Chap. 0213 An Act in relation to the adoption of children. 

Be it enacted, §'c, as follows:

Section 1. Whenever, in case of proceedings had under chapter one hundred and ten of the General Statutes, for leave to adopt a child, the name of a parent entitled to notice thereof is unknown to the court, and the petitioners shall make affidavit that they do not know and cannot ascertain the same, although they have in good faith endeavored to ascertain it, the court shall order publication of the petition and such affidavit, and of its own order thereon, to be made once a week for three successive weeks in at least one newspaper published in the county where the petition is filed, together with such other publication as it may deem proper, if any, the last publication to be at least four weeks before the time appointed for the hearing.

Section 2. The affidavit shall set forth the age, as nearly as may be, and the true name of such child, if known, and any other name or names by which it may have been known and called, and the persons within whose custody it has usually been and is at the time of making the said affidavit.

Section 3. If the parents or the survivor of them shall not appear after such notice, the court may in its discretion appoint some suitable person to act in the proceedings as next friend of the child, and to give or withhold consent in writing to the adoption thereof. Approved May 11,1801.