Town of Ryegate v. Town of Wardsboro
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from an order of removal of Elijah Perry, a pauper from the town of Ryegate to the town of Wardsboro. In the order of removal, which was made under the fourth section of chap. xviii. of the Comp. Stat., page 130, the pauper was adjudged to have come to reside in the town of Ryegate, to have become charge" able upon said town, and to have his legal settlement in the town of Wardsboro.
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Appeal from an order of removal of Elijah Perry, a pauper from the town of Ryegate to the town of Wardsboro. In the order of removal, which was made under the fourth section of chap. xviii. of the Comp. Stat., page 130, the pauper was adjudged to have come to reside in the town of Ryegate, to have become charge" able upon said town, and to have his legal settlement in the town of Wardsboro. The defendant pleaded first that the pauper had, not come to reside in the town of Ryegate, — second, that he was not chargeable or likely to become chargeable to that town; and third, that his legal…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion' of the court was delivered by
Aldis, J.
The provisions of the Compiled Statutes relating to the support and removal of paupers, are substantially derived from the act of March 3d, 1797. That act, in its first section, defined what should be deemed a- legal settlement. Its provisions have *748since ^been greatly modified, and it now forms a separate chapter of the statutes. After defining a legal settlement, the act of 1797, in its second and subsequent sections, prescribed the manner in which padpers might be removed to the place of their legal settlement, and in which the towns that…
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