[House Bill No. 839.] CHAPTER 184. Exempting prop erty of certain in of infirmaries. An Act amending an Act concerning Exemption of Property from Taxation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 2315 of the general statutes as amended by chapstitutions, in- ter 91 of the public acts of 1903 is hereby amended by cluding property inserting in the seventh line thereof, after the word “infirmaries", the words "with the land appurtenant to such infirmaries", so that said section as amended shall read as follows: The following property shall be exempt from taxation: All property belonging to the United States, or this state; buildings, with their appurtenances, belonging to any county, town, city, or borough; buildings or portions of buildings exclusively occupied as colleges, academies, churches, public schoolhouses, or infirmaries with the land appurtenant to such infirmaries; parsonages of any ecclesiastical society to the value of five thousand dollars, while used solely as such; buildings belonging to and used exclusively for scientific, literary, benevolent, or ecclesiastical societies, not including any real estate conveyed by any ecclesiastical society or public or charitable institution without reserving an annual income or rent or by a conveyance intended to be a perpetual alienation, and not including any real estate of any educational, benevolent, or ecclesiastical corporation or association, whether held in the name of such corporation or association or by any person or persons in trust for such corporation or association, which is leased or used for other purposes than the specific purposes of such corporation or association, nor including lands granted and given for the maintenance of the ministry of the gospel while leased; all lands used exclusively for cemetery purposes; the property to the amount of three thousand dollars of any pensioned soldier, sailor, or marine of the United States, who, while in service, lost a leg or arm, or suffered disabilities which by the rules of the United States pension office are considered equivalent to such loss; the property to the amount of three thousand dollars of any person who, by reason of blind Exempting prop. soldiers, sailors erty of disabled and marines. erty of war their widows. ness, is unable by his labor to support himself and family; the property to the amount of one thousand dollars of every resident in this state who has served in the army, navy, ma- Exempting proprine corps, or revenue marine service of the United States veterans and in time of war, and received an honorable discharge therefrom; or, lacking such amount of property in his own name, so much of the property of the wife of any such person as shall be necessary to equal said amount; and property to the amount of one thousand dollars of the widow resident in this state, or, if there be no such widow, of the widowed mother resident in this state, of every person who has so served and has died either during his term of service or after receiving honorable discharge from said service; and property to the amount of one thousand dollars of pensioned widows, fathers, and mothers, resident in this state, of soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in the army, navy, or marine corps, or revenue marine service of the United States; wearing Exempting certain personal apparel of every person and family, not including watches property. and jewelry of any kind exceeding twenty-five dollars in value; household furniture, used by and belonging to any one family, to the value of five hundred dollars; farming tools, actually and exclusively used in the business of farming upon any one farm, not exceeding in value two hundred dollars; the produce of a farm, while owned and held by the producer, actually grown, growing, or produced during the season next preceding the time of listing, including colts, calves, and lambs; fuel and provisions for the use of any one family; swine to the value of fifty dollars; poultry to the value of twenty-five dollars; sheep and Angora goats owned and kept in this state to the value of one hundred dollars; cash not exceeding one hundred dollars; private libraries and books, not exceeding two hundred dollars in value, and all public libraries; all musical instruments, not exceeding in value twenty-five dollars; all musical instruments used exclusively by churches; all fire engines, and other implements, used for the extinguishment of fires, with the buildings used exclusively for the safe-keeping thereof; the tools of a mechanic, actually used by himself in his trade, to the value of two hundred dollars; any horse used on parade in the performance of military service by the owner, his son, ward, or apprentice; all fishing apparatus, actually used by any one person or company, to the value of two hundred dollars; the stock or property of every incorporated agri Exempting muni- cultural society; the stock or securities issued by any ecclesiastical society, to raise funds for the erection, alteration, or repair of any church edifice, but only to the amount of the actual cost of such erection, alteration, or repair; all property of any hospital society which is supported wholly or in part by state appropriations; all moneys or funds received and accumulated by grand army posts in the state of Connecticut, from donations, bequests, and collections for charitable purposes, or which may hereafter be received by grand army posts for