and turn to account the same; may quarry, smelt, refine, dress, amalgamate, and prepare for market ore, metal, and mineral substances of all kinds; may buy, sell, manufacture, and deal in minerals, plants, machinery, implements, conveniences, provisions, and things capable of being used in connection with mining operations or required by workmen or others employed by the company; may construct, carry out, maintain, improve, manage, work, control, and superintend any roads, ways, bridges, reservoirs, water courses, aqueducts, wharves, furnaces, mills, crushing works, hydraulic works, factories, warehouses, and other works and conveniences which may seem directly or indirectly conducive to any of the objects of the company and may contribute to subsidize or otherwise aid or take part in such operation; provided, that the rights granted by this section shall not be exercised within the state of Connecticut. SEC. 3. Add section eleven as follows: Said company is hereby authorized and empowered to hold, purchase, and dispose of the whole or any part of the capital stock and bonds issued by any other corporation. Approved, May 27, 1903. [Substitute for House Joint Resolution No. 219.] [324.] AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE ANSONIA TRUST COMPANY. Resolved by this Assembly: SECTION 1. That the resolution incorporating The Ansonia Trust Company, approved May 29, 1901, be and is hereby amended by striking out sections seven, eight, and fourteen of said resolution. SEC. 2. The time for the organization of said corporation is hereby extended until May 29, 1905. Approved, May 27, 1903. [House Joint Resolution No. 405.] AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE ANSONIA WATER COMPANY. Resolved by this Assembly: That the Ansonia Water Company be and it is hereby authorized to increase its capital stock from time to time to the amount of four hundred thousand dollars; provided, that said stock be issued only at par for cash or its equivalent. Approved, May 27, 1903. [Substitute for House Bill No. 111.] [326.] AN ACT CREATING A DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE IN THE TOWN OF HAMDEN. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. There shall be in the town of Hamden a department of finance consisting of six electors of said town, to be appointed as hereinafter provided, which electors shall be taxpayers and shall hold no other office in said town government; but said appointments shall be so made that not more than four members of said board shall at any time belong to the same political party. The necessary expenses of said board shall be paid by said town of Hamden, but no member of said board shall be paid for his services. The members of said board shall be duly sworn to the faithful performance of their duties. SEC. 2. Said board shall, at its meeting held on the first Monday of September in each year, choose a chairman from among its own members, who shall be its presiding officer and who shall have power to call a special meeting of said board whenever the same shall in his -opinion be necessary, and he shall send written or printed notice thereof by mail to each member of said board at least twenty-four hours before such meeting. SEC. 3. The first selectman may call a special meeting of said board at any time on reasonable personal notice to the members thereof, or on written or printed notice sent to the residence of each member or mailed to him by the clerk of said board at least twenty-four hours before the time of holding such meeting. SEC. 4. During the month of July, 1903, the board of selectmen of the town of Hamden shall appoint six electors, who are also taxpayers, members of said board, two of whom shall be appointed for one year from the first day of September, 1903, two for two years from said date, and two for three years from said date; and in each July thereafter the selectmen shall appoint two members of said board for a term of three years from the first day of September next succeeding, and the members of said board shall hold office during the time for which they are appointed and until their successors are appointed by said board of selectmen and qualified; and, in case of a vacancy in said board by reason of death or resignation, the selectmen shall forthwith appoint a successor, who shall serve for the remainder of the term for which he is appointed and until his successor is appointed and qualified. SEC. 5. On the first Monday of September in each year the said board shall hold a meeting and may adjourn said meeting from time to time during said month, and at said meeting and its adjournments, if any are had, shall make estimates of the moneys necessary to be appropriated for the expenses of said town of Hamden for the year next ensuing, beginning the Tuesday after the first Monday of October, and of the rate of taxation required to meet the same, and shall classify the said expenses under appropriate heads and departments, and said board shall lay such tax upon the polls and ratable estates within the limits of said town as it shall deem necessary to meet such expenses. Said board shall give notice to each board or department of a definite time and place when it will meet to consider the needs of such board or department. Said estimates and the rate of taxation. recommended shall be filed in the town clerk's office of the town of Hamden on or before the first day of October next ensuing, and said. estimates and the rate of taxation recommended shall be submitted by the board of selectmen to an adjourned annual town meeting, which shall be held on the second Monday of October at two o'clock in the afternoon at the usual place for holding town meetings in said town of Hamden, and said annual town meeting shall proceed to consider and act upon said estimates, and said appropriations and the rate of taxation so reported by said board shall be final, and shall be and remain the appropriations and the rate of taxation in the town of Hamden for the ensuing year, unless changed by a majority vote of the electors present at said meeting; but the total amount of such appropriations for any one year shall not exceed the estimated income for that year, nor shall any board of selectmen of said town incur any liability or expense by contract or otherwise, except for the improvement of public roads under state aid, for which said town shall be responsible, in excess of the appropriations so made by said board and said annual town meeting. SEC. 6. The town school committee of said town shall, annually, on or before the first Monday of September in each year, furnish the said board an estimate of the expenses of maintaining the schools of said town for the ensuing year, which said estimate shall be reported without change, together with the estimates of said board, to the annual town meeting, as provided in section five of this act. But nothing in this act shall be held to affect such powers of the town school committee of the town of Hamden as they may have under the general statutes of this state. SEC. 7. Said board shall have power to make transfers of unexpended balances from one appropriation to another, but no amount appropriated for any one purpose, whether general or special, shall be used or appropriated for any other purpose unless the same be recommended by said board. SEC. 8. