The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-14
NEN OKLAHOMA LAWS
list, by Titles. of the Recent
Sessions Enacting.
BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS
Approved are Somewhat in
Excess of TWo-Score.

Guthrie, o. T.. March 13.-(Special)-In
addition TO the general appropriation bill
the governor has affixed his signature to
the following bills which have been fled
with the secretary of the territory and are
now laws: Council bill 156, an act TO au-
thorize county commissioners 10 issue
bonds in certain cases; council bill 90 10
provide for the selection Of pro TEN pro-
bate judges and authorizing district and
probate judges to exercise certain JuIls-
diction at chambers; council bill "a, an
act relating to medicine men and forbid
ding the use Of the mescal bean among
the Indians; council bill IS, to provide for
a territorial geologist and establish a de-
partment OF geology and natural history
in the territory; council bill by Bellamy'
authorizing cities of the first class TO levy
tax for street sprinkling; substitute for
a bill by Garrison, establishing public IL
braries in public schools; by Winkler, eX-
empting Kingfsher college from taxation;
committee on ways and means relating TO
county clerks calendar Of claims; by
Houston, separating the Judgment and
by Huston, compromising receivers and
executors for their official bond; by Candy
making assistant equally responsible with
the county superintendent Of schools; by
Garrison, changing time when term of Of
fee Of county treasurer shall begin to Oc-
tober; by Havens, requiring the revenue
from sections Is and 80 to be regularly
deposited with the territorial treasurer;
by Thacker, validating the changing Of
the name of D county to Dewey county;
by Winkler substitute regulating the in
spection and sale of oils; by Brett, pre-
scribing the duties Of county surveyors;
by Biddison, fixing the compensation Of
stenographers TO judges Of the supreme
court; by McCreedie. authorizing the town
Of Chandler to levy taxes for water works
purposes; by Huston, creating a school
district out of lands lying in Logan and
Oklahoma counties at Waterloo; by Clark,
empowering parties to dismiss civil action
without order Of court; by Bethany de-
claring dogs listed for taxation to be per-
sonal property and the subject Of larceny;
by Winkler, establishing a territorial
board Of equalization and prohibiting the
raising or lowering of the aggregate Of
the valuations returned by the different
counties; by Winkler, appropriating
$4,000 for additional buildings at the Ag-
ricultural and Mechanical college, and
$4,000 for similar purposes at Langston;
house bin, by McEirath, permitting far
mers' mutual insurance companies; by
Holiday. allowing justices of the peace to
receive more than 50 in a single case; by
oil ha
law; by Merten, taxing the property of
building and loan companies; by Jones
authorizing railway companies to sell
their property and franchises; by Walls,
to prevent the spread of hog cholera and
forbidding the trafficking Of animals dy-
Ing of infectious diseases; by Stevens, ap-
propriating 5000 for a monument to the
memory Of Rough Rider" Roy V. Cash
ION at Hennessey; by Malley, a fish and
game law permitting game to be sold for
home consumption; by Olmstead, fixing
the rate of territorial taxation; by Ohm
stead, appropriating the revenue from sec
ton Is among the education institutions;
by Merten, requiring clerks in cities of the
first class to keep a journal Of council
proceedings; by Wood, permitting Tegu-
lar physicians and the territorial univer-
sity to acquire bodies Of paupers for the
purpose of dissection; by Wood, appro-
priating $1,000 annually for an annual en-
campment of the territorial militia; by
Wilkins, fixing the time for listing and
assessing property at March !; by Merten,
allowing coroners' inQuests TO be held only
when the cause Of death is unknown: by
Sherer, fixing the salary of the secretary
of the park board, in Rock Island town
ship, Grant county, at $50 4 day; by
AIerten, legalizing the purchase of GER
tain real estate by the city Of Guthrie.
These resolutions We're also signed and
filed with the secretary: A council con-
current resolution by Candy memoralizing
congress to allow indemnity lands to be
selected for sections 13 and SO not set
apart in oklahoma outside the Cherokee
Strip; a council joint resolution by Candy.
asking congress to permit the taxing Of
Indian allotments; a house joint resoIu-
ton memoraIizing congress TO authorize
the issuing Of a patent to the lands held