[Senate Bill No. 298.] [78.] AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL, AT HARTFORD, FOR THE DEAF. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: The American School, at Hartford, for the Deaf is hereby authorized to establish and maintain asylums, homes, institutions, schools, and other buildings, for its purposes, within the limits of any town or towns in this state. Approved, March 23, 1915. [House Bill No. 577.] AN ACT CONCERNING ALTERATION OF THE SEAL OF THE TOWN OF STAMFORD. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: The town of Stamford may, at a town meeting duly called for the purpose, adopt as its seal in place of the seal of said town in use at the time of the passage of this act, a seal described as follows: A shield divided into four quarters, the first quarter representing the coat of arms of Stamford in Lincolnshire, England, the second quarter representing in peaceful profile the Indian and the settler, the third quarter representing an old grist mill and fields of grain, and the fourth quarter representing two crossed keys one of ancient design and the other of modern design, above the shield an ancient ship and below the shield in a scroll the words "Stamford, Connecticut," and between the scroll and the shield the figures "1641." Approved, March 23, 1915. [Senate Bill No. 525.] AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE FUND FOR MINISTERS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. The Trustees of the Fund for Ministers, incorporated by resolution approved June 28, 1867, is hereby authorized to receive, purchase, hold, sell, and convey estate, real and personal, without limitation as to amount. SEC. 2. The resolution amending the charter of The Trustees of the Fund for Ministers, approved March 12, 1880, is hereby amended to read as follows: The General Conference of the Congregational Churches of Connecticut shall annually appoint the corporators of The Trustees of the Fund for Ministers who shall hold office from their first meeting until the first meeting of their successors. The corporators so chosen shall be at least fifteen in number and at least one-third of them shall be lay members of congregational churches in this state. The trustees appointed by the General Conference in 1914 shall constitute the members of said corporation until the first meeting of the corporators appointed as aforesaid in 1915. SEC.3. This act shall take effect upon acceptance by said General Conference at its annual meeting in 1915. Approved, March 23, 1915. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 424.] AN ACT INCORPORATING THE TRAVELERS FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. John R. Hills, John L. Way, Louis F. Butler, William BroSmith, James L. Howard, L. Edmund Zacher, Walter G. Cowles, Bertrand A. Page, and Donald A. Dunham, with such other persons as may hereafter be associated with them, their successors and assigns, are hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name of The Travelers Fire Insurance Company, with power under that name to sue and be sued; to plead and be impleaded in the courts of this state and elsewhere; to adopt a common seal and alter the same; to purchase, acquire, and hold real and personal property, and to sell, grant, alien, invest, use, and dispose of the same for the purposes of the corporation; to make and amend by-laws and regulations for the management of the affairs of the corporation; and generally to do and cause to be done and executed all such acts as may seem necessary and proper within the limitations herein contained. SEC. 2. Said corporation may make insurance and reinsurance against loss or damage by fire, lightning, cyclone, tornado, wind, or hailstorms, to property of every description, real, personal, and mixed, including automobiles, aeroplanes, and other vehicles; against loss or damage through marine disaster, and against the hazards of inland navigation and transportation, to property of every description, including automobiles, aeroplanes, and other vehicles; against loss or damage to property of every description, whether owned by the assured or other partes, resulting from accidents to or caused directly or indirectly by automobiles, aeroplanes, or other vehicles, their equipment or other property carried thereon or incident thereto, including collision or explosion occurring to such automobiles, aeroplanes, or other vehicles; against loss or damage to automobiles, aeroplanes, or other vehicles, including equipment or other property, carried thereon or incident thereto, caused by burglary, theft, robbery, or pilferage; against loss or damage to property of every description by water or steam arising from the breakage or leakage of sprinklers and sprinkler systems and water or steam pipes, including any other accidental discharge or influx of water or steam; against loss of use and occupancy, loss of profits, and any other consequential loss, resulting from destruction of or damage to property by fire, water, explosion, or other casualty or calamity. Said corporation shall be liable to pay to the several persons who may be insured by said corporation all losses they may sustain in accordance with the terms of the contract of insurance and the form of the policies issued by said company. Such 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 either the president or vice-president, secretary, or assistant secretary, or with the engraved or lithographed signature of either one of such officers imprinted thereon, and being so signed and executed, shall be obligatory on said company. SEC. 3. The capital with which said corporation shall commence business shall be not less than two hundred thousand dollars and may, from time to time, be increased to any sum not exceeding in the whole, two million dollars, and shall be divided into shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each. The shares of the capital stock shall be subscribed and paid for at such sum in cash per share, not less than par, as the incorporators shall prescribe, and the subscribers therefor shall, at the time of subscription, pay into the hands of the commissioners hereinafter named, for the use of the corporation, not less than ten per centum of the par value thereof. The balance due upon such subscription shall be paid to the corporation in such installments and at