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VOLUME 3.
HYDE PARK, VERMONT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 18G2.
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MY BROTHER'S GRAVE.
I men written on the death of Henry Daniels, of
Eden who enlisted in the 2d Vt. regt. ,
and died March 25th, 1802.
I've breathed no sigh, shed no tear,
Where brother takes his rest ;
I've never knelt upon the sod
That lies above his breast.
He deeps afar from childhood's home.
Mid stranger's graves alone.
And the who pass that lowly mound.
Repeat the word "unknown."
Unknown to them the mother's hopes,
That centered once in him l
Unknown to them the sister's love.
Not death itself can dim.
0, could we but have cloned his eyes
Received his parting breath ;
And heard him speak one kind good bye
Before he slept in death.
It would have been a pleasure sad.
To have treasured up the scene j
A painful lesison. fraught with good,
For memory's hand to gleam.
We cannot place one flowery wreath,
Embalmed In sorrow's tear ;
To breathe its last sweet fragrance out.
Above the lost and dear.
Yet will the moonlight, soft and pure,
His couch with beauty lave ;
And angels from their starry home.
Keep watch o'er Bkothkk'S Uravk.
IAWS OP VERMONT.
( Concluded from last week. )
Sec. 5. The commissioners appointed
by virtue of this act, shall have the same
power to abate auy tax in the hands of
the collector, in the county in which he
resides, for collection, as the civil au
thority have in towns to abate taxes, and
to issue a certificate of such abatement,
to the Auditor of Accounts, who thall
draw orders on the State Treasurer for
the amount of such abatements, which or
der shall be receivable by the Treasurer
from the collector for the amount of such
tuxes.
Sec. 5. The commissioners appointed
by virtue of this chapter c shall receive
for their services, two dollars and fifty
cents per day and the collector shall re
ceive five per ccut for the collection of
State taxes, and the Auditor of Accounts
is hereby authorized to draw orders on
the treasurer to pay the same.
Approved, Deceiuler 1, 1862.
No. 19. AN ACT to appoint a collct
or of taxes against the inhabitants of
the old town of Sterling.
It is liereby enacted fyc:
Sec. 1. Orren Lyman, of Morristown,
is hereby authorized and directed to levy
and collect any and all taxes that may be
assessed on the Urand List of the inhab
itants and tciitory which would now be
the town of Sterling, if the same had not
been annexed to the towns of Johnson,
Morristown, and Stowc, said assessments
being ru:ide by virtue of an act approved
November twenty first eighteen hundred
fifty uine, and the said Lyman shall pay
the amount collected to the treasurer of
the town of Morristown on or before the
first day of June, A. 1). eighteen hundred
sixty-three, who shall pay the same upon
the debts due from the said town of Ster
ling in accordance with the aforesaid act,
and the act to which that is an amend
ment, and the said Lyman shall have 11
the powers iu collecting said tax, aud be
subject to .the same liabilities that he
would if said towu bad never been annex
ed as aforesaid, and he was the legally
elected first constable thereof. And said
, collector shall be eutitlcd to five per cent
for colleting suid tax.
Sko. 2. All acts and parts of acts in
consistent with the provisions of this act
.are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, Deo. 1, 1862.
Jfo. 23 AN ACT for the relief of the
Sureties of the late btato Treasutcr.
Jt is Iwrtby enacted, fyc:
Sko. 1, The persons hereinafter num-
ed. Sureties of the late State Treasurer,
Henry M. Bates, on bis official bonds, are
hereby discharged from all liability on
. said bonds, or any of them, on condition
of payment to the Treasurer of the State
. . the sums annexed to their names respect
ively, to wit: . ,
Kiverius Camp, Jr., fifty dollars;
' Edward A. Webb, fifty dollars j
Geo. Robinson, two hundred dollars ;
J. 0. Only, three hundred dolUrt ;
J. C. B. Thayer, sixty-four dollars ;
Leander Foster, fifty dollars;
Charles H. Joyce, fifty dollars ;
Daniel Belknap, one hundred dollars ;
Charles P. Kimball, fifty dollars ;
George Nichols, three hundred dollars ;
George H. Crane, two hundred dollars;
Isaac B. Howe, three hundred dollars;!
