The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-03-05
EUHUa u 20aeptIe
To HOLD ANNUAL
MEETING ON 10TH
VIII Elect Officers and Trans
act Public Business
MOSTLY ROUTINE
Fire1nen Will Ask to Be Exemp-
ted from Payment of
Poll Taxes

There are several articles outside
Of the usual routine in the warning
for the annual village meeting which
comes this year on March IS. One
Of these is a proposal to exempt the
members of the village fire depart
ment from paying pol taxes. Anoth.
er article is one to exempt from taxa
ton nsw homes erected in the future
to a value not exceeding $4,000. The
purchase Of oil to use on the streets
will also come before the meeting.
The warning is as 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 18th, 1921, at nine o'clock
in the forenoon to transact the fol-
lowing business:
Article /. To elect a President, a
Clerk, a Treasurer, a Collector, a Cor
poration Attorney, three Auditors, two
Trustees. ana four Water Commis
sioners.
Article 2. To consider the reports
Of the officers Of said Village for the
year past,
Article 6. To see what sum. II any,
the Village will appropriate to pay the
Bennington Fire Department
Article 4. To see if the Village will
vote to pay it's Chief Of its Fire De.
partment the sum Of 5000 and 500
each to two assistant engineers Of said
Fire Department.
Article 5. To see If the Village will
vote to exempt the members Of the
Fire Department from payment OF a
Poll Tax IN the ensuing year.
Article s. To Sc ewhat sum, II any
the Village viii vote to appropriate
to the Bennington Improvement So
cicty, 70 be used by said Society for
the care Of the cemetery grounff
withir said village and for other vii
lage improvements.
Article 7. To see what sum, If any
the village will appropriate to pay for
the expenses Of free musical enter
tainmeuts or band concerts 10 be held
within the Village limits, and il any
sum Is appropriated, to direct by vote
the timeJ and p aces for holding such
musical entertainments or band con-
certs.
Article s. To see what sum, If any
the VILLAGE will vote to appropriate
for the construction of curbs, gut
ters and sidewalks in and upon the
streets OF said Village during the en-
suing year.
Article 9. To see what sum, If any,
the Village will vote to appropriate
to the Public Welfare Association for
the ayground and recreation pur'
po es.
Article 10. To see what sum, If any
the Village viii vote to appropriate
to and toward the extension of the
Village sewer system.
Article II. To see what sum, If any,
the Village will vote to appropriate
for the purpose of extension of the
lmains Of the waterworks system.
Article l2 To see what sum, if any,
the Village vii. vote to pay its Presi-
dent and Trustees for the ensuing
year,
Article l3 To see what sum, if any,
the Village will vote to pay its Clerk
lin addition TO the sum prescribed by
its by laws for his services as such
Iclerk for the ensuing year.
Article IA. To see il the Village
will by vote authorize and empower
it's Trustee to purchase road oil for
the purpose of sprinlding, oiling and
allaying the dust upon its streets dur
ing the ensuing season
Article l5 To see If the Village
win vote to authorize the trustees to
purchase a new Village team,
Article 16. TO see If the Village
will vote to provide ways and means
for the pubic disposal of garbage.
Article H. To see If the Village
will vote to exempt from taxation,
for a period not exceeding five years,
buildings erected hereafter used and
occupied exclusively as home, ex-
elusive of land, and such exemption,
to be limited in the aggregate as
to valuation Of any one building, to
the sum of $4,000
4 Article is. To see what tax the
Village wi raise upon its Grand List
to defray the expenses of the Village
Tor the year ensuing and to nay its
Indebtedness and to hx the time for
the collection Of such tax
Article TO- To see If the Village
will vote to have the provisions of
Chapters 12 and i3 Of the General
Laws of Vermont and amendments
thereto apply to the next annual meet
ing of the Village and to any special
intervening meeting thereof
Article 90 To transact any other
business found necessary when met.
WIN p HOGAN
Village Clerk.
lBnnnmpt0n vi March 4 1921