The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-25
d for passage and were filed for third

ed for passage and were filed for third
reading:
BY the judiciary committee, house
billzNo. s, after amending the title so
as to read, relating to marriages"
By the committee on venue and
appropriations, house bill No. Sc, app
propriating $2e,o00 to pay the states
half of salaries of county attorneys,
~treasurers and assessors and their dep
uties for the last quarter Of 1898.
BY the committee on fees and sala-
riee, house bill No. 8. after amendment.
The committees amendment fiXes the
salary of all clerks and the sergeants-
at-arms of the legislature at 81 a day
each, and of the Watchmen, d~oorkeep-
ers, messengers and chaplains, at &c.
By the same committee, house bill
No. 81, relating to fees and commissions
Of sheriffs.
By the judiciary committee, house bill
No. 6, after amending by striking out
the word Sheep The bill relates to
the law classifying grand larceny and
prescribing the penalty and propose an
amendment by making the theft of any
domestic, graminivorous animal or an
imals, irrespective of age, punishable
as grand larceny. The committee rec
ommends striking out the word
sheep" To mis- the Republican mem
berS objected, but by a strict party
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was adopted and the bill filed for third
reading.
TWO BILLS KILLED.
House bill No. 5, covering the same
subject as house bill No. 6, was rejected
on adverse report Of the judiciary COM
mittee.
House bill No. %, which was intro
duced by Jackson, by request, was also
killed on recommendation of the COM
3 RI ~ ---- - -,1s inc
tees of the peace in metropolitan cities
to hold court in the respective precincts
for which they were elected.
Representative Law presented the
claim of 900 landowners in Logan and
Richmond irrigation districts, in the
sum of $4,000, to compensate for dam
ages, aggregating $7,49A.57, resulting
from the alleged caVing of the side-hill
into claimants ana below the Agrl-
cultural college farm, said damage nav
ing, it is alleged, been caused by seep-
age from the states farm every wear
since 1891. The appropriation of $4,000
is desired to construct a fume n
spill gates over the steep side-hill. The
claim was referred to the committee on
claims and public accounts.
The committee on rules recommended
the following as an amendment to rule
80: THAT the title of every bill and
resolution shall express the subject to
which the same relates. and in bills
proposing to amend existing laws, the
section to be amended shall be desig-
mated"
As a substitute for rule SO. the COM
mittee also recommend: THAT all
bills on first reading shall be referred
to the proper committee, and no bills
shall be read second and third times
unless they are printed"
The two new rules were adopted.
Representative n. J. Harris moved
strike out rule 43 since SO, IS he
construed il in its new form, provided
for all contingencies relating to print
Representative Jackson offered a
substitute for Mr.. Harris motion, and
was adopted. The substitute amends
43 so that the chairman of the
committee on printing is required, as
soon as it is decided to print a bill. to
send a 0 p thereof to the public
printer.