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BUREAU OF MARKETS AND MARKETING

HISTORY

The nucleus of this bureau is the division of agricultural statistics. The legislature of 1913 created a bureau of agricultural statistics in the board of agriculture. Certain statistical functions of the conservation and public welfare commission, which was abolished by the civil administrative code of 1919, were combined with the bureau of agricultural statistics and the entire activity was allotted to the department of agriculture. The bureau of markets and marketing was created within the department and all statistical work is carried on there.

ACTIVITIES

Besides the compilation of agricultural statistics, the bureau issues a monthly crop report, compiles information on farmers' co-operative undertakings, assembles and disseminates market reports, and agricultural news and publicity.

The bureau also enforces the laws concerning potato grading, cold storage, pest eradication, bee husbandry and commission merchants. It has further duties of inspecting scales, testing of seeds, and standardizing of containers and methods of packing.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Secretary-Frank A. Kennedy......

Salary .$5,000

BUREAUS AND DIVISIONS

Division of compensation and investigation..........
Division of free employment.

..L. L. Dunn

DUTIES AND POWERS

To foster, promote and develop the welfare of wage earners;

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To improve working conditions;

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To advance opportunities for profitable employment;

4. To collect, collate, assort, systematize, and report statistical details relating to all departments of labor, especially in its relation to commercial, industrial, social, economic and educational conditions, and to the permanent prosperity of the manufacturing and productive industries;

5. To acquire and diffuse useful information on subjects connected with labor in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word;

6. To acquire and diffuse among the people useful information concerning the means of promoting the material, social, intellectual and moral prosperity of laboring men and women;

7. To acquire and diffuse information as to the conditions of employment and such other facts as may be deemed of value to the industrial interests of the state;

8. To acquire and diffuse information in relation to the prevention of accidents, occupational disease and other related subjects;

9. To administer and enforce the workmen's compensation laws or employers' liability acts of the state, and for that purpose the secretary of the department of labor shall be the deputy commissioner of labor and the compensation commissioner, and the duty is imposed upon him, as such, of executing all of the provisions of Article VIII, Chapter 35, Revised Statutes of Nebraska for the year 1913, and all act or acts amendatory thereof.

The duties of the following boards and commissions of the old administrative system have been taken over by the department of labor.

BUREAU OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS

HISTORY

The legislature of 1887 created this bureau. The governor was made the commissioner, to comply with the requirements of the Nebraska constitution forbidding the creation of more executive offices. The duties of the office were performed by a deputy commissioner and other employes. The legislature of 1917 created the office of deputy compensation commissioner, and the civil administrative code of 1919 imposed the duties of the compensation commissioner on the secretary of labor.

Biennial report.
Occasional bulletins.

PUBLICATIONS

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1. The governor, through the agency of the secretary of trade and commerce is vested with the power to regulate, supervise, and have general control over trade and commerce of the state.

The department of trade and commerce shall collect, collate, assort, systematize and report statistical details of the manufacturing industries and commerce of the state and shall acquire information and report upon the general conditions, so far as production is concerned, of the leading industries of the state.

The duties of the following boards and commissions of the old administrative system have been taken over by the department of trade and

commerce.

BUREAU OF BANKING

HISTORY

Early banking in the state was carried on under the general incorporation laws of the state. The instability of these early institutions finally led to the general banking act which was approved March 29, 1889. This act provided for the filing of bank reports with the auditor, and the examination of banks under the direction of the auditor. The auditor, treasurer and attorney general or any two of them appointed a suitable person to do the necessary clerical work in the auditor's office, and also the necessary bank examiners. An act approved April 8, 1895, created the state banking board, of which the auditor, treasurer and attorney general were the members, with power to appoint a secretary and a clerk, and bank examiners. The banking law was revised by an act approved March 25, 1909. This provided that the auditor, treasurer and the governor, as ex-officio chairman should constitute the board. The civil administrative code imposed the duties of the banking board on the bureau of banking. The office is sustained chiefly by the fees collected.

DUTIES AND POWERS

This bureau has general control of banks and banking under the laws of this state.

The bureau is required to

1. Inspect and secure reports from all banks organized under state laws, and to enforce all the banking laws.

2.

Have control of building and loan associations.

3. Have control of trust companies.

Biennial report.

PUBLICATIONS

Annual building and loan report.

BUREAU OF INSURANCE

HISTORY

An act approved February 15, 1864, required insurance companies to be certified by the territorial auditor, and to report to him. The act approved February 25, 1873, extended the duties of the auditor with reference to inspection and investigation of insurance companies, and required him to have the assent of the attorney general before issuing the original certificate to a company. An act approved March 31, 1899, repealed the existing law, and created a bureau of insurance with the governor as insurance commissioner and a deputy commissioner for the actual work. This law was declared unconstitutional (59 Neb. 417-435) on the ground that it violated sections 1 and 4, article IX, of the constitution relative to taxation. It was held that the invalid sections constituted an inducement to the legislature to enact the other sections of the law, and so rendered the whole invalid. In 1903 the auditor was empowered to appoint an insurance deputy. The legislature of 1913 repealed the existing law and enacted a complete insurance code. It provided that the governor, auditor and attorney general should constitute the state insurance board, and appoint a secretary to be known as insurance commissioner. The civil administrative code conferred the duties of the insurance board on the bureau of insurance. The bureau collects fees sufficient to maintain it.

DUTIES AND POWERS

1. The bureau shall see that all laws respecting insurance companies are faithfully executed.

2. Upon necessary evidence, certificates to insurance companies may be issued or revoked.

3. Shall examine each domestic company at least once in three years. 4. May examine foreign companies.

5. Must secure annual reports from insurance companies.

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The fire commission was created by the legislature of 1909. The governor was the fire commissioner, and appointed two deputies, one of whom was required to live in Lincoln and manage the office. The functions of the office are now carried on by the division of fire prevention. Insurance companies pay sufficient inspection fees to maintain the division.

DUTIES AND POWERS

The division of fire prevention

1. Shall have general charge of the inspection of buildings, and premises, and the investigation of fires occurring in the state.

2. May cause origin of fires to be investigated.

3. May order dilapidated buildings to be destroyed.

4. Must prepare a book of instruction in fire dangers.

Annual report.

Monthly bulletins.

PUBLICATIONS

Book of instruction for schools.

BUREAU OF SECURITIES

The earliest legislative provision for the supervision of the sale of stocks, bonds and securities was made in 1913. The enforcement of the law was entrusted to the railway commission. The administrative code law of 1919 transferred this function to the department of trade and commerce. The administration of the "blue sky law" is now the duty of the bureau of securities.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE

Secretary-H. H. Antles.......

Salary .$5,000

BUREAUS AND DIVISIONS

Bureau of Health..

Division of Contagious and Communicable Diseases.
Division of Vital Statistics.

Division of Venereal Diseases.

..I. H. Dillon, M. D.

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1. The department of public welfare shall have general supervision and control over matters relating to public health, sanitation and the general public welfare; and shall provide for examinations; and enforce the provisions of the laws; and have supervision over all matters of quarantine and quarantine regulations.

2. The department of public welfare shall have the right at all times to inspect the equipment and methods of teaching in all medical colleges and medical schools of the state, and shall have the power to refuse examination to the graduates of any school which, on proper notice and

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