Length of sidings or other tracks not inIcluded above. track of road, including branches and sidings in single track miles. track laid with steel rails (weight per yard, lbs.). Weight per yard of iron rails in main line, lbs. Weight per yard of iron rails in branches, lbs. Miles of track laid with steel rails during the year (No. of tons, per yard, -; weight lbs.; cost, $ Miles of track laid with new iron rails dur ing the year (No. of tons, $ -; lbs.; cost, No. of new ties put in track during the year (cost, $). Aggregate length of wooden bridges, in feet. Aggregate length of iron bridges, in feet. Aggregate length of stone arch bridges, in Name, termini, and length of each road operated by this company under lease or contract. Length of all roads operated by this company. No. of stations on main line. No. of passenger train cars with patent plat form, buffer, and coupler. Name of patent. Fares, Freight, etc. Average rate per mile received from passengers on roads operated by this company, excluding season-ticket passengers. Average rate per mile for season-ticket passengers, reckoning one round trip per day to each ticket. Average rate of fare per mile from all passengers. Total number of passengers carried. Passenger mileage, or passengers carried one mile. Miles run by passenger trains. freight trains. 66 all other trains. Total miles run. Total number of tons of freight carried. Statement of each accident in detail. Names and residences of officers. Proper address of the company. When returns SEC. 3587. All companies or trustees receiving such 1878, ch. 60. blank forms shall return one of them to the commis- 1883, ch. 66. sioners on or before the fifteenth day of November, in to be made. each year, with all questions fully answered, except where the answers would be " none or "nothing," in which case the question itself may be stricken out. Said To be signed returns shall be signed and sworn to by the president and treasurer of the company, or by a majority of the trustees making the same. and sworn to. SEC. 3588. Every company whose president and 1878, ch. 60. treasurer, or trustees, shall refuse or neglect to make such Penalty for neglect. returns shall forfeit to the State twenty-five dollars for Books to be each day of such neglect or refusal, and said commissioners shall report such forfeiture to the Treasurer, and open to inspec: the books of every railroad company shall at all times tee of General be open to the inspection of any committee of the General Assembly, appointed for that purpose. tion of commit Assembly. 1878, ch. 60. Returns to con the forms. SEC. 3589. Every railroad company shall make its form strictly to annual returns strictly according to the forms provided, and if the officers or trustees find it impracticable to return all the items in detail as required, they shall, in their report, give the reasons why they cannot be given; but no company shall be excused for not giving such details because it does not keep its accounts in such Commissioners manner as will enable it to do so. And when any such may require amendment of returns seem to said commissioners defective or errondefective returns, under penalty. 1884, ch. 110. Returns to be of railroad. eous, they shall notify the company or trustees making the same, and require the amendments of such returns within fifteen days, under the same penalty as is provided for refusing or neglecting to make returns. SEC. 3590. The officers, trustees, or receivers of every made by lessors railroad company which has leased a railroad upon terms by which the rental is based upon the earnings of the leased road shall make returns to the Railroad Commissioners of the leased road, separate and apart from the business of the lessee, and in the same manner that the officers of said leased railroad would be required to make returns had it not been leased. SECTION. CONNECTICUT CENTRAL RAILROAD. 3591. Connecting roads to furnish and be furnished with accommodations, etc. 3592. When companies disagree as to such accommodations. 1878, ch. 89. Connections of Central Railroad. SECTION. 3593. Preceding sections confined to Connecticut Central and Rockville railroads and their connections. SEC. 3591. When the railroad of the Connecticut Connecticut Central Railroad Company, or any of its branches, meets or lawfully crosses another railroad at the same level therewith, the company by which either of said railroads is owned or operated may, with the written consent of the Railroad Commissioners, and upon such terms as said commissioners shall, after due hearing, prescribe, enter its road upon or unite the same with and use the road for the other; but no locomotive engine or other motive power shall be allowed to run upon a railroad except such as is owned or controlled by the company owning or operating such railroads or with the mutual accom consent of such company; and every such company modations, etc. shall, at all reasonable times, and for a reasonable com Connecting roads to furnish pensation, draw over its railroad the passengers, merchandise, and cars