Royal T. Dubois, two hundred dollars;
Calvin Ainsworth, one dollar ;
Stephen Cochran, one dollar ;
Heman Carpenter, six hundred dollars;
Perley Belknap, five hundred dollars;
Sec. 2. Any sums heretofore p:iid by
auy of said persons on account of such li
ability, are to be applied as payment of
the sums set to their names respectively,
in the first section of this act.
Sec. 3. This act shall not bo constru
ed to discharge any of the signers of said
bonds, other than tnose named in the
first sectiou of this act, and who avail
themselves of the benefit thereof.
Sec. 4. Any persou named m the first
section of this act, paying the sum there
in set to bis name, shall be, and is here
by indemnified, from all and any contri
butions to any other signer of said bonds,
by reason of said damages or costs that
may be recovered of any ot such other
signers thereof.
Sec. 5. None of the above named per
sons, who shall take the benefit of this
act, shall have any lieu or claim, in law or
in equity, to any securities turned out by
said Bates to any of said sureties in said
bonds, now iu the hands of a receiver,
whatever may be the result of the suits
now pending against the signers of said
bonds, or any of them.
Sec. 6. The Hon. Levi Underwood,
of Burlington, is hereby appointed an
agent of the State to execute aud deliver
in due form of law any proper deed or
other iustrumtnt in writing of any land
or interest therein, which has, or shall
come to the State from the lato Treasurer,
H. M. Bates, or any of his sureties, or
upon any debt or chose in action, now in
the hands of the receiver in the matter.
Sec. 7. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, Dec. 1, 1862.
No. 25. AN ACT altering the time of
holding the December term of Windsor
County Court
ft is hereby enacted, Sfc:
Sec. 1. The December term of the
County Court of the county of Windsor,
shall be held on the second Tuesday of
December, instead of the time now pro
vided by law.
Seo. 2. All writs and processes made
returnable to said court on the first Tues
day of December, shall be returnable to
and entered in suid Court on the second
Tuesday of December.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, Nov. 26, 1862.
No. 26. AN ACT laying a tax on the
Couuty of Chitteuden.
It is hereby enacted, $c.:
Seo. 1. There is hereby assessed a tax
of one and three fourths per cent on the
list of polls aud ratable CBtute in the suV-
eral towns in tho County of Chittenden,
for the year A. D. 1862, for the purpose
of meeting tho deficiency in the Treasury
of said County, and paying the current
'expenses of the same.
I Seo. 2. The Treasurer of said County
' is directed, on or before the first day of
January A. D. 1863, to issue his war
rants to the first constables of the several
towns in said Connty, for the collection
of said tax in the same manner, as by
law, State taxes are required to be collect
ed, except as is herein otherwise provided.
Sec. 8 The selectmen in the several
towns in said County shall make out and
deliver to the first constables of their res
pective towns, in the month of March A.
D. 1803, a tax bill for the collection of
said tax in the same manner as is requir
ed by law for the collection of State taxes.
Sko. 4. Instead of the credit men
tioned in section fifty seven, of chapter
eighty-one, of the Compiled Statutes, the
treasurer of the County shall credit the
several constables one fort'eth part of the
whole Sim contained in the warants by
him issued for the collection of this tax
to tob onstable, who shall be aawunts-
ble to their respective towns for so much
of said fortieth part so credited, as is not
allowed by wav of abatement.
Sue. 5. The first constable shall col
lect and pay into the treasury of the said
County, the said tax, by the first day of
June A. D. 1863.
S.nc. 6. This act s J all take effect from
and after its passage.
Approved, Nov. 25, 1862.
No. 27. AN ACT iu addition to an act,
approved November twenty seventh,
eighteen hundred sixty, entitled "an act
laying a tax on the County of Addison."
It is hereby enacted, Sfc:
Sec. 1. The committee constituted by
section five of the act to which this is in
addition, are hereby authorized to expend
for the purpose contemplated in said sec
tion five, and additional sum, not exceed
ing two hundred dollars and tlje County
Clerk of the County of Addison, maun
der the direction of said committee, draw
orders on the Treasurer of said County,
to an amount not exceeding said sum of
two hundred dollars, and said Treasurer
is directed to accept and pay the same.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, Nov. 29, 1862.
