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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-12-19
NUMBER So.

NUMBER 60.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 1919 OF
THE VERMONT STATUTES, RE-
LATING TO HIGHWAYS.
1t is hereby enacted by the General AS
sembly Of the State of Vermont:
Sec. 1. Section three thousand three
hundred and seventy-nine of the Vermont
Statutes is hereby amended SO as to read
as follows:
The selectmen may discontinue a high
way laid out by the selectmen or under the
authority Of the original proprietors, but
the selectmen before discontinuing high
way shall appoint time for examining
the premises and hearing parties Interest,"
ed, and shall give notice thereof by post
ing notice in two or more public places in
the town of the time and place of said
hearing; and County Court may, by COM
missioners, discontinue q highway wholly
in the county, except one laid out by or
der of the Supreme Court, and the Supreme
Court may discontinue a highway laid out
under the order Of said court or which ex-
tends into or through two or more coun-
ties, and such roads may be discontinued
whether they have been made or not. The
commissioners appointed to discontinue
a highway shall be dislnterested freehold
ers, other than those appointed to lay out
the highway. Any decree or order made
under the provisions OF this section may
be reviewed by the County or Supreme
Court under the same conditions and the
same proceedings had thereon as are now
provided for the laying out Of highways.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its
passage
Approved November "a. 1896.
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NUMBER n,

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 3457 AND
s45s OF THE VERMONT STATUTES
RELATING TO ASSESSING AND
COLLECTING THE HIGHWAY TAX
IN UNORGANIzED TOWNS AND
CORES
1t Is hereby enacted by the General As,
sembly of the State Of Vermont:
Sec. /. Section three thousand four hun
dred and fifty-seven of the Vermont Stat
utes Is hereby amended so as to read as
follows:
For the purpose of building and repair
Ing such highways and bridges, such COM
missioners' shall have the power to assess
tax upon the grand list of any morgan
lied town or gore in their respective coun-
ties In which any highway or bridge Is TO
be built or repaired, not to exceed in any
one year thirty-ive per cent of the grand
list of such unorganlzed town or gore.
Sec. 2. Section three thousand four hun
dred and fifty-eight Of the Vermont Stat
utes Is hereby amended SO as to read as
follows:
Such tax shall be assessed in the month
of January and put into the hands of the
collector of taxes for unorganized towns
and cores on or before the tenth day of the
following February and the said collector
shall have the same power to collect such
tax that he now has to collect county and
state taxes any justice OF the peace in his
county may issue his warrant to said col
lector authorizing him to collect said tax.
Such collector shall have six per cent for
the collection thereof and shall collect said
tax and pay the same to the county treas
urer on or before the first day of the July
following.
Sec. g.. All acts or parts Of acts incon-
sistent with this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved November q, 1899
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NUMBER %.

AN ACT AMENDING SECTIONS 1900
AND 1901 VERMONT STATUTES. RE-
LATING TO SEINE AND SET LINE
FISHING.
1t is hereby enacted by the General AS
sembly of the State of Vermont:
Sec /. Section four thousand six hun
dred Vermont Statutes Is hereby amended
so as to read as follows:
The fish and game commissioners may is
sue licenses to residents of this State to
fish with seine in the waters and upon
the shores of Lake Champlain and Lake
Memphremagog from the first day of
October to the first day of December In
each year, subject to the same restrictions,
conditions and qualifications regulating
the granting of licenses issued under the
provisions of section four thousand five
hundred and ninety-nine Of the Vermont
Statutes.
Sec. 2. Section four thousand six hun
dred and one Vermont Statutes is amended
so as to read az follows:
The fish and game commissioners may
issue permits to residents of this State to
fish with set lines not exceeding seventy
five feet In length in the waters Of Lake
Champlain at such times and places and
under such conditions as they deem best,
having in view the preserva ton of fish in
such lake and the collection of Informal
ton relative to fish therein. No live bait
shall be used on set lines except angle
worms.
Sec. 8. The fish and game commission
ers are authorized to negotiate with the
Canadian department Of marine and fish
cries with reference to making the rights
Of Canadian and Vermont fishermen on
Lakes Champlain and Memphremagog
identical so near as may be.
Approved November "a, 1896.
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NUMBER 90.

