The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-09
IT WILL BE A BUSY WEEK.
THE WEEKS BATCH OF WORK FOR
 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,.

The Hearings Assigned for This Week.
 Several Important Hearings-Local Tax
 alton of street Railroads-The Quaran-
 tine Bill-DispIay of Foreign Flags
 Labor Arbitration Board.
 Hartford, April S-This will be busy week in the general assembly. On Tuesday Governor Mckinley of Ohio will be received by both houses. This will cut short the daily session, but committee work will go on in the afternoon as usual.
 The following are the hearings as signed by the judiciary committee for Tuesday afternoon:
 Adjourned hearing on H. P. No. 39, Of William E. Parker for divorce; ad- journed hearing on H. B. No. 361, con- cerning fraud; adjourned hearing on S. B. No. B. concerning the commission on poor and vagabondage; H. B. No. S95, concerning justices of the peace; s. B. No. S2, indexing senate and house jour- nals; adjourned hearing on S. B. No. 1O6, that state attorneys shall appoint prosecuting agents.
 For Wednesday afternoon:
 Adjourned hearing on H. B. Mo- 3OS, concerning appeals of street railroad companies from orders of the municipal authorities; adjourned hearing on s. B. No. 80, concerning reports of public offi- cers; Fl. B. No. 344, concerning publica- ton of legal notices; further hearing on Fl. B. No. 393, regulating oil refining on the Connecticut shore; $. P. No. 46, re- lating to town of Norwalk; H. P. No. 46, for division of New Britain into six voting districts.
 There are also important hearings as- signed for the committee on finance. Those for Wednesday afternoon are' Adjourned hearings on H. B. No. 4S2, concerning local taxation of street rail- road companies, and s. B. No. 67, con- corning local taxation of electric street railroads and horse railroads. Bills concerning state auditors.
 For Thursday, 1:30 D, m., s. B. No. 26, amending the investment tax law of 1889 by raising the rate to 1 per cent. per annum on taxes paid the state treasurer on bonds etc, half the tax to be paid to the towns.
 There are also several important bills to be heard by the railroad committee on Tuesday afternoon, including the following. H. J. R. No. 37 relating to, grade crossings in Bridgeport; H. J. R. No. 14S amending H. J. R. No. 37, pro- viding for a special commission on Bridgeport grade crossings; s. B. No. 31, for the removal of grade crossings in Bridgeport; $. B, No, 35, providing for removal of grade crossings in Bridgeport.
 The bill concerning quarantine intro duced by Health Officer Wright of New Haven was passed in the general as- sembly last week. It is intended to conform the state law to the govern ment quarantine provisions. The bill is as follows:
 Section 1. Section 2594 of the general statutes is hereby amended to read as follows:
 The board of health, in any town con- tiguous to navigable waters, may as- sign within the town or the waters con- tiguous thereto the port or place in any harbor, road, river or bay, where ves- sells coming into the limits of such town, or into such contiguous waters shall, if need be, perform quarantine; and every vessel which shall come from any foreign port or place. or between the first day of June and the first day of November come from any port or place in the United States south of the capes of Delaware bay, or in the Brit ish provinces, and come to anchor in any harbor, road, bay, river or contig- uous waters, if any place for quaran- tine shall have been assigned as afore- l said, shall come to anchor and lie at l such place so assigned, and at no other | place until discharged in manner as is | hereinafter provided; and the master of l every vessel coming to anchor as afora- | said shall forthwith make signal for a | health officer by hoisting colors in the | shrouds, or, if need be, may send a per- son on shore, who shall notify immedi- | ately the health officer of the port, or, if there be no health officer a member | of the board of health, of the arrival of | such vessel, and forthwith return on board; but the provisions of this sec tion shall not apply to any such vessel which shall have entered any port or | place north of said capes where there are quarantine regulations, and been visited by a health officer, received a clean bill of health, and been permitted to go and have actually gone to the wharves and unloaded thereat; and the town or city having jurisdiction over said port within twentyfour hours after the arrival of such vessel.
 Section 2--Section 2596 of 'the general statutes is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: But this section shall not apply to any vessels coming from any foreign port or ports except a port in Canada and the British provinces.
 Section 3-Any vessel from any port or place having sickness of any kind on board shall be subject to inspection and quarantine before making fast to any wharf.
 Section Amy master of any tug boat who shall violate, or assist any other person to violate, the quarantine regulations of any port, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or not more than three months, pr both. Another bill just passed relates to 1 , the display of foreign flags. Following Is the bill:
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