CH. 222] LAWS OF THE THIRTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. CHAPTER 222. COMMISSION TO REVISE AND CODIFY THE SCHOOL LAWS. S. F. 242. AN ACT to create a commission to examine, revise and codify the laws relating to the public schools, and such other purposes as may be incident thereto. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Educational commission. There is hereby created an educational commission, consisting of three members, one of whom shall be an educator of this state, and two of whom shall be practicing attorneys, who shall be appointed by the governor. SEC. 2. Organization-meetings. Said commission shall meet in the capitol building and organize on or before the first day of January 1908. A majority of said commission shall constitute a quorum. In the organization of said commission one of its members shall be chosen chairman whose duty it shall be to preside at all meetings of said commission, and in his absence a chairman pro tempore shall be chosen from those present. Said commission shall meet from time to time as it may determine or on call of the chairman. SEC. 3. Clerical assistants-expenses. Said commission shall have authority to employ such clerical assistants as may be required to perform the duties herein imposed upon it, which together with the necessary expenses incurred therein by said commission, shall be paid out of the treasury upon the approval of the executive council, upon filing with the said executive council an itemized statement of the same duly verified. SEC. 4. Powers-report to Thirty-third General Assembly. Said commission shall have power to rearrange, revise and codify the existing laws relating to the public schools, and recommend additional needed legislation. Said commission shall report the results of its labor and its recommendation to the 33rd General Assembly, indicating which portions are from the law then in force, and which portions are by them recommended for enactment. SEC. 5. Report to be filed with and published by state superintendent. Said commission shall on or before November 1, 1908 file with the superintendent of public instruction its said report which shall be published by him for distribution to the members of the General Assembly. Said report shall contain a detailed statement of all expenses incurred. The SEC. 6. Compensation and expenses of commissioners-how paid. members of said commission shall receive as compensation eight (8) dollars per day each, together with their actual traveling and personal expenses while actually engaged in said work, to be paid from the state treasury upon the order of the executive council. SEC. 7. Appropriation. To defray the traveling expenses and per diem of the members and the clerical expenses of said board, three thousand (3000) dollars or so much thereof as is necessary is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved April 13, A. D. 1907. LAWS OF THE THIRTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. CHAPTER 223. ROSTER OF IOWA SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND MARINES. H. F. 79. [CH. 223 AN ACT providing for the compilation of a roster of Iowa soldiers, sailors and marines in the War with Mexico and the War of the Rebellion, the Spanish-American and Philippine wars, including military service in the Spirit Lake expedition, and other service against the Indians; providing the manner of its publication, distribution and sale and making an appropriation therefor. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Board to prepare roster-how constituted. That the governor, attorney general, adjutant general, curator of the historical department of Iowa, and one soldier of the civil war whose selection shall be made and certified to the governor by the commander of the department of Iowa, Grand Army of the Republic, who shall thereupon be commissioned by the governor, which member so selected shall receive the same compensation as that now paid to the trustees of educational institutions for the time actually and necessarily employed, shall constitute a board authorized to prepare in form for publication a complete roster of all Iowa soldiers, sailors and marines of the war with Mexico, the war of the rebellion, and the Spanish-American and Philippine wars, including the military service of soldiers engaged in the Spirit Lake expedition and other service against the Indians, and state troops rendering active service during the war of the rebellion. SEC. 2. Roster to contain record of each officer and soldier-historical sketches. Said compilation shall contain the main item of record of each. officer and soldier, and of each organization, so far as the same is obtainable from the records in the adjutant general's office, in the war department in Washington, in the official records of the Union armies, and from other official and reliable sources. It shall include brief historical sketches of the organization, service and engagements of all Iowa regiments, and other Iowa organizations, with summaries of casualties, list of soldiers confined. in Confederate prisons, and those buried in national cemeteries. The SEO. 3. Adjutant general to direct compilation-appropriation for extra help-printing and binding-distribution. Said compilation shall be under the direction of the adjutant general, and the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated from any moneys, not otherwise appropriated, in the treasury of the state, for the employment of extra help and other necessary expense in making said compilation. The compilation shall be divided into volumes of proper size and shall be printed by the state printer, shall be bound by the state binder in half sheep, and paid for as other public documents. edition shall be ten thousand of each volume and shall be disposed of as follows: twelve sets to the state library, twelve sets to the historical library, six sets to the state historical society, one set to each public library in the state and one set to each Grand Army post in the state and one set to each camp of Spanish war veterans. The foregoing sets shall be distributed free; all other sets and volumes shall be sold by the adjutant general at actual cost, to be determined by the executive council, and the proceeds paid into the state treasury. An itemized account shall be kept and vouchers filed to be audited by the executive council and warrants drawn by the state auditor to pay expenses provided for in this act. SEC. 4. 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 CH. 225] LAWS OF THE THIRTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Leader and the Des Moines Capital, daily newspapers published in the city of Des Moines, Polk county, 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 13, 1907. W. C. HAYWARD, CHAPTER 224. EXPENSES OF BATTLEFIELD MONUMENT COMMISSIONS. S. F. 158. AN ACT making an additional appropriation to pay the remainder of the expenses of Lue members of the Iowa Shiloh Battlefield Monument Commission, the Iowa Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge Monument Commission, the Iowa Vicksburg Park Monument Commission, and the Iowa Andersonville Prison Monument Commission, upon their joint visit to dedicate the monuments erected by the state of Iowa upon southern battlefields and at Andersonville. