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 upon the subject of labor, its relation to capital, the proper homes for laborers, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the best means of promoting their material, social, and intellectual prospects. The commissioner shall each year report to the Governor all the details relating to the business of his department, and the report shall be printed for the use of the General Assembly.

Whenever, upon the trial of any civil action, evidence offered is objected to as inadmissible, the court on trying such action shall not admit such evidence subject to the objection, unless both parties agree that it be so admitted; but, if either party shall request a decision, it shall be the duty of such court to pass upon such objection and admit or reject the testimony.

In trials of all causes, civil or criminal, in the Superior Court, counsel shall not be compelled to stand while conducting the examination or cross-examination of a witness.

Bounties payable out of the State Treasury of Connecticut are by law given to every person planting, protecting, and cultivating elm, maple, tulip, ash, boxwood, oak, black walnut, hickory, apple, pear, or cherry trees, not more than sixty feet apart, for three years, along any public highway.

Any person who unlawfully neglects or refuses to support his wife or children, shall, unless he can show to the court that owing to physical incapacity or other good cause, he is unable to furnish such support, be committed to the work-house or county jail, and sentenced to hard labor for not more than sixty days; but the court before which such conviction is had, may in lieu of the penalty, accept a bond with good security, conditioned for the support of the wife, child, or children, for six months from and after the date of such conviction.

An act concerning agricultural fairs forbids the sale of spirituous liquors, or any species of gambling, on the ground of any incorporated agricultural society during a fair. A compliance with this act is a condition precedent to the reception of the state appropriation to said society.

An act relating to charitable uses, provides, that all estates