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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-04-23
NO. 249

AN ACT TO PAY THE BARRE
AND MONTPELIER TRACTION
AND POWER COMPANY THE
SUM THEREIN NAMED.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State OF Vermont:
Section l. The auditor of accounts
is hereby directed to draw an order in
favor of the Barre and Montpelier Trac-
ton and Power Company for the sum
OF eleven hundred twenty-five dollars,
the same being for taxes paid to the
state treasurer under protest by said
company, covering the periods ending
respectively on the thirtieth day of June'
and the thirty-hrst day of December
nineteen hundred seventeen and the
thirtieth day of June, nineteen hun
dred eighteen, and assessed on the
appraisal of the property of said com
pany by the commissioner of taxes. in
excess of the appraisal made by the
board of appeals, said latter appraisal
having been technically defective.
Sec. 2. The auditor of accounts is
hereby directed to draw an order in
favor of the Barre and Montpelier Trac
ton and Power Company for the fur
Their sum of three hundred seventy-6ve
dollars when and not until said com
pany shall have paid to the state treas
urer taxes assessed against said com
pany on said commissioners appraisal
covering the six months ending the
thirty-hrst day of December, nineteen
hundred eighteen and payable on or be-
fore the first day of April, nineteen
hundred nineteen
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved March 6, 1910
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Railroad and extending easterly from
said line to the cut through which the
line of the Mt. Mansfield Electric Rail-
road Company passes, provided that the
same shall not be sold except for the
purpose of being used as site for
manufacturing or industrial purposes.
Sec. 2. The auditor Of accounts,
with the approval of the governor, shall
fix the price for which such land or any
part thereof is sold.
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved April 2, 1919.
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NO. 24S

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE THE
SUM OF TWO HUNDRED AND
FIFTY DOLLARS TO AID IN
THE ERECTION OF A SOL
D1ERS' MONUMENT AT ROYAL
TON.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State OF Vermont:
Section I. The sum of two hundred
and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated
to aid the Woman's Relief Corps,
auxiliary to the G. A. R. of Royalton,
in erecting in said town a soldiers
monument in memory of the veterans
of the Civil War, provided a like sum
is furnished to said Woman's Relief
Corps by said town of Royalton for the
like purpose.
Sec. 2. The auditor of accounts is
hereby directed to draw an order for
the above amount in favor of the treas
urer of the said Woman's Relief Corps.
OF Royalton, whenever said treasurer
shall certify to said auditor in writing
that such monument has been erected
at cost Of twelve hundred dollars.
Approved April 3, 1910
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NO. 245

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS ANNUAL
LY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUB-
Lie.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section l. The sum of one hundred
dollars is hereby annually appropriated
for the benefit of the Grand Army of
the Republic for the Department Of
Vermont.
Sec. 2. The auditor of accounts shall
annually draw an order for such sum
on the first day Of July, in favor of the
assistant quartermaster general for the
Department of Vermont of the Grand
Army Of the Republic.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect
from its passage
Approved April 8, 1910.
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NO. 232

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE A GER
TAIN SUM FOR THE ERIC
TON OF A REFORMATORY
FOR WOMEN AT WINDSOR
AND TO MAKE AN APPROPRIA-
TON FOR REPAIRS AT THE
STATE PRISON.
It is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. The sum of twenty-five
thousand dollars is hereby appropriated
for repairs on the boiler house and brick
shop at the state prison and for the
enlargement of the refrigerator thereat,
for extending the electric light and
power lines to tho prison farm and to
the reformatory for women, when such
reformatory is erected, and for the COM
pletion and equipment of such reforma-
tory.
Approved April 3, 1910.
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AN ACI 10 PROVIDE FOR ALTER
ATIONS AND REPAIRS TO THE
COURTHOUSE AND JAIL IN
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section 1. There Is hereby assessed
special tax of not to exceed one cent
on the dollar of the grand lists of the
year nineteen hundred and nineteen, and
not to exceed one cent on the dollar
of the grand lists of the year nineteen
hundred and twenty of the several
towns, city and gore in the county Of
Franklin for the purpose of paying out
standing indebtedness for repairs to
county buildings already necessarily
made and to pay for repairs and altera-
tions necessary to be made to the court
house and Jail in said county.
Sec. 2. The treasurer of said county
shall, within thirty days after receiving
notice from the assistant judges of said
county so to do, issue his warrants for
the collection of said special tax in the
manner provided by law; and said war
rants shall require that such tax be paid
to the county treasurer within sixty
days from the date of such warrants
Sec. 3. The clerk of said county
shall draw orders upon the county
treasurer for the payment of such in
debtedness and expenses in the same
manner as is provided for the payment
of other county expenses.
Sec. a. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved February IS, 1919.
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NO. 233

