The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-01
NEW LAWS BECOME
 EFFECTIVE TO-DAY
Anti Splitting Enactment Liable to- be Enforced Nothing Exempt from At tachrnent on Claim for Board or Rent.

The bulk of the laws enacted by the Ast General Assembly become effec- tive today. with the exception of a few which took effect upon their passage, and the bills relating to finance, which became effective on September 1. Two acts in the line of public health, which are supposed to be observed on and after today relate in a measure ito the prevention of consumption. One requires any physician who may dis cover a case of tuberculosis to report it to the health officer within twenty fcur hours after 1t comes to his knowl- edge, and he is to give the health of 3ffcer Information as to the age, sex, 4 colpr and occupation of the patient, GhN last place of employment and his a ress. Tn the event of the death he patient or his removal to an- r locality, the physician must no-
 the health officer within twenty
 hours and the health officer must to the proper fumigation of the ferrises before they are again occu- bied. The records kept by the health officer are to be secret.
 The antI-spftting law provides a fine iof not less than $1 nor more than .$5 flor any persons who shall spit on the paved walk of any public street, park Tor square, or upon the floor of any hall or office in any hotel, restaurant, apartment house, tenement or lodging house which is used in common by the guests or tenants thereof. or upon the floor, platform, steps or stairs of any public building, church, theatre, rail- way station, store or factory or street car or other public conveyance.'' The powers of the factory inspector now include the right to order fire es- capes upon, factories and workshops whenever the safety of the employees may seem to demand it. The State po- lice must see to it that moving picture machines are properly. encased in fire proof enclosures and that the opera I tors of the machine are duly examin- ed and licensed before they may oper-i ate the machines. School houses in tended for grammar grades must not exceed two stories in height above the basement, assuming that the work of erecting them begins on or after to- day. No one may occupy chairs placed in the aisles of any hall or theatre nor remain standing in any such hall or theatre in such a way as to block the exits. Doors must open outward in all schools. theatres, nick The person who has collided with any criminal law, for the violation of which bail is permitted, may furnish cash bail
 Al number of excise laws go into eff feet today among them that one which seeks to limit the number of saloons to one for each 800 inhabitants. Re tail liquor dealers may not sell liquor to be delivered outside the town in which his license is issued.
 The exhausts on motor boats must be untitled, and it now becomes a <r1me to break out of lookup even though ones surroundings there are unsanitary and restricted. Voters of any town who are so inclined may in- darse more than one application for a 1ioT lfcense If a voter on the li-
 question puts more than one bal
 the same kind in his envelope
 III be counted, but if they differ
 to be thrown out and if the
 or. ballot bears a distinguish
 k it shall be rejected.
 law of considerable import
 landlords and tenants abolishes
 exemption from attachment
 claim is either for board or
 Workingmen and others are
 ected by. the passage of the
 tax law which provides for a
 Hector whose business it shall
 $2 from each person whose
 ears on his list
 weight of packages of print
 1st be displayed on each
 now offered or exposed for
 ats or stools for n1otormen
 an trolley lines must be pro
 ss special exemption is made
 road commissioners. A new
 actices act, which in reality
 fly the act of 1905 is also
 sucus and primary law goes
 too late to affect the elec-
 Monday, while the Austral-
 act becomes effective the
 V enactment as no elections
 Id under it's provisions un-
 v41, 1910.