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Improvement Fund

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of the state be levied for each of the years 1917 and 1918 for the purpose of creating a special fund to be known as "State Institutions' Improvements' Fund," which fund or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated for the several uses and purpose hereinafter set forth.

A-For constructing, furnishing and equipping a new cottage for girls; for constructing, furnishing and equipping an addition to the hospital building; and for the construction of a new well and improvements and equipments for the power house, at the Institution for Feeble Minded Youth, at Beatrice, $63,000.00.

B-For cattle and hay barn, hog house, chicken house, two new boilers and other permanent improvements, at the Girls' Industrial School, Geneva, $7,500.00.

C-For addition to boiler house and new machinery, and for constructing railroad switch and coal track at the Ne braska Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Burkett, $16,820.00.

D-For sanitary sewer and sewer work; for new stack and addition to power house; and for boiler, pump and other machinery, for the Ingleside Hospital for the Insane, Ingleside, $25,000.00.

E-For hay and cattle barn and hog house, at the State Industrial School, Kearney, $3,500.00.

F-For extension of heating and water mains, remodeling old pavilion, extension of sewage disposal system and water system, including stand pipe; laying walks, constructing and furnishing residence for superintendent; and purchase of X-ray apparatus, at the Hospital for Tuberculosis, Kearney, $20,500.00.

G-For constructing and furnishing new hospital building; for removal and reconstruction of green house; and for constructing and furnishing new building to house employees, at the Nebraska Hospital for the Insane, Lincoln, $143,000.00.

H-For constructing and installing fire escapes, and for fire protection; and for laundry and kitchen equipment, at the Nebraska Orthopedic Hospital, Lincoln, $9,500.00.

J-For constructing and equipping new laundry building; for laundry machinery; farm machinery; for constructing, equipping and furnishing a dormitory building; and for the purchase

of 120 acres, more or less, of farm land, for the State Penitentiary, Lincoln, $41,300.00.

K-For constructing and installing fire escapes, and for fire protection; new wells, pump, boiler, machinery, and improvements to power house, and for constructing a railroad switch and coal track at the Nebraska Industrial Home, Milford, $10,274.00.

L-For barn and machine shed and hog house, at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Milford, $3,000.00.

N-For the extension and improvement of the sewer system; for reconstructing the power plant and power house, and for equipment and machinery for same; for constructing and equipping new bake shop and store room; and for constructing, equipping and furnishing new building, at the Hospital for the Insane of Nebraska, Norfolk, $117,000.00.

P-For constructing and equipping new barn; grading and improving grounds and constructing walks and drives, at the Nebraska School for the Deaf, Omaha, $6,000.00.

S-For building fences, grading and improving grounds, and constructing sidewalks, for the Nebraska Home for Dependent Children, Lincoln, $2,500.00.

Sec. 2. How expended. That the sums herein appropriated shall be expended by and under the direction of the Board of Commissioners of State Institutions.

Sec. 3. Surplus. Any surplus remaining in this fund is hereby appropriated to the State General Fund.

Sec. 4. Emergency. That, whereas an emergency exists, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved, April 25, 1917.

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AN ACT for improving the condition of the blind of this State under the authority of the Board of Commissioners of State Institutions.

Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska:

Section 1. Blind-improvement of condition of.-The Board of Commissioners of State Institutions is hereby vested with the authority of improving the condition of the blind of this state under the terms of this act.

Sec. 2. Board of control-duty as to blind.-It shall be the duty of said board, so far as may be practicable, to provide for the following activities:

(a) To prepare and maintain a complete register of the blind in the State of Nebraska, showing the name, location, age, length of residence, condition, cause of blindness, occupation, capacity for educational and industrial training of each, together with such other facts as may seem to the commission to be of value.

(b) To provide suitable and practical home teaching for blind persons who may be unable to attend the Nebraska School for the Blind.

(c) To assist blind persons to find remunerative employment suited to their needs and capacities.

(d) To assist blind workers to find a market for their wares and to obtain tools and materials needed in their work.

(e) To encourage and stimulate blind persons in their efforts toward self-improvement and self-support.

(f) To collect, interpret and disseminate information relating to the cause, prevention and cure of blindness.

Sec. 3. Same. The Board of Commissioners of State Institutions shall have power in each instance:

(a) To employ necessary field agents and teachers and to fix their compensation.

(b) To make loans of money to worthy and capable blind

persons to assist them in pursuing advanced or technical studies. or in carrying on business.

(c) To employ necessary clerical help and incur necessary expenses in carrying out the provisions of this act.

Sec. 4. Blind defined. The term "blind" as used in this Act shall include also all persons whose sight is so defective as seriously to limit their ability to engage in the ordinary vocations and activities of life.

Approved, April 19, 1917.

CHAPTER 234.

(Senate File No. 153.)

[Introduced by Mr. Bennett.]

AN ACT to prohibit the carrying on of the business, trade or occupation of a barber on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, providing that the business, trade or occupation of a barber, shall be defined as common labor and shall not be construed as being a work of necessity or charity and providing penalties for the violation of this act.

Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska:

Section 1. Sunday-barber shops not open.-It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, partnership, corporation, or the agents or servants of any person, partnership or corporation in this state, to conduct, carry on or to perform any of the services of a barber on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, provided that the services of a barber shall be defined as common labor and shall not be construed as being a work of necessity or charity, provided that where such services shall be done in connection with the medical treatment of persons confined to their rooms or in a hospital and being under the care of a physician, the same shall be construed as a work of necessity.

Sec. 2. Violations-penalty.-Any person, persons, corporation, partnership or the agents or servants of any person, partnership or corporation, violating any of the provisions of this act, shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of ten

Ch. 235)

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dollars ($10.00) for the first offense; and by a fine of not less. than fifteen ($15.00) dollars or more than fifty ($50.00) dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not to exceed thirty (30) days for the second and subsequent offenses.

Approved, April 11, 1917.

CHAPTER 235.

(House Roll No. 189.)

[Introduced by Mr. Stearns.]

AN ACT to fix a legal method of measuring hay in the stack.

Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska:

Section 1. Measurements of hay in stack. Unless otherwise agreed to between the contracting parties the following shall constitute the legal method for measuring hay in the stack and determining the tonnage of same: the distance from the ground against one side of the stack to the ground against the other side of the stack, directly over and opposite, shall be taken in feet and inches; subtract from this measurement the average width of the stack and divide by two to obtain the average height of the stack; multiply the width by the height and the result so obtained by the average length of the stack, which gives the cubic feet of hay in the stack.

Approved, April 11, 1917.

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