within thirty days of the time of accounting with said auditor as aforesaid, and shall at the same time deliver to the treasurer of said city a duplicate of said account in writing, under oath, as audited by said auditor as aforesaid, and said treasurer shall lodge said account on file and keep the same for the use of said city. The salary of said judge and of said clerk, and the time and manner of paying the same, shall be fixed by the court of common council, and such salary shall be in lieu of all fees whatsoever for criminal business. And said clerk shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, execute a bond in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, to the mayor, aldermen, common council, and freemen of the city of Waterbury, with surety to be approved by the mayor of said city, conditioned that he shall faithfully render an account in writing, under oath, to the auditor of city accounts, and pay over to the treasurer of said city all fines, penalties, fees and costs belonging to said city, that shall come into the hands of said clerk, and deliver to said treasurer a duplicate of said account, as is hereinbefore provided.

SEC. 15. The court of common council of said city shall provide a court room and such other accommodations for said police court as said judge shall deem necessary; including record-books, blanks, stationery, and so forth; and said court shall be open for the transaction of business every day, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and for so long a time as shall be necessary to transact all necessary business before said court during said day, except on Sundays, and on the first Monday of each month, when said police court shall be holden immediately after the adjournment of the city court for said day.

SEC. 16. Presentments or complaints in any criminal matter, cognizable by said police court, may be made to the same by any grand juror of the town of Waterbury, or the city attorney, or assistant attorney for the city of Waterbury, and said police court and the clerk thereof shall exercise the same powers in relation to the issuing of process against persons so complained of, and the granting a summons or capias for witnesses, as are conferred upon justices of the peace, in and by the one hundred and thirty-eighth section, title I, and in the two hundred and twenty-seventh section, title XII, of the revised statutes of this state.

SEC. 17. Before entering upon the trial of any criminal cause, the said police court may adjourn the hearing or trial thereof from time to time, not exceeding fifteen days, unless said court, upon good cause shown, may deem a longer time necessary, for the purpose of procuring material testimony, which time shall not exceed ninety days; and said court, if the offence charged be bailable, shall take good and sufficient bail, if of fered, for the appearance of the person charged, at the day to which the trial or hearing is adjourned. If the case is within the final jurisdiction of said police court, the bond of recognizance shall be payable to the city treasurer, otherwise to the county or state treasurer, as the nature of the offence shall require.

SEC. 18. Said police court is hereby required to charge and tax for the use of the city of Waterbury in any criminal proceeding, such clerk fees as are now allowed by law to the clerks of the superior court; and two dollars for the trial of each case, and one dollar on each appeal, and the fees of the prosecuting officer, who shall make any complaint or presentment, shall be the same as those now provided by law for grand

jurors of towns, and payable from the city treasury. And all such fees of the prosecuting officer shall be taxed and received by the clerk, in favor of the city of Waterbury; said clerk may pay unto persons entitled to costs in any criminal prosecution such costs as have of right accrued to them, taking their receipt therefor, but shall not pay any costs to any person who shall not demand the same within six months after the same are taxed: provided, no part of said costs shall be received or paid to any special constable of said city for any service whatever, as a witness or otherwise; and said clerk may draw orders on the city treasurer for such sums as are necessary for such purpose, or may pay the same out of the funds of the city in his hands.

SEC. 19. The said clerk shall receive all fines and costs imposed by said police court, and paid before commitment, and account for the same to the city auditor, and pay the same to the city treasurer, as hereinbefore provided; and all fines and costs paid after commitment shall be received by the keeper of the jail, or of the workhouse, where the offender shall be confined, and by such keeper paid to the treasurer of the city of Waterbury, within thirty days after the same shall have been received by said keeper of the jail or workhouse.

