The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-25
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Volume Contains Total of 124
New Enactments.
This Is Earliest Publication for
Number of Years.
TOTAL OF 1871 OTHER LAWS
Feature Is Table Giving Acts
Amended Or Repealed.
Law Provides for Publication of
10000 Copies.
TOTAL OF 1871 OTHER LAWS

Win Official puDllcat1On today or
the volume containing the session
laws of the 1921 Kansas legislature,
124 new enactments became effective.
The ISL other 1921 laws went into eff
feet with publication in the official
state paper.
May 25 is the earliest the session
laws have been published in recent
years. The 1919 session laws were
issued on June II. The present vol
pages, which is about the same as in
1917 and 1919. The work of compila-
ton and indexing, under the direc-
ton of L. j. Pettijohn, secretary of
state, was done bye. D. Yetter. as
sisted by Mrs Ida Wolf. feature
complete table of all laws amended or
repealed since publication of the gem
eral statutes of 1915, proved SO popu
lar with the legal profession, that it
the 1921 volume.
Print 10000 Copies.
In accordance with law, 10000
copies of the session laws have been
printed. About 5000 of these are dis
tributed gratis to all township, county
and state officials. The balance are
sold to the public at 81 for the cloth
bound or SO cents for the paper bound
volume. This is said to be very near
| if not below cost.
The New Laws.
The principal new laws which
went into effect today are:
/ H. B. 6-Authorizing tiles of over 10000
| to establish districts or zones and per-
hitting city to control by ordinance the
kind Of business to be conducted or kind
of building to be erected in these zones.
H. B. 31-Making false entries or mis-
i appropriation of bank funds felony in
stead of a misdemeanor.
, H. B. 225-Permitting establishment of
free kindergartens in cities of 1880 per;
attendance of least forty children be-
tween 5. and Z years old.
| IL. Il. 229-Creattng a stateaid' road
fund and providing for its administration
| by the county commissioners.
| II. B. 2S2-Prohibiting the use. posses
sion and sale of opium, coca leaves and
their derivatives, excepting by physicians
dentists and other authorized persons I'M
der certain regulations.
| H. b. 334-Amending anti boxing law Sc
as to permit bouts before private clubs
such as American Legion, providing that
\ boxers are to receive no compensation
five-ounce gloves or heavier to be used.
| H. b. 337-Providing a penalty for fail
ure or neglect of the exclusive use of the
! English language in teaching in all ele-
mentary schools.
! H. B. 364-Amending mothers pension
pulsory by board of county commissioners
upon certain conditions of dependency be-
ing shown also increasing maximum pen
sion from $25 to $50 month
H B. 412-providing a penalty for the
| wrongful use of the insignia or buttons OF
! war veteran organizations or their auxil-
iaries
H B. 441-Providing for referendum al
general election of 1922 on authorization OF
bond issue, not exceeding $25,00O.000 tC
| compensate discharged veterans of the
| world war at a rate of one dollar per day
| for each days service.
II. B. 492-Permitting free public libra.
ries, when voted.
H. r. Exchanging term of county su.
perintendent of public instruction to begiI
first Monday of July of each odd mum
bered year beginning with 1923, instead Of
| January l.
H. B! 597-Providing for the examina.
ton, registration and regulation of grad
uate nurses.
S. B. 76-Providing for the payment by
county of tuition for high school students
in districts where there are no accredited
schools.
S. B. 260-Providing for the construction
maintenance and operation of dorm:~> ~
buildings for the use of women students al
the state educational institutions.
S. B. 310-Establishing a bureau of child
research at the University of Kansas.
S. Z. 550-IncreasiI automobile license
fees to q minimum of SIS. with an additiona
so cents for each 100 pounds of weight in
excess of 1000 pounds. For motor trucks
| the fees from SIS on one ton or less tC
800 for five tons, over five tons, $25 a ton
! s. b. 639-LegaliZing cooperative mar
keting of agricultural products thru direct
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