The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-22
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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 Ipany, of New London, for manufactur- ing and mining; incorporating the Chickamauga Cement company, of New
 Haven, (with House amendment; ap-
 propriating $2,Oo0 for the "old stone
 house" at Guilford as state historical
 museum; incorporating the borough of
 Groton (with House amendmenD in-
 cooperating street railway from Litchfleld to Torrington; appropriating $6,000 for repairs at Fitch Home for
 Soldiers; authorizing Wallingford to
 issue $54,000 of refundin9 bonds; incor-
 porating the Ansonia Trust company; paying Consolidated road $15540 for | transporting recruits to Mantle in
 1898; incorporating the Seymour Sav- ing and Trust company; bill validating | layout of streets, building lines and sewevers in Bridgeport bill that prose-
 cutting agents for Litchfield county
 may bring complaints to the Torring- ton borough court; resolution appro-
 priating $5,500 for filtration bed at the School of Imbeciles in Lakeville;
 appropriating $22,50o for transportation of officers and members of the gen. Ci til stoSClllDly uuIIuS tliC foC0SloHb ll-A- ing salary of mayor and other Bridge port officials; bill allowing New Brit ain city council to enact ordinances re-
 garding junk dealers, etc.
 Senator Burton called up the bill fix ing a uniform rate of i per cent on
 the market value of the stocks of cor- porations, which was passed few days ago and afterward reconsidered and tabled.
 Senator Seeley, chairman of the finance committee, explained the neces- sity for further amendments which he offered. These were agreed upon last Friday after conferences with the com- mittee on the revision of the statutes.
 Senator Seeley's amendment makes Section 1 read as follows, the changes being indicated by quotation marks:
 Section 1. The secretary, treasurer, or cashier of every bank, national bank ing association, trust, insurance, invest ment and bridge company, whose stock is not exempt from taxation. shall an- nually in October, Ion or before the fifteenth day thereof" file in the office of the comptroller of this state a state- ment under oath, showing the number of shares of its capital stock and the market value thereof on the first day of October, the name residence of each stockholder, and the number of shares owned by each on said last-named date; and on or before the last day of the fol- lowing February each of the corpora tions aforesaid shall pay to the treas urer of this state a tax of 1 per centum on the market value of each share of its stock, as such value may be determined under the provisions of the following section, less the amount of taxes paid by such corporation upon it's real es- tate in Connecticut during the year end- ing on the first day of said February; ''all of which realtestate shall be assess ed and taxed in the town or other tax ing district within which 1t is located"
 Section is amended by providing that the state board of equalization ! shall make the valuation of the stocks of corporations in October, November | md December instead of November, | December and January, as provided in | he original bill Notice of valuations shall be mailed tof the corporations | before December 31, instead of Janu- Try 31, as the original bill provided. This change was made in the interest if savings banks, which, under the general law, must make returns in Jan Iary.
 A new section is inserted, reading: Section g. The provision of this shall lpply to all assessments made in 1901, whether said assessment are made as if October 1st or any other date, upon which assessments of taxes are not payable until after December 31 1901."
 Sections 9 and 10 of the original bill re made sections 10 and II.
 After an explanat ton of the amend nent they were adopted and the bill vas passed as amended.
 To- day the Tariffville extension mat CT on which the railroad committee re- orted adversely will come up for ac- ion, having been made the special or CT of the day.
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