SEC. 20. It shall be the duty of the city attorney to prosecute, in the name of the city treasurer, any of the bonds mentioned in this act, which are payable to such treasurer, within fifteen days after the same shall be forfeited, and account to and with the city auditor for all sums received or recovered on such bonds, except his taxable fees; and it is hereby made the duty of the clerk of said police court to give immediate information to the city attorney of the forfeiture of all bonds taken to the treasurer of said city, in pursuance of this act. And in case of the sickness of the judge of said police court, or his absence from the city, at any time when his services as such judge may be required, the clerk of said police court, or the city attorney, may, if they think proper, designate and request in writing any justice of the peace, resident within said city, to act in the place of said police judge, and said justice, while so acting under such request, shall have the same powers as such judge would have in like cases; and the fees of such justice, whether acting by the request of the judge of said police court, as provided in the tenth section of this act, or by request of the clerk of said court or city attorney, shall be the same as now by law allowed to justices of the peace in criminal cases, and shall be paid in the same manner as costs are herein before provided to be paid to persons entitled to receive them; and such written request shall be recorded by the clerk of said court, and kept with the records thereof.

SEC. 21. The court of common council of said city of Waterbury may enter into any arrangement with the county commissioners of New Haven county, or with the inspectors of any workhouse within said county, to receive and keep all persons who may be sentenced to confinement in the common jail of said county, or in such workhouse, by said police court; and it shall be the duty of the sheriff of New Haven county, his deputies, or either of the city sheriffs of said city, and of any constable of the town of Waterbury, or either of the special constables of the city of Waterbury, to convey all persons so sentenced, without delay, to the appointed place of confinement, whether such common jail

or workhouse, and deliver them to the keeper thereof, who shall receive and imprison such persons, and employ them according to the rules, regulations and discipline of such place of confinement, during the term for which they shall be severally sentenced and committed, or until they are discharged by law; but the said court of common council shall not have power to enter into any such agreement, at any one time, for a longer period than two years.

SEC. 22. It shall be lawful for said police court, at its discretion, and in the manner provided by the public laws of this state, to order any person brought before said court on any criminal presentment, to be committed to any reform school or other institution now or hereafter to be established within this state, for juvenile offenders; and the proper officer of such institution shall receive and keep such person according to the rules and discipline of the same.

SEC. 23. Process issued by or returnable to said police court, may be served by the sheriff of New Haven county, or his deputies, or any constable of the town of Waterbury, or any city sheriff or special constable of the city of Waterbury, or any indifferent person deputed to serve the same, who shall severally receive the fees therefor now prescribed by law for constables of towns for like services, and no more: provided, no fees shall be paid to any special constable of said city for such services, but the legal fees therefor shall be taxed and paid to the clerk, for the city treasury, upon conviction of any person arrested; and provided further, that the authority of any city sheriff or special constable of said city, to serve process as aforesaid, shall not extend beyond the incorporated limits of the town of Waterbury, except as is hereinbefore provided.

Sec. 24. It shall be lawful for all officers hereby authorized to serve process issued by and returnable to the police court, and it shall be their duty to arrest, without previous complaint and warrant, all such persons as are guilty of drunkenness, vagrancy, disorderly conduct, breaches of the peace, and common assault, when such offences shall be committed within the limits of said city, and such offenders shall be taken and apprehended in the act, or on immediate or present information of others; and it shall be lawful for said court to proceed to trial and render judgment, without previous complaint and warrant, upon persons so arrested, in the same manner as if they had been arrested upon process issued by said court.

SEC. 25. Whenever any person shall be arraigned before said police court for drunkenness, vagrancy, disorderly conduct, or a breach of the peace, said court may indefinitely suspend the rendition of judgment concerning him, whenever such forbearance shall seem to the court required, either by reason of the age of the accused, or the circumstances under which the offence was committed.

SEC. 26. Said police court may reduce or disallow fees taxable by said court, in cases where the negligence of any ministerial or informing officer, or the discharge of the accused for want of evidence or the insufficiency of the service rendered, or other circumstances, shall render such reduction or disallowance expedient in the view of said court, in the exercise of its sound discretion.

SEC. 27. Sureties of the peace and for good behavior may be required by said police court, in such cases and in such manner as justices of the

peace are now authorized by law to require the same: provided, the cause or occasion of requiring the same shall arise within the limits of said city.

SEC. 28. The mayor of said city shall have full power, and he is hereby authorized to order and close all saloons and other places where spirituous and intoxicating liquors are commonly kept and sold, all gaming places or places reputed to be such, all billiard saloons, bowling alleys, and all places of public resort within said city, at such suitable hour of the evening as the court of common council of said city may from time to time fix upon and designate; and at such other times when said court of common council may deem that public safety require it.

