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Provided nevertheless, That all matters now depending and unfinished in any of the Courts of Probate in whose Districts the aforesaid Towns Proviso. and Society are included, shall be finished in such Court.

An Act in addition to a Law of this State, entitled, an Act for constituting and regulating Courts, and appointing the Times and Places for holding the fame.

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Times of holding county courts in Middlesex

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it enacted by the Governor, Council and Representatives in General
Court afssembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That for the future,
the Times and Places of holding the County Courts in the County
of Middlesex, shall be as follows, viz. at Middletown on the second
Tuesday of November annually, and at Haddam on the first Tuesday of county.
April annually; and that any adjourned or Special County Court may be
holden at such Times and Place within either of faid Towns in said County,
as faid County Court shall order and determine; any Law, Usage or Cuf-
tom to the contrary notwithstanding.

An Act in addition to, and alteration of an Act, enti-
tled, an Act for erecting and establishing a new
County.

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it enacted by the Governor, Council and Representatives in General
Court afssembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That for the future,

the Time of holding the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Tolland, shall be on the first Tuesday of March annually, instead of the third Tuesday of March, which heretofore has been the Time of holding faid Court; any Law, Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

An Act for stating the Fare of Stratford Ferry over
New-Field Harbour.

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Times of holding county courts

in Tolland county.

it enacted by the Governor, Council and Representatives, in General Court afssembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That the Fare of faid Stratford Ferry shall be as follows, to wit, For a single Man One-penny half-penny, for a Man, Horse and Load Three-pence, for a lead Horse Twopence, for an Oxor any other Neat Kine Four-pence, for every two wheeled Fare of StratCarriage with one Man and a draft Horse Six-pence, for every tour wheel- ford Ferry. ed Carriage, one Man and a draft Horse Nine-pence, and for every additional Person or Horse, or other Beast, the fame as is afore stated in like Cates, and for a Goat, Swine, or Sheep, Three-farthings.

An Act in alteration of an Act, entitled an Act for Regulating Ferries.

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it enacted by the Governor, Council and Representatives in General Court affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That the Fare of a Team and Load at the Ferry in Hartford, be One Shilling, and Sixpence, and for a Waggon, Horses, and Load, One Shilling.

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Fare of Hart ford Ferry.

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An Act for the Encouragement of the raising of Hemp.

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it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives in General Court affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That all Persons in this State may annually during the continuance of this Act, insert in their several Lifts of Polls and rateable Estate given in to the Lifters of the respective Towns to which fuch Persons belong, an Account to be deduct- of the Quantity of Land which they shall have feverally fowed with

40s. per acre

ed from the lift for land fowed with hemp.

Lifters to

Hemp, in the Season next preceeding the giving in such List, and
thereupon faid Lifters in making up the Lifts of Estate as afore-
faid, shall credit and deduct from the Sum total of the Lift of fuch
Persons respectively, at the rate of Forty Shillings per Acre for any
Quantity of Land sowed with Hemp and inferted in the Lift as afore-
faid.

And be it further enalted, That if such Lifters by inspecting the Lifts
of rateable Estate as the Law directs, shall find that any Perfon or Per-
fons have inserted in their Lifts, any greater Quantity of Land to have

fourfold, &c. been sown with Hemp than was actually fowed with Hemp, it shall be the Duty of fuch Lifters, to add to the Lift of fuch Person or Persons Fourfold the Sum deducted as aforesfaid.

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And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Land sowempted from ed with Hemp in the Seafon next preceeding the giving in the Lift of

the lift.

Duty on imand cordage.

ported hemp

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Continu

ance.

Duty of 3s. per quintal on fith im

ported.

Proviso.

rateable Estate, shall be exempted from fuch Lifts.

And it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That a Duty of Six Shillings shall be paid on each Hundred Weight of Hemp or Cordage imported into this State by Land or Water, from and after the first Day of May A. D. 1789; which Duties shall be collected and paid in the fame Manner as is already by Law provided for the Collection and Payment of Duties on other imported Articles.

