The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-02-19
TOWN WARMING
FOR NEE INC To
Be HELD MAR. Z
North Bennington Highway is
the Principal Issue
REPORT ON TOWN HALL
Committee Appointed Last Year viii
Give Conclusions--AnnuaI
Election Of Town Officers

The warming for the annual town
meeting to be held on the first Tues
day in March has been posted. In ac-
cordance with the recent decision of
sta officials, voters will be asked to
in former years notwithstanding the
fact that national prohibition has
been in force since July l.
The warning contains two articles
o her than the regular routine. Arti-
Gle will lay bsfore the meeting a
proposal to build permanent high.
way between Bennington and North
Bennington and article 21 calls for
he report of the committee appoint
ed at the asst annual meeting to In
vestigate and make recommendations
concerning the construction OF a
town hall. The warning follows:
The inhabitants OF the Town of
Benning on, qualified by law to vote
in town meeting, are hereby notified
and warned to meet in Library hall in
said Town on Tuesday, the I'd day of
March 1920 at nine O'Clock in the
forenoon to transact the following
business:
/. To see whether the town will
vo to empower and authorize the
selectmen to appoint one or two road
commissioners. the number to be de
termined by the town In said meet
ing or whether the town vii vote to
elec one or two road commissioners.
2. To see If the town will vote TO
elect one library trustee.
3. To see II the town will vo c 10
elect lister to serve one year In adj
dition TO the lister to be elected at
said meeting for the term OF three
years.
A. (a) To see IL the town will vote
to EJECT second coa a.sbie. tb9 TO
see how many grand jurors the town
viii vote to elect for the year ensu-
ing (c) To see II the town will vote
to elect a collector of taxes. Id To
see If the town will vote to elect a
tree warden.
g. To elect all town officers. in
cluding the officers of the Town
School Dis rict
6. To vo g by ballot in the manner
provided by aw upon the fol owing
questions; A. @Shall license be
granted for the sale of intoxicating
liquors In this town. b. Shall
licenses of the fifth class be granted
in thia town.
4 ITO hear reports of The town of
ficers d
5. To see what sum, II any, and
not less than one hundred do lars nor
more than one thousand do lars, in
excess of he amount of the highwa-
taxes now required by law, the town
will vote to appropriate to be ex-
pended for the permanent improve
ment of its highways in accordance
with the provisions of Chapter 172 OF
the Public s atutes of Vermont, and
amendments thereto.
9. To see il the town will vote to
buid a y ece of experimental high
way of concrete on the main highway
between Bennington and North Ben
n'ngton for dis ance to be deter
mined by the meeting. and to deter
mine what. If any sum, shall be ap-
propriated therefor.
TO- To see what, If any additional
sum the town will vote to appropriate
for he permanent Improvement Of
highways within said town, and If
any appropriation is voted, to deter
mine where the same shall be ex-
pended.
H. To see what, # any sum, the
town viii vote to appropriate from
its general fund for the purpose Of
main aiming the highways of the
town for the purpose of cooperating
with or securing the benefits of the
state patro, system for patrolling and
maintaining selected roads.
12 To see what sums are neces.
sary 70 be raised for the following
purposes, viz: for the laying out,
maintaining and repairing the high
ways of the town and for the payment
of state highway tax; for maintain
ing the schools and the school-houses
and for the school purposes of he
town and for the payment OF a state
school tax; for the payment of any in
debtedness and in crest thereon
for the support Of the poor
for the maintenance of bridges
and of winter or snow roads:
for the prosecution and defense of
the common rights and in erests of
the inhabitants of the town; for the
other necessary and incidental cur
rent town expenses; and the payment
of the ate tax assessed by the last
session of the Genera Assembly, and
to vote a tax upon the Grand List Of
the town for the payment thereof.
13. To see If the town will vote
to have medical inspection of the
schools Of the town
Ii. To see If the town will vote to
install uniform system of public
accounting as recommended by the
officials appointed by the Governor
under one hundred and nine Of the
acts of 1915.
15. To see what sum, II any, the
town will appropriate for the plant.
ing or protection of shade trees. pur-