Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-02-17
NUMBER 225.
B AHI lin Of G' x 20 ooUR sPf HOUSE sE
AND JAIL AT BENNINGTON
AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE
MAINTENANCE OF THE COURT
HOUSE AT MANCHESTER.

Tt is hereby enacted By the General IS
senably of the State of Vermont:
SECTION 1. Everett E. Potter of Pow
nal, J. Henry Hicks of Manchester, Albert
W. Varney of Bennington, Geo. B. Sheldon
of Rupert and James lyman of Arlington,
citizens of Bennington county, are hereby
appointed and created a committee with
powers hereinafter specified. In case Of
any vacancy on said committee by death,
resignation or otherwise. such vacancy
shall be filled by appointment by the
governor. Said committee shall deter
mine the location of sites for county
court house and jail in the village of Ben
nington, and shall forthwith proceed to
purchase said sites and take conveyance
thereof to said county and shall forthwith
erect thereon suitable court house and
Jail, including residence for the county
iailer, for the use of said county. Such
buildings shall be completed not later than
December 1, 1910, if possible, and at
cost to said county not to exceed the sum
pense thereby incurred within said sum,
said committee may draw orders upon the
county treasurer, who shall pay the same
after said orders have been audited and
approved by the county auditor and the
assistant judges of said county. ~
Sec. g. If said committee is I'M
able to agree with the owner of lands suits
able for sites as aforesaid as to the price
thereof. Judge of the supreme court or a
superior judge, on application. by said
committee for that purpose shall appoint
three disintereSted commissioners, who
shall first determine the necessity for TAX
ing such sites as aforesaid, and, if found
necessary, shall appraiSe and determine
the value of said land. Said commissioners
shall give at least twelve days notice to
the owners or occupants of said land of
the time and place of such appraisal.
When such appraisal is made, the COM
missoners SHALL within ten days, notify
the owners, if known, of the amount
thereof, and deliver to said committee a
ctat of 10 Tyith
description of the lands so by them ap-
praised, which, within ten days thereafter,
said committee shall cause to be recorded
in the town clerks office in the said town
of Bennington. Upon the payment of
such amount of such appraisal so deter
mined by said commissioners, with the
costs and charges thereupon accruing, to
the owner of said land, or upon the deposit
of the same in such bank as the commits
sioners direct, to his credit, the county Of
Bennington shall be deemed to be seized
and possessed OF the lands appraised by
said commissioners. The bank receiving
notify the person to whose credit such
deposit is made, of the amount thereof
No site shall be purchased for said county
buildings unless said site shall be of sufff-
Gent area to provide amply for said build
ings and also to provide a permanent open
space on all sides of said buildings at least
thirty feet in width
SEC. 8. Said committee is hereby
auction or at private sale, as in their judg-
ment shall be for the best interests of said
county, all right, title and interests of said
county in and to the building now used for
a court house and jail in said Bennington,
and the land upon which the same stands,
and shall pay the avails of said sale to the
treasurer of the county of Bennington;
provided, however, that the possession of
the county building in the town of Ben
ningtOn shall in no event be surrendered
until the new county buildings are con-
structed and ready for occupancy. Said
committee may retain and use any parts
of the vaults, cases and fixtures now used
in the present county building, and install
the same in said new buildings to be
erected, when in the Judgment of said
committee, it will be for the best interests
of said county so to do.
SEC. 4. There is hereby assessed on
the polls and ratable estate of the several
towns of the county of Bennington, a tax
of five cents on the dollar of the grand list,
beginning in the year 1911 and continuing
each year until the amount raised shall be
sufficient to pay the expenses of the cree
ton OF the county buildings herein pro-
vided for The last year that said tax is
assessed, it shall be such part of five cents
on the dollar of the grand list, as may be
necessary to pay the balance of the war
rants then outstanding Said tax shall
be collected in the same manner as county