tablishing a graded common school; and whereas, at a meeting of Bristol school society, held at Bristol, on the 5th day of September, A. D. 1853, it was resolved that said third and fourth school districts be consolidated into one school district, and that it be called district number three, and whereas, subsequently a meeting of said new district was called by the said school society's committee and duly organized, which proceeded to purchase a site and contract for a building for the purpose of establishing a graded school as aforesaid; and whereas, question has been made and doubts entertained as to the legality of said proceedings:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly convened, That all the acts and proceedings of the school society of Bristol, relative to consolidating the old third and fourth school districts in said school society, into one new school district, to be called the third school district of the said society; and all the acts and proceedings of said newly created third school district, at their meetings warned and held under and since the organization of said new district, be and they hereby are ratified and confirmed, the same as if they had been legal and valid in all respects.

CONFIRMING DOINGS OF FIRST DISTRICT OF BRIDGEWATER SCHOOL SOCIETY.

PASSED 1855.

Upon the petition of Peter Wooster, clerk of the first school district in Bridgewater School Society, and others, praying that all the acts and doings of said district, in reference to the erection of their new school house, together with all the doings of said district in agreeing with the Lecture Hall Association of said Bridgewater, to permit said association to erect and occupy and own the upper story of said new school house, and especially all proceedings and votes of said district, in laying or proposing to lay a tax upon the tax payers of said district, based upon the valuation of their taxable property in the grand list for the town of New Milford for the year 1853, may be declared valid and legal by this assembly, any informality or irregularity in said acts, doings and proceedings, to the contrary, notwithstanding:

Resolved by this Assembly, That all said acts, doings and proceedings of said district, be and the same hereby are declared to be legal, valid and binding upon said district and the members thereof, any informality or irregularity in said proceedings, to the contrary, notwithstanding. Provided, that said upper story of said new school house, so owned by said association as aforesaid, shall be at no time used for any other purposes than religious meetings, public lectures, school exhibitions, exercises and lectures, and other purposes of general interest and utility and moral

ity, nor for these purposes without the consent of the school district committee or board of school visitors. And provided further, that said district may at any time buy said upper story of said association at an agreed price, or in case of disgreement, at an appraisement of the same, to be made by three sworn appraisers to be selected, one by the district, one by the association and the third by the two who may have been thus selected.

ANNEXING WILLIAM HALE WITH HIS LAND TO THE NINTH DISTRICT OF THE SCHOOL SOCIETY OF BURLINGTON.

PASSED 1852.

Upon the petition of William Hale, of Burlington, in the county of Hartford, showing to this assembly that he belongs to the fourth school district in the school society of Burlington, and is greatly incommoded in consequence of his remoteness from the school house in said district, and praying to be annexed to the ninth district in the same society, this assembly finds the facts stated in said petition true, and also that said Hale cannot be annexed by vote of such school society, because the said fourth district will thereby be reduced so as to number less than forty scholars thereupon,

Resolved, That William Hale be and he hereby is, with the land owned and occupied by him in said fourth district, annexed to the ninth district of the school society of Burlington.

ANNEXING WILLIAM HALE AND HIS LAND TO THE NINTH DISTRICT OF THE SCHOOL SOCIETY OF BURLINGTON.

PASSED 1853.

Upon the petition of William Hale, of Burlington, county of Hartford, showing to this assembly that he belongs to the fourth school district in the school society of Burlington, and is greatly incommoded in consequence of his remoteness from the school house in said district, and praying to be annexed to the ninth district in the same society, this assembly finds the facts stated in said petition true, and also that said Hale cannot be annexed by vote of such school society, because the said fourth district will thereby be reduced so as to number less than forty scholars: thereupon,

Resolved, That said William Hale be and he hereby is, with the land owned and occupied by him, in said fourth district, annexed to the ninth strict of the school society of Burlington.

CONSTITUTING FARMS SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN THE TOWN of Canton.

PASSED 1847.

