NO. 6. ACT OF 1848. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT RELATING TO THE MILITIA. It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont as follows: SECTION 1. The two hundred and fortieth section of an act entitled "an act in relation to the militia," approved November 11, 1842, shall be so amended, as to read as follows: Each member of a company of uniform militia, who shall be returned uniformed and equipped, to the town clerk, shall draw from the treasury of this state, the sum of two dollars annually, on presenting, on or before the first day of November, in each year, to the state treasurer, a certificate from said town clerk, that he has been so returned. SECT. 2. Section eleven of an act in amendment of an act in relation to the militia, approved November 1, 1843, is hereby repealed. Approved, November 13, 1848. NO. 7. REGULATIONS RESPECTING MILITARY EXPENSES AND THE ACCOUNTS OF THE QUARTER-MASTER GENERAL. SECTION 1. The quarter-master general shall be provided by the auditor of accounts with a book of accounts at the expense of the state, in which he shall make himself debtor for all moneys drawn from the treasury, or received from any other source for the support of the militia; he shall open accounts with the quarter-masters of the several regiments, in which accounts all the items of charge made against the state, and allowed by him, for military expenses, shall be specified, with the sum allowed on each; and all payments made by him shall be receipted at the foot of the account by the person receiving the money, or draft, for the same; all such payments shall pass to the credit of the quarter-master general, and no money shall hereafter be drawn from the treasury, for any service or expense appertaining to the military department, except by the quarter-master general. (Sec. 13 of No. 2 of 1842, p. 12.) SECT. 2. On the first day of September, annually, the quartermaster general shall report to the [auditor in the treasury] (auditor of accounts, see ante, chap. 9, § 64,) an abstract of all the orders drawn by him on the treasurer during the preceding fiscal year; and shall furnish the auditor of accounts a like abstract, together with an account of all the services and expenses to pay which they were drawn; and the same or the substance thereof shall be em braced in the annual report of the auditor of accounts. (Sec. 24 of No. 25 of 1846, p. 27.) SECT. 3. The quarter-master general shall annually submit his record of allowances, and the accounts and claims upon which he has drawn orders during the preceding year, to one of the legislative committees of claims, whose duty it shall be to examine into the propriety and economy of the same and report thereon. (Sec. 2 of No. 36 of 1848, p. 27.) NO. 8. THE FLAG OF THE STATE. AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE FLAG OF THIS STATE. SECTION 1. It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont, That from and after the passage of this act, the flag of this state be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be one large star, white, in a blue field, with the coat of arms of the state of Vermont therein. SECT. 2. It is hereby further enacted, That the act entitled "an act establishing the flag of the militia of this state," passed October 31, 1803, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Approved, October 20, 1837. TITLE XXXIV. COMPILATION AND PUBLICATION OF THE LAWS. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR COMPILING THE LAWS OF THIS STATE. It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont, as follows: SECTION 1. The governor is hereby authorized to appoint some suitable person to compile, arrange, and put into chapters under appropriate heads, the public acts and laws now in force, including the Revised Statutes, and the public acts and laws passed since the revision of the statutes, including the public acts of the present session, with a suitable index to the same, and in such compilation to omit such acts or parts of acts as have been repealed, and arranging such acts as have been altered by amendments, so far as can be done. SECT. 2. The person so appointed by the governor, shall report to the governor the compilation of the public acts and laws aforesaid as arranged by him, and if the governor shall approve of the said compilation and arrangement of the said public acts and laws, he shall make a certificate thereof and shall deposit the same, with the said compilation, in the office of the secretary of state. SECT. 3. The secretary of state shall carefully collate and compare the said compilation with the original acts and laws on file in his office, and shall correct all errors therein, and shall verify the accuracy of the said compilation by his official attestation thereto. SECT. 4. The secretary of state shall cause five hundred copies of said compilation of public acts and laws, thus deposited with him as aforesaid, to be printed and bound in the same style with the Revised Statutes, the same to be subject to such distribution as the general assembly may hereafter direct; and the secretary of state is hereby authorized to make a contract for the said printing and binding, on such terms as in his judgment will be most favorable to the state. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect from its passage. CERTIFICATE OF THE GOVERNOR. STATE OF VERMONT. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Rutland, September 1st, 1851. } The foregoing compilation of the public acts and laws of Vermont, as prepared and arranged by CHARLES L. WILLIAMS, appointed for that purpose in pursuance of "an act to provide for compiling the laws of this state," has been reported to me by him. I hereby certify, that I have examined the same and do approve of the said compilation and arrangement. CH. K. WILLIAMS. ATTESTATION OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. STATE OF VERMONT. OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE, } I HEREBY CERTIFY, that the public acts and laws of this state, as compiled by CHARLES L. WILLIAMS, Esq., in pursuance of an act entitled "an act to provide for compiling the laws of this state," approved November 13th, 1850, contained in the foregoing work, from page 49 to page 683, both inclusive, have been carefully collated and compared with the original acts and laws on file in this office, and found to be true copies of said original acts and laws. FERRAND F. MERRILL, APPENDIX. APPENDIX A. List of the Chapters and Sections of the REVISED STATUTES, with reference to their arrangement in this compilation, and a designation of those which have been repealed or superseded by later acts. (In this list no separate designation is made of those sections which have been repealed in part only, or are amended by an altered reading or otherwise. For such changes reference must be had to the designations at the end of each of the corresponding sections in the compilation itself.) |