The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-20

| the new law, house bill No "a
No. 49, by Hansen. to require county
| recorders to annually revise assessors
maps and plats Of ownership of prop
erty.
No. 157, by O'Neil, to repeal the law
liquors within ten miles of an Indian
reservation,
No. 159, by. Stewart, to allow sheriffs
actual expenses for serving process
from courts outside their respective
counties.
No. $780, by Stewart. to provide that
an information or indictment charging
house breaking may include a count
for larceny.
No. 162. by lloyd, providing for the
reorganization of police and fire de-
partment in cities of over 1900 in
habitants-
No. 165, by Robinson. to prohibit
corporations using duplicate names or
names of misleading Similarity.
No. 16T, by Johnson, to provide that
an appeal in the district courts may be
dismissed on failure to pay the fee for
docketing within thirty days.
No. 17S, by Farr, to require the state
auditor to certify only on March 81
and Dec. 81 of each year the amount
of state school tax funds for apportion-
ment.
No. ia, by Farr, to require the state
treasurer to issue receipts in triplicate
for money received from county treas
urers.
No. 175, by FAIR, to prescribe the
form of county auditors tax reports to
the state auditor.
No. $50, by Shepard, to exempt from
execution all the wages of married
man or head of dependant family for a
period of sixty days next prior to the
date of levy of execution.
No. 1884, by Hansen, granting exclu-
sive jurisdiction to the United States
government over the site on which is
to be erected the postoffice and federal
building in Salt Lake City,
MEMORIALS APPROVED.
House joint memorial No. ., by Redd,
praying congress for legislation that
wilt. restrain the marauding bands of
Ute and Navajo Indians from commit
ting depredations on settlers in San
Juan county.
Memorial No. 8, by O'Neil praying
congress to restore to the public do
main a portion of the forest reserva-
ton in Uintah county.
Memorial No. 4, by Murdoch, praying
congress to pass the act creating the
Tenth judicial circuit for the noun
tain states, with terms of court alter
mating at Salt Lake City and Denver
Memorial No. o. by Fisher, praying
congress to reimburse citizens Of Utah
for services rendered and losses sus-
tanned in the Utah Indian wars during
the years 1864 and 1870, after the verify
of such claims shall have been estab-
liShed.
CONSTITUTIONAL RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions proposing
amendments to the state constitution
were passed and filed in the office of
the secretary Of state, to be voted
upon for adoption or rejection by the
voters at the general election in No
vember 1906:
House joint resolution No. 8, by Ben
Mon, to amend section 6 of article X
of the constitution so that taxes for
the maintenance of county schools may
be collected on property situated with
in the limits of the larger cities.
Resolution No. 8, by Smith, to amend
sections l and % of article VI of the
constitution so as to enable direct leg
islation by the people, the proposition
and referendum.
READY FOR APPROVAL.
House bills passed and awaiting the
governors approval are:
No. 20. by Holmgren, providing for a
special winter course of studies at the
Agricultural college.
No. 81, by Shepard, for a general law
on negotiable Instruments uniform with
the laws of other states on the sub
ject.
No 81, by Lloyd, to permit elective
city officers to appoint their own depu-
ties.
No. 81, by McQuarrie, to establish a
branch of the experiment station un-
der the direction of the state board of
horticulture in southern Utah.
No. 103, by Shepard, relating to the
examination of applicants for admis-
sion to practice law.
No. 104, by Shepard, changing the
terms of the supreme court to COM
mence on the second Mondays in Feb
ruary, May and October.
No. IL, by Mrs. Horne, to increase
the number OF free state normal schol-
arships from 100 to 200, and the period
of their appointment from two to four
years.
No. 122, by Stewart, to require rail-
road companies to maintain fences and
gates at street crossings in cities, and
TO empower city councils to cause the
removal of unused and abandoned
tracks.
Substitute for No. 125. by O'Neil, to
appropriate S34, 900 for construction and
1l0DlONeDlGnL
the several counties outside of Salt
Lake.
No. 152, by Jackson, to require the
execution of contracts for state, city
and county printing, binding and sta
tionery work within each respective
district.
No. 10, by Stewart, to require the
branding as such of all convict-made
goods offered for sale.
I Low
recorders to furnish county treasurers
with certified records and abstracts of
tax sales.
FAILED TO PASS.
The following house bills failed to
pass:
No 1, by Shepard, to provide for re-
viyor of actions and judgments; de-
feated on passage
diction of justices of the peace; reject
ed by the senate because senate bill No.
6, which passed both houses, covers the
subject.
No. 5, by Mansfield, relating to grand
larceny: rejected ION recommendation
of the Judiciary committee. House bill
No. 6 covers it.
No. Z, by Shepard, to simplify and
cheaper practice in the supreme court:
killed in the senate.
No. s, by Richards relating to salaries
of employees of the legislature; tabled.
No. 8, by Mansfield, relating to off
color marriages; rejected on recommen-
dation OF committee.
No. TO- by Mansfield, to change the