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Appropriation-how paid. There is hereby apropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of one thousand dollars ($1000.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the remainder of the expenses of the members of the Iowa Shiloh battlefield monument commission, the Iowa Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge monument commission, the Iowa Vicksburg park monument commission, and the Iowa Andersonville prison monument commission, incurred upon their joint visit to dedicate monuments erected by the state of Iowa upon southern battlefields and at Andersonville. Before the said payment is made, the executive council shall approve the accounts for said expenses, and when approved the auditor shall draw his warrants therefor. SEC. 2. In effect. This act, being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect from and after its passage and publication in the Register and Leader and Des Moines Daily News, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved March 12, A. D. 1907. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Register and Leader, and the Des Moines Daily News, March 13, 1907. W. C. HAYWARD, CHAPTER 225. PURCHASE OF LEGISLATIVE REFERENCES TO AND INDEXES OF CURRENT LEGISLATION. S. F. 49. AN ACT to provide for the purchase of legislative references to and indexes of current legislation and making an appropriation therefor. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Appropriation purpose-how drawn. That there is hereby appropriated to the state librarian out of any money in the state treasury not LAWS OF THE THIRTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. [CH. 226 otherwise appropriated the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00), to be used in the procuring of legislative references to and indexes of current legislation and payment of expenses incident thereto; and the auditor of the state is hereby authorized to draw warrants therefor upon the order of the state librarian. SEC. 2. In effect. This act, being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect from and after its publication in the daily Register and Leader and the Des Moines Capital, newspapers of Des Moines, Iowa. Approved February 22, A. D. 1907. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Register and Leader and the Des Moines Capital, February 26, 1907. W. C. HAYWARD, CHAPTER 226. STATUE OF JAMES HARLAN IN THE NATIONAL STATUARY HALL. S. F. 183. AN ACT providing for placing a statue in bronze of James Harlan, Ex-Senator of Iowa, in the national statuary hall in the capitol building at Washington, D. C., and appropriating money to pay therefor. WHEREAS, Under the provisions of section eighteen hundred and fourteen (1814), Revised Statutes of the United States, the state of Iowa is authorized to provide and furnish statues in marble or bronze "of two deceased persons who have been citizens thereof and illustrious for their historic renown or for distinguished civic or miltary services," and WHEREAS, The Hon. James Harlan, ex-senator of Iowa and secretary of interior under Lincoln, now deceased, is worthy of being selected as one of the citizens of Iowa whose statue shall be placed in the said national statuary hall, in the capitol building at Washington, D. C., therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Executive council to procure statue and have it placed. The executive council is hereby authorized to enter into a contract with such party as it may select to provide and furnish a clay model of a statue of ex-senator James Harlan, of such size as the executive council may determine, and upon the completion of such statue to the satisfaction of the executive council the said executive council is hereby authorized to have said statue cast in bronze and to place the same in national statuary hall in the capitol building at Washington, D. C., in accordance with the provisions of said section eighteen hundred and fourteen (1814) of the Revised Statutes of the United States. SEC. 2. Appropriation-how drawn. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars ($5.000) or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay for the moulding and casting such statue in bronze and placing the same in the national statuary hall in the capitol building at Washington, D. C., and the auditor of state is hereby authorized to draw warrants therefor upon the order of the executive council. CH. 228] LAWS OF THE THIRTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. SEC. 3. In effect. This act, being 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 in Des Moines, Iowa. Approved March 20, A. D. 1907. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Register and Leader, and the Des Moines Capital, March 23, 1907. W. C. HAYWARD, CHAPTER 227. CASE FOR FLAGS CARRIED BY THE IOWA REGIMENTS DURING SPANISHAMERICAN WAR. S. F. 245. AN ACT directing the custodian of public buildings and property to prepare a case for the reception of flags carried by Iowa regiments during the Spanish-American war, and making appropriation therefor. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Case prepared and flags placed-by whom. The custodian of public buildings and property is hereby directed to prepare a suitable case on the rotunda floor of the capitol building, near the junction of the corridors, for the reception of the flags carried by the four regiments from this state in the Spanish-American war. The custodian of public buildings and property and the adjutant general are hereby directed to place in said case when completed the flags carried by the said regiments. SEC. 2. Appropriation. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act there is hereby appropriated from any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of four hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary. SEC. 3. In effect. This act, being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Register Leader and Des Moines Capital, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved March 26, A. D. 1907. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Des Moines Capital, March 27, 1907, and the Register and Leader, March 28, 1907. W. C. HAYWARD, CHAPTER 228. EXPENSES OF INAUGURAL CEREMONIES. H. F. 119. AN ACT making an appropriation to defray the expenses of the inaugural ceremonies. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Amount appropriated-how drawn. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred thirty and sixty-five hundredths dollars ($230.65), or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the expenses incurred on |