1883] PROBATE COURTS.-PROBATE BONDS. 237 [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 28.] CHAPTER XIV. An Act relating to Orders of Sale by Probate Courts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in of probate court, SECTION 1. Courts of probate, in making orders for the sale of Sales by order property, may order that the same be sold at public or private how conducted. sale at the discretion of the person authorized to make such sale. validated. SEC. 2. All orders of sale heretofore made in that manner by Orders of sale any court of probate are, in that respect, hereby validated and confirmed. Approved, March 14, 1883. [House Bill No. 151.] CHAPTER XV. An Act relating to Actions on Probate Bonds. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in action SECTION 1. The writ in every action brought upon a probate Guaranty of bond, or bond taken to a judge of probate and his successors in costs in act office, shall be utterly void unless before its issue some responsible on probate inhabitant of the state sign a written indorsement upon it substantially as follows: "I agree to be responsible for the costs of this suit." The indorser shall be liable for the costs of suit in case of judgment for the defendant, and such judgment shall be rendered against the indorser, and not against the plaintiff. If the indorser shall die or remove out of this state, a new indorser on such writ shall be substituted; and the court before which the suit is pending may at any time order the substitution of a new indorser, to be approved by it, who shall indorse the writ and be liable for the costs from the commencement of the suit in the same manner as the original indorser. For any failure to comply with such an order the plaintiff may be nonsuited. SEC. 2. Section thirteen of chapter one, title nineteen, of the general statutes (page 400) is hereby repealed. Approved, March 14, 1883. Repeal. Gen. 238 INTESTATE ESTATES.-TRUST FUNDS. [Jan., [House Bill No. 279.] CHAPTER XVI. An Act concerning Intestate Estates. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Limitation of SECTION 1. time for grant tion. Administration of the estate of any person shall ing administra- not be granted after seven years from his decease, unless the court of probate, upon written petition, and after notice advertised two weeks in some weekly newspaper published in the county where the deceased last dwelt, and such further notice as the court of probate may order, shall find that administration of said estate ought to be granted. SEC. 2. Section three of article two, part one, chapter eleven, title eighteen, of the general statutes (page 372) is hereby repealed. Approved, March 14, 1883. Investment of trust funds. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 9.] CHAPTER XVII. An Act relating to Trust Funds. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. Trust funds received by executors, trustees, or guardians may, by the order of the court of probate having jurisdiction of the trust, be kept invested in the securities received by them, and they shall not be liable for any loss that may occur by depreciation of such securities, unless the instrument under which said trust was created shall direct that a change of said funds shall be made into other securities, and such executors, trustees, and guardians shall neglect or refuse to comply with such directions. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. 1883.] JURIES.-APPOINTMENT OF AUDITORS AND COMMITTEES. [House Bill No. 268.] CHAPTER XVIII. An Act relating to the Summoning of Juries in Courts of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: 239 jurors for court of judge. SECTION 1. The judge of any court of common pleas, if in his summoning of judgment the business of the court shall require it, may, at any of common term of said court holden by him, if the jury for the term has pleas by order been discharged, or if no jury has been summoned, order the Gen. Stat., p. 39. clerk to summon eighteen jurors to attend and serve as jurors at such court in the same manner as is provided by law for summoning jurors to attend a jury term of said court. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved, March 14, 1883. [House Bill No. 13.] CHAPTER XIX. An Act amending an Act concerning the Fees of Officers in Court. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in attending court court. Section two of chapter eighty-six of the public acts of 1878 Fees of officers (page 312) is hereby amended so that said section shall read as of common follows: The fees for attendance in court shall be for the sheriff pleas or district three dollars a day, and for each deputy sheriff, constable, and messenger, two dollars and fifty cents a day. Approved, March 14, 1883. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 25.] CHAPTER XX. An Act concerning the Appointment of Auditors and Committees in Vacation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in auditors or committee in Any judge of the superior court, and the judge of any court of Appointment common pleas or district court, may, in vacation, in any cause pending before said courts respectively wherein a reference is vacation. proper, upon the written application of either party, with at least six days' notice to the opposite party, appoint auditors or a 240 Salary of Windham Co. State's Support of prisoner committed on civil process. Cases excepted. Repeal. Acts 1881, p. 7.j SALARY OF STATE'S ATTORNEY.-CIVIL PROCESS. [Jan., committee in such cause, and such judge shall forthwith certify such appointment to the clerk of the court in which such cause is pending. Approved, March 14, 1883. [Substitute for House Bill No. 210.] CHAPTER XXI. An Act establishing the Salary of the State's Attorney for Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The salary of the state's attorney for the county of Windham, in lieu of the salary now provided by law, shall be one thousand dollars. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on the first day of July, A. D. 1884. Approved, March 14, 1883. [Substitute for House Bill No. 10.] CHAPTER XXII. An Act relating to Imprisonment on Civil Process. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in. SECTION 1. No jailer shall be required to receive into his custody any prisoner committed to jail on civil process unless the plaintiff in such process shall deposit with such jailer, at the time of such commitment, money for the support of such prisoner for one week at least at the rate established for his weekly maintenance, and thereafter at the same rate weekly in advance, so long as such prisoner shall remain in the custody of said jailer: and said jailer shall not be required to retain said prisoner beyond the time for which such maintenance is paid, provided, that the payment of such board shall not be required while such prisoner is at large within the jail limits, except in cases now pending or determined. SEC. 2. This act shall not apply to commitments on mesue or final process in bastardy cases or to commitments by judgment. or decree. SEC. 3. Chapter twelve of the public acts of 1881 (page 7) is hereby repealed. Approved, March 14, 1883. 1883.] SHELL-FISHERIES.-STATE BONDS. 241 [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 83.] CHAPTER XXIII. An Act relating to Shell-Fisheries. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in wardens, their powers. The commissioners of shell-fisheries may appoint two or more Shell fish persons in each town bordering on the sound to be shell-fish appointment, wardens, who shall assist in detecting and prosecuting offenses duty, fees, and against the shell-fishery laws, shall be paid the same fees allowed to grand jurors in criminal cases, shall have the same powers as other officers to arrest for the violation of said shell-fishery laws, and shall hold such office until their respective successors are appointed and qualified. Approved, April 4, 1883. [Senate Bill No. 85.] CHAPTER XXIV. An Act authorizing Redemption of State Bonds. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in bonds SECTION 1. To enable the treasurer to redeem the bonds of Issue of State this state now outstanding and issued under an act of the general authorized. assembly approved January fifteenth, A. D. 1864, bonds of the state of Connecticut may be issued, with the approval of the governor, for an amount not exceeding the sum of one million dollars. The bonds authorized by this act shall bear interest from the first day of January, A. D. 1884, at the rate of three Rate of interest. and one-half per cent. per annum, with semi-annual coupons attached, payable on the first days of July and January in each year, at the office of the treasurer in Hartford, with the principal payable on the first day of January, A. D. 1903; which bonds shall be dated December first, A. D 1883, and shall be signed by the treasurer and sealed with his official seal and countersigned by the comptroller and registered in his office. Said bonds shall be for the sum of one thousand dollars each and shall be made payable to bearer and be transferable by delivery. bonds. SEC. 2. The treasurer is authorized to procure and issue Registered registered bonds of this state in such sums as he may find expedient, and to issue the same in exchange for, or in lieu of, the three and one-half per cent. coupon bonds authorized to be issued by this act, and said registered bonds shall bear interest at the rate of three and one-half per cent. per annum, and any coupon bonds so received in exchange for registered bonds shall be canceled and destroyed as other coupon bonds redeemed or |