358 bly, &c. Fisheries. Jurors. from the Ge- Newport, without Permission therefor first had and obtained from the neral Affem- General Assembly. And that from and after the tenth Day of June next, any Gate or Fence standing or being upon said Post Road, by Virtue of Licence heretofore obtained from any County Court, shall be deemed a Nuisance, and may be removed accordingly: Any Law, Usage, or Custom to the contrary, in any wife, notwithstanding. Preamble. Claufe of an An Act in Alteration of an Act, entitled, An Act for encouraging and regulating Fisheries. WHEREAS in and by faid Act it is, among other Things, enacted, "That no Person or Persons shall draw any Sein, or other Fish-Craft, " in any of the Rivers before mentioned in this Act, except between "the setting of the Sun on Monday Evening, and the Sun's rifing on Satur"day Morning in each Week, in the Months of April, May, and June, an"nually, on Penalty of forfeiting Ten Pounds, to the Use of him who shall " fue for and profecute the same to Effect:" Which faid Provision is found not to answer the Purposes intended to have been answered by the faid recited Clause. Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in act repealed. General Court assembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That the faid Times limited for drawing seins, &c. Provifo. Jurors to be chosen. recited Clause be, and the fame is hereby repealed. And be it further enacted, That no Perfon or Persons shall draw any Sein, or other Fish-Craft, in any of the Rivers mentioned in any Paragraph of faid Act, preceding said recited Clause, except between the fetting of the Sun on Monday Evening, and the Sun's rising on Saturday Morning, in each Week in the Months of April, May, and June, annually, on Penalty of forfeiting Four Pounds ; one Half to the Use of him who shall fue for and profecute the same to Effect; and the other Half to the Use of the Treasurer of the Town where the Offence is committed: Which Penalty may be fued for and recovered before an Assistant, or Justice of the Peace; and no Appeal shall be allowed in such Cafe. Provided, That nothing in this Act shall extend to repeal any Part of the Law of this State, entitled, An Act for regulating the Fishery, and removing Obstructions in Pawcatuck River. An Act in Addition to, and Alteration of an Act for providing and regulating of Jurors in Civil Actions. B E it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in General Court affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That the several Towns hereafter named, shall chuse the Numbers of Jury Men to the Name of each Town annexed, viz. Symfbury, 1 Granby, Any Thing in faid Act to the contrary notwithstanding. NEW-HAVEN: PRINTED BY T. AND S. GREEN. ACTS and LAWS, Made and passed by the General Court or Assembly of the State of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, in said State, on the second Thursday of May, Anno Dom. 1788. An Act for instituting, defining, and regulating the BE it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That there shall be annually appointed by the General Assembly, a Comptroller of all public Accounts of this State, with Power to appoint, from Time to Time, one Clerk, or more if necessary, to assist him in his Office and Duty. Comptroller to be annually ap : To fuperintend the finances. That the faid Comptroller shall have Power to fuperintend all Matters that respect the Subject of the Finances of the State, and shall advise as to the Mode of keeping, stating, adjusting, and liquidating the public Accounts, subject to the Controul and Order of the General Assembly : And shall take fuitable Care that the regular and necessary Checks, in the Mode of keeping Accounts, be instituted and maintained, and lay before To lay before the Legislature, at the opening of each Sessions, fuch Plans and Calcula- the Legiflature.. tions, as in his Opinion may be expedient; for lefssening the public Ex- culations. pences; for using and improving the public Monies to the best Advantage; for promoting Frugality and Economy in the public Expenditures; for supporting the Credit of the State; and, in general, for the well ordering and regulating the Business of his Department. Eec And plans and cal. : 1 360 To state the public debts and credits of this Comptroller. And it shall, in particular, be the Duty of such Comptroller, from State with the Debts and Credits of this State, with the United States, or with any United States, &c. To liquidate accounts. To iffue certifi. cates for interest. To examine into the state of pub Community, public Officer, or Individual whatever; to