Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1901 — Some More Proposed Laws. [ARTICLE]

Some More Proposed Laws.

A bill by Senator Conlogue is to amend the so celled “weed law.’ It provides that when any land owner neglects, between July 1 and August 20, co cut the weeds, the supervisor of the district shall hire it done and shall pay $1.25 a day of eight hours for the work; and the certificate of the work done shall be a lien on the property until it is paid. As the law now is, a land holder can get pay for cutting the weeds in the road, but there is no penalty if be fails to cut them and the land can’t be charged up with the expense. • The Senate bill making electrocution the only method of inflicting the death penalty, was reported unfavorably by the majority of the committee and favorably by the minority. The minority report was concurred in, and the bill seems likely to pass. Senator Keyes introduced a bill amending the law providing better care for dependent and abandoned children so that it wi'l be unlawful for any child between the ages of three and seventeen years to be retained as an inmate of any poor asylum for a longer period than sixty days, and making it incumbent upon the County Commissioners of the State to make provision for such children as will allow compliance with the provisions of the amendment. By request Senator Ogborn introduced a bill to establish a state board of forestry and creating the office of state forester and secretary, and fixing the salary of the latter at $1,200 a year, with traveling expenses not to exceed S6OO annually. The board is to be appointed by the Governor. The package of groceries found on street last Saturday night, leave at the Chicago Bargain store and get reward.