The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-13
THE SHAW MOSQUITO BILL.
The One Lone Product of His States
manship, and Efforts in Behalf
OF the Farmers,

OF the Farmers.
Following is Mr.. Shaw's "Skeeter
| Bill, with the various amendments
offered by members of the house:
By Mr.. Shaw Of Clay.-A bill to
be entitled an act to require hotels
and boarding houses in Georgia
whose rates are $3.50 day or more
to furnish each bed in said hotel or
boarding house with mosquito bars
from May LIST to November LIST. To
provide penalties for violating said
act, and for other purposes.
Section l. Be it enacted by the
general assembly of the State of
+ Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by
authority of the same, that on and
after the passage of this act it shall
be unlawful for any hotel or board
ing house in this State, whose rates
are $1.5O or more a day, to furnish
or let any room or rooms, whether
on American or European plan,
where the beds in said rooms are not
protected with first-class mosquito
bars from May LIST to November 1st.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid that the par
ty or parties acting as proprietor or
proprietors, proprietress or prOprie-
tresses, violating this act shall be
punished for a misdemeanor under
section 1899 of the penal code of
Georgia of 1859.
Sec g. Be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid that all laws
and parts of laws in conflict with this
act be, and the same are hereby re-
pealed.
Amendment Proposed by Mr.. Glenn
of Whitfield.
Mr. Glenn of Whitfield onered the
following amendment to said mos
quito bill;
That in addition to the glorious
comforts afforded at said hotels or
inns that they also be required and
compelled under penalty of death to
provide three square meals per day
with as much near beer" as posi-
BILE for chasers, and that in addition
that said hotels or inns, under pain
of being disfranchised, allow no bed
bugs or other pestiferOus critters to
roam at large in the rooms or bed
clothes at night without being muz-
put dodgers on notice of their COM
ing, and that the rooms of such
dodgers be provided with guns, sticks,
baseball bats, dynamite, nitroglycer-
inc or any other weapon or cudgeI
with which to defend themselves
from said insects, or with which to
kill said proprietor of said hotel or
inn when he attempts to collect his
charges; and provided further, that
said hotels or inns employ no male
| help or assistants whatever; that
only pretty, plump, vivacious, re-
dundant girls be employed as cham
bermaids, and that said chamber
maids be required to take hot coffee,
buns, rolls and other refreshments
demanded to the rooms of said lodg-
ers, especially drummers; that said
girls be attired in fashions latest
Whirl. and shall sing lu}labies to said
! boarders or drummeTs each night.
Other Amendments.
BY Mr.. Persons of Monroe.-Pro-
vided that the provisions of this act
shall not apply to any mosquito
whose prObOscis is less than 1872 of
an inch long.
BY Mr. Barrett of Stephens.-Pro-
poses to amend by adding the follow
ing words at the close of the last
section before the repeating clause:
Provided that the provisions of this
bill shall not apply to any hotel
north of an east and west line run
ming through the city of Atlanta.
BY Mr.. Clifton of Toombs.-All
convicts in the wildcat camps of the
state and all lunatics at the state
sanitarium shall be furnished with
said nets.
BY Mr.. Alexander of DeKalb and
Mr.. Covington of Colquitt.-Amend