Number of jurors to be chosen for [Substitute for House Bill No. 568.] CHAPTER 129. An Act concerning the Number of Jurors for the Towns of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The number of jurors to be chosen for the towns of Orange, Putnam, and Vernon, respectively, in the Orange Putnam, month of May, 1908, and annually thereafter, shall be as follows: For the town of Orange, thirty-six; for the town of Putnam, thirty; for the town of Vernon, sixty. Vernon. Repeal. SEC. 2. So much of section 674 of the general statutes as is inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed. Approved, June 12, 1907. Payment of de [Substitute for House Bill No. 583.] CHAPTER 130. An Act concerning Lost Pass-Books. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in When any pass-book issued by a savings bank or other inposit or issuance stitution for savings has been lost or destroyed, the person in when pass-book whose name such book was issued, or his legal representatives, of new book is lost, how made. may make written application to the bank which issued such pass-book for payment of the amount of the deposit represented by said book or for the issuance of a duplicate book therefor, and shall give public notice of such application by advertising the same at least once a week for three weeks successively in a newspaper published in the town in which such bank is located, or, if no newspaper be published in said town, in a newspaper having a circulation in said town. If said book shall not be presented to said bank within six months after the date of the first advertisement, as aforesaid, said bank shall, upon proof that notice has been given as hereinbefore provided, pay the amount due on said book or issue a duplicate book therefor, and upon such payment or delivery of a new book all liability of the bank on account of the original book shall terminate. Approved, June 12, 1907. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 30.] CHAPTER 131. An Act concerning a Temporary Examiner of Public Records. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The governor shall, on or before the first day Appointment of of July, 1907, nominate, and, with the advice and consent of the examiner. senate, appoint a temporary examiner of public records, who shall hold office for two years from the first day of July, 1907, unless sooner removed by the governor for cause; and the governor may fill any vacancy occurring during said term for the unexpired portion thereof. On July 1, 1909, said office of temporary examiner of public records shall terminate and be abolished. iner. SEC. 2. Said examiner of public records shall cause such Duties of examaction to be taken by the persons having the care and custody of public records as may be necessary to put said public records in the custody and condition required by the laws of the state relating to such records and to secure their safety and preservation, shall compile and publish a report which shall be made to Report. the governor on or before January 15, 1909, in which he may incorporate such lists of extant records of a public nature as he may deem proper, and shall, in such report, make such recommendations to the general assembly as he may deem necessary. SEC. 3. The annual salary of said examiner shall be two Salary and exthousand dollars, and said examiner may expend such sums for penses. traveling, clerical, and other expenses as may be necessary in the performance of his duties; provided, however, that such expenses shall not, in any one year, exceed one thousand dollars. He shall keep a proper account of all his expenses, and shall submit the same, together with proper vouchers to the comptroller within five days of the first day of each month, and, upon the comptroller's approval of the same said comptroller shall draw his order on the treasurer for the payment thereof. and stationery. SEC. 4. The comptroller may provide suitable rooms in Comptroller to the capitol or elsewhere for said examiner of public records, provide rooms and properly furnish the same, and shall provide all such books, blanks, and stationery as may be necessary to enable said examiner to properly perform the duties of his office. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from its passage. Oyster vessels to be licensed and numbered. [Substitute for House Bill No. 684.] CHAPTER 132. An Act amending an Act concerning the Licensing and Num· bering of Oyster Vessels. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. Section 3234 of the general statutes is hereby amended by striking out the word "two" in the eleventh line of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the word "five" and by inserting after the word "tons" in the twelfth line thereof the words "one dollar and," so that said section as amended shall read as follows: No person shall take or gather oysters from any natural oyster bed in the exclusive jurisdiction of the state in any boat or vessel unless it shall be duly licensed and numbered in the manner hereinafter provided. Any person desiring to use any boat or vessel for such purpose, may make written application to the clerk of shell-fisheries, stating the name, owner, rig, general description, tonnage, and the place where any such boat or vessel is owned, and said clerk shall issue to the owner of such boat or vessel a license to take and gather oysters from the natural oyster beds in the exclusive jurisdiction of the state for the term expiring on the next succeeding twentieth day of July, unless sooner revoked, upon the payment of five dollars for a vessel or boat of under five tons, and for a vessel or boat exceeding five tons one dollar and fifty cents for each additional ton, custom-house measurement; provided, that before such license is granted the owner or master shall prove to