The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-12-10
FIVE AND ONE-HALF
INCH TROUT TOBE
LEGAL LENGTH
Committee Bill to That Effect
Passes House
ADJOURNED 70 MONDAY NIGHT
House Transacted Considerable Bus
mess During Long Afternoon
Session

Montpelier, Dec. 10.-Both houses
adjourned yesterday afternoon until
Monday evening at 1880. The Senate
did little during the afternoon, but
the House was in session till nearly
five O'Clock and got away with a
large amount of routine business.
A bill came in from the judiciary
committee which prohibits attorneys
from becoming bail for respondents
in criminal cases. One introduced
by Mr.. Martin of Hartland makes
2240 pounds a legal ton of coal in
Vermont and provides a penalty of
$50 for selling less than that guam
tity for ton.
lie House did a good piece Of
work in passing with very little OPP
position the direct inheritance tax
bill, which provides that on estates
amounting to $4,000 or over this tax
shall be collected
The bill passed by the House yes
terday morning relating to the settle
ments OF accounts by town officers
was in line with the declarations Of
both parties in favor of a uniform
system of accounting throughout the
state
The bill provides in brief. that
town officers must settle their ac-
counts with town treasurers at least
80 days before TIA annual town or
city meetins.
The bill appropriating 100000 for
highway purposes. introduced early
in the session by Mr. Babbitt Of
Rockingham, came in with recommen-
dations Of amendment by the commit
tees on appropriations and on high
ways TO which 1t was jointly refer
red. The amendments proposed by
these committees were almost unani.
mously adopted and the bill was or
dered TO a third reading. The amend
ments provide for an appropriation
Of $4,000 payable March l, 1911;
$4,000 payable July l. 1911; $780,
600 payable July, 1912, and annually
thereafter.
The House voted TO reduce the le-
gal length for brook trout to be
caught from six 10 five and one-half
inches. This was done when the bill
I
ton was under discussion, which re-
lates to the preservation Of fish and
amends certain sections of chapter
220 of the public statutes. Mr.. Howe
spoke from the floor in favor OF the
original bill and was supported by
Mr. Pittridge of Leicester
Mr. Orvis OF Manchester and Mr.
Billings of Woodstock favored the
amendment proposed by the commit
tee which would restore the six-inch
law, but the House stood by the or
iginal bill and ordered It TO a third
reading in that particular in its or
iginal form.
Attempts We're then made to amend
it by making the legal length Of
brook with the six-pOund and forty
In number limit OF brook trout thai
can be caught in one day. but this
| the House refused TO do.
The Senate also passed bills pro
viding that taxable real estate shall
/ be set in the list OF the last owner
or possessor thereof as Il appears on
record the first day OF April OF eacl
year and providing for the licensing
Of dogs brought into the state be
/ tween May 8 and January | not pre-
/ viously licensed here.
BY request. Senator Archibald In
troducd u bill which authorizes the
/ purchase by the state librarian viii
the advise OF the fourth assistan
Judge Of the Supreme court OF l0l
copies Of Vermont Citations" at I
cost OF not to exceed 81 per volume
which are to be distributed by IN,
State librarian the same rs Yer
mont Reports"
The afternoon session OF the Sen
ate lasted less than half an hour.
Senator Archibald. by request In
troduced bill relating to the en-
ployment OF child labor. II raises tn
age at which child can be employ
ed from IL TO IA years, no child IN
der l6 to work at any OF the danger
Gus operations which are specified Il
the bill, girls under is are not TO b
employed In any capacity that con
pels them to stand constantly an
employers OF females under is mus
provide seats and permit their use