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DIGEST OF NEW LAWS
PASSED BY LEGISLATURE
Following is a digest of the new
laws passed by the last legislature.
All bills having the emergency clause
are now in force; all other bills go in
to effect ninety days from the close
of the session.
A portion of them only are printed
this week; we will continue to print
them each week until the entire list
is published.
S. F. 351—Gives the department of
trade and commerce authority at any
time to demand that a court remove a
receiver appointed to wind up affairs
of a defunct bank whenever it appears
that such receiver is not doing his
duty in a satisfactory manner. Emer
gency.
S. F. 128—Eliminates provision of
old law exempting banks complying
with the reserve requirements of the
federal reserve act from complying
with the state law on maintenance of
reserve.
S. F. 140—Refunds to liquidated
banks their unused balances of state
guarantee fund, after three years.
IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE.
S. F. 200—Authorizes county boards
upon petition signed by owners of a
majority of the land effected, to es
tablish levees or other bank protection
on any river or stream in the state,
for the purpose of protecting proper
ty liable to be damaged by flood or
erosion. Emergency.
II. R. 371—Permits drainage dis
trict boards to buy drainage machin
ery and do their oiwn work; also al
lows undertakings not involving more
than 20 per cent of the assessed value
to be made without special election.
S. F. 204—Makes approval by the
department of public works essential
for issuance of bonds, mortgages or
loans for construction or operation of
irrigation or water power projects.
Emergency.
S. F. 207—Makes approval of de
partment of public works essential for
petitions to include additional land in
irrigation districts. Emergency.
S. F. 10—Repeals statute giving
railway commission power to fix irri
gation rates.
S. F. 202—Requires interstate ditch
owners to install water measuring de
vices at state line and furnish daily
reports to state irrigation bureau,
d. ring season. Penalty, $25 to $100
fine.
H. R. 573—Permits suits for dam
ages due to inadequate drainage
(which is the result of carelessness in
highway work.
H. R. 56—Authorizes sale of real
estate owned by irrigation districts
and provides procedure.
H. R. 388—Drainage district war
rants may be used for the payment
of taxes duo to the district. Emer
gency.
S. F. 205—Requires approval of
state public works department to in
clude lands in, or exclude them from,
irrigation districts.
H. R. 455—Permits irrigation dis
tricts to create sinking funds to retire
outstanding bonds. Emergency.
SCHOOLS.
University and Normal.
S. F. 216—State normal board au
thorized to prescribe courses of in
struction in state normal schools.
S. F. 223—Reorganizes state normal
toard in conformity with jjfe new con
stitution to consist of state superin
tendent and six other members ap
pointed by the governor. Authorizes
issuance of bachelor of arts degree to
students completing the four-year col
legiate course.
H. R. 340—Permits incorporation of
college societies when not organized
for profit.
H. R. 232—Formally accepts federal
aid for vocational rehabilitation. Ap
ANTON TOY
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA
General Merchandise.
Oranges, 13 Cents Per Dozen
propriates $25,00.0 to carry out pro
visions. Emergency.
Teachers and Officials.
S. F. 312—Creates state board of
vocational education consisting of dean
of colleges of agriculture, state super
intendent and one woman appointed by
the governor for term of three yeans.
S. F. 253—Amend teachers’ certi
fication lalw. Makes second grade cer
tificates renewable more than once, and
includes English composition and book
keping as required subjects. Fixes
method of re-issuing grades city-state
certificates. Makes it optional with
state superintendent to accept grades
of normal training high school grad
uates in physiology, bookkeeping,
English composition, civics and agri
culture. Repeal old law on emergency
certificates and permits, and allows
state superintendent at his discretion
to issue them on application by county
superintendent and local board of edu
cation, where actual emergency is
shoWn to exist. Life certificatse to re
main in force where holders have been
engaged in “any educational work” up
to within three years last past. Em
ergency.
If. R. 329—Permits holding of
teachers’ institutes at any time of
year. Under old law must be held
during summer months.
S. F, 115—Four-year term for state
superintendent, beginning in January,
1928.
Consolidated Schools.
H. R. 116—Repeals lalw whereby
home school district must pay trans
portation in adjacent district when lat
ter furnishes transportation.
S. F. 293—Changes consolidated
school law: requires petitions to be
signed by a majority of electors of
each school district before changes in
boundary may be made; necessitates
60 per cent of votes cast at an election
to establish new districts: provides
that pupils residing in fragmentary
districts shall be given same privileges
as those in organized districts. Makes
provision for dissolving consolidated
districts at an election if 25 per cent
of voters sign petition calling election.
Emergency.
S. F. 332—Empowers county super
intendent, clerk and treasurer to dis
tiibute indebtedness of consolidated
school district, as between smaller dis
tricts from which it was formed, and
makes their findings subject to ratifi
cation by the voters.
Tax and Tuition.
S. F. 20—Fixes school tax limit of
100 mills in village and rural districts,
when approved by 60 per cent of the
voters, and otherwise at 25 mills.
Limits bonded indebtedness to 30 per
cent of assessment subject to vote of
the people. Special 10-mill tax author
ized for building school houses. All
these tax levies to be scaled to one
fifth, when assessments made on actual
value of property. Emergency.
