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expenses in whole or in part of such general vaccination shall upon their order be paid out of the town treasury. .

Forfeiture

SEC. 17. Every person who shall refuse to be vaccinated, te vaccinated. or prevent any person under his care and control from being vaccinated, on application being made by any member of the board of health, or by a physician employed by the board of health for that purpose, unless, in the opinion of another physician, it would not be prudent on account of sickness, shall forfeit five dollars to the town where the offence shall be committed.

SEC. 18. Every person who shall violate any provision of General penalty. the preceding sections of this Chapter, or legal order of a board of health for which no other penalty is provided, shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding six months, or both.

RAILROADS.

I. Horse railroad regulations.

II. Abatement of assessment on horse
railroad companies.

I.

forbidden.

permitted.
R. S., p. 339,

'11.

SECTION 1. No horse railroad company shall use steam for steam power motive power. SEC. 2. The use of any improved motive power for draw- Other motive power ing passenger cars on any horse railroad, other than that furnished by locomotives, dummies, or box engines used on steam railroads on the first day of January, 1875, may be permitted and regulated, in any city by the mayor and common council; in any borough, by the warden and burgesses; and in any part of a town not included in any city or borough, by the selectmen; subject to revocation by the authority granting the same, by a two-thirds vote of its members.

Rails, how laid, and their form.

Companies to keep the track in repair,

etc.

City or town not liable for defect in road occasioned by railroad track.

Neglect to repair track, etc., how remedied.

Snow not to be removed from track in city highway.

Snow not to be

thrown on sidewalk,

etc.

SEC. 3. No such company shall lay down its rails upon any highway, except in the manner prescribed by the common council of the city, if the same be in any city, otherwise by the selectmen of the town in which such rails are laid; and such common council or selectmen may prescribe the form of rail to be used in the construction of such railroad, and the plan and form of the curves in its tracks or branch road for turning street corners; and may permit said company to change the form of rail prescribed in its charter; but if any such company shall be aggrieved by such action of the common council or selectmen, it may appeal by petition. to the Superior Court in the county, which may confirm, annul, or modify such action.

SEC. 4. Every such company shall grade and keep in repair the railroad track and way, and the surface of the street adjoining the rails of its railroad, for a space not less than two feet in width on each side of each rail; and construct all crosswalks so that all vehicles can conveniently cross or turn off from such track; and in case of injury to any person, animal or vehicle, arising from any defect in the grading or repair of such railroad track, or way, or such part of the surface of such street, no action shall be maintained against such city or town therefor.

SEC. 5. If any such company shall neglect to repair any track, highway or crosswalk, as required in the preceding section, for thirty days after the common council or selectmen shall have ordered such repairs to be made, then such common council or selectmen may make such repairs, and the city or town, as the case may be, may collect the expense from said company.

SEC. 6. No such company, having a track in any highway which is under the control of the authorities of any city, shall remove the snow which shall fall upon said track, if it is of sufficient depth to allow vehicles to pass over the road on runners, without consent in writing, first obtained of the mayor of the city.

SEC. 7. No horse railroad company shall allow any snow so removed from its track to be placed upon any sidewalk or

paved gutter, or where it obstructs or endangers public travel.

sprinkle salt, etc., on track or rails.

SEC. 8. No such company shall sprinkle any article of a Company may not decomposing nature on its tracks or rails, or wash them with brine or pickle, or allow it to be done, for the purpose of melting the snow thereon, without written permission from the first selectman of the town, or from the mayor of the city, where the city authorities have the control of highways, in which such track is located; and no officer of any such company shall knowingly permit the snow to be removed from its track, or the track or rails to be sprinkled or washed with any article of a decomposing nature.

obstructing track.

SEC. 9. Every person who shall wilfully hinder any such Penalty for company, in the use of its roads or tracks, shall for every such offence be fined not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding three months, or both.

vehicles fitted to track without consent of company.

SEC. 10. Every person who shall, without the consent of Penalty for using such company, use upon any horse railroad any vehicle with running gear fitted for the track of such road, and different from vehicles ordinarily used on other highways, for the purpose of conveying passengers for hire upon the track of such road, shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding three months, or both.

II.

assessment on horse railroad com

panies.

R. S., p. 91, § 7.

The board of aldermen of any city, and in cities where Abatement of there is no board of aldermen, the common council, and the board of selectmen of any town, which has control of the highways therein, may abate in whole or in part any assessment laid upon any horse railroad company, or its property, or the person, persons or corporation owning or operating any such horse railroad, on account of such property, and may discharge in whole or in part any lien created by such assessment, or connected therewith; and such abatement and discharge shall be by resolution, specifying the particular assessment and lien, and a certified copy thereof shall be recorded in the records of such liens.

Rewards

S. A., vol. 8, p. 16.

REWARDS.

SECTION 1. The Court of Common Council of the City of Hartford may offer suitable rewards for the apprehension and conviction of such person or persons as shall have committed or shall commit crimes within the limits of said city. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved, June 19, 1876.

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City taxes.

S. A., vol. 5. p. 340.

I.

That no city tax exceeding two cents on a dollar of the grand list computed according to the system heretofore in use in this state, shall be assessed or levied upon any land or lands within the area and territory annexed to and incorporated with the City of Hartford, by virtue of an act entitled "An act extending the limits of the City of Hartford," approved June 22, 1853, so long as said land is or shall be used exclusively for farming purposes, or is vacant and unoccupied land; and that all farming produce, and all stock used in farming, and all implements of husbandry belonging to Personal property persons residing on said territory so annexed, shall be exempt in the same manner and to the same extent, from such city taxation; and that the persons now and hereafter residing on

Farming lands exempt.

exempt.

liable for bonded debts.

said territory so added to said city, and the estate of such What property not persons, both real and personal, shall not be liable by taxation, or in any other mode, for any bonded debt of said city, or for interest on the same, contracted in aid of any railroad company; provided, that this resolution shall not be so con- Property in busistrued as to exempt from liability any property invested in exempt. business in said city and now liable to taxation for said city debt.a

Approved, June 15, 1860.

II.

That no city tax exceeding six-tenths of one mill on a dollar of the grand list shall be laid or levied upon any land or lands within the present limits of the City of Hartford so long as said land is or shall be exclusively used for farming purposes, and has a market value not exceeding six hundred dollars an acre; and no other land shall be so exempt by reason of any provisions of said charter.1

Approved, July 26, 1867.

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III.

taxes, when
payable.

§ 87-99.

SECTION 1. All taxes laid by either the town or the City Town and city of Hartford shall be payable and collectible on or before the Rs., 1866, p. 728, fifteenth day of July next, after the same are laid, and if paid on or before said day, two per cent. discount shall be allowed thereon, and no discount shall be allowed thereafter. Discount. On all such taxes remaining due and unpaid after the first day of August next after the same are laid, one per cent. shall be added and made collectible, as a part of such tax, and Addition. a further sum of one per cent. shall be, in like manner, added and made collectible, on the first day of each succeeding month thereafter, until such tax is paid.

SEC. 2. The collector, or collectors of each of the aforesaid Notice. taxes, shall, on or before the fifth day of July in each year,

"Concerning taxation of farming lands, see Gillette v. City of Hartford, 31 Conn., 351.

1 For similar exemptions, see pp. 2, 39-42.

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