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IT Is . sure evidence Of tho health and /,
t1nocence Of the beholder IL the senses are
alive TO the beauty of nature.-Thoreau.
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MEN are won, not so much by being
blamed, as by being encompassed with
love.-Channing
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A. W. GLEASON,
l@) Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken In ternally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for testimonials
free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, $50.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. d.
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gold or silver COIN at the option of the govern
ment. and not at the option Of the creditor.
Fourth. We demand the enactment of 4
graduated income tax, so adjusted under the
constitution as to compel accumulated capital
to bear its just share Of the burdens of taxa
ton.
Fifth. We favor government of the people,
for the people and by the people, hence, when
ever practicable. we demand that all matters
OF national concern shall, under proper safe
guards. be submitted to direct vote of the
people through the operation Of the initiative
and referendum
Sixth We realize that there are other
vital questions pressing for solution other
than those mentioned and concerning which
there are differences Of opinion. vet car
aestly ask all who are in accord with the prin-
ciples enumerated, however much they may
1iffer upon other questions, to unite upon
these.
1--WE claim no originality for this
platform. 1t embodies the warp and
wool of about all that is vital in the
various industrial platforms held
sacred by the reform organizations of
the country. This has been carefully
complied after studying each. and we
have adhered more to the substance
than to the form.
''We consider the initiative and refer
endum the most important plank in
the list and we confidently believe its
adoption will do more to make our gov
eminent a genuine democracy than
anything else that could be adopted.
1t will enable the people to correct
abuses themselves without any un-
necessary delay, and we believe the re-
form forces of the country can be
brought into harmony upon platform
as outlined"
It is needless to say, because it goes
without saying, that to my mind a
1nance plank that does not provide for
he safe deposit of the peoples saw
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as the latter was returning from the
girls home and shot him twice. and it
was feared that Logue was fatally
hurt. Wilson barricaded himself at
home and defied the authorities, threat
ening death to any one attempting his
arrest
NEAR Independence, G county, Ok,
George Rogers and Will French, young
men, quarreled over girl and fought
it-out with knives. French was fatally
cut in the face and back.
A TERRIBLE battle between revenue
officials and moonshiners took place in
the Cum berland ountains in Letcher
county. KY, recently, in which one
moonshiner was killed and three others
were taken prisoners A revenue off,
Ger was also slightly wounded Sew
eral stills were cut to pieces and about
1000 gallons of brandy and whisky de-
stroyed.
JOHN Fl. Hustled, a we'll known min
ing man, said to be worth $500, 900.
committed suicide on the 26th at his
home in Denver. Col by shooting him.
self in the head. Suicide was sup
posed to have been caused by despond.
ency due to i'll health.
The first creamery and cheese factory
In Washington was established at
Cheney about Eve. years ago. Now
there are ffty-two creameries In the
state, q number of which make cheese
also The daily output of all is 1000
pounds of butter and $500 pounds OF
cheese.-Cheney (Wash.) Sentinel
A south Carolina widow became her
own mother-in-law recently; that 10 to
say she is now the wife Of her hus-
bands father.
A New York lawyer. explaining his
rapid increase in. wealth, said it was
due to the tomfoolery OF other people
Paris has seventy halls where feno
ing il taught
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-12-19

dred and nineteen Of the vermont v.- -,-.::>s
is hereby amended SO as to read as fol-
lows:
When n boy under sixteen or a girl I'M
der sixteen and not less than ten years of
age. Is convicted of an offense not punish
able by death, the court may sentence the
offender to the Vermont industrial school,
until of age, and shall decide and make
record of the day when the offender be-
comes of age. In such case the court
shall add to the sent ence in substance the
following: and If said maming the person
sentenced) does not obey the regulation
Of such school and be of good department
be shall be (here insert the alternative
SENTENCED. A boy under ten years of age
shall not be committed to the school for an
offense punishable only by q fine, or fine
such boy Is sentenced to pay a fine. or fine
and costs and Is committed in default Of
payment, such commitment shall be to the
Vermont industrial school and the mttti-
mus made accordingly.
Sec. e. Section Ave thousand two hum
bred and twenty-three Of the Vermont
as follows
boy under sixteen or a girl under six
teen and over ten years of age who on be-
ing bound up by, or on taking an appeal
from a justice, does not enter into the
recognizance required may in the discre-
tion of the justice be committed to the YER
mont industrial school instead of to the
county Jail, and persons so committed
shall be brought to trial at the next ensu-
ing term of the County Court in the county
from whence they shall have been commit
ted.
Sec. 8. All acts or parts of acts incon-
sistent with this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
NJ 10
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NUMBER 80