charitable purposes; bonds of the state of Connecticut issued pursuant to any act which provides for their exemption from taxation; bonds in the hands of the holders thereof, issued by any town or city in aid of the construction of the railroads of the Connecticut Western Railroad Company, the New Haven, Middletown & Willition of railroads. mantic Railroad Company, the Shepaug Valley Railroad Company, the Connecticut Valley Railroad Company, the Connecticut Central Railroad Company, or either of them, to provide or raise money to pay for stock subscribed for by it in any of said companies; but such bonds or stock, when their avails shall have been expended in the construction of any of said railroads, shall be assessed and taxed in the manner provided in section 2424. When any town or city in this state has issued or shall issue new bonds under or by virtue of any statute, public or private, for the purpose of redeeming or providing a fund to redeem its bonds originally issued in aid of the construction of any railroad, and which by the statutes of this state were exempt from taxation, or for redeeming or providing a fund to redeem any reissue of the same, such new bonds, and the amount invested therein, shall be exempt from taxation in the hands of the holders thereof in the same manner and to the same extent as the original bonds, and the amount invested therein, and no direct, indirect, or franchise tax shall be assessed thereon. Approved, August 15, 1911. 1911.] COMBINATIONS TO INCREASE PRICES OF NECESSITIES. [Substitute for House Bill No. 722.] CHAPTER 185. An Act concerning Combinations to increase Prices of Necessities. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 1461 fix price of ne Any person who, for himself or as a member of any firm Combinations to or an officer or agent of any corporation, conspires with or en- cessities, prohibters into any combination or agreement with any other per- ited. son or any firm or corporation for the purpose of fixing or maintaining a higher price, at wholesale or retail, for ice, coal, or any other necessity of life than would prevail except for such conspiracy, combination, or agreement, or of limiting or restraining the production, manufacture, shipment, or sale of any such commodity for the purpose of increasing the price thereof, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Approved, August 15, 1911. [Senate Bill No. 148.] CHAPTER 186. An Act amending an Act concerning the Use of Moving Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in machines and proof house or SECTION 1. Section one of chapter 205 of the public acts Moving picture of 1909 is hereby amended to read as follows: No moving ms to be picture machine involving the use of a combustible film more placed in fire than ten inches in length shall be operated in any public build- enclosure. ing or place used for public assemblage or entertainments unless the moving picture machine and all of the combustible films to be used therein are placed in an enclosure or house made of fire-proof material, such enclosure or house to be constructed according to such requirements as may be prescribed by the state police; nor shall any moving picture machine be operated on the premises of a public building or place Superintendent of state police may make regulations where exhibitions are made infrequently. used for public assemblage or entertainments until such precautions against loss of or injury to life by fire as the state police may specify have been taken by the owner, user, or exhibitor of such moving picture machine. If, however, the building or place referred to in this section shall be used infrequently for exhibition of moving pictures only, the superintendent of state police may make such special regulations and requirements for the safety of the public as in his opinion may be deemed necessary. The fee for inspecting the enclosure or house surrounding any moving picture machine shall be five dollars for each inspection, which shall be paid by the owner or operator of such machine; no charge, however, shall be made for inspections made after a certificate of approval of such enclosure or house has been issued by the superintendent of state police. Nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to prevent any person already licensed to operate a moving picture machine in any other state of the United States, as provided in section four hereof, from operating in any town hall or building owned by any town in this state having a population of less than ten thousand as shown by the last census, for a period of not more than five days in any year, any such moving picture machine as may be approved by the selectmen of such town, or a majority of them. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. State aid to hon orably discharged soldiers who serv [House Bill No. 223.] CHAPTER 187. An Act amending an Act concerning Exemption of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Every person resident in this state who has served in the army, navy, marine corps, or revenue marine service of the ed in the civil United States during the civil war and received an honorable pensioned widows, discharge therefrom, the widow resident in this state, or if war and their fathers, and mothers. there be no such widow, the widowed mother resident in this state, of every person who has so served and has died either during his term of service or after receiving honorable dis |