NUMBER 90.
AN ACT AUTHORIZING FISH AND
GAME COMMISSIONERS TO REGU-
LATE THE PLACING OF FISH
SCREENS.
1t is hereby enacted by the General As
sembly of the State OF Vermont:
Sec. 1. Section four thousand five hun
dred and lightweight Vermont Statutes is
amended SO as to read as follows:
If a person, except as provided In this
chapter, by screen, or other device for
that purpose, 50 obstructs any stream, or
the outlet or inlet to any natural pond, or
the outlet or inlet to any artificial pond on
a public stream. as to prevent the free
passage of fish. he shall be fined twenty
dollars for each offense, and five dollars
for each day such screen or other obstruc-
ton is continued, after written notice by a
fish and game commissioner or fish
and game wardenl Is given to
such person, requesting the re-
moval Of the same; but the fish and
game commissioners may in writing au-
thorize the placing Of screens to prevent or
regulate the passage of fish and revoke
such authorization at their discretion, and
any expenditure made in the making and
placing Of screens under permission Of the
fish and game commissioners shall In no
wise affect their right to revoke such au-
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NUMBER 50.

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE FISH AND
GAME COMMISSIONERS TO SHORT
EN- THE OPEN SEASON IN GER
TAIN CASES.
It is hereby enacted by the General AS
sembly Of the State Of Vermont:
Sec. 1. The fish and game commission
ers, upon petition Of ten or more citizens
of the State. after due notice and public
hearing in the locality to be affected, may
shorten the time for taking certain fish
where the habits of such fish seem to war
rant it; and in such case they shall ad-
vertse and give notice of such limitation,
specifying the waters and fish to which it
applies, as provided in section four thou
sand five hundred and sixty-eight of the
Vermont Statutes; and,said commissioners
shall not make said order of Limitation un-
til the petitioners, or some persons in their
behalf, have advanced to the commission
ers funds sufficient to pay the expense Of
such notice and advertising.
Approved November %. 1886
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NUMBER 70.

| NUMBER 20.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 1894 AND
1896 OF THE VERMONT STATUTES,
RELATING TOIA STATE HIGHWAY
TAX.
1t is hereby enacted by the General As
sembly OF the State OF Vermont:
Sec. l. Section. three thousand four hun
dred and thlrty-four Of the Vermont Stat
utes is hereby amended so as to read as
follows:
A State highway tax Of five cents on a
dollar is hereby annually assessed upon
the grand list for the support OF highways.
The state treasurer shall apportion to the
towns, cities and unorganiEed towns and
cores such tax. according to their respec-
tive grand lists. and on or before the first
day Of January, annually, make out and
transmit to each town and city treasurer
and to the collector Of taxes In morgan
ICED towns and cores, a notice of the
amount so apportioned, and the same must
be paid into the state treasury on or before
the tenth of the June next following; and
the state treasurer shall also issue and
transmit, at tho same time, to the COL
lector Of taxes for unorganized towns and
cores his warrant for the collection of the
same.
Sec. @ Section three thousa nd four hum
dred and thirty-five Of the Vermont Stat
utes is hereby amended so as % read as
follows:
The commissioners Of taxes In inorganic
ed towns and cores. shall upon the receipt
of such warrant and notice assess tax for
the amount specified and cause the same
to be collected in the manner prescribed
by law and paid into the state treasury
according to such notice and warrant. A
town or city treasurer shall, upon receipt
of such notice. transmit the same to the
selectmen or mayor, who shall draw an
order on the treasurer Of the town or city
for the amount 0f such tax.
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.
Approved November q. 1896.
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NUMBER Of.

