Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-04-12

| SllLlnB as registration shall be
pad out of the city instead OF the county
| funds
S. f. 13s-Requires the keeping of per-
sonal delinquent taxes in a separate rec
| ord.
Some of the Appropriations.
g. I. l2-Appropriates $500 to pay addl-
general assembly. Publication clause.
mort 81 Ss ,nA 5000 for the sup
| Iowa for next biennial period.
| s. +. s2-Appropriates 81, 800 for the pur-
chase OF 3O,OOO railroad Commissioners Of
fciai maps to be distributed by members
Commissioner. Pmbiicatio ou clause f aii oa'
s. +. 102-Provides for a commission of
thirty-ive to locate position of Iowa reg
iments an the Siege of vlcksburg. and
apppropr!ates $1,000 for expenses. II is. to
report to the governor by the 18th of Jan
freight and express bils, Including
amounts past due. Publication clause
s. F: ss-Appropriates s5Oi9o to defray
monies this year. Publication clause
! II. +. 10l--Authorize the state auditor
| to is.ue warrant for $2,,j to Mrs. Mary
Gully. deceased, representative from
Marion county IN the Twenty-seventh
general assembly. The money Is the ball
ance due him as member Of the assembly.
S. T. l1S-Appropriates 81. 40 for the SUI
preme court contingent expenses. Publ
! CA ton clause.
| s. f. SO5-Appropriates s22i553 for the
Industrial Home for the Blind at Knox
vile. Publication clause.
| II. r. 76.Reimhurses Jones county IN
! the sum of S2S2.95 for expense incurred
/ In prosecution of escaped criminals.
! II. L. 26l-Appropriates $1,000 for the
/ further education or I.inn;e HaSueWood
| the deaf, dumb and blind war of the
| state.
II. +. 1cG-Appropriat ties $4,000 to locate
! an build monuments to Iowa soldiers on
cause.
II. r.. -Appropr!ates $1,000 for the
! completion of the classification OF the
state library Publication clause
! II. f. S2-Provldes that national guards
men of the state shall be paid 10 cents per
hour. for attendance at company drills,
providing this compensation does not ex-
| coed 20 cents per week Publication
! clause.
| support of the thirteen state institutions
| under the state board of control.
II. f. 409-Approprlates $l41.S 500 for the
support Of the three educational institu-
lions in Iowa.
S; F. 2Ol-Appropriates sl5COo for fish
! and game.
! completion of the state historical build
! ing.
S. F. Bankruptcies 5000 for the cree
ton OF monument to Sergeant Charles
s. r. 45-Approprtates .2.lO0 for rerur-
n!s'hing the roms OF the state board OF
| cOntrl.
s. r. 25s-Appropriattng 500 to re!m-
| burse Judge John r.. Oliver for legal GER
| Vices rendered the state In contrasting the
! Will OF the late Baxter Wanting. who left
a bequest to the Soldiers Orphans home
| al Davenport.
S. F. 363-Approprlates $4,000 for the
return OF the Frfty-irSt Iowa to Council
| Bluffs from San Francisco.
! 8 f 126-ADprorriates $40 COO for Rene-
dict Home Dies Motnes.
S. +. 30G-Increascs the per capita sup
! port fund at MitchelIville from $40 to ST.,
and apDroprlates $500 for services Of a
! chaplain.
II. F. 34-ApproprIates $t,6M to the
! estate OF William Parks. uninherited and
! eschea ted to, and now in the state treas
| ury. Publication clause.
s. r. 292-TncreaSes the support Of tho
state historical department $1,000. -
5. f. 34S-Appropr!ates $500 to pay the
expenses of a commission appointed by
this assembly to look up needed repairs
and improvements for the capitol build
ing and. report to the governor by the
first OF next December.
Changes in school Laws.
S. f. 1C9-Gives school corporations Of
more than 5000 population the right to
any school election. Limit was formerly
five In the interests OF recent West Des
Moines school election. Publication
II. F.-Enables school corporations to
accept gifts and requests. In the inter-
ests of Ottumwa, which wanted to accept
a library from Andrew Carnegie Pub
iiCatlOn clause.
S. f. 240-Requires treasurer OF school
townships and rural districts to withhold
annually from school apportionment from
i've to fifteen cents for each child of
school age, to be used for library pur-
poses. In all other independent districts
the boards may require the treasurer to
dot the same. The amount to be with
held for this purpose up to fifteen cents
Is to be determined by boards:
II. i. 1l2-ProY.deS that unless other
wise ordered by the board of education
the county superintendent shall have
charge of school textbooks and their
lected by the board. and shall render an
account thereof to the board
s. +. 1lG-Makes petition of one-third
of school directors sufficient to secure an
Orler for an election on the uniformity
Of textbooks in count .es outside OF cities
and town. The present law makes peu-
ton signed by one-half directors neceS-
s. F. 1aG-Gives counties authority to
loan the permanent school fund IN sums
of 5000 at no less a rate than five per
cent. Old law provided for sums of LOCO
at per cent interest, and gave the coun-
ties l per cent for handling it. New law
allows them one-half per cent. Publca-
II. + IO5-Author'zes sub-d.rectors to
employ teachers for the schools in his
S. +. 81O-Authorlzes boards of directors
to call spccial meetings of the electors of
school districts, with full powers. At
provision for rebuilding where house is
"destroycd by casually Publication
clause.
S +. 1S5-Auth0rizes the board of edu-
catiOnal examiners to issue special GER
ticates TO teachers of muse. drawing,
penmanship. etc. It does away with the
NAL schools; and with the power to issue
certificates or diplomas to teachers from
another state on the standing there. This
is the result of the, agitation by the de-
nOminational schools OF the state that
the latter Disseminated too much ne
tween the normal departments of the de-
nominattonal schools and the state nor
H. r. GS-Requlres vocal music to be
taught in the schools Of the state. Teach
ers must be examined in this branch. but
failure to pass will in no way affect their
certificates. position or salaries.
| II. +. 1S6-Allows the secretary Of the
state board of examiners to hold state ex-
amirat!ons without the presence of the
board, or to appoint some one with au-
thority to do the same.
S. f. 2I-AuthoriZes school CORPORA .on
to iSsu bonds for the purchase OF school
sites: In the interest Of Davenport. Pub
! lcatiOn clause.
| corporations to call special elections when
boards are reduced below a quorum by
resignation or otherwise
Iowa Educa tionai Institutions.
s F. 10-EXtends the levy of A special
tax of one-tenth of a mill for the support
of the State University for another five
years.
II. +. i2-Levies n tax OF one-tenth of
mill for the SUPPORT of the State Collegs
! OF Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
s F. G-Provides that the endowment
| funds of the State Agricultural college
may be loaned at as low a rate of in
tercst as the board of trustees OF the
college deem advisable. The limit was
| formerly per cent, ara the funds lay
/ idle because of the high rate of interest.
| Publication clause.
s. F.. 11-Gives the State University au-
! thority to erect any sort of a college
! buiId' ng on a lot originally purchased for