The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-11
ANNUAL VILLAGE
MEETING AND
ELECTION
Voters Warned to Assemble
Tuesday, March Fl
TO ACT ON MANY PROPOSALS
Warning This Year Contains Fl Ar
ticles, Many Of Them of
Unusual Importance

The warning for the annual vii
lage meeting and election to be held
on March II is as follows:
The legal voters of the Village Of
are hereby notified and
warned to meet at Free Library hall
in the Village of Bennington on
Tuesday, March 2lst, A. d., 1911 at
nine o'clock in the forenoon to tran
sact the following business:
Article 1 To elect a president of
the village, clerk, treasurer, a
collector OF taxes, corporation at
torney, three 60 auditors, four "a
trustees, and two GU water COM
missioners.
Article 2. To hear the report Of
the officers for the year last past.
Article 3. To see if the village
will vote to direct its trustees to
have printed the report of the do
ings OF its officers for the year ensu-
ing, before the next annual meeting.
Article A. To see what sum, If
any, shall be voted to pay the Ben
nington Fire Department.
Article 5. To see what sum, If
any, the village will vote for open
air concerts given by the Benning
ton City band.
Article 6.-To see what sum, if
any, the village will vote to be paid
to the Bennington Improvement Soc
iety to be used by 1t in the care Of
the cemetery grounds In the village,
and for making other village i'm
proyements.
Article Ito see what sum, If
any, the village will vote to pay its
clerk in addition TO the amount pres
cribed by the charter for services
rendered by him as such clerk, for
the ensuing year.
Article s. To see what sum, II
any, the village will vote for the ex.
tension OF the village sewer system
Article 3. To see what sum, II
any, the village will appropriate fol
building permanent highways under
the provisions of Chapter 172 OF the
Public Statutes.
Article 10. To see what action the
village will take respecting the in
Sailing of additional hydrants
where needed.
Article IL. To see what sum, II
any, the village will vote to pay It's
president and trustees for their ser
vices for the ensuing year.
Article II. To see If the village
will vote to repay to Patrick Guilt
nan, tax of $1.65, to Charles Jones
a tax of S1.7O and to Nelson Matti
son a tax of $5.47, alleged to be un
lawfully assessed against them fol
the year 1910.
Article 13.-To see what sum, 1
Iany, the village will vote to be paiC
to the Girls Civic League of Ben
nington, the same to be used FOL
the payment OF the services of a frs
class director for the Village Plal
ground, and other necessary expen
SEES incurred in the management o
said play ground for the summer o
1911.
Article 14.-To see what sum, /
any, the village will appropriate to
ward the purchase or construction
by the State OF Vermont Of an al
mory in the village of Bennington
for the use of the Vermont Nationa
Guard, and to provide how the sam'
shall be paid.
Article 10. To hear the report o
the committee, the trustees of thu
village OF Bennington, appointed a
the annual village meeting A. ID
1910 under Article 18th of the Warn
ing there OF entitled ITO see wha
action the village will take relating
to the purchasing of a site and tn
erection thereon OF a building, tn
same to be occupied by the W. II
Bradford Hook and Ladder Co, o
the Bennington Fire Department
and also to be used for the purpos
OF housing the fire engine, stablinI
the village team and for the STORM
OF other property of the village; L
see what action the village OF Ber
nington will take in respect to tn
report of its committee upon tn,
matter aforesaid, and to determin
the amount, the manner, etc, OF IL
expenditure, to be appropriated 70
the carrying into effect OF the recon
mendations OF It's Board Of Trustee
as set forth In its report as sue
committee.
Article i6. To see what action IN
village will take relating to the leai
ing from Elmer +. lockwood, for
term OF ten years, at rental G
twenty-five (25) dollars a year,
piece of real estate. the same to b
used for the purposes OF a dumpin
ground
Article IL. To see what tax On
village will raise upon the grand lii
to defray the expenses OF the villag
for the year ensuing to pay It's II
debtedness and to fix the time Il
the collection OF such tax.
Article 1S. To see what tax n
village will vote to raise upon II
grand list for the construction
curb, gutter, and sidewalks upon 4
streets for the year ensuing.
Article 10 To see II the villas
will vote TO pay It's taxes under n
, provisions OF Section 619 to ga 1
elusive, OF Public Statutes an
amendments thereof.
+ Article 20. To see II the villaI
1 will vote to have the provisions
Chapter IL and 12 OF the Publ
v Statutes and amendments there
q apply to the next annual meeting
!. the village or to any special meetll
I. Intervening