New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1921, Page 3

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Circulation is unimpeded. have room for your toes with- a The heels are semsible ut being ungainly, and they are placed for comfortable walking. are difterent heights of heels, too high for correct posture. tilever Shoes have tiie Intelligent which makes them favored by pecialists, and the grace of con- which n who wish to look well and feel How you will enjoy the spring- if your feet are free and casy in lever Shoes! Sold in New Britain 'OAN BROS. 185 Main St. ONSTIPATION the big trouble in every serious | sending one representative | pears to have been | New Britain.” makes them preferred by, WEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUES BERLIN DIVIDED AND NEW | BRITAIN Two Representatives Claime d and Won Because the New Town Was in Fact th e Old Town Having the Old Berlin By James Shepard, M. A. The history of the division of the Town of Berlin and the incorporation therefrom of the new Town of New Britain, (which has always had two representatives although the act of | incorporation limited it to only one) ' has no paraliel in the history of Con- | nectiout. The contest which New Britain waged for full representation in the general assembly is referred to on Pages 197 and 8 of Camp’s “His- tory of New Britain. The late Dr. Charles J. Hoadly reviewed this con- tost in an article on “Town Repre- sentation in the General Assembly” in the Connecticut State Register for ; 1892, and reprinted in a state pamph- | let entitled “The Constitution of Con- | necticut” with notes and statistics, “Printed by Order of the Comptrol- ler, 190L." That portion of Dr. Hoad- ly’s article which refers to New Brit- ain, contains facts which I have not found elsewhere. It is so clear and concise that 1 quote it in full In 1860, upon the petition of Ber- ‘Un that town was divided and a por- ! tlon of it imcorporated by the name of New Britain with the right of to the general assembly. This act was passed on condition that the inhabi- tants of Berlin (not including those within the Hmits of the said new town of New Britain) should pass a vote relinquishing all claim to have two representatives, and consenting | forever to have but one. However in 1851 and ever since the ‘new town' of New Britain has sent two at each session, on the ground that New Britain was, in fact the old town, re- taining the old records of Berlin, and the house of representatives resolved in 1863, that the Town of New Brit- ain was entitled under the consti- tution of this state to two represen- tatives in the general assembly. At the same session, May, 1853, a joint resolution was passed repealing so { much of the resolution dividing the Town of Berlin as limited New Brit- | #in to one representative. The Tgwn of Berlin was incorporat- ed in 1785 from Farmington, Weth- ersfleld and Middletown. It included ! three ecclesiastical socleties, viz.: Kensington, incorporated in 1706; New Britain, 1754, and Worthington, 1772. When the first United States census was taken in 1790 the popu- Jation of Berlin was 2,465. Town meetings were held in rotation in the Congregational meeting houses of the three societies. This plan ap- satisfactory to all for over sixty years. About 1846 17, the population of New Britain was approximaltely twice that of either of the other two societies and it cast the major vote of the town. 'There came a desire to have the town meetings held in some place other than Congregational meeting houses and some felt that the greatest good of the greatest number required that New Britain should be the business center of the town. At a special town meeting held in the North Con- gregational meeting house in the so- clety of New Britain on Tuesday, October 17, 1848, it was “Resolved, That it is necessary and expedient that a sultable Town House or bulld- ing be comstructed or wocured to accommodate the public meetings of the town for such purposes as may be deemed expedient.” “Resolved, That sald town house | or building be built or constructed or procured at a cost not exceeding four thousand dollars and that said building be located in the Soclety of A little later this amount was increased to $4,400. A number of citizens about this time had subscribed a sufficient amount for the erection of a new schpol building. The committee for procuring a town hall arrangéd with [ these citigens for the construction of & combined schoo! building and town hall, 42 feet,yide and 70 feet long and this plan was adopted. Early in 1860 this combined school-house and town hall was prepared for the use of the State Normal school and is now a part of the present Grammar school bullding. At the annual town meeting of Berlin, held at Worthington October 1, 1849, a committee was appointed to ascertain on what terms and con- dition suitable accommodations for public mestings of the town could be provided in the societies of Worthing- Kensington and to report at - 1 meeting. Whereupon it was voted thaj sald special meeting “'shall be warned and A9 be holden | l constructed.” | The committee in charge of the ,nm bullding made their report at a special meeting March 14, and their repert was accepted. Thus the hall in the Normal school build- ing in New Britain became the town hall of Berlin. During that year the town hall was made the central point on the layout of the New Britain | Borough. At the May session of the general assembly in 1880, certain residents of | Kensington and others of Worthing- | ton presented joint petition for a di- vision of