NUMBER 81.
AN ACT AMENDING SECTION 4592 AMI
459I OF THE VERMONT STATUTES
RELATING TO NET FISHING AMI
THE SEIZURE OF NETS.
1t is hereby enacted by the General AS.
sembly Of the State of Vermont:
Sec /, Section four thousand Ave hun
dred and ninety-two OF the Vermont Stat
utes Is amended so as to read as follows:
If person use, have in possession with
the intent to use, or furnish for use, for
fishing In the waters of this State, a
pound-net, trap-net, seine. gill-net, set-net,
fyke set-line, fishing otter or trawl he
shall be fined one hundred dollars,
Sec. 2. Section four thousand nine hum
dred and ninety-four of the Vermont Stat
utes shall be amended so as to read as fol-
lows:
If a person discovers n pound-net, trap
net. seine, gill-ret set-net, fyke, set-line.
fishing otter or trawl, set for fishing, or in
the possession or under the control of n
person having them or any of them. with
intent to use for fishing, or under circum-
stances that show they have Just been or
are about to be used for fishing in the
waters of this State, he may seize and
destroy the same, or may seize and deliver
a pound-net, trap-net, seine, gill-net set
net or fyke so discovered, to the town
clerk Of the town where such seizure &C.
ours, within three days after such seizure;
the town clerk shall retain such net sub
ject to the order and disposal Of the fish
am, game commissioners, and upon salts
factory proof that such net was In good
faith discovered and seized by such per-
son, while placed for use in violation of
the provisions of this chapter, and upon
payment to linn by such person of one dol
lar for each net so delivered. he shall
make and deliver to such person an af-
iidavit attesting the delivery of the net so
seized; upon presentation of such affidavit
to the state auditor, he shall draw an or
der upon the state treasurer in favor OF
the person named In the same for ten dol
lars.
Sec. 8. Nothing in these two sections
shall affect the use of seines under license
Of the fish and game commissioners.
Approved November "a. 1886,
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NUMBER IS.
AN ACT PROTECTING PROPERTY OF
THE FISH AND GAME COMMITS


AN ACT PROTECTING PROPERTY OF
THE FISH AND GAME COMMITS
SION.
! 1t is hereby enacted by the General AS
sembly of the State of Vermont:
Sec. 1. No person shall break, deface, in
jure, remove, or tear down notice posted
as provided in section four thousand five
hundred and sixty-eight of the Vermont
Statutes, or tamper, injure, interfere with
or remove any implement. fish crate. fish
screen or appliance used, or authorized to
be used, by the fish and game commission
ers, the United States fish missioner,
or their agents, in the protection, collec-
Ation, retention or propagation of fish,
or regulation or restriction Of their
free passage; or remove. deface
or inture any device furnish
missioners in regulating or licensing set
line fishing; or break or open any pond,
dam or receptacle in use by the fish and
game commissioners, the United States fish
commissioner, or their agents, for the pur-
pose of breeding, propogating or retaining
fish, fry or spawn. Any person violating
any of the provisions of this section shall
be nned not more than five hundred dollars
and not less than ten dollars
Sec. 2. No person shall introduce any
fish except trout, salmon smelt, and min
nows into the public waters Of this State,
frequented by trout or salmon. AnyAper-
son violating the provisions Of this section
shall be fired not more than five hundred
dollars nor less than fifty dollars. This
section shall not apply to the fsh and
game commissioners or to person acting
under their authority.
Sec. g. The fish and game commission
ers may exterminate destructive fsh in such
manner as they deem proper; they shall
have the same powers in any town as the
fish and game wardens have, and may act
as complaining and prosecuting officers of
all offenses under this chapter; in all cases
SO prosecuted, one-half the fines shall be
added to the annual appropriation for the
fish and game commissioners and may be
expended by them in addition thereto.
Approved November 20, 1896
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NUMBER 81

AN ACT TO REGULATE THE PAY
MENT OF DIVIDENDS OR INTER-
EST BY SAVINGS INSTITUTIONS.
1t is hereby enacted by the General AS
sembly Of the State Of Vermont:
! Sec. 1. Section four thousand one hun.
dred and ten Of the Vermont tatutes Is
hereby amended to read as follows:
| The trustees of q savings bank or saw
ings institution shall regulate the rate Of
interest or dividends, not TO exceed two per
cent semi-annual!y upon the deposits
Herewith in such manner that depositors
shall receive, as nearly as may be- the
profits of such corporation, after deduct
ling necessary expenses, and reserving such
amount as the trustees deem expedent as
surplus fund for the security Of deposit
ors, which, to the amount of ten per cent
of their deposits, the trustees of such cor
poration may gradually accumulate and
hold to meet any contingency or loss In its
business from the depreciation Of its
securities or otherwise; but the trustees
may classify the depositors according to
the character, amount and duration of thier
dealings with the corporation, and regu-
late the interest or dividends allowed, so
that each deposition shall receive the same
rataible proportion of interest or dividends
as others Of his class.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved November IS. 1896
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NUMBER 90.

