Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-05-13
New Laws Passed at Re
cent Session

senate which became laws during
the recent session:
Senate bill No. establishes the
price that may be charged for print
ing the ballots at the primary cleo
tions. Heretofore there was no
charge fixed by law and as result
the costs of printing the ballots IL.
several counties varied according to
what the newspaper men or job
printers thought was fair price, or
rather what they were able to con-
vince the boards of commissioners
was fair price.
The law makes the price uniform.
The law allows the printer to charge
S17.5o for the first hundred primary
ballots printed for each political
party. That includes all the tickets
national, state, county and township.
For eaah additional hundred the
printer is allowed te charge 50 cents.
He is also allowed s. extra for each
change in the ticket of the Candi-
dates for township officers and for
other changes Is allowed 50 cents.
In@the city primary elections the
printer is allowed 81 for the first
hundred tickets printed and SO
cents for each additional hundred
and $3.50 for all changes in any
one ward in the ticket. If the
general election is for state and
county but not for national officers
the printer is allowed to charge
SI2.5o for the first hundred com
plete tickets for each party and
IS6 for each additional ticket on the
ballot and 60 cents a hundred for
each additional hundred. For BAL
lots in township elections alone, the
printer is allowed S for the first
hundred tickets for each party and
81 for each additional ticket on the
ballot and so cents per hundred for
each hundred after the first.
Commissioners May Build More
Bridges.
Senate bill 7o permits the com
missioners of any county to expend
money to the extent of So, 900 for
each bridge, for the building OF
bridges in the county, provided that
not more than 20 per cent of the tax
'evy for general purposes in any
one year shall be appropriated for
that purpose. If the proposed
bridge will cost more than So, ooo
the question of building it must be
submitted to a vote of the people.
Each County to Have a Represen-
tative
Senate bill IS reapEortioned the
state into representative districts sc
thatIeach organized county in the
state will have 4 representative oi
it's own hereafter. In this Ieappor.
tionment Jefferson, Brown, Franklin
and Usage counties each lost a rep
resentative while the counties ot
Seward, Haskell, Grant and Stevens
each gain one.
School Boards May Condemn Land
Senate bill II6 confers on board:
of education in cities of first ano
second class and on school district:
in which there is a city of the thirC
class the right to condemn and ap
proprlate land for sites for schoo
grounds or play grounds in addition
to what the district may already
have. The condemnation proceed.
ings are similar to other Condem-
nations of land for railroad rights Of
way or other purposes.
Protection Against Fire in School
Houses.
Senate bill I1S requires that the
doors of all school buildings mus
open outwards; that if the building
is more than one story in heigh
there must be exits on the uppel
floors separate and distinct from the
exits on the lower floors; that there
must be provided for the storie!
above the first proper fire escape
q made of iron or steel and that al