AMENDING CHARTER AND CHANGING NAME OF THE CONNECTICUT HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY.

Upon the petition of the corporators of the Connecticut Health Insurance Company, praying for certain alterations of, and amendments to the charter of said corporation :

SEC. 1. Resolved by this Assembly, That the fourth section. of the charter of said company be so amended, that said corporation be authorized and empowered to make insurance predicated upon the lives of persons, grant or purchase annuities, confer endowments, receive money in trust for deferred or reversionary payments, and make contracts upon any and all conditions appertaining or connected with life risks, annuities and reversionary interests of whatever kind or nature.

SEC. 2. That the capital stock of said corporation may be, and shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars.

SEC. 3. That policies may be issued by said company to any married woman, in her name, or in the name of a third person as trustee, to cause to be insured the life of her husband, for any given period or for the term of his natural life; and in case of her surviving her husband, the sum or nett amount of the insurance shall be payable to her, for her sole use and benefit, free from any claims of either or any of the creditors or representatives of her husband; and in case of the death of the wife, before the decease of her husband, the amount of the insurance may be made payable, after her death, to her child or children, for his, her or their benefit, and to his, her or their guardian or guardians, if under age-provided, that this section shall not apply to insurances where the annual premium on the policy shall exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, unless paid from the private property of the wife.

SEC. 4. The name of said corporation shall be altered to, and hereafter known and called by the name of the Hartford Life and Health Insurance Company; with all the privileges and conditions conferred by the charter originally granted, under the name of the Connecticut Health Insurance Company.

AMENDING CHARTER OF THE NORWICH FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Resolved by this Assembly, upon the petition of the Norwich Fire Insurance Company, That the directors of said company be, and they are hereby authorized, at their discretion, from time to time, as may be required, to accept and receive security for the payment of the notes given to said company by its stockholders, for the instalments remaining due upon their respective shares, either by good and sufficient sureties signing the same, or by the mortgage of real estate, or by the pledge of the stock of incorporated banks or of the stock of the United States, and in like manner said company are hereby authorized to hold any such security heretofore given.

ADDITIONAL JOINT RULE OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Every bill or resolution which has passed one house, shall be transmitted, by the clerk, to the other, requesting its concurrence therein. And whenever any bill or resolution has passed both houses, and requires the approbation of the Governor, the same shall be presented to him for that purpose by the committee on engrossed bills, who shall request him to communicate his action thereon to the house in which said bill or resolution originated. The President of the

Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each affix his official signature to engrossed bills in the presence of their respective houses.

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE.

SENATE, May Session, 1849.

Resolved, That the clerk of the Senate cause the Journal of the Senate for the present session to be printed and distributed as follows, to wit:-one copy to each of the state officers, one copy to each member of the Senate and House of Representatives, one copy to each of the judges of the superior and county courts, and one to the town clerk of each town in this state; and that one hundred copies be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State.

JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
May Session, 1849.

Resolved, That the clerks of this House be authorized and directed to cause to be printed the Journal of this House, and to append thereto a full and complete index, and to cause to be distributed copies of the same, as follows, viz :— one copy to each of the state officers, one copy to each member of the Senate and House of Representatives of this state, one copy to each of the Senators and Representatives from this state in the Congress of the United States, one copy to each judge of the supreme court and probate courts, one copy to each town clerk of the several towns in this state, one copy to each of the state libraries of the several states of the union, and one hundred copies to be left in the office of the Secretary of State.

AUTHORIZING MARY BACON, TRUSTEE, TO SELL CERTAIN REAL ESTATE DEVISED BY HENRY TULLER.

Upon the petition of Mary Bacon, of Canton, in the county of Hartford, showing to this Assembly, that Henry Tuller, late of said Canton, deceased, by his last will and testament, dated the 13th day of November, 1839, gave and devised to his daughter, Lucia Jane Tuller, (then and still a minor,) four hundred dollars worth of real estate, to be taken from such portion of his real estate as his executors should direct, to be appraised and distributed by freeholders approved and appointed by the judge of the court of probate for the district of Simsbury,-the same to be held in trust by his wife, Mary Tuller, until the said Lucy Jane had completed her minority; that after the decease of said Henry, said will was duly proved and approved; that since then, said four hundred dollars worth of real estate was appraised and distributed to said Lucia Jane, by freeholders appointed and approved by the judge of probate for the district of Simsbury, from such part of the real estate of said testator as was selected by said executor, and is described as follows, (viz.) A piece of land situate in said Canton, on the west side of Cherry's Brook, on the south side of the highway, beginning at the north east corner of said lot, thence southerly, with the fence, three chains, to the southeast corner of the lot, thence westerly, on the south line of the lot, twenty-one chains, to a stake and stones, thence north 17° east, eleven chains sixty links, to a stake and stones on the south side of the highway, thence easterly, by the highway, to the place of beginning, bounding north by highway, east and west by Everett Case, and south by Oliver C. Adams, containing sixteen acres more or less, appraised by said distributors at four hundred

dollars; that it would be for the interest of said minor that said land should be sold and the avails thereof either invested in other real estate or loaned for the benefit of said minor, as per petition on file, dated April 28th,

1849

Resolved by this Assembly, That said Mary Bacon is hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey, by a proper deed, the aforesaid tract of land to the best advantage, and invest the avails thereof, after deducting the expenses incident to said sale, either in other real estate, in the name and for the use of said minor, or loan the same on bond secured on real estate of at least double the amount, to and for the use of said minor, and make return to the court of probate for the district of Simsbury; the said Mary first giving bond to the acceptance of said court, for the faithful performance of said trust. And the said Mary Bacon is hereby authorized and empowered to execute all the powers and duties delegated and enjoined by this resolution in as ample a manner as if she were single and unmarried.

AUTHORIZING ELISHA COLT, CONSERVATOR, TO SELL CERTAIN REAL ESTATE.

Upon the petition of Elisha Colt, of the town and county of Hartford, showing, that on the 27th day of April, 1849, the court of probate for the district of Hartford, passed an order authorizing the said Colt, as conservator of Rebecca M. Butler, and Cornelia Butler, both of said Hartford, and both lunatics and incompetent persons, to sell and convey a certain piece of land, situated in said. town of Hartford and owned by said lunatics, as tenants in fee and in common, and bounded north on Main street, east on land of Thomas D. Boardman, south partly on