NUMBER SO.
AN ACT IN AMEN MENT OF SECTION
1915 AND 1916 OF CHAPTER 1889 OF
THE VERMONT STATUTES, RE-
IATING TO THE PROTECTION OF
GAME BIRDS.
It is hereby enacted by the General AS
sembly of the State Of Vermont:
Sec. l. Section four thousand six hun
dred and fifteen of chapter one hundred
and eighty-nine Of the Vermont Statutes
Is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Any person who before January 1, 1900,
takes or kills sharp-tailed grouse, pin
mated grouse, capercailzie. black game,
ptarmigan or pheasant shall be fined
twenty-five dollars for each of the same so
taken or killed. But nothing in this Sec
ton shall be held to prohibit the shooting
of pheasants on enclosed and posted lands
by the owners of such lands or their
licensees between the tenth day of October
and the first day of December In any year,
provided the pheasants SO shot have been
actually bred on such lands in a state of
captivity. All acts and parts of acts in
consistent with this section are hereby re-
pealed
Sec. 2. Section four thousand six hum
dred and sixteen of chapter one hundred
and eighty-nine of the Vermont Statutes
Is hereby repealed.
Approved November q. 1896.
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NUMBER 70.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION s61s OF
TID VERMONT STATUTES, RE
LATING TO WIDTH OF WHEEL
RIMS OR TELLOES.
1t Is hereby enacted by the General As.
sembly Of the State Of Vermont:
Sec. /. Section three thousand and six
teen, Is hereby amended so as to read as
follows:
All freight wagons, carts or carriages,
carrying more than two tons in weight and
less than three toms shall have the rims
or felloes of their wheels at least three
inches wide, and If carrying more than
three tons the rims or felloes Of their
wheels shall be ait least four inches wide.
But the selectmen may give a person
permission to use wagons, carts, or car
riages in their respective towns, with the
rims of less width than Is provided In this
section when in their opinion the highways
would not be greatly injured thereby.
Approved November "A, 1896.
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NUMBER &C.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION sI7s YER
MONT STATUTES RELATING TO
THE SUPPORT OF PAUPERS.
1t is hereby enacted by the General As
sembiy OF the State Of Vermont:
Sec. Section three thousand one HIM.
dred and seventy-Mne OF the Vermont
Statutes is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Section S17s. The kindred of a poor per-
son VINO Is chargeable to a town in the
line or degree Of father or grandfatber
mother or grandmother, children or grand.
children, brother or sister by consa gum
tty, living within this State and of suffici-
emit ability shall be bound to support such
pauper In proportion to their respective
abilities.
Approved November II, 1890
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NUMBER "a

AN ACT TO PREVENT AND PUNISH
r INTERFERENCE WITH THE PUB
Lie TRAVEL ON HIGHWAYS.
1t Is hereby enacted by the General As
sembly of the State of Vermont:
Sec l. If any person places or causes to
be placed an obstruction or encroachment
In any highway. or In any road used as a
public highway, with the intent to hinder
or prevent the public travel thereon, or to
tnjure and impede any person travelling
thereon. he shall be fined not less than ten
or more than one hundred dollars.
Sec. 2. Justices Of the peace shall have
concurrent jurisdiction with the County
Court of prosecutions for offenses COM
mltted against the provisions Of this act.
Approved November "a. 1896
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NUMBER g..

AN ACT AUTHORIZING TOWNS AND
CITIES TO VOTE MONEY FOR
CHARTERED HOSPITALS.
1t Is hereby enacted by the General AS
sembly of the State of Vermont:
Sec. l. Towns and cities may, at any
legal meeting of the voters thereof in town
or city meeting assembled, when an arti-
Gle for such purpose shall have been duly
inserted in the warning for such meeting,
vote and appropriate such sums Of money
as they shall judge necessary for the sup
port of any non-sectarian hospital eStab-
lished therein which Is incorporated by
act of the General Assembly.
Sec. 2. Whenever the charter Of any city
has put into the hands Of any board or
body other than the legal voters thereof in
city meeting assembled, the power of as
sessing taxes and appropriating money for
lawful purposes, such board or body may
assess such taxes and appropriate such
sums of money as II shall judge necessary
for the support of amy hospital, non-sec-
tartan, established In such city and incor.
porated by act of the General Assembly
Approved November Is, 1896.
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NUMBER u.