AN ACT FOR IMPROVING THECOURT
HOUSE IN ADDISON COUNTY.
1t is hereby enacted by the General AS
semby Of the State Of Vermont:
Sec. 1. The assistant judges of the Ad-
Olson county court are directed to improve
the Addison county court house, by con-
structing a new portco in front of said
court house by fitting said court house
with steam heating apparatus and by coat
ing the exterior of said court house with
suIne Suitable preparation for preserving
the brick walls of said building; and for
that purpose, in behalf of said county, are
authorized to contract with some suitable
persons and TO pledge the credit Of the
county therefor.
Sec. 2. Said assistant Judges shall not
expend over the sum of twenty -t1ve hum
bred dollars upon such improvements nor
shall they pledge the credit Of the county
in greater sum than twenty-five hundred
dollars therefor.
Sec. 3. There Is hereby assessed a tax
of one cent on the dollar on the list of the
polls and ratable estate in the several
towns and the city of Vergennes. in said
county, for the year 1896, for the purposes
herein above specified.
Sec. 4. The treasurer of said county Is
directed on or before February l, 1897, to
issue his warrant to the collector of taxes
In the said towns and city for the collec-
ton of said tax, in the same manner as by
law taxes are required to be collected;
and the severaltown and city officers, &C.
customed by law to issue tax bills in said
towns and city, shall make and deliver to
their several collectors, on or before the
first day of March, 1897, a tax bill for the
collection of said tax, and the proceeds
thereof shall be paid into the treasury of
said county.
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
. Approved November "a. 1890
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estate, two dollars.
For granting order to-extend time fol-
settlement of estate. one dollar.
| For each order of public notice. fifty
cents.
For each order of reference. one dollar.
For issuing each citation. fifty cents.
For assignment of personal estate ia
widow in each estate, one dollar.
For settling each administrators OF
executors account, two dollars.
For settling each guardiahs. trustees OF
agents account, one dollar
| For ca oh hearing on citation of embezzle-
ment of estate of person deceased or under
guardianship three dollars each day.
For each hearing, in other cases, where
the opposite party appears, two dollars; II
1t exceeds one day, two dollars for each ad-
ditiOnal day.
For the distribution or division Of each
estate by decree of court, two dollars; by
dollars. If the estate amounts TO ten
thousand dollars in value, ten dollars in
addition shall be paid.
For each inquisition Of Mnacy. two dol
lars
For each order to remove transient in
sane pauper to the insane asylum, two
dollars.
For approving each bond in case of as
signment for the benefit of creditors, Two
dollars.
For granting each appeal and for the
necessary papers therein, two dollars
For making a decree of adoption wih or
without change of name. or chanef OF
name, one dollar.
For notice to corporation or assoc tion
of a legacy, fifty cents.
Sec @ Section five thousa nd three hum
dred and seventy-four of the Vetmont
Statutes is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Sec. 1914. In the settlement Of estates OF
deceased persons the fees mentioned in the
preceding section shall not bs paid, If the
assets do not exceed five hundred dollars.
Approved November 20. 1886
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NUMBER 80.

