Chapter Page 166 (S. B. 269) AN ACT to amend section 3610 of the code of 1906, so as to provide that convicts my be worked on lands other than those owned by the state for certain purposes... 167 (H. B. 494) AN ACT to provide for statewide tick eradication, and to provide for the expense of conducting the work in several counties, and for penalties for violation of this act...... 166 (S. B. 269) AN ACT to amend section 3610 of the code of 1906, so its powers, duties, compensations and payments thereof, requiring certain reports and duties of county and road district officials and road district engineers, and fixing penalties for failure or refusal to perform same.. 229 230 232 168 (S. B. 171) AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An Act to provide additional methods of working public highways in counties, and providing for the creation of road districts and the raising and expenditure of district board funds," approved March 12, 1914.......... 237 170 (H. B. 361) AN ACT to authorize board of supervisors of the respective counties to acquire by purchase, or condemnation proceedings, privately owned bridges, where such bridges comprise a portion of a public highway.... 245 .. 246 171 (S. B. 468) AN ACT to amend chapter 179, laws of Mississippi, 1914, page 251, being house bill No. 748, entitled "An Act to authorize the loaning out of sinking funds of good roads districts".... 172 (S. B. 383) AN ACT to amend chapter 258 of the laws of 1912, entitled "An Act to amend chapter 150 of the laws of Mississippi of 1910, in regard to working public roads". 247 173 (S. B. 504) AN ACT authorizing counties, county districts, supervisors' districts, and special road districts in any county, or county district, regardless of the present mode and manner or under which law the roads thereof are now being worked, constructed and maintained, to construct and maintain improved publc highways to connect with improved public highways of adjoining counties, county districts, supervisors' districts and special road districts, so as to form a continuous system of improved inter-state, inter-county and inter-district highways, and providing for the issuance of bonds for such purposes, the levy and collection of taxes to pay such bonds and for the maintenance of such highways, and authorizing an election by which the qualified voters of each county, county district, supervisors' district or special road district thereof, may vote on such questions of the issuance or non-issuance of bond.... 249 174 (S. B. 81) AN ACT relating to road districts created under chapter 176, laws of 1914, where the bond issue of the proposed district is in excess of five hundred thousand dollars... 253 Chapter Page 175 (H. B. 474) AN ACT to amend chapter 177 of the acts of the legislature of 1908, increasing the pay of members of the board of supervisors for extraordinary services.... 176 (H. B. 442) AN ACT to require road authorities and contractors of counties or municipalities who build or repair public roads with oyster shells to put crushed shells on each half mile or city block within ten days after foundation laid, and to prescribe penalties for failure, etc...... 177 (H. B. 4) AN ACT to amend chapter 257 of the laws of 1912, entitled "An Act to amend chapter 150 of the laws of 1910, entitled 'An Act to provide additional methods of working public roads;'" providing that any supervisors' district may come under said act; so as to provide a penalty for failure to pay the commutation tax, and requiring the road commissioner to enter into bond... 178 (H. B. 145) AN ACT to amend section 4451, Mississippi code 1906, so as to authorize boards of supervisors to take timber, gravel, dirt and other road material necessary for bridges, causeways and roadways... 179 (S. B. 356) AN ACT to provide for the adoption of and purchase of school text-books for agricultural high schools, separate school districts, county public schools, not otherwise provided by law; to require all publishers to file samples of all books to be sold in the state with the state superintendent of education; to require all publishers to sell school text-books to public authorities at not more than 75 per cent of the price list; to require publishers to give bond to the state; and to provide punishment and penalties for the violation of this act..... 180 (H. B. 194) AN ACT to provide for the transportation of pupils when schools are consolidated, to provide how consolidated school districts may be changed, tax levy for consolidated schools, assessment, bond issue, transportation wagons, school buildings, teachers' homes and incidental expenses provided for; repealing or bringing forward chapter 255, laws of 1912 and chapter 196, laws of 1914.. 181 (S. B. 560) AN ACT to authorize the state board of examiners to issue professional licenses to graduates of certain institutions of higher learning in this state; to provide for the issuance of teachers' licenses to holders of certificates in other states and graduates of colleges of other states; to authorize the extension or renewal of licenses in certain cases and to repeal all laws in conflict with these provisions.... 255, 256 257 259 259 265 267 Chapter Page 182 (H. B. 198) AN ACT to amend section 4498 of the Mississippi code of 1906, so as to change the time when county superintendents of education shall make annual report to the state superintendent.... 269 183 (S. B. 364) AN ACT to amend section 4501 of the Mississippi code of 1906, relative to the salary of county superintendents of educa tion and to require all their time to be devoted to the duties of that office..... 269 184 (H. B. 621) AN ACT to amend section 4514, chapter 125, of the Mississippi code of 1906, so as to provide for interstate line school.... 270 185 (H. B. 297) AN ACT to amend section 4525 of the code of 1906, giving . additonal powers to trustees of separate school districts so as to give the trustees authority to suspend and dismiss pupils when the best interest of the schcol makes it necessary..... ... 271 186 (H. B. 161) AN ACT to amend the following sections and chapters of laws pertaining to separate school districts so as to harmonize conflicts and to provide for transportation into separate districts: Sections 4526 and 4527 of chapter 125 of the Mississippi code of 1906; chapter 101 of the laws of 1908; chapter 12 of the laws of 1911; chapter 129 of the laws of 1912; chapters 192, 193 and 194 of the laws of 1914. To provide for the organization and maintenance of separate districts, tax levy, bond issue, transportation into separate districts, election and duties of trustees... 