The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09

NEW LAWS.
The Result of the Special Ses-
sion of the Legislature.
The Principal One of Which is
The
-EW RAILROAD LAW.
Insurance Acts That Provide
For Big Revenues
And Will Put Lots of Money i'm
the Treasury.

The special session of the legislature
which quit business today passed thir-
ty-f1ve bills, the worth of which will be
determined as time goes on and brings
them into question in the courts. The
measure demanded by the Populists,
the railroad law, was the mos% i'm
portant but there are other bills, per-
tanning to insurance and corporations
which Will treble the amount OF reve-
uues received into the state treasury
annually from such sources. The fol-
lowing list of laws were passed and
have been signed by the governor:
House bill No. S9-An act to enable
certain persons to avail themselves of
section 2, chapter ia, of the session
laws of 1887, being an act to remove
House bill No. SAN act authorizing
a special tax levy in the school districts
of Scott county.
House bill No. 57-An act to authorize
treasurers of cities of the third class to
compromise delinquent road taxes.
House bill No. Am act creating the
court of visitation for the control of
railroads.
Senate bill No. 31-An act providing
for the taxation of insurance and guar
anty companies per cent of the gross
premiums of foreign companies and
American companies.
House bill No. 3-An act repeating
the metropolitan police law.
House bill No. Am act creating a
court of common pleas for Crawford
and Cherokee counties, subject to vote
of the people.
House bin No. 42-An act requiring
township treasurers to make annual
statements to township boards.
House bill No. 5O-An act creating a
state society Of labor and industry,
whose secretary shall be the state labor
commissioner.
Senate bill No. 25-An act requiring
the district clerk OF Shawnee county to
pay certain fees collected into the coun-
ty treasury.
Senate bill No. SAN act providing
for the future maintenance of the Sum
ner county high school.
Senate bill No. 2-An act to amend
the code of civil procedure. This act
is designed to compel the Atchison
bridge to pay its taxes.
Senate bill No. 5-An act creating the
State Association OF Miners. whose
secretary shall be the state mine an
Spector.
Senate bill No. IAN act to legalize
certain tax sales in Seward county
Senate bill No. 2S-An act to provide
for the assessment and collecting of
taxes A bill to compel the Leaven-
worth bridge to pay taxes.
House bill No. 41-An act authorizing
mutual companies to insure against loss
by hail.
House bill No. SAN act providing for
the organization and regulation of fra
House bill No. 4S-An act fixing the
fees of the official county papers of
Rawlins county.
House bill No. 35-An act to vacate
block 10 of Wichita addition to the city
OF Kinsley.
House bill No. s6-An act amending
the stock yards law In relation to
charges.
Senate bill No. 6-An act declaring
certain records OF Kearny county to be
legal.
House bill No. 9-An act permitting
George Irwin and w. P. Humphrey of
Syracuse. Kas., to avail themselves of
the provisions of section 2, chapter 174
of the session laws of 1877.
House bill No. PAN act for the i'm
proVement of public roads, the con-
struction of storage reservoirs, the
waiver of damages by owners of prop
erty adjacent to such improvements in
Phillips county.
Senate bill No. San act reducing
telegraph tolls and placing telegraph
companies under the control of the
court of visitation
Senate bill No. 1S-An act amending
the school book law.
House bill No. 23-An act providing
for the election of city attorney and city
assessor in cities of the second class.
House bill No. 93-An act to place
certain funds in the general revenue
fund, the money in question belonging
to two insurance companies long since
dissolved.
certain funds of deceased insane
patients in the general revenue fund
House bill No. 66-An act repeating
the old railroad commissioner law
House bill No. 24-An act to deter
mine ties in the election of officers in
cities of the second class
House bill No. 29-An act placing ex-
press companies under the control of
the court of visitation.
Senate bill No. 21-An act reducing
the fees of state printer.
Senate bill No. 12-An act creating the
board of fire and police commissioners
of cities of over 40, 900 inhabitants
Substitute for senate bill No. 37-An
act relative to the creation of private
This act requires, among
other things, that corporations shall
pay fee of one-tenth of 1 per cent of
their capital stock to obtain a charter
Substitute for senate bill No. 44-An
act providing for the election of state
superintendent of insurance in 1900
Substitute for senate bill No. 1O-An
act for the correction of evils of the
election law. The bill pro-
vides that only one local ticket may be
placed under the same party appella-
ton.
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