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be voters not registered before November 1913 to be able to read "in English or some 

 other known tongue any section " of the constitution; the governor was empowered to 

 veto items in appropriation bills and a three-fifths vote (instead of a majority) was 

 required to over-ride a veto; the legislature might (on petition of 25% of the electors) 

 enact laws for initiative, referendum, and recall (not applying to judges) and provide for 

 qualifications for admission to the bar; and there was a definite provision for amend- 

 ments, without the clause that new amendments (except on the same subject) might 

 not be proposed when one or some were " pending." 



Legislation. The regular session of the legislature met on January 5, 1911. It 

 voted to submit to the people the new constitution described above, and provided for 

 a method of voting for constitutional amendments, permitting the state conventions of 

 political parties to approve or disapprove in their platform of any constitutional amend- 

 ment, so that a straight party ticket might be voted including a vote on the amendment. 

 The proposed i6th amendment to the Federal Constitution was ratified on February 

 6th. Probate, juvenile court and superior judges are to hold office hereafter for four 

 years, elections for these judges being held in 1^14 and in 1918 but none in 1912. A 

 rigorous corrupt practices act was adopted. The county option law of 1908 was re- 

 pealed, and city and township option was substituted. 1 A regulation law limits 

 saloons to not more than i for each 500 and not less than i for each 1,000 inhabitants, 

 the limit to be fixed by the county commissioners. The offices of a state commissioner 

 of weights and measures, and state food and drug commissioner were created. The 

 pure food law of 1907 was revised. Cold storage food products, except for interstate 

 shipment, must be marked with the date of storage and must not be kept in storage for 

 more than 9 months. The medical inspection of children in schools was authorised and 

 recommended, and the sanitation and ventilation of school buildings was provided for. 

 The punishment for pandering was set at imprisonment from 2 to 10 years and a fine 

 of $300 to $1,000, and, for a second offence, imprisonment of from 5 to 14 years; mar- 

 riage is no defence and a wife's testimony is competent against her husband. 



The factory inspection department was changed into a tripartite bureau: (i) for inspec- 

 tion of buildings, factories and workshops; (2) for inspection of mines, and (3) for inspection 

 of boilers with an inspector of locomotive boilers. The state established free employment 

 bureaus in cities of 50,000 or more, and the law of 1909 governing employment agencies was 

 entirely revised. Coal mining was classed as a dangerous industry. The law of 1887 in regard 

 to the payment of wages was replaced by a new law which gives greater protection to 

 employees. Various important public safety laws applying to railways were passed. 



No child is permitted to work, except on a farm or in domestic labour, if he is under 14, 

 but between June 1st and October 1st children between 12 and 14 may work in fruit and 

 vegetable canneries; except at farm work and domestic labour no child under 16 may work 

 more than 48 hours a week or 8 hours a day without the written consent of parent or guardian. 

 Under no condition may a child of this age work more than 54 hours a week or 9 hours a day, 

 or before 7 A.M., or after 6 P.M. No minor under 16 may work in a tobacco factory, hotel 

 or a theatre, and no boy under 16 and no girl under 18 in a saloon, brewery or distillery or 

 in the manufacture of matches or explosives. No girl under 18 may work where she must 

 stand constantly, and no child under 16 on certain dangerous machinery. 



An employers' liability act applies to all employers of five or more workmen; abrogates 

 the fellow servant rule and the defence of contributory negligence, restricts the rule of 

 assumption of risk, stipulates that liability may not be avoided by contract, and permits an 

 employer to set off any contribution to the insurance or.relief of an injured workman. The 

 act is not retroactive, but limits the amount of recovery to $10,000, and the time of action to 

 two years from the cause. On December 23, 1912 the U. S. Supreme Court held constitu- 

 tional a state law taxing shares of stock in corporations organised outside the state and held 

 by residents. The I2th of October was made a legal holiday as "Discovery Day." 



Finance. A state debt sinking fund for 1912 and 1913 was provided for by the levy of 

 .01 1 mills. The 1907 law for bank and trust company commissioners was revised; and the 

 state auditor was made head of a state department governing building and loan associations. 

 On September 30, 1911 the balance in the treasury was $272,969; on September 30, 1912 

 $339,405; the receipts during this period were $11,101,456 and the disbursements, $11,035,- 

 020. The state debt on September 30, 1912 was $1,260,163. 



Education. The governor was authorised in 1911 to appoint a commission to report 



1 Under this act, the "Proctor law," 48 cities voted, 30 for and 18 against licence, and 

 2IO townships, 43 for, 166 against and I tie. 



