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nets set-nets iykes, or any other devise for en-
sharing or entrapping fish shall pay to the State q
fine of one hundred dollars aud the costs Of prose-
cution. Any person discovering any such net or
nets or devices for ensnariug fish, set or being
used In the waters hereinbefore described, on the
shores thereof contrary to the provisions of
chapter 40 of the Revised Laws, or any amend
ment thereof may seize and destroy the same.
Provided, however, that seine fishing shall be
allowed during the months ofOctober and Novem.
Der in each year, and fishing with hook and line
between the fifteenth day of June and the first
dny Of February next after, and nothing contained
in this section shall prohibit the capture OF min
ows for bait. ANY person who takes or catches
any black bass pike, wall eyed pike, shad or pond
pickerc from any of the waters, public or private,
of this State, or from the waters of Lake Cham
plain, or as any of said fish in his possession be-
tween the first day of February and the fifteenth
day of June in any year, shall pay to the State
fine of five dollars for each fish so caught taken
or possessed, with costs of prosecution.
SEC. s. Possession of any black bass, pike, wall
eyed pike or shad, by any person in this State
between the first day of February and the fifteenth
day OF June In any year, shall be presumptivc
evidence that the person so in possession or Gus
tody of the same, took caught such fish in
violation of the laws of the State, and that such
fish were caught or taken from the waters of this
State within the time above stated.
SEC. o. Between the first day of February and
the fifteenth day of June in any year, any fish
warden, may cause to be opened, or in case the
party having the custody or possession thereof
refuse, may himself open any parcel, chest, box,
trunk, barrel other receptacle found in any
wagon, cart, sled, car or other vehicle Of trans
portation, or on any wharf, railroad platform or
in any storehousc of any railroad, steamboat or
transportation company, or in any other place not
the dwelling house or immediate dependencies
thereof of the person party having possession,
control or authority of such parcel, chest, box,
trunk barrel or other receptacle, in which he has
reason to suspect that black bass, pike, wall eyed
pike or shad, caught in the waters of this State or
Lake Champlan contained, and may seize any
black bass pike wall eyed pike or shad by him so
discovered and if said fishwarden is satisfied that
the same were caught in any of the waters OF this
State or of Lake Champlain, in violation of law,
he may sell the same and pay the proceeds arising
from such sale to the county clerk of the county
in which such seizure is made, one.half to 20 to
the person making such seizure and sale, and one.
half to the State.
Approved Nov. 25, 1854.
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No. 76.-An act relating to traps.

1t is hereby enacted etc:
SEC. /. A person who sets a spring gun
trap, or trap whose operation is to discharge
a gun or firearm at an animal or person step
ping into such trap, shall be fined not less
than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars
and shall be further liable to a person suffer
ing damage to his own person or TO his dOmes-
tic animals by such traps, in civil action, for
twice the amount of such damage. If the
person injured dies, his personal representa-
tive may have the action, as provided in sec
lions 213S and 2139 of the Revised Laws.
SEC 2. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov. %, 1884.
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No. 9S.--An act providing for the attendance
of witnesses before the & rand Jury.
1t is hereby enacted, ETC.:
SEC. !. If person, legally summoned to
appear before the grand jury of any county
in this State, to give evidence of what he
knows in regard to all matters of complaint
pending and to be investigated before said
grand jury wilfully and wrongfully refuses to
attend and testify, he shall be fined not more
than one hundred dollars nor less than ten
dollars, or may be imprisoned not exceeding
six months, or be subject to both of said per-
alties, in the discretion of the court.
SEC. >. The subpoena for witnesses before
the grand jury may be in form substantially
as follows
STATE OF VERMONT,
- County, SIS.
To any Sheriff or Constable in the State Greeting:
BY the authority of the State Of Vermont, you are
hereby commanded to summon --- OF - to
appear before the Grand Jury of said county at the
court house in - on the - day of -, A D.,
-, at - O'Clock in the noon, to give evdenc e
OF what they know in regard to all matters of com
plant pending and 10 be investigated before said Grand
Jury.
And this neither OF them may omit, they shall
swer their default under the pains and penalty of the
law in that behalf made and provided
Hereof fail not and serve and return make accord
ing to law.
Dated at - in said county, this day of -
&c. H. Clerk, Justice OF the Peace, Notary Public Mas
ter in Chancery.)
Approved Nov. %, 1884.
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No. 74.-An act relating to bear traps.
Ii is hereby nnncted etc.

III is hereby enacted, eIC.
