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


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Providing how ways may be secur-
ed to land not otherwise accessible.
forblddlng immoral plays or exhibit
tions.
Municipal Affairs.
Extending to all cities of 1000 or
over right to adopt commission plan
of city government.
Authorizing cities to borrow money
to extend as well as to purchase or
erect public utility plants
Special act restoring to Cedar Rap
Ids certain rights enjoyed under
charter.
Authorizing park commissioners to
pay for paving adjacent to parks.
Authorizing a separate park district
for each township under certain cir
cumstances
Authorizing towns as we'll as cities
to borrow money to provide for protec-
ton from floods.
Right of city to provide for pensions
to firemen and a fund for compensa-
ton to dependents of firemen injured
on duty.
Authorizing submission to voters at
city election of franchise questions.
Submission Of any referendum mat
ter at city as well as a general cleo
ton
Forbidding pollution of streams by
dumping night soil, etc.
Raising limit of fire fund in cities
of second class to three mills and in
cities of over 10000 We mills.
Authorizing levy of taxes in certain
cities for constructing outlets for
sewers and sewage purifying plants.
To authorize Davenport to improve
the river front.
Permitting Des Moines to borrow
money to build a city hall.
Permitting Des Moines to increase
the debt to build new high school.
Repeating law permitting sale of
river land in Ottumwa.
Giving Emnettsburg jurisdiction
over Medium lake.
Authorizing payment for the pre-
liminaries before purchase of water
works.
Authorizing park commissioners to
issue bonds for land and improve
ments.
Granting river front rights to Du-
buque.
Authorizing employment. of town
marshals as truant officers.
Authorizing cities to raise fund by
taxation for police pensions
Authorizing taxes for promoting IL
brary interests.
Fixing taxes at 21a mills and a
special one mill tax for three years
to buy land.
Amendments to commission plan of
government as agreed upon in Cedar
Rapids and Des Moires.
Appropriations.
Completion of roster of Iowa sol
dirs $4,000
Pedestal for Allison monument in
Des Moines, $4,000
Amphitheater at state fair, $4,000. |
Annual support Iowa national guard,
$4,000 year
Support of state home finding
agents $4,000 a year.
Dam at soldiers home $4,000.
Removal Of Briggs remains from
Omaha to Jackson county, $1,000.
To railroad commission for maps,
$4,000.
For damage to T. H. Rattenbary,
s1,25O.
Pay legislative employees $4,000.
Expenses Lincoln day program
$32.47
Pay for Inauguration, s44025.
Serum laboratory for hog cholera
serum, $4,000.
Support fish and game commission,
$4,000.
To John Jones for injury at state
hospital, $1,000.
For the colleges about $550000.
State institution budget S50S,000.
Increase of pay of shorthand re-
porters to $1,000 and $1,600.
State veterinary department $11 900.
Pay for visiting committees, $3.50.
State. hospital probe 1925.
Mahaska county contest $3.50.
Okoboji dam, $1,000
Iowa dairy association $4,000
Pocahontas farmers institute SIS.
Historical building 100000.
Total of appropriations about ST.
100000
LegaIizing Acts.
Legalizing as to superior court in
Perry.
School district proceedings in Osce-
ola county.
Certain bond issues in Mills county
Permitting Universalist church in
Iowa City to transfer property.
Legalizing as to land matters In
Sioux and Osceola counties and for
land patents to w. F. Werner and
G. ]. FELTON,.
Legalizing acts pertaining to mat
tiers in the following cities and towns
Sioux City, Cedar Rapids, New
Hampton, Deep River, Manchester
Anamosa, Calender, Packwood, Nor
walk, Raynard, Monticello, oxford
Junction, Pocahontas, Farmin gton,
Oto Linton, Merrill, Knierin, Corwith,
Ottumwa cemetery.
LegaliZing as to Oelwein, Laurens,
Marcus
Legalizing certain conveyances
prior to 1885.
Legalizing as to corporations with
out seal and also as to corporations
where notice was not published.
Courts and Court Procedure.
Revising the law as to publication
of the schedule of terms of court
Changing the rule in regard to the
assumption Of risk on the part Of rail
road employees injured or killed
Revising the law a RI tho dictrihlY-