The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-05
ANNUAL v|LLIGE
MEET|NC WILL Be
HELD MARCH IS
Offici. Voters Posted
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Voters Posted
USUAL ROUTINE ph.NAILS
Voters Will Be Asked to Act on Pro.
posals for Permanent Highways
and Water Main Extensions

The warning was posted today for
the anual village meeting to be held
on Tuesday, March 16. Much of the
warning is taken up with the routine
business that is transacted each year
but there are few articles of spec
ial nature. One is to increase the
compensation of the chief engineer
and the assistant engineers of the vii
lage department. Another proposes
an appropriation for the extension of
water mains One of the most i'm
portant articles viii lay before the
voters the necessity for the con
struction of permanent highways on
the village streets. The warning in
full follows:
The legal voters of the Village of
Bennington are hereby notified and
warned to meet at Free Library Hall
in said Village of Bennington on Tues
day, March 10Th, 1920, at nine o'clock
in the forenoon to transact the follow
/ ing business:-
Article Ito elect a President, a
Clerk, Treasurer, a Collector, Cor
poration Attorney, three Auditors,
three Trustees, and three Water Com
missioners.
! Article 2.-To consider the reports
/ of the officers of said Village for the
year past
! Article 3.-To see if the meeting will
make any recommendation, and If so
the nature and character of the same,
| to the Trustees OF said Village rela-
tive to changing the present names of
certain of the streets of the Village
as now known and commonly called to
conform with that of any of the men
of this community who lost their lives
on the battlefields Of France during
the late World War as recommended
by Bennington Post No. 13, American
Legion.
Article 4.-To see what sum, il any,
the Village viii appropriate to pay the
Bennington Fire Department.
Article 5.-To see what sum, If any,
the Village will vote to appropriate to
the Bennington Improvement Society
to be used by said society for the care
of the cemetery grounds within said
village and for other village improve
ments.
Article 6.--To see if the Village will
vote to pay its Chief of its Fire De-
partment the sum of 5000, and 800
each to the two assistant engineers OF
said Fire Depa tment
Article ITO see what sum. if any,
the Village will by vote appropriate to
pay for the expenses of free musical
or band concerts to be
held within the village limits, and If
any sum is so appropriated. to direct
by vote the times and places for hold
ing such musical entertainments or
band concerts.
Article 8.-To see what sum, if any,
the Village will vote to appropriate for
sidewalks in and upon the streets of
said village during the ensuing year.
Article 9-To see what sum, if any,
the Village will vote to appropriate for
and toward the extension of the Village
sewer system.
Article 10.-To see what sum, il any,
the Village will vote to appropriate to
the Public Welfare Association for
playground and recreation purposes.
Article Ito see what sum, if any,
the Village will by vote appropriate
for the purpose of extension of the
mains of its waterworks system.
Article Ito see what sum If any,
the Village will vote to pay its Presi-
dent and Trustees for the ensuing
year.
Article 13.-To see what sum, if any,
the Village will vote to pay its Clerk
in addition to the sum prescribed by
its bylaws for his services as such
clerk for the ensuing year.
Article 14.-To see If the Village
will by vote authorize and empoyer it's
Trustees to purchase road-oil for the
purpose of sprinkling, oiling and allay-
ing the dust upon its streets during the
ensuing season.
Article 15-To see if the Village will
by vote authorize and empower it's
Trustees to purchase other and addi-
tional fireihose for the use of it's Fire
Department as means of further fire
protection to its inhabitants.
Article 16.-To see what sum, if any,
the Village will by vote appropriate
for the purpose of building and con-
structing new and permanent high
ways within the limits of said Village
Article Ito see what tax the
Village will raise upon its grand list
to defray the expenses of the Village
for the year ensuing and to pay its in
debtedness and to fix the time for the
collection of such tax
I Article 1S.-To see if the Village
will by vote accept and adopt the pro-
visions of Chapter 241 of the General
Laws of Vermont and amendments
thereto relative to employers liability
and workmen's compensation, and COM
monty known as and called the Work
mems Compensation Act" and thereby
make the same apply to the Village
employees as therein provided.
Article 19-To see il the Village