one year. such person a license, in the form prescribed and upon blanks furnished by the commissioners on fisheries and game, which license shall bear the name, age, occupation, place of residence, and an identifying description of the licensee, and shall authorize the person so licensed to hunt game birds and quadrupeds Conditions. during the period when the same, respectively, may lawfully be killed, and at no other time, and only subject to the restrictions and conditions provided by law. Said license shall be valid for To be valid for and during the term of one year from the date of issue thereof, and no longer, shall not be transferable, and shall be produced for examination upon demand of any commissioner of fisheries and game, game warden, game protector, sheriff, constable, police officer, or other officer authorized to arrest for crime, or of the owner or lessee in actual occupancy of any land upon which such licensed person may be found. Failure or refusal to produce said license upon such demand shall constitute a violation of this act. SEC. 3. Every citizen who is a bona fide resident of this License fee. state shall pay for such license a fee of one dollar and a recording fee of ten cents; every citizen not a resident of this state shall pay a license fee of ten dollars and a recording fee of twenty-five cents; every alien, whether resident or non-resident, shall pay a license fee of fifteen dollars and a recording fee of twenty-five cents. Disposition of SEC. 4. Every town, city, and borough clerk shall keep a Record of record of all such licenses issued by him, which record shall be licenses. open to inspection by all officers authorized to make arrests, fees. and by the state treasurer or his agents, and the commissioners of fisheries and game; and such clerk shall, on the first Monday in every month, pay to the state treasurer all moneys, except recording fees, received by him for such licenses issued during the month preceding. All moneys so received by the state treasurer shall be set apart as a fund to be used for the protection and propagation of game, and shall be paid, from time to time, to the commissioners of fisheries and game in the manner provided by section 3098 of the general statutes. Said commissioners shall use all moneys so received for the protection, preservation, and propagation of game in this state, and said commissioners are hereby authorized to receive and use said moneys in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore provided; provided, however, that in case of a failure to convict in any prosecution for violation of the laws relating to birds. and quadrupeds, or of this act, the costs of said prosecution shall be paid out of the fund created by this act. SEC. 5. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions Penalties. of this act shall be fined not less than seven dollars nor more May expend one thousand dollars for purpose of this act. Name to be in the English lanlocation. guage; than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both, and the license of any person who shall be convicted of a violation of any law relating to birds or quadrupeds, or of any of the provisions of this act, shall thereafter be void, and such person shall not receive a license during the period of one year from the date of such conviction. Approved, June 27, 1907. [House Bill, Substitute for House Joint Resolution No. 144.] CHAPTER 154. An Act concerning the Propagation of Small-Mouth Black Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in The commissioners of fisheries and game shall expend, from the annual appropriation for the artificial propagation of fish in the waters of this state, not less than one thousand dollars per year for the propagation and distribution of small-mouth black bass and yellow perch. Approved, June 26, 1907. [House Bill No. 259.] CHAPTER 155. An Act amending an Act concerning the Name and Location of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in name Section two of chapter 194 of the public acts of 1903 is hereby amended by inserting after the word in the sixth line thereof the words "shall be in the English language and," so that said section as amended shall read as follows: The name of every corporation hereafter formed shall be such as to distinguish it from any other corporation organized under the laws of this state and from any other corporation engaged in the same business or promoting or carrying out the same purposes in this state, and every such name shall be in the English language and shall begin with "The " and end with "Čompany" "Corporation or have the word "Incorporated" immediately after or under the name. Every corporation shall be located in some town in this state. or Approved, June 26, 1907. [Substitute for House Bill No. 225.] CHAPTER 156. An Act concerning Elevators. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in stopped by acci egress of pas SECTION 1. On and after January 1, 1908, any elevator Elevator, when for the carriage of passengers, used and operated in this state, dent, to allow which is not so constructed as to allow egress of persons from sengers. such elevator in any position in which it might be stopped by accident, shall be so constructed or arranged that the roof or top of such elevator, or a sufficient portion thereof to allow egress of persons therefrom, may be conveniently opened from the inside; and no such elevator shall be thereafter used or operated which shall not be so constructed and arranged. SEC. 2. Any person or corporation operating a passenger Penalties. elevator not so constructed, after January 1, 1908, shall be fined. not more than twenty-five dollars for each offense. Approved, June 28, 1907. [Senate Bill No. 231.] CHAPTER 157. An Act validating Marriages Celebrated by Notaries Public. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in brated by nota validated. SECTION 1. All marriages heretofore performed and cele- Marriages celebrated in this state and in all respects legal except that such ries public marriages were performed and celebrated by a notary public, are hereby declared to be good and valid to all intents and purposes whatsoever, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Tax on telephone companies. State aid to state police association. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 130.] CHAPTER 158. An Act amending an Act concerning Tax on Telephone Com panies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 2439 of the general statutes is hereby amended by Approved, June 28, 1907. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 121.] CHAPTER 159. An Act concerning Relief to Members of the State Police Association of Connecticut. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Whenever any person shall, under the provisions of the constitution and by-laws of the State Police Association of Con necticut, be entitled to relief from said association as a police- [House Bill No. 766.] CHAPTER 160. An Act amending an Act concerning Payment of Taxes upon Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in treasurer of tax action. Section 2325 of the general statutes is hereby amended to Payment to read as follows: Any person may take or send to the office of on choses in the treasurer of this state any bond, note, or other chose in action, or a description of the same, and may pay to the state a tax of two per centum on the face amount thereof for five years, or, at the option of such person, for a greater or less number of years at the same rate, and the treasurer shall thereupon make an indorsement upon said bond, note, or other chose in action, or shall give a receipt for the tax thereon, describing said bond, note or other chose in action, certifying that the same is exempt from all taxation for the period of five years, or for such longer or shorter period for which a proportionate tax has been paid, which indorsement or receipt shall be duly dated and signed in the name of the treasurer and with the seal of the treasurer affixed. Said treasurer shall keep a record of such indorsements and receipts with a description of such bonds, notes, or other choses in action, together with the name and address of the party presenting the same, and date of registration; and said treasurer shall, annually, on or before the tenth day of October, mail to the town clerk of each town a description of all such bonds, notes, or other choses in action so registered on or before the first Monday of said October by persons residing in such town, the date and period of such registration, |