Provided, That nothing in this Act shall extend to the Growth or
Manufacture of the United States.

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And it is further enacted, That this Act shall continue in Force for the
Term of Seven Years from the rising of this Assembly, and no longer.

An Act in addition to an Act, entitled, an Act for en-
couraging and regulating Fisheries.

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it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives in General Court affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That for the future there shall be a Duty of Three Shillings Lawful Money on each Barrel or Quintal of Fish, which shall be imported or fold within this State, not caught by fome of the Subjects of this, or the United States; and that the Monies arising thereon, be appropriated towards the support of civil Government; to be collected in the same Manner, and under the same Penalties, as Goods, Wares, and Merchandize imported into this State by. Land or Water.

And it is further enacted, That when any Question shall arise pursuant to the Provifions of this Act, by whom such Fish were caught, the burthen of Proof shall lye on the Importer thereof.

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ACTS and LAWS, Made and passed by the General Court or Assembly of the State of Connecticut, holden at New-Haven, in said State, on the second Thursday of October, Anno Dom. 1787.

An Act impowering Judges of the Court of Common Pleas to depute indifferent Persons to serve Executions in certain Cases.

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the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in General
Court assembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That in all Cafes,
where the Sheriffs of the several Counties in this State, shall receive
Executions from the Treasurer, against the Inhabitants of any Towns,
for the Arrears of public Taxes, and levy the same on the Estate of fuch
Inhabitants, or any Part of them, and take their Receipts for such Estate,
to be delivered at the Place of Sale, according to Law; and on failure of
the Delivery of fuch Estate, shall obtain Judgment and Execution there-
on against the Inhabitants of such Towns, or any Part of them; that
then the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in each County, may,
at the Request of the Sheriffs, depute and impower some fuitable and
indifferent Person to ferve and return such Executions; which Persons
deputed as aforesaid, shall have the fame Power and Authority in serving
fuch Executions as Sheriffs and Conftables have by Law. And the She-
riffs shall be responsible for any Neglect or Default of every Person de-
puted at their Requests, as aforesaid, in the fame Manner as they are for
their Deputies.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in all Cafes where Sheriffs have already obtained Executions against the Inhabitants of any Towns, or any Part of them in the Manner aforesaid, the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in each County, may depute fome Person to serve the fame as aforesaid.

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sheriffs receive & levy thetreasurer's executions on estates of inhabitants of

towns in arrears, & take receipts for the fame, on livery, &c. the courts of

failure of de

common

pleas to appoint fomeother person to ferve & make return, &c.

Where sherishs have already obtained executions then, &c.

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Judges and Justices. Fees. Taxes.

An Act in Addition to an Act, entitled, An Act for conftituting Judges and Justices of the Peace in this State, and for impowering and directing them in their respective Offices.

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Naval-Officers fees, for coasting vef

fels.

feft, 3s.

E it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in General
Court assembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That the Judges

of County Courts, and Justices of the Quorum respectively, shall have Authority, and Authority is hereby granted them, to issue Process, returnable to the Courts to which they respectively belong, in all Civil Matters to be served in any Part of this State.

An Act in Alteration to an Act, entitled, An Act for regulating Fees, &c.

BE

it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in General Court affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That for the future the Fees to Naval-Officers for the Clearance of a coasting Vessel, bound either to the State of New-York or Rhode-Island, under the Burthen of Twenty Tons, Carpenter's Tonnage, shall be Three Shillings.

And be it further enacted, That the Fees for receiving a Manifest for a For a mani- Vessel of less than Twenty Tons, Carpenter's Measure, shall be Three Shillings: Any Law, Usage, or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding. Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Masters of all Vessels who shall neglect to clear out their Vessels according to Law, shall incur a Forfeiture of Forty Shillings Lawful Money for every such Neglect; one Moiety thereof to the Treasury of this State, and the other Moiety to him who shall complain and profecute the fame to Effect; to be heard and determined by any one Assistant or Justice of the Peace, from whose Judgment therein no Appeal shall be allowed.

