TITLE XVIII. GOVERNOR'S GUARDS. AN ACT ALTERING THE CHARTER OF THE FIRST COMPANY OF THE GOVERNOR'S Foot guards—PASSED, OCTOBER 1802. Enacted by this Assembly, That there shall be added to said Company as now established by law, one Lieutenant, four Sergeants, four Corporals, a Band of Music of fourteen Musicians, six Fifers, four Drummers, and thirtytwo Privates, so that in future said Company shall consist of a Captain, two Lieutenants, an Ensign, eight Sergeants, eight corporals, a Band of Music of fourteen Musicians, six Fifers, four Drummers, and ninety-six Privates; and the Captain of said Company is hereby authorized and empowered to enlist such additional number to fill said Company from any of the Militia Companies, provided that by such enlistment no Militia Company be reduced below the number of sixty-four rank and file; and provided also, that no additional expense for dining said Company on the Election days shall thereby be incurred by the State; and the Captain of said Company when thereto commanded by His Excellency the Governor, shall lead said Company to the choice of a Second Lieutenant for said Company, who shall be commissioned according to law; and the Captain of said Company shall at such time or times as he shall think proper, lead said Company to the choice of Non-Commissioned Officers for said Company; and the Non-Commissioned Officers of said Company shall receive their warrants from the Captain thereof. Said Company shall have power by their major vote, with the approbation of the Captain thereof, to establish an uniform of dress and accoutrements for said Company, and from time to time to alter the same, or any part thereof; and each Non-Commissioned Officer, Musician and Private of said Company shall pay a fine of one dollar for each article of dress or accoutrements in which he shall be deficient when called out for Company exercise, and directed by the Commanding Officer of said Company to appear in uniform; and for each such deficiency on Election days, or at any other time when said Company shall be called out by special order of His Excellency the Governor, each Non-Commissioned Officer, Musician and Private, shall pay a fine of three dollars. The commanding officer of said company, shall have authority, and authority is hereby given to him to call out said company for the purpose of training them to military discipline and the use of arms, such number of days as he shall think proper, not exceeding fifteen days in one year, and each non-commissioned officer, musician and private of said company shall pay a fine of two dollars for non-attendance each time said company shall be called out for ordinary training, and a fine of six dollars for non-attendance on election day, or on any other day when said company shall be called out by special order of his Excellency the Governor, and the officers of the company shall have the same power and authority to punish all persons belonging to said company for disobedience of orders, or unmilitary conduct as the officers of the ordinary militia companies have or shall have respecting the companies to which they belong. Said company by their major vote, shall have power with the approbation of the Captain thereof, to direct in what manner the trainings of said company shall be warned, and warnings given accordingly shall be good and effectual to all intents and purposes whatsoever. The sum of one hundred dollars be paid to the Captain of said company to be laid out in the purchase of instruments of music, which instruments of music shall be the property of the State, for the use of said company, which sum herereafter shall be the full satisfaction of the customary allow ance to said company for hiring music for election days, and the Treasurer is hereby directed to pay said sum accordingly. The Captain of said company be, and he is hereby authorized to sell and dispose of the arms purchased by this State for the use of said company, on condition that he shall with the money to be raised thereby, with monies to be raised by voluntary subscription, and with monies to be raised by fines to be collected of said company, which are hereby appropriated to that use, purchase a complete set of guns and bayonets for said company, to belong to this State for the use of said company. RESOLVE ALTERING THE CHARTER OF THE SECOND COMPANY OF THE GOVERNOR'S FOOT GUARDS-PASSED, OCTOBER 1809. Resolved by this Assembly, That the said company may hereafter, consist of one Captain, four Lieutenants, one Ensign, eight Sergeants, eight Corporals, and ninety-six privates, and that said company shall hereafter have liberty to choose their non-commissioned officers, to serve for an indefinite length of time, and that the Captain of said company, is hereby authorized to enlist men, from the companies of New-Haven, East-Haven, North-Haven, Hamden, and Woodbridge, to augment said company to said number. Provided, that in consequence of such enlistment, the other military companies in said towns, out of which he shall enlist, shall not be reduced below the number of sixty-four rank and file. TITLE XIX. HIGHWAYS. RESOLVE DISCONTINUING A HIGHWAY IN BROOKLYN. PASSED, OCTOBER 1791. The County Court for Windham County having established a road from Ebenezer Spalding, Junior's house to near Rufus Herrick's in Brooklyn, and across lands of Ebenezer Spalding, Sen. James Tyler, Daniel Tyler, Daniel Tyler, Jun. and Daniel Cady. Resolved by this Assembly, That said highway be discontinued, and that the judgment of said County Court in accepting the report of the jury in assessing damages to the several proprietors, through whose lands said highway is laid, be and the same is hereby declared to be void and of no