SEC. 9. To organize said corporation, the corporators herein. named, or a majority of them, are authorized to open books and receive subscriptions to the capital stock thereof; and when five hundred shares shall have been subscribed for, said corporators, or a majority of them, by written notice to each subscriber, mailed at least five days before the meeting, may call said subscribers to meet at any time and place fixed in said notice, and choose directors who shall hold office until the annual meeting of the stockholders, which shall be held in the city of Willimantic on such days as shall be fixed upon in the by-laws of said corporation, or until others are chosen in their stead. When the directors have been chosen as aforesaid, they may adopt by-laws, and when the by-laws have been adopted and the board of directors shall have been organized by the choice of a president, a secretary, and a treasurer, the amount of the original capital stock as aforesaid shall be paid to the treasurer of said company, and said company may thereupon exercise all the powers and privileges conferred by this resolution. The bank commissioners shall visit the corporation hereby created semi-annually or oftener, and shall have the same powers in regard thereto that they have in the case of savings banks. If they shall find the financial condition to be unsound or the stock so held as to render worthless the guaranty afforded by the capital, it shall be their duty to petition the general assembly to withdraw the powers conferred by this charter. Approved, May 1, 1903. [House Joint Resolution No. 116.] AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF WATERBURY TO ISSUE WATER BONDS. Resolved by this Assembly: SECTION 1. That the city of Waterbury be and it is hereby authorized to issue bonds under the corporate name and seal of said city, to be signed by its mayor and countersigned by its clerk, to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars in the whole, and bearing a rate of interest not exceeding three and one-half per centum per annum. Said bonds shall bear such date as the board of aldermen of said city shall determine, and shall be for the amount of one thousand dollars each, and it may be stipulated therein that the principal and interest shall be payable in gold of the present standard and fineness. The principal of said bonds shall be payable twenty years from the date thereof, and both the principal and the interest thereon shall be payable at such place as the board of aldermen of said city shall designate. SEC. 2. Said bonds shall be known and called Water Bonds of the City of Waterbury, Sixth Series. The board of aldermen of said city shall designate the amount of such bonds that said city shall issue, not exceeding in the whole the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, prescribe the form of said bonds, determine the place and manner of payment, and fix the rate of interest they shall bear, not exceeding three and one-half per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, and shall, at least thirty days before the date of issue, advertise for proposals or bids for such portion of said bonds as it shall have before that time designated to be issued at said date; said proposals to be under seal and opened in public by said board of aldermen at some time and place by it appointed. No bid shall at any time be accepted at less than par, or the face value of said bonds and the accrued interest thereon. SEC. 3. Said bonds shall be issued in serial form and payable in equal amounts of five thousand dollars each from year to year, beginning one year after their date, and commencing with bond number one shall be paid as consecutively numbered, within a period not exceeding twenty years from the date of issue. Said bonds, when so executed, issued, and delivered, shall be obligatory on said city and the inhabitants thereof in the same manner and to the same extent as debts lawfully contracted by municipal corporations in this state, according to the tenor and purport of the same. SEC. 5. The proceeds derived from the sale of said bonds shall be paid to and received by the treasurer of said city and shall be expended only in the development of an increase of the water supply of said city, under the direction of the board of aldermen of said city. Approved, May 11, 1903. [House Joint Resolution No. 372.] EXTENDING THE TIME FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE AMENDMENT TO THE CHARTER OF THE CANTON ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY. Resolved by this Assembly: That The Canton Electric Light and Power Company may have until the first day of January, 1904, within which to accept the amendment to its charter, approved June 14, 1901. Approved, May 11, 1903. [Substitute for House Joint Resolution No. 114.] [214.] EXTENDING THE TIME WITHIN WHICH THE WORCESTER AND CONNECTICUT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY MAY CONSTRUCT ITS TRACKS. Resolved by this Assembly: That The Worcester and Connecticut Eastern Railway Company, chartered as The Thompson Tramway Company, which by purchase holds the rights, properties, and franchises of The People's Tramway Company and The Danielson and Norwich Street Railway Company, may exercise all the rights and franchises of each of said two corporations; and said company may construct its railway with single or double tracks and proper turnouts and switches upon private lands and upon such highways as are mentioned in the charters of said three corporations at any time before July 1, 1905; and said company is hereby authorized and empowered to locate, construct, maintain, and operate a railway upon highways or private lands to connect any routes mentioned in said charters, or to deviate from any such routes and again to re-enter the same. Approved, May 11, 1903. [House Joint Resolution No. 77.] [215.] INCORPORATING THE MANUAL TRAINING AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL OF NEW LONDON. Resolved by this Assembly: SECTION 1. That Walter Learned, Alfred Coit, Charles B. Jennings, James Hislop, George Whittlesey, Frederick S. Newcomb, Lucius E. Whiton, and George H. Holmes, all of the city of New London, together with such other persons as may hereafter become associated with them, and their successors, be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of The Manual Training and Industrial School of New London. The mayor of the city of New