Litchfield enquirer., 1843-07-06
39ubItc art9,
OF THE STATE OF CON NNECTICUT
 PASSED MAY SESSION, lS43.


 No. 40.
 An act in addition to and in alteration of an l Act entitled "An Act Incorporating the Borough of Norwalk."
 SEC. l. Be tt enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
 Assembly convened The limits of said
 borough shall be and they hereby are re- duced and contracted, and the boundary line thereof shall hereafter be as follows, viz :-commencing at point on the west side of the north and south highway, six rods northerly of the northwesterly of four corners, said corner opposite and northerly 1 of the Episcopal Academy in said Norwalk -thence running westerly parallel with and at distance of six rods northerly from the line of the public highway leading from said four corners to the Danbury road-sald line after passing the house of E, H. Street, to vary if necessary, so as to strike sald Danb ury road at the southwest corner ot the door yard of James Finney; thence across to point on the southerly side there- of, six rods from the corner at the north east corner of the door-yard late of Hezekiah Rogers, deceased thence southwesterly, parallel with the northerly line of the high way leading from said Danbury road across the fol ding place and to the old mill, and six rods distant northwesterly from said line of said highway to point on the south line of the garden of the widow Isaac Belden !; thence east by the line of said garden on the south line of the door-yard of said Belden to ths Connecticut turnpike, then east across said turnpike to the south line of the high way east from said turnpike and following the south line of said highway to the north east corner of the ox-pond, so called, oppo- site the house of William K. James thence on a straight line easterly across the harbor to the southwesterly corner of George w. Betts' garden, at the intersection of the highway running east from the downtown road by said garden thence along the north line of said highway to point six rods east from said corner, thence northerly parallel with the north and south highway, at distance of six rods from the easterly side of said highway,to point on the line Of the Connecticut turnpike, six rods distance from the northwest corner of the door. yard of the residence of the late HeZekiah Jarvis, deceased thence west on said south line of said turn pike to said door-yard thence in straight line to the place of beginning; and that the inhabitants living within said linn it's shall be and continue the body polite or corporate created by the Worden, Bur gesses, and Freemen of the Borough of Nor walk, with all the powers and privileges conferred by the act to which this IS m ad- dition, and that the inhabitants living and the property lying without said lines herein established, shall no longer belong to or be
 included in said borough. Prorided, that the inhabitants and property heretofore in: cluded in said borough and hereby excluced therefrom, be and shall remain liable to pay their and its proportion of all legal claims against said borough existing at the tune ot the passage of this act: and said inhabitants and said property shall be liable to be taxed therefor by a vote of said borough, and sad inhabitants may attend and vote m any meetings cal led for the purpose of levying nnv said tax-nnd the owner of such prop. er.y and said inhabitants ma y do any other acts and take part in any other proceedings done or had for the extinguishment of such claims, in the same manner as they might if this act had not been passed.
 Sec. 2. All taxes heretofore levied and col lected by said borough are hereby validated, and no suit for the recovery thereof against said borough, or against any office on ac- count of any proceeding in the collection Of the same shall hereafter be brought or main- tained. Approved, June 6, l643. No. Al.
 An Act 10 divide the City of New Haven into Wards for the election of Officers. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General As- sembly concerned: That the City of New Haven is hereby and shall hereafter be di- vided into four wards as follows, to wit, so much of said city as lies westerly of and ex- tends westerly from line passing through the centre of Whitney Avenue and line through the centre of Church street. from Whitney Avenue to Chapel street, and us lies noriherly of and extends northerly from a line passing through the centre of Chapel street, from Church street to Sherman Av. enue, westerly to it's termination, and thence continued directly to West river. be and re. main Ward Mo- so much of said city as lies souiherly of and extends southerly from last named line, passing through snid Chapel street and Sherman avenue to West river, and as lies westerly of and extends westerly from line passing through the centre of
 Church street, and line passing through the centre of Meadow street, be and remain 1 Ward No. 2: so much ot said city as lies eas:erly of and extends easterly from said
 last mentioned line, passing through Mead- 1 ow street and the centre of Church street, and as lies and extends southerly of and from | a line passing through the centre of Chapel street, from Church street to Mill river. be
 and remain Ward No. 3; so much of said
 city as lies northerly of and extends north- erly from said last mentioned line, through l Chapel street. and as lies easterly of and
 extends southerly from said line before men-
 toned, passing through the centre of Whit
 ney avenue and Church street to Chapel be | and remain Ward No A.