1882.

Rev.1888,§1239

Rev.1888,§1247

Sec. 4. Costs on attachment of debt for personal services. In any action in which, upon the service of process, moneys due to the defendant by reason of personal services are attached, the plaintiff shall not recover of the defendant, as costs, a sum exceeding one-half of the amount of damages recov ered in the action.-General Statutes, 1902, Section 777.

1874.1876,1878 Sec. 5. Attachment of wages; assignment of future earnings. No assignment of future earnings shall be valid against an attaching creditor of the assignor unless made to secure a bona fide debt due at the date of such assignment, the amount of which shall be stated therein as nearly as the same can be ascertained, nor unless the term for which such earnings are assigned shall be definitely limited in the assignment; nor unless such assignment shall be recorded before such attachment in the town clerk's office in the town where the assignor resides, or, if he reside without the state, in the town where the employer resides, and a copy thereof left with the employer from whom the wages are to become due.-General Statutes, 1902, Section 836.

Rev.1888,$1164

Household articles.

1711,1871. Sec. 6. Property exempt from attachment and execution. The following property shall be exempted, and not liable to be taken by warrant, attachment, or execution, namely: of the property of any one person, his necessary apparel, bedding, and household furniture, the arms and military equipments, uniforms or musical instruments owned by any member of the militia for military purposes, any pension moneys received from the United States while in the hands of the pensioner, implements of the debtor's trade, his library not exceeding five hundred dollars in value, one cow not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars in value, any number of sheep not exceeding ten nor exceeding in all one hundred and fifty dollars in value; two swine

1870. Pensions.

1879,1882

Poultry.

bicycle.

and two hundreds pounds of pork, and poultry not exceeding twenty-five dollars in value; of the property of any one person having a wife or family, twenty-five bushels of charcoal, two tons of other coal, two hundred pounds of wheat flour, two cords of wood, two tons of hay, two hundred pounds each of beef and fish, five bushels each of potatoes and turnips, ten bushels each of indian corn and rye, or the meal or flour manufactured therefrom; twenty pounds each of wool and flax, or the yarn or cloth made therefrom; the horse of any practicing physi- 1901, ch.94. cian or surgeon, of a value not exceeding two hun- Physician's dred dollars, and his saddle, bridle, harness, buggy, and bicycle; one boat, owned by one person, and used by him in the business of planting or taking oysters or clams, or taking shad, together with the Fishing boat. sails, tackle, rigging, and implements used in said business, not exceeding in value two hundred dollars; one sewing machine, being the property of any one person using it, or having a family; one pew, being the property of any person having a family who ordinarily occupy it; and lots in any burying Burial lots. ground, appropriated by its proprietors for the burial place of any person or family.-General Statutes, 1902, Section 907.

1872.

1860.

Sewing machine.

1887.

1895,ch.342

See $3588

Sec. 7. Exemption of wages, benefits, and insur- 1850,1872,1882, ance moneys. So much of any debt which has ac- Rev.1888,$1231 crued by reason of the personal services of the defendant as shall not exceed twenty-five dollars, including wages due for the personal services of any minor child, shall be exempted and not liable to be taken by foreign attachment or execution; but there shall be no exemption of any debt accrued by reason of the personal services of the defendant against a claim for the defendant's personal board. All benefits allowed by any association of persons in this state towards the support of any of its members incapacitated by sickness or infirmity from attending

1884. Rev.1888,81417

to his usual business, shall also be exempted, and not liable to be taken by foreign attachment or execution; and all moneys due the debtor from any insurance company upon policies issued for insurance upon property, either real or personal, which is exempt from attachment and execution, shall in like manner be exempted to the same extent as the property so insured.-General Statutes, 1902, Section 909. As amended by Acts of 1903, Chapter 95.

1855. Rev.1888,81484

Sec. 8. Unlawful exhibition or employment of child. Every person who shall exhibit, use, employ, apprentice, give away, let out, or otherwise dispose of any child under the age of twelve years, in or for the vocation, occupation, service, or purpose of rope or wire walking, dancing, skating, bicycling, or peddling, or as a gymnast, contortionist, rider, or acrobat, in any place whatever; or for or in any obscene, indecent, or immoral purpose, exhibition, or practice whatsoever; or for or in any business, exhibition, or vocation, injurious to the health, or dangerous to the life or limb of such child; or who shall cause, procure, or encourage any such child to engage therein, shall be fined not more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. But nothing herein shall prevent the employment of any such child as a singer or musician, in any church or school, or in learning or teaching the science or practice of music.-General Statutes, 1902, Section 1163.

Sec. 9.

Enticement of minor from lawful service. Every person who shall eloign any lawfully bound minor from the service or custody of his master, or shall entice such minor from such service, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months.-General Statutes, 1902, Section 1250.

Sec. 10.

1879.

Intimidation; boycotting. Every per- Rev.1888,$1518

son who shall threaten, or use any means to intimidate any person to compel such person, against his will, to do or abstain from doing any act which such person has a legal right to do, or shall persistently follow such person in a disorderly manner, or injure, or threaten to injure, his property, with intent to intimidate him, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months.-General Statutes, 1902, Section 1296.

Sec. 11. Attempt to prevent laborers joining la- 1899,ch.170. bor organizations. Every person, and every agent or officer of any corporation who shall coerce or compel, or attempt to coerce or compel, any laborer, mechanic, or other employee in the employ of such person or corporation, to agree, that as a condition of retaining his position as such employee, he will not join any labor organization, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both.-General Statutes, 1902, Section 1297.

Sec. 12.

Blacklisting. Every employer who 1897,ch.184 shall blacklist an employee with intent to prevent such employee from procuring other employment shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars.— General Statutes, 1902, Section 1298.

1702,1814

Every Rev.188888119

Sec. 13. Work or recreation on Sunday. Every person who shall do any secular business or labor, except works of necessity or mercy, or keep open any shop, warehouse, or any manufacturing or mechanical establishment, or expose any property for sale, or engage in any sport between twelve o'clock Saturday night and twelve o'clock Sunday night, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars. The provisions of this section shall not affect the issue or service of any criminal complaint or any proceed

1569. 1897,ch.188.

1821,1875. Rev.1888,§1572

1877.

Rev.1888, §276

1885.

Rev. 1888, §77

ings thereon, nor the performance by haywards of their duties, nor the issue or service of complaints for injunctions and orders thereon, nor the issue or service of any other civil process, except between sunrise and sunset on Sunday.-General Statutes, 1902, Section 1369.

Sec. 14. Persons who observe Saturday excepted from Sunday law. No person who conscientiously believes that the seventh day of the week ought to be observed as the Sabbath, and actually refrains from secular business and labor on that day, shall be liable to prosecution for performing secular business and labor on Sunday, provided he disturbs no other person while attending public worship.-General Statutes, 1902, Section 1372.

Sec. 15. Employers' threats. Every person who shall, at or within sixty days prior to any electors', town, city, borough, or school meeting, attempt to influence the vote of any operative in his employ by threats of withholding employment from him, or by promises of employment, or who shall dismiss any operative from his employment on account of any vote he may have given at any such meeting, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than six months, nor more than twelve months, or both.-General Statutes, 1902, Section 1700.

Sec. 16.

Mechanics' lien. Whenever any certificate of mechanics' lien lodged with a town clerk does not disclose the name of the owner of the premises against which such lien is claimed, such town clerk shall ascertain and index the same from such information as he may be able to obtain from the town records or otherwise; but he shall not be liable for mistake in ascertaining such name.-General Statutes, 1902, Section 1849.