the bridge structure referred to in this resolution, together with any other expense incurred by said city relating to or growing out of such improvement, including the improvement and widening of Bridge street in the approach to said bridge from Main street in said Ansonia.

SEC. 4. Section ten of said resolution is hereby amended to read as follows: Said bonds shall be issued in serial form, consecutively numbered, beginning with number one, and shall be due and payable as follows: nine thousand dollars of the same, to wit, bonds numbered one to nine inclusive, shall be due and payable one year from their date, and the remaining bonds shall be due and payable in equal amounts of three thousand dollars each year, from year to year, beginning two years after their date, and commencing with bond number ten shall be paid as consecutively numbered within thirty-one years from the date of issue.

SEC. 5. After the payment of the first nine of said bonds as provided in section four hereof, the sinking fund commissioners, if they shall have left in their hands in the fund held by them for the redemption of said bridge bonds any funds in excess of the amount expended by them for such payment of said nine bonds, shall transfer such excess into such other fund held by them for the redemption of other bonds of said city, as the board of apportionment and taxation shall direct.

SEC. 6. If upon the completion of said bridge and improvements and payment therefor, there shall remain in the hands of the city treasurer any of the proceeds of said bonds, he shall pay the same to the sinking fund commissioners of said city, to be added by them to such fund held by them for the redemption of bonds of said city as the board of apportionment and taxation of said city shall direct. SEC 7. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved, February 20, 1913.

[House Bill No. 1023.]
[4.]

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO SUPPLY DEFICIENCIES IN APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE STATE LIBRARY AND FOR THE TREASURER'S OFFICE FOR THE TWO YEARS ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1913.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

SECTION 1. The following sums are hereby appropriated to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the objects hereinafter specified for the two fiscal years ending September 30, 1913: For the state library, for the legislative reference department, one thousand dollars; for the purchase of books, two thousand five hundred dollars; for indexing and preservation of records, nine hundred dollars; for

binding books, five hundred dollars; for maintenance of the state library and supreme court building, four thousand two hundred dollars; for incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars: For the state treasurer, for per diem clerical services in the treasurer's office, three thousand five hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage.
Approved, March 5, 1913.

[Substitute for House Bill No. 68.]

[5.]

AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WILLIMANTIC CONCERNING ITS LIBRARY APPROPRIATION.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section nineteen of an act incorporating the city of Willimantic, approved June 30, 1893, is hereby amended by striking out, commencing in the one hundred fifty-ninth line, the word "five" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "fifteen", so that the last two sentences of said section as amended shall read as follows: And said common council shall have the control and supervision of the public library belonging to said city, and may make such appropriations, from time to time, not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars in any one year, from the treasury of said city, as they may deem necessary to replenish and support the same. They shall annually appoint a committee of seven of the residents of said city to manage said library for the ensuing year, and make all needful rules and regulations for the proper management of said library.

Approved, March 13, 1913.

[Substitute for House Bill No. 7.]
[6.]

AN ACT CONCERNING A SUPPLY OF WATER WITHIN THE

TOWN OF WEST HARTFORD.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

The board of water commissioners of the city of Hartford shall supply water to the town of West Hartford, and to persons, firms, municipal, quasi-municipal, and private corporations, and bodies politic and corporate, within said town, for all uses for which water is supplied in the city of Hartford, and upon the same terms and conditions for each use as in said city.

Approved, March 13, 1913.

[House Bill No. 1024.]

[7.]

AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE GRAND LODGE, VASA ORDER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

SECTION 1. Section four of a resolution incorporating The Grand Lodge, Vasa Order of the United States of America, is hereby amended to read as follows: Said corporation may locate and establish subordinate district and local lodges, or other branches or divisions thereof, composed of members of said order, in any town or city in this or any other state of the United States and in any territory of the United States or land or country under the control of the United States and in Canada and in Sweden, and said district and local lodges, or other branches or divisions, when so established, shall be governed and managed by such laws, by-laws, rules, and regulations as said corporation shall determine; and said corporation may enforce such laws, by-laws, rules, and regulations against said district and local lodges, divisions, or branches, in any court of this state, or of any territory of the United States or land or country under the control of the United States and in Canada and in Sweden. Said corporation may authorize district and local lodges to make such local by-laws as the peculiar needs of any district or local lodge, branch, or division may seem to require, such by-laws to be subject to the approval of the corporation.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage, but shall not become operative unless within six months after the passage hereof the amendment herein to the charter of The Grand Lodge, Vasa Order of the United States of America shall be accepted at a meeting of said lodge, warned and held for that purpose, nor unless within said period an attested copy of such acceptance shall be filed in the office of the secretary of the state.

Approved, March 13, 1913.

[House Bill No. 67.]
[8.]

