The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-01-25
Especial to the MINER.l
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
Twelfth Regular Session.
COUNCIL-Eleventh Day.
SESSION,

MORNING SESSION,
The council was called to order by the
president.
A communication was received from the
house containing H e R No 6, with reference
to a special joint committee to visit the in
sane asylum and report upon the condition of
the same; also notices of bills passed and in
trsduced.
Kerley, from the printing committee, re-
ported c B No 6 correctly printed.
Mitchell gave notice of a bill for IN act to
punish wife heaters.
BY Hundley, a bill for an act to prevent
swine from running at large.
On motion of Hays, G B No 6, an act with
reference to mining, irrigating and other
bitches, was referred to the committee on in
ternal Improvements.
adopted.
Kerley offered as an amendment that the
members of the committee be allowed for
their services the same fees and mileage that
is paid to officers for transporting insane per-
sons to the asylum.
Browne inquired whether the fees were in
addition to their regular pay as members of
the legislature.
Hays stated that members drew pay for
such time only as they were actually present
tended to cover the pay and expenses Of the
members while absent.
The amendment Of Kerley was adopted.
The resolution as amended was then adopt
ed by a call Of the yeas and nays.
No 4 was read a third time and passed
by a unanimous vote.
g b No 3 was read a third time.
Toole advocated the passage Of the bill.
He said that the fees in probate courts re-
manned the same as in 1872, while the fees of
He thought the bill would result in a large
saving to the counties of the territory, and
estimated that Lewis and Clarke county
would save by this proposed law over 81, 900
The bill then passed by a unanimous vote.
On motion Of Mitchell the council ad-
journed until 2 p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The following communication from the
judges of the supreme court was read by the
clerk
"To the Honorable President Of tho Council
and Speaker of the House:
"The honorable judges Of the supreme
court would respectfully represent through
you to the legislative assembly of
the territory of Montana now in session, that
the transcript OF decisions and other 1,apers
pertaining to the records of the supreme
court have greatly accumulated; that they are
of great value to the public of the territory
that the clerk of the court is not provided
with any office or other place for the suitable
and safe keeping of these records, and there
fore they are now and have been slowed
away in boxes and scattered in the open hall
of the court house Of Lewis and Clarke
county, and liable to be lost or DESTROYED, to
the great inconvenience of this court and to
the scandal of public justice of the territory
of Montana. They would therefore most
earnestly request that a law be passed author
izing the clerk of this court to procure a suit
able Office and proper place for the safe keep
ing and arrangement OF all records and docu-
ments OF the supreme court, and that means
may be appropriated for carrying into effect
their request, all of which is respectfully sub
mitted. (Signed)
.'E. ]. CoNGER, A. J.
cd. S. WADE, G. j."
On motion Of Hays the communication was
referred to the committee on ways and means
On motion Of Kerley the council adjourned
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