The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-04-21
PARTIAL LIST
BILLS PASSED
Forty-eighth Legislature Closed
Wednesday After Stormy
Session.

A partial list of the more important
bills passed by the 1888 legislature is as
follows:
Extending trunk highway system
1000 miles; licensing automobile
drivers; compromising with national
banks to collect approximately So ,O0O, 600
in state taxes in two years; creating 13
new state forests; taxing oleomargarine
containing less than 40 per cent animal
fat, 10 cents per pound; cutting pas
Senger car license fees from 20 to so
per cent; cutting penalties for delin-
quent passenger car fees so per cent
liquidating the rural credit bureau;
permitting state teachers colleges to
charge tuition; regulating industrial
loan agencies.
Handling of Twin Cities sewage
through a disposal system; taxing in
comes; compelling firms paying gross
earnings taxes to pay regular license
fees for motor vehicles; taxing chain
stores; prohibiting court injunctions in
labor disputes; allowing $l,500,0OO for
poor relief next two years. regulating
sale of beer; setting up machinery for
considering ratification of Eighteenth
amendment repeal repeating certain
state prohibition enforcement laws
| enacted since 1913; outlawing machine
guns; granting moratoriums on mort
cages; reapportioning the state; post
poning sale of property for non-pay-
ment of 1881 real estate taxes; permit
ting municipal power lines to extend
service beyond municipal boundaries.
Authorizing old age pension systems
by counties; regulating contract carrier
trucks; raising truck taxes; increasing
truck safety measure; replacing the in
dividual primary ballot with CONSOLE
dated ballot; permitting counties to
consolidate; authorizing statewide box
! ing; compelling 54-hour week for
women in industry; cutting price OF
lpriSon-made Irvine, farm machinery and
machinery parts; authorizing a consti-
tutional amendment on a proposal to
exempt household goods and farm
machinery from taxation; authorizing
constitutional amendment on a pro-
posal to exchange state for federal
lands; permitting use of SO per cent
| of gas tax revenue to pay road and
bridge bonds in counties more than 4C
per cent tax delinquent.
Designating the state board of con-
trolls state relief agency; permitting
counties to issue bonds for poor relief
subject to the governors approval; per-
hitting cities of the first class to levy
three mill tax, regardless of existing
limitations for poor relief; forbiddine
employees from accepting fees for giving
jobs; compelling employers to i'm
mediately pay wages in full to dis
charged employees required to change
their residence; requiring employers tc
give employees a statement covering
conditions of employment; raising the
garnishment exemption by permitting
an additional exemption of IS each fol
three dependents, making the maximum
exemption $50 monthly; compel en-
ployers to return pay to employees helo
as security; requiring employers to give
24-hour notice of discharge to en-
ployes working for them more than siz
months; emergency banking legislation
bar circuses in the state Is days priol
to the state fair; appropriate S2,000,00t
for school districts containing tax ex-
empt rural credit lands.