1883.] WARNINGS OF TOWN MEETINGS.-PRINTING 307 committed or workhouse. SEC. 4. It shall be unlawful for any court or magistrate to Nor be commit any child under sixteen years of age as vicious, truant, to jail, or incorrigible, to any jail, almshouse, or workhouse. Any court almshouse, of probate, city or police court, or justice of the peace, may, upon proceedings instituted in the manner provided for the commitment of children to the industrial schools of the state, or upon petition of the Connecticut Humane Society, commit any child belonging to the classes enumerated in section one of this act to any temporary home that may have been established under this act, and the costs of such commitment shall be paid in the same manner as in the other cases referred to in this section. SEC. 5. A sum not exceeding one thousand dollars in any one Appropriation county shall be paid towards the establishment and maintenance of money. of the temporary homes provided for in this act by the comptroller, upon the certificate of said board that provision for such home or homes has been made in such county. the purpose. SEC. 6. To provide for the expenses of temporary homes in County tax for excess of the sum received under section three of this act, said board shall present annually to the county representatives of each county an estimate of the expense of such homes for the succeeding year; and said representatives shall, at their annual meeting in each year, lay a county tax for the maintenance of such home or homes in their county. Approved, May 3, 1883. [House Bill No. 362.] CHAPTER CXXVII. An Act validating Informalities in Warnings of Town Meetings. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in of town SECTION 1. In all cases where the selectmen of any town have Validating acts omitted to insert in the notice of a town meeting warned by them the hour of such meeting, such omission shall not invalidate defectively any action taken at such meeting. warned. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [House Bill No. 360.] CHAPTER CXXVIII. An Act relating to Printing Reports of the State Board of Health. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in In lieu of any number now authorized by law, there shall Number to be the printed of board of health reports. 308 EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS.-RAILROADS. [Jan., Manufacture and storage of explosive substances regulated. One railroad not to cross another at grade, except Railroad company may lay out road and take land. [Substitute for House Bill No. 234.] CHAPTER CXXIX. An Act relating to the Manufacture and Sale of Explosive Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in No person shall manufacture or store any explosive material or compound, except gunpowder, near another person's property in quantity sufficient to endanger the lives or safety of persons or to injure their property; and every person so offending shall be liable for all damages caused thereby. Approved, May 3, 1883. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 3, Session of 1882.] CHAPTER CXXX. An Act concerning the Crossing of one Railroad by Another. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in No railroad hereafter constructed shall cross any other railroad at grade, except for the purpose of connecting therewith, where the avoidance of a grade crossing is practicable, and the railroad commissioners shall be judges of the question of practicability. This act shall not apply to the New Canaan railroad, nor the Meriden and Cromwell railroad. Approved, May 3, 1883. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 12.] CHAPTER CXXXI. An Act relating to the Location and Construction of Railroads. Section eighteen, of article two, part nine, chapter two, title seventeen of the general statutes (page 321), is hereby amended so that the same shall read as follows: Every railroad company may lay out its road not exceeding six rods wide, and for the purpose of cuttings, embankments, and procuring stone and gravel, and for necessary turnouts, may take as much more real estate within the limits of its charter as may be necessary for the proper construction and security of the road; but no real estate without the limits of said road shall be so taken without the permission of the parties interested therein, unless the railroad com 1883.] DEPOSIT OF MUD FROM HARBORS. 309 missioners, on application of such company, and after notice to said parties, shall first prescribe the limits within which real estate shall be taken for said purposes, and no railroad shall lay out and finally locate its road without the written approbation of the location by said commissioners; and any company may Change of change the location of its road, or of any section or part thereof, location of road. either before or after such location has been approved by the commissioners, provided such change is made before the construction of said road or of such section or part thereof has been commenced, and is made with the written approbation of said commissioners; provided, that all damages that may be occasioned to any person by the taking of any real estate for said purposes · shall be paid for by said company as provided by law. Approved, May 3, 1883. