respectively, for senator in the next general assembly of this state, for district number Names. to wit: Number of votes in words at Judge of probate. legally warned Of the votes for judge of probate, as follows, to wit: At a meeting of the electors in the town of and held, on the first Monday of April, A. D., persons received the number of votes annexed to their names respectively, for the office of judge of probate, for the district of Names. to wit: Number of votes in words at Triplicate list of votes for judge of probate, Of the votes for sheriff, as follows, to wit: At a meeting of the electors in the town of and held, on the first Monday of April, A. D., Sheriff. legally warned persons received the number of votes annexed to their names respectively, for the office of sheriff of the county of Names. to wit: Number of votes in words at Triplicate list of votes for sheriff of the county of : legally warned Of the votes for member of congress, as follows, to wit At a meeting of the electors in the town of and held, on the first Monday of April, A. D., persons received the number of votes annexed to their names respectively, for a representative of the people of this state, in the congress of the United States, for district number Names. to wit: Number of votes in words at Triplicate list of votes for a representative in congress, Certified by A. B., Presiding Officer. Member of congress. scription of re SECT. 84. The superscription on each of said certified lists of Form of supervotes for governor, lieutenant-governor, treasurer, secretary, and turn for governcomptroller, to be returned to the secretary of this state, shall be as or, &c. follows, to wit: To the secretary of this state. Senator. Judge of probate. Sheriff. Votes of the electors of the town of office,] taken and sealed up by for [here insert the A. B., Presiding Officer. The superscription on each of the certified lists of votes for senator, to be returned to the secretary of this state, shall be as follows, to wit: To the secretary of this state. for a senator for district A. B., Presiding Officer. The superscription on each of the certified lists of votes for judge of probate, to be returned to the secretary of this state, shall be as follows, to wit: To the secretary of this state. for judge of probate A. B., Presiding Officer. The superscription on each of the certified lists of votes for sheriff, to be returned to the secretary of this state, shall be as follows, to wit: To the secretary of this state. for a sheriff for the A. B., Presiding Officer. Member of con- The superscription on each of the certificates of votes for representative in congress, to be returned to the secretary of this state, gress. shall be as follows, to wit: 1851. Town clerk to justices, and SECT. 85. The town clerk of each town shall make a record of record names of the justices of the peace, elected in such town, and, within ten days make return to after such election, shall transmit, by mail, to the secretary of this state, a certified return of the justices of the peace so elected; and any town clerk, neglecting to make such return, shall forfeit the sum of twenty dollars to the treasurer of this state. secretary. 1886. 1851. Votes for lieutenant-governor, and canvassed. SECT. 86. The votes for lieutenant-governor, and judges of probate, shall be counted by the same persons, appointed by the consti&c., how counted tution to count the votes for governor; and a fair list of the votes for governor, lieutenant-governor, treasurer, secretary, and comptroller, shall be made by the persons authorized to receive and count the same, and laid before the general assembly, on the first day of its session, which shall declare the persons elected to said offices respectively. The votes for lieutenant-governor, treasurer, secretary, comptroller, senators, and judges of probate, shall be counted within the month of April, in each year, but the votes for comptroller shall be canvassed by the treasurer and secretary only; and the original returns of all votes, made by the presiding officers, shall be submitted to the general assembly on the first day of its session. SECT. 87. The secretary shall give notice, by mail, to all persons notice of their tors and judges of chosen senators, of their election, immediately after their election is Secretary to give ascertained and declared; and the persons, appointed to count the election to senavotes for judges of probate, shall declare the person in each probate tors and district, who shall be found to have received the greatest number of votes for the office of judge of probate, elected to said office, and the secretary shall, within three days after such declaration, give notice, by mail, of their election, to the several persons so declared to be elected; but the general assembly, next in session after said choice is declared, may revise the decision of the canvassers, and decide ultimately on the correctness and