Chap. XIII. Militia.

ment will furnish an orderly sergeant to attend the orders of the court. [To be signed by the brigadier, or the brig

ade major, by his order.]

Of a division

That for a general court-martial the adjutant-general Detail of a shall detail and notify all general officers, and apportion the general court number of other officers required to the several brigades martial. they are to be taken from, and give notice thereof to the respective brigade majors; who shall detail and notify said officers, and return make to the adjutant-general's office. That in a division court-martial, an aid-de-camp, under the direction of the major-general ordering said court, shall detail, and notify the general officer, or officers, and apportion the other officers to each brigade; and give notice thereof to the respective brigade majors, who shall detail, and notify the field officers required of their brigades, and return thereof make to the office of the major-general ordering said court.

court martial.

What notice to be given to the officer arrested.

That for a brigade court-martial, the brigade major shall of a brigade detail, and notify the field officers required to serve on said court martial. court, and apportion to the several regiments in said brigade, the number of captains, and subalterns required of each regiment, and notify the respective adjutants; and the adjutant of each regiment shall detail, and notify them, and return thereof make to the brigade major. And if the officer to be tried be a general officer, he shall be furnished with a copy of the order for said court, and a copy of the charges in arrest, by the adjutant-general or a brigade inspector, as the captain-general shall direct, thirty days before the sitting of said court inclusively, and also make returns thereof, with the names of the officers composing the court, to the judge advocate; and if he be of or under the rank of a field officer, shall be furnished with like copies, twenty days before the sitting of the court, by a brigade inspector or adjutant of the regiment, to which the arrested officer belongs, as the officer ordering the court shall direct; who shall also return the same, and the names of the officers composing the court, to the judge advocate. And it shall be the duty of the judge advocate, to summon such witnesses on the part of the state, as may be necessary, by subpoena from the officer ordering the court. The members to compose the court shall be detailed by seniority, in a regular rotation of duty. And all charges in arrest shall be made out in due form, by way of complaint, and signed by the party complaining, addres- rest, how made: sed to the officer whose duty it is to order the court; specifying the act, or neglect of which the accused is supposed to be guilty, and praying due process, before said officer shall proceed to order a court martial for the trial of the arrested officer. That the members of the court, before

Judge advocate to summon witnesses

on the part of the state.

Charges in ar

Oath for members of the court.

For the judge advocate.

Record of proceedings, where deposit

ed.

Repeal.

Musicians in

Foot Guards.

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they proceed to the trial of a cause, shall take the following oath, to be administered by the judge advocate, viz.

"You swear that you will truly try, and determine, according to your evidence, the matters depending between this state, and the officer or officers now to be tried that

you will not divulge the sentence of the court, until the same shall be approved or disapproved, pursuant to law. Neither will you at any time disclose the vote, or opinion of any member of the court, unless required by due course of law. So help you God."

And the judge advocate, before he administers said oath, shall take the following oath, to be administered by the "President of the court, viz.

"You swear that you will not, at any time whatever, disclose the vote, or opinion of any member of the court, unless required by due course of law. And that you will not divulge the sentence of the court, till the same shall be approved, or disapproved, pursuant to law; and that you will faithfully and impartially do the duty of judge advocate in the court, according to the best of your ability: So help you God."

And that all oaths which by this act may be necessary, and not otherwise provided for, máy be administered by any general or field officer.

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the record of the proceedings, and sentence of a court martial, in every case, with the order of the captain-general, approving or disapproving the same, shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of the state.

§3. And be it further enacted, That the twenty-seventh paragraph of the act, to which this is an addition bẹ, and the same is hereby repealed."

§4. Be it further enacted, That four musicians be added the Governor's to the band of music of the first company of the govern or's foot guards, and that the commander of said company be authorized to enlist said musicians under the same lim itations and restrictions as are provided by law for the inlistment of musicians, for the governor's guards.

General Assembly, May Session, 1810.

LYMAN LAW, Speaker

of the House of Representatives. JOHN TREADWELL, Governor.

Attest. THOMAS DAY, Secretary.

OCTOBER SESSION, 1810.

CHAP. I.

An Act incorporating the Middletown Manufac

1.

BE

turing Company.

name.

