The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-03-01
pEyIs,oN OF THE STATUTES.

TOPEKA, Kan, February 24-The Sem
ate Yesterday passed bill for commits
zion 10 revise the statutes OF the state.
The bill provides for three commissioners
to be appointed by the Supreme Court.
This IL the best measure for a commission
of the kind that has been proposed, and IL
IT ia decided to have a revision made at
the present time it should be done under
this act. But it seems ts be necessary Tor
the state to make some provision Tor the
time that must necessarily elapse before
the
NEW CODE
can be published. Even though the COM
1sisssioners should 90 to work Immediately
the revision could not be published until
passed upon by the next Legislature-two
wears bence-and it would take nearly a
wear after that to &c, the books printed and
ready for use, aud az the old edition is en-
treiy exhausted the state would be obliged
to go
WITHOUT GESEfsAL eiasSAIS
for three years; to provide against this
Their. are two propositions before the iegis-
lature: Hon. W. c. Webb, reporter OF
the Supreme Court, has been engaged for
some time pact upon
A Digest
of the laws of the state, and has the work
well advanced toward completion. He
proposes to finch it up at ono, and sell
the manuscript to the strife for the sum oil
$500, and let the printing be done at the
public expense by the state printer.
ME-, pAssLER, OF LEAvESwoRIH,
who has a work of the same character al
ready in print and ready for delivery-a
work which all the lawyers pronounce a
very superior one of the kind-ofiers to
sell to the state and deliver at once as many
copies as may be needed, al seven dollars
per copy.-which is decidedly cheaper
than the state could do the work Iisen.
GRAssHoPPER BILL
Was also passei in the senate, and will
probably pass the house. 1t empowers the
SUPERVISORS OF road districts to warn" the
people out en- raasse to fight grssshoppers,
whenever in their judgment it is necessary,
and anyone who refuses TO turn out and
fight, when so called upon, is to be subject
10 a fine of five dollars day for every day
till the order Of the supervisor is obeyec.
NIHE HoU,E
the appropriation bills were under consid-
Grafton. and the various items OF the exec
utiye bill were disposed Of. In the alter
noon lively discussion sprung up over The
report Of the committee that had been to
visit
TIE ISsANE ASYLUM.
The report was submitted, but not read'
and upon a motion to print it, was charged
by several members that the examination
had been wholly er pdTte, and that 1t would
be doing an act OF gross injustice TO
TIE srPERINTENDENT
of the institution to publish report based
upon testimony taken under such circum-
stances. The chairman of the committee
admitted that during the examination oil
the most material witnesses the accused was
not permitted to be present, in person or by
counsel, The house ordered the majority
and minority reports both to be printed, to-
cether with the memorial presented by DIR.
Knapp. At the evening session bill was
passed authorizing boards Of county COM
missioners OF counties, in which
THE HERD LAW
is now in force, to repeal the law alter CIV
ing six years notice. As the law now
stands, any county, through its board OF
commissioners, can accept the provisions oil
the herd law, but when the Law is
ONCE IN FORCE,
there is no way in which they can get rid
of it, in case they don't want it any longer,
and the objec; of the bill passed yesterday
evening is to give counties chance TO rid
themselves of the herd law when they get
tired Of it,
THE GAME LAW
is to be again amended, and bill Tor that
purpose passed the house yesterday evening
This allows the killing OF prairie chickens
from the first OF August till the first OF JAN
uary, and provides severe penalties Tor Kill
ing them at any other time. A man is pro-
hibited from shooting chickens on his own
land at any other time than during this Pc
Rod. The
LEAvESwoRTH LOCAL BILLS
were under consideration by the senate yes
terdsy evening in committee of the whole,
and the city bill, the bill for collection Of
taxes, and the bill prescribing what taxes
shall be assessed by the County Board this
year, were recommended for passage.
IN ONE RESPECT
this legislature differs from all other bodies
Of the kind. 1t is generally the case when
a committee has given careful attention to
q uSasuic, dhu WnAes neutrality-suspicious.
in favor Of IT. that the opinion of the COM
mitiee has some weight with the house,
and it is supposed that Recommendation
would not be made without good reason
therefor. But this house pays 10 attention
whatever to the recommendation Of Its
committees, and bill is
NOT WHIT BETTER OFF
after q committee has reported in favor Of
Il than it wss before. This is the reason
Why so little business is transacted-the
house seems to have no confidence at all in
its committees but appears to think it is
one of its duties to tear mp any report that
comes from . committee. If local COM
mittee reports in favor of
vAcATING AN ALLEY
in some little town in Republic county,
.ome gentleman from Linn or Labette, Who
knows lust about as much concerning the
matter under consideration As 4 Sandwich
feels it his duty to make an elab- |
crate speech upon the subject, and close BY
Offering IN ameodment to the effect that
This bill shall apply to al of the aforesaid
alley except tvo fest and three inches of |
The north end Of he came, and one foot |
md nine inces Of the south end, and sh.ll
not eject any alleys or pars Of aHey, in
The southeastern part of the state"
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