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payment of said bills as well as for the regular obligations of said city, approved at said meeting, are hereby ratified, validated, and confirmed.

Mutual distribu

validated.

SEC. 10. All mutual distributions or divisions of intestate tions of estates estates of deceased persons, duly signed and recorded in the records of a court of probate, and otherwise valid except that the same have not been made, executed, and acknowledged like deeds of land, are hereby validated, ratified, and confirmed.

Action of Put

nam common

SEC. 11. The action of the common council of the city of Putnam, on February 5, 1907, in determining the amount of council validated. assessments to be paid by abutters for sprinkling its streets shall be as valid as though determined on or before December 15, 1906, and said assessments, if otherwise legal, shall be collected as though determined on or before December 15, 1906, in accordance with the provisions of section 1951 of the general

statutes.

validated.

SEC. 12. A resolution passed at a special meeting of the of New Britain city of New Britain held on the twelfth day of April, 1907, authorizing the issue of coupon bonds to the amount of one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars, to be denominated School Bonds of the City of New Britain, Fifth Series, is hereby ratified, validated, and confirmed, and said bonds, when and as issued according to the terms of said resolution, shall be valid and binding obligations upon said city.

Assessments

in

SEC. 13. All assessments laid by the city of New Britain city of New Britthe avails of which assessments constituted a fund with which ain validated. to defray the cost of sprinkling the streets of said city during the year 1906, where such sprinkling has been done by said city, and otherwise valid except that the common council of said city failed to designate the streets upon which the properties assessed were located, and all liens filed to secure such assessments, are hereby ratified and confirmed and declared to be legal and valid and all city meetings heretofore held in said city of New Actions of city Britain during the years 1906 and 1907 at which taxes have Britain validated. been laid, and otherwise legal except for informality in the manner of giving the warning or notice of any such meeting or in making return of such warning or notice, are hereby legalized, validated, and confirmed,

meetings in New

Time for filing

tended.

SEC. 14. Any person who, on or before October 1, 1905, application to was entitled to receive a license to practice veterinary medicine, practice veterinary medicine surgery, and dentistry in this state, under the provisions of and surgery exsection three of chapter 183 of the public acts of 1905, and whose application for the license provided for in said section was otherwise legal except that, through inadvertence and mistake, said application was not filed within the time prescribed by law, is hereby declared entitled to receive such

Action of jury commissioners of

validated.

license without examination; and the board of registration and examination created under said act is hereby directed to issue such license, provided application therefor was made on or before October 7, 1905; and the acts of any such person qualified to receive such license prior to October 1, 1907, and while practicing as a veterinarian, if otherwise legal except that such person failed to make application for such license on or before October 1, 1905, but did make such application on or before October 7, 1905, are hereby validated and confirmed.

SEC. 15. The action of the jury commissioners of WindWindham county ham county on July 8, 1907, in erasing twenty names from the list of jurors nominated by the selectmen of the town of Ashford and in erasing thirty names from the list of jurors nominated by the selectmen of the town of Brooklyn, is hereby validated and confirmed, and the persons whose names remain upon said lists shall be and constitute the jurors for the towns of Ashford and Brooklyn, respectively, for one year from the first day of September, 1907.

Time within which mayor of

SEC. 16. All appointments by the mayor of New Britain New Britain may required by any existing law to be made in the month of May, 1907, and all appointments required by law to be made by said mayor in the year 1907, may be made by him within ten days after the passage of this act.

pointments extended.

Assessment liens validated.

Deed of I. C.
Bates Dana and
Charles Bates

Dana to Michael

SEC. 17. No assessment lien, a certificate to continue which has heretofore been recorded in the office of the town clerk of the town, or in the office of the city clerk or borough clerk of the city or borough, in which the land upon which such lien is claimed is situated, shall be deemed to be invalid, by reason of the failure of the municipal authorities to give notice of proceedings relative to the public work, a portion of the cost of which is so assessed upon the land described in said lien, nor because the time when the assessment, continued by such certificate, became payable was not correctly stated therein, nor because the certificate of assessment described the land, made subject to the lien, in the name of an agent instead of in the name of the owner of the property according to the land records of the town where such property lies.

SEC. 18. The deed made and executed by I. C. Bates Dana and Charles Bates Dana, trustees under the will of Alfred J. and Thomas J. Smith, late of said Hartford, deceased, to Michael J. Nevels Nevels validated and Thomas J. Nevels of a certain piece of land situated in

said Hartford and bounded and described as follows, to wit: North by land formerly of the estate of said Smith, now of Nathan Selzer, sixty-nine (69) feet six (6) inches more or less; east by land formerly of Philip Conrad ninety-eight (98) feet more or less; south by Park street sixty-eight (68) feet

more or less; and west by land now or formerly of Raffiele Ciapulli one hundred and six (106) feet and ten (10) inches more or less, and known as numbers 46 and 48 Park street, said deed being dated February 16, 1907, and recorded in Hartford land records, volume 323, page 210, is hereby in all respects declared valid and effectual.

Deed of B'Nai

et al. validated.

