St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-12-18

their judgment, the public good or conven
SEC. q This act shall take effect from it:
passage.
Approved Nov. &c, 1884.
| No. 23.-An act TO prevent the obstruction oil
| highways by telegraph and telephone wires
1t is hereby enacted, etc:
SEC. /. Persons or corporations erecting
telegraph or telephone wires across a highway
in a town, shall either place them under
ground or at such a distance above the sur
face of the highway that they may not prove
an obstruction to travel IN the highway. III
such wires already erected across highway
in town are, in the opinion OF the selectmen,
an obstruction, the selectmen may direct the
same to be placed under ground or at a greater
height.
SEC = If a wire is erected in violation of
! the directions of the selectmen, or is not
altered when directed to be altered by the
/ Selectmen, the seiectmcn may remove such
/ wire, and may recover the expense of such
removal OF the persons or corporation owning
such wire, or who by themselves or their
agent caused the same to be erected in viola
ton of the directions OF the Selectmen, by az
action brought in the name of the town.
SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov. "a, 1884.
! No 24-An act relating to cattle guards.
/ 1t is hereby enacted etc: ....-
SEC. l. No provisions of law relieving per
sons owning property dulOlnluB d highway
! from maintaining fences along the line of such
! highway, shall be held to relieve persons own
| ing or operating railroad from maintaining
| cattle guards at points where such railroad
| crosses highway at grade.
| SEC. ,. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov. &c, 1884.
No. 26.-An act in amendment of the Revised
Laws. relating to school taxes and school
money. .......... ...-.
| 1t is hereby enacted. etc:
! SEC. /. Section 657 of the Revised Laws is
so amended as to read follows: If in any
| year the income appropriated for the use OF
| schools in a town with any tax voted by the
town, after deducting One-half the income OF
the United States deposit money, amounts to
a less sum than twelve per cent of the grand
| list of the town, the Seleetmen shall draw
| their order on the town treasury on or before
the first day, of March, for such amount as
! such sum is less than such twelve per cent,
| for the use of schools in the town. But this
section should not apply to towns using the
| town system of schools.
SEC. .. Section 65S of Revised Laws is here
by amended so as to read as follows: If the
selectmen of 4 town do not draw an order as
provided in section one of this act, and
appropriate the amount of such order for the
support of schools as provided by law, the
town shall forfeit to the county sum equal
to double the amount which the selectmen
are required to draw an order for, to be
recovered by Information or indictment in the
County Court.
SEC. p Section $50 OF Revised Laws is here
by amended so as to read as follows: Grand
juries shall annually inquire whether towns
IN their counties have appropriated and eX-
pended the sum required for the support OF
schools as required in this act, and in case OF
neglect they shall present. their Indictment
therereof to the court.
Approved Nov. o. 1884.
No. 27-An act relating to the town system
of schools.
1t is hereby enacted, etc:
SEC. l. Each town III which the school dis
trict system exists, shall, at the annual meet
| ing of the town, in the years 1888 and 1856,
vote upon the question OF abolshlng the dis
trict system and adopting the town system.
SEC. 9. The vote prescribed i'll the proceed
ing section shall be taken previous to the
election of town superintendent and shall be
by ballot: the question to be voted upon shall
be announced by the moderator of the meet
ing, who shall give opportunity Tor discussion
of the same, upon conclusion OF which he
shall require all who favor abolshlng the dis
trict system and adopting the town system to
write upon their ballots the word, s. Y es, and
all who oppose the same to write on their bal
lots the word g No. and upon being deposited
in the usual manner OF voting by ballot, the
ballots shall be counted and the result of the
vote, certified to by the clerk OF the town,
shall be sent to the office of the Secretary OF
State, and shall be for the use and inforIna-
ton of the State superintendent OF education.
SEC g. The Secretary of State shall season
ably notify the Selectmen of the several towns
retaining the districtsysteIn, to insert an artl-
Gle in the warrant for the annual meeting, Tor
the purpose specified in the preceding sections,
and the selectmen, who, when so required,
neglect to insert such article in the warrant,
shall forfeit twenty dollars.
SEC 4. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov. &c, 1884.
No. 28.-An act relating to the division of the
public school moneys.
1t isIhereby enacted, etc:
SEC / Section 663 of the Revised Laws,
and act No. 81 OF the acts OF 1882, relating TO
the distribution of school moneys, are SO tar
amended as to require school to be kept III a
district at least twenty-four weeks in each
year TO entitle the district TO share IN the
public moneys. This act shall not be con-
strued to alter any of the provisions OF SAID
section 6G3, or said act No. q, except the pro
visions as to the number of weeks Of school
in each year. Provided, however, no district
which has raised by taxation and expended
for the purpose of sustaining school in said
district seventy-five per cent of its grand list
in the preceding year, shall be deprived of its
share of the public money, if 1t has sustained
a school of twenty weeks during such year.
SEC. .. This act shall take effect April i,
1885.
Approved Nov. %, 1884.
No. Gan act relating to the division of
the public moneys in certain towns using
the town system.
Is
SEC. /. In town which has adopted or
hereafter adopts the town system and which
contains graded school district incorporated
by act of the Legislature, the public moneys
shall be divided annually at the time pre-
scribed in section 661 of the Revised Laws:
4 part shall be appropriated to such graded
| school district, and part shall be applied for
the benefit of the schools supported by the
! town; and the division shall be according to
| the aggregate attendance of scholars between
| the ages of five and twenty years.
| Approved Nov %, 1884.
| No 30-Au act in addition to section sos of
Revised Laws and in addition to chapter 80
of Revised Laws.
1t is hereby enacted, ETC.:
SEC. l. Any town that has adopted or that
may hereafter adopt the town system, may,
by vote, at any annual town meeting, set any
person or persons in the town to school dis
trict in an adjoining town or to graded
school district in said town not included in
the town system, if such district shall, by
vote, consent to receive them; and persons
so united to school district shall have the
same rights and be subject to the same llabll-
tiles as the other inhabitants of the district,
and as to taxation for school purposes shall
be treated as belonging to said district.
Approved Nov. pc, 1884.
No. 31.-An act to prevent the decentralization