Litchfield enquirer., 1862-07-31

1 of his procecdngs to the clerk of said court, under seal, and be entitled to the fees which are usually charged fol taking depOsitions. zt7s
 spc f4. All com missions herett fUTe issued sub
 ,tantisIIy in accoy.unce with the provisions oi
 this act, shall be held legal and valid, and depo sit, ns taken in pursuance of the name shall be
 admissible in evidence in thscases to which they
 respectively appertain. 5',f fsssF7s Approved, June 24th. 1862. r .s.s9a l9 !. An Act confirming the doings of Assessors and f sel Boards of Relief, in certain cases. e' t5'' Be tt enacted by the Senate and Ho,sse of Repre-
 sentatives in General Assembly eonvensd 11'ii
 SEQ. I. That in all cases where the assessors or
 board Of relief in any town have been elected at a meeting not legally warned for that nnTpose and in all cases in which the assessors in any town have omitted to post notices, or publish the same in accordance with the third section of An Act for the Assessmeht and Collection of Taxes ;; and in all cases in which assessors have omitted to sign, or return. or make oath, to an abstract of the assessment lists of their respec tive towns. or to lodge the same in the town clerk Office said towns, by the fifteenth day of December in each year, or have not included in said abstract the list or part of the list of any person and in all cases in which the asses
 sors have not signed the assessment list or lists of their respective towns collectively, but have signed the same Individuality or for districts or societies in said towns, or have not signed them at all and in all eases where said assessment list has been added to made out, or altered, be- fore the boards of relief have capitalized and ad- justed the returns of their respective towns and in all cases in which the board of relief, in any town, have met for the transaction of business, before the first Monday of January, in each year, or have omitted to give notice of the time and place of their meetings, according to law; and in all cases in which the town clerk of any town has not transmitted to the comptroller of pub lt<s. %o 1>e&. by the first day of March in each year; and in which said assessors or members ot such board of relief have omitted to take the oath provided by law: or where the assessors in any town have assessed any company or corporation under a I name or firm by which they are generally known
 or recognized, yet other than tn at by which they
 are known in law and fin all cases where the ! assessors in any town have omitted to set the | taxable property of non-residents in a separate
 assessment list, according to the provisions of
 the twenty-seventh section of said act :; such as
 sessnent lists shall not for any such causes, be adjudged void, but the same are hereby ratified
 and confirmed, and all taxes which have been, or shall be, hereafter laid and imposed, according
 to such assessment lists, may, notwithstanding,
 be levied and collected and in all cases in which rate bill, heretofore made out for the collection of any tax laid according to law, has not been
 made out under the hands of the selsctmen of a town, or Of committee of any other cOmmuni
 ty, according to the provisions [ said act, such rate bill shall be good and valid, to all intents and purposes, aud in the same manner as if the same had been made out under the hands of said
 selectmen or committee; and all warrants here
 tofore granted for the collection of such tax and
 all bonds, notes, or other securities given by the
 collectors for the security or payment of such
 tax, shall be in like manner good and valid i; provided, that this act shall not affect any suit
 now pending. -ej --s~' "
 SEQ 2 This act shall take effect from and af-
 ter the day of its passage
 Approved, June 24th, 1862.