Litchfield enquirer., 1853-06-02

zha Resolution from the Hoase appoint. lnR 0eH. Smilh, was indefinitely postponed and . new resolution passed declaring Thomas GnyeT elected Mai. General
 The Com. 0n Judiciary reported favoTa- bly, on the bill Co prevent collisions OI yes eels in the Connecticut and Thames Rivers in tIie night, laid on the table and ordered t6 be prisIed.
 HOUsR.-Mr. Peck of BeihIem presented . bill for public act repeating part of an act flr Ihe registration of births, marriages and deaths; referred to Judiciary Com.
 Bill for . public act providing that no person under sentence of death, shall be executed until one year afier sentence, came from the Senate referred 10 Com. on CapiuaI punishment House cOncurTed.
 Petition of Wm. F. Baldwin and others for amendment of charter of Borough of LitchfeId, referred to Com. on IncOrpOra- lions other than Banks.
 Bill for public act concerning cOmmu. mites and corporations, passed.
 .s FRIDAY May 27.
 SENArE.-RcsOlution Of MT. H. Bill re- uuiring a report from the Bank COmmis- siOners respecting the affairs Ofthe Eastern and Woodbury Banks; passed.
 Mr. Hyatt, from the committee on the condition of inc Coscob Bridge, reported that they had examined said bridge, and that though not now unsafe, it may soon become so, it needing many repairs, aEd one of the abuimrn,s requiring renewal. Report of the engineer to the same effect was read. ."
 Report accepted. Mir. Butler offered a resolution requiring the immediate repair Of said bridge; passed.
 Committee on Judiciary reported ad- versely on petition for registration of persons desiring employment. Petitioners he'd leave to withdraw.
 Mir. Landers, from committee on Roads and Bridges, reported favorably 0R a bill requiring two thirds vote of the town before . road can be laid out. Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
 HoUsE.-Mr. Beckwith of Litchfeld, presented bill for public act relative to a State Convention to fraIDe new Consti- tuition, 10 assemble on the first Wednesday of January, ls54s delegates to which 10 be elected as Representatives are, voters admitted snd votes counted and returned in the usual manner; read second time and referred to committee to be raised.
 Bill for a public act concerning the sale of wines and spiriluous liquors, repeating aIlexisiing laws concerning the same; read second time and referred to committee on the subject.
 fn addition to the above, forty one peti- tons were presented for prohibitory biq uor law, which were severally referred 10 the committee on that subject.
 Report of Naugatuck Savings Bank and tOn E,Pr in 70 on Banks; of Ansonia Mutual Life Ins. than Banks; of Commissioners of Mystic l Bridge,to committee on Roads and Bridges.
 Resolution instructiDg the Bank Com In:ssuners 10 report forthwith concerning ,l,c failure of ;he Eastern Bank, KiIlingly, and the Woodbury Bank, Woodbury.
 Mr. Burr thought 1t was humatlng for i the Legislature to ask then, tO do what the law requires they shall do; resolution came from :he Senate passed. House aegaiived it. Resolution declaring E. w. Smith, Mai General of the Militia, heretofore passed in the House, came from the Senate iHlef- Tniiciy postponed, together with resolution passed declaring Thomas Guyer elected 10 the said office. A motion 10 reconsider the resolution of the House was advocated by Messrs. Ives of New Haven. Coms,ock of Lyme, and opposed by Mr. Brown of Windsor, and finally prevailed. The vote eIecling Gen. Smith was also reconsdered, and the House proceeded to another ballot, which .esul,ed as follows:
 Who.e number of votes 1sS
 Necessary tO choice, 95
 For Thomas Guyer, l44
 " E. w. Smith, 43