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Daily Evening Bulletin
Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky
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The state legislature passed key bills on education, taxation, debt funding, criminal justice, liquor sales regulation, expositions funding, mine safety, explosives transport, and property assessment.
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The school bill.
A bill to equalize exemptions from executions, etc.
A bill to increase the rate of taxation five cents on each one hundred dollars.
A bill to fund the State debt at a rate interest not to exceed five per cent.
Among the most important general bills passed by the Legislature were the following:
An act repealing that portion of the Code of Practice which requires an assignment of errors.
A bill to establish a branch penitentiary at Eddyville, at a cost of $150,000, where young criminals will be confined.
A bill to equalize assessments and to establish a State Board of Equalization.
A bill authorizing County Attorneys to assist the Commonwealth's Attorneys in criminal cases, thus preventing them from appearing as prosecutor in the preliminary examination, and in the defense on final trial.
A bill to prevent the sale of liquor without license. The law heretofore allowed a person to sell in quantities not less than a quart, provided he sold nothing else and did not allow it to be drank on the premises or premises adjacent thereto.
A bill which doubled the State tax on retail liquor dealers and fixed a license tax on druggists who sell for other than medical purposes. It requires distillers to report for county tax the same way they heretofore reported for the State assessment.
A bill appropriating $12,500 for a display of State products at the Southern Exposition and New Orleans Centennial Exposition.
A bill appointing an inspector of mines defining his powers, looking to the safety of Miners.
A bill regulating the transportation of explosives by railroads, steamboats and other common carriers.
A bill exempting railroads to be hereafter built from taxation from time of commencement of work.
A bill requiring Assessors on oath to make assessments of real estate and personality on a basis of real cash value.
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multiple bills passed by the legislature, including appropriations, tax changes, and regulatory measures.
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The Legislature passed important bills such as the school bill, a bill to equalize exemptions from executions, a bill increasing taxation by five cents per hundred dollars, a bill to fund state debt at up to five percent interest, repeal of assignment of errors in Code of Practice, establishment of a branch penitentiary at Eddyville for $150,000, equalization of assessments with a State Board, authorization for County Attorneys to assist in criminal cases, prevention of unlicensed liquor sales, doubling of state tax on retail liquor dealers with license for druggists, appropriation of $12,500 for expositions, appointment of mine inspector for miner safety, regulation of explosives transportation, exemption of new railroads from taxation, and requirement for assessors to value property at cash value.