Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-10
IOWA LEGISLATURE ENACTS
279 ADDITIONAL LAWS

lake beds.
Providing for shortage or surplus in
drainage funds.
Pay Of assessors $3.50 and in special
charter cities 81; also clerks and trus-
tees in special charter cities 50 a day.
Providing for levy Of taxes in Sep
tember, slight change in law.
Authorizing deduction Of debts in
listing money Of an estate.
Increasing tax for dependent soldiers
and sailors 10 / mill.
| Permitting poor tax levy up to 3
mills.
| Fixing first Monday as time for SUI
pervisors' meetings in November.
| Authorizing counties to pay for
surety bonds for certain officers.
Requiring assessors to be residents
Of territory assessed.
State Institutions and Departments.
Annual vacation Of one week on pay
for employees of state institutions who
have been employed a year or more.
| Requiring blind children and deaf
children between 10 and 10 to attend
the state schools provided for them.
| Permitting admission to Glenwood
hospital Of feeble minded men.
Permitting extension Of the contract
at Anamosa for the labor for the but
ter tub factory.
| Raising the maximum age limit for
girls and boys admitted to the indus
| trial school from 16 to IS years.
| Providing that dependent deaf chill
dren may be cared for at the deaf
school all the year round
| Authorizing admission to soldiers
home of fathers of veterans.
| Including ice in the furnishings for
| officers at the soldiers home.
| Granting street car company right
of way thru deaf school grounds.
| Adding one factory inspector to the
force of the labor commissioner.
Giving state accountant authority
to examine accounts of the depart
ment of agriculture instead Of spe-
cal committee.
liners rather than board of health the
authority to revoke medical certifi-
Gates.
Providing for publication of the
rules and regulations Of health boards.
Correcting slight error in law as to
examination of mine foremen.
| Providing for transfer of stallion
certificates on fee of SO cents.
Requiring report to the department
of agriculture of the statistics gath
cred by assessors relating to agricul-
tural matters.
Requiring duplicate vouchers on all
bills to the state.
Transfer of criminal statistics to
board of parole.
Requiring secretary of state to pub
lish report in municipal accounts.
Admitting self supporting soldiers
| to soldiers home under certain condi-
tons.
Authorizing commandant at soldiers
home to sell effects of deceased soldier.
Visiting committees to state insti-
| tutions.
Extra bank examiner and clerks in
auditors office.
| Municipal -4taiys.
Extend ding to all cities of 1000 or
over right to adopt commission plan
of city government.
\ Authorizing cities to borrow money
to extend as we'll as to purchase or
erect public utility plants.
Special act restoring to Cedar Rap
ids certain rights enjoyed under char
ter.
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 well as cities
to borrow money to provide for pro-
lection from floods.
Right of a city to provide for pen
sions to firen1en and a fund for COM
,,pensation to dependents of firemen In
jured on duty.
Authorizing submission to voters a.
a city election of franchise questions
Submission of any referendum mat
ter at a 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 3 mills and in cities OF
over 10000. mills.
Authorizing levy of taxes in certain
cities for constructing outlets for sew
ers 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 oil
river land in Ottumwa.
Giving Emmetsburg Jurisdiction oyel
Medium lake.
Authorizing payment for the prelim
1naries before purchase of waterworks
Authorizing park commissioners te
issue bonds for land and improve.
ments.
Granting river front rights to Du.
buque.
Authorizing employment >of towr
1narshals as truant officers.
Authorizing cities to raise fund b,
taxation for police pensions.
Authorizing taxes for promoting Ii.
brary interests.
Fixing park taxes at 2h mills and E
special 1-n1iil tax for three years t.
buy land.
Amendments to commission plan O,
government as agreed upon in Cedar
Rapids and Des Moines
Atpropriations.
Completion of roster OF Iowa sold.
iers. $4,000.
Pedestal for Allison monument II
Des Moines. 100000.
Amphitheater at state fair, 500. 900