

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (VERMONT.) 



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$919.58, and the aggregate available for distribu- 

 tion was $90,427.08. 



The sales of liquor for the year preceding Feb. 

 1, 1902, were $350,622.20; profit, $33,609.91; ex- 

 cess paid State, $2,759.43. Towns are required to 

 pay into the State treasury any excess of profits 

 over 10 per cent, of the total sales of liquor. 



Charter fees for incorporations under general 

 law received in the fiscal year amounted to 

 $2.495; collateral inheritance taxes, $55,066.77; 

 corporation taxes levied on savings-banks, $195,- 

 547.23; on savings-banks and trust companies, 

 $70,296.36; on appraisals of railroad companies, 

 $4,445; on gross earnings of railroad companies, 

 $119,198.75; on transportation companies, $6,248.- 

 78; on express companies, $2,418.05; on telephone 

 companies, $5,912.57 ; on telegraph companies, $1,- 

 678.91; on loan and investment companies, $55; 

 on foreign fire-insurance companies, $11,145.69; 

 on domestic fire-insurance companies, $6,655.43; 

 on foreign life-insurance companies, $26,936.44; 

 on domestic life-insurance companies, $6,436.72 ; on 

 assessment life associations, $47.37 ; on foreign 

 fidelity and casualty insurance companies, $2,860.- 

 92; on domestic fidelity and casualty insurance 

 companies, $85.64; license taxes levied on Ver- 

 lont corporations, $9,322; on corporations of 

 3ther States, $2,211; on foreign insurance com- 

 mies, $4,885. 



Resources and Products. The Crop Report- 

 er, published by the authority of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture of the United States, gives the acreage, 

 production, and value of the principal farm-crops 

 of this State for 1902: Corn, 57,718 acres, produc- 

 tion 1,258,252 bushels, value $855,611; spring 

 irheat, acreage 1,725, production 32,430 bushels, 

 /alue $35,349; oats, acreage 77,780, production 

 3,111,200 bushels, value $1,337,816; barley, acre- 

 age 12,954, production 384,734 bushels, value $234,- 

 688; rye, acreage 1,943, production 32,837 bush- 

 els, value $25,284; buckwheat, acreage 10,356, 

 production 258,900 bushels, value $144,984; pota- 

 toes, acreage 27,133, production 2,550,502 bush- 

 els, value $1,479.291; hay, acreage 926,878, pro- 

 duction 1,177,135 tons, value $11,359,353; tobacco, 

 acreage 191, production 343,800 pounds, value $48,- 

 132. 



Education. Among the provisions made by 

 the Legislature at its session in 1902 the following 

 are the important ones referring to education: 

 " Every town containing 2,500 inhabitants shall 

 maintain a high school or furnish higher instruc- 

 tion for advanced pupils as hereinafter provided. 



" The board of school directors shall provide 

 for the instruction of advanced pupils in higher 

 branches of study in the high school or schools 

 of the town. When no high school is maintained 

 by a town, the board of school directors shall 

 provide such instruction for such pupils in the 

 high school of an incorporated school district or 

 in an academy of the town. When no high school 

 or academy exists within the town, the board of 

 school directors shall provide such instruction for 

 such pupils in the high schools or academies of 

 other towns within or without the State. 



" A sum not exceeding $200 is appropriated an- 

 lually to aid in defraying the expenses of the an- 

 mal meeting of the State Teachers' Association. 



" The sum of $15,000 shall first be reserved from 

 the amount of the State school tax paid by the 

 several cities and towns into the treasury of the 

 State. The remainder shall be distributed among 

 the cities and towns in proportion to the number 

 of legal schools maintained. 



" The sum reserved shall be divided among the 

 towns which raise the higher per cent, of tax for 

 school purposes, in order to equalize taxation and 



afford equal school privileges as nearly as possible, 

 at the discretion of the State Treasurer, the State 

 Superintendent of Schools, and the examiner of 

 teachers for Washington County. But no town 

 shall receive any portion of this money unless said 

 town shall raise at least 50 cents on the dollar 

 on the grand list of said town for school pur- 

 poses." 



Montpelier. Statistics regarding the growth 

 of Montpelier in the past ten years have been 

 compiled. There were 317 dwelling-houses erect- 

 ed, apart from remodeled houses or barns. There 

 have been 60 other buildings erected for business, 

 including blocks, manufacturing plants, etc. In 

 addition to these over $200,000 has been expended 

 in the erection of public buildings from which no 

 taxes are derived. The valuation of real estate 

 in 1901 was $3,064,930, and in 1891 $1,599,300. 



Legislative Session. The following is an 

 abridged statement of the more important acts 

 passed by the Legislature at its biennial session 

 in October, 1902: 



No person shall, in order to aid or promote his 

 own nomination, or the nomination of another 

 person, as a candidate for public office, pay or con- 

 tribute any money except for personal expenses 

 for traveling, for writing and printing any letter, 

 circular, or other publications not issued at regu- 

 lar intervals, whereby he may state his positions 

 or views upon public or other questions; for sta- 

 tionery and postage, for telegraph, telephone, etc. 

 No publisher of any newspaper shall accept pay- 

 ment for the support or advocacy in such news- 

 paper or publication of the nomination of any 

 person as a candidate for public office in this 

 State. 



Money loaned at a rate of interest not exceed- 

 ing 3 per cent, per annum to any town, city, vil- 

 lage, or incorporated school district by individuals 

 living in such town, city, village or incorporated 

 school district shall be exempt from taxation. 



Women twenty-one years of age may be elected 

 or appointed to the office of clerk of a town or to 

 the office of treasurer of a town, or to both of 

 said offices, and may be appointed town superin- 

 tendent of schools. 



No automobile or other motor vehicle shall be 

 run on any public highway outside the limits of a 

 city or town at a speed exceeding 15 miles an 

 hour, and no such vehicle shall be run on any 

 public highway within the limits of a city or 

 town at a speed exceeding 6 miles an hour. 



Every physician engaged in the practise of med- 

 icine in Vermont shall submit to the secretary of 

 the State Board of Health the names and ad- 

 dresses of all persons under his treatment for tu- 

 berculosis, and thereafter each case within one 

 week after applying for treatment. 



An act relating to the counting of votes. 



Amendments to the acts providing for taxation 

 of corporations. 



The rents, issues, and products of the real estate 

 of a married woman were exempted from attach- 

 ment or execution for the debts of her husband. 



Trust companies were authorized to act as exec- 

 utors and in other fiduciary capacities 



The sale of commercial fertilizers and commer- 

 cial feeding-stuffs was placed under special regu- 

 lations. 



A board of cattle commissioners was created. 

 Amendments won- made to the statutes rela- 

 ting to the practise of medicine and surgery. The 

 practise of osteopathy \\a- legalised. 



Registration of births, marriages, divorces, and 

 deaths shall hereafter be made by the use of spe- 

 cial blanks. 



The following are the important items of the 



