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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1908
Page
3
City of Barre enacts revised ordinances. Updates establish chapters, boards, and committee structures. Provisions cover passage, amendments, publishing, recordkeeping, vetoes, and executive processes for city governance and committees.
A Barre city ordinance outlines the creation and appointment of numerous city offices. It details mayoral nomination, annual confirmation by the Board of Aldermen, one year terms, and provisions for temporary or permanent vacancies, bonds, commissions, and salary determinations by the City Council. The measure specifies officers including police, engineers, inspectors, fire officials, surveyors, weighers, and others with bond and qualification requirements.
The city enacts annual alderman committees with three members each, led by a chair from the mayor’s appointees. Committees include Legislation, Finance, Street and Water, Fire, Police, Light, Materials and Supplies, Charities and Corrections, City Property, Public History, Cemeteries, Health, Printing, Licenses, Elections, and Salaries, to oversee duties per city charter and council resolutions.
The document outlines city records rules for Barre including keeping action votes and tax records, ward meeting entries, and election vote tallies. It assigns custodial duties to the City Clerk, requires deposit and custody of record books, and restricts removal of records except by court order with receipts. It also details what to do when petitions or documents are referred, and imposes fines for violations up to fifty dollars.
City of Barre ordinance details monthly Finance Committee audits of accounts and claims, approval for payments, and written city authorizations. It outlines procedures for recording claims, transferring funds, and ensuring prompt payments to contractors while enforcing proper channels and treasurer ledgers.
The text outlines an abatement showing city finances and creates a detailed register by number date and amount for bonds notes and certificates payable to the City. It requires timely payment stamping and auditor verification, annual financial reporting, and audits of city officers. It also defines audit access and penalties for violations of the chapter.
The Barre City Council ordains that the sinking fund be paid into the city treasury with a treasurer’s account kept. Under council direction it may be deposited in a bank, invested in securities, loaned safely, or in bonds of Barre, all to liquidate bonded debt as bonds mature. It may be drawn when the council votes to redeem or cancel bonds before maturity.
Ordinance appoints the City Engineer as the public works adviser and contracts drafter, responsible for surveys, street and sewer planning, records, and bridges, with annual reports to the council. It outlines duties, office records, annual inspections, and budget accountability ending with 1907 adoption and 1908 effective date.
For the holidays the shop highlights the best from the dairy henery and the creamery. Fine ice cream for dessert or lunch and a selection of chocolates considered the best for the money.
Keenan, just out after ten years, prowls at midnight near a town seeking an extra score. He witnesses a murder scene tied to Hugh Gregory and Everett Sturgis, steals a watch and money, rereads trials, and learns Gregory confessed. Keenan plots to expose police inefficiency, mails a confession to a judge, but Gregory is cleared while Keenan faces capture as the real killer.
Absent minded note from Plestant discusses his wife’s forgetfulness and a vague request to recall what happened. The fragment hints at concern or curiosity about a missing detail or memory.
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