The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-03-21
.l49 BILLS SENT
TO GOVERNOR
LEGISLATURE PASSED GREAT.
EST NUMBER WITHIN A
DOZEN YEARS.
HOUSE AND SENATE BILLS
Brief Synopsis Of Bills That Were
Presented to Chief Executive by
Both Houses-People Name
a County.

Frankfort. After passing more
bills than have been passed at any
session of the legislature in the last
dozen years, the legislature of 1912
ended and the members scattered for
their homes. The total number of
bills sent to the governor for his ap-
prevail or disapproval was 149, three
Of which were passed after the hour
of midnight.
James E. Stone, clerk of the house,
says that the largest number of bills
ever passed at one session was the
one Immediately following the adop-
ton Of the new constitution, when
LIS acts were sent to the governor.
He says the passage of l49 at one
session is unusual, however
Governor McCreary has approved
80 Of the bills that have been sent to
him, leaving SO for consideration. He
was kept busy today saying goodbye
to legislators and hearing pleas for
this, that or the other bill. All of the
so that the governor has signed were
approved before the legislature adj
journed and his action reported to the
house and senate. Not bill has been
vetoed by the governor thus far, and
it is believed that he will approve
most Of those measures which have
been sent to him.
The bills thus far approved by the
governor are:
Senate Bills: IS, County unit; 8,
commissioner of public roads; 222,
state fire marshal; 17S, commission
form OF government for second class
cities; 238, to divide Kentucky into
eleven congressional districts; 225,
increased pay for teachers in Ken
lucky school for deaf; 258, training
of nurses In tuberculosis hospital in
Louisville; $40, consolidation of trust
companies organized in Kentucky;
ITS, to give sheriffs until December
81 to settle with auditor; 179, cleo
lions under commission form of gov
eminent: 22S. an additional circuit
Judge for Campbell county; 81, in
spection of schools and school funds;
46, increased appropriation for insti-
tuition education of blind; 165, game
and fish commission; 40, providing
stenographer for Commissioner Clay;
26, banking commissioners; II, ap-
pointing two additional insurance
commissioners; 10, pension o $40
per month for Confederate veterans;
1, primary elections; IS, additional
buildings at state fair; 10, pay Mrs.
VIM. Cromwell Cor services; 2S8, in
clude Metcalfe county in Tenth cir
cult court district.
House bills : 80, $4,000 for exper-
iment station; so, appropriation for
department of agriculture; 38, in
creased salary for patrolmen in JEFF
ferson county; AZ, Parental Home
and School commission in Louisville;
10, thirty-ffth judicial district of Pike
and Letcher counties; %, governors
mansion; 225, appropriation for state
university, Lexington, Ky; 103, fixing
number of children at twenty-five in
a district; %, repeal bureau OF vital
statistics, SO, changing time OF hold
ing courts in Eighth judicial district;
1923, changing time of holding courts
in Twentieth judicial district; 81, to
sell and purchase assets of corpora
ton whose charter expires in two
years; 209, $1,000 addition clerk hire
in office of attorney general; FOG, ad-
dition clerk hire in Office Of state
treasurer; 65, creating McCreary
county; 1876, employers to report to
insurance commissioner amount of in
surance collected and paid to injured
employees; 127 fva years limit en-
forcement of titles may be effective;
81, woman suffrage In school cleo
tons: 458. Panama canal exposition
commissioners; %. appropriating
$4,000 for governors mansion; 43,
prison commissioners appointed by
governor; 40, Jail matrons; 119, ts
supply county records that are lost;
So, fish hatchery at state fair
grounds; 131, supervision OF county
surveyors on public roadside, geolog-
icaI survey.