Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-12-04

manner as thougha suithad been brought
on such recognizance, and q recovery Of
Judgment had thereon.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, November Is, 1868.
An Act in relation to the service Of trus.
tee process on corporations.
II is hereby enacted, etc.
Sec. l. 1t shall be sufficient service
of trustee process upon corporations, that
the officer making said service leave
true and attested copy of his process
within the time now prescribed by law,
either with the clerk, cashier, or superin-
tendent of said corporation.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, November 10, 1868.
An Act relating toappeals from the judg-
ment of justices Of peace.
H Is hereby enacted, etc.
See. /. Section seventy of chapter
thirty-one of the General Statutes, shall
be so construed that an appeal from the
Judgment of justice Of the peace shall
be allowed in any case, in which the va
lidity of any tax, or tax-bill or warrant
shall in good faith be put in issue by the
pleadings or by the proof.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, November 10, 1868.
An Act to construe section twenty Of
chapter thirty-six of the General Stat
utes, relating to depositions and wit
nesses.
1t is hereby enacted, etc.
Sec. /. Section twenty at chapter
thirty-six of the General Statutes, shall
be so amended as to read as follows
Any party or witness in any cause
pending before any of the courts In this
State, or before auditors or referees, and
any witness in any criminal cause pend
ing before any of said courts, shall not
be liable to be arrested or imprisoned or
detained by virtue of any civil process
whatever, while going to, attending at, or
returning from such court, or the trial OF
such cause.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from
its passage. oao
Approved, November 16, 1868.
An Act for the advancement Of the sci
ence of medicine and surgery.
1t is hereby enacted, etc.
Sec. /. In case any person shall be
| executed in this State in pursuance OF
| the sentence of death for crime, it shall
be the duty Of the sheriff officiating in
| such execution, to deliver the dead BODY
| of the person so executed to the duly au-
| thorized agent of any regularly organic
ed medical school applying for the same,
| in this State; and in case application
| shall have been made therefor, before
such execution, by more than oneschool,
the sheriff shall determine which Of said
schools shall be entitled thereto, and de-
liver the same accordingly to the agent
thereof and if application shall not be
made by or on behalf OF any such
school, for said body, within the day on
which said execution shall take place,
said sheriff shall deliver the sage to anu
i State. first applying therefor. And II
said sheriff shall have received at the
same time an application from more thar =
one surgeon or physician, said sherln
shall determine which OF said surgeons
or physicians SO applying at the same
time. shall be entitled thereto, and shall
deliver the same accordingly; provided
; however. if any relative OF the person sc
executed shall, within twenty-four hour
. after such execution, apply for sucf
body. or object to its being delivered, o.
herein authorized, said body shall not b
:. SO delivered but shall be inferred in tn
, usual manner of burying the dead pro
= vided further, that no compensation snal
u he demanded or received by said sherl
. for such body SO delivered, under per
Q oItv of five times the amount receive
! for said body
u Sec. 2. This act shall take effect mol
" its passage. 20 ,oeo
IN An Act to enable owners OF land
le drain the same.
Ct II is hereby enacted, etc.,
le Sec. 1. Whenever the owner or owl
ers of any lands in this State may WIS
IS, to drain the same, and are unable
Of agree with the proprietor or proprieto
I'd Of adjacent lands as to the mode
ch draining said land or lands, and the dal
ty apes consequent thereon, said owner
ny owners may prefer petition to the cou
&c ty court in the county where sucn ian
Use are situated, for power to drain SAID ial
vi or lands across lands of adjoining p'
re- prietors and shall at least twelve "a
before the setting of the court to VIII
on such petition shall be preferred, cat
said petition and citation to be du
served on each and every (one) OF 50
&C. adjoining proprietors.
o o' Sec. 2. Upon the petition of any P
ne son or persons, preferred as aforesaid,
court shall appoint three judlciou,s Q
disinterested freeholders to prescribe
Dry best mode Of draining said land or Ian
or and to assess the damages which '
Tor thereby accrue to the adjoining prop
no tor or proprietors, and said freehold
'ru- shall make report in writing of their
II IN ings to said court, and said court u
ie, e accept or reject the report OF SAID !,
OF holders, in whole or in part, as Jus'
no, shall require, on hearing. OF the part
seal and said court may make such ORC
ION therein as they shall deem lawful