Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-13


is held.
Authorizing renewal of second grade
teachers certificates.
Giving lien upon a colt to owner of
sire.
General revision of drainage laws to
conform to constitutional amendment.
Authorizing board of control to In
vestigate county hospitals.
Requiring excusing Of children
from school for religious services.
Providing for enumeration of blind
and deaf children.
Commission to inquire into neces-
sity for utilities commission
Designating legal securities for saw
ings banks.
Forbidding brewery ownership of
saloons.
Giving new board of education con-
troll of millage taxes.
Sale of cocaine by druggists only,
Protection of fruit by destruction of
moths.
Antitrust bill striking at all trusts
and combines.
Giving executive council power of re-
moval of appointive officers.
Destruction of primary ballots 10
days before primary.
Amendment as to oil inspection.
Temporary permits to practice med
icine.
Requiring druggists liquor permits
to be secured from county auditor and
be numbered,
Limiting number of saloons to one
for each 1000 population.
County Affairs.
County hospitals, including method
Of aiding by taxation and mainten-
ance.
Permitting offering of bounty IN
rattlesnakes, so cents.
Permitting offering of. bounty on
groundhogs. 25 cents
Changing name of "poor farms 10
county homes
Permitting taxation in aid of librar-
les hospitals or schools on vote of the
people in anv district or county.
Defining how to trim hedges and
rights of property owners growing
posts.
Authorizing extra help for county
auditor because of drainage records.
Increasing compensation which may
be paid for injury or death of domes-
tic animals killed by dogs or wolves.
Providing that polling places for
adjacent rural precincts may be in
town.
Authorizing $50 for burial of indi-
gent soldier.
Authorizing employment of special
collectors for delinquent taxes.
Authorizing combining real estate
and. moneys and credits aff1davits in
assessment matters.
Authorizing transfer of money from
the library bond fund to the judg-
ment fund in certain cases.
Increasing compensation of county
attorney where there are two county
seats.
Directing the county auditor to foot
assessor
ton of sheriffs for boarding prisoners.
Making it optional whether guide
boards be erected by township trus
tees on highways.
Increasing compensation Of town
ship trustees in Davenport to day.
Permitting placing justices Of the
peace and constables on salary in cit
les smaller than now.
Providing for levy of taxes in Sep
TENDER, slight change in law
Authorizing deduction of debts in
listing money Of an estate.
Increasing tax for dependent sol
diers and sailors to one mill.
Permitting poor tax levy up to two
mills
Fixing first Monday as time for sup
ervisors meeting in November.
Authorizing counties to pay for sure
ty bonds for certain officers.
Requiring assessors to be residents
Of territory assessed.
Revision as to sale of meandered
lake beds.
Providing for shortage or surplus in
drainage funds.
Pay of assessors $3.50 and in spe-
cial charter cities "a; also clerks and
trustees in special charter cities SO
a day.
Crimes.
Defining and Furnishing for conduct
ing a "bucketshop."
Forbidding detention of female by
force and to forbid white slave
traffic
Authorizing issuance of search war
rants for cigarettes and cigarette pa
pers.
Furnishing assault to commit great
bodily injury by one year in prison.
Furnishing for getting away from
custody same as for Jail breaking.
Removing the age limit on hard Ia
hOr for. jajl nrtSnparS
Authorizing return from prison fof
trial on charge of murder of persons
serving time for lesser crimes.
Forbidding marriage Of cousins, or
issue of license to cousins to marry.
Forbidding harboring unmarried fe-
male in immoral place.
Revising as to penalties for viola
ton Of pure food law
Fine for failure to make report as
to stocks of building and loan assoc
iations.
Making it an indictable misdemean-
or for one under 81 to smoke cigarets.
Defining contributory dependency
and Furnishing for neglect of children
Forbidding drinking intoxicating
liquors on trains and giving train men
authority as peace officers
Furnishing for permitting weeds to
grow on land or in HIGHWAYS