292 Applications privileged. Fees of committee. Beds for cultivating Cysters not to be designated as natural beds. Voting districts in Canton. determination of the extent, boundaries, and location of such SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [Substitute for House Bill No. 344.] CHAPTER CXII. An Act relating to Voting Districts in Canton. All Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The dividing line between the first and second voting districts of the town of Canton shall be as follows: beginning at a point in the east line of the town of New Hartford, near the house of Mark H. and John R. Pike, two hundred feet north of the north line of the Albany turnpike, and thence running easterly parallel with and two hundred feet northerly from the north line of said turnpike to a point two hundred feet west of the west road leading to Simsbury, near the house of George Mills; thence running northerly parallel with and two hundred feet west of the west line of the Simsbury and Granby road, to a point two hundred feet west of the road running from the house of Levi Case to the house of George J. Case; thence running northerly parallel with and two hundred feet west of the west line of said last-named road to a point which is west twentyfour degrees north from the southwest corner of the farm of George J. Case; thence running east twenty-four degrees south by a direct course to the east line of the town of Canton and west line of the town of Simsbury. 293 SEC. 2. All that part of said town lying southerly of said line Places of voting. shall be the first district, and the electors dwelling therein shall vote at Collinsville. The remainder of said town lying northerly of said first district shall constitute the second district, and the electors dwelling therein shall vote at Canton Center. SEC. 3. The resolution approved June thirtieth, 1866, divid- Repeal ing the town of Canton into voting districts, is hereby repealed. Approved, May 1, 1883. [Substitute for House Bill No. 167.] CHAPTER CXIII. An Act to divide Danbury into Voting Districts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The town of Danbury is hereby divided into and Danbury shall comprise two voting districts, viz.: divided into voting districts. SEC. 2. The first voting district shall be composed of that First district. portion of said town lying north of a line described as follows: Commencing on the west boundary line of said town, at the center of the main highway leading from Brewsters to the borough of Danbury, near the residence of Isaac T. Field, and running easterly in the center of said highway and through the center of West street in the borough of Danbury to the west line of Main street in said borough, thence across Main street to the center of Liberty street, thence easterly through the center of Liberty street and northerly through the center of Railroad avenue to the track of the Danbury and Norwalk railroad, thence easterly along the track of said railroad to its intersection with the division line between the towns of Danbury and Bethel. All the remaining Second district. portion of said town lying south of said described line shall comprise the second voting district. to vote not lost SEC. 3. No elector of said town shall lose his right to vote at Elector's right any electors' meeting held in said town by reason of being regis- by wrong regis tered in the wrong district. try. SEC. 4. The selectmen of said town shall provide a suitable Polling places. polling place in each of said districts. voters. SEC. 5. Said town shall choose at its annual town meeting Registrars of by general ticket two registrars of voters for the town at large, but no person shall vote for more than one registrar, and the two persons having the highest number of votes shall be declared 5 294 East Windsor VOTING DISTRICTS IN EAST WINDSOR.-RAILROADS. [Jan., elected. Said registrars shall have the powers of registrars elected in the towns enumerated in section four of chapter one hundred and forty-six of the public acts of 1877 (page 235). Approved, May 1, 1883. [House Bill No. 169.] CHAPTER CXIV. An Act relating to Voting Districts in East Windsor. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The legal voters of the town of East Windsor may be divided shall decide by ballot at the next annual town meeting in said town whether there shall be one or two voting districts for the purposes of all electors' meetings in said town. into voting districts. To be decided how. Division line. Gate or signal to be erected at railroad cross ings. SEC. 2. The warning for such town meeting shall contain notice that a vote will be taken on the question of one or two voting districts; and in taking such vote the registry list of said town last perfected shall be used. The ballots of those in favor of one voting district shall have written or printed thereon "one voting district," and the ballots of those in favor of two voting districts shall have written or printed thereon "two voting districts," and if a majority of the ballots cast are in favor of one voting district, all electors' meetings in said town shall hereafter be held at Scantic in said town; but if a majority of said ballots cast are in favor of two voting districts, said town shall be divided into two voting districts for the purposes of all electors' meetings, according to the provisions of number sixty-four of the special acts of 1881 (page 57). Approved, May 1, 1883. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 47.] CHAPTER CXV. An Act concerning Railroads. