Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-03-01
SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.
The Senate.

PIERRE, Feb. 1.-THE house appropri-
alton bill for balances due on expenses of
The Sioux Falls constitutional convention
was indefinitely postponed at this time.
Bills passed for the assessment and tax
alton OF railroad property; providing for
the sale of or i~ncumbrancs of homesteads
where the husband or wife Is of unsound
mind; creating a board of charities and
corrections; furnishing the counterfeiting
Of trade marks and advertisements;
memorializing congress for legislation for
claims for Indian depredations.
PIERRE, S, d., Feb. i6.-Several senate
bills memoralizing congress asking legisla-
W~iunebago and Crow reservations passed.
House bills passed authorizing Lawrence
county to Issue and dispose of bonds and
requiring q guard around ice holes.
Senators Greene, Kittridge, Johnston
Calvin, Proctor, Norton and Byrne were
appointed by the chair as q committee on
the bill appropriating public lands TO ex-
listing and Imaginary schools.
The following bills were introduced
Amending section !, chapter 1l5, laws of
1853, relating to the trespass of animals:
appropriating money TO cover the deficiency
in certain funds expended on the state
hospital.
PIERRE, Feb. 1.-THE senate met at 2
p. IN. The following senate bills passed:
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ments take effect: providing for a pnrole
of prisoners; amending all acts of the ter
ritory, striking out and inserting words
appropriate to the state; making the gov
error custodian of all state property not
entrusted to other officers; legalizing the
acts of all notaries of the public since the
expiration of their commission.
The following house bills passed Au-
tEorizing the state treasurer to transfer
certain balances to the general fund;
amending title 3, code of criminal proceed
ure; transferring the business of the late
territory to the state courts; amending
section 652, penal code, raising the age of
consent TO 10 years.
The committe on temperance reported
the house prohibition bill, recommending
substantially the same amendments. as
made by that mmittee on the senate bill,
both bills being originally the same.
Many new bills were introduced and
read for the first time.
PIERRE, Feb. 1S.--Under a suspension OF
the rules the house joint resolution provid-
ing for the appointment of a committee of
five farmers TO provide for seed grain
passed.
The senate bill authorizing county com.
missioners TO defray the expenses of sup
pi essing frauds failed to pass.
Bills were introduced providing for the
incorporation of townsite companies;
amending section 55, chapter ~, political
code, relating to ferries. authorizing the
board of charities and corrections to sell
certain real estate at Sioux Falls; provid
ing for the amendment of section ], article
Z, of the constitution: establishing u uni
form system of education. This is the bill
introduced by the advocates of the district
system.
PIERRE, Feb. ~. In the senate the en-
tire time was consumed In committee OF
the whole considering the house prohibition
bill. The PENALTIES were reduced on an
average about half, as fixed by the senate
on the senate bill.
PIERRE, Feb. 20.-Tbe following house
bills passed Defining the duties of the
attorney general in relation TO school and
public lands, etc. joint memorial TO con-
gress relating TO the donation Of public
and of the United States to the state;
memorial to congress TO make an appro.
p~riation Of 5 per cent. of the proceeds of
the sales of government lands in the state
since June 80, 1881; ~exempting firemen
from jury and military duty authorizing
the adjutant- general TO supply camps Of
Sons of Veterans with arms and accoutre.
ments not necessarily in other use:
The following senate bills passed Els
tablishing "a state meteorological bureau:
code, relating TO the admission of attor-
neys; reconveying ten acres to Fred T.
Evans; amending section 20, chapter 81,
laws of 1889, relating 20 creating the
county of Meade: providing a settlement
with Lawrence county; relating to the
requisition of fugitives from justice.