Taverners, &c.,.

their sick lodgers, &c.

fected town or place, and an order of such board for that purpose, published or posted in the manner prescribed in the preceding seetion shall be sufficient notice to all persons, of such interdiction, and any person found guilty of willfully violating such order, shall pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.

SECT. 146. Between the first day of May and the first day of to give notice of November, in each year, every taverner, innkeeper, or keeper of a boarding-house, or lodging-house, shall, within twelve hours after any sea-faring man, or other lodger, becomes sick in his house, report in writing to the board of health, or health officer, the name, if known, of such person, and the nature of his disorder, on pain of forfeiting twenty dollars.

Board of health

fees, &c.

SECT. 147. The board of health may establish the fees or compenmay establish sation, not exceeding five dollars, which the health officer shall be entitled to receive for visiting a vessel as aforesaid, and the master or owner of such vessel shall be liable to pay the same to such health officer.

May enforce their orders.

Physicians to report.

Penalties, &c., how appropri

ated.

Persons coming

where small-pox,

be confined.

SECT. 148. Whenever any person shall refuse to obey any order given by a board of health, in pursuance of the powers in such board, vested by law, or shall endeavor to prevent such order from being carried into effect, any justice of the peace, on the request of such board, may issue his warrant to any proper officer, or if need be, to any disinterested person, therein stating such order, and requiring him to carry the same into effect, and such officer or disinterested person, shall execute the same.

SECT. 149. Whenever a board of health shall request any physician practicing in its town, to make to the board daily or weekly report of such cases of pestilential or malignant fever or disease as occur in his practice, such physician shall report as aforesaid, specifying each patient's name and place of residence, on pain of forfeiting for each neglect or refusal the sum of fifty dollars.

SECT. 150. All penalties and forfeitures that shall be incurred for the violation of any provisions of this act which relate to public health, shall be paid into the treasury of the town in which the offense shall be committed, and the costs of prosecution for such penalties and forfeitures shall be paid out of the treasury of such town. And all sums recovered, or which any person shall have forfeited, for any breach of any preceding section of this act which relates to public health, or of any order, rule, or regulation of a board of health, made in pursuance of any such section, shall constitute a fund in such town, subject only to such board, and to be by such board applied to the contingent expenses of such board, and to the relief of such poor and indigent persons in its town as may be infected with malignant or infectious fever or disease, or to the prevention of such disease or fever.

SECT. 151. If any person shall come from any town or place in from places this or a neighboring state, where the small-pox or any other con&c., prevail, may tagious disease prevails, or shall have lately prevailed, or if any person or family may be justly suspected or feared to have taken the infection of any such contagious disease, the board of health of any town where such person or family may be, may order such person or family into confinement in a hospital, if any there be in such town, or in some other place to be designated by said board of health, there to remain as long as said board shall judge necessary to insure the safety of such town from such infection from such person, and if need be, the said board may apply to any justice of the peace in such town

to issue a warrant, directed to some proper officer, directing him to execute the orders of said board of health, in relation to such person or family, and said board may give orders and directions for regulating and restraining any improper intercourse with such person or family. And if any person shall neglect or refuse to comply with any order of the board of health, made in pursuance of the authority given it in this and the next succeeding section, he shall forfeit the sum of twenty dollars.

ed to have been

small-pox, may

SECT. 152. Whenever any person shall come into any town Persons suspectfrom any place where the small-pox or other contagious disease exposed to or inis, or shall have been lately prevalent, or when any person in such fected with the town shall be justly suspected to have come from such infected be confined. place, or to be infected with, or to have been exposed to the smallpox, or such other disease, the board of health of such town, or such health officer as it shall appoint, may require such person so coming or suspected, to disclose on oath, whether he has come from such place, or is infected with, or has been exposed to the small-pox, or such other disease, and for that purpose may administer, or cause to be administered, an oath to such person; and in case any such person shall, when required, refuse to disclose on oath as aforesaid, said board of health may, without further proof, order and effect the confinement of such person so refusing, as is provided in the preceding section of this act, relative to persons suspected to have the small-pox or other contagious disease.

may

deem

disease

health may make orders, &c.

SECT. 153. Whenever any contagious disease shall be prevalent when any conin any town, the board of health in such town may adopt any such tagious prevails iu any measures as may be necessary for preserving the inhabitants there- town, board of from, and may make, and publish in such manner as it proper, all necessary rules, orders, and regulations, for that purpose; and every person who shall transgress any rule, order, or direction made by the board of health, in pursuance of the power given them by this section, shall forfeit to the treasurer of such town a sum not exceeding twelve dollars, nor less than one dollar, for every such transgression, to be recovered by any proper action, before any justice of the peace proper to try the same, and no appeal shall be allowed from the judgment of such justice of the peace in such

action.

pox without per

board of health.

