The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-12-08

=. No. t,S-An Ac. relating TO highways
IL Us hereby enacted, etc.
Sec. I. Tho select men Of any town may, when
in their judgment the public good requires 1t, and
by petition duly presented TO them Tor that pur
pose they are specially requested SO to do lay out
o highway across any stream in said town as
| ioriway under the Same provisions as are now pro-
yided In case of laying out and disseminating hi Oh
ways provided, however that In case any such
| highway shall be laid out as n iordway ms above
provided, the town shall not any event be liable
| for any injury or damage that may be sustained
by amy person by reason Of the insuflcency Of said
| Ordway
Sec. :. All acts and parts Of acts inconsistent
| with this act are hereby repealed.
Sc. .. This act shall take effect TN its pass
age.
Approved November 81. 1874.
No. 5t.--An Act in relation to the duties Of nigh
| way surveyors.
| II is hereby enacted, ETC.;
tee. /. When the highway surveyor In any towr
In this state shall have expended all the money in
| the tax-bil delivered to him b the selectmen, n,
provided by section nine chapter twenty five of the
general statutes, and the amount of such tax shall
| be found insufficient to complete the ordinary re
pairs oil the highways in his district 1t shall be the
| duty OF the highway surveyor to inform the select
men, or either OF them Of the nsufliccncy of sucl
the selccLmen to provide other means for the com
peton of the ordinary repairs, and in no case sha
| the town be chargeable with any expense for sucl
ordinary repairs Of highways except that incurred
under the direction OF the selectmen nor shall tn,
highway surveyor be liable to tho town Tor damages
occlsiontd by the want Of any ordinary repairs Q
|
sad and the selectmen shall refuse or neglect t
| furnish means TO complete such erdinary reiairs.
Sec. 2. All acts or parts OF acts inconsistent will
| this act are hereby repealed
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect rom Its Tass
age,
approved November A, ls7i.
No. So An Act in amendment of section one oi al
act approved November %, 1863, entitled AN ae
| relating to warning town mettiLgs."
| 1t H. hereby enacted, etc;
sec. l. Section ono e an act approved Novem
her 20, lS6S, entitled "An act relating to warnin.
| town meetings Is hereby amended 50 rs to reat
| as follows
| If the officers Of any town or city, whose duty 4
| shall be to warn, or cause to be warned town OF
CITY meetings, shall refuse TO warn, or cause to b,
warned, town or city meeting for any purpose, on
the petition in writing o. thirty or more legal v0t
ers setting forth tho purposes of said meeting fol
more than ten days after receiving said petition
said Ulcers so refusing neglectng shall each bC
Liable TO penalty of iorty dollars and a like pen
| ATTY Ci forty dollars for every twenty days neg
| lect or refusal to warn, or cause t. DO warned
| such meeting thereafter
Approved october %, 1874.
No. 5G-An act Ia addition tn chapter fifteen cf The
general statues entitled "0f towns, town NEE t
mas and town cilccrs."
II is hereby enacted, etc.
Sec: ,. No person he CATER elected and qualified
as selectman in any town in this state, shall be
eligible TO the flee OF first constable and collector
oil taxes or town treasurer for and during the same
yen he is so clccte and qualified as sclectman IS
| Aforesaid.
Sec @ This act shall take feet lrcm lts passage
Approved >Ovembor a. 1874.
No. 57-An act to amend section fourteen OF Oh lp-
ter fifteen Of the general statates, relating Il
town officers.
1t is hereby enacted, etc.
Section fourteen Of chapter fifteen Of the general
statutes Is hereby amended to read as follows
The election OF town clerk, selcctmen, treasurer,
oyerseer OF the poor. constable, superin endent OF
schools grand jurors and listers shall be made by
ba lot when the ballots are required by any three
voters present at the meeting. Tho election of ali
othe town sflcers shall be in such manner as the
meetlr may determine.
Approved Nov. Z, ISL.
No ;s-An Act to PREVENT Illegal voting In town,
village or school district m etings.
II ia hereby enacted. ETC.
