Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-03-19
THE NEW LAWS.
Acts That IIccome Laws so Far as
the Legislature Is Concerned.

| ioth houses. many ui them btlnS sui
in the hands OF the Governor:
General appropriation bill.
Bush, Providing for publishing re-
port Of Board OF Horticulture.
Freight rate reduction bill; passed
with the maximum rate $4.25.
EaStcrday, to abolish municipal
courts. In effect Jan. |, 1898.
Capitol building bill; passed with
State guarantee OF $4,000 a year in
tereSt.
Lu>hcr, revising and codifying the
school laws. Emergency.
Way, coditication of the land lawf
of the STATE; it provides for Il lease OF
land ut lower rate than heretofore,
provides commission composed OF
the land commissioner, Secretary of
State and Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
kittingcr, providing for costs of
street intersections
Barlow, for laying out and improv-
mcnt of boulevards or composite high
ways.
Committee on Horticulture, provid-
ing for appointment of commissioner
| of Horticulture and defining his duties
Williams, allowing corporations to
become sureties on bonds of officials,
and regulating such corporations.
Insurance committee, to regulate
insurance companies, requiring that
policies be written by local agents;
that a license be secured from the
State and = per cent on all policies be
paid to the State; that statements be
published in two daily papers each
year; that in case of total loss the full
amount of the policy be paid, and pro-
hibiting insurance combinations.
Winsor, allowing road funds col
lected in the city limits to be turned
over to municipality.
Gilkey, to establish and maintain Il
fish hatchery on the Chehalis river,
appropriating $4,000.
Carr, appropriating $4,000 for a
State road from Wenatchcc up the
Columbia to the Methow and to the
Wasp river.
a. 5. Bush, to protect natural oyster
beds, appropriating $4,000.
Wilkeson, appropriating $,1S7 for
relief of W. b. Davy for the Whatcom
Normal School.
Pierson, creating two log.scaling
districts with headquarters at Seattle
and Spokane.
Plummer, prescribing same manner
to make corporations answer to inter-
rogatories rs obtains against private
individuals.
Taylor, compelling plumbers to se-
cure license from Boards of Health
of cities of the first class and creating n
board of sanitary examiners for better
protection of health from unsafe
plumbing.
Lesh, creating board of Forest Com
missioners, consisting of the Governor,
treasurer, commissioner of pubic lands
and professors Of forestry of the State
university and agricultural college, to
serve without compensation, to devise
means to preserve the forests of the
| State
ID. Miller, appropriating $1,745 for
relief of George W. Babcock, for con-
struction of the new cell wing of the
State penitentiary.
Taylor, relating to the notice given
to parties to civil action after ap.
pearance. 1t fixes the time at three
days.
Baum, to prevent the DETACHMENT,
mutilation or destruction OF miners
location stakes or notices and provid-
ing penalty clause. Emergency clause.
Plummer. providing that as to all
negotiable papers, the time intervening
between Saturday at IL o'clock mid
night, be declared legal holiday.
Crow, granting debtors right of
possession during the period of redemp-
| tion.
Yeend, prescribing manner of allow
ing credits of good behavior of con-
victs in the State penitentiary.
Baum, providing for disorganization
of irrigation districts.
Taylor, requiring street cars to be
provided with pilots, tenders or aprons.
Baum, providing for service Of sum-
mons and complaints upon corpora
tions in hands of receivers.
Megler, for protection of sturgeon
| III lllC SOlttlllUlt. IONlutS d DtIldllN
of $1,000 for each otlense of taking or
catching sturgeon.
Washburn, providing that at gen.
eral elections to be held November,
1898, there shall be but one justice OF
the peace and one constable elected in
cities of the first-class. The salary oi
justices is fixed at 81 600 and consta-
bles at 1920 per annum.
Keith, to regulate the fixed appli-
ances for catching salmon.
| Deckabach, defining the boundaries
OF Chehalis county.
Taylor, relating to the estates Of in
sane and incompetent persons. Be-
fore suits can be commenced claims
'must be presented to the guardian.