The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-03-20
With THE LEGISLATORS.
TWO IMPORTANT CHANGES IN
THE AUTO LAWS.

All Automobiles Are 80 be Registered
Jail Sentence for Autoists Who vIo-
late Speed Law-Senate Considers Inn
pOrtant Matters.
Hartford. March 1S.-Two important
| changes in the present law regarding
automobiles were reported to the house
by the committee on public health and
safety this morning.
The first of these new automobile
laws provides that mo automobile or
motor vehicle shall be operated until
the owner has filed with the secretary
| or state his name, address, description
of the vehicle owned, and shall have
| obtained from the secretary of state a
numbered certificate for each of said
vehicles. Each auto shall have the mi
| ttal of the state and the number of the
! certificate issued on the back thereof.
| A fee of one dollar shall be paid for
each certificate.
mo license, however, shall be requir-
ed for automobiles offered for public
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dealers and are now employed in pri-
vate business or for private use of such
manufacturers and dealers, or required
| of automobile owners who have COM
piled with similar laws in other states.
The penalty for violation of this law is
| set at $25."
| This proposed change in the automo-
| bile laws of the state is intended to be
| in line with the laws of New York,
Massachusetts,, New Jersey, etc, where
automobiles have to be registered and
numbered.
| The second new automobile regula-
ton keeps the speed limit as at pres
ent-fifteen miles in the country and
twelve in the cities-and adds an alter
nate. thirty days in JAIL" to the pres
ent $500 fine. T..
| The bill creating a state board of far
riers to examine blacksmiths was re-
| iected.
The bill abolishing the death penalty
and substituting life Imprisonment for
capital punishment was reported unfa-
vorably and rejected.
! The bill providing that pastors may
| be left in voting booths as formerly
was rejected.
Governor Chamberlain made the fol-
lowing appointments:
| Commissioners of fisheries and game
Robert G. Pike, of Middletown, E.
Hart Geer, of Lyme, and George p.
| Matthewson, of Enfield.
| Member of board of education Of the
blind-Emily Wells Foster, of Hart
| ford.
Dental MISREPRESENTATION H.
LOOMS, of Rockville, William E. Hyde,
of Danielson, J. P. Barker, of Walling-
ford, Horace S. Bascom, of New Haven,
and Edward W. Pratt, of East Hart
ford.
Agent of Connecticut School for Boys
John H. Parish, of Meriden.
All of these appointments are for two
years from July /, except that of Mrs.
Foster, which is for four years.
| The committee on appropriations re-
ported a substitute bill this morning
| for S515,S25 for the improvement of pub
lie roads for the two fiscal years end
ing September 80, 1905. The original
bill was for 100000 without specified
items.
The Judiciary committee reported I'M
favorably on the bill providing that up
on the request of selectmen to city
chiefs of police the latter must send
fifty policemen to the town. The bill
was rejected.
Two bills providing for the election
of county health officers by the people
and the appointment of town health
officers by the selectmen were rejected.
The house adjourned until 1890 next
Tuesday.