Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-13
MILLION ANDAHAL
WAS APPROPRIATED
BYTHELEGISLATURE
Solons Kept Within the Amount Available
and There Will Be no Deficit; State Levy
Next Year to Remain the Same; The Bills
Passed By the Present Assembly.

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plete record as to all corporations au
thorized to do business in Iowa.
Creating state board to examine fol-
optometry and forbidding others from
treating eyes.
Providing way for removal of al
officials for malfeasance in Office, on
complaints and hearing before g
court.
Revising the law as to duties Of :
county attorney and making more
specific his authority and rights.
Defining duties Of a sheriff and Civ
ing him additional authority in inves
tigation of crimes.
Requiring that banks pay interest
on all public funds on deposits 2h
per cent.
General quarantine law enlargine
the powers O. the local boards and
providing that only INDECENT persons
shall be supported at public expense
License for all hunters and funds Il
support game law enforcement.
Authorizing state executive council
on advice of attorney general, lo
state.
Making Lincoln's birthday legal
holiday.
Requiring doors of public buildings
to open outward.
Defining the lien of hotel keepers
upon baggage, etc.
Extending time for disposal of old
unlabeled stocks of paint.
Permitting insurance of automo'
biles.
Permitting use of voting machines
at primary elections.
Requiring light on vessels on
lakes and rivers.
Providing way for the dissolution
Of state banks.
Fixing liability of banks for forged
or raised checks.
Requiring trans parent shields On
front platforms of street cars.
Exempting religious associations
from operation of collateral inherit
ance tax.
Making terms of all public officers,
where not otherwise stated, begin on
the second secular day of the year.
Providing that proof may be de-
manded OF age of children employed
in factories.
Regulating safety appliances Oh
switch engines.
Correcting error in the free pass
law as to passing for families of en-
ployes.
Making license for dealer in auto
mobiles good for one place only and
reducing fee for auto-cycle to 81.
Permitting sale of denatured alco-
hol without permit.
Changing name of normal school to
state teachers college
Providing way for reincorpora-
ton of cemetery associations.
Amending law as to the duty Of
railroads to furnish cars restoring the
common law rule as to responsibility.
Permitting payment for bonds out
of trust funds.
Defining a lawful fence and provid.
ing it shall be of woven wire
General drainage and waterways
commission of on per diem to in
vestigate water power and navigation
in state.
Slight amendment in law as to ad-
mission to pharmacy examinations
Definitely fixing law as to officers
holding over SO that the board of sup
ervisors has nothing to do with the
term
Providing for rotation of names on
primary ballot and other changes in
primary law to perfect same
Penalty of $50 day for railroad re-
fusing TO obey an order of the railroad
commission.
Forbidding discrimination in prices
as to cream, poultry and grain for pur-
pose of creating monopoly.
Revision of the law as to duties of
attorney general and giving him ad-
ditional powers and duties in general
enforcement Of laws
Giving railroad commission author
ity to require sanitary fittings at de-
pots and telephones
Bill fixing liability of employer for
accidents to workmen on account of
defective machinery and abolishing
the rule as to assumption of risk on
the part of the workman.
Authorizing copyright of cream cans
and forbidding use of cans by any
other than the owner.
Slight change in law as to duty of
parents or guardians.
Revision of game and fish law.
Giving executive council some lee.
way in the matter of organization OF
corporations that desire TO discount
bonds and stocks.
Increasing maximum teachers fund
to be levied to 20 mills and contingent
fund to mills.
Providing for consolidation of cleo
ton precincts in country.
Requiring airbrakes on large in
terurban cars.
Forbidding use of trading stamps
| Providing for condemnation of pub
lie service plants where the city de
sires to tuy.
| Requiring license of $40 for SEEMING
in border rivers.
Forbidding ice with oysters or more
than one-sixth water.
| Extending benefits of travelling Ii
brary to short course III agriculture
Authorizing payment of travelling ex
penses of game warden.
Making void any stipulation in in
surance policy as to / year limit foi
] fling claims of loss.