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1867.

Rev. 1888, $298.

ness of transportation in this state, or upon the application of any corporation owning or having control of the roads in any private residence park, commission, during his pleasure, one or more persons designated by such company or by such corporation, who, having been duly sworn, may act, at the expense of such company or corporation, as policemen upon the premises used by such company in its business, or upon its cars or vessels, or upon the roads and lands owned or under the control of such corporation, and every policeman so appointed may arrest any person in his precincts for any offense committed therein and take such person before some proper authority. When any such commission is issued or revoked, the executive secretary shall notify the clerk of the superior court of each county in which it is intended that such policemen shall act.

§ 2. Section 78 of the general statutes is hereby repealed.

§ 79. To wear an official badge. Every such policeman 1893, ch. 14, §3. shall, when on duty, wear, in plain view, a shield bearing the words "railroad police," "street railway police," or "steamboat police," as the case may be, and the name of the company for which he is commissioned.

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§ 134. Reports; number of, time of printing. He shall cause to be printed at the expense of the state, annually, a sufficient number of copies of each of the following annual reports, not exceeding the number hereinafter stated, that is to say: of the railroad commissioners, twenty-two hundred. . . . Such additional number not exceeding three hundred and seventy-five of any report made to the governor or to the general assembly, may be so caused to be printed, 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.

§ 142. Transportation for members of general assembly. The comptroller, whenever requested by any member or member-elect of the general assembly so to do, shall procure from such railway company or companies, as may be necessary, a ticket or tickets entitling said member to transportation by the most convenient route or routes between Hartford and his home station, during the session of the general assembly next to be

holden, or then current, which ticket or tickets the comptroller shall deliver to said member upon receiving from him an assignment to the state of his mileage allowance for such session, which assignment shall be received in full payment therefor. The comptroller shall pay for the tickets so procured by him the lowest sum or sums for which they can be obtained of the railroad companies. No railroad company shall issue to any member or member-elect of the general assembly any ticket or other token entitling him to transportation to and from Hartford, during any session of the general assembly, except as herein provided, unless such ticket be issued upon the same terms and at the same price as tickets are ordinarily issued by said company entitling the holder to an equivalent amount of travel.

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§ 187. Reports of public officers. All reports and returns which any public officer is required by law to make annually shall be for the fiscal year preceding, and all reports and returns which any such officer is required by law to make biennially shall be for the two fiscal years preceding; and all such reports and returns as are required to be made annually, except where it is otherwise provided, shall be made, returned, and printed on or before the thirty-first day of December in the year in which they are required to be made. And all such reports and returns as are required to be made biennially shall be made, returned, and printed on or before the thirty-first day of December preceding the next regular session of the general assembly.

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§ 274. Trustee of railroad corporation may release interest. The trustee of the estate of any railroad corporation in settlement as an insolvent estate may, if the assets of such estate shall not otherwise be sufficient to pay the claims allowed by the commissioners and the expenses of settling the estate, release, subject to any prior existing lien or title to any proprietors of land, any right of way or other easement or incumbrance which said corporation may have in or upon the same, upon such terms as shall be approved by the court of probate.

1885, 1887. Rev. 1888, $376. 1889, ch. 281.

1858, 1885. Rev. 1888, §517.

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1832, 1846, 1861.

1867, 1868, 1884.

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§ 708. Fire communicated by railway engine. In all actions to recover for any injury occasioned by fire communicated by any railroad locomotive engine in this state, the fact that such fire was so communicated shall be prima facie evidence of negligence on the part of the person or corporation who shall, at the time of such injury by fire, be in the use and occupation of such railroad, either as owner, lessee, or mortgagee, and of those who shall at such time have the care and management of such engine.

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§ 831. Attachment effective without removal of propRev. 1888, $918. erty, when. Attachments of machinery, engines, or implements, situated and used in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment, or of the household furniture of any person having a family, and used by him in housekeeping, or of hay or unthreshed grain deposited in any building, or of any crop deposited in any building, or of brick in kilns, or of wood, sawed lumber, railroad ties, or logs when gathered together in piles, which cannot, in the opinion of the officer levying upon the same, be moved without manifest injury, shall be effectual to hold the same, without any removal thereof; provided the service of such attachment shall be completed and a copy of the process and of the accompanying complaint, with the officer's return indorsed thereon, particularly describing the property attached, shall be filed in the office of the town clerk of the town in which such property shall be situated, within twenty-four hours after such attachment shall have been made; and when the levy is upon any such hay, unthreshed grain, crops, or brick, the officer shall also post a notice of his attachment on the outer door, or other conspicuous place, of the building in which such property is situated.

