where the assessors of any town have neglected to compare, sign, return, date, or make oath to an abstract of the assessment lists of their respective towns, or to lodge the same in the town clerk's office on or before the date required by law, or at all; and in all cases where the board of relief of any town has not given legal notice of the time and place of its meeting, the assessment lists of such towns and the votes imposing the tax thereon shall not, for any of such causes, be adjudged void or defective, but the same are hereby ratified, validated, confirmed, and made binding upon the town or other community wherein the same were made; and all taxes which have been or shall hereafter be laid and imposed on the assessment lists herein specified may be levied and collected. grand jurors 277 SEC. 2. In all cases where the constables or grand jurors of Acts of any town have neglected to take the oath of office or file a certifi- constables or cate thereof, or both, within the time required by law, the official not duly sworn. acts of any such officers shall not for such reasons be deemed invalid, but the same are hereby ratified, validated, and con firmed. commissioners court. SEC. 3. All official acts heretofore done by any justice of the Acts of justices, peace, notary public, or commissioner of the superior court after notaries, or the termination of his term of office, or without his jurisdiction, of superior if otherwise legal, are hereby validated and confirmed; and all deeds and conveyances heretofore executed and acknowledged, needs but attested by only one witness, if otherwise valid, are hereby executive validated and confirmed to the same extent as if attested by two witnesses. defectively probate notification. SEC. 4. In all cases where a will devising or bequeathing Foreign wills property situated in this state has been proved and established admitted to out of this state in and by a court of competent jurisdiction, and without due where such will has been admitted to probate in this state by means of duly authenticated and exemplified copies thereof and of the record of proceedings, proving and establishing the same, such probate shall not be deemed invalid by reason of neglect to comply with the provisions of chapter eighty-eight of the public acts of 1882 (page 167), but the same is hereby ratified, validated, and confirmed. district warned. SEC. 5. In all cases in which the warning of any school Acts of school district meeting has been posted and given, but for a shorter time meetings than required by law, the acts and doings of such school district defectively meeting, if otherwise in conformity with the law, shall not for this reason be invalid, but the same are hereby ratified and confirmed. act. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect from its passage, and shall Effect of this not affect any suit now pending. Approved, April 24, 1883. 278 Official term of school district committees in larger districts. Return to former mode how made. When this act takes effect. SCHOOL COMMITTEES.-SHELL-FISH AND SHELLS. [Jan., [Substitute for House Bill No. 71.] CHAPTER XCV. An Act relating to the Official Term of School District Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. Any school district having by its last enumeration not less than two hundred children between four and sixteen years of age may at any annual meeting, upon due notice being inserted in the call therefor, order that its committee shall consist of three persons to be chosen by ballot, and that said committee shall be divided into three classes, holding office for one, two, and three years; and that annually thereafter one member of the committee shall be chosen by ballot to hold office for three years. Should any vacancy occur, the remaining members of the committee may fill it until the next annual district meeting, when all vacancies shall be filled. SEC. 2. Any district which has appointed its committee as hereinbefore provided may, at any special meeting called for the purpose, vote that it will no longer so appoint its committee, and thereupon the terms of office of all the members of its committee shall end at its next annual meeting, and thereafter its committee shall be appointed according to the provisions of the general statutes. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on the first day of June next. Dredging for [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 80.] CHAPTER XCVI. An Act amending an Act regulating the Dredging for Shell-fish and Shells. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section one of chapter one hundred and nine of the public acts of 1881 (page 58) is hereby amended so that the same shall read as follows: It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to use a boat or any other contrivance dragged, operated, or propelled by steam, in taking up or dredging for oysters, oyster shells, clams, or other shell-fish in any bay, river, or other waters within the boundaries or jurisdiction of this state: provided, however, that this section shall not be so construed as to prevent the use of steamboats in taking up, or dredging for, oysters on private designated grounds in any such waters by the owners thereof, or to prevent the use of steam excavators for deepening 1883.] WAREHOUSEMEN, ETC.