187 (S. B. 15) AN ACT to amend sections 4539 and 4540 of the Mississippi code of 1906, changing the manner of holding teachers' examinations and defining the public school curriculum..... 188 (S. B. 16) AN ACT to amend section 4543 of the code of 1906, to add certain subjects to the list on which teachers are examined for license to teach..... 273 277 278 189 (H. B. 844) AN ACT to amend section 4576 of the code of 1906, relative to balance of school funds left in treasury... ... 279 190 (S. B. 170) AN ACT to amend sections 4587, 4588, 4589, 4591 and 4592 of the Mississippi code of 1906, relating to teachers' institutes; to provide for holding institutes, the appointment of conductors and instructors of same; to authorize the board of education to outline the work and regulate the management of same and to fix the salaries of conductors and instructors; to provide an institute fund; to provide for keeping, paying out and supplementing of same; to require teachers to attend institutes or normals; to repeal all laws in conflict with this act..... 191 (S. B. 132) AN ACT to amend section 4578 of the Mississippi code of 1906, so as to change the time for the distribution of the com 280 Chapter mon fund.... Page 281 192 (S. B. 130) AN ACT to amend section 4824 of the Mississippi code of 1906 so as to provide for an assistant and an additional clerk for the state superintendent of public education, and to fix salaries.... 282 193 (H. B. 234) AN ACT to amend senate bill No. 67, chapter 254, laws of 1912, entitled "An Act to amend section 5, chapter 122, sheet acts of 1910, to provide for the establishment of county agricultural high schools, and to provide for the equipment and maintenance of the same," by stating the amount a joint agricultural high school shall receive in case it shall have more than sixty boarding pupils, and the amount such schools shall receive in case it shall have more than eighty boarding pupils, to read as follows..... 194 (H. B. 169) AN ACT to amend chapter 184, house bill 802, being “An Act to fix a place of holding an election in consolidated school district whenever it shall become necessary to vote on any question that may be required by law to be submitted to the qualified electors of said school district," so as to provide that the trustees shall designate the place for holding the election if there is no school house.... . .... 195 (H. B. 542) AN ACT to amend section 2 of chapter 189, laws of 1914, providing for the levying and collecting of taxes on property of rural school districts for school purposes. 196 (H. B. 84) AN ACT to amend house bill No. 479, chapter 191, of the laws of 1914, entitled "An Act to amend section 2 of senate bill No. 4, chapter 122, of the laws of 1910," so as to make it unnecessary to hold an election against the tax levy for an agricultural high school at any time when an average of more than thirty-five (35) boarding pupils is maintained in the school... 282 284 284 285 197 (H. B. 247) AN ACT to provide for a pension for the widows of confederate soldiers, who have married since 1885 to confederate soldiers, and who at the time of such marriage were then widows of confederate soldiers, and whose last husbands are now deceased.. 286 198 (H. B. 609) AN ACT to amend pension law so as to permit persons who have been left off the pension roll by mistake to receive pensions otherwise due them.. ... 286 199 (H. B. 840) AN ACT to provide for a pension for widows of confederate soldiers, provided they were married prior to 1890, if otherwise qualified, and over seventy years of age.. ... 287 200 (H. B. 174) AN ACT to repeal section 18 of chapter 171 of the laws of 1912, entitled "An Act to provide for the organization, management and supervision of mutual fire insurance companies"........ 288 201 (H. B. 364) AN ACT to amend section 709 of the Mississippi code of 1906 so as to provide that service of process in any suit or Chapter action, or any other legal process, may be served upon the insurance commissioner of the state of Mississippi, and such service will confer jurisdiction on any court in the state where the suit is filed..... Page 289 202 (S. B. 594) AN ACT to amend section 2619 of the code of 1906, so as to provide that the statement to be filed by life insurance companies, corporations or associations shall show the entire amount of their Mississippi reserves and an itemized schedule of the Missisippi securities.... .. 289 203 (H. B. 373) AN ACT to amend section 2629, chapter 69, of the code of 1906, and chapter 227 of the laws of 1912, fixing licenses and taxes on insurance companies so as to reduce the privilege license and increase the premium tax on insurance companies..... .... 291 204 (H. B. 362) AN ACT for the control and supervision of domestic fraternal benefit societies, providing better methods of supervision and requiring a bond for the protection of policyholders and for the faithful discharge of the duties of officers.... 205 (S. B. 185) AN ACT to prevent fire, fire marine, accident, health, employers' liability, steam boiler, plate glass, fidelity, surety, burglary or other insurance companies, except life, not incorporated under the laws of this state, from placing writing or causing to be written or placed, contracts or policies of insurance covering persons or property within this state or otherwise than through resident local agents. 293 ... 294 206 (H. B. 484) AN ACT for the regulation and control of fraternal benefit societies.. 207 (S. B. 263) AN ACT to amend sections 15, 19, 23, 34, 35, 38, 39, 56 and 59, respectively, of chapter 124, laws of 1914, in relation to certain credits on examination prohibited; in relation to charges for copies of bank reports; in relation to assessments; deposits guaranteed; securities to be deposited with the state treasurer; kind and amount of same; assessments for guarantee fund; when to cease; fund to be maintained unimpaired; what deposits are subject to guarantee; amount of same certified; deposits bearing interest; record kept of same; uniform rates of interest to be maintained; penalty for claiming deposits guaranteed in violation of this act; how officers and employes may borrow money from such banks; and liability of stockholders, said chapter 124, laws of 1914, being an act entitled "An Act establishing a banking department for the state of Mississippi; creating a board of bank commissioners, prescribing their qualifications, duties and compensation, providing for the election of state bank examiners, prescribing their qualifications, duties and compensation, defining what shall constitute a bank and banking business in the state of Mississippi, fixing the capital required to do a banking business, and 295 |