Litchfield enquirer., 1874-09-17

| chate"' The manner of putting the query | was lrreyerent, but the matter thereof was cogent Three-and-twenty years after the | event have narrated, I find myself forci- bly, imbued with the conviction that it is possible to descend in safety from any height by means of parachute, but that there are ten thousand chances to one against the man who tries the venture surviving to tell the tale And please to remember that I had no intention of com down ill 8 parachute. contracted to come down in Sausage Balloon; but will do the inventor the justice to mention that he never asked me for my share oi | the expenses. = IT. s4a - Public Acts of the State of Con. nectIcut.
 PASSED 1T THE MAY SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEM- ...- .- BLK, 1874.
 | Published by Authorityl
 | fSeRate Bill No. 13l-cHAPrER xcy . An Act Compelling Probate Districts to provide Safes for Records. ..---l
 Be enacted by the Senate House of Representa hves ln General Assembly convened: 4'
 Section l. That all probate districts now establish or shall hereafter be established in this state shall within one year from the passage of this act or from the passage of act incorporating districts un- less already provided for in contemplated by thls ac shall locate, provide for, build purchase suitable reproof safe vault of capacity sufficient for deposting and keeping of all records OF pa pers belonging to such district.
 Sec. The county commissioners for the county iI which probate districts major part, are located together with the seectmen of the towns comprisine the dlstr1c shall meet at the call of said commission CTS at sucn tune and place as they -nay designate within the limit of the district to take into considera ton the purchase of safe, or the location and structlon of suitable ire proof vault and shall be de- termined by major vote of said commmissioners and selectmen Upon decision, the said commissioners shall immediately procure plans suitable for safe or vault and shall advertise for proposals to furnish sate or erect vaul and shall except the lowest pro- posas, requiring sufficient bonds for fulllment of speeihcatIons furnished and safe vault shall be pa1d for until the shall have been located or completed to the acceptance of said commissioners
 Sec j. The cost of such safe vault, and the nec- essary expense for suitable location for the same and all other expenses incident shall be equally assessed upon the grand lists last completed of the town or towns comprising the district and collected with the town taxes; and shall be paid by the town treasurer only upon an order of the seectmen to said comms- sloners. The said commissioners shall be allowed and paid three dollars for each day of time spent and act ual expenses.
 Sec All probate districts not having or providing safe or vault as contemplated by the provisions of this act, shall upon petition of twenty or more free holders of the district to the general assembly, be 9exed 10 an adJoning district or districts and such Approved, July A, 1874. =.
 CHouse Bill No 24Ol-cHAPrER xcv1 An Act relating to the proposed amendment to the - Constitution of this State. ,- - .'s O. whereas general assembly of the state of Connec
 
 May A. D. 1873, the house of representatives did pass resolution, therein and thereby proposing a certain amendment to the constitution of this state
 which said amendment was, by order of said houSe, continued to the present session of the general as. sembly and published in the manner prescribed by the eleventh article of said constitution and where as, ae this present session of said assembly, two thirds Of each house hereof have approved of said amendment in the manner prescribed and specified
 i'll sald artlce which said amendment is in the words following, to wit: Resolved by the House of Representatives that the Ina stltution of this state, which, when approved and adopted in the manner provided by the constitu- ton shall to all ntents and purposes become as part thereof viz: -. - q rhe House of Representatives shall consist of elect ors residing in the towns from which they ect-
 cd. Every town which now contains, or hereafter Shall contain population of five thousand shall be en-
 titled to send two representatives and every other one shall be entitled to it's present representaton in town shall be determined by the enumeration made
 under the authority of the census of the United
 States, next before the election of representatives
 held" . -.e .y.. -s5 e -'--.F .r .. Now therefore to provide for the consideration of said amendment by the inhabitants of this state in town meetings to be warned and held for that pur- pose pursuant to the requirements of said eleventh article of the constitution of this state.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- tives in General Assembly convened: lI e -- Section l. That the constables of the several towns in this state shall warn the electors in their towns to meet on the first Monday of October A. D. 1874 at nine o'clock in the morning of said day for the purpose of signying in the herein after
 