the town of Berlin as o locorporation of New Britain as a soparate town. It is stated by the Rev. W. W. Weedworth in the “Me- merial Wistery of Maritord County” that these petitioners “séeing them- selves outvveted By the inereasing of New Britatn, and per- they fheught, & disposi- thriving village to center ar tion in that _the to business there,” were called in the Hall of the building now being | 1850,/ MADE A NEW TOWN Records. f William Bulkley, Esq.. of Berlin, jinforms me that Mr. Frederick Norton ‘of Kensington is the only person now living who signed either joint ncmlon for dividing the town of Ber- n. Parties from New Britain appeared before the general assembly and were | heard in opposition to Berlin's peti- tion which was, however, granted. That clause in the act of incorpora- tion which set off to New Britain the |old records of Berlin might not have !been embodied therein had it not | been for the said opposition. Section 3 of Article 3 of the Con- stitution of Connecticut of 1818, reads in part as follows: “In case a new town shall hereafter be incorporated such new town shall be entitled to ! one representative only; and if such town shall be made from one or more towns, the town or towns from which | | the same shall be made shall be en- l'.med to the same number of repre- sentatives as at present allowed, un- less the number shall be reduced by the consent of such town or towns.” | Many attempts had been made from time to time, prior to 1818, to lessen ! ,as far as possible, the unnecessary expense of a large number of repre- sentatives. The matter was agitated as carly as 1661. By the provisions jof the constitution above quoted it | was impossible, on the incorporation | of @ new town to increase the whole number of representatives by more than one. The last clause of this sec- | tion gave the general assembly the | right to make the relinquishment of one representative by the old town, (& condition upon which a new town | might be admitted, thereby prevent- ‘ln[ any additional representation. The resolution for the division of the town of Berlin specifically desig- nates New Britain as the “‘new town" and Berlin the “old town” and it | specifically limited each of these towns to ‘one representative only.” It resolved that “that part of the {town of Berlin which is now includ- | ed within the limits of the Society of New Britain with all the inhabi- ! tant residing within said limits be and | the same is hereby incorporated into and shall remain a distinct and sepa- rate town by the name of New Brit- ain.” It thus appears that the terri- tory of the town was defined only by that of the society which was in- corporated in 1754. The said resolution further provid- 'ed that “The records of said old town of Berlin and all books and papers belonging to sald town before the passage of this act shall be set off and belong to the said town of New Brit- ain.” The first town meeting of Berlin was ordered to be “held in the Con- gregational meeting house” in Ken- | sington, July 22, with Samuel Hart, 2d, moderator With power to warn the meecting. The first town meeting of New Britaln was to be held in the town hall, July 22, 1850, with Ozias B. Bassett moderator with pow- er to warn the meeting, and finally the act specified that *“This grant shall be of no effect unless the in- habitants of the town of Berlin (not including those within the limits of the said new town of New Britain.) shall at a meeting to be legally warned and held at the Congregation- al meeting house in the Society of Kensington on or before the first day of July next pass a vote relinquish- ing all claim to two representatives !and consenting forever hereafter to have but one representative to the | general assembly of this state.” The said meeting was held June 29, 1850, when all eclaim to two representatives and the consent to have but one, was passed by a vote of 211, yes to 27 mo. This was the last town meeting ever recorded in the old records of Berlin. There are seven towns which were allowed two representatives each in /1818 and have since been relieved of ,one. This happened on the incor- | poration of Bridgeport from. Strat- l{ord. 1821; Monroe from Hunting- {ton, 1823; North Branford from Bran- | ford, 1831; Bethany from Woodbridge, |1832; Westport from Weston, 1835; New Britain from Berlin, 1850; North {Canaan from Canaan, 1858. None of these fourteen towns, save | New Britain, ever made any objection to having been allowed only one rep- resentative each. The resolution dividing the ' town of Berlin and incorporating New Brit- ain as a town, became effective and in. full force on July 22, 1850, upon | the organization of the said two towns in their respective town meetings held on that day, whereby Berlin became {a new town, retaining the old name, 'and New Britain became a distinct ‘and separate town, retaining the old | 'records of Berlin, each town being { rpstricted to one representative only. Upon the division of the old town ivropert,v, Berlin was given tfe poor | 'house and the town farm and’ New | | Britain was given the Berlin town ! | hall, in whiskh New Britain held its | |first town meeting on July 22, 1850. At this meeting a protest against the | the restricted representation which [ had been imposed on “the pretended new town” was presented and “after discussion unanimously adopted.” This protest contains a long pre- amble, reviewing the resolution “pur- ! porting to form a mew town by the name of New Britain,” and giving the ' Main facts connected therewith, to{ i ‘which is added the following: “Now therefore, We, the