Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-04-22
MANY BILLS PASSED
LEGISLATURE APPROPRiATES
LARGE SUMS.
NEW OFFICES ARE CREATED
Every Part of the State Comes In
For Share of the Local
Legislation.

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the bill being given:
General Enactments.
Creating state board of education of
members and finance committee of
three on $4,000 salary, to govern state
educational institutions.
Creating office of state hotel in
/ spector and requiring fireproof con-
struction of hotels and safety devices
and appliances.
Requiring annual reports from all
corporations and fee of 81, with COM
plete record as to all corporations
authorized to do business in Iowa.
Creating state board to examine for
optametry and forbidding others from
treating eyes.
Providing way for removal Of all
officials for malfeasance in Office, on
complaints and hearing before a
court.
Revising the law as to duties of a
county attorney and making more
specific his authority and rights.
Defining duties of a sheriff and Civ
ing him additional authority in invest
igation of crimes.
Requiring that banks pay interest
on all public funds on deposit 21a
per cent
General quarantine enlarging the
powers of the, local boards and pro-
viding that only INDECENT persons shall
be supported at public expense.
License for all hunters and funds
to support game law enforcement.
Authorizing state executive council,
on advice of attorney general, to make
settlement of claims of the state.
Making Lincoln's birthday a 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 automobiles.
Permitting use of voting machines
at primary elections.
Requiring lights on vessels on lakes
and rivers.
Providing a way for the dissolution
Of state banks.
Fixing liability of banks for forged
or raised checks.
Requiring transparent shields on
front platforms of street cars.
Exempting religious associations
from operation of collateral inheri-
lance tax.
Making terms of all public officers,
where not otherwise stated, begin on
the second regular day of the year.
Providing that proof may be de-
manded of age of children employed
in factories.
Regulating safety appliances on
switch engines.
Correcting error in the free pass
law as to passes for families of EN-.
ployes.
Making license for dealer in auto
mobiles good for one place only and
reducing fee for auto-cycle to 50.
Permitting sale of denatured al,
cochol without permit.
Changing name Of normal school to
Estate Teachers college"
Providing way for reincorporation
of cemetery associations.
Amending law as to the duty OF
railroads to furnish cars restoring
the common law rule as to RESPONSE
bility.
Permitting payment for bonds of
trust funds.
Defining a lawful fence and pro-
viding it shall be of woven wire.
General drainage and waterways
commission of 7 on per diem to in
vestigate water power and navigation
in state
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 a day for railroad
refusing to obey an order Of the rail-
road commission.
Forbidding discrimination in prices
as to cream, poultry and grains for
purpose of creating monopoly.
Revision of the law as to duties
of attorney general and giving him
additional powers and duties in gen.
eral 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 oil
defective machinery and abolshing
| 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 contin
gent fund to mills.
Providing for consolidation OF
election precincts in country.
Requiring airbrakes on large inter.
urban. cars.
Forbidding use OF trading stamps.
Providing for condemnation of pub
| lie service plants where the city de-
sires to buy.
Requiring license Of $40 for sein.
| ing in border rivers.
Forbidding ice with oysters or more