 proposed amendment, which meetings shall be held at the usual places of holding annual town meetings said towns respectively r.' '..t :. -
 Sec 2 The presiding officers of such meetings shall be appointed in the manner provided by law for the appointment of such officers at electors meetings. The polls shall remain open until five o'clock in the af tern0on of said day, and no longer. i -..-t. Sec 3 It shall be the duty of the town clerks of the several towns immediately after the organization of amendment to said constitution, according to the quirments of the eleventh article thereof, and the FoIpon ho by presiding officer thereof to bring in to him their respective votes by ballot regarding said amendment ment shall give in ballot with the word "Yes" writ ten or printed thereon and those who dsapprove of said amendment. shall give in ballot with the word sNo' written or printed thereon which ballots shall be examined assorted and counted in the now appointed by law for the examination asserting and counting of ballots given in at theannnal town meet ngs and the number of each shall be declared in open meeting by said presiding officer. And in towns G- vided into wards voting districts for annual town naetngs the ballots may be received at the places ill the manner, and also examined, assorted and de- clared in the manner provided by existing1aws
 Sec The presiding s officer , in said several town duplicate certificates of the number of votes given and ascerained aforesaid in favor of approving and adopting said amendment, and also of those disap- proving of the adoption of said amendment in words at fall length of which certificates shall be de- posted the office of the town clerk of the town in which such meeting shall be held and the other shall be by such presiding officer transmitted by mail to the secretary of state, at Hartford, shall be delivered sealed after the holding of said meeting which certificates shall be in form following. to wit:
 At meeting of the electors of the town of ----- legally warned and held the first Monday of Octo- Der, D. lsA for the purpose of receiving the votes ofthe electors of said town upon the adoption of proposed amendment to the constitution of this state there given in favor of adopting said proposed amendment -- votes, and against the adoption of Certified by A. B., presiding ofacer, and the super scrpton of each of said certificates be returned o the secretary of state, shall be as follows to wit:
 kG,a 0nA nkuWE of Gfatn srfE g
 Votes of the electors of the town of upon the proposed amendment to the constitution, taken and sealed up by .-- r.., .r. .- ..-- st -s -.t! s..
 -'-i-.-- '--5 A- A. B. presiding officer.
 Every presiding officer at any meeting of the elec- tors in any town in this state who shah neglect to make return herein prescribed of the votes eiye at said meeting shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars to the treasurer of this state and if he sha or shall wilfuy make false return of said votes he shall upon conviction thereof the superior court held in the county wbere he resides forfeit and pay to the state treasurer fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and be imprisoned in the county jail not ex- ceeding sixty days. --s. "ii-s- .tF -'a+ bli.71 fourth Monday of September, A. D. 1874 transmit tifed copies of such proposed amendment and also blank forms for the return of voteA to be given suant this act to the town of the in this state, for the use of said towns. . s 'I- Sec. 6. The votes so returned to the secretary of state shall be counted by the secretary and D. 1S74 who or before the tenth day of November A. D. 1874, shall transmit certificate, under their approving and adopting said amendment and also of the number of votes returned disapproving of the adoption of the same, to the person administering the government of this state who within five days after the receipt of said certificate, shall issue his rocla1 terefrom that majority of said votes favor of approving and adopting said amendment he shall so de- clare in such and that majority of the electors present at the meetings aforesaid have approv ed said amendment and that the same is yad to all tents and purposes as part of the constitution of this state and if it shall appear from said certificate that majority of said votes are not in favor of ap proving and adopting said amendment, but are op- posed to the arne shall declare in said procla- nation and that majority of the electoro as such meetings have not approved said amendment and said proclamation shall be published at the expense Of the state in two newspapers in each county in this state and shall be recorded in the public records thereof
 Sec [. The qualifications of voters at said meetings