of the other, and each of them shall for a reasonable compensation provide upon its railroad convenient and suitable depot accommodations for the passengers and merchandise of the other road passing to and over it, and shall receive and deliver the same in the manner it receives and delivers its own passengers and freight. When compa commodations, Commissioners may determine SEC. 3592. If the companies cannot agree upon the 1878, ch. 89. stated periods at which the cars of one shall be drawn nies disagree over the other, and the compensation to be paid therefor, as to such acor cannot agree upon the terms and conditions upon etc., Railroad which the accommodation shall be furnished for the passengers and merchandise of the other, the Railroad the matter. Commissioners, upon the petition of either party and notice to the other, shall hear the parties and shall in each case determine (having reference to the convenience and interests of the companies and of the public to be accommodated thereby) the stated periods for drawing cars and the compensation therefor, or the terms and conditions for passengers and merchandise, or the requisite terininal accommodations as aforesaid; and said commissioners upon the application of either party shall determine all questions between the parties in relation to the transportation of freight and passengers, and other business upon and connected with said railroads in which they are jointly interested, and the manner in which the business shall be done, and apportion to each company its respective share of the expenses, receipts, and income of the same. And the award of the commissioners, or a major part of them, shall be binding upon the respective companies interested therein for one year, or until the commissioners shall revise and alter the same; provided, however, that any railroad company Appeal from aggrieved by any order of the Railroad Commissioners, made under the provisions of this chapter, may appeal from the same to the Superior Court of the county wherein said railroads meet, within twenty days of the date of such order, in the same manner that appeals are allowed upon any proceeding relative to the location, abandonment, or changing of depots or stations. Commissioners. 1879, ch. 90. to the Connec SEC. 3593. The provisions of the two preceding sec-1878, ch. 89. tions shall apply to the Connecticut Central and such Preceding secother railroads whose tracks are now intersected or tions confined crossed by the track or tracks of said Connecticut ticut Central Central Railroad; and also to the Rockville Railroad Railroads and and to such other railroads as connect therewith or are their connections. intersected thereby, and to the several railroad compa and Rockville G. S. 1875, 340, $1. Penalty. 1878, ch. 131, §1. Board of civil engineers or supervisors, how constituted. G. S. 1875, 173, ch. 2. nies owning or operating said respective railroads; but none of said provisions shall apply to any other railroad. SEC. 3607. vision of this Title LXVII, Chap. 224. GENERAL PENALTY. Every person who shall violate any protitle, for which no other penalty is prescribed or provision made, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars. Title LXVIII, Chap. 231. SEC. 3696. The member of the Board of Railroad Commissioners who is a civil engineer, and one civil engineer residing in each congressional district in this State, to be appointed by him, shall constitute a board of civil engineers, and have the supervision of all dams and reservoirs now existing or hereafter constructed in any locality where by the breaking away of the same, life or property may be in danger of destruction. SEC. 3706. STATE OFFICERS. Railroad Com- three thousand dollars. missioners. Property ex the Railroad Commissioners, each, The chief clerks of the sioners, Railroad Commis each eighteen hundred dollars. SEC. 3820. The following property shall be exempt from taxation: bonds in the hands of the hold empt from taxa-ers thereof, issued by any town or city in aid of the conCertain railroad struction of the railroads of the Connecticut Western tion. bonds. G. S. 1875, 115, $ 16. Property taxed out of this State, exempt. Railroad Company, the New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic Railroad Company, the Shepaug Valley Railroad Company, the Connecticut Valley Railroad Company, the Connecticut Central Railroad Company, or either of them, to provide or raise money to pay for stock subscribed for by it in any of said companies; but such bonds or stock, when their avails shall have been expended in the construction of any of said railroads, shall be assessed and taxed in the manner provided in section 3920. SEC. 3830. The list of any person need not include any property situated in another State, when it can be made satisfactorily to appear to the assessors that the same is fully assessed and taxed in such State, to the same extent as other like property, owned by its citizens; but the provisions of this section shall not apply to moneys loaned by residents of this State to any party |