Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-10-26
GBe FREEMAN.
MONTPELIER, Vr.:
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER &c, 1870
The Legislature.

accomplished at this stage of the session,
bu. the number of bills signed by the Gov
ernor up to Monday night was only seven,
while last year at the same time forty-three
bills had been approved.
The chief subjects of interest discussed
during the past week have been the propo-
sitiOns to re-district the State, to create an
additional judgeship, to appoint an engross-
log clerk for the two Houses, to allow any
rate of interest to be agreed upon by con-
tract, and to allow any rate of interest not
greater than eight per cent. to be contracted
for.
The subject of re-districting the State re-
ceived a short discussion in the Senate, which
developed strong opposition to the propo-
sition. No argument was made in favor of
of the measure, but the Senate finally voted
20 refer the subject to a committee.
The tenure of-oGice bill has passed the
Senate with proposal of amendment to the
House by making the number of associate
justices of the Supreme Court six instead of
five. There no opposition manifested in
the Senate, but it is supposed that there will
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The bill to provide for the better preserva-
tion of the laws of the State, by the appoint
ment of an engrossing clerk to engross bills
after instead of before their passage, elicited
a very animated debate in the House, but was
unfortunately killed by bad management
There has been quite war of words in the
House upon the interest bills, and the dis
cussion is not yet ended. The bill allowing
any rate provided by contract deservedIy
meets with the most favor, but it is very
doubtful whether the bill can be passed at
the present session, although the present law
has long been stumbling block in the way
of borrowers.
The following bills have passed both
Houses: An act to protect butter and cheese
manufactures an act providing that if any
person entitled to a distributive share of the
estate of a deceased person shall be absent
and not heard from for ten years from the
death of the deceased person, he shall be
considered dead, and his share be given to
his heirs an act providing for the biennial
publication of the Legislative Directory an
act granting county clerks power to take ac-
acknowledgements of deeds; an act providing
for a double bond in cases of repleyin an
act to lay tax of five per cent. on Wash
ington county an act to establish Benning-
ton Graded School; an act for the better reg
istratiOn of births, marriages and deaths.
The following have passed the Senate
An act providing that selectmen shall re-
quire bonds of cOnstables before they enter
upon the discharge of their duties an act
providing that when liquors are seized, the
claimant shall file his claim in writing, and
if not resident of the State, shall also file
a satisfactory bond to prosecute his claim to
effect, and that appeal be allowed until
bonds have been given also that no pro-
ceedings under chap. "a, g s., shall be held
insufficient for want of form an act pro
viding a Ienalty for the use of torpedoes :;
an act providing the time for the reports of
State officers
The House has passed the following An
act to amend the statute laws Of the State in
accordance with the constitutional amend
ments an act providing that the act to
amend sec. 40 of chap. %, z. s.. approved
Nov. II, 1866, shall not apply to districts
which have maintained two terms of school
of not less than eight weeks each between
the LIST of May and 3Ist of December in each
year an act relating to the payment Of
costs by the State in criminal prosecutions
before justices of the peace an act to annex
a part of the town of Lowell to Albany an
act to repeal the proviso to sec. 30, chap. 40
of g. 8.
The following have been introduced into
the Senate: An act to incorporate the Ben
nington and Woodford R. R. Company an
act to provide for the appointment of a State
Assayer Of spirituous liquors; an act pro-
viding for an examination of insurance com
panies whenever the insurance commission
ers shall deem it necessary, restricting the
granting of licenses to insurance companies,
and making number of rules for the trial
of insurance cases an act declaring Winoo-
ski river public highway an act provid-
ing that all personal actions may be COM
menced by trustee process except actions of
replevin and trespass to the person, and &C.
tiOns for Islander and malicious prosecutions :;
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lation of the liquor laws, no person shall be
excused from testifying for the reason that
his testimony may tend to criminate himself
except the respondent an act fixing the sal
aries of the Secretaries of the Senate and
Clerks of the House j.; an act making various
provisions for chattel mortgages an act to
provide that the fees of town clerks for ex-
aiming records shall be fifty cents, and if
the time shall exceed an hour, TWENTY-FIVE
cents per hour; act providing that if
neither party shall enter his appeal from
Justices decision at the next stated term of
the county court, the justice may issue exc
cution to the amount of the judgment and
additional costs and twelve per cent. inter
est
The following have been introduced in the
House An act providing that the several
school districts may at regularly warned
meetings raise money for the building or
hiring of school buildings; an act providing
that when a married woman shall die with
out issue, and her husband survive, the lat
ter shall take life estate in the realty and
the whole of the personal estate; an act to
incorporate the Coos Valley Railroad Com
panY an act providing that bills of ex-
change, drafts and promissory notes, not
: payable on demand, shall be entitled to three
days grace; an act to amend the statute re-
lating to the kind of actions which may be
commenced by trustee process an act to
provide that the grand list shall be completed
by May 18th, in each year an act obliging
each county to provide two fre-proof rooms
in its court house an act providing for the