Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-04-23
Sec. 4, Section 377S OF the General
Laws is hereby amended so as to read


Laws is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Sec. ,s77S Said clerk shall receive
twenty-five cents for each certified copy
OF birth or death certificate, and fifty
cents for each certified copy Of 4 mar
riage certificate, furnished or recorded
i'll accordance with the provisions of the
preceding section. the same to be paid
by the town for which said clerk acts.
Sec s Section $3.50 of the General
Laws is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Sec. $3.50 Said clerk shall receive
ten cents for each birth and death GER
titicatc, and twenty cents for each mar
riagc certificate. so certified; and such
sum. with the cost of binding the GER
tificates and permits, shall be paid by
the town.
Sec g. Section 1888 of the General
Laws is hereby amended SO as to read
as follows:
Sec. 1888. After making the proper
additions and corrections, such parent
shall, within thirty days from the date
OF such birth, return such blank to the
town clerk, who shall complete the orig
illal certificate of birth accordingly;
the town clerk shall receive twenty-five
cents, to be paid by the town. -.
Sec 7. Section 71r4 of the General
Laws is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Sec. VIA A person who OWNS, keeps
or uses stallion of two years of age
or over for breeding purposes in this
state, except for his own mare, shall
cause such stallion to be registered i'll
the office of the town clerk of the town
in which he is kept or used. The owner
or keeper of such stallion shall furnish
to such town clerk certificate of the
name, age, color, size, name of breeder
and pedigree in full of such stallion to
the third ancestor OH the side of both
sire and dam. if known, and as much of
such information as is not given shall
be acknowledged as not known and so
stated, and pedigrees given in advertis-
ing such stallion shall be as recorded in
the town clerks office. The town clerk
shall record such statement i'll book
kept for that purpose and shall receive
from the applicant the sum of one dol
lar for each stallion so registered and
shall furnish the owner or keeper pro-
curing such registration a certified
copy of the same. The owner or keeper
of the stallion who fails to comply with
the provisions of this section shall be
fined not more than fifty dollars nor
less than ten dollars and shall not re-
ceive compensation for the breeding
services of such stallion A person who
makes false certificate under the pro-
visions of this section shall be fined
one hundred dollars.
Sec. s. Section 1862 of the General
Laws is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Sec 74o2 The fees of town clerks
shall be as follows: For recording
chattel mortgages, warranty, quit claim
and all other deeds, or for any certi-
fed copies of such deed, where the
number of words therein does not ex-
coed five hundred, one dollar and twenty
cents per folio for all words in excess
of such five hundred words;
For receiving copy of an attachment
of personal property, fifty cents to be
paid by the officer serving the same;
For receiving copy of an attach
ment of real estate, fifty cents to be
paid by the officer serving the same;
For recording vendors lien, or for
any certified copies of such lien, where
the number of words therein does not
exceed two hundred and fifty, fifty
cents; and twenty cents per folio for all
words in excess of such two hundred
and fifty words;
For issuing and recording each mar
rlage certificate one dollar; for each
certified copy thereof, fifty cents;
For recording each assignment of
mortgage, fifty cents;
For recording each discharge of mort
gage, twenty-five cents;
For all other copying, recording and
certified copies of such records, twenty
cents per folio, with minimum fee of
fifty cents;
For examination of the town records !
at any one time by the town clerk,
fifteen cents, and if the time exceeds
half an hour, at the rate of thirty cents
an hour. For examination of town
records for any person who is present
and assisting twenty cents an hour
For attending each town meeting,
general election, special election, pri-
mary election or meeting of the board of
civil authority, three dollars a day;
Documents required by law to be filed |
in the town clerks office, but not to be
recorded, shall be properly indexed,
with minute of the time of such filing,
and for such indexing and filing the
clerk shall receive twenty-five cents, to
be prepaid by the person filing the
Town clerks may require fees for all
recording and copies to be paid in adj
vance
Sec 9. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved March 20. 1910.