Resolved by this Assembly, That all the territory included within the following described limits, (viz :) beginning on the town line between Simsbury and Canton, at the south side of the land belonging to the heirs of Deacon Solomon Case the elder, thence north 684 west, 1295 L., to the southwest corner of said heirs' land, thence north 26 east, 1525 L., to Mary Tuller's land, thence north 68 west 2175 L., to the highway leading from Simsbury to Canton Center, thence following said highway to the highway leading to the house of Jesse O. Case, thence by said highway, 850 L., to land of the heirs of Elisha Wilcox, thence north 60 west, 916 L., to the southwest corner of said heirs' land, thence northerly, on the west line of said heirs land, 1150 L., to land of Jesse O. Case, thence north 68 west, 1800 L., on the southerly line of said Jesse O. Case's land, and land of the widow of Deacon Jesse Case, deceased, to the highway leading from Norton Case's to Thomas A. Vining's; thence northerly, on said highway, to land of Lorin Humphrey, thence easterly, on the southerly side of said Humphrey's land, to the southeast corner thereof, thence westerly, on the northerly line of said land, to the highway leading to Thomas A. Vining's; thence following said highway towards Thomas A. Vining's, to the south side of the farm formerly owned by Seymour A. Moses, thence easterly, on the southerly line of said. Moses' farm, to the southeast corner thereof, thence northerly, on the easterly line of said Moses' farm, now owned by Augustus Case, to the northeast corner of said Case's land, thence north 22 east, to the highway leading from North Canton Corners to Imri L. Spencer's, thence easterly to the northwest corner of Asaph Tuller's land, by the highway southerly of the house of Imri L. Spencer, thence easterly, on the dividing line between said Spencer's and said Tuller's land, to the southeast corner of said Spencer's land, thence northerly, on the easterly line of said Spencer's land, to the northwest corner of land owned by Job Case and the heirs of Nathan Goodrich, thence easterly, on the northerly line of said land of said Case and Goodrich, to the east line of the town of Canton, thence southerly, on said town line, to the place of beginning; and that said territory and inhabitants residing thereon be set and annexed to the school district of Case's Farms; and that all of said territory and inhabitants, and all the territory and inhabitants within. said Case's Farms school district, shall hereafter be one school district, by the name of Farms School District, with the usual corporate powers, and be entitled to all the privileges and subject to all the liabilities of other school districts, by the general laws of this state. And the indebtedness of said district, up to the passage of this resolve, may, if said school district so direct, be levied and collected in just proportions, on all the taxable polls and estate within said school district thus established by this resolution, on the assessment list of 1845; and either of the assessors of the town of Canton, for the year 1845, are empowered to assess the property of said district, in said town of Canton, for the purpose aforesaid.

ANNEXING EAST SCHOOL DISTRICT OF NEW HARTFORD TO WEST SCHOOL DISTRICT IN CANTON.

PASSED 1854.

Upon the petition of the East School District in the school society and town of New Hartford, and upon the petition of the West School District in the school society and town of Canton, showing to this assembly that it will be to the mutual advantage of both of said school districts that the said east district be annexed to the said West School District; therefore,

Resolved by this Assembly, That the east school district in the school society and town of New Hartford, county of Litchfield, be and the same is hereby annexed to the west school district, in the school society and town of Canton, county of Hartford, and shall form a part of said west school district, for all school purposes, and that all the persons and property now in said east school district shall be and hereby are made liable to all legal taxes for the support of a school or schools in said west school district; and said school district formed of the two school districts as aforesaid, shall be known and called the West School District, and shall be and remain one school district, subject to legal control and action of the school society of Canton.

ANNEXING THOMAS SPRING AND HIS LAND TO THE COLLINSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND CANTON SCHOOL SOCIETY.

PASSED 1853.

Upon the petition of Thomas Spring, of Burlington, in the county of Hartford, showing to this assembly that prior to the year 1840 the lot of land upon which he resides, containing about one acre, situated in said Burlington, and adjacent to the village of Collinsville, was attached to the fourth school district in the school society of Burlington; and that in the year 1840, by the action of the school societies of Burlington and Canton, and the Collinsville school district, respectively, the petitioner, with said lot of land, was intended and supposed to be set off from the fourth school district and school society of Burlington, and annexed to the Collinsville school district and school society of Canton; and that the petitioner has ever since acted and been considered as a member of the latter district and society; and has but recently ascertained that the action of said school societies and district aforesaid was illegal and unauthorized by law; and praying that the same may be confirmed, and that he may be annexed to the Collinsville school district and Canton school society:

It appearing to this assembly that the facts stated in said petition are true, and that the prayer of the petitioner ought to be granted, therefore,

Resolved, That the action of the school societies of Burlington and Canton and the Collinsville school district, above recited, be and the same is hereby confirmed, and the said Thomas Spring, with the lot of land on which he resides, is hereby declared to be annexed to the Collinsville school district and Canton school society.

AUTHORIZING THE COLLINSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO BORROW MONEY.

PASSED 1858.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the Collinsville School District in the school society of Canton, in the county of Hartford, be at liberty and is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow from or of any corporation or individual, for the purpose of building, erecting, and partly defraying the expenses of their school house now about to be erected in said district, when the same shall have been completed, any sum or sums of money, not exceeding the sum of five thousand dollars, and to pay interest therefor, together with such taxes as may be assessed on said corporation or individual in consequence of said debt, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

DEFINING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE BEAVER BROOK SCHOOL DISTRICT OF DANBURY.

PASSED 1855.

Resolved, That the following be and are hereby established as the boundary lines of the Beaver Brook school district in the town of Danbury, viz: beginning at the intersection of the roads, a few rods south of the dwelling house of James W. Nichols, thence running northeasterly in a straight line to the boundary line between the towns of Danbury and Brookfield about eighty rods north of the dwelling house of John Sturges, thence in said boundary line between said towns to the boundary line between the first and second school societies of Danbury; thence southerly to the Still river to a rock on the east bank of said river, near the corner of land belonging to Samuel N. McKay and T. B. Trowbridge; thence along said Still river to East Swamp brook, thence by said brook to Long bridge, so called, a few rods east of the dwelling house of Zadoc Wood, continuing by said brook to East Swamp bridge in the line between the first and second school societies of said town of Danbury;