Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-12-07
A Summarized List Of the Host I'M
portant Laws Enacted.

portant Laws Enacted.
II. 40. Appropriatiug $4,000 to erect
monument i'll memory of Thomas
Chtteuden, first governor of Vermont.
II. l. No personal property to he e1-
empt from attachment on suit brought
to recover the purchase money for such
property, or on suit to recover pay
ment for money, materials or labor ex-
pended on it.
II. 1875. Provides manner of locating
street railway lines. Notice must be filed
with selectmen, bailiffs or aldermen. Ii
the company fails to agree with these
officials the matter is to he referred to
the railroad commissioners.
| II. 4S9. Defines meaning OF the term
trampS, and provides for their punish
ment. They NAV be sent to the house of
correction. or, If firearms are carried or
violence or threats are used, TO state
prison.
H. So. Gives assistant judges power
to make telephone communication with
offices of county officers at expense OF he
county.
II. so. Allows school directors to
issue pe5mits to teach in particular
schools for a single term, not to be re-
newed to the same person and not more
than three permits to be granted in one
town in single year.
II. III. Gives supcrfntendents power
to appoint to scholarship in normal
schools.
S. 1872. Providing for the publication
of Gilman's photography OF Vermont.
II. 1893. Provides for charging village
boundaries by applying to the judge OF
the count v court who shall appoint three
disinterested irceholdcrs as commission
ers.
ii. 500 Provides for the assessment
of n state tax OF II per cent, two-thirds
to I've paid before Nov. 10. 1895, and the
balance before June 10, 1896.
II. sol. Appropriates 81 $50 900 to
pay current expenses OF the state for the
next two years.
II. 499. Changes the name of the Yer
mont Reform school to Vermont Indus
trial school.
H. 405. Holds fire insurance compa-
MES bound for the acts and promises OF
their agents and sub agents.
S. 100. Incorporates Nicaragua com
pany; capital, SIS, 100000.
| Lp's iilN'l Jo'"ANo liz
Spring company as the Vermont Spring
company.
H. 500. Provides for savings banks to
divide tricnnially the net profits above IL
per cent surplus among the depositors on
deposits that have been in the bank one
year. provided that such profits shall
amount to- one per cent.
II. 101. Makes red clover the state
flower.
IL. 1O3. Appropriates $1,000 for tn,
maintenance and completion of the FISH
hatchery.
II. 1872. Fixes the third Thursday o
each session rs the time for the election
of state officers.
: II. 25+. Enables incorporated schoo
districts to change their boundaries 5,
submitting the question to vote of botf
incorporated district and outside town
district.
II. $40. Gives textbooks on phvsi
ology and hygiene, now owned by th'
state, to the towns.
II. 353. ApproprIates $500 annually
to encourage the maple sugar industry
to be used by maple sugar makers asso
ciatiop in their discretion.
II. 1863. Establishes state hoard o
pharmacy and regulates practice OF phar
macy in the state.
| H. 4SS. School directors may pro
vide for instruction of advanced pupils il
/ higher branches OF English in OUTSIDE
high schools, academies and seminaries
provided none such exist in the town.
II. 459. Requires town liquor agencie
to pay into the state treasury all profits
above 10 per cent OF sales.
II. 465. Provides for summer schools
for teachers in counties where no insti
tute is held during the year, ut an ex
, pense not to exceed $3.50 for each county
S. 1S7. Provides for editing the law
of 1894 and incorporating them into tn,
revised statutes. o. NJ. Barber of Ar
} lington, l.. NJ. Read of Rockingham ant
| John Young editors, at $40 per day each
II. 252. Repeats payment OF moietie
to prosecuting officers in liquor cases.
; II. SO. Grants to graduates of col
leges, academies, seminaries and higl
schools whose course of study sapprovet
by the state superintendent, teachers
certificates without examination.
II. 63. Limits the salary Of county
: commissioner to 500.
II. 80. Requires last halliday session
of schools before Memorial day to be de
voted to patriotic exercises.
s. lis. Permits savings banks to in
vest S per cent of their deposits in per
manent building for use and rent.
S. 1874. Provides that % weeks shall
constitute a legal school year.
H. 2s5. Adding to powers of Chest
nut Hill Reservoir company, Brattleboro
y II. 362. Pine not exceeding So for
exercising any but reasonable employ
ment. or resorting to house of entertain
ment or dance on Sunday.
II. 455. Requires town superintcnd
t ent to make annual reports and provide
y a fee Of SO for same.
:, ). 81, Permits divorce for caus
u wherever accrued after a years residenc
c in Vermont of libellant, next before tern
|. of court to which libel is brought.
ii. 1896. Provides for free textbook
in public schools. to be furnished by eac
r town, the books to be sclected by schoc
It directors and town superintendent.
X S. 1875. Provides for PRONUNCIATION {
:. the laws by publishing them in suppl,
ment form and distributing to the new
&C papers. which are to receive SO cents IN
y 100 copies for all distributed to actui