The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-11-20

with county seat temporarily fixed at
Spokan Falls.
Regular terms of probate courts in
all counties are fixed on the fourth
Monday in January, March, May,
July, September and Novemb er
of each year.
No district or probate judge or jus
tice Of the peace shall act as att orney
in court of which he is judge, or in
any proceeding removed therefrom to
another court orfrom which an appeal
may lie in his own court, and no such
officer shall have Il partner acting in
court over which he presides.
Lumber districts, not to exceed
twelve, are established and the Gov
ernor shall designate such districts
and appoint inspectors therein and
designate the places where the inspec
tors shall keep their offices. The
inspector shall, at the request of any
owner of logs, scale or measure the
same and give certified statement of
such measurement to the owner. The
"New Scribner' scale is adopted as
the standard. Fivecents per thousand
feet fees shall be paid 10y the owner of
the logs to the inspector. All logs
shall be scaled at the place they are
doomed for towing. All sales and
contracts for sales of logs shall be
void unless scaled according to the
provisions of this law. Provision is
made for reports from the inspectors
to the county auditors and to the
Legislature.
\ person who has been tried and
found not guilty of an otfense charged
against him, by reason of insanity,
and who, being deemed unsafe to
remain at large, has been confined in
prison, shall be sent to the Insane
Asylum. The expense shall be borne
by the prisoner, if he has sufficient
property, and if has not, then by the
Territory. No provision is made for
the disposition of such prisoner in
case he becomes sane.
Five hundred dollars for philosophi-
cal apparatus, and one thousand dol
lars per annum, for the next two years,
appropriated for the Territorial Uni
versty. The free scholarship provis-
ions were stricken out.
y supplemental act transfers pend
ing cases in the Olympia court,
arising in Lewis county, to the Lewis
county court. Also the terms of court
at Vancouver shall commence on the
second Monday in March and the
fourth Monday in October; at Olympia
on the second Monday in February,
and the fourth Monday in September.
Both to hold three weeks, unless
sooner adjourned.
\ very stringent no-gambling law
forbids playing any game of cards,
dice, etc, for money, checks, credits
orany other representative of value.
\ good lawyer tells Us that this will
not prevent gambling where the stake
is for land, mules, or any property not
specified above.
The act TO provide for the codiiica-
ton Of the laws of Washington Terri
tory, de,ignates Elisha T. Ferry as
code commissioner. Gives him full!
power to classify and arrange the laws
and their amendments, and to DO and
perform all needful acts TO bring into
written inteliigihlc form the statute
laws of this Territory. 1t shall be
divided into four parts: The Politi-
cal Cote, Civil Code, Code of Civil
Procedure, and Penal Code, the whole
to be known as the "WashingtOn
Code.n His compensation j. left to
the succeeding legislature, but he is
allowed a clerk at <75 per month for
not more than twelve months. He is
directed to submit a printed copy of
the code to the next legislature dur
ing the first ten days of the session.