legality of their doings, and on all questions which may arise in regard to such election of judges of probate. Majority neces for lieutenant governor, &c. SECT. 88. In the election of a lieutenant-governor, treasurer, sec- 1836. retary, and comptroller, a majority of the votes given shall be necessary for a choice sary to constitute a choice; and if no person has a majority of votes given for either of said offices, the general assembly shall proceed to fill the vacancy. SECT. 89. If the office of secretary, treasurer, or comptroller, 1850. shall become vacant, by death or resignation, the governor shall fill fee of secretary, the vacancy, unless the same occurs during the session of the general &c., how filled, assembly, in which case such assembly shall appoint a successor, if it sees fit; but if the general assembly shall fail to appoint such successor, the appointment shall then be made by the governor. fice Return of repre SECT. 90. The presiding officer of the electors' meeting, in each of 1841. the respective towns of this state, shall make return to the secretary sentatives electof the name, or names, of the person, or persons, who may be chosen ed. representative, or representatives, to the general assembly, by entering the same on the certificate of votes for senators, herein before described. 1865. If there is no choice for repre meeting to be ad SECT. 91. If the electors of any town, at such electors' meeting, 1851. shall fail to make choice of a representative, or of either representative, if said town is entitled to two, by reason of an equality of votes sentative, the for any number of persons, said meeting, in the town of Bridgeport, journed to the shall stand adjourned to the next succeeding Monday, and in all next day, except other towns, to the next succeeding day, at the same hour at which the first meeting was held; and the election on such second day shall proceed in the same manner, and be determined by the same rules, as the election on the first day. in Bridgeport. 1851. SECT. 92. Whenever there shall be no election of judge of pro- Vacancy in office bate, in any district, at the annual elector's meeting in April, by rea- of judge of proson of two or more persons having an equal and the highest number bate, how filled. of votes, or whenever a new probate district shall be created, and no provision shall be made in the act creating the same, for the election of a judge therein, or whenever there shall be a vacancy in such office, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, or from the territorial limits of the probate district, where elected, during the official year embraced in such election, or after such election is made, and before the commencement of his official term, the governor shall issue writs of election, directed to either of the constables in each of the respective towns in such vacant district, ordering a choice to fill such vacancy, and cause them to be conveyed to the sheriff of the county, in which such district is situated, who shall forthwith transmit said writs of election to said constables, according to their several directions; and said constables, on receiving the same, shall warn a meeting of the electors on the day appointed in said writs, in the same manner as is provided by law for warning the annual Treasurer, &c., to &C. electors' meeting in April, which day shall be the same throughout the district. And the electors having assembled pursuant to said warnings, a presiding officer of each meeting, and assistant presiding officers, in towns which are divided into districts, shall be appointed in the same manner as is by law provided for the appointment of presiding officers, and assistant presiding officers, of the annual meeting of electors in April; and each elector, present at such meeting, may give in his vote for one person to fill such vacancy, the name being fairly written or printed on a piece of paper; and the presiding officer shall receive such votes, which shall be counted and declared in the manner provided in the seventy-seventh section of this act, and shall also make out and certify triplicate lists of the persons voted for, and of the number of votes given for each, one of which lists shall, within three days after such meeting, be delivered to the town clerk of the town in which such votes shall have been given; another of said lists shall be sealed up by the presiding officer, directed to the secretary of this state, and, within two days after such meeting, said presiding officer shall cause the same to be deposited in the post office in said town, or, if there be none, in the post office of an adjoining town, for transmission by mail; and the other of said lists shall be certified, sealed up, and directed to the secretary, and shall, by the presiding officer, be returned to the sheriff of the county in which such votes shall be given, or to the secretary, in the same way and manner, and within the same time, as