whether before any board of county commissioners or the superior court; but sections two and three of this act shall cease to be of any force or effect after March 16, 1903. Approved, February 18, 1903. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 7.] CHAPTER 2. An Act concerning Justices of the Peace. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in tices of the extended. SECTION 1. Any person elected a justice of the peace at the Time for jusNovember election held in 1902, who has not taken the oath of peace to qualify office within the time required by the provisions of the general statutes, if otherwise qualified, may take such oath on or before the third Monday in March, 1903. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [House Bill No. 86.] CHAPTER 3. An Act concerning Appropriations by Towns for "Old Home" Week. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: make appropri ance of "Old Any town may, at a meeting duly warned and held for that Town may purpose, appropriate such a reasonable sum as it shall deem ex- ation for observpedient to be expended under the direction of the selectmen in Home" week. the observance of "Old Home" week. Approved, March 11, 1903. [Substitute for House Bill No. 38.] CHAPTER 4. An Act concerning Damages for Obstructing Streets with Railroad Cars. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 2039 of the general statutes is hereby amended to read as follows: Any person traveling upon any public street or highway, which is crossed by a railroad, who shall be ob Damages for street with rail obstructing road cars. Statement of expenditure by office. structed or prevented from crossing such railroad for a longer time than five minutes, by reason of trains, cars, or locomotives, standing upon or across such street or highway, may recover twenty-five dollars and costs from the corporation owning or operating said railroad; provided suit is brought within thirty days after the date of such obstruction. Approved, March 11, 1903. [House Bill No. 32.] CHAPTER 5. An Act concerning Disbursements by Candidates for Office. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in " Section 1695 of the general statutes is hereby amended by candidates for inserting the words "if any " after the word "contributions in the eighth line thereof, so that said section when amended shall read as follows: Every candidate for the office of senator of the United States, within ten days after the election of such senator, and every candidate for the office of elector of president and vice-president of the United States, representative in congress, or for any state, county, town, city, borough, or school office, shall, within ten days after the election at which he was voted for as such candidate, file with the town clerk of the town in which he resides an itemized statement, subscribed and sworn to, of the amount of his disbursements, expenses, and contributions, if any, for the campaign and election in which he was a candidate. Liability for stealing or injuring registered dog. Approved, March 11, 1903. [House Bill No. 35.] CHAPTER 6. An Act concerning the Stealing of Registered Dogs and Dogs Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. Every person who shall steal or confine and secrete any registered dog or any dog under the age of six months, or who shall unlawfully kill or injure any such dog, shall be liable to the owner in a civil action and shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. SEC. 2. Section 4481 of the general statutes is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. [Substitute for House Bill No. 267.] CHAPTER 7. An Act concerning Reports of the Highway Commissioner. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Repeal. SECTION 1. Section 134 of the general statutes is hereby Printing of report of highway amended by inserting after the word "biennially" in the commissioner. twenty-sixth line thereof the words "thirty-five hundred copies of the report of the highway commissioner," so that said section when amended shall read as follows: He shall cause to be printed at the expense of the state, annually, a sufficient number of copies of each of the following annual reports, not exceeding the number hereinafter stated, that is to say: of the railroad commissioners, twenty-two hundred; of the bank commissioners, two thousand; of the comptroller, one thousand; of the treasurer, twelve hundred; of the school fund commissioner, one thousand; of the state board of charities, two thousand; of the Connecticut Agricultural College, one thousand; of the state board of health, three thousand; of the state board of agriculture, five thousand; of the state board of education, such a number as said board may determine, not exceeding six thousand; of the Connecticut hospital for the insane, one thousand; of the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls, one thousand; of the commissioners of shell-fisheries, two thousand; of state's attorneys, eight hundred; of state prison directors, thirteen hundred; concerning jails, one thousand; of the insurance commissioner, such number as said commissioner and the comptroller may deem necessary, but not exceeding twenty-five hundred of Part I, three thousand of Part II, and fifteen hundred of Part III; of the Connecticut School for Boys, two thousand; of the adjutant-general, fifteen hundred; of railroad map for railroad commissioners' report, twenty-four hundred; of the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics, fifteen thousand, two thousand five hundred of which shall be bound in cloth; of the Connecticut agricultural experiment station and the Storrs agricultural experiment station, seven thousand copies each, neither to exceed four hundred pages, or the equivalent thereof in paper, pages, and printing, in the form of a smaller report and a series of popular bulletins; of the inspector of factories, five thousand; and one thousand copies of each of all other annual reports made to the governor or to the SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Shooting of ducks in Niantic bay. Joint liability of husband and wife. [House Bill No. 294.] CHAPTER 8. An Act concerning the Shooting of Ducks in Niantic Bay. SECTION 1. In the open season for shooting ducks in Niantic Bay, or the waters adjacent thereto, the residents of the town of East Lyme shall be allowed to hunt or shoot the same at any hour of the day or night. SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, March 18, 1903. [Substitute for House Bill No. 104.] CHAPTER 9. An Act concerning the Joint Liability of Husband and Wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 4546 of the general statutes is hereby amended by inserting in the fourth line thereof, after the words "shall be liable," the words "for the reasonable and necessary services of a physician rendered the husband, wife, or their minor child while residing in the family of its parents, and for the rental of any tenement or premises actually occupied by such husband 1903.] ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVE TO FILL A VACANCY. and wife as a residence and reasonably necessary to them for such purpose; and both shall also be liable," so that said section when amended shall read as follows: All purchases made by either husband or wife in his or her own name, in case of marriages on or after the twentieth of April, 1877, shall be presumed, in the absence of notice to the contrary, to be on his or her private account and liability; but both shall be liable for the reasonable and necessary services of a physician rendered the husband, wife, or their minor child while residing in the family of its parents, and for the rental of any tenement or premises actually occupied by such husband and wife as a residence and reasonably necessary to them for such purpose; and both shall also be liable when any article purchased by either shall have in fact gone to the support of the family, or for the joint benefit of both, or for the reasonable apparel of the wife, or for her reasonable support, while abandoned by her husband. It shall, however, be the duty of the husband to support his family, and his property when found shall be first applied to satisfy any such joint liability; and the wife shall in equity be entitled to an indemnity from the property of the husband, for any property of her own that shall have been taken, or for any money that she shall have been compelled to pay, for the satisfaction of any such claim. Approved, March 18, 1903. 9 [House Bill No. 464.] CHAPTER 10. An Act concerning the Election of a Representative to fill a Vacancy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in vacancy, how SECTION 1. Section 1668 of the general statutes is hereby Representative: amended by striking out the words "first Tuesday of Febru- filled. ary" in the second and third lines of said section and inserting in lieu thereof "first Tuesday of April," so that said section when amended shall read as follows: When any vacancy shall occur in the office of representative from any town on or before the first Tuesday of April succeeding any biennial election, the town clerk or assistant town clerk of such town shall forthwith warn an electors' meeting for said town for the purpose of electing a representative to fill such vacancy, which meeting shall be warned, organized, and conducted in the same manner as biennial electors' meetings are required to be. The registry list used at such meetings shall be the list last completed. |