The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1890-12-12

Section I. All steam engines and boilers,
except railway and steamboat, kept Or used in
this state for the purpose OF supplying power,
shall for the purposes OF taxation be deemed
to be real estate
Sec. 2, This act shall take effect from Its
Approved November 20, 1880.
No. 16--AN Acr to amend sections two hun
bred seventy three and two hundred seventy
four revised laws In regard TO exempting
manufacturing property.
1t is hereby enacted by the general assembly
Of the State Of Vermont:
Section |. That section two hundred seventy
three and two hundred seventy be amend
ed by striking out section two hundred seventy
four and inserting the following: II majority
Of the legal voters, ing in any city or town
meeting legally warned, 30 elect, they may ex
empt from taxation individuals, companies
and corporations cont emplated in and as stlp,i-
lated in section two t ndred seventy-threeO OF tht
revised laws, for a I'm not exceeding ten years
Approved November IL, 1880.
No. 17.--AN ACT relating to the repair OF
highways and bridges.
1t is hereby enacted by the general assembly
Of the State Of Vermont:
Section l.. For keeping in repair highway.
and bridges the selechmen of each town shall
annually, within ten days after the completion
Of the annual grand list, assess tax OF not less
than fifteen cents on the dollar OF the grand
list Of such town, to be collected in money, at
such time and in such manner as the town at
its annual meeting shall vote. Ii, however,
the town votes to have such tax paid in labor i
shall be not less than twenty cents on the dol
lar of the grand list; but any taxpayer shall
have the right to pay his said tax in money and
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Sec. 2. An act entitled IAN act in amend
ment Of section one of number twelve OF the
acts of 1884" entitled IAN act relating to the
repairing of highways and bridges approved
November 10. 1885, is hereby repealed.
Secs When town votes to raise a high
way tax in labor the selectmen shall divide the
town into number of highway districts con-
venient for repairing highways, and may from
time to time alter the same; and each surveyor
of his district shall superintend the expendi-
ture Of the tax, and take care Of, and keep. in
repair at all times the highways in his district.
Sec. 4. In ordinary cases taxes OF residents
shall be put into the tax-bill, and expended in
the districts where they reside, and the taxes
erty is located; but the selectmen may, If the
public good requires it, put the whole or part
of the tax of resident or nonresident, in an
other tax-bill to be expended in any other dis
trict OF the town.
Sec. 8. Sections from and including section
three thousand ffty-two to and including sec
tiOns three thousand eighty-one Of the revised
laws of Vermont are hereby re-enacted, except
that section three thousand fifty seven is amend
I'd SO that the several towns at their annual
meeting may vote to allow good hand at the
ate of more than twelve and one-half cents for
each hour, but not to exceed the rate of fifteen
snts for each hour.
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annual town meeting for its approval, candi-
ates for Surveyors of highways when labor
tax is voted; and the surveyors elected at such
meetings shall hold office for one year from
the 10th day of May succeeding their election.
Sec: Z. All acts or parts of acts inccnsist-
ent with this act are hereby. repealed.
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect from the
first Monday of March, 1891.
Approved November %, 1890.
No. 1S.-AN ACT in amendment of and addi-
ton to section two thousand nine hundred
forty-five of the revised laws, relating to
highways.
1t is hereby enacted by the general assembly
Section l. Section two thousand nine kun
bred forty-fve of the revised laws is hereby
amended by adding thereto the following:
And it shall be sufficient cause for the
county court in its discretion to deny the APP
pointment of commissioners and dismiss the
petition when, within five years from the time
said petition was brought, two prior petitions
had been brought asking for the laying of
highway over substantially the same location.
Or portion thereof, and commissioners had
been appointed thereon whose reports in each
case adverse to the laying Of said highway had
been accepted by the court.
Sec 2 This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved November II, 1880.
No. 19.-AN Act empowering certain towns
to appropriate money for the construction
and maintenance of sidewalks.
It is hereby enacted by the general assembly
Of the state Of Vermont:
Section !. Towns may, at an annual meet
ing, or at a meeting warned Tor that purpose,
appropriate portion of the highway fund of
such town, not to exceed ten per cent. of the
total amount OF such fund, to be expended in
constructing and maintaining sidewalks within
such towns.
Sec. 2. All moneys appropriated under sec
ton one Of this act shall be expended by the
selectmen OF such towns, in constructing and
maintaining sidewalks within the town
wherever the public good requires.
Sec. g. No action shall be taken by any
town in town meeting under the provisions Of
this act, unless notice of such action is con-
tanned in the warning Of such meeting.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved November 26, 1890.
No. 2O.-AN Act relating to the support Of
insane persons.
1t is hereby enacted by the general assembly
of the State of Vermont:
Section /. Whenever any insane person,
now or hereafter supported at the expense of
the State, in any asylum for the insane in this
State, had, at the time of commitment to such
asylum, or after his or her commitment, shall
have, own or possess any estate, real or person.
al, or any pension or annuity, the same shall be
appropriated towards the support of such in
sane person in such asylum.
Sec. 2. 1t shall be the duty of the probate
court upon the hearing of any cause instituted
before it, for the purpose of determining
whether person shall be committed to an in
sane asylum, to find and, in its order made for
the removal OF an insane person to an asylum,
to state the amount OF property owned by such
insane person and the amount of any pension
or annuity payable to such insane person.
Sec. 3. Whenever an insane person during
his or her CONTINENT in an insane asylum at
the expense OF the State, becomes the owner of
any property, pension or annuity, the probate
court shall, on application of a person interest
ed, and ON notice to persons interested, ascer-
tam the amount thereof and certify the same
to the superintendent of the asylum where sach
insane person is confined, and in case such IN
sane person is not resident Of this State, the
probate court, in the probate district where
such asylum is located, shall have jurisdiction
for the purposes of this act.
Sec. 4. 1t shall be the duty Of a guardian of
any insane person, confined in an asylum at the
expense Of the State, to contribute, out of such
insane persons estate toward his support in
such asylum, such sum as the probate court
may direct. Nothing in this act shall take
from the guardian Of such insane person the
right to agree with the superintendent Of an
asylum upon the amount such guardian shall
contribute towards the support Of such insane
person, but if they can not agree, the probate
court shall determine the same, and the time
Of payment thereof.
Sec. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsist-
ent with the provisions Of this act are hereby
repealed, but this. shall not repeal the provis-
IONS of act number eighty-nine of the acts Of
1888.
See. g. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved November %, 1880.
No. PLAN AcT relating to the commitment
Of inmates Of the soldiers home to the insane
asylum.
1t is hereby enacted by the general assembly
# the State Of Vermont:
Section 1. Whenever any inmate of the Yer
mont soldiers home at Bennington shall, in the