CH. 144] LAWS OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY shall give the same notices as are required in section two thousand seven hundred forty-six (2746) of the code, and two thousand seven hundred fifty (2750) of the supplement to the code, 1907, at which election all voters residing within the district shall be allowed to vote by ballot for or against such dissolution. If a majority of all votes cast at said election be in favor of dissolving the consolidated district, same shall be dissolved and the organization of a new district or districts be forthwith completed by the election of a board of directors as provided by statute; provided, however, that such dissolution shall become effective only when the reorganization of the territory included in the original consolidated district is completed. The assets and liabilities of any such school corporation thus dissolved shall be equitably divided as provided in section two thousand eight hundred two (2802) of the supplement to the code, 1907. "(G) Violation of rules and regulations-penalty. Any person driving, managing, or in charge of any vehicle used in transporting children to and from school, in any consolidated independent school corporation, who shall be found guilty of violating any of the rules and regulations adopted by the board of said school, for the guidance of any person in charge of such conveyance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for the first offense shall be fined not less than five dollars ($5.00) or more than ten dollars ($10.00) and for a subsequent offense shall be fined not less than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars or more than fifty dollars ($50.00) and shall be dismissed from the service." (H) In effect. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall take effect and be in force from and after the date of its publication in the Register & Leader and Des Moines Capital, newspapers published in the city of Des Moines, Iowa. Approved March 25, A. D. 1911. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Register and Leader and the Des Moines Capital, March 28, 1911. W. C. HAYWARD, CHAPTER 144. TITLE AND DISPOSITION OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED BY A SCHOOL CORPORA TION. H. F. 177. AN ACT to amend section twenty-eight hundred and sixteen (2816) of the code, relative to the title and disposition of real estate acquired by a school corporation. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Repeal-reversion in case of non-user. Section twenty-eight hundred and sixteen (2816) of the code is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof: "In any school district wholly outside any city or incorporated town, in the case of non-user for school purposes for two years continuously of any real estate acquired for a school house site it shall revert, with improvements thereon, to the owner of the tract from which it was taken, upon repayment of the purchase price without interest, together with the value of the improvements, to be determined by arbitration, and upon such payment the school corporation shall make formal conveyance to such owner. During its use the LAWS OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY [CH. 145 owner of the right of reversion shall have no interest in or control over the premises." Approved April 17, A. D. 1911. CHAPTER 145. INDEBTEDNESS OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS. H. F. 11. AN ACT to amend sections one (1), and two (2), of chapter one hundred and eightyfour (184), acts of the thirty-third general assembly, relative to the limit of indebtedness of independent school districts. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Indebtedness authorized. Section one (1), of chapter one hundred and eighty-four (184) of the acts of the thirty-third general assembly is hereby so amended as to read as follows, to-wit: "Any independent district containing, or contained in, any city, town or village, or any consolidated independent district shall be allowed to become indebted, for the purpose of building and furnishing a school house or houses and procuring a site therefor, to an amount not to exceed in the aggregate, including all other indebtedness, four per centum of the actual value of the taxable property within such independent school district, such value to be ascertained by the last county tax list previous to the incurring of such indebtedness, anything contained in section one thousand three hundred and six-b (1306-b) of the supplement to the code, 1907, to the contrary notwithstanding." SEC. 2. Petition for election. Section two (2) of chapter one hundred and eighty-four (184) of the acts of the thirty-third general assembly is hereby so amended as to read as follows, to-wit: "Provided, that before such indebtedness can be contracted in excess of one and one-quarter per centum of the actual value of the taxable property ascertained as provided in this act, a petition signed by a number equal to twenty-five (25%) per cent of those voting at the last schoool election shall be filed with the president of the board of directors, asking that an election shall be called, stating the purpose for which the money is to be used, and that the necessary school house or houses cannot be built and furnished within the limit of one and one-quarter per centum of the valuation." SEC. 3. In effect. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall be in full force and effect on and after its publication in the Des Moines Capital and the Register and Leader, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa. Approved March 21, A. D. 1911. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Des Moines Capital and the Register and Leader March 22, 1911. W. C. HAYWARD, CH. 146] LAWS OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY CHAPTER 146. PAYMENT OF TUITION OF PUPILS ATTENDING HIGH SCHOOLS LOCATED IN OTHER DISTRICTS. H. F. 28. AN ACT to provide for the payment of tuition of pupils residing in school corporations which do not offer instruction equivalent to four-year high schools of Iowa. [Additional to chapter fourteen (14) of title thirteen (XIII) of the code, relating to the common schools.] Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Pupils permitted to attend high school outside of home district. Any person of school age, who is a resident of a school corporation not offering a four-year high school course, and who has completed the course of study offered in such school corporation shall be permitted to attend any high school that will receive him, provided the average cost of tuition allowed shall not exceed the average cost of tuition in the nearest high school, under the conditions and provisions of section two (2) of this act. SEC. 2. Applicant to present certificates as to qualifications. Any person applying for admission to any high school under the provisions of this act shall present to the officials of said high school a certificate from the president or secretary of the school corporation in which he resides stating that the said applicant is of school age and that he is a resident of said school corporaation, which certificate shall be issued on application therefor. He shall also present a certificate signed by the county superintendent showing proficiency in the