The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-24

constitutional convention De-
fleiency' Appropriations
Heiner presented a petition from the
Littleton and Milton Livestock and
Range companies of Morgan county
asking that present laws be amended
to protect owners of cattle ranges from
an invasion Of sheep fiocl1s and for
other protection for cattle raisers.
H. C. No. II was introduced by
Thompson Of Millard in favor of Henry
Cohn of this city for $3.50 for storing
safes.
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
Upon motion by Taylor, the house
went into committee of the whole to
consider S. B. No. 18 and the judiciary
committee reports on house bills ., s
and 8. When the committee arose it
reported to the house recommending
the passage of the four measures.
NEW BILLS.
The following bills were introduced
on first reading:
S. c. r. No. 2, by A1lison-Demand-
ing Ambassador Bayard's recall from
the court of St. James.
S. B. No %, by committee on pri-
vate corporations-Auth county
clerks to take acknowledg ements in
the organizations of corporations.
COURT STENOGRAPHERS.
H B. No. 81, by Harris-Providing
for the appointment of official court
stenographers. The bill provides that
the Judge Of each district court in this
state shall appoint competent short
hand reporter of such court who shall
hold Office during the pleasure of the
Judge making the appointment. Sec
ton of the bill provides that the
official reporter shall receive as COM
pensation for taking notes SIS per day
Tor every day in actual attendance in
court, to be audited and paid by the
county wherein such services are rem
dered, as evidenced by the certificate
of the judge Of the district court The
reporter shall also be allowed mileage
at the rate of ten cents per mile one
way IN travelling from one county to
another in attending court within the
districts for which he is appointed,
which mileage shall be paid by the re-
spective counties in the same pro rata
as the reporter received per diem in
such counties within said district.
REVENUE Law.
H. B. So, by Thorn-Amending sec
ton POPS, chapter 10, compiled laws of
1888. The bill is revision Of the pres
ent revenue law. 1t provides that
during the session, or as soon as pos
slole after the adjournment of the
poard OF equalization, the clerk shall
enter upon said assessment roll all the
changes and corrections made bv the
board, and shall add up the columns of
valuation, and, ON or before the first
DAY OF September, shall make and de-
liver to the tax collector a true conv
OF the corrected roll with the total
amount OF taxes to each person, firm,
corporation or association, carried out
IN separate money columns, which
copy shall be duly certified to by the
clerk OF the county court, and he shall
report to the auditor of public ac-
counts the amount Of state and school
tax assessed in said county, and shall
flle the original assessment roll in his
Office. All state, school and county
taxes provided for in this act shall be
due and payable on the first day of
october, annually, and any and all
taxes remaining unpaid on tbs first
day of December shall be deemed de-
lnquent. The county court, at amy
session, shall have power, on satisfac-
tory proof being produced, that any
property has been assessed twice" in
the same year, or to a wrong owner,
to correct said assessment and rebate
the tax thereon, or, if the tax has been
paid, to refund the same and to charge
the state with it's portion of the tax
so refunded, and if the property has
been errOneously assessed to a wrong
person, TO assess the property TO the
owner, if known.
THIRD READING.
On third reading the following bills.
which had been acted upon in COM
mittee of the whole, were passed:
II. B. No. 3. by Wilson, providing
for the appointment Of notaries public
by the governor and prescribing their
duties and powers.
H. B. No. 4, by Bolitho, to prevent
the sale of live stock under fraudulent
pedigrees.
felony for any male person to carnaIly |
know any female between the ages of |
70 and Is years. with or without her
consent.
STATE PRISON.
S. B. No. IS, by Miller of Salt Lake,
with reference to the management of |
the state prison. The bill, which will |
become a law if the senate agrees to |
the house amendments, passed the |
house to read as follows:
An act providing for the manage
ment Of the state prison and the ap- |
pointment of a warden and guards
thereof:
Be it enacted by the legislature of
the state of Utah:
Section l. That the board of state |
prison commissioners. appointed by
section 19, article Z, of the constitution,
shall have the control and MANAGE
ment of the state prison and prison.
ers confined therein, and may make !
such rules as they may deem neces-
sary for the management and regula-
ton of the same and the conduct of
the prisoners therein, and may con-
tract for the necessary supplies and
appliances.
Sec. @ The board shall appoint a
warden of the state prison and such I
guards and other employees as in
their judgment they may deem neces-
sary, all of VIII m shall serve during
the pleasure of the board.
Sec. 8. This acr shall take effect i'm
mediately upon approval.
Nebeker of Rich, Smoot and Soren-
sen voted against the bill, stating that
they knew such law was needed, and
at once, but that the present measure
did not nearly cover all the provisions
such bill should contain. Hence they
were opposed to it as they believed a
proper law should be enacted while the
was about it.
NOT APPROVED.
The governor returned H. B. No. 3
without his approval, with a message
defining his reasons. The bill provid-
ed for the collection and covering into
the proper treasury of fees by state
and county officers. The governors
message recites that the law should
prescribe with certainty the treasury
to which the various fees should go
The law, he holds, should be so plain
that there would be no doubt in the
minds of the officers collecting fees