The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-02-24
WARNING FORTH
ANNUAL TOWN
MEETING
Voters to Meet For Action on
Public Affairs
ON TUESDAY, MARCH THIRD
Document Contains an Unusual Mum.
Der Of Articles, All Of Considerable
Importance.

The inhabitants of the Town of
Bennington, qualified by law to vote
in town meeting, are hereby notified
and warned to meet at Library Hall
In said town on Tuesday, the Bird day
of March, 1908, at o'clock in the
forenoon, to transact the following
business.
l. To see whether the town will
vote to elect more than one road com.
missioner.
2. To see If the town will vote to
elect five library trustees.
8. To eject all town officers.
A. To vote by ballot, in the man.
ner provided by law, upon the follow.
ing question: "Shall license be grant.
ed for the sale OF intoxicating liquors
in this town."
5, To hear the reports of the town
officers.
6. To see what sums are necessary
to be raised for the following purpos-.
es viz: For the laying out. maintain
ing and repairing the highways of the
town and for the payment of state
highway tax: for maintaining the
schools and school houses, and for the
school purposes of the town and for
the payment Of state school tax; for
the payment of any Indebtedness and
interest thereon; for the support Of
the poor; for the maintenance Of brid-
ges for the prosecution and defense
Of the common rights and interests
OF the inhabitants of the town; for the
other necessary incidental current
town expenses; and to vote tax up
on the Grand List of the town for the
payment thereof.
Z. To see what, IL any sum the
town will appropriate for the planting
or protection OF shade trees, pursuant
to the provisions of No. rs of the Acts
Of 1904, entitled IAN act to provide
for the Protection Of Shade Trees"
s. To determine at what time the
tax bills shall be delivered to the
treasurer Of the town for collection.
8. To see IL the listers for 1908
shall be paid for their services Sep
TENDER LIST next, and what sum per
day: also to see what sum per day
shall be paid to other town officers;
the town clerk, and the board OF Civil
Authority for their services for the
ensuing year.
10. To see what sum, II any, the
town will vote toward the expenses Of
observing Decoration or Memorial
day.
II. To see what sum, II any, the
town will vote in aid of, or for the
purpose of maintaining a public H.
brary or Libraries therein, and also to
determine how, the same shall be dis
| tributed.
H. To see what, II any sum of
| money the town will appropriate to be
expended under the direction of It's
selectmen upon the main road leading
from the south limits of the village Of
Bennington to the Town of Pownal.
10. To see what, II any sum Of
money the town will appropriate to
be expended under the direction of the
selectmen, for the purpose Of reb d.
ing or repairing the fence around any
cemetery in the Town of Bennington.
a. To see II the town win vote to
authorize the selectmen to refund GER
tain taxes claimed to have been err
roneously paid to 1t during the past
year by Joseph F. Galipo, John Kirby,
T. Betit, William Nevils and James
Cone, including any costs of collection
therefor that may have been paid to
the collector OF the town.
15 To see If the town will remit
a tax assessed upon one thousand dol
lars of the property of the Benning.
! ton Wax Paper Company, the said one
thousand dollars being the appraisal
| of certain building assessed to said
company.
is. To see II the town school dis
trict will vote to erect a schoolhouse
| in what was formerly called the Lyons
district, and If so, to appropriate the
necessary sum therefor, and provide
for the payment thereof.
II. To transact any other business
found necessary when met.
F. M. Crawford
Frank Cromack,
G. H. Houghton,
Selectmen,