STATE OF CONNECTICUT, ss. OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE, July 13th, 1861. I HEREBY CERTIFY, that I have compared the printed copies, in this pamphlet contained, with the engrossed bills of Public Acts passed by the General Assembly of this State, at the May Session, 1861,—and find the same to be correct. J. HAMMOND TRUMBULL, Secretary of State. INDEX. A. Actions, Civil; additions to act for the regulation of- motions in error and for new trial may be joined, 9 9 scire facias against trustee, &c., how signed, and re- in scire facias against a city or borough, judge not levy of attachment or execution on crops, in buildings, regulated, Acknowledgment of Deeds &c.; judges of city courts may take Adjutant-General; how appointed, and his rank, may appoint an assistant, to keep records, furnish roster, &c., to procure and furnish books for instruction of to furnish blank books, returns, &c., to print and distribute the militia law, &c., Adjutants, of volunteer regiments, not lieutenants of companies, how commissioned and paid, Assessors; doings of, in certain cases, confirmed, to make and hand in their own lists, under oath, 19 20 31 64 65 21 42 73 73 Attachment of crops, deposited in buildings, how levied, of real estate, must be made in accordance with act of 67 B. Bantam Lake; act for the preservation of fish in . for appearance at superior court, Bonds, State; authorizing the issue of faith of the state pledged for the redemption of Boroughs may not discontinue or impair public highways, C. 26 27 27 27 19 68 Cattle; penalty for letting out of an enclosure, with intent to impound, 65 an act regulating the fees for impounding Chaplains for volunteer regiments; providing for the appointment and compensation of City Court, of New Haven; see New Haven. Civil Actions; see Actions, Civil. Claims against the State; how to be attested and proved, may appoint two aides, with rank of lieutenant- may grant commissions to military officers, 66 34 42 14 10 73 74 76 73 may disband companies, or discharge officers, 78 78 to approve or disapprove sentence of court- 98 may remit punishment awarded by court-mar- 98 may appoint brigade and regimental surgeons 34 may appoint a medical board for examination 34 companies, may appoint chaplains for volunteer regiments, 34 35 Commissary-general, how nominated and appointed, may appoint assistants, his rank, 74; his duties, 82; to give bond, Commissioners to take acknowledgment, &c., in foreign countries; Commissioners on turnpike roads; the senate may appoint three, a majority of, may act, Common Fields; proprietors of, may annex adjoining lands, to adjoining, may be consolidated, how, . annual meetings of proprietors, when and how votes of proprietors of, how to be taken, . 38 38 74 82 35 7 37 37 38 73 39 39 fences, how to be erected and maintained by pro- 39 40 fence viewers; duties and powers of liability of proprietors neglecting to maintain fence, 40 stricted, Commutation for military duty, how taxed and paid, 40, 41 to draw orders for allowance to families of volunteers, to tax bills for board of inmates of reform school, Conservators; courts of probate may appoint, for persons having Conveyances, executed and acknowledged in other states, validated, County Treasurers, to give bond to state treasurer, abstract of annual account of, to be published, to make returns concerning jails, to secre- penalty for refusal of, to make returns, Courts; see Supreme Court of Errors; Superior Court. additions to act relating to Court of Probate; sales of real estate, by order of, not invalidated appointment of trustee by, not invalidated by may appoint conservator for person having a Courts-martial, when and how to be held, forms of orders for sentences of, must be approved by commander-in- chief, Crimes and Punishments; additions to act concerning- persons acquitted on ground of insanity, 7 18 20 37 92 93, 94 98 6 Depositions; how to be taken in foreign countries, Distribution of real estate; certified copy of, may be filed with town Dogs; repealing a provision giving to towns the power of suspend- Domestic Relations; addition to act concerning E. Education; addition to acts concerning— school districts may deliver tuition bills to collectors be- special meeting of, to be called on request of five residents, 54 |