Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-18

amount of the tax thereon, with inter
est, on the tax list for the current year
and proceed to collect the same as 9TH
er taxes. Appeals may be taken from
the final act of the treasurer to the dis
trict court of such county within twen-
ty days after the same is made, by a
written notice served on said county
treasurer, and the court shall hear and
determine the matter in the same man
ner as now prescribed in appeals from
boards of review. The taxes thus re-
covered shall be apportioned ratably by
the treasurer as to the time they should
have been entered on the tax lists and
paid according to law"
The interurban railroad bill which
passed the house yesterday afternoon
after some amendments is designed to
place the electric trolley lines which
run out into the country under some
reasonable regulation and control. 1t
provides that such roads shall be
known as interurban railways, that the
general railway laws shall apply to
them in nearly all cases. Any interur-
pan street railway shall within the COR
porate limits of any city or town, or of
any city acting under special charter,
be deemed street railway and be sub
ject to the laws governing street rail-
ways. Cities and towns, and cities act
ing under special charaters, shall have
power to authorize or forbid the con-
struction of such railways upon, or
over, or along the streets. alleys and
public grounds within their limits, and
to prescribe the conditions and regula-
tions under which said railways shall be
constructed and operated within said
limits, but no such right shall be given
any railway for a period exceeding
twenty-five years. When an interurban
street railway desires to operate it's
lines along or upon a public highway,
and in the opinion of the board of SUI
pervisors of the county in which such
highway is located, it is impracticable
or inexpedient to increase the width
thereof to one hundred (10O) feet, such
board of supervisors may permit such
interurban street railway company to
construct and operate it's railway along
and upon such highway under such re-
strictions and regulations as the board
may deem advisable; but no such rail-
way shall construct or operate it's line
along or upon such highway until q
written statement of consent of three
fourths of the residents owning prop
erty abutting upon such highway shall
have been obtained and filed with the
auditor of the county in which the
highway is located. Wherever the
tracks of an interurban railway cross
tire tracks of any steam railway at
grade the steam railway shall have the
right-of-way and not be compelled to
stop it's trains and the interurban rail-
way company operating the line shall
cause it's cars to come to full stop not
nearer than ten feet nor further than
fifty feet from such crossing and be-
fore proceeding to cross the steam rail-
way tracks shall cause some person in
its employ first to cross said track
ohead of said car and ascertain If the
way is clear and free from danger for
the passage of the interurban cars, and
said interurban cars shall not proceed
to cross until signalled to do so by such
person employed as aforesaid, or said
way is clear for such passage over said
tracks. No steam railway shall OBJ
struct the free passage of the cars of an
intersecting interurban railway at such