AN ACT APPROPRIATING A SUM NOT
EXCENDfN1 TWENTY-FIVE THOU
SAND DOLLARS FOR CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS AT THE YER
MONT STATE ASYLUM FOR THE
INSANE.
1T is hereby enacted by the General As
sembly of the State of Vermont:
Sec. /. The sum of twenty-five thousand
dollars, or so much of the same as may be
necessary, is hereby appropriated for the
purpose of constructing and providing for
the Vermont State Asylum for the In
sane, a system of heating and ventilating
for the south wing, a cold storage building,
a mortuary and laboratory, a piggery, en-
closed yards with covered walks, a fence
around the cemetery and head stones for
the graves; also for the purchase OF more
tillable land.
Sec. 2. The state auditor Is hereby d.
rected to draw his orders on the state
treasurer for so much OF the amount
named in section one of this act as may be
needed, to be expended under the direction
of the trustees of the said State Asylum
for the Insane.
Approved November 24.1So6.
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NUMBER ITO.

NOMDTLEN llVs
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 5oes
AND 5000 OF THE VERMONT STAT
UTES RELATING TO OBSCENE
BOOKS AND PICTURES.
1t is hereby enacted by the General As
senbly Of the State of Vermont:
Sec. /. Section five thousand and sixty
eight of the Vermont Statutes Is hereby
amended so as to read as follows:
A person. who imports prints, publishes,
sells, lends, circulates distributes, ex-
hibits. or introduces into family or place
Of education. u book. print picture, or
other thing which is obscene, lewd, or in
decent, or which contains obscene. lewd,
or indecent language, prints, pictures, fig
ures or descriptions, or which .manfestly
tends TO the corruption of the morals Of
youth; or who buys, procures' or has in his
possession any such book print, picture or
other thing, with intent to sell, lend cir
culate, distribute or exhibit the same, or
to introduce IL into any family or place of
education, shall be imprisoned not more
than one year,or fined not more than two
hundred dollars.
Sec. 2. Section five thousand and sixty
nine of the Vermont Statutes is hereby
amended so as to read as follows:
person who posts or publicly exhibits
any picture, figure, print, description or
language which Is obscene, lewd, indecent,
or which manifestly tends to the corrup-
tion of the morals of youth; or who as
owner manager director, agent, or in any
other capacity prepares, advertises, gives,
presents, or participates in any obscene,
lewd. indecent, immoral show or enter
tainment. or a show or entertainment
manifestly tending to corrupt the morals
of youth shall be imprisoned not more
than three months or fined not more than
two hundred dollars.
Approved Novamber "a. 1896
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NUMBER 12o.


AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF SEC
TION 1913 AND 5374 OF THE YER
MONT STATUTES. RELATING TO
PROBATE FEES.
1t is hereby enacted by the General AS
.sembly of the State OF Vermont:
Sec. Section five thousand three hun
bred and seventy-three of the Vermont
Statutes Is hereby amended so as to read as
follows
Sec 1913 There shall be paid to the Judge
of probate for the benefit of the State the
following fees:
For granting letters testamentary or of
administration upon each estate, the as
sets of which exceed five hundred dollars,
but do not exceed twenty five hundred dol
lars, two dollars, and when they exceed
that sum there shall be paid In addition,
two dollars for each twenty-five hundred
dollars, or fraction thereof, in excess of
twenty-five hundred dollars,
For proceedings upon proof of each will
when the same is not contested two dol
lars.
For appointing appraisers upon each es-
tate, one dollar and fifty cents.
For appointing committee OF dover, one
dollar
For appointing committee of homestead.
one dollar
| For the appointment Of commissioners,
or renewal of same. upon EACH estate, one
dollar and fifty cents.
For the appointment of guardian for
one or more wards at the same time, one
dollar.
For the appointment of trustee or agent,
two dollars
For granting each license to sell or deed
real estate. two dollars.
For granting each license to sell personal
estate, one dollar.
For granting authority TO purchase real
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EXCEEDING A CERTAIN SUM FOR
THE SUPPORT OF THE SOLDIERS
HOME


