The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-26
,o 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. 1876 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, ac-
queducts, water courses, dams or res
ervoirs that are now owned, or that
may hereafter by acquired, taken,
used or constructed by said Village,
or shall corrupt the same, make 1t
impure, or commit any nuisance
therein, or within the limits that may
be taken or prescribed by said Viii
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 than
five dollars or more than one hun
dred dollars and costs of prosecut-
ion, and shall be liable to the Village
for all damage resulting to it, and to
all individuals for all damages result
ing to them by such disturbances, in
jury or pollution, with cost, the same
to be recovered in an action on the
case founded on this statute, and vio-
lation of this section committed
within the Village shall be prosecuted
by complaint before the municipal
court Of the Village, which shall
have exclusive jurisdiction thereof
Sec. 13. The owner and accu-
pant of any tenement house or build
ing who shall take the water from
said system of water works shall be
liable for the water rent or price of
the same and the officers and agents
OF the Village entrusted with the
care and superintendent of the sys-
TEN OF water works may at all rea-
sonable times enter any and all
premises supplied with water from
said system OF water works to ex-
anime the pipes, connections, fix
lures or meters and prevent any I'M
necessary waste.
Section IA. Said Village is here
by authorized and empowered to con-
tract with school district. village
or other public corporation now or
hereafter situated in the town of
Bennington, or with corporations and
individuals in said town, to supply
water for the protection of any prop
erty from fire, and for domestic use
and other purposes.
Section Is. The Village is hereby
authorized and empowered to hold
the legal title of lands in the Village
of Bennington acquired by purchase,
gift or devise by the Henry W. Put
nam Memorial Hospital and the struc
lures thereon as and for the pur-
poses provided in and by an Act of
the General Assembly of the State
of Vermont 1912, entitled, AN Act
to incorporate Henry w. Putnam
Memorial Hospital" approved De-
cember ~, 1912.
II shall be the duty of the said
Henry w. Putnam Memorial Hospital
by itself or properly designated Of
nicer to make an annual report to the
Governor of this State and to The
trustees of the Village of Bennington
on or before the first day Of August
in each year. showing the number of
patients received in the said institu-
tion during the year ending the first
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
its resources and pecuniary
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 oil visitation over said hospital
at all proper times.
Said report shall be public report
and open to the inspection of the
public at all reasonable times.
This Act shall take effect from it's
passage.