The Vermont Statutes Online
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Subchapter
001
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VILLAGE BOUNDARIES LEGAL AND TAXING AUTHORITY
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 249, § 101)
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§ 101. Village boundaries and legal taxing authority
The inhabitants of all that part of the Town of Newfane, in the County of Windham,
known as the Village of Newfane, and enclosed in the following boundaries, to wit:
Beginning at a point on the highway leading from said Village to Townshend at the
northern boundary of L.H. Whitney’s land; then easterly along said northern boundary
of said Whitney’s land to the western boundary of the West River Railroad; thence
southerly along the westerly boundary of said railroad to the southeast corner of
land owned by Stella Micott; thence westerly along the southern boundary of said Micott’s
land across the highway leading from said Village to Brattleboro; thence southerly
along the western boundary of said highway to the southern boundary of land owned
by Rodney S. Willard; thence westerly along the southern boundary of said Willard’s
land to said Willard’s western boundary; then northerly along the westerly boundary
of said Willard’s land; thence to the western boundary of land, at Smith’s Brook,
owned by E.C. Benedict, and along his western boundary, at Smith’s Brook, to his northern
boundary; thence easterly along said Benedict’s northern boundary to and across Smith
Brook, so-called, to land of Laura S. Rice; thence southerly on said Rice’s land to
land of Sarah M. Fish; thence easterly along said Fish’s land to and across the highway;
thence northerly along the east side of the highway leading from said Village to Wardsboro,
to the boundary line between land of said Fish and land of F.L. Hamlin; thence easterly
along said boundary line to the eastern boundary of said Fish’s land; thence to the
northern boundary of land of A.G. Warren; thence along said Warren’s northern boundary
to land of Lewis H. Higgins; thence easterly along boundary line between Warren and
Higgins’s to land owned by Walter Park, and thence along the boundary line between
Higgins and Park to the highway; thence southerly along the western boundary of said
highway to a point opposite the place of beginning; thence easterly across said highway
to the place of beginning, are hereby incorporated and made a party politic, and shall
hereafter be called the Village of Newfane and by that name may have perpetual succession
and may sue and be sued, may have a common seal and the same alter at pleasure, and
shall be capable of purchasing, holding, and conveying real and personal estate for
the use of said Village corporation, and at any annual meeting of the legal voters
of said corporation legally warned and holden for that purpose may lay a tax upon
the grand list of said Village of Newfane for any of the purposes hereinafter mentioned.
All taxes voted by said corporation shall be assessed by the Board of Trustees which
shall make rate bills thereof and deliver the same to the Collector of Taxes with
proper warrants for the collection thereof.