Litchfield enquirer., 1854-07-27
CHAPTER VIII,

approved June S0th, 1854.
 CHAPTER VIII.
 An Act tn relation to Banks.
 Be q eaEcted 6s tss Senafe and House of Rep SssentGti0es, iM Genera! Assembly convened: That lhe Banks of this State be and they are hereby empowered and authorized to csrab 1ssh m Inc State of Connecticut Or elsewhere, Bank, Banking Association or Agency, for the redemption of the bills or notes issued by any Bank in ihis State, with power to sub. scribe Tor and hold stock in said Institution, and to transact all business incident thereto, aud each Bank in this State shall have liberty 10 subscribe for and hold stock in said Insti luton 10 an amount not exceeding i've per cent. of its capital actually paid in.
 All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent here. with are hereby repealed.
 Approved June 30, 1854.
 CHAPTER TX. An Act to confirm ihe doings of Assessors, Boards of Relief, Se!ectrnen, and Town Meetings, in certain cases,
 Be tt enacted by the Senate and House of Rep TesentaliUes in General Assembly convened. !. SEc. l. That in all cases, where the As. sors or Board cf Reliefn any town have been elected at meeting not legally warned for that purposes and in all cases in which the Assessors in any town have omitted 10 post notices, or 10 publish the same, in accordance with the provisions of the third section of the Act entitled "An Act for the Assessment and Collection of Taxes" and in all cases in which such Assessors have omitted to sign or return or make oath 10 an abstract of the Assessment lists of their respective towns, or 10 lodge tho same in the Town Clerks of- nee in said town by the fifteenth day of De. cember in each year; and in all cases in winch such Assessors have not signed tbe Assessment list or lists of their respectiv, towns collectively, but have signed the same individually, as for districts, or societies in euch towns; and in all cases where said ab stract or any assessment list has been auded to. n,ade out or altered before O, after the Board of Relief has equalized and adjusted the returns and asst ssments of their respect. i've towns; ard in all cases in which rho Board of Relief has, in any town, met for the transaction of business before the first Monday in Janaary in each year, or omitted tc give notice of the time and placo of their meeting, according 10 the provisions of law, aud in all cases in which the Town Clerk of any town has not transmitted an abstract of me lists of said town to The Comptroller of Public Accounts, by tue first day of March sn each year, and m which such Assessors or members of such Board of Relief have omit. ted to fake the oath provided by law. or where ths Assessors m any town have as. sesseo any company or corporation under name or firm by which they a,e generolly re. cognized and understood, yet other than that oy which they are known in law, such as sessment fist shall not for any such causes be aOluuged VoId, but all texes, which have been, or shall hereafter be laid and imposed accor- 0ing 10 such assessment lists, may nolwith- sianding, ba lev,ed and collected, i, and in all cases where tho State tax imposed by the Henefai Assembly upon the several towns, mas been lad by any town upon the assess ment list heretofore made, the dongs of any meeting so held. and the State tax so laid in any town. shall not, for any such causes, bs a6Judged void.
 DEC. ?. And in all eases where the Select men of any town shall have lodged list c sh0 names of persona, whose taxes have bee abated, with the Town Clerk of their respet sive towns, as required by the iiiih section She Act, entitled, "An Act providing for th euppori of Paapers,'' but the Collector or Go Sectors of taxes shall have failed to give ccrSficata that demand of payment, accor, ing 10 law, had been made by said Collect, or Colsectors, Of lhc persons whose taxes hs been abaied. copy of such list, ,oseth wilh other proper evidence of such deman ahall b6 admitted in any court to show tn said taxes have not been paid.
 SEC. 3. And in ali cases, where the 4ectmen of any town have neglected to wa she annual town meeting of any town in | manner provided by law and in all cas- where the wsrnings ofihe annual town me, ings of any town have been in any respt informal. she doings Of such town meeting held under such defective or informal war ings. are hereby ratified and confirmed. al
 made valid in asl respects, the same as thoui no defect or InlOrmaliiy had existed in So warnings. AndalI Acts ol any town officel chsaaH rph meetings being ip other apsaI q ssmAlsle to law, arc hereby ratife osl1 snd confirmed. gs Ii
 EN That in all cases, where the A aeasoF os AsseasOEa, in any town, have add No ih6 Hsl of any perscn oE Persens, and ha