Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-12-04
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vestry of any parish of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in Vermont, to hole
and convey real or personal estate.
10 is hereby enacted, etc.
Sec. /. The wardens and vestrymen
of any parish of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in this State, duly elected accord,
ing to the canons and ussges of said
chuch, and their successors in office, are
hereby endowed with perpetuity, and EN-
powered to take and hold by gift, or pur-
chase, or otherwise, any real estate OF
personal property, to provide for or to
support religious worship, or for church
sites, or buildings, or parsonages.
See. 3 Such wardens and vcstrymen
bv unanimous consent, and when empow-
cred so TO do by a majority vote, at the
annual meeting of the parish, or one cali
cd for that purpose, are authorized to
sell and convey any real or personal es-
tate, which now belongs to any parish,
or may be hereafter acquired and may,
by vote duly recorded, authorize one of
their number to convey such property.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, November 10, 1868.
An Act in addition to an act approved
November 81, 1867, in relation to the
return of the military property, belong
ing to the State, to the Quartermaster
General.
II is hereby enacted, etc.
Sec. /. Allofficers, non-commissioned
officers, musicians and privates, who have
not returned to the Quartermaster Gen
eral of this State, the property belong
ing to the State, agreeably to the provis-
ions of section three of the act to which
this is in addition, are hereby required
to make returns of such property agree
ably to theprovisions of said act by the
first day of January, A. d. 1869.
Sec. 2. All officers, non-commissioncd
officers, musicians and privates who shall
neglect or refuse to make return of the
military property which they received
under the act organizing twelve regi-
ments of militia, approved November
%, 1864, agreeably to the provisions of
this act and the act to which this is in
addition, shall, unless they satisfy the
Quartermaster Generalthat such proper
ty has been lost or destroyed through no
fault of theirs, forfeit and pay to the
Quartermaster General of the State, for
the benefit of the State, the sum of ten
dollars, to be recovered in an action on
the case founded on this statute, in the
name of the Quartermaster General,
which suit may be brought before just
ice Of the peace in any county of this
State, and the plaintiff in such suit shall
be entitled to recover the above penalty
and the full value of the property not
returned as herein provided, together
with legal costs.
Sec 3. The Quartermaster General
is hereby authorized to discharge from
the active militia service of the State,
and from personal liability for the loss,
damage or destruction of military pro-
perty all officers and men who received
such property, under the act approved
November %, 1864, who furnish salts
factory evidence that such property, for
which they are liable, has been damaged
lost or destroyed, without carelessness or
fault on their part.
/ Approved, N n, 10, 1868;
section thirty-two Of chapter one hun
dIed and twenty-six of the General
Statutes, entitled "Of salaries and
fees"
II is hereby enacted, ETC.,
Sec. |. Every officer or other person
authorized by law to make an arrest for
an oifense against the State, shall be en-
titled to receive fifty cents as fee for
each arrest so made.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved, November 90, 1868.
An Act relating to the fees of town
grand jurors.
It's hereby enacted, etc.
Sec. |. Section forty -one of chapter
one hundred and twenty-six of the Gen
eral Statutes shall be amended to read
as follows: Town grand jurors fees shall
be- for each complaint fifty cents for
attendance per day one dollar; for tray
ell per mile ten cents.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, November Is, 1868.
An Act relating to the fees of sheriffs
and their deputies.
Itss hereby enacted, etc.
Sec. /. Each sheriff shall receive the
sum of two dollars per day, for each day
OF his own attendance upon the County
and Supreme Court, and Court of Chan
Gerry, and two dollars per day for the
necessary attendance of each of his dep
uties upon the aforesaid courts.
sec.f2. All acts and parts of acts in
consistent herewith are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from
Its passage.
Approved, November 20, 1868.
An Act relating to the fees of school
district clerks.
II Is hereby enacted, &c.
Sec. l. The clerks of the several
sehopf districts in this State, for making
retarHs of births and deaths, as now re.
quifed by law, shall receive as compen-
sation therefor the sum of fifteen cents
for each birth and death so returned
provided, that in case their returns are
incomplete, or incorrect, they shall for
feitsall compensation therefor, and be IL
able to fine of not less than five dol
lars.
Sec. 9 II ia herehy poado tbo d,., &c