Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-12-13

peilant shall give Immediate notice 10 one or mora
q the selectmen or aldermen and 70 ono or more
the listers Of such town city and the town city
clerk, upon application ofany member Of the board
Of eiyll authority, shall Immediately call meeting
public places not less than six nor more than ten
days prior TO the time of such meeting and a de-
eison OF majority of said board shall be inal IL
shall be the duty Of the listers before the first
Tuesday ofJuly, to meet to revise and perfect the
grand Isl, and at such meeting to appoint one of
thelr number 70 meet at the place now required by
Jaw IN each county equalize the grand list of their
counties
Sec 3 The County Equalizing Convention shall
meet AZ the several places required by law, on
the Second Tuesday in July OF each year that
apprasas and shall send the Corrected lists 10 their
town clerks, and shall send an abstract
o. TIE same together with the record Of their pro-
ceedlngs BY mail 20 the Secretary Of State on or
before the first day OF August OF said years.
Sec. 4. There shall be State Equalizng Board,
consisting OF one member from each county in the
State, who shall be member of and elected by the
County Equalizing Convention. certificate OF
such election signed by the President and Secretary
Of said county Convention, shall be transmitted to
the Secretary Of State Said Board shall at tho
once q the Secretary Of State in Montpelier on
the third Tuesday OF August, at ten O'Clock in the
forenoon in each year that appraisal Of real es-
tate shall he made Of which Board the Secretary of
State shall be an er-cafcio member and presiding
shall be three dollars per diem, while engaged In
the duties Of their appointment, and their actual
travelling expenses, which shall be paid on the order
of the Auditor of Accounts.
Sec. 5. Said board shall take the oath prescribed
IN section thlrty-three OF chapter eighty three of
the General Statutes and il shall be their duty to
average and equalze the valuation of the real es-
tate IN the several counties by adding to deduct
ing rom tho appraisal as fixed by the County
Equallzing Convention the case may be; and the
valuation so established, and certified to by ma
jority OF said board, shall no tho list upon which
State taxes shall be made for the succeeding four
years, together with the polls and personal proper
" as now provided by law; The Board may, also.
proceedings, which record shall be signed by the
President and Secretary deposited in the office OF
the Secretary of State, and copy thereof trans
mitted by the Secretary of State to the House of
Representatives, on before the second Monday OF
October of the years IN which such appraisal shall
See. s. 1t shall be the duty Of the listers in each
town and city in this State, before the first day
of juno annually, to make and deposit with tho
clerks Of their several and cities in this State
an abstract of the grand list of their several towns
ana cites, IN the form now required by law; and il
shall DO tho duty Of the clerks of the several towns
and cities to transmit by mail, or before the first
day Of July Of each year. the aforesaid abstract to
the Secretary of State. 1t shall also be the duty of
the commissioners whose duty 1t Is to make out the
grand list of the unorganized towns aud cores in
this State, to make and transmit, by mall, to the
Secretary of State on or before the first day Of July
annually, an abstract Of their grand list in the
same manner as the listers Of organized towns are
required to do. The abstracts named in this act
shall be placed on file in the Office OF the Secretary
OF State.
See. T.. If any lister, town clerk, city clerk, or
commissioner OF the grand list Of unorganized towns
or cores in this State other person named In this
bill, shall neglect or refuse to perform the duties
imposed upon him by this act, and shall be convict
ed therefor he shall pay TO the State fine of ten
dollars and COSTS to be recovered by the States At
torney Of the county in which such town gore IL
situated in action in the name Of the State
Sec. g. All acts and parts Of acts inconsistent
with this act are hereby repealed.
Approved November %, 1872.
An Act in addition to an act in addition to section
nineteen of chapter eighty-tbree of the General
Statutes, relating to appraisal OF Real Estate in
certain cases.
secI. Whenever it shall appear to the listers OF
any town gore in this State, that there has been
large depreciation in the value Of any real estate
in said town gore by Of fire, food, or other
accident, or the cutting and removing of timber
therefrom, II shall be their duty to appraise the
same, and make suitable deduction therefor from
the list OF persons liable to pay taxes thereon
Sec. O. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent
with this act are hereby repealed.
