his valuation shall be final, and said commissioners shall in their tabulated statement indicate any tract whose valuation was fixed. by any such assessor. They shall thereupon request the county surveyor or bridge commissioner, or some competent civil engineer, to draw up estimates of the costs of any road to be improved, at a compensation to be fixed by them and for such a time as they may determine. Said engineer, under the direction of the commission, shall make estimates of the cost of macadamizing, graveling, grading, tiling or otherwise improving or constructing any road in said district designated by said commission to be improved, and in aid of such estimates the commission may previously, by corresponding or otherwise, obtain from any railroad company its lowest charges for shipping by the carload, gravel, tiling, sand, rock, or other materials needed in the improvements of any such road, and also from any owners of quarries or gravel beds or the producers of [or] manufacturers of any material deemed necessary for the proper construction or grading or improving of a road, prices at which the same may be bought. The engineer shall make a report, accompanied by maps and profiles, of the roads proposed to be constructed. or improved, specifying therein what road or what portion of each road should be macadamized, and what graded, and what filled, and what tiled, and what graveled, and what otherwise improved or constructed, and the character of the work required for making every part a permanent road, and separate estimates of the cost of each portion thereof, and if a permanent road can be made of any portion by the use of one or more materials or methods of construction, then separate estimates of the cost of each. Unless said commission shall otherwise direct, said report shall contain separate tabulated statements and estimates of the cost of all the roads and of each road proposed to be improved, according to the material used, and the proportionate cost that would be chargeable against each separate tract of land in the district for each separate road, and for the whole, according to such valuation if all were paid at once, and the amount that would be payable yearly, if that charge were distributed equally through five years or if equally distributed through twenty years. The commissioners in making up their estimate of the valuation to be placed on the lands in said proposed road district shall be governed as follows: Where a portion of the lands embraced within said district are a greater distance than two miles, each tract of land within one mile of any road to be improved shall, in the making up of such estimates, be charged in proportion to the valuations fixed thereon as above directed, and each tract at a greater distance than one mile and less than two miles from any such proposed road in proportion to seventy-five per cent of such valuations, and each tract at a greater distance than two miles from said road in proportion to fifty per cent of such valuations; and when the lands embrace [d] within the proposed road district and each tract therein are not a greater distance than two miles, and a portion of said lands lie at a greater distance than one and one-half miles, each tract lying within onehalf mile of any road to be improved shall, in making up of such estimates, be charged in proportion to the valuations fixed thereon as herein directed, and each tract at a greater distance than onehalf mile from said road and less than one and one-fourth miles in proportion to seventy-five per cent of such valuations, and each tract at a greater distance than one and one-fourth miles from said road in proportion to fifty per cent of such valuations; and when the lands embraced within the proposed road district all lie within one and one-half miles of said proposed road, and a portion of said lands at a greater distance than one mile, each tract of land within one-half mile of any road to be improved shall, in making up such estimates be charged in proportion to the valuations fixed thereon as herein directed, and each tract a greater distance than one-half mile and less than one mile of said proposed road, in proportion to seventy-five per cent of such valuations, and each tract of land a greater distance than one mile from said road and less than one and one-half miles from said road in proportion to fifty per cent of such valuations; and when the lands embraced within the proposed road district all lie within one mile of said proposed road, each tract of land within one-half mile of any road to be improved shall, in making up such estimates be charged in proportion to the valuations fixed thereon as herein directed, and each tract a greater distance than one-half mile from said proposed road and within three-fourths miles of said road shall, in making up such estimates be charged in proportion to seventy-five per cent of such valuations, and each tract of land a greater distance than threefourths mile and not exceeding one mile from said proposed road in proportion to fifty per cent of such valuations; and in determining the share of any tax bills or bonds any tract of land in said district should bear, the township clerk shall be guided by the same rule of apportionment. Said tabulated statement of valuations, and said engineer's estimates and apportionments, together with the maps and profiles, when made to the satisfaction of said commission, shall be filed with the president or secretary, and shall from the date of their filing be open to inspection, under proper regulations, of all owners of land, tracts, parcels or lots of land within the district: Provided further, that all lots, tracts and parcels of land situate in any town or village situate or located within the proposed road district shall by said commissioners be likewise charged and proportioned as in this section provided. Sec. 16. Subdivided and platted tracts of land held to lie within the road district and how valuations shall be fixed.-Whenever within a special road district which has been, or may be hereafter organized under this article, certain tracts of land or subdivisions of any such tracts or the smallest subdivision of said tract or tracts which have been platted (whether within the limits or boundary of any incorporated town or village lying within said road district or not) and said subdivided or platted tracts of lands, blocks or lots or any part of the same which are within the district so organ ized under this article all said subdivided or platted tracts, lots or parcels of land, which have been subdivided or platted according to law, shall by said commissioners in making up their estimate of the valuations to be placed on the lands in said proposed district be governed by the same rule laid down in section 5 of this article; where said proposed district contains lands a greater distance than two miles from said proposed road, each tract, or subdivided tract, parcel or lot within one mile of said road proposed to be improved, shall by said commissioners in making up such estimate, be charged in proportion to the valuations fixed as in section 5 of this article provided, and each tract, parcel or lot of such subdivided and platted tract at a greater distance than one mile and less than two miles from any such proposed road in proportion to seventyfive per cent of such valuations, and each tract a greater distance than two miles from said road fifty per cent of such valuations; and when the lands embraced within said district and each tract, parcel, lot or subdivision thereof, is not a greater distance than two miles and a portion of said lands lie at a greater distance than one and one-half miles each lot, tract or parcel of land or any subdivision of a tract lying within one-half mile of any road to