New York State Library MELVIL DEWEY Director Bulletin 91 Legislation 24 Comparative Summary and Index OF LEGISLATION 1904 Oct. 1, 1903-Sep. 30, 1904 EDITED BY Robert H. Whitten Sociology Librarian PREFATORY EXPLANATIONS These must be carefully read to understand the bulletin. Scope. All general permanent laws are included. Private, local and temporary acts, unless of great general interest, are omitted. Many acts, general in form but special in their application, are also omitted. Private acts applying to particular persons or granting relief to specific public officers and local acts applying to a single political division or to but a small proportion of the political divisions belonging to the same class are omitted. All general appropriation bills are omitted. Special appropriation acts providing for the establishment of a new institution or making some extraordinary appropriation marking the beginning of a new state policy are included. Laws providing for the general management and control of a particular state institution are included but those relating to some detail in the administration of a particular state institution are omitted. All laws legalizing acts already performed are omitted. Method. Usually but one entry is made for a law. To ascertain what legislation has been passed concerning a subject it is necessary for the reader to refer also to the more inclusive heads and to observe carefully the cross references. The change made by the new law is shown, if it is practicable to show it concisely. Italics are used to indicate new matter; matter superseded by the new law is included in brackets. Citations. A citation to an act indexed or summarized is set off at the end of the entry. It contains chapter number or page of act or resolution and day and month of approval or passage. In all states except Georgia, Alabama, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio and Oregon the session laws are numbered consecutively. Where this is the case the abbreviation for chapter (ch.) is omitted; e. g. 94, 5 J1 03. In the six states in which acts are not numbered consecutively number of page is given preceded by the abbreviation p.; e.g. P.471, 9 My 03. In North Carolina and Rhode Island where the governor's approval is not necessary, in a number of states where joint and concurrent resolutions do not require the approval of the governor and in the case of bills that become laws by the expiration of time without the signature of the governor, the date of passage by Legislature is given. In a few cases the date of passage and approval are both omitted in the session laws, and in these cases the year only is given. Citations to statutes amended or repealed by the act indexed always begin with the most general part and end with the most. specific; e.g. '95 ch.859 §2; '98 p.78; R.S. '96 t.3 art. 10 §3 ¶ 4. For abbreviations used in citing compilations of statutes see next page. Classification. The classification of the summary is the same as that used in the Digest of Governors Messages and will continue unchanged from year to year, except for insertion of new headings necessitated by new subjects of legislation. The numbers assigned to headings will also remain unchanged so that readers can follow recommendations and laws on any subject by looking under the same marginal number in each bulletin. The numbering corresponds to the consecutive numbering of headings in our card index of legislation 1890 to date. Where there is no legislation this subject number is skipped. The entries under each head are alphabeted by states and each entry is designated by a letter or a letter and numeral; e.g. b, d2. Subject index. This is an alphabetic list of the subjects included. References are to the marginal class and entry numbers. STATISTICS OF LEGISLATION OCT. 1, 1903, TO OCT. 1, 1904 The sessions are biennial in all states and territories except Ga., Mass., N. J., N. Y., R. I. and S. C. where they are annual and Ala. where they are quadrennial. For list of constitutional amendments see 34-36; for list of court decisions declaring statutes unconstitutional see 12. aIn addition two laws were proposed by initiative petition and adopted by the people June 6, 1904. Met July 15, 1902, and adjourned July 28 till Nov. 12, 1902, again adjourned May 19, 1903, till Nov. 10, 1903, and finally adjourned Jan. 12, 1904. |