a public highway, the several portions whereof shall be maintained and kept in repair by the towns respectively in which the same are situated.

WATERBURY RIVER TURNPIKE.

PASSED 1844.

Upon the petition of the Waterbury River Turnpike Company, brought to this assembly, praying for the alteration and extension of the limits of one of the four northern toll-gates on said turnpike, so as to embrace said gate as now located, to which place it was removed by the commissioners on said turnpike:

Resolved by this Assembly, That the location of said toll-gate be so altered and extended as that the point in said turnpike road where the gate now stands, at the dwelling house of Sherman Lines, in the town of Plymouth, shall be the southern boundary of said limits, and the dwelling house of Nathan French, in the town of Litchfield, shall be the northern boundary of said limits, and that the proceedings of the commissioners on said turnpike, in the removal of said toll-gate and placing it at its present location, be and the same are hereby confirmed and established. Provided, that this act shall not affect any suits now pending.

REVOKING THE CHARTER OF THE WEST MIDDLE TURNPIKE COMPANY.

PASSED 1889.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the act incorporating the West Middle Turnpike Company be and the same is hereby repealed and revoked; and the road belonging to said company, situated and being within the towns of Woodbury, Southbury, Newtown and Danbury, shall be and remain a public highway, and shall be maintained and repaired or discontinued by said towns, in the same manner as though said road had originally been laid out by said towns respectively.

REDUCING THE TOLL AT ONE OF THE WINDHAM TURNPIKE GATES, IN CERTAIN CASES.

PASSED 1838.

Resolved by this Assembly, That all persons traveling on the Hop river turnpike, and passing through the gate on the Windham turnpike, which is located between the intersection of said Hop river and Windham turnpike road, and the village of Willimantic, shall have the right to pass and repass said gate, on paying one-half the full toll now established by law, to be collected at said gate, and no more.

WINDHAM AND BROOKLYN TURNPIKE.

PASSED 1844.

Upon the petition of the Windham and Brooklyn Turnpike Company, showing that the general assembly, by resolution passed at its session in Hartford, in May, 1839, [1829,] granted said company liberty to remove the east gate on said company's road, and to place the same anywhere between where it then stood and a bound ten rods west of the road leading from said turnpike road to the Brooklyn cotton factory, and exempting certain persons named in said resolution from the payment of toll at said gate. And further showing that the petitioners have at divers times since the passage of said resolution, changed the location of said gate to different points on said road within the limits aforesaid, within which limits said gate now stands, praying that said gate may be established where the same now stands, and that the right may be confirmed to the petitioners to collect all such toll as shall have accrued from passing said gate where the same now stands, and such as shall hereafter accrue from passing the gate aforesaid:

Resolved by this Assembly, That said east gate on said company's road be and the same is hereby established where the same now stands; and that ail toll which has accrued from passing said gate where the same now stands, and all such toll as shall hereafter accrue from passing the same, be collectable and receivable and in no way or manner affected by the removal of said east gate. Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any suit now pending.

WINDHAM AND BROOKLYN TURNPIKE COMPANY.

PASSED 1845.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the charter of the Windham and Brooklyn Turnpike Company be and the same is hereby so amended as to embrace and include as part of said company's road, the said road leading from the present termination of their said road at or near the court-house in said Brooklyn, easterly to the dividing line between the towns of Brooklyn and Killingly, at the bridge over and across the Quinebaug river, known by the name of Danielson's bridge, and that the gate upon said road between said court-house and bridge, be and the same is hereby established in the place where it now stands, as a half toll-gate upon said road; and that said company be and they are hereby authorized to continue and keep up said gate at said place, and to collect, take and receive tolls at the same, as a half toll-gate upon said road. Provided, nevertheless, and it is hereby made the duty of said turnpike company at all times hereafter to bear and defray one half part of all the expenses of keeping up, maintaining and supporting said bridge, and any other bridge or bridges which shall be erected in lieu thereof at said place over said river, leaving the residue of said expenses to be borne by the said towns of Brooklyn and Killingly equally. And further provided, that all persons living or residing upon the road known by the name of the Allen Hill road, at any point or place between the point at which it strikes the road hereby made a part of the road of said company, and a point at which said Allen Hill road intersects the road from Brooklyn to Plainfield, a little westerly of the dwelling house now occupied by Elisha Harris, be exempted from the payment of one-half of the regular toll by law authorized to be taken at said gate; and that all persons traveling from Killingly to Pomfret and from Pomfret to Killingly on the road leading from the road hereby annexed to and made part of the road of said company, by the house of Jacob B. Witter, to the place where it intersects the Connecticut and Rhode Island turnpike road, or to do business on said last mentioned road, shall be at all times hereafter wholly exempted from the payment of toll at said gate.

