The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-04-20
THE LEON REPORTER, THURSDAY, APRIL co. 1911.

Increasing salaries of county clerks
ranging to $4,000 to $4,000.
! Board may provide for laying gas
mains on county roads.
Authorizing contracts for bridges
across state border streams.
Fees by county clerk in insane
and other cases.
Authorizing transfer of surplus Of
bond fund to bridge fund.
! Change in law as to removal of
county seats.
City Affairs.
Authorizing department of public
ity by appropriation of $500 a year.
| Authorizing towns to make street
improvements same as cities.
Authorizing removal Of derelict IL
brary trustees.
| Making federal census apply as
we'll as state census in deciding the
status Of cities.
| Authorizing amendment of fran
chise by vote of the people.
| Authorizing cities to establish
building regulations.
Providing for approval Of plats Of
additions.
Authorizing change of street
names.
Proceeds of sale of fire apparatus
to go into the fire fund.
Revision of law as to trial of po-
licemen and firemen.
Amendments as to the law for
pensions for firemen and policemen
State Institutions.
Transfer blind college at Vinton to-
board of education.
Providing for placing out in homes
boys and girls from industrial
schools.
Payment for children placed in
private benevolent institutions.
Making estates of nonresident in
sane liable for their support.
Extending for one year terms Of
members of the state board of con-
troll.
Making children in the state orph-
ans wards of the state.
| Providing for pardons by the
board of parole in major cases.
Raising age of commitment to in
dustrial schools to ten years.
Giving employees at Knoxville po-
lice authority over inmates.
| state departments.
| Revision as to dairy commissioner
and increase of power and force.
| Creation of board of animal health
for veterinary department.
| Undertakers must report tubercu-
losis cases.
Curator may certify as to official
records.
! Law as to purity of ice cream and
fixing standard for same.
| Inspection of gasoline, also tur-
pentine and linseed.
Corporation Matters.
| Foreign corporation pay filing fee
only on capital used in Iowa.
Releasing interurban from need of
issuing stock for tax aid
Allowance for promotion of stock
in forming new corporations.
Domestic building and loan associ-
atoms to pay 25 dollars filing fee
only.
railroads under railroad commission.
Regulating size and character of
caboose on freight trains.
| Appropriations.
| For fifteen state institutions,
$575,65O.
For the three state educational in
situations $946,40O.
Increase pay of legislators to
$1,000.
Support state library and histori-
cal department, $4,000.
Appropriations for buildings on
state fair grounds, $4,000.
For railroad commission in the de-
Tense of interstate cases, $4,000.
Pay state agents of board of con-
troll, $4,000
For state hog cholera serum labor
atory, $4,000.
State antitoxin department in
board of health, $1,000.
Monument to soldiers in Keokuk,
$4,000.
Authority for the state executive
council to pay costs in state cases.
Purchase of railroad maps, $4,000.
Deficit in state institution, $751;
500.
Completion of soldiers roster, ST.
900.
To enforce pure drug laws, $1,000.
Deficit in railroad commissioners
expense fund, $1,000.
Inaugural expenses, $462.83.
] House contests, $766.40.
Bill Which Failed.
Important legislation proposed
failed of enactment. One of the most