Connecticut western news., 1899-07-13
THE NEW LAWS.

Public Acts of General Interest 10 Peo-
 pie of LitchfieId County, Passed by
 General Assembly Of s99 In Effect
 August I, 1899 Unless Otherwise
 Stated.
 Chapter l77. Amending Section l77, regarding chattel mortgages. by pro viding that in mortgages hereafter made, any interest in excess of ID pe1 cent. shall be deducted from the princi- pal.
 Chapter -. Regulating fees to be paid to the state by corporations or ganized under the joint stock law, viz; soc. on each S1. 900 of stock up to $5, 900, GOO, and 10c. per 5000 beyond that amount. Same tax for increasing capi. tai. If the corporation is. to do busi. ness only in Connecticut, 1t shall pay only I0c on each Sl, 900 of its capital Bill also regulates the exchange of pre- ferred for common stock, etc.
 Chapter 69. Amending Section 3. 655 so that children under 4 years of age shall not be admitted to county homes. The minimum age now is two years.
 Chapter 76 That children who are demented, idiotic or suffering from in- curable or contagious diseases shall not be committed to temporary homes or allowed to remain therein. Select men of towns shall provide for removal of any now there.
 Chapter AT. Superior Court terms and sessions for both criminal and civil bus mess, shall he held in Litchfield County At Litchfeld, first Tuesday in October at Now Milford, first Tuesday in April and at Winchester, first Tuesday oi February and June.
 Chapter 51. That the LItchfield County Common Pleas Court may hold sessions at Torrington to admit aliens to citizenship.
 Chapter 72. Fixing the number oi jurors to bs elected in the several towns of Litchfeld county, and repeating Chapter AT, Acts of 1893.
 Chapter 145. Amending section 2, Acts of 1897, SO that warrants for the arrest of fugitives from justice may be issued by the fudge of any City, Bor- ough. Town, or Police Court.
 Chapter 180. That the Superior Court may order the sale of any building and the land where it stands, when the title of the land is in one or more per sons and has been acquired as ancestral estate, and the title to the building, erected by the descendant is in another person. The law is 10 apply to casef where the parties cannot agree to buy or sell.
 Chapter 2. When any person has g claim against an executor or admin istrator for services rendered to him, and such claim is disallowed, he must begin suit within four months or be debarred of his claim against said ex ecutor or administrator or the estate Thls act applies to estates now in process of settlement, and notice re- quired may be given within foul months after the act goes into effect. Chapter A. In addition to notices now required by law in proceedings in probate courts, personal notice shall be given to every party in interest, or to his attorney, when written re- quest therefor shall have been lodged with the court. Such request may be lodged by any interested person be- fore application for probate of a will or granting of administration.
 Chapter 150. That when application is made to probate Court for the continent of an indignent, insane per son to the State Hospital. the select men appointed by the court shall re- port the value of real and personal property of the person, and the court shall certify to such value.
 Chapter =. That Probate Courts, after the time named for presenting claims against solvent estates, may, for good reason. allow thirty days addition al.
 The appropriations made by this General Assembly are the largest in the history of the state. They are divided as follows: Agriculture, SIT, ,950, capi- tol. S150. 900; charitable institutions, $935. 900; commissions $271. .457.62; ex- ecutive department. $75, $50; General Assembly, $180, II; highways, 1856, O22.l7; judiciary, $85O, $50; military, $352, ,554. 78; state prison, reform school, etc., $655, 600; schools, $1. .090, 250; mis- cellaneous, $349, $50; deficiency in ap. propriation, $l9,814.89; total. $5, 452, 158. .68.