DISCONTINUING THE WINDHAM AND COVENTRY TURNPIKE ROAD.

PASSED 1852.

Upon the petition of the Windham and Coventry Turnpike Company, showing to this assembly that said company was duly incorporated by the general assembly of this state, and that they are the proprietors of a turnpike road running from the town of Plainfield, in Windham county, through the towns of Canterbury, Windham and Mansfield, to the town of Coventry, in Tolland county, praying that said road may be discontinued as a turnpike road, and that the same may hereafter be and remain a part of the public highway in the respective towns in which it is situated:

Resolved by this Assembly, That said road be discontinued as a turnpike road, and said company be dissolved and discharged from all future liability, charges or expense for the maintenance of said road. Provided, that said company shall retain the right to collect their dues and to close up their concerns the same as though this act had not been passed. And said road shall hereafter be and remain a part of the public highway in the respective towns in which it is situated, to be maintained and treated in all respects by said towns respectively, as public convenience and necessity may require, in the same manner as though said road had been originally laid out and made by said towns according to the provisions of the statute laws of this state in such cases made and provided.

ALTERATION OF CHARTER OF THE NORWICH AND WOODSTOCK TURNPIKE COMPANY.

PASSED 1840.

Upon the petition of the Norwich and Woodstock Turnpike Company, showing to this assembly that it would be for the benefit, as well of the public as of said turnpike company, so to alter the charter of said company as to authorize the erection of two half toll-gates, instead of the south toll-gate, situated on the turnpike road of said company, leading from Norwich to Woodstock, at Lovett's Bridge, (so called,) in the town of Lisbon: whereupon,

Resolved by this Assembly, That said south toll-gate, situated in the town of Lisbon aforesaid, at Lovett's Bridge, (so called,) be and the same is hereby constituted a half toll-gate; and that hereafter said company may receive only one half the rates of toll for passing through said gate, that they have heretofore been authorized to receive by law. And the said company are hereby authorized to erect and maintain a half toll-gate

at such place on said turnpike road, within two miles of the south line of the town of Canterbury, as shall be approved by the commissioners on said road, and said company may collect and receive rates of toll for passing through the last named half toll-gate, equal to one half the rates prescribed by existing laws for a full toll-gate on said road, and no more. Provided however, that all persons living in the town of Lisbon aforesaid, may pass through both of said half toll-gates, without the payment of any toll whatever: and all persons who shall have traveled at no greater distance on said turnpike road than one half a mile, before coming to said gate, at said Lovett's Bridge, may pass the last mentioned gate without the payment of any toll whatever. And all persons who shall have traveled no greater distance than one mile on said turnpike road, before coming to said half toll-gate hereafter to be located within two miles of the south line of the town of Canterbury, may pass said gate without the payment of any toll whatever.

TITLE XXXII.

WATER COMPANIES.

INCORPORATING THE BRIDGEPORT WATER COMPANY.

PASSED 1853.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly convened, SEC. 1. That Nathaniel Greene, Thatcher T. Payne, Joseph Carpenter, Charles Canda, Jonas W. Thaxter, and James H. Jennings, with all such persons as are or may be, from time to time, associated with them, for the purpose of supplying the city of Bridgeport with an abundant supply of pure water, for public and domestic use, their successors and assigns, be and they are hereby incorporated for said purpose, by the name and style of the "Bridgeport Water Company;" and by that name shall be, and hereby are made capable in law to have, purchase, receive, possess and enjoy, to them and their successors, lands, rents, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects, of what kind and quality soever, necessary to give effect to the specified purposes of this company, and for the accommodation of their business and concerns, and the same to sell, grant, demise, alien and dispose of; to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in all courts in this state or