Litchfield enquirer., 1872-10-10
PUBLIC ACTS
Of the State of Connecticut, passed May session
 1872.
IPUBLIsHED BY AUTHoRTTY.1

CHAPTER xcI. a0t relating to th6 school fnnd and for the ap-
 pointment or school fund commissioners. as Be it enacted by the senate and house of repre-
 sentatives in general assembly convened:
 Sec. l. The genei al assembly shall appoint two associate commissioners of the school fund who shall hold office for the term of three years from the fourth day of July in the year in which they are appointed and until their successors are qualified. The commissioner of the school fund and said associate commissioners shall be known as the school fund board.
 Sec. 2. It shall be the duty Of said associate commissioners to appraise or cause to be ap- praised, under oath, all property upon which loans are made from the fund and the expense of such appraisal shall in case be equally divided between the party or parties making application for heloan and the state. And no loan shall in any case be made from the school fund without the consent and approval ofall the members ot said board. a
 Sec. 3. Said associate commissioners shall be elected by ballot, but no member of the general assembly shall vote for more than one Of said as- soclate commissioners and the two persons hay- ing respectively the largest number of votes shall be declared elected
 Sec. 4 Said associate commissioners shall re- ceive an annual salary of five hundred dollars each to be pald in the same manner as salaries Of state officers.
 Sec. 5. The board shall as soon as practicable collect all loans out of this state, and invest the same in this state, by mortgage on real estate of 0 They shall, during their first official year, pro- cure reappraisal, under oath, Of all the proper ty on which loans from the fund are made, and shall do so hereafter every five years, and shall cause record book to be kept in their office containing description of the property and the appraisal of the same with the amount loaned thereon which shall open for inspection to any person interested in said fund. They shall an nually report to the general assembly the condi- tion of the fund with any commentators they deem expedient.
 Sec. 6. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed.
 Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from the date of its passage.
 Approved, August l. 1872.
 CHAPTER xcII.
 | An act amending to an act concerning commu mites and corporations. | Be it enacted by the senate and house of repre- scntatives in general assembly convened Sec. 1. That several railroad companies shal | annually make to the railroad commissioners ful report, and give accurate statistics for the veal I ending the thirteenth day of September, in ac- 1 cor,lance with the blank forms hereafter append ed marked Schedule B." to be furnished in du pllcate to each railroad company by the railroad 1 commissioners; which report and statistics shal be signed under oath by the president and treas urer of the railroad company, or by majority O. 1 the trustees who may be operating any railroad | and shall be returned to the railroad commis sioners on or before the first day of December. Sec 2 Every railroad company whose presi dent treasurer or trustees shall refuse or neglec l to make the returns required by the preceding section shall forfeit to the treasurer of the statt the sum of twnty dollars for each day of sucl neglect or refusal and said commissioners shal | report the same by due process of law; and th' books of every such company shall at all time
 be open to any inspection of any committee 0 the general assembly appointed for that pur l posel
 Sec j. The railroad commissioners may sum | mon and examine, under oath, all directors, of | hcers ageuts ur trustees of any railroa compa. | nv and such other witnesses as they may think proper in relation to the affairs transactions anC | condition of said compan y; and said directors | officers, agents, trustees or other persons, wh shall refuse, without justiiable cause, to appear and testify, when thereto required as aforesaid | or who shall in any way obstruct any railroad | commissioner in the discharge of his duty a! prescribed in this act or in the act to which this act is amended, shah be punished by Q fine no exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprison | ment in the for term not exceeding one year, o | by such fine and imprisonment both. | Sec f. Sections four hundred seventy-one ant | four hundred seventy-two of title seven, chapte
 seve:l, of the general statutes are hereby rt | pealod.