H. R. 694—Limiting the aggregate
school tax in school district of Lincoln,
to $1,200,000 a year, With a privilege
to the board of submitting to voters
the raising of any additional sums for
purposes stated. Emergency.
H. R. 20—Increasing the tuition fee
for non-resident pupils in free public
high school from $1.50 to $3 per week.
Emergency.
II. R. 177-—Free tuition in Lincoln
schools of non-resident state officers
and employees. Emergency.
S. F. 280 — Increases aggregate
school tax limit from 60 mills to one
fifth valuation of taxable property to
65 mills or 13 mills on actual valua
tion. Emergency,
Miscellaneous.
S. F. 160—Declares English to be
the official language of Nebraska; all
official records and publications and
all instruction in public, denomina
tional and parochial grade schools to
be in that language; forbids discrim
ination against English tongue by any
organization, officer or member there
of. Allows parents to teach their own
children foreign languages at home,
but forbids week-day instruction other
wise. Penalty, $26 to $100 fine, or 50
days in jail.
H. R. 100—Provides that in school
districts outside the city and metro
politan districts all children between 7
and 16 must attend school not less
than six months each year, except
where the child has graduated from
high school, and making a number of
other minor changes, and requires in
spection of parochial schools by pub
lic school superintendents at least
twice a wear.
H. R. 102—Requiring the mainte
nance of school at least nine months
in each year where a levy of 40 mills
supplemented by the district appor
tionment of the state school funds
shall provide sufficient money; and
providing for state aid where the total
is insufficient.
S. F. 123—Includes high schools,
county high schools and school dormi
tories among institutions for Iwhich
precinct, township, second-class cities
or villages may issue bonds for im
provement. Emergency.
H. R. 101—Requires all children be
tween ages of 14 and 18 who have not
graduated from high school, who are
not physically incapacitated to at
tend part time schools and forbids
their employment unless they do so.
S. F. 327—Allows Kimball county
high school district to issue warrants
in payment of $14,000 bond deficiency.
Emergency.
S. F. 50—Allows orchard and garden
tracts to be taken under eminent do
main proceedings by school districts,
and amends procedure for exercising
the right.
H. R. 400—School districts with 150
or more children of school age shall
elect trustees at board meeting in
stead of a general election. Emer
gency.
H. R. 163—Provides for education of
deaf children in day schools where they
reside, at expense of local districts
v-here there are five or more. Limit
of expense $150 per year per pupil.
H. R. 529—State school apportion
ment to school disticts containing
school land; additional amount equal
to what taxes would be on such school
land.
H. R. 164—Permits sale of Omaha’s
$5,000,000 school bond issue below par.
Emegency.
H. R. 156—Allows Lincoln school
board to fix time of its own meetings.
Emergency.
H. R. 466—State school lands may
be appraised by state board whenever
it is deemed for the best interests of
the state.
APPROPRIATIONS.
H. R. 622 -Budget appropriations’
bill for the quarter beginning April 1,
1921, and ending June 30, 1921 carry
ing a total of $2,490,013.56.
H. R. 623—General budget appro
priation bill for the biennium ending
June 30, 1923, and carrying a total of
.f22,451,692.43.
H. R. 621—Providing for the pay
ment of the salaries of state officers
for the biennium ending June 30, 1923.
H. R. 619—Appropriating money for
the payment of miscellaneous items of r:
indebtedness arising from claims and g
deficiencies.
H. R. 453—Approprites $4,500 to £
Margaret Sexton of Omaha whose
husband, John P. Sexton, was shot by p
i highwayman in Omaha while at
tempting to frustrate a holdup.
H. R. 462—Appropriating $2,925 for
tclief of J. V. Dunn, employe of state h
department of public works, who lost
ght hand in tractor, accident. Emer
;ncy.
H. R. 596—Appropriating $5,000
om the hunting and fishing license
mds to improve for fish conservation
irposes a five-acre lake in Nemaha
iunty which the citizens of Peril offer
> deed to the state.
H. R. 76—Appropriates $64,700 for
gislative expenses. Emergency.
(Continued on page five.)
We <^ot you, Steve!!
WE have always yearned to run a newspaper
“column”—just sit back and publish other
people’s contributions. And here “Steve” comes
across with a contributed advertisement, and saves
us some work. He keeps his name and address a
secret—but good work, Steve, say we. ‘ ‘You satisfy. ”
THREE YEARS ago. BUT ANYHOW I took one.
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I TRIED a cigarette. AND NOW I know.
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THAT TD seen advertised. MY BIG mistake.
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AND I didn’t like it. FOR ALL the while,
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NOT A tall, not a tall. I SMOKED it.
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YESTERDAY I ran short. I FOUND myself.
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AND HAD to sponge. SAYING, “BY golly.
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AND ALL I could get. THEY DO satisfy."
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WAS A Chesterfield. “STEVE”
NOW I didn’t fancy.
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A CHESTERFIELD.
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FOR, SAYS I.
u/ACM.-r tu at iv, QTEVE took no chance at all.
WASN T THAT the kind. O “Satisfy” is in the Chesterfield
* *' . . blend—sure thing. No use looking
I TRIED and passed up. anywhere else for ‘satisfy’ either,
_* * * _ „ because the satisfy-blend is a secret
THREE YEARS ago? —it can’t be copied.
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