Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-01
LAWS OF VERMONT.

LAWS OF VERMONT.
No. An act comforting additional
powers upon the trustees of the YER
mont Reform School
It is hereby enaeteds etc.
Sec. /. Whenever the trustees of the
Vermont Reform School shall have rea-
son to believe that any inmate of said
school. who was taken TO said school
by sentence or order of any Justice of
the Peace. was over the age Of sixteen
years if a boy. of fifteen years if girl.
at the time he. or she, was convicted
sentenced to said school or was so i'd
lotto as to be irresponsible for crime of
incapable of receiving benefits from at
tAs 1T instruction or that the con-
n ~ - e Was
cause SO trivial as fairly to indicate that
the purpose of his. or her, prosecution
was to throw the expense of his or her
support upon the State rather than to
further the cause of justice. it shall be
the duty of such trustees to carefully
investigate such case and if. upon such
investigation they find such was really
the case. they may discharge such in
mate, stating in the discharge the reason
therefor, or said trustees may order in
mate to the ''ernative sentence as now
provided h. law in case of refractory
or disorderly inmates in said school. and
in either case said trustees shall imme-
diately give notice Of their doings to
the selectmen of the town or mayor of
the city from which said inmate was
sent to said school.
Sec. q This act shall take affect
from its passage.
Approved, November II, 1876.
No. 9.-An act providing for the labor
or prisoners for safe keeping.
1t BED: dhArc r: Wiener any person confined
IN the State prison for safe keeping,
while prosecution is pending against
him, shall request to be put to labor,
the superintendent may, in his discretion
put said person to labor, under, and
subject to, the rules and discipline of
the prison, and pay him therefor at the
rate received for convict labor.
Sec 2. This act shall take effect
from its passage;
Approved, November "a, 1875.
No. IO.-An act in addition to chapter
one hundred and twenty-one of the
general statutes entitled ''Of county
jails and the confinement and discharge
of prisoners"
1t is thereby enacted. etc.:
See. |. That in all cases of commit
ments to the county Jail as provided for
in section nine of chapter seventy four
of the general statues. and confinement
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the person so committed and confined
may apply to the commissioners of Jail
delivery in such county. and be permit
ted to take the poor debtors oath, If
such commissioners find on examination
that such person has not property of any
kind. except his wearing apparel. ex-
ceeding twenty dollars: having given
the same notice to the opposite party
before such examination as provided for
in chapter one hundred and twenty-one
of the general statutes, and upon such
persons taking the following oath, IS.
You solemnly swear that You have not
any estate. real or personal, exceeding
twenty dollars, except your wearing ap.
parel and that you have not disposed Of
any of your property for the purpose Of
defrauding the complainant in the pro
ceedings on which you are committed
80 help you God"
Sec. 2. Upon the taking of sucl
oath the commissioners. of Jail deliver.
shall deliver to such person two certii
Gates. in substantially the forms provid
ed IN said chapter, and upon his deliv
ering to the keeper of such Jail one O
said certificates. and paying him hi
charges for board fees, such person shall
he discharged from imprisonment on tn
cause mentioned in the first section o
this act.
Sec. 8. The body of such person s
discharged from Imprisonment shall b
free from arrest or Imprisonment there
after on the same cause of action, bu
the judgment against him shall remai
in full force. and the plaintiff therei
may take execution against his propert
for the non-payment of any order o
orders of the court. or may sustain a.
action of debt thereon.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effec
from its passage.
Approved, November II, 1875.
No ll.-An act authorizing the keeE
ing of Jail register.
1t is hereby enacted, etc.:
Sec L. 1t shall be the duty of tn
sheriff to provide the Jail in his count
with bound book at the expense {
the State. suitable for convenient reg
, ister. and he shall cause to be entere
in such register the names of all prison
ers committed to the Jail under hi
charge. the place of their abode, tim
of their commitment. for what caus
and by what authority. and a particula
description of the person, giving age
e occupation if any. place of birth, height