chosen shall continue in office until others shall be chosen in their stead, all which meetings shall be called in such manner, and on such notice, as the directors in their by-laws shall prescribe; and the first meeting of said company shall be called by Erastus C. Scranton, Esq., of said Madison, by personal notice to all the owners of said wharf. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the wharfinger to collect and receive the wharfage when due, and on neglect and refusal to pay the same, after notice and demand, the directors shall have power to institute a suit for the same; and the wharfage, due for or on account of any vessel or the cargo thereof, shall be and remain a lien upon such vessel until the same shall be discharged; and the wharfinger, with the advice of any one of the directors, shall have authority to regulate and station all vessels lying at or near said wharf, and to remove such as shall not be employed in receiving or discharging cargoes, to make room for others, to receive and discharge theirs; and as to the fact of their being fairly employed in receiving and discharging cargoes, or needing accommodation therefor, said director and wharfinger, or, in the absence of the wharfinger, any two directors, shall be sole judges and they shall have authority to determine how far and in what instance it shall be the duty of the master, or other person having charge of any such vessel, to accommodate each other in their respective stations, or in making room to grave, or pass up and down said wharf, slip or slips; and if any master, or other person having charge of any such vessel, shall refuse or neglect to obey said wharfinger and director in matters so within their authority to direct, or if any person shall resist or oppose them in the execution of their duties, such master or other person shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered in the name of the treasurer of said company, for the use and behoof of the stockholders, according to their respective shares in joint stock. SEC. 6. This act may at any time be altered, amended, or repealed at the pleasure of the General Assembly. STATE OF CONNECTICUT, ss. } Í HEREBY CERTIFY, That I have compared the Resolves and Private Acts printed in this pamphlet with the originals deposited in this office, and find the same to be correct. ROGER H. MILLS, Secretary of State. COMPTROLLER'S REPORT. STATE OF CONNECTICUT, ss. } The following extracts from the Report of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, exhibited to the General Assembly at their late session, comprise such parts of said report as are by law required to be published in the several newspapers in this state by the Secretary of State. ROGER H. MILLS, The State of Connecticut, in General Account of Receipts and Expenditures of Funds appropriated for current expenses of Government, For amount of payments from the treasury from 31st of March, 1848, to 1st of April, 1849, for current expenses of government, under the following heads, viz: Debenture and contingent expen ses of General Assembly, Account of salaries, executive and judicial, $28,353 64 13,725 00 DR. March 31, 1849. For payments made by the Treasurer from 31st March, 1848, to 1st April, 1849, in addition to payments on Comptroller's orders, as per Auditors' report, viz: For interest on notes given to Commissioner of carried to new account, 2,580 00 For balance civil list funds in the Treasury, 20,241 96 $142,242 43 April 1, 1848. By balance in the treasury, March 31st, 1848, as per Comptroller's Report, CR. $16,246 37 |