The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-12-06

shall, on the petition Of a majority Of the legal
voters Of said town, asking for the suppression
Of any public billiard table or bowling alley in
said town, forbid any game or play upon any
such billiard table or bowling alloy in said
town.
SEC. .. Whenever the seectmen Of any town
shall forbid any play or game upon any public
billiard table or bowling alley as mentioned in
preceding section, they shall notify the owner
or keeper thereof in writing, aud lodge certf
Z cate thereof in the town clerks office in such
, town, therein describing the billiard table or
bowling alley the use Of which is forbidden, and
|, the town clerk shall record such certificate,
r and such certificate, 80 recorded, shall remain
! in force until revoked as hereinafter provided.
3 SEC. 3. II the owner, or keeper, or any person
who shall thereafter become the owner or keeper,
| Of such billiard table or bowling alley, shall,
after the certificate Of such notice lie lodged in the
town clerks office as aforesaid, suffer or permit
i the use of such public billiard table or bowling
alley for any play or game, he shall 70, felt and
v pay to the state the sum Of twenty dollars for
v each day or time he shall suffer or permit the
e same to be used as aforesaid, until said certif
. cate has been revoked as provided in the next
o section Of this act.
: SIT. 4. The selectmen of such town shall re-
"a woke any certificate described in the second sec
. ton Of this act f; provided petition in writing
If is presented to them, signed by majority of the
% legal voters of said town, requesting revocs-
ia ton Of sad certificate and the said selectmen
lie shall tbereupon lodge certificate Of said revo-
cation in the town clerks office Of such town,
T. and the town clerk shall record said certi6.
cate.
SEC. s. A certified copy Of any certificate men
toned in the second and fourth sections Of this
b. act, under the hand Of the town clerk Of the
j. town in which the same is recorded, may be used
of as evidence in any court in this state.
SEC. 6. Whenever the parent or guardian oil
10 any minor shall in writing request any owner
or keeper Of any billiard table or bowling alley
not to permit his child ward to play upon any
in table or alley owned or kept under the provi-
" sons Of this act the owner keeper Of such tab
10 or tables alley, shall comply herewith, and
. If such owner or keeper shall, after such reques
of has been preferred to him as aforesaid, permi
All such child or ward to play upon such table o
alley, he shall be punished by fiae Of not les
than ten dollars for each time that he shall alloy
such child or ward to play upon such table 0
alley.
SEC. I. All acts or parts Of acts inconsistent
H. with this act are hereby repealed.
SIC. 8. This act shall take effect from its pas
Az sage.
;ct Approved Nov %, 1870.
av An Act relating to liens reserved oa propert
~ sold
,r- SEC | No lien reserved upon persoual proper
m, ty sold conditonslly and passing into the hand
nit of the conditional purchaser, shall be vail
ter against attaching creditors or subsequent pul
re- chasers. unless the vendor Of such property sha
in take written memorandum signed by the pu
III chaser, witnessing such lien, and the sum du
he thereon, which memorandum shall be recor1e
s in the town clerk Office Of the town where y
purchaser of such property resides, within thii
is days sitter such property shall delivered to sue
TX purchaser.
cir SIC. 2. The fee OF the town clerk for maxim
her such record shall be twenty-five cents, or tie
ia cents per folio, at the option Of such clerk.
yes SEC. g. This act shall not affect any liens no
the existing
,or Approved Nov. %, 1870.
An Act specifying the time when notes on d
uy mand shall become overdue.
lis SIC !. A promissory note payable on demsr
by shall be considered overdue Mt the expiration
Of sixty days from the date of such note, and d
led msnd made upon such note at the expiration
ap- sixty days from the date thereof without grac
ing or at any time within that term shsll be deeu
ed to be made within a reasonable time, and sr
as. acts, neglect or other thing which By the rules
law and the customs Of merchants is deemt
equivalent to presentment and demand, if
occur before the expiration Of said term OF six
,ue pays, shall be dishonor thereof, and shall al
thorize the holder Of such note TO give notice
in the dishonor to the indorser, as upon presen
rcd ment to the promser and his neglect or refus
or- to pay the same. No presentment Of such no
aid to the promiser and demand Of payment shs
q, charge the indorser unless made on or before Il
:; last day Of said term Of sixty diys.
the ne notes, payable on iadorsers of pr9misso
able notice of the dshonor OF such notes su
be liable in the same manner and to the same {
,.s- feet as upon the dishonor of promissory note
payable at fixed time, and not otherwise
Approved Nov. %, 1870.
,ter An Act in addition to an actentitled an n
inc to provide for the restoratin and preserv
hoe hoe ton of fsh in the State OF Vermont a.
proved Nov. 10, 1866.
~ SEc. l. No person shall be PRINTED to kill
w destroy any trout. lunge, pikeor pckere in an
10 of the waters of this State, inany manner. e,
re- cept with hook and line in he ordinary wa
nd with bait or fly, from the frs day of May to ii
a.. first day of September in eac year ; prorideO
NY any person may take trout lunge for spawn
Vi ing purposes, and from prive ponds, AS is pre-
; 10 vded in the fourth section olthe act which th
'nse is in addition TO, and in oier way and for
ucn other purpose, and the possession of such fis
OF between the first day of Sepmber and the frs
anu day of May shall be taken a prima facie evi
> AZ dence that the same were ked or destroyed il
!, az violation of this act
sell, SEC. 2 Any person yiolahg the provisions O
'eht this act shall be liable to thsame fine and pen
Veo alties, to be recovered in ihsamc manner as
,n'o provided in chapter one hurried and three sec
les, ton nine, of the general etates.
uoh SEC. 8. Number Al of y public acts, ap
proved November 81, 1875 hereby repealed.
Jas Approved Nov %, 1870
An Act authorizing testionisl Of honor to b,
prepared and presented all honorably dis
zap charged soldiers, who rived in the war o.
1861, and TO the widovof such as have de-
Z oi ceased.
, II SEC. l. The governor ID sdjutant- general
anu are hereby authorized tause TO be engraved
tne and printed, q suitable timona for each Off
'he Ger or soldier, who serveon the quota of Ver-
lent mont during the war ofe rebellion and was
the honorably discharged I'm or died IN the GER
ing vice and to the widow next of kin Of such
> II as have deceased and Il the adjutant general
urt deliver such testimonialsn application, to such
.he persons as he may deenntited to receive the
hne same, provided the surso expended shall not
'aiu exceed three thousand cars.
SEC. q This act shsllke effect from its pass
pa" age.
Approved November 1870.