Stone v. Small

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Rowell, J.

By an act of the Legislature, approved November 19,1866, which was at all times to be under the control of the *499Legislature to alter or repeal, the inhabitants of that part of the town of Colchester embraced within certain prescribed limits, were incorporated, and made a body corporate and politic, under the name of the Village of'Winooski, and granted all such rights, immunities, powers, and privileges as are incident to public corporations. The legal voters of said village accepted and approved said act according to the provisions thereof,…