Criminal appeals. SEC. 2. In criminal cases, all appeals from the judgment of justices of the peace, or of any police, borough, or town court, in any town in New Haven county within the judicial district of Waterbury, except the town of Cheshire, shall hereafter be taken to the criminal term next thereafter holden of the said district court of Waterbury; and said court shall hear and determine all criminal causes brought to it on appeal, and make final disposition of the same in the same manner as criminal causes are now tried and determined in the superior court: and no appeals shall be allowed from the judgment of the said district court of Waterbury in any criminal cause, except on questions of law, which may be taken to the supreme court of errors in the manner now provided Criminal cases for appeals from the superior court. All criminal cases which New Haven may now or shall hereafter be pending by appeal in the superior county superior court for New Haven county holden at Waterbury, may, upon pending before court. Salaries and fees. motion of the assistant state's attorney for New Haven county, be transferred by order of said superior court holden at Waterbury on the fourth Tuesday of April 1893, to and be tried in the said district court of Waterbury. In all cases so transferred, said district court of Waterbury may make all orders, proceed to trial and final judgment, and enforce the same in the same manner as said superior court might have done if said cases had not been so removed. All bonds given for appearance, or for the prosecution of any case appealed as aforesaid, shall be and remain valid, and said district court of Waterbury may proceed to the forfeiture of the same in the same manner as said superior court might have done. SEC. 3. The Salary of the judge and the fees of the deputy judge of said district court for all services in civil and criminal matters shall be and remain the same as is now provided by law for the judge and deputy judge of the district court of WaterJudge called in. bury. Judges may be called in to try any causes, civil or criminal, in said court, or to hold any term of said court in the manner now provided by law for civil causes in said court. The sheriff of Court officers. New Haven county, or in his absence one deputy sheriff, one messenger, and one constable shall be in attendance upon said criminal terms of the district court, and shall have the same powers, duties, and fees in connection therewith that such officers have at the criminal terms of the superior court. Prosecuting attorney. Clerk. SEC. 4. The judge of the said district court shall appoint a prosecuting attorney for said court, who shall hold the office during the term for which said judge is elected, and until his successor is appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by said judge for incompetency or any other good cause. The powers and duties of said prosecuting attorney in all criminal causes brought to said district court, shall be the same as those of a state's attorney in appealed cases in the superior court, and said prosecuting attorney shall be paid a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, in lieu of all fees. SEC. 5. The clerk of the district court of Waterbury shall have the same powers, duties, and fees in every respect as regards the criminal business of said court, as clerks of the superior court have in criminal causes in the superior court. SEC. 6. All jurors summoned to attend the district court of Jurors. Waterbury may hear and determine both civil and criminal causes at any term and any time, under the direction of the judge of said court, and said court may tax and allow costs in any criminal causes, to the same extent and in the same manner as now provided by law in like causes in the superior court. SEC. 7. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are Repeal. hereby repealed. takes effect. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect upon its passage, and the When this act terms of office of the judge and deputy judge of the district court of Waterbury appointed during the present session of the general assembly shall begin on the first day of February, 1893. Approved, February 16, 1893. [House Bill No. 2.] CHAPTER III. An Act to Establish a Commission for the Promotion of Uniformity in State Legislation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General for promotion the U. S. SECTION 1. Within thirty days after the passage of this act, Commissioners the governor shall appoint, by and with the consent of the senate, of uniformity of three commissioners, who are hereby constituted a board of com- legislation in missioners by the name and style of commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States. It shall Their duty. be the duty of said commission to examine the subjects of marriage and divorce, insolvency, the form of notarial certificates, descent and distribution of property, acknowledgment of deeds, execution and probate of wills, and other subjects on which uniformity is desirable; to ascertain the best means to effect uniformity in the laws of the states, and to represent the state of Connecticut. in conventions of like commissions of other states for the consideration and recommendation of uniform laws to be submitted to the several state legislatures for their action; and to devise and recommend such other course of action as shall best accomplish the purpose of this act.. SEC. 2. All appointments shall be laid before the senate on the Appointment, first day the senate may be in session after the appointment is how made. made. Vacancies in said board shall be filled by the governor to take effect immediately, but the senate, before which such appointment is laid, as above provided, may disapprove the same at any time before its final adjournment, and, upon such disapproval, the office shall again become vacant. Any commissioner may be removed by the governor, with the approval of the senate. Compensation. charge of the etc. SEC. 3. Said commission shall be allowed for their traveling and other expenses in effectuating the object of this act, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars in the aggregate for any one year, after the account for the same has been audited by the comptroller. