The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-24
List of Measures Passed by the
Legislature and Signed by
Governor Capper.
MANY OF THEM IMPORTANT
Session of 1917 Adds $50 New Statutes
to Those Now in Force in
in State.

the governor had signed house bill
$50, the last bill presented for his sig
nature. Speaker A NJ Keene. in the
house. appointed Endres, of Leaven-
worth; Jones, OF Usage, and Moser,
of Jefferson, to notify. the senate and
the governor that the house had fin
ished its business and was going
home. Lieut.. Gov w. Y. Morgan,
president of the senate, delegated the
entire senate in session, consisting of
Senator Schoch, of Shawnee, to per-
form the like ceremony for the senate,
and the session was over.
checking up of it's work shows
that it just barely gets by with the
fewer laws passed" record, a total
of $50 laws having been passed and
signed by the governor The 1915 leg
islature enacted 395 laws, and the
1913 legislature placed 376 laws on the
statute books. Six years ago the 1911
legislature got by with only 346 new
laws, ten less than the number enact
ed by the 1917 set of legislators
Following are the bills passed and
signed by Governor Capper:
House bill 7S1 requires the head of every
department and institution to make an
ttemized account of all receipts and dis
bursements. with budget for succeeding
year, to the governor
House bill S26, budget act. providing
that the governor shall compile a
budget Of estimated appropriations for
the state institutions and departments,
to be submitted to the legislature
House bill 335. movie censorship BILL
creates a board of three members, ap
pointed by the governor, to censor
movies Headquarters at Kansas City,
Kan.
Senate bill 164 raises the age limit
of girls to be committed to the indus
trial school at Beloit from 16 to IS
years.
Senate bill 40 provides that grain
inspection fees may be decreased when
the money accumulated in the grain in
spection revolving fund reaches $40, 600.
Raises the salary of the chief inspector
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year and that of
the first assistant from S125 a month to
$3.50 a year
House bill S24 increases the salary of
the adjutant general from $4,000 to
So, 600 year.
House bill 643 creates three new offices
in the office of the secretary of the state
board OF agriculture, one carrying a salary
or $1,000, one at $1,000 and one at 1000
a year.
Senate bill 267 changes the date of the
meeting of the medical registration board
from the second Tuesday in June to the
third Tuesday
Senate bill So prohibits the employment
in state institutions of persons related by
blood or marriage to a member of the
governing board or the head of the in
stftution
Senate bill 26S gives the deputy sealer
of weights and measures the right to col
lect the same fees the seaIer himself
Senate bill 699 increases the salaries of
the supreme court justices to 1000
year.
Senate bill 577 provides the secretary
of state shall attend to the engrossing
OF bills, and enrolled bills shall be printed
under the supervision of the state printer
Senate bill 6S7. oil inspection bill, fixes
the fee for inspection at 8 cents for a
barrel of fifty gallons. Fixes the salary
of the inspector at 81 500 a year of depu-
ties at $1,000 and of a bookkeeper at
$1,000 Sets a standard for kerosene and
gasoline.
Senate bill 2SS provides that cash de-
posted in the state bank guaranty fund
must be deposited in the state treasury
Senate bill 719, allows the public utili-
ties commission to make rules governing
the distribution of freight cars.
Senate bill 675. gives the utilities COM
mission the power to regulate the building
of bridges or dams across navigable
streams by private individuals or corpo-
rations.
House bill $50. gives the public utilities
commission power to regulate the placing
of electric wires used by public utilities
SO that they do not interfere with other
wires.
House bill S3S. makes the railroad right
of-way and depot grounds, pay taxes in
drainage districts for drainage work and
maintenance.
Senate bill us. provides land NAV be
appropriated by political subdivisions for
oil and gas companies as we'll as common
carriers. and strikes out an existing
statute prohibiting the piping of oil
beyond the state
Senate bill 210, authorizes the state
board of control to deed to the NJ, K. &
II railroad four lots. in consideration of
the building of a spur track to the Par
sons hospital for epiIeptics
Senate bin 46 legalizes an issue of rail-
road aid bonds by the city of Parsons
Senate bill 40. authorizes acceptance
of Antelope park, in Finney county from
the federal government as a game pre-
serve
Senate bill $50, grants a right of Uav To
the Hutchinson & Northern railway over
the grounds of the state reformatory.
House bill rs. gives agricultural fair
associations the right of eminent domain
TO condemn land for fair grounds
House bill 491, provides for the inspec-
ton and weighing of hay and straw at
terminal points.
Senate bin 10Y. attempts to regulate.
through the public utilities commission.
the distribution of cars
House bill 6I5, requires shippers of live
stock to be identified before the stock is
accepted by the railroad for shipment
Senate bis 249, requires railroad COM
panles to notify shippers of leaking or
defective grain cars
House bill 491. provides for the inspec-
ton of hay and straw by the state grain
inspector.
House bill 81, regulates the firing of
shots in coal mines.
House bill 574. provides for the con-
struction and maintenance of permanent
bath houses at coal mines.
House bill $50, gives the department of
labor additional power to compel safe
guarding of machinery and proper sani-
tary conditions in factories and work
shops. and provides that safety devices
must be kept in use.
Senate bill 24S. extends the time for
constructing escape shafts in coal mines
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