Litchfield enquirer., 1842-07-21
Public Statute Laws OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
 PASSED MAY SESSION, l842.


 PASSED MAY SESSION, l0A2. An Act to incorporate the Bridgeport Savings Bank.
 Sec. ]. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen.ativee in General Assembly convened,- Dyer, Marl Moore, Samuel Simons, W. H. Noble Joseph Hubbell, Stephen Hawley, Sherwood Sterl. ing, Willys stillman, Smith Tweedy, David Perry, S9muel Stratton Gideon Thompson, Henry Shelton, wilson hawley, Thomas Ransom, Lemuel Coleman, Joshua Lord, Schuyler Seeley, Star Beach, Elihu Beach, be, and they hereby are, incorporated by the name and title of the Bridgeport Savings Bank and they and such others shall be duly elected menl- beTs of said Corporation, shall be and remain body title forever.
 Sec.2. Said corporation shall be capable of receiv ing from any person or persons disposed to obtain enIoy the advantages of said incorporation, any de- pose or deposites of money not exceeding four hun dred dollars from any one individual in any one year, and to and improve the same according to the provisions of this act.
 Sec 5: All dcposites of money received by said corporation, shall be used and improved to the best advantage by loaning the same by order or consent of majority of the directors mortgage of real tate or other undoubted security and in manner not inconsistent with the laws of this state and the funds of said corporation may be vested by the pur- chase ot bank stock in any bank in this state and the sad corporation may dispose of the same from time to tune, to such an amount as will meet the demands for deposites and the income or the profit thereof shall be divided and applied among the persons ma king the depostes, their executors administrators, m just proportions, with such reasonable deduction as may be chargeable thereon; and the principal of such deposte or deposites may be withdrawn by the owners thereof or by any other person or persons, duly authorized for said purpose giving notice of such intention in writing and lodging the same with the Secretary of such corporatDn, at least four months previous to withdrawing the said deposite
 Sec. 4, Said corporation, at their annual meeting, shall have power to elect by bal lot any other persons to be members of said corporation.
 Sec. D. Said COrDOratlOn shall have a seal which they may change or renew at pleasure; and that all deeds, conveyances, grants, covenants, and agreements made by their Treasurer, or any other person by their authority and direction, shall be good and valid and said corporation shall at all times have power to sue, and may be sued; may defend and shall be held to answer, by the name and style aforesaid.
 Sec. 6. After the first meeting, to be holden as hereafter directed, there shall be held annual meeting of the members of said corporation, in the month ot June, annually, in the city ot Bridgeport, and at such other times as they shall judge expedi ent; and any fifteen members of said corporation, the President or Vice President, Treasurer, Sec. corporation at their annual meeting shall have power to choose President, Vice President managers, and such other officers as to them shall appear cessary; which officers so chosen shall continue oneyear and until others are chosen in their room and all officers chosen shall be under oath, faith fully to discharge the duties of their respective off ces.
 Sec. 7. No member of said corporation, shall te the hirer borrower, or surety of the fundsvof said corporation or any part thereof; and no President Vice President, or managers ot said corporation, shall be entitled to receive any compensation tor their services.
 Sec: 8. Said corporation hereby are, and forever shall be- vested with the power of making bylaws for the mors orderly managing ofhe business of the corporation. Provided, the same are not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this state.
 Sec 9. Wm: B. Dyer, Smith Tweedy, Sherwood them, be- and they are hereby authorized to call the first meeting of said corporation and notice of the time and place of such meeting, shall be given in the papers printed in Bridgeport; which meeting. shall be held within sixty days after the rising of this As semby; at which meeting said corporation shall be organized by the choice of officers and by transact ing any other business necessary to the well order
 Sec. TO- It shall be the duty of the President and managers of said corporation to make an annual re- hs snS ind the vded, always, that this shall be deemed public act, and may be altered or repealed at the will of the
 STrLLMAN K. W1aHrMAN, Speaker.
 WM s. HoLABIRp, President of the Senate.
 Approved, May 30, ls42:
 An Act relating to the fishery in Bride Pond, in East Lyme.
 Sec. l. Re it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened,- lntioa. passed by the General Assembly, May ses- sion, 1928, respecting the fishery in Bride Pond in East Lyme, shall be subject to penalty of twenty five dollars SrrLLMAN K. WIeHrMAN, Speaker WM. S, HoLABIRp, President of the Senate.
 Approved June 8, ls42. CHAuNcEY F. CLEVELAND.
 An Act to incorporate Wadsworth Atheneum.
 Sec. l. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of in General Assembly cunvened,- l i That Daniel WadsWorth, Thomas Day, David Wat kInson, Thomas S. Williams, Alfred Smith, John M. | Niles, Erastus Smith, Wm. H. Imlay, James B. Os- l mer, David F. Robinson, Charles H. Olmstead, Henry A. Chttenden, Robert Watkinson, Albert w. Butler CTyprian Nichols, Charles Boswell, John l.. Boswell, Goodrich, Albert Day. Calvn Day, Elijah H. Owen, Amos M. Collins, William L. Collins, Erastus Col ns I Charles Collins, James Ward Roswell B. Ward. win B. Tiffany, l. 'sBS 6. Burnhsm % Roswe C. aSsi smS, Chaifee, Daniel P. Crosby, Ezra White, IT,, Austin Durham, George Burnham, William |. Wright, Goodwin. John Warburton, Joseph Morgan, Gideon Welles, Elihq Geer, Elery Hills, Leonard H Bacon, Ion, fqS S Robins Joseph WnshiP sanfoFd chds EynaR Ro Aenry Bsrns2d 3d. fas chasles Hosmer, Jonathan Seymour Brown, William H. Tur- ner, Curtis Judsou, Silas B. Hamilton, Waterman RRooers RoO Charles Brainard, Charles H. Brainard, Stillman SI Miles, Jonathan Watson, William T. Lee, Charles Abernethy, David Clark, Charles Seymour, sSnG ard SufeT W Aisxasder H. Pomeroy William Hun 'G Gegs e9ss a Mess if ss David $: Brooks, George M. Bartholomew, James H. nd,o% iioeomb lanes C. Wplklsy Ezra Clark. Ir, Geo Terry, Joseph Charch Daniel Dewey, Enoch c. Sta nton, Ezra s. Hamilton, John H. Webb, Charles Mygati, Semuel Woodruff, Francis Parsons, George Hgsss Smeon Somo + moo%' Janus Morgan Miles A. Futile. Edmund B. Hull Asahel Saunders, | Ralph Saunders, John G. Mix, Lemuel Humphrey. KalI