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR The
PREPARATION AND PUBLICA-
TON OF A SUITABLE HISTORY
AND MEMORIAL OF YER
MONTS PART IN THE WAR.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly Of the State of Vermont:
Section I. The secretary of civil and
military affairs shall compile, edit and
write fitting history and memorial, as
complete and accurate as possible, of
Vermont's part in the great world war.
Sec. 2. Such history and memorial
shall be printed in appropriate form and
copy shall be presented to each free
public, school and college library in this
state, to each state library in the United
States, to each town and city in this
state and to each Vermont newspaper
Sec. 3. One copy of said history and
memorial shall be presented according
to such rules as the adjutant general in
his discretion may prescribe, to each
Vermont soldier, sailor and nurse, and
in case of death, to their next of kin,
to each war worker from Vermont serv-
ing overseas, or in an army training
camp, or at a navy training station, to
each organization of veterans of said
war which may be organized in this
state, when application therefor is made
in writing
Sec. 4. The distribution of copies of
such history and memorial shall be made
to libraries, newspapers, towns and
cities by the custodian of public docu-
ments
Sec. S. Copies of said history and
memorial may be sold at cost by the
adjutant general and funds received
therefrom shall be paid into the state
treasury.
Sec. s. The adjutant general shall, so
soon as may be, obtain and publish a
roster containing the complete record
of each Vermont man enlisted in or
indicted into any branch of the army
or navy. Such roster shall contain the
name, residence, date and place of en-
listment or induction, the nature of serv-
ice performed, the transfers, promo
tons, citations and decorations, if any,
and the date and place of discharge Of
each such enlisted or indicted person
The roster shall also specify any casual
ties suffered, the date and cause of the
same and, in case of death, the place
of burial
Sec 7. Each Vermont soldier and
sailor participating in the great world
war, shall receive certificate express
ing the thanks of the state and contain
ing complete statement, certified to by
the adjutant general, of the service per-
formed by such soldier or sailor.
Sec. 8. Clerical assistance required
by sections six and seven of this act
shall be provided for out of the appro-
priation for the office of the adjutant
and inspector general. The printing of
the roster shall be charged to the ap-
preparation for public printing for the
year in which the roster is completed.
Sec 9. The auditor of accounts is
hereby directed to draw orders on the
treasurer OF the state to an amount not
exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars
for the actual expense and cost of COM
piling, writing, editing, printing and dis
tributing the history and memorial
provided for by section one and for
procuring and distributing the certifi-
Gates provided for by section seven of
this act. upon vouchers approved by the
governor.
Approved March 28, 1910.
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NO. 226

AN ACT RELATING TO ESTAB-
b iSp1tFsf al Al MoN STfM :
LIER.
Il Il hereby enacted BY the General
Assembly of the State Of Vermont:
Section I. That in the event the
board Of control directs the fish and
game commissioner to establish his office
at Montpelier, said board may direct
the auditor Of accounts to draw an
order IN favor of said commissioner for
q Sum not exceeding one thousand dol
lars for additional compensation to be
pdd out Of the funds received from
hunting and fishing licenses.
Approved April 3, 1919.
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NO. 254

