The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-10-11

therefore, be S659, ,406 Inasmuch as
we have reason to expect that the grand
list of the State will be increased, it is
hoped that the tax required to meet this
estimate will not greatly exceed the tax
Of last year.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
Since your last Annual Session, altera-
tions in the Constitution Of the State have
been made, which will require correspond
ing notifications Of our Statutes. 1t is
not necessary that | should call your at.
tention to all the details of the required
legislation. and |, therefore, specially no.
tice only those which seem most import
ant.
BY the change from Annual to Biennial
Sessions of the Legislature the tenure of
Office of all State and Legislative Officials
is necessarily extended to a corresponding
period. The support Of the government
must be provided for during the interval
between the sessions.
As appears from his report. the Treas
urer's estimate Of expenses for the year
1872, is S415. 200, and it is incumbent
upon you to lay tax upon the list Of
that year sufficient to cover the estimate.
1t would also seem that some provis.
! ions should be made, or the revision and
correction of the lists of each alternate
year. when the Legislature is not conven-
ed, by the creation Of board competent
for that important duty.
Under the existing law the valuation Of
real estate recurs every fifth year. 1t is
obviously necessary that the interval be.
tween valuations should consist of an even
number of years, otherwise such valua-
tions will alternately occur in the year Of
legislative suspension.
EDUCATION
| congratulate you upon the manifest
advancement the cause of Popular Edu-
cation is making in our State. There is
a growing interest in our Public Schools,
and the truth is generally acknowledged,
that the.education of the people is AN indis.
pensable safeguard to the preservation OF
free government. For the general diffusion
of education, reliance must be had, prim.
arily, upon free Common Schools. 1t is
therefore of vital Importance to the wei.
fare of the State, that the instruction af.
forded in these schools should be of the
highest character attainable. 1t should
however, be remembered, that system
of education which fails to embrace the
Academic and Collegiate methods and op
portunities, is incomplete, and must Ian
guish. Where mental culture is broades
and deepest. these are the fountain
whence flow the best educational inAuen
ces, ever drawing up to higher plane
what is below. Ia turn the Common
School sends up its select material to th'
higher institutions. and thus the extreme
of the complete system reciprocally ele
vate and sustain each other.
commend to your vigliant care thu
interests of all our institutions of educa
tion.
Experiment ia all the States foremos
in the cause of education. has proved tn
great value Of the Normal School, il
training teachers for Common Schools
Good teachers are Indispensable. and tn
Normal School is the best instrumental
ty which can be employed, to secure tn
needed supply. venture to suggest
that the time has come for the adopto
in this State, Of 4 more settled and effec
tual policy on this subject.
, For information relative to the pract
cal working of the plan now in operation
its obvious defects, and the remedy there
for, refer you to the report ofthe Boar
of Education, and | commend the sug
gestions therein set forth to your earnes
: consideration. While the plan referre
to has not without beneficial results, ye
it manifsstly falls far short of our neet
, The State has not in any proper sense
5 Normal School. 1t is for you carefully
consider, whether the policy, 80 cautiousl
inaugurated, should not now be firmly el
tablished, upon such permanent basis Q
o shall secure the desired end.
ATTACHMENT LAW.
a esteem it my duty to call your after
ton to the evils of our law Of summar
attachment, They have long been fe
and acknowledged. A perfectly solver
o busines man. is liable to summary a
tachment of all his property upon a clail
which may prove whoely groundless {
even fcious; his credit may be thereb
10 seriously impaired, and perhaps his bus
M ness broken up and destroyed. On Il
70 other hand if debter be really insolvel
!. the first attaching creditor may absorb a
u his assets leaving without satisfaction (
redress all other creditors, frequently con
No prising widows and minors, who sann
% exercise the sharp diligence the law r
~ quires.
A law which not only permits but e
10 coursges the applications Of all the pr
,c perty of insovent debtor to the PAYNE
of one greedy creditor, to the exclusi'
~ of all Others is so manifestly unjust, TIL
~ comment is unnecessary.
no 10 Entertaining these views. and belle
% ing, as | do. that this law is positi
80 80 hindrance to business enterprise, whi
W should receive every encouragement,
t. respectfully recommend careful consi
>, Grafton Of the subject. and that the ID
I'd be essentially modified, and stripped
he its harsh and unjust features.
THE JAlLS.
at invite your attention to the evils
ct our Jail system. They have long be
H. felt and deplored by those most conv'
in SAINT with its workings. While it Won
be manifestly impracticable to attem
Ist On immediate cure of these evils, it is J
D a question. worthy your earnest cons
nd Grafton, whether they may not be grad
as ally ameliorated and finally abolish'
by For the most part our jails are used
he mere houses of detention. Parties chare
with crime are confined therein, OF