No. 36. AN ACT authorizing tho Gov
ernor to loan arms, &c. to Norwich
Uuiversity.
It is hereby enacted, fyc:
Sec. 1. The Governor is authorized
to loan to Norwich University such arms
and equipments of all kinds, the property
of the State, as said University shall
need for the purposo of instructing its
students in military tactics.
Sec. 2. The Governor is further au
thorized to make requisition upon the
United States Government, for eighty ca
det muskets as a part of tho quota of
arms apportioned to this State under the
act of Congress, and loan to said Norwich
University as provided in this act : pro
vided, That before said muskets Bhall be
delivered to the University, the President
or Treasurer thereof shall execute to the
Governor a certificate, acknowledging the
receipt of the same and conditioned for
the safe keeping, and return thereof to
the Governor when by him ordered.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, Nov. 26, 1862.
No. 37. AN ACT in amendment of au
act to appoint Commissioners, to adjust
and settle certain claims, and accounts,
and expenditures for military purposes.
It is hereby enacted, tyc:
Sec. 1. The Auditor of Accounts is
hereby authorized and directed to audit,
adjust and allow such claims as are men
tioned in the first section of the act to
which this is an amendment, as were not
allowed by the commissioners appointed
under said act: Provided, The Auditor
of Accounts shall find that the claimant
was deprived of a propper hearing before
said commissioners by accident, mistake
or want of notice.
Sec 2. The Auditor of Accounts is
also authorized and directed to audit, ad
just and allow the claims cf such volun-
tccrs as
all have been mustered out of
service for disability accruing after their
eulistmcnt, and such as shall have died
before being mustered into the service.
Seo. 3. The Auditor of Accounts
shall draw his order on the Treasurer for
such sums ashe shall allow, and the Treas
urer is hereby directcted to pay the same.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, Nov. 26, 1862.
No. 38. AN ACT to authorize towns to
raise money to pay volunteers.
It is liereby enacted, Sfc:
Sko. 1, Any town at a town meeting
legally warned and holdcn, may grant and
vote such sums of money as they may
judge best, to bo paid to the persons who
have or may hereafter voluuteer from s:iid
town to serve in the volunteer or militia
regiments or companies of this State in
the service of the United States ; or for
the purpose of paying ony debts, con
tracted by the selectmen of each town to
pay any bounty to such volunteers, agree
ably to any previous vote of suwh town i
or for the purpose of defraying the ex
pense and amount of bounties to such
volunteers, which bounties may have been
paid to such volunteers by private sub
scription or from private means.
Sec. 2. No money payable or received
under the provisions of this act shall be
subject to the trustee process.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved Oct. 29,' 1 862.
No. 39. AN ACT to authorize the Gov
ernor to furnish Tournequcta for the
use of the Soldiers.
It is hereby enacted, Sfc:
Sec 1. The Governor of the State is
hereby authorized to procure and furnish
to the Vermont Troops now in the United I
States service or which may hereafter be
called into the United States service, such
a number of Tourniquets for the use of
the soldiers as he may deem proper.
Sec. 2. The TtufpequctS thus fur
nished shall not be deemed private prop
erty, but shall be accounted for to the
Quartermasters of the regiments to which
said troops belong for the use of tho gov
ernment. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved November 5, 1862. ,
No. 40. AN ACT providing for tho pay
ment of troops.
