of said Bridgeport require the removal of said remains so deposited in said grounds, and that said association has by a legal vote, legally called and held for that purpose, directed the petition aforesaid to be made, and appointed their committee to procure the passage of such act as should enable them to proceed as prayed for in said petition; therefore,

Resolved by this Assembly: SECTION 1. That said Bridgeport and Stratfield Burying Ground Association, be, and are hereby authorized and empowered to remove the remains of all those persons deposited in the grounds of said association, and the monuments erected over the same, and to re-deposit such remains in such suitable lots and grounds in the Mountain Grove Cemetery as may be procured for that purpose, and to replace such monuments as may belong to said remains over the same, in such suitable manner as may be prescribed by the commissioners, hereinafter named.

SEC. 2. That said association be, and are hereby authorized, empowered and directed by and through said commissioners, to agree and contract with some person for suitable lots and burial grounds in Mountain Grove Cemetery in which the remains of those heretofore deposited in the grounds of said association may be re-deposited, and their respective monuments replaced. And in consideration of such suitable lots so furnished in Mountain Grove Cemetery, and the expenses of the removal of such remains and monuments, and re-depositing and replacing the same therein, the said association are hereby also authorized and empowered to execute by and through said commissioners all such deeds of conveyance with the usual covenants of warranty, &c., as they may deem proper or necessary to convey a good title to said lands, burial lots and grounds now owned and occupied by said association, to such person as shall have provided such suitable lots and grounds in said Mountain Grove Cemetery, and shall have been at the expense of such removal of said remains and monuments therein, whenever said commissioners shall find that such person has fully performed all the provisions of this act, and thereupon a full and absolute title in fee in said premises shall vest in said grantee, his heirs and assigns.

SEC. 3. That Hon. James C. Loomis, Russell Tomlinson, and Egbert Marsh, Esqs., be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to superintend the removal of said remains and the redepositing the same with their respective monuments in said Mountain Grove Cemetery; and they are hereby authorized and empowered to finally settle and determine all questions of dis

pute and difference which may arise between the persons making such removal and exchange of burial lots and grounds, and the friends and relatives of such deceased persons whose remains shall be removed or sought to be removed; and both said association and such person making such removal and exchange shall do and perform all and every act and thing in relation to the subject matter of their said duty as may be ordered and prescribed by said commissioners.

SEC. 4. Said commissioners shall also, whenever called upon by either party in interest, after due notice given the other party, proceed to hear them, and shall settle and determine the value of any lot in said grounds of said association; and shall, upon such hearing, direct what sum shall be paid for the lot, and upon the payment to the person owning the said lot, or depositing with the treasurer of the Mountain Grove Cemetery Association to the credit of the owner of the lot, the sum awarded by said commissioners, the title to said lot shall thereby be transferred to the person with whom said arrangement for exchange of lots by said association shall be made, and the person to whom said money shall be paid, shall execute a proper conveyance of his interest in said unoccupied lot to the person making such exchange of lots as aforesaid, and in all cases when said commissioners shall be called upon to determine disputes under this act, they shall award the expenses of such hearing to be paid by one or both of said parties as they may decide to be just.

SEC. 5. Before the remains of any person who has been buried in the grounds of said association shall be removed without the consent of some of the relatives of such deceased, the said commissioners shall cause a notice to be published for the period of six weeks in the two daily and weekly newspapers published in said Bridgeport, requesting all persons having the remains of relatives deposited in said grounds to assume the superintendence of such exchange of burial lots and removal of such remains, and that after the period of eight weeks after the first publication of said notice, the remains of all persons then in said grounds of said association would be removed under the supervision of said commissioners.

Approved, July 3d, 1873.

156 CONN. CENTRAL RAILROAD CO.-BRIDGEPORT INS. CO.

[121.]

AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CONNECTICUT CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY.

Resolved by this Assembly: That the Connecticut Central Railroad Company be and they hereby are authorized to locate and construct an extension of their railroad, and the necessary switch lines connected therewith, commencing at a point on the easterly boundary of the land of the said Connecticut Railroad Company, at or near Broad Brook village, and from thence running through a portion of East Windsor, the town of Ellington, and a portion of the town of Vernon to connect with the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad, or the Rockville branch at some point in the town of Vernon. And all the rights and privileges conferred upon said Connecticut Central Railroad Company, by their charter and the amendment thereto, are hereby granted to said company and the towns herein named as fully in relation to said extension as if the right to make the same had been explicitly granted them in said charter and the

amendment thereto.

Approved, July 3d, 1873.

[122.]

INCORPORATING THE BRIDGEPORT İNSURANCE COMPANY.

