Litchfield enquirer., 1843-07-06

powers and duties which were confcrrol l on the Mayor of tho city of New Haven, by an Act passed 1S42, entitled an Act in ad- dition to an Act entitled "An Act Incorpo-- atng the City of New Haven." And all persons who shall resist, delay, or refuse to obey the legal requirements of the Mayor, or either of the Aldermen of said city of Middletown, shall be subject to the same penalty as is provided by the last mention- ed Act for like offences and every per- son called into service by the Mayor or acting Mayor shall be paid as provided by the sixth section of said Act.
 Sec. 3. The Court of Common Council shall at their next meeting after the passage of this Act, and at each annual meeting of said Court thereafter, appoint from the Common Councilmen, by ballot, three grand jurors for the city, who shall be sworn, and who shall have and exercise the same pow CTS and duties within the said city as grand jurors have and exercise within their re- spective towns. And said grand jurors shall perform the duties of their office un- til others are chosen and sworn in their stead. Approved, June 7, lS43.
 No. 43.
 An Act relating to the duties and powers
 ot the Mayor of the City of Hartford.
 Sec. l. Be t ennacted, dc., That the May or of the city of Hartford shall hereafter be the chief executive magistrate thereof: and it shall be his duty to be vigilant and active in causing the laws to be executed and enforced, and he shall be conservator of the peace within said city, and shall have authority with force and strong hand when necessary, to suppress all tumults, ri- ots, routs and unlawful assemblies, and to arrest without warrant and commit to pris- on for time not exceeding twenty-four hours any person or persons who may be detected in revelling, quarrelling crawling, or otherwise behaving in disorderly man. ner to the disturbance or annoyance of the peaceable inhabitants of said city. He is al- so empowered to enter any house or build ing which he has reasonable cause to suspect to be inhabited by persons of ill-fame, or to which persons of dissolute, idle, or disor- ly character are suspected to resort. And if any dissoute, disorderly or vagrant per- sons are found assembled in or about any such house or building, he shall command all such persons immediately to disperse, if in his opinion the good order of any DOT tion of the city require it; and in case of neglect or refusal to obey such command, he is hereby authorized to commit without warrant any person or persons so disobey- ing, 10 prison, for a term not exceeding twenty four hours and he shall have and may exercise within the limits of said city, all the powers given to sheriffs or other of. ficers by the fifty-ninth and sixtieth sections of the act entitled "An Act concerning Crimes and Punishments," and he may at all fanes, if need be, require the aid of any sheriff, deputy sheriff, town or city consta- ble, or watchman, or any or all of them to- gether with such other aid as may be neces- sary. And whenever he shall have req son to believe that great opposition will be made to the execution of his authority, he shall have power to call out the several companies of militia in said city, or any or either of them, and may exert all the force necessary to enable him to execute the laws within the limits of said city.
 Sec. 2. If any person shall hinder, ob- structon, resist or abuse the Mayor in the execution of his office, or when command ed to assist therein, (being of sufficient age and ability,) shall refuse or unreasonably neglect SO to do, such offender being there- of duly convicted. shall pay fine not ex- ceeding one hundred dollars, or shall be imprisoned in the county goal not exceed ing six months, or both, at the discretion of the court having cognizance of the offence.
 Sec. 3. Every commissioned officer and soldier, when called into service by the Mayor of said city, in manner aforesaid, shall be entitled to the same pay, and for disobeying the commands of the said May or shall be subject to the same penalty as is provided when called into service by the Sheriff of tho county, by virtue of the act entitled "An Act relating to Sheriffs.''
 Approved, May 27, 1s43.
 No. Al.
 An Act in addition 10 an Act entitled "An
 Act regulating the streets and buildings
 in the city of Hartford, and for preserving
 the health of the inhabitants thereof"
 SEC. 1. Be it enacted by thc Senate and House of Representatives in General As- ,sfmblv convened : That the Court of Com mon Council of the city of Harfnrd shall be, and they hereby are authorized and empow- cred to lay out, build and construct. or cause to be laid out, built and constructed, drains and common sewers in any part or portion of said city of Hartford. and to assess the expences thereof. or such part of said expen- ees as said Court of Common Council shall deem just reasonable, upon any person or persons who are or may be in the opinion of said Court of Common Council, in any man. ner benefited thereby.
 Sec. 2. Whenever said Court of Common Council shall lay out, build and construct. or cause to be laid out, built and construc- ted, any drain or common sewer as afore. said they may adjust and liquidate the ex, penses thereof. and apportion and assess the same, or such part as they shall deem just and reasonable, upon such persons as are or may be, in the opinion of said Court of Con- mon Council, benefited by said drain or common sewer; and said assessment shall be
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