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'FORTY-FOUR
new LAWS
Soon To Become Effective
In Ohio
When Referendum Period
viii Have Expired
Several Of Them Are I'm.
poftant Measures
Law On Election Of U. S.
Law On Election Of U. S.
Senators Now In Force
List Of The Acts That viii
Soon Be Laws

Columbus, o., May 1S-Forty.four
new laws passed by the general assem-
bly, at the special session three months
ago will 60 into effect Within the next
week, when the referendum period of
80 days after their filing in the secre-
tary of states office expires. The gen
eral appropriations will become effec-
tive Monday. Others will go into eff
feet Wednesday or Thursday The
80 day period for several expired this
week and eleven, filed with the secre-
tary of state without governors sig
nature will not become effective until
about the end OF the first week in June.
A referendum petition filed on any
law within the referendum period
would automatically postpone its oper-
alton, but since no reports of any such
referendum on any special session law
has been received, it is probable the
dates will not be affected.
The law compelling payment OF
miners on a run of mine basis will
become effective Thursday, May 81,
and most of the rural school reform
laws the day following. The anti.
screen law is the only one which is ex-
pected to create any special commo-
tion when it becomes operative. The
$4,000 idle miners in the state then
will demand of operators a new wage
scale based on the mine run system, as
a matter of obeying the law.
The date the laws become effective
was set by miners officials several
weeks ago as the earliest probable
date when a strike would be declared.
The office of the state superintendent
of public instruction has been prepar-
ing for the operation of the new school
laws and the time of their potential op-
Grafton will not cause any change in
methods of work in the department,
Superintendent Miller said today.
Solid shooting in coal mines will be
prohibited in coal mines after Wednes-
day. On the same day the law compell-
ing the maintenance of safety equip,
ment at mines becomes operative.
The law establishing the Torrens
land title registration system in Ohio
goes into effect Wednesday, Beginning
Monday all state department will have
to pay any funds they have on hand
into the state treasury, in accordance
with the law which becomes effective
Wednesday. Nomination and election
of United States senators by a direct
vote of the people will be possible aft
er today, when the law providing the
machinery went into effect.
State banks will be permitted to join
the federal reserve system after We'd
nesday, when the new law will be in
full operation.
Among other statutes whose refer
endum period expires Wednesday, May
20, are these: Amending and strength
ening the blue sky" law; changing
the age at which boys may get school
ing certificates to 10, and girls to 16;
providing that liquor taxes shall not
be lien on property used for selling
liquor illegally without the knowledge
of the owner; regulating the catching
Of carp; fixing the open season for
game; allowing the board of trustees
of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Or
phans Home, Xenia, to fix teachers
salaries authorizing the reorganiza-
tion of the board of trustees Ohio
Wesleyan University; creating a court
of domestic relations in Hamilton
county; taking away jurisdiction Of
Hamilton county's insolvency court in
divorce and alimony proceedings; es-
tablishing a municipal court in Gin
cinnati.
Among the more important laws eff
fective Thursday, May 21, are these.