token entitling him to transportation to and from Hartford, during any session of the general assembly, except as herein provided, unless such ticket be issued upon the same terms and at the same price as tickets are ordinarily issued by said company entitling the holder to an equivalent amount of travel.

§ 187. Reports of public officers. All reports and returns which any public officer is required by law to make annually shall be for the fiscal year preceding, and all reports and returns which any such officer is required by law to make biennially shall be for the two fiscal years preceding; and all such reports and returns as are required to be made annually, except where it is otherwise provided, shall be made, returned, and printed on or before the thirty-first day of December in the year in which they are required to be made. And all such reports and returns as are required to be made biennially shall be made, returned, and printed on or before the thirty-first day of December preceding the next regular session of the general assembly.

§ 274. Trustee of railroad corporation may release interest. The trustee of the estate of any railroad corporation in settlement as an insolvent estate may, if the assets of such estate shall not otherwise be sufficient to pay the claims allowed by the commissioners and the expenses of settling the estate, release, subject to any prior existing lien or title to any proprietors of land, any right of way or other easement or incumbrance which said corporation may have in or upon the same, upon such terms as shall be approved by the court of probate.

1885, 1887. Rnv. 1888, $376 1889, ch. 231.

1858, 1885. Rev. 1888, §517.

§ 708. Fire communicated by railway engine. In all actions to recover for any injury occasioned by fire communicated by any railroad locomotive engine in this state, the fact that such fire was so communicated shall be prima facie evidence of negligence on the part of the person or corporation who shall,

1840.

Rev. 1888, §1096.
See $3780.

at the time of such injury by fire, be in the use and occupation of such railroad, either as owner, lessee, or mortgagee, and of those who shall at such time have the care and management of such engine.

1832, 1846, 1861,

1867, 1868, 1884,

§ 831. Attachment effective without removal of propRev. 1888, §918. erty, when. Attachments of machinery, engines, or implements, situated and used in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment, or of the household furniture of any person having a family, and used by him in housekeeping, or of hay or unthreshed grain deposited in any building, or of any crop deposited in any building, or of brick in kilns, or of wood, sawed lumber, railroad ties, or logs when gathered together in piles, which cannot, in the opinion of the officer levying upon the same, be moved without manifest injury, shall be effectual to hold the same, without any removal thereof; provided the service of such attachment shall be completed and a copy of the process and of the accompanying complaint, with the officer's return indorsed thereon, particularly describing the property attached, shall be filed in the office of the town clerk of the town in which such property shall be situated, within twenty-four hours after such attachment shall have been made; and when the levy is upon any such hay, unthreshed grain, crops, or brick, the officer shall also post a notice of his attachment on the outer door, or other conspicuous place, of the building in which such property is situated.

1856.

Rev. 1888, §1178.

§ 917. Levy on interest of one railroad in another's property. The levy of executions on the equitable right or interest which any railroad corporation may have in the whole, or any part of the real estate, right of way, or roadbed, of any other railroad corporation, together with the income, rents, and profits which may be due or coming due thereon, shall be by leaving a true and attested copy thereof with the treasurer, secretary, or clerk, of said last-named corporation, with an attested certificate by the officer making such levy, that he levies upon such right or interest to satisfy such execution; and thereupon he

shall post the same upon some signpost in the town where such last-named corporation has its office or principal place of business in this state, and, as in cases of personal property, shall, at vendue, sell the same, together with such income, rents, and profits, or so much of them as shall be sufficient to satisfy said execution, and shall give to the purchaser a written conveyance of such right and interest, and shall also leave with such treasurer, secretary, or clerk, a true and attested copy of such execution, and of his return thereon; and the purchaser shall thereupon become entitled to said right and interest, and to all rents, profits, and income thereon, to which such debtor was entitled.

§ 1119. Action for injury to person and property limited to one year. No action to recover damages for injury to the person, or for an injury to personal property caused by negligence, shall be brought but within one year from the date of the injury or neglect complained of.

§ 1120. Suit for forfeiture on penal statute limited to one year. No suit for any forfeiture upon any penal statute shall be brought but within one year next after the commission of the offense.

1865, 1867. Rev. 1888. §1383.