Penalty of 40s. for neglecting to clear out

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fels.

No town liable to the collector of rates

An Act in Addition to a Law of this State, entitled,
An Act for collecting and paying Rates or Taxes.

BE it

enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in General Court afsembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That no Town shall be chargeable with, or liable to the Collector for any of the Rates of the Inhabitants of such Town, who shall be committed to Goal therefor by such Collector, or the Cost and Charges occafioned by fuch Commitment; nor shall the Treasurer issue an Execution in Favour of fuch Collector against the Select-Men of such Town, unless such Commitgoal, unless, ment be made within eight Months from and after such Rates become

for inhabi

tants committed to

&c.

Cafes where

taxes have

become due,

no town liable, &c. un

lefs, &c.

due and payable: Any Thing in faid Act to the contrary notwithstanding. And be it further enacted, That in all Cafes where Taxes have already become due and payable, no Town shall be chargeable with, or liable to the Collector for suth Taxes due from the Inhabitants of such Town, or Cost as aforesaid, unless the same shall have been proceeded with in the Manner before directed, within fix Months from and after the rifing of this Affembly.

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Rates. Fields and Fences. Nuisances.

An Act in Explanation of a Law of this State, entitled, An Act for collecting and paying Rates and

Taxes.

WHEREAS it is provided in faid Aft, "That if fuch Collector shall

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" deliver up his Rate Bill into the Hands of the Select-Men, they Preamble. " are hereby impowered to depute some meet Person to collect what " remains uncollected thereon, and the same shall be accounted for in Favour " of faid Collector." In the Construction of which Paragraph a Doubt has arifen, whether any Person, deputed as aforesaid, becomes thereby vested with Power to levy any Warrant for the Collection of fuch Taxes : And the Collection of Taxes has thereby, in some Instances, been much delayed and obStructed.

Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in General Court afsembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That in all Cafes where any Perfon or Persons heretofore have been, or hereafter shall be deputed by the Select-Men of any Town, agreeably to the Provision of faid Act, such Person or Perfons, deputed as aforesaid, does and shall thereby become fully, and in all Respects vested with the fame Rights, Powers, and Authorities, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, and is and shall be at all Times under the same Regulations as fuch Collector so delivering up his Rate Bill, as aforesaid, was before invested with.

An Act in Addition to an Act, entitled, An Act for ordering and regulating Fields and Fences.

BE it

Collectors
deputed by
select-men, to
have the fame
rights, &c.
as, &c.

Owners and

it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in General
Court assembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That when any
Owners and adjoining Proprietors of Land in any common Field, proprietors

shall fence and improve any particular Fields or Inclosures in severalty
within such common Field, fuch Owners or adjoining Proprietors shall
make and maintain a sufficient dividend Fence equally between them,
(that is to say) one of them the one Half, and the other of them the other
Half thereof: Which dividend Fence shall be made agreeable to the
Directions of said Act respecting what shall be deemed sufficient Fence
to secure particular Fields or Inclosures not within a common Field; and
shall be under the same Regulations and Provisions in said Act, as is
made for preventing Disputes about fencing particular Inclosures, and
rendering the Improvement of them profitable to the Owners.

An Act in Addition to and in Alteration of an Act, entitled, An Act for preventing, punishing, and removing Nuisances in High-Ways, Rivers, and Water-Courses.

BE it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in General

Court afsembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That no Gate or Fence shall hereafter be fet up or erected upon or across the public Post Road in this State, leading from New-York to New-London and Newport,

in common

to maintain

fields equally
dividend
fences, where
the land is
improved.

No gate, &c.
to be set up
on the post-
road, without
permiffion

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