The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-12-02
TROY, ~, Y.

A bill to establish State Board of
Pharmacy passed the Senate but was
killed IN the House. 1t is the same law
as Is in force in other States. but it is
likely the House thought it might inter
fero with the sale of medicine in some
country store aud so sat down on it.
Among the bills that became laws in
the last days were those providing for an
encampment of the State militia Mt Chi
cagO next year; providing free text books
in schools; relating to fees of town
clerks; the fish and game bill codifying
the law on the subject: that relating to
the taxation of telegraph companies
one of Mr.. Martins good ffeas,-impos-
ing tax of sixty cents per mile of poles
and one line of wire and forty cents per
mile for each additional wire, or in lieu
thereof if the companies prefer q gross
earnings tax of three per cent; to pay
constables for conducting freemen's
meeting; to incorporate the Masonic
Temple Association; limiting the term
of imprisonment in liquor cases to three
years; relating to special prosecutors;
relating to real and personal estates of
married women; providing for revision
OF the laws; exemption from poll tax of
certain honorable discharged soldiers;
to prevent fraud in sale OF lard; relating
to unknown deposits in savings banks:
relating to exemptions from arrest in ac-
tlOnS founded on contract; increasing
the salary of the Inspector of Finance to
81 900; remitting part of O'Neils fne
in famous liquor case.
The State Superintendent elect, Mason
S. Stone, was born in Westfield in 1860;
is graduate of U. V. NJ. 'S3; he has
been principal of the academies at Willis
ton, Bolton and Morrisville; supervisor
in Orleans county under the law of 1898;
for the past two years he has been super
intendent of school at East Hampton,
Mass, but has retained his residence In
his native town.
The "paying Off is thus described:
The per diem of the members this year
of course amounts to $3.50 each, and
mileage averages about SlS more. The
smallest mileage is twenty cents for the
Montpelier member, and the largest S44
for the member from ReadsborO. The
pay of members and of the bulk of Off
GERS and employees amounted to $47,-
676.40. With expenses paid by the ser
geant-at-arms the total cost of the forty
nine days session will be just about $50,-
900. All hands were paid in currency, in
the old-fashioned, clumsy way, and
Treasurer Field went to the First Nation
al bank and put the money into envelopes
in the regular pay-enyelope fashion. The
envelopes were big, white ones, however,
and each was indOrsed with the name Of
the member, his town and the amount.
Mr.. Field gave these envelopes to the
House committee on mileage and debent-
ures, each man taking those for his own
county, and they were distributed among
the owners Immediately after dinner.
After the money was passed out the cor
ridors seemed pervaded with a pleased
smile. And then as the members got
around to their respective temporary
abOdes the smile extended to hotel and
boarding house keepers. And about to-
DAY it will reach the butcher and the
baker and everybody else in Montpelier.
Phe session is harvest time here, direct
ly or indirectly, and the $4,000 paid by
the State is paid out over and over again.
That is, the part of it that stays in Mont
pelier is paid out. A large portion of
the members board for one dollar a day
or thereabouts and are thus able to carry
the greater part of their pay home. But
board in hotels costs more and consid-
erable number always have their outgo
for the two months larger than the in
come.
The new highway law abolishes all
existing laws ON the subject,
and creates Town Road Commissioner
who shall be elected at each annual
March meeting and who shall have en-
tire charge of all the highways of the
town outside incorporated cities and viii
lagos. The bill also provides that five
per cent. more State road tax must be
raised, making a compulsory tax of
twenty instead of fifteen cents, as here
tofore.