the words "if the damages found and assessed in any civil ac- SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [Substitute for House Bill No. 245.] CHAPTER 98. An Act amending an Act concerning the Close Season for Trout. season. Section 3138 of the general statutes is hereby amended by Trout, close inserting in the second line thereof after the word "inclusive the words "except that in Litchfield county such close season shall be from July first to April fourteenth, both inclusive," so that said section as amended shall read as follows: The close season for trout, other than lake trout, shall be from July first to March thirty-first, both inclusive, except that in Litchfield county such close season shall be from July first to April fourteenth, both inclusive. Trout shall not be taken, killed, purchased, sold, exchanged, or exposed for sale or exchange, or possessed during the close season, except as provided in section 3142. Approved, June 5, 1907. Appointment of notaries public. [House Bill 755.] CHAPTER 99. An Act amending an Act concerning the Appointment of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 69 of the general statutes is hereby amended to read as follows: The governor may appoint and commission a convenient number of notaries public, each of whom shall hold office from the date of his commission and for a period of two years from the first day of February of the year in which he shall be commissioned, unless his commission shall be sooner revoked by the governor; and any notary public may exercise his functions at any place in this state. Every person appointed a notary public shall pay to the executive secretary the sum of one dollar, one quarter of which shall be paid by him into the treasury of the state, and one quarter to the executive clerk. All applications for appointment to the office of notary public, except when made by attorneys-at-law or commissioners of the superior court, shall be in the handwriting of the applicant and upon such forms of application as shall be furnished by the executive secretary. Approved, June 5, 1907. Number of graduate trustees one to two. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 113.] CHAPTER 100. An Act amending an Act concerning Trustees of the Connecticut Agricultural College. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. Section 4394 of the general statutes is hereby increased from amended by striking out, commencing in the sixth line of said section, the words "The graduates of said college shall biennially elect a trustee who shall be a graduate of the institution of at least five years' standing, and who shall hold office for two years from the first of July next succeeding his election" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "Before the first of July, 1907, the graduates of said college of two years' standing shall elect two trustees, who shall be graduates of the institution of at least ten years' standing, one trustee to hold office for two The years and one for four years from the first of July, 1907, SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 218.] CHAPTER 101. An Act concerning the Salaries and Expenses of Judicial Officers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: judges of su SECTION 1. The chief justice of the supreme court of Salaries of errors, each associate justice of said court, each judge of the preme and susuperior court, and each state referee shall receive, in lieu of perior courts. all other sums heretofore allowed by law for salaries or expenses, annual salaries as follows: The chief justice of the supreme court of errors, eight thousand dollars; each associate justice of said court and each judge of the superior court, seven Repeal. thousand five hundred dollars; and each state referee, three thousand five hundred dollars. SEC. 2. Chapters 137 and 163 of the public acts of 1903, chapters 213 and 223 of the public acts of 1905, and so much of section 4816 of the general statutes as is inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect October 1, 1907. Approved, June 5, 1907. Salaries of Repeal. [Substitute for House Bill No. 82.] CHAPTER 102. An Act concerning the Salaries of State's Attorneys. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The state's attorneys in the several counties shall receive: For Hartford county, four thousand dollars per annum; New Haven county, four thousand dollars; Fairfield county, four thousand dollars; Tolland county, fifteen hundred dollars; Litchfield county, two thousand dollars; Windham county, seventeen hundred dollars; Middlesex county, seventeen hundred dollars; New London county, twenty-five hundred dollars. The assistant state's attorney for New Haven county at Waterbury shall receive eighteen hundred dollars per annum. The superior court may tax and allow for an assistant to the state's attorneys for New Haven, Hartford, and Fairfield counties, one thousand dollars a year each. There may be allowed by the court to an assistant attorney for the state ten dollars in cases where the punishment may be imprisonment for life, and five dollars in other cases, upon the certificate of the state's attorney or prosecuting attorney of the court. SEC. 2. Section 4834 of the general statutes and chapter 68 of the public acts of 1903 are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on the first day of July, 1907. Approved, June 5, 1907. 1907.] ASSISTANT CLERKS OF PROBATE COURTS. [Substitute for House Bill No. 304.] CHAPTER 103. An Act concerning the Appointment of Assistant Clerks of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 657 Judge of probate clerk. SECTION 1. The judge of any court of probate may ap- court may appoint an assistant clerk who shall continue in office until he shall point assistant resign, or be removed or superseded. Said assistant clerk shall be sworn to a faithful performance of his duties, and when so appointed and sworn shall have the same powers and may perform the same duties as the clerk of such court; and he shall, when so required, give such bond as the judge of said court shall deem necessary. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [Substitute for House Bill No. 522.] CHAPTER 104. An Act amending an Act concerning Writs of Error in Summary Process. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in process; bond on stay of execution. SECTION 1. Section 1087 of the general statutes is hereby Summary amended by inserting after the words "writ of error in writ of error; the sixth line thereof the words "but any Sunday or legal holiday intervening shall be excluded in computing said forty-eight hours," so that said section as amended shall read as follows: When any writ of error shall be procured by the defendant in an action by summary process, he shall give a sufficient bond, with surety, to the adverse party, to answer for all rents that may accrue during the pendency of such writ of error, or which may be due at the time of its final disposal; and the defendant shall have forty-eight hours after judgment has been rendered for filing his bill of exceptions and procuring his writ of error, but any Sunday or legal holiday intervening shall be excluded in computing said forty-eight hours; and execution shall be stayed during that time, if it shall appear to the justice who renders the judgment that such proceedings are not made for the purpose of delay. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. |