Sec. /. 1.-THE presiding officer Of any town. viii
lagc or school district meetings shall knowingly
receive and count any vote or votes from any person
not legal voter, or knowingly receive from any
legal voter at any one balloting for the same ofce
more than vote, he shall be punished by a fine
not exceeding hundred dollars for each offence.
Sec, lfany person, knowing that lie is not a
qualified voter shall at any OF said meetings men
toned in the first section of this act wlully give in
vote for any fflcer to be chosen he shall bo pun
ished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars
for such offence.
Sec. g. The fines mentioned in this act may 10
recovered to the use OF this state by Information or
indictment before the county court in the county
whore the fence shall he committed.
Approved Nov. ~, 1874.
Nc: Can Act in addition to act number seventy
six Of the acts passed in 1870 entitled An act
to protect butter and cheese manufacturers"
1t Is hereby enacted, etc.
Fec. |. Whoever shah knowingly sell or furnish
or ofer to sell any milk diluted with water, or IN
any way adulterated, shall forfeit 10 the person 10
whom such mill is sold or furnished, the same sum
that Is forfeited to the manufactured, provided in
the act to which this is an addition and to be col
lected by him in the same manner.
Sec. 2 This act shall take effect from It's passa TO-
Approved November II, 1874
No. Co act in relation to the service Of exteuts
against delinquent collectors.
It's hereby enacted, etc.
Sec /. That the extonts provi led for In sections
forty-one and forty-three OF chapter eghy-iour Of
the general statutes, may DO issued to the sheriff OF
hny e99ny in this state, who Is hereby authorized
provided by law for the sheriff o, the county in
which the delinau6nt collector may reside.
Approved October q, 1874.
No. Cl.--An Act to amend an act entitled An act
relating to criminal offences committed within
the limits q incorporated villages IN this State"
approved November %, 1870
1t IS hereby enacted, ETC.:
Sec. /. That the second section OF said act Is
hereby amended 80 as 10 read as follows,
All the fines and penalties which shall be Imposed
any person for any such offence for the breach
of any penal law committed within the limits ofany
Incorporated village in this State together with the
costs Of prosecution 1. the prosecution be commence
ed on the complaint or information Of any OF its pc
lice officers, and being within the jurisdiction OF
justice OF the peace to try and determine shall be-
long and be paid 10 the treasury OF the village in
which the offence shall be committed. And If said
fine and costs not paid the justice of the peace
may in his discretion, on der the said person to be
put to hard labor as provided in chapter one hun
dred and twenty-five OF the general statutes until
said fine and costs are paid, until the avails of
such labor received by the officer having charge Of
the prisoner therein provided in said chapter one
hundred and twenty-five as aforesaid. shall amount
to SUN sufficient to pay said fine and costs. The
Justice o. the peace before whom such prosecution
shall be heard and tried, and who shall commit
the prisoner, and order such person to be put to
hard labor aforesaid, and the officer receiving
such person so assigned to labor as Aforesaid, are
hereby required to conform fully to the provisions
aud requirements OF chapter one hundred and
of tho general statutes relating to the
assignment of persons to hard labor for minor OF
fences, and SUCH justices hereby empowered to
draw oroers on the treasury of such village to pay
The costs ofany such prosecution in favor Of the
persons entitled to the same.
Sec. ?. This act to lake effect from its passage.
Approved November 8. S7i
No. CAN Act in amendment Of section seven of
chapter one hundred and twenty oftho general
statutes, relating to crimes and punlshments.
1t rs hereby enacted, etc.
Sec. /, Section seven of chapter one hundred and
twenty Of the general statutes Is hereby amended
so as to read az follows:
When any person shall he convicted OF any crime
punishable with death, and sentenced TO suffer such
punishment, no shall at the same time be sen. |
fenced to hard labor in the state Prison for Pc
Rod Of twenty months from the date Of his sentence
md to solitary confinement thereafter In the State
Prison until such punishment of death shall he In
licted.
Approved November 90 1874.
No. Gan Act in addition to "An act empowering |
incorporated villages and towns to have and |
maintain lock-ups or Jaiis,' approved November |
10, 1866
1t rs hereby enacted etc,
Section /. The trustees or bailis OF any village |
under the laws of this State, when |
has aud maintains lock up or jail, shall have |