Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-03-16
SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE
"Wednesday mt Pierre.

Pierre. S. D.. March 6.-rhe following
senate bills were passed:
No. 24l, fixing the number or CITY
| officers To bc elected and appointed;
No. 1854, for compensation of clerks OF
the public examiner: No. BIZ, appfo-
priating 81, 800 for conveying conVicts
to the penitentiary: No. 344, making II
illegal for employees to release en-
ployers in case of injury: No. 800. max
ing city councils. town trustees. town
ship supervisors and county cominlS-
sioners overseers of the poor.
The following bills were lost: No.
1863, increasing salaries of circuit
judges: No. 342, for two congressional
districts.
In the house the following bill was
passed: No. 296, relating To reports
Of railway companies to railroad COM
missioners.
The following bills were killed:
House bill No. POI, creating senatorial
and representative districts. Senate
bill No. u. taking Grant and Roberts
counties from the Third judicial cir
cult and placing them in the Fifth.
a resolution that Shannon inc Long
staff, the public printers, had complied
with all requirements was ~concurred in.
At the afternoon session the following
bills We're passed in the senate:
Senate bill No. ~, providing that in
assessing lands the value of trees and
Shrubbery shall not be considered,
house bill No. PIP, adjusting the bridge
fund, general fund and betNcen
unorganized townships and counties;
house bill No. 80, for the protection OF
food fish, preventing their catching,
save by hook and line; house bill No.
2j4, TO authorize and empower the state
board of agriculture to locate the state
fair for not less than live years or more
than ten without expense To the state.
house bill No. 40, providing that school
corporations may take sites for schools
and may take property for sites by
condemnation, applicable to Webster
only; house bill No. 1913. a~bolishing the
bureau % labor and statistics; house
bill No. 24S, providing for paying tn
expense OF advertising and selling pub
lie lands; house bill No. 27S, for deposit
ing in court money or property for
which there are adverse claimants;
house bill No. e3S. providing that any
mortgage upon property not in exist
cncc, except crops, for one year shall
be void; senate hill No. 236. general
appropriation bill; senate bin No. $40.
deficiency appropriation bill; house bill
No. l12. repeating certain sections Of
the session laws; house bill No. jG1,
authorizing an offer Of 1000 reward
for the arrest of Taylor; house bill No.
l09, authorizing corporations To become
securities on bonds of state and county
officers; house bill No. 236, relating To
the keep ing of records in u~norganiZed
counties; house bill No. 223, e%XemptinB
life insurance from liability for debts
OF deceased.
The following bills were killed House
Dill No. 30. establishing courts of CON
citation; senate bill No. "A, making
maximum fares 3 cent? and requiring
500 mile mileage books To be sold at 2la
cents per mile; house bill No. 137, forbid
ding building and loan associations
from taxing over II per cent; house bill
No. 255, providing for taking an appeal
to circuit courts from the county boa.d
Of equalization.
The following bills were lost: House
bill No. PSI, ~appropriating money for
the deficiency of the board of agricul-
turc; hcus" bill No. 1886, defining legal
newspapers.
The afternoon session OF the mousse
passed the following bills: House bill
No. 30. relating to duties Of registers OF
deeds regarding the recording Of instru-
ments: house bill No. 3G5, appropriation
bill; senate joint resolution No. q, to
appoint a joint committee to investigate
the claims Of citizens for money To Sc
cure the worlds fair commission; house
bill No. 314, authorizing the floating OF
the national flag oVer school buildings,
flags 10 be furnished by the school
townships: house bill No. 344, prescrib-
Ing the mode Of assessing gas and water
companies, 10 be assessed in towns
where located; senate bill Nc. 339, pro-
viding for a penalty for malicious de-
struction OF timber or crops.
The speaker appointed Messrs. Dow
dell, Dickover and Burke as members
of the joint committee TO investigate
the worlds fair claim.