Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-04-04

bin entitled IAN act 70 ENABLE the towns
therein mentioned 10 aid 10 obtaining
necessary railroad communication, as
follows:
II IS 1Srs6v esasta4 By tie Gs~eraI Assr0a6ly
Of the STATE Of Vsrp~csi, as jeLIeseS:'
SEoTIoN l. The towns Of Bennington,
Salisbury, Arlington, Sunderland, Man
chester Peru, Landgroye, SsnRate, Dor
set and WoOtiord In the county OF
Bennington, and the towns Of Dandy,
Mount Tabor Clarendon, falmouth,
Wallinsford and Rutland, in the county
of Rutland or Sny or either OF them, are
hereby authorized and empowered TO
subscribe for, purchase, or acquire, upon
the conditions of this act specified, the
bonds OF the Lebanon Springs Railroad
Company, corporation existing In the
State OF New York, or the bonds or
stock Of any other railrosd company,
now or hereafter organized, whose road
shall connect with the Bennington X
Rutland Railr 1ad, or with any road con-
Meeting herewith, in such mauper and
direction as 10 afford 10 said Bennington
& Rutland road, communication by rail-
road with New York, Albany, or BOs-
| ton; and TO make any contract incident
to the subscription for, or purchase Of
such bonds or stock. Or said towns or
either of them may contract for, pur-
chase, or acquire from said Bennington
& Rutland Railroad 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 Incl
dent to such purchase.
SEC. .. No subscription, purchase or
contract, shall be made by either of the
towns aforesaid, unless the assent in
writing thereto of majority OF the tax
| payers, both in number ana amount OF
tax in such towns, shall be obtained be-
| fore the hrst day Of January, 1888.
| Which assent shall be signed and &C.
| knowledged before Justice OF the
| Peace Of the county in which said town
is situated, by each person so asserting,
and the amount OF the list OF such per.
son shall be set opposite Ris name. And
said assent shall state substantially the
contract, subscription or purchase 70 be
made, and the conditions on which the
same is to be made.
SBc. 3. In every such instrument Of
assent shall be named three persons, who
shall be resident citizens and tax payers
! of the town wherein such assent has
effect, as commissioners TO make and
execute on behalf Of such town, the sub.
| scriptiOn, purchase or contract therein
mentioned. And when such instrument
| shall have been signed and acknowledged
by the majority herein required, such
| persons therein named shall be commits
sioners for that purpose. And any con-
tract, subscription, or purchase, by them
made and subscribed in writing, in the
name and behalf OF such town, in pur-
suance Of the terms OF said assent, and
not inconsistent Herewith, nor with the
provisions OF this act, shall be valid and
binding upon such town.
SEC. i. Any OF the said towns are
hereby authorized and empowered to
make and issue their negotiable bonds
or notes at 3 rate Of interest not exceed
ing seven per cent. per annum, specified
in semi annual coupons thereto attached,
for the purposeoG making any purchase,
or fulflling any subscription or contract
authorized by this act, or Of raising
money so to do. Which said bonds or
notes shall be signed by the selectmen
and countersigned by the treasurer of
the town issuing the same, and shall be
dated, numbered and registered in the
clerks office of such town. And said
| coupons shall be signed by said treas
urer. 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 pur-
| poses aforesaid.
SEC. 5. In determining the number
and amount Of tax payers in any of the
towns aforesaid, for the purposes of this
act, reference 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 named in 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 au-
thorzed 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
hehalf of such corporation, by majority
of the directors thereof
And where it shall be made to appear
to said commissioners, that any real es-
tate included in the list of 1866 has since
been conveyed, the assent herein provided
for may be given by the person or party
now liable to taxation thereon, if a resi-
dent of the town in which said estate is
situated.
And in computing the number and
amount of tax payers in any town, tax
payers not resident in such town shall be
excluded.
SEC. 6. When any instrument of as
sent her in provided for shall have been
signed and acknowledged by the majority,
and in the manner herein required, the
commissioners named in such assent
shall append thereto a certificate by them
subscribed and sworn to, stating that such
assent has been signed and ackuOwledoad