SEC. !. A person who sets or causes to be
set a bear trap, shall cause to be built and
maintained. three-fourthS around the same in
a substantial manner, a railing or guard not
less than three feet high, and shall protect
the entrance of such trap against domestic
animals by placing a pole horizontally at a
height of three feet from the ground across
the points between which it is designed that
the bear should enter such trap. A person
who violates the provisions of this section
shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor
more than thirty dollars
Seq. Justices of the county shall have
jurisdiction of offenses under this act.
Approved Nov. %, 1884
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shall be returned unsatisfied because no pro-
perty of the father or his sureties can be found
whereon to levy the same, the clerk of the
court from which such execution issued,
may, upon request of the mother, issue a
warrant to commit the father to Jail and the
father may. upon such warrant, be committed
TO the jail in the county where the judgment
was rendered unless he shall pay the sum due
upon such execution with the costs thereon
and the costs on such warrant, and such other
sums as are then due and payable by the
terms of the orders of the court in the pre-
misses, and also enters into anew recognizance
with sufficient ,sureties, before one of the
Judges of the county court, conditioned that
he will abide and perform the orders of the
court before made in the premises.
SEC. 2. If the father shall be committed to
jail under the provisions of this act, he shall
there remain until he pays the sums named
in the first section of this act, with the costs
of commitment, and enters into the recog-
nizance aforesaid, or until he is discharged by
the mother or by law. The recognzance so
taken shall be returned by the Judge to the
county court, and the mother shall be entitled
to the same remedies thereon that are pro
vided in section 2407 of Revised Laws
SEC. s. This act shall take effect from its
passage
Approved Nov. %, 1884.
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No 7S.-An act to repeal No. 116 of the laws
of 1882, entitled IAN act for the protection
of muskrats."
1t is hereby enacted, ETC.:
SEC. /. No. 1lG of the acts of 1889 is hereby
repealed
SEC. .. This act shall take effect from its
passage
Approved Nov. "a, A. ID. 1884.
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No 97.-An act in relief of sureties in bas
tardy proceedings.

tHruV proceedings.
1t is hereby enacted ETC.:
SEC. 1. When a person becomes recognized
before justice or Judge of the County Court
as surety for the personal appearance before
q County Court, of person charged with
being the father of a bastard child, as re-
CURED by sections 1898 and 1899 of the Re-
vised Laws, the officer making the arrest,
upon the original warrant, of the person so
charged with being the father of such bastard
child, if required, shall give such surety a
bail piece, if such recognizance is entered into
before justice; but if such recognizance is
entered into before judge of a County Court
the keeper of the Jail in the county where
such principal is confined shall, if required
give to the surety such bail piece
SEC; 2. Upon the presentation Of such bail
piece to justice, the justice shall issue to
or constable, commanding him to assist such
surety in apprehending the principal.
SEC. s. Inc surety may use such warrant
when he has occasion to arrest the principal
In order That he may surrender him in court
IN discharge OF his reccognzance, or to secure
him until session of the court in which he
may be surrendered for that purpose:
SEC. /. The officer apprelending the
principal upon the warrant issued on the bail
piece, may commit him to the Jail in the
county in which he was arrested on the orgi-
nal complaint, or in the county in which the
bastardy proceedings is pending; agreeably to
the direction of the warrant, and such com
mitment shall be considered Is a commitment
made under the provisions of section 1899 of
| the Revised Laws
SEC. g. The surety may deliver the principal
| into court in discharge of his recognizance
before the principal shall be adjudged to be
the father of such bastard child, and the order
of the court charging him with its support,
according to the provisions of section 2lO4 of
the Revised Laws, but not after such order
of court is made and he may at any time
before such adjudication and order commit
the principal to Jail so that he may be deliver
ed in court.
SEC. 6. When the principal is delivered
into court under the provisions of this act,
the court shall order him committed to Jail
unless he enters into recogniZance before
such court with sufficient sureties in the sum
fixed by the order of the justice conditioned
as provided in section 1898 of Re-
yised Laws. and such commitment shall be
deemed a commitment under the provisions
OF section 1893 of Revised Laws.
SEC. 7. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov. Z, a. ID. 1884.
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No. s4.-An act to prevent the communication
OF disease.

No. 4-An act to prevent the communication
of disease.
