Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.
The Senate.

PIERRE, Feb. BILLS were passed relat-
Ing to taking, holding and ~disposing by
aliens of real property. providing a COM
mission to run a boundary line between
North and South Dakota. The house me-
mortal asking congress to pay for the Octo-
Der, 1889, session passed. Several new
bills were introduced and read.
PIERRE, Feb. S.-A petition was
presented praying legislation favoring
artesian wells.
Thu seed grain matter was referred to a
special committee, consisting OF Senators
Hopkins, Sterling, Hunter, Cain and Miller.
The senate bill providing for county
treasurers collecting taxes In cities ana
towns passed.
Bills were introduced as follows: Com
pensating the printing of the Sioux Falls
constitution; requiring temperance In
struction in public schools; amending the
laws authorizing cities under special
charters to have the county treasurer col
lect taxes; providing for the paroling oil
prisoners: providing for the punishment
of habitual criminals; exempting regis
tered pharmacists from jury duty; fixing
the time when laws take effect.
PIERRE, Feb. 10.-The following senate
bills passed Prohibiting the publishing,
sale and distribution of obscene lterature'
relating to exemptions from execution sale,
and providing for notice claiming same
prohibiting the sale of tobacco TO children
under & years; providing for the appoint
ment of a board Of regents of education,
defining their powers and duties.
PIERRE, Feb. 1.-THE senate bill provid-
ing rules and regulations relating TO cleo.
ton returns, of state officers, mbe OF
the legislature, congress and other officers
passed.
Most OF the day was consumed in the dis.
cussion of and acting upon the reports OF
committees and disposing of numerous
bills by p~ostponing indefinitely. Bills were
introduced to submit to a vote amendment
TO section 4, article IL. of the constitution,
pertaining to indebtedness of municipal
Corporations, providing for regulation
concerning the commencement of actor
against the state of South Dakota.
PIERRE, Feb. 12,-The prohibition bill
was read.
A I|e.ition was presented by Senator
Crawford from l52 residents on the newly
opened reservation, praying for Legislation
making the hJrd law optional in unorgan
lied counties west of the Missouri river.
The following bills passed Defining the
duties of the secretary of state; regulat
ing the dis posal of school and public lands
permitting municipal corporations TO bonc
up TO ) instead of 4 per cent. regulations
for the election the coming fall on the per
manent location of the capital; limiting
the expenditures for one year to half of
two years appropriation.
PIERRE, Feb. 13-The following bills
wers introduced: Locating the statt
normal school at Forest City: locating thu
school for the blind and fecble-minded a
Harrison, between Miller and st. Law
renee, Hand county; locating tho hospita
for the insane; appropriating 100000 acre
of public land locating the state centra
university at Huron; establishing the stat
public school at Watertown: establishing
the western hospital for the insane at Gus
ter City: locating the state fair at Aber
deem, defining the jurisdiction of count,
courts; fixing the term and salary o
Judges: creating a commission to settl
the Pattce Yankton asylum claims: per
hitting townships 10 buy artesian wei
machinery and sink wells; amending tn
act incorporating the city of Brookings.