The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 261, § 1)
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§ 1. Boundaries; corporate names; powers
All that part of Barton in the County of Orleans enclosed within the following boundaries,
to wit, Beginning at the northwesterly corner of the highway bridge on the highway
leading from Orleans Village to Coventry, near the junction of the Barton and Willoughby
Rivers; thence north 47 1-2 degrees west across said highway to an iron stake on the
westerly side of said highway at the southeasterly corner of land owned by Daniel
Buchanan five rods: thence north 77 3-4 degrees west on the division line between
said Daniel Buchanan land and land belonging to J.H. Clark and O.H. Austin, (crossing
the railroad track) to an iron stake on the easterly line of the town of Irasburg
25 rods: thence south 41 degrees west along said easterly line of Irasburg to the
center of the highway leading from Orleans Village to Irasburg Village 196 rods: thence
south 41 degrees west on said Irasburg line to an iron stake on said town line at
the northwest corner of land owned by H.R. Hall 41 rods: thence south 47 degrees
east, on the division line between land owned by H.R. Hall and land owned by E.L.
Chandler to an iron stake on the highway leading from Orleans Village to Barton Village
90 rods: thence south 47 degrees east through land owned by H.R. Hall and across
the railroad track and Barton River and on the division line between said H.R. Hall
land and lands owned by the estate of the late Hiram Blaisdell and by E.L. Chandler,
O.H. Austin, C.S. Skinner and P. Guild to an iron stake on said division line at the
southeasterly corner of said Chandler, Austin, Skinner and Guild land 78 1-5 rods:
thence north 66 1-2 degrees east through land owned by H.C. Dudley to the center of
the highway leading from Orleans Village to Barton Village 81 rods: thence north
66 1-2 degrees east across said highway and on the division between land owned by
O.H. Austin and land owned by Geo. W. Peavey to an iron stake at the southeasterly
corner of said Geo. W. Peavey’s land 13 1-2 rods: thence north 79 degrees east through
land owned by O.H. Austin to an iron stake on the division line between said O.H.
Austin’s land and land owned by Cynthia E. Webster 55 1-2 rods: thence south 86 degrees
east on the division line between the land owned by said Cynthia E. Webster and lands
owned by O.H. Austin and L.W. Stimpson to an iron stake on the northerly side of the
highway leading from Orleans Village to Brownington Centre 47 1-2 rods: thence north
75 1-2 degrees east through lands owned by L.W. Stimpson and Carrie B. Hyde to an
iron stake at the southwesterly corner of the cemetery 80 rods: thence north 30 1-2
degrees east along the division line between the cemetery and land owned by L.W. Stimpson
to an iron stake at the southeasterly corner of the cemetery 16 rods and eight links:
thence north 18 degrees east, through land owned by L.W. Stimpson to an iron stake
at the northwesterly corner of land purchased of the estate of the late Timothy Dudley
by O.H. Austin, 16 rods and 23 links: thence north 39 degrees east along the division
line between land owned by L.W. Stimpson and said land purchased of the Dudley estate
by O.H. Austin to an iron stake at the northeasterly corner of L.W. Stimpson’s land
23 rods: thence north 53 degrees west along the line between land owned by L. W.
Stimpson and John Tripp to the northeast corner of land owned by H.R. Smith 11 rods
and 4 links: thence north 53 degrees west along the division line between land owned
by H.R. Smith and John Tripp and the estate of the late F.A. Stafford to an iron stake
on the westerly side of the highway leading from Orleans Village to Brownington Village
69 rods and 17 links: thence south 50 1-2 degrees west, along the division line between
said highway and land owned by Joseph Bartlett, to the southerly corner of said Bartlett’s
land 10 rods and 10 links: thence north 54 degrees west along the line between the
slaughter house and land owned by L.W. Stimpson and land owned by Joseph Bartlett
to an iron stake at the north corner of said Stimpson’s land 69 rods and 10 links:
thence south 39 1-4 degrees west along the line between the land owned by J. Bartlett
and land owned by L.W. Stimpson to an iron stake at the west corner of L.W. Stimpson’s
land 16 1-2 rods: thence north 41 1-2 degrees west, on the line between land owned
by Joseph Bartlett, and land owned by A.D. Mathews to an iron stake at the north corner
of A.D. Mathews’ land 40 rods: thence south 40 1-2 degrees west, on the line between
land owned by Joseph Bartlett and land owned by A.D. Mathews to an iron stake on the
west corner of A.D. Mathews’ land, and on the easterly bank of Willoughby River 32
rods: thence north 27 degrees west, through land owned by Joseph Bartlett, to the
northeasterly corner of the highway bridge at the junction of Barton and Willoughby
rivers 170 rods: thence along the northerly side of said bridge to the northwesterly
corner thereof and to the bound begun at two rods and eight links, is hereby incorporated
and shall hereafter be known by the name of the Village of Orleans and the inhabitants
of said Village are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, with all the
usual powers and privileges incident to public corporations to be known by the name
of the Village of Orleans and by that name, they and their successors shall and may
have perpetual succession, and be capable in law of suing and being sued, pleading
and being impleaded, and answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended
in all courts and places whatever; and may have a common seal and the same change
and alter at pleasure, and shall be capable in law of purchasing, holding, and conveying
estate and property, both real and personal, for the use of said Village, and for
supporting a fire department; may tax themselves and levy and collect such taxes for
the purpose aforesaid, or to carry into effect any legal vote or bylaw of said corporation,
providing that no tax shall be laid or collected without the consent or approbation
of a major part of the legal voters of said Village present in open meeting duly warned
and held agreeably to the provisions of this charter. (Added 1878, No. 196, § 1; amended 1892, No. 114, § 1; 1908, No. 256, § 1; 1927, No. 173, § 1.)