AN ACT REQUIRING TOWNS TO
ERECT RAILINGS IN DANGEROUS
PLACES ON HIGHWAYS.
1T Is hereby enacted by the General As
sembly of the State of Vermont
Sec. I. 1t is hereby made the duty of
each town and city in this State to erect
and maintain in all dangerous places on
It's public highways suitable guards or
ratings to protect travellers from acct
dents, caused by running over or down en-
bankments.
Sec. 2. This act shall be subject to the
provisions of chapter one hundred and
ffty-two Of the Vermont Statutes.
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect August
Isl, 1897.
Approved November a. 1896.
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NUMBER g.

AN ACT AMENDING SECTION 1854 AND
REPEATING SECTIONS 1850. 1851, 1852
AND 1868 OF VERMONT STATUTES
RELATING TO GR1ST MILLS.
1t Is hereby enacted by the General As
sembly Of the State Of Vermont:
Sec. l. Sections four thousand three
hundred and sixty. four thousand three
hundred and sixty-one, four thousand three
hundred and six'ty-two and four thousand
three hundred and sixty-three Of the Ver-
mont Statutes are hereby repealed
Sec. 2. Section four thousand three hum
dred and sixty-four Of the Vermont Stat
utes is hereby amended by striking out the
word steam" In the FIRST line.
Sec. g. This act shall take effect from
Its passage
Approved November "a, 1896.
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NUMBER o..

AN ACT REGULATING THE HUNTING
OF DEER AND PROHIBITING THE
KILLING OF MOOSE AND CARL
BOU.
1t is hereby enacted by the General As
sembly of the State of Vermont:
Sec. !. No person, except in the open
season as hereinafter provided, shall pur-
sue, take or kill a wild deer, or have In his
possession a wild deer, or part thereof, so
taken or killed; and the possession of deer
or any part thereof, except in the open sea-
son, shall be presumptive evidence that the
person having 1t in his possession is guilty
of a violation of the provisions Of this Sec
ton. No person Shall at any time kill any
moose or caribou, or have in his possession
any moose or caribou, or part thereof, kill
ed in this State; and having in possession
any moose or caribou in this State Shall
be presumptive evidence that the same was
killed in this State contrary to law.
Sec. 2. Deer, having horns, may be
hunted and taken In this State during the
month of October in each year; but no per-
son shall hunt. kill, destroy or capture deer
in this State.
(a) With dog or dog kind.
(b) By the aid or use of a jack or artifi-
cial light.
(c) BY the method known as crusting.
I'D While the deer are yarded or
(e) By the use or assistance of amy
snare, trap or salt lick.
Sec. 8. No person during the open season
of any year shall take, kill, destroy, or
have in possession more than two deer.
Sec. 4. Deer killed or taken in Vermont
shall not be transported by any person or
corporation, except that the carcass or
parts thereof, of one deer, lawfully killed
IN the State may be transported in the
open season and for ten days thereafter
when open to view, tagged and plainly
labeled with the name Of the owner thereof
and accompanied by him. and the possess
ion of deer or part thereof by comm on
carrier or servant OF a common carrier, I'M
accompanied by the owner, or not tagged
and plainly labeled with his name shall be
a violation of the provisions of this section
by such common carrier and servant. But
this section shall not apply to the head,
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AN ACT RELATING TO THE ISSUE
OF SEARCH WARRANTS

AN ACT RELATING TO THE ISSUE
OF SEARCH WARRANTS.
1t is hereby enacted by the General AS
semby of the State of Vermont:
Sec. !. 1t shall be the duty OF States
attorneys, city, and town grand jurors, in
case he has reason to believe that intox.-
eating liquor Is deposited in any of the
places mentioned in section four thousand
four hundred and eighty-seven of Vermont
Statutes, to make complaint In proper
form anu on his oath Of office to Justice Of
the peace or municipal court having juris-
diction thereof, which justice or municipal
court shall issue warrant to search the
premises described In said complaint and
in case Intoxicating liquor is found therein
under the circumstances mentioned in said
section, the same shall be seized as in said
section Is provided, and the same proceed
ings shan rhereupon be had as are now
provided by law in case of liquor seized
under chapter one hundred and eighty
seven of Vermont Statutes.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from
Its passage.
Approved November a, 1896.