be removed, and said alterations and improvements to be made, and shall prescribe the manner and extent of such repairs, and of the removal of such encroachments, and of the making of such alterations and improvements, and the time within which the work shall be done, and may for reasonable cause extend such time. If said orders be not complied with, the commissioners shall cause such repairs to be made, and such encroachments to be removed, and such alterations and improvements to be made, at the expense of the county, and upon the completion of the same may issue a warrant in favor of the county against the selectmen of such town to collect the amount of money so expended, with the additional fees and costs of the commissioners, or may bring suit against such town in the name of the county treasurer to collect such amount, with said additional fees and costs of the commissioners. Approved, May 15, 1903. Property exempt from taxation. [Substitute for House Bill No. 43.] CHAPTER 91. An Act exempting Angora Goats from Taxation to the Amount of One Hundred Dollars. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 66 Section 2315 of the general statutes is hereby amended by inserting in the forty-third line thereof between the words sheep" and "owned" the words " and Angora goats," so that said section when amended shall read as follows: The following property shall be exempt from taxation: All property belonging to the United States or this state; buildings, with their appurtenances, belonging to any county, town, city, or borough; buildings or portions of buildings exclusively occupied as colleges, academies, churches, public schoolhouses, or infirmaries; parsonages of any ecclesiastical society to the value of five thousand dollars, while used solely as such; buildings belonging to and used exclusively for scientific, literary, benevolent, or ecclesiastical societies, not including any real estate conveyed by any ecclesiastical society or public or charitable institution without reserving an annual income or rent or by a conveyance intended to be a perpetual alienation, and not including any real estate of any educational, benevolent, or ecclesiastical corporation or association, whether held in the name of such corporation or association or by any person or persons in trust for such corporation or association, which is leased or used for other purposes than the specific purposes of such corporation or associa tion, nor including lands granted and given for the maintenance of the ministry of the gospel while leased; all lands used exclusively for cemetery purposes; the property to the amount of three thousand dollars of any pensioned soldier, sailor, or marine of the United States, who, while in service, lost a leg or arm, or suffered disabilities which by the rules of the United States pension office are considered equivalent to such loss; the property to the amount of three thousand dollars of any person who, by reason of blindness, is unable by his labor to support himself and family; the property to the amount of one thousand dollars of every resident in this state who has served in the army, navy, marine corps, or revenue marine service of the United States in time of war, and received an honorable discharge therefrom; or lacking such amount of property in his own name, so much of the property of the wife of any such person as shall be necessary to equal said amount; and property to the amount of one thousand dollars of the widow resident in this state, or, if there be no such widow, of the widowed mother resident in this state, of every person who has so served and has died either during his term of service or after receiving honorable discharge from said service; and property to the amount of one thousand dollars of pensioned widows, fathers, and mothers, resident in this state, of soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in the army, navy, or marine corps, or revenue marine service of the United States; wearing apparel of every person and family, not including watches and jewelry of any kind exceeding twenty-five dollars in value; household furniture, used by and belonging to any one family, to the value of five hundred dollars; farming tools, actually and exclusively used in the business of farming upon any one farm, not exceeding in value two hundred dollars; the produce of a farm, while owned and held by the producer, actually grown, growing, or produced during the season next preceding the time of listing, including colts, calves, and lambs; fuel and provisions for the use of any one family; swine to the value of fifty dollars; poultry to the value of twenty-five dollars; sheep and Angora goats owned and kept in this state to the value of one hundred dollars; cash not exceeding one hundred dollars; private libraries and books, not exceeding two hundred dollars in value, and all public libraries; all musical instruments, not exceeding in value twenty-five dollars; all musical instruments used exclusively by churches, all fire engines, and other implements, used for the extinguishment of fires, with the buildings used exclusively for the safe-keeping thereof; the tools of a mechanic, actually used by himself in his trade, to the value of two hundred dollars; any horse used on parade in the performance of military service by the owner, his son, ward, or apprentice; all fishing apparatus, actually used by any one person or company, to the value of two hundred dollars; the stock or prop 62 REPORTS OF FISH CAUGHT IN POUNDS, WEIRS, ETC. [Jan., erty of every incorporated agricultural society; the stock or securities issued by any ecclesiastical society, to raise funds for the erection, alteration, or repair of any church edifice, but only to the amount of the actual cost of such erection, alteration, or repair; all property of any hospital society which is supported wholly or in part by state appropriations; all moneys or funds received and accumulated by grand army posts in the state of Connecticut, from donations, bequests, and