Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-02-20

10 amend section 8, chapter 151, session laws Of
dams ditebes and waterwaxa for IN purnose 81
creating artificial reserFoirs:to amend section
290 compiled laws of 1857: to amend subdivision
4 section sslg, compiled laws e authorixe
the erection OF coutt-houses and jails. The
committee on appropriations introduced two
bills one repeating 81 prior Laws anf smother
resolution to fndefnitsly postpone the McIn-
tyre bill to apportion public lands Was lost.
the usury bill with Mr.. Mccormick IN the
chair. A long debate followed and finally the
rate of interest WAS fixed on chattel mortgages
ct y per cent and 10 per cent, on real estate.
Adjourned.
In the senate on the 18th several senate bills
memorializing congress asking for legislation
for the relief Of former settlers OF the Winnie
bago and Grow Greek reservations passed. The
preside appointed Senators Greene Kittridge,
johnson, Calvin, Proctor, Norton, and Byrne a
committee on the bill appropriate
ing public lands to existing and
Amending section 1, chapter 116, laws OF 1888.
relating to the trespass OF animals Appropri-
ating money to cover the defciencysin certain
funds expended ON the state hospital. House
bills passed: authorizing Lawrence county to
issue and dispose Of bonds. Requiring guard
around ice holes.
temperance committee, an act to prescribe
penaities for the unlawful transportation Of
Intoxicating liquors to provide for the better
for filing chattel mortgages If this bill be-
comes law all chatti mortgages will be filed
in the township whore they are given. Bills
the Big Sioux river; authorizing the levying Of
a special tax for road purposes to defray the
expenses OF the constitutional convention { o
submit the question o. the permanent capital;
authorizing the commissioner of school and
public lands to make selection Of university
lands; making railroads responsible for con-
tracts OF agents; to carry into effect the pro.
i. tU-
tien.
In the senate on the 18th the following sem
ate bills were passed Fixing the time when
legislative enactments take effect: providing
the territory, striking out and inserting words
appropriate to the state; making the gov
ernor the custodian of all the property not
entrusted to other officers 1egalizing the acts
Of all notaries of the public since the 6xpira-
tion OF their commissions. House bills passed:
Authorizing the state treasurer to transfer cer-
tain balances to the general fund amending
title 3, code of criminal procedure trans erring
the business of the late territory to the state
courts; amending section 652 penal code,
raising the age of consent to 16 years.
The committee on temperance reported
the house prohibition bill, recommending
substantially the same amendments as made
by that committee on the senate bill, both
bills being originally the same. Bills were in
troduced Providing legislative apportion-
ment of thirty senators and seventy-eight rep
fesentatives; an insurance bill for cooper
ative and assessment companies, like the one
introduced in the house last week; rebating
delinquent taxes due at the time Of
the admission of the state; regulat-
ing the capture Of fish, excepting by
hook, line or spearing; reimbursing
owners Of sheep and other animals for damage
incurred by dogs fourteen appropriat ion bills |;
providing for executive special and legislative
departments of the several state institutions
for the transportation Of prisoners to the peni-
tentiary for the publishing of supreme court
reports; for state board of health; TOR trans-
porting convicts to the reform school; for the
expenses Of organizing counties; for the insur-
ance of public buildings for the transportation
OF the insane; for the printing of public re-
ports for the expenses of the regents OF eduoa-
tion, boards of trustees and the boards of
charities and corrections for the return of
fugitives from justice for the burial Of soldiers
for the care of the blind for the expenses OF
the state agricultural board. Adjourned
The following bills were int ioduced In the
house To regulate travel on public highways
by epnyeyances 70 provide for the funding OF
outstanding indebtedness VI tie cftfes; to pro-
vide for the payment of fees of state officers
into the treasury; providing for the transpofta-
tion OF insane persons. The committee OF the
whole bill abolishing the Office Of commissioner
of immigration was considered. 1t was decided
by large majority to abolish the Office.
The bill authorizing registers of deeds to
make abstracts wa referred to committee
for amendment. The bill passed authorizing
county commissioners to consolidate road and
bridge taxes In the senate temperance bill
tire amendment of Speaker Young to section 16
carried. 1t was adopted substantially aa intro.
duced. Adjourned.