St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-12-26

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lions may be exempted
H. 335. Reorganization of the ju
dietary, one supreme court judge anG
three associate judges, together with six
superior judges, the latter to be trial
judges in county courts.
H. 1O7. Persons absent and unheard
from shall be deemed legally dead after
five years.
H. els. Requires dealers in ever
green trees to secure a license and
specifies dealer as one who cuts more
than twenty evergreen trees in a year
less than six inches butt diameter; fee,
$50.
H. 419. Exempts college fraternities
from taxation.
H. 431. Frees Sandbar bridge from
tolls and provides for culvert if half
sum required be raised by subscription.
H. 457. To improve public roads
and establish state highway commits
sion; appropriates $4,000 annually, to
be expended under direction of com
mission.
H. 1914 Exempts electric railroads
from taxation for term of five years
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pies of medicine in careless or improper
manner.
H. 473 Prohibits selling, furnishing,
or giving to minors candies containing
Intoxicating liquor.
H. 634. Railroad commissioner bill;
gives commissioners judicial powers and
furnishes machinery to have their orders
enforced.
H. 669. Provides for the employ
ment of prisoners convicted for intoxca-
ton, breach of the peace, or tramping
and confined in county jails.
H. 557. Imposes 40 of per cent.
on interest, bearing deposits i'll national
banks penalty clauses were amended out
of the bill and banks agreed to report
such deposits
H. $50. Taxes railroads in gradual
ed scale according to mileage; tax based
on gross earnings and runs from 212 to
per cent.
H. 264. Appropriates $4,000 for
representing the state at the James
town Exposition to be expended under
the direction of the governor.
H. 264. Prohibits the brokerage of
insurance.
H. 2S1. Requires power boats to
carry lights when running at night or at
anchor
H. 295. Reviving company to rem
der Connecticut river navigable to
Quechee falls.
H. 595. Repeats former caucus law
and provides for use of check lists in
party caucuses, under direction of the
town clerks, with penalty for voting
in more than one caucus.
H, 621. Provides compensation for
damages done tocrops, ETC., done by deer.
H. 623. To incorporate the Vermont
Improvement Association; appropriation
Tor this society not signed by the govern
or.
H. 627. Regulating railroads and
railroad traffic; makes law more strin-
gent and does away with use of stoves
Tor heating coaches on mixed trains.
H. CPS. To punish public officers for
neglect of duty.
H.: $50. Public wharf for the city of
Burlington.
H. 659.' To make the lowest rate
named by telephone company the
rate governing its business throughou
the state; bill was amended so that
nothing remained but enacting clause
and penalty.
H. 665. To provide for removing the
Old Constitution House in Windsor; not
signed by the governor.
H. ell Provides for committing
persons excessively using Intoxicating
liquor or narcotics to state insane
asylum at Waterbury.
H. GA. The automobile bill; practi-
cally replaced by new bill, which provides
for registration and operating fees, sets
speed limit and permits town authori-
ties to provide local regulations.
H. $50. Requires express companies
to give security for the payment of state
taxes.
H. Csc. Providing for barn at the
house OF correction; not signed by the
governor.
H. 800. Memorial for Seth Warner
and Remember Baker, with appropria-
ton OF $1,000; not signed by the
governor.
h. 694. Providing that the sergeant
alarms shall purchase coal for various
state institutions; not signed by the
governor
H. 696. Changing name of the
inspector of finance to bank commission
er and raising his salary.
Passed by the Senate.
S. 61 Creating office of cattle COM
missioner and fixing remuneration for
condemned cattle at 80 per cent of ap-
praised value
S. So. Creating board of penal in
stitutions, to take the place of the direct
ors OF the state prison and the house of
correction and the trustees of the Yer
mont industrial school.
S. 100. Appropriating $500 for five
years to establish a nursery of forest
seedlings at the state experiment station
in Burlington.
5. n. Employing certain prisoners
outside the walls of penal institutions.