, 1899-01-23

for copy of laws or documents record
ed or filed, 10 cents per folio; for each
commission issued to commissioner of
deeds, IS: issuing writ of e~xtradition,
So: for issuing any paper not enumer-
herein, 81.
H. B. No. 81 amends and ~re-enacts
chapter SO of the session laws of 1895.
relating to the establishment and main
tenance of the Wyoming Soldiers and
Sailors Home, places the home di-
rectly under the supervision of the
state board of charities and reform, and
sets apart 80, 900 acres of land out of
those donated to the state by the gen.
eral government, for the maintenance
of this institution.
H. B. No. 90 ~apropriates s4,527.50 to
refund to all persons such SUM as they
may have advanced to the state board
of land commissioners for the pur-
pose of paying the necessary land office
fees to the United States for the selec-
ton of state lands; and to pay the
United States land office fees upon
lands selected by the state from the
18th of January, 1899. to April l, 1899.
II. B. No. 81 repeats sections AZ, 40
and A. chapter 70. session laws of 1890,
relating to the larceny. misbranding
and killing Of live stock. The act is
purely one of repeal, no new legislation
being suggested in place OF the present
laws herein proposed to be a~brogated.
H. B. No. 80 amends and ~re-enacts
section IS, chapter 70, session laws of
1890, defining crimes, regulating crimi-
nal procedure, etc, so as to read as fol-
lows: Whoever perpetrates an assault
or assault and battery upon any human
being with intent to commit a felony,
shall be imprisoned in the ~penitentiary
not more than twenty-five years.
H. J. r. n. / idorses President Nc
Kiuley and his administration and
was passed by bottle house.
II. ]. R. No. 2 provides for the print
ing of 1000 copies of the governors
message, and has become a law.
II. ]. R. No. 3 constitutes committees
| on live stock as a special joint COM
mittee on bounty laws.
H. ]. R. No. 8 tenders to the citi-
zens of Evanston, Rock Springs, Raw
Inns and Laramie, and the Union Pacific
| company the thanks of the Fifth state
legislature for the many courtesies
| shown that body on its recent tour of
inspection of state institutions.
IN THE SENATE.
But few bills have been introduced
in the senate, the two thus far return
| ed from the printer being senate files
Nos. l and 2.
No. /, by Senator Corson, provides
| for the election of boards of county
| commissioners and requires that here
after there be one member Of the board
elected for four years, the aim OF the
law being to retain one old member
of the board at each election. This
| has been amended so that in counties
| of the fourth class, there shall be bu
| two commissioners elected each sec
| ond year, the county clerk being a
member of the board ex-officio.
S. F. No. 2, by Mr.. Cross, provides
| that all county and state officers who
receive public moneys snail pay the
same into the county or state treasur-
les, respectively, on the last working
day of each month; and requires all
county and state treaisurers who shall
receive interest, premium, bonus or
other benefit from any public moneys
in their hands, to turn the same W.
to the county or state treasurer IS the
case may be. Violation of the law is
sufficient cause for the governor to sus
pend an officer so offending; and upon
trial and conviction the offender is to
be sentenced to the penitentiary for a
term not exceeding five years.
S. J. R. No. 1 provides for the legis-
lative excursion to visit the state in
situations.