so incurred shall, from the time when said work is begun, be and continue a lien in favor of said association upon said land, and may be collected by suit or foreclosure in the name of said association. Said board may pass by-laws in relation to the keeping of said sidewalks free from obstructions, to be enforced in the same manner as provided in section nine.

SEC. 11. Said executive board, before establishing any building line, shall cause notice thereof, and of the time set for a hearing thereon, to be signed and served in the manner prescribed for notices of meetings of said association, upon all owners of lands to be affected by said proposed building line. Said board, after hearing, may determine the benefits and damages due to each of said owners by reason of the establishment of such building line, and, in case the damages shall exceed the benefits, such excess of damages shall be paid by said association. If the benefits shall be found to exceed the damages, said excess of benefits over damages shall be paid by said land owner to said association. The amount of said excess shall be a lien in favor of said association upon the land affected by said order from the time of the determination of said amount and the service of notice thereof upon said owners in the manner heretofore required.

SEC. 12. Any party who may be aggrieved by any order of the executive board, making any assessment of benefits or damages, or requiring the construction of any sidewalk, curb, or gutter, or the payment of any part of the expense thereof, may appeal therefrom in the manner prescribed in sections 1956, 1957, 1958, and 1959 of the general statutes, and with like effect.

SEC. 13. Said executive board shall constitute and be a board of health of said association, and shall have and may exercise, within the limits of said association, all the power given by law to town, city, and borough health officers, except in relation to contagious diseases, and shall appoint a health officer, who shall serve without pay and who, under the direction of said health board, shall have and may exercise all power and authority given by law to, and shall discharge all duties imposed by law upon, health officers of towns in this state, except in relation to contagious diseases. Said board of health may make and cause to be executed all orders which it may deem necessary for the promotion of the health of the inhabitants of said association, and may make and cause to be executed all orders which it may deem necessary for such purposes; provided, that such orders shall not be inconsistent with the laws of this state or of the United States; and if any person shall neglect or refuse to obey any order of said board of health, upon being notified in writing, signed by the health officer, and ordered to remove any filthy, putrid, or noxious substances which shall be injurious to the health or cleanliness of said district, the board of health may cause the same to be removed at the expense of such person so refusing or neglecting, and for such purpose the members of said board may, personally, or by their health officer, or by their duly appointed agent, enter upon and into all lands and buildings in said association,

and the expense of such removal may be recovered against such person by any proper action in the name of said association.

SEC. 14. Said executive board may appoint police officers to act within the limits of said association, who shall have all the powers of constables within said district, for the purpose of making arrests for violation of law or of the regulations and by-laws of said association, and said executive board may fix the compensation of such police officers.

SEC. 15. Said executive board shall establish a public signpost within the limits of said The Pine Orchard Association, and may make, establish, and adopt forms of orders and notices to be used under this resolution.

SEC. 16. No by-law or ordinance shall take effect or be enforced until the same has been posted for at least three days on the public signpost of said association; nor shall any by-law or ordinance take effect until fifteen days after its passage. A certificate of the clerk of said association of the due posting of any by-law or ordinance shall be prima facie evidence of such posting.

SEC. 17. Said executive board shall not, within any one year, incur any pecuniary liability exceeding in amount five mills on the dollar of the assessed value of the real estate within said The Pine Orchard Association, as appears by the assessment list hereinafter provided for.

SEC. 18. It shall be the duty of the clerk of said board, on or before the first day of June of each year, to prepare an assessment list of all the real estate in said district, including therein the value of houses, buildings, and improvements thereon, placing in the name of each member of the association such lands, buildings, and improvements as are assessed to such member on the last assessment list of the town of Branford, at the value at which they stand assessed on said assessment list. Where any piece of land so assessed on the list of the town of Branford shall be partly within and partly without said district, said clerk shall assess said part within the district in the proportion which the part within the district bears to the whole tract so assessed, using his best judgment as to such value. Said clerk shall, on or before the fifth day of June, report said list to the executive board, which shall revise said list, and if said board shall find that in any particular it does not correspond with the last assessment list of the town of Branford, or if said board shall find that there are any errors in the proportional valuation of such parts of any piece of property as are partly within and partly without the territory of said The Pine Orchard Association, said board shall correct the same, and said list, when so revised and if necessary corrected, shall be adopted by said executive board and shall then be and constitute the assessment list for said The Pine Orchard Association. Said list shall be so revised and completed and recorded by the clerk in the books of the association, on or before the fifth day of July, and said assessment list shall be open to inspection by any member of the association.

SEC. 19. Any person claiming to be aggrieved by any such proportional valuation by said board may appeal to the superior court in the manner provided by the general statutes for appeals from boards of relief.

SEC. 20. The executive board, on or before the fifteenth day of July, annually, may lay a tax, for the purposes hereinbefore specified, of not exceeding five mills on the dollar of the total value of said real estate as shown by the assessment list hereinbefore provided for, and shall appoint a collector to collect said tax, and rate bills shall be made out and signed by said board, and warrants may be issued for the collection of money due on such rate bills, pursuant to the provisions of section 2381 of the general statutes. But real estate within the limits of said association situated north of the line of the Shore Line railroad, also land known as World's End and Long Marsh Meadows, and the islands in said association, shall not be assessed except for sanitary purposes. Sanitary purposes shall be defined for this section. as defined by section 2526 of the general statutes.

