The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-07

Concentration Act and It's Provisions. Next month the legal voters of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth wards of the town of New Haven will be called upon to signify by their bal lots whether or not they are in favor of an act passed at the recent session of the general assembly and approved July ?, 1S95 consolidating the govern ments of the city and town of New Haven. The selectmen are required by | the act to designate a day in the month of November at which such voters shall be allowed to vote upon the subject and if the majority of the votes cast on that day shall be in favor of the act it shall immediately take effect, but if the majority of the votes are | opposed to the act, it Ghe acD shall be void and of no effect
 | The act in question provides that that portion of the town of New Haven which is not now included within the | limits of the city of New Haven, is hereby annexed and made a part of said city, and the boundaries of said town shall hereafter be the boundaries of said city. All the powers, duties and | liabilities of said town respecting high ways, private ways and bridges and re- specting paupers shall on the first day of May, 1896, be transferred to and inn posed upon said city, and all the pro- | l,r;e nf tha nbo snf soiI o;+ cernlng highways, etc., shall be extend ed and made to apply to all territories which this act brings within the juris- dietion of the city
 l The act alsop oprovides for the establish | ment of a department of charities and corrections in said city under the man. | agement and control of board com l posed of four members, who shall be residents of said city and who shall the board shall be appointed by the l board of aldermen upon nomination of l the mayor. After May 1, 1896, this de- I partment of charities and correction shall be charged with the care of the poor belonging to said city and shall kexecute all laws relative thereto, which would, except for this act, apply at any | time to the selectmen of said town. It is also provided that all powers and duties of the selectmen of said town concerning the appointment and supervision of conservators, guardians and overseers, the commitment of per l sons to the Connecticut school for boys or the Connecticut industrial school fol girls, of insane persons and indigent imbecile children to the proper institu- tions the indenture of apprentices, the giving of children in adoption, the edu- cation of children, the collection and return of statistics concerning the deaf
 dumb and blind and concerning al other matters effecting the defective and dependent classes shall be taker from the selectmen and vested in anG exercised or performed by said board o1 charities and corrections.
 The remainder of the act which is oi
 special interest at this time is as fol
 lows:
 The town clerk of said town shal
 continue to discharge all of the dutie:
 required of him by law, and his com | s office, shall be $500 a year, which, to gether with the expenses of his office
 not including salaries of assistants, ,shal
 be paid by said city On or before thu tenth day of December in each year
 beginning in 1896, he shall submit tC
 the mayor an account of his doings ant
 of the doings of his office for the veal neending on the thirtieth of November next preceding, which report shall con
 tain statement of all money received and expended during said year.
 There shall be elected at the Decem
 Der election, 1896, and in each yea thereafter, five selectmen who shal
 hold office for one year from the frs day of January next following theit
 election, and until their successors shal
 be elected and qualified. On and aftel
 the first day of May, 1896, the powers
 and duties of the selectmen of said towr shall be limited to those powers vested in. and those duties imposed upon, then
 by the constitution and laws of thu state in relation to the admission O
 persons to the privilege of electors o
 said town, and to the erasure from tht
 registry list of the names of those wht
 lave forfeited the privileges of electors
 No elector shall vote for more thar
 three selectmen at any election. Eacf
 of said selectmen shall receive lift! cents per hour for the time actually spent in the discharge of said duties
 and their necessary expenses, and thei1 compensation and expenses shall b
 paid by said city.
 After the first day of May, 1896, thu
 town of New Haven shall elect no off
 cers. except it's selectmen, town clerk tax collector, regis Srar of vital statistics
 board of assessors, board of relief, jus tices of the peace grand jurors and con stables. The city of New Haven shal
 elect registrars of voters at it's Decem Der election in 1896, and annually there after. to serve for one year from tn, first day of January next after thei election and the powers and duties o lsaid registrars shall be the same as the,
 would have been in said town had thi act not been passed, and they shall b, subject to all laws which would other wise apply to the corresponding officer of said town. All expenses of said towl elections shall be paid by said city Al electors of said town residing within tn territory of said town annexed to sait
 electors of said city and shall be quail fled to hold office in said city and to vot
 at all city elections.