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

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 prlma
facie evidence of knowledge, Half Of the
penalty shall go 10 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 1882, relating TO commercial fertil-
izers.
1t is hereby enacted, etc:
SEC. /. Section one of number 10 OF the
acts of 1852, 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 a license from
the State treasurer, countersigned and re-
corded by the secretary of the board OF agrl-
culture for each brand OF fertilizer so sold or
offered for sale, authorizing the sale OF the
same in the State, and shall securely affiX 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 a 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. ?. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov. %, 1884,
No. 90.-An act to establish rule for the
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 ascertained by 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
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the bark in inches by half such diameter in
! inches, disregardipg fractions of an inch less
than ene-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
measure it OFT into as many sections, each
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 log
less than twelve feet long. The aggregate OF
the contents of the sections, will be the con-
tents of the whole log.
SEC. >. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov. &c. 1884.
No 91.-An act providing lien on animals
for pasturage, food and shelter
1t is hereby enacted. ETC.:
SEC. |. Persons having charges due them
for pasturlng, 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. o. 1884.
No. 92-An act relating to the settlement of
estates
1t is hereby enacted. etc.:
SEC l. 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 he
fore the time when such order of distribution
would naturally be made, the probate court
may appropriate sum from such estate Suffi-
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
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charge of the lien.
1t is hereby enacted etc:
SEC. /. No personal property sold con
ditionally, upon which there is reserved lien
duly recorded, shall be removed from the state
without the consent of the vendor or his
assignee.
SEC. 3 When the sum, for which the lien
upon personal property sold conditionally was
given, is paid and satisfied, the vendor or his
assignee shall discharge the same.
SEC. 3. Liens 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,
signee attorney acknowledging satisfaction
of the lien, or by an entry on the writing
creating the lien signed as aforesaid, ac>nOwl-
edging satisfaction duly recorded on the margin
of the record of the lien in the town clerk S
office, or by q release of the lien signed as
aforesaid and duly recorded in the town clerk 5
office.
SEC. t. 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 be
liable for damages 0ccasioned thereby to be
recovered in an action on the case.
SEC s. The vendor of personal property
sold conditonally with lien reserved thereon,
or his assignee may, after thirty days from the
time of condition broken, cause the property
on which the lien exists or so much thereof as
may be necessary to be taken and sold at public
auction by public officer at a 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 i'll 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
in such town at least ten days previous TO the
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 the
costs and expenses of keeping the property
and sale, and the balance if any shall be paid
to the vendee or the person holding under him.
on demand
SEC. z The officer selling the properly
shall make return of his doings in the same
manner as required in sale of property upon
a mort of T,erSona1 DroDarfv and his 70