Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-03-16
NEW LAWS,


The Work OF the Sixteenth Dakota
Legislature-List OF the Measures
Adopted and Approved.
Bismarck, March 13-The following is
q complete summary of the work accom-.
plished by the legislature during the
sixty-day session. On the whole the
showing is creditable one, and in spite
of the many disturbing influences this |
general assembly has little to be ashamed
of as whole when 1t returns TO its con.
stituents:
GENERAL LAWS.
House file No. S-Bill authorizing an.
pointment of three railroad commits.
sioners at $4,000 Q year each, with secre.
tary at 81 1,500, whose duties are to reg.
ulate operations of railroads, express
and telegraph companies in the territory.
This is probably one of the most impor-
tant acts of the legislature.
House file 27-To require bonds of
civil officers to be recorded.
Council Bill Ito establish insane
hospital at jamestown and provide for
the government of the same, and of
hospital at Yankton.
| Council Bill 6O-To revive Fargo
Agricultural college. Bill to appropriate
$45, 700 for this institution was afterward
vetoed.
House file s5-Authorizing county
commissioners to buy Melville's Justice
code.
House file s7-Creatinx new sub.
divisions of the sixth judicial district,
counties of Mcintosh and Dlckey.
l H0nQo filo 2S-Ro1ok,r~ - ,o.ook ,f
existence of corporations, making 1t
unnecessary to establish such existence
in suit unless it is especially denied.
Council Bill l21-ExtendinR delin.
quenttax limit to June /. 1885.
House file 74-Authorizing county
treasurers to bid off real estate in the
name OF the county where there are no
other bidders, and providing for the re-
demption Of the same in two years.
Council bill 115-Providing for con.
stitutional convention at Sioux Falls,
next September 9Th, to form constitution
and prepare for admission of Dakota
south of the forty sixth parallel. The
convention is to be composed of III dele.
gates, to be elected June 3Oth. The dele.
gates are to be allowed $3.50 per day
and mileage.
| House file 76-Regulating practice OF
dentistry by the creation of the board oi
examiners composed of five practicing
dentists, appointed by the governor from
ten names presented to him by the
Northwestern Dental association and the
south Dakota society. No dentist is en-.
titled to practice without having first &C.
cured certificate from this board. Each
} applicant must pay fee of $1,000 and
, the members OF the board are to receive
$500 day for time actually employed
The territory is to bear no part of tht
expense, and surplus fees are to bt
} turned over to the treasury. The penal
ties attached to this. entail fines of from
$4,000 to $4,000 which go into the schoo
fund Of the county where imposed, anc
imprisonment for six months. The Ger
tificates issued by this board must be re
corded in the Office of the register O.
deeds of the county where issued.
Il 10 prevent the sale of adulterated Of
unwholesome provisions.
To make eight hours days labor or
highways and putting the age limit al
. fifty years.
IL Creating department of agriculture
Creating commissioner of immigra
tion, Lanren Dunlap, of the Inter
Ocean, being the father and beneficiary
of the bill.
: Regulating the transportation of fue
by railroads without discrimination.
Il Providing county officers in certain
cases.
Amending the code so that terms o
! imprisonment in the penitentlary can b'
q less than one year.
= Directing assessors to ascertain th,
timber acreage.
Providing for changing the name O
: towns by county commissioners on two
: thirds petition.
.. Taxing personal property in unorgan
lied counties by attaching to organized
D counties.
Providing eight years education of th
blind.
Providing for extinction of Canad
thistles.
Fixing terms in the sixth judicial dis
trlct.
Regulating contested elections.
Establishing board Of health.
Protecting the passage of fish in Da
kota river and the Cheyenne river.
l. Amending the present insurance law
eI Authorizing the formation of count
q mutual insurance companies.
Fl Providing for struck juries.
u Regulating caucuses.
o Amending the drainage Law.
irI Amending the Law - to the distribu
tion Of printed laws.
:. Authorizing county commissioners
y appoint sheep inspectors.
4 Fixing fees for transporting prisoner
" to the penitentiary and patients to tt
III asylum.
Providing for depositions in crimin'
cases.
vi Locating the county seat Of Spin
4 county at Ashton.