INCORPORATING THE FAIR HAVEN SCHOOL SOCIETY.

PASSED 1854.

Resolved by this Assembly, SEO. 1. That the territory included within the following limits, to wit: beginning at the northwest corner of the Neck school district, in the town of New Haven, where Mill river (so called) enters the town of New Haven, and running thence on the dividing line between said towns of New Haven and Hamden, to Quinnipiac river; thence southerly by said river to the mouth of said Mill river; thence northerly by said river to the place of beginning; with all the inhabitants residing thereon, be and hereby is set off and separated from the school society of New Haven, and incorporated as a school society, by the name of "Fair Haven School Society," and as such shall have and possess all the powers and privileges possessed by other school societies in this state.

SEC. 2. That the funds now belonging to the said school society of New Haven, shall be divided between said society and the Fair Haven school society, as incorporated by this resolve, in proportion to the number of children in each society, between the ages of four and sixteen, as legally returned in the year 1854. And the division of said fund shall be made and completed on or before the first Wednesday of August next, by the committee of the school society of New Haven, and Ambrose Clark and Ebenezer Allen, Esquires, of Fair Haven, and said Clark and Allen shall receive such proportion of said funds as shall by this resolve belong to the school society of Fair Haven, and give their receipt for the same to the above named committee.

SEC. 3. That the first meeting of said Fair Haven school society shall be warned by Ambrose Clark, Ebenezer Allen and Miles Tuttle, or either two of them, at such time and place in said school society as they shall determine, in the same manner as is by law provided for warning school society meetings.

SEC. 4. That all the records and papers belonging to the school society of New Haven, shall be and remain the sole property of said society, in the same manner as though no part of said society had been set off

therefrom.

DIVIDING THE SCHOOL SOCIETY IN GLASTENBURY.

PASSED 1845.

Resolved by this Assembly, SEc. 1. That the Glastenbury School Society, in the town of Glastenbury, be and the same is hereby divided into two separate school societies.

SEC. 2. That the line of division shall be as follows, to wit: beginning

at Connecticut river, about twelve rods above the head of Brooks' island, on the south line of Cordelia Hale's land, thence east on said line to Meadow hill, thence east across said Cordelia Hale's land to the south line of Sarah Hale's land, thence east on said south line to the south line of the center burying ground, thence east to highway; (said division line to cross highway five rods south of the Glastenbury seminary ;)-from highway east, the south line of John A. Hale's land to Hartford and New London turnpike, thence east on the south line of Amelia Kinne's land to the east line of said Glastenbury school society. Said line of division is known as the south line of the old Hale farm.

SEC. 3. Every part of said school society situated north of said line, is hereby incorporated and shall be called and known by the name of Glastenbury School Society; and that the records and papers of the original Glastenbury school society be and remain the sole property of the Glastenbury school society as incorporated by this resolve.

SEC. 4. Every part of said school society situated south of said line, is hereby incorporated and shall be called and known by the name of South Glastenbury School Society.

SEC. 5. The debts of the said original Glastenbury school society shall be discharged by the funds belonging to the same; and the surplus funds, if any, shall be divided between said Glastenbury school society, as incorporated hereby, and said South Glastenbury school society, in proportion to their several lists in the year 1844.

SEC. 6. The settlement and adjustment of said debts and a division of said surplus funds shall be completed on or before the first Wednesday of September next, by a committee consisting of John A. Hale and Daniel H. Stevens.

SEC. 7. The expenses of fencing, enlarging and supporting the center burying ground of said original Glastenbury school society, and all expenses of keeping in order hereafter said burying ground, shall be paid equally by said two societies; and that the hearse and fixtures and hearse house be kept up and continued at and for the use of the center burying ground, and no other.

SEO. 8. The committee of the Glastenbury school society, as incorporated by this resolve, be and are hereby empowered to sell burying lots in said center burying ground, according to the by-laws of said yard.

SEC. 9. The first meeting of the Glastenbury school society, as incorporated by this resolve, shall be warned by Thaddeus Welles, David Hubbard and John A. Hale, or any two of them, at such time and place in said society as they shall determine, in the same manner as is by law provided for warning school society meetings.

SEC. 10. The first meeting of the South Glastenbury school society be warned by James Killam, Daniel H. Stevens and Edwin Miller, or any two of them, at such time and place in said society as they shall determine, in the same manner as is by law provided for warning school society meetings.

SEC. 11. The inhabitants living within said Glastenbury school society, and those living within said South Glastenbury school society, have respectively such powers and privileges as belong to other school societies in this state.

SEC. 12. That the fourth school district of said original Glastenbury

school society shall be under the supervision and inspection of the Glastenbury school society, as incorporated by this resolve; and the children enumerated in said fourth district shall be returned to the committee of that society.

