30 SIXTH REPORT OF THE SHELL FISH COMMISSIONERS. 
CHAPTER CXXXVII. 
AN ACT CONCERNING TAXATION OF PROPERTY OF SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly 
convened ;: 
SECTION I. . Property of residents of this State who have served in the army 
or navy of the United States in time of war and been honorably discharged, 
the property of resident widows and widowed mothers of persons so serving 
and discharged, and of pensioned widows and mothers of soldiers and sailors 
who served in the army of the United States, shall be exempt from taxation to 
the amount of one thousand dollars. 
SEc, 2. So much of section twelve of chapter one, title twelve of the Gen- 
eral Statutes (page 154) as reads, ‘‘the estate to the amount of one thousand 
dollars of pensioned soldiers and sailors who served in the army or navy of the 
United States in the war of the rebellion and enlisted from and were credited on 
the quota of this State, of the pensioned widows and mothers of said soldiers 
or sailors, and of the pensioned widows and mothers of soldiers and sailors who 
served in the army or navy of the United States in previous wars, and were 
killed or died from wounds received or disabilities contracted in said service,” 
and chapter twenty-three of the public acts of 1879, chapter forty-eight of the 
public acts of 1880, chapter eighty-four of the public acts of 1884, and chapter 
thirty-two of the public acts of 1885, are hereby repealed. 
Approved, April 13, 1886. 
