Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-12-19

No. 126.-An act authorizing the payment of
counsel employed by town grand jurors in
criminal cases.
1t is hereby enacted, ETC.:
SEC. /. In the examination of person
before justice charged with crime exceed
ing the jurisdiction of justice to try and
determine, commenced upon the complaint of
a town grand juror or village informing
officer, and in the trial of person before a
justice upon the complaint of a town grand
juror or village informing officer, charging
him with crime within the jurisdiction of a
justice to try and determine where the fine is
paid to the treasury of the State. When the
states attorney is disqualified to act or when
the states attorney from sickness, absence or
other cause cannot be reasonably procured to
assist in such examination or trial, such
grand juror or village informing officer may
employ counsel at the expense of the State
and the counsel so employed shall be allowed
reasonable compensation for his services and
expenses by the auditor of accounts, who
shall draw an order on the State Treasurer
for the amount allowed by him to the counsel.
SEC 2. No compensation shall be allowed
counsel lin any case, where it appears to the
auditor that the prosecution was supertlous
and instituted to enhance costs, nor in the
trial of person upon complaint for intoXi-
cation, nor in the trial of person for any
other otfense against Chapter 1863, of the
Revised Laws except where the respondent
pleads not guilty.
SEC. 8. This act shall take effect from it's
passage.
Approved Nov. 10, A. D. 1884.
No. 127.-An act relating to disclosure in
liquor cases by persons convicted of the
crime of intoxication and in addition to
Chapter 1859 of the Revised Laws.
1t is hereby enacted, etc.:
SEC. l. When person is convicted of the
| crime of intoXication or of being found intox-
iicated, heshal. be apprehended and detained
such crime and he shall, on oath, before such
court at the time of such conviction or as
soon thereafter as may be, disclose the place
where and the person of whom the liquor so
producing intoXication was obtained and the
circumstances attending it; and if he does not
disclose, he may be committed by the court
to the jail of the county, at the expense of
the State until he SO discloses or by such
court is discharged. If the court adjudges
| from the evidence that the sale, furnishing
or giving away of said liquor was an offense
against Chapter 1863 of the Revised Laws, said
court shall forthwith issue a warrant and
cause the person so selling, furnishing or
| giving away said liquor to be brought forth
with before such court and the grand juror,
informing officer or city attorney of the town,
village or city or the states attorney of the
county shall appear and prosecute said cause
in the same manner as if he had been COM
plainant in the same; and such grand juror,
informing officer, city or states attorney shall
attend at the taking of such disclosure, on
notice given as provided in Sec. 1916 of the
Revised Laws.
SEC. 2. If the person convicted in such
prosecution upon disclosure has been one or
more times convicted of similar offence, he
shall be sentenced as provided in Section 3S17
of the Revised Laws.
| Approved Nov. 10th, A. ID. 1884.
No. 128.-An act relatingto United States pris-
oners confined in the House of Correction.
1t is hereby enacted, ETC.:
! SEC. l. Whenever any criminal convicted
of any offense against the United States, is
imprisoned in any of the common jails in the
several counties, the jail in the city of Yer
gennes or the House of Correction in Rutland
in the county of Rutland, such criminal shall
in all respects be subject to the same disci-
pline and treatment as convicts sentenced
under the authority of this State and while
SO confined therein shall be exclusively under
the control of the officers having charge of
the same, under the laws of this State.
SEC 2. This act shall take effect from it's
passage.
Approved Nov. 26, 1884.
No. 1919, An act giving the county court
power to refer certain causes without the
| agreement of the parties