VERMONT. 



and equipment $22,686,705, -wore open for 

 traffic. According to the census of 1860, the 

 value of the products of industry tor the year 

 ending June 1, 1860 were, in round numbers, 

 $16.000,000. The following were some of the 

 items: sawed and planed lumber, $1,060,000 ; 

 flour, $1,660,000 ; steam engines and machine- 

 ry, $490,000; agricultural implements, $160,- 

 000; tanned leather, $1,000,000; iron ore, 

 $18,000; bar iron, $63,000; pig iron, $93,000. 

 The commerce of Vermont is conducted entire- 

 ly on Lake Champlain. The enrolled and li- 

 censed tonnage of the State in 1860 was 7,744 

 tons; the arrivals 29.232 tons, and the clear- 

 ances 23.460. The exports of the State the 

 same year were $783,702, of which $257,083 

 were domestic products, and $526,619 foreign. 

 The imports were $2,731,857, of which a large 

 proportion were British goods admitted through 

 Canada under the reciprocity treaty. The 

 number of banks in the State in 1861 was 44, 

 whose condition was as follows : 



Capital $3,872,642 



Loans and discounts 6,74S,500 



Stocks 190,372 



Real estate 174,736 



Other investments 163,662 



Due by other banks 1,299,595 



Notes of other banks 58,558 



Cash items 103,537 



Specie 185,670 



Circulation 3,784,673 



Deposits 814,623 



Due to other banks 15,042 



The number of savings banks was 14, of 

 which 2 were in the hands of receivers in chan- 

 cery, 2 were winding up their affairs, and 10 

 were receiving deposits. The deposits in 12 of 

 these banks were $1,145,263. The State valu- 

 ation of the real and personal estate of its in- 

 habitants in 1860 was $86,871,851.65. The gov- 

 ernment valuation under the census of 1860 was 

 $122.477,170. Up to January, 1861, the State 

 had no permanent debt ; a temporary loan, to 

 be reimbursed by State tax, of $175,000, had 

 been contracted for the completion of a new 

 State house. The government of the State had 

 been conducted with great economy, the entire 

 expenditure for executive, legislative, and judi- 

 cial purposes seldom or never reaching the sum 

 of $200,000. 



No State in the Union responded more 

 heartily or willingly to the President's procla- 

 mation of the loth of April, 1861, than Ver- 

 mont. 



On the 21st of April, despatches received 

 from all the principal towns of the State re- 

 ported the prevalence of intense enthusiasm and 

 interest, and the rapid enlistment of volunteers. 

 Gov. Hall called an extra session of the Legis- 

 lature, which convened at Montpelier on the 

 22d of April, and in the course of a brief ses- 

 sion passed an appropriation of one million dol- 

 lars for military purposes, one-half absolutely, 

 and one-half at the Governor's discretion. 



The organization of one regiment for imme- 

 diate service, in response to the call of the Gov- 



ernment, was authorized, and also the organi- 

 sation rind placing upon a war footing, without 

 delay, of two more regiments, with provisions 

 for drilling the same in barracks or encamp- 

 ment. 



The Governor was empowered to call out four 

 more regiments, if needed, (making seven in 

 all,) with provision for tilling the rank- of all 

 the regiments by draft from the enrolled mili- 

 tia, when volunteers are wanting. 



An act exempting militia men, in service, 

 from arrest on civil process; granting to each 

 private seven dollars a mouth, in addition to 

 the regular pay of the United States army; 

 providing for their families at the cost of the 

 State, in case of destitution ; and paying for the 

 uniforms of those enlisting after March 12, 

 1861, was passed. 



An act authorizing banks to loan over ten 

 per cent, of their capital to the State, and an 

 act for a State tax of ten cents on the dollar, 

 were also adopted. 



They also repealed sections ten and eleven 

 of the Personal Liberty bill, which had been 

 complained of as inconsistent with the Consti- 

 tution of the United States, and substituted for 

 it the following law : 



It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the 

 State of Vermont, as follows : 



SECTION 1. If any person shall kidnap or unlawfully 

 carry oft" or attempt to kidnap or unlawfully carry ofi" 

 any other person, or shall decoy, or attemp't to decoy, 

 any other person from, or shall without due process of 

 law remove, or aid, or assist in removing any other 

 person from this State, or shall without due pro- 

 cess of law deprive any other person of his liberty, 

 with intent to remove, or aid, or assist in removing 

 such other person from this State, he shall be pun- 

 ished by a fine of not less than one hundred and not 

 exceeding three thousand dollars, or be imprisoned 

 in the State prison for a term not exceeding three 

 years, or both said punishments, in the discretion of 

 the court. 



SEC. 2. Sections ten and eleven of chapter one hun- 

 dred and one of the compiled statutes, and sections 

 two, three, four, six, seven and eight of an act en- 

 titled " An act to secure freedom to all persons within 

 this State," approved Xov. 25, A. D. 1S5S, are hereby 

 repealed. 



SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. 



The raising of the sum of one million dollars, 

 by loan or otherwise, was an unprecedented 

 measure in the little State of Vermont. So 

 large a sum had hardly ever been mentioned 

 before in its Legislature, and the levying of a tax 

 of ten cents on the dollar on the grand list, was 

 an act equally without parallel in its history ; 

 yet there was no hesitation, and no dissenting 

 voices. 



On the 10th of May, her first regiment ar- 

 rived in New York, ad'mirably equipped, under 

 the command of Colonel (now General) J. 

 TVolcott Phelps, a graduate of West Point. 

 This regiment was in many respects the most 

 remarkable of the many which entered the ser- 

 vice as three-months men. It was composed 

 to an extraordinary extent of men of superior 

 education and social position. If early one-tenth 

 of its numbers, including many privates, were 



