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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-12-01
Entente Forces IN Salonki Virtually
Free of Disease, Say Health
Authorities.

London.-It is announced that the
health and sanitary condition of the
entente forces in SalonilSi are better
than ever before. There is no cpl
demic, no plaques and no typhoid.
In the suppression of typhoid use
has been made of new serum based
on OIL which has given very satisfac-
tory results. A French army report
estimates that for the whole French
army the average number of typhoid
cases has been reduced to less than
thirty.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-12-01
- a TENEMENT MADONNA

years the nurse has kept close watch
over them. She has shown that often
the child whose heritage seems to be
death can be saved if it Is given the
personal and intimate care that only
woman can give who has time to
mother" 1t.
Her experiment in life saving has
been so successful that the managers
of the asylum are about to adopt this
plan for the caring of the death door
babies" They will find homes where
the infants who do not respond to in
stitutional care can be looked after
and given a chance, no matter how
slight it may be.
This is only one of the hundreds of
services that nurses find
open to them.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-12-01
Card of Thanks

We wish to extend our heartfelt
thanks to our friends and neighbors
who so kindly assisted us during the
sickness and death of our beloved
wife, mother and grandmother.
GEORGE w. TONER
80 AND FAMILY.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-12-01
ENGLAND Needs Roads.

London.-It will require approx
mately $15O,O0O,0O0 to reconstruct or
strengthen $4,000 miles of roads in
Great Britain after the war in order
to enable them to carry the growing
motor traffic, says an official estimate.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-12-01
Social Dance

Don't miss the dance at Forrest hall,
Saturday evening, December /. Fine
orchestra music and good time in
sured. 53-5
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-04-25
NO. 252.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION s
OF NO; as3 OF THE ACTS OF I9IA
RELATING TO THE PAYMENT
OF ACCOUNTS OF THE PUR-
CHASING AGENT.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. Bills for materials or sup
plies ordered, or on account of contracts
made, by said purchasing agent, shall,
If not paid by said purchasing agent
out of moneys received under the fol-
lowing section. be forwarded to the
auditor of accounts, who shall, il such
bills have been approved by said pur-
chasing agent and are approved by said
auditor, draw orders therefor in favor
of the persons rendering such bills.
Sec. 2. Section S of No. $50 OF the
acts of 1874 (Sec. 72ss of the General
Laws, a. proposed) is hereby amended
so as to read a. follows
Sec. S: (Sec. 77ss G. L. When. In
the opinion of the purchasing agent and
auditor. purchases of materials and sup
plies can be made to an advantage for
cash. the auditor may, upon requisition
of the purchasing agent, draw an order.
not to exceed three thousand dollars for
any one purchase, for such sums as may
be required. Said purchasing agent
shall, on or before the fifteenth day OF
each month, render an account in such
form - the auditor prescribes, of the
expenditures of such moneys during the
preceding month and said auditor shall
examine and audit the same.
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gonorrhoea or syphilis shall be fined not
more than five hundred dollars or i'm
prisoned not more than two years.
Sec. e.. Section 3 of No. 1913 Of the
acts of 1915 (Sec. Oil. of the General
Laws, as proposed) is hereby amended
so as to read as follows: 80
Sec. s. (Sec. Oil G. L.) A physician,
or any other person who knows or has
reason to believe that a person whom he
treats or prescribes for or to whom he
sells medicine other than on ply
sicians prescription, has gonorrhoca or
syphilis, shall Immediately report the
name, nationality, race, marital state,
address, age and sex Of such person to
the secretary of the state board of health,
for which report he shall receive the sum
Of twenty-five cents to be paid by the
state board of health. A person who
fails to make such report shall be fined
not more than two hundred dollars.
Sec. 4. Section S of No. 1913 of the
acts of 1915 (Sec. Gil of the General
Laws, as proposed) is hereby amended
so as to read as follows:
Sec. S. (Sec. OH G. L. Said
board shall semi-annually in the months
of January and July pay such persons all
sums due on account of such reports
and such expenditures shall be allowed
in said boards accounts.
Sec. 6. There is hereby added to No.
