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ance of witnesses before said court may be signed by the judge, deputy judge, prosecuting attorney, or assistant prosecuting attorney; bonds or recognizances on the continuance of any case, or on binding over to the superior court, or on appeal to the criminal court of common pleas shall be taken by the judge or deputy judge; and bonds for appearance at said court to answer may be taken by the judge, the deputy judge, the prosecuting attorney, or the assistant prosecuting attorney, but the authority taking such bond for appearance shall note on the file in each case the name of the surety, the amount of the bond, and the date and hour at which the accused is to appear before said court, which entry shall be a part of the file and record of said case. All process issued by said town court shall be served by any proper officer, or an indifferent person, when specially directed to such, in the same manner as process issued by any justice of the peace or any other court, and shall be obeyed by any and all persons and officers to whom they shall be directed or whom they may concern. Neither said judge nor deputy judge shall be disqualified to act in any case from which money by penalty or otherwise may accrue to the town of Griswold by reason of his being a resident or taxpayer of said town.

SEC. 21. Whenever any person shall be arraigned before said court for drunkenness, vagrancy, disorderly conduct, or breach of the peace, said court may suspend execution of any judgment concerning him for a specified time or indefinitely, whenever such suspension shall seem to the court reasonable, either by reason of the age of the accused or the circumstances of the case.

SEC. 22. Sureties of the peace and good behavior may be required by said town court in such cases and in such manner as justices of the peace are now authorized by law to require the same. Said court may also require sureties of the peace and good behavior in addition to and in lieu of any penalty imposed by said court in such cases brought by said prosecuting attorney, as provided by this act, whenever a prayer therefor shall be inserted in said complaint and the interests of justice require it.

SEC. 23. The selectmen of said town of Griswold shall provide a suitable court room, which shall be within said town, and such other accommodations for said town court as the judge thereof shall deem necessary. The judge thereof shall provide for the use of said court such record books, blanks, stationery, and suitable means and accommodations for the safe keeping of the files and records of said court as he shall deem reasonable and proper, and the expense therefor shall be paid by said town on an order drawn by said judge upon the treasurer of said town.

SEC. 24. The judge or deputy judge of said town court may, whenever he deems it necessary, appoint an officer to attend any session thereof for the purpose of preserving order, and the court may tax reasonable fees for such attendance in the bill of costs for the case for which said appointment was made.

SEC. 25. In case of a vacancy in the office of either the judge or deputy judge of said town court by reason of absence from the town of Griswold, or by reason of inability to act from sickness or from any other cause, or by reason of disqualification from any cause whatsoever, said judge of said town court may designate in writing any judge or deputy judge of any city, police, town, or borough court within said county to act as judge of said town court, with all the powers given to said judge of said town court by this act, during such absence from town, sickness, or such disqualification to act. Any judge or deputy judge, while acting under such appointment as judge of said town court, shall receive a compensation therefor of five dollars per day for each day so employed.

SEC. 26. In all civil causes whereof said town court shall have jurisdiction and whenever either the plaintiff or the defendant or his attorney shall file with the judge of said town court, on or before the return day of such cause, a written request therefor, said cause shall be entered on the jury docket of said court; and, if the matter in demand in said cause shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars, said court shall cause a jury of six to be summoned for the trial of said cause in the same manner as justice jurors are now summoned, and who shall be paid in like manner; but if the matter in demand in said cause shall exceed the sum of one hundred dollars, said court shall cause a jury of twelve to be summoned for the trial of said cause in the same manner as justice jurors are now summoned, and who shall be paid in like manner; provided, that the party requesting or moving for a jury as aforesaid shall pay the clerk of said court a jury fee of six dollars when a jury of six is to be summoned, and a fee of twelve dollars when a jury of twelve is to be summoned, at the time when said written request for a jury is filed in court, and shall enter into a recognizance, with surety, to the adverse party in such sum as the court. shall order, conditioned for the payment of all costs in case final judgment is rendered against him; each party shall have a right in such jury trials to challenge peremptorily one juror without showing cause therefor; and all of the provisions of law concerning the summoning of talesmen before justices of the peace in such cases shall apply to said town court. All writs of error from the doings of said town court and all petitions for a new trial for causes determined before said town court shall be brought to the court of common pleas of said county.

SEC. 27. Said town court shall have jurisdiction over complaints for summary process, bastardy suits, and actions in rem, and may proceed therein and therewith in the same manner and to the same extent that justices of the peace may do.

SEC. 28. Said town court shall have the power, on motion, to order bonds or additional bonds for prosecution in any civil cause pending before it, in such sums as it may deem just and reasonable, motions for which shall be made on the return day of such cause, or written motions for which may be filed with said court at any time

before such return day; but no motion for such bonds shall be entertained after said return day unless satisfactory reasons therefor be shown to said court; said court shall have full power to make and establish such rules of practice, pleading, and proceedings within the limitations and provisions of this act as it shall deem expedient; said court shall have the same authority and power to enforce its orders and rules as courts of common pleas have.

SEC. 29. In all civil actions returnable to said town court the following fees shall be collected by the clerk: An entry fee of three dollars, a judgment fee of two dollars on judgments for less than one hundred dollars, a judgment fee of five dollars on all judgments exceeding one hundred dollars; execution twenty-five cents, and copies of files and records twenty-five cents per page; provided, that in actions wherein a sum is demanded not exceeding one hundred dollars such entry fee shall be two dollars. In all civil actions wherein the matter in demand shall exceed one hundred dollars, the same taxable costs to parties shall be allowed as by law are now taxable in the court of common pleas, and in all other civil cases the same taxable costs to parties shall be allowed as by law are now taxable in the court of common pleas in justice appealed cases.

