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TAXES.--So much of the act for the assessment of taxes, as exempts ministers of the gospel of all denominations, during the time of their ministry, instructers of colleges and incorporated academies, from the poll tax, is repealed.

WAR, EXPENSES OF.-This act provides that when the money advanced by the state for its defence, during the war with Great Britain, shall be received from the government of the United States, it shall be the duty of the treasurer of the state to apportion it among the several towns in the state.

An act was passed by a vote of 116 to 62, repealing so much of an existing statute as prohibits "all servile labour and vain recreation" on fast and thanksgiving days.

An act to repeal two acts by which the amount of the state claim upon the United States for services rendered during the late war, was appropriated for the benefit of Yale College, and the different religious sects of the state. This bill was passed in the house 190 to 5.

Another act, which was severely censured in various ways, grew out of the circumstances which gave notoriety to the town of Canterbury,

in reference to the determination of a Miss Crandall to establish in that town a school for the education of coloured females. The preamble recites, that attempts have been made to establish literary institutions for the education of coloured people belonging to other states, which would tend to the great increase of the coloured population of the state, and thereby to the injury of the people." It is therefore enacted, that any person who shall estab lish a school for the education of coloured persons now belonging to the state, or shall become an instructor in any such school, or shall harbour any such coloured person for the purpose of being instructed, without the consent of a majority of the civil authority," and of the selectmen of the town where such school is situated, shall pay a fine of $100 for the first offence, for a second $200, $400 for the next, and so on. Another section renders any coloured person, who shall come into the state for the purpose of being instructed, liable to be removed.

A section of a previous act in relation to settlement of persons providing for the infliction of corporal punishment, was repealed.

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mont, a mine or bed of manganese, of a quality superior to the imported article. The manganese mine is in the town of Chittenden, Rutland co., 29 miles from the shore of Lake Champlain, and has been worked since 1826. The manganese is raised from the mine, cleansed from the earthy particles, and is sent to New-York and other markets in barrels. The principle use of manganese is for making the chloride of lime, or bleaching powders, and for glass. The price of the manganese is between thirty and forty dollars per ton in market.

LEGISLATION.-At the October session of the legislature of Vermont, in 1832, twenty seven public acts, seven resolutions, and sixtyfour private acts were passed.

ACTIONS, LIMITATION OF.-If any person, against whom there may be any cause of action, of a personal or transitory nature, shall leave the state before such cause of action shall he barred by the statute of limitations, and shall not have known property within the state which could be attached, the statute of limitations shall not run against any such cause of action, during the absence of such person.

Every clause of any statute of limitations, exempting any person without any of the United States from the operation of any statute of limitations, is repealed.

BANKS.-Four banking companies were incorporated, the aggregate capital stock of which is $300,000.

CHAMPLAIN, LAKE.-The gover. nor is requested, by a resolve of the legislature, to open a correspondence with the governor of Lower Canada, upon the subject of remov. ing obstructions at the outlets of this lake.

Dead, disturbing THE REMAINS

OF.-Justices of the peace are re quired, upon complaint and oath of any person, that the remains of any dead person have been disinterred and removed, and that the person making such complaint has reason to believe that they are secreted in any dwelling-house, &c., to issue a warrant to make search in such place, for such dead person; and such officer shall not be made liable, in any suit or prosecution, for executing said warrant, if such dead person is or is not found.

FIRE COMPANIES.-An act was passed prescribing the mode of forming fire companies, authorizing the selectmen to establish the limits of villages, for the purpose of forming fire societies therein, &c.

FOXES.--By an act to encourage the destruction of foxes, a premium of twenty-five cents is directed to be paid to any person who shall destroy any fox within the state.

LANDS, PUBLIC.--The senators and representatives were requested to sustain, by all proper means, a division of the moneys arising from the sale of public lands, in accordance with the principles contained in the report made by Mr. Clay, to the senate of the United states, at the session of congress in 1831-32.

MANUFACTURING CORPORATIONS. Acts were passed to incorporate the Olympus Mineral Company, with a capital of $209,000; the Lake Dunmore Glass Company, with a capital of $80,000 ; the Ascutney Manufacturing Company, with a capital of $100,000; and the Rutland woollen Manufacturing Company, with a capital of $200,000.

MILLS.-The act relating to mills and millers is not to be so construed as to make any owner or occupier of any mill liable to the penalty therein named, who shall neglect or refuse to grind any grain, brought to

such mill, to be ground for the avow. ed or apparent purpose of manufacturing such grain into distilled spirits.

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MILITIA. Companies are to be called together on the first Tuesday in June, annually, for the purpose of taking an exact account of every man's arms and equipments, and also, for company discipline and drill and the polls of the militia re. turned equipped, and who shall perform the duty required by law, shall be exempt from the payment of all taxes, except district school taxes, taxes for making and repairing highways and bridges, and for the payment of damages assessed to individuals through whose lands any road may be laid, and ten dollars shall be deducted by the listers, from the list of any parent, master or guardian, who shall equip any minors, liable to do military duty, under his care.

PEDLERS. No license to any person to be a hawker and pedler within this state, shall be granted for a shorter period of time than one year.

RAIL-ROAD COMPANY.-The Vermont Rail-road Company was incorporated with power to construct a rail-road from some eligible point on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain-thence following the valley of Onion river, and extending to such point on Connecticut river as will most conveniently meet the rail-road, contemplated in New. Hampshire, to pass by Concord, towards Boston; the corporation is to have succession for the term of 50 years, and is required within three years to complete the survey of the rail-road; within ten years to construct one fourth part of the rail.

road; within fifteen years one half; and within twenty years to complete and put in operation the whole of the rail-road.

STATE HOUSE. The sum of $15,000 was appropriated for the erection of a state house at Montpelier.

TAXES.-A tax of three cents on the dollar on the list of the polls and ratable estate of the inhabitants of this state, for the year 1832, is to be assessed.

The legislature also adopted the following resolutions, with proper preambles, the two first unanimously, and the last by a vote of 91 to

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Resolved, The governor and council concurring therein, that our senators in congress be instructed, and our representatives be requested, to oppose any and every modification of the tariff laws, which shall have any tendency to weaken or destroy their efficiency as a system of protection to domestic manufactures in their various branches.

Resolved, The governor and council concurring therein, that our senators in congress be instructed, and our representatives requested, to aid in procuring appropriations for such works of internal improvement as shall, in their opinions, be of great and national importance.

Resolved, The governor and council concurring herein, that our senators be instructed, and our representatives be requested, to use their endeavours to procure a recharter of the present bank of the United States, with such powers and provisions as they shall deem most proper for the attainment of the objects of its institution, and most conducive to the general welfare.

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Penalty and sale of stone
Oswego Canal fund returned
Chemung Canal fund trans-
ferred

64 17

2,631 78

Total $4,938,140 62.

Payments. Interest on canal loans Stocks purchased and cancel

356,794 88

Balance on hand, Oct. 1, 1832, $13 086 39

5,646 78
Loans and Premium
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2,016 61

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