The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-02-14
SOME BILLS.

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Browns council bill li,, provides
that all township officers shall
execute the onacial bond required by
law and record the same with the reg
lister Of deeds and then deliver the
same to the county clerk who shall file
and retain the same and that every
county Officer shall record his bond
with the register and forward the
same to the auditor Of the territory,
who shall after the attorney general
has examined and approved as to form
and correctness, keep the original
bond among the fles Of his office.
Randolph's council bill No Ill,
makes the practice OF incantations on
the sick or ATTEMPT to cure disc ases by
the administration or applications OF
medicines OF improper OF hurtful rem.
edies or compounds or who shall cut,
stick or mutilate or mAltrest any sicS
person, by medicine men" a misde
meanor for the first offense, aud fel.
ony for each additional offense
Council bill No. 1l2, by Randolph
makes all Indians who have taken
their allotments and are living togeth.
er as man and wife, and who have been
living together as man and wife, and
who have been married according TO
Indian custom, legalizes such mar
riages, legitimatlzes children hereto.
fore born Of such marriages, prohibits
divorces by Indian customs, makes fu-
ture marriages the came as white per.
sons, by license, divorces the same,
provides for the punishment Of bigsmy
after the passage Of the act enables
an Indian 10 procure a license without
pay, upon a proper showing ss TO pow
erty. and requires that those indians
living and oohabiting with more than
one wife shall, on or before July l,
1897, designate one Of them as his law
ful wife, and cause her name to be
recorded as such. il further provides
that the probate judge shall report TO
the county attorney all violations, and
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from the different agents.
Mr. Learned's council bill llO pro-
vides that all township assessors shall
assess their townships by posting no.
tices in three public places in each
school district notifying all persons
residing In such districts to appear at
the school house in said district on the
day named and list their property, the
notices 10 be posted fifteen days prior
to day Of attending. II further pro-
vides that II any person fail to appear
the assessor may require any of his
neighbors to list his property and such
listing shall be final. But II there be
no neighbor present, the assessor shall
20 to his residence and assess his prop
erty and add to the total voiuation an
amount sufficient to cover the cost Of
assessing the same.
Council bill ia, by Randolph, pro.
vides that the voters Of each district
shall vote on the text books to be used,
due notice TO be given, and as many
book publishing houses as possible to
be notified so that bids for furnishing
the books may be made and voted on.
Council bill ll5, by Garrison,
amends the present law SO that when
sheriffs go out Of Office at the expira-
tion OF their terms they shall deliver
70 their successors all tax warrants,
wris, etc,
Mr.. Garrison's bill, Il6, amends the
present law regarding prosecutions
against liquor dealers, so that il the
defendant is acquitted and the pros
seution found malicious, then the
pr scouting witness shall pay the costs
olly, and rot double as the law now
stands
Mr.. Browns council bill III, is a bill
relating to abstracts OF title which
covers almost the same ground as the
one previously introduced on that SUBJ
ject, with additions, but the latter
bill allows registers OF deeds to make
abstracts of title and also makes the
person knowingly misrepresenting the
record guilty Of perjury.