[House Joint Resolution No. 22.]

[29.]

INCORPORATING THE THAMES STREET UNION EVANGELICAL SOCIETY OF NEW LONDON.

Resolved by this Assembly: SECTION 1. That Alfred S. Harris, Norman A. Baker, Francis N. Braman, Ellis S. Smith, Royal J. Kimball, Charles H. Mason, Charles A. Bunnell, Harris Lester, Seabury F. Rogers, Leonard Harris, and Charles W. Walker, all of the city and county of New London, be, and . they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, under the name of the Thames Street Union Evangelical Society of New London, and by that name they and their associates, and successors, shall and may have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all the courts in this state and elsewhere; may adopt a common seal, and use and alter the same at pleasure; may take by purchase, gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise, and have, hold and enjoy to themselves and their successors, both real and personal estate of whatever nature, and may sell, grant, aliene, invest, use, and dispose of the same, and the income thereof, for the purposes and the uses hereinafter set forth; and the said Alfred S. Harris and Norman A. Baker, as surviving trustees of the society known as the "Harbor Road Evangelical Society," are hereby authorized to bargain, sell, assign, convey, transfer, and set over to the said "Thames Street Union Evangelical Society," all the estate, both real and personal, now held by them as trustees of the said "Harbor Road Evangelical Temperance Society."

SEC. 2. The object for which this corporation is hereby created is to provide church, sabbath school, and other priv ileges; and said corporation may hold, use, and appropriate its property and funds for the support and encouragement of religious, benevolent, and literary enterprises, and in such other ways as it shall deem best calculated to promote the objects of its charter.

SEC. 3. Said corporation may elect such officers as they may find convenient, and make, and carry into effect, such by-laws and regulations as they may deem proper to promote and secure the object of the society, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state, or the United States, and not repugnant to any provision of this charter: provided, however, that all property and funds (other than that necessary for paying the ordinary current expenses of the society,) of whatever nature, belonging to the said corporation, shall be vested in, and remain in

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the sole possession, and under the exclusive care, control, and disposal of a board of trustees. Said board shall consist of not less than three, nor more than seven active members of said corporation, and shall be elected by ballot at the annual meetings of said corporation, by the suffrages of all active members of said corporation; and said board shall hold office for such length of time as said corporation may by its rules and regulations direct, or until others are elected in their stead. No alienation, investment, appropriation, or expenditure of the property or funds of the society, or the income thereof, held by the trustees, shall be made without the approval of a majority of said board of trustees. Said corporation shall elect a finance committee, with the power of incurring and paying the ordinary current expenses of the society.

SEC. 4. The first meeting of this corporation shall be held within two months from the passage of this act, the first two corporators, named herein, giving notice to the others in writing of the time and place of said meeting.

SEC. 5. The estate, property and funds which may be held by or granted to said corporation for the uses hereinbefore expressed, shall, with the income thereof, be exempted from taxation: provided, that the real and personal estate, held at any one time by said corporation, shall not amount to more than twenty thousand dollars in value.

SEC. 6. This act may be amended, altered or repealed at the pleasure of the general assembly.

Approved, June 19th, 1873.

[30.]

INCORPORATING THE BERLIN SAVINGS BANK. "

Resolved by this Assembly: SECTION 1. That Samuel C. Wilcox, Jonathan T. Hart, William H. Risley, Roswell A. Moore, Lyman Nott, Gustavus Upson, Alfred North, John Maloy, Elishama Brandegee, Henry M. Cowles, John Norton, Levi Deming, Edward E. Stevens, George W. Cook, Nathan S. Thresher, Henry N. Galpin, Andrew J. Warner, Edward C. Hall, William W. Norton and Alfred L. Bowers, and their successors, be and they are hereby incorporated by the name, style and title of the Berlin Savings Bank, and they and such others as shall be duly elected members of said corporation, as in this act provided, shall be and remain a body politic and

corporate by the name, style and title aforesaid, forever, for the purpose of transacting the business of a savings bank, in the town of Berlin, in the county of Hartford, in this state, as such business now is or hereafter shall be authorized and defined by the statute laws of this state.

SEC. 2. The said corporation shall be and hereby is vested with the power of making and carrying into effect such bylaws, rules and regulations as they may deem expedient for the proper management of their affairs: provided, that nothing in said by-laws shall conflict with the constitution or laws of this state or the United States, and may adopt a common seal, which may be changed and renewed at pleasure. All deeds, conveyances, grants, covenants and agreements made by their treasurer, or by any other person by their authority and direction, according to the by-laws of this institution, shall be good and valid; and said corporation shall, at all times, have power to sue and be sued, may defend, and shall be held to answer by the name, style and title aforesaid.

