Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-04-23
NO. 237

EREl. ION OF A COUN Y JAIL
IN RUTLAND COUNTY AND
PROVIDING FOR THE ASSESS
MENT OF A COUNTY TAX
THEREFOR.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly OF the State of Vermont:
Section 1. If and when an adjust
mcnt is made between the board of con-
troll and the commissioners appointed
under the provisions of an act of the
general assembly of 1910 entitled "An
act relating to the appointment of COM
missioners to act for Rutland county
for certain purposes approved March
Of the state and county of Rutland in
the house of correction, said commits
sioners are hereby authorized and en-
powered to select proper site for the
location of a county Jail within and for
said county of Rutland and to purchase
land necessary for such purpose. Upon
the purchase of such land, the commits
sioners shall proceed to erect and equip
a suitable county Jail thereon for the
detention Of persons committed there
to with the necessary buildings incident
thereto and may draw their orders on
said county treasurer for sum not to
exceed fifty thousand dollars in payment
of the cost of such construction and
equipment.
Sec. 2 The treasurer of said county
of Rutland is hereby authorized tenn
porarily to borrow upon the credit of
the county such sums, from time to
time. as will be necessary i'll addition
to the amount received by said treas
urer from the state in accordance with
the provisions of section one of an act
of the general assembly of 1910 entitled
AN Act relating to the consolidation
of the house of correction with the
state prison, to authorize the board of
control to determine and adjust the re-
spective interests of the state and the
county of Rutland in the house of cor
rection, and to amend and repeal cer
tain sections of the General Laws, re-
lating to the house of correction and
the state prison and for other pur-
poses"
Sec 3. There is hereby assessed a
tax of not to exceed three cents on the
dollar of the grand list of nineteen hun
drcd and twenty and not to exceed three
cents on the dollar of the grand list of
nineteen hundred and twcnty-one of the
several towns of the county of Rutland
for the purpose of paying the indebted
ness incurred for the construction and
equipment Of such Jail.
Sec !. The assistant judges of the
county court of said county are hereby
authorized and empowered to make and
deliver to the treasurer of said county
a written order directing him to issue
warrants on the collectors of taxes of
the several towns in said county for the
collection of the tax on the grand lists
for the years nineteen hundred and
twenty and nineteen hundred and
twenty-one, respectively, according to
the provisions of this act.
Sec. 5. Said treasurer shall, within
thirty days from the receipt of such
order, issue his warrants requiring the
said tax to be paid to him within sixty
days from the date of such warrants.
Sec 8. This act shall take effect
when a proclamation is issued by the
governor in accordance with the provi-
sions of section fourteen of an act of
the general assembly of 1919, entitled
AN Act relating to the consolidation of
the house of correction with the state
prison, to authorize the board of control
to determine and adjust the respective
interests of the state and the county of
Rutland in the house of correction, and
to amend and repeal certain sections of