Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-11-10

It day.
y A bill to incorporate Savings Banh
: and Trust Company at Middletown has
been introduced into the Senate by Mr.
Copeland.
. A bill has passed protecting fish il
: Wells Pond or Lake Austin, in the towns
q of Wells aud Poultney. .......
L A new Paper Mill Company has been
incorporated at Bellows Falls.
: BILLS INTRODUCED.
p By Senator Bailey, an act relating to
the partition of real estate containing
mineral or medicinal springs, providing
that any person holding real estate, con
q tanning any medicinal or mineral spring
J with others as joint tenants, may have
the right to use tn ewaters by applying to
the county court where the real estate ia
. situated by petition, setting forth his in
terest and the names of other owners
with description of premises for the ap-
q pointment of commissioners to make the
apportionment of the right to use such
waters.
BY Senator Hartshorn, relating to the
duties of town superintendents, making
1t their duty in each county to meet the
! Secretary of the Board of Education, an.
nually in March or April, for the purpose
of agreeing upon set of questions for the
examination of teachers and fixing the
? qualification of teachers, making arrange
ments for teachers institutes and confer
ring generally upon the interests of educa-
ton. The bill provides that the examin-
alton of teachers shall be public, and all
private examinations to be in the presence
: of at least one of the prudential COM
mittee of the district in which the appli-
can't is to teach, one other intelligent
adult person being present. The person
examined is to pay the Superintendent
one dollar, and the school committee shall
pay him two dollars, making three dol
lars for such examination. The teachers
certificate given at an institute where
all the requirements are fulfilled shall be
good for three years.
By Senator Abel, relating to private
corporations, providing that no officer of
any Savings Institution or trust company,
shall hereafter, at the same time, hold
office as president. director, cashier or in
any other official capacity, in any bank of
discount located in this State.
By NJ. Smith of St. Albans, to inoor-
porate the Lake Champlain and st. Adams
Railroad Company. This road purports
to run from some point on the east shore
of Lake Champlain, in the town of st. AL
bans, to point on the Vermont & Canada
Railroad in the town of st. Adams. This
is a local enterprise for the benefit of St.
Adams Bay, village two and one-half
miles from St. Adams. This point is
good one for the reception and shipment
of lumber, and the hope is that by the
construction of this short road to build
up large lumber trade, as well as to make
preparation for business that will flow
TO that point on the completion of the ship
canal. 1t was the original intention to
have built the Missisquoi Railroad to st.
Adams Bay, but that has been found not
to be feasible, and hence this application,
as connection can be easily made with
the Vermont and Canada.
BILLIARD SALOONS
By Mr. Sanborn of Lyndon, providing
that any person who shall hold or have in
his possession or under his control any
bowling alley or billiard table, and shall
suffer and permit the same to be used
for any play or game, without 8
| written license from the seleotmen
and recorded in the town clerks
offioe, shall forfeit and pay a foe
Of not less than fifty nor more than one
huudred dollars, to be paid into the town
treasury for the benefit of the common
schools of the town. No license shall be
Ar- nted for a loss eam than twenty dollars
ger annum for each bowling alley or bill
lard saloon. The selectmen are required
to revoke any license whenever the public
good requires 1t.
Bv Mr.. Pearl of Sheffield, to repeal
section 70 of chapter "a of the general
statutes relating TO trustee process. Ibis
| will leave the amount subject to trustee
process unlimited, or any trustee process
can be served for any sum less than ten
dollars.
By Mr.. Lunt of Derby, providing that
estates of deceased persons not disposed
of by will shall be distributed as follows:
First, In equal shares to his children or
the legal representatives. OF deceased
children.
Second, If he leaves no issue, his widow
shall be entitled to the whole OF his estate
forever, if said estate shall not exceed two
| thousand dollars. But If said estate shall
exceed that sum, then the widow shall be
entitled to two thousand dollars, and one
half of the remainder of said estate; and
the remaining part OF said estate shall de-
scend in the same manner as the whole
would if no widow had survived; and II
he deceased shall have no kindred who
by law might inherit his estate, the widow
snail be entitled to the whole.
By Senator Heath, providing that any
person who shall tap the gas pipes OF any
, kas company with intent to take there
from, without consent, or shall connect
pipes or tubes with the pipes OF any gas
company so that the gas may be taken
from the gas pipes of any such company
without the said gas passing through
metres for the proper measurement OF
such gas or who shall knowingly burn or
use the gas without measurement by gas
metres shall be deemed guilty of felony,
aud on conviction be fined not less than
one hundred dollars or be imprisoned not
less than one year, or both.
. By Senator White, providing that ii
any person shall claim the right to vote In
school district meetings and his vote be
, objected by one or more legal voters pre-
3 lent that he is not a legal voter, the vote
shall not be received by the Moderator
until such persons right to vote shall be
determined by a vote of the majority pre-
) sent.
By Mr.. Butterfeld Of Wilmington,
giving witnesses fees for attendance on
court. except before justices,fiv cents per
nile for travel and one dollar and fifty
cents for attendance.
? By Mr.. Whittemore of Milton, bill
I, providing that when by reason of incom
potency of parent to have the custody
and education of his minor child, anot her
person has been appointed guardian, such
appointment may be revoked afterwards
} at any time, if the Probate Court shall
adjudge the parent to be competent to
o have the care of the child.
From Montpelier Journal
q Randolph Normal school.