News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1911-04-26
SPECIAL VILLAGE MEETING
Special Electric Power Inducements Changes
in Bylaws Adopted

! A largely attended and enthusiastic
village meeting Monday evening, execu
ted the business for which it was called
and adjourned, all in the brief space O
twenty minutes.
After the reading of the warning by
Village Clerk, Niles, the following mo-
ton was offered by M. P. Maurice and
adopted, almost without opposition.
ResoHed-That the Water and Light
Commissioners be instructed to give a
rate of SO per horse power to all manu-
featuring establishments hereafter loca.
ting in the village of Morrisville, based
on the horsepower used by each estab-
lishment for such time and upon such
conditions as said commissioners may
determine.
The report of the committee appointed
at the regular village meeting to revise
the by laws, consisting of M. p. Maurice,
H. A. Slayton and c. H. A. Stafford, was
then read and it's recommendation EN-
bodyed in the following resolution, was
unanimously adopted.
To the, special village meeting of the
village of Morrisville:
Your committee appointed to propose
| amendments to the by laws of said vii
lage, would respectfully report that they
recommend the following additions and
amendments to the by laws of said viii
lage.
That Chapter II, be amended by adj
ding to Article 2, the following:
No persons shall operate billiard and
pool tables, except in such places as the
trustees shall in writing permit, said
regulations not to be inconsistent with
the laws of Vermont. Any person or
persons, operating a pool or billiard
table in place other than above speci-
fed, shall be fined not less than five
dollars. nor more than twenty dollars,
with costs of prosecution.
The trustees shall regulate the time
and place of bathing within any OF the
public waters in said corporation. Any
person violating any regulation so made,
shall be fined not less than one dollar, |
nor more than ten dollars.
No person shall operate a moving
picture machine show, except by the
written permission of the trustees, and
under such regulation as shall be pre-
scribed by the trustees. Any person
this section shall be fined not
less than ten dollars, nor more than fifty
dollars.
2. By adding to Article 3, the fol-
owing:
No person shall operate victualing
1ouse except by written consent of the
trustees, on penalty of a fine of not less
han five dollars, nor more than twenty
dollars.
3. BY adding to Article 4, the fol-
owing
No person shall cucumber the side
walks with firewood, boxes, or other
Kings, for a space of time greater than
Tx hours, without the permission there
or in writing signed by majority of
he trustees, on penalty of a fine not ex
eeding five dollars, with costs of prose
ution.
All owners or occupants OF any prem
SEES abutting on the public streets in
aid village, shall keep the sidewalk and
cutters on said street clean, and free
rom snow, ice, dirt and garbage, under
UGH regulation as shall be prescribed by
he trustees, on penalty of fine not less
han one dollar, nor more than ten dol.
ars, with costs of prosecution.
No person shall throw snowballs or
Their objects on the public streets; in
ending to injure or annoy persons there
n, or to endanger the security ofproper- I
" or shall practice in said streets any T
which shall injure or annoy A
ersons thereon, or endanger the securi- I
Y of property, on penalty of a fine of not 2
SIS than one dollar nor more than ten I
ollars with costs of prosecution.
4. In the last section on page ~ of
1e printed bylaws after the word evil
Ige," in the third line, add "or on the
nds of another"
On motion of DR.. ]. A. Robinson, the P
y-laws, as revised, were ordered printed B
nd distributed among the voters OF the
llage.