The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-02-21
MANYTH|NGS TO Be
CONSIDERED AT
MARCH MEETING
Large Amount of Business Out
lined in Warning
TO ACT ON AMENDMENTS
Direct Tax Imposed by Legislature
One of the Subjects for
Action.

The inhabitants of the Town OF
Bennington, qualified by law to vote
in town meeting, are hereby notified
and warned to meet at Library Hall,
in said town on Tuesday, the 4th day
of March, 1913, at nine o'clock in the
forenoon to transact the following
business
/. To see whether the town will
vote to empower and authorize the
selectmen to appoint one or two
road commissioners, the number to
be determined by the town in said
meeting, or whether the town will
vote to elect one or two road COM
missioners.
2. To see If the town will vote to
elect one library trustee.
3. To see if the town will vote to
elect a lister to serve one year in
addition to the lister to be elected at
said meeting for the term of three
years.
4. To see how many grand jurors
the town will vote to elect for the
year ensuing.
5. To see IL the town will vote TO
elect second constable.
8. To see If the town win vote
} to elect a collector of taxes.
Z. To see if the town will vote
to elect tree warden.
s. To elect all town officers.
| O. To vote by ballot in the man.
ner provided by law, upon the follow
l ing questions: A.-"Shall license be
3 granted for the sale of intoxicating
: liquors in this town." B-"Shall
p licenses of the fifth class be granted
1 in this town."
D 10. To see II the freemen will
r vote to accept or reject the proposed
g articles of amendment to the consti-
}, tuition OF Vermont.
r IL. To hear reports of the town
/ officers.
l. IL. To see what sums are neces-
n sary to be raised for the following
d purposes, viz: For the laying out
e maintaining and repairing the high
3 ways of the town, and for the pay
70 ment of state highway tax; fol
e maintaining the schools and school
q houses, and for the school purposes
t. of the town and for the payment Of
p state school tax; for the payment
ID of any indebtedness and interest
Is thereon; for the support OF the poor
m for the maintenance of bridges and o.
Id winter or snow roads. for the prosecu
p ton and defense of the common right,
) and interests of the inhabitants o
H. the town; for the other necessary In
ir cidental current town expenses; anC
2. the payment of a direct state tax IL
| oag 10 fc nv ha
mont Legislature now in session
and to vote tax upon the Crane
List of the town for the paymen
thereof
in -. To see what sum, If any, ant
not less than one hundred dollar
u, nor more than one thousand dollars
" " in excess of the amount of the high
Y way taxes now required by law. thu
- town will vote to appropriate to b.
"a expended for permanent improve
le ments of its highways in accordance
40 with the provisions of Chapter 172 o
- the Public Statutes of Vermont, ant
u amendments thereto.
II IA. To see IL the town will vote t
H. appropriate the sum of four hundred
u ninety-six dollars and ten cents L
u pay its share of the expense incurred
n in the employment of government
III county agricultural adviser pursuan
ie TO the provisions of an Act entitled
III IAN Act to Enable Towns to Appro
o pirate Money for County Agriculture
p Work, passed by the General AS
T. sembly of the State of Vermont o.
J. the year 1912.
u 10. To see If the town will vote &c
,e have medical inspection of the
II schools of the town.
a 16. To see what. il any, sum the
y town will appropriate for the plant
II ing or protection of shade trees, pur
+ suant to the provisions of No. rs OF
" the Acts of 1904 entitled "An Act to
u Provide for the Protection of Shade
!. Trees"
IL. To determine at what time the
tax bills shall be delivered TO the
; treasurer of the town for collection.
is. To see IL the Listers for 1912
s shall be paid for their services Sep
, TENDER LIST, next, and what sum per
u day; also to see what sum per day
/, shall be paid to other town officers;
I the town clerk. and the board of
: civil authority for their services for
, the coming year.
10. To see what sum. II any, the
town will vote toward the expenses
OF observing Decoration or Memorial
! Day.
20. To see what sum, II any, the
: town will vote in aid Of. OF for the
purpose Of maintaining a public lib
: rary or libraries therein and also. TO
. determine how the same shall be dis
tributed
q. To transact any other proper
business found necessary when met
Dated at Bennington. Vermont. this
18th day Of February. 1913.
p. NJ Crawford.
! Frank Cromack.