The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-08-19
NEW BILLS PASSED
BY LEGISLATURE

ture, which are of general importance:
To provide for the collection of past
due taxes Of state, county or munich
pality.
To provide $4,000 to pay expenses
and per diem of members of the gen
eral assembly for services rendered
and expenses incurred as members of
committee authorized to sit in vaca-
ton OF the assembly.
To create the county of Cook, with
Abel as the county seat. The new
county is taken from Berrien.
To define and fix the age of consent,
which is fixed at the age of IA.
To empower the state superintend-
ent of schools, the attorney general
and the chairman of the senate and
house committees on education to CO.
dfy the school laws.
To authorize the governor to ap-
point a commission of five members
from the citizens of the state to in
vestigate the advisability of buying
wharves and docks for the state.
To prohibit the bringing into the
state of Georgia stolen property, and
providing a penalty for buying or re-
ceiving such property.
To regulate the salaries of deputy
sheriffs in counties of not less than
$4,000 nor more than $4,000 popu-
lation, providing salary of $125 per
month
To increase sherif's fees. The in
crease provided will increase the in
COTE sheriffs about third of their
present salary.
To give consent of state of Georgia
to acquisition by the United States
government OF such lands as may be
needed for the establishment of nat
iona1 forest reserve. This is repeal
of what is known as the Bynum law.
: To provide budget system i'll the
state create an efficiency and economy
commission authorizing and requiring
said commission to prepare a state
| budget Of estimated revenue and rec
ommend expenditures and bills to
provide for same and present to the
general assembly and to create the
office OF state auditor of public &C
counts and for other purposes.
To provide for change in the state
constitution allowing 1913 representa-
tives in the house and provision for
their distribution.
To provide for absent voters in al
lowing those engaged in actual war
service to send ballots to ordinares
Of home counties for record, to re-
main in effect one year after close OF
the war.
To regulate the salaries of jailers,
guards, turkeys and other Jail EN-
ployees in counties having a popula-
ton of not less than $4,000 nor more
than 125,000, providing an increase OF
II 1-2 per cent on present salaries and
continuing for two years after close
Of war.
The work or fight bill: The age in
cluded is from Is to IS, and does not
include temorary strikers as named in
the original bill. A commission is to
be appointed to reconcile differences
of dispute and decide when law is ap-
plicable in such cases. All able-bodied
men must engage in work needful for
successful prosecution of the war.
To increase the salary of the gov
ernor to $500.
To increase the number OF sena-
toria1 districts from A to 81 and re-
group counties into senatorial dis
tricts OF three counties each.
To increase per diem salary of men,
bers of the general assembly from
81 to 81 and the speaker of the house
and president of the senate from 81
to $40.
TO appropriate $4,000 for bureau
OF markets in the department of agri-
culture.
To provide for statewide tick Grad
ication.
To provide for board which shall
supervise all state institutions, and ap-
preparations for the same, and make
report of all appropriations and state
finances to the legislature at its open
ing each year.
To prevent the practice of tipping III
hotels, restaurants, barber shops, COM
mon carriers and sleeping cars and
other public places.
| To allow the Ducktown Sulphur,
Copper and Iron Company to increase
its output, and to provide an arbitra-
ton board to assess the damages &C
cruing to surrounding territory on &C
count of the fumes.
To allow counties and munlc1pali-
ties to pass bonds by two-thirds
vote of those voting on election day.
providing the two-thirds is majority
of the registered voters.
To require reporting cases OF social
diseases.
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