Morning journal and courier., 1884-03-04
SINGLE COPIES TWO CENTS
The Consolidation Act.

Tuesday. March 4, 1884.
 The Consolidation Act. The Full Text of the Defeated BIs1-The
 Various Features.
 Below is given the text of tue so-called consolidation act regarding the city and town of New Haven, which was before the General Assembly at the present session, and was dis missed on account of lack of the requisite legal notice to all parties directly interested.
 An act to enlarge the powers of the city of New Haven and the borough of Fair Haven East and to incorporate the villages of Vest vile and South Haven: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened.
 Sec. 1. That all the inhabitants of the town of New Haven residing and dwelling in the present limits of the Thirteenth voting district in said town be and they are hereby constituted and declared to be from time to time and for ever hereafter 8 body polite and corporate, in fact and in name, by the name of the village of Westville; that all the inhabitants of the town of New Haven resid- ing and dwelling in the present limits of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth voting districts in said town, except those residing and dwell ing in the corporate limits of the borough of Fair Haven East, be and they are hereby constituted and declared to be from time to time and forever hereafter body polite and corporate, in fact and in name, l by the name of the village of South Haven; that by these names they and their success CTS, who may hereafter reside and dwell within the limits aforesaid, shall have per petual succession and be persons in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading l and being impleaded in all suits whatsoever, 1ala, I..1l estate, real or personal, and may have 8 | common seal and alter the same at pleasure.
 Sec. 2. The town of New Haven shall not hereafter have any power or duties respect ing the care and support of the poor therein or belonging thereto; or of the laying out, maintenance, care, discontinuance or altera- tion of any of the highways, private ways or bridges therein. But all such powers and ! duties heretofore belonging to said town shall be transferred to the city of New Haven, as respects the poor belonging to or being within it's corporate limits; and to the vil- I lages of Westvile and South Haven, as re- spects the poor belonging to or being within their corporate limits respectively and as respects the highways, private ways and bridges therein; and to the borough of Fair Haven East, as respects the poor belonging to or being within it's cor private ways and bridges therein; to be ad ministered by said city, villages and borough respectively as hereinafter provided.
 Sec. 3. A meeting of each of said villages | shall be held on the first Tuesday of Decem Der, 1884. at such hour of the day and at l such place therein, as the Selectmen of the town of New Haven shall direct, and | annually thereafter said day, at such hour of the day and at such place therein as ! the warden and burgesses thereof may di- \ rect; and all electors dwelling within or who | shall hereafter dwell within the corporate limits of such village, qualified to vote at town meetings, may participate in any village \ meeting.
 Special meetings of each of said villages ! may be called and held from time to time as the bylaws of said village may prescribe. Sec. 4. The officers of each of said viii lages shall be 8 warden and two burgesses, | a clerk, treasurer and collector of taxes; | to be elected by ballot at said annual meet | ings of each of said villages. They shall \ hold their offices for the term of one year, | and until their successors be elected and \ qualified; provided that any officer upon the removal of his residence from the corporate limits of his village shall thereupon cease to hold his office therein and such office shall be vacant.
 Sec. 5. Whenever from any cause a va cancy shall occur in any or all of said offices, 8 special meeting of the village, in whose of | fees such vacancy or vacancies occur, may
 be called to fill the same. Each meeting oi either of said villages, except as is herein | otherwise provided, shall be warned by the ! warden and burgesses thereof, and a copy oi ' the warning left with the village clerk, in the ! same manner Selectmen, by law, warr
 town meetings, and leave copy with tht town clerk.
 l Sec. 6. Whenever the warden of either ol ! both of said villages shall be removed from
 or vacate his office, or be absent, or iron \ any cause shall be unable to perform hli duties, the senior burgess of such village ol I villages, able and qualified to act, shall act as
 warden during such inability, or unti ' another person becomes qualified, such ten | porary performance of the duties of warden shall not disqualify said burgess for the per
 folmance of any of his duties as burgess
 Sec. 7. The charge of the poor and th' 1 execution of all laws relative thereto, now ol
 from time to time, sxcept for this act, apph | cable to the Selectmen of the town of NeV
 Haven, shall devolve upon, and become
 part of the duties of the warden and bur
 gesses of each of said villages as respects
 the poor belonging to or being within thell
 respective corporate limits; and shall devolv'
 upon, and become a part of the duties of tht
 warden and burgesses of said borough o
 Fair Haven East, as respects the poor belong
 ing to or being within it's corporate limits
 and shall devolve upon and become
 a part of the duties of the BoarC
 of Charities and Corrections of saic
 city of New Haven, as respects the poor be-
 longing to or being within the corporate
 limits of said city. All present or future
 general laws touching the liabilities, powers
 and duties of towns or Selectmen, in respect ! to the poor, which would otherwise apply to
 the town of New Haven or to it's Selectmen
 shall hereafter apply to said villages, bor. ! oueh and city, and to their wardens ano | burgesses and said board, respectively, in tht
 same manner if each of said municipalities | were town and said wardens and burgessst
 and said board, respectively, were it's Select l men.
 Sec 8. The charge of all highways, private | ways and bridges and the execution of al ! laws relative thereto, now or from time tc | time except for this act. applicable to tht
 Selectmen of the town of New Haven, shal ! devolve upon, and become part of, the du | ties of the warden and burgesses of each o l said villages as respects the ways and b1idget | within their respective corporate limits anc ! shall devolve upon and become part of the
 duties of the warden and burgesses of ssit | borough of Fair Haven East, as respects thu l ways and bridges within it's corporate limits l The wardens and burgesses of each of sait villages and of said borough shal
 have power, and it shall be theil
 duty to lay out. alter, extend, discontinu'
 and repair all ways and bridges within thei
 respective corporate limits, and do and per form all other acts relative to said ways ana bridges the same as the Selectmen of saiC
 town of New Haven may now do. All pres
 ent or future general laws touching the lab1l
 ities, powers and duties of towns or Selectmen
 in respect to ways and bridges, which woult
 other wise apply to the town of New Havel
 or to it's Selectmen, shall hereafter apply t
 said villages and said borough, and to thei
 wardens and burgesses respectively, in tn
 same manner as if each of said municipal
 ties were a town and said wardens and bur
 gesses it's seIectmen.
 Sec 9. All the powers and duties nov
 incumbent upon the selectmen of said tow of New Haven, as respects the appointment { aa4 duties of conservators, guardians, ant r aYersee1s. and all their powers and duties a respects the commitment of insane person and the indenture Of apprentices an
 the execution of all laws relativ
 thereto, now or from time to time
 except for this act applicable to the Select r | men of the town of New Haven, shal | devoIve upon and become part of the dutie of the wardens and burgesses of each of sai ,. | villages, and of said borough, and of tn e l Board of Charities and Corrections of sai Il city of New Haven, as to all cases withi ]. their respective corporate limits, in the sam T manner es if each of said municipalities wer | s town and said wardens and burgesses an
 said Board of Charities Snd Corrections Tt