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ing the party insured at least five days' notice 

 and a pro-rata for the unexpired term. A 

 third law allows life-insurance companies to 

 improve any real eastate whether in Connecti- 

 cut or in any other State. A fourth law pro- 

 vides that any fire, or fire and marine company 

 of another State with $150,000 in cash assets, 

 may transact business in the State, provided 

 that similar companies of Connecticut are ad- 

 mitted to transact business in such other State. 

 A fifth law concerns licenses and certificates 

 of insurance agents. "Valued policy bills" 

 were introduced in the legislatures of fifteen 

 States and Territories; but they did not be- 

 come laws except in New Hampshire and 

 Idaho, from both of which the insurance com- 

 panies promptly withdrew their agents. It was 

 expected that this particular form of legislation, 

 which seeks to overthrow the idea that an in- 

 surance policy is a contract of indemnity only, 

 will be pushed very actively during 1887. 



OTENTIONS. See PATENTS. 



IOWA. State Government. The following were 

 the State officers during the year : Governor, 

 William Larrabee, Republican ; Lieutenant- 

 Governor, John A. T. Hull ; Secretary of 

 State, Frank D. Jackson ; Treasurer, V. P. 

 Twombly; Attorney-General, A. J. Baker; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, John 

 W. Akers; Labor Commissioner, E. R. Hutch- 

 ins; Railroad Commissioners, Peter A. Dey, L. 

 S. Coffin, and James W. McDill; Mine Inspec- 

 tors, Joshua A. Smith, Thomas Binks, and 

 James E. Stout; Fish Commissioner, E. D. 

 Carleton. Supreme Court: Chief- Justice, 

 Joseph R. Reed ; Associate Justices, James H. 

 Roth rock, Austin Adams, Joseph M. Beck, and 

 William H. Seevers. J. W. Cattell at the begin- 

 ning of the year held the office of Auditor, 

 having been appointed thereto in 1885 by Gov. 

 Sherman, who had removed Auditor John L. 

 Brown on charges. Gov. Larrabee, soon after 

 his inauguration, restored Mr. Brown. He, 

 having been impeached, was succeeded by 

 Charles Beardsley. The articles were adopted 

 by the House on April 13, but the trial before 

 the Senate was not concluded until July 14, 

 when Mr. Brown was acquitted. He was 

 thereupon restored to office, and continued in 

 possession the remainder of the year. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature met on 

 January 11, and adjourned on April 13. Among 

 the laws passed were the following : 



To provide for the teaching and study of physiology 

 and hygiene with special reference to the effects of 

 alcoholic drinks ? stimulants, and narcotics upon the 

 human system, in the public schools and educational 

 institutions of the State. 



To authorize the creation and to provide for the 

 operation of tribunals of voluntary arbitration to ad- 

 just industrial disputes between employers and em- 

 ployed. 



To enable cities to aid in tho construction of high- 

 way bridges over navigable boundary rivers of the 

 State of Iowa. 



To provide for the levy of one-half-mill tax for the 

 years 1886 and 1887, to provide a home for Iowa sol- 

 diers and sailors, and for making repairs and improve- 



ments on State institutions and for paying outstand- 

 ing warrants. 



To repeal section 3909 of the Code and to enact a 

 substitute therefor, defining and punishing embez- 

 zlement. 



To establish a uniform inch or gauge of cream. 



To prevent deception in the manufacture and sale 

 of imitation butter and cheese. 



Making an appropriation for erecting an additional 

 wing to the Iowa Hospital for the Insane at Mount 

 Pleasant for female patients and for its support. 



To establish and maintain a Soldiers' Home in the 

 State of Iowa, and making an appropriation for the 

 purchase of land and the construction or purchase of 

 buildings. 



Establishing the Supreme Court at the seat of gov- 

 ernment and providing officers thereof. 



To repeal chapter 162 of the acts of the Twentieth 

 General Assembly, and to enact a substitute therefor 

 in relation to soldiers' monuments and memorial halls, 

 and providing for levying a tax therefor. 



To authorize cities and towns to erect and maintain 

 fish-dams across the outlets of meandered lakes, and 

 to provide punishment for the injury or destruction 

 of the same. 



To regulate the organization and operation of mu- 

 tual benefit associations. 



Amendatory of chapter 143 of the acts of the Twen- 

 tieth General Assembly relating to intoxicating liq- 

 uors, and providing for the more effectual suppression 

 of the illegal sale and transportation of intoxicating 

 liquors and abatement of nuisances. 



Requiring banking corporations other than savings- 

 banks to incorporate the word " State " in their cor- 

 porate name, and to prohibit associations, partner- 

 ships, or individuals engaged in banking business, 

 buying or selling exchanges, receiving deposits, dis- 

 counting notes, etc., from adopting and using the 

 word "'State" in connection with such associations, 

 partnership, or individual names. 



Kequiring foreign corporations to file their articles 

 of incorporation with the Secretary of State, and im- 

 posing certain conditions upon such corporations trans- 

 acting business in this State. 



To prohibit the traffic in hogs infected with swine- 

 plague or hog-cholera, and to prevent the spread of 

 the same. 



Authorizing the consolidation of the coupon fund in 

 the State treasury with the general revenue fund. 



To amend section 797 of the Code of Iowa, and to 

 exempt from taxation certain homesteads. 



To authorize administrators, executors, and guardi- 

 ans appointed in other States or countries to release 

 judgments, mortgages, and deeds of trust. 



To regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in 

 the State of Iowa. 



Eegulating the sale and transfer of grain in eleva- 

 tors and other places of storage. 



To abolish the Circuit Court and to enlarge the 

 powers and jurisdiction of the District Court, and to 

 provide for additional judges and to reorganize the 

 judicial districts of the State. 



To regulate the manner of holding courts in the 

 several judicial districts of the State, and to amend 

 section *231 of the Code as amended by an act of 

 the Twenty-first General Assembly relating to trial 

 jurors. 



To repeal sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of chapter 21, 

 acts of the Twentieth General Assembly, and enact 

 substitute therefor providing for mine-inspectors, their 

 manner of appointment, compensation, and defining 

 their duties and term of office. 



In relation to the sale of intoxicating liquors. 



To provide for the levy of attachment or execution 

 on personal property covered by mortgage. 



To prescribe certain powers and duties of the Gov- 

 ernor and Senate sitting as a court in cases of im- 

 peachment. 



Fixing the number of Senators in the General As- 

 sembly, apportioning them among the several counties, 



