The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-12

House Bill No. is. Bailey, an act
to create the county of Gilmore.
House Bill No. A, Kilborn, to
provide for the removal of county
seats.
House Bill No. AZ, Wheeler, to
annex portion of Alturas to Bing
ham county.
The following bills passed by due
process; House Bill No, IS, Wheeler,
relating to the game and fish law;
No. l, Bailey, regulating the ages
between which persons shall be liza
bic to poll tax, and reducing tax to
50.
House bill No. So, relating to the
removal of disabilities of persons
elected to the office of county school
superintendent, passed the House
by vote of 10 to 3. This bill pro-
vides that women may be eligible to
the office of county school superin-
tendent.
House Bill No. 4, Day, providing
for the collection of licenses from
insurance companies, was taken up
and passed by a vote of 16 to 7.
BILLS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Mayhew's bill to re-apportion the
Territory reads as follows:
To Ada county, one member; AL
turas, two; Bingham, one; Latah,
one; Idaho and Nez Perez. one;
Shoshone, one; Owyhee and Cassia,
one; Oneida and Bear Lake, one;
Boise and Washington, one; Custer
and Lemhi, one; Shoshone and
Kootenai, one.
The members of the house of
representatives are apportioned as
follows: Ada county, two; Alturas,
four; Bear Lake, one; Cassia, one;
Custer, one; Idaho, one; Latah, two;
Nez Perez, one; Lemhi, one; Koo-
tenai, one; Oneida, one; Owyhee,
one; Shoshone, two; Washington
and Ada, one; Boise, one.
TO ENCOURAGE IMMIGRATION.
Kurtz's house bill, to constitute
Territorial board of immigration
provides: To consist of three per-
sons who shall act as directors,
who must be nominated by the
governor and confirmed by
the council, term of Office two
years. The board are empowered
to make bylaws, to hold meetings
at the capital on the second Mon
day of March, June, September and
December, and can call special
meetings; to elect an immigration
agent to hold Office during pleasure
of board, and to employ clerks and
assistants when necessary and fix
their pay; to report to the governor
on the fifteenth day of September
of each year, making full statement
of expenses and for what made
moneys on hand, number of pam
phlets, maps, advertisements, etc.
distributed, with printed copy O
each, and shall also make any sug
gestions deemed advisable; to make
a biennial report to the governor
in the same manner thirty days
before meeting of legislature; als'
to make certified report to territor
ial controller.
The immigration agent, after
taking oath, must gather statistics
from each county regarding advan
tages and resources, have then
printed in pamphlets of one hun
dred pages each, and have not less
than twenty-five thousand copies
printed, and to furnish one hun
bred copies of the same to eacf
member of the fifteenth Legislative
assembly. He must advertise fol
bids for printing said pamphlets
and award contract to lowest re
sponsible bidder, and the printing
of same must be done within the
territory. Said agent must also
when directed by the beard, obtair
samples of the manufacturing
mineral and agricultural resources
and products of the Territory, anc
put same on permanent exhibition
in some suitable place provided fol
same in Capitol building, provided
that if Boise City shall provide 6
place free of rent and all Other
charges, the directors may design
ate the place SO provided, if in
their judgment suitable, to exhibit
the same. Said agent must also
prepare and publish for free dis
tribution map Of the Territory
upon which shall be shown agri
cultural lands, mining regions, ex
listing irrigating canals and those
proposed, roads, lakes, rivers, rail