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed so far as they affect the town of Hamden. SEC. 9. This act shall take effect July 1, 1903. Approved, June 3, 1903. [House Bill, Substitute for House Joint Resolution No. 314.] [327.] AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE AND INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR THE BLIND FOR THE TWO YEARS ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1905. 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 Connecticut Institute and Industrial Home for the Blind, fifteen thousand dollars. Approved, June 3, 1903. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 108.] AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE TOWN COURT OF BERLIN. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. There is hereby established within and for the town of Berlin a court to be styled and called the Town Court of Berlin, which shall have jurisdiction and cognizance of all crimes and misdemeanors committed within said town, the punishment for which may be by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in a common jail or workhouse for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and shall also have jurisdiction of all actions and proceedings for the recovery of all fines, penalties, and forfeitures for the violation of any of the laws of this state occurring in said town, or of the by-laws and regulations of said town of Berlin, wherein the fine, penalty, or forfeiture does not exceed in amount the sum of two hundred dollars, or imprisonment in a common jail or workhouse for a term not exceeding six months, or both. Said court shall have all the jurisdiction, powers, and authority now belonging to justices of the peace in said town, in all matters of a criminal form or nature arising within said town, and may proceed thereon in the same manner as such justices of the peace may now do; said court shall have the power to proceed to trial, render judgment, and grant warrant of execution to carry into effect, and to enforce any order or judgment of said court; and may commit boys to the Connecticut School for Boys, and girls to the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls, and children to temporary homes for dependent and neglected children, under the same provisions and limitations as justices of the peace in the several towns may do under the existing provisions of law in such cases; provided, that the accused may, in all cases of conviction by said court, appeal from the judgment of said court to the next session of the superior court having criminal jurisdiction to be held at Hartford within and for the county of Hartford, and upon such appeal said accused shall give a recognizance, with surety, to the state in such sum as said town court shall determine, conditioned that said accused shall appear before said superior court to answer to the complaint and abide the judgment and order of said superior court thereon, and, on the failure of said accused to give such recognizance, said town court shall order said accused to be committed to the county jail in said county until the next session of said superior court, there to answer to said complaint, and until he shall be discharged by due process of law. SEC. 2. Said town court shall have exclusive cognizance of and hear all complaints for criminal offenses committed within said town of Berlin which shall be brought before said town court, and, in all cases in which punishment may be greater or less than a fine of two hundred dollars and an imprisonment in a common jail or workhouse for six months, said town court may try the same, and if, in the opinion of the judge of said court, no greater punishment ought to be imposed, it may render judgment therein for a fine of not more than two hundred dollars and an imprisonment for not more than six months, as aforesaid; but in all cases in which, in the opinion of the judge of said town court, such offense is of so aggravated a nature as to require a greater punishment than is within the jurisdiction of said court, and in all cases which are beyond the jurisdiction of said court and in which probable cause is found by said court for the support of a complaint, said town court shall, if the offense be bailable, order the accused to enter into a recognizance, with surety, to the state in such sum as said town court shall determine, conditioned that said accused shall appear before the next superior court having criminal jurisdiction to be holden at Hartford within and for the county of Hartford, to answer to the complaint and abide the order and judgment of said superior court thereon; and, on the failure of the accused to enter into such recognizance, or if the offense complained of be not bailable, said accused shall be committed by said town court to the county jail in and for said county until the next session of said superior court having criminal jurisdiction and until he be discharged by due process of law. SEC. 3. Said town court shall be held to be a police court, and said town court and the judge thereof shall have all the powers in cases within its jurisdiction and cognizance, as aforesaid, by law conferred upon police courts and the judges thereof. SEC. 4. No grand juror shall make complaint, either to said town court or to a justice of the peace, of any criminal matter whereof said town court has jurisdiction or may take cognizance, as hereinbefore provided; nor shall any justice of the peace take cognizance of any action or complaint of a criminal form or nature by this act, except as hereinafter provided. Provided, however, that any complaint signed or brought by the prosecuting agent for Hartford county, or by the county health officer for said county, for an offense committed. within said town of Berlin and over which either of said officers now by |