Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-05-23
new LAWS in EFFECT
STATUTES OF STATE INCREASED
BY 28s MEASURES.

STATUTES OF STATE INCREASED
BY 283 MEASURES.
Numerous Appropriations BY Recent
Legislature, Approximating
100000
Acts enacted by the recent Legisla-
ture, and which did not carry the
emergency clause, took effect at mid
night Saturday, May 20, 80 days from
the adjournment of the Legislature
There are several hundred new laws
amendments to old statutes and inn
portant changes in procedure. The
heavy appropriations made by the
session, and which approximate $4,-
100000, became available.
Appended is brief synopsis of the
more important of the 26S new laws;
Providing for passageways in arti-
fetal distractions of streams; limiting
hook and line fishing to a point with
in zoo feet of fishway, and netting
and seining to within 600 feet, and al
lowing hook and line for fishing for
salmon in the Willamette river and its
tributaries the year round, but limit
ing the catch in the season closed tc
net fishermen to three day.
Dolly Warden Trout.
Prohibiting the propagation or pro-
lection of Dolly Warden trout.
Providing for the licensing of agents
Of fire insurance companies.
Defining adulteration and establish
ing standards for certain dairy pro
ducts
Prohibiting combinations called
trusts on the part of casualty, marine
plate glass, surety and fire insurance
companies.
Providing for the marking of skins
of destructive animals at the time
bounties are collected, so as to prevent
impositions on the state.
Prohibiting the sale of misbrandet
insecticides and specifying the per
centages of poisons to be placed In
certain mixtures.
Providing for the appointment and
pay of two chaplains for the state
penitentiary and reform school,
Appropriating $4,000 to acquire
land for fish hatchery sites and fol
building and operating hatcheries or
Coast streams south of the Columbif
river.
Marriage Licenses.
Providing a penalty for failure o.
any person solemnizing a marriage tt
deliver to the County Clerk for record
within the time specified certificate
of such marriage.
Regulating the breeding and sale o.
pure blood and graded horses ant
Jacks, and creating stallion registra
ton board and defining it's duties.
To safeguard and protect railway
employees and passengers by requiring
the guarding of frogs, switches anC
guard rails, and the employment o.
competent f1agmgen.
Creating the office of State Immi
grafton Agent, prescribing his duties
and appropriating 100000 for state
advertising.
Creating a state bureau of mines
defining it's powers and duties, pro
viding for the appointment OF a di
rector, and appropriating $1,000 annu
ally for such purposes.
Judicial Commission.
Providing for the appointment D!
the Governor of Commission to pro
nose and recommend a revision of thu
judicial system of Oregon, allowing
each commissioner $40 for every da!
of actual service, limiting the com
nensation of each member to $4OO
and appropriating $4,000 for the pur
poses of the act.
Appropriating $4,000 for the ex
pense of agricultural investigations
by the oregon Experimental Station a
Corvallis.
Providing for tine payment of al
annual license fee to the state by tn
claimants to the use of water TO
mower purposes where the water wa
applied to power generation and tn
mower generated prior to May ~
1909. with penalties for failure to pa!
and a method of collection.
Creating a survey fund in the hand
Of the state Treasurer and providing
for its use by the State Engineer Il
making certain surveys and investiga
tions looking to the gathering of dat
concerning typographical features
stream flow and water power.
Appropriatlng $1,000 annually TO
surveys in connection with water righ
determinations by the Board of Con
troll. and fixing the salary of tn
state Engineer at $4,000 a year.
City Elections.
To provide for the calling of specia
elections to vote upon the annexatio
of territory of any incorporated tow
or city.
Amending the codes so as to pro
vide a more nearly complete syster
for the drainage Of lands and the or
sanitation and work of drainage sys
/ tens.
Providing for the transfer to Circui
Courts. practically the same as II o
appeal. cases begun in County Court
m which the County Judge is part
or directly interested.
Providing exceptions to the law re
ouiring children TO be sent to tn
nublic schools. defining the duties
district boundary boards and truar
oa3cers in such cases, and specifyin
the procedure when parents or guard
fans refuse to obey the law.
To provide for the viewing and loca
,,on Of county roads from residence
land timber land or timber OF person
whose property is rot reached by an
convenient public road. and for IN
.ssessnent Of damages 10 be sustaine
nv the location OF such road
For a commission to investigate n
,roDossl TO place a statue Of Geors
u Williams in the Hall OF statuary
washington. d. c. and appropriatin
1900 as expenses therefor.
state Health Onicers-
To appropriate $4,000 a year Il
r.vr,ent Of the salary Of the secretaI
= -. stats Board Of Health. the sa