The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-04-03
Under the New Law.


The Office Of commissioner Of emf.
grafton is abolished.
The number Of jurors in Justice
courts IS raluced to six.
Assessors cannot draw tn exceed
three hundred dollars in any n year.
All bridges costing to exceed one.
hundred dollars shall he built by the
county.
Assessors must IN no case commence
work before the first day of April Of
each year.
TIE provisions Of the fence law ex-
tend to all counties west Of the Mis-
souri, River.
The city attorney and city engineer
need not be qualified electors Of the
city of which they are officers.
No county commissioner shall receive
more than 1925 per diem nor more
than $40 mileage in any one year.
The homestead can he conveyed by
the husband and wife uniting In the
conveyance either by joint or separate
instruments.
Each county must bear the expense
of the maintenance Of its insane at the
state hospital at a rate not to exceed
SIC per month.
Only twenty-five dollars worth Of
household Misunderstanding beds,
beding and wearing apparel shall be
exempt from taxation.
The expenses of getting requisition
papers for fugitives from justice shall
be borne by the county in which the
crime is alleged to have been COM
mitted.
The grand jury is reduced so that
that body shall consist Of not less than
six nor more than eight members, and
the concurrence Of five will bring in
an Indictment.
1t is unlawful to sell or give to any
Indian, or half-breed, any firearms or
ammunition, unless such Indian. or
half-breed, has fully renowned his
tribal relations.
Any officer required to make an
Official report, who shall fail to make
such report shall forfeit and pay to the
state of South Dakota not less than ten
nor more than fifty dollars.
A change of venue may be had from
tho county to the circuit court upon es-
sentially the same showing that here
tofore a change has been had from one
justice of the peace to another.
All evidences of indebtedness are
payable in any legal tender of the
United States and it is unlawful for
any person to require payment in any
certain kind of lawful money.
The states attorney may appoint a
deputy, who shall he vested with all
the powers Of such states attorney, but
the expenses and salary of such deputy
must be paid by the principal.
Ii Is provided that an amendment
calculase'i ID reduce the mileage of
.aem.bors Ut tte Legislature to five
cents pcr nii,, ,!.,l! I've submitted to
inc e'ec.nrs 81 the stats. 81 the general
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eisetion IA 1917.
The state senate is composed of for
ty-three senators and eighty-thrce rep
resentativcs. Custer and Fall River
counties constitute the forty-frst SEN
atorial district and have one senator.
Fall River county Is the forty fourth
representative district and gets one
representative.
Presidential elections are to he held
on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday IN November, 1892, and every
four years thercaf ter. The number
of electors shall be equal to the num-
Der of senators and representatives in
congress to which this state may be
entitled, or such other number as the
congress Of the United States may
require.
The old common law rule that TWEEN.
ty years continuous residence upon
would create title to lands, has been
changed, and ten years now, will con
firm title, so far as conveyed in any
paper title, if claimant pays taxes fol
that period, but the act does not apply
to school lands, or lands belonging to
public, OF religious, or charitable in.
stitutions.
The MORTGAGE Of a chattel mortgage
or his assignee or agent must within
thirty days after said mortgage has
been satisfied file with the register Of
deeds Of the county in which said
mortgage was filed, a release in full
The person guilty Of a failure to COM
ply with the provisions of this act is
guilty of a misdemeanor and NAV be
fined not lessthan FIVE or more than
fifty dollars.
The Italian government has recalled
Minister Fava, and though he has no,