Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20
NORWICH SEPARATION BILL
Full Text of the Proposed Act to Make Two Towns Where is Now One-Board of Trade Committee Finds Gen eral Sentiment in the City Opposed to Measure-Ad- vocates Working Hard for it.


 Board of Trade as a committee to take such action as they thought de- israble regarding the proposed act that is to be brought before the leg islature regarding the creation of the Town of Old Norwich from part of the present Town of Norwich, the five members of the committee, President Frank J. King, John M. Lee, A. A. Browning, Judge Nelson J. Ayling and Thomas H. Beckley, have been sound ing the general opinion of the resi- dents of the city and have found a very general opposition to any such separation of the town as would be involved in the proposed measure. They have found that the mayor and the members of the common council are all against any division and Representative A. J. Bailey who that would be set off by the Separa- tion is also registered among the op- ponents of the measure. Business men of the city are also against it and it is expected that there will be a large representation of them at the
 special city meeting on Monday even ing when the proposed measure is to
 be up for discussion.
 At the same time. they learn that the chief movers in the plan are &C.,
 
 are using all the influence within their power to secure favorable action from
 legislators when the matter comes up before them.
 The following is the text of the pro- posed measure which is called An Act Incorporating the Town of Old Nor Wich:
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General As sembly convened:
 Limits of Town.
 Section 1. All that part of the town l of Norwich lying northerly of a line commencing at the northeast corner bound of the city of Norwich at point in the line between the towns of Pres ton and Norwich; thence running westerly along the northerly boundary line of said city six thousand one hun dred ninety five (6,195) feet to mere stone; thence running north 75 1-2 de- greeS west along said city line about | three hundred eighty (380) feet to the easterly line of Mohegan park, so | called; thence running northerly along the easterly line of said Mohegan park and following said city line to the most northerly corner of said park; thence
 running southerly along the westerly
 line of said park and following said ] city line to the northerly side of the l Washington street approach to said | park; thence running westerly along | the northerly line of said park approach | and following said city line to Wash | ington street; thence running souther-
 ly along the easterly side of Washing
 ton street and following said city line l to the southerly line of said ap-
 proach; thence running easterly along l the southerly line of said approach and
 following said city line to the west l erly side of said park and following said city line to an angle in the north ! erly line of the city of Norwich; thence running north 75 degrees west about 1 eleven hundred 1,100) feet and fol- lowing said city line to a merestone; i thence running south 57 degrees 50
 west two thousand three hundred and
 eighty-f1ve -(2,3S5) feet and following
 said city line to a merestone near the
 westerly side of Washington street; l thence running westerly and following 1 said city line to mereStone on the westerly side of Lafayette street and | opposite Williams street; thence run ming northerly along the westerly side Of Lafayette street and following said l city line to the northeasterly corner of | Yantic cemetery; thence running west
 erly and following said city line to the
 northwesterly corner of Yantic ceme- | tery; thence running Southerly and
 following said city line to the face of | the southerly abutment of the New
 London and Northern railroad bridge l over the Yantic river; thence running | westerly and following said city line | to a merestone on the eaSterly side of
 Asylum street where was formerly sit | uated the northerly end of the Russell
 Hubbard paper mill; thence running | westerly in a straight line to a stone | bound in the line between the towns of
 Norwich and Bozrah, which stone bound is thirteen hundred and twenty l C 220) feet northerly from another
 stone bound at an angle in said town line one hundred and fifty-one (151) feet northerly from the northeast sterly
 corner of the house owned by Clinton Rogers, with the inhabitants therein, be and the same is. hereby incorporat- l name of Old Norwich, with all the | privileges, powers, rights and inn munities, and subject to all the liabili- l ties of every town in this state, with
 to the general assembly: and said town
 shall be a part of the Nineteenth Sena-
 toriaI district.
 l Adjustment of Debts and Credits. | Sec. 2. Said new town shall pay it's proportion of the present debts, Eabili- | ties, charges and expenses, suits, 'peti- l tions, and claims, already due and ac-
 crued, commenced and existing against
 said town of Norwich, and be allowed 1 the same proportion of it's credits and all other property, excepting the pub l lie records, except as provided in sec
 new town, in all respects aforesaid, | being as the grand list of that part of
 the new town taken from the town of i Norwich for the year 1914 bears to the
 whole grand list of said town of Nor
 wich in the same year.
 | Sec. 8. The selectmen of the said | towns of Norwich and Old Norwich
 are hereby empowered to apportion
 and divide the present towns poor, the l debts, credits, and town funds accord
 ing to the rule aforesaid in section two,
 and In case they should not be able to
 agree, then such apportionment shall
 be made by a committee of three dis interested persons to be appointed by | the superior court for New London
 county or any judge of the superior
 court upon application of the select
 men of either of said towns and whose
 decision shall be final and conclusive, l first duly notifying the selectmen | aforesaid of the time, place and when | the same shall be made.
 l Maintaining the Poor.
 Sec. A. The poor of said town of l Norwich, who were born within the limits hereby incorporated and have
 not gained a settlement elsewhere in l this state than in said town of Nor wich, or who have gained a settlement i in said town of Norwich by residence II or otherwise within said limits shall be deemed inhabitants of said town of | Old Norwich, and shall be maintained | cai1 +ouyr of nI1 NJc~