The Dickinson press., 1885-03-14

Establishing territorial and county boards of
health; providing for the organization and MAIN
tenance OF territorial militia, and appropriating
$4,000 for their support.
The Governor veto message concerning the
removal of the capital was received, and laid
over for one day.
THE BRIBERY INVESTIGATION,
which has been hanging fire for the past two
or three days, has taken definite shape in
The charges made in the complaint were to
the effect that they offered and paid to
Dewoody $1,000 to secure his vote for the
capital removal bill.
CONFIRMED BY THE coUNcI
In executive session the ouncil confirmed
the nomination of A. Sheridan Jones. mem
Der of the council, to be superintendent of
public instruction, vice Rev. Joseph Ward of
Yankton, recently appointed, declined. Mr..
Jones lives at Olivet, Hutchinson county,, is
to Dakota in 1872, served as o private
and non-commissioned officer in Com
pany E., Third Wisconsin, in the Army
of the Potomac three years, was
four times wounded, and since
of schools, district attorney. county CON
missioner and territorial auditor. Before
the war Mr.. Jones was a teacher in the COM
mon schools and academic institutions, and
several years instructor in actual business
dl1Nl az JAG ACANk vi JIG CPl VI DCu-
manship in Bryant 4 Stratton commercial
college in Cleveland. He is now practicing
law and editor and owner of the Rural Voice,
a weekly paper at Olivet, directed to agri-
culture, literature and home news. Bills in
reduced in the council:
Vacating the bottom LAID portion of the city
of Canton; establishing independent school
district No. 2, Bon Homme county: providing
for volunteer road grading and ditching in Red
river counties; lcealizing the act of the com
missioners of Sphinx county,. in Offering a reward
for the arrest OF persons who moved the county
records; concurred in house amendments TO the
general insurance bill, except relating to fees
and salary Of the auditor, and on that asked a
conference.
Council bills passed:
Amending the city charter of Mitchell, so as to
require one-fourth Of the license collections to
be paid to the county; authorizing Brown county,
when Adams county has been set off, to fund in
election in May to locate the Steele county
seat; creating Norman county,, by taking
from Trail county: amending the statute re-
lating to capital punishment 80 that the judge
may determine the grade Of crime on plea of
statute relative to salaries OF district
ing terms of office; making owners of
dogs liable, without exemptions, for damages by
the same to sheep; bonding for county auditors
in Brown, Day, Grant, Codington. Deuel., Sar-
gent and hickey counties; defining the powers
Of the Presbytery of South Dakota; vacaLing
plats in Odessa, Ramsey county, Wamdreshea,
Nelson county,, and LOunsberry's addition to
Bismarck.
The council rejected the council bills Gre
ating the Office OF public examiner, and
Walsh's, for regulating elevators and weigh
ing and inspection OF grain.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
Amending the M,ndan city charter: canceling
Q deed OF gift by Milton Connors of land in La
Mour county for u normal school, which the ter
ritory has not accepted; Incorporating the city
Of Big Stone City and making it an independent
school district; amending the city charter Of
Elk Point relative to licenses and saloon regu-
lation: for ascertaining the timber acreage in the
territory; lcgaliZing the Butte county ASSESS
mcnt Of 1883: making drainage receipts
under the law Of 1889 receivable for
Parker. transferring Burleigh county's debts
proportionally with towns annexed to Kidder
county; for dividing Richland, Faux, Hyde and
Sargent counties into commissioner districts:
requiring all counties to provide offices for all
officers; memorial for opening the Sisseton res
e%rvation: aDpropriating money for u normal
View independent school districts; chang
Ing the name of Logan township to Plank
erton; authorizing Nelson county to fund
Tenham Lumber and Elevator company; provid-
ing for changing the names Of villages and
towns by county commissioners; changing the
name Marshall village to Englevale; amending
the code relative to confirmation to plcadings;
changing the name OF the town of Victoria to
Coal HarDOr.
House bills passed:
Authorizing the commissioners Of Walsh
county to purchase a poor farm; repeating chap
tiers of the special laws of lS67-6S-69-7O-7l
and 1929. relating, to bonds Of Union
county; relating to the selling and smok-
Ing OF opium: authorizing the commissioners
OF Cavalier county to fund Indebtedness;
authorizing Marion school township, Turner
county, to fund indebtedness; authorizing
school township No. 10, Day county, to issue
bonds to build q school house; amending
section l, chapter 4s, laws Of 1879;
creating eneai : st. st. Pierre u Iss county, MT amending chapter7 2,
cooperating the village of Valley Springs; incor-
pporating the village of Frankfort: authorizing
Grant and MOntrose school townships to fund
indebtedness providing for the return of patients
at the insane hospital to their homes; providing
for the formation of school districts; authorizing
house aud jail; authorizing Union township,
Edmunds county, to issue bonds to fund
inasntss1ess; le af pick the acts .aant Of the he
in erecting a court house; organizing Salem
township, Morton county; establishing an in
dependent school district in Bridgewatcr: es-
tablishing independent School District No. 9,
Hutchinson county; establishing School Dis
trict No. 30, Hamilton county: establishing an
independent school district i'll Harrison, Doug
lass counJy; appropriating 1897 for the pay
ment of witnesses i'll the contested cases of An
derscn VS.. Hutchinson. and Bechtel vs.. Stong; the
JOINT resolution providing for printing and bind
Ing the act authorizing the commissioners OF
Day and Hyde counties to fund indebtedness;
authorizing the commissions of Mercer county
to issue bonds to erect a court house and build
bridges.
Council bills passed:
Defining the boundaries of Cavalier county;
suthorizing commissioners OF Dudley county t.
FUND 1ndebtedness; amending secs. z and Is
in the Sixth judicial district; author,
a oonatv the he fo%misf ibaobteone Of a Mq \
lZl0Y The commissioners nf pnttnr oo,r.u r.
fund Indebtedness; defining the boundaries O
Mclean county: relating to certain streets in
Madison NJ Ms Lake county; yacating certain portions
porating Howard, Miner county; amending sec.
s; chap: 10, Laws of 1879, relating to the
blind; incorporating Mayville, Trail county
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taking dispositions in continual cases: authoriz-
ing Foster county to issue bonds to build a
NIT certain taxes; amending the charter of the
county to fund indebtedness: establish
Lake county; changing the corporate limits OF
the city Of Redfeld; changing the name
Of certain churches in Bonhomme county;
s. char. 81, Revised Code; amending sec. AS
nv Codes; amending the charter %
charter of jamestown relating to thu
election of a board Of education; establishing
%snts of pf TO sSanGsr Of a %!as5 no1it,% eop5rt coas supple p1e
viding for contcsting the election Of county
officers and the location Of county
prairies H; amendine ,e Section htan: s3G, CODE ,odes Of e .reIs pr .,
cedurc; establishing an independent school dis
trict in Woonfocket, Moody county; amending
], chap. "a, Special Laws of 1888: preventive
the spread OF noxious weeds: amending sec. los
Political Code; amending sec. 4. chap. ;. Political
lZlnS the commissioners OF Lawrence county Il