Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-23
Bills Explained.

Mr.. divers house bill SO authorizes
county treasurers to designate the bank or
banks in which county funds shall be
ated in the county; proposals to be asked
by advertisement for securing the keeping
of the funds; and they shall be given to
the bank or banks Offering the highest in
terest; deposits to be secured by a sufficient
bond from the depository; interest to be
payable monthly; no bank offering more
than 4 per cent. per nnu on daily bal
counties inwhich the combined banking ca
pltail is less than 100000 may in the discre-
ton of the county board, be exempt from
the provisions Of the act. An emergency
clause is added.
Mr.. Fay's house bill So is for an act to
protect bank depositOrs. 1t provides that
any i%nsolvent banker or member of q
checks, drafts or other valuable thing on
deposit, and the same or part Thereof is lost,
| shall be deemed guilty of embeZZlement,
| and, on conviction, shall be fined double
| the sum embezzled, and may be sent to the
penitentiary not less than M or more
than five years. Failure within thirty
days after a deposit is made shall be prima
| ~ q tkuOACS VI w ~
House bill 81, by Mr.. Fay, makes clerks
of district court clerks of county courts in
their respective counties.
Mr.. FOSs' house bill 81 amends the estray
law in two minor features. 1%trequires the
person taking up an estray to give in the
advertisement he publishes in the local
paper the estimated value of the animal.
1t also requires that the estimated value of
an estray shall be less than $25 in order to
make it necessary that the local publisher
shall send q copy of his paper to, or the
estray notice be published in, the official
estray paper of the state.
House bill 81, by Mr.. HOlritz, is in rela-
ton to prairie fires. Each county commits
siOner is made a fire warden for his dis
trict, and gives him authority to make fire.
breaks where necessary and to call out
those subject to such duty to do the labor,
such work to be credited the same as road
work. No firebreak shall be made by any
person until he receives a permit from the
commissioner of his district so to do, and
he must state in his application where, in
what manner and with what appliances he
proposes to do the work.
Mr.. Riches house bill 81 provides that
every applicant for a teachers certificate
shall pay 81 to the county superintendent
In addition, successful applicants for the
first grade shall pay So and Of the second
grade 81; Such fees are to go to the insti
House bill So, by Mr.. Douglas, amends
the school law. 1t makes the school year
begin on July LIST. No school shall be
taught on a legal holiday or o. Saturday
and no teacher shall be allowed to teach
on Saturday to make up a lost day, or paid
for teaching on Saturday. ~
Mr.. CLIPS house bill 40 protects game as
follows: Between January LIST and August
18th, prairie chicken, pennated grouse
sharp-tailed grouse or rufled grouse; from
snipe, goose, brant, ployer or curlew. Nom
of these game birds shall be killed at an!
time within the cultivated or inclOset
premises of another, or to hunt on sucl
premises at any time without consent Q
the. owner. No song birds shall be killet
at any time. No eggs of the birds name,
shall he destroyed, and no quail shall b
killed for q period OF four years from tn