1913 of the acts of 1915 new section to
read as follows:
Sec. 8. Authority is given said board
under this act to conduct an educational
campaign Of methods of prevention and
treatment and care of persons suffering
from gonorrhoea and syphilis, and sums
so expended shall be paid from the APP
preparation herein named.
Approved March ID, 1917.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-04-25
NO. 233.
AN ACT RELATING TO HABITUAl
DRUNKARDS.

1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. A person who, within a
period of one year, has been three times
convicted of being found intoxicated
shall be imprisoned in the house of cor
rcction for period of not less than
six months nor more than one year (;
provided, however, that If the court in
which such third conviction is had SO
orders, such person shall be taken by
the sheriff of the county for treatment
at the expense of the state to the state
hospital for the insane until further
order Of court, but not to exceed the
time of the original sentence. At any
time within the period of such original
sentence, upon recommendation of the
Superintendent of such hospital, the per-
son so committed may be transferred by
order of the court to the house of cor
rection, and shall there serve the re-
mainder of the original sentence after
deducting therefrom the time spent in
such hospital.
Sec. 2. Section A Of No. 200 of the
acts of 1912 as amended by No. ia of
the acts of 1915 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved March II, 1917.
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United States is at war or threatened
with war, Injuries or attempts or con-
spires, or has in his possession any tool,
explosive or means with intent to use
the same or for some one else to use,
to injure any bridge, road, car, boat,
canal, dockyard, telephone or telegraph
line or equipment, wireless station or
equipment, railway, railway or highway
equipment, road or railway making
equipment, property of any corporation
subject to the supervision of the public
service commission, property designed
for use by the state or any municipality
or railway, telephone or telegraph COM
pany, property of any person, co.part-
nership or corporation engaged in or
about to engage in making munitions
of war or property to become the prop
crty of the state, or any building be-
longing to the state or any municipality
or to any railway, telephone or telegraph
company or to any corporation subject
to the supervision of the public service
commission, or to pollute or place any
poisonous substance in any water liable
to be used by a person or domestic ami
NAL, shall be imprisoned in the state
prison not more than twenty years.
Sec. 4 If three or more persons, act
ing in concert, with force and violence,
attempt to kill, main or wound any per-
son, or to rob person, CORPORATION or
community of money or other property,
or to burn, blow up or otherwise de-
stroy bank building, store, factory,
dwelling house, or other building or de-
lpository of property, or railway car
or engine, or steamboat, vessel or other
water craft, finished or unfinished, for
use in navigablc waters, or property of a
corporation subject to the supervision of
the public service commission, each per-
son so offending shall suffer the penalty
of death. The provisions of this section
shall be in force only while the United
States is at war or threatened with war.
Sec. S. A person who commits an
offense punishable under preceding
section and such offense amounts to trea-
son, shall be punished for treason in lieu
of as prescribed in such section.
Sec. g.. A justice Of the peace, city
or municipal judge, sheriff. deputy
sheriff, constable or police officer hav-
ing notice or knowledge, or who sus-
lpects, that person has committed an
ofense mentioned in this act or treason,
shall arrest such person without war
rant and take him before a justice of the
supreme court or superior judge, who
shall have authority to commit such per-
son to jail, or may bind over with suffi-
cient sureties by way of recognizance,
for his appearance at the next term of
the county court of the county in which
the offense was committed, to answer to
such information or indictment as may
be brought against him, and from term
to term thereafter. Section 1901 of the
Public Statutes shall apply to such a
justice of the supreme court and to such
a superior judge.
Sec. :. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved April ?, 1917.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-04-25
NO. 242.

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE SALE
OF CERTAIN DRUGS OR COM
MODITIES ONTAININ
METHYL OR WOOD ALCOHOL.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section l. A person shall not sell,
offer or expose for sale or have in his
custody, possession or control with in
tent to distribute or sell any commodity
food, drug, preparation or mixture oil
any kind whatsoever intended for in
ternal use, which contains methyl OF
wood alcohol. A person shall not SELL
offer or expose for sale or distribution
or have in his custody, possession OF
control with intent to distribute, sell OF
furnish, or use upon or apply to the
body of another, any drug. hair tonic
bay rum or similar preparation intended
for external use. which contains methyl
or wood alcohol; provided, however
that nothing in this act shall apply ID
veterinary remedies containing methyl
or wood alcohol when such remedies
are plainly and distinctly labeled in such
manner as to indicate that they are in.
tended solely for external use on ami.
mails.
