252 ESTATES.-ECCLESIASTICAL SOCIETIES. [Jan., Amendment of statement in commissioners on insolvent [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 3.] CHAPTER XLIX. An Act relating to the Estates of Deceased and Insolvent Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in In all hearings before commissioners on estates of insolvent hearings before debtors or deceased persons, or before the superior or other proper court on appeal from the doings of such commissioners, the claimant shall have liberty to amend any defect, mistake, or informality in the statement of the claim not changing the ground of action; such amendment in the superior or other court to be upon such terms as to costs as such court shall direct. estates. Approved, March 28, 1883. Official term of committee of ecclesiastical societies. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 30.] CHAPTER L. An Act amending an Act concerning Ecclesiastical Societies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: Section eight of article one, part five, chapter two, title seventeen, of the general statutes (page 296), is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: provided, that at any annual meeting any such society may appoint its committee to consist of three members, one to hold office for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and thereafter one member of such committee shall be appointed at each annual meeting to hold office for three years. But any society which has so appointed its committee may, at any special meeting of the society called for the purpose, vote that it will no longer appoint its committee as hereinbefore provided; and thereupon the terms of office of all the members of its committee shall end at its next annual meeting, and thereafter its committee shall be appointed according to the provisions of the section hereby amended. Approved, March 28, 1883. 1883.] STATE REFORM SCHOOL.-SHELL-FISHERIES. 253 [House Bill No. 352.] CHAPTER LI. An Act relating to the State Reform School. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in at State Reform The superintendent of the State Reform School shall quarterly, Support of boys in July, October, January, and April in each year, present to the school, comptroller a bill, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents a week, for the support of each boy committed to said school, which, if allowed by the comptroller, shall be paid from the treasury. Approved, March 28, 1883. [Senate Bill No. 37.] CHAPTER LII. An Act relating to Shell-Fisheries. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in of shell-fisheries may take leases construction of monuments, SECTION 1. The commissioners of shell-fisheries are hereby commissioners authorized and empowered to hire and take upon leases not exceeding a term of ten years, in the name and behalf of the of land for state, any such plot or plots of ground within the state as they may deem necessary for the constructing, erecting, setting, maintaining, and protecting of signals, beacons, bound-stones, posts, or buoys to be used in designating, locating, surveying, or mapping any shell-fish grounds within state jurisdiction. etc. injury to or SEC. 2. Any person who shall wilfully injure or remove any Penalty for signal, beacon, bound-stone, post, or buoy, or any part, appur- removal of such tenance, or inclosure thereof, which has been or shall hereafter monument. be erected, constructed, or set by the commissioners of shellfisheries, or by their order, on the land or waters of this state, for the purpose of designating, locating, surveying, or mapping any shell-fish grounds, shall be punished by a fine of not less than seven nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not less than ten nor more than ninety days, or both. Approved, April 4, 1883. 254 DRAWBRIDGES.-FOREIGN ATTACHMENT. [Jan., Draw may be passed by steam or sails. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 23.] CHAPTER LIII. An Act relating to Drawbridges. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. Section three of part three, chapter seven, title Stat., p. 246. Railroad Cos. to use standard time. Penalty. [House Bill No. 350.] CHAPTER LIV. An Act in regard to Railroads. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. Every railroad company in their public advertisements and time tables shall make use of the standard time of this state for all stations within this state. SEC. 2. Every railroad company which violates this act shall forfeit twenty-five dollars to be recovered by the state treasurer for the use of the state in an action on this statute. Approved, April 4, 1883. Exemption of wages of minor from foreign attachment. Repeal. Cap. lxxxi., Acts of 1880, p. 540. [Substitute for House Bill No. 162.] CHAPTER LV. An Act relating to Exemptions from Foreign Attachment. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The wages of any minor shall not be taken by process of foreign attachment for any debt of the parent, while such minor is living apart from such parent, nor in any case where the debt is not for necessaries furnished the minor or such parent. SEC. 2. Chapter eighty-one of the public acts of 1880 (page 540) is hereby repealed. Approved, April 4, 1883. 1883.] INSANE PERSONS AND IDIOTS.-BANK COMMISSIONERS. 255 [Substitute for House Bill No. 292.] CHAPTER LVI. An Act relating to Insane Persons and Idiots confined in Jail. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in supposed committed by a SECTION 1. Whenever any jailor or county commissioner shall Examination of be of the opinion that any person confined in jail upon the com-insane or mitment of a justice of the peace, in any cause within the final idiotic prisoner jurisdiction of such justice, is insane or an idiot, it shall be the justice. duty of the county commissioners to appoint some reputable physician to make an examination of such prisoner, and if such physician shall be of the opinion that such prisoner is insane or an idiot, he shall make and sign a certificate to that effect, and deliver the same to said commissioners. such insane or SEC. 2. Said commissioners, on the receipt of such certificate, Disposal of may give notice in writing to the selectmen of the town where idiotic prisoner. such prisoner belongs, that he has been found to be insane or an idiot and transmit to them a copy of such certificate, and said selectmen shall thereupon forthwith remove such prisoner from the jail and provide for him in some suitable place. Approved, April 4, 1883. [Substitute for House Bill No. 32.] CHAPTER LVII. An Act relating to Bank Commissioners. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in disqualified to commissioner. SECTION 1. No officer of any bank, savings bank, or trust who are company chartered by this state shall be eligible to the office of old nice bank commissioner; and if any bank commissioner shall at any of bank time become indebted to any bank, savings bank, or trust company, or shall engage or be interested in the sale of securities as a business or in the negotiation of loans for others, his office shall become vacant; and it shall be the duty of the cashier of any bank and the treasurer of any savings bank or trust company, to which a bank commissioner shall become indebted, to give immediate notice thereof to the governor. SEC. 2. So much of any act relating to bank commissioners Repeal. as is inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed. Approved, April 4, 1883. 256 CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.-PUBLIC ACTS. [Jan., Agents of Conn. Humane Society of their character as Buch. Acts 1882, p. 166. [Substitute for House Bill No. 271.] CHAPTER LVIII. An Act amending an Act relating to Cruelty to Animals. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section four of chapter one hundred and eighty-six of the to be provided public acts of 1882 (p. 166), relating to cruelty to animals, is with evidence hereby amended so that said section shall read as follows: Officers and agents of said society shall be provided with a certificate by said society that they are such officers or agents, in such form as the directors of said society may choose; or with a badge bearing the name or seal of said society; and,shall, if requested, show such certificate or badge when acting under authority of Senators may participate in this act. Approved, April 4, 1883. [House Bill No. 190.] CHAPTER LIX. An Act relating to Meetings of County Representatives. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in At all meetings of the representatives of the several counties, proceedings of as provided by law, the senators resident within such county shall be entitled to attend and participate in the proceedings in meetings of County representatives, the same manner as representatives. Acts 1877, p. 219; 1878, p. 261. When public acts take effect. Repeal Approved, April 4, 1883. [Substitute for House Bill No. 296.] CHAPTER LX. An Act prescribing the Time when Public Acts shall take effect. SECTION 1. All public acts, except when otherwise therein specially provided, shall take effect on the first day of June subsequent to the adjournment of the general assembly. SFC. 2. Chapter one hundred and fifty-five of the public acts of 1881 (page 96) is hereby repealed. SFC. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. |