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November, 1902; and that the remaining one-third of such cars so owned shall be provided with inclosures in a similar manner on or before the first day of November, 1903.

Sec. 2. Ib. It shall be unlawful for any such person, partnership or corporation so owning or operating a street railway using steam, electric or cable cars, or any superintending or managing officer or agent thereof, to cause or permit to be used upon such line of railway, between said first day of November, and said first day of April, of each and every of said years. any car or cars upon which services of any employee such as specified in section 1 of this act, is required, unless said car or cars shall be provided with the inclosure required by said section 1 of this act.

Sec. 3. Penalty. Any person, partnership, or corporation owning, operating, superintending or managing any such line of street railway, or managing, superintending officer or agent thereof, who shall be found guilty of a violation of the provisions of sections 1 or 2, of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50.00, nor more than $250.00. Each day any of said persons cause or permit any of their said employees to operate such car or cars in violation of the provisions of section 1 of this act, or cause or permit cars to be run or operated in violation of section 2 of this act, shall be deemed a separate offense; provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to cars used and known as trailing car or cars used solely in construction or repair work, or car or cars known as open or summer cars.

Approved this 14th day of March, 1901.

CHAPTER 53.

INTOXICATING LIQUORS.

AN ACT to amend section 1249 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1893, regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors and preventing certain persons from frequenting places of business where such liquors are sold, and repealing section 4248, Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah:

SECTION 1. That section 1249, of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

1249. Selling to insane person or habitual drunkard. Minors. Any person who shall knowingly give, sell, procure for or otherwise dispose of any intoxicating drink to an insane, or idiotic person, and any person licensed as herein provided, or any other person who shall knowingly give, sell, procure for or otherwise dispose of any intoxicating drink to any minor, or who shall permit any of said persons to be, or remain in his place of business where intoxicating

liquors are sold, or who shall give, sell, procure for or otherwise dispose of any intoxicating drink, to any person who is known in the community as a habitual drunkard shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. And any minor who frequents or remains in any saloon or place where intoxicating liquor is sold, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 2. That section 4246 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect upon approval.
Approved this 14th day of March, 1901.

CHAPTER 54.

STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

AN ACT amending section 1774 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, providing for the election of State Superintendent of Public Instruction, prescribing his qualifications and providing for the appointment and compensation of his deputy.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah:

SECTION 1. That section 1774, Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

1774. Election of State Superintendent. Qualifications, term, oath and bond. Deputy. There shall be chosen by the qualified electors of the state at the regular state election in the year nineteen hundred, and every four years thereafter, a superintendent of public instruction, hereinafter called the State Superintendent, who, at the time of his election shall be a qualified elector, shall have been a resident citizen of the state of Utah for five years next preceding his election, shall have attained the age of thirty years, shall be the holder of a state certificate of the highest grade issued in some state, or shall be a graduate of some reputable university, college, or normal school. He shall reside and hold his office at the seat of government for the term of four years from the first Monday in January following his election and until his successor is elected and qualified. Before entering upon his duties, he shall take the oath of office and give a bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, with not less than two sureties, to be approved by the Governor and filed in the office of the Secretary of State. He shall have power to appoint a deputy, who shall be a qualified elector in the state and who shall be paid a salary of four hundred dollars per annum to be paid out of the school fund.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon approval.
Approved this 14th day of March, 1901.

CHAPTER 55.

BUREAU OF STATISTICS.

AN ACT to establish a bureau of statistics, and to define the duties thereof, and making appropriation therefor.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah:

SECTION 1. Bureau of statistics created. Term of office of commissioner. A state bureau of, statistics is hereby created and shall be under the control of a commissioner, who shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the consent of the senate, and whose term of office shall be four years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. He shall have an office at the capital of the state, and shall have the power to appoint a deputy and such other assistants, from time to time, as shall be necessary for the transaction of the business of his office.

Sec. 2. Duties of bureau. The duties of said bureau shall be to collect, assort, systematize and present in annual reports to the Governor, statistical details relating to agriculture, mining, manufactures and other industries in the state; said reports to be published annually and distributed under the direction of the state board of examiners.