is provided for the returns of triplicate lists of votes, by the eightieth section of this act. SECT. 93. The treasurer, secretary, and comptroller, shall, within count the votes, thirty days after the meetings last aforesaid, count the votes so given and returned as aforesaid, in the same way as is provided for counting the votes given for persons for judges of probate, by the eightysixth section of this act; and the person who shall have the greatest number of votes shall be declared to be duly elected, and notice shall be given to him of his election, in the same manner as is provided in the eighty-seventh section of this act. The original return of the votes given and returned as aforesaid, and the canvass, shall, within ten days after the result is known, be, by the secretary, submitted to the governor. 1857. 1865. When towns SECT. 94. Whenever the office of any justice of the peace, in any town in this state, shall become vacant by failure to elect, or by may elect justices of the peace death, resignation, or otherwise; or whenever any person, elected to to all vacancy. said office, shall neglect or refuse to take the oath required by law, for a period of more than thirty days after the fourth day of July next following his election, his said office shall be deemed vacant, and the electors of said town may fill said vacancy, at any meeting legally warned and held for that purpose, which said meeting shall be warned by the constables of said town, in the same manner as annual electors' meetings are warned; and when there shall fail to be a choice of a justice, or justices, of the peace, in the town of Bridgeport, at the annual electors' meeting, by reason of an equality of votes, said meeting shall stand adjourned to the next following Monday, at the same hour of the day, as when first held, and the election shall be proceeded with in the same manner, and be determined by the same rules, as the election on the first day. 1858. Votes, how re and declared. SECT. 95. The votes of the electors at such meeting shall be by ceived, counted, ballot, and they shall be received, counted, and declared, in the same manner as is provided by law for receiving, counting, and declaring, the votes for justices of the peace, at the annual electors' meeting on the first Monday of April. transmit certifi SECT. 96. The town clerk of the town, in which such election is Town clerk to held, shall record the names of the persons who may be chosen jus- cate to secretary. tices of the peace at such meeting, and, within ten days after said election, shall transmit, by mail, a certified return thereof to the secretary of this state. at a special meet SECT. 97. The persons elected justices of the peace, at such elec- Duration of term tion, shall hold their offices, and be authorized to act therein, from of justices chosen the time of their election, if the same takes place subsequent to the ing. fourth day of July next succeeding the biennial election of justices of the peace, and from and after the said fourth day of July, if their election takes place between that day, and the first Monday of April next preceding. CHAPTER VI. OF SENATORIAL DISTRICTS. SECT. 98. The senate shall consist of twenty-one senators, and 1881. the state shall be divided into twenty-one districts, for the choice of Number of senasenators, as follows: tors, &c. District number one, to consist of the towns of Hartford, Berlin, District No. 1. New Britain, Rocky Hill, Southington, West Hartford, and Wethersfield. District number two, to consist of the towns of East Hartford, No. 2. East Windsor, Enfield, Glastenbury, Marlborough, Manchester, South Windsor, and Suffield. District number three, to consist of the towns of Avon, Bloomfield, No. 8. Bristol, Burlington, Canton, East Granby, Farmington, Granby, Hartland, Simsbury, Windsor, and Windsor Locks. District number four, to consist of the towns of New Haven, Ham- No. 4. den, and Woodbridge. District number five, to consist of the towns of Bethany, Derby, No. 5. Middlebury, Milford, Naugatuck, Orange, Oxford, Seymour, Southbury, Waterbury, and Wolcott. District number six, to consist of the towns of Branford, Cheshire, No. 6. East Haven, Guilford, Madison, Meriden, North Branford, North Haven, Prospect, and Wallingford. District number seven, to consist of the towns of New London, No. 7. Groton, Ledyard, Stonington, and Waterford. District number eight, to consist of the towns of Norwich, Frank- No. 8. lin, Griswold, Lisbon, North Stonington, Preston, and Sprague. District number nine, to consist of the towns of Bozrah, Colches- No. 9. ter, East Lyme, Lebanon, Lyme, Montville, Old Lyme, and Salem. District number ten, to consist of the towns of Bridgeport, Easton, No. 10. Fairfield, Huntington, Monroe, Stratford, Trumbull, Weston, and Westport. District number eleven, to consist of the towns of Danbury, Bethel, No. 11. Brookfield, New Fairfield, Newtown, Reading, Ridgefield, and Sherman. |