Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-16
GERMANS GIVING BEFORE BRITISH and French
MANY IMPORTANT BILLS
PASSED BY LEGISLATURE
Much Legislation of Statewide
Interest Carried to
Completion

The session of the general assembly
which came to an end in the daybreak
hours of Thursday morning passed no
little legislation of general and state
wide Importance. in addition to the usual
flood of local bills,
A resume of the bills of general in
terest passed by the 1913 legislature
since the opening of the session. is as
follows:/
The general appropriation bill, carry
ing a budget of approximately s6.S0o,o00.
To provide for the collection of past
due taxes of state, county or municipal
ity.
To provide So, 200 to pay expenses and
per diem of members of the general as
sembIy for services rendered and ex-
penses incurred as members of COM
mittee authorized to sit in vacation of
the assembly.
To create the county of Cook, with
Abel as the county seat. The new coun-
ty is taken from Berrien.
To define and fix the age of consent,
which is fixed at the age of fourteen
To empower the state superintendent
of schools, the attorney general, the
chairman of the senate and house COM
mittees on education to codify the school
laws.
To authorize the governor to appoint
q commission of five members from the
citizens of the state to investigate the
advisabilitys of buying wharves ana
docks for the state.
To prohibit the bringing into the state
of Georgia stolen property, and provid-
ing a penalty for buying or receiving
such property.
To regulate the salaries of deputy sher-
iffs in counties of not less than $4,000
nor more than 1885, 900 population, pro-
viding salary of $125 per month.
To increase sheriffs' fees. The increase
provided will increase the income OF
sheriffs about 80 1-3 per cent.
To give consent of state of Georgia
to ACQUISITION by the United States gov
eminent of such lands as may be needed
for the establishment of national for
est reserve This is repeal OF what Is
known as the Bynum law.
To provide a budget system IN the
state to create an efficiency and econ
orny commission authorizing and requ1r-
ing said commission to prepare state
budget of estimated revenue and recon-
mend expenditures and bills to prov1oe
for same and present to the general as
sembly and to create the office OF state
auditor of public accounts and for other
purposes.
To provide for change in the state
constitution allowing 1913 representa-
tives in the house and provision or their
distribution.
To provide for absent voters in allow
ing those engaged in actual war service
to send ballots to ordinartes OF home
countries for record. to remain in effect
one year after the close of the war.
To regulate the salaries of jailers,
guards, turnkeys and other jail employees
in counties having a population OF not
less than "a, 900 nor more than 1z5,OOV'
providing an increase of IL IL per cent
on present salaries and continuing Tor
two years after close of the war.
The work or fight bill: The age in
cluded is from Is to SIS, and does not
include temporary strikers as named in
the original bill. A commission is to be
appointed to reconcile differences or
dispute and decide when law is applica-
ble in such cases. All able-bodied men
must engage in work needful for suc-
cessful prosecution of the war.
To increase the salary of the cover
nor to $1,000.
To increase the number Of senatorial
districts from A to 81 and regroup' coun-
ties into senatorial districts of thres
counties each.
To increase per diem salary of MEM
bers of general assembly from 81 to 81
and the speaker of the house and presi-
dent from 81 to $40.
To appropriate $4,000 for a bureau
of markets in the department OF agrf
culture.
cation.
To provide for a board which shall
supervise all state institutions, and ap-
preparations for the same, end make a
report of all appropriations and state
finances to the legislature at its open
ing each year,
To prevent the practice of tipping IN
hotels, restaurants, barber shops, COM
mon carriers and sleeping cars and 9TH
er public places.
To allow the Ducktown Sulphur, Cop
per and Iron company to increase its
output. and to provide an arbitration
board to assess the damages accruing
to surrounding territory on account Of
fumes.
To allow counties and municipalities
to pass bonds by. a two-thirds vote of
those voting Oh election day, providing
the two-thtrds is a ma jority of the reg
istered voters.
TO require reporting cases OF social
diseases.
To provide for separation of state
banking department and state treasury,
and to fix salaries therein
To appoint state warehouse COM
mission and establish a system of ware
houses. with official weighers and grad
ers.
To esta blish an experiment station in
coasta: plain section of Georgia.
To authorize the right of eminent do
main by Western and Atlantic railroad,
so as to authorize lessee to condemn
property for use of the road, which
shall revert to the state.
Spring street improvement bf1l passed.
Charter amendments for the city of
Atlanta to provide that counmilmen and
aldermen may succeed themselves with
ont limitation so long as the people
may see fit to elect them, to increase
the borrowing power of the mayor to
$500, 900, 20 elect five members of the
board of education by vote of the peo-
pie, ma king the mayor and the member
of general council on schools ex-officio
members OF the school board, to provide
for the creation of a captain in charge
of the bureau of Identification at the
police station.