Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-01
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days more after it shall have become due, the school fund commissioner is directed to charge interest thereon from the time the same became due at the rate of nine per cent. per annunl, until the same is paid.
 On motion of MT Fox the bill providing | that the treasurer of every savings bank shall, | on or before tho 10th day of July annually, | make out a sworn statement containing the name and amount standing to his credit or every depositor who shall not have made deposit therein or withdrawn therefrom any part of such deposit, or any part Of the Inter est thereon, for period of more than twen~ ty years next preceding provided, that the act shall not apply to the deposit made by any person known to the treasurer to be ilv- ing, was called from the table and discussed at length by Mir. Wren of Bridgeport and Mr. Fox of New Haven.
 Mir Thurber said the main object of the bill was correct, but in special features it was apparently unconstitutional, and he would | like it tabled for amendment.
 Mr. Owen said that the bill drawn was | impracticable, and moved that it be commit ] ted to the Judiciary; withdrawn. l Mir. Stanton moved that the measure be 1 tabled in order that proper amendments may | be prepared lost.
 MT. Johnson gaid the principle of the bill l unquestionably would meet with the approval ] of the House.
 Mr. Pease of Enfield, offered an amend
 ment authorizing the treasurer of the bank | ill which the deposit remains to perform the
 duties which the bill required the appoint l ment of an administratrix to execute.
 Mir. Stanton, of Stonington, said the Com
 mittoe Banks desired the bill to be treated
 with the utmost fairness and in that spirit he
 asked to have the measure tabled.
 The rate of interest pronounced by
 MT. Wren as being too high, but on vote the
 amendment was adopted.
 Mr. Taylor, of Danbury, offered an amend
 ment making the law apply only where the ! deposit is in excess of S25.
 l Mr. Ripley said this would give the banks
 the right to confscate small amounts, and he
 thought that would be unwise and uncalleo !, for legislation.
 Pending action on Mir Taylor's amendment
 the bill was on motion of MT. Sanford com mitted to the Judiciary committee, MT. Stan | ton consenting on behalf of the Committee l on Banks.
 MT. Owen, of Manchester, called from th' table the bill for the preventing the spread , of presidential diseases, which had been re ported adversely from the Judiciary com mittee. An amendment providing that th'
 restriction s4all not be an obstacle to the re . turn of an inhabitant of any town Tn tn Q State to his home, introduced by MT. Owen f was adopted. The bill provides that an. e person who shall knowingly bring within th | limits of any town in this State any persol @ not an inhabitant thereof affected witl @ ! cholera, yellow fever, diphths ria, scarle i fever, smallpox or other presidential diseases h | without having the written permit thereto of the Board of Health of said town, or wh o shall wilfuly expose another to infection l. 1 from any pestilential disease, shall be fine V ! not exceeding five hundred dollars, or in " l prisoned not exceeding six months, or both
 Alter discussion by Messrs. Northrop c y Middletown and Wilson of Meriden the bl d was indefinitely postponed
 IF Mir Sill called from the table House bl Mo- 91 relating to civil actions, and move
 the substitution of the following 't When, in suits brought to recover unl1qult tt ated damages, default shall be returned ,s or demurrer shall be overruled, and the dt
 fendant shall neglect or refuse to answe
 over, such default neglect or refusal sha l. be conclusive admission of the truth of 6 Il material and well pleaded allegations in tt
 ! complaint contained, and the consequent lli
 bilty of the defendant for all damages whlc '' the complainant suffered, and upon an Il 7. quest by the court to determine the amour
 of damages which the complainant shall r <. cover, no evidence shall be received denyln r., the defendants liability for all the damage
 ! which the complainant prove he has su 1T fered and the only question at issue shall 1t the extent of the complainant's injury ol loss. Pending the discussion on the subst n tute by Messrs. Sill, Northrop Ripley, Joh1 r. l son aud Cowles the House was adjourned (
 account Of the absence of quorum. in The session will be resumed at ? p. I m 1 Monday, April 3.