Approved November q, 1872
An Act in amendment Of and in addition to an act
entitled AN act in amendment OF section one
chapter eighty three of the General Statutes re-
latng to the grand list, approved November 2ad,
Sec, l. The listers of the several towns of this
State shall omit to place in the list the polls of such
persons as lost an arm, or leg their eye-sigbt or
contracted disability while in the service Of tho
United States during the late equivalent to the
loss OF an arm, a leg, or eyesight, provided that
such omission shall not deprive such person Of the
right to vote in any town, city or school district
meeting in which they might otherwise be entitled
TO vote
Sec 2 The disability equivalent to the loss Of an
arm, leg eyesight, shall In all cases be deter
mined by the degree or grade Of disability for which
United States government.
Sec, g. This act shall take effect from its pas
sage.
Approved October %, ls72
Act in amendment of section sixty-seyen of chan
tex eighty -four Of the General Statutes entitled
Sec. /. Section sixty seven Of chapter eighty-four
Of the General Statutes, shall be amended as TO
The grand list to be completed on the fifteenth day
of May for tho assessment Of town and highway
taxes shall be the list on which all school district
and village taxes voted on the first day Of April or
assessed.
Approved Nov. :, 1872.
An Act relating to the Town and District Systems of
See /. Any town in this State that has abolished
its school district system in accordance with an act
entitled An act in addition to chapter twenty-five
OF the General Statutes relating to schools approy-
ed November q, a. d.. ,is7omay at the annual March
meeting Of said town in A. ID. 1873 or az any fourth
annual March meeting thereafter. abolish its town
system OF schools and any town in this State that
may hereafter abolish its school dstrt system in ac
eordance with said above mentioned act, may at any
fourth annual March meeting of said town
thereafter abolish It's town system Of schools,
and the selectmcn of any town shall insert an
article for that purpose in the warningi for any
annual March meeting above designated upon the
application of three legal voters in such town
Sec. Q When any town shall abolish IT. town svs
tenn Of schools provided in section one of this act
said town shall be divided and formed into the same
number OF school districts with the same lmitsa
boundaries, and shall be known and designated by
the name Of their respective numbers in IA regular
series from number one upwards, the same as said
districts existed before they abolished by said
town; and such districts shall have all the power
and be subject to all the duties, requirements and
liabilities which, by law, vested in or imposed
upon school districts.
Sec 3. At any annual town meeting at which the
town system OF schools shall be abolished the voters
thereof shall elect town superintendent Of com
triet who sha IL he legal voter in such school dis
trie for which he is elected clerk And such clerk
shall call the first meeting OF said school district
which shall be held on the last Tuesday of March
next succeeding said town meeting, by posting up
notice ~ manner and form as now provided by law
for holding the annual meetings in school districts;
and said school district may, at this meeting elect
officers for the year ensuing for said district and
also do any other business that school districts are
empowered TO do at their annual meetings; provided
that said school district clerk shall have notified the
voters Of said school district Of the propos ed bushes
in the warning aforesaid.
Sec. 4. Whenever any town shall vote to abolish
the town system Of schools, the school houses and
other property formerly belonging to the same
the property Of the school districts respective
ly, and the seleetmen Of said town shall ascertain
and fix upon the amount Of credits upon its taxes
that each OF said districts has received by of
and equalization Of school property and
all expenses in building repairing school houses
in said districts under the town system of schools in
ncccrfanc with fhe nrovisions "a s,cfto, e,r 81 %
act entitled " An act in addition to chapter twenty
two Of the General Statutes relating schools APP
proved Nov. ~ a. ID. 1870; and said seectmen shall
equalizo the same upon the grand lists Of the several
districts when restored to the district system so
that each district shall own its school property
Sec 8. This act shall take effect from its passage
Approved November 20. 1s72.
School Districts
See l. Any school district Of this State, at any