The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-03-01
THE Rams As LEGISLATURES.

ToPEKA Feb. e1--I0 the senate BIZ
was inirodnced and D. Nssea taking Linz
county from the Sixth uu'cIsI .dIslric
and adding il 10 the Tentn..
i House bill No 447-TO I,sguiate anC
fix the terms OF Ghe district C+ouit IN tht
Seventh Judicial district and 10 Iepeal
/ section 20 of chapter 2S, computed stat
utcs OF 1881. Passed.
Senate bill No. 237-AuthoTiZing ana
permitting the employment OF certain
prisoners incarcerated in county Jails
aud defining the duties of county COM
missioners therein. Passed.
Senate bill No. 256-RelatingtO water
rates or tolls and providing for the col
water rates shall be liens on The crops
until paid
| Senate bill No. 5-An act creating
! state board of health and defining the
fdnties thereof, and defining who shall
compound medicines, regulating the
practice of medicine and surgery and
| Furnishing violations OF this act Amend
ed and passed.
IN the house two new bills were intro
| dnced, o3e making an appropriation for
charitable institutions OF Wyapdotte and
Kansas City, Kansas, and one to change
the name of Gould to Severy. A large
calendar by indefinite postpOnement.
Only one was considered in committee
Of the whole, to abbreViate descriptions
s. real estate which is described by
metes and bonds for tha pHFpose OF as
sessments anil taxation, and IL vas
killed.
in the senate, afternoon session, under
the oFd2r CT third reading OF bills:
Senate bill No. t80-An act for the H.
spectiOn of petroleUm oils and the ap-
pointment of inspectors Of the same.
Passed
Senate bin No. l0G-An act to amend |
section OF chapter 10 of lave of ls1f, |
entitled an act fixing the salary and pre- |
scriblng the duties of certain county |
officers IN counties having $4,000 In |
habitants or more, making counties of
fifteen 'hoNaqad Inhabitants subject 10
the progionS IF the Jaw of 1870. Passed.. |
The house congressional apportion-
ment bill was then taken up and the
senate bill was substituted for it.
Passed
Senate bill No. 146-An act relating
10 the payment Of taxes on land by per
sons having liens thereon, or by parties
pending Litigation, being amendatOry of
of 1877. Passed
Senate bill No. 163-An act to amend
section !, of chapter %, of the session
laws of 1870, and section and of
chapter 20, OF the general statutes of
1868, relating 10 the location and re-
moVal of county seats. Passed.
Senate bill No. 190.-Making anpro
prlqtioqs to thS state fish commissioner
Tor the fiscal year ending June so, 1881,
and June 40. 1855. Passed
House bill No. 295.-To detaGh the or
NJ |
organized county of Cheyenne from the I
county of Decatur, and TO provide for 7
the time of holding terms of court in the |
county of Rawlins, and to attach the /
county of Cheyenne to the county of
Rawlins for judicial purposes. Passed. a
SenaFe bill 10. 299.-An act extending t
he corporate limits of Sedan, chautau. c
qua county. Passed. @
The vote taken Yesterday on senate
dill No 90, allowing cities of the third /
lass to become townships, by which d
he bill was lost, was recommend L
ID and the bill passed. s
The senate held an executive session n
md adjourned. il
N THE HOUSE,
n The afternoon session, the Stranger
reck bridge bill was recalled from the o
enate TO be referred to the Leavenworth |
delegation.
The house agreed TO the senate amend p
nent 10 the sixteenth judicial bill and to
he political disabilities bill. The resi- p
# the session was devoted to the system 8
# assessment proposed in the four bills
eported by the committee on that sub q
cct. The system provides state in
pector of assessments, with a $4,000 a
alarY It was defeated. One bill of C
he series was approved, making it
on county clerks and county il
commissioners to he governed by valua- t.
ions, fixed by the state board of eagali- 4
alton in all leViss and extensions of c.
ssessnIent rolls.