The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-05
SPECIAL VILLAGE NETTING.

The legal voters of the Village of Bennington
are hereby notified and warned TO meet at Free
Library Hall in said village on Wednesday, May
TO- A. ID. 1893 at O'Clock in the afternoon, to
transact the following business:-
LIST, To see II the Village will vote to postpone
the construction of any system of public sewerage
for the Village until after the Village have pur-
chased the corporate property and all the rights
and privileges of the Bennington Water Company
located in said Village and vicinity, pursuant to
the provisions of Act number l72 Of the Laws of
Vermont Passed by the General Assembly in 1886,
approved November 23d. 1886.
End. To see if the Village will vote TO instruct
its trustees, or majority of them who may act,
to take all necessary and proper steps to prevent
the construction of any system of public sewerage
in and for said Village under any contract or pre-
tended contract or contracts heretofore made for
that purpose, until after the Village shall have
made and completed the purchase and become the
legal owner of the property rights and privileges
of the Bennington Water Company, or until such
other time as the Village may designate by vote
| for that purpose.
Sd To see If the Village will vote to inquire in
to the public necessity and the necessity of indiv
| iduals and private corporations within the VII
lage for system of public sewerage, and to what
| extent and through what portion or portions of
the Village the construction at an early day, OF
public sewers, is an urgent necessity, and APP
| point a committee for that purpose.
| 4th. To see If the Village will vote that when
ever it constructs public sewers, they shall be
| laid at sufficient depths to be secure from the
action of frost and to provide for drainage into
the same In proper manner, of the cellars OF the
| aOuttlng property unlesSln exceptional INSTANCES
| where, for urgent reason such plan may be i'm
! practical or Unfortunately expensive.
9Th. To see 1t the Village will vote TO establish
! and construct system of surface drainage for
! the streets of the Village, or any part of parts
! thereof, either lin conjunction with the house
sewerage system, or by an independent sewerage
| system, whenever any system Of public sewerage
shall be constructed in said Village.
9th. To see II the Village will vote to postpone
the construction of public sewers until the proyis-
| ion of the law requiring assessments TO be made
| against abutting owners embraced in Act No.
ZIG of the Laws of 1892 shall be repealed or modi
| fed
| 7th. To see If the Village will vote to purchase
the corporate property and all the rights and
privileges Of the Bennington Water Company,
| pursuant to the provisions of Act Number 172 Of
| the Laws passed by the General Assembly Of the
State of Vermont, passed in 1886, approved Nov
ember 23d, 1886. Also to see what measures the
Village will take, x any, and in what manner the
| Village will proceed TO make such purchase.
9Th. To transact any other proper business
| found necessary when met.
H. KELso, Village Clerk.
| ii. T. CUSHMAN, End. President.
Bennington, April 18th, 1898.