Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-01-31

resolution, which was adopted, that
committee OF five be appointed to report
where reductions can be made in state
expenditures.
SENATE BILLS INTRODUCED.
BY Fuller of Stutsman, approprlatirg
$4,000 for an additional hospital build
ing for the insane.
BY La Moure OF Pemblna, raising the
gross earnings tax 10 3 per cent.
BY SJrla.- ct CIaHd Forks, making
voiu contracts where the signature Is OBJ
tanned by fraud.
hy s,trom of Traill for !oanins por-
ton Of the permanent school fund on
farm mortgages to run twenty years,
one-twentieth to be repaid annually.
HOUSE BILLS INTRODUCED.
By korsmo of Grand Forks, for keep
ing snow blockaded wagon roads open.
By Hancock of Grand Forks, FOR des
troying weeds and grass along public
highways.
BY Smith of Dickey, amending the
Glendale industrial school law, so as to
permit building when $4,000 is ac-
cumulated from lands or beouests.
By WALTON of Grand Forks, repeating
the law creating weather and crop SER
vice.
In the house Mr.. Murphy presented
heavy petitions for the organization Of
Killdeer county from the organized ter
ritory south of Wllliston.
BILLS PASSED.
The bill of Senator White of Barnes
county, prohibiting excessive expendl-
lures and providing for emergency,
passed the senate. This bill provides
that 1t shall be unlawful for boards of
trustees, commissioners, directors, per-
son or persons having the control or
management of public institutions of the
state or having the responsibility of dis
burslng money appropriated by the state
for the benefit of the institution to eN-
pend the same in excess of the amount
appropriated, or shall the fund be used
for or transferred to any other purpose
or fund. Except wien the interest of
the state would be ieopardzed by reason
of the exhaustion of the amount appro-
prlated, then the matter shall be referred
TO commission consisting of the govern
or, the secretary OF state and state auditor
w uc may hutIDiILt llic lldA5!ti o. money
from one fund to another or may, in ex-
treme cases, authorize money to be
drawn from the treasury to meet the
emergency. The penalty for the viola
tion OF the act will be forfeiture Of office
and liability for amounts used or trans
ferred.
The bill introduced 10y Rep. FIsc!1 of
Cavalier, prescribing the duties Of states
attorneys, fixing their salary and the
method of determining the same. sum
mary Of which appeared in The Alert
Monday, passed the house today.
The act to amend paragraph 3. Chap.
40 of the laws of 1893 relating to the
loaning and deposit of county funds,
also passed the house. This bill pro-
vldes that the county auditor shall adver
tlse IN one or more newspapers publish
ed in the county. for at least two weeks
Immediately prior to the above mention
ed meetings for sealed proposals
for the deposits of the funds
of the county. The proposals are
to state IN writing what rate of interest
will be paid on the average daily bal
ances on deposit, interest to be paid
monthly, on condition that SAID funds,
with accrued interest. shall be held sub
ject to draft at all times on demand.
Senator Strotn's bill to prohibit mana
gers, and employees of state institutions
from being interested in contracts or
purchases for such institutions, passed
the house.