Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-30
Bills Explained.

Mr.. Arnold's senate bill No. "a re-adjusts
again the fees to be paid clerks OF
district court. 1t provides that all fees
! which he collects in excess of $4,000 per
annum. he shall pay into the county treas
ury. The 9TH section Of the bill reads as
follows: "The office of the clerk of the
district court may be held by the register
of deeds, county judge, county auditor. or
superintendent OF schools.
Mr.. Miller's senate bill No. B8 provides
that county treasurers shall register war
rants without charge, and not, as now,
charge the holders Of the warrants for the
service.
Mr.. Bisbee's senate bill No. SO ex.
empts. among other things, $4,000 worth
of printing material belonging to any
printer, from all legal process.
Senate bill IS, by Mr.. McGillivray, is an
act to prevent branding of horses, mules,
asses and cattle during certain seasons.
1t is made unlawful for any person to
brand or mark any of the animals above
named, running at large, between the 1st
day OF December of each year and the LIST
day of May following. But any owner may
brand, or his own premises, at any
time, in the presence of two or more wit
nesseS.
Senate bill AZ, by Mr.. Fuller, provides
a standard of weights and measures for
the state. 1t makes the treasurer of each
county the sealer OF weights and measures,
and authorizes him to procure, at the ex-
of the county. a full set Of weights and
measures, scales and beams, which must
have been tried, proved n sealed by the
state standard.
Senate bill 40, by Mr.. Bidlake, appropri-
ateS $4,000, or so much of that sum as may
be necessary TO carry out the provisions
of the law regulating warehouse inspec-
Senate bill IS. by MI. McGillivray, makes
it a felony to illegally brand, steal, kill,
MAIN or drive another persons stock from
their accustomed range.
Senate bill Sc. by Mr.. Ink, repeats the
statute known as "the warehouse law"
ter 1877, laws of 1890, relating to buying,
handling and selling of grain, and grading
and storage of same.
Senate bill IS. by Mr.. Haggarr, appropri-
ates $S5,00O for buildings and incidental
and contingent expenses of Fargo agricul-
tural college, and has an emergency clause.
Senate bill So. by Mr.. johnson of Trail,
appropriates $ll, 900 for buildings and ex-
penses of normal school at Mayville, emer-
gency clause.
Senate bill 80, by Mr.. Engle, gives $4,000
tor building and expenses of soldiers
Senator Cashel's bill 50 gives the debtor
$1,000 personal exemptions besides his
absolute personal exemptions. The pres
ent law makes the exemptions $1,000.
enate bill 6S, by the same, amends sec
ton 2,456 of chapter % of the political
code, by making half an acre instead of
an acre a homestead under the laws of
exemption, if within a town or city plat;
if not within a town or city plat, 80 instead
of 100 acres; if acquired under the mineral.
land laws of the United States, three
| quarters instead of an acre.
Senator Lowry's bill "a extends time
for foreclosing livestock lien from one
year to eighteen months.
Senator Little's bill IS appropriates
1856 ,S49 SO for the Bismarck penitentiary,
and has an emergency clause. The sum
includes estimated expenditures for two
years and funds for needed improvements.
Senator Fuller's bill IS ~appropriates
1856 1926 for the expenses OF the jamestown
insane asylum for two years.
Senate bill 68 by Mr.. Svensrud attaches
the county of Church to the county of Nc
Henry for judicial and other purposes.
Senate bill 70 by Mr.. Worst, provides
that every person having charge of a deaf
child between seven and twenty years old
shall send such child to the school for the
deaf at Devils Lake at least eight months
in each school year.
Senate bill II. by Mr.. Bjorgo, prescribes
the duties OF the railroad commissioners
in relation to common carriers, with an
emergency clause.
J MI. Miller's senate bill " ~appropriates