Chap. 10. 



STATE OF SOCIETY. 



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POST OFFICE. 



SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS. 



To raise $4000, granted to Stephen Co- 

 nant, November I, 1800. 



To raise $2,300, for building a bridge 

 over Otter Creek at Vergennes, Novem- 

 ber 8, 1804. 



From about the year 1800, there was a 

 gradual change in public sentiment with 

 regard to the propriety of raising money 

 by lotteries, and no new grants were made 

 by the legislature after 1804. In 1826, 

 the sale of foreign lottery tickets having 

 grown up into an extensive trafhc in this 

 state. Gov. Butler, in his message, called 

 the attention of the legislature to this sub- 

 ject, and a law was passed prohibiting the 

 sale of lottery tickets in Vermont without 

 a licence from the proper authority and 

 imposing a duty of $500 upon a license 

 to vend tickets for one year, and the pen- 

 alty for selling without a license was fix- 

 ed at $1,000. The next year the duty 

 upon a license was raised to $1,000, and 

 the penalty to $2,000. By the present 

 laws of the state lotteries of all kinds and 

 the sale of lottery tickets, are prohibited 

 under severe penalties. 



Post Office. — In 1783 the governor and 

 council of Vermont established a weekly 



post between Bennington and Albany in 

 the state of New York. The next year 

 the legislature of this state established five 

 post offices within the state : one at Ben- 

 nington, one at Rutland, one at Brattle- 

 borough, one at Windsor and one at New- 

 bury. Between these several places a 

 mail was transmitted once a week each 

 way, and the postage was established at 

 the same rates as thatof the United States, 

 and Anthony Haswell, Esq. of Benning- 

 ton, was appointed postmaster general. 

 The post rider from Bennington to Brat- 

 tleborough was allowed for travel 3d per 

 mile, and those on the other routes 2r/ per 

 mile. The post riders were allowed the 

 exclusive privilege of carrying letters and 

 packages on their respective routes, and 

 any person who infringed upon this right 

 was liable to a fine of £10. 



Upon the admission of Vermont into 

 the Union in 1791, the post offices in this 

 state became a part of the post office es- 

 tablishment under the control of the gen- 

 eral government ; and since that time of- 

 fices have been multiplied till almost ev- 

 ery neighborhood has its post office. 



Table of Senators in Congress, shoiclng the time of their election. 



JVames. 



Elected. 



Moses Robinson, Oct. 1791 



Isaac Tichenor, 

 Nath'l. Chipman, 

 Israel Smith, 

 Jona. Robinson, 

 Isaac Tichenor, 

 Horatio Seymour, 



1706 

 1797 

 1803 

 1807 

 1814 

 1820 



JVames. 



Elected. 



Horatio Seymour, 

 Benjamin Swift, 

 Samuel S. Phelps, 



Steph. R. Bradley, 

 Elijah Paine, 

 Elijah Paine, 



1826 

 1832 

 1839 



1791 



1794 



1800 



jYames. 



Elected. 



Steph. R. Bradley.Oct. 1801 



Steph. R. Bradley, " 

 Dudley Chase, 

 James Fisk, 

 Wm. A. Palmer, 

 Dudley Chase, 

 Samuel Prentiss, 



1806 

 1812 

 1817 

 1818 

 1824 

 1830 



Table of the Representatives in Congress, with the time of their service. 



Nath'l. Niles, 1791—179.5 

 Israel Smith, 1791—1797 

 Daniel Buck, 1795—1799 

 Math. Lyon, 1797—1801 

 L. R. Morris, 1797—1803 

 Israel Smith, 1801—1803 

 W.Chamberl'n, 1803—1805 

 M. Chittenden, 1803—1813 

 James Elliot, 1803-1809 

 Gideon Olin, 1803—1807 

 James Fisk, 1805—1809 

 J. Witherill. 1807—1808 

 Samuel Shaw, 1808—1813 

 VV^.Chamberl'n, 1809—1810 

 J. H. Hubbard, 1809-1810 

 James Fisk, 1810—1815 

 William Strong,1810— 1815 

 W. C. Bradley, 1813—1815 

 Ezra Butler, 1813—1815 



Names. 



I Term. 



Names. 



R. Skinner, 1813—1815 

 Charles Rich, 1813—1815 

 D. Chipman, 181.5—1817 

 Luther Jewett, 1815 — 1817 

 C. Langdon, 1815—1817 

 Asa Lyon, 181.5—1817 



Charles Marsh, 1815—1817 

 John Noves, 1815—1817 

 Heman Allen, 1817-1819 

 S. C. Crafts, 1817—1825 

 Wm. Hunter, 1817—1819 

 O. C. Merrill, 1817—1819 

 Charles Rich, 1817—1825 

 Mark Richards, 1817—1821 

 William Strong,181!)— 1821 

 Ezra Meech, 1819—1821 

 R. C. Mallary, 1820—1831 

 Elias Keyes, 1821—1823 

 John Mattocks, 1821—1823 



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 W. C. Bradley, 1823 

 D. A. A. Buck, 1823 

 Ezra Meech, 182.5 

 John Mattocks, 182.5 

 Geo. E. Wales, 1825 

 Benjamin Swift, 1827 

 Jonathan Hunt, 1827 

 Wm. Gaboon, 1827 

 Horace Everett, 1829 

 Heman Allen, 1832 

 William Slade, 1831 

 Hiland Hall, 1833 

 B. F. Deming, 1833 

 Horace F.Janes, 183.5 

 Isaac Fletcher, 1837 

 John Smith, 1839 

 Augu3t'sYoung,1841 

 John Mattocks, 1841 



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