The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-07-14
MANY NEW LAWS WILL
ENCUMBER STATUTES
STATE OF TENNESSEE
RECENT "LAMENTED" SESSION
ADDED LARGELY TO THE
LONG LIST.
NINETY OF lHtM ARt G.htRAL

Nlht1t Of HEM ARt 6 NERAL
While the List of Local Laws Is Al
most Too Long to Enumerate.
What the General Assembly did in
the Lamented Session.
Some years before the fifty-sev-
enth general assembly got together,
or even its members were elected,
it was written of the making of
books there is no end" Slightly
changed, the legislature just closed
that there is no end to
making laws. The number of new
statutes will he somewhat in excess
of the last general assembly, this be.
ing accounted for in part by the cen
sus figures which seemed to take
many counties out from under the
provisions of special laws.
No startling laws were enacted,
however, and the legislature along
this line will perhaps be more noted
for What it did not do, particularly
to the election and prohibition laws
of the previous general assembly.
With a few odd bills which may
have gotten lost in the shuttle Of the
last days count, there were passed
ninety general laws applicable to the
whole State, 526 laws which apply
only to localities, together with four
teen bills applying to Nashville ana
Davidson county. The tuberculosis
hospital was prominent among these
fourteen.
Among the bills which did not pass
was the Nashville charter bill.
General Laws.
General appropriation bill.
Miscellaneous appropriation bill.
To grant certain rights to railroad
companies.
To promote establishment of lib
raries.
To amend act regulating incorpora-
ton of cemeteries.
To prohibit throwing of certain ar
tiCles on streets
To authorize counties to subscribe
to railroads.
To provide for the registration OF
assistant pharmacists.
To prohibit officials of insolvent
banks from receiving deposits
To amend act regulating collection
of revenues.
To provide transportation of school
children.
To amend act providing for organ1
cation of corporations.
To amend act relatively to munic.
pal corporations.
To amend act regulating compen-
sation Of jurors.
To provide for oral argument in
appellate courts in certain cases.
To provide for the inspection of
apiaries.
To authorize railroads to fill in un-
der trestles.
To provide protection of eyesight
of newly bern.
To amend law providing for organi-
cation of corporations.
To provide protection of telephone,
telegraph and power companies.
To amend law regulating the sale
of feed stuffs.
To amend law providing for the Or
ganization of corporations.
To amend act allowing banks to
act as executors.
To amend common school law o.
the state.
To submit to people an amendment
to the constitution Ito elect secre-
tary of state by popular vote.
To submit to people proposition to
amend constitution to elect sheriff,
register and trustee for fosr years.
To submit to people proposition TO
amend constitution to elect governor
for four years.
To submit to people proposition to
elect treasurer and comptroller by
popular vote.
To prohibit trespassing.
To extend closed season on deer.
To prohibit purchase of quail.
To prohibit sale of robins.
To prohibit use OF automobiles
without permission of owner.
To amend law relative to electric
light companies of certain counties.
To amend pension law relative to
the widows of Confederate soldiers.