The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-24

under an old statute three years from
March I, 1917
House bill 4S. compels employers Il
redeem in lawful money any sort of script
or due bills given as payment OF wages Il
employees
Senate bill 44s. creates a commission tc
codify and propose revision of the Goa
mining laws.
House bill 81, allows first class cite.
Of less than $1,000 population to levy
tax of mills for the support OF school:
and mills for building.
House bill $40, authorizes boards OF
trustees of high schools to levy tax OF
mills petition of 81 per cent of the
voters to clear up outstanding indebted
ness.
House bill p, requires that pupils from
outside districts attending high schools
without tuition, must pass an exam
ination before admission
House bill 4SS. repeats an old act re-
curing an election to allow the admission
Of nonresident pupils to county high
schools.
House bill 374. allows first class cities
of less than $4,000 population to issue
bonds for school purposes amounting to
21s per cent of the taxable property, in
stead Of ~ per cent
House bill 4S6, repeats the law author
employing ten or more teachers to ap-
point a committee to give teachers exam
House bill s7a. raises the limit of the
amount of bonds that can be issued for
school purposes in second class cities from
"a to 21z per cent of the taxable prop
erty.
House bill 373. raises the limit of the
tax levy for schools in cities of the
second class from to 10 mills.
Senate bill 494, allows the Incorporation
of cooperative companies where ma
nf nf
Kansas
House bill 665, allows life insurance
companies to invest funds in municipal.
county and school district bonds in other
states, as well as in Kansas
Senate bill 3S9, authorizes the organiza-
ton of mutual indemnity associations
among physicians.
House bill, POI, relieving the plaintiff
in a suit before justice of the peace of
the necessity of filing an undertaking that
the suit is brought in good faith.
House bill 80, requires the probate judge
to pay into the county treasury all fees
from juvenile court cases
Senate bill 500, requires executors and
administrators to pay into the county
treasury any money left in their hands
unclaimed by heirs within a year.
Senate concurrent resolution Is sub
uniting to the people of Kansas an
amendment to the constitution allowing
the legislature to levy tax for the sup
port of state educational institutions
House bill ia, exempts members of
volunteer fire departments from the pay
ing of poll tax
House bill $50, allows counties to levy
a tax of l mill for the determination OF
grasshOppers.
Senate bill $50. taxes oil wells, equip
Tnent and estimated production, as per
sonal property.
Senate bill sos, one of the good roads,
measures, requires all bridge contracts to
be let in open competition and requires
the county engineer to furnish estima ties.
and in case of any dispute among the
commissioners and county engineer the
state highway commission has power to
decide the matter
Senate bill 90, compeIs contractors
building or repairing roads or streets
to keep red lights displayed to mark dan
gerous places in the night
House bill 7S3 allows double election
boards in precincts having 200 or more
voters, instead of requiring $50 or more
Senate bill 529, fixing the time for the
puoicat1on of election notices. requires
the county clerk to publish notice fifteen
days in advance of q regular election or
12O days in advance of primary election
Senate bill 718, supplemental to the
bone dry law, giving cities authority to
make ordinances prohibiting the possess
sion of intoxicating liquors.
House bill 3O2, adds a provision allow
ing the erection of buildings in the law
authorizing cities to purchase land for
park purposes.
House bill 395. authorizes cities of the
second and third class to create an en-
dowment fund for the care of cemeteries.
House bill 375. provides the school
boards In cities of the first class shall
elect a clerk who is not member of the
board.
Senate bill II. authorizes cities of
second or third class, not operating under
the commission form of government to
sprinkle streets at the expense of occu-
pants of abutting buildings on petition of
90 per cent of such occupants.
Senate bin Sal. authorizes cities of the
second or third class to vote bonds for
the erection of combined city halls and
libraries
Senate bill $50. authorizes increases in
tax levies in cities of the second and third
classes.
House bill 527, Iegalizes bonds voted bv
third class cities for the erection of city
halls, invalidated by superf1uous language
in publication
Senate bill 3T6 authorizes cities of the
hrst class having a population of less than
25,O9O' to install water meters at the ex-
pense OF the property owners
Senate bin 1872 allows second class
cities. on vote of the people, to levy a
tax of two-tenths of a mill for a muni-
cipal band.
House bill 45s. allows first class cities
A~HS q SdA III L Inlll IOr the support OF
fire departments.
Senate bill 332, raises salaries of the
marshals of the city court of Kansas
City, Kas., 5000 a year, and of the Judges
$500 year, and of the clerks $500 a year
Senate bill $50. requires clerk of the dis
trlct court in Sedgwick county to pay the
county treasurer each day the money
taken in the day before.
House bill us. a local bill changes the
term of court in the Thirteenth judicial
district
Senate bill 444, provides for stenog
raphers for the county attorneys in Sedg-
wick and Wyandotte counties
House bill Isl, fixes the salary of the
judge of the Atchison city court at 81, 200.
and of the marshal at $500, to be paid
by the county.
Senate bill 721, compels Bourban county
to employ a deputy sheriff.
Senate bill $50, requires the sheriff of
Wyandotte county to appoint baiIifFs for
each division of the district court
Senate bill 275. allows Wyandotte county
commissioners to appoint a county coun-
selor-
Senate bill PA, authorizes wyandotte
county to appoint two deputy county at
torneys.
Senate bill 56S. deeds back to Lane
county certain land that has been used
for Irrigation experimental purposes
Senate bill $50, conveys the states
interest in land that has been used for
experimental DUrDOSaS n Hamilton