property from taxation. (2) Remitting, releasing, postponing, or diminishing any obligation or liability of any person, corporation, or association, to the state or to any political subdivision thereof. (3) Granting any pension or pensions. (4) Granting a divorce. (5) Creating any private corporation not of a charitable nature. (6) Authorizing the sale or incumbrance of property of minors or others who are under some legal disability. (7) Changing the law of descent or distribution. (8) Legitimating children or changing the legal status of a minor. (9) Exempting any particular private corporation, association, or individual from the operation of any general law. SEC. 2. No special or private law shall be enacted, for any other purpose, where a general public law exists or could be enacted which, in the judgment of the general assembly, would cover the case. RESOLVED: That the foregoing proposed amendment to the constitution be continued to the next session of the general assembly and be published with the laws passed at the present session. Passed in the House of Representatives, July 27, 1911. FREDERICK A. SCOTT, Speaker of the House. STATE OF CONNECTICUT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, HARTFORD, September 29, 1911. I hereby certify that I have compared the printed copy in this pamphlet contained with the engrossed bills of public acts passed by the general assembly of the State of Connecticut, and the proposed amendments to the constitution of said state, passed by the House of Representatives, at the January session 1911, and that the same is a correct copy of the public acts and amendments aforesaid, as engrossed and on file in this office. MATTHEW H. ROGERS, Secretary. [Substitute for House Bill No. 693.] [103] An Act amending an Act dividing the Town of Harwinton into Voting Districts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. Section one of an act dividing the town of Harwinton into voting districts, approved August 12, 1909, is hereby amended by striking out the word "east" in the third line thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the word "west", so that said section as amended shall read as follows: The town of Harwinton is hereby divided into voting districts, the boundaries of which shall be as follows: So much of said town as lies north and west of a line beginning at a point in the north line of said town where said north line is intersected by the center line of the highway leading northerly past the residence of Gottfried Weingart, and running thence in a straight line southerly through a point one hundred feet from the northeast corner of the dwelling house of John Shibi; thence southerly in the same course to the point of intersection with a line commencing at a point in the Naugatuck river one hundred and seventy-five rods south from the center of the Bogue road bridge, so called, and running thence easterly in a straight line through a point one hundred feet south from the southwest corner of the residence of Egbert Lyon, formerly owned by Philo Cleveland, and thence easterly to the point of intersection aforesaid, shall be and remain the second voting district; and all that part of said town lying to the east or south of said line above described shall be and remain the first voting district. SEC. 2. Section six of said act is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "and at the electors' meeting to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1912, and biennially thereafter, the polls for the reception of ballots in said district shall be open at nine o'clock in the forenoon and close at three o'clock in the afternoon." Approved, April 4, 1911. [Substitute for House Bill No. 517.] [292] An Act concerning Voting Districts in the Town of Plymouth. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. The town of Plymouth shall be divided into and shall comprise two voting districts for the purpose of voting for all town officers, state officers, and all other officers and measures required to be voted for by ballot at electors' and annual town meetings. SEC. 2. The division line between said districts shall be as follows: Beginning at a bound on the line between the town of Harwinton and the town of Plymouth, thence south eight degrees west to a mark on a rock, which mark is one hundred and ninety-seven feet south of the main road between the village of Terryville and the village of Plymouth, said line passing two hundred feet west of the T. Fenn house, now owned by Andrew Buell, four hundred and twenty five feet east of the Charles A. Schroback house, three hundred and fifty-five feet west of the old Bull farmhouse, now owned by William Smith, one hundred and thirty-two feet east of the house in which Frank Yale now lives; thence south to a point on the road running southeast from Hancock station, said point being twenty-two hundred feet southeast of Hancock station, measured on said road, said line passing five hundred and sixty feet west of the old J. Ives place, now owned by Addison Watrous, one hundred and twelve feet east of the old saw mill south of said Watrous' house, crossing the railroad seventeen hundred feet east of Hancock station; thence following the above-mentioned highway southeast to the Wolcott town line. All that part of the territory of the town of Plymouth lying westerly of said division line shall be the first district, and all the territiry of said town lying easterly of said division line shall be the second district. SEC. 3. The selectmen of said town shall provide a suitable and convenient place for voting, and the necessary ballot boxes, for the use of the voters in each of said districts, at said electors' and town meetings, and the warning of any such meeting shall specify the particular place of voting in each of said districts, which place in the case of the second district shall be the town hall in the village of Terryville. Immediately after the ballot boxes are closed at any such meet ing, the ballots cast in the first voting district shall be counted and a true certificate of all of the ballots given in in said district for the respective officers voted for shall be forthwith transmitted, together with the ballots received and the boxes containing the same, with the list of voters as checked, to the moderator of the second voting district, who, having ascertained the result of the ballots of the entire town, as given in said districts, shall declare the same in open meeting in said second district and shall make return thereof as the law directs. SEC. 4. The annual town meeting held on the first Monday in October in each year shall be adjourned until the Friday next following at eight o'clock p. m., at the town hall in Terryville, in said second district, and the moderator of such town meeting shall, after declaring the result of the ballot on said first Monday in October, adjourn said annual town meeting as hereinbefore provided. No business of the annual town meeting, except the elections or votes by ballot hereinbefore provided for, shall be transacted on the first Monday in October. Sec. 5. No elector in said town shall lose his right to vote by reason of his being registered in the wrong district, but said elector shall vote in the voting district wherein he resides, provided that he shall have resided therein for a period of thirty days preceding, otherwise said elector shall vote in the voting district wherein he is registered. SEC. 6. An act dividing the town of Plymouth into voting districts, approved July 2, 1873, is hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect from its passage. [House Bill No. 723.] [344] An Act concerning the Election of Constables in Waterbury. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. At the biennial town and city election of the town and city of Waterbury held on the first Monday of October, 1911, and biennially thereafter, there shall be chosen |