Griggs courier., 1890-03-07
NORTH lpAKoTA,

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conform to the constitution.
House Bills Regulating the state library
and appropriating $500 for the same; ex-
Guiding certain persons from trials OF an
obscene character; allowing counties to
regulate the number of commissioners
they shall have.
In the house the following bills were
passed: Allowing the railroad commis-
sloners $1,000 year for clerk hire; re-
quiring registr tion Of births and deaths;
Imposing q fine for Sabbath king:
allowing the erection Of dams across un
navigable streams for irrigation purposes:
providing for the appointment Of notaries
In unorganized counties; licensing express
compan: :es; permitting probate courts to
sell real estate to pay debts of deceased
pers ms: allowing less than twelve per.
sons to constitute jury in justice courts;
to prevent deception in the sale Of dairy
products; permitting counties to bond
their Indebtedness; to prevent the adul.
teration ct food.
BIsMARcK, N. D., Feb. 2G.-The senate
passed. bill providing for gross earn
ings tax upon railway companies. Accord
Ing to this bill the tax is to be 8 per cent Of
gross earnings for the first five years and
9 per cent thereafter. 1t is estimated that
the amount collectable under this law
would be at present $175 600 per year. The
whole amount is to go into the state treas
ury and be apportioned to counties Accord
Ing to property Value The senate also
passed bills to regulate political caucuses
and prevent the giving Of proxies in palit-
ical conventions to non-residents, and the
house bill providing for the erection of
grain warehouses and elevators on the
right Of wav of railways. The house
passed five bills. including one requiring
railroads to fence the right Of way. and in
case Of Noncompliance with the law maxi
ing them re ponsible for stock killed; also
the senate bill requiring fee for the
incorporation of all bodies except
for religious, benevolent charitable
or cemetary purposes, building and loan
associations county mutual fire insurance
companies. agricultural fair associations,
and companies manufacturing dairy pro-
ducts, and senate bill prohibiting pools,
trusts and conspiracies.
BISMARCK. N. D., Feb. 27-The senate
to-day passed the house bill fixing the rate
of freight on coal mined in the state. The
rates increase according to distance vary
ing from Is cents per ton for the first so
miles to s2.15 per ton for $50 miles and not
to exceed 400 miles The senate also
passed the following bills: Appropriating
SIC, 600 for the care and maintenance of
of the capitol building; recurring peddlcrs
TO obtain license; uappropriating 81, 500
to pay newspapers for publishing the con-
st;tution; providing for the holding Of
coroner's inquests in newly organized
counties.
The house passed the senate bill perma-
nently locating the state fair at Grand
Forks, and appropriatng Sc, 900 for premi-
ums for 1890. The bill requires donation
OF eighty acres of land by Grand Forks.
The house also concurred in the senate
passed the bill extending the time in
which app. ication for seed wheat may be
filed until April Is. 1890 The senate bill
establishing the Australian system Of
voting and bill establishing reform
school at Mandan were favorably report.
cd.
BISMARCK, N. D., Feb. 2S.-The senate
reconsidered the vote by which it passed
the gross earnings railroad tax bill.
When the bill comes up for passage again
an effort will be made to change the dis
position Of the money collected, SO that
instead Of all going into the state treasury
to be distributed to the counties according
to property value, one-haif will go to the
state absolutely, and the other half to the
different counties according to the number
of miles Of railroad contained. The senate
passed the following house bills:
Authcriz ng the purchase Of Dakota re.
ports repeating the act allowing town su.
pervisors to issue bonds; prescribing the
time and place Of meeting and manner of
voting of the state electoral school at VAL
ley City; authorizing the adjutant general
to send 100 muskets to the state universi-
ty at Grand Forks; providing for the sup.
port of married women whose husbands
refuse to support them.
BISMARCK, N. D., March 1.-The senate
did very little work to-day. An attempt
to raise the salaries OF the officers of the
state university was defeated. A till Pro-
viding for state board Of piano tuners
was passed. The house passed the SEN
ate railroad bill. This bill is, in essential
points, copy of tho Minnesota law. The
house also passed the senate bill provid.
ing for the collection of assets and pay.
ment of liabilities of civil townships here
tofore illegally organized. Tho following
house bills were passed. To indemeify
the owners Of sheep for damage ~ dogs,
by means of tax on dogs; Furnishing per-
sons who point firearms at another; to
keep pure the waters Of the Red, James
and Missouri rivers; creating board of
university and school lands, and estab-
fishing reform school at Mandan. House
resolved to hold morning sessions here
after on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur-
days. The legislature has memorlalized
congress IN accordance with the petition
presented by w. w. Barrett. The request
in the memorial is for an appropriation
for sinking artesian wells for irrigation
purposes and the appointment Of a forest.
ry and meteorolog cal commission.
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