Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-03
THE DAKOTA LEGISLATURE
TWELFTH sEssloh.
TwentyFinh Day.


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House.
Thursday, Feb. ..
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The house met st 3 p. m. and wRs called
to order by the speaker.
A message informed the house that the
COUNSEL had passed house file No Is, at-
taching the county OF Ransom 70 the coun-
~ Of Richland for the purpose Of recording
deeds, mortgages and other instruments:
also, house f.e No. %. to repeal sections
TWO ana three. OF chapter hve and sections
two and three chapter SIX Of the private
and local laws of lS74-5.
The committee on ways and means re-
ported Nck sundry matters referred thereto
with recommendations,
The house then resumed the considera-
ton Of chapter 80 Of house file No. 4, re-
lallng to revenue, and continued the con.
alteration thereof until 8 p, m. when the
house took recess until ~ p. M
KyKSISo SESSION.
The house met At TX p. M, and was
called 10 order BY the speaker.
The house resumed and concluded the
reading Of section 80 OF house Gle No. 4,
when the house adjourned.
HousE
Friday, February 2, 2 1877.
The house met at 10a. m. and WAS
called to order by the speaker.
Prayer BY the chaplain.
Roll called. member, Ill present.
Minutes rssd and approved
Mr. Hexom ssked TO be excused from
further services ~ chairman Of the commit.
Tee on enrolment. The reques. WAS grant
ed and Mr.. Coddington was appointed TO
| fll The vacancy.
| The comnlt,ee on elections submitted
the following report
Mr. epeaksr-Ths committee on elec,
tons, 40 which was referred the question
involving the nsh. of ]. G. Burbank to
the ssat in the house Of D. II. Kellchsr the
sitting member from the seventh district
have hsd the same under consideration
and beg lesYc TO present the following re-
port
The evidence presented to the committee
tonds TO show that more votes were cast at
jamestown, S,ussman county, on the 7th
day of November Las, than wers legally
present In the county on that day; yei
there Was no evidence presented showing
that any psrson voted illegally II said cleo
ton. Therefore, inasmnch As all, or nearly
al the members Of this house heard the
evidence and tho arguments Of the attor-
ys In the case, the committee report the
| Aame back to the house without recommen-
da,ion.
G. II. Van Tassel, chairman f. d. lie.
bach, F. Tay.or, W. F. Dunhsm. Asa
Sargent. COMMITTEES.
| Mr. Sargent offered the following resolu.
ton:
WHkREAS, II appears from the ,estirno-
ny before the house that about ono hun.
dred illegal votes were cast on the Tth day
| Of November, 1876, at JsDestown, Stuts.
man county, d. T., for D. NJ. Kelleher a.
representative from the 7th district and
WHEREAS, II appears that John Q. Bur.
bank received the highest number OF legal
| votes from that district,
| Be Il Resolped, That John Q Burbsnk is
the legally elected member from the 7th
district and 10 entitled to che seat
On motion Of Mr.. Clarksoo, the consid-
erztion Of the matter was postponed until
2 .. m.
! Mr.. 6tewar. gave notice Of bill to es-
tablish territorial road from Swan Lake
TO Sioux Falls.
Several council bills were read second
time and referred.
Council bill No. 90, joint resolution
relating TO changing the time Of meeting
of the legislative assembly and for an extr,
session In 1877, waa, under = suspension Of
the rules, read third time and passed.
House file No. TO, an net providing fol
the ydbmiasion to the qualified voters O
| the respective counties OF the tsrritory th.
question whether license TO .sall issoxica-
ting beverage shall b granted or re
fused In such counsies, was rsferrsd 70 the
committee Of the whole having In chars,
house file No. 4, as bill for politica
code.
! House die No. SO, . bill for an sct to pro
tect Wild animals, fowls and insect DE-
stroying birds, was taken up aud passed b
| a yota of 1ltol9
/ House Ale. No. 81, bill for an set L
provide for the location and improvement,
orcertain highwsys from the Missouri rive
toths Black Hills OF Dakota. came up fo
its third reading.
Mr.. Burke offered amendments - fol-
lows: substitute thrss commissioners 70,
| six give The commissioners Q compeusa-