Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-12-09
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be,) aud acknowledged the foregoing
instrument by them sealed aud subscrib-
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Sec. 2. 1t is hereby made the duty
OF town clerks to receive and record all
such instruments of utilization and shall
be entitled to receive for making such
record twenty-five ceLts. A duly certi-
fed copy of such record shall be evil
dence of such adoption.
Sec. 3. Any single person of full age
DESTROYS of changing his or her age, may
do so by an instrument in writing, sign
ed by such person, sealed and acknowl-
edged and recorded in the town or city
clerks Office whe.e such person resides,
setting forth the name of such person
shall bear, which shall be effectual to
change the name of such person, and
such instrument shall be substantially
in the following form:
STATE OF VERMONT,
County, IS.
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Is of in the county of
will be hereafter known aud
called
In witness whereof l hereunto set my
hand and seal this day of
A. ID. IS
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STATE OF VERMONT,
County, SIS.
Personally appeared A B
now known and called and ac-
knowledged this instrument by him Cor
herr signed and sealed to be his Cor herr
free act and deed.
Before,
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:" or official signature.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved November %, 1870.
An Act in relation to school census and
other school matters.
Sec. /. The clerk in each school dis
trict shall annually, in the month of
January, make correct list of the
names and ages of all persons between
the ages of five and twenty years, resi-
dent in his district OH the first dayof Jan
uary. He shall also prepare and return
Herewith tabulated abstract of the
same, exhibiting the following items:
The whole number of families in the
district.
The number of families having chill
dren under twenty years o: age.
The whole number of children under
twenty.
The whole number of children under
five, between five and ten, between ten
and fifteen, and between fifteen and TWEEN
ty, respectively; and clerks of school
districts shall receive for their services
in making such list two cents for each
and every name Of child not less than
five nor over twenty years of age, so re-
turned by them, and also, two cents per
name of heads of families so returned bv
them, and prudential committees are
hereby authorized to draw their orders
on school district treasurers for the same.
Sec. 2. In towns not divided into dis
tricts the duties prescribed in section one
shall devolve on the clerk of the school
board, who shall also collect the statis-
tics of the births and deaths required bv
section two of chapter seventeen of the
general statutes.
Sec. 3. No person under FIVE years
OF age shall be received as a pupil into
any pubic school.
Sec. A. No district shall be entitled
to any share Of thu public money, which
has not during the previous year main
tanned free public school for at least
two full terms Of ten weeks each, or their
equivalent.
See. 5. Section one hundred and
twelve of chapter twenty-five of the gen
eral statutes is hereby amended by strik-
ing out of the Sc ond line in said section
the words :" tenth day Of Apra" and in
serting in lieu thereof the words "frst
day Of Nay"
Sec. 6. This act shall take effect from
its passage, except section five, which
shall take effect from and after March
81, 1871.
Approved, November 90, 1870.