Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-03-20

bonds for road purposes, provided that
no such special election shall be held
after the general election of 1892.
House bill 202, by committee, ap-
propriates $l,0l1.66 to pay express
charges, fuel, furniture for and clean.
ing of the capitol buildings.
House bill 166, Tillotson, appropri-
ates 1880 and interest for the relief
of Huntington & Little, contractors of
Medical Lake Asylum.
House bill 10, by Sharpstein. ap-
propriates $S4426 for the relief of l..
Coffin and Mary, to pay Il judgment
recovered by them in the superior
court of Klickitat county.
House bill 2l9, by Painter, regulates
the manufacture and sale of jute fab
rics-and brick at the Walla Walla
penitentiary by providing that they
be soil only to actual consumers at
rate less than 15 per cent above actual
cost.
House bill 155, by Yeamans, ap.
propriates $500 to defray the ex-
penses of maintenance for the school
for fcebleminded at Vancouver.
House bill 13O, by Yeamans, ap-
propriates $4,000 for the erection of IL
school for feeble-minded at Vancouver.
House bill ITO, by Adams, provides
for the appointment of commission
o. three to locate the agricultural col
lege, experiment station and school of
science in Eastern Washington ex-
cluding counties which now have State
institutions. The commission shall
be selected from west of the noun
tains. The bill provides at length for
the government of the school by
board OF five regents.
House bill 261, by Yeamans, pro-
vides that copy of the Hill code shall
he distributed to each member of the
Legislature.
House bill 800, by committee on ap-
propriations, is the sundry civil APP
preparation bill.
House bill 3O4, by Jones, appends
the present registration law so there
shall be a registration of voters in all
precincts containing an incorporated
city, whether such precinct has 25O
votes or not.
House bill 248, by Miller, of What
com, changes the present law relative
to Indebtedness of all incorporated
cities, except the first class, in such
manner that the first per cent. OF in
debtedness may be funded. That is
the whole law provides that munich
palities may for general purposes incur
a debt of 5 per cent. of the total as
sessed valuation; but it does not pro-
vide that such debt may be bonded.
| House bill 227, by Goldman, amends
the act relative to prosecution of Of
fenses by information.
| House bill 203, by committee on
tide lands, amends section of the
tide land law so that the State through
a Prosecuting Attorney, may appeal to
the State Board from the appraise.
ment by the county board of any tide
land within sixty days after the ap.
praisement has been made and filed.
House bill 1S5, Meany, provides for
the meeting of the Washington Presi-
dental electors in Olympia on the
first Wednesday in December after
their election in presidential years, and
prescribes per diem, mileage, etc.
House bill pa, by committee on
corporations, is amendatory of section
80 of the act relating to building, loan
and savings associations, by providing
that such companies shall only be re-
quired to deposit their securities pro-
vided by the act of which this is
amendatory and no more.
House bill 22S, by Rockwell, pro-
vides for punishment of persons who
willfully and deliberately set fire to
any forests belonging to the United
States or this State within the State.
House bill 167, by Sallee, provides
that it shall be unlawful to kill, trap,
or in rny take or kill any feathered
game for the market in any month
except December. 1t shall be unlaw-
ful to ship any kind Of game out
of this State for the market in any
month.
House bill 81, by Rothell, provides
for the punishment of every person
who shall maliciously cut, break, in
]ure or destroy any mill dam, bridge,
canal, Hume or other structure for
mining, agricultural or logging pur-
poses, or to cause apertures to be made
in such structures, by a fine of not
more than 81 900, or two years in the
penitentiary, or both.
House bill 121, by Mckay, provides
for the selection of granted lands, un-
der the direction Of the State land
commissioner. The Governor shall
nominate and appoint from three to
seven freeholders, who shall act as
agents of said commission. The said
agents shall proceed TO the several To-
cal United States land offices and as
certain as near as may be what unoc-
cupied and unappropriated public
lands are subject to selection, and he
shall thereafter Immediately proceed
to view and examine the said lands by
the smallest legal subdivisions of forty
acres each, and estimate the value OF
each tract SO viewed. On timbered
land they shall estimate the value and
amount of standing timber and the
value OF the land after the timber is
removed. They shall make reports
under oath to the State land commits
sioner. The State land commission
shall then arrange and classify the
lands so selected in the several district
land offices of the United States in the
State and shall classify the lands and
apportion them to the several specific
congressional grants. If it shall be
found that any of the lands described
therein have been filed upon or ap-
piled for, the State land commissioner
shall eliminate therefrom such lands,
The commissioner shall certify quar-
terly to the State Auditor the amount
OF lands which have been selected by
each agent, and certified, allowed and
approved by the local land Offices.
Law upon approval.
Senate bill 164, by Dyer, authorizing
private corporations, other than reli.
gicus, to own real and personal prop
erty.
Senate bill 235, by Joint committee.
for the establishment, support and
maintenance of the University of
Washington.
Senate bill 259, by Jones, providing
for the assessment and collection OF
taxes.
House bill 243, the wasson railroad
bill.