Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-29
The Voting Next Monday.

to the Town of New Haven
 GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
 JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 1881. Be it enacted by Senate and Houe of Representa-
 tives in General Assembly convened:
 Section l. That all that part of the Town of East Haven lying westerly of line commencing on the dividing line between the towns of North Haven and East Haven at point sixteen hundred feet east of the east side of North Quinnipiac street. where said street crosses said dividing line, thence running southerly in a straight line to point three hundred feet due of the south side of Hill street where said Hill street inter5ects with East street, thence running southerIy straight line to point the main road running east and west from New Haven through East Haven Center, four hundred feet east of the east side of road running north and south where said north and south road inersects said east and west road near the house of D. A. Bradley thence southery direction to the junction of Mile Creek with Morris Creek thence southerly, following the center Morris Creek to it's mouth, thence in due south line to southern boundary of this with all the inhabitants residing and belonging in said part be and the same is hereby annexed to and made part of the town of New Haven.
 Sec g. The bonded indebtedness of the town of East Haven consisting of first, hundred thou sand dollars known the Quinnipiac Bridge bonds, issued pursuant to an act of the General Assembly passed in 1872 and to a vote of said town of East Haven passed December 23d, 1876 and second, of sixty thousand dollars, known the Funding bonds of the town of East Haven, issued pursuant to an act of the General Assembly passed in 1877, and vote of said town passed June 14 1877, together with the interest thereon from the time this act takes effect, shall be assumed and paid by the town of New Haven principal debtor therefor and there after said indebtedness shall be and remain the in debtedness of the town of New Haven, and the town of East Haven shall be forever released and held harmless therefrom by the town of New Haven
 lTo~,I yfNf May, 1884, that this act will become operative, then the selecmen of East Haven shall proceed to make an inventory and appraisal of all the property of the town of East Haven, excepting the town deposit and school society funds and shall determine the value thereof they shall also, far possible determine the total liabilities of said town at the time this act takes effect and shall pay out of such property, far be done the liabilities of said East Haven, outside of the principal of said bonded debt, and the amount of such outside indebtedness remaining unpaid, over and above the value of the property remaining when this act takes effect, shall be debt upon and shall be paid by the inhabitants and ratabe estate, within the limits of the territory of the town of East Haven that territory existed January 1884, and upon the taking effect Of this act, A. L. Chamberlain Hiram Jacobs and L. F. Rich mond all of East Haven, hereby appointed committee to provide for the adjustment or compro mise and payment of said remaining indebtedness with power to levy upon inhabitants and ratable estate in the present territory of East Haven, ac cording to assessments last perfected by the said towns, sufficient sums to pay said remaining indebt edness and the costs of litigation concerning or of the adjustment of said debt, and for that purpose said committee shall have power to issue warrants in due form of law and deliver the to the proper tax collectors of said towns who receiving the same shall collect the sums therein named and pay the to said committee, who shall herewith pay such debt.
 When the liabilities of said town of East Haven, az they shall exist when this act takes effect shall have all been paid and any of the property of East Haven owned by when this act takes effect excepting said funds above mentioned shall not have been exhaust cd paying said liabilities, such surplus shall be divided between the towns of New Haven and East Haven, in proportion to the amount of the grand list the year 188O of the part hereby to New Haven, and of the remainder of said East Haven.a
 Sec A. The funds of the town Of East Haven known the town deposit fund and school society fund, shall be divided between the towns of New Haven and East Haven, in proportion to the number of inhabitants the territory hereby annexed to the town of New Haven, and the number remaining in the town Of East Haven according to the United States of 1880
 Sec. 5. The poor of said town of East Haven who were born within the limits hereby annexed to the town of New Haven. and who have not by residence or otherwise gained settlement elsewhere in this State than within said limits, shall be deemed inhab itants of and be maintained by said New Haven and said New Haven shall be liable to maintain all such poor of the town of East Haven absent there from provided such persons at the time their parture had legal settlement in that part of East Haven hereby annexed to New Haven.
