Litchfield enquirer., 1838-06-14
LAWS OF CONNECTICUT,
Passed May Session, 1888.
An Act repeating the Small Bin Law.

LAWS OF CONNECTACUT,
Passed May Session, 1888.
An Act repeating the Small Bin Law.
Be s enacted By Ghe SENATE and House Of Representa-
tvcs IN General Assembly conUsned That the act pass
ed AT the Nav session. 1885, entitled An Act 10 pro-
hibt the circulation Of Small Bills" and the act pass
nond the operation of the Act entitled An Act to pro-
hibit the circulation Of Small Bills, passed in 1882.
be and the same are hereby repealed; and that this
act shall take effect from 1he paSSagss Thereof eUir
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives.
CHARLES HAwLEY, President Of the Senate.
Approved, May 9, 1888.
An Act repeating An Act authorizing the County
Court to appoint Clerks of Superior Court and SUI
preme Court Of Errors.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of RepreseHta-
tUes General Assembly cOnUened That an act entl-
tied An Act in addition TO- and in alteration OF an
act for constituting and regulating Courts, and for ap.
pointing the times and places Of holding the same,
repealed PROVIDED, That the several persons who
are or may be Clerks of the County Court, shall in
their several counties, for the time being also perform
Supreme Court Of Errors tin Clerks Of said Superior
Court and Supreme Court Of Errors shall be duly ap-
Approved, May %, 1888.
An Act to repeal an Act therein named.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tiue in General Assembly convened That the act pass
ed at the May session, 1885, entitled An Act in adj
vernon to appoint Secretary and Notaries Public"
ponnents to The office Of Notary Public, by the Co
vernon, shall be for the term of two years only
Sec. 2 And be It further enacted That the commits
sons Of all Notares Public, granted prior to The first
day Of May, 1893, and now in force, shall expire
the twentieth day Of June, one thousand eight hun
dred and ,thiry-eght, any law to the contrary not
withstanding Approved, May %, 1885,
An Act in addition to an Act entitled AN Act con-
corning Crimes and Punishments.'
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
ves in General Assembly convened, That any person
who shall wantonly and cruelty beat torture any
horse, OK, any other animal, whether belonging to
himself or to another person, shall be punished, by inn
prisonment in a common jail not exceeding one
month, or by fine, not ceedDg twenty-five dollars.
Approved, May %, 1888.
An Act in addition to the Act entitled AN Act for
the regulation Of Civil Actions
Be enacted by the Senate and Houseof Representa-
t,Ues in General Assembly conUened, That the
sor of any Judge of Probate in whose name any suit
on Probate Bond may be- pending, may enter and
prosecute the same in his own name, in the same
manner as his predecessor might have done had he
continued in Office.
Approved, May %, 1888.
An Act in alteration Of an Act entitled IAN Act
for constituting and regulating Courts, and for ap
SEC. l. BE it enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives., IN General Assembly convened That
the several County Courts in this State, after the
rising Of this Assembly shall respectively be held by
one Judge residing in the county, who shall possess
all the powers and perform all the duties hitherto APP
pertaining to the Offices Of Chief Judge and Associate
hereinafter provided, which offices shall thereafter
be discontinued and abolished.
Sec. 2. If the office of Judge of the Comfy Court
shall be vacant, the Judge be disabled by Sickness
at any time when the General Assembly is not in
session, the Clerk of said Court, but if there be
Clerk able to act, then the Sheriff Of such county
to time require, to the Judge Of some other County
Court in this State who shall thereupon have power
to perform all the duties Of Judge in the county where
such vacancy or disability has occurred during the con-
tinuance Of such vacancy or disability; and when-
ever the Judge shall be disqualified to sit in
pending before said Court, which is not appeaable,
his place shall be supplied by the Justices Of the
Peace. selected in the manner prescribed in the thirty
ninth section Of the act aforesaid and il such
shall be appealable, then the plaintiff shall have
power to remove it to the next Superior Court, as
therein provided and whenever the Judge shall be
disqualified 10 act in any CASE or perform any duty,
not appertanng to said County Court his place shall
be supplied by any Judge of Probate residing in the
CASE and perform such duty.
SEC 3. BE il further enacted, That in all prosecu-
tons under the act entitled AN Act providing for
the support of bastard children the trial Of the ques
ton of fact as to the guilt or Innocence of the defend
ant, the charge. SHALL at the desire Of either party.
be by Jury.
SEC. 4. BE it further enacted That there shall be
appointed annually, by the General Assembly, two
Commissioners in each county, who shall, with the
Judge Of the County Court, in their respective coun-
ties, constitute County Court, for the performance
of all the dutes and the exercise Of all the powers
imposed conferred the County Court, by the
entitled An Act relating to highways and bridges,
by the nineteenth, twenty and twenty-thlrd
sections Of the act to which this is in additonby the
eleventh section of the act entitled An Act relating
to Shers"-by the first and sixth sections Of the act
entitled An Act for licensing and regulating, ta-
verns and suppressine unlicensed hotses"-and by
an act passed in 1884, entitled An Act in addition
to the act entitled " An Act concerning jails and
Jailors." And said Commissioners shall receive the
same compensation per day during the time they are
judges Of he County Court have heretofore received
Approved, May 3lst, 1888.
Steamer Ne,o England sank This NOR
mug about one o'clock, the steamboat New
England, which left this city last evening at
7 o'clock for Bath and Gardiner, was run in
to by schr. Curiew, and sunk in about half an
hour. The accident occurred about 10 miles
off Boon Island light. Nearly all the pas
songers succeeded in getting on board the
schooner. save two, who were drowned, and
one man named Standish. of Providence,
who was killed in getting ON board the
Standardization Journal.
Virginia Electiu.-The Fredericksburg
! Arena of Tuesday, the 22d, says 1t turns
out that both the members elect from Mo-
nongalia are Wings. This enables US to
take one from the Van Buren, to add to the
Wing side of the account, and will give q
Wing majority Of two, on joint vote-suppo-
sing, as we doubt not will be the case, that
the two vacancies will be filled by wings.
nf ono fhino fripO1c md ODnonpntc of tho