Litchfield enquirer., 1865-10-05
Approved, July 2l, 1865.

sFtH CHAPTER Cxxxv. | An Att in addition to sAn Act for the Assessment and Collection of Taxes
 Be t enacted 6y ths Seasats and Houseof Rspre-
 ssntatiees in General Assembly convensd:
 SEC. l. That the sock owned by any person of the acts of the Congress of the United States, l shall be taxed and assessed in the same manner as the stock of banks incorporated by the laws of this State and the cashiers of such associations shall make returns of the owners of such stock, to the assessors of the several towns in the same manner as is by law provided for cashiers of State banks and shall further state the proportion which the non-taxable property, held by their respective associations, bears to the capital and surplus of said association
 Approved, July 2l. 1865.
 PROPOSED ACT CONCERNING THE DoMEs- TIC RELATIONS ' s.i 4"
 [Continued to the next session of the General Assembly and ordered to be printed with the Public Acts.l -,# E'-sff ..,ia An Act concerning the Domestic Relations
 Be sst smaeted 6y the Senate and HoMss of Repre- ssntatires in General Assembly concerned: as SEC. l. The superior court shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction of all petitions for divorce
 man or woman, lawfully married, for the follow ing ofenses committed by the other party, to wit (l) adultery; (2) beastiality (S) imprisonment for life; (4) fraudulent contract (6) seven years absence, not heard of (6) wilful desertion for three years with total neglect of duty; (7 habit ual intemperance of three years continuance
 without prospect of reform ; (s) intolerable cruel ty, or any other infamous crime punishable by Imprisonment in the State prison.
 SEC 2. The party aggrieved may prefer pc. tition to the superior court, accompanied with a summons signed by some competent authority, notifying the defendant to appear before the court, which shall be duly served on the other party, and on due proof of the facts, said court may grant divorce and declare the petitioner to be single and unmarried. But it shall not be law ful for the petitioner to marry again within two years from the date of his or her petition. And whenever divorce shall be granted under the provisions of this act the party found to be gull ty of adultery or beastiality who is under son
 tence of imprisonment for life, or who is guilty of fraud ill the marriage contract, shall be forever incapable of marrying again; and whenever divorce shall be granted for any of the other causes specified in the first section Of this act,
 caid court shall determine in it's decree. whether the defendant may lawfully marry again. or not, and shall establish the defendants disability, to be forever, or for limited time, not less than to demand or said court may, by decree, grant a separation from bed and board forever, or for limited time, for any such misconduct as perma- nently destroys the happiness of the petitioner and defeats the purposes of the marriage relation | and also, for any of the causes specified in the
 iality, imprisonment for life, or fraudulent con- tract And said court may. at any time there.
 after, anul and vacate any such decree of separ-
 ation, upon the joint applications of the party
 and that the parties will return to faithful dis charge of the duties of the marriage relation Provided no divorce or decree of separation shal
 be granted upon the petition of the guilty party l or where the act has been commttedsby the pro
 curement or with the conniyance of the peti l E