witness fees. SEC. 45. For witness fees of witnesses before investigating $132.70 for committee appointed by the house with reference to agricultural college as follows: for S. H. Berry, SEC. 46. Three dollars per day for S. H. Berry assistant li- $3 per diem brarian from date of appointment to close of the twentieth general assembly to be paid upon order of the governor. SEC. 47. This act being deemed of immediate importance Publication. shall take effect and be in force after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Iowa State Leader newspapers published at Des Moines Iowa. Approved, April 3, 1884. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Register and Iowa State Leader April 5, 1884. J. A. T. HULL, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 130. APPROPRIATION TO PAY VISITING COMMITTEES. AN ACT to Provide for the Payment of the Expenses of the Commit- H. F. 550. tees Appointed to Visit the State Institutions. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: committees. SECTION 1. That there is hereby appropriated from the state Expenses: treasury the following sums of money to the persons and for the purposes herein named. SEC. 2. To C. A. Marshall, W. B. Culbertson and G. W. College for the Hayzlett for expenses incurred in visiting the college for the blind. blind at Vinton twenty-three dollars ($23) each. $69. SEC. 3. To N. B. Holbrook, C. C. Carpenter and Lewis Deaf and Miles for expenses incurred in visiting the deaf and dumb dumb. asylum at Council Bluffs, fourteen dollars ($14) each. $42. school. SEC. 4. To C. W. Fillmore and Ben McCoy for expenses in- Girls reform curred in visiting Girls' Reform School at Mitchellville, eight dollars ($8) each. $16. SEC. 5. To I. W. Baldwin, A. Head and H. S. Rothert for State university. Soldiers' or expenses incurred visiting state university at Iowa City, nineteen and 50-100 dollars ($19.50). $58.50. SEC. 6. To Ed. Rice, H. H. Green and E. C. Sudlow for exphans' home. penses incurred in visiting the soldiers' orphans' home at Davenport, twenty dollars ($20) each. $60. Insane hos SEC. 7. To H. C. Curtis, J. J. Linehan and W. A. Cotton for pital at Inde- expenses incurred in visiting the insane hospital at Independpendence. ence, twenty-eight dollars ($28) each. $84. Fish hatching SEC. 8. To J. G. Brown and J. P. Huskins for expenses inHouse at Spirit curred in visiting the Spirit Lake fish hatching house twenty dollars ($20) each. $40. Lake. Agricultural college. Reform school at Eldora. Normal school. Penitentiary SEC. 9. To John Manderscheid, C. L. Watrous and P. M. Sutton for expenses incurred in visiting the agricultural college at Ames, four dollars ($4) each. $12. SEC. 10. C. S. Ranck, E. W. Wilber and J. D. Glass for expenses incurred in visiting the reform school at Eldora, fifteen and 50-100 dollars ($15.50) each. $46.50. SEC. 11. To C. C. Vanderpoel, S. A. Converse and A. P. Stephens for expenses incurred in visiting the state normal school at Cedar Falls, thirty-three and 50-100 dollars ($33.50), each. $100.50. SEC. 12. To W. F. R. Humphrey, Wm. Butler, and J. L. at Ft. Madison. Kamrar for expenses incurred in visiting the penitentiary at Ft. Madison twenty-six and 80-100 dollars ($26.80) each. $80.40. SEC. 13. To M. Miller, J. A. Overholtzer and T. M. C. Logan, Fish hatching for expenses incurred in visiting the state hatching house at house at Ana- Anamosa, twenty-three and 60-100 dollars ($23.60) each. mosa. Insane hospital at Mt. Pleasant. $70.80. SEC. 14. To Wm. O. Schmidt, J. D. McVey, T. J. Caldwell, for expenses incurred in visiting the insane hospital at Mt. Pleasant, nineteen dollars ($19) each. $57. SEC. 15. N. A. Merrill, J. M. Jones and Wm. Larrabee for Penitentiary expenses incurred in visiting the penitentiary at Anamosa, at Anamosa. twenty dollars ($20) each. $60. SEC. 16. To Sam. Wright, L. R. Bolter and O. M. Barrett Feeble minded for expenses incurred in visiting institution for feeble minded, Glenwood, twenty dollars ($20) each. $60. children. Publication SEC. 17. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall take effect and be in force from and after the publication in the Iowa State Register and State Leader, newspapers pub lished at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved, April 3, 1884. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Register April 8, and in the Iowa State Leader April 5, 1884. J. A. T. HULL, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 131. FOR RELIEF OF MRS. J. W. MADDY. AN ACT for the Relief of Mrs. J. W. Maddy of Marne, Cass county, H. F. 511. WHEREAS, On the 13th day of July 1883 the murderers of Preamble. Post Master Clingan were chased into Elkhorn Grove, Shelby county, Iowa, and after the wounding of J. W. Hallock, by said murderers a strong guard was placed around the grove, and on the morning of July 14th 1883 the officers called for volunteers to assist in the capture of said murderers; and resting crim WHEREAS, J. W. Maddy, a citizen of Marne, Cass county, J, W. Maddy Iowa, volunteered to assist said officers, and while marching in killed in arline through said grove he was fired upon by one of the murder- inals. ers and received a mortal wound and died the same day, and by his death a wife in delicate health and five children were left without home or support, therefore Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: children. SECTION 1. That there be appropriated out of any funds in $2,000 approthe state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of two priated for thousand dollars to Mrs. J. W. Maddy to be used for the benefit Maddy and of herself and children as follows, five hundred dollars of said amount to go to the widow in her own right and fifteen hundred dollars for her children to be invested by the guardian of said children in such manner as their best interest may require. SEC. 2. This act to take effect on and after its publication in Publication. the Iowa State Register and Iowa State Leader, papers published in Des Moines, Iowa. Approved, April 3, 1884. