Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-17
some CAPITOL NOTES
Effects of Some of the Legislation Pass
ed at the Last Session in Var
ious Departments.
Additional Duties and Appropriations
for Commissioner of Agriculture
and Labor.
Notes in the Land Department--New
Wolf Bounty Law--General
State Matters.
AT THE CAPITOL.

AT TIE CAPITOL.
There are now 1O7 state banks in the
state and one or two more whose Or
ganiZatiOn has been practically per-
tected and which will file articles of
incorporation with the secretary of
state before long. The increasing
number of state banks and the other
examinations required by law to be
made by the state examiner was the
reason for the addition of an assistant
to the present force in the examiners
office, the work to be done being too
great for the present office force. The
assistant to be appointed will be named
by the examiner with the approval of
the governor and there are several
applications for the position now Oh
file from which the selection will be
made.
The work in the office Of the com
missioner of agriculture and labor will
be enlarged and extended from the
laws passed by the recent session of
the assembly. The department. gets
from the various bills passed affecting
it, an increased allowance for clerk
hire and expenses of $4,000 annually.
or this amount $500 is for annual eX-
penditure for furthering the work of
immigration, preparing maps and
printed matter, and other data for the
attraction of the prospective immi-
grant. Another $500 annually is ap-
propriated for clerk hire, increasing
the amount allowed from 81 COO to
$1,000. The dairy commissioner law
requires the appointment OF Il deputy
who shall have charge of the further
ing of dairy interests in the state, at
Il salary Of 5000 annually, with $1,000
annually for expenses. The limited
appropriation for salary will necesSi-
tate Il system Of work in conjunction
with some other branch, and the dairy
interests under the provisions of the
law will probably be looked after by
Prof. Kaufman Of the agricultural
college, who will likely be named as
the deputy to carry on this work. The
commissioner Of agriculture is also
put in charge Of the inspection Of flax
seed and linseed oil in the state under
the Wolbert bill and has power to APP
point experts to examine and test oils
manufactured or for sale in the state,
but no allowance is made for expenses
OF compensation of these experts eX-
cept that where cases are brought into
court, they are allowed expert witness
fees.
The land commissioners office gets
an appropriation Of $4,000 for the re-
appraisement and sale of common
school and institution lands of the
state. The law requires an appraise-
ment of the lands to be made within
two years Of the time they are offered
for sale. The board of university
.,>1 n1,Do ,p0, ~ t1,rS,, ,,~o%.-s It'll
take steps to appraise the lands. The
first step is to secure from the various
county auditors lists of the lands that
they believe will sell for at least $40
an acre. These lands are then listed
and an appraisal Of them is ordered
in each county. When the appraisal
is made. the lands that are appraised
for not less than $40 IN acre are ad-
vertised for sale and sold. 1t will
take several months to get a%ppraisals
made, have the land advertised the
required time and finally sold, and the
next sale of state school lands is not
expected to take place before late in
the fall-probably in November.
There is an appropriation OF $4,000 for
the expenses Of appraisal and $4,000
for the expenses of advertisements.
SAlC1 S1ClA AN1SlllSN VI IliC VI No1Ll-
missioner's office is preparing an alb
stract Of the leases Of school lands in
effect in each county and will supply
one to each county auditor and treas
urer through the state. The trans
cripts show the leases i'll force, the pay
ments that have been made and all
data that affect the leases, and will be
Il great convenience to the county
officials.
Practically all of the bills passed by
the legislative session have been ap-
proved and filed with the secretary Of
state, and the copies of the laws as
finally passed will soon be prepared
for the official printer. No vetoes
have been filed. The governor has put
in long hours in the consideration Of
the bills, in order that all of them
might be examined and their provi-
siOns carefully considered.
There is much inquiry from the stock
counties as to the changes that have
been made in the wolf bounty law.
AS the law now stands, there having
been an emergency clause to the bill
that passed so that it takes effect at