The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-19
VOTERS WARNING
FOR ANNUAL
ELECTION
To Be Held at Library Hall
tuesday, March |
WILL BE QUIET MEETING
Not Much Interest in Choice of Offic-
ials and No Agitation Over Ii
cense Issue

The annual town meeting occurs
this year on March LIST. There is not
much interest so far in the election
contests and as no canvass is being
made on the license issue it now
looks as though the meeting may be
exceptionally quiet. The warning is
as follows:
The inhabitants of the town of
Bennington, qualified by law to vote
in town meeting, are hereby notified
and warned to meet at Library hall
in said town, on Tuesday, the LIST day
OF March, 1910, at nine o'clock in the
forenoon to transact the following
business:
l. To see whether the town Will
vote to elect more than one road
commissioner.
,. To see if the town will vote to
elect one library trustee.
3. To see how many listers the
town will vote to elect for the year
ensuing.
4. TO see how many grand Jurors
the town will vote to elect for the
year ensuing.
.. TO elect all town officers.
.. To vote by ballot, in the man
ner provided by law. upon the follow.
ing question: Shall license be
granted for the sale of intoxicating
liquors in this town."
I. To hear reports of the town of.
icero.
s. To see what sums are neces.
sary to be raised for the following
purposes, viz: For the laying out.
maintaining and repairing the high
ways OF the town, and for the pay
ment Of state highway tax: for
maintaining the schools and school.
houses, and for the school purposes
of the town and for the payment of
a state school tax for the payment
of any Indebtedness and interest
thereon; for the support of the poor;
for the maintenance of bridges; for
the prosecution and defense of the
common rights and interests of the
inhabitants of the town; for the
other necessary incidental current
town expenses; and to vote a tax up
on the Grand List of the town for the
payment thereof.
8. To see what sum. il any, and
not less than one hundred dollars.
nor more than five hundred dollars in
excess of the amount OF the highway
taxes now required by law, the town
will vote to appropriate to be expend-
ed for permanent improvement of its
highways in accordance with the pro.
visions of Chapter l72 of the public
Statutes OF Vermont, and amend
ments thereto.
10. To see what, ii any, sum, the
town will appropriate for the plant.
ing or protection of shade trees. pur
suant to the provisions of No. 76 of
the Acts of 1904, entitled AN Act to
Provide for the Protection of Shade
Trees"
IL. To determine at what time the
tax bills shall be delivered to the
Treasurer of the town for collection.
II. To see If the Listers for 1910
shall be paid for their services Sep
TENDER LIST, next, and what sum per
N"S oioO w ste WIFI sum per Jay
shall be paid to other town officers;
the Town Clerk and the Board of
Civil Authority for their services for
the ensuing year.
l3. To see what sum. if any, the
town will vote toward the expenses
of observing Decoration or Memorial
Day.
IA. To see what sum, If any, the
town will vote in aid of, or for the
purpose of maintaining a public H.
brary or libraries therein, and also,
to determine how the same shall be
distributed,
To- To transact any other proper
business found necessary when met.
Dated at Bennington. Vermont this
day of February, 1910.
f. M. Crawford,
Frank Cromack,
c. H. Houghton,
Salectmpn |