Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-03-19
Resume OF the work.

Below is summary of the import
ant bills that have passed both houses
OF the legislature during the fifth ses-
sion:
Fixing order of payment Of debts of
decedents. Approved by the governor.
Regarding assignment and cancella-
tion Of mortgages. Approved.
\ Reducing salaries OF warden and clerk
of the state penitentiary to 81, 400 and
$1,000 per annum, respectively. Ap-
proved.
Defining the crime OF rape, and fixing
the age of consent at lS years. Ap-
proved.
Fixing the duties Of coroner when
the sheriff is incapacitated. Approved.
Protecting manufacturers, bottlers
and other dealers in liquors. Approved,
Granting bounty for production Of
sugar. This bill provides for the state
to pay cent per pound, as bounty, to
manufacturers, for all sugar manufac-
tured within the state.
Providing that property assessed for
street improvement purposes may be
sold on ten days notice after the assess
ment falls due, without foreclosure pro-
ceedings.
Providing for suing the sureties on
bonds by laborers or others, on con-
tracts for street or other municipal inn
proyements.
Providing prior liens for employees
against the real OF personal property Of
employers of labor
Authorizing bringing of suits for dis
tribution of funds Of insolvent insur-
ance companies.
Providing for incorporation of ceme-
terry associations
To prevent unauthorized interference
with electric wires, meters and cables.
Making all debts payable in lawful
money or currency of the United States
Protecting trademarks, labels and
advertisements.
The anti-option deficiency judgment
law, providing that mall proceedings
for the foreclosure of mortgages here
after executed, or on judgments rem
dered upon the debt thereby secured,
I the mortgage or assignee shall be-lim-
tied to the property included in the
mortgage.
Exempting from execution and at
I taclIment to householders and freehold.
ers personal property to the amount Of
I 81, 900. When any person dies seized
of exempt property, leaving heirs, such
property shall be get aside for the use
Of such heirs, free from all claims
against the deceased.
4 Submitting an amendment to the
constitution to the voters of the state
at the next general election, embodyinl
| the right of woman suffrage.
4 Giving the owners Of lands abuttine
upon tidelands the prior right for sixty
days to apply for the purchase Of saif
lands.
Relating to admission of attorneys
and counsellors-at-law. Approved.
Defining motions and orders.
4 Relating to removal Of attorneys
\ Approved.
Relating to new trials. Approved.
To prevent attorneys advertising TO
divorce cases Approved.
Prohibiting the discharge Of ballas
in bays.
Relating to the duration of judg
ments, and providing that after the ex
A piration of six years from the rendition
4 OF any Judgment it shall cease to be |
4 lien or charge against the estate or per
son Of the Judgment debtor
Providing new revenue and taxation
law, in which many important change
4 are made.
II Creating bureau Of labor to protec
4 the health and lives of employees.
4 For the better protection of railwa,
switches.
Permitting the Organization of cor
porations for the purpose Of clearin
ont rivers and streams. and fixinI
maximBm tolle.
For the protection Of game animal
and fish, and song birds.
Establishing a uniform system Q
blanks in the counties OF the state
4. Appointing an inspector Of Goa
mines for the protection Of coal miners