The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-02
NEW LAWS PASSED
BY LEGISLATURE
JUST ENDED
Completed Acts From the 822
Bills introduced.
MANY IMPORTANT MEASURES
Appropriation Bills Are Not Included
in List as Total Figures Are Not
Yet Compiled.

Following is given a summary OF
the principal bills passed by both
house and senate and signed by the
governor Nth the exception of the
/ opliatiOn bills and as soon as
the amounts carried by these bills.
which, in some cases are rather in.
definite, are fixed, they will be pub
lished.
l.. S. 8. Relating to commitment for
misdemeanor.
S. 4. Refunding agricultural loan
of $4,000
I S. Changing the name of the
! Congregational convention of Yer.
mont to Vermont Congregational Con
ference.
S. s. Abolishing the court OF
claims.
S. 10. Defining optometry and
regulating the practice thereof.
S. II. Amending the statute re.
lating to food and drugs Provides
Imprisonment for one year and Mkt
mum fine of $500 for fraudulent ad-
liberation of food drugs or medicine
5. 10. Permits the formation of
corporations by three persons.
S. Is. Authorizing the attorney.
general to employ detectives: this
power formerly rested with states
Eattoneys with the consent of the
/ governor.
S. %. Uniting the Rutland Rail
way, Light and Power Co. Rutland
Street Railroad Co, People Gaslight
Co., Rutland City Electric Co., Chit
tenden Power Co., and the Vermont
Internal Improvement Co.
S. 80 Authorizes state board of
health to purchase anti.toxin and
distribute 1t without charge TO use in
cases Of diphtheria.
s. AZ Providing for instruction
Of blind children and adults in the
discretion of the governor.
5. "A. The gun license bill: re-
quires registration fee of 50 cents
from resident hunters. Non resi-.
dents and aliens must pay SIS for a
license. Takes effect Sept !, 1909
5, 49, Imposing duties of the tu-
berculosis commission on the state
board of health.
S. 81. Providing for the display
of nags on school buildings.
5, g. Authorizes the governor
TO appoint delegates to prison con.
crosses.
S. r. Providing for appeals from
probate courts in the matter of in.
sane persons
S. o. Providing for the inspec-
ton OF milk sold by dealers who ped
die from house to house.
S. 1913. Authorizes the transfer
OF prisoners from the house OF cor
rection to the state prison and vice
versa on order of the governor.
S. l0S. Makes reduction Of
five days a month for good behavior
by prisoners in house OF correction
and If the prisoner is poor and desti-
tute authorizes him to receive 81 a
month when discharged.
S. 12O. Prohibits carrying liquor
into penal institutions
S. 12l. Forbids the use of artifi-
cial lights or power boats in hunting
ducks
s. 127. Provides a fine of $500 or
Imprisonment for two years (maxi-
NUM- for injuring machinery or ap-
paratus of an electric company
S, 146. Creates a commission con
sisting of the governor lieutenant
governor. speaker, chief Judge, secre-
tary Of state, state treasurer, auditor,
Encouragement state librarian and
commissioner Of state taxes to ex-
anime into the needs of additional
buildings for the use of the state or
the enlargement of the present state
house.
S. 1871 Establishing boundary
line between Vermont and New York
S. 1862. Amends section 1880,
1893, and 1927, and repeats section
1896 OF the statutes relating to
school age and attendance.
H. /. To enable the city of st. AL
bans to issue warrants for the pur-
pose of increasing its water supply
H. 6. Empowering ,towns and
cities and Incorporated villages to
appropriate money for agricultural
fairs.
H. 10. Relating to trustees of
Methodist Episcopal church; gives
them corporate powers for holding
real estate.
II. II. Relating to the open season
for deer; the doe bill
H. 10. An act for the prevention
of forest fires; authorizes the COVER
nor to suspend the open season for
hunting in case of severe drought.
H. 10. Providing for the celebra-
ton Of the tercehtenary of the dis
covery of Lake Champlain and ap.
propriating $4,000 for the purpose
H. %. Relating to courts of in
Quiry for insane paupers.
IT, 30, Relating to railroad trans
portation; authorizes special rates
for fairs and schools
II. So Authorizing the governor
to employ a stenographer and in
creasing salary of secretary of civil
and military affairs.
II. 40. Relating to sewers In vii
lagos Allows villages Incorporated
under the general law to assess a tax
for the purpose Of building sewers.
II. A. Relating to grade crossings
and defining the powers OF the public
service commission In relation there
to.
II 5S. Relating to peddlers and
defining what class of vendors shall
be considered peddlers within the
meaning Of the law.
II. GO. Relating TO the quadrennial
appraisal. Providing for an apprals-
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