The Nevada County picayune., 1915-02-12
BILL PROVIDES 4
 STATE ACCOUNTANT
CREATES OFFICE THAT WOULD LAST FOR TERM OF YEARS
 UNTIL JANUARY i, 1880.
AT YEARLY SALARY OF S3,000
Provides For Semi-Annual Audit of the Books and Accounts of All
 Offices and Departments.
Little Rock.

Little Rock
 The house is considering a bill in troduced by Representative Rorex to create the office of state accountant Tor term of years ending January Il, 1930. The accountant shall be ap- polnted-by the governor for a period of six years at a salary Of y3,000 per year and expenses.
 The bill provides that all state of ices and state institutions now being maintained by state funds shall rem der once each month to the state ac- countant, whose office shall be in the state capitol building, detailed statement. showing date, voucher number and amount drawn from each appropriation provided for by the leg iSlature and the exact amount re maining to the credit of each appro. priation once each month.
 It shall be the duty of the state ac- countant to make an audit twice each year of the books and accounts of all the state offices and institutions While these audits are being made, the state accountant shall have full authority to take under his control and examine all books, papers, con- tracts and agreements
 At any time the governor, where cause shall be shown that necessity is apparent, order the state account ant to make a special investigation relative to the financial affairs of any state office or state institution. The result of such special investigation shall be submitted in written sign ed statement to the governor as soon as completed.
 It shall be the duty of the state ac- Countant to immediately file report to the governor following the discov' cry of any irregularity in the hand ling of any funds or moneys as pro vided by the statutes
 has been relieved of duty on the Budget Committee and Senator Over man has been named in his stead.
 The salary of the assistant librarian of the Supreme Court has been in- creased from $50 to s75 a month.
 The Senate passed a bill by Senator Wagner to permit children under 16 to work on the farm without violat- ing the Child Labor Act
 A bill has been introduced in the Senate to pay Judge w. F. Kirby S12,- 500 additional for his services as spe- cial counsel in the rate cases
 Both houses adjourned at D. m Wednesday until Monday morning to enable the committees to visit the va rious institutions.
 The house by vote of 42 to 39 nassod tho Moore Senate bill to make the possession of burglars tools felony. There was opposition on the ground that it. is too drastic and that 1t may work an injustice on some innocent persons.
 The House Committee on Practice ot Medicine recommended fsyorably the Tedford bill to regulate the prac- tice of drugless therapeutics.
 The law for the state aid to high htnI repeal. was passed in 1911. It takes e50.0o0 per year out of the common school fund for the aid of high schools and normal work. Of this amount 1tO.o0O Ia used in paying tuition of country children who attend city high schools, and Sl0.000 is used for nor nal work in the high schools. The bill for repeal was introduced in the house by Representative Miller It passed the lOuse January 25
 Speaker Sawyer named Reepresen. tatives oung, Cazort and Joiner as a special committee to investigate the acts Of the State Board of Charities that has been in controversy for sev- eral months. Senators Bush and Car. ter are the Senate members
 The House Judiciary Committee re- ported favorably upon a bill by Mir ierger for q constitutional conven- tion to be held in Little Rock Septem- Der z, 1915, with S5 delegates, one from each county and ten from the state at large.
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