E it enacted by the Governor and Council and House of Representatives in General Court-assembled, That Arthur Magill, Joel Barlow, Alexander Wolcott, Daniel Buck, Arthur W. Magill, and Isaac Sandford, together with such other persons as have associated, or may hereafter associate with them, for the purposes of manufacturing cloths and other fabricks of wool, and of cotton and wool, their successors, and assigns, be and they hereby are created, and made a corporation, and body politic, by the name and style of the Middletown Corporate Manufacturing Company, and by that name shall be capable in law of suing, and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, of defending, and being defended, in all courts General powor places whatsoever; the said corporation are also hereby authorized to have and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure, and also to ordain, establish and put in execution, such by-laws and regulations as shall be deemed necessary and convenient for the transferring of shares in the stock of said company, and for the well ordering and government of said corporation, not being contrary to this charter, or to the laws of the the United States, or of this state.

ers.

§ 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not ex- Capital stock. ceed two hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one thousand dollars each; and said corporation shall have power to purchase, take and hold, any real, as well as personal estate, proper for the purposes of their institution, provided such real estate shall not exceed at any one time, fifty thousand dollars in value. And all

Directors.

How chosen.

First directors.

Right of voting.

Mode.

Clerk.

Agents.

Assessments.

Forfeiture

for non-payment.

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such real estate shall remain the property of said corporation, their successors and assigns.

§ 3. That for the well ordering the affairs of said corporation there shall be chosen annually, not less than three, or more than five directors, of whom one shall be president, which directors shall be chosen by the stockholders, at a general meeting, to be held in the month of May annually; of which meeting at least twenty days notice shall be given in one news-paper published in the city of Middletown, or in the city of Hartford; provided that Arthur Magill, Alexander Wolcott, and Daniel Buck, shall be the first directors and shall continue in office until the election of directors, to be made in the month of May, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.

§ 4. The number of votes that each stockholder shall be entitled to, in the choice of directors, or any other business respecting the corporation, shall be equal to the number of shares he shall hold ; and all stockholders shall be entitled to vote by themselves, or their agents duly appointed.

§ 5. Said corporation shall appoint a clerk, who shall be sworn by a judge or justice of the peace, faithfully to discharge his trust and duty; and who shall also record all votes, ordinances and by-laws of said corporation, in a book to be by him kept for that purpose.

§ 6. The said directors for the time being, or a majority of them, shall have power to appoint such clerks, agents and servants as they judge necessary, and to agree with them, and allow such compensation for their services and labour as they judge reasonable; but no director shall receive any compensation for his services, unless the same be allowed at a general meeting of the stockholders.

7. The said directors shall have power to assess on the stockholders such sum, or sums as they shall judge necessary for raising and completing the capital stock of said corporation; but such assessments shall not exceed in the whole one thousand dollars on each share; and no business shall be commenced under this act of incorporation, until at least the value of forty thousand dollars shall be vested in said corporation.

§ 8. If any stockholder shall refuse or neglect to pay any assessment made on him as aforesaid, for a period exceeding ninety days, after notice of such assessment shall have been published in a news-paper printed in said city of Middletown, or said city of Hartford, or after a written notice of such assessment, from the clerk of said corporation, to be delivered to such stockholder, then the share or shares of such stockholder shall be forfeited to the corporation with all prior payments made thereon.

Chap. II. Medical Society.

ited.

§ 9. Said corporation shall transact no business except Business limsuch as immediately appertains to the manufactures mentioned in the first paragraph of this act.—But said corporation may sell any real as well as personal estate that has been taken for the payment of any debt previously contracted.

§ 10. The debts of said corporation shall at no time Debts limited. exceed the amount of capital stock of said corporation at

the time actually collected or invested.

§ 11. The directors shall from time to time authorize Dividends. dividends to be made to the stockholders of so much of

the profits accruing from the business of the corporation

as shall appear to them proper.

§ 12. It shall be the duty of the directors to procure Instruction. for the children employed in said manufactory, instruction in a school, in which they shall be taught, reading, writing and arithmetic, and shall be instructed in religion, morals, and manners, as is by law directed to be taught in other schools, for at least three months in each year; provided that this act shall be subject to such amendments and alterations from time to time as the general assembly shall think proper to make.

Provided also, and be it further enacted, That the per- Proviso. sons and property of the members of said corporation, shall at all times be liable for all debts due by said corpora

ration.

General Assembly, October Session, 1810.

LYMAN LAW, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN TREADWELL, Governor.

Attest. THOMAS DAY, Secretary.

CHAP. II.

An Act in addition to and alteration of an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Medical Society."

§1.

BE

E it enacted, by the Governor and Council, and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, That the President and Fellows of the Medical Society be empowered, to unite with the President and Fellows of Yale College, for the purpose of forming a Medical Seminary, to be styled The Medical Institution Name. of Yale College; agreeably to the following articles, agreed upon by and between the committee of the corporation of Yale College, and the Medical Society of the State of Connecticut; as follows, viz.