The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-19

n suit OF the laDOfS OF the Fifty -uILl
General Assembly. This exceeds tn
record OF all previous General Assem-
blies., excepting alone the Fifty-third
which sat four years ago. That bod.
passed COL acts. But for liberal US
Of the veto power by the Governor. tn,
acts of this year would have exceeded
In number those of 1903. As 1t is the
volume this year will be much larger
than that of 1908. the largest to this
date in the history of the State, says
The Nashville American.
Two years ago the Acts contained
543 pages. In 1901 the volume con
tanned 497 laws. and less during al
most every preceding Assembly.
More laws originated in the House
than in the Senate, but in general
laws of great Importance a majority
are Senate bills. The proportion OF
local or private acts would have been
much larger but for the passage OF
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GENERAL LAWS.
Pendleton law, extending four-mile
law to towns of $50, 900 population.
Appropriating $25O.000 to Peabody
College.
To authorize suits by next friends
Of lunatics In lorna pauperis.
Providing for the registration OF fe.
male dogs.
To amend the general corporation
laws OF 1877.
To appropriate 100000 for Confed-
crate pensions.
To provide clerical hire of $500
each per annum to the Supreme
Judges.
To appropriate $40, 500 for an exhib.
It at jamestown.
To make it felony TO keep place
where betting on races is allowed.
To prohibit gambling on races.
To authorize stockholders to vote
by proxy.
To provide $4,000 for Confeder,
ate widows pensions.
Creating a Criminal Court for the
Fifth Circuit.
Appropriating $4,000 for an expert
ment station in West Tennessee.
To authorize cemetery companies to |
sell unused lands.
To create the Courts of Civil APP
peals.
To prevent the sale of articles at
less than the cost of manufacture.
To repeal Chapter 1875 of the Acts
of 1925. Unconstitutional
To appropriate $4,000 for pur-
chase Of Governors mansion.
To regulate the practice of optomet-
ry and create Board of Examiners.
To make the abandonment of the
wife misdemeanor
To amend the State Text Book
Commission of 1899
To amend the act for the prevention
Of communicable diseases among do
nestle animals.
To authorize agriculturists to enter
into contracts with warehouse men,
etc. Zone of the tobacco
oills.) /;
To authorize women to practice
aw.
To provide for the organization OF
telephone companies (The Talbert
avn
To provide for printing the reports
# the State Superintendent of Pub
ic Instruction biennially instead of 4,
To amend the general game law.
To make it unlawful to procure by +
improper means the violation Of con- r
rsets- THE companion bill to the
bove, championed by the tobacco 4
To confer additional powers on the II
Railroad Commission.
To enact a general forestry law. +,
To prevent the corruption of voters a
/ primaries, mass conventions and =.
ections.
To amend the code with reference q
, the sale of real estate for partition "a
1d distribution.
To constitute a naval battalion Of to
lie National Guard of Tennessee. IN
To preserve public peace and pre-
mt night riding. 10
To authorize the development of
10 Herbert Domain. In
To confer on electric railways the m
,wers and duties conferred on steam M
ilroads.
To require corporations to file Ger. do
in information with the Secretary IN
State.
To create a State Board of Elec. pr
ms. 90