Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-28
RELEASE APPROPRIATIONS
State Moneys Available on July
1, by Act No. So.
University Of Vermont Gets s6s, 1000
s2,23B. 900 in Round Numbers for
Support Of Government-spec.
ial Appropriations.

Appropriations for the support of the
State government totalling about q. 900
IN round numbers. and special appropria-
lions carrying about $SSs,OOO will be releas-
ed for use on July 1, when act No. IS of
the last legislature takes effect. Several
other acts 60 into operation on the same
date as the Free Press already has an
nounced.
The appropriations are Of two classes,
class A, annual or periodical appropria-
tions. and class b. special appropriations.
No account has been taken in the figures
given Of amounts transferred from the
considerable in proportion to the whole.
The actual totals are: $234,320 ana $685.
648.22, respectively. The latter does not
include 5000. O0O'for the purpose of de-
fraying the expenses Of government and
paying such appropriations as may be
herein made" the latter being a blanket
sum called for by section 80 of the act.
SOME OF THE APPROPRIATIONS.
Just as reminders the following appro-
priations for various purposes may be Of
interest. The secretary of State will have
$4,000 for his office and another $4,000 for
publicity purposes The State treasurer
will also have $4,000; State university
$5S. 800; the department Of weights and
measures, 5000; the auditor Of accounts
$40, 900: the insurance commissioner $1,000;
the commissioner of taxes, 10000; the SER
geant at arms, Sic, 900: the State purchas-
ing agent, $500: the commissioner of in
dutries, $4,000; the State engineer, g, 900;
State geologist and curator of the cabinet,
$500; department Of education, 1920. 900
State library. $4,000; free public library
commission, $500; State health board n.y.
gienic laboratory and tuberculosis COM
mission. $2.0 900; INDECENT tuberculosis pa
tients. $50. 900; board Of agriculture and for
| estry. $4,000; tuberculous cattle killed,
| reimbursement, $4,000; highways. $3.50, 900;
| public service commission, 81, 900; ell
mination Of grade crossings. $4,000: State
| experiment station. $150; liquor license
| commissioners. 5000: new armories for
biennial period. $S5.0O0; adjutant general
| and general military expenses. $50. 900;
| freeing Of toll bridges. $4,000; purchase Of
| forest lands, $4,000; Vermont Dairymen's
association. 81. 900; Vermont r.Makers'
association $500: State Horticultural So
| ciety. $500; poultry associations, under act
No. 20 of acts of 1915, $500 for State fair,
81, 900; agricultural societies. under act No.
| 10, of the acts of 1915. 5000: funeral ex-
penses of soldiers and widows, 5000; State
board of charities and probation, SO, 900:
| aid OF INDECENT veterans, $4,000: State
board of pharmacy. $3.50; Vail agricul-
tural school and farms, $22.5O0: State
school of agriculture at Randolph, SIS, 900;
State school for feeble-minded children,
$40, 00O: Middlebury College, $28.S00; Nor
witch University. $4,000; support Of sol.
diers' home. $4,000; state prison. $50, 100:
house of correction. $4,000: industrial
school. 10000: deaf. dumb and blind
900; State hospital for insane, $155. 900
patients at Brattleboro rstreat, $61, 900.
Special appropriations include: For road
through Smugglers' Notch. 5000 or less
Sunderland Hollow road, 5000: for work
Of the secretary of State in indexing vital
statistics. 5000: for new dormitory etc
at the Randolph agricultural school. $685..
900: for new dormitory etc. at school for
feeble-minded children at Brandon. $780,.
900; for new dormitory etc. at Vergennes
Industrial school, $1,000; for rebuilding
barn. ETC., soldiers home. Bennington
$4,000. to complete drawbridge at North
Hero. $1,000; to eliminate grade crossings
etc. under chapter 1914 of Public Statutes
$4,000: for reformatory for women. State
prison. Windsor. .$25 900.