Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1877-02-21
RISMARCK. II. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2l 1877

MEETING OF THE BAR.
"A Good Send.off for q Departing
Member.
At meeting of the Burleigh County
Bar, Monday evening, Feb. 10, 1877,
Hon. E. A. Williams, President, ii. M.
Davis, Secretary, J. A: stoyell. 6. 2. Elan
merry, Col. VIM. Thompson, d. Stewart,
erd, being present the following resoIu-
tons were adopted: Sd S99s1
WHEREAS, Josiah Delamater, who for several
years past has been member OF the s.BurleIgh
County Bar Association, in the Third Judicial Dis
trct Of Dakota, about to resign his practice and
leave our County for his native State and e:
WHEREAS, Mr Delamater has, since his association
with us as an Attorney, occupied honorable
poAtions as such, among which the position Of Dis
sr'ct Attorney 1or most OF the time IN all OF which
professional ability, and So.
WHEREAS, he has in all his social intercourse de-
meai ed himself as gentleman Of strict integrity,
marked ability and worthy Of the exalted profession
Therefore be It resozyed, That we, the members
Of the Burleign County Bar Association, do hereby
express our regret at losing worthy and respected
Be itfufther resozred, That we do hereby tender
TO Mr.. Josiah Delamater our sincere wishes for his
future welfare. May our loss be bis gain, and may
he live long and prosper. z..5
After the business of the meeting was
concluded the members of the bar partook
of an excellent supper at the Merchants
Hotel. ii IL - slets
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
MIR. Burbank, contestant, was finally
sworn in as member of the House vice
Kelleher.
Mr.. Iverson has introduced bill to
regulate freight tariffs on all railways in
the territory. Better wait till we get the
railways before commencing to tinker the
laws in that direction. a.
A memorial for mail service from Pax
ton, (Fort Pierre, has passed both Houses.
The bill exempting Cass and Richland
Counties from the provisions ofthc herd
law was finally defeated, as it ought to
have been. Without the herd law exten-
sive farming in Dakota would be imposs-
ible. .5
A bill is before the Legislature requir-
rity for costs. This would be hard or
the lawyers, ifit became a law, but might
prove to be good policy for all that.
A bill for the taxation Of dogs was also
considered. The proposition is wise but
that kind of measures are not popular and
SO are not liable to be adopted.
A bill providing for the registration of
voters in cities having over five hundred
inhabitants was defeated, so the opportu-
mites for fraud are as great as before.
O'Brien should be congratulated.
The counties in the Black Hills were
exempted from the provisions of the
6o. 1ox 10 fo,.
region timber is abundant and extensive
farming impossible. The same policy
would ruin prairie country.x
A memorial demonstrating against the
creation of a new territory from the Black
Hills region was passed. Judge Kidder
had already defeated the measure by his
arguments before the committee.
Several amendments to the Bismarck
CITY charter have been passed but we
have no information as to what they are.
A memorial for land grant for rail
road from Yankton to the Black Hills
was passed.
At last the Legislature has provided
mode for contesting e .ections before that
body. The manner in which these con-
tests have heretofore been conducted is
an outrage on every principal of justice.
A bill has passed regulating the tolls on
the ferry between Bismarck and Fort
Lincoln.
When the bill creating new counties
was up for consideration the name of the
county proposed to be called Emma was
changed to Topsy Jane, and the bill was
then indefinitely postponed.
The grasshopper bond bill was repealed.
On the passage Of the bill removing the
u. S. Court to Bismarck by the council,
Mr.. Back and Mr.. Wallace alone voted
no, but Messrs Mills and Valentine were
absent.
A bill has passed regulating the matter
of burning prairies, but we have no infor
nation as to its provision.
All of that portion of Dakota west Of
the Missouri river and south of the 46tl,
parallel now forms the 1st Judicial Dis
trict; all of that portion north of the 46th
parallel forms the third; and that portion
not included in the first and third districts
forms the second. Court will be held al
Bismarck in the I'd district beginning on
the I'd Tuesday of May and third Tuesday
of September of each year; in the second
at Yankton, on the I'd Tuesday of April
and October; in the first at Deadwood on
the Ist Tuesday of May and October.
A bill introduced by Mr.. Hackettat
taching Morton and Bur1eigll Counties
for election purposes; and another attach
a.