The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-28

so as to read as follows:
| The accounts of the water commits
sioners, clerk and of the Village
Treasurer concerning the water fund,
shall be audited in like manner as
provided by the Village charter for
| auditing accounts OF Village officers,
and the pay for auditing the same
shall be paid out of the gross income
, of said system of water works and
be charge thereon.
Sec. IL. Section Is of No. 155 of
the Acts of 1896 Is hereby amended
so as to read as follows:
The trustees of the Village SHALL
semi annually, draw an order against
the general fund of the Village for
the use of the hydrants, or flushing
sewers, and for all other public uses
of the Village system of water works
| by the Village, at the rates thereto
fore charged for the same by the
Bennington Water Company, as pro-
vided for in said deed OF said system
of water works to the Village, and
deliver said order TO the treasurer
OF the Village to be credited to the
water fund.
Sec r. Section IS of No. 1855 of
the Acts of 1896 is hereby amended
so as to read as follows:
If any person or persons shall will
| fully, wantonly or maliciously divert
| the water or part thereof of any of
the ponds, springs. streams, &C
queducts, water courses, dams or res.
| eryoirs that are now owned, or that
] haraoffar ht. toIr
I used or constructed by said Village,
or shall corrupt the same, make it
impure, or commit any nuisance
therein, or within the limits that may
be taken or prescribed by said vii
lage pursuant to the provisions of
this act, or injure or destroy any
dam, embankment acqueduct, pipe,
hydrant. or other property held,
owned or used by said Village, or
shall fraudulently or unlawfully take
the water from any pipes. mains, lat
terals or hydrants of said system OF
water works, shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof shall be fined not less thar
five dollars or more than one hun
dred dollars and costs of prescott
| AOAf anu Sudli ne lldDit W the ' llldEt
for all damage resulting to it, and t
all individuals for all damages result
ing to them by such disturbances, in
jury or pollution, with cost, the sam,
to be recovered in an action on III,
case founded on this statute, and vic
lation of this section committed
within the Village shall be prosecuted
by complaint before the municipa
court of the Village, which shall
have exclusive jurisdiction thereof
Sec. IL. The owner and accu
pant of any tenement house or build
ing who shall take the water from
said system of water works shall b,
liable for the water rent or price O.
the same and the officers and agent.
OF the Village entrusted with tn,
care and superintendent of the sys
tenn of water works may at all rea
sonable times enter any and al
premises supplied with water from
said system of water works to ex
anime the pipes, connections, fix
lures or meters and prevent any un
necessary waste
: Section IA. Said Village is here
by authorized and empowered TO con
tract with school district. yillag,
or other public corporation now o.
hereafter situated in the town O
Bennington, or with corporations ant
individuals in said town, to suppl,
water for the protection of any prom
erty from fire, and for domestic us,
: and other purposes.
Section Is. The Village is hereb,
authorized and empowered TO bol,
: the legal title of lands in the Villag,
OF Bennington acquired by purchase
gift or devise by the Henry w. Put
nam Memorial Hospital and the stru,
lures thereon as and for the pur
poses provided in and by an Act o
= the General Assembly of the Stat,
OF Vermont 1912, entitled. IAN Ac
to incorporate Henry w. Putnam
Memorial Hospital" approved De
cember 10. 1912.
: IL shall be the duty of the sal,
Henry w Putnam Memorial Hospita
Dy Itself or properly designated of
ncer TO make an annual report to tn,
Governor of this State and to IN,
trustees o fthe Village of Bennington
on or before the first day of Augus
in each year, showing the number o.
patients received in the said institu
ton during the year ending the frst
day OF July preceding. distinguish
ing INDECENT from paying patients
the length Of their respective resi-
dences in the hospital and the re
suit OF their treatment, the nature
and value Of the property Of the cor
poration, its resources and pecuniar,
conditions together with all such
other particulars as may be neces
sary to show the condition and oper
alton OF the hospital. and the manner
IN which its funds are invested and
used. Said Village shall have the
right OF visitation over said hospital
at all proper times.
said report shall be a public report
and open to the inspection ~ tbo