Guardians may Trust funds may be invested in state bonds. CHAPTER XLVII. An Act in addition to "An Act concerning the Domestic Relations." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SEC. 1. That the bond required to be taken by the judge of probate upon the sale of a minor's real estate, may be so conditioned as to authorize the guardian to invest the proceeds in the bonds or loan of this state. SEC. 2. That guardians, trustees, executors, or others holding property in a fiduciary capacity, may invest the same in the bonds or loan of this state. Approved, July 2d, 1861. Annual meetings of school dis held. CHAPTER XLVIII. An Act in addition to and in alteration of "An Act concerning Education." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives, in General Assembly convened: SEC. 1. Every school district shall hold an annual tricts, when to be meeting on such day in the months of August or September in each year, as the committee or clerk of the district, in the notice thereof, may designate, for the choice of officers and for the transaction of any other business relating to schools in said district; and shall Special meetings, also hold a special meeting, whenever the same shall be duly called; and the district committee may call a special meeting whenever such committee shall think To be called, on necessary or proper, and shall call a special meeting request of five residents. Repeal. on the written request of five residents therein qualified to vote; which request shall state the object of calling the same. SEC. 2. That section eighth of chapter third of "An Act in addition to, and in alteration of, An Act con INSURANCE.-SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. cerning Education," passed May session, 1856, is here 55 CHAPTER XLIX. An Act in addition to and in alteration of "An Act further regulating Insurance," passed May Session, 1860. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: quiring mutual premium notes, authorized to without taking That the act approved June 23d, 1860, entitled "An Act of 1860, reAct further regulating Insurance" does not include, companies to take and shall not be construed to include, or be applied to, &c., not applicaany mutual insurance companies in this state which ble to companies are authorized by their respective charters to issue issue policies policies without taking a deposit or premium note or notes or deposit. notes; and all policies of insurance issued by such mutual insurance companies, according to the terms of their respective charters, since the passing of the said act, and all hereafter issued, shall be held to be good and valid notwithstanding the said act. Approved, July 2d, 1861. CHAPTER L. An Act in alteration of "An Act relating to Taverners, and the sale of Spirituous Liquors." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: making sales of SEC. 1. That the twenty-seventh section of the act Repeal of section entitled "An Act for the suppression of Intemperance," liquor, void, &c. passed, May session, 1854, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Provided, that this act shall not affect any suit now pending. SEC. 2. Nothing contained in the act aforesaid shall be so construed as to affect, in any way, negotiable paper. Approved, July 2d, 1861. Doings of assessors and boards of defects and omissions. CHAPTER LI. An Act to confirm the doings of Assessors and Boards of Relief in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SEC. 1. That in all cases where the assessors or relief, not invali- board of relief in any town have been elected at a dated by certain meeting not legally warned, for that purpose; and in all cases in which the assessors in any town have omitted to post notices, or publish the same, in accordance with the provisions of the third section of an act entitled "An Act for the Assessment and Collection of Taxes;" and in all cases in which assessors have omitted to sign, or return, or make oath to, an abstract of the assessment lists of their respective towns, or to lodge the same in the town clerk's office in said towns, by the fifteenth day of December in each year, or have not included in said abstract, the list, or a part of the list, of any person; and in all cases in which the assessors have not signed the assessment list or lists of their respective towns, collectively, but have signed the same individually, as for districts or societies in said towns, or have not signed them at all; and in all cases where said assessment list has been added to, made out, or altered, before the boards of relief have equalized and adjusted the returns and assessments of their respective towns; and in all cases in which the board of relief in any town have met for the transaction of business, before the first Monday of January in each year, or have omitted to give notice of the time and place of their meetings, according to law; and in all cases in which the town clerk of any town has not transmitted to the comptroller of public accounts, an abstract of the list of such towns, by the first day of March in each year, and in which said assessors, or members of such board of relief have omitted to take the oath provided by law; or when the assessors in any town have assessed any company or corporation, under a name or firm by which they are generally known or recognized, yet other than that by which they are known in law; such assessment lists shall not, for any such causes, be adjudged void, but the same are hereby ratified and confirmed; and all taxes which have been, or shall be hereafter laid and imposed, according to such assessment lists, may, notwithstanding, be levied and collected: provided, this act shall not affect any suit now pending. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after the day of its passage. Approved, July 2d, 1861. CHAPTER LII. An Act Relating to Fisheries. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: construction of That an act entitled "An Act, in addition to an Act, Repeal of act of entitled, an Act for encouraging and regulating Fish-1860, (regulating eries," passed, May Session, A. D. 1860, be, and the dams on Farmsame is hereby repealed. Provided, that this act shall not affect any suit now pending. Approved July 3d, 1861. ington river.) Town tax for the support of terest of town de school districts. CHAPTER LIII. An Act in addition to and in alteration of "An Act concerning Education." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly convened: SEC. 1. That the whole amount of money raised schools, and in- by the towns of this state, in accordance with the posit fund, to be requirements of chapter thirty-first of the Public Acts distributed to the of 1860, and all the interest or income arising from moneys known as the town deposit fund, shall annually, on or before the fourth day of March, be distributed to the several school districts, and parts of school districts, within the limits of each town, under the direction of the selectmen and school visitors: provided, No district to re- that whenever the public money derived from the thirty-five dol- school fund will not amount, according to the rule of distribution, to thirty-five dollars for a district in any one year, it shall be the duty of the selectmen and school visitors to appropriate from said funds a sum sufficient to make the amount equal to thirty-five dollars. ceive less than lars. Enumeration in districts formed or more towns. SEC. 2. The committee of any school district formed from parts of two from parts of two or more towns shall, in their return of the names of the persons between four and sixteen years of age to the school visitors of the town to which such district belongs, specify the towns to which each person thus enumerated belongs, and shall, under oath, make return to the school visitors in any other town which may compose a part of such district, the names of those persons thus enumerated, whose legal residence shall be within the limits of said town, and who, for school purposes, are to be considered as belonging to said district. SEC. 3. So much of An Act concerning Education, chap. 4, sect. 9, passed 1856, chap. 84 of Public Acts of 1855, and chap. 31 of Public Acts of 1860, as are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. Approved, July 3d, 1861. |