Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

Chap. 249 amends the libel law and
protects newspapers that make an
honest mistake
Chap. $50 provides for the estab-
lishment of free libraries and read |
ing rooms in cities
Chap. 254 creates a state medical
registration board and protects the
public from quack doctors
Chap. 255 regulates the state mill
tia.
Chap. 256 provides for a state min
ers' association and chapter 257 pro-
tects the health and safety of miners.
Chapters 25e and 26O provide for
the taking and enforcement of pur-
chase money and other liens on real
estate.
Chap. PSI exempts mutual benefit
associations from city license taxes.
Chap. 26s provides for surety COM
pany bonds of executors, admins
traitors and guardians, more effectu-
ally protecting their trusts.
Chap. 269 provides for the parole
of prisoners in the state peniten-
tiary. Under this beneficent law
more than a hundred prisoners have
been paroled on good behavior and
have become law abiding citizens
Chap. 261 requires travelling ped
dlers to pay a license. protecting
resident merchants.
Chap. 273 provides for the destruc-
ton of prairie dogs.
Chap. 274 prohibits prize fighting
and provides punishment.
Chapters 275 to 2s4 inclusive regu-
late legal proceedings and remove
many existing defects.
Chap. 2S5 provides for the protec-
ton of the public health.
Chap. ESQ establishes a board of
railroad commissioners, to take the
place of the still born court of vista
ton and regulates their powers and
the duties of common carriers to the
public.
Chap. 2s7 permits the board Of
county commissioners and other mu-
nicipal officers to sell railroad stock
received in exchange for aid bonds.
Chap. 3o4 prohibits school district
officers from employing relatives.
Chap. 3O5 provides for the disor-
ganization of depopulated school dis
tricts and the conveyance of the pu-
pills TO other schools.
Chap. BOG authorizes school boards
to relieve their district of the ex-
pense of a school where the number
of pupils does not warrant it by con-
veying the children to other schools.
Chap. BOT provides for the consoli-
dalton of school districts, decreasing
expenses and increasing their eff
cheney.
Chap. $50 provides for the reap
praisement of school lands where
they cannot be sold at the minimum
price.
Chap. ISL protects cattle owners
by requiring butchers to keep a rec
ord of the marks and brands of cat
tie slaughtered.
| Chap. $50 prohibits the erection of
slaughter houses within certain linn
| it's.
| Chap. $50 is complete amendment
and codification of the large volume
of acts relating to the state char
liable institutions, a work of great
labor well performed. The act also
establishes civil service under strin-
gent rules in the state institutions.
| Chap. 361 provides for the appoint
ment of the state tax commission,
which has prepared complete tax
bill that will, it is believed, remove
the present inequalities and fix an
equitable assessment of all property.
Chap 362 provides for the assess
ment of telegraph and telephone
| companies
Chap. 363 is good roads" bill.
Chap. 392 provides for the fore
closure of the lien held by counties
on lands sold for taxes and bid in by
the county, for the public sale of the
same, and doing away with the pow
ers of the county commissioners to
compromise taxes, a power that has
been greatly abused.
Chap. 39s provides for free town
ship libraries.
Chap. 407 provides for the forma-
ton and regulation of trust compa-
MES.
Chap. AZ provides for the record
ing of acts vacating parts of towns
Chapters 423 and 424 submit two
constitutional amendments to be
voted on. one completing the biennial
election law and the other increasing
the pay of members of the legisla-
| ture.
Chap. 425 appropriates funds to
prevent the diversion by the state of
| Colorado of the waters of the Ar
| kansas.
Here are 70 bills of general impor-
lance and as we have cited them by
chapters we invite any voter to ex-
/ anime them and determine for him
self whether there is one bill that
has not merit, one bill that is not of