Exhibitions, how regulated. R. S., p. 546, § 6. II. The mayor, aldermen, and common council of any city, the warden and burgesses of any borough, and the selectmen of any town, may license and regulate any exhibitions therein; but selectmen shall not license any such exhibition within the limits of any city or borough. Misdemeanors un der the city charter. MISDEMEANORS. SECTION 1. That the eighth section of the act to alter the 3. A., vol. 5, p. 481. charter of the City of Hartford, and to combine sundry public statutes relating thereto, approved June 24, 1859, be amended by the addition of the following clauses, to wit: The violation of any ordinance, or by-law of the City of Hartford, made or to be made, relative to the speed of animals, vehicles, and cars; for protecting and preserving trees and other ornaments of public places; for protecting the state-house yard in said city; for restraining cruelty to animals and inhuman sports; for prohibiting, restraining, licensing, and regulating all sports, exhibitions, public amusements, and performances, and billiard and bowling saloons; for regulating or prohibiting swimming or bathing in public or exposed places within said city; for preventing and punishing trespasses in gardens, cemeteries, and enclosures, and public buildings; for protecting said city from exposure to fire, regulating the mode of building or altering buildings within said city or any part thereof, and the mode of using any building therein; for prohibiting and regulating the bringing in, carrying out or through, or stor ing gunpowder; for regulating the location of stationary steam boilers, barns and out-houses, sinks and drains, in said city; for preventing illegal practices with dead bodies in medical institutions, or elsewhere, in said city, shall be a misdemeanor; and may be prosecuted as such before the City jurisdiction of same. Police Court, like other offences; which court may inflict Police Court to have therefor the penalty named in such ordinance or by-law, and enforce the same in the same manner as other judgments of said City Police Court are enforced. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. MISFEASANCE IN OFFICE. I. Commissions to public agents for- | IV. Misfeasance by public officers. bidden. V. Embezzlement by public officers. II. Auditor may require oath to ac- VI. counts. III. Penalty for public officer taking more than legal compensation. I. public agents. Every officer or agent of the state, or of any city, town, Commissions to borough, or public institution, and any person employed by R. S., p. 521, § 52. either of them to procure any materials, or other articles, by purchase or contract, or to employ labor, who shall directly or indirectly, for himself or another, receive any allowance or reward from the person or persons making such contract, furnishing such materials, or other articles, or rendering such labor, and any person who shall give or offer any such allowance or reward, shall be fined not less than ten dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year. II. required of claimant under any contract, unde R. S., p. 90, § 2. The auditor of any city, town, borough, or public corpora- oath may be tion or institution, or any person authorized to approve demands for the price of articles furnished or services rendered for the same, may, before approving any such demand, require the claimant to make oath, that the whole of said articles have been furnished, or that the whole service has Penalty for public officer taking more than his legal compensation. P. A., 1877, p. 213 been performed, and that no commission, discount, bonus, reward or present of any kind has been received, or is promised or expected on account of the same. III. If any officer of the state, or of any district, city, county, town, or borough, whose salary or compensation is fixed by law, shall charge and receive, or shall retain, receive, or collect to his own use any sum or sums in excess of the legal salary or compensation, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, at the discretion of the court having cognizance of the offence. Approved, March 16, 1877. Misfeasance by Embezzlement defined, and how punished. IV. Any magistrate, or officer or agent of any public community, who shall, with intent to prejudice it, appropriate its property to the use of any person, or make upon its books any false entry, or draw any order upon its treasurer; or present or aid in procuring to be allowed any fraudulent claim against such community, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than sixty days, nor more than one year, or both. V. SECTION 1. Every officer or agent of any public, municiP., 1978, p. 289. pal, or private corporation; every executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, or any trustee under a testamentary or any express trust, who shall wrongfully appropriate and convert to his own use the money, funds, or property of such corporation, estate, ward, trust, or other person, shall be guilty of embezzlement, and shall be punished by a fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not to exceed ten years, or by such fine and imprisonment both. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this Repeal. act are hereby repealed. Approved, March 29, 1878. VI. General Assembly tions may make tions. SECTION 1. The General Assembly in behalf of the state; and public corporathe representatives of the towns in the several counties in specific appropria behalf of their counties; every city, by its common council P. A., 1877, p. 218. when so authorized by its charter, or by its freemen in legal meeting assembled; and every town, borough, or school district, by legal meeting of its qualified voters, may make appropriations of specific sums of money for any purpose authorized by law, and by the warnings of the meetings at which the appropriations are made. not to be made by or public corpora SEC. 2. Whenever any specific appropriations of money Expenditure beyond may have been made by the General Assembly, the represent- officer of the state atives of the several counties, or by any community or cor- tion. poration named in the first section of this act, every agent, commissioner, or executive officer of the state, or of any county, city, borough, town, or school district, who shall wilfully authorize or contract for the expenditure of any money, or the creation of any debt for any purpose in excess of the amount specifically appropriated for such purpose by the General Assembly, the county representatives, or the community or corporation of which he is the agent, commissioner, or executive officer, unless such expenditure shall be Exceptions. made or debt contracted for the necessary repair of roads or bridges, or the necessary support of schools or paupers, in cases arising after the proper appropriation has been exhausted, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one Penalty. thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by such fine and imprisonment both. Approved, March 20, 1877. 132 OFFICES OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC PROPERTY. Mayor and members of Common Council prohibited from holding certain city offices. OFFICES. That from and after the first Monday of April, A. D. 1873, neither the mayor nor any member of either branch of the S. A., vol. 7, p. 259. Court of Common Council of the City of Hartford, shall be chosen or appointed to any other office by such Court of Common Council of said city, nor shall any member of either branch of said Court of Common Council be chosen or appointed to serve upon any of the several commissions, having charge of the various departments or public works of said city. Approved, June 11, 1872. Injuries to public buildings or furni ture, etc. 7 and 8. OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC PROPERTY. SECTION 1. Every person, who shall wilfully injure any 500, 55 3,6, public building, house of public worship, college or school Injury to trees on public squares. Wilful injury to public property in highways or parks. house, or who shall wilfully injure or carry away any stove, stove-pipe or furniture, in and belonging to any such building, shall be fined not more than twenty dollars, or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both. SEC. 2. Every person, who shall injure or destroy any tree growing on any public square or grounds, without the consent of the city, borough or town, where the same is situated, or shall wilfully injure the fences or herbage of any such public square or grounds, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars. SEC. 3. Every person, who shall wilfully injure any statue, monument, chair, or other seat, or any lamp, or lamp-post, constructed or being in any highway, public space, or park, or any railing, or fence erected for public use, or inclosing any such space, or park, or any walk, or crossing for foot |