Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-03-22

Some Of 1nem Await Executive AC
.iOm Some Have Been Approve
by the Executive and Fev
{ rOiimcnI.
During the session OF Washington
0 Legislature, appended bills passe
. both houses. The Governor has II
0 days in which 10 approve or veto tn
V bills that passed on the last day. |
e not approved, and not vetoed, the,
become laws without his signature
, II vetoed they are held in abeyanc,
until the next Legislature, when the,
: are submitted for final action. Tn,
t bills which passed both houses an,
were sent to the Governor are:
An act amending section of " Al
. act relating to appeals to the Supreme
Court" which requires that appeals be
taken in civil actions in 30 days
from any except final order in five
days, if made at the time OF the hear
days after service of copy OF the or
der, with written notice OF the entry
thereof upon the party appealing or
his attorney. Appeals in criminal
cases must be in 20 days after final
judgment.
An act which provides that in FORE
closure of mortgages and in all cases
where attorneys fees are allowed, the
amount shall be fixed by the court
disregarding stipulations in note OF
mortgage.
An act which gives State Board oi
Horticulture authority to keep fruit
pests in check by inspection, disinfec-
ton and quarantine, and making vio-
lation OF rules misdemeanOr, with
$21 to 500 fine; requires inspection
OF orchards and hopyards, and makes
it misdemeanor for a person to
bring into the State any trees OF
shrubs infested with the San Jose
scale or any other live or injurious in
sect of this species, with punishment
at $25 to 5000 or GO days imprison-
ment.
An act prohibiting prize fighting OIL
sparring matches; fine $50 to 81 .OOC
and 80 days to one year in Jail.
An act providing for punishment oI
any person obstructing railroad trains
or tracks, street-cars and tracks, by
from five to twenty years in peniten.
) tiary; ifa life is taken it is murder
: punishable by hanging or life impris
onment.
A general road law to substitute the
present law and provides for viewing
laying out, surveying and establishing
county roads.
An act regulating special proceed
ings oil a civil nature.
An act amending the law requiring
that a judicial person cannot sit in q
! case when he is related to either party
by consanguinity or affinity within
r the third degree. The degree is com
puted by ascending from the judge tC
the common ancestor, and descending
to the party, counting degree fol
each person in both lines. including
the Judge and party and excluding the
IcOmmOn ancestor.
An act authorizing Judges in the
Superior court, where case is tried
before jury, in which the legal suffi.
cheney shall be challenged and the
court decides as a matter of law what
verdict shall be found, to discharge
the jury from further consideration ol
the case, and to enter judgment in ac-
cordance with his decision.
An act which repeals an act allow
ing second appeal to the Supreme
court in certain cases where persons
> have been convicted OF felony.
An act amending section 1l38 of the
code of civil procedure regarding the
duty of the guardian OF any minor. II
requires an inventory within three
months, an accounting under oath at
least once every two years. the turning
over of all the estate at the expiration
of his trust, to pay debts and collect
claims and to provide for proper edu-
cation where there is no father ol
mother or the parents fail or neslt C,
l such education.
An act appropriating from the State
normal school fund for the erection oil
buildings $6O,OOO for the Cheney
school and SAC, 600 for the New What
com school, the same to be paid by
bonds on the State granted lands fol
normal schools.
An act remitting penalty and inter.
est on delinquent taxes paid by July l
1885; RENTS all of the penalty and
one-half of the interest on taxes pay
able in 1893 and 1894 which shall be
paid before July l. 1895, and on or be-
fore December l, 1895; if paid after
December l, 1895, RENTS one-half ol
the penalty and two-fiiths of accrued
interest.
An act which allows women to be
come members Of City Boards OF Edu'
cation, County Superintendent o.
common schools, City Superinten
dents, Directors, Clerks, Boards o
Examiners, State Board of Education
or other school officers.
An act authorizing countiss, cities
towns or school districts having al
outstanding Indebtedness, whether Is
sued originally within legal Emita
tons. or which may be hereafter vail
dated or legalized, to issue bonds u
take up such Indebtedness, and pre-
scribes method.
An act which provides for a stat'
road through the Cascade mountain
via Natchez pass, commencing u
Pierce county via White river, Greer
Water river and Natchez river, u
4 Yakes' mill, to connect with road =
North Yakima; creates q commissio
of three, and appropriates $2O,OOo.
- An act for the relief OF John Do,se!
S2JS.75, money paid State for schot
land for which title was refused. :.
4 An act appropriating $l34 Tor relie
y of Puget Sound Tugboat company ie
quarantine of bark Cowlitz.
An act creating a "UnlVefsity
H. Washington" fund to receive proceess ass
. OF land sales, and appropriates s22o
600 therefrom to be paid into the gel
eral fund of the State, $15O,OOo TO r
paw the State for the building appl'
priation of 1898, $4,000 to repay y,
State for an appropriation IN ths. nat. eH y,
10y the present legislature ana szo", "
ia, to repay a portion of the maintehan
fund allowed by this Legislature
also provides for bonding the lands
r. the original 1925 600, payable IN II
h to fifteen years. and of 81 600 demon
nation and upwards, at 3 per cent
terest. o.oo.