SPECIAL ACTS PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE State of Connecticut AT THE JANUARY SESSION, 1915 HARTFORD SPECIAL ACTS OF THE General Assembly of the State of Connecticut JANUARY SESSION, 1915 At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, bolden at Hartford, in said State, on the Wednesday after the first Monday of January, being the sixth day of said month, and continuing until the final adjournment thereof, on Tuesday, the eighteenth day of May next following, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and Afteen. [Senate Bill No. 199.] AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO SUPPLY A DEFICIENCY IN THE APPROPRATION FOR THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE FOR THE TWO YEARS ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1915. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. The following sum is hereby appropriated to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the two fiscal years ending September 30, 1915: For the secretary's office for the motor vehicle department, for per diem clerks, fourteen thousand dollars. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [Senate Bill No. 515.] AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE PRINTING OF ONE THOUSAND ADDI- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General The comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be printed one thousand copies of the report of the bureau of labor on the conditions of wage-earning women and girls, in addition to the number heretofore authorized, the expense of printing such additional copies to be paid out of the money appropriated for the printing of public documents. Approved, February 9, 1915. [House Bill No. 138.] AN ACT RAISING A COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE THE ADVISA- Be it enacted by the State and House of Representatives in General The goverhor is hereby authorized to appoint a commission consisting of nine members, a majority of whom shall be members of the general assembly or of existing state or county commissions, to make a report of its findings and recommendations to this general assembly on or before April 1, 1915, in respect to the following subjects: The reorganization and consolidation of the various state and county boards and commissions with a view to greater economy and efficiency: The revision of the public health laws with the purpose of fixing more definitely the responsibility of officials, and of eliminating waste and duplication of authority and of preventive laws, with the purpose of ascertaining whether the constructive work of medicine and science may not be more efficient than is possible under present law. Approved, February 9, 1915. [House Bill No. 102.] AN ACT RAISING A COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE SAFETY OF THE SHELTON BRIDGE AND TO REPORT TO THIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. A committee consisting of the senate and house chairmen of the joint standing committee on roads, bridges and rivers and one engineer to be designated by the highway commissioner from his department, is hereby raised for the purpose of investigating the safety of the bridge connecting the city of Derby with the borough of Shelton, and the desirability or the necessity for the erection of a new bridge in place of the same. SEC. 2. Said committee shall report the results of its investigations and its recommendations thereon, if any, to the general assembly on or before the first day of March, 1915. Approved, February 9, 1915. [Substitute for House Bill No. 190.] [5.] AN ACT CONCERNING THE NINTH SCHOOL DISTRICT Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General SECTION 1. The meeting of the ninth school district of Manchester held November 3, 1913, and all adjourned sessions thereof, otherwise valid except that the notice of said meeting was not signed by the chairman of the district committee, is hereby validated and confirmed, and the action of said meeting and adjourned sessions is hereby ratified and made binding upon said district, and said district is hereby authorized to do all things necessary to carry into effect the action of said meeting and adjourned sessions. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 91.] AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF BRIDGEPORT CONCERNING TAXATION. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. Section two of an act revising the charter of the city of Bridgeport, approved August 1, 1907, is hereby amended to read as follows: Said city of Bridgeport is hereby divided into two districts. The first district shall comprise all the territory of said city, and the second district shall include so much of the first district as is embraced in the following description: Commencing at a point on the boundary line between the town of Bridgeport and the town of Stratford one hundred feet north of the north line of News avenue, so called, and running westerly in a straight line parallel with said News avenue and one hundred feet distant therefrom to Success avenue, thence westerly in a straight line to a point on Asylum |