Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-04-19
Laws of Vermont.
SPECIAL SESSION. A. D. 1867.
Designated By the Secretary Of State .t6'
publication an all the Newspapers.

railroad communications.
u IS hereby enacted By The General As
semby Of the State Of Vermont:
Sec. ]. The towns of Bennington,
Salisbury, Arlington, Sunderland, Man
chester, WinhalI, Peru, Landgrove, Sand
gate, Dorset ami Woodford, in the County
of bennington, and the towns OF Dandy,
Mount Tabor, Clarendon, Tinmouth,
Wallingfold, and Rutland in he county
Of Rutland, or any or either of them, are
hereby authorized and empowered to sub
scribe for, purchase, or acquire upon the
conditions in this act specified, the bonds
of the Lebanon Springs Railroad Compa-
ny, a corporation existing in the State Of
New York, or the bonds or stock of any
other Railroad Company, now or hereafter
organized, whose road shall connect with
the Bennington and Rutland Railroad, or
with any road connecting Herewith, in such
manner and direction as 10 afford to said
Bennington and Rutland road, commune
cation by railroad with New York, Albany,
or Boston and to make any contract in
cldent TO the subscription for, or purchase
of such bonds or stock. Or said towns, or
either of them may contract for, purchase
or acquire from said Bennington and Rut-
land Railroad Company, upon the condi-
lions in this act specified, and upon such
terms as may be agreed on with said COM
pany, any of the bonds or ST OK aforesaid,
and make any contract incident to such
purchase.
Sec. 2. No such subscription, purchase
or contract, shall be made by either of the
towns aforesaid, unless the assent in writ
ing thereto of majority OF the tax-pay-
ers, both in number and amount of tax
in such town, shall be obtained before the
fist day of January, 1868. Which assent
shall be signed and acknowledged before
a Justice of the Peace of the county in
which said town is situated, by each per-
son so asserting, and the amount of the
list of sucE person shall be set opposite to
his name. And said assent shall state sub
stantially the contract subscription or pur-
chase to be made, and the conditions on
which the same is to be made.
Sec. 3. In every such instrument of
assent shall be named three persons, who
shall be resident citizens and taxpayers
of the town wherein such assent has effect
as commissioners to make and execute on
behalf of such town, the subscription, pur-
chase or contract therein mentioned. And
when such instrument shall have been
signed and acknowled by The majority here
in required, such persons therein named
shall be commissioners for that purpose.
And any contract, subscription, or pur-
chase by them made and subscribed in
writing, in the name and behalf of such
town, in pursuance of the Terms of said as
senf, aud not Inconsistent therewits, nor
with the provisions of this act, shall be
valid and binding upon such town.
Sec. 4. Any of said towns are hereby
authorized and empowered to make and
issue their negotiable bonds or notes at a
rate of interest not exceeding seven per
cent. per annum, specified in semi-annual
coupons thereto attached, for the purpaso of
making any purchase or fulfilling any sub
scription or contract authorized by this act,
or of raising money so 10 do. Which said
bonds Or notes shall be signed by the select
men and countersigned by the treasurer of
the town issuing the same, and shall be dated,
numbered an registered in the town clrrk's
office of such town. And said coupons
shall be signed by said treasurer. And
said bonds or notes so made and issued
shall create valid obligation against such
town, according to their tenor. And the
same may be disposed of by such town
treasurer for the purposes aforesaid.
Sec. D. In determining the number and
amount of taxpayers in any of the towns
for the purposes Of this act, ref
erence shall be had to the grand list Of the
year 1866. And where the estate of any
person deceased, or under guardianship, or
any estate in the hands of trustees, shall be
included in said list, or where any person
namedin said list shall have since deceased,
or have been placed under guardianship,
the executor, administrator, guardian or
trustee, as 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 corporation, by a
majority of the directions thereof And
where ii shall be made to appear to said
commissioners, that any real estate includ-
ed in the list of 1866 has since been con-
veyed, The assent herein provided for
may be given by tie person or party now
liable to taxation thereon, if q resident of
the town in which said estate is situated.
And in computing the number and amount
of taxpayers in any town, taxpayers not
resident in such 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 a certificate by them subscribed.and
sworn to, stating that such assen: has been
signed and acknowledged by such majori- |
ty, as required Dy this act. And shall
cause such instrument of assent and cerlifi- |
cate to be filed in the town clerks office |
OF the town where the same has effect, |
and cause the same to be there recorded. |
And copy of such assent and certificate,
certified by such town clerk, shall be re-
corded in the county clerks office of the .
county where such town is situated. And /
such commissioners shall be~sworn 10 |
faithful discharge of their ddties. And |
uutil such records are made, said commits
sioners shall not proceed TO make any con-
tract, subscription or purchase in the name
or behalf Of suchto Such certificate so |
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