HOME.
Ut is hereby enacted by the General Ast
sembly of the State of Vermont:
Sec. I. TO enable the governor TO pro-
vide for the payment Of the expenses of
the maintenance of the disabled soldiers
and sailors in the State Soldiers Home al
Bennington in conformity with the act OF
Congress on the subject the sum OF
twenty thousand dollars or so much there
of as may be necessary Is hereby appro-
priated for the support of the Soldiers
Home for the years A, d. 1897 and A. d.
1898 and the auditor of accounts is hereby
directed to draw orders on the treasurer
of the state payable to the or
der of the treasurer of the Sol
diers' Home not to exceed the
above amount, whenever the president Of
the Soldiers Home shall certify to the
auditor of accounts that the same Ii need
ed to defray the expenses OF said home
Sec. 2. The state treasurer Is hereby au-
thorized to- receive and receipt for all
money due or to become due to this state
under an act of Congress entitled An act
to provide aid to state or territorial homes
for the support Of disabled soldiers and
sailors of the United States approved
August q. 1858 and due or to become due
under any amendments Of said act. or from
the passage of any additional act extend
ing such aid and the auditor of accounts
is hereby directed to draw his order on the
State treasurer from time TO time.
payable to the order OF the treas
urer Of sad Soldiers Home, not TO -
coed in the WHOLE the amount OF such
biennial appropriation In addition TO the
sum received by the state treasurer from
the United States.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect on the
first day of January A. ID. 1897.
Approved November II, 1896.
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NUMBER ~.

AN ACT RELATING TO THE PUN-
CHASE OF COPIES OF INDEX TO
THE GENERAL AND SPECIAL
LEGISLATION OF THE STATE OF
VERMONT" -
1t is hereby enacted by the General Az
sembly of the State of Vermont:
Sec !. The state librarian Is hereby au-
thorized to negotiate for the purchase Of
four hundred copies of Index to the Gem
eral and Special Legislation Of the State
of Vermont, compiled by Albert p Cross.
at a price not to exceed one dollar per vol
ume.
Sec 2. The state librarian shall dis
tribute the books so purchased as follows:
One copy to each town and city, which
shall be kept in the office Of the town or
city clerk for the use Of suoh town or city;
one copy to each county and probate dis
trict, which shall be kept in the Offices Of
the county clerk and judge Of probate. re-
spectively.
Sec 8. The state librarian may ssh tho
remainder at such price as in his Judgment
seems best or exchange for other books
for the benefit Of the state library.
Sec 4. This act shall take effect from it,
passage.
Approved November "a, 1896.
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NUMBER 1H.
AN ACT FOR TIE PROJECTION OF
FISH IN LAKE BOMOSEEN.
Approved November "a, 1895.

AN ACT FOR TIE PROJECTION or
FISH IN LAKE BOMOSEEN.
If 10 herohx, otod by tho Conerol AS
sembly of the State of Vermont
Sec. l. No person shall take or catch
any fish in Lake Bomoseen In the towns
of Hubbardton and Casteton, north of a
line running from STANDARDS Point on the
west shore of said lake to point on the
east shore there Of due west from the
dwelling house of s. s. Goodwin, between
thefirst day of December and the first day
of April.
Sec. 2. person who violates the pro-
visions of the preceding section shall be
fined five dollars for each fish so taken or
caught.
Sec. 8. A person who takes or catches
from the water of said lake Bomoseen n
pike or pickerel less than fifteen inches
in length shall Immediately return the
same with the least possible injury to the
waters from which it was taken or
caught.
Sec. 4. Amy person who violates the
provisions of the preceding section shall
be fined ten dollars for each fish so taken
or caught and not returned, one-half there
Of to go to the prosecutor and one-half to
the state.
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved November "a. 1896.
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NUMBER 1g.

