Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-12

j board elects a treasurer for one year
land fixes his compensation at not over
i 500 year. The elected members to
receive 81 day Tor attending and 5
cents mile. Financial committee is
!. to be appointed by the executive coun-
Gil to examine and report upon all
financial business of the association,
no one of the committee TO be men,
Der of the board. Members of the
committee to receive not to exceed $4
Il day and necessary expenses. The
committees report to &c published with
the executive councils report of eX-
: penditures An annual appropriation
or 81, 400 is made for the support of
the department and $1,000 for insur-
ance, to be drawn by the order of the
department signed by the president
and secretary. State not liable for the
payment of any premiums or any other
, expenses except as in the act provided
for.
Laws as to Crime.
Makes train robbery or attempt
ed train robbery punishable by life
Imprisonment or any term from ten
years up.
/ An act to prohibit gambling in cities.
1t authorizes cities to suppress, re-
strain and prohibit, whereas they now
have only the power to suppress, re-
strain and prohibit games. The new
law applies to cities and gambling
, house. 1t reaches Des Moines and that
was the purpose of its introduction.
Az <>f III >bo1,
obscene language from an indictable
felony to misdemeanor.
Making it a misdemeanor, punishable
by fine or Imprisonment to desecrate
the United States flag.
! Prohibiting the operation in tene-
ments of plants which use gasoline for
S cleaning purposes.
r Prohibiting the selling Of intoSicat-
n ing liquors by agents or statesmen to
, persons not authorized to sell again.
z Prohibiting all manner of boxing
contests and sparring matches, with or
without gloves, for a prize where an
admission is charged. Any person who
; aids in any such contest, including the
5 owner or lessee OF the ground or build
: ing, and the spectators, are made liza
' BILE to the penalty of $500 fine or ninety
r days in jail
!, Allowing the use of gasoline lamps
e built on the plan of those now author
t lied by law.
f Making it a misdemeanor to defraud
1 a steamboat company of its charge for
e staterooms and meals, applying the
same law that now protects hotel keep.
: ers.
; Providing for payment by the state
of the cost of capturing criminals es.
: capped from the penitentiaries. The
q cost must be paid under the present
$ law by the county in which the pris
oner is located.
81 Military.
e Appropriates $4,000 for the expenses
of commission created by the act con
sisting of one member from each lowe
: organization participating in the seige
: Of Nicksburg whose duties shall be t.
exactly determine the location OF the
;, different Iowa organizations in thai
:, affair. The governor appoints the com
:. missioners.
e Codes jurisdiction over an acre o.
= ground in which is the grave of Sergt
= Charles Floyd to the United State!
= government.
Providing compensation for members
y of the National Guard for drilling
9 fixing the pay at 10 cents per hour
e not to exceed 90 cents per week; de
auctions to be made a. the same rat.
= for absence from drill.
g Relinuuishing to the United State!
= government site of from 400 to 6Ol
: acres for the establishment of an army
post. The bill is for the benefit of thu
= Icity of Des Moines, at which Congress
IN \. 4 s
Appropriating $4,000 for Iowa monu
= ments at the battlefield of Shiloh ant
u providing for the appointment OF ];
= lected on recommendation of the arm,
{ organizations there engaged by til
= governor.
y Providing for the maintenance Of al
e Iowa flag at the tomb of Genera
X Grant.
= Appropriating $4,000 TO reimburs
o banks and Others who advanced none,
e to pay for the return Of the Fifty-irs
7 Iowa volunteers from San Francisco.
a Appropriating $4,000 to build mon
= uments in honor of the eleven low
= regiments that participated in the bat
3 tie of Shiloh. Each regiment is to hav
! a monument costing $1,000 and one
: cost $4,000 is to represent the state a
. large. A commission is to be appointe
e by the governor representing each reg
! iment to have charge of the work.
70 State Institutions.
al Makes the law relating to inspection
al of steamboats, applicable to boats pre-
Il PEELED by other power than steam. /
u includes naphtha, gasoline and othe
H. launches.
IS Relinquishes state jurisdiction owe
i federal building sites in Clinton, Cres
o. ton and Oslaloosa.
lie Removing the conditions imposed b
y the act of 1874, which released title t
lie certain real estate in Iowa City to tn
ir State University on condition that tn
ar ground should be used for observator
" purposes. This land is located on tn
ir bluff at the head of Clinton street.
Or Reducing the bonds of wardens an
d, guards in state prisons from $4,000 t
ID $4,000, and from $4,000 to $4,000 rt
e. spectively.
III Provides that members Of the So
II in,scs ~ 4.