Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-14
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8. F. 30. To pay A. T. Orchard for act
Ing six weeks as con,mandant Of the Sol
diers' home.
n. f. ~. Providing that q pharmacist
cannot be prosecuted for revocation OF
his permit to sell liquor on account of vio-
iation OF the law occurring more than two
years before the action is begun
III. F. IS. Providing that the state shall
pay charges on official documents sent out
by the secretary of state.
II. f. 164. Prohibiting killing, manning or
trapping any deer, elk or goat under PEN
atty OF SIS fine or one month In JAIL
H. F. 269. Provides that the cost of tran
scriDlng testimony in cases of appeal from
the district to the supreme court shall
De taxed as costs in the case, to be paid
by the losing party.
III. F. 22S. Allowing debtors to retain pos
session OF mortgaged property during the
year allowed for redemption, contract to
the contrary notwithstanding.
H. +. 203. Requires weeds to be cut i'm
parking along streets in cities and towns
the cost to be charged to the abutting prop
erty; also giving cities power to regulate
house movers and sidewalk builders, and
TO compel owners of property to pay for
repairs to pavement by laying gas pipes
H. +. 2OO. Providing for printing 10000
copies of the road laws in pamphlet form
FOR free distribution to road supervisors
and township trustees.
H. r. 49, To keep girls in the reform
school until p years Of age If necessary
to complete reformation.
II. f. l61. Requires husband and wife to
testify in cases where they are accused
OF irauouient transfer of property to each
other to prevent collection of debts
S. F. 10. Allowing counties to receive in
terest on county funds deposited in banks.
the rate of interest to be agreed upon NV
the treasurer, board of supervisors and
the bank.
S. F. IS. Making terms of office of park
commissioners in cities six years When
the commissioners are first elee ted their.
terms shall be two, four and six years
each. The term was formerly three, four
and five years, and the change permits BIZ
ennial elections.
S. F. %. Authorizing notaries public to
take acknowledgements of real estate mort
cages and articles of Incorporation, that
power being omitted from the new code.
HI. II. Y. Authorizing the agricultural COL
lege to purchase 40 acres of land adjoining
the present college farm for experimental
purposes.
III. F. I21 Allowing boards of supervisors
in counties having more than 10000 popula-
ton to allow additional compensation to
county treasurers.
S. f. SO. Fixing the time for performing
labor on the highways in cities and towns
at from January to September /, instead
vides.
S. F. AZ. Allowing clerks of the district
court in counties having 10000 population
$4,000 per year for deputy clerk hire The old
law was $1,000
S. Il. Al. Allowing cities having 25OOO pop
ulation to elect park commissioners and
to have charge of a system of parks. The
old law referred only to cities having a
population of 10000 or more.
H. F. l. Requiring the county auditor to
notify the county treasurer, who in turn
is to notify the presidents of the various
school districts of the amounts due them
from the county school fund TIE treas
urer is to pay to such corporations the
amount of their apportionment the same
as he pays other moneys to the treasurers
of school districts.
S. F. SO. Making the appointment Of po-
lice matronS in cities between $1,000 and
$4,000 population optional instead of COM
pulsory
S. T. 172. Increasing school boards in
rural independent districts from three to
five members, three of whom to be elected
on the second Monday in March, 1898, one
for one year, one for two years, and one
for three years.
8. f. sc. Makes valid and legal all the
contracts made by building and loan associ-
atoms with their members prior to the
passage in 1896 of the law regulating build
ing and loan associations. The effect Is
to make these contracts of the same force
as if made since that law was passed.
H. F. 1872. Allowing pharmacists to change
their location for any good reason with
the consent of the bondsmen and the dis
trict court, providing the county attorney
is notified of such request at least five
days before it is presented to the court
S. Il. 5. Providing that when a garnish-
ment is faulty as to part of the property
garnished, only that part shall be dis
charged from liability, and not the entire
property, as the present law allows.
s. L. II. Allowing the board of super
visors to fix the price paid sheriffs for feed
ing prisoners, at any sum not to exceed 1215
cents per meal, and not more than three
meals per day.
II. r. 12S. Extending certificates of au-
thority to insurance companies doing busi-
ness in Iowa. from January 81 to March /,
1898, so that they would not expire before
the auditor Of state had time to examine
their reports, upon which new certificates
are based
H. F. 101 Changing the length of term Of
school treasurers in districts composed in
whole or in part of cities or Incorporated
towns from one year to two years.
S. F. 1. Making it unlawful to kill grouse
or pheasant, wild turkey or quail between
January 1 and November !, leaving the
open season the months Of November and
December.
S. F. Sc. Establishing the State Agricul-
tural society permanently in its present
quarters in the statehouse.
II. F. 81. Prohibiting manufacture and
sale of adulterated linseed oil, except 1t Is
branded adulterated. Violations are pun
ished by $50 to $500 fine, and the enforce
ment of the law is placed in the hands or
the state oil inspectors.
S. F. 81 Prohibiting members of county
boards or supervisors and township trus-
tees from contracting to buy supplies, ma
terlal or labor from themselves.
S. r. 49, Allowing shorthand notes of evil
dence taken in a trial in a court of record,
or a transcript of the same, to be admitted
in retrial, treated the same as deposit
ton.
H. F. 267. Exempting the claim of w. M
Desmond, former sheriff Of Clinton coun-
ty, for expenses In pursuing fugitive,
from the operation Of the statute of limi-
tations.
S. F. 223 Authorizes the executive coun-
Gil to issue and negotiate state warrants IN
anticipation of the revenues of the state,
but in no case to exceed the estimated rev.
enue.
S. F. 200. Provides house, heat and lighs
for the use of the deputy wardens of the
pententiaries.
& r. 1T. Permits dentists who have been