Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-02-02

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and prosecute in chancery such proceed
ings as may be necessary for the enforce
ment of such bylaws and regulations and
to prevent breach thereof.
| (c) To establish and maintain a police
department, to provide for the appoint
ment of police officers who shall be
sworn, and who shall within the limits of
such town, have the same power as con-
stables in the service of civil and criminal
process, and such further special author
| ity as may be provided in the bylaws,
not inconsistent with law.
| I'D To establish for the purpose of
regulation or revenue a system of licenses
and fix the fees therefor.
(e) To establish and maintain a fire de.
partment
Q To establish, maintain and keep in
repair a system of sewers or drainage, and
to apportion and assess the expenses
thereof against property benefited thereby
as hereinafter provided
(g) To light its highways and bridges
and to lay the dust on said highways and
bridges by sprinkling or otherwise, and
to assess by vote therefor such portion as
may be voted Of the cost of sprinliling and
otherwise laying the dust on said highways
and bridges, against abutting land own
| ers.
Oh To acquire, establish and maintain
parks and Fairgrounds
ID To regulate and provide for the col
lection and disposition of garbage
ID TO acquire by purchase and to es-
tablish and maintain Il water system for
the furnishing of water for fire protection
and municipal uses and for the domestic
use of the inhabitants of the town.
(k) To acquire, establish and maintain
electric lighting or gas system, or both,
for furnishing electricity or gas for light
ing the streets and for municipal use and
for domestic use of its inhabitants.
Nothing in this section contained shall
be so construed so as to in any way limit
the powers and functions now conferred
upon said town of Brattleboro by law
Sec. 8. Every person who owns real es-
tate abutting upon any street in said town
of Brattleboro, in which any common
sewer or main drain shall be hereafter laid
or constructed, and every person who
owns or has acquired title to any real es-
tate abutting upon any street in said town
IN which common sewer or main drain
has been laid and constructed heretofore,
and who has not been legally assessed for
any special benefits accruing or accrued to
such real estate by the laying and con-
stricting of said sewer or main drain, in
proportion as said special benefits shall
have accrued to said real estate, shall be
assessed therefor by the selectmen of said
town, and notice of the time and place of
such assessment shall be given in writing
to such person, his tenant, agent or lessee.
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be left with the clerk of said town and be
recorded by said clerk, and when such
certificate is so recorded, said assessment
unless vacated, shall be a lien upon said
real estate, which shall be prior to any
mortgages liens or membranes. A per-
son having been assessed toward the ex-
pense of laying and constructing of a COM
mon sewer or main drain in proportion to
the special benefits accruing therefrom to
real estate of which he is the owner may
connect the drain and sewer pipes from
said real estate with such common sewer
or main drain in such manner and at such
points as the selectmen of said town may
designate. When a person is dissatisfied
with an assessment made by the select
men Tor entering any common sewer or
main drain that has already been laid
and constructed as aforesaid, or denies
the right to assess, he may petition the
Nindham county court for IA reassessment
of such contribution or determination of
such right to assess. Such petition shall
be served ON the clerk of said town within
" days next after said assessment for
contribution shall be filed and recorded in
said clerk 5 Office.
Sec. 10. The foregoing sections of this
act shall not become operative nor take
effect unless and until this act is approved
and ratified by majority of the legal
voters residing in the territory embraced
in the village of Brattleboro. present and
voting at the annual meeting of the vii
lage of Brattleboro to be held on the first
Tuesday Of May, 1917: by majority of
the legal voters residing in the Brattle-
boro graded school district, present and
voting at the annual meeting of said school
district to be held on the third Tuesday
Of July, 1917; and by majority OF the
legal voters residing in the town of Brat
tleboro, present and voting at the annual
meeting of said town of Brattleboro to
be held on the first Tuesday Of March
19l7s, or a special town meeting Failed at
'an3~time for that purpose. In ttFa notice
or warrant OF each of said meetings there
shall be inserted an article as follows
ITO see if the village (schoo district
town shall vote to approve, Iatify and
adopt an act of the general assembly of the
state OF Vermont of 1917, entitled An act
to consolidate and amalgamate the Brat
tleboro graded school district, and the
village of Bratteboro with the town of
Brattleboro.'
In case majority of the voters present
and voting at each of said meetings shall
vote to approve, ratify and adopt this act
the first nine sections hereof shall take
effect ON the first day of January, A. d.,
1918
See, II. Section 10 hereof shall take
effect from its passage.