The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

beyond the city limits and extended
along the lines of railroads and public
avenues leading out of the city to great
distances. II is hoped the work win
not stop, but that the christians there
will keep il right along and reap the
proper fruits of their labors in the in
gathering of many souls.
IL 1t would seem by the number of
bills introduced in Congress that our
national Legislators are laying out work
enough for n continuous session through
the year. On Monday il was said that
more than $50 bills were introduced in
the House. They in large proportion
related to the financial interests of the
country, such as TO repeal the resnmp-
ton act, establish uniform rate of in
terest, making import duties payable in
legal tender notes, abolishing the ten
per cent. tax on the circulation Of state
banks, to issue national savings bonds,
making silver legal tender, to simplify
the laws imposing and collecting inn
posts. to restore duties OH tea and cof-
fee, enlarge the free list, funding the
Notwithstanding debt, repeating the
bankruptcy act, &c. On other subjects
bills were introduced, to remove polit-
cal disabilities, to govern presidential
alanfinno 10 aha1,cl, fho i,.Ap al aot1,
to refund direct taxes collected in the
insurrcctionary states, providing for the
appointment of commission to look af-
ter the interests of citizens of the United
States making exhibitions at the Paris
Exposition, to establish department of
commerce, TO improve the navigation of
the Mississippi. for mail steamship Scr
vice TO Brazil, TO transfer the conduct
of Indian affairs TO the war department,
to equip an arctic exploring expedition,
appropriating 100000 to deepen the
Missouri river, prohibiting the Chinese
immigration. for the admission of Utah
and Dakota as states, &c. Having put
their grists into the hopper the members
will now rest easy and vote for adjourn
ments to attend horse races, to go home
to eat Thanksgiving turkey, and any
other excuse for leaving the public SER
vice for private purposes. The appoint
mcnt of committees does not, of course,
suit everybody, and perhaps not any
body except the favored Southern Dem
ocrats who have been placed At the head
of the committees on which they are
called to serve.
~ Last August, the Vermont su-
premc court were called 10 consider
the petition Of the Central Vermont
Railroad Company, for permission 10
sell the Vermont Central and Vermont
and Canada Railroads and the hearing
was at St. Adams. The question arose
on Il pro .to,m0 decision OF Chancellor
Royce denying the petition last April.
AT the general term Of the supreme
court at Montpelier, last Tuesday eve
ming, tho decision Of the court was rem
dered by Judge Barrett. It is an i'm
portant one, exhaustive and conclusive.
We can give only an intimaiion of the
principal points and the result. The
judge began by saving that the opinion
was concurrcd in by all the Judges in
the case. The case has been pending
since January, 1861. 1t now comes up
on appeal from pro to,mo decision of
the chancellor, and this is the first time
it was ever in this court. or before any
judge of the court, except as chancellor.
The petition of the Central Vermont
Railroad Company TO sell both roads
and equipments to liquidatc the debts
accruing under the receivers petition
is brought upon the assumption that the
Central Vermont managers are receiv-
ers of both roads in succession. rhe
question is whether, upon the law and
the evidence, the petition should be al
lowed or dismissed. a long and OK
haustive statement of the case followed,
and review of the former schemes of
each company and the numerous infer
locutory DEGREES of the different chan
cellors. In summing up the long de-
cision as given by the court, they have
decided to deny the prayer of the petit
TONERS for the sale of the Vermont
Central and Vermont and Canada rail-
roads, on the ground that no power
rests in the court to order such sale in
the present form of application. The
court also decided that the decree of
1864 changed the character of the re-
ccivership from that appointed by Inc
court under the decree of 1861 to q re-
ceivcrship constituted under an agree
ment of all parties, and whatever has
been done by the various DEGREES of the
court since that date has been done
with the consent and appreciation of
the parties themselves, and that all the
parties were in subsection TO il. The
full text of the decision will be made
public at an early day, the court retain
ing the original manuscript Of the de-
csion.
A REcENERsHIP.-Quite a furry was
occasioned last week along the line bv
the announcement that the Portland 4
Ogdensbnrg railroad had gone into the
hands of receivers. The fact that occa-
stoned the furry is as follows: On
Thursday last, on the petition of the
preferred mortgage bondholders, Judge
Ross, of st. ,Iohnsbury. appointed Col.
A. b. jcwett and A. W. Hastings re-
ceivers of the Vermont Division of the
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