Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-15

members of the police and fire depart
ments of the city of Des Moines.
Providing for the establishment of
Superior courts in any city containing
5000 inhabitants; at present the limit
is 1000. This act applies to the town
of Oelwein only.
Requiring children between and
IA years to attend school during at
least twelve school weeks in each
year; making persons having control
lof such children who do not send
them to school punishable by a fine
of from SO to $40 for each offense;
providing for the establishment of tru-
ant schools.
Requiring all cities and towns to
keep their municipal accounts so that
the same shall exhibit detailed state
ment of all funds collected and ex-
pended for every purpose; requiring
separate accounts to be kept for every
appropriation.
Validating conveyances of real es-
tate in which the husband and wife
conveyed the inchoate right of dover
of the other spouse.
| Providing that hereafter the mayor
shall not be a member of the councils
of cities of the second class as for
merly.
Authorizing the attorney general to
institute proceedings in the name of
the state against the owners of the
dam at Bonaparte, to condemn and ap-
propriate for the use of the state the
right to erect and maintain fishway
in the dam. This law determines a
controversy which has existed be-
tween the owners of the Bonaparte
dam and the authorities of the state
for twenty-five years.
Providing that fire-escapes shall be
constructed on all buildings which are
used for hotels, lodging-rooms, tene-
ments, boarding houses, opera houses,
theatres, public halls, public school
buildings, seminaries, colleges, hos
pitfalls, asylums, manufactures, ware
houses, and all buildings three stor-
les or more in height.
Providing that transcripts of wills
shall be filed in each county in which
the testator owned property, the cost
of the transcript to be taxed against
the estate.
Fixing the age at which girls may
be detained by the state in the indus,
trial school at Mitchellyille at 81
years, instead of Is, as at present.
Giving the authorities of the institu,
ton for feeble minded children at
Glenwood the right to admit and care
for women under 46 years of age.
Promoting catfish to be game fish
placing pickerel in the class of game
fish, with reference to the closed sea
son. prohibiting the killing of fish BY
drugs OR dynamite, etc.; providing tina
no persons shall take to exceed forty
game fish in one day during the oper
season; prohibiting the taking of fsf
> within 100 feet of fishway, and max
: ing penalty of fine of $50 to 500 fol
J, violation of these provisions; making
. the open season for squirrels to begil
with September instead of June; max
ing rail-, plover, sand-piper, and marsl
birds game.
Providing that savings banks ma.
, loan not to exceed one-half of thel
, capital stock to any person upon farm
/ land worth twice the amount loaned.
Requiring cooperative building an
loan associations to deposit approve
securities amounting to $4,000 wit
: the auditor of state to guarantee il
n vestors.
= hequilllS COdl OpSiti , W Siiiplo
0 shot examiners.
Y Requiring manufacturing establish
: ments, workshops. and hotels whic
o have five Or more persons employed t
provide suitable sanitary advantage:
! including protection from dangerou
T machinery and the protection of tn
5 health of employees.
a Empowering the state labor con
p missioner to inspect factories to elici
S information concerning the emplo!
ment of children, the relations betweel
J. capital and labor, protection of life c
0 employees, educational. sanitary, fan
d lily, and financial condition of wage
| earners cost of food and of living
causes of strikes and lockouts, etc.
n Making the laws of Iowa with Iefel
d ence to negotiable instruments I'm
. form with the laws of other things,th
s law practically abolishes the thre
|. days of grace.
u Providing for department in on
. of the state hospitals for the treatmeI