collections for charitable purposes, or which may hereafter be received by grand army posts for charitable purposes; bonds of the state of Connecticut issued pursuant to any act which provides for their exemption from taxation; bonds in the hands of the holders thereof, issued by any town or city in aid of the construction of the railroads of the Connecticut Western Railroad Company, the New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic Railroad Company, the Shepaug Valley Railroad Company, the Connecticut Valley Railroad Company, the Connecticut Central Railroad Company, or either of them, to provide or raise money to pay for stock subscribed for by it in any of said companies; but such bonds or stock, when their avails shall have been expended in the construction of any of said railroads, shall be assessed and taxed in the manner provided in section 2424. When any town or city in this state has issued or shall issue new bonds under or by virtue of any statute, public or private, for the purpose of redeeming or providing a fund to redeem its bonds originally issued in aid of the construction of any railroad, and which by the statutes of this state were exempt from taxation, or for redeeming or providing a fund to redeem any reissue of the same, such new bonds, and the amount invested therein, shall be exempt from taxation in the hands of the holders thereof in the same manner and to the same extent as the original bonds, and the amount invested therein, and no direct, indirect, or franchise tax shall be assessed thereon. Approved, May 15, 1903. Report of owners of pounds. [Senate Bill No. 99.] CHAPTER 92. An Act concerning Reports of Fish Caught in Pounds, Weirs, or Other Fixed Contrivances. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. Section 3104 of the general statutes is hereby amended to read as follows: The owner or owners of every pound, weir, or other similar fixed contrivance, or of any fishing pier, seine, fyke, drag, gill, or other net used in any of the waters of this state, shall make written report to the commissioners of fisheries and game on or before the first day of October in each year, specifying the number of shad so caught by him or them, also the number of persons employed, the number and value of boats and apparatus used, and also the quantity and value of each kind of fish caught by him or them during the year. Suitable blank forms shall be furnished by the commissioners of fisheries and game upon application. SEC. 2. Every person who shall violate any of the provisions of the preceding section or who shall neglect or refuse to give the commissioners the information in the manner therein required shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. Approved, May 15, 1903. [Substitute for House Bill No. 351.] CHAPTER 93. An Act concerning Religious Societies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in astical society. SECTION 1. Section 3941 of the general statutes is hereby church or rellMembership in amended to read as follows: Churches and religious and ecclesi- gious or ecclesiastical societies or associations, except as otherwise especially provided by law, may make by-laws regulating the admission of new members. In the absence of such by-laws, any person not a member of any ecclesiastical or religious society or association, desiring to become a member of any ecclesiastical or religious society or association, may sign and lodge with its clerk, or, if there be no clerk, then with any of its committee, a written declaration of his desire to become a member thereof, which declaration shall be read at the next meeting of such society or association. And if at a subsequent meeting thereof twothirds of those present at such meeting shall vote to elect such person a member of such society or association, he shall thereupon become a member thereof. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Transmission of record in [Substitute for House Bill No. 244.] CHAPTER 94. An Act concerning Fees for the Transmission of Records in Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 491 of the general statutes is hereby amended by appealed cases. adding the following words at the end of said section: "The expense necessarily incurred by the clerk of the superior court in any county in preparing copies of the files and records as hereinbefore required shall, when approved by the court, be taxed and paid in the same manner as other court expenses," so that said section when amended shall read as follows: Within three weeks after an appeal or writ of error is taken from the judgment of any court to the supreme court of errors, the clerk of such court shall transmit to the clerk of the supreme court of errors in the county in which the term to which said appeal or writ is taken is to be held, a certified copy of the files and records, except such pleadings or papers, if any, as may have been withdrawn after filing, in the case so appealed or the case in which said writ of error is taken, together with the names of the attorneys of record therein. The provisions of this section shall apply to any cause reserved for the advice of the supreme court of errors. The expense necessarily incurred by the clerk of the superior court in any county in preparing copies of the files and records as hereinbefore required shall, when approved by the court, be taxed and paid in the same manner as other court expenses. Exemption of wages from foreign attachment. Approved, May 15, 1903. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 72.] CHAPTER 95. An Act concerning Foreign Attachment. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. So much of any debt which has accrued by reason of the personal services of the defendant as shall not exceed twenty-five dollars, including wages due for the personal services of any minor child, shall be exempted and not liable to be taken by foreign attachment or execution; but there shall be no exemption of any debt accrued by reason of the personal |