Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-11-30
What the Legislators Did.
A Summarized List of the Most Impor-
tant Laws Enacted.


II. l. No personal property to be eX-
empt from attachment on a suit brought to
recover the purchase money for such prop
erty, or on a suit to recover payment for
money materials or labor expended on it,
II. l3j. introduced by Mr.. Hnes.)
Makes provision for manner of locating
street railway lines. Notice must be filed
with selectmen, bailiffs or aldermen. If
the company fails to agree with these Of
ticials the matter is to be referred to the
railroad commissioners.
ii. 4S9. Defines meaning of the term
tramps, and provides for their punishment.
They may be sent to the house of correc-
tion, or, if firearms are carried or violence
or threats are used, to state prison.
II. Il. Grants additional power to
Westminster East Parish.
II. 30. Gives assistant judges power to
make telephone communication with Of
fees of county officers at expense of the
county.
II. So Allows school directors to issue
permits to teach in particular schools for a
single term, not to be renewed to the same
person and not more than three permits to
be granted in one town in a single year.
II. III. Gives superintendents power to
appoint to a scholarship in normal schools.
). 122. Providing for the publication of
| Gilman S photography of Vermont
II. l9S. introduced by Mr.. Mann.)
Provides for enlarging village bounda-
ries by applying to the judge of the county
court, who shall appoint three disinterest-
ed freeholders as commissioners.
II. j02. Provides for the assessment of
a state tax of II per cent, two-thirds to be
paid before Nov. 10, 1895, and the balance
before June TO- 1896.
II. 50l. Appropriates 81 ,OjO, 900 to pay
| current expenses of the state for the next
two years.
II. 400. Changes the name of the Yer
| mont Reform school to Vermont Industrial
school.
H. 40j. Holds fire insurance companies
bound for the acts and promises of their
agents and sub agents.
s. 100. Incorporates Nicaragua compa-
ny; capital, Sl2,0O0,00O.
:. lSj. Incorporates the BroOklne
Spring company as the Vermont Spring
company.
II. 800. introduced by Mr. Mann.)
Provides for savings banks to divide tren-
nially the net profits above 10 per cent sur
plus among the depositors on deposits that
| have been in the bank one year, provided
that such profits shall amount to one per
cent.
II. 1Ol. Makes red clover the state
flower.
H, 1O3. Appropriates $1,000 for the
maintenance and completion of the fish
hatchery.
II. 1S2. Fixes the third Thursday of
each session as the time for the election of
state officers.
II. 254 introduced by Mr.. Hines of
Brattleboro.) Enables Incorporated school
districts to change their boundaries by sub
hitting the question to vote of both incOr
porated district and outside town district.
II. $40 Gives textbooks on physiolo-
gy and hygiene, now owned by the
state, to the towns.
IL. 353. Appropriates $500 annually to
encourage the maple sugar industry; to be
used by maple sugar makers association
in their discretion.
II. 363 Establishes a state board of
pharmacy snd regulates practice of phar-
macy in the state.
IL. 304. Provides tax of II per cent
on Windham county for the completion
and repair of county buildings.
II. AS. School directors may provide
for instruction of advanced pupils in high
er branches of English in outside high
schools, academies and seminaries, proyid-
ed none such exist in the town.
IL. 459. introduced by Mr.. Walker of
Grafton.) Requires town liquor agencies
to pay into the state treasury all profits
above 10 per cent of sales.
II. 4G5. Provides for summer schools
for teachers in counties where no institute
is held during the year, at an expense not
to exceed $3.50 for each county.
, 5. l5l. Fixes salary of judge of pro-
bate for Marlboro and Westminster dis
, tricts at 500 each.
5. 1S7. Provides for editing the laws of
1894 and incorporating them into the re-
vised statutes. O. NJ Barber of Airing
p ton, l.. NJ. Read of Rockingham and John
Young editors, at so per day each.
S. 23. introduced by Senator Sherwin.)
Incorporates West River Telephone com
t pany with Henry n. Fits, Fred Under
2 wood, VIM. f. Gleason, Daniel Sherburne,
| G. P. Barker, j. j. Estey, j. L. Martin,
c. c. Fits as incorporators. Capital $1,000
S II. 252. Repeats payment of moeties
l to prosecuting officers in liquor cases.
II. 80. Grants to graduates of colleges
e academies, seminaries and high schools
s whose course of study is approved by the
+ state superintendent, teachers certificates
+ without examination.
d H. So. Limits the salary of count!
n commissioner to 500.
II Ii. W. Requires last uall-uay SeSSlol
of schools before Memorial day to be de
y voted to patriotic exercises.
/ S. 112. introduced by Senator Reed,
n Amends the charter of the Farmers 4
e Mechanics Exchange of Brattleboro.
IS S. 115. Permits savings banks to inves
e per cent of their deposits in permanen
It building for use and rent.
+ S. 124. Provides that 2S weeks shal
y constitute a legal school year.
H. 2S5. Adding to powers of Chestnu
i Hill Reservoir company, Brattleboro.
H. 1862. Fine not exceeding 81 for eX
ercising any but reasonable employment
= or resorting to house of entertainment O
~ dance on Sunday.
y II. 455 Requires town superintendent
~ AZ to make annual reports and provides fe
- u of So for same.
lo S. 81. Permits divorce for cause wherey
% er accrued after years residence in Vel
~ mont of libellant, next before term O
~ court to which libel is brought.
q II. 1906. Provides for free textbooks /
~ ~ public schools, to be furnished by eac
u town, the books to be selected by schot
~ directors and town superintendent.
VI S. 1876. Provides for promulgatiOn
~ ~ the laws by publishing them in supplemeI
- form and distributing to the newspaper
~ which are to receive so cents per 100 copi'
~ for all distributed to actual subscribers.
" S. 127. Requires towns of 2500 al