The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-12-02
The Work of the recent Legislature.

To provide for railway commission.
Establishing state board of health.
Requiring states attorneys to repre-
sent the state in all divorce cases.
Giving teachers legal holidays with
out loss Of pay.
To distribute TO Grand Army posts
not already supplied copies of the State
Military History.
Adding telephone companies to the
list of corporations which pay taxes di-
rectly to the state.
Making the bounty for killing bears,
wolves and panthers $40 each, lynxes
50 and foxes soc.
Repeating part of section /, No. GO
of 1884, which DISTINGUISHED persons
convicted of felony or desertion from
army or navy.
TO punish in the house of correction
80 days or by fine of $40 person who
wears n badge of the Grand Army
without right, to aid him in soliciting
aims.
Compelling person who has been
found guilty of intoxication and has
appealed, but fails to enter the appeal,
to make disclosure before the justice.
To punish by two years imprison-
ment or a fine of $1,000 any public off,
cial or receiver of court who cmbez-
zles property.
Authorizing courts to exclude mi
nors, or other persons in their discre-
ton, from room when scandalous or
obscene cases are on trial.
Appropriating $4,000 to purchase and
adorn ground on the battlefield of
Gettysburg and $1,000 to erect there
monuments in commemoration of Ner-
mont's part in the battle.
Sublecting to fine of 800 person
who makes a meterial misrepresenta-
ton in an application for certificate
of marriage.
Authorizing the reissue of tax war
rants if any taxes therein remain un.
collected.
Limiting the value of 10 sheep ex.
empt from attachment to $40, and one
COW $40.
Authorizing the governor to appoint
three persons to draw a bill to revise
school laws so as to increas an efficien
cy of schools, and report to the nexi
Legislature.
Raising the age at which girl may
consent to her ruin to IA years, ane
Furnishing violation with consent be
fore that age or without it afterward
byimprisonment not exceeding 20 years
or fine not exceeding $4,000, or both.
Authorizing the governor and audi
tor of accounts to settle with the Uni
ted States the claims arising out of thu
defense by the state and the furnishing
of arms by the government subsequen
to the st. Adams raid in 1864, and t.
draw orders on the treasury for an,
balance found due from the state.
Subjecting to fine of $500 a person
who sells oleomargarine for butter, O
uses it for such if he keeps hotel o
boarding house, unless such persol
shall keep posted Oh the wall of hi
dining room a placard in black Roman
letters not less than three inches long
reading "Oleomargarine used herc.'
To amend the divorce laws SO tina
"pecuniary ability" to maintain wifi
shall mean whether the same is "deriv
ed from the income of property, per
sonal labor or any other source
Authorizing probate courts to save t.
widows and minor children, in thei
discretion $500 of insolvent estates.
Placing the same restrictions on use
lines" as is now placed on "set nets" il
the fish laws.
Judge Poland's "pauper BILL" which
abolishes the old idea of q pauper'
having a illegal settlement and charg
ing towns with the support of paupcr
when they have resided three years i,
such towns.
To raise the amount subject to thu
trustee process to $40.
TO establish an agricultural expert
ment station.
TO provide for scientific temperance
instruction in our common schools ant
to provide free text books therefor.