Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-03-26
BILLS THAT PASSED
SUMMARY OF THE Lee,sLA.
TURE'S WORK.
Some Seven Hundred Bills Were
Introduced at the Recent Session
and of This Number About Ono
Hundred Became Laws.

AT the recent session
and of This Number About Ono
Hundred Became Laws,
The Bills that Passed.
Some 700 bills were introduced in the
Legislature. OF this number the following
were passed:
House Rills.
Goddard, making the penalty for embez-
zlemen a fine not exceeding 5000 and inn
prlsonment not exceeding fifteen years;
amending estray law; amending law rel
=at1vc to fireguards, sheep and artesian
wells. (Chapter ia, Laws of 1881 Glass,
providing that seed grain warrants out
standing for one year shall be paid out of
the general fund; requiring mortgages to
furnish mortgagors with copy of mortgage.
Storlie, requiring from county depository
banks bonds and interest ON daily balances
at 2 per cent. COlvin, making personal
taxes a first lien. Dollard, amending Sec
ton 1898, Code of Civil Procedure. King,
permitting a majority of the voters in a
civil township to abolish the township Or
sanitation and float the indebtedness. Col
vim, deficiency bill for secretary of state.
McCaughey, providing that in case of fail
ure to elect city officers city council shall
forthwith call special election. Kirk, APP
preparation for mileage and per diem of
presidential electors. Anderson of PEN
nington, f%orbidding ad%ulteration of food
and drink. Weeks, creating Office of insur-
aNcc commissioner; lien fOrbidding town
ship officers to purchase tools costing over
500 without submitting matter to vote of
town. StOrlie, making void contracts en-
tered into by school boards except at regu-
lar meetings. Schnauber, prohibiting
.nickel-in-the-slot machines. Olson, re-
pealing act allowing Yankton Coun-
ty commissioners to fund their warrants.
Bangert, to prevent the spread of infcc-
tiOus diseases among swine; vetoed. Dol
lard, providing for the sale and lease of the
Taylor lands. Micheals, repeating the law
creating the engineer of irrigation. Hare,
legalizing Belle Fourche independent
school district. Kirk, requiring states at
torneys to begin action against county com-
SMissioners for malfeasance whenever seven
resident taxpayers petition. Donahue, ap-
.propriating $2,242.5l to pay Judgment OBJ
tanned by A. l.. Carter against the state.
Burkholder, %appropriating $1,000 to cover
Legislative printing. Goddard, providing
that school lands fOreclosed under the gem
'eral school laws shall revert Ia county in
stead Of state. Dean, licensing the practice
of osteopathy. L4ohr, legalizing %incorpora-
ton of Estelline. Olcson, removing UNI
necessary fumes and gases in smelling.
Ryan, legalizing Willow Lakes independ-
.ent school district. H~alvorson, authorizing
counties to erect jails and court houses.
Haor, creating a state registry of brands.
Hanson, peddiers,. license. Oleson, safety
of miners. Somers, a%ppropriating $500
for advertising the sales and leases of
school lands. Greeley, allowing regents to
establish sub-experiment station for Gull
sheriffs shall receive 81 per day for attend
ance on justice court. Webb, making
Lieut.. Frost military secretary to governor.
Greeley, sheep inspection, each county
With 1900 sheep to nave All inspector.
Hinckley, reimbursing Sheriff Faris S$SsSS IS.
Prater, anneXing Todd County to Gregory.
FundersOn, commissioners or supervisors
nay construct bitches or drains where nee
.cssary. Grant, allowing township board
to assess for road tax instead of state
equalization board, as formerly. Keith,
amending state board of pharmacy act.
Appropriations committee, apprOpriating
-Sa55 for deficiency in state house MAIN
terance. Prather, legalizing acts of Clerk
of Courts Nichols Of Charles Mix County.
Case, empowering county judges to award
custody of destitute children and those of
criminal parents to orphans home; provide
ing for adoption of minor children. Com.
lnittco on education, providing for county
uniformity of text books. Cook, defeating
TO use of reform school certain state lands
in Aurora County. Major, covering into
general fund $4,000 of f~ragmentary funds
lying in the treasury. Grill, legalizing
Artesian school district. Committee on
education, general education law; appor-
tionment bill. Committee on legislative
expenditures, extra clerk hire for senate
employees, $1,000. Appropriations COM
nittce, general appropriation bill.
Senate Bills.
Palmer, Wheeler railroad law. Bouck,
changing Grant and Roberts Counties from
the Third to the Fifth judicial circuit.
Hiackle, limiting appeals to eases involv-
ling more than S75. (Iiepealed.) Bothum,
reducing salaries of registers of deeds to
limit $1,000. Hart, f%orbidding the
DETACHMENT eof tho United States
flag; requiring mortgages Ito file
their address with registers of deeds.
'Gunderson, to prevent the spread of
'SOlNu61Ouo 0lsCuoSS otLkOllS SMluCs we.
toed.) Grill, requiring levy of only half as
much road tax on the organized as on the
unorganized townships in counties; chang
ing Union County from the First to the
Second judicial circuit; requiring the state
treasurer to give a $40O,O 900 bond. Kellar,
protection of elk and other big game; to
reimburse j. B. McCloud for expenses in
Indian uprising in 189O-$1,277. Vetoed
Kindschy, empowering supervisors to con-
struct dams and store surface waters.
Keith, providing for the organization of
mutual insurance companies. Bouck,
license bill. Palmer, allowing state treas
urer twenty days after he qualities in which
to make accounting. Webb, authorizing
states attorneys to begin action in behalf
of counties. Palmer, assessing property Of
deceased persons. Case, relating to bas-
tardy; legislative appropriation bill. Grant,
amending section 1914 Compiled Laws
(probate code). Case, permitting county
commissioners to compromise taxes on
plated property when full amount cannot
be realized by sale; making legal section
1905 Compiled Laws, imposing penalty for
embezzlement of one to twenty-one years
imprisonment and double amount embez-