-CORPORATIONS. the water in places where there are no natural oyster or clam beds, or where such beds have not existed within ten years, by digging or removing material, permission to use such excavators being first given by the commissioners of shell-fisheries, which permission shall not be given until after a public notice of at least two weeks of the time and place they will hear all parties desiring to be heard upon such application, which notice shall be posted in the office of the town clerk of the town where such grounds are located. Approved, April 26, 1883. [House Bill No. 246.] CHAPTER XCVII. An Act in addition to an Act in relation to Warehousemen and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in warehouse Any person or persons who shall have established, or who shall Issue of hereafter establish and maintain a public warehouse, in accord-receipts ance with the provisions of chapter forty of the public acts of regulated. 1878 (page 284), may issue warehouse receipts for any goods, wares, merchandise, provisions, grain, flour, or other commodity, which shall have been or may be deposited in said public warehouse, whether the property of themselves or of the parties from whom they have received them; provided, however, that no such warehouse receipts shall be issued except subject to and in conformity with all the other provisions of law now relating to warehouse receipts and warehousemen. Approved, April 26, 1883. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 67.] CHAPTER XCVIII. An Act concerning Corporations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 279 organization granted SECTION 1. The charter of every corporation hereafter granted, Certificate of under which no corporation shall be organized, and no certificate under charters of such organization, sworn to by the president or secretary of hereafter said corporation, shall be filed in the office of the secretary to be filed. of state within two years from the date of the approval of the charter, shall be void. certificates SEC. 2. The charter of every corporation heretofore granted, Such under which no corporation shall be organized, and no certificate under charters of such organization, sworn to by the president or secretary of heretofore granted. SUPERINTENDENT OF CAPITOL.-PRINTING. [Jan., said corporation, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state within two years from the first day of June, 1883, shall be void. SEC. 3. At all meetings of corporations having a capital stock, stockholders may vote in person or by an attorney duly authorized thereto. Approved, April 26, 1883. Superintendent of the capitol and his assistant. Salaries. [Substitute for House Joint Resolution No. 116.] CHAPTER XCIX. An Act authorizing the Appointment of a Superintendent and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The comptroller may appoint a superintendent of the state capitol and an assistant superintendent thereof, who shall perform the duties now performed by the keeper of the state house and his assistant, and such duties as the comptroller may require, regarding the care of the capitol building and the property therein. SEC. 2. The salary of the superintendent shall be at the rate of fourteen hundred dollars per annum, and the salary of the assistant superintendent shall be at the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum. Approved, April 26, 1883. Number of Rail road reports to be printed. Repeal. [House Bill No. 361.] CHAPTER C. An Act in relation to Printing the Railroad Commissioners' Report. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The comptroller shall annually cause to be printed, at the expense of the state, twenty-two hundred copies of the report of the railroad commissioners. SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, April 26, 1883. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: insolvent real estate or Whenever any part of the estate of an insolvent debtor shall Assignment of consist of real estate, the trustee shall, within thirty days after his debtor owning approval or appointment as such trustee, cause a certified copy decree adjudg of the assignment or of the decree adjudging such person to being him insolvent, to be recorded in the office of the town clerk of the recorded. town within which such real estate is located. Approved, April 26, 1883. [Substitute for House Bill No. 150.] CHAPTER CII. An Act concerning Interest on Assessment Liens. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in insolvent to be nor interest collectible until, Whenever any assessment has been or shall hereafter be laid Assessment lien by any town, city, borough, or other municipal corporation, upon thereon to be private property benefited by any public work or improvement, for the expense of such public work or improvement, or for benefits accruing therefrom, and a certificate of lien upon such property has been or shall be lodged for record with the town clerk, neither the principal of such assessment nor any interest thereon shall be collectible by such municipality until such public work or improvement shall have been completed and the fact of such completion recorded on the record books of such municipality by order of the board or officers by whom such work or improvement was ordered. Approved, April 26, 1883. [House Bill No. 355.] CHAPTER CIII. An Act relating to Boarding Houses for Infants. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. Any person engaging in the business of taking Baby farming infants under three years of age to entertain or board, in any regulated. number exceeding two in the same house at the same time, shall, within three days after the reception of every such infant, give |