Litchfield enquirer., 1829-05-28

The Committee on petitions relating to hawkers, and pedlaFs, reported bill to reme- dy existing evils; read once. Bill for an act incorporating the Middlesex County Bank. Mir. Green moved an amend ment limiting it's capital to two hundred thou sand dollars, instead of three hundred thou sand dollars, as reported; advocated by Messrs. Green and Griffin, Onthe ground that the committee acted with view to banking capital sufficient for the county, not being a. ware Ofa petition for bank in East Haddam opposed by Messrs. StOrrs and Jackson. A mendment lost.
 Mir. Green then moved recOmmitment, which passed. Bill for an act in addition to an act reguIat- ing civil actions read once.
 Bill for an act in alteration of the act con cerning spirituOus liquors, raising the Prlce of license to SEQ; read once. l. The committee on the petition ot J. B. Phelps and others, against the nomination Of Charles F. Sedgwick as Brigadier General of the 9th Regt. reported resolution confirm ing the nomination; laid on the table. Bill concerning fences and common fields, on its third reading lost.
 MT. Sterling offered the following resOlu- ton.
 Resolved, by the House of Representatives, that the following be proposed as an amend ment to the Constitution of this State, which when approved and adopted in the manner by the Constitution prescribed, shall to all in- tents and purposes, become part thereof, viz:
 >From and after the first Wednesday of May, in the year-Of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, the House of Repre- sentatives shall consist of Electors residing in the towns, from which they are elected, and each town in this State shall be entitled to one representative only. Laid on the table.
 Satwday, May 2S.
 Prayer by the Rev. Bishop Brownell.
 The committee on districting. reported a bill for an act, carrying into effect the resoiu- tiOns which the House passed some days since. prescribing the districts in the several counties; read once.
 Report of the committee on the petition of H. Sherwood and others, for canal laid on the table.
 Resolution providing that no petition shall be entered on the docket after the first eight days of the session, except by joint resolu- tion passed.
 Biil by MT. Perry. to constitute the town of Kent probate district, read once.
 Bill by Mr. Welles, for an act providing for the security of religious opinion, read once.
 Resolution appointing Solomon Porter and Samuel H. Huntingdon, directors ofthe Phe- nix Bank on the part of the state for the year ensuing; passed.
 Monday Morning, Mag s5.
 Prayer by Bishop Browneil.
 Memorial for Manufacturing Company in New-LondOn, referred to the committee on Banks.
 Petition of Samuel Smith indefinitely post poned.
 Bill, incorporating Bank at Windham, reported by the committee on Banks, read once.
 Bill, by NIr. Church. in addition to an act for the regulation of civil actions, read once. RvsUfutIons appointiDg Joh. D. Reynolds Judge of Probate for the district of Walling ford and R. Hitchcock for the district of Cheshire, passed.
 Resolutions appointing Frederick Wolcott Judge of Probate for the district of Litchfeld; M. +. Mills for the district of Norfolk Jehiel Williams for the district of New-M Milford; !. Kellogg for the district of New Hartford i; Samuel Church for the district of sharon; and Charles B. Phelps for the district of Wood bury passed.
 Bill regarding hawkers and petty chapmen read second time, and laid upon the table. \ Bill, raising the license for selling spurious liquors, read second time.
 Bill. altering the act of incorporation of the Medical Institution in Yale- College, read se- cond time. Bill. to prevent mischief by dogs, read se- cond time, The bill authorizes the several towns to tax dogs. Bill. in addition to an act for the assessment of taxes read second time. The bill provides that real estate to the amount of $500 shall be assessed in the town where it lies--un- der that amount in the town where the owner resides.
 [In the proceedings published last week, an error occurred (though it did not originate with us) which entirely reversed what should have been said. Instead of the committee on new towns reporting favorably upon the peti- tions fiom New Preston, Willimantic, and Scotland, as stated, they reported u'sfavora- bly.l I. st..st