common school branches, reading, orthography, arithmetic, physiology, grammer, civics, geography, United States history, penmanship and music; provided, however, that such person may be admitted to any grade in such high school upon his passing a satisfactory examination before the officers thereof, or under their direction. SEC. 3. Tuition fee-how paid. The school corporation in which such student resides shall pay to the treasurer of the school corporation in which such student shall be permited to enter, a tuition fee equal to the average cost of tuition and the average proportion of contingent expenses in the high school department in the latter corporation during the time he so attend, not exceeding, however, a total period of four (4) school years. Such payment to be made out of the teachers fund and contingent fund of the debtor corporation. SEC. 4. Refusal or neglect to pay-how collected. If payment is refused or neglected the board of the creditor corporation shall file with the auditor of the county of the pupil's residence a statement certified by its president specifying the amount due for tuition and for contingent expenses respectively, and the time for which the same is claimed; and the auditor shall transmit to the county treasurer an order directing such treasurer to transfer the amount of such account from the debtor corporation to the creditor corporation, and the treasurer shall pay the same out in accordance therewith." Approved March 10, A. D. 1911. LAWS OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY [CH. 148 CHAPTER 147. APPROPRIATIONS AND SALARIES FOR THE STATE LIBRARY AND THE HISTORICAL DEPARTMENT. H. F. 367. AN ACT to repeal the law as it appears, in sections twenty-eight hundred eighty-one-e (2881-e), twenty-eight hundred eighty-one-f (2881-f), and twenty-eight hundred eightyone-g (2881-g), chapter seventeen-A (17-A), title thirteen (XIII) of the supplement to the code, 1907, and enact substitutes therefor, relative to salaries and appropriations for the state library and the historical department. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Repeal-appropriations. That section twenty-eight hundred eighty-one-e (2881-e), of the supplement to the code, 1907, be and the same is hereby repealed, and the following enacted in lieu thereof: "There shall be annually appropriated from any money in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six thousand dollars ($6000.00) for the use of the law department and legislative reference bureau; six thousand dollars, ($6000.00) for the use of the miscellaneous department, and six thousand dollars ($6000.00) for the historical department; the money to be expended under the direction of the board of trustees of the state library and historical department." SEC. 2. Repeal-state librarian-curator-law librarian-salaries. That section twenty-eight hundred eighty-one-f (2881-f) of the supplement to the code, 1907, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and the following enacted in lieu thereof: "From and after the taking effect of this act the salary of the state librarian shall be the sum of two thousand four hundred dollars ($2400.00) per annum; of the curator of the museum and art gallery, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars ($1800.00), per annum; and the law librarian the sum of eighteen hundred dollars, ($1800.00) per annum.' SEC. 3. Repeal-assistants-salaries. That section two thousand eight hundred and eighty-one-g, (2881-g), of the supplement to the code, 1907, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and the following enacted in lieu thereof: "As assistants (in addition to the curator of the museum and art gallery and the law librarian), the state librarian may employ one first assistant at an annual salary of eleven hundred dollars, ($1100.00); and one second assistant at an annual salary of ten hundred dollars, ($1000.00); and one third assistant at an annual salary of nine hundred dollars, ($900.00)." Approved April 14, A. D. 1911. CHAPTER 148. PUBLIC ARCHIVES. S. F. 333. AN ACT to amend the law as it appears in section two thousand, eight hundred eightyone-1 (2881-1) of the supplement to the code, 1907, relating to the public archives, authorizing the curator of the historical collections to make and certify copies of records and documents in the public archives. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Authenticated copies of records fees. The law as it appears in section two thousand, eight hundred eighty-one-1 (2881-1) of the supple CH. 150] LAWS OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY ment to the code, 1907, is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section the following words: "Upon and after said receipt from the executive council of any of such public archives copies thereof may be made, certified and authenticated by the curator of the historical collections in the same manner and with the same validity as the officer or officers from whom they were received. Said curator shall charge and collect for certified copies the same fees as are allowed by law to the secretary of state for certified copies, which fees shall be turned into the state treasury." Approved April 1, A. D. 1911. CHAPTER 149. APPROPRIATION FOR THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. H. F. 115. AN ACT making appropriation to the state historical society of Iowa. [Additional to section twenty-eight hundred eighty-two-a (2882-a) of the supplement to the code, relating to annual appropriation for state historical society.] Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Appropriation for additional permanent support. That there is hereby appropriated to the state historical society of Iowa, out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000) annually hereafter as additional permanent support for historical research and publication. SEC. 2. Paid in quarterly installments. That the said sum shall be paid in quartely installments on the order of the board of curators of the said state historical society of Iowa, the first installment to be paid July, 1911. Approved April 14, A. D. 1911. CHAPTER 150. SALES OF STOCKS OF GOODS, WARES OR MERCHANDISE IN BULK. H. F. 56. AN ACT to regulate the sale or disposal of stocks of goods, wares, or merchandise in bulk, and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof. [Additional to chapter four (4) of title fourteen (XIV), relating to transfer of personal property.] Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. Creditors to be notified. No person, firm, or corporation engaged in the retail or wholesale business of buying and selling merchandise for profit shall at a single transaction, and not in the regular course of business sell, assign, or deliver the whole, or a major part of his stock in trade unless he shall, not less than three days previous to such sale, assignment, or delivery, send or cause to be sent to his creditors by registered mail, a notice of his intention to make such transfer, assignment or delivery, which notice shall be in writing describing in general terms the property to be sold, assigned, or delivered, and the parties thereto. SEC. 2. Sales and assignments fraudulent, when. All such sales, assignments, or deliveries of commodities which shall be made without the formalities |