SEC. 19. The deed made and executed by B'Nai Zion zion Association Association to Israel Silver, Joseph Silver, Wolf Silver, and to Israel Silver Jacob Silver, partners as Silver Bros., of two pieces of land, with the buildings thereon, situated in said Hartford: First piece, bounded north by land of Flagg one hundred and eleven (111) feet; east by Winthrop street fifty (50) feet; south by land of the grantor one hundred and four (104) feet; and west by the second piece fifty (50) feet and five (5) inches: Second piece, bounded north by land of Flagg forty-four (44) feet; east by the first piece and by land of the grantor, partly on each, one hundred and nineteen (119) feet; south by Pleasant street forty-four (44) feet; and west by land formerly of the estate of William Ely one hundred and twenty-six (126) feet, dated September 27, 1906, and recorded in Hartford land records, volume 315, page 453, is hereby in all respects declared valid and effectual.

Approved, August 1, 1907.

[Senate Bill No. 273.]

CHAPTER 264.

An Act concerning the Improvement of Public Roads.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in

General Assembly convened:

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proved road.

SECTION 1. Whenever any town shall have declared its Proceeding by intention to build a public road or section thereof within such struction of imtown, or to improve the same under the provisions of this act, the selectmen of said town shall make written application to the highway commissioner, and if said highway commissioner shall approve of the petition of said town, he shall select the highway, or portion thereof, in said town to be so built or improved, and shall make all surveys, plans, and specifications therefor, which plans and specifications shall require the construction of a macadam, telford, or other stone road, or other road satisfactory to said commissioner. Said specifications shall call for shade trees when deemed necessary or advisable by the selectmen of such town, and said plans and specifications shall be so prepared that an approximate estimate of the cost of the proposed im

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provement can be ascertained. For improvements to cost one thousand dollars, or less, it shall be discretionary with the highway commissioner to allow the town to do the work without competition; but where the cost of the proposed improvement is to be more than one thousand dollars, it shall be the duty of the commissioner, after approval of the plans and specifications, to advertise in two daily newspapers having a circulation in the county in which said town is located, for a period of one week, for bids to do the work according to the plans and specifications prepared therefor. Such advertisements shall state the place where the bidder may inspect said plans and specifications, and the amount of bond which shall accompany the bid, and shall name the place where the bids will be received, and the time for opening the same. Every such bid shall be accompanied by a bond, signed by the bidder and one or more sureties satisfactory to the highway commissioner, in such sum, not less than one-third of the estimated cost of construction of the work, as the highway commissioner shall determine, conditioned that if the contract shall be awarded to the bidder he shall, when required by the commissioner, execute an agreement in writing, to be prepared by said commissioner, together with such bond as shall be acceptable to said commissioner, for the performance of the work according to said plans and specifications. All bids so submitted shall be received at the office of said highway commissioner at the capitol in Hartford, and shall be immediately and publicly opened and read at the time stated in said advertisement. The selectmen of the town in which said improvement is to be made and for which bids are submitted shall be notified by the commissioner of the time set for the opening of said bids, and they, or a representative of the board, may be present at said opening. The highway commissioner shall have the right to reject any and all bids if, in his opinion, good cause exists therefor, but otherwise he shall award the contract to the lowest bidder by him deemed to be responsible. The successful bidder shall give satisfactory evidence of his ability to perform the contract, and shall furnish a bond for one-third of the amount of the cost of construction of the work, conditioned that such work shall be performed in accordance with the plans and specifications and the terms of the contract, and no member of a firm bidding on the work shall be accepted as surety in the required bond. When the contract is executed by the selectmen, the highway commissioner, and the successful. bidder, a copy of the contract, with an estimate of the cost of the work, shall be forthwith filed with the highway commissioner. Whenever the selectmen of any town shall desire, in behalf of such town, to do the work of improving a public road under the provisions

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of this act, they shall submit their bid to the highway commissioner in common with other contractors offering bids for the work, and the bid in behalf of the town shall be subject to the requirements made and provided for by this act. Said bid presented on behalf of the town shall be opened by the highway commissioner at the same time as are all other bids submitted for the work. If the highway commissioner shall find from the bids so submitted that the bid in behalf of the town is the lowest, the commissioner shall thereupon award the contract to such town, whereupon the selectmen shall proceed to fulfil all the requirements and terms of the specifications, according to the plans for said work under which their bid was submitted. SEC. 2. Whenever any road shall be constructed under the Payment. provisions of this act in any town having a grand list of over trunk line sysone million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, threequarters of the cost of such construction shall be paid for out of the state treasury to such town, and whenever any road shall be so constructed in any town having a grand list of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars or less, seven-eighths of the cost of such construction shall be paid, as aforesaid, out of the state treasury, and the basis of the award shall be the grand list last made and completed of the town in which the highway is to be constructed, as revised by the board of equalization; but the whole amount to be paid by the state shall not exceed, in any one year, the sum of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Any town, with the consent of the highway commissioner, may use the full amount of the appropriation to such town for the current and next ensuing year, and in such cases the state appropriation shall be paid by the state as though said work had been done in two years under separate appropriations. The highway commissioner shall have the right to enter any town in the state and lay out, extend, and improve any highway in said town, extending and improving such highway whenever, in his judgment, the interests of the state require such action in connecting the trunk line system now under construction; and the comptroller, upon receipt of a certificate from the highway commissioner, shall pay for the improvement of the said section or sections; provided, however, that said sum shall not exceed in any one year the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the same shall be paid for by the state from the annual appropriation provided for in this act; and provided, further, that the improvement of such section or sections shall be a charge against the town or towns in which such improvement shall be made, and the town's proportion of the expense of said improvement shall be deducted from any subsequent appropriation granted under the provisions of this

act.

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