CH. 30] LAWS OF THE THIRTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. hereby amended by striking out the word "except" after the word "firemen", in line two (2) thereof, and by inserting in lieu thereof the word "including". SEC. 5. Present officers continued in office. The present chief of the fire department and the members of the police and fire department of each of the cities affected by this act, and the acts of which it is amendatory, other than the chief of police shall be continued in their present positions without further appointment or examination subject, however, to all rules and regulations adopted for the government of said departments under this act and the provisions of chapter thirty-one (31), acts of the Twenty-ninth (29th) General Assembly. SEC. 6. In effect. This act, being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication in the Register and Leader and the Des Moines Capital, daily newspapers published in the city of Des Moines, Iowa. Approved April 2, A. D. 1907. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Register and Leader and the Des Moines Capital, April 4, 1907. W. C. HAYWARD, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 30. CITIES AND TOWNS TO MAKE APPROPRIATION FOR DUES IN LEAGUE OF IOWA MUNICIPALITIES. H. F. 278. AN ACT authorizing towns and cities, including cities under special charter, to appropriate money to pay dues in the League of Iowa Municipalities, and to pay the actual expense of delegates to the meetings of such league. Additional to chapter three (3), title five (V) of the code. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Appropriation authorized-purposes. Cities and towns, including cities under special charter, may by resolution appropriate money out of the general fund to pay a membership fee and dues in the League of Iowa Municipalities not to exceed annually five dollars for each one thousand population or fraction thereof of such city or town or city under special charter, and to pay the actual expenses of not more than two delegates to the meetings of such league. 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 the Des Moines Capital, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa. Approved April 1, A. D. 1907. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Des Moines Capital, April 2, 1907, and the Register and Leader, April 3, 1907. W. C. HAYWARD, LAWS OF THE THIRTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. CHAPTER 31. KEEPERS OF INTELLIGENCE OR EMPLOYMENT OFFICES. H. F. 164. [CH. 33 AN ACT to amend section seven hundred (700) of the supplement to the code, relating to the licensing and regulation of keepers of intelligence or employment offices. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Regulation-license. That section seven hundred (700) of the supplement to the code be and the same is hereby amended by changing the period after the word "engines" in the last line to a semicolon, and adding thereto the following: "To license and regulate all keepers of intelligence or employment offices, bureaus and agencies, as well as all persons doing the business of seeking employment for others, or procuring or furnishing employers for others, or giving information whereby employes or employers may be obtained." Approved March 12, A. D. 1907. CHAPTER 32. PUBLIC DANCE HALLS, SKATING RINKS, FORTUNE-TELLERS, CLAIRVOYANTS AND BILL-BOARDS. S. F. 347. AN ACT granting to cities and towns power to regulate, define, tax, license and prohibit public dance halls, skating rinks, fortune-tellers, palmists, and clairvoyants, and to license and regulate the construction of bill-boards and to tax owners or persons maintaining the same. [Additional to the law as it appears in section seven hundred (700) of the supplement to the code.] Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Public Public dance halls, etc.-regulation-license. Cities and towns shall have power to regulate, define, tax, license or prohibit public dance halls, skating rinks, fortune-tellers, palmists, and clairvoyants. SEC. 2. Bill-boards-regulation-license. Cities and towns shall have the power to regulate the construction and location of bill-boards and the power to license and tax the owners thereof or persons maintaining the same. Approved April 4, A. D. 1907. CHAPTER 33. PRESERVATION OF ARTICLES OF A HISTORICAL OR EDUCATIONAL NATURE. S. F. 228. AN ACT authorizing the board of trustees of free public libraries to unite with any local county historical association for the preservation and protection of articles of a historical or educational nature gathered by such association and to expend money for the proper care of such collection. [Additional to the law as it appears in section seven hundred and twenty-nine (729) of the supplement to the code.] Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Powers of library trustees. Whenever a local county historical association shall be formed in any county having a free public library, the CH. 34] LAWS OF THE THIRTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. trustees of such library are hereby authorized to unite with such historical association and to set apart the necessary room and to care for such articles as may come into the possession of said association; said trustees are also authorized to purchase necessary receptacles and materials for the preservation and protection of such articles as are in their judgment of a historical and educational nature and pay for the same out of the library fund. Approved March 27, A. D. 1907. CHAPTER 34. CONSTRUCTION OF CITY HALL IN CERTAIN CITIES. H. F. 468. AN ACT authorizing cities having a population of fifty thousand (50,000) or over to erect a city hall, to purchase the necessary ground therefor, and to levy a special tax for the purpose of paying for the same, and repealing chapter twentyseven (27) of the laws of the Thirtieth General Assembly. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. City hall. Cities having a population of fifty (50) thousand or over shall have the power to erect a city hall and to purchase the ground therefor. SEC. 2. Special tax. For the purpose of paying for the construction of such building and the purchase price of such ground, such cities shall have the power to levy upon all the property within the corporate limits of such cities and towns subject to taxation for said purposes in addition to all other taxes now provided by law, a special tax not exceeding in any one year two mills on the dollar for a period of years not exceeding twenty. SEC. 3. Bonds. Any city desiring to construct such a building or to purchase ground therefor may issue bonds in anticipation of the special tax authorized in the preceding section. Such bonds shall be known as city hall bonds and shall be issued and sold in accordance with the provisions of chapter 12 of title V of the code of of the code of Iowa, and acts amendatory thereto. In issuing such bonds, the city council may cause portions of said bonds to become due at different, definite periods, but none of such bonds so issued shall be due and payable in less than five (5) or more than twenty (20) years from date. SEC. 4. Question submitted. No building shall be erected under the provisions of this act unless a majority of the legal voters voting thereon vote in favor of the same at a general city election or at a special election. SEC. 5. Notice-form. The question provided in the preceding section to be submitted may be ordered by the city council submitted to a vote at a general city election or at one specially called for that purpose. Notice of such election shall be given by publication in two newspapers published in said city once each week for not less than four consecutive weeks, and the election shall be held not less than seven nor more than ten days after the completion of such publication. The question to be submitted shall be in the following form: Shall the city of..... ing $.... ..erect a city hall at a cost not exceed LAWS OF THE THIRTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. [CH. 36 SEC. 6. Repealed. Chapter 27 of the acts of the 30th General Assembly and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. In effect. This act, being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect 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 13, 1907. W. C. HAYWARD, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 35. CITY HOSPITALS. H. F. 298. AN ACT to amend the law as it appears in chapter twenty-two (22) of the laws of the Thirty-first General Assembly, relating to the construction and maintenance of hospitals. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Authorized in certain cities. That the law as it appears in chapter twenty-two (22) of the acts of the Thirty-first General Assembly be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the words "twelve thousand five hundred" in the second line of the first section and also the words "twelve thousand five hundred" in the sixth line of the third section and inserting the words "five thousand" both in the first and in the third sections in lieu thereof. Approved April 2, A. D. 1907. CHAPTER 36. LEVY OF BRIDGE TAXES IN CITIES OF FIRST CLASS. S. F. 194. AN ACT authorizing cities of the first class to levy taxes for the purpose of paying for building and reconstruction of bridges and for the issuance of bonds or certificates against such levies. [Additional to section seven hundred and fiftyeight (758) of the code.] Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Bridge tax-levy authorized. When the whole or any part of the cost of building or reconstruction of any bridge by a city of the first class shall be ordered paid from the city bridge fund, to be levied upon all the property within any such city, it shall have the power, after the completion of the work, by ordinance or resolution, to levy at any one time the whole or any part of the cost of such improvement upon all of the taxable property within such city and determine the whole percentage of tax necessary to pay the same, and the percentage to be paid each year, not exceeding twothirds of the maximum annual limit of the tax such city may levy for a bridge fund, and the number of years, not exceeding twenty-five, given for the maturity of each installment thereof, but no part of such costs shall be levied against property owned by the city, county, state or the United States. Certificates of such levy shall be filed with the auditor of the county or counties Сн. 38] LAWS OF THE THIRTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY. in which said city is located, setting forth the amount or percentage and maturity of said tax, or each installment thereof, upon the assessed valuation of all the property in said city, certified as correct by the city clerk or auditor, and thereupon said tax shall be placed upon the tax lists of the proper county or counties. SEC. 2. Bridge certificates or bonds. Any such city may anticipate the collection of taxes authorized to be levied for a city bridge fund and for that purpose may issue bridge certificates or bonds with interest coupons, and the provisions of chapter twelve (12), title five (5), of the code shall be operative as to such certificates, bonds and coupons in-so-far as they may be applicable. SEC. 3. How paid. Said certificates, bonds and interest thereon shall be secured by said assessments and levies and shall be payable only out of the funds derived from such levies and pledged to the payment of the same, and no certificates or bonds shall be issued in excess of taxes authorized and levied to secure the payment of the same. It shall be the duty of such city to collect such funds, with interest thereon, and to hold the same separate and apart in trust for the payment of said certificates, bonds and interest and to apply the proceeds of said funds pledged for that purpose to the payment of said certificates, bonds and interest. Approved April 1, A. D. 1907. CHAPTER 37. VESTIBULES ON STREET CARS. S. F. 192. AN ACT to amend section seven hundred sixty-eight (768) of the code, relating to vestibules on street cars for the protection of employes operating such cars. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Front platform inclosed on all sides. That section seven hundred sixty-eight (768) of the code be, and the same is hereby amended by striking therefrom the figures "1898," in the first line thereof, and inserting in lieu thereof the figures "1907", and by striking therefrom the word "three" in the fifth line thereof, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "all". Approved March 20, A. D. 1907. CHAPTER 38. CONSTRUCTION OF VIADUCTS. H. F. 156. AN ACT to amend [repeal] section seven hundred seventy-one (771) of the law as it appears in the supplement to the code and section one (1) chapter twenty-nine (29) of the acts of the Thirtieth General Assembly, [and enact substitutes therefor] relating to the construction of viaducts. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Assessment of damages. That section seven hundred seventyone (771) of the code supplement is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof: |