said town of New Britain, immediately upon being organized as aforesaid, do by | vote adepting this instrument, and [the inhabitants of sald town of New Britain do by signing our names to this instrument make our solemn protest against said resolution of said general assemibly and we do claim that the carrying th DAY, APRIL 12, 1928, “The Main Store On The Main Street” Connors-Halloran LADIES’ DEPARTMENT 215 Main Street Greatly Reduced For | This Sale Only Elaborately trimmed Pleated panel Cape collared Crepe Satin Taffeta Canton Crepe Georgette Tricolette Dress values such Dresses as have never before been offered—a remarkable cash purchase of choice Dresses from a New York manu- facturer—included are many very unusual Sample Dresses. You note we have used no comparative prices in this advertisement, but every item men- tioned is marked below the wholesale cost of constitution of the state; that if said resolution has any effect, it consti- tutes said part of Berlin, which by said resolution is constituted the town of Berlin, a new town by the name of Berlin, leaving that part (New Brit- ain) constituting the pretended new town with all the rights and privileges of the original town of Berlin and as such we claim that we cannot be de- prived of the right of sending two representatives to the general assem- bly of this state, without our consent, which consent we have never given, and which we hereby refuse to give.” Lastly this protest claims that the action of Berlin in relinquishing all claim to have two representatives, cannot be binding upon New Britain as “the action of a minerity cannot affect the rights or comtrol the acts of a majority.” Marcellas Esq., was appointed an agent to take charge of this protest and procure | the signatures of the voters therato. In the following spring New Brit- ain elected Eathan A. Andrews, a Whig, and George M. Landers, a Demoecrat, as its representatives to the general assembly. It was prob- ably a prearranged plan that the rep- resentatives should be from the two different parties. At the opening of the May session, 1851, New Britain's two representatives and agent ap- peared. claiming that two representa- as a matter | ot right under the state constitution and in due time their claim was al- lowed. claim might not have been allowed had not the legislature been so even- ly divided in politics that neither party cared to lose a vote.” To what extent, if any, politics entered into the said decision I cannot state. Possibly the result might have been different if both of the representatives elect had belonged to one party. event this decision was only for the time being. The matter was not per- manently decided until 1853, New Britain’s claim to the right sending two representatives, as residue of the old town of Berlin was completely vindicated. The house of representatives “Resolved, That the town of New Britain is justly en- titled under the constitution of this state to two representatives in the general assembly,” and a joint reso- lution was passed repecaling that por- tion of the resolution dividing town of Berlin to which New Britain had objected. In other words, much of the said resolution as limit- ed New Britain to one representative. No one, so far as I know, has in- timated that there was any political maneuver in connection with the leg- islative action of 18533, whereby it was established that, for the purposes of town representation, New Britain, rather than Berlin, was in fact the old town. remained of the old town of Berlin after a new town, upon its own pe- tition, had been made from the said old town. The act of incorporation, by giving to New Britain the old rec- ords of Berlin made New Britain in fact the old town. ' The matter was somewhat complicated and confused nfof the extraordinary fact, of e Clark, | It has been stated that “the | In any ; when | the | the | so | That is to say, it was what ! have prevented the town thus made from being in fact the new town. Had the old name of either of the peti- tioning societies, instead of the old town name, been bestowed on the town thus made, no one would have thought of calling it the old town. Under the state comnstitution as it then was, no town could be limited to one representative only, without its consent. Such a consent is implied when parties petition for a new town, but New Britain never consented, by petition or otherwise, to have but one representative, and therefore it was entitled under the constitution to have two, but it never could have won them had New Britain been the pe- titioner for a new town. New Britain has the distinction of being the) only town in Connecticut, incorporated since 1818, which has been allowed two representatives in the general assembly under the con- stitution of that date. Such a thing éannot happén agaid, because the clause under which it arose has been stricken from our present.constitu- tion. It was not a very important matter for all time, because New Britain would have had two represen- tatives under the amended constitution of 1874, by reason of its population of over 5,000. In fact it had that number as early as 1860. It is hoped and believed that the new Berlin may have that number by the year 1930 and then have the number of repre- sentatives which were allowed the old Berlin of 1785. =0 Vamp Saddle Oxfords This season has seen a “run” on Vamip Saddle Oxfords. Men who follow the styles are buying Vamp Saddles now. They are so new and in such demand that it has been difficult to kee;l: betock large enough. 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