Book excerpt: Excerpt from Public Documents of the Legislature of Connecticut: May Session, 1870 The past year has not been marked with events especially calling for legislation, and I trust that your duties may be ao complished within even a shorter period than that usually allotted to the session of the General Assembly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.