Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-08
Laws Of Vermont.
BIENNIAL SESSION, 1870.

JrSi0HdEd bY StCTttW3 " "'1' -
ration in Tie newspapers.
n, An act to amend the existing statute
laws relating to the appointment or cleo
ton, tenure of Office, and duties OF certain
State officers >,
his hereJv enacted 6y tie General Assen'0fs
of The State Of Vermont:
SECRETARY OF STATE.
Soc I. Section thirty-six of chapter eight
IF the general statutes is hereby amended SO
as to read as follows
g Sec. SO. 1t is hereby made the duty of
the Secretary of State to procure hereafter
one copyof the printed journal OF each House
of the General Assembly at any session there
of, and also one copy OF the acts or laws
nassed at such session, Immediately after the
same may be printed and published and de-
nosit the same in his office, and also one copy
of this and all subsequent revisions of the
avs of this State, and deposit the same in
his Office all of which, together with all
such journals. and laws, and revisions of the
laws Of this State, as the said secretary may
have heretofore possessed and deposited in
his office, shall therein be kept, and the same
shall not be taken from his office unless under
the sanction of law to that effect and it
is also made his duty hereafter, on or before
the first day of September in each year, to
prepare and forward to the town treasurer of
each town, blanks adapted to the provisions
of section seventy-se of chapter fifteen !;
to each court auditor blanks adapted to the
provisions of section one hundred and six of
chapter twelve; to each States attorney
blanks adapted to the provisions of section
sixty -four of chapter twelve; and to each
sheriff in the State, blanks adapted to the
provisions of section thirty-six of chapter
twelve and on the return of the same,
filed in compliance with the aforesaid sec
tions, to the Secretary of State, he shall file
the same in his Office for the use of the
General Assembly,"
SECRETARY OF CIVIL AND MILITARY AFFAIRS.
Sec 2. Section forty of chapter eight Of
the General Statutes is hereby amended by
substituting the word " biennial for the
word annual" therein.
AUDITOR OF ACCOUNTS
Sec 3. Section forty-one of the same
chapter last mentioned is hereby amended
so as to read as follows
{" Sec. Al. There shall be biennially elect
ed by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives in Joint assembly an Auditor of Ac-
counts, who shall be commissioned by the
Governor, and sworn"
Sec. 4. Section forty-two of the same
chapter last mentioned, is hereby amended so
as to read as follows:
q Sec. ~. The Auditor of Accounts, be-
fore entering on the duties of his office, shall
execute bond to the State of Vermont in
tho sum Of twenty thousand dollars, with
such sufficient suretics as shall be approved
of by the Governor, conditioned for the
faithful discharge of the duties of his office. E"
Sec. s. Section forty-six of the same
chapter last mentioned, is hereby amended
so as to read as follows:
g Sec. 46. 1t shall be the duty of the
Auditor of Accounts to make full and
thorough examination Of all the books, pa
pers, and items of account kept by the |
Treasurer, relating to the finances of the
State, between the first and fifteenth days of
August in each year, and he shall report the
condition of the same to the General Assem- |
bly, at the commencement of its next sue
ceeding biennial session; and shall state in |
such report full detail Of the Indebtedness |
of the State, with all other facts connected |
thereN it'll which he may deem important to |
the interests of the State.
Sec E. Section ffty-eight of the same
chapter last mentioned, is hereby amended |
so as to read as follows:
- Sec. So. The Auditor of Accounts shall |
biennially prepare and publish, for the use
of the General Assembly, an edition not ex-
ceeding fifteen hundred copies of a report,
exhibiting under appropriate heads, all the
sources of revenue of the State, with a spe
cifc and detailed statement Of its disburse-
ments for each of the two next preceding
fiscal years to which report he shall append
any report which he may make in the per-
Torrance Of the duties Of the bank commits
sioner, deyOlved on him, under the provisions
of an act entitled " An act in amendment of
sections forty four and sixty-One of chapter
of the General Statutes, entitled
: Of banks, approved October 20, 1867 and
it shall not be his duly hereafter, unless
specially required so to do, to make any re-
port to the governor, or to the general as
:embly, designed merely to exhibit an account
IF moneys received or dsbursed on account
If the state"
Sec. 7. Sections fifty, sixty, and {
sixty two, of the same chapter eight before (
are hereby severally amended, by
substituting the word " 6iennjdlLy" for or
n place of the word @ annually " wherever .
he said last mentioned word occurs in the ,
aid sections respectively. e
INSPECTOR OF FINANCE. +
Sec. g. Section sixty six of the same t
HAPPIER last mentioned, is hereby amended So
s to read as follows:
&" Sec. &c. The governor. shall biennially .
ppont an Inspector of finance, whose duty G
shall be to assist the auditor of accounts ,
q his annual examination Of the treasurer's +
apartment, to examine infinitely all of the
counts Of the treasurer, with view to +
scertain the correctness of his report, and S
whether the accounts are properly kept; and v
lso to examine all Of the books and papers o
f the department of the auditor of accounts, +
D see that they are properly kept, and his T
llowances properly made and to report to G.
he legislature the result Of such examina- h
on which report shall be printed and Il
Ound with the biennial report of the auditor f
accounts n
REPORTER. u
Sec. 9. Section sixty-seven Of the same b
hapter last mentioned is hereby amended by c,
ubstituting the word - biennialiy .. for or in
lace of the word " annually" therein.
Sec. 10. Section seventy of the same {.
HAPPIER last mentioned, is hereby amended 81
y adding at the end thereof the following ;s
'oviso, viz: " Pr0Uided, that the volumes
be furnished to the organized towns as 20
oresaid, of the said reports which may be 81
iblished in each year In which there is no n
gular biennial session of the general as -
mbly, shall be forwarded by the librarian. 10
the expense Of the State, to the county do
erks of the several counties in which the 80
WINS respectively are situated and it shall Wv
the duty of each county clerk to deliver lo