Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-12-03
THE WORK OF THE SESSION.
The Important Bills Passed, Killed and
Vetoed.

PASSED.
Judge polaud's bill repeating the law
depriving persons guilty of desertion and
persons convicted of felony of the right to
vote.
Authorizing the construction of Il bridge
from Grand Isle TO North Hero.
Providing for the payment of referees,
auditors and commissioners in probate
appeals
! Excluding minors and other persons
from court during the trial of causes Of
a scaudalous or obscene nature.
Providing for the amendment Of specih
cations in liquor prosecutions.
! Furnishing executors, administrators
and guardians guilty of enlightenment
with Imprisonment not to exceed 10 years
and fine not to exceed $1,000.
EXemptIng from taxation one watch
worth $50.
Authorizing the quartermaSter general
| to provide new arms for The national
guard Of Vermont. and to sell or exchange
old arms, etc.
Appropratine $4,000 for repairs on the
state prison building
! Providing that H. divorce eases the
States attorney shall appear in behalf Of
| the state and introduce evidence on the
/ part of the state.
/ Furnishing persons wearing the badge Of
| the &. y. X. aud using the same to obtain
assistance when not entitled to wear it, by
/ 80 days Imprisonment and $50 fine.
Incorporating the Burlington Cancer
/ Relief association.
Incorporating the St Adams Electric
/ Light and Power company
Imposing 100 fine for misrepresentation
/ in application for marriage certificates.
/ Constituting the words in the divorce
| "A
vide suitable maintenance" to mean sutli-
/ cient ability, etc, whether derived from
the income of property, persons, labor or
any other source
Incorporating the Peoples Trust com
pany OF st. Albaus
| Limiting the attachments in trustee pro
! CeSstU $40
Providing that person convicted of in
/ tONcatiOn in a Justice trial who after tax
ing appeal pays the fine imposed or other
wise fails to enter his appeal in the COun-
/ ty Court shall he compelled to make dis
closure.
Giving to the town of North Hero the
( uueNpcnded balance not heretofore paid
of the 81, GOO appropriated in 1854 for the
bridge from North Hero to Alburgh.
Incorporating Rogers and Hazard Re
liet society.
/ Appropriatlng $4,000 for the purchase of
lands and the erection of monuments at
/ Gettysburg.
/ Punis ine State, town, county and
municipal officers, receivers or trustees of
/ money guilty of cmbeZ2lement.
including telephone companies and the
companies upon which the State tax is
! assessed.
| Incorporating the American Commercial
company.
Allowing the fish wardens to prosecute
violations of the fish laws with the same
power and fees as town grand jurors.
Placing the same restrictions on "Set-
lines W as IS now on ''set-nets" IN the fish
laws
Placing bounty of 81 on foxes.
Mr.. Tinkham's oleomargarne bill, pro-
vding that any person who knowingly
sells, offers Tor sale AS butter any Oeomar-
garlne, etc, not made exclusively from
milk or cream shall be fined $500 Hotels,
| restaurants, boarding houses and the like
where oleomargarine, etc, is used or fur
| nlshed shall post Il placard in each room
where food is furnished on which Is print
ed in plain roman letters of not less than
two inches in length the words "Oeomar-
garne used here or the keeper of such
place snail be deemed Il seller and fined
| accordingly.
Authorizing the st. Johnsbury and Lake
| Champain railroad company to build Il
| branch to connect with the Southeastern
railroad.
Permitting savings banks, savings in
sttutiOnS or trust companies to deposit on
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York or Chicago, sums not exceeding 20
| per cent. of the assets af such institutions
Providing for the biennial appoint
ment OF State geologist and curator by
| the Governor
Declaring as nusances unnecessary
! fences exceeding six feet in height erect
ed Tor the purpose of annoying the own
! ers OIL adjoining property by ObStructiug
thelr view or deprlvng then of light or
! air.
Quetiug the titles in lands conveyed by
| collectors deed which have been listed to
the grantee for a period of 20 years or
more.
Incorporating the town of Proctor
Incorporating the town Of West Rut-
| land
Incorporating the village of Enosburgh
Falls.
Altering the boundaries of Windsor
Creating board of railroad commits
sOners.
Relieving teachers in public schools
from services on legal holidays without
deduction of pay.
Authorizing stockholders of private
corporations to reduce the capital stock To
any sum not below the amount required
by law to authorize the formation of such
| COrpOrtiOnS.
Incorporating the village of Bristol
incorporating the Hardwicl and Marsh
field Railroad company.
| TO raise the age of consent in females to
IA years.
Providing for the posting of check lists
30 days before any town meeting and no
alterations to be made in such check list
after 36 hours before the time appointed
for the meeting for which it is to he used.
Providing for the construction of new
jail buildings in the county of Chittenden.
Providing for the appointment by the
governor of committee of three to draft
II new educational bill so as to increase
the efficiency and improve the public
schools in the State.
Appropriatlng.S5OO to erect a monument
at the grave of the late Gen. George J.
Stannard at Burlington, Vt.
Providing tor the enlistment of an ad-
ditional company of infantry in the State
militia
Empowering towns having the town
system Of schools to abolish the same by
a majority of votes of the legal voters of
such town.
Imposing IA fine of $50 ON school commit
tees or sheritfs who neglect, after n de-
mand made upon them to arrest truants.