1903.] EDUCATION. - APPOINTMENT OF FACTORY INSPECTOR. services of the defendant against a claim for the defendant's personal board. All benefits allowed by any association of persons in this state towards the support of any of its members incapacitated by sickness or infirmity from attending to his usual business shall also be exempted and not liable to be taken by foreign attachment or execution; and all moneys due the debtor from any insurance company upon policies issued for insurance upon property, either real or personal, which is exempt from attachment and execution, shall in like manner be exempted to the same extent as the property so insured. SEC. 2. Section 909 of the general statutes is hereby repealed. Approved, May 15, 1903. [Substitute for House Bill No. 208.] CHAPTER 96. An Act concerning Education. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in duties of citi lic schools. 65 The duties of citizenship shall be taught in the public schools. Teaching of The state board of education shall prepare and distribute to zenship in pubevery school an outline of questions and suggestions relating to said subject, and said outline may be used in said schools. Approved, May 15, 1903. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 69.] CHAPTER 97. An Act concerning the Appointment of a Factory Inspector Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in factory inspec SECTION 1. The governor shall, with the consent of the Appointment of senate, on or before the fifteenth day of May, A.D. 1903, and tor." before the first day of May quadrennially thereafter, appoint a factory inspector, who shall hold office for four years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. The governor may remove the inspector for cause. Said factory inspector shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars and necessary expenses. Duties as to examination of elevators. Appointment, duties, and of deputies. SEC. 2. The inspector shall examine all elevators, whether in factories, mercantile establishments, storehouses, workhouses, dwellings, or other buildings, and may order hoistways, hatchways, elevator wells, and well holes to be protected by trapdoors, self-closing hatches, safety catches, or other safeguards as will insure the safety of all persons therein. Due diligence shall be used to keep such trapdoors closed at all times, except when in actual use by an occupant of the building having the use and control of the same. All elevator cabs or cars, whether used for freight or passengers, shall be provided with some suitable mechanical device, if considered necessary by said inspector, whereby the cab or car will be securely held in the event of accident to the shipper rope or hoisting machinery, or from any similar cause, and said mechanical device shall at all times be kept in good working order. SEC. 3. The inspector may from time to time appoint compensation deputies to assist him in the performance of his duties. Such deputies shall have the same power and authority as the inspector, subject to his approval. Each of said deputies shall receive a compensation of five dollars per day for actual services, and his necessary expenses incident to the performance of the duties of his office. The total amount expended under this section shall not exceed in any one year seven thousand dollars, which shall be paid upon proper vouchers by the deputies, signed by the inspector. Repeal. SEC. 4. Sections 4514, 4517, and 4526, and all other provisions of the general statutes inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from its passage. Registrars of voters; election and terms of. [Senate Bill No. 27.] CHAPTER 98. An Act concerning the Election and Tenure of Office of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 1803 of the general statutes as amended by chapter 20 of the public acts of 1903 is hereby amended to read as follows: The town of Hartford, at its annual town meeting in the year 1904, and biennially thereafter, and the town of New Britain, at its annual town meeting in the year 1902, and biennially thereafter, and the town of Norwich, at its annual town meeting in the year 1903, and biennially thereafter, shall 1903.] SALE OF SPIRITUOUS AND INTOXICATING LIQUORS. elect, by genéral ticket, registrars of voters, to hold office for e 67 [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 47.] CHAPTER 99. An Act concerning Prosecutions for Violation of Laws Relating Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in may be for conviction of SECTION 1. Section 2677 of the general statutes is hereby License and fee amended to read as follows: Whenever any person licensed to feited upon sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors shall have been con- licensee. victed of the violation of any of the provisions of this title, he shall, in addition to the penalties for such offense, incur a forfeiture of his license, and all moneys that may have been paid therefor, and the county commissioners shall thereupon revoke his said license, and he shall not thereafter for the space of one year from the date of said revocation be capable of receiving any license to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors; provided, that if, upon a first conviction for the violation of any of the laws respecting the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors, the court shall be of the opinion that the license of the person so convicted should not be revoked and that the bond given upon granting his license should not be forfeited, the Cases affected by this act. judge or justice of the peace holding the court wherein such conviction is had may so certify in writing, which certificate shall be filed with and made part of the record, and thereupon such conviction shall not be the basis for a suit upon such bond or proceedings for the revocation of such license; nor to prevent a license being granted the following year; but in the absence of such certificate, or for any subsequent conviction, or for the forfeiture of a bond in a subsequent prosecution, or for the settlement of a subsequent prosecution upon payment of any sum, the license shall be revoked and the bond forfeited in the manner now provided by law for such revocation and forfeiture upon a first prosecution or conviction. And in all cases where a conviction or other disposition of a prosecution renders the bond liable to be forfeited and the license to be revoked, the justice or clerk of the court shall forthwith mail a copy of the judgment to the county treasurer, who shall notify the county commissioners, the cost of which copy shall be included in the taxable costs. SEC. 2. The provisions of this act shall relate to and affect all cases of and prosecutions for violations of the laws concerning the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors since the first day of July, 1902. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. Liquor saloons not to be street. Penalty. [House Bill No. 250.] CHAPTER 100. An Act concerning Screens in Liquor Saloons. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 2683 of the general statutes is hereby amended by screened from adding at the end of said section the words "Every person keeping a saloon or other place where intoxicating liquors are sold, excepting licensed druggists, who fails to comply with the provisions of this section, shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 2712 of the general statutes," so that said section when amended shall read as follows: No premises where intoxicating liquors are sold shall, during the time when such sales are prohibited by law, be so obstructed by any curtain, screen, or other device, as to prevent a full and unobstructed view of the bar and interior of such premises from the main entrance, or the street or sidewalk adjacent thereto. Boards of county commissioners shall enforce the provisions of this section by such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, as they may deem expedient. Every person keeping a saloon or other place where intoxicating liquors are sold, excepting licensed druggists, who fails to comply with the provisions of this section, shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 2712 of the general statutes. Approved, May 15, 1903. [House Bill No. 224.] CHAPTER 101. An Act concerning the Protection of Fish and Game. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in by game warviolation of fish The commissioners of fisheries and game may, in their dis- Investigation cretion, authorize the fish and game warden of any county to dens into the investigate the violation of any fish and game law which has and game laws. been committed or alleged to have been committed within his county, and the expenses incurred by the warden in such investigation shall be paid from the state treasury on an order from the commissioners of fisheries and game duly audited by the comptroller; provided, that the expenses so incurred shall not in any case exceed the sum of fifteen dollars. Approved, May 15, 1903. [Substitute for House Bill No. 209.] CHAPTER 102. An Act concerning the Support of Schools. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in schools of cer towns. SECTION 1. Every town having a valuation of less than state aid to five hundred thousand dollars may annually receive from the tain small treasurer of the state upon the order of the comptroller a sum which will enable the town to annually expend for the support of public schools twenty-five dollars for each child in average attendance, as determined by the attested school registers for the school year ending July fourteenth; provided, that payments of principal or interest on indebtedness, the expense of new buildings, sites, and permanent improvements shall not be included in obtaining the cost of each scholar in average attendance; and provided, that the said state grant shall be expended only for teachers' wages. |