Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-05-01

there would be at future stare.
The motion to lay on the table was
lost.
On motion, the act establishing a Mu-
nicipal Court was accepted
John nj. Otis moved, under the 9Th
article of warning, that the amount of
rents paid by Hook and Ladder Compa-
ny, be reimbursed, which were stated
to be some two hundred dollars.
Martin G. Everts hoped that the mo-
ton would prevail William Y. w.
Ripley took the same view.
The motion then prevailed
The ninth article of the warning "to
see if the village will vote to fund the
village debt, or any part thereof, by
issuing scrip or orders with interest cou-
pons attached" was laid upon the ia
BILE.
Under the tenth article of the warn
ing to see if the village will alter any
of its bylaws or ordinances. or make
any new bylaws" Charles F. Adams in
troduced the following:
" An ordinance in addition to An or
dinance relating to the duties of certain
officers
Z" 1t is hereby ordained by the village
of Rutland, as follows:
ESQ. 1. No member of the Board
of Trustees of said village, nor any rela-
tive within the fourth degree of affinity
or cOnsanguinity of any Trustee. nor
any business partner, nor any employer
or emplOye of any member of said
Board, shall hereafter be appointed a
Superintendent of Streets and Side
walk, or act as such Superintendent
SEQ. 2. All moneys expended in
violation of this ordinance shall be
treated and regarded as unlawfully ex-
pended, and the Trustee or Trustees as
senting to such violation thereof, shall
be personally liable to said village for all
moneys so expended"
Which ordinance being duly seconded
by Hiram l.. Cheney, was unanimously
adopted
Charles Woodhouse introduced the
following resolution, which was laid on
the table:
ResoL0ed That for the ensuing year
and until otherwise ordered, each ward
in this village shall have expended
within its boundaries for repairs of its
streets and walks, three-fOurths of the
highway-tax money paid into the treas
ury on the taxable polls and property in
cluded in said boundaries, and the Trus-
tees are directed to use and disburse said
highway money accordingly Provide d
that if, in their judgment. any ward
should not require for highway pur-
poses thrpe-fOurths of it's highway tax
paid into the treasury. the balance be
tween the amount disbursed and the
three -fourths of taxes paid by said ward
shall remain in the hands of the Village
Treasurer, to be disposed of by vote of
the village
Martin G. Evcrts introduced the fol-
towing resolution, which was adopted
WHEREAS, Patrick Pagan, Jr.. was in
iured seriously by the caving in of an
embankment on the 9th day of January
1878, while employed on corporation
work in digging dirt in the gravel pit
therefore,
Pes0LUed, That he be allowed and paid
by an order drawn by the trustees the
sum of forty dollars for damage and loss
OCcasiOnpd by said injury, which has en-
tirely disabled him from attending to his
ordinary work and deprived his family
of his wages.
Under the eleventh article. ''to see it
the village will vote a tax to pay the
debts and current expenses of the year
enusiug." James Barrett moved that a tax
of one hundred cents on the dollar he
raised, payable July 18th.
Meier Edison moved that the tax be
fifty cents.
William Y " Ripley favored tax
of one I.undrrd cents on the dollar He
was not afraid of taxation, hut was
afraid of debt
A. G. Bates moved to raise tax of
one hundred and fifty cents on the do
lar
N. p. Simons was opposed to tax of
one hundred and fifty or one hundred
cents, even, this year, because it will
bear heavily on some men. He was in
favor of good liberal tax that would
pay current expenses and part of the
debt
The motion to raise one hundred and
fifty cents on the dollar was lost.
The question of the amount of tax was
further considered and discussed byWar-
rem II. Smith, n. p. Simons and Thomas
Ross.
Miner Hilliard moved that tax of
seventy-fve cents on the dollar be rails
ed, fifty cen is to be applied to the pay
ment of debts and twenty cents for
current expenses, which the chair ruled
out of order.
A motion to raise tax of seventy five
cents was then made and lost.
A tax of fifty cents on the dollar was
then voted.
Martin G. Everts then introduced the
following resolution, which was adopted:
ResoZged, That all money raised by
taxation be paid into the treasury and
applied to the extinguishment OF the
debt of the village, and the trustees are
! hereby instructed to lay out no more
money on streets and walks than shall
| be realized from the highway tax.
mittee. consisting of Miner Hilliard, Hi
ram L. Cheney and N. P. Simons, was
appointed to examine the accounts of
the trustees and, if they should ascer-
tain that any moneys have been expend-
ed in violation of ian ordinance relating
to the expen diture of the village money,
that they commence suits for the recov
1 cry of the same.
On motion of Chester Kingsley, the
tax this day voted was made payable
July 18th.
Walter C. Landon was elected Chief
Engineer of the Fire Department /;
James C, Dunn, First Assistant Engin-
eer; George W billiard, Second As
sistant Engineer.
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