AN ACT FIXING THE COMPENSATION
no BE PAID THE VARIOUS COM
MISSIONERS AND MEMBERS OF
BOARDS ACTING UNDER THE AU.
THORITY OF THE STATE, AND
MAKING THE SAME UNIFORM.
1t is hereby enacted by the General As
sembly of the State Of Vermont:
Sec. !. The pay of the directors Of the
State prison and House of Correction, of
the trustees of the State asylum, Of the
trustees of the Industrial School, Of the
railroad commissioners, of the supervisors
of the insane, of the members of the State
board of Health, of the members of the
State board Of agriculture, of the cattle
commissioners, and of the fish commits
sioners, shall be four dollars and necessary
expenses for every day actually engaged In
the sum of fifteen hundred dollars; and
the service of the State.
Sec. g Nothing in the foregoing section
shall be construed to in any way change
the compensation provided for the chair
man Of the board of trustees of the Ver-
mont Industrial school in sedtion five
thousand one hundred and eighty-three,
and the compensation provided for the
secretary of the State board of health in
section four thousand six hundred and
seventy-two, Vermont Statutes.
Sec. 3. The chairman of the board of
IdllIUdu Shall IduleO ny
the governor In appointing the board, and
shall be allowed annually three hundred
dollars additional to the per diem and ex-
penses hereinbefore provided.
Sec. 4. The chairman of the board of
railroad commissioners shall attend to the
correspondence of the board, call board
meetings when in his Judgment necessary,
and have authority to regulate the meet
ings and workings of the board in such
a " q G n Ind harf for
the service.
Sec. s. The provisions of existing laws
regulating the duties of the board of rail-
road commissioners shall conform to the
requirements of this act.
Sec. 6. 1temized accounts showing the
time spent, the date thereof, the service
performed and the items of expense in
Cured verified by the oath of each claim
ant Of compensation shall be furnished the
State auditor before any payment therefor
Is made by the State
Approved November "a. 1896.
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NUMBER 1928.

AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF
FISH IN LAKE ST CATHERINE.
Ut is hereby enacted by the General As
sembly of the State of Vermont.
Sec. 1. 1t shall be lawful to catch white
fish in the water of Lake st. Catherine in
The towns of Poultney and Wells be-
tween the first day Of November and the
first day of Decembr with nets having a
mesh not exceeding one and one-fourth
inches in size. In case any other kind Of
hsh shall be caught while SO netting white
fish, the same shall be Immediately re-
turned to the water of said lake with the
least possible injury.
Sec. 2. A person who takes or catches
from the water of said Lake st. Catherine
pike or pickerel less than fifteen inches
IN length shall immedia tey return the
same with the least possible injury, to the
waters from which 1t was taken or caught.
Sec. D. Any person who violates the
provisions of the preceding sections shall
lie fined ten dollars for each fish SO taken
or caught and not returned, one-half
thereof to go to the prosecutor and one
half to the state.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved November a. 1906
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NUMBER l@.

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE MAIN
TENANCE OF THE FISH HATCH
cry.
1t is hereby enacted by the General As
sembly Of the State of Verhont
Sec. /. The sum of five thousand five
hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for
the purpose of maintaining and further
equipping the fish hatchery, authorized
and established by No. 81 of the acts of
1890, during the years 1897 and 1885,
Sec. 2. Out of said appropriation the
fish and game commissioners may enlarge
the ponds at the hatchery, construct new
ponds, erect a small barn at the hatchery,
and buy a team and proper vehicles for
use about the premises, and defray the
necessary expenses Of carrying on and
maintaining said hatchery, including the
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NUMBER los.

AN ACT TO PREVENT THE USE OF
FRAUDULENT CHECKS AND 9TH
Err ORDERS FOR THE PAYMENT
OF MONEY.
1t Is hereby enacted by the General AS
sembly OF the State of Vermont:
Sec. ]. The use of a matured check, or
other order for the payment Of money, as
a means of obtaining from another person
money or other property, or a release or
discharge of debt or obligation, or the
signature of a person to a written instru-
ment the false making whereof would be
punishable as forgery, such as Is specified
in section four thousand nine hunderd and
sixty of the Vermont Statutes, by per-
son who knows that the drawer thereof Is
not entitled to draw for the sum specified
therein upon the drawee, is the use OF a
false token within the meaning of said
section four thousand nine hundred and
sixty although no representation is made
in respect thereto.
Approved November "a, 1896.