Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-03-14
NEW MEASURES ENACTED.
Work of tho Recent Session of the LegisIa-
ture Briefly Reviewed.


the important bills which have been
enacted into laws by the legislature are
the following:
The anti-lottery and anti-gambling
bills; esta blishing two appellate courts
for the relief of the supreme court;
abolishing the Office OF the state veter-
marian and providing that the state
sanitary board may call upon the vet
erinaaian of the state agricuI tural col
iege for such professional services as
are needed; providing that when no
larger Judgment is secured before a
justice of the peace than is confessed
by defendant the defendant shall not,
be required to pay costs; esta blishing a
Grand Army museum in the state
house for the storing and display of
''such records, relics, flags, banners
and mementos of the service of indi-
viduals and organizations who fought
in the late war of the rebellion as shall
now be or may come into the posses
sion of the Grand Army or the state OF
Kansas, or which shall from time to
time come into possession of such
Grand Army museum" providing for
state accountant to examine accounts
of all state charitable institutions; de-
fning and limiting the powers of cities
of the second CT ass containing more
than 10000; abolishing six judicial dis
tricts and redistricting the state; pro-
viding for the elections of city attor-
neys, city clerks and city treasurers in
cities of the first class; authorizing
cities Of the first class to fund their in
debtedness incurred for internal i'm
provements; requiring railroads to fur
nish every shipper of one car of live
CT f,-iV IofvU ,,0i1lf
of shipment and unloading and one
additional pass for each additional
four cars of stock; requiring treasurers
in counties of less than 10000 inhabit
ants to deposit money in banks daily;
making Washington's birthday legal
holiday; requiring abandoned wells
on uninclosed property to be filed or
inclosed-in case of failure on the part
of the owner the work is to be done
and costs set against the property as
taxes; prohibiting pool-selling, except
that during two consecutive weeks of
each year, pools may be sold within
fair Enclosures on races being run with
in each respective Enclosure; making it
felony for any officer of the state or of
any county, city, district or township
to receive ''any money or loan of any
money Or real or personal property, or
any pecuniary Or other personal advan-
tage, present or prospective, under any
agreement or any understanding that
his vote, opinion, judgment or action
shall be thereby influenced, or as a re-
ward for having given or withheld any
vote, opinion, or judgment, or having
done or wrongfully omitted to do any
aot'' and Furnishing infraction of the
law by fine of not less than 5000
nor more than $1,000 and by i'm
prisonment for not less than one
year nor more than seven years, in
the penitentiary at hard labor, a
second section of the act making it
specially apply to legislators; provid-
ing for the protection and propagation
of fish; authorizing cities of the second
class to issue bonds for the erection or
purchase of water works or electric
light plants under the old law as
special act was necessary in the case
of each city; covering into the state
treasury the unexpended balance of
the much mooted cholera fund.- pro-
viding for the enrolment of bills, reso.
1utions, etc, of the legislature by
printing; establishing an industrial re-
formatory at Hutchinson, to be known
as 1.-THE Kansas state industrial re-
formatory," and providing for its man
agement; providing for an irrigation
commission of five, to consist of the
president of the agricultural college,
chief geologist of the Kansas state uni
versity and three persons to be APP
pointed by the governor, the three APP
pointees to receive ST., 900 a year each
and actual expenses, and carrying an
appropriation of $50, 900 for the next
biennial period, to be expended prin-
cipally in the conduct of irriga-
ton experiments in the arid and
semi-arid districts; providing for
commission of three to erect
monuments and tablets to mark the
position of Kansas troops on the bat
tlefelds of Chickamauga and Chat
tanooga and appropriating S., 900 for
the purpose; providing that every
owner of real estate amounting to
forty acres who shall construct and
maintain for ten years, upon each
forty acres that he may own, pond
or reservoir of water, which shall have
an area of at least one acre in extent,
shall for ten years be entitled to a
bounty therefor equal to 10 per cent.
of the taxes paid on the forty acres,
dating in each case from the construc-
tion of such pond or reservoir, such
bounty to be paid annually out of the
county treasury on warrant; exempt
ing from taxation real estate and per-
sonal property belonging to the Grand
Army of the Repu bile: providing that