Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-20
LEGISLATIVE WORK AT PIERRE
Some of the Measures That Be-
came Laws.
OF the Mary But Few Were
Chosen-- Many Introduced But
Few Run the Gauntlet
and Lived.

Pierre, March 13.-Some 700 bills were
introduced in the legislature. OF this
number the following became laws:
House Bills.
BY Goddard, making the penalty for
embezzlement a fine not exceeding $4,000
and Imprisonment not exceeding fifteen
years; amending estray law: amending
law relative To fire guards, sheep and
artesian wells. (Chapter ia. Laws of
1880
BY Glass, providing that seed grain
warrants outstanding for n year shall
be paid out Of the general fund; re-
curing mortgages to furnish mort
gagors with copy of mortgage.
BY Storlie. requiring from county de-
pository banks bonds and interest on
daily balances at 2 per cent.
BY Colvin making personal taxes a
first lien.
BY Dollard, amending section 1898,
Code Civil Procedure.
BY King, permitting a majority OF the
voters in a civil township to abolish the
township organization II float the in
d~ebtedness.
BY Colvin, deficiency bin for secretary
Of state.
BY McCaughey, providing that in case
of failure to elect city officers city u
ell shall forthwith call special election.
BY Kirk, appropriation for mileage
and per diem of presidential electors.
BY Anderson of Pennington, forbid
ding adulteration OF food and drink.
BY Weeks. creating office Of insur-
ance commissioner: lien forbidding
township officeres to purchase tools
costing over 800 without submitting
matter to vote of town.
BY Storlie, maving void contracts en-
tered into by school boards except at
regular school meetings.
BY Schnauber, prohibiting nickel-in-
the-slot machines.
BY Olson, repeating act allowing
Yankton county commissioners 10 fund
their warrants.
BY Bangert, to prevent the spread OF
infectious diseases among swine; We
toed.
BY Dollard, providing for the sale
and lease of the Taylor lands.
BY Micheals. repeating the law Gre
eting the engineer Of irrigation.
BY Hare. legalizing Belle Fourche IN
dependent school district.
BY Kirk, requiring states attorneys to
begin action against county commits
sioners for malfeasance whenever seven
resident taxpayers petition.
BY Donahue. appropriatine $2,2i2.5l
to pay judgment obtained by \. l.. car
ter against the state.
BY Burkholder. appropriatinc $4,000
70 cover legislative printing.
BY Goddard. providing that school
lands foreclosed under the general
stead OF state.
BY Dean, licensing the practice of os-
teopathy.
BY Lohr. legalizing incorporation Of
Estelline.
BY Oleson, removing unnecessary
fumes and gases in smelling.
BY Ryan, lesallZing Willow Lakes In
dependent School district.
BY Halvorson, authorizing counties to
erect iails and court houses.
BY HaOr. creating a state registry OF
brands.
BY Hanson, peddlers' license.
BY Oleson. safety OF miners.
BY Somers, appropriating 81, 800 for ad-
vertising the sales and leases Of school
lands.
BY Greeley, allowing regents to estab-
lish sub-eXperiment station for culture
of drouth resisting plants.
BY Whealey, sheriffs shall receive 81
per day for attendance on justice court.
BY Webb, making Lieutenant Frost
military secretary to governor.
BY Greeley, sheep inspection, each
county with 1000 sheep to have an in
spector.
BY Hinckley, reimbursing Sheriff Fa-
ris 1875.
BY Prather, annexing Todd county TO
Gregory.
BY Gunderson, commissioners or SUI
pervisors may construct bitches or
drains where necessary.
BY Grant, allowing township board to
assess for road tax instead of state
equalization board. as formerly.
BY Keith, amending state board OF
pharmacy act.
BY appropriations committee, appro-
priating 1856 for deficiency in state house
maintenance.
BY Prather, legalizing acts of Clerk Of
Courts Nichols OF Charles Mix county.
BY case, empowering county judges To
award custody OF destitute children ana
those OF criminal parents to orphans
home; providing for adoption of minor
children.
BY committee on education. providing
for county uniformity of tex books.
By Cook. defeating to use OF reform
school certain state lands in Aurora
county.
By Major, covering into general fund
$50, 900 of fragmentary funds lying in the
treasury.
BY Grill, legalizing Artesian school
district.
BY committee on education, general
education law; apportionment bill.
BY committee on legislative %expendi-
lures, extra clerk hire for senate en-
ployes, 81, 900.
BY appropriations committee. general
appropriation bill.