The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1885-02-01
I'm NEVADA LEo1s1AruaE.
TUESDAY. Jan. 20. 1885.

providing for licensing travelling mer-
chants, and one for regulating fees and
compensation Of Jurors.
LslIis for relief Of J.. ID. Abel Of Elko,
and & b. Kinds. of Esmeralda, were
Pessed.
In the Assemble, oonsiderating of pro-
proposed amendments to the Constitu-
ton was made the special order for
Hc3ay
A bill TO redistriet the State for Judi
.ciL purposes was introduced, and IA re-
Inoustranee against Redistribution from
Giuizens Of washoe. was presented.
Notice was given Of a bill fixing the
amount OF poll tax and fee for collecting
same; also n bill TO create n Mining Blu
Ieau.
"WEDNESDAY, JAN, 81, 1885.
In the senate. u bill was introduced
relative to unpaid salaries OF county OF.
icers, also a bill to prevent discrimina-
4ion in freights by railroads, in part or
wholly in the State of Nevada.
Thursday, notice was given Of n bill
to regulate the charges for carrying pas
sengcrs by :.ser-Sta;s railroads in Me-
vada, aud hHd its inst reading.
An Act to regulate fees and compen-
sation of officials was made the special
order for $50 p. ".
Committee on Federal lielationa re
ported favorably or Assembly Joint Res
.olution relative to mail routes in Elko
county.
Notice Of a bill was given for the care
of the insane of Nevada.
Act concerning iuries was ordered
~euSrossed.
Bills introduced and their first read
ing: To fix the amount OF poll tax and
the Of collection the same: rela-
tive to textbooks for public schools; TO
re-district the State for judicial pur-
poses: referred to committees.
The bill repeSling the Act prohibiting
county officers and their deputies from
acting as Notaries, was passed.
The Act regulating sessions OF the
Legislature-having iuture sessions fixed
at forty days-was laid on the table.
MONDAY, Jan. Goth.
The Assembly resolution
fixing Thursday for the Legislature to
visit the Insane Asylum was voted down
in the Senate.
McAGee's uti.obscenc publication
bill, with eIn~aseuIating amendments, was
laid Oh the table.
The Assembly Lander county bond bill
was passed.
Layeock's bill to pay $3.50 per annum
for the board of INDECENT veterans was
ordered engrossed.
Planningham introduced a bill provid-
ing for the election by the people of the
State of the Prison Warden, the htier's
salary to be $4,000 per annum.
Smyth introduced n bill to cut down
passenger fares on railroads to five cents
per mile, and imposing n penalty equal
10 seven times the sum paid for II viola
ton OF the law.
A bill was introduced by Briggs to re-
quire mining recorders to cause to be
made a duplicate copy Of each and every
mining notice passed, the fee to be
charged being cut down from 81 so to
81.
The Senate Committee on Claims re-
ported back without recommendation the
Assembly bill appropriating $4,000 for
the erection of IA Courthouse in White
Pine county,
There wa a debate over the message
from the Assembly returning constitu-
tional amendments and demanding GER
tain further light as to the circumstances
of their adoption.
The special order was the substitution
for the bill permitting County Treasur-
ers to deposit county funds in the banks
on open account. The substitute re-
stricts the banks to those either loceted
or having agencies in the State.
A joint resolution and memorial in
dorsing Slocum's militia bill also passed
the Senate under suspension Of the rules.
Also Parker's memorial requesting the
United States to cede to Nevada all its
unsold lands within the State.