[House Bill No. 866.] CHAPTER 211. An Act amending an Act concerning Commitment and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in paupers or in- Section 2787 of the general statutes is hereby amended to Commitment of read as follows: Whenever there shall be found in any digent persons town in the state any pauper or indigent imbecile person beciles. who would be benefited by being sent to the school for imbeciles at Lakeville, the selectmen of such town shall make application to the court of probate for the district in which such town is situated for the admission of such person to said school, and if, upon inquiry, said court shall find that such person is a proper subject to be received into said school, it shall order said selectmen to take such person to said school, to be kept and supported for such length of time as said court may deem proper. Said selectmen shall not take or commit any such person to said school until the order of said court has been approved by the governor, and no person shall be received at said school to be supported in any manner by the state without the approval of the governor. There shall be taxed by the comptroller two dollars and fifty cents per week for each week such person shall remain at said school, and the principal of said school shall make his bill therefor quarterly, and present it to the governor, upon whose approval it shall be paid by the state treasurer, and the balance shall be paid by the relative or relatives liable for the support of such person, or, if the person is a pauper, by the town in which such person belongs. Approved, August 29, 1911. Notice required in claim for dam caused by railroad locomotive. [Senate Bill No. 366.] CHAPTER 212. An Act amending an Act concerning Notice of Fires caused by Railroad Engines. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 3780 of the general statutes is hereby amended age from fire to read as follows: No action shall be brought under section 3779 of the general statutes unless written notice of the claim is given to such company within twenty days after the fire, specifying the day of the fire, giving a general description of the property injured, and stating the amount claimed as damages. Such notice may be given by a letter signed by the claimant or his agent, mailed to the superintendent of the railroad, or delivered to its station agent at a station in the town where the fire occurred. Approved, August 29, 1911. Larceny defined. [Senate Bill, Substitute for Senate Joint Resolution No. 119.] CHAPTER 213. An Act amending an Act concerning Larceny. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 1207 of the general statutes is hereby amended to read as follows: Every person who shall steal any money, goods, or chattels, or any bill or bills issued by any state bank or national banking association, or any deed, lease, indenture, bond, writing obligatory, bill of exchange, promissory note, warrant, or order for the payment of money or delivery of goods, receipt or discharge, or any book account or other writing being evidence of debt, adjustment, or settlement, if the value of the property stolen shall exceed two thousand dollars, shall be imprisoned not more than twenty years; if it shall exceed fifty dollars, but shall not exceed two thousand dollars, he shall be imprisoned not more than five years; if it shall not exceed fifty dollars, but shall exceed fifteen dollars, he shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in a jail not more than six months, or both; if it shall not exceed fifteen dollars and the property be goods or chattels offered or exposed for sale, he shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than sixty days, or both, or if the property stolen be other than such goods or chattels, he shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. Approved, August 29, 1911. [House Bill No. 144.] CHAPTER 214. An Act amending an Act concerning the Issuance of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in without burial pointment and registrars as to Section 1864 of the general statutes is hereby amended by No deceased perinserting after the word "provided" in the ninth line of said son to be buried section the words "and also to issue removal permits based permit. Apupon a death certificate as provided in sections 1867 and powers of sub1871 of the general statutes and amendments thereof", SO burial permits. that said section as amended shall read as follows: No deceased person shall be buried in the town in which such person shall have died until a burial permit, stating the place of burial and that the certificate of death required by law has been returned and recorded, has been given by the registrar, who shall issue such permit whenever such certificate of death has been received by him, and the registrar shall record the place of any burial other than in a public cemetery. The town registrar may appoint suitable and proper persons, not exceeding two in number in any town, as sub-registrars, who shall be authorized to issue burial permits based upon a death certificate, as hereinbefore provided, and also to issue removal permits based upon a death certificate as provided in sections 1867 and 1871 of the general statutes and amendments thereof, in the same manner as is required of the town registrar; and every such certificate [Senate Bill No. 364.] CHAPTER 215. titled to vote to ically. An Act amending an Act concerning Lists of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Stockholders en- SECTION 1. Section eighteen of chapter 194 of the public be listed alphabet- acts of 1903 is hereby amended to read as follows: At least three days before every stockholders' meeting, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote, arranged in alphabetical order, shall be prepared by the secretary, and such list shall be open to inspection by any stockholder at the time. and place of the meeting. Any such secretary who neglects or refuses to produce such list at any meeting or refuses to permit an inspection thereof by any stockholder entitled to vote shall be ineligible for election to any office in such corporation for one year thereafter. The stock ledger, if there be one, otherwise the transfer books of the corporation, shall be prima facie evidence as to who are stockholders. The original or duplicate books of any corporation in which the transfers of stock shall be registered, and the original or duplicate books containing the names and addresses of the stockholders and the number of shares held by them, respectively, shall, at all times during the usual hours of business, be open to the examination of every stockholder at its principal office or place of business in this state, and such original or duplicate books shall be evidence in all courts of this state. elections of direc SEC. 2. All elections of directors at any stockholders' Validating certain meeting heretofore held, where a complete list of the stockhold-tors. ers entitled to vote, arranged in alphabetical order, shall not have been prepared by the directors at least three days before such meeting, shall, if otherwise lawful, be and the same are hereby validated and confirmed. Approved, August 29, 1911. [House Bill No. 878.] CHAPTER 216. An Act amending an Act concerning New Streets and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in opened until cation, width and ceive the approv Section 2050 of the general statutes as amended by section one of chapter 254 of the public acts of 1905 is hereby amended by inserting after the word "grade" in the eighth, eleventh, and twenty-ninth lines of said section as amended the words "layout, location" and by inserting after the word "highways" in the seventeenth line the words "or any map of land showing such new highways or streets", so that said section as amended shall read as follows: No person, com- Width of streets. pany, or corporation, excepting municipal corporations, shall No highway to be lay out any street or highway in this state less than three grade, layout, lorods in width, unless with the prior written approval of a improvements remajority of the selectmen of the town, or of the burgesses al of municipality. of the borough, or of the common council of the city, wherein such street or highway is located. No street or highway shall be opened to the public until the grade, layout, location, width, and improvements of such street or highway shall have received the written approval of the selectmen of the town in which such street or highway is located, or, in case the location is within the limits of a city or borough, until such grade, layout, location, width, and improvements shall have received the approval of the common council of such city or the warden and burgesses of such borough, nor until such approval shall have been filed in the office of the clerk of such town, city, or borough, as the case may be. And no such clerk shall receive or place on file any map of any such new street or streets, highway or highways, or |