The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-10
COMBINATION ACT
JOINING TOWN
and VILLAGE
In One Highway District With
Trained Commissioner
BILL BEFORE LEGISLATURE.
Act Would Not Become Operative
Until Accepted BY Village and BY :
Voters Outside the Village.

The bill to consolidate the village
and rural sections of Bennington into
one highway district has been intro
duced by Mr.. Root into the legisla-
ture and is given in full below. 1t
should be looked over carefully by
the people interested in the step as 1t
can be amended If found desirable.
The bill is as follows:
An Act Creating a Highway District
Of the Town and Village Of
Bennington. t
It is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State Of Vermont:
Section /. The town of Benning-
ton and the village of Bennington are
hereby constituted highway district
for the purpose of building, repairing
and maintaining the highways within
such district.
Section 2. A highway commission
err, who shall have had experience In
road building, shall be appointed by
majority of the selectmen of the town
and the trustees of the village of Ben
nington with the approval OF the state
highway commissioner and may be re-
moved for cause at any time by a ma
,iority vote of each board. Said COM
missioner shall have charge OF the
building, repairing and maintaining OF,
the town highways under the direc-
tion of the selectmen and OF the VII
lage highways under the direction OK
the village trustees. The highway
funds received by the town Of Ben
nington shall be paid to the treasurer
of said town and expended on orders
drawn by the commissioner and ap-
proved by mapority of the select
men. The highway funds received by
the village of Bennington shall be
paid to the treasurer Of said village
and expended on orders drawn by the
commissioner and approved by ma
jority Of the village trustees. Said
selectmen and village trustees shall
decide where such highway funds
shall be expended. ss.
Section 8. If this act shall be rati-
fed by a majority of the voters OF the
town of Bennington and the village OF
Bennington as provided by section
four of this act, the village OF North
Bennington and the village OF Old
bennington uidy JUN SuSH hiSh"oS
district provided majority OF the
legal voters of said villages, respec-
lively, vote to accept the provisions
of this act at meetings duly warned
for such purpose, and If accepted by
said villages of North Bennington and
Old Bennington the highway funds
received by these respective villages
shall be paid to the respective treas
urers of the villages and be expended
on orders drawn by the commissioner
and approved by a majority OF the
selectmen of the town.
Section 4. This act shall take ef-
feet when ratified by majority Of the
legal voters Of the town of Benning-
ton, residing outside the limits Of the
incorporated villages in said town.
present and voting at meeting duly
warned for such purpose, and by
majority of the legal voters Of the VII
lage of Bennington present and vot-
ing at meeting duly warned for such
purpose.
Section s. All acts and parts OF
acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.
Section g. Section of this act
shall take effect from its passage.