302 TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.-TAXATION. [Jan., [Substitute for House Bill No. 110.] CHAPTER CXIX. An Act relating to Telegraph Companies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Every electric telegraph company engaged in the business of [Substitute for House Bill No. 33.] CHAPTER CXX. An Act relating to the Taxation of Property held in Trust. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. Every sole trustee residing in this state having in his hands personal property liable to taxation belonging to the trust estate shall make return thereof to the assessors of the town where he resides. If such personal property be in the hands of more than one trustee, then if they all reside in the same town they shall cause such return to be made by one of their number in such town. If they do not all reside in the same town they shall cause such return to be made by one of their number residing in the town in which the affairs of said trust are managed and administered to the assessors of such town; but if none of such trustees reside in such town then they shall designate one of their number who shall make such return to the assessors of the town where he resides. If none of the trustees reside in this state the assessors of any town in this state in which any beneficiary resides shall set in the list of such beneficiary an amount of such personal property bearing the same proportion to the whole of said property as the amount of income received from said property by such beneficiary bears to the whole income of said property. SEC. 2. Ali guardians and conservators shall make returns of the personal estate of their wards to the assessors of the towns in which such wards reside. 1883.] TAX LIENS.-PRINTING. 303 neglect. SEC. 3. If any trustee or trustees, guardian, or conservator Penalty for whose duty it is to make such return, or cause the same to be made, shall neglect so to do, he or they shall forfeit to the town in which such return should have been made, according to the preceding sections, two per cent. of the cash value of the property so taxable for each year of such neglect; and if any trustees whose duty it is herein made to designate one of their number to make such return shall neglect so to do, they shall forfeit to that one of the towns in which any of them reside which shall first sue for the same, two per cent. of the value of such property for each year they shall so neglect. SEC. 4. Section twenty-five of chapter one, title twelve of the Repeal. general statutes (page 157), and chapter ten of the public acts of 1877 (page 153), are hereby repealed. Approved, May 1, 1883. [House Bill No. 358.] CHAPTER CXXI. An Act relating to Tax Liens. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: The fees of town clerks for recording a tax lien shall be Fees for recordtwenty-five cents, in addition to which sum there shall be allowed ing tax liens. in favor of the municipality filing such lien the sum of fifty cents, making a total of seventy-five cents, which shall be collected in addition to the tax so secured; but this act shall not affect any municipality for which special provision has been made by statute. Approved, May 1, 1883. [House Bill No. 99.] CHAPTER CXXII. An Act concerning Printing and Distributing Bills and Resolutions of the General Assembly. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: bound volumes Section seventeen of title six of the general statutes (page 81) Distribution of is hereby amended by adding after the word "Society," in the of printed bills. tenth line thereof, the words "one with the Fairfield County Historical Society," so that when amended said section shall read: Four hundred copies of every bill or joint resolution, reported favorably by a committee, shall be printed for the use of the general assembly, and all acts and resolutions of a private nature, except for grants or release of convicts, shall be so printed at the 304 Corrupt practices in ings. POLITICAL PRIMARY MEETINGS.-PAUPERS. [Jan., expense of the parties applying therefor, and before being favorably considered. Twenty-five copies of every printed bill or resolution shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of state, and by him bound in proper volumes for future reference; five of which shall be deposited in the state library, two with the Connecticut Historical Society, one with the New Haven Colony Historical Society, one with the New London Historical Society, one with the Fairfield County Historical Society, and one in the law library of Yale College. Approved, May 1, 1883. [Substitute for House Bill No. 59.] CHAPTER CXXIII. An Act relating to Political Primary Meetings, Caucuses, and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Any person who shall influence or attempt to influence by political meet- force, bribery, threat, false token, or corrupt means, the vote or speech of any person in a political primary meeting, caucus, or convention; or shall wilfully and knowingly vote more than once, or cast more than one ballot at a time when he is entitled to vote but once or cast but one ballot; or shall wilfully and fraudulently suppress or destroy any vote or ballot properly given or cast, or shall in counting such votes or ballots wilfully miscount or misrepresent the number thereof; and any presiding or other officer of a political primary meeting, caucus, or convention, who shall wilfully announce the result of a ballot or vote of such meeting, caucus, or convention untruly and wrongfully, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not less than seven days nor more than three months, or by such fine and imprisonment both. Approved, May 1, 1883. Supporting paupers, where and how. [House Bill No. 16.] CHAPTER CXXIV. An Act repealing certain Acts relating to the Support of Paupers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Chapter fifty-five of the public acts of 1879 (page 391), and chapter one hundred and forty-four of the public acts of 1881 (page 90), relating to paupers, and the manner in which, and place where, they shall be supported, are hereby repealed. Approved, May 3, 1883. 