Resolved by this Assembly: SECTION 1. E. B. Goodsell, S. M. Midlebrook, Robert T. Clarke, Granville W. Goodsell, Sidney B. Beardsley, Thomas L. Watson, C. B. Hotchkiss, Egbert Marsh, F. E. Fitch, Frederick Hurd and Morris W. Seymour, with such other persons as hereafter may be duly associated with them, their successors and assigns forever, be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Bridgeport Insurance Company; and by that name shall be and are hereby empowered to purchase, receive, hold, possess and enjoy to themselves and their successors, land, tenements and hereditaments, goods, chattels, stocks, choses in action, real and personal estate of every description, and also to sell, convey, grant, aliene and dispose of the same; to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of justice; to adopt and use a common seal, and the same to change at pleasure; and to enact and execute such by-laws and regulations as they may

deem proper for the control and well ordering of said company: provided, that such by-laws and regulations be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this state, or of the United States.

SEC. 2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than two hundred thousand dollars, and may hereafter at any time be increased at the pleasure of said company to any sum not exceeding the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and each subscriber to said capital stock shall pay into the treasury of said corporation, at the time of subscribing an installment of ten dollars on each share of stock by him subscribed; and shall, within sixty days after the time of subscribing, secure the payment of the remaining ninety dollars on each share so subscribed by him either by a mortgage or mortgages of real estate, or by indorsed promissory notes, approved by the directors, and said notes shall in all cases be payable within thirty days after a demand by order of the directors of said company; or each subscriber shall pay the said remaining ninety dollars per share, in regular installments, if thereto required by the direc tors, in and by a call published in one or more newspapers published in the city of Bridgeport.

SEC. 3. All the affairs of said company shall be managed by a board of not less than nine or more than fifteen directors, who shall be chosen by ballot, solely from among and by the stockholders, which choice shall be made by a majority of votes present; and said directors shall hold office for one year, or until others are chosen in their room, and the annual meeting for the choice of said directors shall, after the first election, be holden in the city of Bridgeport, on the first Wednesday in June of each year, or within one month, or after, as shall be appointed by said directors.

SEC. 4. The directors shall determine how many of their number shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and may fill any vacancy which may occur in their board between the annual meetings of the stockholders, by choosing a director or directors from among the stockholders, who shall continue in office until a successor or successors shall be chosen ; and the directors shall elect one of their number to be president of their company, who shall receive such salary or compensation as a majority of said directors shall determine; and the directors may elect another from their own body who shall preside at the meetings of the directors during the absence of the president; and said directors shall have power to establish such agencies in this state and elsewhere, and appoint such secretaries, agents, clerks and other officers as they shall deem necessary

and convenient, and also to perform such other acts and exercise such other powers as they shall deem expedient for the well ordering of the affairs of said company; and no director except the president shall be entitled to any salary unless by vote of the stockholders in general meeting.

SEC. 5. The president shall have power at any time to call a special meeting of the stockholders; and it shall be his duty to call a special meeting of said stockholders when thereunto requested by the holders of one-quarter of said stock; and public notice shall be given at least two weeks previous to any meeting of the stockholders, whether annual or special, by advertising in a newspaper published in the city of Bridgeport; and all questions at any meetings of the stockholders shall be determined by a majority of the votes, allowing one vote to each share; and said stockholders shall be entitled to vote in person or by proxy, duly appointed.

SEC. 6. Said corporation may make insurance against the loss by fire on all kinds of real, mixed and personal property of every description, and are also authorized to insure on vessels of all descriptions, and on all kinds of goods and merchandise against marine disasters and all the hazards of inland navigation; and said corporation shall be liable to make good and pay to the several persons who may or shall be insured by said corporation for all losses they may sustain in the subject matter insured, in accordance with the terms of the contract of insurance, and of the form of the policies issued by said company; which said policies, and all other contracts of said company, may be made with or without the common seal of said company, and shall be signed by the president or vice president and countersigned by the secretary, and, being so signed and executed, shall be obligatory on said company. No stock, holder shall be responsible, in his private capacity and estate, for any debt or liability of said company; but in case of a violation of the charter, intentionally or of fraud, the person guilty thereof shall be personally liable to said corporation, or to the assured, as the case may be.

SEC. 7. The capital stock of said corporation shall be transferable according to the rules and regulations prescribed by the directors; and every subscriber to the capital stock of said company who shall neglect to pay the installments aforesaid, or secure in the manner aforesaid the residue of each share by him subscribed, shall forfeit to said company his share or shares, and all payments made thereon, and on all profits that may have accrued thereon.

SEC. 8. The persons named in the first section of this act, or