1t is hereby enacted, etc:
SEC |. A person who delivers to another per-
son or corporation Mt point within this State,
for transportation to point within or without
the state, the dead body of person, shall at the
time OF such delivery furnish to the person or TO
the receiving person of the corporation, to whom
it is delivered for such transportation certificate
signed by a physician legally qua lifted to prac-
tice medicine and surgery in this State, or a certi-
fcate signed by the attending physician if the
deceased died in another State or country, which
certificate shall accompany such dead body along
the route of such transportation, certifying that
the person whose body is so delivered for trans
portation did not die of small pox, diphtheria or
scarlatina But such certificate shall not be
required if the dead body is enclosed in metallic
casket Theoretically sealed.
SEC. =. person or corporation that transports
the dead body of person without having first
demanded and received the certificate required by
the provisions of this act shall be fined not more
thar three hundred dollars less than fifty dol
lars ; and person corporation delivering such
dead body for transportation, unless the same is
| accompanied by the certificate required by the
provisions of this act shall be fined not more than
two hundred dollars nor less than fifty dollars.
| SEC. 8. This act shall take effect from its pas
sage.
Approved Nov. 26, 1854.
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No. 77.-An act in amendment of chapter 40
of the Revised Laws, entitled, "Preserva-
ton of fish, game and birds"
1t is hereby enacted ETC..
The word sparrow in section 1896 of the
Revised Laws relating to the protection of
birds. shall not be construed to include Eng
fish sparrows. Said section is also hereby
amended by striking out the word Wood
pecker " from the list of birds protected.
SEC. .. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
ApproYed Nov. %. 1881.
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Approved Nov. %, 1884.
No, 99-An act in amendment of sections
$40. S77 and SIS, Revised Laws relating tC

No, 99.-An' act in amendment of sections
$40. ST. and S7S, Revised Laws, relating TO
attachments
1t is hereby enacted, ETC.:
SEC |. When any personal property is taken
upon writ OF attachment or execution, the
officer serving such process may lodge copy
of the same, with his return, in the town
is taken, or If taken in a gore or unOrganized
town, the copy shall be lodged in the county
clerks office of the county where such prop
erty is taken, which Judgment shall hold such
property against all subsequent sales, attach
ments or executions, as if such property had
been actually removed and taken into the
possession of such officer
SEC. .. The officer making attachment of
personal property, by lodging copy in town
or county clerks office, shall forthwith notify
the defendant of the attachment, personally
or by leaving written notice at the defend
ants last and usual place of abode in the
State, or by leaving such notice with the per-
son having the care of the property; and the
officer shall state in his return the manner of
giving such notice.
SEC,3. An officer, having attached personal
property. by lodging a copy i'll a town or
county clerks office, shall thereafter remove
the property so attached or take it into his
possession, whenever the care, safety or pres
ervation of such property so requires, or he
may accept receipt for the same, and in
either case he shall withdraw the copy from
the office where it was lodged, except in case
of mixed attachment of personal property
and realty, the attaching officer shall make
and cause to be recorded a certificate of the
facts, either that the personal property
attached has been taken into his possession,
or receipted, as the case may be-
SEC. L. Sections $40, S77 and S7S Revised
Laws, are hereby repealed.
Approved Nov. 20, 1884.
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No. S6.--An act in addition to section 370S of
the revised laws relating to weight of certain
grain and vegetables.
" is hereby enacted, ETC.:
SEQ /. A bushel of India wheat shall be
fofty-siX pounds.
SEC. .. This act shall take effect from its
passage
Approved Nov. T. A. d. 1884.
No. S7.-An act relating to weights and meas
ures
1T is hereby enacted, etc.
SEC /. person who knowingly uses for
the purpose of purchases or sales. or keeps
for public use weight, measure, scale, bal
ance or beam which does not conform to the
standard of weight or measures adopted by
this state, or who alters weight measure,
scale, balance or beam, after it has been
adjusted and sealed, SO that it does not con-
| form to the standard of weights and meas.
ures adopted by this State, and fraudulently
makes use thereof, shall be fined for eacl
offense fifty dollars, one-ifth to be paid to thu
complainant and four fifths to the city OF
town in which such person resides
SEC .. Justices of the county shall have
concurrent jurisdiction, with the County
Court of offenses under this act.
Approved Nov. T. A. d. 1884.
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No. SO An act TO prevent fraud in the sale
of oleomargarine and other substances as
butter
1t is hereby enacted etc.
SEC /. A person who knowingly sells or
offers for sale, as butter, any oeomargarine,
| butterine or article or substance resembling
butter, and not made exclusively from milk
| or cream, and of which the oil or fat of ami
mails, not produced from milk, is u component
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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 a 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 a sum from such estate sufli-
clent to defray the expenses of erecting such
grave-StOneS.
