Show LA lAW COMMISSION fiNDS FORGOTTEN APPROPRIATIONS lIONS Additional Funds Needed for Work Report Declares Work or of the revIsion ot of the Utah statutes Is necessary and will require require re- re quire additional expense much muel greater than was provided with the namIng of the state code commission commis- commis sion and the subsequent defIcit appropriation appropriation ap- ap to carry carryon on the work accordIng to to Judge T T. D. D Lewis chaIrman of the commission commission- The commission alread already has recommended recommended rec- rec several changes and repeals repeals re- re peals of chapters of the Utah laws During Its Hs search ot of the present laws it has discovered enough Idle state money to more than pay for forthe forthe the work JUdge LewIs declared Thursday JUdge Le Less s estimated that 1 I of state money that has been idle i ire banks has been dug up by the commission The largest amount I he reported as finding In a I inS inS' fund provided in 1921 and 1923 for tor a federal survey of government I lands in Utah The state legislature provided for forthe the fund in 1921 and was I appropriated for the work ork Later in 1923 additional was set I aside for the fund None or of this money ever has been used The government made its survey and paid for forit it The since has I been idle in a bank and the state has been gEtting only the bank Interest interest In- In terest for its use The mone money tr If returned to the general fund could be used to save the taxpayers much more than the annual interest it draws JUdge LewIs pointed out out I DIGS UP FUNDS Additional sums have ha been set aside in a like manner and forgotten forgot forgot- ten he declares One item In particular ular to which he calls attention Is the sum suni of appropriated in 1897 for building a branch of the state miners miners' hospital at Park city The bill was passed and the appropriation tion made but the work never has been done The branch of the of-the the state miners miners' hospital ma may be necessary or a a. rather rathel- good thing for the state to have he said but the code commission corn com mission considered that insofar as as the appropriation was made thirty years ears ago and the work has not been done that the funds funds' should i be dug out otH of their gra grand and nd returned returned re- re turned to the state for seine practical practical Use of toda today A bill for the construction ot of a ahome ahome home for fallen n women passed several sev- sev eral ears ago also Is recommended for repeal for similar reasons Among the others included in the recommendations is one relating to toa toa a minimum wage scale for women tax on trading stamps one one dealing dealing with peddlers and the Utah soldiers soldiers' soldiers soldiers' sol sol- diers' diers settlement act Another matter that has received much attention and Is now being revIsed are aro the the various laws governing gov- gov I registrations in the state as to n m In n. n REGULATIONS J DIFFER Fi FE There are many of these whIch include barbers dentists doctors architects and such lie said Each Is governed by a different set of registration laws What is provi provided ed edas as n. n felony for a barber is termed a misdemeanor when committed by bya a ph physician There is no uniform uniform- it ity These ha hac c all been gathered under one collective head beach and given givena a certain amount of harmonious con form Work of oC ot of the statutes statutes stat stat- utes Is no matter at all now It Itcan Itcan can be finished In a aery very ery short time but tho work or of revising the statutes stat stat- utes which Is very necessary will take at least two years earR and a great deal ot of expert work There should be a large approprIation for this this work The original appropriation tion ot of m made b by tile the legi- legi lature now Is almost exhausted I. and the deficit appropriation is ismore ismore more than halt half gone The report submitted to the governOr governor gov- gov was signed by Jud Judge e Lewis and Henry D D. Moyle Ralph naph A. A McBroom tc Mc- Broom vice ce chairman ot of the commIssion corn com mIssion has ben been ill for some time and ad was in the hospital at the time the report was submitted I |