Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-03-03
trlc currents to appropriate property

wa NoiPo'atc uipOses.
Amending the act providing for the
university building commission, set
ting apart 100000 acres OF the grant
Tor charitable, educational, penal and
reformatory institutions, for the uni
yersity, and appropriating 100000
ior buildings and other improvements.
Providing forms for deeds, mort
cages and assignments OF mortgages.
Prescribing the fees to be paid to
clerks OF court in civil actions and pro-
ceedings.
Providing that all lands granted to
the State for educational purposes
shall be appraised and sold in the
same manner providing for the sale of
common school lands.
Authorizing the issuance and colIec-
ton of bonds upon the property bene-
fitted by local improvements in cities
and towns.
| Providing for the location of the
University of Washington on section
lG, township 25 north, range east of
the Willamette meridian, and for the
construction of university buildings
and the maintenance of the institu-
ton.
Giving cities control, for police and
quarantine purposes, over any harbor
or river within two miles of their cor
porate limits.
Providing for an additional Superior
Judge for Snohomish and Kitsap
counties.
Amending the act for the incorpora-
tion OF cities and towns.
To provide for the re-assessment OF
special taxes in cities OF the third
class and municipal corporations here.
tofore acting under special charter.
Requiring municipal corporations
to take bond from contractors, con-
ditioned to pay laborers, mechanics,
material men and others.
Prohibiting State, city, county and
precinct officers from becoming bonds.
men or bail upon arrest.
Amending the act relative to the
sale OF intoxicating liquors.
Prescribing the manner and form of
the assessment of the railway corpora
tions. 1t creates State board OF rail-
way assessors consisting of the Cover.
nor, Secretary OF State, State Treasurer
ard the Attorney General, VINO shall
be empowered to assess all railroad
property in the State.
Leo introduced H. C. r. No. 20,
providing Tor the purchase OF 25O
copies of "Abbot's Real Property
Statues" referred.
Bills were passed on as follows:
House bill No. 1873, to protect sal.
mon and other food fish.
Senate bill No. 2lS, making def.
cheney appropriation for the State
printing and binding for the balance
OF the fiscal term ending March 81,
1893. amounting to $52,5OO. This bill
precipitated long discussion as to
the States public printing methods.
House bill No. 227, providing for
county canvassing boards OF election
returns.
House bill No. 235, to abolish
the Office of Lieutenant Governor, was
defeated, 80 for, 90 against, the con.
stitutional majority, 40, not voting in
the affirmative.
In Mondays joint convention, Col.
lin, the Spokane populist, voted for
Patrick Henry Winston. The other
populists divided their votes, five sup
porting ]. c. Van Patten, and three
continuing to vote for Knox. Hutch.
inson voted for Judge B. L. Sharpstein,
of Walla Walla. Both ballots-the
Eighty.second and Eighty-third re-
suited as follows: Allen 40, Turner
20, Griggs 20, Van Patten 5, Knox, 3,
Dunbar l, Sharpstein l, Winston /.