London and the president and secretary of the board of school visitors of the city of New London shall be ex officio members of the corporation. SEC. 2. The object of said corporation shall be to provide a suitable building or buildings, located in the city of New London, and machinery, tools, and appliances necessary to properly equip an institution for instruction in the various handicrafts and trades, the use of tools, housekeeping, cooking, sewing, millinery, dressmaking, domestic science, home economics, and in general for the purpose of affording proper training in the useful arts, that thereby the students may be better fitted for obtaining a livelihood. SEC. 3. Said corporators shall have full power to make and adopt such lawful by-laws, rules, and regulations as they may deem proper touching the disposition and management of the property and estate of said corporation, the election of its officers, the definition of their duties, and in relation to all other matters pertaining to the proper management of its business. SEC. 4. The annual meeting of said corporation shall be held at such time as may be designated in its by-laws, and at such meeting there shall be chosen a president, a secretary, a treasurer, an executive committee, and such other officers as may be deemed advisable. SEC. 5. Said corporators shall have full power to fill any vacancy in their number and to add to their number not exceeding ten members. No vacancy shall be filled and no member shall be added except at a meeting of which the secretary shall have given to each member a five days' notice of the proposed action. SEC. 6. Said corporation may receive and hold any real or personal estate which may be given or granted to it as well as that which it may purchase, and all such real or personal estate so held by it shall be exempt from taxation to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars. Approved, May 11, 1903. [House Joint Resolution No. 388.] AUTHORIZING WILLIAM B. HUBBELL TO CONSTRUCT SEA-WALLS. Resolved by this Assembly: That William B. Hubbell of the town of Norwalk, in the county of Fairfield, and state of Connecticut, be and he hereby is authorized and empowered to construct and maintain. sea-walls in front of and around land owned by him situated in said town of Norwalk, in Norwalk harbor, so-called, and surrounded on all sides by the waters of said harbor, and known as L'Hammock island, and to fill in and grade the spaces within said walls as he may deem expedient; provided, however, that the same shall not impede public navigation. And the spaces so filled or to be filled as aforesaid and the space between said land and low water mark are hereby granted to said William B. Hubbell, his heirs and assigns. Approved, May 11, 1903. [Senate Bill, Substitute for Senate Joint Resolution No. 119.] [217.] AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL TO ESTABLISH IN MIDDLETOWN A GENERAL HOSPITAL FOR MIDDLESEX COUNTY. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: The following sum is hereby appropriated to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the object hereinafter specified for the two fiscal years ending September 30, 1905: For the Middlesex Hospital, for the purpose of establishing in Middletown a general hospital for Middlesex county, twenty thousand dollars. Approved, May 11, 1903. [House Joint Resolution No. 356.] [218.] INCORPORATING THE STANLEY RULE AND LEVEL COMPANY. Resolved by this Assembly: SECTION 1. That the Stanley Rule and Level Company, a corporation organized and hitherto and still conducting its business under the joint stock laws of this state, and located and having its principal office at New Britain, may and shall hereafter have the right to exercise its corporate franchise, and have and enjoy all the rights, powers, and privileges herein granted; and whenever it shall have accepted this resolution by a vote of its stockholders, at a meeting duly called for that purpose, may conduct and carry on its business under the provisions hereof, exclusively, in the same way and manner and to the same extent in all respects as if said corporation had been originally organized under a charter containing like provisions; and the capital stock of said corporation, the stockholders therein, and the number of shares by them respectively held, shall be the same as now existing in said joint stock corporation, inclusive of original and increased capital stock thereof. SEC. 2. Said Stanley Rule and Level Company shall be and remain a body politic and corporate by the name of The Stanley Rule and Level Company, located at said New Britain, and shall have and enjoy its said corporate franchise and all the rights and privileges herein granted for the purpose of manufacturing, buying and selling, and dealing in rules, levels, and planes, and all kinds of metal and hardware, and all articles composed in whole or in part of metal, wood, or other substance, which it shall deem expedient, and to do such other things as are incident to the prosecution of said business, and to exercise such mercantile powers as may be convenient and necessary for the successful prosecution of said business, and in and by said corporate name said corporation shall be and is hereby vested with the title to all the goods, chattels, lands, buildings, machinery, property, choses in action, trade-marks, and effects of whatever nature heretofore acquired by and now belonging to said corporation, and is hereby authorized and empowered in addition thereto to purchase, take, hold, occupy, and enjoy to itself and assigns any such property, real, personal, or of whatever other nature, including letters patent, as will enable it the better to carry on said business to advantage, and the same may manage, control, convey, lease, sell, and dispose of at pleasure, and may take and execute leases of real estate. SEC. 3. The said corporation, in addition to its present capital stock of five hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of twentyfive dollars each, shall have the power and is hereby authorized to increase the same from time to time to an amount not exceeding in the whole two million dollars, the original as well as said increased stock to be divided into shares of like or greater amount, not exceeding one hundred dollars each, at any meeting of the stockholders specially warned for that purpose, by a vote of stockholders holding at least a majority |