Litchfield enquirer., 1869-07-29


 PUBLIC ACTS.
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 PASSED MAY SESSION. 1869.
 CHAPTER xxTv.
 An act in addition to an act entitled An act con
 cerning Grimes and Punishment'' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives in General Assembly convened
 SEC. l. Every person who shal dump or deposi or assist in dupping or depositing mud, sand, gravel or any other substance or material in the harbor of New Haven, or of the mouth of said harbor. inside of south.west ledge so-caed, or 1T Bridgeport harbor or offthe mouth thereof with. in three hundred feet outside of the outer bar SO called, or in the waters adjacent to said harbor below yellow and old-mil bridges, shall be deemed thereof shall be punished by line Of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars one-haI to him who shall prosecute the same to effect and the other half to the treasury of the State or by !. months, or by such fine and imprisonment both, at the discretion of the court having jurisdiction of the ofense. This act shall net be 50 construed to prevent the owners Of lands adjacent to said harbors from building wharves therein.
 SEC. q. The City Court of Now Haven and any Justice of the Pence of New Haven county in the towns ofNew Haven and East Haven, shall have cognzance of all complaints for violations of the provisions of this act in said New Haven harbor, and the City Attorney of said city and the grand jurors of said towns may make due presentment therefor.
 SEC. 3. The City Court of Bridgeport, and any Justice ofthe Peace in Fairfield county, ir the towns of Bridgeport and Stratford, shall have cog nizance of all complaints for violations of the pro- visions of this act, in said Bridgeport harbor and the City Attorney of said city, and the grand ju- therefor.
 snCs4. This act shall take effect from its pass age.
 Approved June 22, 1869.
 fA-&f CHAPTER XIV An ac. in addition to an Act providing for the sap
 port of Paupers.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- zentatiyes in General Assembly convened
 SEC. 1. That, the amount that any town in this state shall hereafter be liable to pay for the SUD- port of pauper under the provisions of the twen- ty-second section of chapter second of the act providing for the support of paupers, shall not ceed three dollars per week for all persons over fourteen years of age, and two dollars per week for all persons less than fourteen years of age and one dollar and fifty cents a week for all persons less than six years ofage in lieu of all expenses. the expense incurred in relieving and supporting any sick and indigent person, not an nhabitant of this state, and who does not belong to any town in this state, and who is not by law uthe proper charge or any town or particular person, at the rates provided in the preceding section for the persons therein enumerated.
 SEC. g. All acts and parts of acts of inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
 Approved June 21, 1869.
 CHAPTER xxyI An actin addition to act entitled 's An act for the settlement of Estates, Testate, Inteste and Insolyenku slulA tlIg6 ,tl- --lI' ---'" = - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repro. sentatiyes in General Assembly convened SEc.l. That section twenty-five, title twenty, of the revised statutes, shall not be so construed as as to deprive husband, being tenant by the cour- tesy or possession care and control of the real estate of his deceased wife, of the rents, in- of the estate of such deceased wife, but such hus- band shall have the same rights therein as if said act had not been passed. @
 SEC. 2. This act shall not affect any suit now pending.
 Approved, June 2l, 1869.
 CHAPTER XVII. An act in addition to an Act for Encouraging and
 Regulating Fisheries. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives in General Assembly convened That the seiectmen of the several towns of the to be fish wardens, whose duty it shall be to assst the fish commissioners in the prosecution of ofen- ces against the fishery laws of the state. which fish wardens shall receive a suitable compensation rom the treasury of each town.
 Approved June 21, 1869.
 CHAPTER XVIII, Ah acs III aooitioh to an act concerning Civil Ac-
 tions.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre. sentatiyes in General Assembly convened That whenever any officer shall have advertised for sale property taken by attachment, for which an order of sale has been made, or upon execution and shall from sickness or any other cause. be mn able to attend at the time and place of sale adyer tised such officer, by writing on the back of such hcer, or an indifferent person. to sel or ad;onrn the sale of said property in the same manner as he himself might have done had he been present at such sale 1. and the officer or person SO depu- tlsed may make out the proper returns in the Approved, June 2s. 1869.
 "A ,s CHAPTER xxx. An Act m alteration of an Act entitled "An Act
 for the Regulation of Civil Actionsn Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Renra. sentatiyes in General Assembly convened SEC. 1. The justice of the peace issuing war. Tane n ih 4 an aSs,on Q. summary process may sum- any other justice of the peace in the town where the leased premises are situated.
 SEc. 2 This act shall not affect any suit now Approved, June 2s, 1869. a
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 asfoy btt CHAPTER xxx An Act to prevent and remove nuisances and nh.
 structions from the channel of Mill River " Be it enacted by the Senate and Housa of p., rentatiyes in General Assembly convened ePfe- SEC. I. No vessel shall be unnecessarilv rnoorna in that part of the waters of New Haven haybor known as Mill river by anchoring or otherw;sa and no person shall cast from any vessel any hai, last or other heavy materials or Otherwise oHstrt the channel of said river by placing any stona or other substances which will tend to hinfSar .ba | thereof, within tho lines fixed and Ja' scribed in this act as the cutter boundarv os ;a channel; and such lines so fixed and defined as hereinafter described, shall be, and remain as s~ terior lines to which aiI shore proprietors a,on, said river may extend their wharues and occ,nSy | with the same rights and privileges as fhose nas, sess owning ordinary shore rights on any orioSnsI pr we'll dehned channel; provided that this - act shall not be so construed as to give any right or privilege to obstruct or hinder the landing of anv vessel at the wharyes or landing places on any SEC ?: The exterior lines or the o,,far bo.n,srv or sad channel, are hereby fixed and escribad as toliows Commencing at a point one hundred and eighty feet westerly from the center of the chsn ne or said NH riyer where it now enters r nn;tas Mltn the Vnlnnipiack river, and running in reht ine to the westerly abutment of tho west snaca ;n the iaon bridge known as Chapel street hr;dga a | over said Mill river, from thence in d rirht i;ns o a point one hundred and fifty feet west of ths westerly abutment Of the east opanino oY the Grand street bridge. The east line of ssid chano nel, or the exterior line beyond which tie nrorr;a- tors of the east shore of of said Min river shaI not extend their wharves or docks. shali commsnca I .t x.f