1883.] PUBLIC SAFETY.-HOMES FOR NEGLECTED CHILDREN. [Substitute for House Bill No. 226.] CHAPTER CXXV. An Act relating to Public Safety. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 305 SECTION 1. Every story above the second story, not including Fire escapes to the basement, in any workshop, manufactory, hotel, building be provided for occupied on such story as an assembly or lodge room by any of buildings. literary, benevolent, or other society, boarding-house accommodating more than twelve lodgers, or tenement house arranged for or occupied by more than five families, shall be provided within six months from the passage of this act with more than one way of egress, by stairways on the inside or fire escapes on the outside of the building, and such stairways and fire escapes shall be kept free from obstruction and shall be accessible from each room in said story. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the first selectman of the town, Examination of or the fire marshal of the city, or the warden of the borough in buildings. which any such building is situated to examine all buildings referred to in the first section of this act, and if on examination he finds that such building is provided with fire escapes or stairways, as required by said section, he shall furnish the owner thereof with a certificate to that effect, in which case such owner shall not be liable under this act. SEC. 3. Every owner of such building who shall violate the Penalty. provisions of this act shall be fined fifty dollars. SEC. 4. Chapter seventy-two of the public acts of 1881 (page Repeal. 39) is hereby repealed. Approved, May 3, 1883. [House Bill No. 359.] CHAPTER CXXVI. An Act to provide Homes and Care for Dependent and Neglected Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in neglected provided in SECTION 1. For the better protection of children between the Temporary ages of two and sixteen years, of the classes hereinafter described, homes for to wit: waifs, strays, children who are or may hereafter be in children to be charge of overseers of the poor, children of prisoners, drunkards, each county. or paupers, and others who are or may hereafter be committed to hospitals, almshouses, or workhouses, and all children within said ages, deserted, neglected, cruelly treated, or dependent, there shall be provided in each county, on or before January 1, 1884, 306 How managed. Children not to be retained or placed in almshouses. HOMES FOR NEGLECTED CHILDREN. [Jan., one or more places of refuge, for such children only, to be known as temporary homes. Said homes shall be distant not less than one-half mile from any penal or pauper institution; and no pauper or convict shall be permitted to live or labor therein; and they shall not be used as a permanent provision or residence for any child, but for its temporary protection, for so long a time only as shall be absolutely necessary for the placing of the child in a well-selected family home. Children demented, idiotic, or suffering from incurable or contagious diseases, are not included in the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. In each county the county commissioners thereof, with one member of the state board of charities and one member of the state board of health, shall constitute a board for the location, organization, management, and general supervision of such temporary home or homes in the county. Said board may use, with their consent, orphan asylums now in operation in any county as temporary homes for that county; and the county commissioners may lease, purchase, hold, sell, and convey real and personal estate for the purposes of such temporary home or homes; and the board may, when desirable for economical reasons, and when consistent with the welfare of the children to be provided for, establish such temporary homes in desirable private families: provided, that in no instance shall such home be under the same care or management as an almshouse, workhouse, or penal institution. Said board may appoint such superintendents or agents, and may make such rules, regulations, and by-laws as may be necessary or convenient for the order and government of the temporary home and its officers; and they shall appoint a committee of one man or woman in each town of the county, who shall serve without compensation, and who shall have at all times the right to visit and inspect the home or homes of their county, and to suggest to said board such provisions, changes, or additions as they may think desirable; and shall assist said board in the careful selection of family homes for the children in the temporary home or homes, and in the visitation of children when placed in selected families; which visitation shall be made by said board, or by its agents, or through said committees, at least once in every three months; and said board shall remove any child from the family in which it may be placed to a temporary home, or to another family, at their discretion, subject to the intents and purposes of this act. SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for overseers of the poor to place or retain children between the ages of two and sixteen years in almshouses, after they shall have been notified by said board that a temporary home in their county is open for the reception of such children; and upon such notice they shall cause all such children then in almshouses to be removed to such home. The necessary expenses of supporting children in temporary homes or in family homes, until they shall reach the age of twelve for girls and fourteen for boys, shall be paid by the towns to which they belong at not less than one dollar and fifty cents nor more than two dollars weekly per child. The placing of children with the lowest bidder is hereby prohibited. |