[Senate Bill No. 488.] [14.] AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO SUPPLY DEFICIENCIES IN APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR THE TWO YEARS ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1913. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. The following sums are hereby appropriated to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the objects hereinafter specified for the two fiscal years ending September 30, 1913: For the state board of education, for normal schools, ten thousand dollars; for trade schools, thirty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [Senate Bill No. 490.]* AN ACT CONCERNING THE REPRESENTATION OF THE STATE AT THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. Thomas D. Bradstreet of Thomaston, John L. Purcell of Hartford, Edward J. Carroll of East Hartford, and J. Henry Blakeman of Stratford, are hereby constituted the Connecticut Gettysburg Semi-Centennial Commission. Said commission shall serve without compensation, but its necessary expenses shall be paid by the state. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said commission to take such action as it shall deem necessary to secure the proper representation of the state at the celebration of the semi-centennial of the battle of Gettysburg, to be held upon the battlefield under the auspices of Pennsylvania and the United States during the first week in July, 1913. It shall also provide the necessary transportation from their homes to said battlefield and return, for all survivors of both armies belonging to organizations which participated in the battle of Gettysburg or were held in reserve for said battle, who now reside in this state and signify to the commission their desire to attend. SEC. 3. The sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the carrying out of the provisions of this act, and the comptroller is hereby directed to draw his orders on the treasurer, from time to time, for such sums, not exceeding in the aggregate ten thousand dollars, as may be approved and presented by said commission under the provisions of this act. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved, March 25, 1913. [Senate Bill No. 489.] AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO SUPPLY DEFICIENCIES IN APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR THE TWO YEARS ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1913. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. The following sums are hereby appropriated to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the objects hereinafter specified for the two fiscal years ending September 30, 1913: For the state board of education, for common schools, ten thousand dollars; for evening schools, four thousand dollars; for supervision of schools, twenty-two thousand dollars; for pay and expenses of special agents, fifteen thousand dollars; for office expenses, twenty-five hundred dollars; for printing and binding, one thousand dollars; for salaries, four thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; for traveling expenses of secretary and agent, five hundred dollars; for trained teachers, fifty-five hundred dollars; for average attendance grant, eighty thousand dollars; for tuition of children in high schools, eighteen thousand dollars; for transportation of children to high schools, eight thousand dollars. SEC 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 106.] [17.] AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF BRIDGEPORT CONCERNING SALARY OF HEALTH OFFICER. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: Section one hundred and eleven of an act revising the charter of the city of Bridgeport, approved August 1, 1907, is hereby amended by striking out in the tenth line the words "fifteen hundred" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "two thousand", so that said section. as amended shall read as follows: On November 30, 1907, and quadrennially thereafter, the board of health shall appoint a discreet person, learned in medical and sanitary science, who shall be health officer of the city of Bridgeport, and shall hold his office for four years from the date of his appointment, unless sooner removed for cause, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Said health officer shall perform all the duties, and be vested with all the powers, and be subject to all the conditions and limitations now and which may hereafter be by law imposed upon town health officers. Said city health officer shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, payable in equal monthly payments. Approved, April 1, 1913. [Substitute for Senate Joint Resolution No. 20.] [18.] AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A HOUSE FOR THE BRIDGE-TENDER OF THE EAST HADDAM AND HADDAM BRIDGE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. The commission on the construction of a bridge over the Connecticut river between the towns of East Haddam and Haddam, raised by act approved August 24, 1911, is hereby authorized to construct, for and in the name of the state, a suitable dwelling house on land now owned by the state adjacent to the east end of said bridge, said house to be an appurtenance to said bridge, and to be occupied by the bridge-tender or otherwise as said commission shall determine. SEC. 2. All expenses incurred under the provisions of this act shall be paid out of funds appropriated for the use of said commission by an act approved August 24, 1911. Approved, April 1, 1913. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 216.] AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO SUPPLY A DEFICIENCY IN THE APPROPRIATION FOR THE CONNECTICUT REFORMATORY FOR THE TWO YEARS ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1913. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. The following sum is hereby appropriated to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the object hereinafter specified for the two fiscal years ending September 30, 1913: For the Connecticut Reformatory, for salaries of officers, instructors, foremen, and assistants, for medicines and instruments, for provisions for inmates, officers, and superintendent, for fuel, light, and water, for supplies and furnishings for reformatory, for library, printing, and chapel, for clothing and bedding, for office expenses, and for building material for new construction, sixty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [Senate Bill No. 122.] AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE WILLIAM L. GILBERT CLOCK COMPANY. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: Section one of the charter of the William L. Gilbert Clock Company, approved July 5, 1871, is hereby amended to read as follows: That William L. Gilbert, John P. Norton, I. B. Woodruff, George B. Owen, and George W. Norton, and such other persons as shall be associated with them, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the William L. Gilbert Clock Company, for the purpose of manufacturing all kinds of clocks and time-pieces, and all other goods and wares composed in whole or in part of wood, metal, or other materials, and conducting such mercantile business as may be convenient in connection with such manufacture; and by that name they and their successors are hereby authorized to purchase, take, hold, occupy, possess, and enjoy, to them, their successors and assigns, any goods, chattels, and effects, of whatever kind they may be, the better to enable them to carry on said business to advantage; to purchase, take, hold, occupy, and enjoy any lands, tenements, or hereditaments that shall be necessary to carry out the purposes of said corporation, and the same, or any part thereof, to sell, lease, and dispose of at pleasure; to borrow money and issue notes or bonds as evidence of debt created thereby; and to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, and answer and be answered unto, in, any court of record or elsewhere; and said corporation may have and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure. Approved, April 1, 1913. [House Bill No. 1029.] AN ACT REIMBURSING SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY FOR EXCESS TAXES. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: The comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his order on the treasurer for the sum of eight hundred thirteen dollars 702 SPECIAL LAWS in favor of Scovill Manufacturing Company, of Waterbury, to reimburse said company for excess payment of taxes. Approved, April 3, 1913. [House Bill No. 16.] AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE BOROUGH OF GROTON TO ISSUE SEWER BONDS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. The borough of Groton is hereby authorized to issue bonds to be denominated on the face thereof Sewer Bonds of the Borough of Groton, Series No. 1, which bonds shall be issued from time to time to an amount not exceeding in the whole the sum of thirty thousand dollars and shall bear interest at a rate not greater than five per centum per annum. The principal of each of said bonds shall be payable at such time as shall be designated on the face thereof Said bonds shall not exceeding thirty years from the date of issue. not be sold below par, and the funds realized from the sale thereof shall be applied and expended by or under the direction of the board of water commissioners of said borough for the construction or improvement of so much of a system of sewerage for said borough as may, from time to time, in the judgment of the board of water commissioners, be necessary. SEC. 2. The amount of said bonds which may at any time be issued under authority of this act, together with the times of paying the principal and interest thereof and the rate of interest, shall, subject to the foregoing provisions, be prescribed by said borough in legal borough meeting called for that purpose; and said bonds shall be signed by the warden and countersigned by the clerk of said borough, who shall register the number and amount of each bond issued on the records of said borough; and said bonds, when issued and delivered as aforesaid, shall be obligatory upon said borough and the inhabitants thereof according to the tenor and purport of the same. SEC. 3. All the provisons of the charter of the borough of Groton having reference to bonds, notes, or other certificates of indebtedness, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the bonds issued under authority of this act. Approved, April 3, 1913. |