865. Which
assent shall be signed and acknowledged
before Justice of the Peace of the coun-
ty in which said town Is situated. bv each
person 50 asserting, and the amount of
the list OF such person shall be SET opposite
his name. And said assent shall state
substantially the contract. subscription
or purchase TO be made, and the condi-
fiOns on which the Same is 10 be made
Sec, ), In every such Instrument of as
-an: shall ha manned tl,r.A., persons who
shall be resident citizens and taxpayers
of the town wherein such assent has effect
Is commissioners TO make and execute on
behalf of such town, the subscription, pur-
chase OF contract therein mentioned. And
when such instrument shall have been
signed and acknowledged by the majority
herein required. such persons therein nam
ed shall be commissioners for that purpose
And any contract, subscription, or pur-
chase. 10y them made and subscribed in
writing, in the name and behalf of such
town, in pursuance of the terms of said
assent. and not inconsistent Herewith,
nor with the provisions of this act, shall
he valid and binding upon such town.
Sec. 1. Any OF the said towns are here
by authorized and empowered to make and
issue their negotiable bonds or notes at
rate OF interest not exceeding seven per
cent. per annum. specified in Semi-annual
coupons thereto attached, for the purpose
of making any purchase, or fulfilling any
subscription OF contract authorized by this
act, or raising money so TO do. Which
said bonds or notes shall be signed by the
selectmen and countersigned by the trea-
surer OF the town issuing the same, and
shall be dated, numbered and registered
in the town clerks office of such town
And said coupons shall be signed by said
treasurer. And said bonds or notes so
made and issued shall create a valid obi
cation against such town, according to
their tenor. And the same may be dis
posed of by such town treasurer for the
purposes aforesaid.
Sec. 5. In determining the number and
amount of taxpayers in any of the towns
aforesaid, for the purposes of this act, re-
ference shall be had TO the grand list of
the year 1866. And where the estate of
any person deceased, or under guardian
ship, or any estate in the hands OF trustees
shall he included In said list, or where any
person named in said list shall have since
deceased, or have been placed under
guardianship, the executor, administrator,
guardian or trustee, rs the case may be,
of such estate, shall be authorized in Its
behalf TO make the assent provided for
herein. And in case the property of any
corporation is embraced in any such list,
assent may be given in behalf of such corpo-
ration, by a majority of the directors there
I of.
And where it shall be made to appear
TO said commissioners, that any real estate
included in the list of 1866 has since been
conveyed, the assent herein provided for
may he given by the person or party now
liable TO taxation thereon, il resident of
the town in which said estate is situa-
ted.
And in computing the number and
amount of taxpayers in any town, tax
payers not resident in sIch town shall be
excluded.
Sec. 6. When any instrument of assent
herein provided for shall have been signed
and acknowledged by the majority, and in
the manner herein required, the commits
sioners named in such assent shall append
thereto certificate by them subcribed
and sworn to, stating that such assent has
been signed and acknowledged by such
majority, rs required by this act. And