The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-10

part shall, for each such offence be fined five
| hundred dollars; and on trial for such offence
proof of the sale or offer for sale shall be prima
| facie evidence of knowledge. Half of the
| penalty shall 90 to the complainant.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov. 25 1884
No. S9.-An act to amend number 119 Of the
acts of 1889, relating to commercial fertil-
izers.
1t is hereby enacted, etc:
SEC. 1. Section one of number 119 of the
acts of 1889, is hereby amended so as to read
as follows: Manufacturers and importers of
commercial fertilizers sold or offered for sale
| in this state, shall. before such fertilizer is
sold or offered for sale, obtain license from
the State treasurer, countersigned and re-
| corded by the secretary of the board of agri-
culture for each brand of fertilizer so sold or
offered for sale, authorizing the sale of the
same in the State, and shall securely afiix to
each barrel, bag or other package of such
fertilizer, the word licensed" with the num-
| Der and date of the license. The person OBJ
tanning such license for q brand of fertilizer
| shall pay to the state fifty dollars for each
brand licensed, and the licenses shall expire
on the thirty-first day of December of the
| year for which they are issued.
| SEC. q This act shall take effect from its
| passage.
Approved Nov. %, 1884.
|
measuring of saw logs and round timber.
| 1t is hereby enacted etc;
SEC. 1. In all bargains for or sales of
saw logs or. round timber by measure, the
| number of feet, unless otherwise stipulated
! by the parties, shall be ascertainedby the rule
contained in the following section.
SEC. 2. To ascertain the contents of a saw
log or stick of round timber, first multiply the
average diameter of the top of the log inside
| the bark, in inches by half such diameter in
inches, disregarding fractions of an inch less
than one-half, and regarding fractions larger
than one-half as a full inch, and the number
obtained as the product will represent the
contents in feet of a log of that diameter
twelve feet long. Then if the log is less than
twelve feet long the actual contents of the
! log will be the same fraction of the above
product that the actual length of the log is of
! twelve feet. If the log is more than twelve
| feet long, commence at the upper end and
twelve feet long, as the log will contain, then
! find according to the rule given above, the
contents of each twelve feet section by multi
plying the diameter of the top of the section
| by half its diameter, and find the contents of
the fractional section at the lower end Of the
! log does not divide evenly in the manner pro-
vided above for finding the contents of a log
less than twelve feet long. The aggregate of
| the contents OF the sections, will be the con-
| tents of the whole log.
SEC. B. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov. 26, 1884.
No. 01.-An act providing lien on animals
for pastuage, food and shelter
1t is hereby enacted ETC..
SEC. l. Persons having charges due them
! for pasturng, boarding or keeping horses or
other domestic animals, brought to their
premises or placed, with the consent of the
owner thereof, in the care of such persons,
may, If the charges become due while such
ANIMALS remain in their possession, retain the
possession of such animals until such charges
are paid
Approved Nov. %, 1884.
No. 92-An act relating to the settlement of
| estates.
1t is hereby enacted, ETC.:
SEC. 1. The Probate court may decline to
make an order for the distribution of sol
vent estate among the heirs, devisees and lega-
| tees, until, in the opinion of the Probate
| court. suitable grave-Stones are erected to the
memory of the deceased at his place of burial,
if buried within this State. And if such suit
able grave-stones have not been erected be-
fore the time when such order of distribution
would naturally be made, the probate court
may appropriate sum from such estate sufli-
cient to defray the expenses of erecting such
Approved Nov %, 1884
No 93-An act relating to the removal and
sale of personal property sold conditionally
with lien reserved thereon and to the dis
! charge of the lien.
1t is hereby enacted, etc:
SEC. /. No personal property sold con
ditionally, upon which there is reserved lier
duly recorded, shall be removed from the state
without the consent of the vendor or his
assignee.
SEC. 2 When the sum- for which the lier
upon personal property sold conditionally was
given, is paid and satisfied, the vendor or his
assignee shall discharge the same
SEC. 3. Liens on personal property sold
conditionally may be discharged by an entry
on the margin of the record thereof, in the
town clerks office where recorded, signed by
the vendor, his executor, administrator as
signee or attorney acknowledging satisfaction
of the lien, or by an entry on the writing
creating the lien signed as aforesaid, acknowl
edging satisfaction duly recorded on the margin
of the record of the lien in the town clerks
office, or by release of the lien signed as
aforesaid and duly recorded in the town clerks
Office.
SEC. 4. If the vendor or his executor, ad
ministratOr or assignee after performance OF
the condition before or after breach thereof
shall not, after ten days after being thereto re-
quested and after tender of reasonable charges
discharge such lien in one of the ways pro
vided in the foregoing section. he shall b,
liable for damages occasioned thereby to be
recovered in an action on the case
SEC. 5. The vendor of personal property
Solu coHululOHdlly WltH zen TtStrNtu thereon
or his assignee may, after thirty days from the
time of condition broken, cause the property
on which the lien exists much thereof as
may be necessary, to be taken and sold at public
auction by public officer at public place in
the town where the person giving the lien
resides or where the property is, notice of the
time, place and purpose of such sale being
posted at two or more public places in such
town, at least ten day prior thereto; notice OF
such sale shall also be given to the vendee OF
the time and place of sale, in writing, delivered
to him or left at his abode, if living within
the town, or sent by mail if he does not reside
SALE and if the property is not redeemed by
the payment of the amount due and costs and
expenses incurred by such breach of condition
the property shall be sold as posted,
SEC. 6. The proceeds of such sale shall be
applied to the payment of the lien and tn,
costs and expenses of keeping the property
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