The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-05
The Bill in Full as It Was
introduced.
COMMISSION OF THREE
To Select Location Then the
County Judges Will Provide
for Buildings.

The following is the text OF the bill
introduced in the legislature by Nh
Graves of Bennington providing for a
new court house aud Jail for the coun-
ty of Bennington:
Section /. The governor of the state
Of Vermont is hereby authorized to
appoint committee of three judicious,
DISTINGUISHED persons, not residents OF
Bennington county, who shall examine
and select the village in Bennington
county in which the court house and
other county buildings shall be locat-
ed in order TO best accommodate and
be most convenient for the inha bitants
of said county.
If a member of said committee shall
decline to serve, the vacancy so caus-
ed shall be Immediately filled by the
governor.
Section .. Said committee shall, as
soon as may be, proceed TO make such
examination and select such location,
and. having determined said location,
shall, on or before the first day of Feb
ruary, A. ID. 1905, report their decis-
ion to the county clerk within and for
the county OF Bennington.
Section 3. The assistant judges of
Bennington county and OF
are hereby created COM
mittee with powers hereinafter speci-
fed. Said committee shall, upon the
determination of said location being
SO certified to the clerk of said Ben
nington county, Immediately proceed
to purchase suitable grounds, in the
village so designated, for sites for
court house, Jail and other necessary
court buildings, and take conveyance
thereof to said county of Bennington,
and shall Immediately erect suitable
court house, Jail and other county
buildings and Offices necessary for the
use of said county thereon. The same
to be completed on or before the first
day of October, 1906, and at cost to
said county of Bennington not to ex
coed the sum of thousand dol
lars, and for any expenses thereby in
CURED, within said sum said commit
tee may draw orders upon the county
treasurer. If said committee is unable
to agree with the owner or owners OF
lands suitable for sites as aforesaid,
as to the price thereof any judge OF the
supreme court, on application, made
by said committee for that purpose,
shall appoint three DISTINGUISHED CON-
to appraise and determine
the value of said land, and said COM
shall give at least twelve
days notice to the owners or occu-
pants of said land, of the time and
place of such appraisal. When such
appraisal is made, the commissioners !
shall, within ten days, notify the own
ers, if known, of the amount thereof, |
and deliver to said committee writ |
ten statement Of the same, with a des-
cription of tie lands SO by them APP |
praised. which, within ten days there !
after, the said committee shall cause |
TO be recorded in the town clerk S office |
In the town where said lands lie.
Upon payment of the amountof such
appraisal so determined by said COM
with the costs and charges
.hereupon accruing to the owner of
,aid land, or upon the deposit OF the
same in such bank as the commission
ers direct, to his credit, the county of
shall be deemed to be seiz-
I'd and possessed of the lands apprais-
ID, by said commissioners. The bank
such deposit shall PERSONAL
y or by letter through the post office,
notify the person to whose credit such
deposit is made OF the amount thereof
Section 4. Said committee is here
~ authorized and empowered to sell
1t public auction or at private sale, as
n their judgment will be for the best
interest of said county, all right, title
md interest of said county in and to
be buildings now used for court
houses and jails in Bennington and
Manchester, and the land upon which
he same stand, and shall pay the
walls of such sales TO the treasurer OF
he county of Bennington, provided.
owever, If in the judgment of said
ommittee it is for the best interests
# the inhabitants of the probate dis
riots of Bennington and Mancheste.
O to do, said committee shall reserve
q said county buildings at NJ anchester
uitable rooms for Offices for the pro-
ate court, for the district OF Manches-
or and in said county buildings at