The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-01-24
THE LEGISLATURE.
Synopsis of Bills.

synopsis Oh Bills.
Following is a synopsis and explanation
of the bills of general interest that have
been introduced during the second session
of the North Dakota legislature:
county treasurers to designate the bank or
banks in which county funds Shall be
kept. Said bank or banks must be stu
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 annum OF daily bal
ances subject to check shall be selected;
counties inwhich the combined banking ca
! pltail is less than $4,000 may in the discre-
ton Of the county board, be exempt from
clause is added.
Mr.. Fay's house bill So is for an act to
protect bank depOsitors. 1t provides that
any insOlvent banker or member of a
banking company that receives money,
checks, drafts or other valuable thing on
deposit, and the same or part Thereof is lost,
shall be deemed guilty of embeZZlement,
and, on convection, shall be fined double
the sum embezzled, and may be sent to the
pCIllCClIIlAly AOO lSSo lhol oIS w hipiS
than five years. Failure within thirty
days after a deposit is made shall be prima
facie evidence Of intent to detraud.
House bill 81, by Mr.. Fay, makes clerks
of district court clerks of county courts in
their respective counties.
MIR. Foss' house bill 81 amends the estray
law IN W minor features. ltrequirrs 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 SS25 in order to
make it necessary that the local publisher
shall send a copy of his paper to, or the
estray notice be published in, the official
estray paper of the state.
House bill Sc. 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 cal! out
those subject to such duty to do the labor,
such work to be credited the ann as road
! work. No firebreak shall be made by any
person until he receives Il permit from the
commissioner of his district So to do, and
he must state in his application where. in
proposes to do the work.
Mr.. Riches house bill 81 provides that
every applicant for q 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 in>ti-
tnte fund of the county.
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 on Saturday,
and no teacher shall be allowed to teach
on Saturday to make up a lost day, Or paid
for teaching on Saturday.
Mr. fNill's bnlSfI hill 40 nI.ptpptG Un1nh &c
follows: Between January LIST and August
18th, prairie chicken. pennated grouse.
Sharp-tailed grouse or rltlled grouse; from
May 18TH to September 18th, wild duck,
snipe, goose, brant, plover Orcurlew. None
of these game birds shall be killed at II
time within the cultivated or incloscd
premises OF another. or 10 unit on such
premises at any time without consent OF
the owner. No song birds Shall bt killed
| at any time. Nc eggs of the birds named
shall be destroyed, II no quail Shall be
killed for a periud of four years from the
passage of this act With emergency
clause.
Mr.. Miller's senate bill No. SO compeIs
railroads to make tirebreaks wide enough
to prevent the spreading Of fire, and the
| railroad commissioner shall prescribe the
mode and manner OF making the tirebreak,
and see that the provisions OF the act are
complied with. Spark arresterS are to be
attached to the engines OF the roads. The
friends of this measure believe that it Gov
ers the ground.
Mr.. Bidlake'S senate bill % a~pprOpriateS
$4,000 to carry out the provisions OF chap
ter 1873 of the laws of 1S90--the warehouse
bill.
Mr.. Bisbee's senate bill 40 gives addi-
tiOnal protection to the man whose prop.
erty is being sold under foreclosure.
Mr.. McCormack's senate bill s provides
for an amendment of the constitution by
striking out the word 'two" in line three,
after the word 'Of," and the words "hun
dred thousand dollars" in line four of
section 1872 of article IL of the constitution
and inserting in lieu thereof the follow
ing: "Five (5) mills on the dollar of as
the state, to be ascertained by the last as
sessmpnt made for state and county pur-
poses."
Mr.. Miller's senate bill No. 81 provides
that in counties with less than 1000 pOpu-
latiOn the county commissioners shall fix
the salaries of the county judge, county
auditor and county superintendent of
respectively, 500, $500 and 500 per an
mum.
Mr.. Cashel's senate bill No. SO seeks to
so change the constitution that the duties
of the commissioner of agriculture and
labor be performed by the COMMISSIONS
of insurance, and that the title of that Of
fee be changed to read-cOmmissioner OF
insurance and agriculture.
Mr.. Weiser's senate bill "a petitions the
legislature of the state of Minnesota to
pass a stringent and effective law making
it a misdemeanOr for any company, COM
mission firm or individual engaged in the
handling of grain on commission and so
Letting Shipments of grain III commission
Y to deal in options.
Mr.. GilI's house bill 66 relates to the du-
ties of county. treasurers and provides for
| the safe keeping of county funds. The
bill creates a board Of county audi.
tors composed of the county auditor, the
chairman of the county board and clerk of
| the district court, whose duty it shall be
to audit the treasurer's books at stated peri
| DDS and count the funds and examine the
vouchers.
A Novel Measure.
Representative Lutz, interviewed by the
Jamestown Alert On his hail indemnity
| bill, says: "My bill should not be judged