272 Execution of final order. APPROACHES TO RAILROAD STATIONS. [Jan., or occupant may appeal from such order to the superior court of the county in which said building is, or to any judge of said court in vacation, by a petition, to which shall be annexed a citation to the town, city, or borough, which shall be served within. three days after the service of such order, and be returnable within three days after the service of such petition; and upon such petition such court or judge shall appoint three disinterested freeholders to view the premises and report to such court or judge such an order as they may deem expedient in reference thereto, which being accepted shall become effectual between the parties to the appeal; and said court or judge may award costs at discretion. SEC. 3. Section thirty-one of the same chapter is hereby amended so that the same shall read as follows: If any final order shall not be executed within ten days after its service by copy, or, if made on appeal, after its acceptance by such court or judge, the selectmen, common council, or warden and burgesses shall execute it, and the person who failed to comply with it shall pay to the town, city, or borough the expense of its execution and forfeit not more than one thousand dollars, half to said town, city, or borough, and half to any informer. Approved, April 24, 1883. Providing for to railroad stations. [Substitute for House Joint Resolution No. 111.] CHAPTER LXXXIV. An Act to Secure Safe Approaches to Railroad Passenger Stations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Every corporation or trustee operating a railroad shall mainsafe approaches tain a safe approach for carriages to all its passenger stations from a contiguous or neighboring highway, and shall not permit such approach to be obstructed in any manner for a reasonable time before and after the arrival of every passenger train stopping at such station. The railroad commissioners are empowered to make such orders as they deem necessary and reasonable in each case to which their attention is called. Any corporation or trustee violating such an order of the railroad commissioners shall forfeit one hundred dollars to the state for every day wherein such order is violated, to be recovered by the state treasurer in an action on this statute, Approved, April 26, 1883. 1883.] DISCHARGED PRISONERS.-PROTECTION OF FISH. [Substitute for House Joint Resolution No. 135.] CHAPTER LXXXV. An Act relating to Prisoners Discharged from Jails. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 273 of discharged committed. It shall be discretionary with the county commissioners, or Transportation either of them, or the sheriff of any county, or the jailer of any convict to town county jail, upon application of any person discharged from said whence jail, after having served his term of imprisonment, to furnish him with transportation by public conveyance to the town from which he was committed; and if there is no public conveyance to said town then transportation shall be furnished by public conveyance to the station nearest to said town. Approved, April 19, 1883. [House Bill No. 213.] CHAPTER LXXXVI. An Act relating to the burial of Executed Criminals. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: executed The sheriff shall cause the body of any executed criminal to Burial of be decently and quietly buried at an expense not exceeding criminal. twenty dollars, to be taxed and paid in the same manner as other expenses of the execution. Approved, April 19, 1883. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 64.] CHAPTER LXXXVII. An Act for the Protection of Fish in Quinnipiac River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in in Quinnipiac SECTION 1. Any person who shall place weirs or other con- Passage of fish trivances in the Quinnipiac river for the purpose of obstructing river not to the passage of fish below Doolittle's dam, so called, shall be pun- be obstructed. ished by a fine of not less than three nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or by such fine and imprisonment both; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the placing of nets along the shores of said river, provided at least seven-eighths of the passage-way remain unobstructed. SEC. 2. Chapter twenty-nine of the public acts of 1875 (page Repeal. 17) is hereby repealed. Approved, April 19, 1883. 274 SCHOOL TAX.-SCHOOL VISITORS, ETC. [Jan., School district taxes, on what levied. [Substitute for House Bill No. 72.] CHAPTER LXXXVIII. An Act amending an Act relating to School District Taxes. Chapter one hundred and twenty-five of the public acts of 1878 [Senate Bill No. 87.] Address of committees and returned to board of education. CHAPTER LXXXIX. An Act relating to Returns of Boards of School Visitors and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in The school visitors of each town, and the board of education. school district in consolidated districts, shall annually in the month of October teachers to be return to the secretary of the state board of education the names and post-office addresses of district committees, and also within four weeks from the beginning of each school term return the name and post-office address of each teacher employed in the public schools of such town or consolidated district. Approved, April 19, 1883. 1883.] LIFE INSURANCE.-BURIAL OF SOLDIERS. 275 [House Bill No. 247.] CHAPTER XC. An Act relating to Life Insurance Companies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in companies may SECTION 1. Any company chartered by, and now doing busi- Life insurance ness in, this state and empowered to make contracts contingent grant annuities. upon life, is hereby authorized to grant and issue annuities either in connection with or separate from contracts of insurance predicated upon life risks. SEC. 2. All contracts heretofore issued by any company Former grants named in the first section of this act, comprising an annuity, are of the kind hereby valid. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. [House Bill No. 347.] CHAPTER XCI. An Act concerning the Burial of Soldiers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in confirmed. or sailor at SECTION 1. Whenever any person who served in the army, Burial of navy, or marine corps of the United States during the war of deceased soldier the rebellion and was honorably discharged therefrom shall die, public expense. being at the time of his death a legal resident of this state, and not having estate sufficient to pay the necessary expenses of his burial, the state shall pay the same. Such expenses shall not exceed the sum of thirty-five dollars in any case, and the burial shall be in some cemetery or plot not used exclusively for the burial of the pauper dead. selectmen. SEC. 2. The selectmen of the town in which such deceased Duties of shall have resided or died, or if he die without this state, of the' town in which he shall be buried, shall pay such burial expenses, and upon satisfactory proof by the selectmen made to the quartermaster-general of the identity of the deceased, the time and place of his death and burial, and the insufficiency of his estate, and his approval thereof, such expenses shall be paid to said selectmen by the comptroller. headstone. SEC. 3. Upon proof furnished the quartermaster-general by Grave to be said selectmen that the grave of any such person who has died marked by since February third, 1879, or who shall hereafter die, is unmarked by a suitable headstone, and that he did not possess at his decease sufficient estate to procure the same, the quartermaster-general shall cause to be delivered to such selectmen a suitable 276 Repeal. As to evidence objected to on trial. Death of pupil at reformatory institution to be notified to town whence he came. Validating defective assessments for taxes. NEW TRIALS.-IRREGULARITIES, ETC. [Jan., headstone of a design and material heretofore approved by the governor, marked with the name of the deceased, the date of his death, and if possible the organization to which he belonged. The expense of such headstone shall not exceed fifteen dollars, and shall be paid by the comptroller. SEC. 4. Chapter eighty-nine of the public acts of 1882 (page 167) is hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from its passage. [Substitute for House Bill No. 101.] CHAPTER XCII. An Act amending an Act relating to New Trials. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section seven of chapter fifty of the public acts of 1882 (page 145), relating to new trials in civil actions, is hereby repealed. Approved, April 19, 1883. [House Bill No. 354.] CHAPTER XCIII. An Act relating to Deaths at Reformatory Institutions. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Whenever any boy committed to the State Reform School, or [Substitute for House Bill No. 152.] CHAPTER XCIV. An Act Validating certain Irregularities and Informalities. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. In all cases where the assessors of any town have neglected to give legal notice requiring all persons therein liable to pay taxes to bring in written or printed lists of the taxable property belonging to them, as required by law; and in all cases |