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 81.] CHAPTER CXXXII. An Act relating to the Deposit of Mud and other Material from Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: any in New Haven deposits of SECTION 1. The shell-fish commissioners shall appoint one or Oyster grounds more suitable persons whose duty it shall be to accompany every harbor proboat when it is employed in towing or carrying mud or other tected from material, except that used in making oyster beds, to be dumped mud, etc. out of New Haven harbor, to see that such mud or other material is properly dumped on the dumping grounds designated by said commissioners, and nowhere else, and to report to said commissioners any violation of law in respect to such dumping; and person in charge of any such boat, who shall refuse to permit any person appointed as aforesaid to enter and remain upon said boat while it is so employed shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than two nor more than six months; and the boat on which such mud or other material shall be carried without such person appointed by the commissioners as aforesaid, shall be liable to seizure and may be proceeded against in the manner provided in section twenty-three, of article one, part one, chapter four, title sixteen, of the general statutes (page 217). boats used for SEC. 2. Every person about to engage in removing mud or Inspection of other material as aforesaid, shall notify the shell-fish commis- removing mud. sioners, or some person appointed by them as aforesaid, by a written or printed notice deposited in the post-office of New Haven, post paid, stating the time when such work will be commenced and the name of the boat or boats to be employed; and any person so engaged who shall not comply with the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than two nor more than six months. 310 Pay of inspector. in other har GAME. -JUDGES OF SUPERIOR COURT. [Jan., SEC. 3. The person so appointed to accompany such boat shall be allowed a sum not exceeding two and one-half dollars per day for such service, to be paid by said commissioners and charged as other expenses of said commission. Oyster grounds SEC. 4. Whenever it shall be brought to the notice of the bors protected. shell-fish commissioners that mud or any other material is being removed from any of the harbors of this state where oyster grounds have been located or designated, it shall be the duty of said commissioners to locate a dumping-ground for such mud or other material, and to appoint a suitable person or persons to accompany every boat when employed in towing or carrying the same under the same limitations and restrictions as imposed by the several sections of this act in reference to New Haven harbor. Game-wardens in each town, Approved, May 3, 1883. [Substitute for House Bill No. 341.] CHAPTER CXXXIII. An Act for the Better Preservation of Game. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The selectmen of every town shall appoint two their duty and or more persons to be game-wardens, who shall assist in detecting and prosecuting offences against the game laws, and shall be paid the same fees allowed to grand jurors in criminal cases. fees. Official term and powers. Annual meeting of judges. SEC. 2. Game-wardens shall hold their offices for the term of two years from the date of their appointment, and shall have the same powers as other officers to arrest for the violation of any law relating to game. Approved, May 3, 1883. [House Bill No. 363.] CHAPTER CXXXIV. An Act relating to the Annual Meeting of the Judges of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in The first sentence of section eleven, chapter three, title four of the general statutes (page 42), is hereby amended so that the same shall read as follows: The judges of the superior court shall meet at the supreme court room in Hartford on the first Monday of June in each year; and the chief justice shall preside at said meeting, and six of said judges shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Approved, May 9, 1883. 1883.] FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT.-COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 311 [Substitute for House Bill No. 84.] CHAPTER CXXXV. An Act relating to Terms of the Supreme Court in the First Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: at Hartford. SECTION 1. The terms of the supreme court of errors for the Terms of first judicial district shall hereafter be held at Hartford, on the Supreme court first Tuesdays of October, January, March, and May in each year, in lieu of the terms now prescribed by law. SEC. 2. The clerk of the superior court for Hartford county Order of hear shall keep a docket upon which all appeals to be heard by the ing appeals. supreme court of errors in said district, at each term thereof, shall be entered in the following order: first, appeals from Windham county; second, appeals from Middlesex county; third, appeals from Tolland county; fourth, appeals from Litchfield county; fifth, appeals from Hartford county; sixth, appeals transferred by consent from other judicial districts; and said court shall make assignments by days of the cases upon such docket as it may see fit. able to January SEC. 3. All process now returnable, or hereafter and before Process returnthe first day of June, 1883, made returnable, to the term of the term, 1884. supreme court of errors for the first judicial district, to be held at Hartford on the second Tuesday of January, 1884, shall not abate but shall be considered as returnable to the term of said court for said district to be held at Hartford, on the first Tuesday of October, 1883. Approved, May 9, 1883. [Substitute for House Bill No. 289.] CHAPTER CXXXVI. An Act relating to Compensation of County Commissioners. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: of county com SECTION 1. The compensation of county commissioners shall Compensation be four dollars a day, and travel fees at the rate of three cents a missioners. mile each way, not exceeding in the aggregate one dollar a day for mileage and other expenses, to be paid by the county; and no charge shall be made for more than one hundred days in any one year, except in the counties of Hartford, New Haven, and Fairfield, in which counties the commissioners may charge for services rendered not exceeding one hundred and fifty days in each year. |