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Substitute for House Bills Nos. 33 and 34.] CHAPTER IV. An Act concerning Jailers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General SECTION 1. Section 3358 of the general statutes is hereby Sheriffs to have amended to read as follows: Sheriffs shall have the charge and jails and may custody of the jails in their respective counties, and shall be jailers appoint jailers, ex officio. Sheriffs may appoint a deputy jailer or jailers or other officers and employes under them in their respective counties, in county jails and county workhouses, the number of such deputy jailers, officers, and employes to be fixed and limited by the sheriffs in their respective counties; and said sheriffs shall be responsible for all damages that any person may sustain through the fault or negligence of any person so appointed by them. In case any sheriff shall not see fit to appoint a deputy jailer or jailers, such sheriff shall be jailer with the powers and duties which belong to deputy jailers. ers' board. of jailers. SEC. 2. Section 3359 is amended to read as follows: The Rate of prison- County commissioners in their respective counties shall fix the sum to be received for boarding prisoners, not exceeding two dollars and twenty-five cents per week. The compensation of jailers Compensation and of the deputy jailer or deputy jailers and other officers and employes, shall be fixed by the sheriffs in their respective counties, subject to the approval of a judge of the superior court, and shall prescribe their respective duties and require them to give bonds with sureties to the acceptance of such judge, payable to the county treasurer in their respective counties, for the faithful performance of their several duties, said bond to be filed with the county treasurers. Such deputy jailer or deputy jailers, other officers and employes, shall be under the control and direction of the sheriffs in their respective counties. Sheriffs shall appoint all janitors of county court houses and their assistants, and shall fix their compensation unless otherwise fixed by statute, subject to the approval of a judge of the superior court. Messengers of the court shall be appointed by the court. Janitors and messengers. Repeal. SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [House Bill No. 68.] CHAPTER V. An Act concerning Voting Districts in the City of Bridgeport. in Bridgeport. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. The common council of the city of Bridgeport Voting districts may by ordinance divide each or any ward of the city of Bridgeport into two or more voting districts, and all the provisions of law now existing or which may hereafter be enacted regulating the holding of, or appertaining or relating to elections in the other voting districts of said city shall apply to said new voting districts when so established. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are Repeal. hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [House Bill No. 27.] CHAPTER VI. An Act concerning Election Returns. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General the result and towns divided districts. SECTION 1. Section 230 of the general statutes is hereby Who to declare amended by inserting after the word "Hartford" in line one, the make return to words "and town of Enfield," so that said section shall read as the secretary in follows: In the town and city of Hartford and town of Enfield into election the moderator of the second voting district, in the town of Waterbury the moderator of the third voting district, and in every other town and city divided into voting districts, unless otherwise provided by special statute, the moderator of the first district shall be the presiding officer for the purpose of declaring the result of the ballot of the whole town or city, and of making returns to the secretary of the state, and the moderators of the other districts. shall be assistant presiding officers, and shall make returns of their polls as required by law. meetings in into election SEC. 2. Section 239 of the general statutes is hereby amended Return of votes by inserting, after the word "Hartford," in line four, the word at electors "Enfield," and inserting after the word "Hartford," in line five, towns divided the words "the presiding officer of the second district of Enfield," districts. so that said section shall read as follows: The presiding officers of each electors' meeting in every town not divided into voting districts, and each presiding officer of the first district in all towns divided into voting districts, except Hartford, Enfield, and Water When foreign fire insurance in this state. bury, the presiding officer of the second district of Hartford, the presiding officer of the second district of Enfield, and the presiding officer of the third district of Waterbury, shall make out triplicate lists of the votes given in their respective towns for each of the following officers, viz.: governor, lieutenant-governor, treasurer, secretary, comptroller, senator, judge of probate, sheriff, and representatives in congress, when said officers are to be chosen, also of the votes given for representative or representatives to the general assembly, chosen from such town, two of which lists he shall seal and deposit in the post-office in said town, the postage being paid thereon, directed to the secretary of the state at Hartford, one within two days, and the other within not less than five nor more than ten days after said meeting; and the third he shall deliver to the clerk of said town within two days after said meeting. Approved, February 24, 1893. [Substitute for House Bill No. 6.] CHAPTER VII. An Act concerning Foreign Fire Insurance Companies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General SECTION 1. No foreign fire insurance company shall take risks can take risks in this state unless it has a cash capital of two hundred thousand dollars, and shall have made a deposit with the treasurer of this state, or with the proper officer of some other state, of not less than two hundred thousand dollars in securities authorized by law for investments by savings banks, in trust for the benefit of its policyEffect of hos holders in the United States; and no policy issued by such company to any citizen of this state shall be invalidated by the occurrence of hostilities between the government of the United States and the government under the laws of which it was organized. SEC. 2. Section 2845 of the general statutes is hereby repealed. tilities between the U. S. and foreign government. Repeal. Order of notice in divorce cases. Approved, February 28, 1893. [Substitute for House Bill No. 24.] CHAPTER VIII. An Act relating to Order of Notice in Divorce Cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General SECTION 1. Section 2804, title forty-six, chapter CLXVII (page 612) of general statutes is hereby amended by striking out all after the word "court" in the ninth line of said section, and |