PUBLISHED IN CONFORMITY WITH A RESOLUTION OF THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

L.17139

APR 2 2 1940

PRIVATE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS

OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT,

PASSED AT THE MAY SESSION, 1859.

At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, in said State, on the first Wednesday of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine :

INCORPORATING THE UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the present association of Samuel C. Scovill and others, now existing under and by virtue of their associate name of the Union Agricultural Society, located at Falls Village, and embracing the towns within the seventeenth senatorial district of this state, be and hereby are confirmed and established as a duly organized Agricultural Society, within said seventeenth senatorial district, with right to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in and by said associate name, to make contracts and be contracted with, and, by said name of the Union Agricultural Society, to transact all lawful and necessary business, with all the powers, privileges, rights, immunities and benefits of all other legally organized agricultural societies in the state of Connecticut.

Provided, that said Union Agricultural Society shall conform to the laws of this state in making their annual returns and in the collection and expenditure of their moneys. This resolution may be altered, annulled or repealed at the pleasure of the General Assembly.

Approved, June 22d, 1859.

AUTHORIZING THE PAYMENT OF TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS TO THE FAIRFIELD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Whereas, the Agricultural Society of Fairfield County, by mistake, failed to file, in the months of September or October, 1858, in the office of the secretary of state, the certificate required by law, and did also fail to transmit in the month of January, 1859, a statement of their proceedings according to law: and whereas, both said certificates and statements have since been filed and transmitted in and to the office of said secretary,-therefore,

Resolved, That said Fairfield County Agricultural Society shall not, by reason of said mistake or omission, be deprived of the sum to which the same would have been entitled to claim and receive had the law been strictly complied with; and that the comptroller of public accounts is hereby directed to draw an order on the treasurer in favor of said society, for the sum of two hundred dollars, being the amount to which said society would have been entitled had said certificate and statement been made at the times required by law.

Approved, May 30th, 1859.

AUTHORIZING THE AMERICAN ASYLUM, AT HARTFORD, TO HOLD
ADDITIONAL REAL ESTATE.

Upon the Petition of the American Asylum, at Hartford, for
the education and instruction of the Deaf and Dumb,
showing to this Assembly, that said Asylum was incorporated
by act of this Assembly, passed May, A. D. 1816 ; that by the
provisions of said act of incorporation, said asylum cannot take
and hold estate, real and personal, of greater value than will
produce an annual income of five thousand dollars; that
such income is inadequate to the exigences of the institu-
tion,—praying this assembly so to alter and amend said act
of incorporation, as will enable said Asylum to take and
hold estate, the annual income of which shall not exceed
thirty thousand dollars,—as per petition on file, dated May
9th, A. D. 1859. This Assembly having inquired into the
facts set forth in said petition, find the same to be true,
and do grant the prayer of said petition: whereupon it is

Resolved by this Assembly, That the said Asylum may take and hold estate, real and personal, to such amount and of such value as shall produce an annual income not exceeding thirty thousand dollars,-provided, such estate and income shall be used and appropriated exclusively for the benefit of said Institution.

This act may be altered or amended at the pleasure of the General Assembly.

Approved, May 18th, 1859.

RESPECTING THE ALLOWANCE FOR CLOTHING, FOR BENEFICIARIES
OF THE STATE, IN THE AMERICAN ASYLUM.

Whereas, the General Assembly, at their special session in
1842, passed a resolve appropriating " a sum not exceeding
twenty dollars per annum, for providing necessary wearing

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