The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-10-15
Governors Message.

il. Page subscribed the oaths Of office on
Thu sd,y last, and, SON aft sent The
annual executive message to the .S.nate.
The message is mere business document
with no fl ,uri.li Of rhetoric or sriperabun-
dance OF verbage. lie recapitulates the
receipts and disbursements OF the State
Treasury, recommends the payment, each
year, of II portion Of the State debt ; the
ca celaIi IN Of certain coupon State bonds
and the issue of certificates similar TO the
u. =. registered loan; the consuli lation
OF all taxes, state, county, city, town,
district and village, under the direction
ol the sclectnen; the maintenance and
improvement Of our militia laws; the
consideration of our recently established
normal schools the abolition of the office
of Bank Commissioner measures to 90.
tain IA better system of prison discipline
in our state prison, AMI to make it self.
sustaining institution; api he dwclIs, at
length on the re- ources of the State, re.
ferring particularly TO agriculture and
manufactures. One recommendation
commends itself especially to those who
favor exact justice to all men, and
that is, to III, Ike such provisions that
all creditors shall share equally in case Of
insolvency of the debtor, instead OF IT,,
present law, which permits the creditor,
who makes the first attachment, to reallz Z.
his full amount to the exclusion of the
others. The reason he off r., is, to en-
courage the investment ol foreign capital
in our enterprises. 1t may have that
effect, but the propricty of such law is
rather in the rendering Of even justice TO
all. We qiote the latter pait of the
message entire:
The resources Of the st tie MS developed in
its agriculture, ITS manufactures, its quarries,
CAREFUL attention Til. Ia,;xI,io 80, ,i,a o'.,,L
;o.,. .ho,II ho uroh 90 ,,e so,,,,.o a., ,.,, - .
,ha ,,ra,,..t advan,.,,as ,,,,, 81 s'.P y
;nJ,,;ng tho nan, of c,nit,I e. ,e;n Ja,.'
onnont ord in,i,i,o ,rra.,r,,,.t.
hpmneripg them nv nnnecsss1r~ c'nJi,ion ~D anJ
ros,r;ct;nns for ovt.,Jin,, o,,,. s,.t,....i
on.ning and worL;nr omr o,arria. ,,l 49,,
and increasing railroad facilities
In most Matte lars our l,ys ,.ntnroro e,,.,u
oljv with ,bose of ,thsr st,,es IN ,hnto no.,oa,.
I'm como of ,bo;r M. ,,;.;ons han,o,on I'll
have occosons IN ;nlicnto p. orms w,,;oh sn'',,,
IN lao neal.d
\ermont 10 nro-em;nertIv n, orr;o,,i,,.,.
State having ihrte.r-twon,ia,,s % ~ e''.
miIlions of scrns undor innr,,a,ooa, ,i ,.',
have c,use of ,,rnt,,ulo t ,La Ci,.'n - !
th;ngs for the obnnd,n, h,, yos,s ,b,, W ~ !
warded the ,bors of onr bnsh,nd,nor J,r,,,,,
the wear TIC increased vnln., nr tho vol az
personal estate N Vermont from ts5ntoiseo
rs giyen in the census was I;,,ls ,,yor ,hirt,'
uiiIio < was in tho ;pcr.a ed volma nr Tho ro,i
estate mad wo s,,,,s,cs IN tho ,,ro,a,, ,,n,a
they woull show n still larger ,oto ~ ;ncrooss
THIS large advance . n oniy bo oso,ihoi 90 H.
system of railroad MT in n er,t;on drr NJ,
that period. onening IN nroluccrs aus c,,n7
mun,cation with m ,pLots bsc,r. in, osshIo
ria nm our ,ro,, rails onJ ,,o,, ,ol,,oo ~,
yaluo If our FIRMS and ou,rr;os no,o ,han
the entire cost NJ tho rn,ds Those ,r;,h;,, !"
low miles of our railroads dor,yo ,ha mo-,
h ne6t from tbcn TherefIre Tho ooeni,, ~
now roads IN accommodates moro ro,,.o Coz
ti,ns wuuli aid large in deye,oning tho rs
sources of the t,,e
vi hen we turn IN chr manufacturing an
mercantile industries NO find ,hot ,y,th ,r,o,;a,.