the satisfaction of said clerk that such boat or vessel is legally entitled to work on the public beds of the state, and that the captain and crew of such boat or vessel have been residents of this state for one year next preceding the date of such license, and that the dredges and other contrivances do not weigh more than thirty pounds. Every boat or vessel so licensed shall, while at work upon any of the natural oyster beds of the state, display upon both sides of the peak of her mainsail the number of such license in black figures, not less than one foot in length and the coat of arms of Connecticut painted or stenciled upon cloth of suitable and uniform material, to be attached or stitched to the sail. Said clerk shall furnish such numbers and coat of arms when the license is granted. When any boat or vessel so licensed shall be sold to parties in this state the license shall be transferred at the office of said clerk. Any license granted to any person who, during the period for which said license is granted, removes from the state, shall be revoked. The sale to a nonresident of any boat so licensed shall operate as SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [Substitute for House Bill No. 570.] CHAPTER 133. An Act concerning the Printing of Public Documents. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: ber of; time of SECTION 1. The comptroller shall cause to be printed at the Reports; numexpense of the state such number of copies of each of the fol- printing. lowing public documents as the board of control shall determine, not exceeding the number hereinafter provided: Of the annual report of the comptroller, one thousand; of the bank commissioners, two thousand; of the treasurer, twelve hundred; of the railroad commissioners, twenty-two hundred; of the insurance commissioner, Part I, twenty-five hundred, Part II, three thousand, Part III, fifteen hundred; of the commissioner on building and loan associations, one thousand: Of the biennial report of the commissioner of the school fund, one thousand; of the state prison directors, thirteen hundred; of the adjutant-general, one thousand; of the acting quartermastergeneral, one thousand; of the state board of education, six thousand; of the bureau of vital statistics, three thousand; of the Connecticut school for boys, two thousand; of the state librarian, twenty-five hundred; of the returns of county commissioners, one thousand; of the Connecticut School for Imbeciles, one thousand; of the state board of agriculture, five thousand; of the commissioners of fisheries and game, three thousand; of the Connecticut hospital for the insane, one thousand; of the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls, one thousand; of the bureau of labor statistics, fifteen thousand; of the Connecticut agricultural experiment station, twelve thousand, not 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 state board of health, three thousand; of the criminal business of the courts, eight hundred; of the state board of charities, two thousand; of the Connecticut agricultural college, one thousand; of the shell-fish commissioners, two thousand; of the dairy commissioner, one thousand; of the factory inspector, five thousand; of the Storrs agricultural experiment station, seven thousand, Repeal. not 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 board of education of the blind, one thousand; of the highway commissioner, thirty-five hundred; of the commissioner on domestic animals, one thousand; of the attorney-general, one thousand; of the temporary examiner of public records, one thousand; of the dental commissioners, one thousand; of the Israel Putnam Memorial Camp Commission, one thousand; of the Connecticut Prison Association, regarding probation officers, one thousand; of the state police department, one thousand; of the tax commissioner, one thousand; of the soldiers' hospital board, one thousand; of the board of control, one thousand; of the Norwich hospital for the insane, one thousand: Of the quadrennial report of the comptroller of indebtedness, rate of tax, expenditures, etc., one thousand: Of the governor's message, one thousand: Of the estimate of state expenditures, one thousand: Of the manual and roll of the general assembly, one thousand: Of the statement of vote for state officers, one thousand: Of any other report made to the general assembly, which the board of control shall determine upon, one thousand. No more than said numbers of such reports shall be printed at the expense of the state, except that such additional number, not exceeding five hundred and seventy-five, of any of said reports may, if the comptroller so determine, be caused to be printed for the bound volumes of the public documents, and for exchange by the state librarian with other states and countries, and for distribution to such public libraries in this state as may request them. In case any report is changed from an annual to a biennial report and the number of pages thereof is restricted by the provisions of this act, the board of control may approve and authorize the printing of such number of pages of such report, in addition to the number herein provided, as said board shall determine upon. The comptroller shall advertise for proposals to do the printing of the copies of the public documents aforesaid, and shall designate the weight, size, quality, and make of the paper, and the style of type, to be used therefor, and shall award the contract for said printing to such person, persons, or corporation having a printing establishment in this state as he shall deem to be for the best interest of the state. SEC. 2. Section 134 of the general statutes, chapters 7 and 55 of the public acts of 1903, and chapters 26 and 29 of the public acts of 1905, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. |