Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-14

having a constantly free and unob- structed view Of the highway iInme-. diately to the rear and at the sides or the same. shan be ealipged with located and adjusted on such vehicle as to give the operator thereof a clear reflected view of the highway to the rear of such vehicle.
 scribed in section one shall keep constant observation for the approach of vehicles from the rear and when so approached he shall drive to the eight of the center line of the travelled way as promptly as safety will per init giving the vehicle approaching from the rear opportunity to pass in safety.
 The registration certificate of any vehicle operated in violation of the provisions of section one shall be sus- pended for period of not more than sixty days, and any person who shall operate a vehicle on any highway in violation of any provisions of this act shall be fined not less than five dol lars nor more than twenty-five dollars
 The secretary of the state shall mail to each registered owner of a vehicle described in section one a copy of this act prior to June l. 1917.
 This act shall take effect July l. 1917, except section four which shall take effect from it's passage.
 Disposal of Sewage.
 An act was passed which provides that the state board of health may in- vestigate all points of sewage dis charge and may examine all existing refuse disposal plants. and may com pei their operation in manner which shall protect the public health. or may order their alteration. extension and necessary for the protection Of the public health. After the passage of this act. no public sewerage system or refuse disposal plant shall be built until the design of the same has been ffied with the state board of health and approved by said board.
 Office in Capitol.
 An amendatory act was passed which provides that the commission CTS of fisheries and game shall have an office in the state capitol in which i1 it's records, papers and books shall be preserved.
 Liquor License Period. The act concerning ballot on the I 'quor license question was amended to read that the ballot shall be cast either in fafor of or against the grant ing of licenses for the sale or spirit uous and intoxicating liquors and the vote then taken shall remain in full force until the first Monday of the second month after it's annulment by a new vote taken at an annual town meeting, upon petition and after due notice as aforesaid, which vote shall become operative on the first Monday of the second month next succeeding said town meeting. provided. in towns electing town officers biennially un- der the provisions of chapter 2z7 of the public acts of 197, and in which no town officers are esscted annually, such ballot shall be taken only at the time and place of holding such bien- nial election.
 Elisha Miller Fund.
 The committee on education reported unfayorably in the house Friday the act concerning the fund devised by Elisha Miller late of Lyme, deceased, for school purposes, and the report was accepted and the bill rejected. The bill stated that by the consolida- ton of the school districts of the town of East Lyme it is impossible to apply the income of the Elisha Miller fund as directed by the resolutions adopted at the 1868 session of the legislature. If the bill had passed the trustees of the fund would pay over the fund to the town of East Lyme for the part payment of the cost of construction of part of the town of East Lyme which prior to the division of the town of Lyme was within the limits of the old Second Ecclesiastical society of Lyme. the schooIhouse to be designated as the Elisha Miller school. The report was accepted and bill rejected
 Shore Line Company.
 An act, pending action in the general assembly, amending the charter of the Shore Line Electric Railway company reads as follows.
 Section l. The Shore Line Electric Railway company is authorized to gen crate and to sell electricity, excepting in the towns of Windham and Gov entry, to any company authorized by special charter to manufacture and sell the same in any of the towns through which the lines owned or leased by it, said The Shore Line Electric Railway company, now run, or to any municipal corporation or de- partment thereof, in any of said towns, authorized by law to manufacture and sell electricity; provided the additional powers given said The Shore Line Electric Railway company by this act shall not confer upon said The Shore Line Railway company the right to sell or the right to obtain the right to sell electricity in any of the towns wherein any existing company or municipality is now actually operating and engaged in the sale of electricity, except to any such company or municipality en- gagged in the sale of electricity, without first obtaining the consent in writing of such company or. municipality so to do, which consent shall be approved by the public utilities commissions; and for the purpose of. exercising the rights hereby conferred may transmit cleo tricity upon any of the transmission lines which it now has the right to