1856.

Rev. 1888, §1178.

TITLE SIX. CHAPTER 58.

§ 917. Levy on interest of one railroad in another's property. The levy of executions on the equitable right or interest which any railroad corporation may have in the whole, or any part of the real estate, right of way, or roadbed, of any other railroad corporation, together with the income, rents, and profits

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which may be due or coming due thereon, shall be by leaving a true and attested copy thereof with the treasurer, secretary, or clerk, of said last-named corporation, with an attested certificate by the officer making such levy, that he levies upon such right or interest to satisfy such execution; and thereupon he shall post the same upon some signpost in the town where such last-named corporation has its office or principal place of business in this state, and, as in cases of personal property, shall, at vendue, sell the same, together with such income, rents, and profits, or so much of them as shall be sufficient to satisfy said execution, and shall give to the purchaser a written conveyance of such right and interest, and shall also leave with such treasurer, secretary, or clerk, a true and attested copy of such execution, and of his return thereon; and the purchaser shall thereupon become entitled to said right and interest, and to all rents, profits, and income thereon, to which such debtor was entitled.

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§ 1119. Action for injury to person and property limited to one year. No action to recover damages for injury to the person, or for an injury to personal property caused by negligence, shall be brought but within one year from the date of the injury or neglect complained of.

§ 1120. Suit for forfeiture on penal statute limited to one year. No suit for any forfeiture upon any penal statute shall be brought but within one year next after the commission of the offense.

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1897, ch. 197.

§ 1130. Four months' notice required in actions 1895, ch. 176. against railways. No action to recover damages for an injury to, or for the death of, any person, or for an injury to personal property, caused by negligence, shall be maintained against any electric, cable, or street railway company, or against any steam railroad company, unless written notice containing a general description of the injury and of the time, place, and cause of its occurrence, as nearly as the same can be ascertained, shall have been given to the defendant within four months after the neglect complained of, unless the action itself is commenced within said period of four months. Such notice may be given to the secretary, or to any agent or executive officer of the company in fault.

1801, 146, 1873. Rev. 1888, $1400.

1907, ch. 267.

1873. Rev. 1888, §1471. 1895, ch. 87.

TITLE SEVEN. CHAPTER 82.

§ 1141. Homicide, when punished by death. Every person who shall commit murder in the first degree, or who shall cause the death of another by wilfully placing any obstruction upon any railroad, or by loosening, taking up, or removing any part of the superstructure of such railroad, or by wilfully burning any building or vessel, shall suffer death.

Penalty for misconduct of railroad or railway servant causing loss of life. Every servant of any railroad or electric railway company who shall, in consequence of his intoxication, or of any gross or wilful misconduct or negligence, cause any loss of life, or the breaking of a limb, shall be imprisoned not mort than ten years.

§ 1145. Wilful throwing or shooting at railway cars. Every person who shall wilfully throw or shoot any missile at any locomotive or railroad car, or street railway car, whereby the safety of any person is endangered, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

1852, 1878. Rev. 1888, §1429.

1871.

Rev. 1888, §1431.

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§ 1182. Placing obstructions on railroads. Every person who shall wilfully place any obstruction upon any railroad, or who shall loosen, tear up, or remove any part of a railroad, shall be imprisoned in the state prison not more than ten years; and if he shall do the same with intent to throw any locomotive or car from the track of such railroad, or to obstruct any car in motion, he shall be imprisoned in such prison not more than thirty years.

§ 1184. Displacement of switches or injury to signals on railroads. Every person who shall wilfully displace any switch upon any railroad, or injure, or destroy any electric signal in use thereon, or any material or property appertaining thereto, or who shall interrupt the use of any wire, lever, pin, or battery, used to operate such signal, or its connection therewith, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the state prison not more than ten years.

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