Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-11-03


: annears that there has been granted at
he rate of one divorce to every two hum
ired and sixty.six marriageable per-
sons:
In view (2d) of the fact that the Statute
Law laws down, on the one hand before
m srriage. only a list of the forbidden de-
frees. the age which the parties must
have reached, the titles of those quallhed
10 solemnize marriage, aud the mode OF
the parties by license; ana,
IN the other hand, after marriage, pro-
vides full facilities for dissolving the tie
upon various pleas, allowing re-marriage
ia every case. 70 ),
In view (3a) of the opportunity offered
by the Law of Divorce, and the practice
under it, to successive polygamy; py
which man may have succession OF
wives. and a woman may have success.
sion of husbands, without limit of num-
Der, and all at the same time living In
the community:
In view (4tb) of the Christian Law,
laid down in the Holy Gospels (St. Marx,
x: 3. 70; St. Luke, xvi: IS; st Matthew,
xix: 3, 8; St. Matthew, V: 81, 81 by
which the tie of marriage is pronounced
TO be indissoluble except for one cause
only ; and by which, except for this
cause, to put away a wife and marry an
other, or to put away a husband and
marry another, or for a third party to
marry the one put away, is distinctly con-
demned as breach of the Seventh Com
mandment.
In view 9th of the monstrous and ir-
reparable injury and injustice done to in
nocent children, who, for no fault OF
theirs, but for the selfishness and i'm
patience of others, are sentenced to a
premature orphauage, and deprived OF
their natural and inalienable birth-right
the right, first of all, to nurture, pro-
lection, government, and an unsullied
name, in the very family into which they
are born, and at the hands of those very
parents whose Offspring they are.
In view 9Th of the imminent danger
which threatens the domestic morals 81
the whole community, whenever the
ssanotity of the family is invaded, and the
danger that marriage be held in low
esteem az an affair of convenience, nc
longer binding than the selfshness OF
capricious will of either party may
direct; danger of moral evil, scandal, do.
nestle strife, immodesty and debauchery;
danger that the springs of virtue, in the
people, be poisoned, and that premature
decay aud corruption sap the foundation
of the State.
In view finally. of ell these considera-
tons. we respectfully pray your honor.
able body to take such measures, as, in
your wisdom. may seem best: 1st.-To
reiterate the Law of Divorce upon such a
basis ~ to distinguish between temporary
legal sepsr alton in necessary cases on the
one hand. and absolute divorce on the
other hand and to grant absolute divorce,
with liberty to marry again. only in cases
Of we'll proved connubi4l iufidelity. I'd
To increase the penalties for the crime
If adultery, 50 that it may not be deliber-
atelv employed AS an instrument for pro-
curing divorce. 3d.-To invest the Law
of Marriage with such precautions and
protective formalities as to dignity and en-
noble it in the sight of the people, without
ob-tructing the marriage of any honest
citizen, whatever his station; and at the
= me time TO protect the community, so
far ss practicable, against the misfortune
of i'll judged, hasty, clandestine and
criminal marriages.
With n profound sense of the import
aucs of this subject, and believing that it
involves, through the family, the best and
truest interests of the State, your petition
era appeal to you to apply, in this case,
the needful remedy.
Ry Mr. Slade, of Middlebury. the pc
tition of WIN. T. Herrick and III others
of Clarendon praying for law establish
ing State Police.
BY Mr. Bromley, of Pawlet, the petit
tious of Oreu Gregg and A others, pray
ing for the enactment of law for the APP
pOintmeut of state assayer of liquors.
By Mr.. Stetson of Enosburgh, the petit
ton of Homer White and % others, citi-
z-us of Eaosburgh, praying for the pas
sage of some law in relation to divorce.
Third Reading Ordered-H. 157, to
amend the statutes relating to the sale of
the estates of deceased persons.
143, to protect bridges of more than
eighty feet in length.
Parsed-H 40, for the distribution of
the Grammer School funds of Orleans
county.
H. 81, in addition to an act approved
Nov. 20, 1868, in relation to the land re-
cord of the town of Stannard.
H. 50, to Iegalize the grand list of the
town of Calais for the years 1868 50 and
1870.
H 80, for the relief the families of in
sane persons.
H 81, to protect fish in Bailey's Cove
and Phinney's Cove in the town of
Troy.
H. 112, in amendment of an act APP
proved Nov. 10, 1869, relating to public
lands.
H. 116, changing the name of Effie Ann
Cheney.
II. 1913, to establish the North Benning-
ton Graded School District.
IL. 135, to Incorporate the Montpelier
Manufacturing Company.
H. 147, to amend an act to encourage
manufactures, approved Nov. 1869.
H. 172, to incorporate the Montpelier
Savings Bank and Trust Company.
II. 100, to protect fish in Home Brook
and its tributaries, in the town of Graf
ton.
H. e65, to change the name eff Della
Ann Getchell.
H $50, TO change the name or Frank
Nelson Young.
H 152. to protect fish in Lake Austin
or Wells Pond.
IL. 151, TO amend section IS, chap. 125
z. s. relating to the restriction of costs.
II. 1913, relating to public burial ground
and their enlargement.
H 154, in addition to No. AZ OF acts of
1863, relating 30 trustee process.
II. 1853. relating to married women.
Mr.. Field, of Springfield, called up II.
$50, constituting the members of the
House of Representative from the county
of Windsor a committee to equalize the
grand lists of the towns in the county of
Windsor. and stated that the bill was de-
fective without the amendment proposed
by the committee, and if it is passed the
amendment ought to be adopted. Mr..
Page, of Hydepark, moved to reconsider
the vote rejecting the amendment pro-
posed by the committee, which was agreed
to. The amendment was then agreed to,
aud the bill ordered to third reading
the members from the county of Windsor
having agreed to such an adjustment of
the differences of opinion existing !among
them.
On motion of Mr.. Edison, of Mendon,