The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-12
SECRETARY ROGERS
 ISSUES YEAR BOOK The Volume Is Later Than Usual, But It Contains Many Up-to-Date Facts

Colonel Matthew H. Rogers, the secretary of state, has had the State Register and Manual for 1910 printed and 1t is now being distributed from his office. In his preface the secre- tary makes brief reference to the fact that the volume is later than it's predecessor in making it's appearance and that it lis the more complete thereby, in that it has obtained the results of the more recent municipal elections" The up-to- -dateness of the volume will be appreciated when it is Havens, who was recently elected to congress from the Thirty dis trict of New York, appears among the congressman from the empire state. In the officers of the cities of the state the names of Mayor Edward l.. bers of the new Court of Common Council appear, and also the names of Mayor Joseph M. Halloran and of the recently-electedC Court of Common Council of New Britain.
 The additional information which is given in regard to the probate districts of the state will be found very useful to the general public. This informa- tion shows the date of the constitu- tion of the districts and the towns comprising them as well as the names of the districts and towns from which
 
 ton it will be seen that the district court of Hartford was constituted in 1866 as a. county court and at the same session the districts of New Ha- ven and New London were constitut- ed both, also, as county courts.
 Next to Hartford, Pennington is the oldest probate district in Hartford county though Simsbury comes a close second. Harrington was taken from Hartford at the Jenuary session of 1769 and on the following May Sims bury district assumed the responsibil- ties of independence with the author ity of the legislature of the state and the cordial good wishes of the parent district. The continued existence of the young republic of the United States was not by any means settled beyond the shadow of doubt when East Windsor district was constituted in 17S2 and Hartford and Stafford fur nished the territory for the new dis trict.
 Berlin was constituted in 1924 from territory taken from the towns of Farmington, Hartford and Middletown. That district now comprises the towns of Berlin and New Britain and, ow- ing to the development of the latter town, the district has become one of the most important in the state. Bris- l tol was called into existence six years | after Berlin was given place in the l family of probate districts, and South l ington one year later.
 Though the organization of the town | of Windsor was contemporaneous with the town of Hartford it was not l until 55 years ago that the former became an independent probate dis | trict. Up to the year 1855 the town was part of the district of Hart | ford.
 The clergy of the different religious | denominations and the members of l the legal and medical professions will | find interesting data regarding the l churches and the professions
 It will be seen from the volume that l here are now eight legal holidays in the state. There were formerly | seven, but by an act of the General l Assembly at the last session Columbus l day was raised to the dignity of a l state holiday and it is included in the list of holidays which the state de- | sires to be observed. There are two other days not included in the list of | holidays-Fast day and Thanksgiving | which are observed as holidays in l accordance with the proclamation of | the governor