Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-12-09

Sec. 1. Any married woman whose
husband shall desert her, or from intem-
perance or other cause shall become in
capacitated or neglect to provide for his
family, may in her own name make con-
tracts for her own labor and the labor of
her minor children, and in her own name
sue for and recover her own and their
wages. ANY married woman in such
case of desertion, incapacity or neglect,
may file her petition in the county court
in the county in which she resides, alleg-
ing the same and making her husband
defendant thereto, and upon proof Of
such desertion. intemperance or incapac-
ity, the court may in its discretion make
an order, having tn force and effect Of a
judgement yesting, such woman with the
rights, privileges and liabilities of q fems
sole as to acquiring, holding and dispos-
ing of property real and personal, max
ing contracts and being liable thereon,
and sueiDg and being sued thereon, in
her own name. provided after such judg-
ment the husband shall not be liable up
on any contract so made by her in her
own name or for any tort thereafter COM
mitted by her unless such tort be COM
mitted by direction, advice or consent Of
such husband
Sec. 2. This act shall not effectany rights
which may have become vested in any Ier.
son at the time of taking effect hereof.
Approved, November 10. 1870.
An act in amendment Of an act entitled
"An act to amend chapter seventeen
of the general statutes, relating to
births, marriages and deaths, and for
the better registration thereof" ap-
proved November 10, 1869.
Sec. 1. Section one Of an act in
amendment of chapter seventeen of the
general statutes, relating to births, mar.
riages and deaths, and for the better reg
istration thereof, approved November Is
1869, is hereby SO amended as to require
the certificate of the town or city clerk
mentioned in said section lone to be is
sued from and recorded in the office of
said town or city clerk where the groom
shall reside, or in case the groom shall
be nonresident of the state, said GER
tifcate shall issue from and be recorded
in the office of the town or city clerk
where the bride shall reside, and in case
both Of the parties to the marriage shall
be non residents of the state, then said
certificate shall be issued and recorded
as is now provided by law; and the cer-
tifcate so required shall afford full i'm
munity from all responsibility now i'm
posed upon the person who may solemn
ize the rite of marriage between the par
ties therein named.
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be SO amended as to provide that the fee
of the town or city clerk for making
such certificate and recording the mar
risge shall be fifty cents.
Sec. 3. An act EMIT ed An act
to amend chapter seventeen of the gen.
eral statutes. relative to births, marriages
aud deaths, and for the better preserva-
ton, thereof" approved October 21,
1870, is hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. No town or city clerk shall
issue marriage certi fcate to any male
under the age of twenty-one years, or to
any female under the age Of eighteen
years, without the consent III writing, of
the parent or guardian Of such minor, if
there be any such competent to act.
Approved, November Is, 1870.
An act in addition to number forty-two Of
the acts Of 1869, relating to trustee
process.
Sec. /. Whenever the defendent in
any suit in which any person has been
summoned as trustee shall file bond
agreeably to the provisions Of number
forty-two of the acts of 1869, such de-
fendant shall procure from the court in
which said bond is filled, a certificate
setting forth the proceedings oc the court
in accepting said bond, and discharging
the trustee, and shall deliver this same
to the trustee in said suit, who shall
thereupon be discharged from any fur
ther liability in such suit.
Sec. 3 This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved, November, 1870.
An Act in amendment of an act en-
titled "An act in amendment of an
act approved November 18th, A. d.
1869, entitled OF public lands
Sec. /. Section one of an act approx
ed November 10th, A d 1869, is hereby
so amended as to read as follows;
"The rents of lands granted to the use
of the ministry or social worship Of God,
and the rents Of land granted to the first
settled minister, shall, on the Friday
preceding the last Tuesday of March in
each year, be divided BY the selectmen
among the different organized religious
societies in said tewn, in propotion to
the number of Sabbashs said societies
shall hold public worship. the aggregate
not to exceed the number of Sabbaths in
the year. And if there shall be no such
society, in any town, the same shall be
loaned on interest, under the direction
of the selectm en-, until such society shall
be formed, unless it shall be appropriate
ed to pay for preaching the gospel in
such town, by a vote Of such town, in
town meeting, an article to be inserted
in the warning of said town meeting for
that purpose.
Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts in
consistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.
Approved Nov. 10, 1870.