AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WATERBURY RELATING TO THE

BRONSON LIBRARY FUND.

Resolved by this Assembly:

Section ten of the resolution amending the Charter of the City of Waterbury, approved July 17, 1868, is hereby amended to read as follows: The treasurer of said fund shall take the same oath of office, mulatis mutandis, that the treasurer of said city is by the city charter required to take, and he shall also give bonds in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, with sureties to the acceptanace of the Board of Aldermen of said city, payable to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Freemen of the City of Waterbury, for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, before he shall be capable of executing the same. The City of Waterbury is hereby authorized to furnish said bond at its own expense, if found advisable or necessary at any time by the Board of Aldermen of said city.

Approved June 10, 1901.

AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY

OF WATERBURY AND CONSOLIDATING THE

GOVERNMENTS OF THE TOWN AND

CITY OF WATERBURY.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 1901.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in

General Assembly convened:

SECTION I. The territorial limits of the body politic and corporate existing under the name of The City of Waterbury, shall, on and after the first Monday of January, 1902, include all the land and territory situated within the limits of the Town of Waterbury.

SEC. 2. All legal voters of the Town of Waterbury, residing within the territory so annexed to said city, shall be legal voters of said city, and shall be qualified to hold office and to vote at any meeting of said city in like manner as if said annexed territory had been originally a part of said city. All inhabitants dwelling within said territory so annexed shall have, exercise, and enjoy the same rights, privileges, immunities, and franchises, and be subject to the same duties, liabilities, and obligations as if the territory so annexed had been originally a part of said city, except as is herein otherwise expressly provided.

SEC. 3. The first, third, fourth, and fifth voting districts of the Town of Waterbury, as at present constituted, shall be and remain the first, third, fourth, and fifth wards of the City of Waterbury, respectively. The second voting district of said town, together with the sixth voting district of said town, shall be and remain the second ward of said city. A

separate voting place, however, shall be provided within the territory now known as the said sixth voting district for the use only of voters residing within said territory. At all town and general elections hereafter held these wards as so constituted shall be the several voting districts of said town.

SEC. 4. All property and rights of every description belonging to or vested in the Town of Waterbury, and all liabilities, debts, and obligations owing from said Town of Waterbury shall on said first Monday of January, 1902, be deemed to be and be transferred to said city, and said city be made liable for the same, and said city shall be the successor of said town in respect to the same.

SEC. 5. All burdens and all expenses imposed by law upon the Town of Waterbury for the conduct of elections, for the care and support of poor, insane, and imbecile persons, for the construction and maintenance of highways and bridges, for support of schools, for the construction and maintenance. of public buildings, for the prosecution of criminal offenses, for the payment of the principal and interest of the town debt, for the payment of State, military commutation, and county taxes, and for all other purposes for which towns now are or hereafter may be made liable, shall, on and after said first Monday of January, 1902, be borne by said city, and shall be defrayed out of the treasury of said city, and said city shall, on and after said date, perform all the duties and have and exercise all the rights, powers, and privileges of and relative to said purposes and matters by law conferred upon said town, and all laws of the State imposing such duties, burdens, and expenses, and conferring such rights, powers, and privileges upon said town, are hereby amended so as to be, on and after said date, applicable to and operative upon said city, except as is herein otherwise provided.

SEC. 6. The Town of Waterbury, on and after the first Monday of January, 1902, shall be exempted from the operation of all existing laws of the State requiring moneys to be paid to towns, or to the treasurers or other officers of towns, and in said town all such moneys shall, unless herein otherwise provided for, be paid to the Treasurer of the City of Wa

terbury, and all State, county, city, and town officers or other persons or corporations that are now required by law to pay money to towns, or to the treasurers or other officers of towns, except as herein otherwise provided, are hereby authorized and directed to pay to the Treasurer of said City of Waterbury, on and after said date, all moneys to which the Town of Waterbury, or the Treasurer or other officers of said town would be entitled had this act not been passed.

SEC. 7. Said City of Waterbury, on and after said date, shall be divided into two districts. The first district shall comprise all the territory of said city, and the second district shall comprise all the territory that lay within the limits of said city as the same existed on the first day of January, 1901, excepting that all that territory lying east of the City Mills Ponds, so called, and Great Brook, and which, with other territory of the Bucks Hill School District, was annexed to the Center School District of Waterbury by the General Assembly at its January Session, 1899, is hereby restored to the said Bucks Hill School District and is made a portion of the said first district.

SEC. 8. All the inhabitants and property within the limits of the first district shall be liable to taxation to defray the burdens and expenses imposed upon said city by this act, to the same extent as they would have been liable if said burdens expenses, duties, and powers had not been transferred from said town to said city; and in addition thereto for the expenses for the support of schools within that part of said first district lying outside the limits of said second district, to the same extent that the said town may now be liable, and for the expenditures by the Board of Health of said city (exclusive of the expenditures for the collection and removal of garbage), and police protection outside of said second district, and the expense of, less receipts from, criminal prosecutions, which expense shall be ascertained and determined by the Comptroller; and all other burdens and expenses of said city, including the support and maintenance of schools within the limits of said second district, shall be met by taxation levied upon the inhabitants and property within the limits of

the second district; and it shall be the duty of the Assessors and Board of Relief of said city to indicate in the compilation of the grand list what is taxable by said city in each of the said districts; and the public money derived from the taxation of the inhabitants and property of the second district exclusively shall not be expended for any purpose for which the money of said city could not lawfully be expended at the time of the passage of this act; provided, however, that the property lying outside of the limits of the City of Waterbury as established by the General Assembly of 1895, and within the limits of the second district as established by this act, shall be taxed to meet its proportionate share for the support and maintenance of schools within said second district, but for all other burdens and expenses of the said second district it shall be taxed at a rate not exceeding one-half of that necessary to be levied upon the remaining property within said district in meeting such burdens and expenses.

SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the Board of Finance, in the month of November, 1901, and annually thereafter, in accordance with the provisions of section ninety-two of the charter of said city, as revised and amended by the General Assembly at its January Session, 1895, to make the estimates of the expenses, liabilities, and resources of said city, so that they will definitely state the estimated expenses, liabilities, and resources of each of said taxation districts, and the appropriations as made by the Board of Aldermen of said city, in the month of December, 1901, and annually thereafter, in accordance with said section ninety-two, shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the preceding section of this act, and such tax shall be laid upon the polls and ratable estates within the limits of each of said taxation districts as the said Board of Aldermen shall deem necessary to meet the expenses of each of said districts.

SEC. 10. All liabilities, debts, and obligations owing on said first Monday of January, 1902, from or by the city or Center School District of Waterbury, shall remain a liability, debt, and obligation upon the persons and property within the second district hereinbefore described, and any indebted