liquidate all Accounts due from this State to any Person or Persons, pursuant to fuch Orders as have been given to the Pay-Table Committee, or which may be given to him by the General Assembly; to keep the proper Accounts, and to draw Orders on the Treasury for Payment; to compute the Intereft annually due on the State Obligations, as they shall be presented to him by the Owners of them; to make out the proper Certificates of such Interest accordingly, and keep the regular Accounts in such Manner as heretofore has been done by the Treasurer of this State, according to Law; to examine, from Time to Time, into the state of Collection of Taxes; to point out the Causes of Delay in such Collections, with what may, in his Opinion, tend to remove them; to fee that the Officers of Government employed in that Department, and in every other Department of lic taxes, and re- the Revenue, faithfully execute their respective Duties, and to report to the General Affembly all such as may appear to be chargeable with Abuse of their respective Trusts; to institute Suits at Law, in the Name of this State, against any and every Person or Perfons, or Body of Men, who have received any public Money, or Property, by any Way or Means whatsoever, and who have not regularly accounted for the fame, (the Collectors of State Taxes only excepted) and for this Purpose may employ an Attorney or Attornies under him, to fue therefor, and the fame to purfue to final Judgment and Execution: And the Officer who shall collect the Monies on such Execution, and all other Persons who shall, by the Appointment or Order of fuch Comptroller, receive the Monies of this State, shall pay the same to the Treasurer, taking duplicate Receipts therefor, and lodge one of them with the Secretary, and the other with the Comptroller. port abuses. To institute Suits. Further, It shall be the Duty of fuch Comptroller, to exhibit to the General Affembly in May and October annually, and oftner if thereto Countem required, an Account of all Monies received into the Treasury on Taxes, To exhibit accounts to the bly. Books and accounts of the with the Abatements made on faid Taxes, on Impost and Excife, for And in order that the faid Comptroller may be enabled to execute the Pay-Table to be Duties of his Office, all the Books, Accounts, Vouchers, Documents, and Papers whatever, now appertaining to the Pay-Table Office, shall be delivered to him, as incident to his faid Office, and he shall have free Access delivered to him. To have access fices & records. to the public of. to the public Offices of the Treasurer and Secretary, and all other public Offices and Records, with full Power to examine all Books and Papers therein, that have Relation to his faid Office. Comptroller &c. to audit public accounts. And be it further enacted, That the said Comptroller, with fuch other And Manufactures. Invalids. 361 Orders on the And be it further enacted, That no Orders hereafter to be drawn upon Treasurer to be the Treasurer, shall be paid until the fame shall be entered on the Comp- entered on the troller's Books, and a Certificate of such Entry shall by him be endorsed Comptroller's on fuch Orders. This Act to continue and be in force two Years, from and after the rifing of this Assembly. 1 An Act for the Encouragement of certain Manufactures within this State. 1 WHERE AS all due Encouragement should be given to Manufactures in this State. Preamble. company ex Be it therefore enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the Governor, Council, Buildings of the and Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the Authority of the manufacturing fame, That all fuch Buildings as shall be appropriated to, and employed empted from in the Manufacture of Woolen Cloth, by the Company lately formed in taxation. the City of Hartford, and its Vicinity, for the Purpose of establishing and carrying on fuch Manufactory within this State, shall be, and the fame are hereby exempted from any Tax or Assessiment, for the Term of five Years : And that the Polls of every Person whatever, who shall constantly labour at said Manufactory, shall, in like Manner, be exempted from the Lift of Polls and rateable Estate, for the Term of two Years next after the rifing of this Affembly. And it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That a Bounty of One-penny on the Pound upon all Woolen Yarn, that shall be spun and Bounty. made into Cloth at faid Manufactory, before the first Day of June, One Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty-nine, shall be paid to faid Company, or their Agent, for the Use of faid Company, out