The General Court of 1867 assembled on Wednesday, the third day of January, and was prorogued on Saturday, the first day of June. The oaths of office required by the Constitution to be administered to the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor elect, were taken and subscribed by His Excellency ALEXANDER H. BULLOCK and His Honor WILLIAM CLAFLIN, on Friday, the fourth day of January, in presence of the two Houses assembled in convention. ACTS, GENERAL AND SPECIAL. AN ACT IN RELATION TO BANKS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: Chap. 1. penalty for fail SECTION 1. The operation of the fifty-ninth section of the Suspension of fifty-seventh chapter of the General Statutes, is hereby sus- ure of specie repended until the first day of February, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved January 25, 1867. demption of notes extended. AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THREE Chap. 2. OF THE ACTS OF THE YEAR EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX, Be it enacted, &c., as follows: concerning, to be court. SECTION 1. Section one of chapter two hundred and By-laws of towns eighty-three of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and approved by jussixty-six, is hereby so amended, that the approval therein tie superior required to be made by the supreme judicial court or any two justices thereof, shall be made by the superior court, or, in vacation, by a justice thereof. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved January 30, 1867. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION FORTY-FOUR OF CHAPTER FORTY-NINE PICKLED FISH. Be it enacted, &c., as follows: Chap. 3. SECTION 1. Section forty-four of chapter forty-nine of the Words "of rift General Statutes, is hereby amended by striking out the ed. words, "of rift timber." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved January 30, 1867. timber," repeal. |