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Making it a misdemeanor to sell or have in possession, canned goods containing any artificial coloring matter or bleaching compound and fixing the penalty therefor.—Chapter 46.

Prescribing the manner in which explosives may be manufactured and stored within the state.—Chapter 223.

Prescribing the duties of health officers in determining the diagnosis of contagious or infectious diseases.—Chapter 248.

Extending the police authority of agents and superintendents of certain humane societies.—Chapter 258.


Conservation received some attention also:—


Empowering boards of supervisors to lease swamp lands under certain conditions, and conferring the same powers upon the state board of forestry in certain sections of the state.—Chapter 238.

Making it unlawful to waste or maliciously destroy or impair any natural resources and providing a penalty therefor.—Chapter 143.

Making it unlawful to injure, mutilate, cut down, or destroy any shade tree on any street or highway in villages.—Chapter 459.

Requiring all engines operated in, through or near forest, or brush land to be equipped with screen or wire netting between March 1 and December 1 to protect such forest or brush land from fire.—Chapter 494.

Appropriating $50,000 a year for five years for purchase of lands for reforestration.—Chapter 639.


Labor was not ignored in this session as is shown by the following laws:—


Prohibiting the employment of children between the ages of 14 and 16 years unless there is first obtained from the commissioner of labor, state factory inspector or any assistant factory inspector