Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-02-17
Nash-Relating to the manag

tlol oi PERSONS anu corporations Tor
property damaged or destroyed by any
individual, mob or riot.
Sallee-Providing for the drawing
OF warrants on the tide land deposit
fund, for the payment Of expenses OF
appraising and disposing of tide lands.
Morrison-To change the name of
the town OF Slaughter TO Auburn.
Bills on third reading were acted on
as follows:
House bin No. 27S, amending the
INDECENT soldier and sailor law so as to
provide for the relief of INDECENT vete-
rams OF the Indian and Mexican wars
Passed, SO to IL.
House bill No. 4, relative to the col
lection OF delinquent personal property
tax. Indefinitely postponed.
House bill No. II, abolishing the
poll tax. Indefinitely postponed.
House bill No. so, making the legal
rate OF interest 6 per cent. Indefinite
ly postponed.
House bill No. 81, concerning the
formation of new school districts,
changing the boundaries and transfer
ring territory from one district to
another. Passed unanimously.
House bill No. 107, relating to an
act exempting homestead improve
ments in the sum OF 81 600 from taxa
tion. Indefinitely postponed, 40 to
%.
House bill 120. relating to the sale
OF school lands on which there are inn
provements. Recommended to the
committee on school and public
lands.
House bill No. 159, for the protec-
ton of the public health and to pro-
vide for certain boards of health and
regulate their duties. Passed unani.
mously.
Adjourned.
The vote ON both ballots, Friday, the
57th and 5Sth, was: Allen 43, Turner
%, Griggs27, Young y, Dunbar /. The
pairs were: Kellogg and Smith of
Whitman, Dyer and Richards.
In the Senate, Saturday, new bills
were introduced as follows:
MISUNDERSTANDING the price
for publishing legal notices at IS and
so cents.
Helm-Construing the powers con-
fer:ed upon municipal corporations of
the fourth class, also to prevent and
regulate cattle running at large in
cities of the fourth class.
Hastings and Helm were appointed
rs the Senate members of the Joint
committee to visit the school for de-
fective youth at Vancouver.
House bill No. 135, legalizing mar.
riages contracted within six months
after the divorce of one OF the parties
was defeated, but notice of motion to
reconsider was given.
| The labor congress address, with
the Objectionable resolution relative to
Representative Anderson eliminated.
was presented and referred.
Adjourned to IL 80 o'clock Monday.
At the opening of the morning ses-
sion Of the House Saturday the fol-
lowing bills were introduced and re-
ferred:
Mead-Regulating the mode of i'm
paneling petit juries.
Mead-Authorizing cities of the
third class and towns of the fourth
class to prepare abstracts of title to
real property within the limits OF such
cities or towns, the City Clerk to be
empowered to furnish such abstracts
on payment OF fees prescribed by ordi-
nance.
Hoole-To provide for a reassess-
ment, by cities of the third class, to
pay for street improvements, where
former assessment has been declared
to have been void.
Speck-To cause the destruction OF
ground squirrels by requiring all
owners OF lands infected by such squir.
rels to set out poison during the
months of March, April and May of
each year for the destruction of such
squirrels.
| Egbert-To fix price for the pub
lication of legal notices, and defining
the affidavits to be made to such pub
lication. The rates provided for are
70 cents per square for first insertion
and 80 cents per square for each sub
sequent insertion. 1t is provided that
the publishers affidavit shall contain
a statement that the full amount of
the fee charged for the publishing of
the same inures to the benefit of the
publisher, and that there has been no
agreement for the division thereof
with any other person.
Roscoe--To provide for the publish
ing OF county notices and the pro-
ceedings OF county boards in three
newspapers if there be three eligible
newspapers in a county, and if not, in
as many as are eligible, at the rate of
20 cents per square of BREWER type,
provided that not more than two
newspapers in any city or town shall
be designated
Mead-To define what constitutes a
libel and to provide for the punish.
ment OF the same. This is the bill
prepared by the State Press Associa.
ton.
! Notwithstanding form for
certificates of acknowledgment; also
making it unnecessary to have deeds
mortgages or other instruments wit.
messed.
Merchant-Taxing sleeping and
dining cars.
! Meany-Requiring the Supreme