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 Horse Bill No 8 l-cHaprER Lxxx1y. I An Act t0 Confirm the Doings of Asses.
 Eofs and Boards Of Rcfiuf, and other Of ficers of Towns and School Districts in
 certain cases.
 Be il enacted by the Senate and House of Repre.
 sentatives in General Asst mbly convened: l Section I. In all cases in which the as. 1 sessors of any town in this State have ad- ded to the list of any person making 8
 sworn list, any property owned by him
 and hable to taxation in said town, with
 out legally notifying him thereof; and in
 all cases in which the assessors have omit ted to sign or return, date, or make oath to an abstract of the assessment list of 1 their respective towns, or to lodge the same in the town clerks office, in said town, on or before the fifteenth day of December in each year, or having lodged 1t there on or before said day, have neg. lected to sign and make oath to it until | afterwards, or have omitted from said ab- stract the list or part of the list of any 1 person; and Tn all cases in which house lots, not exceeding two acres, have not been assessed and set in the list with the dwelling house thereon, but have been as- l sessed and set in the list separately as land; and in all cases in which the asses sOfs have not signed the assessment list. or lists of their respective towns, collect lively, but have signed them individually for districts or societies in said towns: and in all cases which the assessors have not signed the assessment list; and in all cas- kes where the assessors ond board of relief have omitted to set the taxable property of non-residents in separate list: and in all cases where the persons making the assessment list were appointed by the se- lectmen of their respective towns: and in all cases where the assessment list has been added to, made out, or altered. be- fore the board of relief have eqnalized and asliusted4h returns and assessments of their towns; and in all cases where such assessors or members of board of relief did not give legal notice of the time and place of their meeting, or where they did not take the oath required by law; and in all cases where any such board of relief have added to the list of any person, any new item of taxable property actually pos sessed by him, without giving the notice required by law, and in every case where any such board of relief have raised the amount of the list of any person without giving such notice, if the increase so made in the amount of said list is not, in fact, excessive and unjust; and in all cases in all cases in which the town clerk of any town has not transmitted to the comptrol- Ter of public accounts an abstract of the lists of such town by the first day of March in each year, such assessment lists shall not for either or any of such causes be adjudged void or: defective, but the same are hereby ratified and confirmed and made valid and binding upon the town wherein the same were made; and all taxes which have been, or shall here after be laid and imposed according to such assessment lists, may, nOtwithstand- ing. be levied and collected.
 Sec. 2. In all cases in which a rate bill heretofore made out for the collection of any tax has not been made out under the hands of the selectmen of town, or of a committee of any other community, ac- cording to the provisions of .sAn act for the asseaamen& and collection Of taxes and acts az.endatory thereof, and in all cases in which the seiectmen of any town have neglected to sign such rate bill, and in all cases where no warrant has been made out or signed and attached to any rate bill OY 0 shall be good and valid to all intents and purposes, as if the same had been made ont under the hands of said selectmen or committee as provided by said act and signed by them and all warrants hereto fore granted for the collection of such tax, and all bonds, notes, obligations, or other securities given by any collector of such taxes for security, collection, or pay ment of such taxes, or for the faithful per formance of his duties, shall, in like man. ner, be good and valid, and are hereby made binding and legal. And in every case where a collector of taxes has made demand of payment for taxes pursuant to section 14th, of Chapter 1st, Title 50th of the General Statutes, but has died with out making the certificate required by said section, such demand without such certifi- cate shall be deemed Equivalent in all re- spects to such demand with such certifi- cote duly made under oath by said collec- tor according to the requirements of this section.
 Sec This act shall take effect from the day of it's passage.
 Approved July Il. 1875.
 (HOuse Bill No. 155 l-CHAPTEI Lxxxv. An act in addition to an act relating to Courts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly
 convened:
 Section 1. The Supreme Court of Err TOTS, the Superior Court, and the Court of Common Pleas for New London county shall, whenever the sessions of said court are by law to be held in Norwich, meet and hold their sessions in the building erected for county, tonw, and city purpos- es, under the provisions of the act approy- ed July 9th, 1869, and the sheriff shall not hereafter be required to provide rooms for the holding of said courts.
 Sec. 3. The files and records of said courts, at all times when said courts are not in session, shall be kept in the fire proof vault provided for court records in said building as soon as the name shall be completed and occupied for court pur- poses.
 Approved July 9. 1873.