effect. RESOLVE DISCONTINUING A HIGHWAY IN CANTERBURY. PASSED, OCTOBER 1795. On petition of Ephraim Lyon, shewing that in the year 1785, the selectmen of Canterbury laid out a highway through the farm now owned by said Lyon, beginning at said Lyon's pot-ash near said Lyon's dwelling house, running a south-easterly course to Parker Adams's mill, until it intersects the road that leads to Norwich. Resolved by this Assembly, That said highway laid out by the selectmen of Canterbury in the year 1785, from said Ephraim Lyon's Pot-ash, to the dwelling house lately owned by Mary Leach, now owned by Azor Allen, be, and the same is hereby discontinued, and liberty and authority is hereby granted to the said Ephraim Lyon, to fence up the same; and that a convenient passway be kept open from the dwelling house of Azor Allen, southward in the line of said old highway, to the highway last laid out by said Windham court of common pleas. RESOLVE DISCONTINUING A HIGHWAY IN THE TOWN OF CANTERBURY. PASSED, MAY 1827. Resolved by this Assembly, That the passway, or road from the dwelling house formerly occupied by Azor Allen in the town of Canterbury, passing southward in the line of an old road, to the road laid out by the court of common pleas, passing by the dwelling house of David Butts, which was ordered to be kept open by a resolve of the General Assembly, passed at their session held at New-Haven on the second Thursday of October, 1795, be, and the same is hereby discontinued, and the same may be fenced and inclosed in the same manner as if said resolve of 1795 had never passed. RESOLVE DISCONTINUING A HIGHWAY IN CORNWALL. Upon the petition of Samuel Wadsworth and others, select-men of Cornwall, shewing that a highway in the easterly part of said town at the great hollow, was established by said county court in March, 1794, and that said select-men had laid out and opened another road, as a substitute for a part thereof, beginning at a heap of stones in the east line of said highway, and in the south line of John Bradford's land, thence south 30° west 3369 links to a heap of stones near two soft maple saplings in the north line of Noah Harrison's land, this line crosses John A. Sedwick and Tryal Tanner's lands, tennants in common, and Seth Pain's land, thence the same course 30 west 705 links to the north line of Noah Rodger's land, the same point 700 links to a hemlock stake, thence south 15 west 500 links to a hemlock staddle, thence south 20 west 1335 links to a chesnut tree south of a small pond, thence south 8° west 600 links to a pine tree in the east line of the aforesaid County Court highway. Resolved by this Assembly, That the aforesaid alteration of the said select-men be confirmed and established according to said courses, distance and width from the south line of John Bradford's land, to the aforesaid pine tree in the east line of the aforesaid County Court highway; that the aforesaid highway provided by the select-men, shall be, and the same is declared to be the public highway, and that the several pieces and parcels of land taken from John A. Sedwick and Tryal Tanner, Seth Pierce, Noah Harrison, Noah Rodgers, do revert to them severally in the same proportion as taken. RESOLVE ESTABLISHING A HIGHWAY IN EAST-HARTFORD. PASSED, OCTOBER 1810. Upon petition of the town of East-Hartford, shewing that their select-men have laid out a road, from the dwelling house of Deodat Woodbridge to the Main-Street in East-Hartford, and praying that the same may be established, as a substitute for that, which had been approved by the General Assembly. Resolved by this Assembly, That the highway laid out by said select-men as described in the foregoing petition, be, and the same is hereby established as a public highway, viz.-beginning at a position in the old road, north 61 deg. west of the north-east corner of Deodat Woodbridge's store, and distant therefrom 60 links, from thence running south 29 deg. west 19 chains, south 49 deg. west 10 chains, south 62 deg. west 11 chains, 50 links, south 60 deg. west 9 chains, south 84 deg. west 18 chains, south 83 deg. west 37 chains, south 69 deg. west 20 chains, south 77 deg. west 14 chains, south 88 deg. west 15 chains, south 83 deg. 15 min. west 32 chains, south 84 deg. 30 min. west 51 chains, thence south 78 deg. 30 min. west 28 chains 70 links, to the intersection of the old road in front of John Olcott's dwelling house, and parallel with the front thereof, and distant therefrom 16 chains and 48 links, thence south 85 deg. 15 min. west 63 chains to a place in the old road 30 links south of the pound-thence south 87 deg. 15 min. west 10 chains 6 links, then west 87 deg. 15 min. west 8 chains, then north 79 deg. 30 min. west 16 chains 44 links, north 77 deg. 30 min. west chains 67 links, north 88 deg. 30 min. west 12 chains 20 links, north 77 deg. 30 min. west 18 chains, south 84 deg. 30 min. west 111 chains 30 links, north 77 deg. west 13 chains 80 links, south 84 deg. west 39 chains, south 68 deg. west 7 chains, north 80 deg. west 7 chains 50 links, south 84 deg. west 27 chains to the main-street, The above described line to be the centre of the highway, which is laid four rods wide, except where the same was before of greater width; and the highway within the aforesaid limits as surveyed and laid out by Heman Swift, James Gordon, and Pliny Hillyer, and established by the General Assembly at their session in October, 1796, so far as the same varies from the above described road, be, and the same is hereby discontinued, RESOLVE TO ESTABLISH A HIGHWAY BETWEEN STEPHEN GOODYEAR'S IN Upon the acceptance of the report of Pliny Hillyer, and others, a committee appointed to lay out a road in Hartland and Barkhamstead, |