It is liereby enacted, tyc:
Seo. 1. Tho non-commissioned officers,
musicians and privates of the 12th, 13th,
1 4th, 15th and 16th Itcgiments, who
have becu or may hereafter be mustered
into the service of the United States for
the term of nine months, from this State,
shall be entitled to seven dollars per
mouth from the State of Vermont, in addi
tion to their pay from the United States,
to be paid to them in the same manner
as is now provided for the payment of
seven dollars per month to the non-commissioned
officers, musicians, and privates
of the Volunteer Militia now in the ser
vice of the Uuited States. The members
of the said Regiments and their families
shall be eutitlcd to all the rights and
gratuities that are now provided by the
law for the members of tho Voluuteer
Militia of Vermont, now in the service of
the United States.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved Oct. 10, 1862,
No. 41. AN ACT to provide for the
Payment to Widows of deceased Sol
diers. It is liereby enacted, fyc:
Sec. 1. In case of tho decease of any
non-commissioned officer, musician or
private which is in the service of the Uni
ted States, who, at the time of his decease
was entitled to any pay from this State,
and who was at the time of his decease
married, leaving a widow residing within
this state, said widow shall be deemed to
be the legal representative of her husband,
so far as relates to such amount due, as
aforesaid, and shall be entitled to receive
the same, and the State Treasurer is here
by directed to pay the same to said wid
ow, upou order, drawn by her, accompa
nied by a certificate of the Selectmen of
the town where she resides, setting forth
that the person drawing such order, is the
widow of the .deceased, aud entitled to re
ceive the amount agreeably in this set.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved, October 29, 1802.
No. 42. AN ACT relating to tho pay
due deceased soldiers.
It is heredy enacted, Sjc:
Seo. 1. The seven dollars per month
pay, mentioned in section 1 1 of an act
entitled " an act to provide for raising 6
regiments for immediate service for pro
tccting and defending the Constitution
and Union," opproved April 10th, 1801
and in all subsequent acts relating thereto,
shall not bo considered assets in the
hands of the administrator of such as may
have died, or shall hereafter die in the
service, but shall be paid as follows s IF
the deceased was married, to his
widow ; second if no widow, to his child dollars is appropriated for paying the de
or children: If he died unmarried and beuturcs of the Lieutenant Governor, the
; without ohiklrod, to his fathor;
second, if the father is dead, to the moth
er ; third, if both parents are dead, to the
brothers and sisters, collectively ; lastly,
to the heirs generally.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved, November 28, 1862.
No. 43. AN ACT explanatory of certain
acts providing for the support of fam-
ilies of soldiers.
It is hereby enacted, tyc:
Seo. 1. An act entitled "An act to !
provido for the families of citizens of Ver- J
raont, mustered into the service of the
United States," approved April 26, 1861, !
also au act entitled ' An act providing
pay for certain soldiers, and in relation to
tho support of families of volunteers,"
approved November 20, 1861, shall be
construed so that, First, the families of
commissioned officers shall not be entitled
to the benefit of said act. Second, the
family of no person shall be entitled to
the benefit of said acts until all that is
due such persons from this State shall
have been expended and such further pro
visions shall have been made by said
persons for the support of his family as
should reasonably be required of him.
Third, the family of no persons shall be
entitled to the benefits of said acts after
such person has deceased, or been dis
charged, or may in any way left the ser
vice ; Provided, that iu cases of extreme
necessity, assistance may be continued to
such family for a period not exceeding
three months after such decease or dis
charge. Sec. I. The several towns are empow
ered to pay the agents, appointed for said
towns by the Governor, such sums as shall
be agreed upon between said towns and
said agents, for past and future services,
under said acts ; and such agents shall
not be entitled to any pay for such ser
vices, except from their respective towns.
Sec. 3. This act shall tako effect from
its passage.
Approved, Nov. 14th, 1862.
No. 44. AN ACT making provisions for
military expenses.
It is hereby enacted Sfc:
Sko. 1. The sum of seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars is appropriated
to pay the military expenses of the State.
Sio 2. The Treasurer of the State is
hereby authorized under the direction of
the Governor and Lieutenant Goveruor,
to borrow on the credit of the State, such
sums as he from time to time shall find
necessary for the purposes named in the
first section of this act, not exceeding in
the whole the sum of seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. For the money so borrowed
said Treasurer shall issue the bonds of
this State for such sum, payable on such
time, not exceeding twenty years from the
date thereof, at such bank in the city of
Boston, Mass. as the Governor, Lieut.
Governor and Treasurer shall direct.
Sec. 4. Each of said bonds shall be
made negotiable ; shall bear interest at a
rate not exceeding six per cent per anum
shall have semiannual coupons signed by
the Treasurer, attatched thereto ; Bhall be
signed by the Governor and Lieut. Gov
ernor, and shall be countersigned by the
Treasurer, and a copy of this act certified
ty the Secretary of State shall be printed
on the back thereof.
