The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-07

out stopping to consider ITS import
The house session was very brief
yesterday and nothing of any import
ance was done Four new bills We're
introduced and one passed when the
table was declared cleared of all bust
ness upon it and adjournment was
taken at o'clock.
THE PROCEEDINGS.
At the opening of the session Mr..
Gibson presented a petition from resi-
dents of Uintah county addressed TIC
himself as the representative of the
Twelfth representative district protest
ing against the scale of salaries which
the officers of the county have asked
should attach to their offices, which
scale is as follows:
Collector, $3.50; assessor, $3.50; clerk
$1,000; recorder, $1,000; surveyor, $500;
attorney, $1,000; Sheriff, $4,000; coroner
5000; treasurer, $500; superintendent OF
schools, $500; selectmen, $500. The pc
titioners represent that they consider
the salaries named excessive in the ex-
IRENE and entirely disproportionate tc
the services rendered. One hundred
and twelve names were attached tt
the petition.
The speaker signed H. B. No. ~. The
bill as it goes to the governor reads:
Section THAT section of chapter
XIII of the thirtieth session of the
legislative assembly of the territory OF
Utah be, and the same is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Sec. All real property in this state
shall be listed in said blanks and as
sessed as owned and valued on the
first Monday of March at u O'Clock
m. of the year in which the assess
ment is made. All personal property
hn
time after Jan. / of each year, and
valued as of the date of it's assess
ment.
Sec. 2-This act shall take effect i'm
mediately after its passage.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.
The house adopted the report of the
committee on municipal corporations
which recommended that H. 3. No. s.
do not pass. The bill was Bolitho's
bill creating a park commission in cit
les of the first class.
SALE OF STOCK.
The live stock committee recon.
mended certain changes to H. 3. No As
which report was adopted and the bill
placed upon final passage when the
order of third reading was reached and
passed. The bill prohibits the sale OF
any kind Of live stock Whatsoever. un-
der fraudulent pedigree, and makes its
violation misdemeanor
FIRST READING.
On first reading the following bills
were introduced and on second readins
referred.
House bill No. 90 by Critch1ow. an
act regulating and extending the DOW.
ers of the clerk of the district court
IN matters pertaining to the estates OF
decedentS, minors, insane and incom-
petent persons at times when there i.
a vacation or recess of the court. an6
when the judge thereof is absent from
the county seat. The bill provides
that whenever during a recess or va
cation Of the district court ;or any
county, the judge Of said court is alb.
sent from the county seat, the clerk OF
the court shall have the power subject
to certain restrictions and limitations
to hear and consider proof and testi
rnony and to make and enter Of record
the appropriate orders in certain speci.
fed cases.
H. B. No. 81 by Bernhisel, providing
as follows:
That the following sums of money
or so much thereof as may be neces.
sary. are hereby appropriated out OF
any moneys in the state treasury MOI
otherwise appropriated for the ex
penses of the Utah state board of aeri.
culture for the year commencing tht
first Monday in January, A. D., 1897
to be paid out of the general fund O,
the state:
Expenses of the board .........,.SS.OO
For publications.. observation-disclosures. 50
For paying premiums ........... 500
The state auditor is authorized ant
required to draw his warrants agains
the appropriation made in the proceed
ing section of this act In favor of thu
treasurer Of the Utah state board O
agriculture.
H. B. No. 9S by Egan, requiring rail
road corporations to construct eros
sings over their respective roads wher
necessary for public or private pur
poses.
H B. No SO by Wilson, an act re
pealing section 4 of chapter xviii
laws of 1892, relating to an act givins
the mayor of cities of the first AM
second classes a qualified veto.
BOILER EXPLOSIONS.
H. B. No. 100 by Ferguson of Car
bon, for the protection of life agains
boiler explosions. The bill provides:
Section THAT the city council il
cities, and the president and board 0
trustees in towns and the selectmen o
commissioners OF counties, shall hav
power to adopt ordinances within thei
respective limits to provide for tn
examination, licensing and regulation
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