The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-03-27
MISSOURI LEGISLATION.
Few of the More Important Laws Passed
hY the ThlrtY-NInth General Assembly.

| A Few of the More Important Laws Passed
by the Thirty Ninth General Assembly.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, March %. The
| bills of general interest passed by the
Thirty-Ninth general assembly that
have been signed by the governor up
| to date are given below; number of
important measures that have been
passed by both houses are yet await
ing his official approval:
| Fellow servant bill
Regulating freight charges on railroads for
melons and berries grown in Missouri.
Providing punishment for permitting aged
and otherwise inferior animals to run at large.
Declaring the exhibition of deformed persons
Changing the federal state home at St James
into an eleemoSynary institution.
Changing the ex-confederate home at Hig-
ginsville into state eleemOsynary institution.
Amending the act relating to the SolemniZa-
tion of marriages. so that only American citi-
zens may perform the ceremony.
Repeating the act authorizing the selling of
VagrantS.
Legalizing the system OF medical treatment
known as ost eopathy.
Requiring electric street railroads to put up
screens to protect motormen
Removing the state insurance department
from St. Louis to Jefferson City
Changing the time of closing the polls in
cities of 600 population and over from five to
seven O'Clock p. IN.
Permitting the graduates OF the state un1Ver-
sity, the Washington university, and Kansas
City law school to practice law upon diplomas
issued by those institutions.
Providing for the health and safety of en-
ployes in mines.
Requiring foreign companies to transact bus
mess through resident agents.
Authorizing county courts to dispose of the
children OF immoral parents.
Providing for classifying conviets in the PEN
itentiary.
Exempting farmers mutual hail insurance
companies from the provisions OF the insurance
law.
ernor of n supervisor OF building and loan COM
panies.
Providing for the examination of incorpo-
rated banks and fund companies.
Creating charity boards in counties having
cities of more than 5000 and less than 100000
inhabitants.
Requiring statements from insurance COM
panies conducted on the assessment plan.
Empowering aliens to loan money on real
estate and to toreclose in case OF default OF
payment.
tion law requiring blanket ballots and provid-
ing Cor separate ballots
Providing for the collection OF collateral
succession tax for the benefit of the state uni
verSity.
Increasing the number OF members of state
fish commission from three to five.
Providing for the appointment OF "a commits
sion to sell the property OF the Missouri school
for the blind and to purchase q new site for the
same.
Providing for instruction in the public schools
In physiology and hygiene with reference to al
cohOlic drinks and mare Itics.
Creating u state boar OF dental examiners.
Creating state boar of charities.
Providing for the reorganization, equipment
and discipline OF the state militia.
To prevent the coerc. Of employees by EN-
ployers in favor OF political parties or candi-
dates.
Providing for uniformity OF textbooks and
creating n commission TO select books and
make contracts
TO allow probate courts to act county
courts when the latter should for any reason be
incapacitated