The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-01
S767.56 DAMAGE
BY DEER IN THIS
COUNTY
Statistics Compiled by Game
Warden Chase
METHOD OF FILING CLAIMS
Chairman of Selectmen Must Be No
titled of Damage Within Ten
Days of Occurrence
OF FILING CLAIMS

The following figures represent the
various sums allowed to land owners
in Bennington county for damage to
their crops by deer during the year
1999,~ The appraisals are made by
the county game warden of the coun-
ty in conjunction with the chairman
of the board of selectmen of the town
where the damage occurred. The le-
gal procedure incident to collecting
a claim is very simple and causes the
claimant little or no inconvenience.
Within ten days after the damage is
done he must notify the chairman OF
selectmen in writing This is all
that is required of him. Then the
selectman calls and examines the
damage, and if he decides it was
caused by deer he calls in the county
warden and if the two agree that the
claimant has suffered loss by deer
they appraise the same and return Il
certificate of the amount under oath
to the auditor of accounts Before
the auditor pays the claim, however,
1t must be approved by the state fish
and game commissioner. Then the
claimant receives an order on the
state treasury.
County Warden Chase reports that
there has been SO claims adjusted ia
Bennington county during the pres
ent year and only in one instance has
there been the slightest friction be
tween the appraisers and the claim
ant, and that the law seems to work
very satisfactorily. All the claims
appraised have been cheerfully and
fully approved by Commissioner
Thomas for the entire sum given in
the certificate. In 1907 claims
amounting to $3.50 were paid in this
county; in 1908, s2S726; in 1909 the
following sums and the selectman act
ing with the warden are reported:
Arlington
+. B. Baldwin, Chairman OF Selectmen
George w. Cross, claims-beans,
1925; beets and other garden prod
uce, Sc, total SLABS.
Isiah Young, claims-beans, $36,
corn, $40, total. SAG.
Sidney Squiers. beets and beans,
$19.52.
William j. Curtis. beans and peas,
$14.
Eugene Griffis, beans and buck
wheat. $3.50
Edward Grifiis, beans, $3.50.
r. j. Sinclair, buckwheat, Sc
l.. H. Woodland, buckwheat, 500.
Charles H. Cole. buckwheat, 1880
Mrs Andrew Webb, all garden pro
duce, 80.
Michael Powers Murray Hollow
buckwheat, 1872.
Bennington
f. M. Crawford, Selectman
George f. Heath, peas, beans and
carrots, Sl9.
Amos Aldrich, End, cabbage, 1895.
Frank A. Rice, claims-cloveI,
hay and oats, $47S0 and turnips and
cabbage, $5622, total, $104.02.
Dorset
J. H. Nadeau, Selectman.
A. j. Gormley potatoes, oats and
garden, $500.
s. Dillingham;, beets, IS.
h. l.. Roberts, buckwheat, SIS.
John Dalton, buckwheat, S35.
Glastonbury.
Charles Becker, Selectman.
Norman l.. Mattison beans ana
other garden produce, $20.50.
Salisbury
l.. NJ. Loomis, Selectman.
George Waits, cabbage, $14.05.
Ernest e. Cole, buckwheat, 81.
John Olin, beets, beans and buck
wheat $s6.50.
h. E. Potter, Selectman
Anthony Tatro, turnins and cab
bage, $72.45.
iE. A. Perry, cabbage, beets and
other garden produce, $500.
Manchester
H. c. Reynolds, Selectman
f. b. Taylor, peas, S.
Lezem Bovey, oats and buckwheat,
$24.32.
Sunderland
E. G. Bacon, Selectman.
Chris. Godette. cabbage and beets,
So.
Jesse H. Bacon, peas, beans and
potatoes, $3.50
Q. A. Hall, beets, beans and cab
bage, $3.50.
Jack Ross, beans, beetS and oats,
500.
d. b. Hendee, beans, peas, oats,
$40.
Il. l.. Squiers potatoes, $500.
Readsboro
II. |. Stafford, Selectman.
Charles S. Ross, beans, turnips,
So
Total paid in 1909. $767.56.