Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-08-10
:. and propsrty have fallen. into the

L,nd
:. the latter class of corporations mare
wing to capitalists than the former.
IN the opinion of the committee, the
hast way of efectiag just contribution
Gam these corporations towards the OK.
,.ose Of their PR lection, is for the State
n treat them in this respect as it treats
ssliyiduals; tax them directly, not through
,Aoir stockholders; constitute the first
E,ter Of each town through which the
franchise and property of the corporation
,,tcnds. or select number of men, a
hoard of asse ssors to appraise the franchise
,oa nroperty ofsach at its value in money,
and to distribute the same between such
nTns in proportion to the comparative
r,lue of the same in each town. Let the
ann thus distributed to each town be re-
distributed by the listers of that town for
scsOol district and higway purposes.
The committee are aware that it is urg-
ed that the Legislature in chartcrlng the
Vermont Central Railroad Company, ex-
eupted the stock, franchise and property
Of that company perpetually from taxa
finn, If that exemption is constitutional
and valid, it furnishes an objection as
torcible against the taxation of the stock
Of other similar corporation as such.
The committee would respectfully raise
The question whether the Legislature in
granting that exemption did not sep be-
yond its constitutional power? Whether
10 long as the Constitution rovides that
protection furnished by the State imposes
the duty of contributing to the expense
cf that protection that Legislature has
the power to breathe into life corpora
ton, endow it with rights and privileges
clohe it with the power of holding and
acquiring property, protect it in its life
right, privileges, and property, and re-
leve it of the duty and burden of contri-
buting its proportion to the expenses Of
that protection2 sygG
The Committee find no occasion for a
change in the Constitution to effect the
lust assessment of taxes, but more
thorough AMI rigid application of the
j principles of the Constitution by proper
4 legislative cnactments for that purpose.
From the report of the State Treasurer,
the taxes cons,itutionally laid,> appear to
have been justly collected. The comm
ttee have received no information tending
u show that the public money has not
been properly and lawfully expended.
4 All which is respectfully submitted.
Il JONATHAN Ross, for Committee.
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A FIERY WHIRLwIND.-A recent issue
Of the Nashville Press and Times re-
counts and locates decidedly extraor
diOary phenomenon, thus:
The day, it will be remembered, wa'
remarkably hot, so that most people il
that county had to seek the shade abou
noon. At this hour, on the farm of Ed
ward Sharp, FIVE miles from Ashland, ;
sort of whirlwind came along over the
neighboring woods, taking up small
branches and leaves of trees, and burnin;
them in sort of flaming cylinder tina
travelled at the rate OF about five miles al
hour, and developing size as it travelled
ltpassed directly over the spot where I
team of horses were feeding, and singe'
their names and tails up to the roots 9TH
horses are used up for all practical pur
poses and will be kept simply as memoir
ais of the phenomenon; it then swep
toward the house, taking stack Of hay j
its course, which it set on fire.
1t seemed to increase in heat as
vent, and by the time it reached tn
house it Immediately fred the shingle
from end to end of the building, SO tina
Il 10 ten minutes the whole dwelling wa
wrapped in flames. The tall column {
travelling caloric then continued its cours
over wheat field that had been recent
Graded, setting fire to all the stack
which happened in its course. Passiu
from the field, its path lay over stretc
4 OF woods which reached to the river. III
Il green leaves on the trees were crisped
ender for breadth of twenty var d
ii straight line to the Cumberlan'
When the "p illar of fire" reached the WI
ter it suddenly changed its route dow
the river, raising, column of steal
which went up to the clouds for half
!. mile, when it finally died out. Not le
that two hundred people witnessed IL
'rangest Of strange phenomena, and a
dthem tell Substantially the same stol
/. about it. 5000 .d.a H
o. DEMoREsT's YouNG AMERICA