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been accomplished by the conferences.
and have recommended to me the adop-
ton of the following uniform State laws
recommended by the conference of COM
missioners and approved by the Amer
lean Bar association.
The Negotiable Instruments Law"
the Uniform Divorce Act" IAN ACT
Relating to Marriage and Marriage Lii
censes."
The Negotiable Instruments Law"
has been adopted by forty Of the States.
among them New York, Massachusetts,
and New Hampshire. three States with
which We have very close relations The
Uniform Divorce Act has been adopt
ed by three States
The commissioners also report that
they believe it would be wise to ADOPT
the Uniform Sales Act" now in force
IN ter States, and the Uniform Bills Of
Lading Act" now in force in eight
States. Copies of the various acts re-
ferrcd to in their report are appended
to said report. l quote the following
from the report:
Your commissioners believe that this
attendance of commissioners from this
State at the various meetings Of thai
national conference, especially II these
commissioners are appointed for suffl-|
GENTLY long terms of service to become|
familiar with the work Of the confer-|
ence, will result in benefit to the State
1t will tend to produce more care in tha|
drafting of laws. 1t will create a means|
by which the Legislature Of this State
may be compared with that of other
States. Uniformity of some Of the more
important branches OF the law will be
the natural result. AS the commerce o.
the patton becomes more and more in
ter-statc and our business men are hav-
ing increased business relations with
people of other States, uniformity of tina
laws relating to commercial matters Is
Of great advantage. Any work which
tends to simplify and make uniform tha
laws of business, and thereby benefit thu
business interests ought to be encourage
cd and promoted. We believe the adop-
ton of our recommendations will pro.
mote that result"
The commissioners also recommend
the passage of a law creating a board
OF commissioners by the name of Com
missioners for the Promotion Of Uni.
formity of Legislation in the United
States" said board to consist of three
members to serve without compensation.
but to be reimbursed for all OF their ex-
penses In connection with the discharge
of the duties of their office. and provid.
ing for contribution by this State t0
the expenses of the national conference
of commissioners on uniform State laws
a proposed draft of said law Is append
ed to the report.
| respectfully submit to your arten.
ton and consideration the whole of said
report and papers appended thereto,
l wish to express my approval of the
recommendations made by the commits
sioners Vermont should take an active
part with the other States of the Union
in promoting uniformity of State laws
In interstate matters.
OUR WHITE COAL.
Some two years ago / was guest
at a banquet given by the Massachusetts
Real Estate Exchange ana | was asked
to suggest what would benefit most eff
GENTLY industrial life in New England,
and in my response, | enumerated among
other commodities, free coal as ollr dis
lance from the coal fields of Pennsylvania
and Ohio made the cost of transporter
ton for manufacturing purposes nearly
prohibitive. We must have cheaper pow
er to compete successfully with the fac
tories of the great Middle West. I little
realized at that moment that we had a
white coal, so-caled. running to waste
at our doors sufficient to furnish power
for all our factories, all our mining pur-
poses. and our electric lighting plants,
and In addition sufficient TO operate our
steam and trolley railroads
This white coal from hydro-electric de-
Nelopment, free from smoke SCOT and
cinders. attended with no fire risk can be
and is being developed to-day from oul
streams and rivers and furnished in Ger.
tain localities for from - per cent. 10
90 l-S per cent. less per horsepower for
all purposes than can be obtained from
any other source. our streams and riv-
ors including that being developed from
the Connecticut river with power houses
on the Vermont side are To-Day proouc.
ing power sufficient to displace the use
of a million tons of black coal annually
and this power can readily be distribute
ed to every small and large town in tina,
section of our state and thus revive
the hundreds of small factories which
We're formerly hives of industry in SC
many OF our small villages.
Again, now inherent, financially, IOi
our people and State if this $5oO.oo
now paid annually to the coal-producers
OF Pennsylvania and Ohio, should be
produced and kept within our borders.
There has been developed on the Con-
necticut river al Vernon, six miles south
of Bratteboro. what Is probably the
largest hydro-eloctric development ir
this country east of Niagara Falls. AZ
immense concrete dam and power house
on the Vermont shore with eight gener'
ators of moro than three thousand horse.
power capacity each, util2es the flow OF
the Connecticut river, the dam creating
a lake more than twenty-five miles Ions
and covering from four to five thousand
acres. The development is, of course,
partly in Vermont and partly in New
Hampshire, as this is an Interstate
river Rrattleboro thus far is the chief
beneficiary of this development in Yer.
mont. and nearly all the industries OF
1 Brattlcboro are operated by this poweN