Chap. 7. 



POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS. 



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NINTH COUNCIL. 



LIST OF CENSORS. 



tional right so to act was not seriously 

 denied. But a collision at length arising 

 between the council and house of repre- 

 sentatives, inquiry was instituted with re- 

 gard to the extent of their respective 

 powers. The council claimed a parity of 

 powers with the house, and this the house 

 as resolutely denied. Notwithstanding 

 the former practice, it was found that the 

 literal construction of the constitution 

 was in accordance with the views of the 

 house, and, the council being thus shorn 

 of the powers, which it had been so long 

 permitted to exercise, and sunk into in- 

 significance, the people were aroused to a 

 sense of the necessity of some more effec- 

 tual check upon the proceedings of the 

 house of representatives, and the result 

 was the establishment of a senate in 1836, 

 as before stated. 



The ninth and last council of censors, 

 elected in 1841, held three Sessions; the 

 first in June, the second in October, 1841, 

 and the third in February, 184:2, the two 

 former at Montpelier and the latter at 

 Burlington. They have proposed seven 

 articles of amendment to the constitution, 

 and have agreed upon calling a convention 

 to meet at Montpelier on the firstWednes- 

 day in January, 1843, for their considera- 

 tion. The most important of these recom- 

 mendations are, first, the extension of the 

 term of service of the judges of the su- 

 preme court from one to seven years ; 

 secondly, the extension of the term of 

 service of senators, from one to three 

 years — one third of the whole number to 

 be elected annually; and, thirdly, the. 

 giving the election of sheriffs and high 

 bailiffs to the people of the respective 

 counties, and the election of justices of 

 the peace to the people of the towns in 

 which they reside. 



List of Councils of Censors. 



The following is a list of the councils 

 of censors, elected on the last Wednesday 

 in March of each septenary : 



178.5. — Lewis Bcbee, Jonathan Brace, 

 Benjamin Carpenter, Ebenezer Curtis, 

 Jonathan Hunt, Stephen Jacobs, Joseph 

 Marsh, Ebenezer Marvin, Increase Mose- 

 ly, Elijah Robinson, John Sessions, Micah 

 Townsend and Ebenezer Walbridge. 



1792. — Daniel Buck, Bridgeman, 



Benjamin Burt, Elijah Dewey, Jonas Ga- 

 lusha, Anthony Haswell, Roswell Hop- 

 kins, Samuel Knight, Beriah Loomis, 

 Samuel Mattocks, Elijah Paine, Isaac 

 Ticlienor and John White. 



1799.— Elias Buel, Noah Chittenden, 

 Elijah Dewey, Benjamin Emmons, David 

 Fay, Lott Hall, Jonathan Hunt, Samuel 

 Knight, John Leverett, Nathaniel Niles, 



Moses Robinson, John White and John 

 Willard. 



1806. — Apollos Austin, Ezra Butler, 

 Loyal Case, Isaac Clark, Josiah Fisk, 

 Thomas Gross, Udney Hay, Wm. Hunter, 

 S. Huntington, John Noyes, Mark Rich- 

 ards, Moses Robinson and James Tarbox. 



1813. — Isaac Bailej^, Nicholas Briylies, 

 Solomon Bingham, Nathaniel Chipman, 

 Ebenezer Clark, David Edmunds, Daniel 

 Farrand, William Hall, jun., Luther Jew- 

 ett, Chas. Marsh, Elijah Strong, Robert 

 Temple and Isaac Tichenor. 



1.820. — Asa Aldis, Joel Brownson, Au- 

 gustine Clarke, J.Cushman,Wm. Hunter, 

 Jedediah Hyde, William Nutting, John 

 Phelps, Joel Pratt, Charles Rich, Joseph 

 Scott, Amos Thompson and J. Y. Vail. 



1827. — Asa Aikens, Joel Allen, John 

 W. Dana, Wm. Gates, Wm. A. Griswold, 

 Jedediah H. Harris, Wm. Howe, Daniel 

 Kellogg, O. Noble, Samuel S. Phelps, 

 Leonard Sargeant, Bates Turner and E. 

 P. Walton. 



1834.— Joel Dooliltle, Alvan Foote, Na- 

 than Harmon, Robert Harvey, William 

 Hebard, David Hibbard, jr., John Phelps, 

 Joseph Reed, Stephen Robinson, Joseph 

 Smith, E. H. Starkweather, Wm. Strong. 



1841. — Heman Allen, Austin Birchard, 

 Luther Carpenter, Martin, C. Deming, 

 J. D. Farnsworth, Alvah R. French, Da- 

 vid Hibbard, Willis Mott, Gordon New- 

 ell, Ephraim Paddock, John A. Pratt, 

 Hezekiah H. Reed and Peter Starr. 



Section VI. 

 Militia of Vermont.'^ 



With the exceptions mentioned below, 

 the militia of Vermont consists of all the 

 able-bodied white male citizens of the 

 state between the age of 18 and 45 years. 

 The exemptions from military service em- 

 brace ministers of the gospel, commis- 

 sioned officers who have been honorably 

 discharged, and such as may be so dis- 

 charged after having served as commis- 

 sioned officers for a period of five years, 

 members of fire companies to the number 

 of 20 to each engine, faculties and stu- 

 dents of colleges and academies, judges 

 of the supreme, county and probate courts, 

 county clerks, registers of probate, sher- 

 iffs, deputy sheriffs, high bailiffs and con- 

 stables, quakers, physicians, stated school- 

 masters, ferrymen and millers. 



The whole military force of the state, 

 according to the return of the Adjutant and 

 Inspector General for 1840, was 26,304, 

 including officers and private soldiers_ 

 This force of which the governor is com. 



* See Revised Statutes for Io39, page 554--600. 



