Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-03-25
NEW Laws ENACTED.
That Ran the Gauntlet of the
Kansas Senate and House.
To prohibit Matchmaking.

IL OpIO HlDlG Dldckmall1ng.
Establishing state normal train
ing school at Pittsburg.
Providing for cities of the first and
second class to levy tax for the es.
adjustment and maintenance of
parks.
Raising the governors salary to
$4,000 a year.
Amending the election law by
knocking out the square behind the
words mo Nominal ton
To suppress mob violence.
Relating to the employment of at
. torneys to assist county attorneys
in counties having less than 10000
population.
Reducing stock yards charges 25
per cent.
Prohibiting splitting in buildings
used for public purposes.
Allowing husband and wife to tes-
tify against each other in suits for
alimony.
Providing that no hunter shall kill
more than 25 wild birds in o day.
TO promote the attendance of pu-
pills in schools and providing for
truancy officers to enforce the law.
Reorganizing the Kansas national
guard along the lines provided for in
the Dick bill passed by congress,
which makes the militia of the coun-
try reserve force to the regular
army.
Reducing the number of reports of
state officials and boards to be pub
lished, and requiring that they be
embodied in one volume.
Fixing the minimum capital for the
state banks at $4,000.
Providing for the election of county
commissioners to conform with the
biennial election law; also township
officers.
Providing for bounty of 20 cents
on gopher scalps.
Providing for the levy of tax for
the determination of prairie dogs.
Making the life of a chattel mort.
gage two years instead of one.
To prohibit railroads from OBJ.
trains.
Limiting the amount of indebted
ness of first-class cities to 10 per
cent. of the assessed valuation.
Providing for manual training in.
struction in the public schools of
Kansas.
Making it unlawful to use or wear
the badge of secret order unless
one Is a member of it.
Approving the contract for keep
ing Oklahoma prisoners at the state
penitentiary.
Requiring persons to bring suits
for damages against railroad COM
panies in the county where the acct
dent was sustained, or where the
railroad has it's headquarters.
Allowing private corporations to
decrease their capital stock.
Providing for the appointment of
executors to look after the estates
of persons who die intestate.
Regulating the practice of dentis-
try.
To prevent snake-eating exhibit
tons.
Requiring that all persons desir-
ing to be admitted to the bar be ex-
amined by the supreme court.
Giving the state board of health
power to supervise the location of
waterworks plants and sewers.
Providing for a state barber board
to regulate the barber trade.
Increasing the salary of the state
superintendent of public instruction
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
Providing that the reports of the
state superintendent of insurance
shall be issued annually.
Making the State Poultry associa.
ton a state institution.
Requiring hotels and public lodg.
ing houses to be equipped with fire
escapes.
Providing for professional certif.
Gates for teachers which may be re.
newed every two years without ex.
animation.
Appropriating 100000 for a Kan
sas exhibit at the worlds fair.
Making a. teachers certificate is.
sued in one county good in all other
counties.
For indeterminate sentence of pris.
oners.
Authorizing townships to levy q
three-mill tax for good roads upon
petition of majority of taxpayers.
To provide for the admission OF
army nurses to Mother Bickerdyke
home.
To permit cities and counties to an
proprite money for soldiers monu
ments.
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