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Hartford’s Board of Alderman referred a petition of the building committee of the Asylum Hill Congregational Society for grading on Asylum Avenue to committee, while Hartford’s Common Council referred a petition of Henry French and others for a new grade on Asylum Avenue between Sumner and Sigourney Streets.
The Asylum Hill Congregational Society submitted a petition for permission to build a church on August 8, 1864.
During this period of time, Hartford’s municipal government had two legislative bodies, the Board of Aldermen and the Court of Common Council. They met on the same evenings but not at the same time, and they referred matters back and forth.
Unattributed, “City Government – Last Evening,” Hartford Daily Courant, September 13, 1864, page 2.
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