SECT. 154. No person, within the limits of any town, shall receive, No person to ingive, or communicate, the infection of the small-pox by way of inocu- oculate for smalllation, or in any other such like method, or aid of assist therein, with- mission from out first obtaining permission from the board of health in such town, which board may give such permission by vote, and a certified copy thereof; and when such permission shall be so given to any person, the said board of health shall assign the place, house or houses, in which the inoculation shall be made, and in which the infected persons shall be kept, and shall make such rules and directions as it shall deem expedient for preserving the inhabitants from taking the infection; and if any municating small person shall voluntarily receive, take, give, or communicate the small- pox, &c. pox directly or indirectly, contrary to the true intent of this section, or aid or assist therein, he shall forfeit to the treasurer of the town where such disease is communicated and had, the sum of one hundred dollars for every such offense. And if any person shall transgress

Penalty for com.

any rule or direction, made by the board of health, in pursuance Penalty for transof the authority given in this section, he shall forfeit to the treasurer gressing rules, of the town where the offense is committed, a sum not exceeding &c. twenty-five dollars, at the discretion of the court which shall hear

Penalty for receiving small

pox, and coming into this state.

and determine the same. And if any person shall voluntarily receive or take the small-pox by inoculation without the limits of this state, and come into any town in this state and have the same, he shall forfeit to the treasurer of such town the sum of one hundred dollars; and all informing officers are required to inform against every percers to prosecute. son who shall violate any of the provisions of this act which relate to public health, or any rules, orders, or regulations made in pursuance thereof.

Informing offi

1828.

SECT. 155. The boards of health in the several towns may adopt Boards of health such measures for the general vaccination of the inhabitants of their may adopt rules for vaccination, respective towns, as they shall deem proper and necessary to prevent the introduction or to arrest the progress of the small-pox, and to defray the expenses in whole, or in part, of such general vaccina tion out of the public treasury of the town.

&c.

fusing to be vaccinated, &c.

SECT. 156. If any person shall refuse to be vaccinated, or shall Forfeiture for re- prevent, in any manner, his child, apprentice, or ward, or any other person under his care and control, from being vaccinated, on application being made by any member of the board of health, or by a physician employed by the board of health for that purpose, unless in the opinion of said physician it would not be prudent on account of sickness, every such person so refusing or preventing, shall forfeit the sum of five dollars to the treasury of the town where the offense shall be committed, to be recovered by action of debt on this statute, in the name of the treasurer of such town, before any court proper to try the same.

Jury of inquest,

moned, &c.

JURY OF INQUEST.

SECT. 157. When any person shall come to a sudden, untimely when to be sum or unnatural death, or be found dead, the manner of whose death is not known, any justice of the peace, or if there be none in the town, any constable of the town, shall forthwith summon a jury of twelve judicious men, who shall be sworn by such officer to inquire of the cause and of the manner of the death of such person, and shall present, on oath, a true verdict thereof, under their hands, to some justice of the peace, who shall return the same to the next superior court in the county; and no fees shall be allowed for any of the services aforesaid.

Penalty for neglecting to serve.

1860.

Jury of inquest, in New Haven.

how summoned

Return of verdict.

SECT. 158. Every person summoned to serve as a juror as aforesaid, who shall refuse or neglect to appear and perform that service, shall forfeit the sum of two dollars to the treasurer of the town to which he belongs.

SECT. 159. Whenever any person shall come to a sudden, untimely and unnatural death, or be found dead within the limits of the town of New Haven, and such other towns in this state as shall approve of the provisions of this act, as is hereinafter provided, the cause and manner of whose death is unknown, any justice of the peace residing in the town, shall make his warrant, directed to the sheriff of the county, his deputy, or either of the constables of the town, requiring such officer to summon six good and lawful men of said town, to appear before said justice, at a time and place mentioned in said warrant. And said jurors shall be sworn by said justice, to inquire of the cause and manner of the death of such person, and shall present, on oath, a true verdict thereof, under their hands, to said justice of the who shall return the same to the next superior court, to peace, be held in the county where such town is situated.

pearance.

SECT. 160. Any officer who shall unnecessarily neglect or fail to Penalties for neg execute such warrant, and any person, summoned as a juror, who lect, or, non-apshall fail to appear, without reasonable excuse therefor, shall forfeit the sum of five dollars to the treasurer of the town, for the use of said town, which shall be recoverable in an action of debt, in the name of said treasurer. And the officer serving said warrant, shall remain in attendance upon said justice and jury as long as he shall be required so to do.

pias, for wit

SECT. 161. Said justice of the peace shall have power to issue Justice may issue subpoenas for witnesses, returnable forthwith, or at such time and subpoena and caplace as he shall therein direct, and upon the neglect or refusal of nesses. any witness to attend as summoned, may issue a capias against the body of such witness, to bring him forthwith before said justice and jury; which said subpoenas or capias may be directed to and served by any proper officer or indifferent person. And any witness refusing to attend when summoned, or attending, and refusing to be sworn Penalty for refusor testify, may be punished by said justice in the same manner as witnesses may be punished for refusing to appear and testify before justices of the peace.

ing to attend and testify.

