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

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law which requires exhibits before
grand juries TO be attached to indict-
| ments. manifest impossibility when
the exhibit includes club or gun.
Requiring redemption of real estate
| sold on execution to be made in the
county in which sold.
Applying the law relating to the LA
bilisy of inn keepers to steamboat own
ers.
Requiring the administrators, guar
dams. etc, to deposit funds in their
charge with the county clerks only af-
ter making effort to distribute it
among owners.
''licenses" instead of certificates
Amending the law relating to super
ior courts-affecting Cedar Rapids,
Keokuk and Council Bluffs, so to per-
nit the election of superior court
judges at regular elections.
| The law now treats as confidential
all communications in confidence to
stenographers and confidential clerks
of any person. This bill limits this
privilege to such communications from
attorneys, physicians and surgeons.
| Permitting change of Venue from SUI
perior courts to district courts.
| Authorizes the beginning of suits
against coal operators in the counties
where their mines are located without
reference to the operators residence.
Requiring nonresident attorneys
who practice in Iowa courts to first
designate some person upon whom SER
vice may be had in cases on which the
nonresident attorney appears.
Insurance Laws
The new act for the taxation of Iowa
| insurance companies. 1t levies a tax
of per cent of gross receipts, thus in
creasing the tax of the Iowa concerns
from $4,000 to 100000. 1t provides fol
local assessment, but sufficient leeway
is given in offsets to make local taxa
ton naught except as to the stock OF
stock companies.
Authorizes the auditor of state to
arrange the reports of insurance com.
panies in detail, instead of tabular
i form, and eliminates the requirements
of the present law chat the reports be
printed in one volume. The new Law
is construed to mean that the auditor
may issue the insurance reports in two
volumes, one for fire and one for life
insurance. This will increase the cos
. of binding, but reduces the cost Of
postage and makes the same amount
of printing accommodate twice the
number of persons.
j Authorizing mutual and stock insur
ance companies to insure against bur
glary and robbery.
Requiring that the arbiters of dis
putes over insurance policies shall bt
residents of the county where the loss
occurs.
Permitting the insurance companies
to lend money on the surrender value
of their policies.
!, Department Of Agriculture.
! Creating department. of agriculture
and repeating sections of the code pro
; viding for an organization of the agri
cultural society and its reports ant
those of the stock breeders association
and the state dairy commission. Th'
department embraces local agriculture
societies that receive aid from the
state. weather and crop service, TIL
dairy commission and the state vete1
mary surgeon. The department is t
be managed by board called the stat
board of agriculture, consisting of tn
president, vice president, secre
: tary and treasurer and on
director from each congressional
district, in addition to the governor 0
5 the state, president of the agricultur
al college, dairy commissioner and vet
: Urinary surgeon. The members of tn
board other than state officers are t.
be chosen by convention to be helt
= in December, consisting of the presi
!. dent, secretary or delegate of each loca
society resident in the county
: and a delegate from eacl
county having no local socie
ty, appointed by the board of su
: pervisors, the president or delegate o
: the State Horticultural Society, Stat
! Dairy association, Improved Stocl
: Breeders association and the Swim
: Breeders association is entitled t
: membership in the convention. TIL
. convention to meet next Decembe
elects president, vice president and
full board of directors. The president
vice president and the board of direc
:, tors from the odd numbered district
= for one year, those from the even nun
: bered districts for two years. The dir
= ectors after that to be elected for tw
= years. Board to fill vacancies. Th
board may hold state farmers inst
tutes in connection with the conven
ton, proceedings to be published in III
annual report. Board to have genera
: supervision of all kinds of agriculture
: interests investigate all subjects cor
: nected Herewith, and reports of cor
!, tageous diseases among domestic an
mails, destructive insects and disease
affecting vegetation. The Iowa agr
cultural experiment station is to &C
operate with the department. TIL
: president, vice president and secretar
constitute an executive committee. Th
board has full control of the state fai
grounds and improvements with powe
to hold annual fairs. The board ma
! delegate the management of the fai
! to the executive committe and two G
: more additional me mbers of the boart
t and employ an assistant secretary an
e such clerical help as it may deem M
I cessary. All expenses connected wit
e the fair shall be paid out of the stat
S fair receipts. The board may take an
hold property derived by gifts and b'
n quests, which the president, secretar
: and treasurer hold and give bonds {
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