News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-02
Work Of the Session---Importa
Bills Passed.

bridge from Grand Isle to North Hero.
froVlng for the payment of referees,
auditors and commissioners in probate
appeals.
Excluding minors and other persons
from court during the trial of causes OF
scandalous or obscene nature.
providing for the amendment of spec
lncatlons in liquor prosecutions.
furnishing executors, administrators
ana guardians guilty of embezzlement
with imprisonment not to exceed ten
years and fine not to exceed $1,000.
EXempting from taxation one watch
worth 500.
Authorizing the quartermaster general
TO provide new arms for the national
guard OF Vermont, and to sell or eX-
change old arms, etc.
Appropriating $4,000 for repairs on the
State Prison building.
Providing that in all divorce cases 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 e. A. r. and using the same to OBJ
tain assistance when not entitled to wear
1t, by 80 days imprisonment and $50 fine.
Incorporating the Burlington Cancer
Relief Association.
Incorporating the St. Adams Electric
Light and Power Co.
Imposing 500 fine for misrepresenta-
lions in application for marriage certiti-
Gates.
Constructing the words in the divorce
laws, sufficient pecuniary ability to pro-
vide suitable maintenance" to mean suf-
ficient ability, etc., whether derived
from the income of property, persons,
labor or any other source.
incorporating the Peoples Trust Com
pany, of St. Adams. >
Limiting the attachments In trustee
process to $40.
Providing that person convicted of
intoxication In Justice trial, who, after
taking appeal, pays the fine imposed, or
County Court, shall be compelled to
make disclosure.
Furnishing State, town, county and mu-
nicipal officers, receivers or trustees of
money guilty of embeZzlement.
Including telephone companies and the
companies upon which the State tax is
assessed.
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" as is now on "set-nets" in the fish
laws.
Placing bounty of 81 on foxes.
The oleomargarine bill, providing that
any person who knowingly sells, offers
for sale, as butter, any oleomargarine,
etc., not made exclusively from milk or
cream shall be fined $500. Hotels, res
taurants, boarding houses and the like
where oleomargarine, etc., is used or
furnished, shall post a placard in each
room where food is furnished, on which
is printed in plain Roman letters of not
less than two inches in length the words
'oleomargarine used here" or the keeper
of such place shall be deemed seller
and fined accordingly.
Authorizing the st. Johnsbury and
Lake Champlain railroad company to
build branch to connect with the South
eastern railroad.
Permitting savings banks, savings in =
situations or trust companies to deposit
on call in banks in this State, Boston,
New York or Chicago, sums not exceed
ing 20 per cent. of the assets of such in :
situations.
Providing for the biennial appointment
of State geologist and curator by the
Governor. .g
Declaring as nuisances unnecessary
fences exceeding six feet in height erect
ed for the purpose of annoying the own
ers of adjoining property, by Obstructing
their view or depriving them of light or
air.
Quieting the titles in lands conveyed
by collectors deeds which have been list
ed to the grantee for a-r-riod 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
sioners.
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 re-
quired by law to authorize the formation
of such corporations.
Incorporating the village of Bristol.
Incorporating the Hardwick and Marsh
field railroad company.
To raise the age of consent in females
to IA years.
Providing for the posting of check
lists 80 days before any town meeting,
and no alterations to be made i'm such
checklist after SO hours before the time
appointed for the meeting for which it is
to be used.
Providing for the construction Iof new
Jail buildings In the county of Chittenden.
Providing for the appointment by the
Governor of committee of three to
draft new educational bill so as to in
crease the efficiency and improve the
public schools in the State.
Appropriating $500 to erect a monu-
ment at the grave of the late Gen. J.
Stannard at Burlington. Vt.
Providing for 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 fine of $40 on school COM
mittees or sherlffs, who neglect, after a
demand made upon them to arrest tru-
ants.
Incorporating the Barre Water COM
pany.
Establishing State Agricultural ex-
pertinent station.
Furnishing wilful injury of electric light
poles, wires or fixtures with fne of
800.
Providing that the passenger in any
railroad train who refuses to pay his fare
or is disorderly or drunk, shall be elected
from the train only at regular stations
on the road.
Furnishing the fraudulent representa-
ton made in obtaining certificates of
registration, of cattle or other animals,
from breeders association, by fine of
$500.
Incorporating the village of Barre.
Providing for temperance instruction
in the public schools.
Providing for the furnishing by the
State of text books on the subject of
Empowering the Burlington Gaslight
Company to furnish electric light.
Providing that when any person is i'm
prisoned by reason of intoxication or
any act committed while intoxicated, the
wife or minor children of such person
may recover of the person who illegally
sold such liquor, two dollars per day for
all the time such person is confined.
Fixing the penalties for intoxication
at five dollars fine and costs for the first
ten dollars and costs for the sec
ond offence, and twenty dollars and costs
and one months Imprisonment for the
third offence.
Appropriating $4,000 for the support
of the soldiers home for the years 1887
and 1888.
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