Litchfield enquirer., 1830-06-03
7Tc1sTATURE OF CONNECTICUT.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,. iScturdGy, Mag %.

! Bill appointing Joseph Eaton chiefJudge, and John HOlbroOk and Uriel Fuller associate Judges of fWindham county, passed.
 Bill for laying duty on premiums collect, ed by insurance companies not incorporated by this State. read second time.
 Resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution of tSis State, read second time and laid upon the table. Bill for regulating civil actions. read second time.
 Bill for licensing taverns and suppressing unlicensed houses, read second tune: Ine Rules of the House being dispensed with, the ! bill received its third reading, and laid upon the table.
 Monday morning, Mag 24.
 Bill for the appointment of the Justices of the Peace for the county of LitchfeId was read.
 { Mir. Wooster moved that the bill be laid upon the table, wbich motion was opposed by Messrs BmrraIl and Woodruff, and lost.
 Mr. Wooster then moved 60 amend the bill by erasing the name of Birdsey Baldwin. which motion was opposed by Messrs Burrall and Sedgwick, and negatived. The bill then passed. ,,
 Bill for laying duty of 10 per cent. on all premiums collected by insurance companies not incorporated by this State, read third time, and passed.
 F1ill in alteration of and in addition to an act entitled an act to regulate the inspection Of provisions and other articles of commerce, read third time and passed. Bill provides that each town in this state may appoint two ln- spectors.
 Bill authorizing process. to be served on Sunday in certain cases, came from the sen ate with the following amendment: "That if process be served between the rising and 0F nSfnU | yoid'' The House recohsidered, and con- cured.
 4 Aftefnoon.-Bill for the appointfn ent of Justices of the Peace for the county of Hart ford. passed.
 Bill appointing James Dodd, Judge ofPro- bate for the District of Hartford; Lorain T. Pease, for E. Windsor J. O. Pettibone, for Simsbury; Romeo Lowrey, for Southington, passed.
 The joint committee on Banks, to whom was referrcd the petition of David Dageett and others for bank in the city of New Ha- ven, reported that the petitioners wished to withdraw their petition, and recommended that they have liberty-report accepted.
 Tuesday, Mag 25.
 Committee to whom was referred resOlu- ton locating Courts for the county of New London, and the remonstrance against said resolution reported that in rEeir opinion the resolution. ought not to be adopted. The re- port was laid upon the table upon motion of Mr. De Witt, who moved an amendment to the resolution, which after long debate was reiected-ayes 67, noes 1O9.
 On motion of Mr. Raymond, the report of the committee was taken up, and accepted 5ssa!atiaq ty ReestttXfd court Tor the county of Hartford, passed.
 Resolution appointing Lorain T. Pease As sociate Judge of the County Court for the county of Hartford, was read.
 MT. Lowrey moved to amend the bill by erasipg therefrom the name of Lorain T. Pcase, and inserting the name of Martin Welles. Mr..L. says that the character of MT. Welles was so well known throughout the State that it was unnecessary for him to make single remark respecting his quafca-I dons for discharging the duties of the office ofJudge ofthe County Court. MT. w. had held the office for several years, and he could say, without fear of contradiction, that the members of the bar for Hartford county con- sidered him as very important part of the Court. He had never heard a person com plain of any unfairness or want of integrity in the discharge of his official duties. MT. l.. thought that before Mr. Welles was dismiss ed from this office the important services he had rendered the State, ought, at least. to justify us in calling upon gentlemen to give sOE1e reasons for such removal none had been given, and he challenged gentlemen to produce a single instance of improper con- duct in the discharge of his official duties.- There could be no reasons for his removal .unless it was that he had not subscribed to x particular faith which had become the stand ard by which the qualifications of men for office were tested. Much had been said in this House about freedom of opinion in mat ters ofreligion; but it seemed to him that the doctrine was not extended so as to allow freedom of opinion in other matters. He concluded by saying that the welfare of the county required that Mir. Welles should be re tained in an office he had filed with honor to himself, and in which he had rendered mpor- tant services to the county.
 MT. Ellsworth said that he was sorry nom- inati0n which had been made by majority oft the county meeting was not acquiesced in. | He was not about to call in question the qual- i6catiOns of Mir. Welles for the discharge ofI the duties of this office, but it was well know m Hartford county that there had been great want of unanimity in this Court for the last year or two, and it was thought that the ar- engagement that was now made would contri- [ bute to the harmony of the Court and to the welfare Of the county. Mir. Pease, he said, was man well qualified to discharge the du- ties of his office, and as MT. Weles already held one office of importance, which would probably. for the ensuing year, occupy great