Ordered passed on file. Also: MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No. 2, a bill for an act making appropriations for the College for the Blind at Vinton, Iowa. G. S. GILBERTSON, Ordered passed on file. Chairsan MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No. 156. 8 bill for an act making an appropriation for the Hospital for the Insane at Independence. G. S. GILBERTSON, Ordered passed on file. Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No. 240, a bill for an act making appropriation for the State Industrial School, girls' department, at Mitchellville, Iowa. Ordered passed on file. G. S. GILBERTSON, Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No. 113, a bill for an act making an appropriation to construct the Hospital for the Insane at Cherokee. G. S. GILBERTSON, Chairman. Ordered passed on file. MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, Senate file. No. 193, a bill for an act making appropriations for the Institution for FeebleMinded Children at Glenwood, Iowa. Ordered passed on file. Also: G. S. GILBERTSON, Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No. 210, a bill for an act to amend chapter 25 of the acts of the Twenty-second General Assembly, relating to notice of injury. G. S. GILBERTSON, Chairman Ordered passed on file. Also: MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No. 118, a bill for an act making appropriation to purchase land for the site of the Hospital for the Insane at Cherokee. G. S. GILBERTSON, Ordered passed on file. Also: Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No. 394, a bill for an act appropriating funds for the support of the State Fish Commission. G. S. GILBERTSON, Ordered passed on file. Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No. 430, a bill for an act to legalize the action of the Board of Directors of the District Township of Poweshiek, in Jasper county. Also: G. S. GILBERTSON, Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No. 424, a bill for an act legalizing the ordinances of the city of Marion, Iowa, adopted and published as revised ordinances, in 1895. Ordered passed on file. G. S. GILBERTSON, Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT -Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined and find correctly enrolled Senate file No. 395, a bill for an act to provide for the celebration of the semi-centennial of the admission of Iowa into the union. G. S. GILBERTSON, Chairman. Ordered passed on file. Also: MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined and find correctly enrolled Senate file No. 362, a bill for an act to enable the trustees or commissioners of State institutions to lay out, establish, vacate or change public highways through land owned by the State, on which State institutions are situated. G. S. GILBERTSON, Ordered passed on file. Chairman. Also: MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No 35*, a bill for an act to reimburse the members and heirs of members of the Second and Third Iowa Infantry for "gray" uniforms purchased during the war. G. S. GILBERTSON, Ordered passed on file. Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No. 317. a bill for an act to amend section three thousand and sixty-one (3061) of the Code relating to the rate of interest on judgments where a stay of execution is taken. G. S. GILBERTSON, Chairman. Ordered passed on file. MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No. 235, a bill for an act to punish the crime of unlawfully breaking and entering a railroad or express car. Ordered passed on file. G. S. GILBERTSON, MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No. 211, a bill for an act granting additional powers to certain cities of the first class and cities acting under special charters in reference to the improvement of streets, highways, avenues or alleys, and to provide for the payment of the cost thereof. G. S. GILBERTSON, Ordered passed on file. Chairman. Enrolled Bills respectfully MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on report that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No. 297, a bill for an act to amend section 4091 of the Code relating to nuisances. Ordered passed on file. G. S. GILBERTSON, MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No. 170, and box to a bill for an act regulating fees for the incorporation and increase in cap- Ordered passed on file. Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined and find correctly enrolled Senate file No. 140, a bill for an act to repeal sections 1, 2 and 3 of chapter 79, acts of the Twenty-first General Assembly, as amended by chapter 67, acts of the Twenty-second General Assembly, in relation to the spread of disease among swine, and to enact a substitute therefor. Ordered passed on file. G. S. GILBERTSON, Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined and find correctly enrolled Senate file No. 139, a bill for an act to amend section 3844 of the Code of 1873, relative to offices, fuel and stationery for county officers. Ordered passed on file. G. S. GILBERTSON, Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined and find correctly enrolled Senate file No. 22, a bill for an act to authorize the transfer of county road funds to the county fund and county bridge fund. G. S. GILBERTSON, Chairman. Ordered passed on file. Also: MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No. 68, a bill for an act relative to trimming osage orange, willow and all other hedge fences along the highway. Ordered passed on file. G. S. GILBERTSON, Chairman. MR. PRESIDENT-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills respectfully report that they have examined, and find correctly enrolled, Senate file No. 341, a bill for an act to declare Spirit and Okoboji Lakes, in Dickinson county, to be public, navigable waters, and to provide for their preservation and improvement for navigation, for the benefit of the public health, and for the culture of fish therein. G. S. GILBERTSON, Chairman. Ordered passed on file. Senator Carpenter offered the following concurrent resolu tion and asked that it be laid over. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION. WHEREAS, The people of the state of Iowa have deemed it advisable to codify and revise the statutes of the state and the Twenty-fifth General Assembly in obedience to the will of the people as interpreted by them, appointed a commission to do said work and make report thereof to the Twenty-sixth General Assembly for their action; and, WHEREAS, Said commission after two years' labor reported to the Twenty-sixth General Assembly a proposed code of over one thousand pages, containing a revision and codification of the statutes of the state, and this assembly has entered into an examination and discussion thereof, and has now been in session the customary period and has not been able to pass upon more than one-half of said report up to the present time, for the reasons: First. That the assembly has been compelled to consider matters of original legislation presented in 950 bills in addition to the aforesaid code work. Second.-For the reason that the revision requires an examination of the Code of 1873 and the acts of eleven general assemblies, the Fifteenth to Twenty-fifth inclusive, and the work of examining and comparing the proposed Code with existing statutes is slow and laborious. Third. For the reason that the commission embodied in the reported Code numerous changes from existing law, which changes have compelled the assembly to consume time in thier examination and discussion; and WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen as to the accuracy of the revision of cer tain chapters and titles, and it is deemed unwise to pass the same until ample time can be given the people of the state to examine and compare the proposed Code with existing law; and WHEREAS, The proposed Code was not published until December, 1895, and little opportunity was given for such examination and comparison by any one prior to the convening of this General Assembly; and WHEREAS, The future value of the revision depends upon the care exercised in the work, and its importance demands ample time for thorough consideration, and the exclusion of original legislation is necessary while the proposed revision is under discussion, therefore be it Resolved by the Senate, the House Concurring, That we deem it impos sible, under existing circumstances, to complete the work of the Code revision at this or any other regular session, or any reasonable extension of the present session, in a manner that would be satisfactory and acceptable and just to the people of the State; That the propriety and expediency of Code revision can not now be questioned, and the work, if thoroughly done, will be of lasting value to the State; That we deem it advisable to secure the benefit of the knowledge and experience acquired by this Assembly in the work of Code revision, and the benefit of the work done by them, and believe it to be for the welfare of the State and in the interest of economy that the work be completed at as early a date as practicable, and not later than January, 1897. |