Evening journal., 1909-03-29
BILLS PASSED
BY LEGISLATURE
contInued From FIrst Page.

conspicuously.
Reducing the bonds Of weckmastsrs
to $500.
Exempting property OF Peoples Set
tlement from taxation.
Increasing the appropriation to tile
Institute Free Library In wilmington
TO l IL cents per inhabitant.
Making June 25 legal moving day IN
New Castle county
Removing the necessity for registrars
bonds.
Authorizing Smyrna to borrow $685.
600 for street improvements.
increasing the appropriation to trav-
cling libraries to $1,000 year
Increasing the State tax on express
companies.
Providing a collateral inheritance tax.
Requiring State banks and trust COM
panles 10 keep cash reserve on hand.
Providing for am audit of Sussex county
finances IN June OF each year.
Fixing the theatre tax at $40 year in
towns OF less than 10000 people.
Creating the office OF public welgher OF
coal and commodities in Wilmington.
Fixing the tax fees to be paid to the
state by lighting and power companies.
Increasing the appropriation from VIII
mington Council to the Board Of Educa-
ton
Enabling trustees to make return to the
Court Of chancery twenty days after the
salo Of land.
Providing for the renewal Of charters OF
corporations that have expired since jan
uary 1, 1908.
Providing for the examination and regis
tration of trained nurses.
Regulating the practice Of optometry or
! adjustment OF eye glasses.
Requiring monthly settlements by State
officers with the State treasurer.
Prohibiting the laying Of railway tracks
on West Tenth street west OF West IN
| Wilmington.
Providing for the taxation OF property
held by churches for investment purposes
Enabling the holding Of joint Institutes
for teachers.
Reducing the tax on dogs as personal
property from $3.50 10 81.
Providing that marsh companies shall be
composed OF owners or part owners OF
marsh land, providing a method by which
marsh companies may issue bonds
Fixing the eating house license at $40 a
year.
Creating a commission to survey public
lands owned by the state.
Giving city Council of Wilmington juris-
diction to regulate billiard and pool rooms
and bowling alleys.
Prescribing penalties for the theft of gas
and electricity.
Making the State chemist the custodian
Of the standard weights and measures.
Giving the State Board Of Agriculture
an emergency appropriation of Sl00O TO
cope with epidemics.
Increasing the appropriation for the
education of the blind.
Authorizing City Council OF Wilmington
to enter into contracts with the fire COM
panies OF that city
Giving the Wilmington Board Of Park
Commissioners jurisdiction five miles out
Of the city to acquire park land.
Requiring canvassers Of orders for mer-
chandise to take out a license.
To tax transmitters OF telephone com
panies for State purposes.
Prohibiting the removal of dredgings
from the confines OF the State.
Creating a commission to buy portraits
Of former Cows. Preston Lea and John
HUM to be placed in the legislative halls.
Giving blacksmiths and wheelwrights
lien ON wagons for work done until the
work is paid for.
Providing that cattle brought into Della
ware for breeding or dairy purposes shall
be tubercuiin tested
Providing for a resurvey OF the oyster
beds OF the State. fixing the tax on oys-
ter plantations for state purposes.
Providing for a recodifcation of the laws
Of Delaware.
Prohibiting the sale OF liquor on election
day.
Creating a State Board of Forestry.
Requiring spark protectors to be placed
on traction engines.
Requiring that the general intent of an
/ Indictment shall be stated to an accused
person, instead OF the indictment being
I read in full.
Changing the time for holding the New
ark school election from the third satur-
DAY I'm June to the third Saturday in
April
Enabling Dover to borrow 10000 for
street improvements and $4,000 for inn
provements to It's school
Perpetuating the State Commission on
Revenue and Taxation for two more years.
Appropriations to the state Hospital at
Farnhurst.
Increasing the penalty for the carrying
OF concealed deadly weapons.
Pormittins consiabies to succeed them
selves.
Abolishing the June term OF Court and
creating tho May term in New Castle
county.
Enabling aliens to acquire title 10 land in
Delaware.
Reducing the bond OF the sheriff OF New
Castle county from $4,000 to S25 900
Providing penalties for the poisoning oi
domestic animals.
Providing that certain officers shall b,
exempt from jury duty only when In tn,
actual discharge Of their duties.
Prohibiting the placing OF glass and
other injurious substances on public high
ways
Dividing the first election district Of th'
Fifth Representative district in SUISSE,
county
, Repeating an old law that prohibited othe
States and the United States recruiting
! In Delaware
Enabling Wilmington police matrons q
? participate IN the police pension fund.
. Increasing the graded school facilities o
tho State hy allowing each county quot
/, OF go pupils instead Of $50 10 so 70 grade
schools
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