elect their annual officers on the first Monday of May, 1845, as required by the act of incorporation and the by-laws of said company, and have since made the election, otherwise conforming to the said act of incorporation and by-laws, excepting the day on which said election was made :

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened, That the election of officers made by the said corporation on the fourth Monday of May, 1845, be, and the same is hereby confirmed; and the same shall be deemed a compliance with said act of incorporation and the by-laws thereof, in the same manner as if made on the first Monday of May, 1845.

EAST CHELSEA AQUEDUCT COMPANY.

Upon the petition of Daniel B. Miner and others, of Norwich, praying to be incorporated as an aqueduct company, for the purpose of supplying water to persons residing in the city of Norwich:

Resolved by this Assembly, That Daniel B. Miner, Elery Burdick and Gurdon Chapman, together with such other persons as shall hereafter associate with them, be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, for the purposes set forth in said petition, by the name of The East Chelsea Aqueduct Company; and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended

in any court, may purchase, hold and enjoy lands and tenements, and take and grant leases of the same; and may appoint such officers, ordain and establish such by-laws, ordinances and regulations as may be necessary or expe

dient for carrying into effect the object of its institution, not contrary to the laws of this state or of the United States.

The capital stock and property to be held by said corporation may consist of any sum not exceeding three thousand dollars, to be divided into such number of shares and at such value and sum for each share as the corporation may deem proper; the same to be taken and deemed to be personal estate, and transferable on the books of the company. Each stockholder, at any meeting of the corporation, shall be entitled to give as many votes on each question as he may own shares; and any stockholder may authorize any other stockholder by proxy to vote on his share or shares.

Said corporation shall have power to open the ground in the streets and highways of the city of Norwich, for the purpose of sinking or repairing the water-pipes and conduits of said company when necessity may require. Always provided, that the passage of travellers and of teams, carriages, &c. shall not thereby be endangered; and when so opened the same shall by said corporation be within a reasonable time thereafter duly repaired.

All instalments which may at any time be ordered by the stockholders to be paid by the respective owners of stock in said company, shall be paid at such times as said stockholders at a general meeting shall order; and said company may sue for and recover by a proper action at law against any stockholder, his or her instalment or sum which shall have been ordered by said stockholders to be paid by him or her.

The said Daniel B. Miner may call the first meeting of said stockholders at such place in said city of Norwich as he may appoint, giving at least two days' notice, in writing, to be delivered to such stockholder or left at his usual place of abode; after which first meeting the times and places of meeting shall be regulated by the by-laws of said company; but at least one general meeting shall be holden annually.

All officers chosen by said company shall hold their respective offices till others are chosen in their stead.

This resolve may be altered, amended or repealed, at the pleasure of the General Assembly.

GAYLORD'S BRIDGE TOLLBRIDGE COMPANY.

Upon the petition of Daniel Gaylord and others, heretofore incorporated by this Assembly under the name of The Gaylord's Bridge Tollbridge Company,—praying, for reasons therein set forth, that the shares of said corporation may be ten dollars each instead of twenty-five dollars, the amount now fixed by law: this Assembly having inquired into the allegations of said petition do find the same to be true. Therefore,

Resolved, That the shares of the capital stock of the said corporation shall be ten dollars each ;—any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

HARTFORD BRIDGE COMPANY.

Upon the petition of the town of East Hartford and others, praying the General Assembly to direct the Hartford Bridge Company to make certain alterations in their causeway on the east side of the Hartford bridge, for the accommodation of the public travel and the security of the adjoining proprietors,-due service having been made of said petition on the respondents, the parties having been fully heard thereon, and the facts stated in said petition having been found to be true;

Resolved by this Assembly, That the said Hartford Bridge

Company shall within four months from the rising of this Assembly, construct a good and substantial bridge for the accommodation of the public travel in the place where the dry bridge formerly was in said East Hartford, of such width as shall admit teams and vehicles to pass each other thereon with convenience, (the floor of which bridge shall be raised to a height not less than six feet above the causeway, when the same is repaired as hereinafter provided,) which bridge, so to be constructed as aforesaid shall be not less than four hundred feet long. And there shall be left under said bridge spaces for the free and uninterrupted flow of the water in time of flood, amounting in the whole to three hundred and seventy-six feet in the clear. And the said Bridge Company shall within the time aforesaid construct between the east end of said bridge so to be built as aforesaid and the eastern or meadow bank in the causeway aforesaid, a box-culvert of not less than four feet diameter, through which water may flow without interruption.

Resolved further, That said company shall within the time aforesaid raise their causeway between the west end of the inclined plane leading from said new bridge and the dwelling-house of Norman Skinner, so that the whole of the same within said limits shall be of the average height of said causeway between the place where the Tolland turnpike crosses said causeway and the culvert next east of the said dwelling-house of said Skinner. And the inclined plane on either end of said bridge shall be so constructed that the rise of the same from said causeway shall not be greater than one foot in twenty feet. And the said Bridge Company shall, by the first day of August, A. D. 1846, construct in the said causeway a semi-circular stone or brick culvert of not less than twenty feet span, for the passage of water in times of flood; which culvert shall be located between the said Tolland turnpike where the same crosses said causeway and the dwelling house of the said Norman Skinner. And the whole of said work shall be

done and constructed in a good and workmanlike manner, to the acceptance of Ralph R. Phelps, of Manchester, John H. Brockway, of Ellington, and Loren P. Waldo, of Tolland, who are hereby appointed a committee with full power to determine when the said Bridge Company have complied with the directions in the foregoing resolutions. And when the said Bridge Company shall claim to have complied with the directions of the General Assembly aforesaid, and to have completed the work in all its parts herein directed to be done and performed, they shall apply to said Commissioners to examine the same and determine whether the said Bridge Company have fully complied with the foregoing requirements of the General Assembly or not. And said committee shall give at least six days' notice to the directors of the said Hartford Bridge Company, and a like notice to the selectmen of the town of East Hartford, of the day when they will make such examination; that they may severally have opportunity to be heard in the premises.

WASHINGTON BRIDGE COMPANY.

Upon the petition of John I. Howe and others, showing to this Assembly, among other things, that the draw in the bridge over the Ousatonic river, between the towns of Milford and Stratford, owned by the Washington Bridge Company, as the same is now constructed, is of insufficient width to admit the free and easy passage through the same, of all vessels duly licensed in the coasting trade that may have lawful occasion to pass the same when carrying on commerce between this state and the other states of the Union; and that the draw wholly fails to accommodate the public in the navigation of said river; and that the said company wholly neglect and refuse, though often