AMENDING THE RESOLUTION DIVIDING THE SCHOOL SOCIETY OF GLASTENBURY.

PASSED 1849.

Resolved by this Assembly, That so much of the seventh section of the "Resolution dividing the school society of Glastenbury," passed in 1845, as requires the hearse and fixtures, and hearse house to be kept up at and for the use of the center burying ground, be and the same is hereby repealed.

And be it further Resolved, That the school society of Glastenbury, and the school society of South Glastenbury, have power to sell the said hearse and fixtures and hearse house; and that the avails of the same shall be appropriated for the use of the center burying ground, under the direction of the "committee appointed to sell burying lots" in said burying ground.

ANNEXING A PART OF THE GREENFIELD SCHOOL SOCIETY IN THE TOWN OF FAIRFIELD, TO THE SECOND SCHOOL SOCIETY IN THE TOWN OF WESTON.

PASSED 1887.

Upon the petition of John Thorp and others, inhabitants of the town of Fairfield, in the county of Fairfield, praying to be annexed to the second school society in the town of Weston, as per petition on file, dated the 10th day of April, 1837:

Resolved by this Assembly, That so much of Greenfield School Society in the town of Fairfield, as is contained in the following boundaries, to wit commencing at the bound of the perambulating line between the town of Weston and Fairfield, on the up and down road leading from Weston to Fairfield, and little southerly of the dwelling house of Samuel Treadwell, in said Weston, and running in a southerly directon until it intersects the long lot highway so called, ten rods southerly of the dwelling house of Charles Sherwood, in said town of Fairfield; thence following that long lot highway northerly, until it intersects the Aspetuck river, so called, which is the dividing line between said two towns of Fairfield and Weston, and from thence following said dividing line between aid two towns to the place of beginning, containing all the buildings and

land lying within said boundaries, be and the same is hereby annexed to the second school society in the town of Weston, and enjoy all the powers and privileges at present enjoyed by the second school society in the town of Weston, and be governed in all respects by the statute laws of this state relating to school districts.

AUTHORIZING THE FIRST SCHOOL SOCIETY IN HARTFORD TO HOLD ITS ANNUAL MEETINGS IN JANUARY.

PASSED 1850.

Upon the petition of Isaac W. Stuart, James M. Bunce and Edward W. Parsons, committee of the First School Society of Hartford:

Resolved by this Assembly, SEc. 1. That the First School Society of Hartford, and the several districts composing the same, be and hereby are allowed to hold their respective annual meetings at some time during the month of January in each year.

SEO. 2. The annual meetings of the said society, and of the said districts, which are to take place next after the passage of this act, may be held at some time during the month of January, A. D. 1851, and all the officers chosen at the last annual meetings of said society and of said districts may retain their respective offices until the said meetings in the month of January next.

CONCERNING MEETING OF THE NORTH SCHOOL SOCIETY OF KILLINGLY.

PASSED 1855.

Resolved, That the North School Society of Killingly be and they are hereby authorized to hold their meetings at the school house in Amsbury's village, in said society, until otherwise provided by vote of said society. Provided, that the clerk of said society shall give notice of said meetings by posting a warning on said school house according to law.

ESTABLISHING BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN MILTON AND LITCHFIELD SCHOOL SOCIETIES.

PASSED 1849.

Upon the petition of Samuel H. Dudley and others, and of A. S. Lewis and others, societies' committees of the school societies of Milton and Litchfield, praying for an alteration of the boundary lines between said school societies, as per petition on file, dated the 29th day of March, 1849:

Resolved by this Assembly, That the following be and is hereby established as the true boundary line between said school societies, viz:-commencing at a stone monument at the southeast corner of Milton society, a few rods northerly of the dwelling house of John Wilmot, in his meadow, thence running north, 25 degrees east, tive hundred and thirty-six rods, to a walnut tree and stones laid to it, on Frederick Plumb's land, thence north, 8 degrees 35 minutes east, eight hundred and sixty-four rods, to an ancient monument in Goshen line, between the towns of Goshen and Litchfield, on the south side of the highway, a few rods east of the dwelling-house of James C. Newcomb.

THE THIRD SCHOOL SOCIETY OF LYME TO BE CALLED THE SECOND SCHOOL SOCIETY OF LYME

PASSED 1841.

Resolved by this Assembly, That that part of the town of Lyme heretofore known and denominated as the Third School Society of the town of Lyme, shall hereafter be denominated the Second School Society of the town of Lyme.

INCORPORATING THE CITY SCHOOL SOCIETY OF MIDDLETOWN.

PASSED 1839.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the four city school districts in the town of Middletown, heretofore belonging to the first school society in said town, be and they hereby are separated from said society, and incorporated into a new and distinct school society, under the name and style of the city school society of Middletown. That the legal voters, residing