Iowa Law Measures Public and Local Government Reforms
A lengthy list details state and county reforms and appropriations. Highlights include tax powers for counties and cities, library funding, school system modernization, road and bridge projects, public improvements, flood control, and prison and hospital provisions. The document cites numerous officials and districts, detailing authority shifts, salary increases, and new oversight rules across governance, education, agriculture, infrastructure, and public safety.
State Board of Control may employ convicts on highways
Summary of multiple provisions lists powers and duties including use of county prisoners for highway work under sheriff Jones, optional pardons for first offenders after judge suspends execution, district court clerks to report criminal statistics to the board of parole, marriage return timing, surviving spouse rights to distributive share or homestead, and other governance measures such as licensing for temporary merchants, charity solicitations, and truth in newspaper advertising. The items reflect broad state control over labor, pardons, statistics, estates, discrimination, and municipal funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heald
Gilletts
State Highway Commission
Allen
State Department of Public Instruction
Savage
Kalp
College For
State Board of Education
White
Clarkson
Eldora
Mitchellville
Perkins
Library
Pickford
Kimball
Larrabee
State Historical Department
Jones
Thomas
Halerims
State Dairy Association
Beef Cattle Producers Association
Townsend
Buxton
Anamosa Reformatory
Lounsberry
Crozier
State Board of Control
Sullivan
Griffin
Board of Parole
Ehind
Quigley
Balloff
Jensen
Balkema
Public Utilities and Railways Policy Items
Listing of multiple 19th/early 20th century proposed or enacted measures. Includes Board of Railroad Commissioners powers over power transmission, rail crossings, gauge standards, enforcement orders, and damage timing rules. telegraph and telephone line connections. petitions for railway tax aid. frost proof locomotive glass. delays in livestock delivery deeming reasonable. sanitary lavatories at stations. electric headlights. delayed train notices. freight settlement deadlines. foreign corporations stock water restrictions. dual daily passenger trains on long railroads. city contracts for heat light gas and power and resale. cities selling electric power to peers. regulated elevators and warehouses on railroad land. interstate and intrastate rate case funding. admission of foreign lawyers. transfer of cases from mayor to justice. Supreme Court size increase. militia deployment limits. continued notes on public officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Railroaad Commissioners
McColl
White
Chase
Peterson
Arney
Stipe
Sidey
Kulp Railroad Commission
Brockway Railroad Commission
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Brockway
Also Mentioned on This Page
Knoxville—Perkins
Fourth Judicial District
Grout
Anderson
Atkinson
Superintendent of Public Instruction
State Fair Board
Hutchins
State Mining Department
Ream
Workingmen's Compensation Law
Conciliation and Arbitration of Labor Disputes Board
Power
Kulp
Klay
Bruce
Automobile Lability
Iowa
Ames
Capitol
Erickson
Whitney
Hazen
Jacobsen
Huff
State Capitol
Appropriations Committee
System of
Thamas
Huntley
Social
Francis
Boettger
Shankland
Deering
Herrick Refrigerator
Atlantic Mill & Elevator
I. N. Sutton & Sons
S&j. Muzzon
Pride of
Creamery
Atlantic Produce Co. Creamery Department
the Atlantic News-Telegraph
Everybody's Cyclopedia
Atlantic News-Telegraph
Address
Telegraph
Atlantic
Express
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