PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, UNDER THE DIRECTION HARTFORD, PRINTED BY CHARLES BABCOCK. 1826. THE Public Statute Laws OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT. 000 MAY SESSION, 1826. CHAP. I. An Act in addition to an Act entitled "An Act for the regulation of Civil Actions." B In actions be peace,in which E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly convened, That in any fore justices of action brought before any Justice of the Peace demanding not more than seven dollars damages, and charging the title to a the defendant with obstructing a way, or for is in ques any injury way tion, record to a way, in which the title to the way claimed by the thereof to be plaintiff shall be brought in question, it shall be the duty made; of such Justice of the Peace, on the trial thereof, to cause a record to be made that the title to such way was in question in such action, and thereupon the party aggrieved by the judgement of such Justice of the Peace shall Appeal to Su be allowed an appeal to the next County Court in the and appeal al- Speaker of the House of Representatives. May 29, 1826-Approved. President of the Senate. OLIVER WOLCOTT. fect the records of their courts. B CHAP. II. An Act requiring Bonds in certain cases. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly convened, That the sevClerks to give eral Clerks of the Superior and County Courts, which now bonds to per- are or hereafter shall be appointed, shall, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, give bond, with surety, to the Treasurer of the County in which they reside, and to his acceptance, in the sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned that said Clerks respectively shall faithfully make and perfect all records of their respective Courts, required by law to be made, and faithfully to do all other matters and things required by law in the execution of their respective offices. SAMUEL A. FOOT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. DAVID PLANT, President of the Senate. May 30, 1826-Approved. OLIVER WOLCOTT. CHAP. III. An Act relative to the Levy of Executions on SECT. 1. BE Real Estate. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly conon levy of exe-vened, That on the levy of any execution on real estate, cution on real there shall be allowed Certain fees estate. To each appraiser sixty-seven cents per day: To a surveyor, when necessarily employed, one dollar and fifty cents per day: To each chain bearer necessarily employed, sixty-seven cents per day: To a Justice of the Peace, for administering the oath to the appraisers, and for appointing appraisers, when necessary, twenty-five cents. To the Town Clerk for recording the execution and the return thereon, twenty-five cents, for each page thereof, consisting of two hundred and eighty words: Which sums shall, by the officer levying such execu- To be endors tion, be endorsed thereon, together with his own fees. ed. on account of SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That no levy of an ex- Former levies ecution on real estate, heretofore made, shall be deemed not to be void, void, because the officer who made such levy embraced excessive alin his return thereon, as part of the costs of such levy, lowances to allowances to the appraisers, surveyor and chain bear- appraisers, &c. ers employed, and the Justice who administered the oath to the appraisers, and an allowance to the Town Clerk who recorded such execution, greater than the sum of thirty-four cents; nor because such officer embraced in his return, as part of the costs of such levy, other or greater fees than were by law allowable; but all such levies, which are not in other respects defective, are hereby declared to be valid and effectual to transmit the title to the real estate levied upon. officer's liabili Provided, That the liability of such officer for receiv- Proviso as to ing more than his lawful fees on the levy of such execution, shall in no way be altered or affected by this act. SAMUEL A. FOOT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ty. President of the Senate. May 25, 1826--Approved. OLIVER WOLCOTT. CHAP. IV. An Act in addition to and alteration of an Act, concerning Towns. B Towns em powered to E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly convened, That Towns are empowered, at their annual meetings for choice of grant taxes on Town officers, to grant taxes on the assessment list, assessment list which shall next thereafter be completed by the Asses- next to be sors and Board of Relief, which taxes shall be payable within one year after the same are granted; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. SAMUEL A. FOOT, Speaker of the House of Representatives. DAVID PLANT, completed. President of the Senate. June 1, 1826.-Approved. OLIVER WOLCOTT. |