which have been laid by said first Society shall be collectable in the same manner as if said first Society had not been divided; and it shall be the duty of the committee of said first Society from the avails of such taxes, to discharge such debts and charges of said first Society as shall be awarded as aforesaid, and the powers of the collectors and committee appointed by said first Society are hereby continued for the purposes aforesaid, until the same shall be completed, and should a surplus remain after discharging said debts, the same shall be paid over to said Societies in proportion to their respective lists, and if such taxes shall be insufficient for that purpose, the deficiency shall be discharged by said Societies in proportion as aforesaid; and the committee of said first Society shall account with each Society in the premises: Provided however, that nothing herein contained, shall be construed to abridge or impair the corporate powers vested in said Southerly district of said first Society by said resolve of October 1802, but said Southerly district shall continue and remain a corporation to all intents and purposes respecting the object of their incorporation, with all the powers to enforce and fulfil their lawful contracts, and to protect the rights and redress the wrongs of said corporation with which they were ever vested, and may for the purposes aforesaid hold meetings, and do all other lawful acts necessary to effect the object aforesaid,

RESOLVE INCORPORATING THE SOCIETY OF LEDYARD.

PASSED, MAY 1836.

Whereas that part of the late town of Groton included within the limits of the second Ecclesiastical Society of said town, has been incorporated into a new town by the name of the town of Ledyard,

Therefore be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly convened, That the name of said Ecclesiastical Society be changed, and that it be known hereafter by the name of the Ecclesiastical Society of Ledyard.

RESOLVE INCORPORATING THE SOCIETY OF MIDDLEBURY,

PASSED, DECEMBER 1790.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the inhabitants living on that tract of land bounded as follows, viz. beginning one mile due west of the south-west corner of Watertown, thence running east to said corner of Watertown, thence eastward in said Watertown line till it comes to a point directly north of the middle of Morses road at the place where the middle of the road which runs east and west, north of Aaron Benedicts house, intersects said

Morses road, thence due south until it strikes the middle of said Morses road at the intersection aforesaid, thence southerly in the middle of said Morses road twenty rods south of John Thompsons dwelling house, thence a straight line to pine rock, so called, thence southward to the mouth of Meshadock Brook, thence south to the line of Salem Society, thence westward in Salem line to the bridge over Meshadock Brook on Morses road, thence in said road to the house of Samuel Gunn on said Salem line, thence in said line to the corner of Oxford Society, then in Oxford line to eight mile brook, thence northward by said brook to the place where it runs out of Quassapague Pond, from thence to the first mentioned boundary, be, and they are hereby constituted a distinct Ecclesiastical Society, to be known and called by the name of "Middlebury," and Aaron Benedict and John Thompson, or either of them, have liberty hereby to join the said Society if they please, which election shall be signified in writing within six months from the rising of this Assembly, to the clerk of the first society in Waterbury and the clerk of said society of Middlebury, and if said Benedict or Thompson shall elect as aforesaid to belong to said Society of Middlebury, both or either of them so electing and so notifying, shall be considered to all intents and purposes as members of said Society of Middlebury, and those persons, or either of them, who live, or may hereafter live on the tract of land adjoining Watertown line in length between the road leading from Mr. Josiah Brownsons to said Watertown, and the west end of Dr. Abel Brownsons farm, and in width from said town line south two rods beyond Dr. Brownsons hospital, have liberty to join the Society of Westbury, if they please, by notifying in writing the clerk of said society of Middlebury of such choice. And said inhabitants within the local bounds aforesaid, aro hereby vested with all powers and privileges and immmunities of a distinct Ecclesiastical Society as established by the laws of this State, and are to be under the same regulations and restrictions in every respect, as other distinct Ecclesiastical Societies in this State; and Ezra Brownson Esq., a Justice of the Peace in said Waterbury, and Ebenezer Smith, Josiah Brownson and James Porter, principal inhabitants of said Society of Middlebury, are here. by authorized to grant a warrant under their hands to some proper person by them deputed, to warn all the inhabitants in the limits of said Society, who are by law qualified to vote in Society meeting, to meet at such time and place as they shall appoint, which warning is to be given five days before said meeting, and said Justice, if convenient, shall attend said meeting at the expense of said Society, and lead them to the choice of a clerk and moderator, and in case it be not convenient for said Justice to attend, then either of those three principal inhabitants who signed said warrant, is hereby authorized to lead the inhabitants of said Society then present to a choice of clerk and moderator, after which said Society is authorized to proceed according to law.

RESOLVE CONFIRMING THE MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF MERIDEN.

PASSED, OCTOBER 1799.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the meeting of said Society on the first Monday of November 1799, and in each year since the year 1786, be, and the same are declared to be legal, any omission to notify the inhabitants notwithstanding, and that the doings of said Society at said meetings, shall be as valid as tho' the legal notifications had been issued.

RESOLVE ALTERING THE LIMITS OF MIDDLEBURY SOCIETY.

PASSED, OCTOBER 1797.

Resolved by this Assembly, That so much of the land and the inhabitants thereon as will be included by a line beginning at the south-west corner of said Middlebury Society, from thence running east eight degrees south one mile and one hundred and eighty-four rods, to the south-west corner of Capt. Ebenezer Smiths farm, thence east one mile and twelve rods to a bridge over Toantic brook on the road which is the line between Salem and Oxford Societies, then northward by Salem line to the south-east corner of said Middlebury Society, and also that so much of the land on the east side of said Society, and the inhabitants living thereon, as will be included by a straight line from the north-east corner of said Middlebury Society, to pine rock, so called, in the easterly line of said Society, be, and the same hereby is, with all the inhabitants now residing, or hereafter to reside thereon, annexed to, incorporated with, and made part of the said Society of Middlebury.

