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

An Act in amendment of an act entitled an act
to provide for the employment of reporter
in the county courts, approved November 10,
1869.
SEC. /. Section two of an act entitled an act to
provide for the employment of a reporter in the
county courts, approved November 10, 1869, is
so amended as to read as follows:
"Sec. 2. Such reporter shall be sworn to the
faithful discharge of his Office before entering
upon the same and shall be responsible for the
correctness of his reports and all copies thereof
which may be required of him by said court.
And said reporter shall within twenty days from
the rising of any such court file with the clerk
! thereof certified copies of the evidence and pro-
ceedings in such cases as said court shall direct
and the court shall so direct in all CAGES where ii
is necessary to protect thu interests of either
party said copies to be written out in full and
to be part of the files of said COURT
SEC 2. Such reporter shall furnish certified
copies of the evidence and proceedings to any
party in interest upon request of such party
within twenty days from the rising OF such court
and receive in pay therefor ten cents per folio for
the same.
SEC. g. This act shall take effect from its pas
sage.
Approved November 10, 1870.
An Act relating to suits in respect to patent
rights.
Sec. |. All suits commenced before Justice
of the peace to recover any debt or demand aris-
ing from the sale or right to use any patent right
whether such demand exists ii the form of a
promissory note or otherwise, shall be brought
in the town where the defendent resides or where
such patent right was sold when said note or
obligation upon its face, as provided in section
two Of this act, purports to be given for patent
right, and all such suits returnable to the coun-
ty court shall be brought and tried in the county
where the defendent resides, or such patent
right was sold.
SEC. g Any person who shall hereafter take
any promise or obligation in writing for which
any patent right, or right claimed by him or her
to be patent right, shall form the whole or any
part of the consideration, shall at the time of the
taking thereof insert therein in the body of the
instrument, and above the signature thereto, in
prominent and legble writing or print the words
Given for patent right" and all such obliga-
tons or promises If transferred, shall be subject
to all the defenses that they would be subject il
owned by the original promisee,
SEC. g. Any person who shall sell or barter
within this State any patent right, or the right
to use and vend any patented article, and shall
take therefor any promise or obligation without
complying with the provisions of section two OF
this act, shall be deemed guilty of miSdemean-
or, and shall be punished by fine of not less
than five hundred dollars, or by Imprisonment
in the common Jail in the county in which the
offence is committed not less than one year, OF
both in the discretion ofthe court, and shall also
be liable to the party aggrieved for all demages
sustained, to be recovered in an action on the
case founded on this statute.
Approved November 10, 1870.
An Act cnarging the powers of county clerks
SEC |. Each county clerk within this Stat,
shall have the same power to take the acknow
Judgement of deeds and other instruments, ant
to administer oaths for general purposes, tina
justices of the peace and notaries public nov
have, and the same certify under. the seal 0
court.
SEC. 3 There shall be paid to the several coun
ty clerks for each certificate of acknowledgment
under seal If court az aforesaid, the sum o
twenty-five cents.
SEC. Q. This act shall take effect from its pas
sage.
Approved October 70, 1870.
An Act in amendment Of an act in relation t
appeals from judgments of justices of tn
peace in civil cases, approved November 10
1866.
Sec. l. Section two of an act entitled &c Al
act in relation to appeals from judgments o
Justices of the peace III civil cases." approve,
November 10, 1885, is 50 amended as to read d
follows:
=" Sec. 2 If neither party shall enter the ap
peal in the court to which it was taken at tn
next stated term thereof, the said justice, afte
the adjournment of said court, may issue hi
execution, in due form of law, in favor Of tb
party for whom judgment was rendered, for th
amount of such judgment, with twelve per cent
interest thereon, together with such additions
costs as have been made in good faith since tn
time Of the rendition thereof, and such proceed
ings shall have the same effect as an affirmation
of the Judgment to preserve all liens and securi
ties which the plaintiff in the action appeale
from might have for the collection Of his debts
or the liability of the officer serving the origins
process, or the liability Of bail, receiptors {
property, or other persons, and an executio
within thirty days after the adjournment Of th
term Of court to which such appeal is taken
shall have the same effect in law to preserv
liens, or charge bail or the officer serving th
, writ, as though the Fame was issued within thin
ty days after tn. rendition of judgment.
SEC 2. This act shall take effect from its pas
sage.
Approved November IT, 1870.
An Act regulating fees for justice writs.
SEC. /. The fees for writs returnable before
justice of the peace shall be one dollar each.
) SEC. 2. An act entitled can act regulstin
) fees for justice writs,'' approved November II
, 1864, is hereby repealed
Approved November 10, 1870.
+ An Act in amendment of section nine of chapte
|, sxty-nine of the general statutes, entitled Sc
marriage"
Sec. l. Section nine of chapter sixty-nine
, the general statutes is hereby amended so as {
, read as follows:
: Marriages may be solemnized by any justiC
in the county for which he is appointed, or the
may be solemnized by any minister of the gospt
who has been ordained according to the usage
his denomination, and who resides in this Stat
or who abors stately within the State as a min