The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-27

r entitled to elect two members of the
school board.
H. 3. No. SO, to regulate the printing
of legal notices and advertisements.
provides that no legal publication shall
have any effect unless it be published in
a paper that shall have been published
: continuously in said county y weeks
t prior to the first publication Of said
notice.
H. B. No. $40, amending chapter %,
general statutes of 1889, respecting pro-
bate court. provides for quarterly set
tings of the probate court instead of the
continuous settings at heretofore.
II. B. No. 532. to enable certain per-
sons therein named to make proof of
losses sustained in the years 1861 to 1865
by bands of guerillas invading the
state.
II. B. No. 4TO. regulating the manner
of assessments of benefits and damages
in taking private property for public
Use and change of streets or alleys in
cities having over 10000.
H. B. No. %. to amend section !.
chapter les, laws Of 1889, to provide for
and regulate the enforcement of liens
for labor and materials. amends section
] of the laws of 1889 by inserting the
words perform labor in the first SEN
. tence of the section and the word
material in another part, which
amendments supply an accidental
omission in the original act making its
meaning clear.
H. Il. No. PA, concerning the duties
Of county surveyors, enlarges the duties
OF county surveyors, and provides COM
pensatiOn therefor.
H. B. No. AS, relating to cities Of the
/, first-class, and repeating certain sec
tiOus of former laws relating to such
cities. is long bill and repeats and
amends much of the old law relating to
the government OF cities of the first
class.
H. B. No. -. an act to abolish the
suryivOrship in joint tenantcv, is ex
planned in the title, and abolishes a
defect of the old common law which has
occasionally worked great injustice in
this state.
H. B. No. 100, an act to provide for
the compensation of sheriffs and guards
for conveying prisoners to the peniten-
tiary, and repeating section 80. chapter
80 of the general statutes of 1868, was
amended by section 2. chapter p of the
laws OF 1883. being section %, chapter
80. designated as paragraph 1854 of the
general statutes of 1899. and abolishes
the old system by which these officers
were paid mileage. and provides for
per diem and actual railroad fare for
the sheriff and such deputies as are re-
quired.
H. B. No. -, an act for the regula-
tiOn, support and maintenance of the
common schools in cities of the first
class. and repeating certain other acts,
is substantially the law as it formerly
existed, amended as to prevent the Gre
alton Of deficiencies in the general rev.
enue and building funds of the school
districts named, or the creation, and
bonding of any floating Indebtedness for
either the maintenance OF the schools,
the building Of school houses or the
furnishing of the same.
S. B. No. ,, relating to the salaries
OF state officers simply fixes the salaries
of state officers and employees.
s. b. No. 2l3, requiring moneys COM
ing into the hands of county treasurers
in certain counties to be deposited in
banks, authorizes the county commits
siOners to designate one or more banks
in the county as county repositories,
with the provisO that not more than
fifty thousand dollars of county funds
shall be deposited in any one bank. in
terest to be paid at such rate as may be
agreed upon: in other respects the law
is similar to the old law repealed.
5. B. No. 22l, to amend section 1lI9
to ISL, general statutes OF 1889, relat-
ing to vacation of street, alleys, etc.
| ). B. No. -, an act regulating the
casing of oil and gas wells. and the mode
of plugging the same when abandon
ed. requires that the owner or operator
of any gas well to properly case the
same in such manner as to exclude all
surface or other water from the gas
bearing cock, and in case of the aband-
onment of ally gas well requires and
prescribes the manner of plugging the
same.
S. B. No 395, to prevent the sale OF
intoxicating liquors to inmates Of ma
tional or state soldiers homes, prOhib-
its the sale Of intoxicating liquor and
drugs to all soldiers outside OF the
homes, and is intended to protect GER
tain class from being preyed upon by
unprincipled jointists. 1t does not in
terfere with the internal management
of the homes.
The following are sufficiently ex-
planned in the title, being Of minor i'm
portance in their details:
S. B. No. AIS, relating to certain
cities OF the first-class and the adding
thereto OF certain ad Joining territory.
:. b. No 22S, amendatory of section
$751;, general statutes Of 1889 relating
to mines.
5. b. No. to amend sections GIL, to
67II5 OF general statutes Of 1889, relating
to stock.
s. B. No. -, to prevent the adultera-
ton OF vinegar.
5. B. No POS, an act to regulate ware
houses, the inspection, grading, weigh
ing, and handling of grain.
S. B. No. b, to amend section 5S4 OF
the code of civil procedure relating TO
costs, general statutes of 1889.
s. B. No. 100, relating to the descent
and distributions amendatOry OF section
2609 of the general statutes OF 1889, and
repeating section 26O9.
S. B. No. POS, providing for holding
primary elections and the manner and
method by which the same shall be con-
Quoted
s. B. No. Sc, to provide for the main
tenance of water closets in school
houses.
5. B. No. 30, in relation to general
statutes OF 1889, and providing how
subdivisions or sections thereof shall be
designated.
5. B. No IO3. to amend section S54,
general statutes of 1889
5. B. No. 9, relating to the state peni-
tertiary.
5. B. No. 4l5, repeating section 1917,
statutes OF 1889.
s. B. No. 377. relating to time OF set