The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-28

Taxes to Become Due Here Aprh 1st-
 Time of Annual Orrnge Town Meet
 ing Changed-Big Appropriation for
 Horticultural CoIIege-Many Other
 Appropriations Passed-BOardman -
 BeardsIey Home IncOrpornted-Other
 News From the Capital.
 Hartford, June 25.-The bill provid- ing that all taxes laid on the grand list of 1905 in New Haven shall become due April 1, 1906, and annually at that date hereafter, has received the sigma ture of Governor Roberts. The act provides that interest shall be charged at nine per cent. on all taxes that re- main unpaid August 1 of each year. The bill will go into effect July 2. Governor Roberts has also signed the bill changing the name of the Ladies' Seamen's Friend Society of New Ha- ven to the WomaI's Seamen's Friend Society of Connecticut. The society can hold property the income of which shall not exceed t;n thousand dollars a year. The act incorporating the North Haven Gas and Power company, the incorporators being Robert o. Eaton, Representatives Hubert F. Potter of North Haven arM R. J. Woodruff of Orange. has been signed. The bill changing the time for annual town meetings in Orange, making it the first Monday in April each year, beginning with 1906, was approved this week. On Thursday and Friday the governor spent considerable time in signing bills and important state commissions. The series of bills signed during the two days included acts appropriating six ty thousand dollars for a new dormi- tory at the Connecticut Agricultural college; twenty-eight thousand dollars making up deficiency for the care of sick, wounded and disabled veterans of the civil war, and bill authorizing the Soldiers Hospital board to aid soldiers who cannot be taken from their places of residence to the Soldiers Home at
 Noroton. The bill authorizing the es-
 tablishment of bacteriological labo- ratory by the state board of health and appropriating three thousand dollars annually for it's maintenance and work, is also in the series of measures signed by the governor. The bill was
 from Senator Whitney of New Haven, and the laboratory will probably be To-
 cated in that city.
 The Incorporation of the Boardman-
 Beardsley Home in Bridgeport, the work of the institution being in be- half of aged indigent people of Protes- tant faith in Fairfield county particu- larly in the city of Bridgeport, has re-
 ceived the governors approval Tha funds and property to be used by the Home were left in the will of Mary W. Beardsley. The Hon. Morris E.
 Beardsley, of Bridgeport, Is at the head of the incorporator's list which includes the names of Edward W.
 Marsh, Thomas F. Taylor, Lun1an S.
 Catiin. Orland H. Brothwell and Frank N. Benham. Judge Beardsley, who
 has been especially interested in the legislation incorporating the Home, is one. of the foremost residents of Fair- field county He graduated from
 Yale in 1870, being classmate of Pres ident Morris F. Tyler of the Southern /, New England Telephone company and
 of Professor Dana of the university. His son, Samuel Fayrweather Boards, ley, is a member of the governors
 staff. The new institution under the direction of Judge Beardsley and the gentlemen identified with him will be a, notable public charity The judge, by the way, is building for himself one
 of the handsomest homes in Bridge port, and will occupy 1t by the end of 1 the year. sI&
 The bill authorizing a compilation of l the election laws of the state by the I state secretary, and the bill making the city court of Ansonia court for the issue of naturalization papers have both passed the governors examina- tion. The same is true of the new manslaughter bill, which makes the maximum penalty for that crime fif- teen years in prison. The governor has signed the commissions of James | P. Bree, of New Haven, auditor of state accounts for your years from
 July l.. William c. Sumner, of Yale university, member of the state board l or 6uuCdItuIlth dIu Ol lntllh# LouclluGIl and George B.. Bartin, harbor commits sioners in New Haven, for five years.
 The commission of ex-Congressman
 Lewis Sperry, the new member of the
 state board of health, and the commits l sions of Leonard H. Healey of Wood-
 stock and Charles l.. Futile of Hart | ford members of the state board of l agriculture, have been issued. The ap-
 pointment of Congressman Sperry
 on the state board of health has been
 regarded with great satisfaction 1 through the state. MT. Sperry's infiu- ' ence on the board will be of the high est character. Everywhere his ser
 vices are in demand, and his public life
 is one of singular force and usefulness.
 In issuing the commissions of w.. O.
 Burr, Frank C. Sumner and Edward
 A. Fuller, retaining the services of | these gentlemen on the state prison
 board of directors, Governor Roberts
 has set the seal of his approval on the
 work of this important state board,
 Its membership includes some of the strongest namss in Connecticut, men
 thoroughly interested in the manage
 ment of the prison. With the men
 newly commissioned may be men
 tioned Major James W. Cheney of | Manchester, prs sident of the board,