Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-11-27

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COS. Creating board Of normal school exami
| ners, supervisors and commissioners. Governor
shall appoint two persons from each congression-
| al district who. with state superintendent Of edu.
| cation shall constitute board with salary OF "a
| per day. The board shall establish courses OF
| study for normal schools and shall have complete
| control OF their management. They shall make
| an inventory and appraisal Of normal school
| property and make a detailed report Of same to
| Legislature Of 1898, with recommendations to
| propriety of further appropriations for normal
| instruction and the advisabty Of continuing the
present schools or establishing others in their
| place.
COG Provides that railroad corporation may
| be summoned as trustee Of any person TO whom
| such corporation is indebted.
| GIL. Provides that court OF chancery may en-
| power married woman to convey real estate by
| her separate deed
612 Provides for new appraisal Of real estate
| when the grand list Of town becomes lost or de-
stroyed;
| or labor to the amount of SIS for a building,
| whether to an agent or contractor, shall have a
| lien on the property by giving notice to the owner
in writing, which lien shall continue three months
| from time when payment becomes due. Liens
| must be recorded in town clerks office, and IL
| amount due from owner TO contractor is not suf
ficient to pay all liens in full, then TO be paid pro
| rata, Existing mortgages not affected by liens.
6ls Provides for support OF paupeIs in unor-
ganized towns and cores.
go. Act relating to births marriages. divorces
| and deaths. The secretary OF state board Of
health shall receive from town and city clerks the
returns Of births, marriages and deaths, and shall
| compile and publish same, also shall receive
| record Of divorces from county clerks. No dead
| body of human being shall be buried or re
| moved from town without permission from
health officer town clerk. under penalty Of fine
| or Imprisonment. physician, midwife, or other
person present at birth Of child must report same
| to town clerk with sex, names Of parents. etc
under penalty. The physician who has attended
a deceased person must report death TO health Of
hcer, giving date Of death name, age etc, Of de
ceased, under penalty. II no physician IN attend
ance then relatives or friends must perform duty,
| within 80 hours, on penalty OF $40 fine.
| 62l. Governor taken of state boards and with
| Lieutenant Governor and speaker OF house made
board OF visitors TO state Institutions last two nam
ed officers receiving 5 per day and expenses.
| Board shall make report to each Legislature Gov
| ernor empowered to remove any civil officer ap
| pointed by him.
625. Provides that in order TO hold maker en-
| dorser or surety on check or draft forwarded to
| individual or bank for collection it shall be suf-
fcient for said individual or bank to forward same
in usual commercial way now in
GO. Makes all fish and game laws enacted at
| present session part OF general laws relating
| TO fish and game.
Some OF the other Business.
A great many acts of incorporation were
granted, including charters for Is tele-
phone companies, IL railroad companies
and seven insurance companies. The
railroad companies we're the Benson and
River Electric, Copperfield, Montpelier and
Mad River, Nnlhegan River, Orleans and
Essex, Richford and Montgomery, Rutland
and Montpelier, Western Vermont Street
railway, White River Valley-the names
of which are mostly suggestive of their To-
cation.
| BrattlebOrO Fire Insurance Company.
The charter of the Patrons Mutual Fire
Insurance company of Brattleboro con-
tains this list of corporators: NJ. l. Reed
E. o. Lee and Geo. F. Mosely of Vernon !;
II. F. Weatherhead, G.. w. Pierce, w. E.
Banks, Ii. w. Sargent, and c. w. Sargent
of Brattleboro; John Z. Gale, j. l.. Bull
lock- F. f. Ward, w. H. Jacobs, L. +. ia
queth and d. G.. Baker of Guilford. No
risks are to be written until applications
are made for at least 500, 900 of insurance,
and no single risk can exceed $1,000.
Members are confined to the order of Pa
irons of Husbandry.
! 1t will be noted that fewer changes have
been made in the public laws than by most
legislatures of late years. Our principal
systems of laws are so little changed that
a person can sit down with his Vermont
Statutes Of 1894 and rewrite into the mar
gins in a single day all the changes that
have been made in all chapters, except
possibly that relating to distribution of es-
tates.
The Measures that Failed.
OF the measures which failed of success
the most prominent were the several plans
to relieve double taxation, the municipal
suffrage bill, the supreme court bill, the re-
turn to the district system of schools, the
plurality election of town representatives,
the bill TO prevent fraud in caucuses and
conventions, the bill TO continue and give
enlarged powers to the state highway COM
mission, and the bill to increase pay of wit
nesses to 81 per day.
Good Work OF Windham County Mem
| hers.
OF the Windham county members we
think it can be said that they have per-
formed their work WELL Col. Haskins has
been very important factor in the work
of the session and no one had stronger
hold on the house. The work of the Judi
ciary committee was so well kept in hand
under his leadership that not bill was in
the committees hands Monday morning
The successful measures of which he was
the author or the promoter were the most
important of the session. To his foresight
may be attributed the avoidance of many
mistakes. 1t is safe to say that he never
| put in harder work in his profession than
that given the state these last three weeks.
Mr.. Adams of Marlboro, as chairman of
the important grand list committee, did
faithful work in the committee room and
on the floor of the house. Mr.. Ward of
Putney, Mr.. Follett of Townshend and
Mr.. Goodell of Windham were occasionally
heard with credit to themselves and the
county.
OF the other county members, as we'll as
the senators, it may be said that, while not
standing in positions of prominence, they
were part of the great balance wheel
which so regulated and controlled the leg
islature of 1896 that it now seems to have
done no great amount of mischief.
During the Tuesday afternoon session of
the house Speaker Lord was presented
with handsome solid silver tea service by
the members of the general assembly, Mr.
Childs of st. Adams making the presenta-
ton. Lieut.-Gov. Fisk was given a valu-
able diamond stud at the evening session
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