Litchfield enquirer., 1877-08-23
fHouss Bill No. 1881

CHAPTER XCVIu.
 An Act amending the General Statutes
 relating to Education.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
 Representatives in General Assembly
 convened:
 SECTION l. The police in any city, and bailiffs, constables. sheriffs, and deputy sheriffs, in their respective precincts. shall arrest all boys between eight and sixteen years of age, who habitually wander or loiter about the streets or public places, or anywhere beyond the proper control of their parents or guardians, during the usual school hours of the school term; and may stop any boy under sixteen years of age during such housr, and ascertain whether he be truant from school; and if he be, shall send him to such schoof. E Sec. 2. Any boy arrested third time under the provisions of the preceding section, shall be taken, if not lmmediats- ly returned to school. before the Judge of the Criminal or Police Court, or any Justice of the Peace in the city. borough, or town where such arrest was made; and if it shall appear that such boy has no lawful occupation, or not attending school or is growing up in habits of idleness or immortality. or is an habitual truant, he
 
 instruction or correction, or house of re. formation in said city, borough or town, or, with the approval of the selectmen, to the State Reform School, for not more than three years. 1. Sec. 8. Officers other than policemen of cities shall receive for making the ar. rests required by the preceding sections. such fees. not exceeding the fees allowed by the statutes for making other arrests, as may De allowed by the Selecfmen of the town in which such arrests are made; but unless q warrant was issued by a Judge of the Criminal or Police Court or by Justice of the Peace, the officer shall. before receiving his fees, present to the Selectmen of the town written state- ment showing the name of each boy ar- rested. the day on which the arrest was made, and. if the boy was returned to school. the name or number of the school l to which he was SO returned. s.-sge*,. Sec. A Sections ten and eleven of chap. ter one, title eleven (page 128) of the Gen. etal Statutes, are hereby repealed; and the provisions of sections twelve. thirteen and fourteen of said chapter and title shail apply to this act. @m - 1 tst Approved March IA, 1877. The Tribune says that government wants l2O, 900 pounds of soap for the In- dians, and is laboriously facetious thereat. Better make it soup for the h. dians, and reserve the soap for .hloody shirt, washing Hayes is making quite a success in that kind of political laundry work. k.-DenVer Mirror.
 l The ..eelskin" dress is rapidly taking the place of the more modest ..puli-back; at least such is the case in Paris and Lon don. The dear creatures are put in the new, toggery is pretty. much the same way as sausage ia forced into it's casing. | A bashfui man will soon have to be blind folded and led around by dog. ~ss l North Coventry is much stirred up over hydrophobia. Twenty-Five dogs have been bitten by a mad one belonging to Dr. M. A. Bennett. A wholesale slaugh- ter is going on with poison and six shoot CTS. and a town meeting will shortly be held to arrange for more general cam paign.