be improved shall in making up such estimates, be charged in proportion to the valuations fixed thereon as in section 5 of this article provided, and each tract, lot, parcel or subdivision, lying and situate at a greater distance than one-half mile from said road and less than one and one-fourth miles in proportion to seventy-five per cent of such valuations, and each tract a greater distance than one and one-fourth miles from said road in proportion to fifty per cent of such valuations; and when the lands, tracts, lots or parcels of lands embraced within the proposed road district all lie within. one and one-half miles of said proposed road and a portion of said lots, tracts or parcels of lands lie at a greater distance than one mile of said road, each tract, lot or parcel of land or any subdivided and platted part of said lands lying and situate within onehalf mile of said road to be improved shall, in making up such estimates be charged in proportion to the valuations fixed thereon. as in section 5 of this article provided, and each tract, lot, parcel or subdivided tract or platted tract a greater distance than onehalf mile and less than one mile of said road, seventy-five per cent of such valuations; and each tract, parcel lot or subdivided tract or platted tract a greater distance than one mile from said road in proportion to fifty per cent of such valuations; and when the lands, tracts, parcels, lots, subdivisions or platted tracts embraced within said proposed road district all lie within one mile of any such road to be improved, each tract, parcel, lot or subdivision thereof, or any platted tract within one-half mile of any road to be improved shall, in making up such estimates be charged in proportion to the valuations fixed herein as provided in section 5 of this article, and each tract, parcel, lot, subdivision or any platted tract of land a greater distance than one-half mile and less than three-fourths mile's distance from said road, seventy five per cent of such valuations, and each tract, parcel or lot or a subdivision of any tract or platted tract lying at a greater distance than three-fourths miles from said road, fifty per cent of such valua- . tions, it being the intention and purpose under this section to provide for the charging and assessment of all tracts, lots, or parcels of land platted on the same basis and in the same proportion as tracts outside of any town or village and not platted are charged and to fix the valuation on the same basis as provided in section 5 of this article; and further provided that in fixing the valuation on each tract, parcel or lot, whether platted or not, the same shall be done exclusive of buildings on said tract, lot or parcel of land. Sec. 17. Emergency.-There being at this time in the state of Missouri important and valuable road work in course of construction and the same being in immediate need of the relief sought in the amendment proposed there being no adequate law covering the same, an emergency exists within the meaning of the Constitution; therefore this law shall take effect and be (inforced) from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 24, 1915. [C. S. H. B. 201.] TRADE-MARKS: Prohibiting Use or Display of Union Card or Label Without Contract with Union-Penalty. AN ACT to amend an act entitled, "An act to amend section 11789, of chapter 120, Revised Statutes of the state of Missouri, 1909, entitled 'Trade-marks,'" by inserting certain words therein, approved March 27, 1913, and to amend chapter 120 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1909, entitled "Trade-marks" by adding a new section thereto, to be known as section 11796a. SECTION 1. Who may adopt a trade-mark, and SECTION Use or display of card or label of union without contract with union prohibited-penalty. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section 1. Who may adopt a trade-mark, and how.-That section 11789 of chapter 120 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1909, as amended by an act entitled, "An act to amend section 11789 of chapter 120, Revised Statutes of the state of Missouri, 1909, entitled 'Trade-marks,"" be and the same is hereby amended by inserting between the words "prepared" and "he" in the sixth line of said section, the following words, to wit: "or any union of workingmen desiring to designate or make known the place in which union labor is employed," so that said section when amended shall read as follows: Sec. 11789. If any mechanic, manufacturer, association or union of workingmen, or other persons shall wish to adopt any particular name, term, design or device as his or their trade-mark to designate, make known or distinguish any article or goods, wares or merchandise by him or them manufactured or prepared or any union of workingmen desire to designate or make known the place in which union labor is employed, he or they may write out a description of such name, term, design or device, describing the same accurately, and sign and acknowledge the same before some officer competent to take acknowledgment of deeds, and file same, together with a facsimile of the same, term, design or device for registration, in the office of the secretary of state; said secretary shall deliver to said mechanic, manufacturer, association or union of workingmen, or other persons so filing the same, a duly attested certificate of the filing of the same, for which he shall receive a fee of one dollar; such certificate shall, in all suits and prosecutions under this chapter, be sufficient proof of the adoption of such label, trade-mark or form of advertisement, and of the right of such mechanic, manufacturer, association or union of workingmen or [other] persons to adopt the same. No label, trade-mark or form of advertisement shall be registered that in any way resembles or would probably be mistaken for a label or trade-mark already registered; and no trade-mark duly registered in the office of the commissioner of patents of the United States shall be registered under this section by [any] person other than the owner thereof. Sec. 2. Use or display of card or label of union without contract with union prohibited-penalty. That chapter 120 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1909, entitled "Trade-marks" be and the same is hereby amended by adding a new section thereto, to be known as section 11796a. Sec. 11796a. Any person or persons, employer, association who shall knowingly and wilfully keep or display in his place of business any union card or label without a contract with such union for the use of its union card or label, or who shall refuse to return said card or label at the expiration of such contract with such union, or who shall display such union. card or label in his place of business wherein he does not employ members of such union or who shall knowingly and wilfully make, forge or counterfeit any representation, likeness, copy or imitation of the private card or label adopted by any union of workingmen, who shall knowingly display in his place of business any such forged, counterfeit, likeness, copy of imitation of the private card or label or trade-mark adopted by any union of workingmen upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county. jail for a period of not less than three months nor more than twelve months, or fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or both such fines and imprisonment. Approved March 22, 1915. [H. B. 124.] TREASURY, STATE: Depositaries of State Moneys.---Settlement With State When Contract Terminates. AN ACT to amend an act to amend section 11880 of article 2 of chapter 121 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1909, relating to "depositaries of state moneys." approved March 18, 1913. SECTION 1. Security required for safe-keeping. |