[Substitute for House Bill No. 371.] CHAPTER 110. An Act concerning Messengers of the Supreme and Superior Courts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in messengers. SECTION 1. At the annual meeting of the judges of the Appointment of superior court in June, 1907, and biennially thereafter, said judges shall appoint three messengers, each for the term of two years from the first day of July next following his appointment and until his successor is duly appointed, but any such messenger may be removed by said judges, or any one of them, for cause, and said judges may fill any vacancy caused by such removal. Said judges shall certify the appointments so made to the comptroller, and shall assign one of said messengers to attend the terms and sessions of the supreme court of errors and of the superior court holden at Hartford, New Haven, and Bridgeport, respectively. Whenever the supreme court of errors shall be in public session at one of said places, the messenger assigned to said place shall attend upon said court in person, unless excused therefrom by the judges of said court, and when so excused he shall detail for such duty an assistant messenger appointed as hereinafter provided. assistant-mes SEC. 2. Whenever the supreme court of errors shall be in Appointment of session concurrently with any term or session of the superior sengers. court at one of said places, or whenever more than one session of the superior court shall be held at the same time within such place, said messenger may, with the approval of the presiding judge of each court for which an additional messenger is required, appoint an assistant messenger for such court, to serve for such time as the judge thereof shall deem necessary. Said assistant messenger shall perform, in said court, all the duties of the office of messenger thereof as hereinafter defined and provided. sengers and as sengers. SEC. 3. Each messenger, and each assistant messenger un- Duties of mesder the supervision of the messenger, shall properly guard and sistant messafely keep all exhibits which may be committed to his charge by the presiding judge, counsel, or court officers, shall obtain and attend to the proper return of such books, records, documents, files, and works of reference, belonging in the office of the clerk of the court or in the library of the court bar, as may be required in the court upon which he is in attendance, and shall perform such other duties as said judges or said presiding judge may direct or prescribe. pointments of assistant mes sengers. Records of ap- SEC. 4. The messenger shall keep a record of the appointment of each assistant messenger appointed by him, the name of the judge by whom such appointment was authorized, and the number of days and the dates thereof upon which such assistant messenger was actually employed; and at the end of each term or session, or oftener with the consent of the presiding judge, he shall prepare and certify under oath to the clerk of the court a statement showing the number of days of employment of each assistant messenger and the amount due said assistant messenger as compensation for his services at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day; and such account, when approved by a judge of the superior court, shall be allowed and paid by the state in the same manner as other court expenses are paid. Salary of messengers. Appointment of messengers for New Haven county common superior court at Waterbury. SEC. 5. Each messenger appointed under the provisions of section one of this act shall receive, in full compensation for his services, a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum, to be paid by the state. SEC. 6. The name of the messenger appointed for the court of common pleas for New Haven county shall be certified pleas court and to the comptroller by the judges of said court, and the name of the messenger for the superior court at Waterbury shall be certified to the comptroller by a judge of the superior court, and each of said messengers shall be paid by the state a salary of one thousand dollars per annum. Repeal. SEC. 7. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect from its passage. Salaries of sheriffs. [Senate Bill, Substitute for Senate Joint Resolution No. 140.] CHAPTER 111. An Act concerning the Compensation of Sheriffs. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The sheriffs elected in the several counties, as their respective terms of office hereafter begin, shall receive annual salaries as follows: The sheriff of the county of New Haven, six thousand dollars; the sheriffs of the counties of Hartford and Fairfield, five thousand five hundred dollars each; the sheriff of the county of Litchfield, three thousand dollars; the sheriff of the county of New London, four thousand dollars; the sheriffs of the counties of Middlesex and Windham, two thousand five hundred dollars each; the sheriff of the county of Tolland, two thousand dollars. Said salaries shall be paid by the state, and shall be in full compensation for the performance of all duties required by law to be performed by any of said sheriffs, either for the state of Connecticut or for or in behalf of any county, except for the service of civil process for which service any such sheriff shall be entitled to receive and retain the fees therefor provided by law. Said salaries shall be in lieu of all other salaries paid by the state to said sheriffs, and all fees and allowances, except those for the service of civil process, payable by statute to a sheriff elected in any county shall belong to the state, and shall be collected by said sheriff for its use; provided, however, that in cases where such fees