Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-03-31
From the state Capital.
JEFFERSON CIrY, Mo-, March 20, f,


JEFFERSON CIrr. Mo-, March 20. 81.
Ell. Register-
It is reasonable to suppose that the
taxpayers and voters Of Iron county
are beginning to wonder what the
Thirty-first General Assembly has &C
complished. AS q partial answer to
the query, I will state that there have
been taken up and passed by both
houses 80 bills, which have been signed
| by the Governor and are now laws of
the State. Some of these are local in
their application, while some are ofgen-
eral Importance to the whole State.
Before proceeding to succinct state
ment of the latter class, will say there
/ are some sixty bills of importance yet
to be passed before adjournment.
House Bill No. Ill, introduced by the
writer, il An Act to Amend Sec. 974,
Art. 10. Chapter 81, (Revised Statutes
of Missouri), of Benevolent and Scien-
| tific Associations. This act has already
been sufficiently spoken of and explain
ed, so that repetition is Unnecessary
in word, it is the act which repeals
the obnoxious provision under which
all benevolent societies were sought to
be brought by the the insurance com-
panies and Insurance Department of
the State.
Senate Bills Numbered and are
the bills by which ex-Treasurer Gates
was subrogated the right of the State
to prosecute a suit against the Mastin
Bank, and to transfer to him a priori-
ty lien, if the State had such lien.
Senate Bill No. 80, of Administra-
ton, amends Sec. POI, Revised Statutes
of Missouri, SO that said section shall
read: "The court shall hear and deter
mine all demands in a summary way,
| y ithout form of pleading, and shall
take the evidence of competent wit
nesses or other legal evidence: provid-
ed, in cases when the amount claimed
is ten dollars or less. competent testi-
mony, by affidavits, shall be received in
evidence to establish such demand, and
if the administrator, either in open
court or in his waiver of notice" &c.. &C.
House Bill No. gives a company the
| right to build and operate a line of street
cars on Fourth Street, st. Louis, to run
! south to Carondelet in competition with
line known as the Fifth Street Line,
and which has had monopoly of that
patronage since 1860.
House Bill No. 1SS, entitled Guardi-
ans and Curators, Sec. 25SO, Chapt. 81,
Rev. Stat. Of Mo-, amended by adding
the following thereto: "And it shall be
the duty of the clerk of said court 10
record, in a well bound book to be kept
for that purpose. all bonds given by
curators and guardians, and to preserve
the originals in regular files, as is pro-
vided in the case of bonds of executors
and administrators"
The Senate Revenue Bill which has
passed the Senate, and in examining
which our committee has already spent
two nights, is good revision Of the
revenue law, and should pass the
House with but one or two amend
ments. This. however, is doubtful, as
there il some jealously exhibited be-
tween the two Houses on the subject.
do not claim that it is perfect, but it
is very great improvement over the
old. Itprovides that the Assessor shall
be elected for four years. beginning in
| 1882. 1t changes the time of assess
ment from August 1st to June 1st; it
provides that the Board of Equalization
shall be composed of the County Clerk
(who has no vote), the Surveyor, the
County Court and the Assessor Who
made the assessment. Said Board to
meet OH the first Monday in May. The
assessment lists, oath, &C., is very much
the same as in the old law. The AS
sessor's books shall be divided into two
parts only; the first to be designated
the Land List, and rs nearly in numer-
ical order of range, township, section,
&C., as possible; the second shall be
known as the Personal Property List,
which shall be alphabetically arranged
and in tabular form. Within ninety
days after the Assessor has finished his
duties, the County Clerk shall extend
on said books assessors books) the
taxes thereon in separate columns. &C.,
and shall make out in duplicate tax
bills in well bound book, all taxes of
property, and at the proper time deliv-
| er said book to the Collector, after foot
ing up the amount of taxes in said
book, for which the County Clerk is to
take the Collectors receipt. After the
Collector has made his collections, US
ing every means at his hand author
lied by law, he is to return to the court
his book, and in case the court is salts
| fed he has exhausted all means in b il
power. said court will proceed to settle
with him, receiving back any unpaid
tax-bill and giving him credit for the