Litchfield enquirer., 1865-06-29
coNNECTICUT LEGIsLATuRE.
MAY SESSION, 1865.

year; provides an annual fall encampment of six successive days; makes it the duty of the 0. M. General to provide suitable artillery horses for two days artillery drill each year during said encampment and all persons faithfully serving for five years to be entitled to an honorable discharge, and to be exempt from military taxes.
 MT. Hodge reviewed the bill, and it was dis l cussed at length. Some slight amendments | were offered and made. Bill as amended l passed. Adjourned.
 HOUSE-Thmsday, June p. The bill to validate the doings of towns in | voting bounties, was called up. An amend ! ment was carried, providing to pay all those | who have served in the field. Another amend | ment was adopted to secure remuneration to the towns for expenses incurred in raising their quotas; passed. Res. directing the committee on the National Hall of Statutes to inquire into the expediency of purchasing portrait of General Sedgwick passed. The subject of reduction in the number of judges was then called up and again argued It was finally passed.
 Adjourned.
 SENATE-Friday, June 23. Bill placing the public printing in the hands of the State Comptroller, on and after Jan 1st, 1866, to be done in such manner as he shall deem for the best advantage of the State.
 The bill passed-l8 to2.
 Res. incorporating home for disabled SOL diers tabled for printing.
 Bill making the fee for filling out blank ap. plications for bounties to volunteers one dol lar each passed.
 Adjourned
 HOUSE-Friday, June 23. Mir. Coe moved that the House shall ap point, next Wednesday morning, to consider whether it will or will not reconsider the vote reducing the number of Supreme Court Judges. This was adoted.
 The resolution appointing Wm. A.. Cum mings, of Darien, General Railroad Commis- sioner adopted.
 Bill providing that all terms of office of No taries Public shall terminate on the 4th of July ; passed.
 The bill to validate deeds of real estate that have been executed separately by husband and wife; adopted.
 Bill to change the law which allows parent to take and use the money of 8 child over whom an executor, etc., has been appointed, simply on giving receipt, such parent shall first execute bond for the faithful discharge of duty in the management of such property. Adjourned to II A. NJ. Tuesday.
 iSENA ATE-Tuesday, June 20. Met at l o'clock.
 Prayer by Rev. MT. Smith, Senator from the Fifth District.
 Res. giving the legislators a copy of the Ad- jutant General roll of Connecticut volunteers, and authorizing the sale of the remaining copies at $1 50 per volume; rejecting bill in creasing compensation of school visitors to $2 day for actual service; passed.
 Adjourned.
 ROUSE--7uesday, June 20. Prayer by Rev. Mir. Doane.
 Concurred with the Senate in several mat ters. s. Rep. adverse to pet. of Wm. Simmons for re- lease from State Prison accepted.
 Rep. favorable to pet. of Albert Northrup for release from State Prison; passed.l
 The committee reported adversely to the petition of B. Douglass and others of Middle town, in reference to the N. Y. & Boston R. R. Mir. Harrison stated that the matter had been amicably settled between the parties, and leave was given the petitioners to withdraw.
 Res: appointing Wm. A: Cummings of Da, rien, General R. R. Commissioner was tabled on motion of Mir. Hammond of Killingly.
 Bill increasing the established rate of in terest to 3-1O per cent; tabled for printing.
 Bill increasing the salaries of Judges of the Supreme Court to $250O; tabled for print ing.
 Act punishing the use of firearms even though used in self-defence tabled.
 Adjourned.
 iSENA TIE Wednesday,, June 2l.
 Rep. adverse to bill preventing the drawing of any log or timber on any highway except when the roads are frozen; bill rejected.
 Pets. of Jas. Tarboz and E. O. Peck, re- crniting agents; leave to withdraw.
 Res. authorizing the Boston, Hartford Erie K. R. Go. to issue preferred stock ref'd.
 Bill allowing towns to make appropriations for the erection of monuments to soldiers ;- amended by adding or seamen.' Bill as amended passed. .,a
 Bill making it the duty of towns to raise by taxation, on or before the 1st of March in each year, an amount of money not less than the amount received from the School Fund, the whole amount to be distributed among the sev- eral school districts, under the direction of the selectmen and school visitors of the town. Nation to amend by striking out the clause in the first section, which couples the town de- posit fund with the school fund. Amendment carried. (This amendment virtually reduces the amount of tax to be raised from $90, 900 to S46,000.) Bill as amended passed.
 Substitute bill prohibiting the trespassing on private property by the posting of timer ant advertisements passed.
 Bill prohibiting gift enterprises or lotteries within the jurisdiction of this State; passed. Adjourned.
 HOUSE Wednesday,, June 2l. 2. The subject of an asylum for the Imbecile Insane, (separate and wholly removed from the Retreat, was again called up. Dr. Camp bell offered an amendment to include also pa- tients who are not and have not been in the Retreat carried.
 An amendment that the commi ttee be au- thorized to sit atvarious times during the in terval between this and the next Legislature, was also carried.
 The inharmonious report of the Judiciary Committee on the proposition to change the number of jndges, was called up. The Com mittee, differing hopelessly among themselves, and asked to be discharged from further con- sideration of the matter. They are agreed in one thing, viz., against reducing the number of the Supreme Court. It was temporarily ta- bled. The bill to reduce to number of Judges for the Superior Court to seven was taken up.