Year: 1867

snn to erect or remove any building or addition sbereto unless the outer walls thereof are com .acaed If brick stone or mortar, and to make and cause to be executed all proper orders Tn relation thereto. . city shall have power and authority to continue and control the two fire companies at present or ganized in the town of Meriden for the purchase o and to acquire by purchase or lease all the land, engine houses, engines, hose and other property of whatever kind now held by said town and used for the protection of property from damage by fire And said court of common council shall have pow er to form, continue and control such other fire companies within the limits of said city, they shaIf hereafter deem necessary for the better pro lection of said city from damage by fire. And if at any time sufficient number or suitable able voluntary enlistment, said court of common coun- ciI shall have power to designate and appoint sui fcient number of such persons to act as firemen, for the term of year, unless sooner discharged bv said court of common council ; and if any per sons so designated and appointed shall refuse or neglect to serve, such person or persons so refu sing or neglectng, shall pay such fine for the use of said city, as said court of common council shall order or direct not exceeding the sum of five dol lars. And said court of common council shall have power and authority to organize fire department within said city, and to disband the same and to appoint such engineers assistant engineers, and all other such officers as they may deem necessary for the thorough organization and proper manage ment of the affairs of said department; and all such officers, so appointed, sha hold their respec- tive offices year, and until others are chosen in their stead, unless sooner discharged by said court of common council. And said court of common council shall have power to make and cause to be executed all such regulations and bylaws as they shall deem necessary for the government and con- trol of said fire companies and department. And any member of said fire companies or of said de- partment, shall, while continuing such, and regr- farIy performing his duty as such, be exempt from the payment of poll-taX

 Sec. n. The court of common council of said city shall have power and authority from time to time, to oappoint such numbers of persons as they shall see fit, not exceeding twenty-five, to act as special constables, who shall take the oath prescri bed by the constitution for executive officers and shall hold their offices until ten days after the next annual meeting of said city, unless sooner remov- ed by said court of common council and who shall have the same power and authority within said city to preserve the peace, arrest and secure offenders and present for crimes, constables have in their respective towns.

 Sec 72. All grants or lessees of any real estate belonging to said city signed by the mayor of said city, and sealed with the city seal, and approved by said city, in legal meeting assembled, shall be good and sufficient in law to convey the estate in- tended to be conveyed by such grant or lease pro- Cided the same is recorded in the records of the town where the land leased or granted lies.

 Sec. 73. Within sixty days after any bylaw shall have been passed, the mayor may, if he sees fit call special meeting of the freemen of said city, to be held at such time within ten days from the calling thereof as the mayor may in his call desig nate, to approve or disapprove of said bylaw; and upon the written request within eaid] sixty days, 

 tors of said city, he shall at all events call such meeting in the manner and for the purpose afore- said. In the absence of the mayor from the city, or in case Of his inability to act such meeting shall be called as aforesaid, upon such written request made within said sixty days, by any alderman to whom such request shall be addressed. If at any meeting called the electors present shall vote to disapprove of said bylaw, then from that time said bylaw shall be and remain repealed and void; otherwise it shall continue in full force.

 Sec. "A. Said city in legal meeting assembled, shall have power to lay taxes on the polls and ra- table estates within the limits of the city for such purposes the city shall think proper, agreeably to the privileges granted by this act.

 Sec. 75. The first meeting of said city shall be held at the Town Hall in Meriden, on the second Monday of August, 1867, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, for the choice of such officers of said city as are to be elected by ballot as herenbefore provided, and to transact such other business as may be necessary, which meeting may adjourn from time to time; and copy of this section of this act, certified under the hand of the Secretary of this State, and printed in the two newspapers printed in said town of Meriden and posted on the sign-pOsts in said town, at least one week before the second Monday in August next, shall be legal warning to the electors of said city of Meriden tc attend said first meeting of the same and the annual officers chosen at said meeting shall enter immediately upon the duties of their respective of fices and continue in the office until others arc chosen and qualified in their stead.

 Sec. 76 The town clerk of the town of Merider shall call said meeting to order, and desgnat, some elector residing within the limits of said city who shall be the presiding officer of said frs meeting of said city, and the justices of the peace within and for the county of New Haven, living and inhabiting within the limits of said city, and pres ent at said first meeting. shall have as to the cleo ton of officers at said first meeting of said city the same powers. and proceed in the same manner as the mayor or aldermen and sheriffs of said city by this act to have proceed in at the future elections in said city The town clerk of said Mer- iden shall be the clerk of said first city meeting and make proper record thereof, which record shall be good and efectual in law, anything to the contrary in this act notwithstanding. Said city shall at the aforesaid meeting, appoint the time and place of holding the first court of common council, which court shall have power to adjourn from time to time, and said court of common council shall at their first meeting, appoint n the manner provided in this act, forty or more elec- tors of said city, to serve as jurors in the city court until the first Monday of July, 1S68 which jurors shall be liable to be drawn and to be sworn, and be subject to the same penalties for refusing to serve when so drawn, as are provided for in the seven teenth and nineteenth sections of this act.

 Sec. T The first city court of said city shall be holden on the first Monday of November next, at the Institute Rooms in the Town Hail in said city of Meriden, at two o'clock in the afternoon, and said courts of said city may be holden ill said h. stitute Rooms from time to time, such other place in said city as the court of common council of said city shall provide and judge proper. And the first police court of said city shall be held on said first Monday of November next, at the same place in said city, until such time as the court oi common council of said city shall provide some

 

 Sec 7S The inhabitants living within the limits Of said city shall to all intents and purposes, be- and remain a part of the town of Meriden.

 Sec 79. This act may be altered and amended by the General Assembly, and shall be taken to be apublic act to all intents and purposes

 Approved. June 18th 1867.

 CHAPTER LIv.

 An Act in addition to an Act entitled An Act con

 corning Communities and Corporations"

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives in General Assembly convened:

 Whenever any person shall deliver to any rail road company, any goods wares, merchandise, O other commodity for transportation, such compan, shall give to the owner shipper thereof, a re ceipt for the same, describing the goods wares merchandiZe or commodity so received for trans portation, and every company which shall refus to give a receipt as herein provided, shall Iay t the person entitled to the same, the of lift dollars, which may be recovered in an action c debt.

 Approved, July 11th, 1867.

 CHAPTER LyI.

 An Act in alteration of an Act entitled An Ac

 relating to Courts"

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repro sentatiyes in General Assembly convened:

 Sec l. The two judges of the superior court who are, by virtue of the provisions of the ac 1mR&l &laa lo6 An Aot;