The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-06
MANY new LAWS
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AMI ETTEUTIVL
After Today Measures Acted
Upon by Legislature WIN
Be Lawful.
AN INTERESTING BUNCH
One Covers Insurance PoIicyhoiders;
One Requires Automobiles to Be
Numbered; One That Case
line Be Put in Red Cans.

Sioux Falls, s. D., July "a num-
Der of new laws enacted by he state
legislature at its session last winter
went into effect today, being those laws
which did not have clauses attached.
A number of the new laws are Of i'm
portancc.
One of them provides thar after to-
day Insurance agents in South Dakota
will be obliged to change the forms OF
policies for fire insurance TO meet the
requirements of q new law which was
among those which went into effect to-
day.
one of the most important of the
new laws, especially from q political
standpoint, is what is known as the
caucus law, which is designed to take
the place of a primary system, and
which throws safeguards around the
holding of c&ucuSeS.
Students Not to Be Numbered.
Another of the new laws provides
at the different state educational insu-
tutions shall not be listed for the pur-
pose Of the school census on which the
apportionment of the state school fund
is made. The theory OF this law is
that where school children of these
towns are being educated at state eN-
penSe in the state institutions they are
not entitled to be listed for the purpose
of securing state funds for the local
public schools.
Heretofore any man VINO desired to
get married could appear in person be-
fore the clerk of courts OF Il county and
procure a license, the presence OF the
bride-tO-be not being necessary. Un-
der a new law which has just gone
into effect both parties Interested must
appear in person before the clerk of
courts and make the application for a
marriage license,
The Wholesalers Of Chicago and other
cities are Directing to the construction
placed upon q section OF a new pure
food law which went into effect today
by e. w. Small, the state pure food
commissioner. The section in dispute
reads as follows:
1T shall be unlawful for any person
to sell, offer or expose for sale n ar
ticle Of prepared food unless the true
name of the manufacturer and the To-
cation of the factory where such arti-
Gle of food is prepared is plainly printed
or ~stenctled on the package, box, can
carton or other container."
Autos Must Be Numbered.
Another Of the new laws requires that
all owners Of automobiles in the state
shall register their machines and pro-
cure cense for running them within
the limits of the state. The speed of the
machine is also limited. Under the new
law the driver of an automobile must
stop If the driver of a horse whom he
meets on the road shall indicate a de-
sire by raising his hand. The law also !
requires the machine driver to render
all "osSible aid in case horses are
frightened by his machine. People who
run automobiles in the state regard the
new Jaw as a fair one, and are disposed
to comply with it rigidly.
Commencing today dealers in gaso-
line, by the terms of q new law, will
be required to deliver the LIQUID to pur-
chasers only in barrels, casks, pack
ages or cans painted red and bearing
the word gasoline" plainly stenciled
thereon.
Must Report Births.
Another of the new laws provides
that commencing July 1 every physi-
clan or other authorized person in the
state attending at the birth of a child
must report within ten days after the
event to the bureau of vital statistics
at Pierre.
one of the new laws makes it unlaw-
to bury the corpse of any person
dying within the state, or to remove the
same from the state, without first OBJ
tanning a burial or transportation per-
NIT from the nearest justice of the
peace III WLlch the death occurred.
Another aW provides that all that
portion of the state lying between the
southern boundary of Union county and
the southern state boundary of South
Dakota, along the middle of the main
OF the Missouri river as now
existing, shall be attached to Union
county for judicial purposes.
Other new laws which went into eff
rect today are: Inheritance tax, which
VIII affect estates; dealers in old metal
may be fined for purchasing old or
broken pieces of brass or other metal
law governing trust companies: res1,
latlng fidelity and other life companies.
changing salaries of county commits
sloners in some counties; hanginp
terms of state circuit court in the sec.
ono: iourth and eighth circuits; defining
duties of owners; relating to adulter,
ated liquor: in certain cases prisoners
IN the Sioux Falls p~enitentiarv NAV he