AN ACT AMENDING A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF WEST HARTFORD TO CONSTRUCT SEWERS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

SECTION 1. Section two of a resolution authorizing the town of West Hartford to construct sewers, approved May 21, 1907, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Said commission may also construct such drains as may be found necessary in connection with any sewer or sewers which it may lay out and construct,

and may acquire rights of way for such drains, and may assess the cost of the same upon the persons and property specially benefited thereby, in the same manner as is hereinafter provided for assessments for special benefits for the lay-out and construction of sewers; and such assessments shall be a lien upon the properties and shall be continued in the same manner and to the same extent as is hereinafter provided concerning assessments for sewers", so that said section as amended shall read as follows: Said commission may lay out and construct, alter, and repair sewers in any of the public highways in said town, and may enter upon and take land of persons or corporations outside of such highways in said town for the purpose of such sewers; and may negotiate and agree with the owner or owners of such land, and persons having an interest therein, as to the value of the right of way for the same, and for the payment therefor, and may also negotiate and agree with any persons or corporations for the right and privilege of connecting the sewers to be constructed in said town with any sewers or streams, and for obtaining the right of way outside of said town, as may be found necessary to make proper outlets from the sewers in said town, and may purchase such rights and privileges. Said commission may also construct such drains as may be found necessary in connection with any sewer or sewers which it may lay out and construct, and may acquire rights of way for such drains, and may assess the cost of the same upon the persons and property specially benefited thereby, in the same manner as is hereinaiter provided for assessments for special benefits for the lay-out and construction of sewers; and such assessments shall be a lien upon the properties and shall be continued in the same manner and to the same extent as is hereinafter provided concerning assessments for sewers.

SEC. 2. Section four of said resolution is hereby amended to read as follows: Said commission is authorized to apportion and assess upon the lands and buildings in said town, which shall in its judgment be specially benefited thereby, whether they abut on the sewers or not, and upon the owners of such lands and buildings, subject to the right of appeal as hereinafter provided, a proportional or reasonable part of the expense of laying out, constructing, altering, and repairing any sewers which it may vote to construct in said town, and of procuring rights of way, outlets, and privileges therefor, and of the notices by publication or otherwise provided for in this section, and in estimating such expense said commission may take into consideration the cost of construction, including interest paid by the town of West Hartford thereon, and of previous maintenance of any main or trunk or connecting sewer into and through which any lateral, connecting, or other sewer, the cost of which is being estimated, is to be discharged; provided only that the amount of the assessment shall not in any case exceed the benefits conferred upon the property by the improvement for which the assessment is levied. Said commission, after voting to lay out and construct any sewer, shall proceed to esti

mate the expense of such layout and construction, and of procuring such rights of way, outlets, and privileges therefor, and of such notices by publication or otherwise, including the cost and previous maintenance, including interest paid as aforesaid, or any main, trunk, or connecting sewer, into and through which the sewer, the cost of which is being estimated, is to be discharged, and shall assess the proportion of such expense which any person or persons, or corporation, including railroad corporations occupying streets with their tracks, or any lands or buildings specially benefited thereby, whether they abut on the sewers or not, should respectively defray. In making assessments upon the property benefited the commission may divide the total territory to be drained by said system into districts and may assess the property benefited in each district separately, those receiving the more immediate benefits being assessed first, and the less congested districts at such time or times as in the opinion of the commission the growth and development of such districts warrant. In making the assessments upon the property in the several districts as aforesaid, if such plan of assessment be adopted by the commission, the said sewer commissioners in each case shall add to the cost of the sewers located in the district being assessed the proportionate share of the cost of the trunk or main sewer which the property in such district should bear, including the cost of rights of way, outlets, and privileges therefor, the proportionate share of the interest which the town shall be required to pay for the use of the money spent in constructing the main or trunk sewer, and such other expenses as are necessary and incidental thereto. Said commission shall give notice of the assessment so made by the publication, in two daily newspapers published in Hartford, within one month after the assessment is made, of a certificate, signed by a majority of said commission, with a notice affixed thereto that any person aggrieved may, within ten days after the day of first publication of said notice, lodge with the clerk of said commission a written. statement of his objections to said assessment. On the first Monday after the expiration of said ten days, commencing at ten o'clock in the forenoon at the town hall in said town, said commission shall, if it see fit, revise said assessment with reference to said objections, at which time the parties interested may appear and be heard thereon, and said commission shall thereupon make a final assessment of such benefits as aforesaid, and shall within one month thereafter cause the same to be published, as a final assessment, in two daily newspapers published in Hartford. Said commission shall, on the written request of any person against whom or whose property an assessment is levied, made at any time on or before the date of said hearing, apportion such assessment or charge into such number of equal annual payments or instalments not exceeding ten, as such person shall designate in such request. Interest at the rate of six per centum per annum shall be added to each of such instalments or charges until it is paid. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the payment in