Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-05-23
NEW LAWS IN EFFECT
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for compensation and expenses in
fighting forest fires.
Private insane asylums to be licens-
ed by County Courts.
Protection of women from white
slavery" Law similar to that of the
! Federal Government.
Escheating money belonging to In
sane Asylm patients who have died or
eloped.
Appropriating $4,000 year for CO.
operation with the United States Gov
ernment in making Topographic maps
and investigating water resources
Appropriating $4,000 for a burial
lot in Riverview cemetery, Portland,
for deceased soldiers of the Spanish
American war.
Protecting Societies.
Protecting secret and fraternal So
cieties from fraud and imposters and
declaring it unlawful to use the name
| of an order to which a person does not
belong.
Boys under age of 1S years cannot
be employer as engineers or in giving
/ signals in logging operations.
Children infested with vermin or
unclean can be prohibited from att
tending school.
| Assignees of claims against any
county or city officer shall not have
the right to institute suit for recovery
except on taxes or license.
Per capita tax for the county school
| fund shall not be less than the per
capita of school tax for the county in
1910.
County Courts are authorized to ap-
propriate money not to exceed $4,000
for Agricultural College.
District attorneys are to make de-
fense in divorce cases when defendant
does not appear or defend in good
| faith.
Salaries of County Commissioners
raised to $3.50 a month.
| Appropriation of $4,000 annually
for gricultural College.
Appropriation of $273,000 available
for Improvements at the Agricultural
College.
Rebating and unjust discrimination
by railroads prohibited.
Vagrancy law of the city of Port
land extended to the counties. 1t will
enable sheriffs to deal with the hobos.
Accidents to Eaborers.
Employers of labor must report to
the Commissioner of Labor all acci-
dents to laborers, which list must be
compiled and published
Incorporated cities may appropriate
land outside the limits needed for
sewers and water mains.
The Salem Falls City & Western
Railroad is authorized to build a
bridge across the Willamette river at
Salem.
Judges are permitted to parole pris-
oners not previously convicted of a
felony
Motions to set aside a judgment
must be heard and determined within
so days.
County roads within the corporate
limits of Falls City are dedicated as
city streets.
An appropriation of $150,0O0 is
available to buy land and erect a
building at Salem for the Supreme
Court and State Library.
Hereafter the state of Oregon will
bear the expense OF the printing and
circulation of the G. A. r. matter.
Liquor licenses cannot be granted
for liquor to be sold within one mile
of college or university
The buildings heretofore used by
the deaf mutes are to be used for tu-
berculosis patients
Eastern Oregon Hospital
There is available $4,000 for the
purchase of additional lands and the
erection, equipping and furnishing Of
the Eastern oregon Hospital. In addi-
ton there is $4,000 for the operation
and maintenance.
Apple boxes, standard size, must be |
IS inches long, IL " wide, 1Oh deep, |
inside measurement. Special size
boxes must be 20 inches long, II inch
es wide and 10 inches deep
County Commissioners are empow-
cred to appropriate $500 for the es-
ldDISInlenL Oh Idft1 llDTdTltS.
Fines are to be imposed upon peo-
pie who break the glass insulators on
telephone poles
A State Purchasing Board is created
consisting of the Governor, Secretary
of State and Treasurer, who are to
purchase all supplies for the state in
stitutions. A secretary is allowed at a
salary of s25OO year. An appropria-
tion of $500 is made to carry out the
provisions of the act.
A state Patrol Board is created, to
consist of three people, one of whom
shall be the superintendent of the
pen'tentlary. This board is to recon-
mend paroles of prisoners under an
sentence.
Certified copies of deeds can be
made when the originals are lost
Drinking ON Trains.
Drinking intoxicating liquors on
trains Is prohibited.
Railroad employees must not be
more than IA hours. Dis
patchers and operators are limited to
nine hours.
Changing the ages at which child
rem may work at various occupations.
Increasing the appropriations for
the maintenance OF INDECENT orphans.
For an Investigation Of fruit pests
by the o. A. c.; $4,000 is available.
Methods by which Incorporated
towns have a right to appropriate wa
Ter. private property and water cours-
Is, are prescribed.
Appropriation of $500 is available {
FOR the maintenance of the Eastern
Oregon experiment station.