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Register April 8, and Iowa State Leader April 5, 1884. J. A. T. HULL, Secretary of State. S. F. 83. Appointment of commissioner provided for. Governor to CHAPTER 132. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS. AN ACT to Create a Bureau of Labor Statistics, and to Provide for the Appointment of a Commissioner of Said Bureau, and to Define his Duties and Term of Office. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That there is hereby created a bureau of labor statistics, to be under the control and management of a commissioner thereof, to be appointed as hereinafter provided by this act. SEC. 2. That the governor shall, within thirty days after the appoint within taking effect of this act and biennially thereafter, with the 30 days. advice and consent of the executive council, appoint a commissioner of labor statistics. The term of office of said comTerm of office. missioner to commence on the first day of April in each evennumbered year and continue for two years and until his successor is appointed and qualified; and said commissioner before entering upon the discharge of his duties shall take an oath and give bond. or affirmation to discharge the same faithfully, and to the best of his ability; and shall give bond in the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) with sureties to the approval of the governor, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his official duties. Take an oath Salary $1,500 per annum. Keep an office n capitol. May be re SEC. 3. Said commissioner shall receive a salary of fifteen. hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly, and necessary postage, stationery, and office expenses, the said salary and expenses to be paid by the state as the salaries and expenses of other state officers are provided for. He shall have and keep an office in the capitol at Des Moines in which shall be kept all records, documents, papers, correspondence and property pertaining to his office, and shall deliver them to his successor in office. SEC. 4. Said commissioner may be removed from his office moved by gov- by the governor for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office; and any vacancy occurring at any time may be filled by the governor by and with the consent of the executive council. ernor. Duties of commissioner. Statistics to be gathered. SEC. 5. The duties of said commissioner shall be to collect, assort, systematize and present in biennial reports to the governor on or before the 15th day of August preceding each regular meeting of the general assembly, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the state, especially in its relations to the commercial, social, educational and sanitary with parties statement in conditions of the laboring classes, and to the permanent prosperity of the mechanical, manufacturing and productive industries of the state, and shall as fully as practicable collect such Shall collect information and reliable reports from each county in the state from each the amount and condition of the mechanical and manufacturing county. interests, the value and location of the various manufacturing and coal productions of the state, also sites offering natural or acquired advantages for the profitable location and operation of different branches of industry; he shall by correspondence with To correspond interested parties in other parts of the United States impart to throughout them such information as may tend to induce the location of the U. S. mechanical and producing plants within the state, together with such other information as shall tend to increase the productions, and consequent employment of producers; and in said biennial report he shall give a statement of the business of Shall give the bureau since the last regular report, and shall compile and biennial republish therein such information as may be considered of value port. to the industrial interests of the state, the number of laborers and mechanics employed, the number of apprentices in each trade, with the nativity of such laborers, mechanics and apprentices' wages earned, the savings from the same, with age and sex of laborers employed, the number and character of accidents, the sanitary condition of institutions where labor is employed, the restrictions if any which are put upon apprentices when indentured, the proportion of married laborers and mechanics who live in rented houses, with the average annual rental and the value of property owned by laborers and mechanics; and he shall include in such report what progress has been made with schools now in operation for the instruction of students in the mechanic arts and what systems have been found most practical with details thereof. more than 600 pages. report to be Such report when printed shall not consist of more than six Report of not hundred printed pages octavo. Five thousand copies thereof shall be printed and bound 5,000 copies of uniformly similar to the reports of other state officers as now printed. authorized by law. Said reports when published to be disposed Distribution of of as follows, viz: To the public libraries in the state, to the reports. various trade organizations, agricultural and mechanical societies, and other places where the commissioner may deem proper and best calculated to accomplish the furtherance of the industrial interests of the State. SEC. 6. The commissioner shall have power to issue sub- Power of compoenas for witnesses and examine them under oath and enforce missioner. their attendance to the same extent and in the same manner as a justice of the peace; said witnesses to be paid the same fees as are now allowed witnesses before a justice of the peace, the same to be paid by the state. SEC. 7. This act being deemed of immediate importance Publication. shall be in force and take effect from and after its publication |