The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-28
MORE BILLS PASSED.
The House Puts Its Shoulder to
the Wheel Once More.
THE SALT LAKE PUBLIC BUILDING.
The Territorial Statistician Bill-The Notary
Neasure-The Bird and Animal
Bounty Bill-General.

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mainly directed towards Collects school
bill, although some other business was
done.
The House got down to work in good
shape again yesterday, and cleared the table
In just three hours, passing and sending to
the Council some very important measures
concurring in the Council amendments to
the live stock bill and the bill in relation to
probate court procedure; passing the
House bills requiring notaries public to
afix to Acknowledgements the dates of the
expiration Of their commissions; to encour-
age the manufacture of Portland and other
cement in Utah; killing the bill allowing
pigeons to be shot from traps; passing the
bird and animal bounty bill, the division
fence bill, the public administrator bill, be-
sides considering other matters
TIE GOVERNMENT BUILDING.
The following joint resolution was intro
duced in the House yesterday, passed, con-
CURED in by the Council, engrossed and sent
60 the governor, all within one hour:
To the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States in Congress Assembled:
Your memorialists, the governor and
Legislative Assembly of the territory of
Utah, respectfully represent:
That, whereas, 1t has come to the
knowledge of the people of this territory
that it is now proposed by your commit
tee to reduce the amount heretofore asked
for to erect federal building in Salt Lake
city; and
Whereas, in the opinion of your memo
rialists, any such reduction would be preju-
dicial to the public interests, since the
erection of any building for federal pur-
poses in said city upon smaller scale than
the one contemplated in the request here
tofore made to your honorable bodies
would be utterly insufficient for the needs
and purposes aforesaid, and not adequate
10 the present, much less the future, de-
nands of this rapidly growing territory.
Your memorialists therefore respectfully
urge that such amount for the purposes
aforesaid be not reduced, and that the sum
Of 100000 be appropriated for said pur-
pose, and your memorialists will ever pray.
THE TERRITORIAL sTATISTICIAN BILL.
Below is the full text of the bill creating
The Office of territorial statlstican and de-
timing his duties:
Section BE it enacted by the Governor
and Legislative Assembly of the Territory
IF Utah: That the Office of territorial
soatistician is hereby created, and that said
officer shall be paid salary of 81 200 per
annum, and that the same shall be paid
quarterly out of the territorial treasury.
Section At shall be the duty of the terri
torlal statisticlan. on or before the first day
OF April OF each year, to prepare and cause
10 be furnished to the county clerk of the
several counties for delivery to the county
assessors, suitable blank forms for the col.
lection of statistics as hereinafter provided
by this act. Section 3-The several county
assessors and their deputies of this
territory shall at the time of taking
the lists of property for taxation, procure
from each person required to list property
in their county a statement of the number
of acres he has had under cultivation dur
ing the preceding year, the number of acres
irrigated, the number of acres he has had
under enclosure for pasture, the kinds of
crops and the respective acreage thereof,
the amount of product of each respective
crop during the preceding year, number OF
gallons Of wine, cider, vinegar and sorghum:
number of pounds made each of butter.
cheese, honey and dried fruits of each kind
respectively; number of hives of bees
number of pounds of wool shorn; the num-
Der each of mich COWS, cattle horses.
mules, asses, sheep, goats, and swine over
six months old, owned during the preceding
year. Sec. 1.-The statement required by
Section of this act shall be signed by the
person making it, and he may be
required by the assessor or
deputy assessor to swear to the
same before him, who is hereby
authorized TO administer the necessary
oath, which shall be in substance as fol
lows: 81, - do hereby solemnly swear
Tor affirm that the above schedule con-
tains full and correct statement concern
ing all the matters and things therein in
quired of me, TO the best of my knowledge
and belief" Section 5-Any person who
is required by this act to give information
and refuses, upon proper request so to do,
shall be subject TO penalty of not less
than twenty dollars nor more than two
hundred dollars, to be recovered by suit
IN any court of competent Jurisdiction,
upon complaint of any person before such
court, and it shall be the duty of the
district or county attorney of the proper
county to prosecute such suit at the ex-
pense of the county for the use
of the school fund of such county.
Section each county assessor shall &C
curately compile, foot up and return to the
county clerk Of his county, at the time
when he returns the assessment rolls, a
tabulated statement of the statistics men
toned in section 3 of this act; he shall
also add to such compilation and return to
the county clerk of his county at the same
time a carefully tabuiated estimate for the
preceding year of the amount that has been
expended in each town and city in his
county and throughout his county for
buildings, private and public respectively
amount expended for public works; the
number and kinds of industrial concerns
with the number of people employed and
the amount Of wages paid; the value of
their plants; the amount and value of their
annual product; horse power en-
ployed, how acquired, whether by steam.
water or other means. capital invested
the number of stores of each kind respec-
lively in each town, city and county, CAP
ital invested, amount OF annual sales, num-
Der of employees, wages paid; population
af each town and city in his county and of
his county. And each county clerk shall,
without delay, forward such tabulated
statements and estimates to the territorial
statistician, who shall compile the same.