Seo. 5. The secretary of State shall
keep in bis office a full registry of all
bonds whiuh shall be issued according to
this act.
Sko. 6. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved, November 26, 1802.
No,
45. AN ACT making provision for
the support of Government.
It is hereby enacted Sfc.:
Seo. 1. A tax of eighty cents on the
dollar is assessed on the list of the polls
and ratable estate of the inhabitants of
of this State, for the year one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two, to be paid
j into the treasury by the first day of June
next, in money, certificates or notes issued
by the treasurer or orders drawn on the
i treasurer, by authority of law.
Seo. 2. ; The sum of ninety thousand
, Senate and Uoum of Reprcsontatiw the
contingent expenses of the Gcnoral As-
sembly, and such salaries as are provided
by law, and such sums as are directed to
be paid by the treasurer by special aoU
of the Legislature.
Seo. 3. The sum of one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars is appropriated
for the purpose of paying such demands
against the State as may be allowed by
the Auditor of Accounts, and such drafts
as may be drawn by tho County Clerks
as provided by law.
Sec. 4. The sum of ninety thousand
dollars is appropriated for the purpose of
paying the interest upon tho bonds an4
debt of the State.
Seo. 5. Tho sum of fifteen thousand
dollars Is appropriated to pay such war
rants as may he drawn to pay the contin
gent and incidental expenses of the exec
utive and treasury departments.
Sec. 6. The sum of four hundred
thousand dollars is appropriated to pay
such expenses as may be incurred under
the militia lay.
Seo. 7. The treasurer of the State is
hereby authorized to borrow a sum not
exceeding four hundred and fifty thousand
dollars for the purpose of defraying the
expenses of the Government and paying
such appropriations as are or may be
made.
Seo. 8. Instead of the credit men
tioned in section fifty-seven of chapter
eighty-ono of the Compiled statutes, th
treasurer shall credit the several consta
bles one fortieth part of the wholo sum
contained in the warrant by him issued
for the collection of this tax, to each cov
stable who shall be accountable to theif
respective towns for so much of said for
tieth part so credited, as is not allowed
by way of abatement to such constables ;
and this section shall not apply to any
other tax but that assessed by this act.
Seo. 9. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved Not. 22, 1802,
Secretary of State's Opfioe. )
Montpelier, Dec. 8, 18C2. J
I certify that the foregoing laws, as numbered
are true copies of acts passed by the General As
sembly of this State at the annual session, A.D.
H02. 0. W. BAILEY, Jr.,
Secretary of Stat.
Col. Sawyer ail Right. Col. . B,
Sawyer, of the First Vermont Cavalry,
somo time since deprived of his command
in consequence of alleged misdemean
ors, hai been restored, and is now iu com
mand of his regiment again. This act of
the War Department of course fully vin
dicates Col. Sawyer, and gives the lie to
those allegations by which his removal
was procured. B. F. Times.
43" The Washington Star asserts that
the rebel leaders have already detached a
considerable portion of their force opposed
to the army of Gen. Burnside on Saturday,
to make a dash upon Foster's army, now
threatening their southeastern railroad
connection.
(3T The Albany Standard is now prin
ted on Mannilla, a good quality of wrap
ping paper. The Philadelphia Inquirer
is reduced in size just one-half. A stock
of paper on hand is all that has enabled
the press to go along as it has without
great loss.
63 It is recommended to improve the
army of the Potomac by consolidating the
regiments so as to make them each 1000
strong, and to retain only tho tried and
competent officers ; and to scour the coun
try for deserters, which will bring in from
50,000 to 100,000 men. ,
t?S" The battle of Fredericksburg, at
described by one officer, was like a num
ber of men huddled together in the small
end of a tunnel, all tending to a common
center, and with batteries playing upon
them in front and on either side.
f3 The Woodstock bank Will com-
mence receiving fractional bills of the
American banlc note company on the 6th
of January.
C3T L. J. Mclndoe of the Windsor
Journal, has purchased the Vermont
Chronicle, and will assume its manage-;
ment on Jannaty 1 9
