Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-07-07

ing organized fire departments.
Chapter 81 authorizes the giving
of pensions to disabled and retired
policemen.
Chapter 81 grants additional pow
ers to cities organized under the com
mission plan of government.
Chapter 50 gives provisions to pri
mary elections, including the COM
pensation of judges and clerks, time
CT opening polls, certifcation of nom
nations to the county auditor, form
OF ballot, publishing of proceedings,
filling of vacancies, of holding coun-
ty conventions, district conventions
and state conventions.
Chapter 95 promotes the building
of permanent roads in the state.
Chapter SO provides for the de-
struction of weeds.
Chapter 1876 allows a bounty of %
cents for each ground hog within the
county.
Chapter 1877 gives a bounty of so
cents for each rattlesnake killed.
Chapter 139 changes the form Of
request blanks for the sale of intoX-
icating liquors.
Chapter 141 prohibits the drinking
of intoxicating liquors as a beverage
and the use of profane language on
any passenger railway car or street
car, making the offense a INSIDE
meanOr.
Chapter 142 limits the number of
persons to whom city or town coun-
ellis may grant consent to sell intox-
icating liquors.
Chapter 143 prohibits any person
except qualified elector from en-
liquors at retail.
Chapter 145 makes it necessary
that employers furnish an authenti-
Gated birth record of any children
employed in their establishment.
Chapter 149 makes it the duty of
all persons and companies operating
any vessel propelled by machinery or
through the medium of sails to carry
light during certain hours.
Chapter ISL provides for the es-
Enlistment of laboratory for the
manufacture of hog cholera serum
at or near Des Moines under the SUI
peryision of the state veterinary sur
geon.
Chapter 1853 provides for regis
ter in which shall be recorded the
date of cocaine sales.
Chapter 1877 defines and regulates
the practice of optometry and for the
creation of board of examiners in
optometry.
Chapter 16S relates to hotels, inns
and public lodging houses and pre-
scribes rules so as to insure the safe
and hnaIth Of MI
irons of the same, providing for in
spection thereof.
Chapter 1863 is an act to prevent
disease among bees and provides for
inspection thereof.
Chapter III changes the name of
the Iowa State Normal school to the
State Teachers college.
Chapter 173 provides for feeble
minded men at Glenwood.
Chapter IT'S provides for the edu-
cation of deaf and blind children at
the school for the deaf and the col
iege for the blind.
Chapter 1S5 prohibits secret frater-
mites and societies in the public
schools.
Chapter PA is an act to enjoin and
abate houses of prostitution to de-
clare the same to be a nuisance and
to assess tax against the person
maintaining such nuisance and
against the builder and owner there
of.
Chapter 220 provides that all
doors shall open outward in build
ings of public nature.
Chapter 223 authorizes the seizure
of cigarettes and cigarette papers,
apprehension of the occupant of the
place or building in or upon which
the same were sold or kept and pro-
vides for the levy of a tax
Chapter 252 makes an appropria-
ton for the removal OF the remains
of Ex-Governor Ansel Briggs from
Omaho, Neb., to Andrew, Jackson
county, Iowa, and for the location of
q monument in the cemetery at that
place.
Chapter $50 makes an appropria-
ton for the Freeman's Institute of
Pocahontas, 10,
Chapter 267 is an act to grant and
relinquish to the city of Dubuque,
Ia, the title of the state of Iowa in
or to the abandoned river bed of the
Mississippi river.