The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-12-01
The Legislature.

MONTPELIER, W., NOV. 2y.Ine Gcn-
eral Assembly of tho State of Vermont
adjourned sine die at daybreak this
morning after an all nights sitting.
The session has been of the average
length of past biennial terms, this being
the tiity-sixth day since The Legislature
assembled at The capitsl.
The members and officers of the
Senate aud House signed the pay roll
yesterday with unanimity that was
very commendable; the new State
Treasurer, Hon. VIM. II. Du Bots hav-
ing scaled the amount due each one for
mileage GO cents a mile each way) and
the allowance per dicm(S3) in envel-
opcs for distribution by the Committee
on Debenturc. The total expenses of
the session have been about 100000.
The number OF bills that have been
introduced, and that have become laws,
as well as those that have failed Of
passage, is as follows: House bills in
Produced, 41S; Senate bills introduced,
248; total 666; Senate bills which have
become laws, LOG; House bills which
have become laws, 167; total number
of laws enacted, 273 Last session AIS
House and 225 Senate bills, or o total
of 700 bills were introduced. OF these
10l Senate and 1877 House bills became
laws. This year 363 bills introduced in
both houses were killed OF different
stages against AIS in 1880.
OF Senate bills that have became laws
20 are acts ofincorporation or amend
ments to existing corporate acts or
charters including acts incorporating
the Burlington Trust Company, the
Peoples Savings Bank and Trust Com.
pany of Worthwhile, the Washington
County Savings and Vermont
Mortgage Security Company, the
st. Adams Hospital, the Trenor w.
Park Home for Destitute Children
and Women, the International Com
pany of Newport, the Rutland
Street Railroad Company. Nine bills
relate to education, three to grave SUBJ
jects-the incorporation of cemetery
associations; six legalizing grand lists,
three are to pay Nil the sum there
in named; three are in amendment OF
the prohibitory liquor law; one seeks
to protect society from toy pistols and
public buildings by obstructing the
aisles with chairs; one is for the pre-.
vention of cruelty to animals and pro-
hibits turkey shoots, another bill is for
the protection of the game and fish
three relate to the militia, three to tax
alton, four to highways, three to penal
institutions, three to railroads, eighteen
acts relate to courts and legal pr oceed-
ings, and the balance are alleged for
the public good, including an impor.
tant public measure, entitled an act TO
enable the resident paw owners and
proprietors of the Union Meeting
House in Eden to dispose of the same.
AS there was no grave constitutional
question raised at the time of the right
OF the Legislature to grant the privilege
sought for, the bill passed without any
very exciting debate.
OF bills originating in the House
which have become laws, thirty are acts
OF incorporation or amendatory of pre-.
sent charters. Seven cemetery associa.
lions are incorporated. Ten laws re.
late TO taxation; thirty legalize town
grand lists; fifteen pay Mr.. - the
sums therein named; one commutes a
death sentence TO Imprisonment for
life; two attempt to regulate railroad
rates; four relate to the state militia
one is for the pro oction of muskrats
two for game and fish protection, and
several are intended to protect the
people from pedlers, dogs, hotcl
frauds and monopolies. Twenty-Five
acts seek to reduce TO science crimi
nal prosecutions, forms of procedure
in civil causes to regulate the terms o.
the Supreme and County Courts, anC
law. lakes are usscsseG mn, dGisdf
! county for new Court House, il
Chiltenden county for new Jail, anC
an appropriation is made of $4,000 fol
the Windsor State Prison improve
mcnts. also $1,000 for Alburgh ant
Isle La Motto Bridge. One bill seek
TO regulate the practice of dentistr!
r by constituting a State Board of Elk
aminers, two bill prescribe rates tina
telephone companies may string thei
wires OIL telegraph poles, another bill
f repeats the Connecticut "Blue law
prohibiting public dramatic entertain
nents, three bills are designed to fl,
up the highways made defectiv
through the working of the Judevin
law, three bills were passed to make th
prOhibitory liquor law more binding
and one measure grants boon to Mis-
Hemenway by contributing TO he
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