SEC. 30. The entry fee, judgment fee, and jury fee (which shall be either six or twelve dollars) provided for herein shall be paid for as follows: The entry fee by the plaintiff on or before the return day, the judgment fee by the plaintiff before the judgment shall be rendered in the case, and the jury fee by the party moving for the same and before a jury shall be summoned, and, if judgment be rendered in favor of the plaintiff, said fee shall be taxed as costs in his favor; the fees for copies and executions shall be paid, before such copies or executions are delivered, by the party demanding the same.

SEC. 31. This act shall take effect on the first Monday of the month succeeding its passage; but it shall be lawful for the general assembly to appoint the judge and deputy judge of said court at any time after the passage of this act.

Approved, May 14, 1903.

[Substitute for House Joint Resolution No. 191.]

[286.]

CONCERNING THE CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE TOWN OF BRISTOL.

Resolved by this Assembly: SECTION 1. That the town of Bristol may, at its annual town meeting to be held on the first Monday of October, 1903, vote to abandon the control of public schools within said town, and re-establish the several districts as they were before the vote on the consolidation of school districts within said town taken at the annual town meeting in October, 1902. Said vote at the annual meeting on the first Monday of October, 1903, shall be taken as pro

vided in sections 2213 and 2214 of the general statutes, except that those in favor of abandoning town control and of re-establishing the school districts as hereinbefore stated shall deposit a ballot with the words "Against consolidation" written or printed thereon, and those opposed shall deposit a ballot with the words "For consolidation " written or printed thereon.

SEC. 2. The vote of the town of Bristol taken at the annual town meeting in October, 1902, abolishing school districts and assuming control of the public schools within said town is hereby validated and confirmed, except that said vote shall not take effect on the first Monday of July, 1903, but shall take effect on the first Monday of July, 1904, unless said town shall at its annual meeting on the first Monday of October, 1903, vote to abolish such control and re-establish the several districts as they were before said action taken at the annual town meeting on the first Monday of October, 1902. Approved, May 15, 1903.

[House Joint Resolution No. 316.]

[287.]

GRANTING A PENSION TO CHARLOTTE B. CLOYES.

Resolved by this Assembly: That the comptroller be and is hereby directed to draw his order on the treasurer for the sum of twelve dollars per month in favor of Charlotte B. Cloyes, being a pension for the death of her son, Charles C. Cloyes, late of Company F, First Regiment, Connecticut national guard; said pension to be in continuation of the pension granted by the general assembly in 1901 by resolution approved April 11, 1901. This pension shall continue until the rising of the next general assembly unless a pension in favor of the said Charlotte B. Cloyes from the United States government should be obtained prior to that time, in which case this pension shall cease. Approved, May 15, 1903.

[Senate Bill No. 163.]
[288.]

AN ACT VALIDATING THE ORGANIZATION AND OBLIGATIONS OF GROTON FIRE DISTRICT NUMBER ONE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

SECTION 1. The boundaries and limits of Groton Fire District Number One, as voted at a special meeting of said district, held February 21, 1903, and recorded in Groton land records, volume 46, pages 530, 531, are hereby made and constituted the legal boundaries and limits of Groton Fire District Number One, and said fire district is hereby declared to be a lawfully existing fire district, in all respects

as if duly organized under the general statutes or public acts of this state relating to the organization of fire districts, and is hereby invested with all the powers and obligations now or that may be hereafter conferred or imposed upon fire districts generally.

SEC. 2. All meetings of said fire district heretofore duly warned and held, including the meeting held May 24, 1897, and all contracts entered into by the committees of said fire district since May 24, 1897, in pursuance of the votes of the electors of said district, and all debts incurred by the committees of said fire district, are hereby validated. and confirmed and declared to be subsisting obligations of said fire district.

SEC. 3. Said fire district is authorized, by vote at a special meeting called for the purpose, to assume the obligations entered into and the costs and expenses incurred in the years 1900 and 1901 by the committee appointed by said fire district to procure a borough charter, and when so assumed the same shall be valid and subsisting obligations of said fire district.

Approved, May 15, 1903.

[Senate Joint Resolution No. 90.]
[289.]

AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE HARTFORD LIFE INSURANCE

COMPANY.

Resolved by this Assembly: SECTION 1. That The Hartford Life Insurance Company is hereby authorized to insure persons against loss of time and expense resulting from disease.

SEC. 2. This resolution shall take effect when approved by a majority vote of the stockholders of said company and a certified copy of said vote of approval shall be lodged on file in the office of the secretary of the state.

Approved, May 12, 1903.

[Substitute for House Joint Resolution No. 117.]

[290.]

INCORPORATING THE EAST LYME FIRE DISTRICT.

Resolved by this Assembly: SECTION 1. That the portion of the town of East Lyme comprised within the following boundaries is hereby constituted a district for the sole purpose of lighting the streets within said district, viz.: Beginning at a point on the north side of Main street, in the village of Niantic, opposite the Howard house dock; thence southerly to Niantic bay; thence westerly by Niantic bay to the "Hole in the Wall"; thence northerly through the said "Hole in the Wall" to the north line of the roadway of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company; thence westerly

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