Approved Nov 26, 1884
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No. 79.-An act in amendment of sections
three thousand eight hundred and seventy
two and three thousand eight hundred and
ninety-seven of the Revised Laws.
1t is hereby enacted ETC.:
SEC. /. Section three thousand eight hun
bred and ninety-seven of the revised laws
shall be so amended as to read as follows:
spicuously posts on the same notice that
shooting trapping or fishing thereon is pro-
hibited, if person thereafter wilfully enters
upon such land without the permission of the
ing, trapping or fishing, the owner or occupant
may recover against such person in an action
of trespass for such entry a penalty of ten
dollars in addition to the damages sustained
thereby.
Approved Nov. o. 1884.
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Approved Nov. 20, 1884.
No 04.-An act to diminish the frequency OF
divorces.

No. 94--An act to diminish the frequency of
divorces.
1t is hereby enacted etc:
SEC. |. Libels for divorce, entered at any
| term of the County Court, shall be continued
as of course to the succeeding term.
SEC. 2. At the term succeeding the term at
which the cause is entered, or at any subse-
quent term to which the cause may be con-
/ tinued, the same shall not be heard unless the
| lihellee is present except in cases when II is
proven to the court that the libellant has, in
| good faith, attempted to procure tho attend
ance of the libellee and been unable to do so.
And in such cases the court may in its dis
erection, try the cause without the attendance
| of the libelee or continue the same, it, in its
opinion, the attendance of the ljbellee will be
secured at a future term, or it may require
the deposition of the libellee Upon the order
of the court, writ of capas may issue to
compel the attendance of the libellee.
SEC 3. This act shall not affect pending
petitions.
Approved Nov. PC, 1884.
No. An act in amendment of section
1851 of the Revised Laws.
IL is hereby enacted, etc.
SEC. /. Section 425l of the Revised Laws il
hereby amended so as to read as follows:
" person who keeps house OF Ill fame
resorted to for the purpose OF prostitution o.
lewdness, whether the same be occupied o.
frequented by one or more femalesl, shall o'
inn risoned not more than four years, or fine'
not more than three hundred dollars"
) Approved Nov. 25th, 1854.
No 93.-An act in addition to chapter 124 o
Revised Laws, relating to bastardy proceed
: ings.
( 1t is hereby enacted. etc:
/ SEC. /. If any execution issued under til
t provisions of section 2407 OF the Revised Law
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No 1O1-.An act providing punishment for tho
wrongful sale or concealmeht of persona
property on which there is lien.
1t is hereby enacted, etc:
SEC. /, Whoever, being in possession o
personal property, received upon q writer
conditional contract of sale, with liel
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nose and NAV also at any town meeting, the
Warming fer which contain an article for such
purpose, instruct the selectmen to have in.
scribed upon such monument the names OF
all persons who enlisted and entered the ser
and all natives of such town who entered the
United States service during such war.
Apnroyed Oct. %, 1854
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No. 100.-And act relating to the. consolidation
of actions and restricting costs.
1t is hereby enacted, etc.:
SEC. /. In all cases now pending or that
shall hereafter be brought TO the same county
court in favor of different creditors OF a
monied or other corporation against the di-
rectors thereof or some of them jointly, based
upon the provisions of the act OF incorpora-
tion or a statute to recover for any loss sus-
tanned by such creditors by reason of the in
competency, negligence or remssness of such
directors and where the same parties are de-
| PENDANTS in each case, said cases shall be con-
soidated by the court upon request of the
| defendants or upon request of such OF the
several plaintiffs as shall join in motion
therefor and proceed to find Judgment as one
case, and only one bill of costs shall be allow
ed to the successful party in court. The
| Judgment, if for the plaintiffs, shall show the
amount of damages awarded to each plaintin
and separate execution, shall issue thereon,
service and clerk fees in the other.
SEC. g If final Judgment is rendered for
| the defendants after consolidation as herein
provided,ltheir execution shall run against all
| the plaintiffs but as between themselves,
| they shall bear the costs in proportion 10 the
amount of their respective claims.
| SEC. B. Whenever in cases now pending,
or that shall hereafter be brought by several
plaintiffs against the same defendants, as pro
said cases are continued by the term without
the fault of either party, or to await the re-
suit of similar pleadings in case of the same
class, no costs shall be taxed in favor OF elthei
party at such term, except clerk fees.
SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from it,
passage.
Approved, Nov. %, 1884