AN ACT TO PAY SIDNEY L JUDI,
THE SUM THEREIN NAMED.
1t is hereby enacted by the Gensesl
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. The auditor of accounts
is hereby directed to draw an order m
favor of Sidney L. Judd, of Georsia,
for the sum of ffty-nine dollars and
fifty-one cents, the same being for loss
suffered on account of COW Slaughtered
by. order of the commissioner Of asri-
culture and found free from disease.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effeoel
from its passage.
Approved February 49, 1910.
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home shall, on the first day of each
month, or within ten days thereafter, pre-
pare and deliver an abstract of the ex-
penses of the home for the preceding
month with vouchers for the same to the
auditor of accounts who shall examine
and audit the accounts and II the ex-
penses of such month exceed the amount
estimated shall draw an order for the
balance.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved February - 1919.
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NO. 243

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE THE
SUM OF FIFTEEN HUNDRED
DOLLARS TO AID THE TOWN
OF WESTON IN IMPROVING
THE ROAD LEADING FROM
WESTON TO MT. TABOR.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section ]. A sum not to exceed
fifteen hundred dollars is hereby appro-
priated to aid the town of Weston, pro.
vided like sum is furnished by said
town OF Weston, in improving the road
leading from the village of Weston to
the town of Mt. Tabor. Such sum shall
be expended under the direction of the
sselectmen OF the town of Weston, sub
ject to the supervision OF the state
highway commissioner.
Sec. 2. The auditor of accounts is
hereby directed to draw an order for the
sum authorized by this act, upon the
certificate of the state highway commits
sioner for such sums as have been
actually expended in the improving OF
such highway. The appropriation made
by this act is hereby made available
until such time as the purposes thereof
are carried out but such time shall not
extend beyond June 80, 1925.
Approved April 4, 1919
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NO. 229

AN ACT RELATING TO THE
FOR BONDS FURNISHES BY
OFFICERS OF THE STATE,
A COUNTY, TOWN, TOWN
SCHOOL DISTRICT, iNCORPO-
RATED SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN
CORPORATED VILLAGE OR
FIRE DISTRICT.
It Is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. In cases where by law Off
GERS Of the state, county, town, town
school district, incorporated school dis
trict, incorporated village or fire dis
trict are required to furnish bonds such
bonds shall be paid for by the state or
municipality requiring the bond.
Approved February I8, 1919.
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NO. PAP

AN ACT TO ASSIST THE TOWN
OF SEARSBURC IN LIQUIDAT-
ING ITS DEBT.
It 70 hereby enacted by the General
Assembly Of the State OF Vermont;
Section !. The auditor of accounts
y hereby directed to draw an order for
FIVE hundred dollars 10 assist the town
of Searsburg in paying the debt incur
red by said town In building a bridge
across the Deerfeld River on the main
road from Bennington to Brattleboro.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect
from Its passage.
Approved April 4, 1919.
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AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIA-
TON THE SUM THEREIN

