Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-11-03
Governor Expected to Fill Va
cancy on Public Service
Board by Appointment.
VERCENEES MAN MENTIONED
Bill to Refund Agricultural Col
lege Loan Approved-Not
Generally Understood
It's History.

Montpelier, Oct 31.-The Governor this
afternoon announced the appointment f
these three trustees of the permanent
school fund and signed their commissions:
j. A. DeBoer OF Montpelier Porter n
Dale of Island Pond and J. H. Southwlck
of Burlington. Mr.. DeBoer and Mr..
Southwick succeed themselves and Mr.
Dale takes the place Of Il. NJ. Mansur OF
Newport.
1t IS expected that the announcement
OF the appointment of member of the
public service commission TO succeed Eli
Porter Of Wilmington will be made this
week and ii Is talked that If Mr. Porter
Is not reappointed that the man likely
to get the place Is r. W. Warner of Ver-
gennes Mr.. Warner is a druggist OF that
city and the chairman of the State board
of pharmacy and is regarded as n sue
cessful business man OF liberal IDEAS.
Moic than that It Is said that he was one
of the original Mead men in Addison
county and that early In the campaign
he took Off his coat and put in lots Of
hard and successful work for the
Governor.
MEANING OF HOUSE BILL NO. 3.
House bill No g. which was approved
to-day by the Governor. has an inter
esting bit Of history connected with it and
is not even row generally understood BY
the members Of the General Assembly
1t is the bill entitled an act to refund
the agricultural college fund loan of 1912
ana its provisions caused some to think
Wncn II was first introd iced that tho
State was turning over TO the arricul-
,rr,I oo,Iooo 80. zoo '''' "s ''"'-
As a matter Of fact it is an act taking
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40 1000 '''' 80 'i'' '''t'oi''
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sors n.u,.. o'.'er
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r''!'e Vi 'erhsi'l'e ana 'ohh IS fhee or
''' w ''''e '"' ION" scrip
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SECOND STATE TO REC EVE QUOTA
.r,,
,n.o N ''
.t1a. ,1'. 900
these agents qualihed and gave bonds.
Smith IN 1862 s,rres,ed tho .,a,,s,hili,v
of investing the proceeds of the sale of
this land scrip in the bonds OF the State,
whose bonded Indebtedness was then ST.
$4,000 and the State be benefited in a per
manent investment the interest Of which
should be paid to her own Institution.
On the 10th day Of October. 1853. the
state received the scrip of which there
were 937 pieces for one-uuurter section
each. repress ntlng 10000 acres and Il
was deposited in the State treasury,
Vermont being the second state. Rhode
Island being first, to receive It's quota
1t seems, however. that the original
act appoiatns agents to receive the scrip
failed 20 Give them any authority to dis
pose Of it so the Legislature Of 1853
passed another act to remedy this and
John II. Page was annointed tho ayen,
to sell the scrip.
l., 100, -,
tanned the Information that the scrip has
been sold for sl26. 10 which had been
l''eSteu III state bonds. Homer T.
Royce had meanwhile resigned as one
on the agents and Gov. Smith appointed
Henry W. Hickok of burlington in his
place
TENTH FOR CO1I.r1Ir sIrr
7, ,vs, a..
Wv, ."o LEGISLATURE chartered the
yided tho, ,n,s. 'o"ese ana pro-
that r,. PROVISION or congress-
from .be ssIo 'he money received
voted to IN. ny shouIo DC ue-
for the collas. u SITE OF farm
In 1865 tho ,r,,..
Agricultural oo, VI Tue vermont
Paul Dillingham; .eo 10 gov
University of ver,nu. ''''' '"o
tural college bs nri,as vac As''cu'-
II the reasons that on,,' sN "'s az one
five fixed by Conrr.ss ~, y, III"
which the States shou,d '''''' ~
agricultural college. Accor,,., d"
isiature Of 1896 Incorporated ~, r
Sity or Vermont and sto,a A,..a'.