Sec. 2. A person who violates a pro-
vision of this act shall be fined moi
more than one hundred dollars nor les.
than five dollars, or imprisoned not more
than three months.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effec,
from its passage.
Approved February "a, 1917.
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s43 Of the acts of 1914, No. ia Of the
acts Of 1915, No. foI of the acts of 1915
and No. q of the acts of 1915 are hereby
given, granted and imposed upon the
state probation officer and all persons
heretofore committed to the care and
custody Of the several probation officers
In the state are hereby transferred to the
care and custody of such state probation
officer, who shall have the same power
and authority IS II the probationer had
been committed to his custody, and the
records, warrants, documents and files
of such probation officers and Of the
commission on probation shall be by
such officers and commission Immediately
transferred to the custody of such state
probation officer and become a part of
the records and files of such board, and
the secretary shall be a certifying officer
for the purpose of certifying to copies
of all of the records and files in his
custody.
|. Sec. IS. The board may also with the
approval OF the governor appoint and re-
move at pleasure deputy probation off,
GERS both male and female. Such deputy
probation officers shall be under the su-
pervision and control of the state proba-
ton officer and shall receive such COM
pensation as shall be fixed by the board,
with the approval of the board Of control,
and such compensation together with the
necessary expenses of such officers in the
discharge of their official duties shalt be
paid by the state on vouchers approved
by the board.
Sec. 26. Whenever in the Public Stat
utes, the acts of 1908, 1910, 1919, 1915
1917 and the General Laws, the words
probation officer" are used the words
State probation officer" shall be inserted
in lieu thereof
/ Sec. 81. The state probation Officer
shall have supervision of all person.
placed on parole by the governor and
shall, when requested by the governor
investigate and report upon applications
for pardon or parole.
Sec. g. This act shall be construed a.
extending to the pending cases of pro-
baton SO far as its provisions are ap.
plicable thereto.
Sec. 20. The auditor of accounts shall
draw orders for the payment of suct
salaries and expenditures as are author.
lied by the provisions of this act.
! Sec. go Sections I, 2, s. 4, S, 6, ?
8, of No. 243 of the acts of 1912, ant
all acts and parts of acts inconsisten,
with this act are hereby repealed.
Approved April II, 1917.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-04-25
NO. ISL.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 20
OF NO. 81 OF THE ACTS OF
1915, RELATING TO WITNESS
AND JURORS FEES IN MU-
NICIPAL OR CITY COURT.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. Section 40 of No. OF OF
the acts of 1915 (Secs. 77I4 and 7z7o OF
the General Laws, as proposed) Is here
by amended so as to read as follows:
Sec. 20. (Secs. 72I4 and 722o G. L)
Witness fees in municipal or city court
shall be one dollar day for attcndanes
and six cents a mile one way for travel
and jurors fees shall be two dollars Z
day for attendance and six cents q mile
one way for travel.
Approved March If. 1917.
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may require and compel said prisoners
to work on the public highways within
the county, subject to such rules and
regulations. Said sheriff is hereby
authorized to cxpend such sum out OF
the public moneys in the treasury of the
county as is required for the purchase
OF material and tools adapted to the
work herein provided The proceeds oil
such labor, II any, shall be applied In
payment of materials or tools furnished
as aforesaid, and half of any balance
left thereafter shall be turned over tc
the state treasurer and the remaining
half thereof shall be paid to the wife
and minor children of said prisoner, OF
to some person designated BY the cour,
committing said prisoner, for the use oil
said wife and minor children, and ir
case said prisoner has no wife or mino,
children, said half shall be paid by the
jailer to the probation officer Of the
county in which the jail Is situated. Sale
sheriff shall, on or before the tenth da,
of February in each year, render al
account, accompanied by vouchers, to the
auditor of accounts to and including the
thirty-6rst day of January of such year
and pay over any balance in his hands a.
ihereinbefore provided.