 Sec. G. All that part of the territory hereby au- nexed to New Haven lying north of line comnen- cling at point in the center of Meadow street where said street joins Quinnipiac bridge thence running easterly through the center of said street to point where it ntersects South Quinnipiac street. thence in line running due east to the center of the Shore Line railway, thence easterly in line following the center line of said railway to point where it inter scots the dividing line between the town East and the territory hereby annexed to New Haven, shall constitute the fourteenth voting district of New poxyaT fhQ fN Haven lying south of the aforesaid eastery and west ery line shall constitute the fifteenth voting district Sec. '. The Northwest and Fair Haven school l districts hereby incorporated with and made g part the New Haven city school district, with the rights and privileges as said districts had formed part of the New Haven city school district its first organization and the board of education of said New Haven city school district shall, upon this act becoming law assume the entire control, said Fair Haven and Northwest school districts and shall manage and conduct said schools ana provide for their expense and maintenance and shall levy and collect taxes within said school districts in the same manner they now do within said New Haven The boundaries of the West and South school dis tricts hereby continued and said West and South collect taxes for school purposes and for the pay ment of their respective debts within their respec tive limits; and the committees of said West and South districts, in addition to their power such, shall have and exercise in their respective districts all the powers and perform all the duties of school visitors.
 Sec 8. The charter of the borough of Fair Haven East is hereby continued for all purposes except that the and management of the streets and side walks in the limits of said borough shall be assumed by the town of New Havsn and the town Of East Ha hereby released from all claims of any nature description, under existing laws, from said bor- ough.
 constituted, shall continue to act and perform all the duties and functions of selectmen in and for said town until the first Monday in October ls8l or until their successors are elected
 Sec. 10. The justices of the peace elected in the town of East Haven at the election held on the
 day of October 1884, and living in the territory here by annexed to New Haven shall. after this act be operative continue to act as justices Of the peace of the town of New Haven until the expiration of the term for which they were elected
 Sec Il. The probate district of East Haven, as it existed the 1st day of January, 1881, is hereby continued until the first Monday of January, 1883. From and after said astnamed date said probate dis trict East incorporated with, annexed to, and made part of the probate district of New Ha- ven.
 Sec. 12. This act shall take effect the 10th day of September A. D. 1884, and from that time all acts and parts acts inconsistent herewith shall be and repealed, except as provided herein proUded, that this act shall not take effect until accepted by the towns of New Haven and East Haven at special town meetings to be warned by the Seectmen of said towns az other special town meetings are warned, and held on the first Monday of May, 1881, fer the purpose of voting upon the acceptance hereof. at which meeting the polls shall be open at six o'clock be by ballot the ballots cast with the word .:yes'' written printed thereon shall be counted in favor of the acceptance act those cast with the word 'no' written printed thereon shall be count ed against the acceptance of this act The electors of the town of Haven living in that part to be nexed by the provision of this act shall in the engine house in the borough of Fair Haven East those living in the remaining portion of said East Haven shall vote in the S'town hall" in East Haven Center, and the electors of the town of New Haven shall vote in their respective districts and at such places in said districts the eectmen of said New Haven shall determine If majority of said ballots cast aforesaid in said part to be annexed and in said remaining part Of East Haven, and in said New Haven shall be in favor of such acceptance then this act shall go into effect hereinbefore pro vided the 2Oth day Of September, 1881; otherwise if either section of said town of East Haven said town of New Haven shall vote against such accept ance, it shah tke effect and the town clerk of said towns shall within three days after such town
 meetings certify the result of such ballotipg to the Secretary of State to be by him re corded.
 Pretty Boats.
 There are now on exhibition at the City Market three very pretty rowboats, which for style strength, durability and beauty are unsurpassed. These boats have been built to order this spring by the veteran boat builder Elizur H. Thatcher, at his shop in East Water