1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly Of the State OF Vermont:
Section I. The auditor of accounts
10 hereby directed to draw an order for
the sum of eight hundred eighteen dol
lars and eleven cents in favor of the
treasurer of the Bennington Battle
Monument and Historical Association,
It being to pay the Bennington Battle
Monument and Historical Association
for money by it advanced during the
year one thousand nine hundred and
eighteen, and expended in repairing and
repointing the masonry work OIL the
Bennington Battle Monument.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved April 8, 1919.
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AIN hSl ~ TAI i TIE lOWNS
OF CAyENDISH, MIDDLETOWN
S RRlNes hiAvs PAW+E Rh.vN sP BEb
NARD, READING, WEATHERS-
FIELD, WAITSFIELD AND THE
NORTH BENNINGTON MOOR
PORATED SCHOOL DISTRICT
THE SUMS THEREIN NAMED.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. The auditor of accounts
is hereby directed to draw an order in
favor of the town of Cavcndish for the
sum of two hundred seventy-six dollars
and fifty-hve cents, said sum being due
said town on account of error in school
reports of 1916 and 1917.
Sec. 2. The auditor of accounts is
hereby directed to draw an order in
favor of the town of Middletown
Springs for the sum of FIVE hundred
seventy-ive dollars, said sum being due
said town on account of error in school
reports of 1916 and 1917.
Sec 3. The auditor of accounts is
hereby directed to draw an order in
favor of the town of Pawlet for the
sum of seventy-two dollars and twenty
two cents, said sum being due said
town on account of error in school re-
Sec. a. The auditor of accounts is
hereby directed to draw an order in
favor of the town of Shelburne for the
sum of seventy-five dollars, said sum
being due said town on account of error
in school reports Of 1917.
Sec. S. The auditor of accounts is
hereby directed to draw an order in
favor of me town of Fayston for the
sum of twenty-six dollars and sixty
six cents, said sum being due said town
on account of error in school reports of
1877.
Sec. E The auditor of accounts Is
hereby directed to draw an order in
favor of the town of Eden for the sum
of twenty dollars, said sum being due
said town on account of error in school
reports of 1917.
Sec. 7. The auditor of accounts is
hereby directed to draw an order in
favor of the town of Barnard for the
sum of twenty dollars, said sum being
due said town on account of error in
school reports of 1917.
Sec. 8. The auditor Of accounts is
hereby directed to draw an order in
favor of the town of Reading for the
sum of forty dollars, said sum being due
said town on account of error in school
reports of 1917.
Sec. 9. The auditor Of accounts is
hereby directed to draw an order in
favor of the town of Weathersheld for
the sum Of fifteen dollars, said sum
being due said town on account of error
In school reports of 1917.
Sec. 10. The auditor of accounts Is
hereby directed to draw an order in
favor of the town of Wats6eld for
the sum of fifteen dollars, said sum
being due said town on account of error
in school reports of 1917.
Sec II. The auditor of accounts is
hereby directed to draw an order in
favor of the North Bennington incor-
porated school district for the sum OF
five hundred fory-two dollars and thirty
cents, said sum being due said incor-
porated school district on account of
error in school reports of 1916 and
1917.
Sec. IL. The amounts mentioned in
the preceding sections shall be paid out
of the school funds of the state before
the same are apportioned in the year
1919.
Sec. IS. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved March rs, 1870
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NO. 252

AN ACT TO PAY JOHN I. FOLSOM
THE SUM THEREIN NAMED.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. The auditor of accounts
is hereby directed to draw an order in
favor of John |. Folsom for the sum
of sixty-nine dollars and twenty cents
the same being for time spent and ex-
penses incurred in the pursuit of draft
evader
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved March II, 1910
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NO. PSI
An ACT RELATING TO THE RE-
CEIPT AND DISBURSEMENT
or FUNDS FOR THE SUPPORT
OF THE SOLDIERS HOME.

Al ACT RELATING TO THE RE-
CEIPT AND DISBURSEMENT
OF FUNDS FOR THE SUPPORT
OF THE SOLDIERS HOME.
It b hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. The state treasurer is
hereby authorized to receipt for, and
receive all money due, or to become due
to the state under an act of Congress,
entitled: AN act to provide aid to state
and territorial homes for the support
Of disabled soldiers and sailors of the
United States" approved August FL,
1888; and due, or to become due, under
ony amendment of said act, or under
Sny additional act extending such aid +;
and the auditor of accounts is hereby
directed to draw orders payable to the
treasurer of the soldiers home, at Ben
nington, not to exceed the amount of
the appropriation that has been made by
the state for the support of said SOL
diers' home in addition to the sums re-
ceived by the state treasurer from the
United States.
Sec. .. The superintendent of the
soldiers home shall, on or before the
twentieth day of each month, estimate
and prepare requisition for the amount
of funds required to transact the bust
ness of the same and support the in
mates therein for the succeeding month,
stating in detail for what purposes the
funds are required; and, when such esti-
mate and requisition have been approved
by three of the trustees of said SOL
diers' home, the auditor of accounts
shall draw an order for the same.
VI Sec J. The superintendent Of the
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NO. 256
AN ACT TO PAY B. M. MENTIONS
THE SUM THEREIN NAMED