Sec. 2. Such probation officer shall
keep an accurate account in a book KEEP
for that purpose of all moneys coming
into his hands and of all payments OF
disbursements made by him under tn,
provisions of this act. and shall be en-
titled to deduct from such sums as h,
receives a minimum fee of one dollar
In each case, and not more than one pei
cent IN all sums over one hundred dol
lars, and said probation officer shall pa,
lover or apply such moneys due said pris
oner in such way and manner as in hi
Judgment shall be best, or deposit such
part of the same in savings bank il
this state at interest in the name of sale
probation officer for the benefit of sale
prisoner.
Sec 3. This act shall take effec
from its passage.
Approved February IL 1917.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-04-25
NO. 235.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION $500
OF THE PUBLIC STATUTES AS
AMENDED BY NO. 221 OF THE
ACTS OF 1910 AND NO. 223 OF
THE ACTS OF 1912, RELATING
10 INQUESTS.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. Section $500 of the Public
Statutes as amended by No. 221 of the
acts of 1910 (Sec. GAS of the General
Laws, as proposed) is hereby amended
90 as to read as follows:
Sec. $780, (See 6445.G. L) A judge Of
the county court, or judge of munich
pal or city court, upon the written appli-
cation of the states attorney, may insti-
tute and conduct an inquest upon any
criminal matter under investigation by
the states attorney. Said judge may
issue a subpoena and an attachment if
necessary to bring witnesses before him
90 give evidence in any matter there
under investigation Such witnesses
shall be sworn and paid the same fees
q witnesses in justice court. Any
Judge so conducting an inquest shall be
disqualified from trying the cause which
was the subject of inquiry at such in
quest A stenographer shall at the ex-
pense of the state and upon the approval
Of said judge, take and transcribe the
testimony of the witnesses for the use
Of the states attorney. The order ap-
proving such appointment of the stenog-
yapher shall be in writing. Said stenog-
sapher shall before entering upon his
duties, be sworn to keep secret all mat
ters and things coming before said judge
at such inquest Such oath shall be in
writing, and said stenographer shall dis
close no testimony so taken by him
except to the attorney general, states
attorney and the judge holding the in
quest; and the minutes of testimony so
taken shall be the property of the state
and the same or copy thereof shall not
20 out of the possession of said attorney
general, states attorney or their success
sors except to an attorney appointed by
the supreme court or county court to act
in the place of or assist states attor-
ney; but nothing in this section shall
ing such evidence on an order of the
supreme or county court. A stenogra-
pher approved as aforesaid who violates
q provision of this section shall be i'm
prisoned not more than one year OF
fined not more than one thousand dollars
nor less than one hundred dollars, or
both. Said judge shall forthwith, after
the close of such inquest. forward his
account to the auditor of accounts, who
shall audit the same and allow said judge
the amount due him. Said auditor shall
prepare and furnish to the proper officer.
the necessary forms for carrying into
effect the provisions of this section.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved February Io. 1917.
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NO. 24S.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 6I61
, OF THE PUBLIC STATUTES AS
AMENDED BY NO. 1873 OF THE
ACTS OF 1908 AS AMENDED BY
NO. a3o OF THE ACTS OF 1915 IN.
CREASINC THE SALARY OF
COMMISSIONER.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly OF the State Of Vermont:
Section I. Section 6I6I of the Public
Statutes a. amended BY No. 1888 Of the
acts of 1903 - amended bv No. 72o of
the. acts Of 1915 (Sec 7Ia6 Of the Gen.
eral Laws. Is proposed) Is hereby
amended so - to read a. follows:
Sec 6I6I. (Sec. zI26 G. L) The an
nual salary OF the state fish and game
commissioner shall be two thousand
dollars and his actual necessary expenses
when away from home on Official BUSH
ness. He shall also be allowed in the
settlement. of his account his necessary
expenses for postage. stationery, blanks.
