The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-07-12
NEW LAWS IN NEBRASKA


NEW LAWS IN NEBRASKA.
A large number of new laws became
effective in Nebraska yesterday. The
measures enacted at the last session
Of the legislature not carrying the EN-.
Urgency clause, are now all In force.
The state has made no provision for
informing the public just what the
new laws are. Dependent upon char
lty, as It were, the states business in
this regard is woefully neglected
Many persons will no doubt be made
criminals because they are not In
formed as to the new laws restricting
their acts, and such as these will suf.
fer penalties very unfairly. Newspa.
pers will In most instances print
briefly synopsis Of the more interest
ing features of the laws. But the
state ought to provide for sufficient
publicity to inform the entire com.
monwealth as to the nature of the
new enactments.
Among the new laws are those:
Providing for investigation of swamp
fever in horses, tuberculosis in hogs;
appropriating $4,000 for travelling eX.
penses of judges of supreme and dis.
trict courts; suppresslng bucket
shops; fixing minimum state bank cap
ital at $4,000; requiring state institu-
tions to deposit cash funds with the
state treasurer; making the theft of
chickens or pigeons of IS value fell
ony; increasing court reporters fees i;
permitting county judges to charge
SO for marriage license fees; provid-
ing for the election of county assess
ors in the fall of 1907; requiring coun.
ty Institutes to be held in June, July
or August authorizing county judges
to receive unclaimed legacies; provid-
ing for the maintenance of detention
homes; prohibiting determinations in
prices of commodities; abolishing dow
cry interests; relating to the division
Of property In cases Of divorce; amend
ing the drainage law; providing for
the incorporation of grand and sub.
ordinate lodges; preventing the sale
of liquor within two and a half miles
of an army post; requiring the record.
ing of marks and brands; for the Gre
alton Of municipal railway fund in
cities of $4,000 or less; making the
poll tax $3.50 payable in cash except
in villages or cities; repeating the
statute permitting the state board OF
public lands and buildings to invests
gate complaints against state superin
tendent; fixing coroner's fee; estab
fishing primary election system; pro
viding for pure food. pure milk and
pure drugs; providing for the use Of
road drags on the public highway;
fixing limits and liability of villages
for damages and defective streets
providing for the division of counties
in road districts; for a special levy
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division between county and road dis
tricts of road funds; providing maxi
mum freight rates on certain commod
tiles; preventing stopping of trains
across a street for more than five min
utes; requiring railroads to sell 1000
mile mileage books for 500, good TO
anyone or any number Of persons; re
ducing express rates twenty-five per
cent; prohibiting the employment o
night telegraph operators under TWEEN
one years of age; allowing cities o
1000 to 5000 to extend water main
to connect with private property.
One of the most prominent of al
these laws is the direct primary pre-
vision, the effects of which are alread
being felt. There will be no CONVEX
tons this year to nominate candidate
= for Office, as in years gone by. Cand
dates are already filing their al
nouncements with county clerks III
der the provisions of the new law.