Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-29
THE RUTLAND HERALD.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 90. 1871.
Town Meeting.

nIhe gathering of yesterday afternoon. A
more excited and turbulent assemblage
of the enlightened freemen Of Rutland
,,nas rarely occurred, and the task Of pre-
serving order amidst the opposing ele'
hments was at times n: light one. The
cmeeting convened, agreeable to the call OF
the selectmen, at the Engine House OF
Washington, No.2. The number in at
Tendance at the opening was large, a.
Especial train from West Rutland bringing
rover some four hundred voters from that
village and Center Rutland. The meet
! ing WAS called to order by the moderator,
Martin G. Everts, in front Of the engine
house, not even comfortable "shade" be-
! ing afforded by the location selected. The
official warning fer the meeting was read
= as follows:
The legal voters of the town of Rutland
are hereby warned and requested to meet
in town meeting at Engine House, Wash.
ington No. 2, opposite the Bardwell
House, on Tuesday, June 9th, 1871, at
/. 2 o'clock p. m =, for the following purposes,
/, to wit; =,
lst 10 see III the Town Will huopt Tue
line dividing the two school districts
formed out of the old District No. l, as
4 established by the committee appointed
at the last town meeting for that pur-
pose; ;, =, .,.,, ,..,,, ,.,,. :, "a.
scind vote passed at the last meeting,
| June 9th, to build Town Hall in the
village of Rutland.
Il Tt ha mi
vote passed at the last town meeting to
raise tax of fifty cents on the dollar Of
the grand list.
4th. To transact any other business
that may legally come before said meet
ing.
4. E EdAS Elm BILLINGS seleotmen.
Rutland, June 14th, 1871.
In view of the uncomfortable charac ter
of the place for holding the meeting
coupled with the important nature of the
business to come before it, John B. Page
moved an adjournment to the Opers
House, stating that the free use of thai
hall had been rendered by the proprietors
John Cain, of the Board Of Selectmen
stated that it had been proposed to call
the meeting at the Opera House, but thai
no guarantee had been given by the
owners that it would be free from expense
He was not in favor Of adjourning to TIT
hall, and having bill of one hundred
dollars presented afterwards for its use.
Col Proctor assured the assembly tina
he could state upon the authority of thu
owners, that the use of the hall for the
meeting would be granted free of charge
After further brief discussion, the mo
tion to adjourn to the Opera House wa
carried by large majority.
The Opera House was filled to its ut
most capacity on the re-assembling of the
meeting, upwards of thousand being
gathered. On presenting the subject con
tanned in the first article of the warrant
H. H. Dyer called for the reading of the
report Of the committee. John Cain read
the report as follows:
WHEREAS the town of Rutland, in
town meeting assembled, did on the 5tt
day of June, A. d. 1871, vote to divide
school district number one in said towr
and appointed John Cain, William Gil
more and Senics M. Dorr, q com
mite to locate and establish the said
dividing line and to number said districts
And whereas the said Cain, Gilmore an6
Dorr, have established the said divid
ing line as follows: Commencing at thu
intersection of Henry Haywards north
west corner, with the road leading from
Rutland village to Billings Bridge
thence easterly to lands owned by Harry
Mussey, thence northerly on said Mussey'
west line, thence easterly on said Mussey'
south line to the Harlem Extension rail
road, thence from said railroad easterl.
through lands of B. ]. Fisk, and on salt
Mussey's south line, making straigh
line from said railroad to the highwa,
leading from Harry Mussey's to Horac
II. Overs, thence southerly and easterl
from said highway, and on said Mussey
south line to lands of George Hart
thence northerIy on said Harris west lin
to his northwest corner, thence easterl
on saids Harris north line to highwa
called East street, thence sontherly o.
said highway and easterly on FL. Mussey
south line to lands owned by Samue
Robinson, thence easterly on the lines bt
tween said Robinson and Lewis n
Walkers to the line of the town of Mer
also designated the territory on the mort
side of said line ss School District nun
Der one, and the territory on the sout
side on said line as School District nun
Der two. Now therefore,
Resolyed, That said report of said Cali
Gilmore and Dorr, and the line of div
sion established by them, and the nun
Der of said Districts as designated
them, be accepted and adopted, and tn,
SCHOOL, District number one be divide
and the same is hereby declared dividet
and the dividing line as reported by sal
committee be and the same Is hereby
clared to be in accordance with the gu
vey and description set forth in the pr
amble to this resolution and in the r
port of said committee, and all the teri
tory south of said line is hereby set G
from School District number one, ar
shall hereafter be designated as Soho
District number two, and shall constitu
district by itself. .a
On motion of Fl. H. Dyer, the repo
was accepted anc adopted.
On proceeding to the consideration
the second article of the warrant, O.
Redfeld Proctor offered the followir
resolution:
ResoEced, That the vote passed at Il
last town meeting, authorizing the bull
ing of town hall, be, and the same her
by Is, rescinded.
Mr.. Proctor sustained the resolution
speech of considerable length, giving
very clear and candid manner the val
Gus objections which have heretofore bee
urged against the building of the propo
ed hall, both in discussions at previol
meetings and through the press. E
maintained that the subject was fnall
disposed of to the satisfaction of the m
jority Of the voters of the town by dismis
ing it for the present year at the Mar