SECT. 162. The following fees shall be paid to the persons entitled Fees. to receive the same:

To the justice: for venire, fifty cents; for subpoena, twenty-five cents; for capias, fifty cents; for each day's hearing before jury, one dollar:

To officers for summoning jury, seventy-five cents; for each day's attendance, fifty cents; for service of other process, the same fees as allowed to officers for service of criminal process issued by justices of the peace:

To witnesses: the same fees as allowed to witnesses in criminal cases before justices of the peace:

To jurors: the sum of one dollar per day.

Such fees shall be taxed by said justice, who may draw on the To be taxed by treasurer of the town for the amount thereof, in the same manner as by the town. Justice, and paid is by law provided, for payment of costs in criminal cases before justices of the peace.

ble to all towns

SECT. 163. The provisions of the four preceding sections shall This act applica apply to and be in force in any other town, whenever such town accepting its proshall, at any legal annual town meeting, on due notice given, ap- visions by a ma. prove and accept of the same, by a major vote of the inhabitants ofjor vote. such town present at said meeting.

GUIDE POSTS.

SECT. 164. Every town shall, in the manner hereinafter provided, erect and maintain guide posts on the highways and other ways within the town, at such places as are necessary or convenient for the direction of travelers.

1865.

Towns shall erect guide posts.

SECT. 165. The selectmen of each town shall submit to the in- Selectmen to re

meeting.

habitants, at every annual meeting, a report of all the places at which port to annual guide posts are erected and maintained within the town, and of all places at which in their opinion they ought to be erected and maintained. For each neglect or refusal to make such report, they shall severally forfeit the sum of ten dollars.

SECT. 166. Upon the report of the selectmen, the town shall de- Town to detertermine the several places at which guide posts shall be erected and

mine places for guide posts.

How to be erected.

Penalty for re

maintained, which shall be recorded in the town records. A town which neglects or refuses to determine such places, and to cause a record thereof to be made, shall forfeit the sum of five dollars for every month during which it neglects or refuses so to do; and in such case, upon any trial for not erecting or maintaining guide posts, reported to be necessary or convenient by the selectmen, the town shall be estopped from alleging that such guide posts were not necessary or convenient.

SECT. 167. At each of the places determined by the town, there shall be erected a substantial post, not less than eight feet in height, near the upper end of which shall be placed a board or boards, and upon each board shall be plainly and legibly painted, or otherwise marked, the name of the next town or place, and such other town or place of note as the selectmen think proper, to which each of such roads leads, together with the distance or number of miles to the same, and also the figure of a hand, with the forefinger thereof pointing towards the towns or places to which said roads lead; but the inhabitants of any town may, at their annual meeting, agree upon some suitable substitute for such guide posts.

SECT. 168. Every town which neglects or refuses to erect and fusing to erect maintain such guide posts, or some suitable substitutes therefor, shall forfeit annually the sum of five dollars for every guide post, which it so neglects or refuses to maintain.

guide posts.

SIGN POSTS.

Sign-posts to be erected in each

society by select

men.

Towns may erect

tional sign-posts.

SECT. 169. A sign-post shall be erected and kept in each school society, by the selectmen of the town in which such society, or the greater part thereof, is situated, at such place within such society as the selectmen shall judge most convenient and shall designate; and such sign-post shall be erected and kept in repair at the expense of such town; and if such selectmen shall not erect such sign-post, or shall neglect to keep in repair such sign-post as may have been erected in such society agreeably to law, they shall forfeit two dollars for each month during such neglect, to be recovered for the use of him who shall sue for the same within six months after such neglect.

SECT. 170. Each town may, at its annual meeting, or at any other and keep addi- meeting specially warned for that purpose, order to be erected within such town any additional sign-post, and in such place or places as the public interest may, in its opinion, require; which sign-post or sign-posts shall be erected and maintained by the selectmen of the town which shall order the same, at the expense of such town, under the same penalty, to be recovered in the same manner of the selectmen of such town, and for the same use, as is herein before provided in the case of sign-posts in societies.

Certain sign.

in repair.

SECT. 171. The several additional sign-posts heretofore authorized posts to be kept by law to be erected in the towns of New Hartford, East Windsor, Saybrook, Canton, and East Haddam, shall be continued and kept in repair by the selectmen of those towns respectively, under the same penalty, to be recovered in the same manner and for the same use, as is provided in the next preceding section.

Notices to be posted.

SECT. 172. All advertisements or notices of lands or goods taken by execution, or by distress for rates or taxes, shall be posted on a