such times as the directors shall demand, provided the entire capital stock, to the sum of not less than two hundred thousand dollars, shall be paid in before said corporation shall commence business. SEC. 4. The principal office of the corporation shall be located in the city of Hartford, and the affairs of the corporation shall be managed by a board of not less than nine directors, who shall be chosen by ballot at each annual meeting of the stockholders and shall hold office for one year and until others are chosen in their stead. The first meeting of the subscribers shall be held at a time and place within the city of Hartford to be appointed for that purpose by the commissioners hereinafter named, and written notice of such meeting, stating the time and place thereof, shall be given by the commissioners to each sub scriber in person or by mail at least five days before such meeting. At such meeting or at any adjournment thereof the subscribers to the capital stock may adopt such by-laws, rules, and regulations as may be deemed proper for the regulation of the affairs of the corporation, and shall elect by ballot not less than nine subscribers to serve as directors until the first annual meeting and until others are chosen in their stead. SEC. 5. The annual meetings of the corporation, after the first meeting as aforesaid, shall be held at such time in each year and upon such notice as the by-laws shall prescribe. If the corporation shall fail to hold its annual meeting at the time specified for the same in any year, or shall fail to elect directors thereat, the corporation shall not be dissolved nor its rights impaired thereby, but a special meeting for that purpose shall be called by the president or by a majority of the directors of said corporation in case of his refusal or neglect so to do, and in case of the refusal of the president and of the directors to call such meeting, such special meeting may be called by the holders of one-tenth of the capital stock, upon the same notice as is required by the by-laws for calling an annual meeting, and at such meeting directors to fill the places of the directors whose terms of office shall have expired may be elected. SEC. 6. The directors shall determine how many of their number, not less than three, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and may fill any vacancy which may occur in the board between the annual meetings of the stockholders, by choosing a director from the stockholders to act until the next annual meeting and until a successor shall be chosen. SEC. 7. The directors shall choose a president, a vice-president, a treasurer, and one or more secretaries of the corporation and may appoint such other officers, clerks, and agents, and establish such agencies. in this state and elsewhere as shall be by them deemed advisable for conducting the business of the corporation, prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of officers and employees, and take bonds of any of them for the faithful performance of his duty. The president shall be chosen from the directors and shall hold office for one year and until his successor is chosen, but the other officers and employees of the corporation may be displaced and new ones appointed at the pleasure of the directors. SEC. 8. The president shall have power at any time to call a special meeting of stockholders, upon such notice as the by-laws shall prescribe, and it shall be his duty to call such special meeting when requested in writing by the holders of at least one-tenth of the capital stock, and in case of his refusal or neglect to call a meeting on such request such stockholders may call the same. SEC. 9. At all meetings of the stockholders all questions shall be determined by a majority vote of those present, allowing one vote to each share, and each stockholder shall be entitled to vote in person or by proxy duly appointed. SEC. 10. To carry out the purposes of this act and to organize said corporation, John R. Hills, James L. Howard, and L. Edmund Zacher are hereby appointed commissioners to open books of subscription and to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said corporation, to receive the first installment on such subscriptions, to close the subscription books when the capital stock shall have been subscribed to the full amount, not less than two hundred thousand dollars, with which the incorporators shall have determined to commence business, and, in event that the capital stock be over-subscribed, to apportion the same in their discretion among the subscribers. When the capital stock shall have been so subscribed, said commissioners shall call the first meeting of the subscribers as provided in section four of this act for the purposes therein set forth, and when the by-laws shall have been adopted and the directors chosen, and the board of directors so chosen shall have been organized by the choice of a president and a secretary, the commissioners shall pay to the officers of the corporation all moneys received by them upon subscriptions to the capital stock, and said corporation shall thereupon be fully organized. Approved, March 24, 1915. [House Bill No. 370.] AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF ORANGE CONCERNING RULES AND REGULATIONS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. Whenever the board of selectmen of the town of Orange shall adopt rules or regulations as authorized by the charter of said town, or any amendment thereto, such rules or regulations shall begin: "Be it ordained by the Selectmen of the town of Orange," and any such rule or regulation shall be divided into such sections as are necessary and numbered consecutvely. At the end of any such rule or regulation said selectmen shall attach a certificate signed by a majority of the members of said board, and attested by the clerk thereof. Such certificate shall be as follows: "We, the selectmen of the town. of Orange, hereby certify that the foregoing was duly adopted by vote of the board of selectmen on the day of A. D. 19 as a regulation of the town of Orange, and hereby declare the same to be in full force and effect from the day of 19 SEC. 2. The clerk of said board of selectmen shall record all such rules and regulations with the certificate, in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, and shall preserve the original copy signed by said |