of the public Treafury of this State, upon due Proof made thereof by Oath, or otherwise fatisfactorily, to the Comptroller of public Accounts in this State, who shall thereupon draw Orders therefor accordingly. And it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Owners of all Iron-Works within this State, except Slitting-Mills, shall be, and they are hereby freed and excused from any Assessinent for, or on Account of such Iron-Works, during the Pleafure of this Assembly; any Law to the contrary notwithstanding. An Act providing for the Relief of disabled Officers, WHEREAS the United States in Congress assembled, by their Resolve of Iron-works ext. feffiments. empted from af. of June, 1785, recommended to the feveral States to make Provision for the Relief of Officers, Soldiers, and Seamen, who have been disabled in the Service of the United States, residing in each respective Preamble State: And whereas by Means of faid Resolve, it has become expedient for this State, to make Provision for Persons so disabled in the Service of the United States, as alfo for Persons who have been disabled in the Service of this State: Therefore, Be 362 to be made out. Invalids. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That two complete Lifts be forthwith made out, of all Persons claiming any Pension or Allowance Lifta of invalids from this State, in Consequence of any Disability contracted in the Service of the United States, or of this State. In one of which Lifts shall be expressed the Names, Pay, Age, and Disability of each Invalid in the Service of the United States; as also the Regiment, Corps, or Ship to which he belonged; a Copy of which shall be tranfmitted to the Office of the Secretary at War, within one Year from the rifing of this Affembly; and a like Copy of faid descriptive List of Invalids, shall from Year to Year, be annually tranfmitted to the Office of the Secretary at War : In the other of faid Lifts shall be expressed the Names, Pay, Age, and Disability of each Invalid, who shall receive any Pension or Allowance, on Account of any Disability contracted while in the Service of this State, as also the Regiment, Corps, or Ship to which he belonged; a Copy of which Lift, as also of the Lift before mentioned, shall annually be laid before the General Affembly of this State. That no Officer, Soldier, or Seaman, shall be considered as an Invalid, or intitled to Pay, unless he hath, or shall produce a Certificate from the Invalids to pro- commanding Officer or Surgeon of the Regiment, Ship, Corps, or Com duce a certificat. bled officers. pany in which he served, or from a Phyfician or Surgeon of a military Hospital, or other good and fufficient Testimony, setting forth his Difability, and particularly specifying whether fuch Disability was contracted in the Service of the United States, or of this State. 1 That all commissioned Officers, within the above Description, disabled in the Service of the United States, or of this State, so as to be wholly Penfion to difa- incapable of military Duty, or of obtaining a Livelihood, shall be allowed a Pension equal to one Half of their Pay respectively, while in Service: And all commissioned Officers, as aforesaid, who shall not have been difabled in so great a Degree, shall be allowed a Pension which shall correfpond with the Degree of their Disability, compared with that of an Officer wholly disabled. Provifo. Penfion to difabled privates. Judges of the Superior Court to cxamine and report. Provided nevertheless, That no Officer disabled in the Service of the United States, who shall have accepted his Commutation for half Pay, shall be intitled to receive any Allowance, by Virtue of this Act, until he shall first have returned his Commutation. That all non-commissioned Officers and Privates, within the aforesaid Description, disabled in the Service of the United States, or of this State, so as to be wholly incapable of military or garrison Duty, or of obtaining a Livelihood by Labour, shall be allowed a Sum not exceeding five Dollars per Month. And all non-commiffioned Officers and Privates, as aforefaid, who fhall not have been disabled in so great a Degree, shall be allowed such Sum as shall correspond with the Degree of their Difability, compared with that of a non-commissioned Officer or Private wholly ditabled. That the Judges of the Superior Court, or any two of them, be, and they are hereby appointed to examine all Claimants, and report whether the Perfon producing Evidence as before required, fetting forth that he is an Invalid, be fuch in Fact, and if such, to what Pay he is intitled, and |