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town where such owner or owners reside, shall be deemed to be compliance with the provisions of this section. SEC. 2. That if any owner or owners ot any share or shares of the capital stock of any Bank in this State, shall transfer such share or shares to another person or persons with the intent of evading the provisions ot the Act to which this is an addition, such owner or owners shall forfeit and pay to the Treasurer of the town in which he she or they reside, sum equal 10 one per cent. ol the rateabfe value of the share or shares ot stock so transferred, to be recovered in an action of debt on this statute, before any court proper to try the same.
 SEC. g. So much of the Act which thus is an addition as is inconsistent with the pro- visions of this Act is hereby repealed; pro- vided, that this Act shall not affect any pen already incurred, or any suit or action now pending. ApproVed' June S' Ao40'
 No. B.
 An Act in alteration ot an Act entitled "An
 Act for the Assessment of Taxes.
 SEC. I. Be tt enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives tn General As seubiv concerned: That SO much ot the second section of the act of which this is an alteration, as provides that "the polls ot ali white male persons from twenty one to seV. sntv wears of age, shall be set in the list at twenty dollars each," be, and the same Is hereby repealed.
 Sec. 2 That the polls of all white male persons from twenty .one to seventy years of age, shall be set in the list at ten dollars each. Approved, June 7, l943.
 No. 34.
 An Act confirming the doings of the asses sors and Board of Relief in certain cases.
 Be t enacted by tke Senate and House of ReDresentatives in General Assembly c0nvened: That the several provisions of inc act passed in 1883 entitled "An Act in addition to an Act entitled An Act provi- ding for the collection of Taxes" be and are hereby re.enacted and extended to all cases to which the same would be applica. ble. if said act were now for the first time enacted: Provided That no claim which IS inc subject of any suit or action now pen ding, shall be in any manner affected oy the provisions of this act. o.o
 Approved June 2, ls43.
 No. 35.
 An Act 10 make valid the doings of a town meeting therein named. WHsREAs,the town of Berlin,at the annual meeting of said town on the first Monday of October A. D. 1642, did choose and appoint the usual number of selectmen for said town for the year next ensuing, viz: Edwln Barnes, Elijah Hart and Benjamin Wilcox, Esouires-and whereas the said EdWin Barnes has removed from said town, and 1t has nleased Providence to remove the said Reniamin Wilcox by death, leaving but one selectman for said town, to wit-the said Elijah Hart: and whereas, at meeting warned by the said Elijah Hart, then sole selectman for said town of Berlip, warned in all other respects according to the re. nnirements of law, and holden at the usual nlace of holding said meetings in said town, on the 22nd day of May, 1943, Samuel Hart, 2nd and Shubael Risley were chosen and appointed by a majority of the electors present at said meeting, selec:men to ill the said vacancies until the next annual meet ing of said town,-now therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives iE General Assembly con: vehed That none of the doings of said meeting of the said town of Berlin, so war ned and holden at said Berlin, on the 22d day of May A. D. le43, relative to the choos- ing and appointing said two selectmen. shall he deemed invalid because the said meet" inc was warned by one selectman, but such meeting, and all their doings, if in other respects regular and conformable to law, shall and are hereby declared to be va. lid, and the said selectmen duly chosen and appointed. Approved June 7, ls43.
 No. 36.
 Be it enacted 6y the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly concerned: That if any person shall vote for Representative, Senator, Sheriff, or Mem. of Congress in any town, where by law, he is not entitled so to vote, the person so un- lawfully voting shall pay a fine of seventeen dollars to the Treasury of the State.
 Approved, May 27, lS4S.
 No. 37.
 An Act in addition to An Act to Incorpor- porate the Windham County Bank.'
 Be t enacted by the Senate and House of. Representations in General Assembly convsmsd That the directors of the Windham County Bank be. and they are hereby empowered to reduce the capital stock of said Bank to sum not less than sixty thousand dollars, (exclusive of what is or may be invested therein by this State. and ot such subscriptions as are authorized by the act incorporating said Bank,) and to adopt such measures for effecting the same as the interest of the Bank and the public may require. Provided, that such reduc. tioi shall in the first instance be effected from the stock owned by said Bank, and that no stockholder shall be required to re- lease his stock in said Bank without his