1893, ch. 45. 1903, ch. 149.

1897, ch. 189.

1672. Rec. 1888. §1379.

1897, ch. 197.

§ 1130. Four months' notice required in actions 1895, ch. 176. against railways. No action to recover damages for an injury to, or for the death of, any person, or for an injury to personal property, caused by negligence, shall be maintained against any electric, cable, or street railway company, or against any steam railroad company, unless written notice containing a general description of the injury and of the time, place, and cause of its occurrence, as nearly as the same can be ascertained, shall have been given to the defendant within four months after the neglect complained of, unless the action itself is commenced within said period of four months. Such notice may be given to the secretary, or to any agent or executive officer of the company in fault.

1801, 1846, 1873. Rev. 1888, $1400.

1853. Rev. 1888, §1403.

1873.

Rav. 1888, §1471. 1895, ch. 87.

§ 1141. Homicide, when punished by death. Every person who shall commit murder in the first degree, or who shall cause the death of another by wilfully placing any obstruction upon any railroad, or by loosening, taking up, or removing any part of the superstructure of such railroad, or by wilfully burning any building or vessel, shall suffer death.

§ 1144. Misconduct of railroad servants causing loss of life. Every servant of any railroad company who shall, in consequence of his intoxication, or of any gross or wilful misconduct or negligence, cause any loss of life, or the breaking of a limb, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years.

§ 1145. Wilful throwing or shooting at railway cars. Every person who shall wilfully throw or shoot any missile at any locomotive or railroad car, or street railway car, whereby the safety of any person is endangered, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

1852, 1873. Rev. 1888, §1429.

1871. Rev. 1888, §1431.

§ 1182. Placing obstructions on railroads. Every person who shall wilfully place any obstruction upon any railroad, or who shall loosen, tear up, or remove any part of a railroad, shall be imprisoned in the state prison not more than ten years; and if he shall do the same with intent to throw any locomotive or car from the track of such railroad, or to obstruct any car in motion, he shall be imprisoned in such prison not more than thirty years.

§ 1184. Displacement of switches or injury to signals on railroads. Every person who shall wilfully displace any switch upon any railroad, or injure, or destroy any electric signal in use thereon, or any material or property appertaining thereto, or who shall interrupt the use of any wire, lever, pin, or battery, used to operate such signal, or its connection therewith, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the state prison not more than ten years.

§ 1199. Breaking and entering railroad car for crim- 1895, ch. 213. inal purpose. Any person who shall at any time break and enter any railroad car, with intent to commit a crime therein, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years.

§ 1208. Theft or embezzlement of passage tickets. 1895, ch. 113. Every person who shall steal any ticket, coupon, check, or other paper or writing, lawfully issued by any common carrier, entitling or purporting to entitle the holder or proprietor thereof to a passage upon any railroad or in any vessel or other public conveyance; or who shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit any such coupon, check, or other paper or writing, or who shall embezzle any such ticket, coupon, check, or other paper or writing, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in a jail not more than one year, or both.

1852.

1895, ch. 87.

§ 1234. Wilful injury to cars or engines. Every person Rev. 1888, $1472. who shall wilfully injure any engine or car used upon any railroad, or any car used upon any street railway, shall be fined not more than one hundred and fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

1866.

§ 1235. Nuisances on railroad tracks or in depots. Rev. 1888, §1473. Every person who shall cast, empty, or discharge, or permit to be cast, emptied, or discharged, any filth, rubbish, foul or offensive wash or water, or the contents of any privy, vault, cess-pool, or sewer, upon or into any railroad or railroad depot in any city, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, half of which shall be paid, by order of court, to the person furnishing to the proper officer information that leads to a conviction.

§ 1236. Nuisances on railroad bridges. Every person who shall commit any nuisance in or upon any railroad bridge shall be fined not more than seven dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

1869.

Rev. 1888, §1474.

§ 1241. Wilful injury to electric railway appliances. 1895, ch. 72. Every person who wilfully and unlawfully displaces, removes, cuts, injures, or destroys any wire, insulator, pole, dynamo, or motor attached, appertaining to, or connected with, any railroad or street railway operated by electricity, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than three years.