THE SUM THERR1M n N IH CIV
1t is hereby enacted by the Gsnsrar
Assembly of the State Of Vermont:
Section 1. The auditor of accounts
is hereby directed to draw hts order,
payable out of funds received for fish
and game licenses in favor of B. M,
Newton for the sum of two hundred and
three dollars and sixteen cents, the;
same being for money expended by said,
Newton in the preparation, triai and de-
tense of case under the fish and gamo,
laws in the year nineteen hundred and
fifteen.
Sec. g. This act ,ahall take effect
from its passage.
Approved April 3 1919.
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NO. 23O

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION
OF NO. I8o OF THE ACTS OF
1884 AS AMENDED BY SECTION
I OF NO. 41o OF THE ACTS OF
1910, RELATING TO THE SOL
DIERS' HOME.
It is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly Of the State of Vermont:
Section I. Section I of No. I8o of
the acts of 1884 as amended by section
I of No. 4Io of the acts of 1910 is here
by amended so as to read as follows:
Section I. Redfeld Proctor, Fred
erick Billings, c. c. Kinsman, A. B.
Franklin, Hugh Henry, P. P. Pitkin,
]. c. Stearns, Franklin Fairbanks,
Josiah Grout, George T. Childs, H. K.
1de, William Wells, Julius ]. Estey,
A. B. Valentine, Warren Gibbs, z. M.
Mansur, Frank Kenfeld, A. S. Tracy,
their successors and associates, chosen
as hereinafter provided are hereby
made a corporation by the name of
THE Trustees of the Soldiers Home
in Vermont" and said trustees shall.
from time to time as they may by their
bylaws prescribe, elect such officers as
they may judge necessary, and prescribe
the terms and duties of such officers,
but the whole number of said trustees
shall never exceed twenty, fifteen of
whom shall be honorably discharged
soldiep or sailors of the War of the
Rebellion of 1861 to 1865 or the war with
Spain Of other war; In which the United
ststes has engaged. The governor shall,
- May first, nineteen hundred and nine
tseu appoint two trustees whose TURNS
Of Office shall expire January thirty
hsVt nfnsasea hundred and twenty two,
and whenever a vacancy occurs In said
beasd DE governor shall. on the first
day Of FshaAry following such vacancy,
appoint Q trustee whose term Of Office
shaH be for the three years next ensuing
Approved April a, 1910.
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NO. 227

An ACT RELATING TO SALARY
OF THE STATE HIGHWAY CON-
MISSIONER.
1919 hereby os y: s sts b v the osHeFa
Section 1. That the state highway
commissioner shall be paid FIVE hundred
dollars for his services for each year
Of the present term of that office from
and including the first day Of February,
1870 to and including the last day Of
January 1927, in addition to the compen.
sltion provided for by section 1851 of
the General Laws.
Approved April 8, 1919
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1t 10 hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State Of Vernnont.

Assembly of the State Of Vermont
Section I. The governor Is hereby
authorized to pay the assessment levied
upon this state by the governors con-
ference, for the expenses of such con-
ference, such assessment not to exceed
one hundred and fifty dollars annually.
The auditor of accounts is hereby d.
rected annually to draw his order in
favor of the governor for such sum as
may be expended by the governor under
this act
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved April 8, 1919.
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NO. 253

AN ACT TO PAY THE FREE
PRESS PRINTING COMPANY
THE SUM NAMED THEREIN.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. The auditor of accounts
is hereby directed to draw an order
for three hundred forty-two dollars and
ffty-eight cents in favor of the Free
Press Printing Company of Burlington,
Vermont, this sum being the balance
due the company from the state for