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The railroad commissioners when requested in writing by the selectmen of any town, the mayor and common council of any city, or the warden and burgesses of any borough, to order a gate or electric signal to be erected, or a flagman to be stationed at any railroad crossing, shall visit such place, first giving the authorities making such request reasonable notice thereof, and if the public safety requires it, shall order the company operating said railroad to maintain a gate, or electric signal, or to keep a flagman at said place, or to do any other act at said 1883.1 RETURNS OF RAILROAD COMPANIES. place needful for the protection of the public, and may specify when said gate shall be opened and closed, or when flagmen shall be on duty, and may change any such order when they deem it. necessary, first visiting the town, city, or borough in which said. crossing is located, and there giving the authorities thereof an opportunity to be heard thereon; and if any railroad company shall neglect to station flagmen, or maintain gates or electric signals as ordered by said commissioners, or shall neglect to comply with any order of said commissioners provided for by this section, or any order heretofore issued by said commissioners relating to the maintenance of gates, electric signals, or flagmen, at any railroad crossing, it shall forfeit to the state fifty dollars for each day of such neglect. 295 decision of R. R. SEC. 2. When the railroad commissioners, on application as Appeal from aforesaid, shall make an order as provided herein, or refuse to commissioners. make the same, their decision shall be communicated to the parties in interest within thirty days from the final hearing on the same, and either party aggrieved by such decision may appeal therefrom to the superior court, in the manner and with like effect as provided for appeals in section fifty-two of article two, part nine, chapter two, title seventeen, of the general statutes (page 327). But in all cases where a flagman, gate, or electric signal shall be ordered by the superior court upon an appeal taken by the applicants therefor, such court may at its discretion order a portion of the expense of maintaining or erecting the same, but not exceeding one-half, to be borne by the town, city, or borough in which the crossing is situated; and the superior court may at any time upon the application of either party, with due notice to adverse parties, annul or vary any order passed as aforesaid provided, such court shall find there has been a change of circumstances surrounding such crossing. SEC. 3. Section thirteen of article two, part nine, chapter two, Repeal. title seventeen of the general statutes (page 320), chapter ninety of the public acts of 1875 (page 51), and chapter fifty-four of the public acts of 1880 (page 524), are hereby repealed. Approved, May 1, 1883. [Substitute for House Bills Nos. 145 and 304.] CHAPTER CXVI. An Act amending an Act relating to Annual Returns of Rail- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in returns. SECTION 1. Chapter sixty of the public acts of 1878 (page Form of railroad 295) is hereby amended by inserting at the end of the items specified understatement of operating expenses" the following: "Statement of the costs of betterments charged to operating expenses accounts." 296 Railroad trains to be provided with hospital stretchers. ACCIDENTS ON RAILROADS.-CORONERS. [Jan.. SEC. 2. Under said heading so inserted the several railroad companies shall specify the costs of betterments and the account to which the same is charged. Approved, May 1, 1883. [Senate Bill No. 90.] CHAPTER CXVII. An Act relating to Accidents on Railroads. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in any Every railroad company and the trustees or persons operating railroad shall provide and cause to be placed in some car attached to every train passing over such railroad, and at every passenger station, a suitable hospital stretcher for use in case of accidents. Approved, May 1, 1883. Coroner for each County, how appointed. To give bonds and be sworn. Medical examiner. [Substitute for House Bill No. 164.} CHAPTER CXVIII. An Act concerning Coroners. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The judges of the superior court at their annual meeting next to be held after the passage of this act, and every third year thereafter, shall appoint for each county, upon the recommendation of the state's attorney for such county, a coroner who shall be an attorney at law residing in such county, familiar with criminal practice and medical jurisprudence; which coroner when so appointed shall hold his office for the term of three years from the time of his appointment, and until another shall be duly appointed in his stead, unless he be sooner removed from office by said judges, who may, for cause shown, so remove him, and who may, on the recommendation of the state's attorney for the county, fill any vacancy in said office of coroner. SEC. 2. Every coroner so appointed, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall be sworn and give bonds with surety in the sum of three thousand dollars to the state, conditioned for the faithful performance of all the duties of said office. SEC. 3. The coroner shall appoint for each town of the county an able and discreet person, learned in medical science, to be medical examiner, who shall give a bond with surety in the sum of one thousand dollars to the coroner for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, and who shall hold his office at the pleasure of the coroner. The coroner shall make such |