Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-04-04
WORK OF THE L LEGISLATURE.
A Synopsis Of the New Laws.


WORK OF THE L LEGISLATURE.
A Synopsis Of the New Laws.
Continued from first page.
domestic purposes, and for the organic
alton of drainage districts. Approved
March 10, 1890, and went into effect
Immediately.
S. B. 80, allowing school districts to
borrow money and issue bonds for the
building and furnishing of school
houses. The bonds issued must not
exceed per cent. of the taxable prop
erty of the district, except in districts
containing over 10000 people, where
it shall not exceed . per cent. The
bonds shall not be issued for longer
than twenty years, or bear to exceed
10 per cent. interest. Approved
March 10, and went into effect imme-
diately.
WEIGHT OF A BUSHEL.
H. B. 1S9, to establish a uniform
standard of weights and measures as
follows:
Bushel. Pounds.
Rye, Indian corn. flax 81
Oats Observation-Disclosures. 81
Barley Observation-Disclosures. 46
Dried apples and peaches .................... %
Green apples and pears .........-. .......... So
County Auditors are made scalers of
weights and measures, and they must
prove all scales. Approved March 20.
H. b. 29S, this amends section 36 Of
the Sharp irrigation bill so as to pro-
vide for appeals to the Superior Court.
Approved March 90.
II. B. 16S, authorizing road districts
to levy special taxes not to exceed l
per cent. of the taxable property for
road and bridge purposes. Approved
March 20.
H. B. Isl, requiring mining shafts
to be fenced to secure persons and
animals from danger. Approved
March 20.
S. B. 237, restricting the choice OF
electors to Olympia, North Yakima
and Ellensburgh in the State Capital
election. Approved March %.
H. b. 1856, authorizing County Com
missioners to issue 6 per cent. bonds
not to exceed per cent. of the taxa
BILE property of the district for road
purposes. Approved March %.
H. B. 262, enabling the Puyallup
Indians to alien their lands. APP
proved March %.
S. B. 204, authorizing the organized
counties to issue bonds not exceeding
II per cent. of their taxable property
for county purposes. Approved March
%, and went into effect Immediately.
S. B. 165, to regulate the mode OF
procedure to appropriate land and
other property by corporations for
corporate purposes, and of ascertain
ing and securing compensation there
for. Approved March 81, and went
effect Immediately.
S. b. 1874, providing a single and uni.
form method of removing causes from
the Superior Courts to the Supreme,
and regulating the practice in the SUI
preme Court in such cases. Approved
March p.
s. B. 1876, amending section 389
chapter SO, of the code, relating t.
witnesses and evidence. Approved
March 20.
APPROPRIATION BILLS.
In addition Governor Ferry has
signed the following appropriation
bills:
To pay the expenses OF the session
of the Legislature, approved Dec. 10
1889, $4,000.
TO make good deficiency for sup
plies purchased by the trustees .
Steilacoom Insane Asylum, approved
December 20, 1889, $4,000.
For the support of the Washington
School for Defective Youth at Van
couver from April l, 1890, to April l
1891, approved December 10, 1883
$4,000.
To defray the unpaid expenses o
the Constitutional Convention, ap
proved December 20, 1889, $6O76 q.
To reimburse Thomas NJ. Reed
Robert Frost and H. b. McElroy, o
Olympia, for money spent in eniarg
ing the State House for the COnstitu
tional Convention, approved Januar.
20, 1890, 1884.
For the completion of the insane
asylum at Medical Lake, approve,
January 81, 1880, 100000.
To pay the Puget Sound Printing
Company of Tacoma. for printing tn
/ -co,-k. &c xl,o Late sT~..:ko-sal oe,oors
approved February l, 1890, 81 600.
For the maintenance of the Stat
Fish Commission, approved Februar,
20, 1890, 5000.
For the relief of II. j. Snively, W
HI. Doolittle and A. L. Isham, the Ter
ritorial Code Commissioners, for at
tendance upon this session of the Leg
islature, approved February %, 1890
$500.
For the purchase of u plant to man
ufacture grain sacks at the Walla Wal
Ia Penitentiary, approved February IL
1890, $4,000.
To make good deficiency in the up
preparation OF 1883 for the mainten
ance of the Walla Walla Penitentiary
approved February Is, 1890, $17,752.
IS.
To pay Rev. H. w. Eagan for hi
services as chaplain of the Peniten
tiary at Walla Walla, approved Feb
ruary %, 1890, $500.
To pay the salary of the State Geol
ogist ($1 ,2OO and the expenses of hi
Office $2,lOO), approved February q
1890, 1880.
s. B. l67, for relief of John Sullivan
the WASHINGTON STANDARD and Johl
Miller Murphy, approved March IL
1890, $155 "a.
S. B. 162, for the relief of ex-Governo
Miles C. Moore, approved March IL
1890, 500.
To insure the State House, approves
March 3, 1890, $500.
For the completion OF the Washing
ington School for Defective Youth
$4,000.
For the maintenance of the Wall
Walla Penitentiary, $4,000.
Total appropriations, $4O6, 92S 40.
| Conclusion next week
THE STANDARD erred last week il
stating that the Senate had confirme
the appointment OF w. B. Turner as