Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-12-21

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founded on this act, and on proof thereof shall
be entitled to recover not less than ten dollars
per day for each day said pipes shsll have been
thus unlaWfully connected, and such further
damages as said company shall have sunered'
together with full costs.
SEC g. This act shall take effect from its pass
age.
Approved November IS. 1870.
An Act authorizing the change Of names and
constituting persons heirs at law in certain
cases.
SEC, l. An unmarried person Of full age, and
any husband and wife may adopt any other per-
son of full age or any minor child as his or their
heir-at-lsw and may change the name of such
person or minor child by signing, sealing and
acknowledging before any authority authorized
by law to take acknowledgment OF deeds, writ
ten instrument setting forth such adoption and
change of name, which written instrument shall
contain the consent thereto Of the person adopt
ed, if Of full age, and if the person adopted is
minor, of the parent or guardian of such minor,
or if such minor shall have no parent or guar
dian living, OF the overseer of the poor OF the
town where such minor resides, and shall be
signed, sealed and acknowledged by such person
if of full age, or by the parent or guardian OF
such minor child or by such overseer OF the
poor, and by causing such written instrument
so executed to DO recorded in the town clerk
office, in the town where the person or persons
making such adoption reside, and when such
written instrument shall be 80 executed and re-
corded, the same rights, duties and obligations
shall exist between the parties, as if the person
adopted had been the legitimate child of the per-
son or persons making such adoption, and the
form of such instrument of afflliation shall be in
the following form as near as may be:
STATE OF VERMONT,
County, So.
Re il remembered that ut this
day CT A. D. 10
of in the county Of "a minor
or Of full age, as the case may be,) is hereby
adopted and made heir-at-law of c D
and L husband
and wife, Tor ofG H single
person,) Of IN the county OF
and said adopted person shall hereafter bear the
name of A
In witness whereof we hereunto set our names
and afiix our seals this day of
A. D.
L. s.
L. S.
L. s.
STATE OF VERMONT,
At this day of A. D,
IS personally appeared D
and Il 7 aud G
II (overseer of the poor, or parent or
guardian of A B as the case may
be } and acknowledged the foregoing instrument
by them sealed and subscribed to be their free
act and deed.
Before
j M }Ollical signature.
Sec 9. 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 cents. A duly
certified copy of such record shall be evidence of
such adoption.
SEC. s. Any single person of full age, DESTROYS
of changing his or her name, may do 30 by an
instrument in writing, signed by such person,
sealed and acknowledged and recorded in the town
or city clerk S office where such person resides,
setting forth the name such person shall bear
which shall be cffectual to change the name of
such person, and such instrument shall be sub
stantially in the following form.
STATE OF VERMONT,
County, ss,
Be it remembered thstI A d
of in the county of will be
hereafter known and called
Ia WiGneoo WuSiSVl L hOiSuhtV SCI my lldud
and seal this day Of A. D. IS
LIS.
STATE or VERMONT,
County, 49,
Personally appeared A b now
known und called and acknowledged
hisinstrument by him (or herr signed and
sealed to be his Tor her) free act and deed.
Before
{ or official signature.
Sec 4. This act shall take effect from its pas
sage.
Approved November %, 1870.
An Act in relation to school census and other
school matters
SIC. !. The clerk in each school distrct shall
annually, in the month Of Jsn'y, make a cor
rect list Of the names and ages of all persons be-
tween the ages Of five and twenty years, resident