SEC. 3. Said corporation shall be capable of receiving from any person or persons, company or corporation, disposed to obtain and enjoy the advantages of said corporation, any deposit or deposits of money, not to exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, from any individual, company or corporation in any one year, and to use and improve the same for the purpose and according to the direction hereinafter provided.

SEC. 4. All deposits of money received by said corporation shall be used and improved to the best advantage by loaning not less than three-fourths of the amount of deposits actually received, on mortgage of unincumbered real estate, situated within the limits of this state, the estimated value of which shall be double the amount of the loan secured thereon in each case; and the remaining deposits received by said corporation, and not so loaned as aforesaid, may be invested in the purchase of such real estate as the wants or convenience of said corporation may require for a banking house, in addition to such as may be conveyed to said corporation for security, or in payment of debts; or so far as now is or hereafter shall be authorized by the laws of this state in the purchase of the public stock of any of the New England States, or of the states of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kentucky, or of the United States, or in the stock of any bank in this state, New York or Boston, or in the public stock of any incorporated city, town or borough in this state, or the cities of New York, Boston, Providence or Albany, or on undoubted personal security, in any manner not inconsistent with the laws of this

state or of the United States: provided, that said stocks or bonds may be sold from time to time to such an amount as will meet the demands for deposits, or promote the interests of said corporation; and the income or profits of said corporation shall be divided among the persons making the deposits, their executors or administrators, in just proportion, with such reasonable deduction as may be chargeable thereon; and the principal of such deposits may be withdrawn by the owner or owners thereof, or by any other person or persons duly authorized for that purpose, on giving notice of such intention in writing, and lodging the same with the treasurer of said corporation at least three months previous to withdrawing such deposit or deposits. SEC. 5. Said corporation shall, at their annual meeting, have power to elect, by ballot, any other person or persons to be members of said corporation, and shall so elect whenever the members of said corporation shall be reduced to twentyfive: provided, however, that no person so elected shall become a member of said corporation until he shall assent thereto by a written declaration, by him subscribed on the books of said savings bank.

SEC. 6. A meeting of the members of said corporation shall be held annually, at Berlin, some time in the month of July, and at such other times as said members may judge expedient; and any seven members of said corporation, the president, vicepresident, treasurer or secretary being one, shall be a quorum; and said corporation, at their annual meeting, shall have power to elect and choose a president, vice-president, treasurer, trustees, and all such other officers as to them shall appear necessary, which officers, so chosen, shall continue in office one year, and until others are chosen in their places; and all officers, so chosen, shall be under oath to the faithful performance of the duties of their offices respectively.

SEC. 7. No officer of said corporation shall be the hirer or borrower, or surety for any hirer or borrower of any portion of the funds of said corporation; and no president, vice president or trustee of said corporation shall be entitled to or receive any compensation for his services.

SEC. 8. Samuel C. Wilcox, Jonathan T. Hart, John Norton and Levi Deming, or any three of them, are hereby authorized to call the first meeting of said corporation, by causing a written or printed notice of the same to be left with, or at the usual abode of, each member of said corporation, stating the time and place of said meeting, at least seven days before it is to be held; and said meeting shall be held at some place in the town of Berlin.

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SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the president and trustees of said corporation to make an annual report to the general assembly, containing the statement of the amount of deposits, and of the dividends made and declared by said corporation for the preceding year.

SEC. 10. Said corporation shall be subject to the provision of all the public acts of this state relating to savings banks.

SEC. 11. This act shall take effect from and after the day of its passage.

SEC. 12. This resolution may be altered, amended or repealed, at the pleasure of the general assembly. Approved, June 19th, 1873.

[31.]

EMPOWERING THE OVERSEER OF THE PEQUOT INDIANS TO SELL LANDS.

Upon the petition of Leonard C. Williams, overseer of the eastern tribe of Pequot Indians, located in the town of North Stonington, praying, for reasons therein stated, for power and authority to sell a portion of the lands reserved by the state for the use of said Indians. Therefore:

Resolved by this Assembly: SECTION 1. That Leonard C. Williams, Esq., of Stonington, the overseer of said Pequot tribe of indians, and his successors in said office, be, and are hereby authorized and empowered, to sell by public auction, all of the lands reserved by the state for said indians (except one hundred acres of the same,) first giving notice of such sale or sales, by publication thereof in two weekly newspapers, published in New London county, for three weeks successively before such sale or sales.

SEC. 2. The said overseer and his successors in said office, are authorized to execute, to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, suitable conveyances of said lands.

SEC. 3. The avails of the sale or sales of said land, when received by the said overseer, shall be invested in one or more of the savings banks in said county, in his name and his successor in said office, in trust for the use and benefit of said tribe, and the interest and income arising therefrom shall be applied to and for the support and comfort of said Indians, as may be from time to time needed.