SEC. 21. Written notice of the rate of such tax and of the amount apportioned to each member of the association shall be sent by the clerk of the executive board within ten days from the laying of said tax, and said tax shall be due and payable within thirty days from the sending of such notice, and if such tax be not paid when due, it shall bear interest at the rate of nine per centum per annum from the date when it was so payable. The collector shall have all the power of collectors of town taxes and shall be accountable to the executive board in the same manner as town collectors are accountable to selectmen, and shall pay over the taxes as soon as collected to the treasurer of the association. Every such tax shall be a lien upon the property upon which it shall be laid for one year from the time of the laying of said tax, and may be collected by suit in the name of said association, or by foreclosure of said lien. Said lien may be continued by certificate to be recorded in the land records of the town of Branford, pursuant to the provisions of section 2403 of the general statutes.

SEC. 22. The executive board may, by a three-quarters vote of those present at any meeting, abate the taxes assessed as aforesaid upon any such person or persons as are poor and indigent and unable to pay the same, causing a proper entry to be made on its records.

SEC. 23. Whenever the town of Branford, within which territory this association exists, shall have voted in favor of license to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors, the clerk of said executive board, upon petition of not less than ten members of this association, shall notify all the members of said association in accordance with the method provided in the by-laws, that a meeting of The Pine Orchard Association will be held within the limits of said territory, at such time and place as said clerk shall fix, not less than ten days nor more than twenty days from the date of said notice, and that at such meeting a vote will be taken to determine whether any person shall be licensed to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors within the limits of said

territory of this association, and such meeting shall determine by vote whether licenses for the sale of such liquors shall be granted within said limits; and if said vote shall be opposed to such license it shall remain in full force and effect until annulled by a vote taken at any subsequent meeting; and whenever said association shall have voted against the granting of licenses as aforesaid, no license shall be granted to sell beer, wine, or spirituous or intoxicating liquors within the territory of said association, and such license, if so granted, shall be void. Approved, June 18, 1903.

[Senate Joint Resolution No. 252.]
[410.]

AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE WILLIMANTIC AND SOUTHBRIDGE STREET RAILWAY COMPANY.

Resolved by this Assembly: SECTION 1. That section one of the charter of The Willimantic and Southbridge Street Railway Company, approved June 17, 1901, is hereby amended by striking out of said section the names of Rhodes Marcy and Charles O. Warren and inserting in lieu thereof the names of Marshall Frost and Edwin O. Sumner.

SEC. 2. Section two of said charter is hereby amended by inserting after the word "each" in the second line thereof the words "and may be increased by the directors of said company by a majority vote, from time to time, to a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars."

Approved, June 18, 1903.

[House Joint Resolution No. 442.]
[411.]

INCORPORATING THE SOUTHPORT TRUST COMPANY.

Resolved by this Assembly: SECTION 1. That Arthur O. Jennings, John H. Perry, Simon C. Sherwood, Roderick P. Curtis, Charles M. Gilman, and Winthrop H. Perry, all of Southport, in the town and county of Fairfield, together with such persons as are and may be associated with them, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of The Southport Trust Company, to be located in said Southport, and by that name may have, exercise, use, and enjoy all the powers and privileges herein given and granted and all such additional powers and privileges as are or may hereafter be conferred by the statute laws of this state upon corporations having a similar purpose, and also each and every power and privilege incidental thereto or which may be needful or proper to carry into full effect the purposes of this resolution.

SEC. 2. Said company is empowered to receive in trust and on deposit, at interest or otherwise, and to loan at any rate of interest allowed by law, or otherwise invest, moneys and other property of individuals, private and public corporations, estates and trust funds; to accept and execute all trusts, whether fiduciary or otherwise, which shall or may be committed to it by any person, party, corporation, court, or other authority, upon the security hereinafter provided for the fulfilment of its trusts; to discount notes and other commercial paper, and generally to conduct and carry on the business of banking; to make such special regulations as shall be deemed just and prudent for the custody, preservation, and increase of trust property, trust funds, and deposits left or held in trust or for accumulation or safe keeping, and as to the rate of interest to be paid thereon; to act as executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, receiver, custodian, or trustee of any trust which may be created by will or by law or otherwise, and which may be committed to it, as fully as a natural person might do; to procure, construct, and maintain safety deposit vaults, and lease the same and compartments therein; to provide suitable receptacles for and receive on deposit for safe keeping jewelry, plate, bonds, and valuable property of any kind, upon such terms as may be fixed by its by-laws and agreed upon with such depositors; and to act as agent for the purpose of issuing, countersigning, transferring, or registering any certificates of stock, bonds, or other obligations or assurances of any corporation, municipality, or association.

SEC. 3. Any court, having jurisdiction of the appointment of an executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, receiver, trustee, or other custodian of any estate or of funds, or of the custody, direction, or deposit of any moneys or other property, may appoint said company such executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, receiver, trustee, or other custodian, upon the security herein provided for the discharge of the duties thereof, and may direct such deposit of funds or property with said company; and said company shall be subject to all the lawful orders of such court in the discharge of the duties of such appointment, and in the custody, management, and disposition of such deposits; and shall be liable to account in all the matters aforesaid as required by law or by the orders of such court.

SEC. 4. It shall be lawful for said company to take and hold any real or personal estate in trust, or otherwise, as security for or in payment of loans and debts due or to become due to it, or any obligation for which it may be responsible; to purchase real estate or other property at any sale made in virtue of any loan, debt, or mortgage made or held by it; and to receive and take in satisfaction of any such loan or debt any real estate or other property, and to hold, lease, sell, convey, and dispose of the same at pleasure.

SEC. 5. All the capital stock, property, and estate of every kind belonging to said company shall be and stand charged with the fulfilment of said trusts and the payment of said deposits and said trust