Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1840-05-28
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Report Of Missionary Society # Conn. read and ae
ceped The report states that the receipts Of the So
ciety, for the year ending Dec u, 1889, have been
S20l2 % and the disbursements for the same PERIOD
e3034 72-amount Of permanent funds $4,000.
Bill tor public ac confirming the doings OF asses
sors in certain cases, read second time.
Bill concerning fences and common helds, Prov;
ding for the sufcency Of fences read first time and
referred 70 committee on Agriculture.
Remonstrance Of inhabitants Of North Stonington
against having any portion OF said town annexed TO
Towns and Probate Districts:
Bil authorizing town clerks to take acknowledge
ments Of deeds in certain cases, read third time.
Mr. Hill of Weston, moved 10 amend the bill 90 as
to include County Surveyors. His object was to al
low them the same privilege as was conferred on town
clerks and he thought the nature Of their calling was
they were frequently called upon 70 divide and set
off lands and it would be matter OF convenience TO
them to have this privilege, while there would be no
Judge Cook moved that the bill be referred to COM
mttee on the Judiciary. Carried. 49,
Resolution directing the Controller to purchase
with each town clerk in the state, for the use OF the
people of the state read second time.
Mr.. Perkins, of Hartford, explained the object, and
merits Of the resolution Mr.. P. said hat Very little
attention had been given to the subject Of difusiRg
knowledge Of the common law among the people at
large. This knowledge was exceedingly useful and
important, and all would adm: the competency of
Mr.. Day to do full justice to work which should en-
BODY it, The sum proposed to he given for the work.
was much less than the retail price, and as the whole
amount required was comparatively SMALL he hoped
| the House would pass the resolution.
Mr. Swift, of Westport, said he thought that claims
more mertorious than this would present themselves
| to the consideration of the Honse-he did not believe
the people had sent them there to lay their money
in books; and he thought that this work. ifpurchased,
would he very little used-that it would be rarely cal
for BY the people ms had no hu TO md with ITS
! amount required for its purchase he admitted was
small but said Mr.. s. let it be ever small if it is
not necessary it should be drawn from the trea-
sury. The reports of decisions contained in this
work. he said, were in such condensed form, that it
| would usually be referred to merely an index,
r1ther than tor information OF speclfie characerI
the whole criminal code, and it was proper that they
should be printed and circulated Moreover, he
would leave the subject to the several towns-as they
were perfectly competent to act upon il. he would
prefer to submit il to their decision, and he therefore
| hoped the resolution would not pass.
Mr. White e SAID ne wa; 6 opposed to the
gentleman from Westport, and was gratted to learn
from him that he thought the people of the towns
70 appropriate 500 dollars for the purchase Of statute
laws he thought would be transcending their limits,
and he confessed he was somewhat in the dark rs to
the benefits The people would receive from i.-they
legal nformnt ton, and he thought Il very proper and
necessary that they should possess the work.
Mr.: J. A. Welch, Of Brooklyn, though. there was
preparation. Il was known to most OF them that there
would probably be surplus of this work, and as the
Se to
disposed But he thought the greatest objection to it
was tho question which would arise, cui 6onofor the
to err with than without IT, and he could see no good
to be effected byit Resolution lost.
1 Resolution appointing a committee of three to tax
costs on adversary petitions brought at this session.
Resolution that Charles S. Bnel of Litchfeld, Fran.
els H. Nchol Of Stanford. Daniel Coley. David P.
Jndson, and David Wilson, petitioners and inhabi-
tants of Greens Farms remonstrants, have leave TO
enter their petitions and remostrance in the Secre-
tarv's office. Passed.
| Committee announced ON petition Of Elisha Pun
Of New:London, Buckley Of Fairfield, Corbin Of Wood.
| stock, Cutler, Holmes and Ladd.
Adjourned to 10 O'Clock tomorrow morning
Wednesday Morning, May 90 '',
Prayer by Rev. President Day.
Committee announced on the petition Of VIM. Ross
and others, for aid to erect monument the memo
Of G s,s sssr: Ss
Williams of Saybrook. and Pomeroy.
Committee 70 tax eosts-Messrs. Swift, Lord, r.
Petition Of Morris Lyon and others, for aid to Con-
on that subject.
Bill confirming the doines Of Assessors IN certain
cases, read third time and passed
The judiciary COMMITTEES, to whom was referred
resolution concerning official returns Of votes, report.
ed a., bill for public net Bill read first time.
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ford. dividing the town into two election districts. and
prescribing the manner Of proceeding at electors
Mr. Giazier, Of wilmington, presented resolution
proposing an amendment to the constitutions provi-
ding that the House of Representatives shall consist
ct % IN this
from county Adjourned to- o'clock P. M.
Afternoon.
Bill providing Tor the recording and distribution Of
On motion Of Mr.. Chapman, the House resumed
the consideration Of the report Of the committee on
son. against Reuben Dudley. for divorce The pet.
ton set forth that the husband Of the said Pha was
idle, improvident. and grossly intemperate-shat he
his wife, severe chastisement Of his family, and de-
structon Of furniture The report of the conmittee
averred that the petitioner had resided hut months
in this state, and had left her husband in Massachu
sets, where the alledged offences were cemmitted-
they therefore recommended that the petitioner have
leave to withdraw her petition. Granted.
the petition Of Be,aey Terr Of Oxford against John
Terr, for divorce, reported bill in favor of divorce
ing her: The petitioner in her petition charged her
nI h; with having been convicted Of forgery for
years-that he was grossly inemperae and guilty. OF
great cruelty towards his children-and that he had
ono time with jack knife, and at another breaking
her right arm. MIR. Chapman, Of the committee elo-
quenty and feelingy pleaded the cause Of this unor.
snn1.e woman alIedgng TIM, the facts set forth in
The same committee, to whom was referred the
petition Of Elizabeth Wakeman, Of New Milford,
against VIM. H. Wakeman, for DIVORCE reported IA.
voraby with bill in form divorcing her. The prin-
cpa allegation in the petition was that the husband
OF the petitioner had been guilty Of manifold crimes
in expaton of which he had been for many years an
inmate Of the state prison, and there was no prospect
Of his reformation.
Mr.. Chapman coroborated the facts as set forth in
the petition. He was followed by Mr.. Baldwin, Of
New Milford, who some length detailed the history
OF crime in which the said VIM. H. Wakeman had
granting Of the prayer of the petition on The ground
that there was no evidence that the husband had used