SAVINGS BANKS,-continued. may reserve contingent fund, to make returns to bank commissioners, to pay tax to treasurer, real estate of, where taxed, SALISBURY, location of sign-post in, fishing for bass in lakes of, regulated, SALTONSTALL LAKE, penalty for taking fish from, SAYBROOK ferry, regulations concerning, 454, 456; fare on, sign-posts in. where to be maintained, SCANTIC FERRY, fare on, 160 160 160 161 160 717 717 712 127 468 468 457 126 458 SCAVENGERS, appointment of, by proprietors of overflowed lands, 661, 664 penalty for refusal to serve as, duty and powers of, 661, 662, 664; oath of, SCHOOL FUND to remain a perpetual fund, &c., accounts of, how audited, limitation to subscriptions for bank stock by, petitions to general assembly relative to, when entered, new, how to be built, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, how formed, altered, and dissolved, . mortgagor for benefit of, to make affidavit of title, mortgages to, how discharged, waste not to be committed on land mortgaged to, local, how held or divided, investment in state bonds by commissioner of, authorized, income of, how distributed,. SCHOOL HOUSES, land, how taken for, willful injuries to, or burning of, how punished, district not supplied with suitable, to forfeit public money, incorporated by special acts, subject to alteration by towns, 353 352 353 333 353 liii, 346 336, 341, 342 341 343 251 343 338 338 337 338 337 notice to be given of proposal to change taxable property from, SCHOOL DISTRICTS,-continued. committee of, to make annual report, annual and special meetings of, when and where held, 345 339 339 who may vote in, 339 moderator of, may administer oath to the clerk, 607 distribution of public money to, 347 when not entitled to public money, not supporting school, to whom public money shall be paid, allow school houses to be used for private schools, when, lay and collect taxes, how, libraries and apparatus, how provided for, certain, to choose board of education, and their powers, SCHOOL SOCIETIES, records of, where preserved, SCHOOL TEACHERS, certificate of examination and approval required to keep register of scholars, under penalty, 343, 345,.347 validated and confirmed, 333 333, 334 333 344, 345 344, 346 346 335 duties of, regarding high schools, 336 common schools, 344 children employed in factories, 309 348 to make regulations concerning school libraries, may appoint acting visitors, and their duties; certificate from, of examination, &c., of teachers, required, SCHOOLS, public, income of school fund appropriated to, interest of town deposit fund appropriated for, property of school societies transferred to towns, business of towns relating to schools, when to be transacted, duties and powers of towns relating to, of higher grade, how regulated, SCIRE FACIAS, process may be by attachment on writs of, against selectmen for expenses of highways, executor or administrator of deceased defendant, surety on bail bond, penalty for neglect, 336 347 333 335 335 336 836, 341 281 2 41 40 500 21 321 13 SCIRE FACIAS,-continued. against trustee in foreign attachment, not to be altered, to what documents to be affixed, of courts to be kept by the clerk, counterfeiting, or unlawfully using public, how punished, to instruments, what sufficient as, omission of notarial, not to invalidate instruments, SEALED CONTRACTS, limitation of suits on, SEALERS OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, appointment of, oath of, 612; duty of, SEA WEED, right of possession to, on common shore, restricted, 68-72 li, 681 li 681 244 261 34, 539 539 552 101 735 400 291 91 373-376 by general assembly, 486 379 1, 681 lv agreements for transfers of turnpike roads, to collect and report statistics concerning jails, to transmit list of justices to clerks of superior court, to have charge of papers of Connecticut Land Company, . comptroller's report, appointments and grants by general assembly, to make roll of senators and representatives, to furnish blanks for election returns, to hear petitions relating to school fund, to notify warden of state prison of commutation of sentence, certify to official character of justices, of town clerks, agricultural societies to make annual returns to, exempted from military duty, SECRETARY OF THE GOVERNOR. See EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, 679, 680 SEDUCTION of female under twenty-one, how punished, 266 SEINES, or nets, catching fish with, in natural ponds or lakes, prohibited, 469 SELECTMEN, powers and duties of,-continued. in the admission of inhabitants, 616 with respect to paupers: to be overseers of the poor, 621 to furnish support to paupers not inhabitants of the town, after notice, 621 may remove paupers to town of last residence, 624 may order paupers to be brought back from other towns, 618 may warn inhabitants of other states to depart, 619 to prosecute violations of law respecting bringing in or entertain- ing foreign paupers, 620 to enforce support of paupers by relatives, to notify comptroller. when state pauper is chargeable to the town, 624 may bind children of paupers as apprentices, with respect to schools: to distribute local funds between different towns, with respect to the assessment and collection of taxes: to lodge certificate of abatement with town clerk, penalty for making false list of abatement, may have execution against negligent collector, when, to appoint collectors of taxes, when, with respect to electors' meetings: may, with town clerk, designate presiding officers, to assist presiding officers, procure ballot-boxes, provide voting places in towns divided into election districts, assist in counting the votes, with respect to town meetings: to warn town meetings, how, meetings for choice of assessors, may, with town clerk, designate presiding officer, to cause town officers to be sworn, in the enrollment of the militia, in drafting from the inactive militia on order from commander-in- chief, in securing the attendance of drafted men at the rendezvous, in making returns concerning families, &c., of soldiers, in the late war, with respect to highways, private ways, and bridges: to expend highway tax in, repairs, &c., discontinue highways, with consent of the town, to report places of erection and maintenance of guide-posts, SELECTMEN, powers and duties of,-continued. to authorize gates and bars on private ways, when, 496 to notify directors of turnpike companies when gates are set open, 503 in consenting to the construction of plank roads, as fence viewers, in the repair of ferries, by order of the commissioners, in the appointment of overseers, may revoke appointment of overseers, when, proceedings by, when person subject to overseer removes, 180 444–446, 450 454 514 520 520 521 29 477 691 270 272 in binding apprentices, 318 to inquire into the treatment of apprentices, 318 to see that children employed in factories, &c., are instructed, 319 with respect to deaf-mutes and blind persons, in confining lunatics and distracted persons, to sale of intoxicating liquor by town agents, 693, 694, 704 to reward for discovery of criminals, to prosecute owners of dogs doing damage to sheep, to distribute the dog fund, to erect and maintain pounds, in the perambulation of towns for renewal of bounds, . to fill vacancy in office of town clerk, 294 117 116 116 116 117 127 105, 128 126, 127 105 262, 263 90 106 105 105, 723 109 108 108. 722 104 104 111 118 xlvi, lvii 381, 382 xlvii xlvii xlvii xlvii |