Sec. 3. Powers of commissioner. Witnesses. The commissioner of the bureau of statistics shall have power to issue subpœnas, administer oaths and take testimony in all matters relating to the duties herein required by said bureau, said testimony to be taken in some suitable place in the vicinity to which testimony is applicable. Witnesses subpoenaed and testifying before the commissioner of the bureau shall be paid the same fees as witnesses before a justice's court, such payment to be made out of the contingent fund of the bureau in advance, but such expense for witnesses shall not exceed one hundred dollars annually. Any person duly subpoenaed under the provisions of this section, who shall willfully neglect or refuse to attend or testify at the time and place named in the subpoena, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days; provided, however, that no witness shall be compelled to go outside the county in which he resides to testify.

Sec. 4. Bond. Salary. Bond. Salary. Expenses. Said commissioner shall give a bond of ten thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of the duties required by this act. The commissioner shall receive a compensation of fifteen hundred dollars per annum and actual traveling expenses, to be audited and paid as with other state officers.

Sec. 5. Information confidential. In the reports of the commissioner no use shall be made of names of individuals, firms or corporations supplying the information called for by this act, such information being deemed confidential and not for the purpose of disclosing personal affairs; and any officer or employee of the bureau of statistics violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year.

Sec. 6. Documents to be held two years. No report or return made to said bureau in accordance with the provisions of this act, and no schedule, record or document gathered or returned by its officers or employees, shall be destroyed within two years of the collection or receipt thereof. At the expiration of two years all records, schedules or papers accumulating in said bureau during said period, that may be considered of no value by the commissioner, may be destroyed, provided the authority of the state senate be first obtained for such destruction.

Sec. 7. Information, how obtained. Said bureau may collect the information called for by this act, or such information as the commissioner shall consider essential to perfect the work of the bureau, from the several state, county, city, town, precinct and school district officers, and from officers of prisons, penal and reformatory institutions; and it shall be the duty of all such officers to furnish, upon the written or printed request of the commissioner, such information as shall be considered necessary for the purposes of this act, upon blanks furnished by said bureau. Each owner,

operator, or manager of industrial, mining or agricultural business, or other person having information necessary to the work of the bureau of statistics, shall, upon request of the commissioner, furnish the same, upon blanks to be provided by the said bureau.

Sec. 8. County assessors to get statements. Blank form. Each county assessor, or his deputies, at the time of taking lists of property for taxation in each year, shall require each person, company and corporation in his county or district, to make a statistical statement of the previous year, as indicated on blanks furnished by the bureau, as follows:

AGRICULTURE: Number of acres, and production per acre, of each kind of crop; number of acres of different kinds of pasture; number of fleeces of wool, and average weight of the same; name of manager of farm; size of farm; quantity of land under fence; quantity of land not under fence; quantity of land under cultivation; assessed value of farm and of farming implements; number of different kinds of live stock, poultry, stands of bees; amount of honey produced; number of acres of nurseries, orchards and vineyards, with the production thereof and the amount of capital invested therein: number of mules, horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, subdivided into the breeds or classes where they belong; number and value of

slaughtered animals; canals, reservoirs, etc., constructed, and cost thereof.

MANUFACTURES: Number of establishments; name and postoffice address of corporation, company or individual producing; name of business; kind of motive power; average number of hands employed; capital invested; raw material used; product; number of flouring mills, woolen mills, saw mills, or factories of different classes; number of pounds of cheese and butter produced in factories; number and kind of cows used; number of mercantile establishments, average number of employees in each; and amount of capital invested; number of workshops and average number of employees; minimum wages; maximum wages; average wages; number of hours per day employees are required to work.

MINING: Quantity of precious or other metals produced or handled; capital employed; approximate area of property; area of undeveloped property.

In addition they shall furnish such other information as shall be practicable in the discharge of their duties, as listed on the blanks provided by the bureau.

These blanks shall be returned by the county assessor to the state bureau of statistics.

Sec. 9. Appropriation. An appropriation of six thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby made to carry out the purposes of this act.

Approved this 14th day of March, 1901.

CHAPTER 56.

ACCEPTANCE OF CAREY ACT.

AN ACT to provide for the acceptance by the state of Utah, from the United States, of certain desert lands, and providing for the reclamation, occupancy and disposal of the same.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah:

The state

SECTION 1. Acceptance of conditions of Carey Act. of Utah, hereby accepts the conditions of section four of the act of Congress entitled "An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes," approved August eighteenth, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-four, together with all grants of land to the state under the provisions of the aforesaid act.

Sec. 2. Selection and disposal of lands by commissioners. The selection, management and disposal of said land shall be vested in the state board of land commissioners. Said board is hereby authorized to make all contracts necessary to carry out the provisions

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