Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1890-10-22

lance spasssd isittse; facs ofstrong
oppoe1tiOtA from jnsural.ce men.
Chapter M-proyiding FOR the
taxation of commercial agencies,
credit companirs mud guarantee as
sociatioiis.
Chapter 72-Authorizing county
commissioners to provide seed grain
fDr destitute farmers III droutll
districts.
Chapter 86-Modifying the ex-
emption law.
Chapter 9o-Reducing recording
fees.
Chapter Establishing the fee
tor cancelling chattel mortgages.
Chapter 92-Reducipg the fees Of
Justices.
Chapter 96-Raising the bounty
on wolves.
Chapter 99-Relating to grain
warehouses, and the inspection.
weighing and handling Of graham
alliance measure.
Chapter 1O1--To enforce article
"a Of the constitution relative TO pro-
hioition.
Chapter 1O3--To encourage the
construction Of ~artesiau wells.
Chapters 1T & l0S-Limiting
state expenditures.
Chapter l~09-Marriage license
law.
Chapter to- Creating a state
meteorological bureau.
Chapter 112-Inspector Of mines
demanded by the Miners Union
and Knights Of Labor.
Chapter 114-Making certain
chattel mortgages void.
Chapter 116-Destruction of nox-
ious weeds.
Chapter 125-proyiding for the
protection OF stock breeders.
Chapter 127-Reducing the inter
est in case Of lands sold for taxes
from thirty per cent. to IL per cent.
Chapter 134--Reducing the a
imum limit of salaries Of Registers
OF Deeds and County Treasurers
from $4,000 TO 81, 500.
Chapter 135-Proyiding for the
disposal Of school lands.
Chapter 14O-Protection ofschool
lands from trespass.
Chapter 145-Making owners Of
steam threshing machines response
BILE for losses by fire resulting from
their use.
Chapter l46-providing for state
bounty for beet sugar and m~olasses.
Chapter l5O--Making o tax re-
ceipt for the current year conclusive
evidence of the payment of all
former taxes on the property there
in described.
Chapter l2l-Providing for three
months notice to owner Of land be-
fore tax deed shall issue.
Chapter 152-Bounty for tree
planting.
Chapter 154 Declaring certain
combinations, agreements or trusts
unlawful and to restrain and pun
ish the same.-An alliance measure.
Any mar of ordinary intelligence
who will read the laws Of 1880, and
more particularly those referred to,
must certainly admit that they are
in the point Of protection to ngricul-
tural interests far ahead of the ordi-
nary legislature, going even to ex-
tremes in some cases.
So Mr.. Loucks will have to seek
some other excuse for deserving the
republican party to whose legislation
every settler on u prairies is in
debteded for the government home
stead he occupies.
Now q few words as to the acts Of
tile republican members from this
county. The undersigned introduce
ed bills as follows:
Senate Bill No. 5, being chapter
$50 above referred to.
S. b. No. {, prohibiting therecord-
ing Of deeds until taxes are paid
Not passed.
8. Il. No. Z, Regulating criminal
prosecutions in Justices Courts by
compelling complainant in cases Of
misdemeanor to give security for
costs in case Of defendants discharge
unless prosecution is authorized by
the states attorney, county judge on
a county commissioner. This pass
ed the Senate but was lost in the
House.
s. B. No. n, reducing interest on
tax sales from 80 per cent. to Is per
cent. amended to IL per cent.-See
Chapter 1877.
S. B. No. %, providing for notice
to owners of land before tax deed
can issue thereon-See Chapter 15l.
s. B.. No. AZ, making railroad com
panies liable for setting fires whether
ignited upon or off its right OF way
Passed the Senate but lost in the
House.
s. B. No. 81, requiring each coun-
ty to pay the transportation expen-
SEES Of its insane and crinlinals-In-
tended to reduce the enormous ex-
pense to the state under this iten,
from the remotest portions-Lost.
S. B. No. 1872, amending the game
law SO as to permit trapping. In.
troduced by petition--I.ost.
S. B. No. 1876, when laws shall
take ef1ect-Passed Senate but not
acted on in the House.
s. Is. 10i, amending tho revenue
law.
s. B. 202, amending Sec. 387 Code
of Civil Procedure as to taxation Of
Gusts.
s. B. 200, filing Of transcripts in
Circuit Cpnrt-Tasscd the Senate
but lost in the House.
s. B. No. $50, providing for unex-
pended balance Of Elk Point TIP. L.
II. bonds-See Chapter So.
Nj. Sinclair introduced a bill fol
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