Resolve annexing a part of Waterbury to the Town and Society of Middlebury is published under the title Towns, and act of October, 1817.

RESOLVE CONFIRMING THE ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND SOCIETY IN MIDDLETOWN-PASSED, MAY 1812.

Whereas by a misconstruction of the law relative to Society's the meetings holden for ten years last past in the second Society in Middletown have not been legally warned, and the said Society by reason thereof is exposed to great injury:

Resolved by this Assembly, That the Society meetings held in the Society

aforesaid for the said ten years last past, shall be deemed lawful, and the acts and proceedings thereof good and valid in law, as if the meetings aforesaid had been legally warned.

RESOLVE INCORPORATING THE SOCIETY OF MILTON.

PASSED, MAY 1795.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the inhabitants living, and who shall hereafter live, within the limits hereafter described, viz. beginning at the corner of the dam on Shippaug river on which the forge stands, commonly called Pratt's new forge, between said forge and a saw mill standing on said dam; thence running east 637 rods to a rock with stones on it, on Capt. Nathaniel Smith's land, thence east 9 degrees, north 201 rods to an old Elm stump and stones laid to it, on land belonging to Daniel Rowe, then north 12 degres, east 1250 rods to a heap of stones being an ancient monument in Goshen line on the north line of Litchfield, then north 33 degrees and 30 minutes west 500 rods to two soft maple trees growing together at the bottom, with stones in the crotch thereof, and marked S. P. Ď. W. W. S. H. B. then north 35 degrees, west 187 rods to a chestnut stump and stones laid to it, on the east side of the road near Jonathan Thompson's house, then north 70 degrees, west 458 rods to a heap of stones on the line between Goshen and Cornwall, then the same course in Cornwall 248 rods to a large white oak tree, and stones laid to it, then south 68 degrees, west 178 rods to the northeast corner of a farm of land which Rufus Hart bought of Nathan Seward, then north 68 degrees, and 30 minutes west, 113 1-2 rods to the north-west corner of said farm, then south 18 degrees, 30 minutes west, 328 rods to a heap of stones, then south 196 rods to a red ash tree near a brook in a meadow lately belonging to Samuel Green, deceased, then south 2 degrees, 30 minutes east, 130 rods to a large pine stump and stones laid to it, at the head of the west branch of Shippaug river, thence by said west branch till it joins the east branch, and by Shippaug river to the first mentioned boundary, be, and they are hereby constituted an Ecclesiastical Society, to be known and called by the name of " Milton," with all the powers, authorities, rights and immunities which by law the other Ecclesiastical Societies established by law in this State now have and enjoy. And whereas a greater part of the inhabitants now formed into a Society, by this act were in January 1769 by act of Assembly formed into a Society for the term of four months in each year, and in consequence have been and remain to this time organized as a society, and have been known and called by the name of the third Society in Litchfield, and as such have voted taxes, appointed collectors, and purchased and held property, &c. The inhabitants of said Society of Milton, and their successors, are hereby vested with all the property which is now holden by said third Society, and are liable to pay and enabled to collect all debts due from or to said third Society in capacity of a Society, and to enforce collection of all taxes laid by said third Society which remain uncollected, and in all respects to proceed in all matters and concerns of said third

society in Litchfield which are now unfinished, as they in capacity of a society could have done if the society of Milton had not been formed, and the powers and authorities of the collectors of taxes already appointed in said third society, and who have not completed their collection, are hereby continued to them. And John Welch Esq. who is an inhabitant of said society of Milton, is hereby authorized to give notice to the inhabitants of said society, to meet at the meeting house in said society at two o'clock in the afternoon of the second Monday in June next, at which meeting the said John Welch Esq. is authorized to act as moderator, and the inhabitants of said society being met as aforesaid, on said second Monday of June, are hereby authorized to proceed in the same manner, and vested with the same powers as the inhabitants of other Ecclesiastical Societies in this State are.

Resolve confirming the acts of the Ecclesiastical and School Societies of New-Britain, is published under the title School Societies, and resolve May

1812.

RESOLVE REGARDING THE FIRST SOCIETY IN NEW-HAVEN.

PASSED, MAY 1804.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the aforesaid appropriation made by said first ecclesiastical society for the permanent support of the Gospel Ministry in said society, so far as the same regards the school monies belonging to said society, be, and the same hereby is ratified, and said school monies are hereby appropriated for the support of the Gospel Ministry in said society accordingly.

RESOLVE REGARDING THE FIRST SOCIETY IN NEW-HAVEN.

PASSED, MAY 1804.

Upon petition of the members of the first ecclesiastical society in New-Haven, shewing that the first society are possessed of certain funds amounting to about £1300-and that the church in said society are possessed of certain other funds to about £600, making all about £1900-that said society on the 6th day of January last, voted to appropriate the interest of all the funds possessed by said society, which could be legally so appropriated for the support of the Gospel Ministry, on condition that the church in said society should appropriate the interest of their funds for the same purpose, and that the sum of $3000 should be raised by voluntary