are payable by the state or county no such fee shall be taxed, allowed, or paid to any such sheriff, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the taxation, allowance, or payment to any deputy sheriff of any fee now lawfully payable to such deputy. sheriffs. SEC. 2. Whenever any sheriff elected in any county shall, Expenses of in the performance of any duty required by law, except the service of civil process, incur actual and necessary expense, such expense, when incurred in connection with the business of any court, shall, upon the approval of the judge of said court, be taxed as costs and paid as other court expenses, and whenever any such actual and necessary expense shall have been incurred in the performance of any other duty, except the service of civil process as aforesaid, such expense shall, upon the approval of the comptroller, be paid by the state. collect fees SEC. 3. All fees now authorized by law to be collected by Sheriffs not to a sheriff elected in any county from any deputy sheriff are from deputies. hereby abolished. SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from its passage. [Substitute for House Bill No. 12.] CHAPTER 112. An Act concerning Trial by Jury. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Repeal. ages to be to the SECTION 1. In every action at law in which the defendant Hearing in damsuffers a default, or in which judgment is rendered for the jury, when. plaintiff upon a demurrer to the complaint overruled, and there is a hearing in damages, said hearing in damages shall be to the jury if either party to said action shall, within thirty days after such default entered or demurrer overruled, file with the clerk of the court in which such action is pending a request in writing that such hearing in damages be so held. SEC. 2. Section 741 of the general statutes is hereby repealed. Approved, June 4, 1907. [Substitute for House Bill No. 490.] CHAPTER 113. An Act concerning the Registration of the Insignia of Societies, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The insignia, flag, ribbon, badge, rosette, seal, button, or emblem of any society, association, labor union, or incorporated club may be filed and registered in the office of the secretary of the state, in the manner and subject to the provisions of section 4909 of the general statutes so far as the same are applicable, and the secretary of the state may make regulations and prescribe forms for such registration. SEC. 2. Whoever, not being a member of a society, association, labor union, or incorporated club, for the purpose of representing that he is a member thereof, wilfully wears, displays, or uses the insignia, flag, ribbon, badge, rosette, seal, button, or emblem thereof, if the same has been registered in the office of the secretary of the state as provided by section one of this act, shall be fined not more than twenty dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. Approved, June 4, 1907. [Substitute for House Bill No. 283.] CHAPTER 114. An Act concerning Gypsy and Brown-Tail Moths. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The insects commonly known as the gypsy moth and the brown-tail moth, being serious pests of vegetation, are, in all stages of their development, hereby declared to be a public nuisance. duties of state SEC. 2. The state entomologist shall have authority to sup- Powers and press and exterminate said gypsy and brown-tail moths, and entomologist. may employ such assistants and laborers as he deems expedient; may cut and burn brush and worthless trees in fields, pastures, or woodlands, or along the roadsides on any public or private grounds; and may prune, spray, scrape, or fill cavities in any fruit, shade, or forest trees, or clean up any rubbish for the purpose of furthering said work. The said state entomologist, or any of his assistants, deputies, agents, or employes, shall have the right, at all times, to enter any public or private grounds in the performance of their duties. transporting SEC. 3. Any person transporting living eggs, larvae, pupae, Penalty for or adults of the gypsy or brown-tail moths into the state, or moths into state. from an infested region within the state to a region not hither to infested, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year. structing ento SEC. 4. Any person wilfully obstructing or hindering said Penalty for state entomologist or his assistants or employes in the work of mologist. suppressing said insects, shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than five hundred dollars. SEC. 5. The sum of one thousand dollars is hereby appro- Appropriation.. priated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes of this act for the two fiscal years ending September 30, 1909; and the board of control is hereby authorized, if said board deem it advisable, to increase said appropriation to such amount not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of ten thousand dollars as, in the opinion of said board of control and the state entomologist, is necessary, said sum to be in addition to the total amount to which said board of control is limited by law. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect from its passage, and the appropriation provided for in section five shall become immediately available for the purposes of this act. Approved, June 5, 1907. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 172.] CHAPTER 115. An Act amending an Act concerning Returns by Railroad Com panies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: ob SECTION 1. Section 2423 of the general statutes is hereby Returns by ra: amended to read as follows: The secretary or treasurer of every road companies |