SEC. 29. This act shall take effect from and after its passage, and shall be taken to be a public act to all intents and purposes, and sections six, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, nineteen, and sixty-nine, of the act incorporating the city of Waterbury, passed May Session, 1853, and such other parts of said act, and of all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed, so far as the same are or may be applicable to said city of Waterbury; and the office of recorder for said city is hereby declared vacant. Approved, June 29th, 1866.

An Act to create a Hospital for the Insane in the State of Connecticut.

Whereas, The report of the commission appointed by this assembly, in the year 1865, shows that there are seven hundred and six insane persons in the state of Connecticut, of whom two hundred and two are in the Retreat at Hartford; two hundred and four are in the almshouses; and three hundred outside of both: and whereas, it is impossible to secure suitable care and medical attention for this large and deeply afflicted class, either in the Retreat or in the alms-houses, or in private houses and whereas, considerations of humanity and of true economy, as well as of the public welfare and of our holy religion, all alike demand that these persons should be liberally provided for by the state: therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly convened, SEC. 1. There shall be established and maintained at some place in this state, to be selected by a board of trustees, as hereinafter provided, an institution to be named the General Hospital for the Insane of the State of Connecticut.

SEC. 2. The government thereof shall be vested in a board of twelve trustees, consisting of the governor and one from each county, to be appointed by the senate, and of three to be appointed by the other trustees, which three shall be selected from the town or vicinity in which the institution shall be located, two of whom shall be so appointed and commissioned annually; and the places of the two senior members, as they stand in the order of their appointment, shall be annually vacated; and no trustee shall receive any compensation for his services, but he shall be allowed the amount of expenses incurred in the discharge of the

duties of his office, which amount shall be examined and allowed by the comptroller of public accounts, and paid from the treasury of the state. SEC. 3. The trustees shall take charge of the general interests of the institution, ordain and execute its laws, appoint and remove its officers, select a suitable location, and a plan for its building; shall exercise a strict supervision over all its expenditures, and discharge all other functions usually devolving upon such trustees; they shall have power to receive by gift or purchase a suitable farm, and receive a deed thereof, and the state treasurer shall pay therefor, in case of purchase, on the warrant of the comptroller.

SEC. 4. The superintendent shall be appointed by the trustees, at their first or some subsequent meeting. He shall be a competent physician, and reside in or near the institution. As soon as possible, he shall procure the plan of a suitable building or buildings, which shall be approved and contracted for by the trustees; he shall personally superintend its erection and arrangement, and whenever one section or building shall be completed, he shall open the institution for patients, upon such terms and conditions as said trustees shall prescribe, always giving the preference to the most urgent cases and to the people of this state. He shall be the treasurer of the institution, keep full and accurate accounts of his receipts and expenditures, and of the property entrusted to him. All accounts, with suitable vouchers, shall be submitted to the trustees as they shall require. He shall, before entering upon his duties, give a bond to the treasurer of the state, with acceptable sureties, in the sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned that he shall faithfully account for all moneys and property received by him as superintendent; but no trustee shall be superintendent of the institution.

SEC. 5. The state treasurer shall pay to the trustees, on the warrant of the comptroller, such sums of money as they shall require for the location and the building of the hospital, not to exceed five thousand dollars at any one time, and the expenditure of which shall be accounted for to the comptroller, with the vouchers, before any other sum is advanced.

SEC. 6. The trustees shall hold their first meeting on the call of any three of their number, due notice being given to all.

SEC. 7. Thirty-five thousand dollars are hereby appropriated to carry into execution the provisions of this act.

SEC. 8. This act is to take effect immediately.
Approved, June 29th, 1866.

Authorizing the Town of Cromwell to purchase Land, and the Same to convey to the Connecticut Soldiers' Orphan Home.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the town of Cromwell, at a meeting legally warned for that purpose, is hereby authorized to empower the selectmen of said town to purchase land in said town, and the same to convey to the Connecticut Soldiers' Orphan Home, for the purposes of said Orphan Home: provided, that the amount paid for such land shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars; and the treasurer of said