Litchfield enquirer., 1839-06-27

@aGi as ssy C spss5Tibd sy iuB bs aa sIscsOr Nov. RsDSsseaGaiiues ia General Assebly coaUsaed, That inc cOnslnbles in the several in this shall
 warn the electors tn their respective towns
 the n0s M sss av v @ , % ~ n 's os hereinafter provided their appreciation or dsapproba- ton of the proposed amendment; which meeting thereof shall be given as is provided in the lst section of an entitled "an act providing for the appoint. nent of Electors of President and Vce-President of the United Stales" and the presiding officer shall be appointed in the manner prescribed in said act.
 Sect g. It shall be the duty o the town clerk topre- sent to said meeting, said proposed amendment to the Constitution and after CT que h M snereoi, ine officer to bring in to him their respective votes by ba lot regarding said amendment. Those in favor of approving and adopting sad We s1S give and those who disapprove thereof shall give in a bal. lot with the word No written thereon which said ballot shall be examined, sorted and counted by the presiding ocer assisted by the town clerk and select men, and the number 0! each, declared m open meet ing by said presiding officer.
 Sect. B. The presiding officer in said several town meetings shall under their hands respectively make duplicate certificates of the number of votes given and asceTained aforesaid in favor of approving and adopting said amendment, and also of those disap- proving ot it's adoption, in words at full length one of which shall be deposited in the office of the town clerk in the town in which such meeting shall be held, and the other within ten days ner the day of holding said
 
 " of this stae or to the sheriff the county which such town belongs and said sheriff shall deliver cause it to be delivered to the secretary of this state, within fittes days after the day ot sa,d meeting,
 At meeting of the electors of the town of legally warned and held on the first Monday ot Octc Der, 1889. for the purpose of receiving the votes of said electors, upon the adoption ot proposed amend ment to the Constitution o this state, relating to the admission of electors there were gwen m avor ot l. N,nfnG md osNs''C CertSed bv A. B. presiding officer.
 And the superscription of said certificate shall be
 aTo the Secretary of this sate-votes of the elec- tors of the town of upon the proposed amend @sns to the Constitution. taken and sealed ag by :, And the secretary of this state shall transmit or be-. fore the first Monday in September 1889, blank forms for the returns of votes to be given pursuant to this act to the Town Clerks ot the several towns m 'ns Sect. {. The votes so returned to the Secretary, shall be counted by the Treasurer, Secretary. and Comptroller, on or before the first Monday m Noyenl- vember, iS39 shall transmit certificate under their hands, of the number of votes so returned, m favor ot approving and adopting said amendment, and also of adoption of the same, to the person administering the government of this state who within twenty days at. ter tho receipt of said certcate shall issue his pro- Sss. seV o vor of approving and adopting said amendment, he shall 60 declare in such proclamation, and that ma. joy of the electors present at such meet,ags soIe I same is valid, to all ntents and purposes as part of the Constitution of this state. And u 1t shall appear from said certificate that majority of said votes are ment but are opposed to the same he shall 90 declare in said proclamation and that majority of the cleo: tors present such meetings, have not approved said amendment and said proclamation shall be publish ed in a the newspapers printed in this state, and corded in the public records @ thereof Ts1
 Speaker of the House of Representatives.
 CnARLEs HAwLEY, President of the Senate.
 "pp'''''' '''N' WM. w, ELLSWORTH. An Act in addition to an Act entitled m Act for the
 regulation of Civil Actions"
 Be t enacted Ly the Senate and House of Represenia tity of charcoal not exceeding twenty-five bushels, any quantity of coal other than charcoal not exceed ing two tons any quantity of wheat flour not exceed ing two hundred pounds weight, being the property o empted and not be liable to attachment, warrant ol execution, for any debt or tax whatever.
 1pp''''N' " WM. W. ELLSWORTH. An Act in addition to an Ac. to incorporate the City
 of Bridgeport.
 Be enacted by fhe Senate and House 0t Representa- tiUes in General Assembly convened, That whenever the Court of Common Council ofsaid city, shall judge it conducive to the heal:h of the inhabitants to open and establish drains in said city, said common council may designate the places where such drains shall be opened, and the depth and width and man. ner of building thereof And such drains may be cp- through public highways and said Court of common non council may employ suitable persons to open such drains, and from time to tme cleanse and repair the same, and may adjust and lquidate the expense several propretors of lands through which drains are lade and also upon the proprietors ot such grounds as are drained thereby, and such assessments shall scrbed in the forty.sxth Section of the Act to which this IS sn addition; and the same powers are hereby granted and same duties enioined Provided always, the common council under this Act, he or they shall have the privilege of prefeng their complaint to the next county court in the county of Fairfield against the city clerk, at least twelve days before the sitting of said court, and # said court on hearing such com paint, shall be of opinion that any part of such ex. court shall order that said complainant be relieved from the payment of such part, or the whole of such expense as to them may appear just and equitable and 1t should appear that such complainant hath tuay paid any sum or sums of money, which ought to be refunded, said court may grant execution in fa. vor ot such compainnan,ss n ,sso against said city
 VIM, w. ELLSWORTH. An Act repeal an Act, entitled ean Act in altera-
 :ion of an Act entitled Act for constituting and l places ofholding the same" passed in 1856; and | for other purposes.
 Sect. l. Be tt enacted by the Senate and House ot Representdtipes in General Assembly convened That much o said as directs that the superior court within and tor the county of Middesex, be holden al Haddam, in said county, the first Tuesday in Sep tember, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and that said superior court sha instead thereof he hold. en at addam in said Mddlesex county on the fourth Tuesday in August G E'' 7.--Il7- Sect. 2. That all causes, matters and things now pending in the superior court for said county, may be proceeded with, heard and determined, at the next term of said superor herein established in had not been altered.
 | Approved, May 3l, 1899.
 An Act in addition to an act entitled an Act for