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

commission
House bill 7s5. appropriates $2s. 900 for
TO be used in establishing hog cholera
control stations in the various counties
Of the state.
Senate joint resolution Z, authorizing
the governor to arrange for persons liv-
ing along the water pipe line to the
Topeka Industrial institute to tap the
main.
Senate bin IS. provides that when the
tax levy is insufficient to run the schools
in a district, the board of education may
levy tax sufficient to make I'D the
deficit
Senate bill 72S. fixes the levy for state
purposes for 1913 at $500. 900, and far
1919 at not more than $4,000, 600
Senate bill 51S. validates school land
patents Of record for five years not
withstandins defects in proceedings prior
to the deed
Senate bill 713. authorizes the county
superintendent to appoint an assistant
in counties having more than 235 teachers
outside Of cities of the first and second
class.
Senate bill SO5. allows persons to be
declared lunatics whether residents of
the county or not.
Senate bill 633. requires enclosed yes
tibules for motormen on street and inter
urban cars
Senate bill 50. extends the time for set
ting aside judgment of the justice of the
peace courts given in the absence of the
defendant.
Senate bin 554, authorizes the disor-
ganizAtion of school districts and the at
tachment to adjacent districts when the
district fails to support a seven months
school
Senate bill 465. extends railroad passes
to include the families Of retired en-
ployes. railroad hospital employees, and
one undersherih in each county
Senate bill 42S. allows disorganized
drainage districts to be reorganized by
the judge of the district court for main
tenance purposes.
Senate bill 656, extends to second class
cities the right now enjoyed by first
class cities to open and widen alleys.
Senate bill 421. authorizes thresher-
mems liens on grain, to secure payment
of threShing bill.
injunetions concerning public works are
to be given right of way over other court
proceedings.
Senate bill III, requires Shawnee
county TO appoint a deputy sheriff and
night jailer for night service at the county
jail.
Senate bin 362. appropriates $50, 1852
for extension work in agriculture and
domestic science from the Agricultural
college.
Senate bill 39s, rewrites the hotel COM
missioner act, without making any
material changes in it
Substitute for senate bill 40, increases
the salaries OF county superintendent of
instruction in the smaller counties
House joint resolution 13 gives Shaw
nee county a right of way through the
state hospital grounds.
Senate bill 395, directed at the I W. W.
Makes it a misdemeanor to loiter in
community when offered work "at reason
ably fair wages
Senate bill 6S6. empowers county COM
against suits for alleged infringement of
cement patents.
Substitute for senate bill 432, provides
that the state and national ticket shall
be printed on one ballot and the district
township and county tickets on another
ballot
Substitute for senate bill Al, relates
to the apportionment of funds for county
high schools.
Senate bill So, allows three commits
sioners instead of five in cities of the
first class Of less than is, 600 population.
Senate bill 702. authorizes townships to
levy tax to build town hall.
Senate bill 5S5, enables second class
cities to build and maintain hospitals
House bill 6SS. the child labor law of
federal law, forbids the employment of
children under IA years of age in fac
tories, workshops, theatets, mills. pack
ing houses or from operating elevators
m1ssioners to levy tax of one-fourth
mill to pay for the erection of soldiers
House bill $50. creates an examining
board for mine foremen and superintend-
ents.
House bill ga. extends the member
ship of the state board of agriculture
to all county agricultural and fair asso-
Citations
House bill IA, authorizes the state
superintendent of insurance to license
mutual indemnity fire insurance COM
panies of other states to do business in
Kansas on payment of the same sized
fee required in home state.
House bill $50. authorizes fraternaI in
surance companies to write life and an
nuity insurance on children between the
ages of and IS years.
House bill 461, authorizes counties
having county high schools to vote bonds
for the purchase of a site and the cree
ton Of building on petition of one
third the voters and on q majority vote
at an election.
House bill 664, authorizes the super
lntendent of insurance to investigate fire
insurance rates, and gives him access to
the books and records of the EIdridge
Rating bureau.
Senate bill $50. allows the state to buy
and for irriga ton experimental purposes.
Senate bill 296, increases salaries and
Of the supreme court.
Senate bill 664, allows Kansas City,
has-, to pave roads outside the city limits |
to connect with hard surfaced highways
Senate bill 13S, compels the railroads
IN Kansas City, Kas-, to help pay for
the construction of viaducts-
House bill S7S, vacates certain town |
sites OF a number of cities in the state |
House bill $50. requires clearance GER
tifcates from the sheriff before livestock
IAN be shipped outside the county. APP
plies only to counties of less than 1000 |
population.
House bill sos, adds several items to |
the list Of products sold by weight
House bill 246, allows a tax of nine
-enths mill for the support of Barnes |
ligh schools, and allows counties sup
porting more than eight of these schools /
10 levy heavier tax. il necessary.
House bill 469, authorizes the governor /
10 deed back to Greedy county certain 1
and donated to the state for irrigation
purposes.
House bill 5s3. allows the levying of
| special tax to cover county moneys
ost through a bank failure or other
,auses.
House bill 40, sets a standard size
md construction for cabooses buiItsn the /
uture for use in Kansas.
House bill SIS, provides that members
II the council or commission in first and