LAWS OF THE THIRTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. [CH. 131 electrical process whatever, any powder or other explosive, into any coal mine where twenty or more persons are employed therein until after the coal miners and other employes have ceased their work and have departed from the mines. SEC. 2. Storage of powder-what permitted. No operator or other person in charge of any coal mine, shall suffer or permit under any circumstances the storing of powder, or other explosives, in any coal mine except as follows: Each miner shall be permitted to have in his separate and individual possession at one time not more than two kegs containing twenty-five pounds of powder each, and other explosives sufficient for one day's use. Such powder, or other explosives, shall be kept by the miner in a wooden or metallic box or boxes securely locked, and said boxes shall be kept at a reasonable distance from the track; nor shall black powder and high explosives be kept in the same box. SEC. 3. Supply for following day-where deposited. It shall not be construed as storing powder, as defined in section two hereof, to deposit the powder, or other explosives, at the end of the electrical or mechanical haulage at the face of the mine for the following day's use; provided, that it is transported, conveyed or deposited in conformity with the. provisions of section one hereof. SEC. 4. Transportation and delivery-by whom done. The transportation and delivery of all powder and other explosives in said coal mines shall be done by the operator or by men employed by him for that purpose. SEC. 5. Penalty. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding thirty days. Approved April 13, A. D. 1907. CHAPTER 131. · PURE PAINTS AND OILS. S. F. 19. AN ACT requiring manufacturers and dealers to label white lead, paints, mixed paints, and similar compounds, and linseed oil; defining linseed oil and boiled linseed oil; and fixing penalties for its violation; and repealing sections two thousand five hundred and ten-a (2510-a), two thousand five hundred and ten-b (2510-b), two thousand five hundred and ten-c (2510-c), two thousand five hundred and ten-d (2510-d) and two thousand five hundred and ten-e (2510-e) of the supplement to the code; and vesting the execution and enforcement of this act in the state food and dairy commissioner. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Duty of manufacturers and dealers. Every person, firm or corporation who shall expose for sale, or sell, within this state, any white lead, paint, or linseed oil shall accurately label the same as hereinafter required. SEC. 2. Paint defined. The term "paint" as used in this act shall include white lead in oil or any compound intended for the same use, paste or semi-paste, and liquid or mixed paint ready for use, or any compound intended for the same use. SEC. 3. Labels. Labels required by this act shall clearly and distinctly state the name and address of the manufacturer of the article, or the dealer therein, or of the party for whom the same is manufactured and show, with CH. 132] LAWS OF THE THIRTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. substantial accuracy, the percentage of each ingredient, both solid and liquid, contained therein (in continuous list with no intervening matter of any kind); provided, that in case of paint other than white paint, the ingredients, other than the coloring material, may be treated as one hundred per cent, in which case it shall be necessary to state the description or trade-name of such coloring matter and state, with substantial accuracy, its chemical analysis. The label shall also state, in case of liquid paints, oils, and other compounds, on packages holding one quart or more, the net measure of contents of each can, package or container. In case of white lead and other paints and compounds, the label shall show on package weighing four pounds or more the net weight of each can, package or container. SEC. 4. Flax seed or linseed oil-chemical and temperature tests. No person, firm or corporation shall manufacture for sale or expose for sale or sell within this state any flax seed or linseed oil, unless the same answers a chemical test for purity recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, or any flax seed or linseed oil as "boiled linseed oil" unless the same shall have been put in its manufacture to a temperature of 225 degrees Fahrenheit. SEC. 5. Tanks or vessels containing oil to be marked. No person, firm or corporation shall expose for sale or sell any flax seed or linseed oil, unless it is exposed for sale or sold under its true name, and each tank car, tank, barrel, keg, or vessel containing such oil has distinctly and durably marked thereon the true name of such oil in ordinary bold faced capital letters not less than five lines pica in size, the words "pure linseed oil-raw," "pure linseed oil-boiled" as the case may be and the name and address of the manufacturer thereof. SEC. 6. Enforcement-bulletins. It is hereby made the duty of the state food and dairy commissioner to enforce the provisions of this act. The inspectors, assistants and chemists appointed by the state food and dairy. commissioner shall perform the same duties and have the same authority under this act as are prescribed by chapter one hundred and sixty-six (166), laws of the Thirty-first General Assembly. The state food and dairy commissioner shall, from time to time, with the approval of the executive council, publish bulletins, giving the results of inspections and analyses, together with such additional information as he may deem suitable. SEC. 7. Penalty. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. SEC. 8. Repealed. Sections two thousand five hundred and ten-a (2510-a), two thousand five hundred and ten-b (2510-b), two thousand five hundred and ten-c (2510-c), two thousand five hundred and ten-d (2510-d) and two thousand five hundred and ten-e (2510-e) of the supplement to the code are hereby repealed. When effective. This act shall take effect on January 1, 1908. Approved April 1, A. D. 1907. CHAPTER 132. AM. PHIL TELEPECHE CC. COMPENSATION OF DEPUTY AND ASSISTANT DAIRY COMMISSIONERS. S. F. 47. AN ACT to amend the law as it appears in chapter eighty-eight (88), laws of the Thirtieth General Assembly, relating to compensation of deputy and assistant dairy commissioners. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Compensation. That the law as it appears in chapter eightyeight (88), laws of the Thirtieth General Assembly be and the same is hereby LAWS OF THE THIRTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. [CH. 133 amended by striking out the word "twelve" in the fifth line thereof, and by inserting the word "fourteen" in lieu thereof, and by striking out the word "twelve" in the eighth line thereof, and inserting the word "fourteen" in lieu thereof. SEC. 2. In effect. This act, being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Register and Leader and Des Moines Capital, newspapers published in the city of Des Moines, Iowa. Approved April 10, A. D. 1907. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Register and Leader and the Des Moines Capital, April 11, 1907. W. C. HAYWARD, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 133. STATE VETERINARY SURGEON. H. F. 128. AN ACT to amend sections twenty-five hundred and twenty-nine (2529), twenty-five hundred and thirty (2530) and twenty-five hundred and thirty-four (2534) of the code, and to repeal and enact substitutes for sections twenty-five hundred and thirty-three (2533) and twenty-five hundred and thirty-eight (2538) thereof, relating to the state veterinary surgeon. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Office-postage and supplies. That section twenty-five hundred and twenty-nine (2529) of the code be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: "He shall maintain an office at the capitol in a room assigned for his use by the executive council, and his postage, stationery and office supplies shall be furnished by the state." SEC. 2. Experts-secretary. That section twenty-five hundred and thirty (2530) of the code be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: "He may call experts to his assistance when the exigencies of any case demand such action, and may appoint a secretary, who shall receive a salary of seven hundred fifty dollars ($750) per annum, which shall be paid from the state treasury. SEC. 3. Repealed-notice of contagious disease-duty of state veterinary surgeon-assistants. That section twenty-five hundred and thirty-three (2533) of the code be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof: "It shall be the duty of all local boards of health in the state, upon the appearance of any contagious or infectious disease among domestic animals, to notify the state veterinary surgeon at once of the existence of such contagious or infectious disease; and it shall be his duty, whenever notified in writing by a majority of any board of supervisors, township trustees, or of any city or town' council, whether in session or not, of the existence of, or probable danger from, any contagious or infectious disease among domestic animals, to repair at once to the place designated in such notice, and make an investigation, and take such action as the exigencies of the case may demand. The governor may appoint such assistant state veterinary surgeons as may be deemed advisable, who shall act under the instruction of the state veterinary surgeon, and, when engaged in the discharge of their duties, shall CH. 134] LAWS OF THE THIRTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. receive the sum of five dollars ($5) a day and their actual expenses, which compensation and expenses shall be paid from the state treasury upon itemized and verified accounts, audited and approved by the executive council. SEC. 4. Executive council to approve claims for destruction of stock. That section twenty-five hundred and thirty-four (2534) of the code be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the word "governor" in the fifteenth line of said section, and inserting the words "executive council" in lieu thereof; and by striking out the word "his" in the sixteenth line of said section and inserting the word "their" in lieu thereof. SEC. 5. Repealed-compensation of veterinary surgeon-expenses. section twenty-five hundred and thirty-eight (2538) of the code be and the same is hereby repealed, and the following enacted as a substitute therefor: "The state veterinary surgeon shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars ($1800), which shall be paid in equal monthly installments from the state treasury, and shall also receive the actual expenses incurred by him in the discharge of his official duties. All claims for expenses shall be itemized, verified and paid from the state treasury when audited and allowed by the executive council." SEC. 6. In effect. This act, being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Register and Leader and the Des Moines Capital, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved April 4, A. D. 1907. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Register and Leader and the Des Moines Capital, April 5, 1907. W. C. HAYWARD, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 134. PROTECTION OF MONGOLIAN, RING-NECK, ENGLISH AND CHINESE PHEASANTS. H. F. 426. AN ACT to encourage the propagation of Mongolian, Ring-Neck, English and Chinese Pheasants, and to prohibit the killing thereof. [Additional to chapter fifteen (15) of title twelve (XII) of the code.] Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Trapping, shooting or killing of pheasants prohibited. No person shall trap, shoot, kill or take in any manner, any Mongolian, Ring-neck, English or Chinese pheasants in this state prior to the first day of October, A. D. 1915. SEC. 2. Penalty. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall upon conviction thereof be fined not to exceed one hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed thirty days. Approved April 4, A. D. 1907. LAWS OF THE THIRTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. CHAPTER 135. REPORTING OF DEATHS. S. F. 289. [CH. 137 AN ACT to amend the law as it appears in section five (5), chapter one hundred and nine (109) of the laws of the Thirty-first General Assembly, and to require assessors to report "deaths" occurring in their respective districts. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Assessors to report deaths. That the law as it appears in section five (5) of chapter one hundred and nine of the acts of the Thirty-first General Assembly be amended by inserting after the word "births" in line four of said section five the words "and deaths". Approved March 27, A. D. 1907. CHAPTER 136. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS. H. F. 29. AN ACT to amend section seven (7) of chapter one hundred and nine (109) of the laws of the Thirty-first (31st) General Assembly, relating to registration of births and deaths. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Appropriation. That all of section seven (7), except the word "section" and figure "7" of chapter one hundred and nine (109) of the Thirty-first (31st) General Assembly, be stricken out and the following be inserted in lieu thereof: "There is hereby appropriated the sum of two thousand (2,000) dollars, annually, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the expense of printing, postage, clerk hire, and such other expenses as may be required. All bills to be itemized, certified to, and approved by the state registrar." Approved April 4, A. D. 1907. CHAPTER 137. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH LABORATORY. S. F. 25. AN ACT to repeal section three (3) of chapter one hundred and one (101) of the laws of the Thirtieth (30th) General Assembly, and of chapter one hundred and thirteen (113) of the laws of the Thirty-first (31st) General Assembly, relative to establishing and maintaining a state board of health laboratory at Iowa City, and enacting in lieu thereof the following: Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: That section three (3) SECTION 1. Repealed-appropriation-purposes. of chapter one hundred and one (101) of the laws of the Thirtieth (30th) General Assembly and of chapter one hundred and thirteen (113) of the laws of the Thirty-first General Assembly be and the same are hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof: |