Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-11-25

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1866" approved Nov. 6, 1867.
i IS hsrsby enacted, &c.
Sac. |. Section one Of an act entitled
&" An act 10 amend an act entitled An act
providing for check list of voters, approved
Nov. 10, 1866, approved Nov. 9, 1867, il
amended By adding after the words - list Of
voters for every annual city, town or free
mems meeting in said section one, the
words, " and election Of electors Of President
and Vice President Of the Uni ID States
SEC. @ This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved, October Ia, 1868.
An Act relating to check lists OF voters.
IL is hereby enacted, &c.
SEC. l. Section four of No. % Of the
Acts Of 1867, is hereby amended so as to read
as follows
SEC. 4. At any meeting Of the mayor
and aldermen in cities. or Of the board of
civil authority in towns, held under the
provisions of said act, the freeman oath
may be administered to any person who
would DO entitled to take the same at the en-
suing city, town or lreemen's meeting, or
meeting for the election Of presidential cleo
tors and thereupon the name Of such person
shall be placed on said alphabetical list.
SEC. 2. Section five Of said No. "a, Is
hereby SO amended as to read as follows
Sec, 5. No meeting Of tho mayor and
aldermen in cities, nor Of the board Of civil
authority in towns, shall be held for any
hearing under the provisions Of this act la
ter than the day preceding the day Of cleo
ton
SIC. 3. Section three Of said No. 81,
is hereby amended 50 as to read as follows
Sec. 3. Whenever such additional sets of
ballot boxes shall lie opened, under the pro-
visions OF this act, the proper presiding Off
Ger shall have the general direction Of the
meeting he shall suitably notify the voters
at which place each division Of said alpha
betical list shall vote, and shall also receive
the votes at one Of said places. AT each
other place Of voting, the votes shall be re-
ceiyed, in cities, by one of the aldermen, to
he designated by the board Of aldermen, and
in towns, by ono Of the selectmen, or, in their
absence, by one Of the justices Of the peace,
to be named by the board Of civil authority
and the names of all persons voting shall be
checked by deputy clerk or clerks, to be
appointed for that purpose by the city or
town clerk. The boxes shall be turned, and
all the votes received at the several places of
voting shall be sorted and counted, in the
manner now provided by law.
SEC 4. For the next election of electors
of President and Vice President of the Unit.
cd States, it shall be sufficient, if the check
list tor such election shall be made, and cop
les thereof posted, not less than twelve DAYS
before the day of election
SEc.-5. This act shall take effect from It's
passage.
Approved, October IA, 1868.
An Act to amend section twenty-five Of chap
ter thirty-three Of the General Statu tes,
entitled "a OF process and other matters. y
IL is hereby enacted, etc.
SIC. /. Section twenty-five of chapter
thirty-three Of the General Statutes, il bero-
by amended 80 rs to read as follows, viz
When wooden bowls, clothes-pins, wash
boards, chairs, doors, window-blinds, and
sash, any Of which articles being manufac-
tured or in the process Of manufacture ;
printing presses, type, machinery, printing
paper and ink, used in printing, hay, grain
in the straw, saw logs, square timber, coal
charcoal, ashes, brick, machinery used in
any shop, mill, or factory hides in the pro.
cess Of tanning, cord-wood, stone, ore, lime,
bark, shingles, boards, hives Of bees, hay
scales, potatoes, corn on the cob, corn-stalks
corn in the husk, slaves or shocks, derricks
and the tackle and APPENDICES connected
herewith the utensils and apparatus kent
ON any farm for the manufacture Of maple
sugar also pig iron, bloomed iron, scrap
iron, railroad iron, and hops, railroad ties
fence posts or rails, shall be taken by virtue
Of any writ of attachment or execution, the
officer serving such process may lodge copy
Of the same, with his return, in the town
clerks Office in the town where such property
is taken, which shall be as eifectual to hold
such property against all subsequent sales, at
tachments or executions, as il such property
had been actually removed and taken into the
possession of such officer.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved, November 10, 1868.
An Act authorizing the wardens and vestry
Of any parish of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in Vermont, to hold and convey
real or personal estate.
IS hereby enacted, dc.
SEC. /. The wardens and yestrymen Of
any parish Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in this State, duly elected according
to the canons and usages Of said church, and
their successors in Office, are hereby endowed
with corporate powers, with perpetuity, and
empowered to take and hold by gift, or pur-
chase, or otherwise, any real estate or per-
sonal property, to provide for or to support
religious worship, or for church sites, or
buildings, or parsonages
SIC. 2. Such wardens and vestrymen
by unanimous consent, and when empow-
cred so to do by n majority vote, at the an
nual meeting OF the parish, or one called
for that purpose, are authorized TO sell and
convey any real or personal estate, which
now belongs to any parish, or may be here
after acquired and may, by vote duly "a.