printing, telephone. telegraph, freight and
express Such salary and expenses shall
be paid out Of the money received by
the state treasurer under the provisions
of No. 3oI of the acts of 1919 and
amendments thereto. Said commissioner
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NO. $50.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION CARS
OF THE PUBLIC STATUTES RE-
LATINO TO FEE UPON DISTRI-
BUTTON OF ESTATES.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. The twenty-third para
graph of section 6218 OF the Public
Statutes is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
For the distribution or division of each
estate by decree of court, two dollars;
by committee appointed by the court,
three dollars. If the estate amounts to
ten thousand dollars in value. ten dol
lars in addition shall be paid, if the
estate exceeds ten thousand dollars in
value, twenty dollars shall be paid for
each additional ten thousand dollars or
larger fraction thereof in value of such
estate.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved February IS, 1917.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-04-25
NO. 249.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION caro-
OF THE PUBLIC STATUTES AS
AMENDED BY SECTION s OF
NO. 1873 OF THE ACTS OF 1908
RELATING TO THE FEELS OF
SHERIFFS AND CONSTABLES:
CHANGING THE MTLLALE AL
LOWED FOR SERVICE OF
PROCESS TO THE NUMBER OF
MILES ACTUALLY TRAVELLED
BY SHERIFF.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. Section 62ro of the Public
Statutes as amended by section 6,of No.
1873 of the acts of 1908 is hereby amended
50 as to read as follows:
Sec. CARO-. There shall be paid to
sheriffs and constables in civil causes
and to sheriffs, constables and police
officers in criminal causes returnable
before justice of the peace, city or
municipal courts, the following fees:
For serving each process by reading,
six cents and by copy ten cents for each
folio provided the minimum fee shall
be one dollar except in the case of SUBJ
poenas.
For each arrest fifty cents.
For taking bail, twenty-five cents.
For each mile of actual travel in the
necessary performance of duty in the
service of any process, ten cents.
init prisoner admitted to the liberties
of the Jail yard, one dollar.
For levying each execution amounting
to three dollars, OF under, fifty cents
and for each three dollars over, not
exceeding one hundred dollars, FIVE
cents; and one per cent for all over one
hundred dollars for each deed of land
sold on execution, one dollar.
For attendance on Justices court
seventy-five cents.
For securing property attached on
mesne process, a sheriff or other officer
shall be allowed reasonable sum as
fees, subject to the revision and allow
ance of the court
For transporting one prisoner to court
for trial, twenty cents mile for travel
one way; If more than one, ten cents
mile for each additional prisoner.
For necessary assistance in transport
| ing prisoners, such sum as is actually
expended shall be allowed, if it seems
reasonable to the auditor of accounts,
and If the officer makes oath that the
money was so expended, giving the name
of his assistant, or names if there are
more than one, and the amount paid out.
For board and keeping, such sum as
is actually expended, not exceeding three
dollars day, shall be allowed for each
prisoner when in the charge of an officer
who cannot reasonably place him in q
Jail or lookup for safe-keeping.
For making search on a warrant GER
tilted by states attorney, one dollar,
and ten cents mile for travel from the
place of service to the place of return.
On mittimus issued by a justice, city
or municipal court there shall be paid
to sheriff, constable or police officer
serving the same, for transporting and
committing one prisoner to the county
Jail fifteen cents mile for travel one
way, and eight cents mile for each
additional prisoner so transported or
committed, and fifty cents for each copy
of the warrant.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved April II, 1917.
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Salaries, Fees, Supplies and
Printing.
NO. PAS.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 6r4o
OF THE PUBLIC STATUTES AS
AMENDED BY NO. I82 OF THE
ACTS OF 1908, RELATING TO
THE GOVERNORS SALARY
AND EXPENSES.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. Section 6I4o of the Public
Statutes as amended by No. I82 of the
Acts of 1908, is hereby amended so as
to read as follows:
Sec. 6I4o The annual salar.. of the
Governor shall be three thousand dol
lars and his reasonable expenses when
away from home. In addition thereto,
he shall be paid the reasonable expenses
of his staff, but such expenses shall not
exceed one thousand dollars in any one
year. The Auditor of Accounts shall,
on the requisition of the Governor, draw
an order in his favor for such expenses.
Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved April II, 1917.