Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut

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,
motion in error not allowed after a new trial has been
refused,

9

scire facias against trustee, &c., how signed, and re-
turnable,

in scire facias against a city or borough, judge not
disqualified, because a resident or tax-payer,
depositions, in foreign counties, how to be taken,
perishable property, or live stock, under levy of exe-
cution, may be sold after seven days,

levy of attachment or execution on crops, in buildings,

regulated,

Acknowledgment of Deeds &c.; judges of city courts may take
judges of probate authorized to 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
militia,

to furnish blank books, returns, &c.,

to print and distribute the militia law, &c.,
compensation of for the current year,

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,
compensation of, to remain as established by act of 1851,

19

20

31

64

65

21

42

73

Attachment of crops, deposited in buildings, how levied,

of real estate, must be made in accordance with act of
1855,

67

B.

Bantam Lake; act for the preservation of fish in .
Birds; penalty for killing, entrapping, or destroying nests of
Boards of Relief; confirming the doings of, in certain cases,
Bonds in criminal prosecutions; an act concerning—

for appearance at superior court,
to be taken to state treasurer,
upon appeal from justice, to be
taken to county treasurer,

Bonds, State; authorizing the issue of

faith of the state pledged for the redemption of

Boroughs may not discontinue or impair public highways,
Bridges, between this and other states, how kept in repair,

C.

26

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,
Clinton; constituting the probate district of
Coast Survey of Connecticut; an act relating to
Commander-in-chief; the governor declared to be

may appoint two aides, with rank of lieutenant-
colonel,

may grant commissions to military officers,
may arrange the militia, in brigades, regi-
ments, &c.,

66

34

42

14

10

73

74

76

73

may disband companies, or discharge officers,
his general powers,

78

to approve or disapprove sentence of court-
martial,

98

may remit punishment awarded by court-mar-
tial,

98

may appoint brigade and regimental surgeons
for volunteer militia in service,

34

may appoint a medical board for examination
of surgeons,

34

companies,

may appoint chaplains for volunteer regiments,
may commission adjutants not lieutenants of

34

35

Commissary-general, how nominated and appointed,

may appoint assistants,

his rank, 74; his duties, 82; to give bond,
compensation of

Commissioners to take acknowledgment, &c., in foreign countries;
repeal of act authorizing the appointment of

Commissioners on turnpike roads; the senate may appoint three,

a majority of, may act,

Common Fields; proprietors of, may annex adjoining lands, to
bounds between, not to be altered except by two-
thirds vote of proprietors,

adjoining, may be consolidated, how, .

annual meetings of proprietors, when and how
to be holden,

votes of proprietors of, how to be taken, .

38

74

82

35

7

37

38

73

39

fences, how to be erected and maintained by pro-
prietors of

39

40

fence viewers; duties and powers of

liability of proprietors neglecting to maintain fence, 40
animals not to be allowed to feed on another's land, 40
may be impounded by haywards, or others, 40
poundage fees, how established, and re-

stricted,

Commutation for military duty, how taxed and paid,
Comptroller, to audit bills of expenditure for volunteers,

40, 41

to draw orders for allowance to families of volunteers,
for compensation of officers' drill-master,
for payment of officers &c. doing duty at drill,
for allowance to companies for armory rent, &c.,

to tax bills for board of inmates of reform school,
claims presented to, how to be attested and proved,
not to pay officers, entitled to per diem compensation, in
advance,

Conservators; courts of probate may appoint, for persons having
a legal domicil in the district,

Conveyances, executed and acknowledged in other states, validated,
judges of city courts may take acknowledgment of
judges of probate may take acknowledgment of

County Treasurers, to give bond to state treasurer,

abstract of annual account of, to be published,
County Commissioners; to assess damages caused by entry on lands,
&c., for purposes of the coast survey,
to publish abstract of county treasurer's an-
nual account,

to make returns concerning jails, to secre-
tary of state,

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
by defect in publication of order,
settlement of insolvent estates not invalidated by
omission of order of notice by

appointment of trustee by, not invalidated by
defect of notice,