Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-04-17
OTHER LAWS.

bill is for the benefit of the city of Des
Moines, at which Congressman Hull has
secured an army post.
OTHER LAWS.
Covering a Wide Range and OF Gem
efal Interest to IOwnns.
Authorizes the levy OF park tax by
cities of all classes.
Providing for special elections to fill va
cancies on school boards
An act for the maintenance OF an Iowa
flag at the tomb of Gen. Grant.
Permitting change of venue from su-
perior courts to district courts.
Authorizing all town and city councils to
levy taxes for library purposes.
Changing the code to read peddlers Ill
censes.' instead of Certificates"
Making township clerks treasurers of
cemetery funds as we'll as others.
Applying the law relating to the liability
of Inn keepers to steamboat owners.
Enlarging the statement of facts required
OF sleeping car companies for taxation.
Increasing the biennial appropriation of
the State Horticultural society to $1,000.
Authorizing illustrations to be inserted
In the report of the academy of sciences.
Transferring Harrison county from the
Fourth to the Fifteenth judicial district
Requiring weeds In the public highway
to be cut at the expense of the township.
Reducing the interest required on water
works funds from four to three per cent.
Apportioning the state into representative
and senatorial districts. making no change.
Prohibiting the manufacture of pearl
buttons and butter tubs In penitentiaries.
Permitting banks and trust companies to
actas guardians. executors, administrators,
etc.
Allowing the use of gasoline lamps built
on the plan of those now authorized by
law.
Relinquishing title over Boone real estate
to the government for government build
ings.
Permitting members of board of equaliza-
ton Of cities to be paid out of the county
fund.
Appropriatings 81 OOto complete the CLASH
fication and cataloguing of the state IL
brary.
Permitting life insurance companies to
lend money on the surrender value of their
policies.
Authorizing mutual and stock insurance
companies to insure against burglary and
robbery.
of plants which use gasoline for cleaning
purposes.
Requiring redemption of real estate sold
on execution to be made In the county in
which sold
ReinQaishing state jurisdiction over fed
eral building sites In Clinton. Creston and
Oskaloosa.
Authorizing boards of educati In cities
to issue bonds for the purchase Of school
house sites
Changing the hour of closing the polls
from six p. m. TO seven y. m. Mandatory in
all precincts.
Permitting the secretary Of the state
board OF educational examiners to conduct
examinations.
Increasing Tho cn1ury n th.. cr,,arI,tn,,l
ont of the soldiers orphans home from
$1,000 to $I5N0.
Making it a misdemeanor punishable by
fine or imprisonment 10 dcsecrate the
United States ila:;.
Changes the use of blasphemous and OBJ
scene language from an indictable felony
10 Il ristlcm,anor.
Authorizing the executive council 10 per-
nit t;c publication OF parts of the code by
private Individuals.
General approximation bill for support of
state Offices and miscellaneous state en-
pcnscs. carrying $l.S.GG0
Authorizing the executive council to re-
assess and collect. ul.dsr valid law
ta*t $ held . lie i:.ralid
Extending tie operation of the Aus
igal..1 ha'.ot law TO school elections in
,!;lcs over $3.50 population.
Making train robbery or attempted train
robbery pnr;si.'illa fy life Imprisonment or
f!. term NON tfr:l wears tsp
l'roliili.!:. the selling OF Intoxicating
hGaors hl u-ti.t' OF statesmen to persons
not short i 90 sell again.
Authorizes clties and towns owning mn
nicipal lighting and heating plants to fir.
nish heat for commercial! use.
Directing the executive council TO make
a state tax levy in 1850 to produce 81, 4o0, 900
and in 1901 TO provide Sl,500,000.
Increasing the salaries of state mine In
spectors from sl2 to Si5 year. and allowing
them additional expense funds.
Providing for the depositing of pharma-
,ists' certificates with county clerks instead
OF with both clerk and recorder.
Requiring that the arbiters of disputes
over insurance policies shall be residents of
the county where the loss occurs.
Applying the penalties of the law against
selling liquor to minors and drunkards to
the crime of giving liquor to them.
Increasing the salaries of assistants in
the state library to $1,000 $500 and 500
The salaries are now 5000. $500 and 800.
Ceding jurisdiction over an acre of ground
in which is the grave of Sergt. Charles
Floyd TO the United States government.
Requiring the auditor of state to write
on the face of all warrants the purpose for
which issued and on which fund drawn.
Reducing the bonds of wardens and
guards in state prisons from $4,000 to $685.
600 and from $4,000 to $4,000. respectively.
Allowing the board of control to use un-
expended balances of institution approprl-
atoms for the benefit of such institutions.
Requiring all candidates for state GER
tiflcates to pass examination. whether
graduates of the state normal school or not.
Requiring notice of the presence of Rus
sian thistles to be given to the township
trustees instead of the owner of the land.
Increasing the support fund allowance of
the reform school for girls. at Mitchellville,
from ten dollars to sl2 per month per capita.
Act empowering cities which have mu-
nicipal lighting plants to furnish heat TO
other than city buildings for compensation.
Repeating that part of the existing law
which provides that payment shall not be
demanded by coal miners for slack loaded
coal.
Requiring unclaimed dead bodies in the
hands of public institutions to DO turned
over to medical colleges for dissecting ma
terial
Requiring county treasurers to keep u
record of all delinquent taxes and making
delinquent personal taxes lien on real
estate.
Paying $500 to persons whose money
was embezzled by the late DR.. Gilman, SUI
perintendent Of Mount Pleasant insane
.sese-'.'~ ..s.