Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-03-17
STATE SOLONS' WORK
BILLS PASSED AND APPROVED
eY GOVERNOR.

Measures of More or Less Import.
ance to he Acted Upon by the
Chief Executive of this State.
Bills Passed at Pierre.
The following is u list of the laws passed
by the late Legislative session, which have
been approved, or are yet waiting ap-
prOval:
Senate Joint Resolutions
Memorial to Congress to make Fort
Meade a permanent military post.
Memorial to Congress to establish a
branch of the National Soldiers Home at
Hot Springs, s. ID.
Memorial to Congress asking for the cs-
tablishing OF postal savings banks.
Memorial to Congress instructing South
Dakota members to give hearty support to
the treaty with Spain.
Memorial to Congress asking for pay
ment of taxes on Indian allotment lands by
the General Government.
Memorial to Congress to grant greater
powers to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
Providing for securing records of the
convention which formed the constitution
for South Dakota.
House Joint Resolutions
Memorial to Congress asking for passage
Of free homestead law.
Resolution for constitutional amendment
10 grant greater latitude in the investment
Of state school and endowment funds.
Resolution for constitutional amendment
to resubmit article % of the constitution
the dispensary amendment.
Senate Bills
Act to appropriate money for per diem
and mileage of members and per diem and
expenses of employees of the Legislature.
Fixing terms of court in Second Judicial
Circuit; adds Gacgory County to the list.
Providing place of permanent encamp-
ment of state militia at Huron.
To provide money for legislative print
ing and distribution of session laws.
To prevent the divulging of contents of
telegraph and telephone messages by Opcr-
atOrs.
Attaching certain lands to Clay County
for judicial purposes.
Raising salary of mine inspector from
1000 to $1,000 per year..
Act To prevent the spread of disease
among swine.
To reimburse Hanson County for en-
pense of trial of +. b. Phelps of Lyman
County.
To provide state bounty for wolves. coy
otes and mountain lions.
Attaching certain lands to Clay County
for purpose of taxation.
To legalize the assessment of certain
lands attached to Clay County.
Declaring Granthan's code to be admis-
sable in courts of the state.
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of incorporation.
Amending section 5151, code of civil pro-
ccdure, reducing interest to Z per cent.
after foreclosure on Judgment.
Providing for appeals in insanity cases.
Appropriating money to judges of cleo
ton in the organization of Gregory County.
Appropriating money for deficiency in
litigation fund for railroad commission.
Appropriating money for deficiency in
mastering in South Dakota troops last
spring.
To prevent the acceptance of warrants in
payment of taxes, except from the party to
whom they were issued.
Deficiency appropriation for employees Of
House and Senate.
Providing appropriation for sinking we'll
and erecting tank for water supply at
Soldiers Home.
Appropriating money for deficiency in
fuel account at State University.
Authorizing the mourning of additional
Indebtedness by towns and municipalities,
except cities of the first class, for securing
water supply.
Appropriating money to Thomas b.
Linn for care of insane in the unorganizcd
county of Gregory.
Appropriation for erection of new build
ing at State Reform School.
An appropriation for payment of judg-
ment against State held by Jewell Nursery.
House Bills
Act to classify cities according to popu-
latiOn.
Authorizing an increased number of JUS
ticcs of the peace in counties of over 10000
population not organized into civil town
ships.
To provide for issuance of refunding
bonds by cities.
To provide for submission of constitu-
tional amendments III separate ballots.
To change terms of office of supervisors
in civil townships, making three-year
terms.
Appropriation for deficiency in salary of
George A. Johnston as railroad commits
sicner.
To prohibit immortality in covered
wagons.
Appropriation per diem and mileage of
Board of Charities and Corrections.
To enable county treasurers to collect
taxes against transient herds of cattle.
To allow taxes to he paid in two annual
installments, March and October.
Providing for free attendance of honor
ably discharged soldiers and sailors, and
their orphans at State educational institu-
tions.
Granting powers to foreign railroad COM
panies to connect separate lines of road.
Amending statutes prescribing amount
of assessment work to be done on mining
claims.
Requiring copies of mortgages to be post
ed on mining claims.
To prevent professional jurors in civil
cases by preventing service on jury oftener
than once in two years.
Same provisions as above in criminal
cases.
To provide relief for Christof Bank for
lands taken by the State through mistake.